Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Messrs. Abbey and Mapleson began their opera seasons at New York to large audiences —the former openiag in this newhouse with “Faust,,” Nilsson and Campanini being in the cast, and the latter at -he Academy of Music, producing “Sonnambula," with Gerster as Amina. Before the “Jewel Song" Mme. Nilsson was the recipient of a , veritebfojeWeteCTtSß f rom a millionairefriend. ... .A young man named Thackery, of Stony Creek, Ct., recently returned from a long sojourn in the West, fell in love with his father's second wife, and eloped with her. Deaths : The Rev. Dr. A. Wallace, formerly President of Monmouth Monmouth, Hl., at Wooster, Ohio; Hon. Elisha Foote, who was United States Commissioner of Patents during President “Johnson's administration, at St. Louis: the wife J. Russeil Young. United States Minister to China, in Paris; the wife of Gen. Anso®. Stager, in Chicago...... Chicago telegram,' The clearing exchanges, /or lasl week —$1,218,613,915—5h0ws an in- • erease over the preceding week of $111,542,915. indicating the transaction of a greater volume of business, particularly in the South, where large gains continue to be made. Tlie tradfi-AlUtlook is more favorable than for some time, and appearances are that the depression has been overcome... The Marquis of Lansdowne was sworn into office at Quebec last week by the Judges of the Supreme court, as Governor General of Canada. Wild rumors were in circulation from Ottawa to London of a plot to assassinate the new ruler. .j The store of S. B. Smith, at Middleville. Barry county, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $30,000. While trying to save good- stored in an adjoining shed, the wall of . the store fell. Mr. Smith, SUas__Geer. Charles Bundy, and a boy named Welch ■wgje crushed by a wall and killed, and their . bodies entirely consumed before the fire was extinguished. Another man was also crushed by the v>all and badly hurt.... The man M osher, recent ly lynebod nearCheyenne, was a brother of the man who kidnaped Charlie Ross, and, it is said, he offered to disclose valuable information if his life were spared twenty-four hours..... Patrick Egan, late Treasurer of the Irish Land league, has filed in the District court at Lin- = coin. Neb., his intention to become an American citizen, and will engage in the grain trade in that city... .Advices received at Milwaukee fro:i) the' chief wheat-growing sections of AViseonsih are^toythereflect Ahatthe iaimers are holding, the grain back from the market and very .little is changing hands. A large mass meeting of colored people was held at Indianapolis to consider the civil-rights decision. Addresses were made by Senator Ben Harrison and other prominent Republicans. There was a great deal of feeling manifested, ftnd, a<a rule-the resolutions were adopted- unanimously, one of which declares that "we recognize in the decision a narrow and partizan view, entirely at variance with rhe great principles enunciated by Lincoln. Sumiier. Morton and other Republican leaders, arid of the ifaO.OOO brave men , who purchased it: with their blood.” A mass-meeting of colored men at Washington was addressed by < oi. Ingersoll and Fred Douglass. < 01. Ingersoll praised Justice Harlan. and placed the recent opinion of the Supreme court on a par with the Dred Scott and other ante-war Ata similar meeting in Cincirinati, tions acquiescing in the decision, and thanking Justice Harlaipfor his fidelity to the race and for his own convictions were passed. The negroes of San Francisco, in public meeting assembled, passed resolutions condemninsr the decision The following is the total vote of Ohio for Governor, at the recent election, as tabulated by the Secretary of State. Foraker 347,064 H0ad1y■■359,593 Schumacher.. 8,361 j Jenkins. 2,785 Total-vote . .... .■■.. .721.464 Hoadly’s majority 1,383 Majority for judic al amendment. 33,413 The second amendment fell short of a majority 39,543. Ihe regulation amendment received 98,050 votes. The first reports of the earthquake in the Turkish islands were greatly exaggerated. It appears that the loss of life will aggregate less than 150, though many people ■were rendered homeless, and much suffering is reported in consequence. Capt. Mayne Reid, the novelist, died at London after a short illness, aaed 65 years... .In a duel with pistols at Temsvar, Hungary, Count Stefan Batthyanv was shot through the temple and killed by Dr. Julius Rosenberg... .An explosion in a colliery at Stake-upon-Trent, England, killed six miners and wounded three.