Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Standard Oil company secured transportation from the Lake sAore ut less rates' than any other firm or company could, and thereby crushed arrivals in business. A rival firm brought suit. The Judge of a ,lower court in Cleveland has just granted an injunction forbidding the railroad to extend terms to the Standard Oil company o„r any Other corporation or person which might not be granted to all patrons, rich or |>oor, great or small, 'PEo tiglit has only-fairly begun, as the kerosene monopoly will carry the litigation to the furthest point lu law, which is years and years ahead. . Judge Sawyer, of the United States Circuit court, rendered a decision at San ITuk ls.-o in the celebrated minirtg-debris case of Woodruff vs. Tho North Bloomfield Hydraulic Mining company, granting a perpetual inj«Htcti >n agai nst hydraulic mining, subject to modification if a practical plan shall be- devised for abating the nuisance. The east- involved the agricultural prosperity of the entire Sacramento Valley. The counties affected by the injunction are Butte, Nevada,“Placer, Yuba, Del Norte, Siskiyou, Trinity, and Sierra—especially the four first named. During the last six years hydraulic mining has practically stopped in these counties. Farming counties through which the*, rivers were Ailed with “slickeus,” as the debris is called, fought the miners in court and obtained temporary injunctions. The destructions which “silckens’’ has wrought on the fertile bottom lands is almost inconceivable. It filieWtheYuba, Feather and Sacramento rivers, raised their beds until higher than the surrounding land, flooding the country for miles, submerging Sacramento City und Marysville. Tills i's the most important decision ever rendered on the Pacific coast! The farmers are holding joyous demonstrations in different parts of California. In Vennor's almanac for 1884, opposite the first five days in January, ending ’ with the memorable cold day, is the following legend, which may be of interest: “New •Year’s mild; no snow; dust or mud in many sections —Waters quite open—Generally open weather in the United States—Local rains or snow and sleet flui ries. A great contrast to 1883 January." Weather prophets have seldom made breaks as bad as this for a starter. SeN-IMKNt iii Washington in favor of retaliatory legislation against Germany andrFranee is growing rapidly.., .The prominent candidates for Judge McCrary's place are Senator McMillan, of Minnesota, and' Judge Love, of lowa. ...Secretary Folger re-, ports the exhaustion of $1 and $2 notes ip the treasury reserve, and asks Congress for an appropriation to, print $4,000,000 of the former and $3,000,000 of the latter. A broken rail threw a passenger train down a five-foot embankment near Valparaiso, Neb., twenty persons being injured, six seriously. Taglioni, the ballet-master at the Royal theater, Berlin, a brother of the celebrated danse use, has just died, aged 70. Nearly 4,000 miles of railroads were constructed in Massachusetts last year, and the not earnings of all the lines amounted to $10,900,000.

Congress reassembled, after the holiday recess, on Monday, Jan. 7. In the Senate, Mr. Dolpli presented a petition for the forfeiture of the unearned land grant of the Oregon Central road. Bills were introduced for a navy-yard at Algers, La.; to bridge the Mississippi at Sibley. Mo.; and to give the Southern Kansas road right of way through Indian Territory. Mr. MiLler offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to the difficulties • n -ountered in the enforcement of the Chinese restriction act. The House of Representatives adapted a resolution calling on heads of departments for information j.nTegardjtothe distribution of circulars asking contributions for political purposes. Bills to the number of 670 were introduced, among them one to piaee the name of George W. Gettv on the retired list, with the rank of Major General; to appropriate $150,000 for a postoflice building at Los Angeles; to prevent the use of the mails to circulate advertisements of dangerous medicines or food; to make a reduction of 30 per cent, in fr ight and passenger rates on the Union and Centrid Pacific roads; to pension all soldiers or sail >rs who served thirty days in the war of the reli-llion; to provide for the acceptance of the Illinois and Michigan canal bv the Government, and to construct the Michigan and Mississippi canal; to prohibit imports from countries which unjustly disuriruinate against American products: to place molasses and sugar on the free list, and to erect public buildings at Fort Dodge and Winona. Mr. Townshend introduced a joint resolution requesting the President to invite the co-opera-tion of the Governments of the American Nations to secure the establishment of a customs union.