Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Newfoundland Legislature has declared a 100 per cent, duty on merchandise packages as a retaliatory measure against the Canadian law demanding the inspection of Newfoundland herring. The river at New Orleans, on the 25th of March, marked over an inch higher than tbe great flood of 1874. The Times-Demtcrat deprecates the appeal for aid from the Government made by Representative Kellogg lor the city of New Orleans, remarking that' tho appropriation, if granted, should be devoted to protecting other points in ’greater .danger. - • The Boston Post addressed circulars of inquiry some time ago to the Democratic members of the Legislature of the New England States as to their Presidential preferences and views on the tariff. The replies indicate that Tilden is the overwhelming choice of the New England Democrats. and that they jftYor a tariff lor revenue only. The feeling in favor of the Morrison bill is alt but unanimous;. At the Republican primaries at Youngstown, Ohio, 1,628 voters deposited ballots in special boxes for recording their Presidential choice. Of this number Blaine got 1,516; Lincoln.came next with 33; while Conkling secured one vote... .It is believed that the delegates from Northeastern Pennsylvania to the Republican National Convention will be solid for Blaine. a . George N. Fairchild, tlie United States Deputy• Surveyor of Northwestern Nebraska, in a report to the Secretary of the Interior, makes startling charges against the cattle men of that section. He says they have inclosed thousands of square miles of desirable public lands with wire fences to prevent settlers from occupying them and to form barriers to their cattle. They have, acting ns if the lands were legally theirs, warned off intending settlers on pain of death and with opprobrious epithets. They have cut down valuable timber on the public lands and used it for fencing other portions, and’for houses and sheds for their cattle. Tho catilpraisers are mostly wealthy capitalists, afid they warn persons who wish to settle on the lands that they will be frozen out, not given employment, and otherwise boycotted. In a wrestling-matcli at Cleveland, for SI,OO ) a side, Duncan C. Ross defeated Col. J. H. McLaughlin Epizootic of the most desperate type has made its appearance at Dayton, 0hi0... .The alleged foot-and-mouth disease in Vanßuren County, lowa, has been found to be foot-rot, resulting from freezing and lack of proper attention. Marquis Tseng, in an interview, Said that the capture of Bacninh by the French has not changed the determination of China to resist, French aggression.... Paul Frederick, brother of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, has been converted to the Catholic faith, and renounced his hereditary rights in favor of his younger brothers and their offspring... .It is thought that France has aggressive,, designs with regard to Morocco. Spain- has, it is reported, asked England to unite with her in opposing thismove ment. Mu. Van Wyck offered a resolution in the Senate, March 24, directing the Attorney General to furnish information as to the compensation of special attorneys in the star-route cases. A motion to fix a day for the consideration of the 1 ill for the admission of Dakota was lost by 33 to 23. The Blair education measure and the bid to increase the salaries of district judges was debated. Mr. Vance presented his minority report against the recommendation of the majority of the Foreign Affairs Cemmitte in favor of retaliatory legislation against countries which exclude American meats. He contends that hog pioduct may be barred out by foreign nations it deemed unwholesome; and that such course is manly when contrasted with the American method of imposing prohibitory import duties to effect the same purpose. In the House Mr. Ellis introduced a joint res- - olutton reciting the danger of an overflow at Now Orleans, and appiopriating $300,010 for preventive measures. After considerable debate tho resolution was lost by 05 to 115, but by unanimous consent it was reintroduced and referred to the Committee on Appropriations Bills were handed in to give tho Southern Kansas Pacific Road right of way through Indian Territory; providing a uniform grade for invalid pensioners; to secure cheaper correspondence by telegraph; to prevent the re-use of cigar-boxes, and to repeal the restriction on the coinage of the silver dollar. The sculptor of the statue of Beranger, in Paris, has depicted the great poet with a volume of Horace in his hand. But Beranger himself declared that he did not know a word of Latin.