Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1884 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Forty-five of the crew of the sailing brig Confederate, which is ice-locked in Notre Dame Bay, Ndrihern Newfoundland, were rescued, but the ice-flow forced the rescuing Steamer to retire, and twenty-nine men were left to starve on the wreck, on which there is neither fuel nor provisions. ... .At Belleville, Ontario, Joseph Tompsett and George Louder were executed for the murder of Peter Lozier. During the past week the business failures in the United States and Canada numbered 228, an increase of thirteen over the previous week... The Vulcan Powder Manufacturing Company of Clasqua, Pa., has accepted $75,000 from the Dupont Powder Company for suspending work for one year. At Key West, Fla., Frederico Gil Marrero, a Cuban, was arrested from a steamer from New York as being a dynamiter, and fuse, detonating caps, and books of instruction for the manufacture of explosives were found among his effects. He was held in $2,000 It is thought the Cuban dynamiters have been bringing the compound parts of explosives to Key West, and then secretly manufacturing them. *» The trial of T. C. Campbell, a criminal lawyer of Cincinnati, on charge of bribing a juror in a murder trial, resulted in a disagreement of the jury, seven of its members voting for conviction. The papers prepared for his disbarment contain seventy charges. Obituary: The Rev. Dr. Alexander J. Baird, of Nashville, Tenn., died suddenly at the Park Avenue Hotel, New York, while on his way to attend a meeting of the Presbyterian ATlianc eat Belfast, Irelan d. He was in his 60th year. He had been a pastor at Nashville since the close of the war. Col. J. G. Bayne, a Greenback leader in Kansas, who had lately been devoting his energies to the extension of the Fort Scott Road, died of heart disease in Wichita. Commander Samuel B. Gregory, U. C. N., died at Boston, Mass., aged 71. FOREIGN. Justin H. McCarthy, son of the wellknown Irish author and journalist, and himself a young man of. considerable literary reputation, has been elected member of Parliament for Athlone, Leland, in the Parnellite interest. The late member, Sir John J. Ennis, was a Liberal.... The French Minister of the Interior has issued a decree forbidding bull fights... .News has re-ached Loudon that a water-spout occurred in Akulrig, Russian Turkestan. The river was overflowed, seventy houses were dettroyed, and forty persons drowned. There are fresh electoral riots in Hungary. Three persons were killed and many wounded... .The Tichborne pretender is to be released from an English prison on a ticket-of-leave... .Prince Hohenlohe, the German Embassador at Paris, declares that public feeling in Germany continues to be envenomed against France by constant provocation by the French press. • Dr. Seebach, curator of the University of Jena and a well-known archaeological authority, js dead, h Election agents throughout Great Britain expect an early dissolution of Parliament, and are making arrangements accordingly.... The marriage of Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and the Grand Duke Sergius occurred at St. Petersburg.... Prince Krapotkine’s liberation from Clairvaux prison, France, July 14, is assured. The Princess is permitted free entrance to her husband's cell, and passes whole days assisting him in his literary work... A large meeting of Orangemen was held at Belfast, Ireland. Resolutions were adopted de-

nouncihg Earls Spencer and warning him not to attempt to carry out his intention of visiting L'lst r. British officials in Egypt credit the statement of an Arab from Beiber that the rebels, on May 23 t massacred two thousand male citizens and fifteen hundred men of the ginison. but spared the women and children..: .The Pope has instructed the Papal agent at Brussels to open negotiations for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Belgium .... Theebaw. King of Bunnah, has poisoned his Queen and her mother and married the Queen's sister. AMHHTIOIWAEAE WS. While inebriated James Cowan, 8 years old, was dyowned near Omaha, Neb. His little companions were so befuddled with beer that they could render him no assistance. ... At Oconto, Wis., an aged woman named Mrs. Charles Ritter brained her husband with an ax and then took paris green. Both are still alive. In Southern New Jersey, on the morning of the 16th, the thermometer fell to 38 degrees. There were frosts in some places, and considerable damage was done to tender crops... For the third time in thirty rears 8. Sommerich <t Co., wholesale millinery, New York, have failed. On the former occasions they paid, respectively, 25 and 35 cents on the dollar. Senator Allison, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, says that under no conditions will the Senate fix a time for adjournment until all the appropriation bills are signed. He does not think there is any possibility that the business i before Congress will be completed before ! July 15. Emigrant passenger rates have been re-, duced on al! the German and English tians-| atlantic steamship lines to sls. The Na- , tional Line, it is reported, is selling tickets j for $14.. . .The decrease in the aggregate ' clearances of the twenty-five leading clear-ing-houses of the United Stites in the last week, as compared with the aggregate for ! corresponding week last year, was 23.1 per cent. Outside of New York the decrease was 10.9; An injunction was granted at Louisville ■ restraining the removal of the headquarters ! of the Knights of Honor from Kentucky. | General Sloat, Supreme officer of the order,J says members need not feel alarmed, that ! death benefits will be paid regularly and, ! business matters attended t 0.... .The frig- ; ate Constellation has sailed from An- J napolis for Hampton Roads, to repair her j hull, it having been found so rotten-that it [ could not bold the rudder. At a balloon ascension in Bordeaux, a t French soldier fired at George W. Roosevelt, the American Consul. The bullet passed through his hat, contusing his head ; and knocking him over. It is believed that the assailant mistook his victim for an officer in citizens’ dress.... On the entrance of Duke Sergius into St. Petersburg, householders were forbidden to admit strangers to their residences, under stern penalties. , . .El Mahdi has appointed one of his subordinates Governor of Dongola, and threatens to annihilate any Turkish force that may be sent against him. In the Senate, June 16, Mr. Ingalls created a breeze by charging that Mr. Brown had in- , serted in the official report of the latter’s speech on the Georgia claim words which were not used in the debate. Bills were reported to increase to the appropriation for a public building at Erie, and to forfeit the unearned land grant of the Atlantic and Pacific Read. Mr. Van Wyck offered a resolution directing the Committee on Judiciary to inquire whether the Union and Central Pacific Roads have guaranteed interest on bonds other than those specifically authorized by Congress, or have issued new stock in violation of said act. Interesting debates took place on Mr. Butler's . resolution for an investigation of the banks of New York and on the Utah bill. In the House, bills were introduced to give to every honorably discharged soldier or sailor 160 acres of land, and for the erection of a home for union and confederate soldiers at Denver. The Committee on Elections reported in favor of admitting Mr. Morey from the Seventh Ohio District. Mr. Deuster presented a measure to punish the prosecution of fraudulent claims against foreign governments by tin • and imprisonment. An evening session was held to consider the deficiency appropriation bill. ' ;• " 'p— - Luminous plants have peculiar charm to the grower and observer. One of the best is Fraxinella, or gas plant. It is an old favorite, perfectly hardy, a perennial of the very easiest culture, and should be in every garden. In the calm summer evenings, when in bloom, a light applied to the base of the stalk will envelop the whole plant in flame. This can be repeated time and again, and, it appears, with benefit to the ripening seed. This property was discovered by Linnaeus. The flowers are white or red, and are very fine.