Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

President Arthur has nominated the members of the oommission to investigate concerning the best means of establishing closer commercial relations between the United States and South American countries. The State Veterinarian of Kansas inspected the livery-stables in Leavenworth, and found twenty-five cases of glanders. He ordered the shooting of five horses, valued at $1,060... .Notwithstanding the prohibition law. the dietillers at Dubuque, lowa, are manufacturing as usual, and the saloons are openly selling liquors. The wholesale dealers are also busy, but they send out their packages in new shapes. —“ZEZZ A Toulon dispatch says: “Dr. Koch reports the cholera here as Asiatic, from the extreme East. He found the same microbes here as in Egypt and India. The intestines being the seat of danger, fumigation is useless. He says the cholera will reach Germany; it will go everywhere; hating a center like Toulon it must spread. \• •. In the French Chambers, Premier Ferry said that the attack on the French troops at Langson by Chinese regulars was an instance of base and foul treachery on the part of the latter, for which China will have to give immediate and complete satisfaction. A London Tune« dispatch from Dongola announces that the Mudir of that place defeated the Soudanese near Debbah recently, inflicting great loss upon themA jury at Dublin rendered a verdict in favor of William O’Brien, editor of United Ireland, in the suit for £5,000 brought against him by Secretary Cornwall, of the postoffice. The secret service division of the Treasury Department has received advices that a new counterfeit $lO silver certificate has appeared in the West It is supposed to have been printed from a wood-cut, but is likely to deceive the ordinary judge of money. It is of the series of iBBO, G. W. Schofield, Register, James Gilfillan, Treasurer. The note is one-quarter inch shorter than the genuine paper, is composed of two thin layers with silk parallel lines and fiber placed between them. In the scroll on the back, where it should read, “And all public dues and when so received," the word “all” is entirely omitted, and the words “when so,” are read together as one word. The assignee of Grant & Ward, of New York, has filed an inventory showing liabilities of $16,792,647, actual assets of $67,174, and nominal assets of $27,139,098. He reports that they kept no journal or cash-book, had no complete list of assets, and rehypothecated large amounts of securities left with them as collateral for 10an5.... In the inter-collegiate regatta on Saratoga Lake the Pennsylvania University crew were the victors. The contest between the Pennsylvanians and the Cornell crew was dose and exciting. The Princeton crew came in third and the Columbias fourth.

Congress reached & final adjournment at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of July 7, During the morning all differences between the House and Senate on the appropriation bills, with the exception of the navy bill, were settled by mutual concessions. The House refused to recede from its position on the navy bill, and the Senate refused to yield? The measure did not pass. The last hours of the session were tame, comparatively speaking. President Arthur spent several hours in the Capitol signing the appropriation bills.

The “pic-nic pie” is the latest. Its dissimilarity from the ordinary common run of pies permits it to be used as a cushion until dinner time.—Cincinnati Merchant Traveler. Now that Oscar is married he will probably get over his Wilde ways. He won’t have time to put on knee breeches when he has to walk the floor with the baby all night. A great many young men get stoopefied during the summer months, judging from the time they spend on the steps of houses where there are goodlooking girls. ■■■ ■ ““""r The depth of poverty is reached when a mon cannot get a coat on his tongue.