Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1884 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The National Sons of' Temperance of America held their convention at Halifax, N. 8., last week. An increased membership was reported... .The Baltimore and Ohio Company has purchased the Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Toledo Road, and will honor the paper indorsed by Commodore Garrison and the Andrews brothers. Bowdoin College, of Brunswick, Me., held its annual commencement exercises last week. Among others, the degree Doctor of Laws was conferred upon ex-Secre-tary Blaine, who attended the exercises, and addressed the alumi at the annual dinner. In the National Base-Ball League contest the Bostons lead with 40 games won; the Providence has now 38, New York 34. Buffalo 27, Chicago 26, Cleveland 21, Philadelphia 18, and Detroit 13. In the Union Association St. Louis has now 36 games, Boston 26, Chicago 25, Baltimore 23, Cincinnati 21, Philadelphia 15, Washington 14, and Kansas City 3. In the Northwestern League the Grand Rapids and Quincy have won 36 games each, Bay City 34, Peoria 31, Saginaw 30, Milwaukee 23, and Minneapolis and Muskegon 19 each. London dispatch: “The cholera plague at Toulon and Marseilles appears to be extending. The number of deaths at the former place Monday was ten and at the latter fourteen. The people of both cities are tearing, and it is feared they will spread the plague. Eoreigners now arriving in London are subjected to medical examination. Persons infected are taken to the hospital. These precautions are taken to prevent the entrance of the cholera in the city.”