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

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

To a reporter at Lockport, N. Y., Gen. Butler said he did not like the Democratic nominees, but he would take no definite action until he had read the letters of acceptance of all the candidates. The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly review of the British grain trade, says: “Trade in foreign wheat very dull. The market is decidedly weaker, especially for American, the supply being excessive. A dispatch from Starkville, Miss., says that in October, 1882, B. J. Bffiffih’s two boys, aged 12 and 14 It now turns out that a negro &phed Newton Carpenter, living with Parishatthe time, poisoned water which the hoys drank. Newton confided the matter to a negro woman who a few days ago told Parish. Carpenter was arrested and said he got the poison from a negro doctor, Ned Macks, a notoriously bad character. Macks was also arrested. A posse of half a dozen men had them in charge, when the prisoners were seized by a disguised mob and hanged.... A masked mob took Dick Jones, a negro, from jail at Owensboro, Ky., and hanged him. The jailer fired on the party, killing one man, and fatally wounding another. The mob then shot the jailer, who died soon after. After damage of $50,000 had been done by fire at the mission of San Jose, in California, the old church was saved by the use of claret wine as an extinguisher. .7. .D. B. Buford & Co., of the Rock Island (Ill.) Plow Works, have made an assignment. The liabilities are $500,000, while the assets are placed at SBOO,OOO Burgert & Hart, wholesale boots and shoes, at Toledo, Ohio, have made an assignment, with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. It is understood that a successor to Judge Drummond will not be appointed until December, when Congress meets. PostmasterGeneral Gresham will then be appointed almost without a doubt. In the meantime business in the United States Circuit Court •will be seriously delayed. Another reason is urged for the acquisition of Cuba by the United States. It would add to the sanitary safety of the nation. We are constantly threatened with the importation of yellow fever from Havana. If that city were controlled by Americans it is urged that it would be a most healthy city, and the contagion-breeding menace would be removed. The horse Sour Mash was driven twenty miles in 77:35 in Hampdpn Park, at Springfield, Mass... .The Court of Errors of New Jersey has released two printers of Deckertown who were sentenced to long terms., in State prison for criminal libel perpetrated by their, employer.... A dispatch from Parker, Pa., says seven men were buried by an embankment caving in. Frank Gleason and Michael Miscabrough were killed, and Bernhard Singer, William Piper, Charles Allick, William Kenturach, and John Schalk injured. Singer and Piper are hurt internally, and will probably die.

The value of the total imports of. merchandise of the United States, exclusive of specie and bullion, for the calendar year 1883, amounted to $687,077,666, against $752,843,507 for the previous year, showing a decrease for 1883 of $65,768,841. The value of the total exports, domestic and foreign, exclusive of specie and bullion, for the year 1883, amounted to $795,175,701, against $767,781,946 for the previous year,, showing an increase for 1883’of $27,193,755. The value of the total imports of specie and bullion for the year 1883 amounted to $36,209,318, against $22,500,913 for the year previous, an increase for 1883 of $13,708,4 05. The value of the total exports of specie and bullion for the year 1883 amounted to $31,843,440, against $56,038,134 for the year previous, a -decrease for 1883 of $24,194,694. The total foreign trade of the United States, imports and exports, exclusive of specie and bullion, was, for the calendar year 1883, $1,482,250,367, against $1,520,825,453 for the previous year, a decrease for 1883 of $38,575,086.