Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

A London dispatch says: “It is persistently asserted in Catholic Circles that there

. is a great likelihood of Mary Anderson joining the Clementine nuns.”... .The Irish rifle team won the Elcho shield at Wimbledon, England. Alexander Sullivan, President of the Irish National League, has called a convention at Boston for Aug. 13, on which occasion addresses will be delivered by Thomas Sexton and John E. Redmond. The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company has announced a reduction of rates to all important Southern and Western points. The tariff adopted is 25 cents for ten words b—abbut half the present Western Union charge.. . .John C. Eno, the wrecked New York banker, has rented a furnished house in Quebec, and has been joined by his wife and three daughters. ■ An organization under the name of the Miners’ Amalgamated Association is being perfected in the bituminous and anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio, It is estimated that a membership of 100,000 has already been obtained. The organization will be extended to the West. The leaders claim it will be protective in character, and that strikes will be' discouraged as far as is consistent with-the interestsofthe members. Members of the Amalgamated Miners’ in Ohio and Pennsylvania are., forming a combination against the company store, better known, perhaps, as the truck system. , . The attendance at the Grand Army of the Republic encampment, at Minneapolis, was the largest in the history of the order,. . Gov. Hubbard welcomed the veterans to .the State, and Mayor Pillsbury, on behalf - of the city, exiemled a welcome. ” The second day of the encampment witnessed a grand parade, that was received with tremendous cheers by 60,000 people, who thronged every street on the line of march. The parade (passed * the City Hall, where children on a canopied platform were waving banners and singing an old war song, which the veterans took up, and' passed on with uncovered heads. The third day’s proceedings were somewhat tame, and were not so largely attended. A good many old soldier- had private reunions at the camp -and in the streets. There was als* a prizedrill, and in the evening a camp-fire, at which Gen. Sherman delivered a speech. The fourth and last day was devoted principally to the election of officers for the ensuing year. J.S.Koutz, of Ohio, who entered the Union army in 1861 as a drummer boy, being then but 15 years of age, was elected - Grand Commander; John P. Rea, of Minneapolis, Senior Vice Commander; and Ira B. Hicks, of New Haven, Conn., Junior Vice Commander. Portland, Me,, was selected as the place for the encampment next year. • ' , ' . ”” , , ■ ' Surgeon General Hamilton was notified that a child who recently arrived at New Orleans from Toulon died on the steamer Annie P. Silver, at Port Anderson, Miss., probably from cholera. A strict investigation was at pnee ordered by Dr. Hamilton. Ensign W. R. Chambers, of the steamship Loch Garry of the Greely relief expe- ' dition, furnishes some interesting details of the voyage from the log of his vessel, from which it appears that as they sailed from St, Johns, N. F., northward they were in constant peril. Hundreds of times during the expedition vessel and crew were threatened with destruction by icebergs and fogs.