Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1884 — ADDITIONAL. [ARTICLE]

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The Pennsylvania Railroad depot, ferryhouses, sheds, and drops at Jersey City, together with the piers, upon which were a number of loaded freight cars, were swept away by fire; A gas explosion caused the fire, the loss from which 1 amounts to about $600,000.... LieutJ Greely and his surviving companions were given a brilliant reception at Portsmouth, N. H. Nearly half the people of the State turned out to welcome them. As soon as they had disembarked a procession was formed, and they were escorted through the city amid the cheers of the assembled multitude. They were formally welcomed by Secretary Chandler, the Governor of New Hampshire, and the Mayor of Portsmouth. ,'o. Since Jan. 1 the imports of merchandise to the United States have exceeded the exports in value $75,739,902. In the same time the exports of specie exceeded the imports $36,124,187... .The fire losses during July in the United States and Canada aggregated $8,800,000, being the largest since the Portland (Me.) fire of July, 1866. Since -Jan. 1 the loss by fire has been $62,550,000. ....Returns from twenty-seven Clearing Houses of the United States show for last week an aggregate decrease of 6.1 per cent, compared with the corresponding week of last year. Outside of New York the decrease amounted to 19.2 per cent. Mr. Walker, the Irish Solicitor General, stated in theferitish Commons that Lord Lieutenant Spencer had decided to dismiss Crown Solicitor Bolton in consequence of the charges made against him in the Irish National press. It was for publishing those charges that O’Brien, the editor of United Ireland, was mulcted in $15,000 in a libel suit at Belfast. Lord Spencer evidently does not think the jury in the case acted without prejudice. Bolton will hardly try to recover the damages awarded.... Marseilles reports twenty-eight deaths from cholera on the 4th inst. There were no deaths at Toulon. The fact that the swallows and sparrows still keep away from the city is held to be evidence of a contaminated atmosphereAt Birmingham, England, 200,000 people assembled to indorse Gladstone’s reform measures. According to the reports of the Lynchburg (Va.) Tobacco Association the sales of leaf tobacco thus far this season have aggregated 19,000,000 pounds, 2,000,000 pounds less than the sales for the conesponding period of last year. The sales are now increasing and the manufacturers report a better demand. A. dispatch from Lexington, Ky., says: Reports from along the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad give evidence of a bitter fight over the election of Appellate Judge from the First District of Kentucky. In an altercation at Enterprise, Robert Griffy shot and killed two men, and then died from the effects of a shot from the pistol Of one of his victims,, who fired before he was killed himself, or from the pistol of some Unknown person. At Morehead a fight took place near the polls between William Trumbo and H. G. Price, and after exchanging shots the fight became general. The first man to drop was Solomon Bradley, killed by a bullet above the ear. and the second death-was that of Add Sizemore, of Gates Station, and the wounding of Allen Sutlin and John Martin and John Day followed. The Sheriff is said to have killed Sizemore, but was shooting at someelse in the crowd. Many others were injured. At Someset, James Lay, 60 years old, and Bant Dalton, aged 50, met at the election and renewed an old quarrel, in the course of which Dalton was shot and killed. At an election booth in this city, J. G. Geers, a Republican, shot George Stewart, a Republican, killing him instantly, and Dick Muiphy disemboweled Jack Cleary with a knife.” Judge Hayes, of Clinton, lowa, released a liquor-seller who had been fined and committed by a Justice of the Peace. The effect of this decision is to take all liquor cases to the district courts for trial on indictments, by juries... .Fred Sharon, son of ex-Sena-tor Sharon, was married at San Francisco to Mrs. Louise Breckenridge, the divorced wife of the Hon. O. C. Breckenridge, and daughter of Mr. Lloyd Tevis, President of the Wells-Fargo Express Company.