Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1884 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

THE International Association of Traveling Passenger Agents met in convention at Denyer last week. About 150 members attended. most of th uii being accompanied by their wives and daughters. Lieut. Greely has made the admission that by his orders Private Charles B, Henry was shot dead on the 6th day of June, for having persisted in stealing from the limited supply of provisions held by the expedition. A detailed report of the execution has been forwarded to the Secretary of War. With regard td the rumors es cannibalism, Lieut. Greely says if anything of th a kind occurred it was an individual act...., The American Binkejs’ Association met at Saratoga. Lyman J. Gage, of Chicago, in calling the convention to order, urged, as a renie‘dy for panics, the keeping of cash reserves considerably larger than ‘25 per cent., a repeal "of the usury Taw s, an d the adoj > - tion of uniform rules as to loaning freely in times of distrust. A resolution was adopted,, favoring the discontinuance of the coinage of standard silver dollars ~.. The International Traveling Passenger Agents, in session at Denver, elected A. S. Webster, of Buffalo,: President,- increased the annual dries to $5, annulled ,the contract which made the liailtcau News of Philadelphia the-offieial organ of the association, and adjourned,.. .The National Association of the Ex-Union Prisoners of War met in cpnj;ention_aLDetroit last week. C. C. Shanklin, of Cleveland, was President. The annual reunion of the Army of the Tennessee was held at Lake Minnetonka, Minn. The members"of the society were called to order by Gen. W. T. Sherman, who raid a brief letter from Gen. Grant -expressing- regret at his inability to be present. Before reading the letter, Gen. Sh rmaunfeelingly referred to Gen. Grant’s present-feeble physical condition and to the recent financial troubles in Wall street. The speaker said no one believed Gen. Grant was in the remotest degree personally responsible for the trouble, and said 'the respect and love he had won on the bat-tle-field would survive long after Wall street was a name held to be synonymous with gambling in gold and credit. Gov. Hubbai d, of Minnesota, delivered the address of welcome, to which Gen. Sherman responded. At the banquet speeches were made by Gov. Hubbard of Minnesota, Gen. Chetlain of Chicago, Bishop Ireland, exSenator Ramsey, Ignatius Donnelly, and Col. Jacobson of Chicago. Gen. Sherman was re-elected President, and the society adjourned to meet at Chicago on the second Wednesday of September, next year. Generally speaking the Canadian crops this year are much better than they were last. This is the case especially with the barley, pea, and bean crops... .Rumors come from the City of Mexico that several prominent .citizens have been arrested for conspiracy to depose President Gonzales and assassinate Gen. Diaz... .The Supreme Grove, Order of Druids, held its annual session at St. Louis, and adjourned to . meet at Chicago next year.

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions report that for eleven months of tjj£ current financial year receipts have comparatively dropped off $§6,000, and that SIOO,OOO will be necessary to make the fund equal to last year’s donations..... Captain, crew, and passenger s of the steamer Silksworth, now in port at Montreal, assert with great positiveness that they observed a sea-serpent near Point Gaspe, near the mouth of the St. Lawrence. The monster rose frequently twenty feet out of the water. It appeared’to? be about four feet in diameter; its head was shaped like that of a conger eel, and its body like a shark. Lieut. Powell,, an officer of the Signal Service, who was present at the Greely reception at Portsmouth and_ also at tfie funeral.ofrthe deadat New York, and who talked with all the survivors of the Greely expedition, said, in an interview at Washington the other day: There is no doubt of cannibalism. There was-nuchanceeither of keeping the fact secret; too many men knew it. It was only hoped that it could be kept quiet uutiljGreely made an official report, when matters were more quiet and the public could reason better regarding the exigencies of the ease, and there is tio doubt of Greely’s Honesty when he says if there was cannibalism he did not know it. When these men were rescued they were not responsible beings. They had undoubtedly subsisted on human flesh for some time. Lieut. Colwell, who was the first man to reach the tent, told me that when they met Long, who came part way to meet them, he was completely played out. When asked how many were living he gaspingly replied, “Seven.” “Where are they?” asked Colwell. “Over there,” he said faintly, pointing to the hill. Of course tipsy hurried over the hill and found the tent. It was closed, and either Chief-Engineer Lowe or Norman cut it. Colwell stuck his head in and Greely. who was but the semblance of' a man, raised himself on his hands and knees- and gazed in a perfectly dazed manner. Colwell didn't know him, and asked him three times who he was, but he couldn't reply. Brainerd then said: “It's Capt? Greeley.” Colwell then gave them all a small amount of ptarmigan. He was afraid of giving them too much, and sent for the surgeon to come ashore. The men then began to curse him for not giving them food. Greeley said piteously: “I think after all I've been through you might give me something to eat. h