Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1884 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The Treasurer of the United States has forwarded to the Governor of Louisiana free-school bonds of that State to the amount of $21,(100, which were captured at Baton Rouge by Gen. Sheridan. Lieut Greely received and accepted an invitation from Capt. Bedford Pim to be present at the meeting of the British Association at Montreal. M. de Lesseps the French engineer, in a letter from the French Geographical Society, congratulates Lieut Greely on his success, and expresses sympathy at the loss of his comrades. Commander Cheyne, of the British navy, has sent a eongrutnbitory dispatch direct to Greely. S. W. Tallmadge, the crop statistician of Milwaukee, has issued his final estimate of the wheat crop of the United States for 1884, as follows: Winter wheat, 380,000,000 bushels; spring wheat, 150,000,000, or 130,000,000 bushels more than the crop of 1883... .Cacereo, the Peruvian rebel chief, with his followers, entered Lima arid occupied the cathedral and one of the public buildings, from which they opened fire ou the inliubitihts indiscriminately, killing 150 people. The Canada Pacific Hoad has laid its racks to a point seven miles west of the Rocky Mountains, and hopes to reach the highest point of the Selkirk range this season. The California Board of Equalization reports the Central Pacific Road at $24,000,000 and the Southern Pacific at $17,000,000... .It is now understood that Capt. Howgate, of the Signal-Service Department, of malfeasance, and for whose apprehension a reward has been offered, is sojourning in the Bermudas.* In the race for the championship in the National League base-ball contest, the Providence has won G 4 games, Boston 58, Buffalo and New York 50 each, Chicago 41, Cleveland 31, Philadelphia ,27, and Detroit 19. In the American Association games, the Metroplitan has won 56 games, Columbus 53, Louisville 51, Cincinnati 50, St. Louis 48, Baltimore 44, Athletic 43, and Brooklyn 32. In ;he Union League games, St Louis has won 53, Boston 34, Pittsburgh 31, Baltimore and Cincinnati 30 each, and Washington 23.