Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1884 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

At the business session of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, at Rochester, ST. Y., a report was submitted showing that 4

, the Treasurer of tlie organization had on hand $25, (Ki1l for a national statue to Geq. riai-field. Congress has appropriated $90.000, and a suitable site is 1 to be selected by Secretary Lincoln. Gen.' Sheridan, and the .Chairman of the Monument Committee of the Cumberland Grand Army. I , Capt. Healy, commander of the revenue steamer Corwin, complains that large quantities of liquor aud breech-loading rifles are smuggled into Alaska by Pacific coast w haters and exchangedfor whalebone. He suggests that the Revenue. Collector be instructed to limit the allowance, of these articles- to each whaler... The American Association of Railroad Superintendents held its semi-annual Boston, with D. W. Sanborn, of the Eastern Road, occupying the chair. During the month of August of this year $10,455,530 worth of breadstuff's was exported from the United States, against $18,875,276 worth exported in 1883. For the first eight months of this year th§ value of breadstuff exports has been $96,003,250, against $114,230,476 for the corresponding period last year A mortgage of $5,000,000 on the*St. Paul Road has been recorded in New York, to pay for terminal improvements made in Chicago and Milwaukee and others to be acquired. .. .Schaefer challenges SloSson to two games of billiards, eight or ten-inch balk-line, for from SSOO to $2,500 a side, 800 points, one game to be played in Chicago, the other in New Y’ork. .. .The veterans of the Army of the Cumberland held their amiuul reunion at Rochester, ’ with Geu. Sheridan in the chair. The Department of Agriculture devotes a fair share of its September report to the subject of wheat-raising in India, and gives tables- showing that the rajfava-y freights-to-the seaboard in that country are 50 per cent, higher than those between Chicago and tidewater... .Fishermen along the north shore of the St. Lawrence and on the north side of Anticoste, are in destitute circumstances, and the Government is asked to render aid... .The Canadian Government is about to, authorize the laying of a cable from Sable Island to Halifax, mdistance of 130 miles. - 1 ,

The largest land sale in the history of North America has just been consummated in Mexico, where a tract in Chihuahua and Durango, larger than some of the New England States, was conveyed to a British syndicate for $1,000,000 cash. The property bad not hitherto been transferred for two centuries... .It is claimed that 500 Chinamen have made their way into Oregon from British territory within the last threemonths on the false pretense that they lived in America before the Chinese restriction: -'LTflr was passed.... The burning of the Grand Trunk car-shops and all its contents, at London, Ontario, involves a loss of $500,000. Mr. Blaine’s reply to the interrogatories propounded by the defense in the libel suit at Indianapolis were filed in the United States Court, at that c'ty, last week. Mr. Blaine states under oath that he was married “in Millersburg, Ky., on the 30th of June, 1850, in the presence of Sarah C. Stauwood and S. L. Blaiilc. The marriage was secret. Having doubt subsequently of its validity under the laws of Kentucky, which then stringently required a license from the Clerk of the County Court, I had the marriage solemnized a second time in Pittsburgh. Pa., on the 2‘Jth of March, 1851, in the presence of John Y T . Lemoyne and David Bell.” His first child, a son, was born on tbe 18th of June, 1851. In regard to tbe defacing of this child's tombstone, Mr. Blaine says: “I have not myself seen the stone since the first week in July', but bave reason to believe, and do believe, that since that date many letters and figures thereon have been defaced, and that the figure 1 in the year 1851 has been entirely removed. I hive no means of ascertaining by whom this was done, but have reason to believe, and do believe, that a photograph was taken of the defaced stone by the procurement of one of the publishers of the New Y’ork Age, a Democratic paper published in this city, and that copies of said photograph were sent to divers and sundry persons, including the publisher of the Indianapolis Sentinel, the defendant of this suit. ” Cot.. Dudley has tendered his resignation as Commissioner of Pensions, to take effect Nov. 10. He intends to go. into the banking business at "Washington. „