Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The estimates submitted by Inspector Haworth to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs made the following allowances fbr the maintenance of Indian schools for the next fiscal year: Forest Grove School, Oregon, $46,500; (|enoa, Neb., $31,760; Lawrence, Kan., $62,250: Hampton, Va., $25,250; Carlise, Pa., $101,000; Chilocca, I. T., $36,125; Alaska, $25,000; schools in States and Territories, $116,900; transportation, $20,000; general educational purposes, buildings, etc., $790,950; construction and repairs, $75,000... .Portraits of the wives of Presidents Tyler and Polk were hung in the green room of the White House last week... .Postmasters commissioned: John D. Adair, North Salem, Ind.; Wffi. S. Moore, Meadville, Neb.; Albert M. Beldon, Commonwealth, Wis. The Rounds Type and Press Company, of Chicago, whose liabilities are $45,000, has made an assignment to Samuel D. Ward. It would appear that S. P. Rounds, by a lifetime of bard work, built up a prosjierous business, which he sacrificed for one term as Public Printer at Washington. ~. A boat containing Gardiner's theatrical party capsized at Oshkosh, Wis., and all narrowly escaped drowning... .The Buffalo Glucose Company shipped two train-loads of com To Chicago and realized a profit of 16 cents a bushel. Five hundred colored Masons of New j England gathered at Boston last week and celebrated the centennial anniversary of. the granting of an English warrant to the African lodge... .In a five-mile boat-race • at Point of Pines, near Boston, Teemer defeated Ross by half a length. Ross was given a start of five seconds, and the stakes amounted to $2,000. The Tainmanyites have made their nominations for city’officers in New York. John Kelly made a speech, in which he said that Tammany would give Cleveland a “full, fair, and "honorable support.”....Ex-Senator Thomas F. Grady was egged by a band of workingmen during a political meeting in Albany. Hogs are dying by wholesale of pleuropneumonia in Western Maryland, Gov. Hamilton having lost over one hundred. The disease has been spread by the casting of dead animals into the river..... Mrs. Barbara Becht, of Louisville, arose from her bed to hunt for a cat. Her clothes took fire from a candle, ami she was burned to death. Vernon Harcourt, the British Home Secretary, suggested to a company manufacturing explosives the necessity of guarding their warehouses at night. A reply was sent that the plan would cost $125,009 per annum, and asking that a duty be placed on foreign-made dynamite as a protection against American and German competition. ....Dynamiters attempted to blow up the Council- Chamber at .Salisbury, England. A number of .widows were shuttere^. Loss ofbeing thre itened by boats, which are delayed frequently because of Tow water, the We!Lind Canal officials propose fe. dhifcithat qlyke from the Grand River whUpreter the 'lake level causes In-' convenience.... On account of the recent seizure qf the American schooner Island Belle by the custom collector at Gananoque, Ontario, the U, S. revenue cutter Bibb overhauled the Canadian schooner Annie Falconer at Charlotte, and reported her at Washington for a fine of SSOO because the eaptaip had no manifest. He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, let him be never so friendly in ! all other cases, I look upon him in this ! to be no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to pick out its eyes.— Seneca. Over seven hundred different works have thus far been published in Germany on vegetarianism, in addition to a monthly magazine on the subject. Hand made envelopes cost originally 5 cents each. The envelope-machine | now turns them ont so that a thousand may be sold for 30 cents.