Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1884 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

A dispatch from Pernambuco reports the loss of the ship Andrew Johnson, bound from Caleto-Buena to Hamburg, and seventeen of her crew, in a collision with the British ship Thirlmere. The latter vessel has arrived at Pernambuco with the survivors of the Johnson’s crew..... Great alarm has been caused at Buenos Ayres by the development of two cases of cholera, and a Strict quarantine will be enforced against all vessels from France.... Distinct shocks of an earthquake were felt at Colchester and Kingsville, Essex County, Ontario, and similar shocks were experienced at Concord, Hopkinton, Hillsboro, Bradford, and Warner, N. H. Immigration to Canada has materially fallen off during ths first ten months of 1884, when the arrivals were 138,386, as compared with 163,485 for the corresponding period in 1883. Of this year’s arrivals 80,510 settled in Canada and 57,876 passed through to the States.... Being destitute and without friends, John Downey and wife, of Windsor, Ontario, resolved to drown themselves some weeks ago. The woman performed her part, but Downey lost courage, and, when his wife's body was found, was accused of the murder, but was acquitted. The other day Downey hanged himself ... . The demise" is chronicled of William A. Duncan, just re-elected to Congress from the Gettysburg district of Pennsylvania, and of Dean O'Reilly, of Hamilton, Ont. Four men who left Kingston, Canada, in a boat for Cape Vincent, N. Y., have not been heard of, and, it is supposed, hove been drowned. Since Jan. 1, 301,297 immigrants have arrived at Castle Garden, New York, against 359,705 for the corresponding period of last year. The Germans head the list, and there has been a remarkable falling off in the number of Italians and Polish Jews. The “assisted” arrivals have been fewer the last few months than ever before... .Sir Alexander Campbell, representing the Dominion of Canada, has been conferring with the Premier of Ontario in regard to the appropriation of territory at Niagara Falls for the proposed international park, and it is understood that the plans will soon be carried out A Halifax (N. S.) special reports that while a life-boat with a crew of eleven wreckers, from the steamer Inveralt, stranded on Pictou Island, was returning to shore during a northerly gale, the craft was capsized and eight of the party drowned. A man from shore, putting off in a dory to attempt the rescue of others who were clinging to the upturned boat, lost an oar, drifted to sea, and was lost. .