Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Ah Kee, a Chinaman, who shipped on a vessel at Calcutta and deserted at New York, has been ordered by a United States Commissioner to leave the country. A Boston ship—the Alert—bound from New York for Shanghai, and carrying 400,000 gallons of kerosene oil, was struck by lightning near Pernambuco and burned. The officers and crew were saved. At most of the leading business centers throughout the country, as reported iii special telegrams to Bradstreets (New York), lust week, there has been a slight gain in the demand for staple articles, more noticeably for dry goods. This improvement is chiefly noticeable, however, by comparison with the extreme dullness which immediately preceded and followed the Presidential election, for there are yet no visible evidences of a real or widespread increase in the demand for or shipment of goods. The tendency of prices of most staples continues.down ward, but there are some exceptions. In print cloths in New England the impression exists that bottom prices have been touched, and that low stocks warrant more firmness. Breadstuff's have declined almost steadily. Full, immediate, and prospective supplies of wheat at home and abroad check export purchases. Phenomenally low prices prevent extensive short sales, and no advances can be secured on that basis. British stocks are smaller than last year, but ours are larger. Hog products have been cheaper, in sympathy with corn and owing to unexpectedly free receipts of of hogs. The relative cheapness of corn, as compared with the price at which hogs are selling, should encourage the farmers to ship fewer hogs until after fattening them at least to last year’s average of weight. There were 248 failures in the United States and twenty-nine in Canada during the week—a total increase of forty-one over the week previous. The increase is mostly in the Western and Southern States.... (Sliver Bateman, who murdered and outraged the little McLaughlin girls, was hanged at Savannah, Mo. John Bush (colored) was executed at Lexington, Ky., for murder committed six years ag0.... Congressman Tucker, of Lynchburg, Valias been appointed guardian of the minor children of the late President Garfield, and will have control of all the Garfield property in Virginia... .The Canadian Government has decided not to take part in the New Orleans Exposition, for lack of time to prepare exhibits. , ■ . .... Eleven hundred Italian laborers have sailed for Italy from New York. They have made money here and go back to enjoy it, where living is cheaper... .Two men started in a sloop front Victoria, British Columbia, with a cargo of nineteen Chinese, who were to be smuggled into Washington Territory, but all were drowned.