Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — GEINERAE. [ARTICLE]

GEINERAE.

By a vote of 27 to 12 the Toronto Presbytery has decided that a man may marry his deceased wife’s sister... .Paddy Ryan expresses surprise at the failure of his attempt to make a match with John L. Sullivan, and states that he shall claim the championship unless he is allowed a chance to win it The public debt of the Dominion of Canada is in excess of $88,000,000, an increase of $7,000,000 in the past six months. The Canadian Pacific Road is an app’icant for another appropriation. President-elect Cleveland, accompanied by 001. Lamont, visited New York Cjty last week, and Vice President-elect Hendricks went to New Orleans to view the World's Exposition. There were 330 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet'a during the week, against 349 in the preceding week, and 257, 256, and 159 in the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883, and 1882 respectively. About 86. per cent, were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,000. In the principal trades they were as follows: General stores, 59; grocers, 46; shoes, 22; liquors, 16; clothing, 14; hotels and restaurants, 13; jewelry, 13; furniture, 12; paper, books, stationery, etc., 11; hardware and agricultural implements, 11; dry goods, 10; tobacco and cigars, 9; produce and provisions, 8; drugs, 8; bakers and confectioners, 8; fancy gocds, 7; lumber and materials, 6; markets, 5; millinery, 5; millers and flour, 5; hides and leather, 4; harness, 4; carpenters and builders, 3; carriages, 3; bankers, 2; coal and wood, 2; plumbers, 2; men’s furnishings, 2. A gloomy statement has been prepared by the National Board of Health which is intended to call the attention of Congress to its duty of providing against the threatened epidemic of Asiatic cholera. The report shows that in every instance where the plague has become epidemic in Europe it has broken out in this country either the same year or the next year... .Fire destroyed the pork-pucking establishment of G. Cassard & Sons, Baltimore, valued at $70,000; three business blocks at Stafford. Conn., worth $60,000, and the round-house and engines of the narrow gauge road at Burlihgton, 10wa... .The winter wheat crop is far from promising according to latest accounts from various States, which report a decreased acreage and a poor condition of the plant. .... The watch has been increased at the Parliament building, Ottawa, Ont., owing to intelligence from New York that the dynamiters are preparing for an attack... .The tele ihone was successfully used the other day by the Mayors of New York and Chicago. who held a prolonged conversation over the wires.