Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Gen. McAdaris, of St. Louis, formerly known as “No. 1, ” believes that Irish Nationalists should make efforts to help the False Prophet in the Soudan, and asserts that the man who could get a dozen Gatling guns to the Mahdi would be doing more for Ireland than dynamiters could effect in half a century. The Grand Jury in New York, without summoning O’Donovan Rossa to testify, found an indictment against Ysenlt Dudley for assault with intent to kill. Hon. T. R. Alexander, a member of the Parliament of British Columbia, stated to a Chicago Times reporter that his people are ' still greatly dissatisfied with their political connection with Canada, and that the Chinese have become a curse to British soil on the Pacific coast. It is rumored at Ottawa, Ont., that the Government will take the Canadian*Pacific Boad off the hands of the Company and complete it. = It is said that President Adams, of the Union Pacific Railroad, considers the retirement of Gould and Sage from the directory quite probable. In financial circles it is regarded as certain that Gould will retire. The only question remaining to be solved is how he is to be dropped without causing unnecessary friction.... Mrs. Mary E. Hicks, of Chicago, will bring suit to recover property worth $1,000,000 lying in the Johnstown district, in Canada. There were 270 failures in the United States during the week, an increase of 66 as compared with the previous week. Bradstreet’s Journal, in its commercial summary, says: Special telegrams from leading commercial centers convey, as a whole, more of encouragement as to the outlook for the distribution of general merchandise in the early future than has been reported of late. The dtath is announced of Rear Admiral George H. Preble, of the United States navy; John Q. A. Bean, of Boston, General Eastern Agent of the Burlington Road; Alonzo Flack, D. D., Principal of the Hudson River Institute; Mrs. Malinda Evans, of Vincennes, Inch, the oldest woman in that State. The weekly clearing-house statement is again unfavorable, the reports showing a decrease in the transactions of 33.9 per cent, as compared with the corresponding week of 1884. The decrease outside of New York was 31.2 per cent The Legislature of British Columbia has passed a law imposing a fine of SSO or imprisonment of six months on Chinamen who attempt to enter the province.... The Mexican customs Receipts for January show an increase of $700,000 over the preceding month. The Central Railway is carrying large amounts •of American com to the capital.