Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1885 — SAMUEL S. COX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAMUEL S. COX.

United States Minlrt-r to Turkey.

Samuel S. Cox, the newly appointed Minister to Turkey, was bom at Zanesville, 0., in 1824, graduated at Brown University in 1846, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced In the Ohio courts. In 1853 he edited the Ohio Statesman, and two years later Went as Secretary of Legation 10 Pera. In 1858 he was .elected te Congress from the Columbus district, and ‘Served three successive terms. He suffered defeat in 1864, after which he removed to New York, and spent a good portion of three or four years in travels abroad dr ita writing amusing books about those travels. In 1868 he ran for Congress in New Yerk, was elected, and has been continuously in Congress ever since. A Cleveland man has invented a process for extracting aluminium from Kolin (day). A cheap production of aluminium will work * revolution in the metal world. , . . ... .. The Seventh-Day Adventists seem to be v gaining in strength in New Yotk. They have recently established missions in New York, Buffalo, Albany, and Syracuse. A New York toper, whose doctor forbade his drinking any more liquor, is tapering off on distilled water. Stratford, Conn., has a lively sensation in the shape of a haunted house.