Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1885 — Preparing to Defend Herat. [ARTICLE]

Preparing to Defend Herat.

[Calcutta dispatch.] • Afghan advices report that re-enforce-ments are continuously going from Candahar to'Herat. It is expected that the railway will be completed to Mutch in sixty days. Material has been ordered sufficient to carry the, line to Candahar. There is no <sign of relaxation of military work. Mrs. Southworth is CFyears old and has written seventy-one novels. She is now under contract to write only for Robert Bonner, from whom she is to receive SB,OOO per annum. ' , Mb. Robert Bonner puts the probable limit of trotting speed at 2:05. He tSinks Maud S. may trot between 2:07 and 2:08. Matthew Arnold may defer his nex ••visit to thia eountry until the beginning of 1886. ' — ■© An autograph letter of Gen. George Washington was sold in New York for $75.