Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A itEGBO in Anderson County, South Carolina, sixty-one years old, began changing color a oout a year ago, and is now as white as the average Caucasian. In the contest for the league base-ball championship, Chicago' and New York are running a neck-and-neck race, with Providence and Philadelphia closely following. St. Louis, Boston, Buffalo, and Detroit bring up the rear, in the order named. The Indianapolis Base-Ball Club is to be transferred to Detroit, to take the latter’s place in the National League. Of the old Detroit club but Bennett, Hanlop, and Wood will be retained.; All the preachers in the city of Dubuque, lowa, spoke last Sunday against the curse of ball-playing on the Sabbath. One reverend gentleman declared that Sunday base-ball playing was worse than picking pockets. When Max well,,the supposed murderer of C. Arthur Preller, at the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, was arrested on the steamer at Tiritiri, he declared that he was an officer 1 in the French army, and that the whole matter was a mistake which’ he would soon explain away. LTpon his examination he stated that the articles found in his trunk bearing the initials “C. A. P.” were given him in San Francisco by a man named Robinson. The Canadian. Government has reduced canal tolls one-half for the remainder of the season; barge transportation between Kingston and Montreal will be lowered one-fourth cent, and wharfage dues at Montreal will be abolished, thus making a reduction-of three-fourths of a cent a bushel on present rates between Chicago and Montreal.... At the annual meeting of the Canadian Pacific Railroad Mr. Stephen was re-elected President. Ten million dollars of the stock is held in the United States, $15,000,000 in the Dominion, and the remaining $40,000,000 in England. It is expected that the road, the floating indebtedness of which amounts to $6,89£>,401, will be completed by the first of October... .The situation at Aspinwall is very bad indeed. There is no police force, and not the slightest effort has been made to raise the city from its ashes. A decisive battle is soon expected between the Government forces and the revolutionists. The latter are well armed and number 4,000 men, >.

Mb. Gladstone said in the House of Commons on the 15th inst. that the Marquis of Salisbury had consented to form a new Cabinet. The Conservatives are far from anxious to assume the difficult task of steering the ship of state through the shoals, and there is already talk of dissension in their ranks. The London Times says it is clearly to be understood that the Salisbury Ministry must be a transition Ministry. There is no room for anew departure or policy’.... Prince Frederick Charles, nephew of the German Emperor, died of a stroke of paralysis, aged 57. The French Admiral Courbet died on board his flagship in the China sea... .The floating debt of France is now’ 1,400,000,000 francs, and the deficit for the next fiscal year is estimated at 3O,ooo,oOOfranca.,„The Austrian Government refuses to sanction private cremative societies on the ground that they tend to the increase of crime... .Earthquake shocks continue frequent in the Vale of Cashmere, but their violence is abating. The Commissioner of Agriculture has appointed Dr. Gerth, ask tiled veterinarian, to proceed West and make an investigation of the cholera epidemic that has been killing off swine in large numbers in Nebraska and Wisconsin... .The most recent statistics place the number of swine in the United States at over 45,000,000 head, which are valued at more than $226,000,000, The annual losses among these animals is very heavy. In 1873 it was estimated to reach in 1882 it was 6 per cent of the whole number in the country; in 1885 this loss increased to 9 per cent. Recent investigations indicate that these losses are mostly the result of contagious diseases. The losses in Nebraska during the last year have been, for the first time, very heavy. Repbrts from forty-six of the seyenty.three counties show that out of 1,303,695 head of swine, 460,463 were affected with the disease, and 352,921, valued at $2,445,778, died. - »