Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1885 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The Mexican Governmentlhas announced its plan for the consolidation of tjie entire national debt in bonds to bear interest at 3 per cent, after 1890. The Maximilian debt will be repudiated. ... Dun’s Agency reports failures for the six months'ended June 30 as 6,004, against 5,510 for the corresponding period of 1884. The liabilities for the half year just ended, however, are but $74,000,000, while in 1884 they aggregated $124,000,000. / Big Beab and a number of his braves were captured near Carleton by the Canadian mounted police... .Riel, the halfbreed chieftain, has written a letter expressing a desire to be tried before the Supreme Court of Lower Canada. He denies that he incited the recent rebellion in the Northwest Territory, and says that he was absent when the people resolved to take up arms....Dp. Walter H. Lenox Maxwell, who murdered C. Arthur Preller at the Southern Hotel, in St Louis, is in the custody of officers from the latter city, who expect to sail from Auckland, New Zealand, July 21. The trip will take about four weeks. Independence! Day was celebrated in the usual way throughout the country. In Chicago 25,000 people attended the Washington Park races, and 20,000 more assembled at the Base Ball Park to witness the contests between the Chicago and New York clubs. At Washington the President spent most of the day at the White House, attending to business. Minister Phelps’ reception at- London was attended by 500 Americans and many distinguished foreigners. In the evening Cyrus W. Field gave' a banquet, attended, among others, by Minister Phelps, Senator Edmunds, the Duke of Argyll, and John Bright. A monument erected by the people of Bloomington, Illinois, over the grave of the litte singer, Marie Litta, was unveiled in the presence of ten thousand people, exSenator David Davis presiding over the ceremonies. A memorial monument to General Garfield was unveiled at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, At the Tammany celebration in New York, a letter was read from President Cleveland in which he expressed the conviction that “if the present, administration meets the intelligent approval of the people, this result of itself should insure an harmonious party, united in Jeffersonian Democracy. In the intercollegiate boat-race at Worcester, Mass., the Cornell Crew came in first,, Brown second, Bowdoin third, and Pennsylvania last. The national flag hung at half-mast from the most prominent buildings in Salt Lake, including the City Hall, Court House, and Mormon Tabernacle. Angry protests were made by Gentile citizens, and a riot seemed inevitable when the flags on the City Hall and Court House were run up to full mast. The other flags remained at halfmast until nightfall. The use of fireworks and pistols caused the usual number of accidents. At La Harpe. 111,, while Charley Comstock, aged 16, was endeavoring to discharge a toy cannon, a premature explosion took place, badly burning the lad about the head and face. A few moments afterward he went to his home, seized a revolver, and shot himself through the heart. At Oakland, lowa, while -the races were in progress, a running horse plunged into the crowd, injuring fifteen people. At Yankton, Dakota, Marcus Johnson, while dancing, suddenly fell to the floor and expired of heart disease. 'The information is telegfaphed from Mount MacGregor that General Grant’s physicians made another emamination of their patient’s throat, but found no special change. He was informed that the growing weakness indicated that exhaustion vvould be thefinal result. ; . . . The Generrtrff city residence and cottage at Long Branch are both offered for sale. It is accepted as a sad fact that the General can not now live long, and the plan of Mrs. Grant is to retire into some private home and live upon the income from the endowment fund and whatever may come from the sale of Gen. Grant’s book. Visitors at Mount MacGregor are so numerous as to have become a great annoyance to the family of the dying hero. Latest reports from the United States of Colombia indicate a critical condition of affairs there. There is danger that the inuoSansts may take Bogota, the capital, and the Government forces, while temporarily successful, do not appear equal to the task of crushing the rebellion at once... .It is reported that English and German business houses in Mexico are throwing obstacles in the way of closer commercial relations be_tween Americans and Mexicans, and in consequence much ill-feeling has been caused.