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

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

_ A farmers’ newspaper of New York has analyzed 3,500 special crop reports from its farmer subscribers, and concludes that the winter-wheat crop will aggregate 210,600,000 bushels, and the spring-wheat crop 155,000,000 bushels, making an aggregate crop of 365,000,000 bushels, a falling off of ' 147,000,000 bushels from last year’s crop. Oats will be the largest .crop ever ■ harvested. The corn area is larger than ever before, and the outlook good for an average yield, per acre....A decision of Judge Lawrence in the New York Supreme Court has the effect of affirming the title of Stephen B, Elkins to one-fifth of the Mora land giant in New Mexico. A St. Petersburg correspondent says that the convention with Russia was already’ prepared when Mr. Gladstone resigned, and, therefore, it only requires Lord Salisbury’s signature. In the English House of Lords the Marquis of Salisbury made a statement to the effect that he would continue the policy adopted by Mr. Gladstone in regard to the negotiations with Russia for the settlement of the frontier of Afghanistan. The work of fortifying the Bosphorus has been stopped, owing to a conviction that there is no further danger of collision between England and Russia Mr. Bradlaugh again attempted to take his seat in the British House of Commons, but a motion offered by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach prevailed that he be refused permission to swear, and that the Sergeant-at-Arms be directed to exclude him from the precincts of the House unless he engaged not to disturb the proceedings According to the Pall Mall Gazette, the traffic in young girls, for immoral purposes has increased alarmingly in England of recentyears. TheGaaette mentions the names of men prominent in society in connection with the business, and promises further revelations.'... Consul General Waller is organizing a relief society for the benefit of Americans who I become stranded in London... .The summer assizes opened in Ireland, with a very small criminal docket, and no cases of agrarian crime on the calendar... .At a meeting • in Paris, five hundred Legitimists resolved to support the Comtesse de Chambord. Edward Finch and sister, aged, respectively, 75 and 80 years, and a colored boy wLo slept in the house, were murdered near Moncure, Chatham County, N. C., They went to bed at night as usual, and the next morning one of the neighbors, in passing by, suspected something from the appearance of the house, and went in. He found all three dead. They had apparently been killed while asleep. The blows which killed the three appear to have been inflicted with an ax, and then their throats were cut. Several hundred dollars was taken from the house, and robbery was the motive that induced the citae. The President has appointed the following Postmasters. The suspensions in one or two cases were for personal misconduct and unfitness, and the others for partisanship: P--Pulimanr- at-Ewreka Springs; -Ark.; Frank W. Havill, at Mount Carmel, Wabash County, III.; Annie Bi ennock, at Dunlap, Iowa; John W. Pence, at Anderson, Ind.; Charles H. Reed, at Corinth, Miss.; Alexander M. Dick, at West Newton, Pa.; John T. Kilgore, at Longview, Tex.; Leslie E. Brooks, at Mobile. Ala., vice J. E. Slaughter, suspended; Samuel S. Thompson at Birmingham, Ala., vice I Thomas M. Green, suspended; George IW. McMillan, at Mount Sterling, Brown ! County, 111.; vice Jacob Freindlich, suspended; William F. Sharp, at Brooklyn, lowa, vice George Phillips, suspended; Squire L. Major, at Shelbyville, Ind., vice A. P. Bone, suspended: William Keough, at Fort Wayne, Ind., vice F. W.. Keil, suspended; William P. Hale, at Peru, Ind., Vice George D. Reed, suspended; James H. McConnell, at Dodge City, Kan., vice N. B. Klane, suspended; Frank E. Martin,-at Larned, Kan.vieeTimothy McCarty, suspended: James Russell, at Marquette, Mich., vice Samuel L. Billings, suspended; Thomas Ryan, at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., vice William Scranton, suspended; Timothy Killian, at Escanaba, Mich., vice E. P. Barnes, suspended; James H. Gee, at Norway, Mich., vice L. J. Kimball, suspended; Joshuas. Palmer, at Portland, Me./Vice C. H. Barker, suspended; Timothy thaw, Jr., at Biddeford, Me., vice H. E. Banks, suspended; C. —-E. Forbes, at St. Paul, Neb., vice A. A. Kendall, suspended; Samuel C. Hoage, at Napoleon, 0.. vice L. W. Randall, suspended; Jeptha M. Fowlkes, at Memphis, Tenn., vice J. H. Smith, suspended; L. D. Palmer, at Yankton, Dakota, vice W. S. Bowen, suspended; Charles W. Button, at Lynchburg, Va., vice R. W. P, Morris, suspended; William Herbert, at Alexandria, Va., vice D. A. Windsor, suspended.