Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1885 — CENERAL. [ARTICLE]

CENERAL.

President Cleveland has gone to the Adirondncks for his summer vacation. A dispatch from Au Sable Forks,‘New York, says: “President Cleveland, accompanied by Dr. Ward, of Albany, passed through here en route for the Adirondaeks. they were met at the depot by the Hon. H. D. Graves and taken to his residence, where a short reception was given, after which the party was met by Paul Smith, who took them by stage to the Prospect House, where the President, will spend a few weeks." Plattsburg (N. Y.) dispatch-: ; “President Cleveland and Dr. Ward have reached the Prospect House, Upper Saranac Lake, their destination. They had a pleasant, uneventful backboard ride of forty- seven miles from the railway terminus at Au Sable.” The notorious ex- Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, who was recently released from prison, is again in trouble, haring been arrested at Boston for obtaining money under false pretenses.... The New York Produce Exchange figures the visible supply of wheat at 39,146,239 bushels, and of com at 4,560,722 bushels. When the wife of Louis Riel, who resides a few miles from Winnipeg, heard of her husband’s sentence she became frantic, and fled from her house to the woods, where she hid. She was only partially clothed, and in her bare feet, and was nearly dead when found by her friends. So terrible is the shock she may never recover her reason. In Winnipeg a great deal of sympathy is felt for her and her children, and a subscription list has been started for them, as they are penniless. Natural gas has been struck at Port Colborne, Ontario, at a depth of 420 feet, and will be used to light the town... .The “immediate delivery” system, authorized by the last Congress, will be put into operation Oct. 1 at postoffices in all oities and towns having a population of 4,000 or over, as shown by the last Federal census The renewal of the fifteen-year contract between the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Pullman Palace Car Company for the operation of sleeping-cars over the Pennsylvania system, was formally executed in Philadelphia last week,,. , Sipall-pox has been declarod epidemic! at Montreal by the local Health Board. A number of Riel’s followers in the Northwest rebellion were convicted as accomplices, and received terms of imprisonment of from one to seyen years.... The International Arbitration Society has cabled to the Governor General of Canada asking the commutation of Louis Riel's sentence. A report of Capt. Healy, commanding the revenue cutter Corwin in the Northern Pacific, gives details of the loss in the ice of the barks Napoleon and Gazelle. Two boats from the barks were lost and eighteen persons perished, and four men were frozen to death in other boats. Disasters, without loss of life, t° a number of other ves-els are also reported. ... There was 160 failures ih tire United States during the week, as compared with 192 the preceding week, and with 237, 174, and 148, respectively, in the correspondingweeks of 1884, 1883, and 1882. About 77 per cent, were those of small traders whose capital was less thah $5,000, as compared with an average of from 83 to 85 per cent, weekly during the last year. Canada bad 77, a deerease of .... Special telegrams to Bradstrect’s from leading business centers report a contitiuancy of the improvement recently noted in the movement of staple diy goods, of wool, and of boots and shoes. This is specially noted in the East at the large cities. At most Northwestern centers this is reflected in reports of a somewhat heavier movement of merchandise and a more hopeful feeling among merchants. The~situatioh is rather better at the South, where the bright cotton prospects are encouraging interior merchants to purchase in excess of earlier expectations.