Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

the east. A Philadelphia dispatoh says the week’s business in iron and steels has been unusually large, but it is impossible to give exact figures. Bail buyers are crowding orders in for small lots, and prices are very firm at $29. It is uncertain at present whether large orders will be placed for delivery at S3O after Jan. 1, because of the doubts expressed by large buyers as to the ability of the syndicate to hold these prices. Seven bar mills have resumed work during the week, and a large amount of busihess is coming to hand for it for prompt and delayed delivery. .. .Rev. James G. Townsend, a prominent Methodist clergyman of Buffalo, has resign his pulpit because he can not longer adhere to the doctrine of eternal punishment... .Claire Virginia Cramer, a niece of General Grant, and Alphonse Bernhard, a Paris journalist, were married at New York last week. Proceedings in the nature.of a quo warranto have been instituted by the McHenry party against the President and Di-. rectors of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad to compel them to show by what right they hold their offices.... The Genesta won the Commodore Douglas cup in the yacht race at New York, llie Grayling securing the cup offered by James Gordon Bennett.... The extensive manufactory of the Smith American Organ Company, at Boston, was destroyed by fire, entailing heavy losses. A SUDDEN subsidence'of 700 feet of a high embankment on the West Shore Bailroad, near Glen Erie, New York, has occurred, due, as is supposed, to the existence of a subterranean cavern.... A fire on the new pier of the Royal Netherlands Mail Steamghip Company, at Jersey City, caused a loss of $60,000. The loss by the destruction of the American organ factory at Boston was $100,000.... A young son of Edward Turnbach, of Hazelton, Pa., died from the effects of hazing by other boys who attended the same school with him. .. .Cotton mills at Lawrence, Mass., which have been idle for a year, will resume operations soon and give employment to 2,700 hands.... The “American School of Opera” has been incorporated in New York by W. H. Vanderbilt, Mayor Grace, and others.... The English team was defeated in the international match at Philadelphia.