Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, New York, is being treated to a coat of paraffine, which, it is expected, will prevent it being further damaged by the climate. It is already injured more than is generally supposed. Crumbling pieces are easily removed with the fingers, and with a chisel fragments are detached weighing a pound or more. The paraffine is made specially for this work, being distilled from crude petroleum under an enormous pressure, and is as nearly pure as it can possibly be. After the work is completed the stone will look slightly darker in color than it does now... .Mrs. Catharine Trump, Postmistress at Corning, Pa., has been arrested on the charge, which she admittted, of opening letters addressed to other people. Her only plea in justification was that she did not think she was committing an offense in satisfying her curiosity regarding the business and love affairs of her neighbors... .A lad named Willie McAllister escaped from the orphan asylum near Troy, N. Y., and soon became imbedded to the ears in a bank of soft clay, where he struggled for twenty-four hours until relieved from his sufferings by death. The National Horse Show held in Madison Square, New York, last week, was a great success. It was undoubtedly the best ever held in this country. Over $1,000,000 was represented in horseflesh, and in a few cases $50,000 would not purchase a valued animal. The exhibition of trotting stallions was a great feature of the show. Another interesting feature was the display of fire-engine horses, and the testing of their ability to get out and ready for a fire. The display of roadsters, coachere, saddlers, carriage and draft horses was large and good, some of them of very fashionable strains. Don Cossack, owned by Arthur J. Caton, of Chicago, took the second prize in the trotting class. Mambrino King was awarded the blue ribboif.

John McCullough, the tragedian, died at Philadelphia from paralysis injthe muscles of the neck. Up to within forty-eight hours of his demise he was thought to be rapidly recovering. His wife and sister were at his side when he breathed his last. He was born in Londonderry, Ireland, about fifty years ago, and when a mere lad wheeled coal for a gas works in Philadelphia. The wardrobe and properties of Edwin Forrest were presented to him as a worthy successor. His last appearance on the stage was at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, in September, of last year. His remains have been placed in a vault at Cedar Hill Cemetery. An estate valued at $40,000 is left to the widow and two sons. Large amounts of steel rails have recently been ordered in Johnstown and Pittsburgh. The demand for and merchant steel is greater than the supply. ... .Prof. Shaler, of Harvard College, in a report on mining in New England, declares that the abandoned Ely mine in Vermont paid out $2,000,000 in dividends, and that the proprietor of a mine at Lisbon, N. H., ground up his quartz and sold it as a fertilizer, and the following year peddled it out as an exterminator of potato-bugs.