Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

General Clinton B. Fisk and other committeemen selected at the recent conference at Lake Mohonk called upon President Cleveland to express their ideas in regard to the improvement of the Indian race. After listening to suggestions, the President remarked that lands should be given the red men in severalty rather than to place schools and agricultural implements on the reservations, and- that he hoped to make a beginning in the right direction. An exploring schooner reports the discovery of a field of coal’ on the Russian shore of Behring Straits Sixty families at Point aux Esquimaux, Quebec, are said to be starving, and will die of hunger unless relief speedily arrives. - A singular case showing the contagious nature of small-pox was discovered at Montreal the other day. A child who died with small-pox had a pet cat which it fondled during its illness. When the health officials came to disinfect the house the cat was found to be covered with small-pox postules, and was taken out and shot and its body burned. A SYSTEM of drainage for the City of Mexico and the surrounding country is contemplated which will cost $4,000,000, and will, it is thought, reduce the death rate one-half. • In its commercial summary for the week, Bradstreet’s says: “The past week is con'i spicuous for shewing a remarkable increase in the number of failures throughout the country, the total/being 227, against 156 last week, a gain oi 71. As compared with like weeks in the tnree preceding years, a like increase is noted, excepting in the second week of in which the total’was 205/ ThegSYeral trade situation throughout the country presents few new features. The movement of merchandise has not increased at any point. In certain lines business continues good; in others only fairly active, and in some it is dull and declining.”