Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1885 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The Farmers’ National Congress, in session at Indianapolis, passed a resolution requesting the restoration of the tariff duty on wool, and asking Congress to create the Cabinet, office of Secretary of Agriculture, Robert Beverly was re-elect-ed President, The next meeting of the congress will be held in St. Paul, Minn. -News hae-veached Washington-that a tilibustering expedition is fitting out at Key West, Fla., with a view to a descent on Cuba. The revolutionists think that the present unsettled state of affairs in Spain gives them-the looked-for opportunity to gain a foothold in the coveted “pearl of the Antilles.”... .The latest advices from Lima are to the effect that Iglesis and Caceres both agreed to renounce executive power, and a provisional government will be arranged by three commissioners from each side. Arsenic sufficient to kill twenty men was placed in soup served at the Metropolitan Club-house at Montreal, by which five bank officials came near losing their lives. .... The total number bf failures reported to Bradstreet's since January I, 1)885, is 10,333, against 10,467 during the corresponding portion of 1884—a decrease of 134. The total in -a corresponding portion of 1883 was 9,062; in 1882, 7,296, and in 1881, 5,605. Last week the total was 247, against 225 in the preceding week, as compared with 296 in the first week of December, 1884, 246 in 1883, and 247 in 1882. A gale on the Pacific near Panama wrecked fourteen sailing vessels and merged the Isthums Railway .The imports of general merchandise at New York during the week were valued at $6,559,034, exclusive of dry goods.