Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Salisbury Cabinet'have unanimously decided to refuse to receive or to make overtures for an alliance with the Pamejlites. They will meet Parliament with a programme of English church reform and Sl-tenure bills... .The sacred white cleat of Burmah, occupying a palace • that of King Theebaw, expired last day. The British authorities ordered an immediate-funeral, which Was attended by an enormous concourse of people... At a meeting of prominent Englishmen at the National Liberal Club, in London, resolutions were unanimously adopted pledging all those present not to emoloV Irish labor in the future and to get rid of the Celts now engaged as rapidly as possible. , The lowa Supreme Court has decided that druggists who wish to sell liquor for medicinal purposes must obtain a special permit, the same asregular dealers.... The Orrville (Ohio) Farmers’ Bank has suspended payment. It is thought that the depositors will realize little if anything. Refits Hatch urges the New York Stock Exchange to erect a spacious building, costing $5,000,000 or so, rather than see Chicago take the control of gambling from the Atlantic coast.... An explosion of gas took place in the Mill Creek mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa., fatally injuring three men and maiming several others. ' A driver-boy had his right eye torn from its socket, The President has appointed the following Postmasters: John A. Barry, at Oswego, N. Y.; John G. Randall, at Doylestown, Pa.; George Shottali, at Norristown, Pa.: M. S. I.ongakcr. Pa.; John Haviland, at Phoenixville, Pa. ; W. B. Colston, at Martinsburg, W. Va. ; Daniel J. Sherman r - at Ashtabula, Ohio; Thomas Hubbard, at Bellefontaine, Ohio; Ringgold W. Meiley, at Lima, Ohio; R. B. Gordon, Jr., at St. Marys, Ohio; James W. Talbot, at Middleport, Ohio; W. C. Clark, at Padudah, Ky.; Erastus P. McKinney at Lacon, Hl.; Henry E. Wadsworth, at Laporte, Ind.; Joseph Brelsford, at Onarga,lll. ; A., J. Weber, at Albia, Iowa; John D. Smith at Bedford, Iowa; A. C. Hutchinson at Burlington, Iowa; Clara W. Snyder at Racine, Wis.; Ransom Nutting at Decatur. Mich.; Angelo Tower at lonia, Mich.; Charles R. Vauhn at St. Helena, Cal.

Bills to suspend the coinage of the standard silver dollar, to make the postal rate on secondclass matter 1 cent per pound, and for the erection of public buildings at Lafayette, Indiana, and Newport, Kentucky, were introduced in the . Senate on the lit ii inst. The chair presented,a memorial from the Constitutional Convention of Dakota, with a draft of a constitution under which admission to the Union is asked. Mr. Harrison announced that he would at an early date introduce a bill tp confer statehood on tho territory. A message was received from the President transmitting the correspondence between the State Department and the Italian Government in regard to the appointment of A. M. Keiley as Minister to the latter country, and also the Austrian, protests against receiving tho would-be diplomat at Vienna. Tho correspondence tvitli the Italian Government was brief. , Objection was made to receiving Mr. Keiley as Minister to Rome on the ground of his utterancerln condemnation of the Italian Government fourteen years previous. Mr. Bayard declined to recognize the force of these objections, and the Government refused to cancel Mr. Keiley’s appointment, but the controversy Was cut short by his resignation and the appointment of. another He was then appointed Minister to Austria, whereupon Count Kalnoky protested on the ground that “the - position of a foreign envoy wedded to a* Jewess would be untenable and even impossible in Vienna.’’ Secretary Bayard replied in a vigorous note, in which he declared that this Government could not investigate the religious faith of any citizen, or consider his creed, much less that of his wife, as having any bearing upon his fitness for official station. Count Kalnoky, then shifted his position-and declined to receive ‘Mr.. Keiley on the ground that Italy had objected to him. Secretary Bayard then wrote our Secretary of Legation at the Austrian Court as follows: “From the correspondence two facts appear: First, that the alleged race and religious faith of the -wedded wife of an envoy of the United States is held a cause of his rejection; and, further,’ that objections by a third ; party— ‘ a friendly power ’—are necessary to be removed in order to allow a proper reception to be extended. These conditions are simply intolerable, and are, in the case of the United States, not only inhibited by , the plain letter and underlying spirit of our constitution of government, but are inconsistent with that decent self-respect which forbids a nation of 60,000,000 of freemen to accept the position of a diplomata dependency of ‘the friendly, power,’ whose behests appear to have been acquiesced in and carried out by Austro-Hungary in.the present instance.”——The session of the House, on the 11th inst:, lasted only thirty minutes. The Committee on Rules reported the Morrison code, with somo amendments. Mr. Randall presented a minority report, which was in the nature of a protest against the action of the majority.