Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The unsettled state of affairs in Mexico is said to be due to a rupture of friendly relations between Diaz and Gonzales. The former is credited with scheming to secure the election of Bubio, his father-in-law, as the next President of the Bepublic. Irving Miller, having returned to Indianapolis from Brazil, states that only about fifty families remain of the Southerners who emigrated thither of ter. the fall of the confederacy, and they have all lost their means in an attempt to raise cotton.... A destructive fire m St. Francis Xavier street, Montreal, destroyed the premises of the McDougall, Logie .fcCo., oil merchants, whose loss was SIOO,OOO. The total loss was over $150,000.... The lumber firm of W. C. Hyatt <fc Co., of Detroit, has suspended payment on paper estimated at $175,000. An assignment was made by B. Courteau <fc Co., cigar manufacturers at Montreal, with liabilities of $40,000... .The United States steamer Dolphin has left her anchorage in the Brooklyn navy yard for her trial trip. She will be out on her eruise about sixty days. <