Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

In joint convention of the two houses of the French National Assembly, M. Grevy was re-elected President of the Republic by 135 majority.... A circular was recently sent to all the Liberal members of the new British Parliament, asking them to state their opinions on the Irish home-rule question. The majority erf those who expressed a definite opinion are opposed to giving an Irish Parliament the control of the tariff and of the police.... The Balkan Conference will reopen at Constantinople Jan. 17. The Italian Embassador will make a motion in favor of the Bulgarian union, arid will be supported by the Russian Embassador. The Czar is about to reinstate Prince Alexander of Bulgaria to his former rank in the Russian army. Commissioner Sparks has issued regulations modifying his recent radical orders as to claims for public lands. He complains thirl criticisms of his conduct emanate from parties too deeply interested in his decisions to be fair. Mr. Sparks, in an interview, is credited with saying: If the President is not satisfied with my management of the land office, then I am much mistaken. I have not seen him for some time, as he has been busy about other things, but I know ho is-pleased with the way tae officers being run. The statement that hiy decisions have been overruled as rapidly as I made them is manufactured out of whole cloth. The Secretary of the Interior har .jjapver overruled a decision made by me, although he has sometimes suggestid changes. Complaints against me' and the management of the land office come from people who are Interested in land frauds and jobs. The complaints in the West emanate frurn editors Who are interested and from lawyers who have to get along somehow. We have a great many from there. These stories are, I believe, the work of people whose interests have been affected by my methods in running the land office, and I know that one of the articles a Western journal was written upon the office paper of a big firm here.

At a gathering in Clinch County, Ga., Christmas night, Edward Brown danced in every set from 8 o’clock until 5 next morning, was carried from the place in a weak condition, and died the following Sunday. ... .George Kirkland, of Savannah, Ga., who, on Christmas Day, -for a wager of 50 cents, drank a quart of whisky, survived three days.... Richard O. Reinhard, aged 17, cadet at the Oxford (Md.) Military Academy, was accidentally shot and killed by a fellow cadet. Deceased was a son of Judge Reinhard, of Indiana... .A negro named Aleck Reed who had murdered Miss Carrie Boyer, of Clark County, Alabama, was tied to a stake and burned to death. At Chicago 4,000 people witnessed a sixround contest with small gloves between Jack Burke, the “Irish Lad,” and Mike Cleary, of San Francisco.' Burke forced the fighting throughout, and knocked Cleary out in the third round With a terrific right-hander that landed just under the ear. * • Geobge V. Brown, recently appointed Appraiser at the port of New York, is charged by S. D. Phelps, a representative commercial man of that city, with incompetency and dishonesty. The English royal family are blessed with good appetites. They look upon four substantial meals a day as by no means an excessive allowance of food. Even at their 5 o’clock tea the waferlike bread and butter that customarily accompany the syrupy Souchong or Orange Pekoe is supplemented by beautifully cut sandwiches, pate de foie gras and other tempting delicacies, and every justice is done them by the illustrious ones without in any way “spoiling” the elaborate dinner that is to follow later on. (Charles Wood, of Lansingburg, N. Y., has received by mail, postage paid, a copy of the “Life of General Grant.” The book bears the inscription: “Byrequest of General Grant. Complimeiits of the family. F. D. G.” Mr. Wood, it will be remembered, kindly proffered pecuniary aid to General Grant at the time of his straitened circumstances, resulting from the Grant <fc Ward failure, a remembrance always peculiarly gratifying to the General.