Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

A cable dispatch reports that California wheat sold in England at 30 shillings and 6 pence per quarter pf eight bushels. If this sale were of wheat of standard quality it is the lowest known for at least 105 years past, and perhaps for even a longer period. A little more than a year ago standard wheat was reported soid at 31 shillings, which was the minimum price up to that date in the whole time during which the British averages appear to have been made up. • An Italian residing in Victoria, British Columbia, undertook to transport seven Chinamen to the shore of Washington Territory. Seeing an American revenue cutter in the distance, he dispatched his passengers one by one, heaved their corpses overhoard, and met the Yankee tars without the twitch of a muscle. . . .The OrangeCatholic riots have been renewed at Conception Bay, Newfoundland. An Orange mob attacked and fatally wounded two men.... The volcano in the State of Colima, Mexico, is in a state of eruption, causing great excitement throughout the region. Lieutenant Jones, of the Fourth United States Artillery, stationed at Fort Adams, Newport, R. 1,, fatally shot himself. He had overstayed a leave of absence about a week, and decided upon suicide rather than submit to a court-mar-tial. During its latest trial trip the Dolphin encountered a gale which made the officers and crew seasick. The ship averaged twelve knots an hour during the storm.... The Canadian Minister of Customs has decided that the patent-medicine firm of Ayer & Co., of Lowell, Massachusetts, must pay duties of $150,000 on products entered within three years at several ports far below their real value A steamer sailed from San Francisco for the Arctic regions in search of the crew of the missing whaler Amethyst.