Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Ex- Senator William H. Barnum has retired from the position of general manager of tho Iron Cliff Mining Co., and is succeeded by John Abeel, of New York,.:.. Reports have reached Canada that six mounted policemen, were killed bv Indians near Regina, and that the police at Edmonton and Saskatchewan bid defiance to their officers,. Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, hag received official assurance that at the March consistory he will be appointed $ Cardinal. James Gibbons; Archbishop of Baltimore and Primate of the church in America, was bom in Baltimore July 23, 1834, but received his early education in Ireland. He was graduated at St. Charles College, in Howard County, Maryland, and Teas ordained priest at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, by Archbishop Keuriek on June 30, .1851'. 611 Aug. 16, 1868. he was consecrated a Bishop. He removed to Richmond in 1872. and May 20, 1877. was made coadjutor to Archbishop Bay ley, of Baltimore, whom he succeeded on Oct. 3 of the same year* Archbishop Gibbons .Ras written several books, including*The Faith of Our Fathers,” which has had a sale of over fifty thousand copies. It is not true that all our importations are subjected to the rapacity of the tax collector. Even the custom house can regpect the dead —when ordered to do so. A few days ago a box arrived in New York which was forwarded to Philadelphia without being opened for examination. The’ box contained the ashes of a lady who had died abroad and her remains were cremated: but it was described in the consular invoice as containing “samples of phosphate of lime." „ *f