Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Planters in the submerged'portions of "Arkansas deny that there is any so fieri fig among the negroes. They only fear that the latter will ent the levees f to escape future work. Several negroes who have attempted to do this have been killed. Heavy rains fell Sunday between San Antonio, Texas, and the Itio Grande, westward, covering a vast grazing country, where no ruins- of any consequence Las fallen for eighteen months, and flooding the country .Jefferson Davis ‘unveiled a monument to (Senator lien Hill at Atlanta, in presence of an assemblage of forty thousand persons, among them being fifteen liinulrcd school children; A rich vein of coal has been discovered in Cheyenne County, in (he northwestern part of Kansas. .. .The Kansas Veterinarian will visit every county in that State and take steps to stamp out glanders. . .In eight counties of Nebraska flax has been extensively sown as an experimental crop, to take the place of wheat. A large increase in the space given to com is reported from twenty counties. Dr. Nelson, who was recently a member of the Board of Health at Panama, states that the Canal Company is working - on borrowed capital until De Lesseps can make a loan of $120,000,000, and that vast sums have been wasted in the purchase of useless machinery. A cablegram from Panama announces thut Director Boyer, chief of the work, is dead. Tmt.Senators took a. rest, and the House of Representatives only was in session on tile Ist iiiht. Mr. Cox, <f North Carolina, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a bill amendatory of the Chinese imme-ration act. Also, providing indemnity to certain Chine si for losses sustained within the jurisdiction of tho United K:ates, Mr. Ward, of Indiana, from the Committee on Postoflices a id Roads, reported a-bill authorizing the employ mint of messengers in the mail scr\tee. Mr. MoAdoo, of New Jersey, from tho Committee on Naval Affairs, reported a kill authorizing the construction of dry-docks at certain navy-yards, i.