Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

It is reported in Washington that an English syndicate stands ready to give $300,060,000 for the Northern Pacific land grani, if the railroad can get its title confirmed. .... The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church has deckled in favor of the use of instrumental in worship. A dispatch from Digby, N. S., says that two of the police cruisers have gone to Newfoundland to watch the American fishermen. Word has been received at New York from St. Johns, N. F., that two American schooners, heavily armed, were in that vicinity boasting that they would sink any police-boat sent against them. The man-of-war Bellerophon has been sent to St. Johns to look these combative Americans up. The report that a large number of British troops had been sent to Halifax is untrue.... At the meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Hamilton, Ohio, a resolution was adopted enjoining all members to abstain from connection with any association which might lead to acts of violence or to the invasion of the rights of property or interference with the liberty of men to work for whom they may choose... .Yellow fever is now- epidemic on the Isthmus of Panama, andforty deaths, daily occur. The total number of failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet’s for the~week was 159, against 170 the previous week, 162 in the opening week in June; 1885, 182 in 1884, 148 in 1883, and 104 in 1882. Canada had 16 failures last week, against 15 the previous week, and 15 in the same week of last year. Total failures in the United States from Jan. 1 to date were 4,795, against 5,514 in a like shareot 1885, a decline of 719, against 4,687 in 1884,4,569 in 1883, and 3,125 in 1882. Special telegrams to Bradstreet’s do not show any marked change as to the condition of general trade.' A Deer Park (Pa.j-special says “Presi-. dent and Mrs. Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lamont, ex-Senator and Mrs. Davis and two children, and John,. W. Davis attended church at Oakland, six miles from Deer Park, on Sunday. They witnessed the baptism of an infant girl which was named Frances, though not as a compliment to the President’s bride. The President and wife have been putting in time opening letters and telegrams of congratulation. It is said they went fishing on Saturday, and tha the President caught twenty fish, but that Frank only got three nibbles.”