Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The next annual meeting of the American Association for tho Advancement of Science will be held in Buffalo, beginning August 18, and continuing one week. The retiring President, the venerable Professor H. A. Newton, of New Haven, Conn., will deliver the annual address. The Governor of Maine has requested the Postmaster General to so modify the regulations for sending liquids by mail as to prevent violations of Hie prohibitory liquor laws of the States.

Bryce Hidden left New York 1 the other day for Waterford, Ireland, tak- ; ing swords belonging to General Thomaa Francis Meagher, a large picture of the 1 veteran, and two of the flags carried by the Irish Brigade in the war of the rebellion, to be presented to the Yoqng Ireland Society of Waterford —Meagher’s native city, j There were 189 failures reported in the I United Htnteo last week, against 153 the j week before, 185 in the second week of ' July, 1885, and 211 in 1884. Canada had ! 11 this week, 12 last week, and 14 last year. The total number of failures in the United State* from Jan. 1 jo date is 6,777, against j 6,616 in 1885 (a decline this year of 839); 15,762 in 1884, 5,515 in I«S3, and 3,872 ;in 1882..,.The Chicago Tribune, says: : “An exchange gravely announces that the latest comet is traveling through space at the rate of 968,000 miles per hour, which is nearly 270 miles per second. The calculations of astronomers show that such a tremendous velocity is possible when a comet is very close to the sun, but that it cannot be long maintained. Only during a few hoars can anything like that rate of travel be kept up,” Sampson Roli.and and George Solomon, both colored, were hanged in Donaldsonville, La., for the murder respectively of Benjamin Gersdorff, white, and Henry Smith, colored. The scene on the scaffold gave an ideal negro hanging. When the condemned were asked if they had anything to say, Holland replied that he was going straight to glory. Death had no terrors for him. He was perfectly happy. These were no more trials or troubles where he was going. His speech seemed to nerve him. and the nervousness he showed when approaching the scaffold rapidly disappeared. Solomon was far more deliriously religious over his approaching execution, and went into ecstasies over the idea that he was going to heaven—going to sleep to wake in his Father’s mansion. He and God were no longer strangers, he said, but friends. He became so excited finally that he broke into loud shouts that could be heard far outside of the jail, and the Sheriff finally found it necessary to stop his shouting... .George Harrison, colored, was hanged at Shreveport, La., for the murder of George Allen. The prisoner was cool and self-possessed to the last, and acknowledged the murder. He said he was ready and willing to die, as he believed he would at once enter heaven.... James Daee.v, a Chicago murderer. Was executed at Woodstock, 111., in presence of about two hundred persons. He was dead in twelve minutes from the time the drop fell, and his body was soon shipped to a Chicago medical college.... Dick Townsend, a triple murderer, was hanged at Valdosta* Ga... .Jake Braswell was hanged by a mob at Flat Ford, Ga., and a murderer wns shot to death by lynchers at Frisco, Kansas. It is stated that the Panama Canal scheme has practically collapsed. The effort to effect an additional loan has not only been unsuccessful, but has brought Out' the fact that $26,660,000 of the old loan btill remains untaken. Predictions of the result are in order, but they can Scarcely fail to include a rough shaking up of the money market in France, which, may be very disastrous. The loss of so much -money -as has already been sunk m the “enterprise,” with general dullness existing in trade, and a partial failure of the wheat crop, which will render it necessary to import some 90,000,000 bnshels from foreign countries, may well be regarded as constituting a real calamity to the French people.... The revolutionary movement in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, is reported steadily increasing. Desperadoes on both sides of the Rio Grande are flocking to the insurgents' support, and rancheros and stockmen are driving their cattle into Texas. Serious trouble is imminent.