Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Mme. Patti is engaged to sing fiva nights in January, at the National Theater in the City of Mexico. An alleged agent of Mr. Abbey put in an appearance the other day and begun the sale of seats for the Patti nights at the box-office, the crowd of buyers fairly blocking the adjoining streets. For two days the Sale continued, and on the third day. the alleged agent absconded, taking with him over $20,000, but leaving $4,200 in silver, which he could not handle comfortably. The affair has caused the wildest excitement, and the speculators and other victims keenly mourn their lost dollars. A herd of possibly two hundred head of buffalo is in the bad lands of Dakota, near the headwaters of Beaver and Glendive Creeks. It is thought that Indians drove them down from British soil. ' On her last trip from Antwerp to York the steamer Westernland met with a frightful disaster, involving the death of six men and the infliction of serious injuries to thirteen others. A huge cross-sea was suddenly encountered and it fell with terrific force upon the forward deck of the steamship. The Westernland was then seven days out from Antwerp. The deck was crushed in and buried the unfortunates beneath a mass of wood and iron debris. The next instant the water swept along the gangways of the main deck, carrying several persons with it. The crash was terrific, but before the appalling nature of the accident was realized by the passengers the officers of the ship had all the men, available engaged in the work of rescue. The injured were carried to the intermediate cabin, which was transformed into a hospital. When the Westemland reached New York the injured passengers were transferred to hospitals. An inspection of the vessel afforded some idea of the terrible blows she had received. The crushed deck was known as the forward whaleback. It was constructed of four-inch pine planks resting upon massive iron beams. These iff turn were upheld by three-inch iron rod stanchions. The vast volume of water struck the whaleback about fifteen feet from the stem and crushed in a section twenty-nine feet long at d extending the full width of the steamship. Mr. Duff will devote the third week of his company’s engagement at McVicker’s Theater to Gilbert and Sullivan revivals, says the Chicago XetM. The first three evenings the “Mikado” will be given, with Miss Vernona Jarbeau as Yum-Yuin, Mr. Ryley as Ko-Ko, and others of I the ' cast identified with the ad- | mirable performance of the Japanese opera I given last season by the Duff company. The remainder of the week will be given to a revival of-“lolanthe,” of-<which opera an elaborate production is promised. Miss Jarbeau has introduced into “The Mikado” a new brand of kisses, the noise of which i resembles that made when a cow draws her | foot out of the mud, and which Mr. Duff's : agmt states would cause an “aconite to | forget his vows.” , A dispatch from an Arizona town states that Governor Torres, of Sonora, I has thrown into prison the editors of Mexii can journals published at Guaymas and Hermosillo for opposition to the State Government.