Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Elihc B. YYashburxe brands as a,fabrication the statement cabled from: Paris that while American Minister at that city he used his facilities to < forward letters through the German lines for twenty francs each. The Western Iron Association met at Pittsburgh. B. F. Jones was elected President. No advance was made in the card rate. The ironworkers are disappointed. A dispatch from Ottawa, Canada* says: "The officials of the Fisheries Departm nt here look on the Belmont fisheries bill as a game of bluff, and say it is a poor return for six months’ free use of the Canadian fisheries under the promise of tHe President of the United States that a fisheries -commission would be appointed at the next meeting of Congress, which promise was never carried 0ut.”....A steamer from Buenos, Ayres. South America, arriving at Pauillac, Southern France, has cases of cholera on board. Startling rumors come frtfm Canada ns to the mental condition of Sir John A. MacDonald. It is said that his petulance under advice or contradiction makes the lives of the Ministers insupportable. The resignation of Sir Charles Tupperwas due to the fact that he could not put up with Sir John, and that the difficulties between them culminated in a quarrel in a full Cabinet Council, at which they shook their fists in one * another’s faces. Since that rupture no one except Mr. Pope has hud the least influence against any views adopted by the aged Premier. When Sir John heard after tbe Ontario defeat that. Sir Charles Tapper, who was in England, had been telegraphed for, he peremptorily ordered the latter to remain where he was, and asserting that a plot existed among his subordinates, he announced that he would instantly resign unless all consented to the elections. As his resignation would have killed the Conservative party his colleagues made the best of the situation and consented to goto the polls. ’ "