Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Sir Xdoll’h Cabox, Minister of War for Canada, said man interview at Montreal thrtf .in his opinion there was no probability of a rupture between Canada and the United States, that the war talk was all nonsense, and that the difficulty would be amicably settled. The Canadian Deputy Minister of Fisheries says that no war vessels are to be sent from Great Britain to the Canadian coast, but three or four British ships on tbe North American station have been ordered to cruise from Cape Sabine to the Bay Chaleur this season, preeisely as in 1870. The school-house at St. Monique, Ontario, was destroyed by tire and four young girls who were in it perished in the flames. Three daughters of Mr. Ambrose, aged 10, 11, and I‘2 years, and a daughter of Mr. Joseph Forge slept in the place during the night. The origin of the fire is unknown. The charred remains of the four young found among the ashes.