Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The ocean race bet ween the two American Schooner yachts Dauntless and Coronet, which will begin in a few days, is,attracting great interest at the East. Both schooners are large, stanch, and swift keel vessels with tine records. The Dauntless,- in fact, has rarely fever been beaten in her numerous races. / . , “Newfoundland finds itself between the devil and the deep sea,” says a Ilnlifax dispatch. "On the one hand, it is driven out of the European markets by French rivals, who receive bounties from the French Government equal to 00 per cent., and they are compelled by the English Government to supply their French rivals with bait. On the other hand, they nre at tho mercy of Americans, for, strange ns it may seem, the treaty of 1818 is null and void as far as that colony is concerned, and every denial of commercial privileges to American vessels last year had not even the authority of that antiquated treaty for nn excuse. A cablegram from London says: “Sir Henry Holland, Colonial Secretary, has sent a dispatch to the Governor of Newfoundland informing him that the home Government does not feel justified iu disregarding the strong protests of France against restrictions at this late fieriod which nre calculated to inflict great oss upon French fishermen, and is therefore unable to allow the bull passed by the Newfoundland Legislature in relation to the fisheries to operate this season. The Secretary say's the Government thoroughly understands that the French bounties are a grave disadvantage to the British fishermen: still it is not shown that the British fisheries are unremunerative.” * The river and harbor bill passed by Congress appropriates $50,000 ; for surveys and estimates for a waterway from Lake Michigan to Joliet nnd thence to La Salle, which, with the improvement of the Illinois River, would permit the passage of large Vessels from the lakes to the Mississippi. The d ath-roll of the Forty-ninth Congress was an extraordinary one, comprising the unprecedented number of thirteen names in the House and Senate. .. .Reports are current at Ottawa, Out., that the Canadian -Pacific Road will ask another large grant ($10,000,000) from the Government; that it is uot paying expenses, and that ultimately U will be thrown on the hands of tho Government. Recent deaths: Mrs. Jane Washington Thornton Beck, wife of Senator Beck, of Kentucky, died at her residence in Washington last week, the result of a cold, contracted while out riding in an open carriage. The remains were taken to Lexington, Ky,, for interment. Mrs, Beck was born in Auburn, Va., October 0, 18:1-5, and was the grandniece and nearest living descendant of George. Washington. She married-Senator Beck in Lexington. Ky., Feb. ;i, 1848, A cable dispatch announces the death of Mr. G. Harris Heap, the United States Consul General at Constantinople. Commodore E. P. Lull, of the United States Navy, died at the Pensacola naval station. William Coke, one of the seven men who organized the Knight r of .Labor, passed a wav at Philadelphia, aged 63 years.... Tracy Titus, the wa 11-known theatrical manager, and husband of the late Alice Oates, died near Los. Angeles, Ca 1.... Mrs. Ruth H. Harmon, mother of Mrs. Folsom, and grandmother of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, expired at Jackson, Mich., where she had been living for the last ten years with her son, M. Harmon. She was born- in 1809, and was married in 1 H^G. .. .Lieut. Ctrl. R. X. Scott, chief of the publication office of war records, died at Washington. Charles J. Peterson, author and publisher, died in Philadelphia.