Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1887 — GENERAL, [ARTICLE]

GENERAL,

It is stated that fully $500,000 has already been put up on the great ocean yacht race, with the Dauntless as the favorite. ... Sir Alexander Campbell has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, vice the Hon. John B. Robinson, whose term has expired. D thing February- tho American Board of Foreign Missions,received over $30,000, but for first six months of the financial year the comparative falling off in legacies amounted.to $38,000. The indications are, however, that the financial affairs of the board will move-in a favorable manner. The Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries has chartered in Nova Scotia a fast schooner of one hundred tons to be used next summer as a cruiser. Five thousand ]iersous paid $8 admission at San Ilafael, Mexico, to witness a bull light. The bulls refused to fight, and the spectators burst into the ring and attacked the animals arid the matadors. Troops, in suppressing the riot, used sabers and baigmets, und a large number of people were more or less wounded .. c. George Albert Mason, an ox-Govemment detective, reported at Rochester, N. Y., that recently' in the West he became acquainted with three English counterfeiters, who had in their possession plates for making $5, $lO, and S2O silver certificates, and that they also had a quantity of paper like that used by the Government. 11. G. Dux A Co., in their weekly trade review, says; “It is becoming more generally realized that the interstate commerce bill is for the time affecting business unfavorably. ,