Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

' De Lessees is .’in? fresh trouble. A Panama dispatch says that water has been struck in one of the largest, longest, and deepest cuts, far above the line of. the canal work, and has washed from the side of the mountains into the. cuts and filled them up. Norman J. Colman, the Commissioner of Agriculture, has issued a notice quarantining Cook County, 111., under the provisions of the United States Animal Industry t ill, and forbidding the transportation of anycattle from.the camit.Y.. cofdanee with ct-rtam-. specified "require ments. The Commissioner states that quarantine, has also been ordered ,of Westchester, New York. Richmond, Kings, Queensland Suffolk Counties, in New York, and Baltimore, Howard, Carroll, "and Prince George's Counties, in Alaryland. Pleuro-pneumonta is said •) prevail to a somewhat alarming extent in Scotland among neat cattle. Imports for the present have been prohibited by the Treasury Department. R. G. Di n A Co. in their weekly trade review report a general improvement in crop prospects throughout the country. The financial future is affected by the large receipts of tie Treasury. Foreign commerce does not improve, the imports for April exceeding the exports by nearly $16,000,000. The decline in exports is attributed rather to the prevailing speculations than to the interstate commerce act. Railroad earnings are large and encouraging. Trade in most lines of merchandise is active. The business failures during the week in the United States and Canada numbered 175, against 18t» for the corre- ! spending week of last year.

The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America assembled at Philadelphia Friday, with 3,000 delegates, representing more than 100,000 communicants, in attendance. The Presbyterian General Assembly at Omaha on Friday appointed a committee to confer with a similar committee, already appointed by the Southern Assembly at St. Loftis, upon the subject of the proposed reunion between the Northern and Southern churches. - It is rumored nt the Citv of Mexico that the contract for operating the mint in that city is to be transferred Jto an English syndicate for $l,5(X),000, including the purchase of machinery, etc. At Minneapolis George A. Pillsbury, the “flour king,” was chosen President of the American Baptist Publication Society. ....The Grand Lodge of Good Templars, in session at Saratoga, declared itself unequivocally in favor of absolute prohibition of the liquor traffic.