Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

If an English syndicate were to get ogntroi of the weather and rtm it on strictly business principles we don’t see why anybody should complain. A MAN in Hudsondale, Pa., defending against unkind criticism the hat which he has worn twenty-tree years, declares that it has come into style nineteen times. But to have come into style nineteen times in must have gone out of style an equal number. New England may as well make up its mind that it is no longer of much account as an agricultural district The country’s crops are now raisedin the west where farming is conducted on a scale which makes competition by the small farmers in the bleak New England climate impossible. A New York paper says that during the past week twelve horses were killed and turned into bologna and dried beef at Bosses’ sausage factory at Newtown, L. I. It is difficult to conceive how horse flesh can be converted into dried beef, unless the cow is turned into a field and the horse put to graze upon it.

Mb. Rebisso's equestrian statue of Grant has been accepted by the Chicago Citizens’ Committee. The pedestal for it in Lincoln Park, Chicag o, is nearly finished, and the dedication will take place some time next summer. Will nothing shame New York into a fplfillment of her pledges about the dead hero’s monument As a rule, the worst thing a man of capability and energy can do is to take an office under the government Its certainty of compensation and its fixed routine are provocative of habit and inertia. Tnere is no margin of increase, except by promotion in the service, and the higher you get the more of a machine you am

It always seems to be wrong’ to wake one from a pleasant dream, to dispel a beautiful illusion, to spoil a fancy sketch or to ruin a good joke by solemnly inquiring into the expediency of it But it is sometimes the painful duty of persons to judge schemes by the light of experience and to consider them from the standpoint of practicability and common sense. As an illustration of the queer blunders sometimes made by compositors the following is noted: A country correspondent in giving an account of a certain pastor's able address to a Meadville paper wrotejthat he was “full of fire and vigor.” When the proof came in it gave the somewhat startling information that the minister was “full of pie and vinegar.”

Regent excavations in Rome show that the ancient plumbers of the Eternal City were obliged to be very particular with their work. There have been unearthed great quantities of lead water-pipe, each plainly stamped with the name of the owner of the house, the year of the plum bing, the name of the consuls for that year, and that of the reigning emperor. Since Horace wrote his celebrated satire, in which he asked Micaenus why people are generally discontented with their lot in life, lean people have wished to become fat and fat people to become lean. It is not always a difficult matter to reduce fleshiness, but it is a very hard task to clothe a thin person in rotundity, especially when there is a family predisposition to thinness, Nearly all who have visited Libera during the past thirty years agree in stating that the educated blacks that were sent there, supported at great expense and provided with machinery, stock, seeds and tools, have relapsed into a state of barbarism or savagery. Their acquired civilization did not last much longer than the clothes they wore, and no attempt was made to obtain a new outfit

Fro si present appearances grain elevators will follow the coarse of oil refineries, match factories, salt works, and breweries, and fall into the hands of a trust Already English syndicates have obtained options on all the elevators in several cities having a large grain trade. A combination to secure the ownership or control of all the elevators in a city will result in raising the charges for storage. A monopoly is created for the purpose of I preventing competition and oftlimes' larger pay for poorer service, and it j rarely fails of reaching the end sor 1 which it was designed. On several western roads as much money is received for carrying grain as for all other articles. It is anoma<lous that a railroad should provide buildings for storing the other articles lit carries but neglects to provide | buildings for storing grain. All the . great trunk lines leading to the seaboard have elevators at their eastern 1 termini, and all the trouble we have' here is obviated. The managers ol Some western roads say the companies cannot own or control elevators because shippers and receivers of grain will ask for free storage. On this JirineipWlbey might decline to carry 1 passengers because some people asb for free passes

DOMESTIC. President Bernard Soto, of Costa Rica, is in Chicago. Ex-Senator Riddleberger, of Virginia, died Friday. Troops have again been ordered to Har lan county, Kentucky. The death rate continues very large at Chicago, due to la grippe. After a brief intermission the lowa Leg- ; islative deadlock is -“on” once more. [ The Montana Supreme Court has afflrmj ed the legality of the Republican Legislature. The worst wind storm in years visited ; Colorado, Sunday. Much damage is reported. An English syndicate has purchased the large paper mills at Appleton, Wis., paying 16,000,000 therefor. The National Builders at St. Paul voted to allow its local branches to settle the I eight hour question. Great earnestness characterizes the disI cushion of the proposed Presbyterian creed revision at New York. A brutal husband at Sharon, Pa., trie to commit suicide because neighbors ob jected to his abuse of his wife. The Kentucky State Senate passed the bill prohibiting the sale of cigarette to boys under eighteen years of age. Mrs. Leslie Casper, of Chicago, whose divorce suit brought Kyrle Belle V into prominence, will go upon the stage. The strawberry crop, which promises to be large in South Carolina, was injured by fro3t. and the supply will be limited. B. P. Hutchison (Old Hutch) has been roebed of from $25,000 to $40,000 by a com blnation of his clerks, who are now in Canada. Thousands of snow shovelers are employed by the railroads in the far west in removing the blockade. It was still snowing Thursday. Many farms in southern Illinois are almost submerged with water. Thousands of bushels of corn in that part of the State remain ungathered. Pasquilla, a Detroit Italian, swindled out of $30,000 with a bogus silver brick, in New York Tuesday found Guisseppe Cherassi, the swindler. Serious trouble is anticipated in the Chickasaw Nation as the time approaches for the collection of the per capita tax of $5 levied on white residents. Two small New York banks—the Lenox Hill and the Sixth National—dosed Thursday, because of a failure of one and a run on the other. Heavy fraud by the President has developed. Grover Cleveland has shaken the last particle of Buffalo dust off his feet. He has sold his valuable, property on Lexington avenue, which he bought some years ago for a nominal sum. Adam Forepaugh’s will gives half the testator’s property to the widow and half to the son, after providing for the support of the testator’s father during his life. The estate is. valued at $1,000,000. General A. M. West’s memorial to Congress, asking the repeal of the fifteenth amendment, was reported upon favorably in the Mississippi Legislature, and made the special order for February 4. W. W. Woodhouse, a farmer living near London, 0., was called to his d-oor, Tuesday night, by Kinney Graham, and shot.

Mrs. Woodhouse was also shot. Graham had an Old gruage against Woodhouse. Scott Shamleffer, sixteen years of age, was sentenced at Kansas City, Monday, to five years’ imprisonment in the State Re form School for house breaking. His parents died recently, leaving him thei 1 ' estates, valued at $50,000. The first annual report of the New York State Commission in Lunacy was madc‘ Wednesday. Some shocking stories are recited of counties mistreating the insane TieldTy them, and tfle State hhd counties is contrasted. A carriage containing three persons was run into by an express train near Chicago, a few days ago. John Murphy, the driver, received serious injuries. Mrs. De Mange and daughter, of Denver, were badly hurt, the latter severely. Mrs. Dohan,of Chicago, was cut about the head.

Prudence Crandall Philleo died at Elk Falls, Kan., Tuesday, of the Influenza. It was she who, just before the war, attained notoriety by attempting to establish negro schools at Canterburg, Conn. For this she was driven from the State by persecution. Since that time she has lived in Kansas. The Indianapolis Journal announces that Senator Voorhees and ex-Govemor Gray have healed the differences hitherto supposed to exist between them, by which Mr. Gray is to retire from the Senatorial contest and will seek a still higher preferment —no doubt the Vice Presidency. In the Federal Court at Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday, Horace R. Chase, Superintendent of the Government Indian School, at Genoa, was found guilty of keeping false books and presenting false vouchers to the government. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,500 and costs of prosecution, and to stand committed until paid. At an autograph auction, Thursday, at» New York, a page written by Dickens, containing a humorous agreement among three friends who were about to have a walking match, isold for $306. A letter from Byron to a friend brought $55. A bit of Thackeray’s manuscript went for SB6. and the same price was paid for a letter from Washington to Madison. Advices come from Cook county, Texas that a very fatal epidemic, strongly resembling memingithi, is raging la the western part of the county. The patients die, in many instances,in a few hours after faking the disease. Twenty-five deaths are reported from the malady during twenty four hours. So far the physicians | have been unable to check its ravages, and it has already spread drVer the country to an alarming extent Great excitement l prevails, and many of the citixens are 1 fleeing from their homes to other localities not yet visited by the plague. FOREIGN. 1 Ths„strike of dock laborers at:> Liverpool add Birkenhead is sp reading. The Mayor of Montreal has invited the Pan-American Congress to visit that city The Municipal Coundl of Dublin has

adopted a resolution expressing confidence iborMr. Parnell. Four thousand merchants of Lisbon paraded the streets, Monday night, shouting “'war to England.” A Canadian member of Parliament will institute leg islative proceedings to discover the cause of the alarming exodus of native born Canadians to the Baited States.—— Henry N. Gladstone, son of the ‘‘Grand Old Man,” was married at London, on the night of the 30th to Miss Maud RendelThe bride was attended by seven bridesmaids. dressed in Irish poplin. A resolution of loyalty to the > English government, introduced by Mr. Muicke, passed the Canadian House of Commons l unanimously, Wednesday night. It was the sentiment that though Canada can not always remain a colony, she must be cautious iu changing her political status. A terrific hurricane passed over Nordhasen, Prussian Saxony, Thursday, causing great damage. When the storm burst upon the town a lineman was engaged in repairing a wire on the roof of a house. The force of the wind swept him from the roof, and in his fall he struck the top of a lamp post, which passed through his body, killing him instantly. The exertions of several men were required to release the body from its impalement. ,i “ -