Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

It is not (renorally known that Met 100 has a public school system which provides instruction for the children of all classes, including the Indian sranr~" .. 1 . Said a Chicago wife: Mft is real mean for Charlie to be so good to tne ; I want to get a divorce and go on the stage; tut he is so kind I cannot help loving him, and that is what makes me hate him so." Spaniards are predicting that Spain would soon be a republic if the baby king would die. The people of that country seem to {stand in awe of one little sickly royal infant It is hard to get away from old traditional notions. It is a matter of curren t belief in Brooklyn that hardly a public contract is awarded there upon which the contractor must not divide his profits with the ring which controls the entire government of Brooklyn and Kings, coun- ** - • -

When a man says he does not care a “curse” he means that he does not care a cress, the lingual me to thesis here being similar in that which makes ••gooseberries” out of gorseberries, “axe” out of ask, and “wapse” out oi wasp. __ The Indian who commits a murder expects to die for it if he is caught, and be takes his punishment stoically. He has no excuses to offer, no pleas for mercy to make, and he knows . nothing of tho emotional insanity dodge. Some people, suggestively remarks a sharp critic, are so busy meddling with other people’s business that would not be surprising at the general resurrection to find some of these everlasting snoops getting out of somebody else’6 grave. Mexican hotels are said to be very poor, the best of them not being equal to third-class houses in the United States. Tourists, although delighted with the country, do not stay there any length of time because the comforts peculiar to American hotels are not obtainable any where in Mexico at any price. Crimes against commerce merit heavy punishment The time has gone when they can be regarded lightly. Overissues of stock, convenient failures, chicane of any kind ought to be drastically treated. The community will be the better for the experience. There will be fewer failares and more honesty in commercial intercourse. A mountain of clam shells has been discovered about three miles east of Mount Vernon. It is over 600 feet high and has a surface of soil nearly > 1 toot thick. Underneath this clam shells abound to the level depth. There are trees growing on the mountain Which show an age, judging by the rings about the heart, of from 150 to 200 years. 1 Nobody who lives in the past is worth his room in the social world, apd the rule applies to communities, states and nations, as well. Why is the savage and the barbarian superseded in the race of life? Because they will not movA forwacd r^ bnt nttwgc to. the ways of"the past So it is in civilized communities—they., stagnate unless they move abreast with the progress of the time. The one fashionable terpsichorean recreation—the waltz, is on the decline. It is doomed. It is being is tabooed- in the best society rircles of the world. That which hastening its doom is the fact that Herr Strauss, who may be regarded as the creator of the modern fashionable waltz, has pronounced against it, and substituted in its stead wnat he calls “conversation dances.” It is a faet not generally known that it requires from ten to fifteen years for an orange tree to develop. A grove does not attain perfection in less time than that, the land spectators to the contrary notwithstanding. It is true that an orange tree will bear a few oranges within a few years after planting, but a tree has to bear not only a few, but a great many oranges to make the industry pay. The project of a grand longitudinal railroad for the two American continents and the connecting isthmus is beginning to take definite shape. It has been the subject of more or less remark, often derisive, ever since it first emenated from the fertile brain of Hinton Kowan Helper. Mr. Helper’s “impending crisis” oarae. and his intercontinental spinal-column railroad may yot erne rge from dreamland into the world of realities. The officers of the New Hampshire militia complain of“the indiscriminate .bestowal of military titles by secret Organizations, ” and they are going to t&kA.thp matter before the legislature. But if military titles are a good thing, how can there be too much of a good thirigP How are you going to prevent any American citizen from giving himself any military rank he fancies P Give the Colonels who never colonelM a daanee to enjoy themselves.

DOMESTIC. Rev. Dr. Talmage arrived heme on the 4th. Secretary Tracy continues to improve slowly. Niohoiasville, Ky., refuses to license saloens. The Merino Sheepbreeders are in session at Rochester, N. Y. •■ -- ■There are fears of an Indian uprising in San Juan county, N. M. The trial of the Cronin jury bribers is set fer Feb. 10 at Chicago. Gen. Schofield is engaged to wed the widow, Gen. Kilpatrick. Fivfc cattlemen were badly injured in a wreck near Peotone, IIL, on the 4th. The Montana deadlock was broken on the sth in favor of the Republicans. F. A. Walton, Pacific Express Agent at Dallas, Texas, is missing with $85,000. Three section men were billed by a passenger train near St Cloud, Minn., on the 4th.

Five men were badly scalded on the 4th at Philadelphia, by the explosion of a boiler. Jos. P. Murphy, a New York cotton goods manufacturer, failed for. $500,000 on the 4th. Sash and door factories are now the industries sought to be purchased with British gold. The Kansas City Packing and Chase Refrigerator Company suffered a loss of $200,000 by fire. - - The indictments against the New York boodle Aldermen, who have not been tried, will likely be dismissed. The Kentuoky State Senate passed the hill prohibiting the sale of cigarette to boys under eighteen years of age. It is olaimed that the Chicago police have promoted crime in order that they might hare the credit es making an arrest. Rhode Island’s Legislature has before it a bill increasing bribery penalties, and including the taker as well as the briber. An explosion in a Wilkesbarre (Pa.) -eeal mine killed three men and seriously injured six others. Five men are missing. The Sons of the American Revolutions organised a society at Wilmington, Dels? ware, with ex-Secretary Bayard as Pre»i dent. * A rat in a Cincinnati pawnbroker's window ate a fifty dollar diamond/ and was caught, cut open and the spark Recovered. The funeral services of Mrs. Traci- and her daughter were held at the WhigaHouse on the sth. The President and otjsjer dig nataries being present. ||- Five hundred Birmingham, AlaJf miners have struck, not because of poof wages, but because they think they are n®t proper • ly waited upon while at work. A construction train on the «ih went through a bridge, 65 feet high, atithe Dales, Oregon. The tender fell oil the ca. boese, killing ten men and injuring sixteen. \ The New York Senate reconsidered the vote defeating the World’s Fair bill, and passed the measure on the oth. It wab sent to the Assembly, hut stuck there on attend ments, I The contest for the West Virginia Governorship ended on the 4th, in the seating of Fleming on a party vote, 43 for Fleming and 40 for Goff. The Republicans accept the situation gracefully. S An appeal has been received at Riel® mond, Va., signed by 350 citizens of Grans ville county, which says the farmers ar® suffering for the necessaries of life, owing! to the failure of the crops. In a riot at St. Adelbert’s Church,| Buffalo, over a change of priests, 2,300 Polish women and girls participated,charg ing upon a body of police and assaulting the newly appointed priest. At Portlaud, Ore., about 1,400 sacks oj delayed Western mail and a large numbei of passengers arrived by boat from Dalles on the 6th, having been transferred from! the Union Pacific train at that point. Friday a portion of the bottom of the] town of Plains, Pa., fell out, wrecking several mining tenement bouses. The cave in was caused by taking too many pillars from the mines below the place. J. W. Troutt, a farmer residing in Todd county, Kentucky, was crossing Clifty Creek, which was high, on a wagon, when he was washed away and drowned. His wagon and horses were also swept away and lost. A war of races occurred among)workers on a railroad in Bibb county, Ala., on the 7th. The blacks ambushed a party of whites, firing into them and killing two/ men. Three others were seriously/ wounded. At Cleveland, Thursday night, whjje the family of J. B. Perkins were at dinner, a thief climbed up the front porch, apd, gaining an entrance to the uouse, stolß a jewelry-box containing $4,600 wortlf of diamonds aud $75 in cash. I At Susquehanna, Pa., Miss Charlotte Dunlap, a highly respected young |ady, who was connected with one of the. first families of the place, committed suicide by taking strychnine. It is said that tyfer act resulted from a love affair. / Rev. Mr. Ball, who made such serious charges against Mr. Cleveland irithe, campaign of 1884, and growing out of which he claimed libel against the Jifew ,jYork Post was defeated in his libel j&uit before the Jury at Buffalo on the 7th/ Wednesday night an armid mob took possession of the jail at Lexington, Miss., and liberated Eugene Story/ who had been convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged. The case was oiy appeal to the Supreme Court. Other/ prisoners were released at the same time The Railway Age affirms that th,e trip around the world can be made in less than sixty days, providing no time is lost at connecting points. “The little traveler who has just finished the round in 72% lost over 18 days in waiting for connections. The down stage to Casa Grande, Arizona, Thursday, was held up by a masked r Mhxipan, about twelve miles from Florence.' The Weila-Fargo express box was ■ laken. It is not known how much was' secured. The mails are not disturbed. A posse has been organized for pursuit. Thursday, the second section of pasaen gcr train No, 6, east-bound, and No. 8, a west-bound passenger train [on the Pan -

handle railroad, collided near Bowerstown, O. Engineer Martin and the ofireman on 1 the east-bound train were badly scalded mid bruised. Martin’s injuries will probabl/cause his death. The engineer of No 8 had disobeyed his orders in not side tracking his train at Bowers town to allow No. 6 to pass. A revivalist at Oakland, Cal., predicts the destruction of San Francisco, Alameda and Oakland within eighty days by an earthquake, Chicago by the overflow of Lake Michigan, and the end of the world in 1896, previous to which aH Europe will be a battle ground It is said that there are people who place faith in the prediction. A special train with 1,000 negroes arrived at Birmingham, Ala., on the ith, over the Georgia Central railroad. The negroes were enroute from South Carolinia to Louisiana and Texas. They were packed into the car like sardines in a box. Few of them seemed to know where they were going or what they would do when they reached their destination. They seemed to trust everything to the agents

who had them in charge. Two freight tnfrns, one bound east loaded with cattle, and the other bound west loaded with coal, plaster, etc., eoiided at Yarmouth Center, four miles east of St. Tbomas, Ont., Wednesday. The engines struck with terridc force. Twenty-five or thirty cars were wrecked, and the debris is piled up about the station in a great mass. The engineer of the west bound train, John Cook, was killed, and a number' of train men were seriously injured. The others saved themselves by jumping. The. loss of property will be considerable. Information has reached Charlotte. N. C that two men were killed and three badly injured during services in a country church, about thirty miles from; Sparta, N. C., on Sunday. The Rev. Joseph M. Strooke during the course of his remarks said: “There is a man in this congregation who is so mean and unfaithful to hisMife that it is a wonder that God does nq£ rain down fire and brimstone upon his head And consume him.” The preacher .pointed his finger toward Thomas Coleman, who occupied a seat near the pulpit, and as he didlgo that individual jumped to his feet to inquire if the parson meant to be personal inVs remarks. No sooner was Coleman on Ms feet than half a dozen dea cons were up demanding that he sit down. Everything wa| in an uproar, and an attempt was made; to eject Coleman. Coleman resisted, and, seizing a stick of wood lying near the stove, he began to weild* it hard and fast, knocking four men to the floor apd fatally wounding Jeremiah FergusonOne man wrenched the club from Coleman and dealt him a deadly blow across the head. He then walked out of the church and has not been seen since. The riot lasted six minutes, and was participated in by many of the congregation, who used clubs as weapons. The killed were: Thomas Coleman and Jeremiah Ferguson. The injured were: Edward Clawson Rober Edwards and John Peeby. The centennial of the Supreme Court of the United States was celebrated at New York on the 4th. The President did not attend because of the afflictions in the families of Secretaries Blaine and Tracy. The attendance was the most noted that ever assembled in the Metropolitan Opera House. The building was elaborately decorated. The members of the United States Supreme Court were among those in attendance. Ex-President Cleveland presided and made a brief speech. He was cheered vociferously. He closed his speech in the following words: “Our fathers had sacrificed much to be free. Above all things they desired freedom to be absolutely secured to themselves and their posterity. And yet with all their enthusiasm for that subject they were willing to refer to the tribunal which they devised, all questions arising under their newly formed constitution, affecting the freedom 1 and protection and safety of the citizen. Though bitter experience had taught them that the instrumentalities of government might trespass upon freedom, and though they had learned in a hard school the cost of the struggle to wrest liberty from the grasp of power, they refused,in the solemn work they had in hand, to take counsel of undue fear or distracting perturbation; and they calmly and deliberately established as a function of their government, a 1 check upon unauthorized freedom and a I restraint upon dangerous liberty. Their j Attachment and allegiance to the sovereign- j Jty of their States wef e warm and unfalter- j /ing; but these did not prevent them from ■ contributing a fraction of that sovereignty to the creation of a Court which should guard and protect their new nation and save and perpetuate a government which should in all time to come bless an independent people. ” Prayer was offered by Rev. Morgan Dix and the principal speech, by Justice Field, followed. At night a banquet was given. .FOREIGN. Prince Bismarck dined with Emperor William on the 4th. The Marquis of Hartington left London Thursday for Egypt. The Mexican Government has formally recognized the Republic of Brazil. More than 100 people were drowned near Manking, China, by a cloud bursting. Henry M. Stanley has been selected a member of the Russian Geographical So ciety. Switzerland has excepted Emperor Will iam’s invitation to an international labor conference. The report of the Provincial Bank of Ireland gives evidence of an improvement in the industries of Ireland. The London Times on the 3d, compromised the Parnell libel suit, it paying Parnell £S,(XX) and alibis expenses. Passengers and mails have beeD landed at Bay of Bulls, St. Johns, by sleds, over twenty miles of ice blocking the harbor. The influenza is spreading in the City of Mexico, and has assumed a more virulent form. A number of dearths have resulted the disease. A special Rio dispatch says: There is a ministerial crisis in Brazil. The trouble has reference to the questions of financial which do not at present seem likely to be realized. Senor Demetris Ribiero, Minister of Agriculture, has retired from the Cabinet and a new appointment has been made. Senor Ribiero was not well known in Brazilian politics before bel wet called to the Ministorv. • . . ' - -S ■- • - -V m .--1 -f .■» ■