Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Rev. T. Dewitt Talreage, the erniaeot Brooklyn divine, iti* announced, will sever his connection with perio--dieal literature, and devote liis energies as editor exclusively to the Christian Herald of New York. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and ■John G. Whittier are optimistic old *B6B. The former in prose an d the latter in poetry have recently given voice to their ideas regarding old age. Their cheerfulness is a rebuke to aged Europeans of nete who seem tp grow crabbed as they approach the end of life. _ It is an interesting fact that the portrait of Queen Victoria in widow’s weeds iff still used on the 3-cent and 6oent postage stamps of Newfoundland.., The 1-cent stamp of the same country shows the prince of Wales’ portrait as a boy. A stamp of the Colony of Victoria bears a representation .of the queen sitting on her throne.

Justice Brewer is the youngest member of the United States Supreme Court, both in years and point of service. He is only 52. The Chief Justice and Justice Harlan are 57. Justice Lamar is 65, and Justice Blatchford is five years his senior. Miller and Fields are the same age, 74, and Bradley is the Nestor of the Court, having lived 77 years. A New Jersey colored man has demonstrated what instinct can do oacked with courage. He visited a ehicken house and grain shed recently and stole thirty chiokeus, eighteen bushels of corn, two bags of corn meal, three bags of rye feed and two bags of rye in the grain. After all, he betrayed moderation by not taking the chicken house and shed.

This thing of getting married is a risky business anyhow, but none of the new-fangled ways of goiug about it hare been conspicuously successful. The old-fashioned courtship has yet to be improved on. This i 3 the experience of the Pittsburg man who saw his future wife in a vision and afterwards met and married her. There was a lack of divinity in the affinity. Divorce and alimony. Eats Field urges a large increase in the salaries of senators and congressmen, and pathetically declares: “Our public men may be rewarded in heaven. They certainly get little but cuffs in this world.” Even with the inducements now offered, the supply of wouldbe statesmen exceeds the demand. It is significant that none of the “ins” display a desire to exchange their cuffs on earth for options on the future life. ,r Dr. JL Golay, a French physician, thinks that the education of* the fair sex is on too narrow a basis, and that the one thing especially wanting in the tuition of the present day is instruction in the art of bringing up children. Who knows but that in the future time of the present world there will be a Professorship of Family-Raising in the female seminaries of the land. And then will come the struggle as to the mode of selection.

From memoranda of the late Henry W. Grady it has been iound that during the year 1889 he made loans to various people in amounts from SSO to S4OO, the whole aggregating more than $13,000. Most of this is collectable, and makes a substantial addition to.the editor’s estate. It is said that | no one ever went away from him * empty-handed. His purse was open ' to any of his friends, and his personal friends were thousands. The Young Liberal club of Toron- j to, Ont, at a recent meeting declared 1 in a resolution that, if instead of pre- ' ■enting addresses of a reactionary character, declaring their attachment the British connection, the legislators would eudeavor to secure for the Canada people a larger degree of selfgovernment and thus prepare the way for the complete independence of Canada, their action would be more acceptable to Canadians generally. Spain adheres to the customs of a primitive age. Grain is cut with a small reaping hook, and threshed as in the time of the Caesars, that is, by tramping about with asses hitched to a stone. The pjow is a crooked stick poiated with iron. Ia the towns are seen heavy wooden carts drawn by oxen. Most of the carrying, traDsfering, etc., is done by donkeys. Sand, brick, lumber, in fact, almost everything that has to be moved, is carried on their backs.

The Quebec legislature a few days 9gQ paused a bill offering 100 acres of land to every man who is the futher of twelve children. The person entitled to this novel bonus up pear to be numerous- At Trois Pistoles there are two families, named Roulette and Belzil, who each have fifteen living children. Another named Gingras, in Bellnchaase, has had no fewer than thirty-four children born to him. Still another named Cretlen, in L'lslet, has ■twenty-seven, and ooe Villaueourt, in Kumouraska, has just had his thirtySeventh infant baptizoa.

DOMESTIC. A very odd snap prevails in parts of South Dakota. Five murderers wilLbe hanged at Harrisburg, Pa., April 9. Lotteries are open ly-conducted in Montana in violation of State law. The North Dakota Senate, on the 19th, passed the Australian election system. The Mardi-Gras street pageant at New Orleans on the 18th was a gorgeous affair The Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company has advanced the wages of -employes 15 per cent. The saloons! Peter Donezan, at Dupont, 0., was blown up by White Caps Saturday night Sash and door factories are now the industries sought to be purchased with British gold. An insane man in Massachusetts murdered a'child because he liked to go to funerals. An independent oil company with ,a cap ital of $50,000,000 has been formed at Findlay, O. The Kansas City Packing and Chase Refrigerator Company suffered a loss cf $200,000 by fire. The sheep industry of Connecticut is suffering a rapid decandence on account of the ravages of dogs. Rev. H. S. Black, of the First Baptist church of Pans, 111., on the 16th baptized srxty--.even converts.

An English syndicate is considering a proposition to purchase and control the florist business in America. An Alabamian, who was converted to Mormonism and went to Utah, was robbed of his wife and ®ll his possessions, —A printer named Cheney was strung up by a mob at Alvarado, Tex., to enforce a confession of robbery he did not commit. The Sons of the American Revolution organized a society at Wilmington, Delaware, with ex-Secretary Bayard as Presi •dent. Miss Rebecca Mary Taylor, the venerable mother of Bayard Taylor, died at Kennet Square, Pa., on the 19th, aged 90 years. Diptheria is raging at Wellington, Ohio, three deaths having occurred from the disease. The public schools will be closed. The Negro exodus from North Carolina (to Louisiana) continues. The white farmers of the former State are highly inoensed. All the "spirits” in a Chicago seance Monday night were arrested and carted off to jail for obtaining money under false pretenses. The insane asylum at Little Rock, Ark., was damaged to the extent of $85,000 on the 17th. The 500 patients were removed without injury. New York and Chicago are connected by telephone, and a message conveyed in this way requires bus four minutes for the entire distance.

The first pasteur institute in the United States was opened on the 18th at 178 west Tenth St., New York, under the presidency of Dr. Paul Gibier. The present session of the Montana Legislature closed on the 21st. Owing to the absence of the Democratic Senators nothing was accomplished. The Carnegie Free Library of Allegheney was formerly opened on the 20th, the President being among the guests. He made a brief speech If amnesty were granted to all deserters from the United States army the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., would lose 95 per cent, of its inmates. Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, said at the Catholic Club dinner at Baltimore Monday night,cthat he believed in the complete separation of Church and State. A movement is on foot by the Northern Pacific to secure the control of the Central Baltimore & Ohio, making, with the Wisconsin Central, a line from ocean to ocean.

Rev. Mike Whisman \yps murdered near Campton, Ky., on the 18th, by a young man named Booth. The minister had oncejpunished Booth while a school boy, and Booth never forgot the fancied wrong. Joseph Meaill, of the Chicago Tribune, in an interview on the 17th, expresses the opinion that Cleveland will be the Demo cratic nominee in 1892, even though Ril secures the New York delegation. . A man supposed to be “Smith,” who drove Dr. Cronin to his death, was arrested at St. Louis by a Chicago detective. It was at first rumored that he was “Cooney, the Fox.” He was taken to Chicago. Jake Kilrain, the one-time champion, was knocked out at New Orleans on the 17th by J. J. Corbett, of California. It was a glove contest for a purse of $3,500, in which Kilrain was clearly overmatched. The South Dakota Legislature has passed a joint resolution admitting that destitution exists in mary parts of the State, and that the farmers must be furnished with seed wheat by public and private subscription. A miscreant called a respectable young lady to the door of her home at Erie, Pa., on the night of the 18th, and threw oil of vitriol in her face. She owas badly disfigured. The wretch who did the deed is unknown. Investigation will be made as to the practicability,, and , expense of tunneling the Detroit "River, near the city of Detroit with a view to the use of the tunnel for railroad trains between the Unfted States and Canada.

In the Mississippi Legislature Thursday, Representative West called up the memor-. ial to Congress relative to the appeal of fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, aud moved its adop tion. Tho motion was lost by a vote of 21 3 33. ■— *— Negro incendaries at Rocky Mount, N. C., have sent a notice to prominent citizens there informing them that if the Rocky Mount Light Infantry is ordered out the negroes will kill them all if they have to shoot them from ambush. Other threats of a like character have boen. made. After a consultation of six physicians it has been decided that the terrible opera tion of breaking the nones of one leg to prevent Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., from being a criple for life, as a result from Uammatory rheumatism, may not be necessary, and there is thus a hope that she may regain health and strength; but it will not

be for a long-time And not Without .great further su flaring. Jgke Kiixain, the noted pugilist is about to retire temporarily from the fistic are pa He haabeea-en the -down- grade for some time and has recognized that it will jbe wise to accept the friendly advice of Muldoon and others. Rheumatism or something else has been gradually getting the best of him. Mgr. Doarte, who was lately given the title of Prothonotary Apostolic by the Pope, notified the parishioners of St. Pat rick’s Cathedral, at Newark, N. J., that they must take their children from the public schools and send them to the parochial schools on penalty of excommunication and denial of absolution. The performance at the Broadway Theater, New. York, for the benefit of Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., netted nearly $4,000. There was the largest audience that was ever present at the theater. Among the many prominent persons present were: Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, George Gould Mrs. William Astorand R' Fulton Cpiting’Sweet faced Amy Q. Fowler, or, as she is better known, Sister Rose Gerts rude, of the order of St. Dominick,arrived in Chicago Thursday night, on her way from England to the Sandwieh. Islands, where she is to devote her life to the service of the lepers at Katawao. Miss Fowler goes direct to San Francisco, thereto sail next week for Honolulu.

A sensation was created at McKeesport, Pa., Wednesday, by the arrest of Mrs. Giles Collins and daughter for shoplifting. Mrs. Collins is the wife of a leading politician of McKeesport, and is well known. The two women were detected in the act of stealing several articles in a dry goods store and were at once put under arrest. A search of their home disclosed at least $5,000 worth of goods taken from various McKeesport stores. It is asfcated that M. Belleville, the inventor of the Belleville Tubulous Boiler, has succeeded in adapting his steam genera, tor to the furnishing of a propellent for heavy ordumpgeygpis in lieu of powder or found that his boiler Will supply steam in sufficient quantities, and at the required instant of l ime, to a degree that will give a 500 pound projectile over four times the yelocity obtainable in the present pneumatic gun.

The Louisiana Lottery Company is making a desperate effort to retain its corporate life. It ha 3 failed to secure a charter from North Dakota, and its next move, it is said, will be an enormous bribe to the Louisiana Legislature for a renewal of its present charter, which will expire two years hence. Its proposition will be to pay the entire State debt, amounting to from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000. The lottery is earning $250,000 a month, or $8,700,000 per annum net. Now that the British extradition treaty has been ratified and detectives have been put upon the track to follow Louise The bault, the mistress of defaulter Silcott cashier of the House of Representatives, who had just started back to Canada to rejoin her paramour, it is believed he will be arrested. Miss Thebault drew some money from the National Savings Bank there Wednesday, but the officers of the institution refuse to say anything about it. There is a belief in Washington that Silcott has been bled by detectives, is running close for funds, and when he is out of resources will surrender. He is thought to be in Victoria, B. C. At the National Educational Conference in New York on the 20th, a resolution was adopted declaring that the association regarded the public school system as the chief source of civilization, and the bulwark of civil and-reUgious liberty, and that they approved of placing the American flag over school houses and recommended the study of the Declaration of Independence and other historical Amer - ican papers. In order to meet hostile criticism and make the public schools the allies of home and the sources of the highest moral instruction, without any sectarian bias,the members pledged themselves to do all in their power to establish the system in all sectibhs bf the Repubile, and and make intelligence ana loyalty a bless-

FO REIGN. '■ ■ Influenza is reported unusally fatal in the city of Mexico. The German elections on the 20th resulted in a Socialistic victory. Queensland has been visited by very heavy floods and many persons perished. Seventy thousand miners at Aberdare, Wales, have struck for an advance in wages. An explosion occurred in a eollery near Decise, department of Nievrc, France, on the 20th. It is not known how manv lives or were lost, but already thirty-four bodies have been recovered.

Three thousand aborigines and many convicts in New Calendopia have been attacked with leprosy. The disease is spreading at an alarming rate. Louise Michel talks of going to their succor. An order has been issued prohibiting the circulation in Germany of the Volksanwalf, a paper published in Cincinnati, O. The order is regarded iu Cincinnati as a joke, as the paper is almost unknown there. Russian authorities at Washington deny the atrocities recently reported from Siberia. They claim the facts are exaggerated and spread by nihilists, to influence action ou the extradition treaty now pending in the United States Senate. A dispatch from Victoria of the 17th, says that Justice Drake, of the British Columbian Supreme Court, has rendered a decision which declares that the Govern ment of the United States has no juriadio tion over Behring Sea,outside of the marine jgague limit, —— ——— — A Paris correspondent says Dom Pedro’s nervous disease increases and partly unhinges his mind. He lives in daily expectation of being recalled to rule Brazil and does not realise the precarious state of his own”finances. He refuses to reduce his imperial suite aud maintains his expenses on a grand scale. A duel took place on the 18th between two officers of the Czar’s Hussar Guard at Tsarskoe, in which both were wounded, one fatally. The Czar is greatly angered at the affair, and will make an example of the survivor. He declares that Russia will not permit the lives of her soldiers to be waated in quarrels over worthless women.