Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

880 congressmen are to be ehoseu ■ext falL __ Time is money and it settles a great many accounts. . A blacksmith is a great bore. He always makes a felloe tired. A New Jersey suicide who filled his gun with water and tlveu blowed his brains out with, it, died irom water ou the brain. ' » . - f^[ —, \ It is the unique grace and the exquisite femininity, unalloyed by any trace of masculine assumption or icature, that constitutes the eternal charm of Spanish women. The North Dakota scheme to relieve the drouth sufferers by a legalized lottery would have a tendency to relieve some of the sufferers of the little they have left of this world’s goods. T: ■ p The New York Sun produces a grouped engraving of the supreme judges of the United States, two of whom —Fuller and Lamar—had forgotten to shave their heads on top before sitting for pictures. A Singular coincidence was the simultaneous death of Riley Swan at Weatherford, Texas, and Jacob Birch of Kittaning, Pa. The singular feature is, the former was bitten to de th by rats; and the latter died from eating chestnuts.

No one except a free white person or an alien of African nativity or a person of African descent can become a citizen of the United States. Chinese, Maylays and Japanese are excluded. -The act specifying the above was passed in 187 Q. The surest way to abolish poverty in this and every other country is to give each individual the utmost reward of his own efforts, and to take e&re that no one individual is able to obtain wealth by devices which create that wealth at the cost of others. The French academy of science has discovered, by experiment, that each human body is in itself an electric battery, one electrode being represented by the head and the other by the feet. Therefore it is the proper thing to sleep with one’s head to the north and feet to the south. A Portrait of Ex-President Cleveland is soon to be hung in the White House. The picture will cost $5,000, and will be paid for from money provided by congress in the official estimates for the executive branch of the government This is the first time that such an item has been embodied In the treasury estimates for the fiscal year. One of the Parnell witnesses was libelled by Sir Richard Webster, the attorney tor the Times, in his dosing argument, This witness sued Webstety and to settle that suit the Times paid this man SI,OOO and all the costs which he had incurred in retaining lawyers, etc. A little English idea in this particular would be salutary and just on this aide of the water. It is not at all a cause of wonder that Mr. Stanley should not say much about .kiurecent travels. He bas4>een offered $200,000 to write a book describing that journey. He will undoubtedly accept some such offer, and in order to keep faith with his publishers he declines to tell through interviews what the book is expected to reveal. Mr. Stanley cannot be blamed for such a course.

When a man says he has a new typewriter it is hard to determine whether he has got a new machine,or employed a pretty new woman to play on it; hence two new words have been invented' “typoscript,” to signify the typewritten manuscript, and “graphotype” to signify the machine— that is, the passive machine; the active machine retains the ‘•typewriter’* sobriquet. , The Empress Eugenie has just presented to the fathers who have the keeping of the mortuary chapel at Farnborough, where the remains of Napoleon 111. and the Prince Imperial are interred, a magnifioent alter cloth, made from her wedding gown. The cloth has been; made by the Empress herself. It is trimmed with the lace anA embroidery which ornamented the dre*3. Andrew Carnegie, the steel king,, has offered to spend not less than $1,000,000 for a central free library and branches for the city of Pittsburg, provided the city will maintain them. The offer will be laid before the council soon and it is believed that it will $ - _■ be promptly and enthusiastically a> 94pted. The same donor has spe; nearly $300,000 on the Allegheny Cit ■ ee library. "The clergyman in Massnchuset: who recently putA stop 4e~ Ute kieskr ~;:mes which his congregation -i: bulged in at their sociables is su.TLa severe martyrdom in con c The young folks have ua.i> > his gale, tied up his doc- (• Ightenod him when he bras'returning home orv dark nights by tiring off revolvers, and nave strongly hinted tna. < had better resign.

DOMESTIC. James Russell Lowell is seriously iIL Memphis pool-rooms are closed. A oijrarrette trust has been formed. Chicago jubilated over her World’s Fair victory. Tennessee’s Legislature is meeting in extra session. A general strike Of Western coal miners is threatened. Treasurer Flynn, of Custer county,,Sßouth Dakota, is short $12,000. A very heavy snowstorm prevailed in Montana on the2sth and 26th. The heirs of the estate of S. J. Tilden will compromise their differences. James E. Cooper, of Philadelphia, has bought the Forepaugh circus plant. Seven-tenths of the work to be dene on the Panama Canal remains undone, immigrants to the number of 1,346 .were landed at Castle Garden on the 26th. Theseal fisheries contract waj, on the 28th let to the San FYancisco bidders. The Australian ballot bill was defeated in the West Virginia Senate on ttie 25th. A cyclone visited Tennessee on the 25th. killing one person and doing great damage. Tramps fired into a passenger train near Leetonia, 0., and injured several persons. There has been another murder among the McCoy-Hatfield outlaws in Kentucky. A corpse in the dead house of a Columbus hospital was partially devoured by rats.

Chicago’s expense in booming that city for the World’s Fair is estimated at $400,--000. -tmr—— The stockholders of the New York elevated railroads want $40,000,000 on mortgage. It is said that Dr. McGlynn wants to be restored to communion in the Catholic church. Preparations are making for the rapid development of the tin mines in South Dakota. Mrs. Loire! Greely,' sister of the late Horace Greely, died at Cleveland, 0., on the 20lh. Ingalls and Cimaron, tivip nval Kansas towns, are still fighting each other. Both sides are armed. An Engliap syndicate intends to establish several hundred families of negroes in Chihuahua, Mexico. The citizens of Macon, Ga., have presented Mrs. Jefferson Davis with $3,000, to which she made a grateful response. The woman crusaders who demolished a saloon at Spickardsville, Mo., were assessed $5 each by the jury which tried them. Thousands of boomers are preparing to enter the Cherokee Strip when the territory is opened to settlement. Many negroes are on the border. Wm. H. Fursman, who disappeared Irom Pontiac, 111., last November, after com mitting forgeries aggregating $200,000, has been arrested at New Orleans. A Chinaman refused to be sworn by the Christian oath in a trial at New York, and aChines6 oath with -burning joss stick accompaniment was administered. A syndicate of foreign {probably British) capitalists has purchased the Indianapolis (illuminating) gas plant The price paid is not given, but is believed to be about $2,000,000.

Ex-Treasurer Con starts, of Newport, Ky., who was a defaulter to the amount of $35,000, has made an offer to compromise for SB,OOO, which, it is likely will be accepted. The $2-a-day law recently passed by the New York Legislature has served to increase wares ail along the line. The law requires that $3 per day be paid for al common labor by the State. The Superior Court of Baltimore has decided that the city must pay SIO,OOO to Cipriano Fernandini for the death of his sou, who was s-wept into a sewer during a storm last June and drowned, The bill providing for a Board of Improvement at Cincinnati haerpasSecTTlle Ohio Legislature. Governor Campbell has the appointment of the board, which will supersede the present Board of Affairs. A dinner will be given in honor of Gen eral Grant’s birthday on April 26 in Delmonico’s, Near York, to which the President, Vice President, Cabinet, Speaker General Sherman and others will be invited. A gang of freight train robbers has been operatingmn the railroads near Lima, O. They have-been selling their goods to' the country folks “away below cost.” The leader of the gang was arrested on the ,2Stb. lGovernor Boies, in his inaugural address, said the State needed greater transportation facilities. He said that the prohibition laws were disregarded, and thought measures covering all classes should bo adopted. It is leported that an organization oi negroes known as the Grand Independent Brotherhood, said to have a largo membership, is planning a movement to secure control of the State and local government of Oklahoma.

Dispatches from various cities in Texas report the severest “norther” of the season prevailed in the State on the 27th The mercury sank 20 degrees below freezing point in many places. The fruit crop is badly damaged and nearly all vegetables are destroyed. It is stated that an English syndicate representing*3s,ooo,ooo, is making an, efi fort to form a school book trust in this country; and has thus far been given the .offer of the purchase of six of the largest school book published houses in America Tho. lower house of the Ohio Legislature on the 26th, passe,! the bin redistrict,ng the State for congressional purposes which was-agreed upon by tho Democratic caucus and introduced in that body. The oleo mart-mine bill passed the Senate and is a ■Uw. It pynyiiU against and sa.e of oleoraargurinenmdo in imitation arm rcmnlahce of butter. Judge Patterson of the New York r„preme Court, denied the ann’fi.' 1' f’oiOfiei W XV rv, sr “PPI-tattlOlt Of Loienei W. W. Dnd.ey v 0 vacate the order ,or his examination before trial in the suit nru.ght by him gainst too Press h n Company to recover $50,00Q for alleged hod m 4-he publication of tho “BlocKs”of "five letter.” Colonel Dudley’s

claimed that be bad been in the State si ana the order was granted, but Judge Patterson held that Mr; Dudley has avoided the service of the order, and can not expect consideration from the court whdn he refuses to submit himself to its jurisdiction. -The Ney? York department of the G. A K. Wednesday adopted resolutions favor ing the per diein pension bill, and declar ing that dependent pension bill would not satisfy the veterans of that State. Corporal Tanner made a speech, declaring his conversion to his view. Cherokee “boomers” continue to arrive at Arkansas City in large numbers, and the banks of Walnut River from that city to the Indian Territory line are dotted with tents where the claimers will make their temporary abode, pending the opening of the Cherokee strip to settlement. A tornado 6wept over and through the southern part of Hot Springs, Ark., Tuesday, carrying away fences, overturning frame houses, and doing a good deal of damage to other property. The old observatory, nearly 100 feet high, which stood on top of Hot Spring Mountain for several years, was hlown down.

The news frog* West Virginia is that the Hatfields have sold some of their lands, have plenty of money, and are likely to go on the warpath again. They seek revenge for the hanging of EllisQn Mounts at Pikesville, and will, it is said, make an attempt to slay or capture some of the McCoys. It is also said that Governor Fleming will make a demand on Kentucky for the surrender of the McCoys, charged with murder in West Virginia. - ■ . > - State Sugar Inspector Kellogg, of Kanas. has presented to the State Agricultural Department his annual report regarding the sugar industry, which has developed so rapidly during the past two years. He says that there can be no longer any doubt as to the practicability of the manufacture of sugar from Kansas sorghum. John Jacob Aster’s will was probated on the 23th. St. Lukes Hospital receives $100,009; Metropolitan Museum of Arts, $500,000; the New York Cancer Hospital, $100,000; Astor Library $450,000; Alexander Hamilton, $30,000, and James Simmons Armstrong, $30,000. All the residue and remainder of his estate goes to his son, William Waldorf Astor. The estate is estimated at $200,000,000..

FOREIGN. Stanley is said to look old and careworn. Emin Pasha is out, and takes long walks in Cairo. Dom Pedro desires to renounce all title and be allowed to return to Brazil. The American squadron in the Mediteranean is kept busy saluting French battie ships. Mr. Laboncheurwas suspended from the commons because he stated that Lord Salisbury had made a statement that was untrue. The announcement of the death of young Abraham Lincoln was premature. He rallied from death’s door, and on the 28th was still alive.

Adyices from Newfoundland state that the Legislature of that province will not consent to a renewal of the modus vivendi regarding the issuing of licenses to American fishing vessels on account of the bitter experience the province has had in enforcing the bait act of the colony. It is semi-officially stated that the result of the recent elections for members of the Reichstag has caused Prince Bismarck to delay his resignation from office. . It is believed that he would undoubtedly have resigned had the election resulted in a victory for the Cartel parties.