Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1890 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Speaking of the total depravity of k'lm&n nature, have you ever noticed that nothing: makes a doctor so happy As to discover some new disease? > —. Rev. Mb* Talmage advises married people to atfoid first quarrels. This is excellent advice. If married people fenust fight, let them begin at about the fifteenth quarrel. There are not too many holidays, ks there were the circuses and fairs (would not be so well attended as they Are. It is not within the province of ail of us to be rich enough to have hay fever and recuperate at Petoskey, hut the way is clear for the poorest of Our kind to spend a day at the fair or eireus, or in any other such manner as will give relief from daily toils. The fair and tho circus, though both suggestive of chestduts. are necessities. And now comes Powderly following 'the line usually adopted by the socalled labor leaders, and declares that he knew the Central strike could not succeed, but that he continued it for revenge. If Powderly is not misrepresented in this matter, and did continue the strike, when he knew it (would not succeed, thus depriving the (strikers of the Opportunity of recovering their positions. He is a knave of the worst stamp. Whatever else may be said of Mr. Powderly.. his foresight,is,noLas-goad os his hindsight.

As was expected would be the case, the dividing up of Africa among the three or four colonizing nations o Europe has aroused re newel interest in the dark continent, and has led to the formation of African emigration societies in one or two of those countries. England, it is likely, will take the lead in this enterprise. There are four Egglish commercial and colonization companies already at work in Africa. One more outlet has been found for the surplus population and of the States of Central and Western Europe. The present movement in Canada in favor of the annexation of the Can" adian provinces to the United States is not the first movement of the kind there, though it sow appears in quarters where it di<| not formerly exist. As far back as 1837 there was a rebellion against British authority in Cans ada under the leadership of a ScotchCanadian named Mackenzie, and if it had been successful it would undoubts, edly, as Mackenzie himself admitted resulted in annexation. Mackenzie headed the revolt in Toronto, and sevs oral engagements took place there and elsewhere, but his forces were crushed or scattered, Jie himself was outlawed, and some of his fellow leaders were executed. Many of his American sympathizers rallied to his aid near the Canadian border, but their camp was broken up by Gen. Winfield Scott. Ever since that time there have been annexationists in many parts of Canada, and now again they have the support of influential politicians in several of the provinces of the ITew Dominion. The balloon as an implement of war was tested as to its vulnerability in a very interesting manner during the recent manoeuvres of the Russian army. In the Oust-Ijora camp a balloon, held by three cables, and with a dummy for an aeronaut, v-as allowed to float six hundred feet from the ground. At fk distance of about 3,000 metres four field pieces, loaded with shrapnel, opened fire upon theair ship. To the left of this battery, but consids erably closer to the balloon, a post of observation was occupied by a few officers who communicated by telephone with the officer in charge of the battery, to enable him to regulate his fire; while, on the other hand, the cables were held by men in a sheltered position, who were able to alter at will the altitude of the balloon, and thus render the aim of the gunners more difficult. At the tenth shot the range was captured, and then the firing was done by salvos, five of which were discharged before the balloon was hit When struck it began to descend slowly. Then a sixth salvo was fired at it but none of the projectiles struck it. In 411 thirty-four projectiles, without counting the shrapnel, were fired at it and when the ; balloon reached the ground it was found that it had been hit by only five of the larger shots and by twenty-four of the shrapnel, nearly all of the perforations of the latter being in the upper portion. It was estimated that damage done could be repaired in about ball an hour and,the balloon •ant dp again.

The population of California is 1.204,002. The Mormon Churches have decided to eliminate polygamy. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough are visiting in this country. Mr. Blainp will deliver two speeches in Ohio during the present campaign. A pearl recently found in the Pecatonica river, near Galena, 111., sold, Wednesday, for $5,000. - Charles Shearer, of West Point, has been arrested for bridgo-bur&ingin Shelby county, Ohio. The visible supply of coffee is figured at 2,214,544 bags, against 2,194,473 bags on the Ist of September. The Illinois Steel Company, at Chicago, is preparing to make tin plate, and use the product of the Black Hills. Ground was broken in Chicago for the great Newberry Library building. It has a fund of about $5,000,000 to draw on. The Vermont Legislature on the 9th passed a resolution asking the World's Fair managers to close the grounds on Sunday. It is announced, “on good authority,” that the President will call an extra session of Congress Nov- 11 to pass the Federal election bill. ~~~ — - -• • A two-year-old son of Mr, John Brumback, of Georgetown, Ky,, fell from a sec-ond-story window to the pavement below and was fatally injured. At Aulander, N. C., Wm. Atkins, a prominent cotton-grower, and his aged mother Were murdered by a negro, who —— Descendants of the Pottawatomie In. dians want $400,000 from the Government Tor what was a part of their reservationnow the very heart of Chicago. Oberlin College has voted to withdraw from the. Ohio Oratorical Association, and will accept the invitation to join the Northwestern Association. ~

Forty Republicans of Philadelphia have written an open letter to the President appealing to him to withdraw from Senator Quay the patronage of Pennsylvania. Despondency caused Wm. Sprague. Jr., son of ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode island, to commit suicide, by inhaling chloroform, at Seattle, Wash., Tuesday. The Hotel Walnut, Cincinnati, owned by Mrs. Magavv, has made an assignment, ! with liabilities nearly twice its assets, lit is one of the oldest hotels in Cincinnati. The motor men of the Electric Street Railway, Lexington. Ky., have struck for ani increase of wages from $1.52 to sl.sj per day, or a reduction of hours from twelve to ten. A complimentary dinner was given Hon. Roger A. Pryor in New York, on the 10th, by John Russel Young. Mr. Cleves. land, Mr. Depew and Gen. Sherman were among the guests. Miss Anna Deere, the eldest daughter o Hoii. Charles H. Deere, of Moline, 111. was married on the evening of the Bth to William Dwight Wiman, son of Erastus Wimau, of New York. Tho total population of the State of Ohio is 3,666,719, an increase of 468.057. Or a gain Df 14.65 per cent. West Virginia’s population is 700,448, an increase of 141,991, or a jain of 22.96 per cent. Secretary Butterworth has received official notification, of the War Department granting the right to fill in the desired amount of the Chicago lake front for tho use of the World’s Fair. Mayor Hart, of Boston, hasbeen notified that the nextof kin and residuary legatees Df Benjamin Franklin claim the fund created by Franklin in favor of young men Ehanics of Bostxfb, which now amounts to nearly $370,000. Senator Hiscock denies the story sent out from Washington to the effect that he and Mr. Platt were concerned in the scheme to secure the election of Secretary Tracy to the United State Senate, to succeed Mr. Evarts. The log cabin in which Lincoln lived as a boy. and in which his father and mother were married, in Washington county. Ky., has been sold to Chicago parties. The building will be transferred to the grounds of the World’s Fair. Mrs. Ella T. Burt, of New York, robbed Mrs. Ada Richardson of the affections of her husband, George A, Burt, the owner of a Texas cattle metropolis has decided that the accused must pay plaintiff $30,000. The United States dynamite cruiser Vesuvius made two runs Thursday at Newport, R. L, over the measured mile course at full speed, with forced draft and all boilers working, and madb twenty knots an hour under these conditions. The postal authorities have seized the weekly edition of the Atlanta Constitution. which contained a prize distribution offer to its subscribers, to be settled by a Christmas drawing. About 100,000 papers got out before the seizure was made. There was a great disturbance in the New York Custom House on the 6th, owing to the friction caused by the McKinley bill's advent. A great many appeals to the Hoard of Appraisers will be made by importers whose cargoes were late getting •ntoport Minister Reid has explained tp the French Government by directions from Washington! that the reception of the Count of Paris in America has no political significance whatever, and that the United States has the friendliest feeling toward the French Republic.

Toe Pennsylvania railroad company has brought suit against the Secretary of State of Ohio to recover part of the $75,000 paid n under protest as tax on the reorganization recently effected. Other corporations have brought similar suits, the tota amounts sued for being $175,000. James M. Dougherty, the student who made himself notorious recently by persecuting tho actress Mary Anderson, by his attentions, and wbo was placed in the Flatbush .«xylum for the Insane, near New York, shot and killed Dr. Lloyd, the assistant physician of the asylum,Friday night. A dispetch from Lansing, Mich., says: The M’ehigan Legislature of LSS9 passed a local option liquor law, and under its provisions {fee count}* of Van Buren voted for prohiHtion in February, 1890. Subse quently John W. Feek applied to the Supreme Court for a mandamus to compel the

1 Township Board of Blobmingdale Tow*. ship to approve his bond as a saloon-keeper. The constitutionality of the act was Attacked all along- - tlfe line. The Suoreme ■Court filed an opinion denying the mandamus, and declaring t|fle Jaw valid and not in conflict with the Constitution. A sim ilarlaw «as passed by the Legislature of 1387, and after nearly one-half the counties in the State had voted for prohibition under tike provisions, it was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Governor Campbell has issued his proclamation calling a special session of the Ohio Legislature for October 14. He will recommend U.« abolition of the Board of Public Improvement of Cincinnati and the Board ofs Decennial Equalization, and the election df the new boards by the peopie. ‘ V , ** . W. H. Rhoadg, freight brakeman on the Ohio & Mississippi road, after his train sidetracked at Beamin, went forward to throw the switch for the passage of the express, and while waiting for the train he sat down beside the track and went to sleep. The train struck and killed him. He lived at Xenia, 111. L. L. Ray, clerk of the steamer City of Vicksburg, plying on the Lower Mississippi River, and Miss Viola Ray Kercheval, daughter of. Sam E. Kercheval. Special Examiner in the Department of Justice, were married at the home of the bride in Rockport, and among the presents was a silver tea set from President Harrison, and a diamond ring from Vice-Presi. dent Morton. Elder Small, of Edinburg, recently referred in a sermon to the demoralizing in fluenee of the saloons and gambling dens of that place,and afterward he was met by N. Mownee, saloonkeeper and chairman of the Town council Board, who threatened to whip him for “interfering with his business.” It is said of Mr. Mowney that, although president of the Town Board, he can neither read nor write, f Isaac Frazier, a negro, of Alabama, one hundred and six years old died, Tuesday. Some eight or ten years ago Isaac, who had worn glasses for many years and was then complaining of very defective vision, received what was called his second sight and was able to see almost as well as ever, although up to his death • he occasionally used glasses. After hav* ing passed his ninety fifth year the old man was married. The October estimates of the yield per acre of cereal crops for the entire country, as consolidated by the Department of Agriculture, are: Winter wheat, 10.8 bu; spring wheat. 11.5; the wheat crop, ff.~fp oats, 19.8; barley, 21; rye, 11.8. The condition of the corn crop is 70.6 instead of 70.10, as last month; buckwheat, 90.7, in stead of 90.5; potatoes,6l.7'; instead of 65.7; tobacco, 85.4, instead of 82.4. The effect of winter frosts upon wheat is shown by the low rate of yield to have been severe.

FOREIGN. UnioD coal miners at Bulli, N. S. W. forcibly drove the scabs from the mines. Lester & Co.’s weavers at Bradford, Eup land, are striking for kn advance of Id per piece. The employers offer J.jd advance. The Ireland correspondent of the New York Herald says that there will be no famine in Ireland, though general distress may be expected. The trials of the Home Rulers at Tipperary assumed a new phase on the 9th, when, in failing to secure justice, or to be allowed to present proper evidence, all of the complainants and their friends left the Court. The Corn porters in the employ of the Allan and the Wilson-Hill line of steamers at London, have again struck for “obliga| tion” and “stench” money. They allege that they are justified in their demands by the bad quality and dirty condition of the grain they are compelled to handle. The French Cabinet is considering a plan by which it is hoped to come to terms, with America on the tariff question. Substantially, the proposition is one of mutual concession or reciprocity. Unless some terms are arrived at an attempt will be made to virtually exclude all American products f-iom French-markets.