Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Tbe declaration of Explorer ley that he will never again visit America has caused no wild flurry in the stock markets or elicited anything like a united protest from the public. Stanley owes a great deal te this country, but liis presence would not lesson the obligation. humanity if they would jiftss by dancing girls who earn S4O or S3O a week and have all that money can get for them, and do a little more for the children whe are obliged to j work in factories for $2 or $3 a week and have barely the necessities of life. In an esteemed contemporary apk pears an article with these headlines: -"“Will Have to Rest—Unsatisfactory State of Health.” On the same page, however, appears another article about Gladstone, the headlines of which announce that “The Statesman Is as Vigorous as a Four-Year-Old." Perhaps lie rS s teo vigorous and has to rest in order to get rid of some of his vigor. WniLE he was the guest of the artists of Munich at their club house recently Prince Bismarck drink the ‘‘draught of welcome" from a huge pewter jug holding a gallon and a half of beer. He did not empty it> but took occasion ,tp say: ‘‘l can drain tEejug at one draught, as Burgomaster van Rothenburg did i and saved the city thereby." No one " cared to dispute the boast, for the fame of Bismark’s achievTnents in that line is widespread in the Fatherland and his prowess unquestioned. In regard to the proposition that* some means shall be taken to prevent Anarchists from becoming citizens of this country, we say that, under our present laws, a a alien Anarchist caauot become an American citizen without committing perjury; for every man. when ho takes out papers of naturalization, must lake an oath that he will cuppcrt the Y Government, Constitution, and laws of the United States'.” AS the fundamental principle of Anarchism is opposition |o all government and law, no Anarchist can take this oath without swearing falsely. In no event can an Anarchist take a legal oath anyhow, for the Anarchist believes neither in the God by whom he swears nor in the State to which he takes an oath.. Therefore no immigrant who admits that he is an Auarchist can lawfully become an American citizen. ~ =: ~’

Last week the Duke of Beaufort, nobleman of better Plantagenet blood than the Queen herself, stood up in a London church with the Earl of Orkney, also nobleman of very good blood, and gave way to him in marriage one Connie Gilchrist, variety hall dancer. By this performance Connie ceases to be a familiar character of the green rooms and takes rank in the peerage. The peerage must be getting a little mixed in composition. This duchess of Orkney by the. sweet and commendable rules of British society may walk seventeen paces in front of the count/ ess of Warwick and thirty-five paces in front of -the Countess Spencer. The countess would not think of recognizing Connie'but for her sudden exaltation to rank. Now she is their superior andnil because a voungearh took a fancy to attending variety performances: The world has since the days of Jeames Yellowplush. The exalted spirit—thank fortune —escaped seeing such hill breeding as this bin a hcarl. •*' ■ • o In Persia aud other Mohammedan countries in which the cholera Las been prevalent the worshippers of of Allah have striven to aveit its ravages by prayer, by holy tore ,1 monies, and by impressive services in the mosques. In Russia the. authorities of the Greek Church are now trying to stop the progress of the cholera by religious processions and by commanding the faithful to prostrate themselves many times , daily before the sacred images. Russia, however, is in advance o' Persia. The Russian CTovernnicntr while encouraging the use of religious preventives, is at the same time encouraging the use of disinfectants. In the Ilnited States pious people pray for safety When threatened with danger, but our health give their whole time to thd application of those sanitary laws which, under Heaven’s bjessihgs, arc useful for the protection of the community. . ■-C i

Twenty four houses were burned at.<Cseoeva. 111., on the 19th. Loss, $175,000. President Harrison/who Ir at Loon Lake, N. Y., was fifty-nine years old, Saturday. - ■ Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland are ranch annoyed by idle gossip concerning their every day life. Thomas Casteel. ->f Lorain. Kas.. Is trying to get a pension because his substitute was killed in thenar. The one topic of interest in England just now is the war in this country between capital and labor, r Congressman John G. Warrick. who succeeded McKlnlev In tfie House of Represen tativt;.dicd in Washington on the i4th. ’ • » At Griffin. Ga.f five children Were locked in the house by their parents. 'The building caught fire and the children were burned Jo death. A loconiotive-i>6ile7.exploded near Memphis oh the Iron 'Mountain railway, Sunday, with terrific force. The engineer and "fireman were killed. ■ Chief Harris, of thl?Cherokee nation.has forwarded to President Harrison a formal j>rote*t against the cattlctneu now gruziug Cherokee Strip. Rev. Father Zigrang. of Worthington, la., whose word is law there. Jasl Sunday directed that all saloons bo closed. The tpwn will bo dry Sundays liereaftcr. Tim once-famous trotter. Jay Eve See. has been converted to the pacing gait.and his owner, J. of Racine. \Vis - promises a sensation with him before the end of the Season. ■ / The seventeen-year-old daughter of Richard Risly, of Port Jefferson, L. 1., is afflicted in a peculiar way, being unable to close her eyes, which seem ready to drop from their sockets. dolih A. Hostwick, of the Standard Oil Company, a hiillionaire,!duiing the excite raei.t attending a fire in his handsome summer stables at Warnaroucck, N, V., dropped dead on the 17th. President Harrison Saturday issued a proclamation retaliating upon Canada for discriminating against American vessels passing through the Welland canal, by fixing an almost prohibitory tariff on freight on Canadian vessels passing through St. Mary’s canal. /The funeral of one of the victims of the Coal Creek. Tcnn., war was held at Knoxwille, Saturday, and a relief fund has been started for tho surviving families, somo of whom arc destitute. The bodies of fifteen miners, killed in the fight, have been re. covered, and more are believed to ho on the mountains. Only four of the soldiers and voiuuteers were killed/ At Wise Court House, Tenw., a most revolting outrage has been perpetrated. Re - ccutlv Ira Mull cuff, a desperate moonshiner. with his whole family was murdered, near Pound Gap. The bodies were buried .near Wise. Friday a relative, going to the graves, found that some one had dug a hole near them, inserted a dynamite cartridge, and blew the bodies out of the ground. They were found scattered in all directions. There is no clew to the criminals. - % Supervising Architect Effhrooke says thatriiio new eight-hour law wiH cost the government $3,000,000 more a year on its building contracts alone, and that it maymake a serious difference in the character of the public buildings to be erected in Washington, Omaha. St. Paul, Milwankeo and San Francisco. He saidt: “I estimate tho passage of the eight-hour law atabout 13 per cent. Tho government spends abotit $25,000,003 a year on public blindings. Thatwil Ini ake an additional expenditure of $8,000,000 a year necessary te carry out the same work. That is the difference which the new law will make in ray office aloue.” The number killed in the Tennessee warfare was greater than at first reported. Fifteen dead bodies of miners have already been recovered. Bud? Lindsey, a leader and an outlaw, was captured, and Sunday tho vigilantes proposed to lynch him. lie pleaded so piteously, offering to turn traitor and point out every man who was identified in tbe troubles as a leader. Oc this condition his life was spared. Over 400 of the miners have been captured, and will be charged with murder. Scouting parties of soldiers arc hourly bringing in other prisoners. Specialists of the Department of Agri_ culture are much concerned over the continued spread of the disease among the poach trees known as the “yellows.” Prof. Edwin F. Smith reportS\that the disease, which was originally confined to a smali district on the Atlantic cdhst, has now spread so> as to include tlie Delaware and Chesapeake region, and the peninsula o Maryland. It is abundantly established that it is contagious. It has extended,.as far south as southern Virginia, and probably as far west as Arkansas and northeastern Texas. Peach-growers are adviced to stamp out the discise by the detruction of trees in which it appears ini mediately on its first manifestation, and aro warned against the Importation of trees from.the infected rigious.