Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

, _ ~ _ H| t l Afi ft'Atn Uirt canaiuai.es liom Dlow ' i '** *“” **U4Vt» Ui tuIUU-i I* the French would follow up <a»efr recent victory in Dahomey by redeeming that fool plague on the jSJQSarii'fkmtincnt, the world would inp'iflorss her action, even though the brave army of Amtesns had to be '' *'" " - . T % twasiAS who married abroad bought her husband to New York, .and, after living happily with him ... Sot tea year*, deserted him on the jfmmdHhat he was “ too thin. ” Hk recently retaliated by having her arrested tor being too thick with anK - '• \. ..-- * Montaka will advertise hermiujjjfmt Resources at the world’s fair with a statue eight feet high made of silver and containing *50,000 worth of the precious white metal. The blind goddess will be mounted upon a pedestal of gold valued at a quarter of a million. Justice is sometimes rosily, in this country, but M. Renan, the representative of the highest thought and purest literature of France, is dead. Ho was not an aggressive agnostic, like In pffwrsoil, nor a sneering one, like Voltaire He was a hopeful, cheerful one. Hts Influence was for good in whatever rut or ou whatever high - way It was exercised, and it is unde nimble that in his public career, which began with bis famous “Life of ~ Jesus, ” he exercised bis mind and its utterances as a stay upon the tendency of French youth to drift away into absolute unbelief and r ank infidelity, if not downright atheism. Ax Old Missouri deed of forty acres of land Is a good illustration of lega ! verbiage. It conveys “all and singular—appurtenances, appendages triages, cowhouses, corncobs, dairies dovecotes, easements, emoluments JEgtfrnida, fixUirea.gagdena,. .home. stalls improvements, immunities, limekilns, meadows, marshes, mines parks, pleasure grounds, pigeon-houses, pigstyes, quarries, remainders, reversions, rents, rights, ways, water-courses, | windmills; together with every other necessary right, immunity, privilege and advantage of whatsoever name, nature* or description." Akii so Froode believes that Ten nyson and Carlyle are tho only two of the many liters tors who have figMats pattv Ulvj jtalw, whose names and works will live on *0 eminent an authority as” James Anthony Froude, but we cannot ro * frain from observing that if Carlyle, like Tennyson, were„still alive, and tbe opinion of his friend Froude ware brought to his notice, no doubt the old sarcasm, which had respected •either men nor stations, would flame into life and he would in his dry way, ask: “Why mention Ten syson at all?'* And why? let us ask It is not often that a culprit is able to turn the vials of his sarcasm rn effectively upon the judge who sentences him as did the Tennesson offender the.,otfaer day. The judge is ffiGcbTgiven £5 preaching a sermon to the prisoner after sentencing him. In this particular instance a term of ten years at penal servitude was imLetu** the unfortunate culprit in oai-r threw up his hands anu . ! t -,l S “Look hero, jedge; accord in to my ;wbUon of criminal -Jaw you can’t

ffiOOfijjHllflWD,- - - ——i— —— ---• jgr&bwiia Mitchell, the pugilist, was given Omahais suffering from a flood of bogus silver do!tars bearing the data oflSbl. have the Saw Orleaninaist mark. ’iwH.iiafrf that the Eefttfncton Typewriter Com pen t has offered fiO.OOQ for the - - g* g vtsvtvu W* avt vstv Mm coin of too World's Fair half-dollar del phta for medical treatment. lie la aufferingfrom insomnia and . vertigo, the fetter complaint occasioning blot the men l CO&C6ID. iV.-.-J'—-■ - M. Saint Saens. the distinguished French com poser, Las accepted Mr. Th*o_ dore Thomas’ Invitation to act on the jury tor musical compositions of the Chicago exhibition. —-d-—-- -:• -JLK™ i pulp mill-at Orong, Me., waseomy wrecked by an explosion Tuesday aaorning. Ten persons are reported burled A# the ruins. One dead body has been taken out. I l*The Georgia cotton factory, near Athens, was totally destroyed by tire Monday night. Loas *150,010, on which there is a 'small Insurance. Threo hundred employes :h» thrown out of work*^.-!^. Son* unknown vililan attempted to blow np a boarding honse at Homestead, in which ware a number of non-union workmen, Thursday night. It was a terrific shock, but the force of tho dynamite |ptent downward, and no ono was seriously

i After Several failure* tho efforts of tiio type founders to form a combination havo %t last proved successful. The now trust will be known as the Type Founders' "Oer the laws of tho Stole of New Jersey with a capital stock of *9,000,000. At the Amateur Athletic Club, Memphis, Saturday night. Jack Davis, a professional prize fighter from Texas, and Dick Barker, an iron molder, fought eight •founds, the latter being kuockod out by a -blow on hts chin. Sunday ho died, and Davis is in Jill pending an investigation. Tba New York Herald’s special correspondenttot Valparaiso cables that paper as follows: Prof. Pickering, of the Har. vard branch observatory, at Arequtpa. says that he has discovered forty smalt lakes In Mars. He also confirms l’rof' Holden's observations on the limits and measured altitudes of the planet. The question of making Camp Lowe a permanent federal quarantine station has boon practically settled by the announcement that, on the recommendation of Sur-geon-General Wyman, permanent buildings are to be erected of sufficient itreagth and suitable capacity to contain a complete steam disinfecting plant.

The conference committee of the Bnsl - ness Men’s Cleveland and Stevenson dubs of New York has adopted & resolution extending to the President Its sympathy in his anxiety and affliction, and earnestly hoping that Ho who; rules all things may in His judgment restore Mrs. Harrison to health. b.The certificate of Incorporation of tho John Good Cordage and Machinery Company at Trenton, N. J., was filed with the Secretary of the State Tuesday. Tho' company will have a capital of f 7,000,000 Good recently withdrew from the Cordage Trust, which paid him *350,000 annually to keep bis works shut down. Tho Trades and Labor Assembly of St. Louis has adopted a resolution calling upon labor organizations throughout the country “to take such action as will tend to prevent the calling out of any armed bodies, State militia or otherwise, to be nsed to force workingmen to comply with the demands of brutal and tyrannical capital.'' v The TVightm&n Electric Motor Com* pany at Scranton, Pa., of watch J. B McKee, President Harrison’s son-in-law, is president, has assigned for the benefit of its creditors. Robert E. Duns ton* of Hartford, Conn.. Is toe manager of too company. Inability to colli c: moneys dus Is the cause. Tho company has an expensive plant and may be reorganized. The expedition sent out by the United States government this year to obtain tbe exact geographical position of Mount Sh Ellas has finished Us work. Tho mountain lies at the beginning of the north and south boundaries of Alaska. Tho mountain is not located in the exact comer of Alaska, but is just one mile from It, The height is given at 17,331 feet.

A freight train on toe Missouri Pacific met with a bad accident about sixty miles west of Council Grovo Kan., Thursday caused by the train going through a burning bridge. The engineer, 0. T. Peffer. a son of U, S. Senator I’efftJ*, and Clint Howard, fireman, were both instantly killed. Charles Hart, another fireman, was also badly Injured. After the accident occurred too wreck took fire, burning up thirteen cars of grain. Both Peffer and Howard leavo families. The sixty-second semi-annual conference of toe Mormon church, at Salt Lake City,closed Saturday with fifteen thousand In attendance. Tho reports from Utah, Idaho, Wyoming. Colorado. Arizona, and Mexico, showed a total membership of over 2(0.000. Joseph S. Smith, whose recent return from a seven years’ sojourn ** undor ground. ” marked th« origin of national party lines, delivered an address. It was decided to dedicate too new temple on April 6,1893. This building was commenced forty years ago and has cost *3,500,000, A remarkable rase of the preservation es the human body after death was discovered Saturday while an undertaker was removing some bodies luriod sixty years ago on a farm to relnter them in a Louisville cemetery. Ono of the coffins dug up was very small and was metallic. Tbe lid was removed, and an unusual sight was presented to those who stood byIn the basket lay a beautiful child of about one yoar. It appears as though It had been mused to sleep, except for a •light hollowness about the eyes. It was not petrified, and the checks bore the “flesh"color, the hair was natural end the .white shroud was In a perfect state of preservation. Pinned on the right breast was a half blown yellow rose, looking almost as fresh as If it had just tea plucked from tbe bush. The child's name was Archie Cooke, and many re!a ‘ires of to. family sUU five in Louisville.