Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

|p it 5s true that the Democrats wan in Massachusetts because the people down there are ignorant o 1 the Australian ballot they might, with profit to themselves, at least, go less on Ibsen and more on night schools. The subsidence of the cholera scare is an excellent thing, but there should not be any cessations of precautions on that account. With proper care a revival next spring of the scare may bo averted, and even if the scare oomes we shall be in all the better shape to deal with it if sanitary laws have been complied with. The people of Vienna have been without gold so long that they do not know it when they see-it and prefer to take the paper money with which they are familiar. Their extreme caution recalls the experience of the man who wagered that he would stand all day on London Bridge offering genuine sovereigns in exchange for half crowns without any takers. He won the wager. The people were distrust ful of the gold pieces offered and refused to accept his advantageous offer. It was reported recently that. President-elect Cleveland “killed 53 snipe at one shot.” In reading this the average fish liar was prone to read it again and again, finally reaching the conclusion that his vocation was gone. Now comes the New York Sun, a most veracious, chronicler, and explains that “p’’ should be substituted for “h” in the foregoing report, and that then it would read “killed 53 suipe at one spot.” The explanation is received with thanksgiving and praise, for we had begun to think what liars these mortals have become. Arrests for offenses and vices are undoubtedly increasing but in proportion to our population crimes ana offenses are increasing. Thousands of arrests for breaks of the peace take place in our cities where the khme offense would hardly be noticed in the country. Thus, in Massachusetts, in 1850, 3,000 persons were arrested for drunkenness, and in 1885, 18,000 were arrested for the same offense. But in the twenty-five years between 1860 and 1885 the crimes against persons and property decreased 44 per cent, though the com mitments for vice had greatly in creased. Police strictness has in creased, but crime has steadily decreased. There were ribt six times as many drunken people in 1885 as in 1851), but it was six times as dan. gerous to the drunkep man to beseeD in the streets of our cities.

It is a common remark that one prhite man is equal to ten African natives in battle. This is probably true if the natives are armed only with their own weapons; but it is not true if they have guns and know how to use them, and it is still further from true when the natives, t)abomevana, for instance, are superior to most African peoples in intelligence and courage. Col. Dodds had only 4,000 soldiers, mostly well trained natives of Senegal, to oppose to 12. 000 Dahomeyaus. His force was not a man too many, and he waited for reenforcements before he undertook the last battles at Canna and Abomey His strong point was his artillery> without which he would have been only on even terms with the enemy. His total loss in killed aud wounded . was about ojisr twelfth of his entire force,-which was very large considering that he was tighting with a. ... semi-bar bard us foe. Capt. Luo ano has found a fresh ♦ reason for Connecting Central Africa .. with the cjivilized world. He says that last spring there was an abnormal rainfall La the Victoria Nyan a , region, ifhe great lake rose six feet ,above its ordinary level, and all the rivers were swollen high above their banks. If there had been telegraphic communication with the coast he could havja warned E<*ypt to look out f?r trouble. Her high Nile with iw fructifying silt comei usually Lorn the Abyssinian mountains "throu h the Atbapa tributary. The fall of the year is iW>t the time fpr the flood.aud Egypt was all unprepared for the’ap--4 proaehjag danger wh&n it burst up *on Jhe cquutry in September last. A hundred thousand men were put to .Stark upon the banks, but they could irjpot prerent the infliction of great , djynage. If the Victoria Nyanza re gion is going to treat lower Egypt to Surprises of this sort It is high fninituize its pbwer for iw obief by means of telegraphic warn* kf®* .uiii. ft

A babe was frozen to death In Its mother's arms at Chicago, Saturday night. At Chicago, Thursday, a streot cur was run down by a locomotive and several poisons killed. Chester A. Arthur has bean immortal ized in bronze, a statue nine feet two echos in height and weighing 1,809 pounds being now on exhibition in New York. John D. Rockafeller has given another million dollars to the Chicago University, as a Christmas present, making hjs total i donatlonslo that institution S3,QOO,GCO. A. Boyer!y want to bed at the Laclede Hotel, Ottumwa, la., and got up to turn on the electric light, but turned on the gas iustoad. lie was found dead iu the morning. ----- - Sam Walker, a Galveston (Tex.Vsaloonkeeper. was shot and Instantly killed by l*at Mallory, whose brother was killed on Christmas. 1890, by James Shearer, Walk" er's paitner. '“Rev. Joshua Thompson, an~aged MethV odist minister of Washington, D. 0., Has been mysteriously missing since December 1. He had about three hundred dollur 3 when iasd, seen. - - - -z-'r The White Hoiiae has been quarantined against- the public, the illness of litil Martona Jlarrison, the President's iiv. year old granddaughter, proving to be a genuine case of scarlet fover. The town of Slater, Mo., ninety mile cast of Kansas City, was entirely dost: eyed by fire, Monday. There was much s j tiering from cold. Loss, $125,090 About naif the loss is covered by insurance' John Jackson,a colored man who eloped with Jessie Hinkle, a pretty white waitress. was taken from the jail and tarred and feathered at West Liberty, 0., Tuesday night. The girl claims she has beer held against her will. ’J ho big show is said to be behind time, and although the World’s Fair may b< formerly opened May i,it will be in com piole.. Not an exhibit is yet in place, and it is now expected that things can not be placed in running order before June 1. The steel works of Carnegie's Home stead plant closed down for repairs or Monday. Secretary Lovejoy says tin shut down has no significance, as it ha; always been tho custom to partially sus pend operations at this season to make uceessaTwetiungesand repairs. Miles Noolcs, a Belgian tramp about years old, was found dead. Monday evening, in the woods near Edgar, lIIF A testament, and some small coins wero in his clothes, and, as thero wore no signs o! murder, it is presumed that his death win caused by exhaustion from the cold. i Richard Newhouse, an employe of the Rahim are & Ohio railroad ;at Keyser, W Va , committed suicide, Tuesday night by drinking carbolic acid in the presonct of bis sweetheart, Miss Annie High, whom ho was to marry on Christmas night, but who, at that time, refused to have anything to do with him.