Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — VICTORY FOR DEFENDER. [ARTICLE]

VICTORY FOR DEFENDER.

American Boat Captures the First of the Cup Contests. The American yacht Defender defeated the Valkyrie in the first of the cup contests, Saturday, making the run of fifteen miles to windward and back in the excellent time of 4 hours 59 minutes 55 seconds, beating the Britisher by 8 minutes 49 seconds. The victory of the Defender is the subject of almost general jubilation, everyone being pleased with it except tho subjects of her Majesty resident here for the time being and some of the chappies who turn their trousers up at the bottom “because its sloppy weather in London, don’tcher know." A great many are inclined to think that the Britisher “isn’t in it” in th hunt after the cup, but others more cautious and conservative regard her with a great deal of respect. They remember that when the race was started there was only about ft six-knot breeze blowing, and that she went through the water like a ghost under its mild impetus. They also remember that it is said that her best point of sailing is running free before the wind with her spinnaker set. She had no such wind Saturday, and seme are inclined to think if she had the result might have been different. The great mass of yachtsmen, however, think that the Defender is her superior in any wind that will insure a thirty-mile courso being covered within six hours, the time limit. The new government of Peru has set about the work of undoing some of the acts of its predecessors from which it took the reins of government in April last. In the Chamber of Deputies a motion was made to declare null and void all the acts of the Congress of 1894, to expunge from the, army lists the nsmes of Generals Caceres and Borgono and to anpul the acts of their government. The Indications are that Atlanta is to be precipitated into another heated prohibition contest, and that, too, during th* progress of the expositor y