Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — BOYCOTT ON BRITAIN. [ARTICLE]

BOYCOTT ON BRITAIN.

’/• ’vj ■ - . ~ ■■■ HER GOODS TABOOED IN VENEZUELA. ’ i . ■ ~7 . ■„• l - ■ Little Republic Active in Other Mat-tcm-Wexler Will Not Follow the Pf Gen. £aijqjoa ip CJ*l»«-Beyv_ Oil Fields. —V Venezuelan News Budget, The press -and people of Venezuela ha ve declared commercial war against-Eng-land. Th<? newspapers publish daily notice in display type: “To the Prople; Whoever buys English products increases the power of Great Britain.”, For two months from Jan. 15 the press;will give “ daily - the Staines of Venezuelan and loreign merchants dealing in ahy manner with England on her colonies. There is a bright outlook for American trade. President, Crespo is releasing many political prisoners, and Congress is soon to meet. The Government has bought a light-draft stemu craft and armed it'witli light Hotchkiss guns for service on the Orinoco river. There is a rumor that the tierman Government has sent a sharp demand for the-ire modi are payment of the railroad debt. The enrolling of militia is so great that the time has I>em extended, to Jan. 81. The limit originally set was Jan. 20. The militia will drill with wooden guns. The town of San Sebastian, in the State of Miranda. has been depopm lated by yetkvw fever. Weyler in Cuba. The alleged program of Gen. Weyler, the new <l6vernor General of Cuba, has been cabled from Spain. He will not foStow Gen. Cvaiupbsr'jwTfvy r ; itolitß’ally he will be an opportunist;war will be answered with war; he (vttDbe inexorable towards spies and rebel sympathizers, but lenient towards those surrendering under arms; he will endeavor to establish an efficient blockade to prevent the landing of arms and auuminkioti from the United States; that he will not be sanguinary, but svill deal justly. He says that two months ego it would have been easy to suffocate the rebellion; now it Will not be bo easy on account of its spread. But he promises satisfactory results in the future. The same dispatch reports that 17,000 men will be sent from Spain, beginning in February, with two batteries'of mountain artillery. Bishop Haygood of Georgia Dead. Bishop Haygood, of the M. E, Church South, died at his home in Oxford, Ga., Bunday morning. Atticus Green Haygood was born at Watkinsville, Ga., on Nov. 19, 1839. He was graduated at Emory College, Ga., in 1859, and license ! to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the same year. From 1870 to 1875 he was editor of the Sunday school publications of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and in 1876 was elected president of Emory College, where he remained eight years. He was appointed general of the Jofiin F. Slater fund in 1883 for the education of colored youth in the Southern Stales and has since devoted himself to this work and efforts for the progress of the colored race. Dr. Hay good was the author of several religious Works. Millions in Oil in Tennessee. Intense excitement prevails newly discovered oil fields underlying the border counties of Kentucky and Tennessee. Speculators and boomers have followed in wvanus on the heels of the first reports of oil, but the agents of the Standard, as. well as other organizations und individual investors, preceded them and have already leased every acre of land for miles around. The belt will probably range from forty, to fifty feet in width, following closely the Cumberland plateau. Daily carloads of machinery for sinking of wells and putting up of plants are arriving at Rugby Road. Ten or twelve border counties are embraced in the oil district, which is the least settled ami wild-st part of Tennessee. Investments to date approximate $15,000,000. Baby in lulck, Cat Out of Luck. The 9-ycar-bld son of Mr. and Mrs. John Freeman.,near Delaware-, 0., discovered the family shotgun under the bed. He pointed it playfully at his baby brother. and saying. “I’ifi going to Shoot you,” pulled the trigger. The cap failed to explode. Turning the muzzle toward the eat, which was sitting on the hearth, he said: “I’ll try my luck on ’Ttildiy.’ ” This time the gun fired, and there nothing left of “Tabby.”