Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1879 — NEWS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NOTES.

There are 45,000 suits pending in the United States Courts of the Union. The prospects are favorable for an immense sugar crop in the Island of Jamaica, but the condition of the coffee crop is not so promising. * The recent revolution in Panama cost exactly $6,000; nobody was killed, and everybody is forgiven. In the first week in June, snow to the depth of two inchesj fell in the northern counties of England. The President has withdrawn the nomination of Secretary McCreary as the successor of Judge Dillon. It is said that in one locality in Spain the masons wet their mortar with wfne, because it is not so scarce as water. ' Kentucky, California, Maine, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts. Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersy, .New \ork, Pennsylvania, Virginia and W iseonsin, hold State elections this summer and fall. k V A terrible tragedy Is reported from Holyoke, Massachusetts, where a man named Kemmler, because he did not like his wife, deliberately shot his three little girls dead, and claims that he did right in doing so. A sharp paragraphist says: “England has succeeded in beating Parole by loading him down, and she might, perhaps, beat Haulan if she forced him to row with Senator David Davis in the shell as coxswain.” Madison Square Garden, in New York city, is to be lighted by eleCtricty at a cost of one-third to one-fourth of tne present cost of gas, and with three to four times greater illuminating power than by gaslight Weston’s walk of 'SO miles brings him $2,000 of the gate money. $2,500 won from Lord Astley And the champion belt The “blarsted” Britishers are great blowers about athletic sports, but exceedingly penurious (contributors of gate money. The National Congress of Prance, which has met at Versailles since tne establishment of the Republic, has voted to make Paris again the seat of national government, anil henceforth the Congress will hold its sessions In the latter city. I The motion for a new trial ip the case of Guetig, the Indijanapdlis I murderer, has been overruled, and Tie is sentenced to be hanged on Friday, September 19th, the first anniversary of the brutal assination, of his victim, Mary McGlew.

Mrs. Holland, a yoi ng bride from Belgium, on a wedding topr round the world, went out with h?r husband for a stroll among the little islands at the head of Niagara, a day or two ago, and falling into the swift current was swept over the falls. Hon. Henry W. Blair, tlie iww United States Senate* from N«*nr Hampshire, is 45 years «f age. M* tm a lawyer, was Lieu ten ant 4 iiksid mt ffmr Fifteenth New Haiupdhtre nwgii At during the war, has Issju a both Houses of the IA-gialalure, aad has served two terms as a member of Congress. - *] ; On Thanksgiving Day in 18G7, Weeton arrived in Chicago from Portland, Maine, having accomplished a walk of 1,200 miles in twenty-six days. This feat of footing created a great sensation. At this time tfhe sensation of two continents is the walk by the same person of 550 miles in six days.

The murderer of Mm. Hull, of New York City, has been fopnd and arrested. He Is a negro named Chrastone Cox, who has been employed as a waiter in the neighborhood of tjie Hull residence. He pawned some jewelry belonging to the deceased, in Boston, which was sent to New' York and led to his arrest. , The business meij of Indianapolis have organized an association for the purpose of securing favorable railroad rates in order to induce the people far and wide to visit apd trade in that city. One of the first of the association was the Appointment of a committee to make as|kngements for the celebration of fourth of July, on a grand scale. The revolutionary movement in Mexico is headed by Gen. Negrette, an old hand at the business, and there is some probability that the Diaz administration will be overthrown. The revolutionists appear to be the Bourbons of Mexico, their chief cause of complaint being the encouragement recently given to foreign capital and enterprise. The projector of civil engineering feats, Ferdinand del*^ps, states that the first sod of the Panama Canid will be turned January 1, 1880, and that with 40,000 navvies, including seme Chinese, and 15,000 Brazilian negroes, the work can be completed in eight years. j .

By the death of the Prince Imperial of France, Prince Victor, the son of Prince Napoleon Jerome (nicknamed “Plon-Plon,”) becomes the heir-ap-parent to the throne, in the event of the restoration of the Empire. He is a lad of 17 years. His mother »»the Princess Clothilde, daughter Of the late Victor Emmauel, of Italy. The old chimney of the house in which Washington was bora, on the estate of “Wakefield!” in Westmoreland county, Virginia, is still standing —all that is left to mark the spot, the tablet erected by Parke Curtus In 1816 having erumbled to pieces. It»is sug-

geatod that an enduring monument be placed upon the spot. The Governments of England and France have formally demanded the abdication of the Khedive of Egypt. The bankrupt condition of his Government is the occasion, and both Germany and Austria threaten to join England and France in their demand for his abdication, if he does not at onoe pay the floating indebtness. The Sultan of Turkey, who lifcp a nominal protectorate over Egypt, is yet to be heard from. . \

At the burial of the late Bar on Lionel de Rothschild, his kinsmen who were present each threw three spadefuls of earth into the grave, the eldest son leading in the ceremony. While the body was being lowered into the grave they united in repeating the words: “May he come to his appointed place in peace,” and as they were leaving they each plucked a lew blades of grass, saying: “And they shall blossom forth from the ruins like the dust of the earth.” Serious apprehensions have been aroused by warlike symptoms among the Northern Cheyennes and other tribes in the vicinity of Fort Reno, Indian Territory. Ten companies of troops have just arrived at the fort, to be in readiness to, deal vigorously with the threatening redskins. The number of the hostiles who are ready for the war-path is between 2,000 and 3,000. Their cause of anger is the fact that the government has refused them permission to leave their reservation for a hunting raid northward. | On last Sunday, during a Bohemian dance and picnic In a grove near Chicago, a fight occurred between a member of an armed company of sharpshooters and a visitor. The latter was badly used up and ejected from the grounds. A mob outside took up his quarrel and assailed the picnicers with sticks and stones. The sharp-shooters formed, and charged upon the crowd with fixed bayonets, subsequently firing several rounds, by which several persons were wounded, some of them, perhaps, fatally. The .sharp-shooters were arrested by the police force and taken to prison.