Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1879 — NEWS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NOTES.

India is overrun by myriads of rats. Meat is being shipped from Chicago to Australia. Germany and Russia are said to be badly “at outs.” Washington is preparing for a visit from yellow-jack. A The yellow fever panic at Memphis and elsewhere has subsided. A society of colored Socialists has been organized in Tennessee. , It is said that California will have only a half crop of wheat this year. A death from yellow fever is officially reported from Water Valley, Miss. The protective tariff bill has finally been passed by the German Parliament. At Char Ire ton, Bouth Carolina, last Saturday, fifteen persons died of sun stroke.

Seventy-fiae thousand, barrels of flour per week, are made at Minneopolis, Minn. The government purchased 400,000 ounces of silver for the mint, a few days ago. The value of this year’s wheat crop, in this State, id estimated at fifty million dollars. Marriages are said to be decreasing

in the United States, while divorcee are increasing. Mifflin Ohio was damaged to the amount of $65,000 by the great storm of last Friday night. The Government officials at Washington are paying out silver dollars at the rate of $17,000 per day. j A large number of Southerners are enjoying the coolness, and safety from yellow jack, of Northern summer resorts. At a recent Government sale of whisky, in Louis some of the “rale old staff” was sold at from $22 to $26 per gallon. The First Baptist church in LaFayette has decided to hold its summer evening service in|the court house yard, at 6:30 o'clock. The King of Burmah has been drunk again, and twelve more persons were the victims of his brutal passions, by assassination. The first death from yellow fever at Memphis, last year, occurred about the first of August. This year it came nearly a month earlier. “One hundred in the shade,” was the temperature reported at St Louis theather day, being two degrees higher than the hottest day last year. A huge moccasin snake at large Cincinnati, is causing more excitement in that bibulous city than has been caused by all the boot’s snakes of its history.

Judge Ray died of yellow fever, at Memphis, on Sunday night. He was buried almost immediately afterward, under the auspices of the Masonic fraternity. The Globe-Democrat management has established a mission in St. Louis, for the purpose of supplying ice to the poor and suffering during the not weather. The Coroners jury decides that John F. Seymour came to his death by a bullet accidentally striking him, and which was fired by some person unknown. By a terrible expolsion of a powder magazine in the mining region at Bodie, Cal., a day or two since, eight persons were killed, and over forty .more or less seriously injured. Jamers Heaton, ex-Clerk and exProbate Judge, of New Hanover county, North Carolina, killed his colored p&ramoiir, Mary Radcliffe, on Saturday night, and being closely pursued by the police, shot himself through the brain and died in a few minutes. Jealousy was the inciting cause of the crime. Five murderers were hanged last Friday, all in the South —John Williams and Winter Payne, colored, at Warrentoii, Va.; a colored man named Davis, at Smithville, N. C.; Andrew Ivy, colored, at Greenville, Miss., and Antonio Garcia, a Mexican, at Corpus Christ!, Texas. A batch of over 700 Mormons arrived in New York, a day ortwo ago, en route for Sal) Lake. Of the number, 381 came from Scandinavia, 80 from Switzerland and Germany, and the others from England and Scotland. Most of the men r mers, and one of them is named Brigham Young. It is a part of the gossip of the day in London that the great object of the Prince Imperial of France in joining the English army in Zululand was to obtain the hand of the Princess Beatrice. The gossips say the Princess fainted upon hearing of his death. 1 While the royalists of England and the ex-royalists of France were performing the funeral rites of the dead French Prince at Chiselhurst, with civic and military ostentation, a grand and imposing review of the army of the Republic of France was In progress at Paris.

An amusing story is told of Dr. Lyman Beecher by a correspondent of the Hartford Times. When'he was preaching at Litchfield, Conn., he was passionately fond of fishing, and the preparatory lecture bell one Friday afternoon found him standing knee deep in a neighboring pond, trolling for pickerel, while his coat pockets were filled with fish. Not having time to change his clothes, he marched with his pole to the church, and entered the pulpit with his boots filled with water and the pickerel kicking in his pockets. Notwithstanding his condition he preached one of his most impressive* discourses. Jobehh B. Buzzell, who was hanged in New Hampshire, the other day, for the murder of Miss Busan J. Han-son,-November 2d, 1874. was twice tried for the same crime, being acquitted in May, 1875, and eonvictcd in June, 1878. Owing to the pecular character of the evidence in the second trial, and the infamous conduct of the detectives who were mainly instrumental in procuring his conviction, a great many people who have followed the details of the case with care, refuse to believe in his guilt, and strenuous efforts to secure a new trial, or a commutation of sentence, were mude, bua without avail. The great magnate of South Wales is Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, who owns 90,000 acres in the principality. He is M. P. for Denbighshire, as was his father from the age of twenty-four to his death, at an advanced age. His father, who repeatedly refused a peerage, was also Lord Lieutenant of two counties. Upwards of 7,000 persons attended his funeral. In 1858, Wynnstry, his ancestral home, with its contents, was destroyed. Only four pictures were saved out of a large collection. To a South Welshman “Sir Watkin” is the ue plus ultra of grandeur and wealth.