Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1879 — NEWS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NOTES.

Iceland is losing its people by em gratton. Eugenie will enter a convent for a few months. ' America sends 100,000 doors to England yearly. West Point is very popular as a resort this season. Bob Ingersoll has sold bis 125,000 Peoria property. Another dairy fair is soon to be held in New York city. English Quakers have protested against the Zulu war. At a London fete 10,000 roses were used in the decorat ions. Penmlylvania has two lady Superintendents of Schools. SINCE 1871, 45.000 Brazilian slaves have been emancipated. There are 7,357,154 Sunday School scholars in the United States. The electric light has been introduced in the Nevada silver mines. Colonies are being organized in Massachusetts, to go.to Tennessee. The Hanlon prize cup is solid silver, and over three feet high. The Minnesota wheat crop promises a yield of 50,000.000 bushels. ' ? ’ I ! - The first State election of this year will betbat of Kentucky, on the4th of August. A deaf mute cow has been discovered by a Russian veterinary surgeon. In England they female blacksmiths who work for forty pence per week. In France it is nqt considered proper to display young ifiarriageable girls at weddings. The Egyptian Steamer Samanoot went down at sea with twenty-flve persons on board. . The happiest feature of this age is the progress of the mass of the people in intelligence. . ' Washington Territory last year exported 160,000 tor s of coal and 21,000,000 feet of lumber.

An anti-landlord agitation in the west of Ireland has lately been causing some apprehensions. , A harmless duel was fought between two young negroes, Friday, in Baltimore county, Md. The tribe of Seminole Indians have dwindled away to about 400 persons, located in South a lorida. Dr. Moffitt says mission work in South Africa has been thrown back fifty years by the Zalu war. A Macon, Ga., murderer was acquitted because the act was committed under the influence of liquer. Six ocean freight steamers sailed from New York last year that have never been heard of since they put out to sea. J i A trappest monk named Gustave Derohan has been sentenced to Jflve years’ imprisonment at St. Louis for forgery. Rev. Talmadoe is addressing audiences of from 70,000 to 100,000 persons per week, in England. There is a “Dick” Thompson “lxx)m”in HoosierdOm that will probably carry the “ancfent marriner” into the Governor’s chair. It seems to l>e settled that General Grant will not retufri to this country until the Presidential nominations for 1880 have been made. Francis Murphy is said to have lost in-San Francisco 9y stock gambling, all the money be had made by his temperance revival work. Tea culture is being revived in the Carolinas and Georgia with improved processes, and there is a probability that the industry will pay. Tuesday and Wednesday, July 15th and 16th, 1879, will stand upon the weather record of Indiana and Illinois as the hottest days of many seasons. Hon. W. H. Calkins, of the Tenth Indiana district, id. reported to be lying dangerously ill at Des Moines, lowa. When taken ill be was en route for Colorado.

The cod-fishery along the New Brunswick shore from Shippegan to Caraquet is unexceptionably good this year. Boats are averaging 2,000 to 2,500, and some even taking as high as 4,000 fish per trip. In Independence Square, Philadelphia. under the protection and mostly at the expense of the Sofas of Temperance, ten to twelve thousand people daily stop to take a drink at the ice fountains. It requires orfe or two tons of ice to keep it running cool. The jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi river are completed according to the plans and specifications. The jetty channel is Overl thirty feet deep, and a navigable channel of twentysix feet, measured at the lowest stage of the river, is found at the head of the passes. The English pajMsrs state that the Marquis of Lome, governor General of Canada, and bis wife, the Princess Louise, are about to make a tour in the United States, on which the Marquis will write a book, to be illustrated by his wife. Let the of the land prepare to be happy or miserable according to their luck on this occasion. The New Orleans papers say it was thought the exodus fever would not attack the negroes in the sugar parishes of Lousiana, but this has proved a

mistake. The negroes in those parishes j are busy prenartng to leave, and one boaton Sunday last took 300 northward. The sugar planters are becoming alarmed, and are using all their arte persuasive to induce the negroes to remain. f , ' ; One of the most remarkable cases of suicide on record is that of the deliberate self-destruction of two respectabfe maiden ladies named Trowbridge, sisters, at Hyde Park, south Chicago, by means of strangulation, a third and younger sister being present in the house during the horrible tragedy. Dread of poverty and starvation is the alleged cause of the rash act There can be no reasonable doubt that the ladies (the surviving one included.) had become insane by brooding over property and'family troubles, which, it appears, were in great part of an imaginary character.

According to the monthly oil statement of the Oil City Derrick, there were 327 wells completed in the month of June, increasing the daily production 8.205 barrels, an average of 25f -barrels per well. There are 744 wells commenced and in various stages of advancement, showing a slight decline In operations. Only ten unproductive wells we e drilled. ,« The total cost of the projected Isthmus of Darien Canal, according to M. de Lessep’s estimates, will be $50,000,600. The projector thinks that the work will be much easier than was that on the Suez Canal. In this connection, Captain Eads, of the New Orleans jetty scheme, promulgates an opinion That he could railroad that woujd transport ships across the Isthmus at a much cheaper rate than could be dSne by the canal, after counting in the cost of construction. ' Here* is a cooling item for this warm weather from Colorado: The editors of that State met in convention at Manitou on the 9th instant, and on the 10th ascended Pike’s Peak. While on the summit of the mountain a storm of snow, rain and hail broke fiercely upon the party, and they hurried to descend, which is almost half a day’s job, and before reaching Manitou they were drenched to the skin and covered with ice. They really had a narrow escape from freezing.