Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1879 — NEWS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NOTES.

There are five State tickets in the field in lowa. More rain and iuundailons are reported in France. As attempt to levy a4ax on palm trees is creating a rumpus in Madras, India. • It is said that the loss to Russia from the cattle plague, this year, will reach $24,t»0,000. Many well-informed Southern men estimate the nungber of deaths, last year from yellow fever at 60,000. The Secretary of War ifoa dismissed six cadets from the West Point Military Academy for hazing otiier students. The State debt ordinance has passed the Louisiana Constitutional Convention by a vote of seventy-two to forty - ou§. It is estimated that six countries In Europe will he compelled to buy three hundred million bushels of wheat, this year. Napoleon Bonaprtk was hanged in Miiwissippi a few days ago, for the murder of Ben. Butler. Both were colored men. Fourth Duke of Geneva, the $16,000 short-hom bull, belonging to Abram Reuick, of Winchester, Ind., has just died. The general term of the Court of Common Pleas in New York h&s just decided that the city is reSpon Bible for accidents caused by ice. and snow left on the sidewalk.

Lord Derby, in a recent address to English tenant farmers, could suggest ■ to them no relief but emigration. He, therefore, advised them to find homes in America or Australia. The Government has decided upon the price it will pay this year for telegraphic dispatches. Something like 1 cent per word for each circuit of 500 miles, is the general rate. > During the first week in July, in England, rains, bail, wind and " f fogs prevailed, and -in Derbyshire, north, of London, hundreds of lambs were literally frozen to death. The receipts of the Post Office Department, as shown by the returns of the various Post Offices throughout the country, during • the quarter ending March 31, reached the unprecedented amount of $7,(140,000. Rochester, Ind., is laying her plans for the holding of a Grand Band Tournament to be held on the 25th of September. The “Sentinel” announces that Logans port has already signified her intention to take a part. Peru, which is noted all over the State for its villainous hotels, is to have a new one, to be erected on the site of the present Broadway house.- Hon. D. It Beane has in hand this scheme to give to-Peru a flrwt-clasa hotel- * i

Thb demand for the standard-silver dollars ffsr desolation continues at the rate of about $660,000 per month. At the prueant rate of coinage and sales, it Is estimated there will be about 31,000,000 of the standanl-aUrer dollars in the Treasury when the winter seaeion of Congress begins. Ik the ease of C has tine Cox, convicted of the murder of Mrs. Dr. Hull, of New York, and under sentence of iVnt K , the oounsel for the prisoner, on a petition for a* writ of error, has secured a stay of the sentence. The qamOm of a new trial will he argued In October.