Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1879 — NEWSLETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWSLETS.

Mississippi hasn’t a National Bank within her borders. The cholera is raging at some of the Japanese sea-porta. lowa was the champion hog raising State of the Union, last year. A street in Paris France has been named after President Lincoln. There were, thirty-four deaths from yellow fever in Memphis, last week. It te said that Mr. Lorillard lost $25,000 on Parole, in the Good wood cup contest. ' ’ Seventy-nine Icelanders, wild intend to settle in Minnesota, arrived in New York, a day or two ago. It is said that over 40,000 pounds

contract on hand in assisting the President to choose a successor to Minister Welsh. Joseph Medill, principal proprietor and editor of the Chicago Tribune, to the owner of the fiuneus pacing horse, “Sleepy Tom.” It to intimated that within a short time Government employes will be requests I to accept 10 per cent of their salaries in silver. It to estimated that the postal receipts of the United States for the present year win reach $32,000,000, as against $18,344,511 in 188». The Colorado potato bug has established its base of operations in Ireland, and creates as much alarm there as the yellow fever does in this country. It to considered a fact of some significance that a Catholic church building was dedicated a few days ago, at Plymouth, Mass., the home of the Pilgrim fathers. A family named Ouellette, residing near Ottawa, Canada, was poisoned a few days ago by eating pork from an animal which had been feeding on potato tops sprinkled with Paris green. The internal revenue receipts of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1879, were $2,820,740 greater than in 1878, despite the heavy reduction of the tax on tobacco. The receipts for beer alone, were over $10,000,000. Thb railroads of the United States show gross earnings, during the past year, of $490,000,000, against $478,000,000 during the previous twelve months. The westerh railroads are prominent in these statistics for their prosperity

Prof. Chandler, of the New York Board of Health, says that scarlet-le-ver caused msre deaths In New York State, last year, than yellow fever did in the South, and yet failed to excite public apprehension, or to make people ordinarily careful to prevent infection. The Executive Committee of the National Board of Health has issued a circular on disinfection. It advises thorough scrubbing and moist cleansing to be followed by fumes of burning sulphur at the rate of eighteen ounces per 1,000 cubic feet of space to be disinfected. Nearly 300 engineers, on a strike at Bradford, Eng.,are preparing to emigrate to the United States and Canada, in accordance with invitations received from various branches of the Amalgamated Engineers’ Societies in the principal engineering centers. A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, intimates that the Cabinet, at the next session of the Cortes, intends to introduce bills for the gradual extinction of slavery in Cuba and the payment of compensation to proprietors of slaves, the freedmen to give some years of labor for their liberty. The Czar has Just issued orders for the construction of six new State prisons, to accommodate three thousand six hundred convicts, and has decreed thirty million of roubles for 'their building and fitting up. Two other huge State prisons are being erected, one in Siberia and one in trans-Cau-casia, to accommodate some ten thousand offenders.

The London Keo nomist has an article entitled, “Commercial Depression, ” in which it shows that, the exports of produce from the United Kingdom have fallen in value £69,0*0,000 since 1872, the figures for that year being £195,000,000, and for 1868, £126,000,000. The largest decrease is £26,000,000 in the exports to the United States; the nextiargest is £12,500,000 in the exports to Germany; the next largest, £6,700,000 to Holland, the next largest£s,ooo,ooo to Egypt (including the transit to India previously to 1874.) The decrease in the exports to China amounts-to £2,900,000, and to France, £2,400,000.