Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1879 — NEWSLETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWSLETS.

Serious trouble appears to be brewing between Germany and Russia. The grape erop lu France will fall - abort one-half as compared with the crop of last year. A New York brewer is under contract to ship from 500 to 1,000 barrels | month of beer to France. Two million bushels of wheat were received and orwarded at Indianapolis during the month of July. Gladstone recognizes the fact that the United States is a formidable competitor of England for the trade of the • world. A Fort Buford special says Sitting Bull was present and directed the light with Miles on the 17th, and one ofbje toothers was killed.

Oh the rsoeot oncarinn of the golta wilting of Emperor William, the German people contributed over 2,500,000 marks for charitable purposes. The late terrible storm in England was a crowning mfefortnne to the formers, who had already suffered so severely Cram unpropitious weather. The canal tolls in the State of New York, from the opening of navigation to August I'were $811,073—a loss of $06,409 compared with the previous year. The next State elections will be those of California, September 8, and Maine, September 8. In October, Ohio and lowa will hold their elections on the 14th. Another Montreal bank has suspended, with about $700,000 of liabilities, and the signs indicate that there are more banks there hastening to the same end. ..{'✓■ V: John Baker, under indictment for murder, in Guadeloupe county, Texas, professed conversion, and was addressing a camp meeting, when a rifle ball penetrated his brain and he fell dead. A friend of his victim had avenged his murder. It is said that Daviess county, Ky., has twenty-two distilleries and one lady temperance lecturer. That little, lone woman will have to spread herself like the Vermont hen to cover such a vast nest of iniquity, and hatch reform out of it.

an epidemic of the typhoid form, directly traced to the sufferers having eaten of the flesh of a diseased oow, hm» broken out in Kurzenberg, Canton Berne, Switzerland. There are some thirty or forty cases, of which several have already resulted fatally. Photographic counterfeit $5 notes of the Globe National Bank of Boston, letter C. and the Dedham National Bank, of Dedham, Mass., letter B. have made their appearance at San Francisco, and may be expected forthwith, at any point in the country. • A gang of Brazilian counterfeiters were captured in New York last week with their plates, paper presses* and a large amount of bad money in their possession, by agents of the Brazilian government, but It is doubtftil whether they can be held under existing international laws. When Lord Chelmsford,, on his march to Ulundi, began burning the kraals along the road, Cetywayo begged that two might be spared—in vain, however. These were one in which several of his ancestors were buried, and another in which there still lived at a very great age, a widow of Chaka, the founder of the ruling dynasty. J. A. Bentley, Commisiioner of Patents, states that up to the last of June there bad been 45,000 applications for arrears of pensions by those had before been on the rolls, and between 36,000 and 37,000 applications for original grants. Mr. Bentley thinks the pension laws are a denial of justice to honest claimants and an opportunity for dishonest men to pension themselves on the Government The present system is greatly overburdened and adding to the expenses of tbecoantry.

At the convention of the colored men of Indiana, held in Terre Haute last week, resolutions were adopted encouraging emigration of the colored people from the South, and committees were appointed for this State to aid and advise such emigrants to come to Indiana. Mr. Gladstone has sound opinions on many subjects, among which to journalism. In a recent letter to the proprietors of a liberal paper at Deptford, England, he says: 1 congratulate you and I congratulate your borough on tlie establishment of your Jtinrnsl. It haa the air and promise of Cowardice or affectation, be ashamed of the character of a party paper. Party papers, so far as I see, are, generally speaking, the most upright papers and the most respected By their opponents.

Pearl,-hunting has become a regular industry on the Little Miami river, Ohio, and it is getting exciting. Several pearls recently found in th® fisheries there have been sold in New York at high prices, and the work is carried on near Waynesville- with avidity. One resident there has a collection of 1,000. The region where the mussels Ure found abounds in prehistoric and antediluvian formation, and the shells are found in both deep and shallow water. The mussel beds extend for five miles north and south of Waynesville, in the Little Miami. The New York Son gives expression to a rapidly growing public sentiment when it says: “The sooner the youth of this country are compelled by the soope and tendency of our public school system to recognise that only one boy in a hundred can be a lawyer, doctor or clergyman, the better it will be for the American people. To that end it is essential that our methods of training shall cease to foster the silly and abortive preference for so-called gentlemanly pursuits—shall squarely face the fact that manual labor is the sphere in which the great majority of the human race are destined to move,' and that it is mechanical skill and genius which hav transformed the world, and which should command the highest prizes in the race of life.”

An announcement in the Chicago Journal says: "All comrades who, during the war of the rebellion, have been prisoners of war iu any rebel prison, can obtain important information by reporting their postnffloe addresses, company, regiment, date of capture and release to the Executive Officer of the Andersonville Survivors’ Association, room 7, 120 East Randolph street, Chicago, Ills.” The national temperance camp meeting, which is to be held at Bismarck Grove, near Lawrence, this month, promises to be the biggest thing ever held in the State. The tabernacle, which will accommodate 6,000 people, is nearly completed, and

will be a permanent building. Speaken will be present from all parts of the meat in the movement, and the crowd In attendance is expected to be Immense.