Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1879 — NEWSLETS [ARTICLE]

NEWSLETS

The health of Pope Leo is said to be on the decline. An alliance has been formed between Russia and Persia. Free mail delivery will be established in Terre Haute on and after October Ist. The skeleton of an enormous whale has been discovered on Island No. 66 in the Mississippi river. The steamer Bothnia sailed from Liverpool, a day or ago two for New York with 1400,000 of gold.

The Pennsylvania tramp law, providing imprisonment at hard labor, has J 52 ghneTriloof&iaHob. reportedfromEngland. A recent Hie at Titusville, Pa, fiawd by a lightning stroke, consumed 48,000 barrels of eoal oil.' Kentucky Is “boated/’ and the payment of the Interest oh the State’s debt him been suspended indefinitely. ’ Dispatches from Tampico, Mexico, state that the people there are “dying off like fifes,” W) t£a y*&ow fever. A famine prevails in one of the districts of Siberia, and the government fe distributing corn to the poor. «, (*wm*ha io London and Constantinople is not a pleasant subject of contemplation on this side of the big pond. There are twenty-four aspirants for the nomination for Governor of New York—fifteen Republicans and nine Democrats. Specie Is coining to this country from England at the rate of over a million dollars a week, most of it beinggold. Eight savings banks in San Francisco, Cal., had, on the 2d Inst, 60,046 depositors, and deposits amounting to $44,483,490 —a decrease iwitbta the past six months. .-» -■

The dairy and agricultural societies of Europe will be invited to send exhibits to the International Pair, to be held in New York city the second and third weeks of Deoember next. . Thb National Educational Association has called upon Congress to appropriate public lands to maintain a system of technical education for young women, as is done for young men. Three prominent lawyers of St. Petersburg have been arrested for being implicated in tne assault upon Lieutenant-General Drentelin. One of them, Bardofeky, has since became insane. The following live cattle and fresh meats were shipped to Europe from New York on Saturday: 1,457 live cattle; 666 livesheep; 375 dead sheep; 1,985 quarters of beef, and 100 tons of other fresh meat. A New York paper says: “Paris green has been killing cattle that fed on the pasturage where it has been thrown. Several farmers have likewise died from inhaling the poison while applying it to their fields.” The weekly report of the Howard Association at Memphis, up to patur* day evening, showed forty-six deaths in that city last week by yellow fever, and.a total number of deaths from that disease since July 9 of 139. By An executive order 8,259,200 acres of the northeastern bank of the Missouri river have been again thrown open to settlement. These aije the lands which were withdrawn in 1875, to prevent white settlers from pressing too closely upon the Sioux Indians. The French are proposing to open up Africa in right good earnest, The Government is about .to^extend the. railway system to Senegambfa; and' contemplate the laying of somd 1,200 miles of railway, which W ill enable it to throw into the hands of Frenchmen the bulk of the trade of Immense, populous regions.in Northwestern Africa, r Reports from Utah represent that the feeling of bitterness between the polygamous Mormons and the §‘Gentiles” is becoming more intense*, and there is danger of an open rupture in Balt Lake City. In the meantime the three Mormon leaders who wefe sent to prison a few days ago "by the pnited States Court of the Territory |br refusing, as trustees, to comply \|ith its order to render an account in th£ matter of the estate of the Bifgham Young, are still “in durance vilT” Ritualism appears to be spreading with remarkable activity in the Anglican church. A statement latenr published shows that of 2,000 cmirches from which returns have been received, in 514 instances caudles stand. unlighted upon the altar, and Ri 487 other instances they are lighted |“during the celebration of the Holy EUeharistV’ vestments, colored vestments and linen vestments, are returned a| being worn respectively in twenty-fou|- cases in 141 and 168; the eastward position is assumed in celebrating th| Holy Eucharist by 1,364 churches. Rev.- Newman Hall, io hjs late divorce case, in which he was successful, made some damaging admissions about himself and his condu(|t. On the cross-examination he admitted that, though sixty-three, he intended to marry again if successful in his divorce suit; that he had fixed on the “lady,” and had communicated his feelings to her; that he had corresponded with her in short-hand for some tim J at the rate of two or three letters a 8 week. The name of the lady is Miss |»Vyatt, and she was mentioned by MrL' Hall in most unpleasant connectioi with Rev. Newman Hall.

The Pope is reported as studying out a complete reform in ecclesiastical organization, and also in the manner of conducting Catholic forces Unpolitical struggles—how far Catholics may participate in them and the instances in which they may or may not participate in them. He remains Hecpre in the privacy of his apartments, faking great precautions during these 4 hours of study. His brother, Cardinal iPecti, is his faithfuj companion in thislwork, andhe is in constant communication with the leaders of the Conservative party in Itidy. ? The Pope rises at five o'clock in fbeAßorntaff, is at his writing at six o’clock, where hf remains for five hours.

Early next month will -be held at Paris a World's Convention- es the Hebrew Brotherhood. So far a| has been made public, its purpose is purely social and religious, with the exception of the political condition of tbd Roumanian Hebrews, upon which subject It is intended to prepare a 'comprehensive memorial. Ap exchange

of intelligence, a confederation of ed- 1 notional interests aad systems, and itefetanoe and improvement of thejßebrews ia Palestine, are the subjecta which will chiefly occupy the attention of this important conference. An intention to totally ignore the e©-> centricities of Messrs. Hilton and Corbin has been gasorted. Thb latest statement of the Bank of France Is the most remarkable ever issued. It makes the note issue of the institution $487,400,000; the coin on ha^l^ .This exhibits-a coin reserve of more than 96} par cent, as against the circulation of paper. Besides, the actual amount of money on hand hae never been reached by any other institution in the world, and rarely or never by the Bank of Fiance; It is almost thrice as much as the Bank of England reported as held by it at the same time. The coin reserve of the Bank of England is nearly all in gold, while that of the Bank of France is largely In silver. •* ,j .