Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1879 — NEWSLETS [ARTICLE]

NEWSLETS

Incendiary fires continue in various parts of Russia, supposed to be the work of Nihilists. The city of Batoum is the last victim. The total fire losses of the Empire duriug July, are estimated at over 18,000,000. At Mississippi City, Miss., the other day, in a quarrel about payment for a drink of whisky, R. R. Pierson, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Harrison county, shot and killed John Q. Conker ton, of New Orleans. The Commissioners of England and Russia, appointed to ascertain and fix definitely the new boundary line between Russia and Turkey in Asia, have failed to agree. Serious consequences may grow out of this controversy, sooner or later. " . The Province of Para, in Brazil, is sorely afflicted. There has been a famine for two years, and, receiving no supplies, the people to the number of 14,000 have revolted, and all the excesses of anarclmand lawlessness are feared. j The Pope has j received an anonymous letter from warning him against attempts to poison him. The letter contains so many references

to the Pope's private life that it is believed it was posted in America merely * as a blind. An investigation is in progress. The opening of the national temperance camp-meeting at Bismarck, Kan., last Sunday, Is described as the most 1

mpir—iTfi popular demon stration ever •sen hi Kansas, Addresses were made by Governor St John. Francis Morphy, and others, and ten thousand people were present A Washington dispatch reports that advices from diplomatic representatives and special agents|in Europe continue to favor the opinion that the efforts of this government to bring about the joint reconsideration by America and leading European Powers of the bi-metallic standard question will prove successful. ThE cultivation of the ftg in the Western -Michigan fruit region has ' proved to be a success. Specimens have been received in Chicago from a St. Joe nursery, including a branch four and three-fourths inches in length, bearing seven ripe |gs. The crop of the tree from wfilch this branch was taken is estimated at two

bushels. 1 Locked up in the jail at 8£ Louis, it is stated, are ten six of whom destroyed the lives of women, and some of them have been there bo long that “the names of their Me tim and the history of the murders are forgotten by the public and the officers, and are only to be discovered by going through old files of newspapers.” Between mawkish sensibility, legal hindrances, and possibly a corrupt use of nioney, the ends of justice are defeated, and murderers go unpunished. The capital inyested in railways in 1878 was $3,500,000,000; the number of miles open, 17,333; the capital per mile, $201,505; the proportion of working expenses to gross receipts wass3 per cent; the proportion of net revenue to capital, 4.25 per cent. The most profitable year since 1869 was 1872, when the return upon; capital reached 4.74 per cent—one-half of one per cent on the entire capital more than last year. The returns for the current year are expected to be more adverse. A story, received at Montreal, through a gentleman who went there from New York, and is there considered authentic, states that A. T. Stewart’s body was paid for some rime ago, and placed in a vault under the wholesale rooms of the Stewart store in New York city. When the cathedral, now being built by Mrs. Stewart, is completed, the remains will find a resting place within its walls. This version is founded on a statement of a Stewart employe. ' Tpe Washington Bureau of Statistics makes an interesting showing in regard to the decrease in the exportation of leading articles from Great Britain and Ireland destined for the United States during the last seven months ending August 1,1879, as compared with the corresponding period or 1878. The decrease in the exports of cotton piece goods was over 7,000, 000 yards; pig Iron, nearly 18,000 tons; bar, bolt and rod iron, 1,000 tons; worsted stuffs, 4,000,000 yards; woolen cloths and carpets, each 146,000 yards. The August crop report of the Department of Agriculture at Washington shows that the general average of the condition of corn qn the Ist of August was 93, against 93 in July. The area planted in buckwheat shows a slight decrease since last year. The condition of the potato! crop is 93, against 88 in July. The summer of 1879 has not been favorable for the hay crop. The drouth of Jujne and July, which was so detrimental to other crops, also seriously shortened this. Timothy hay is above Jthe average in only eight States.