Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1879 — NEWSLETS [ARTICLE]

NEWSLETS

Thk trotting horse, Hams, was sold, a day or two ago, to H. M. Whitehead, of .New York, for $36,000. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, of last week, over $5,500,000 of gold was shipped from England for this country. At the recent sia, which destroyed about 200 .houses, sixty lives were lost, including many children. . ' , In consequence of the bad harvest, the Italian Minister of the Interior has addressed a circular to Prefects to provide for the indigent. It is stated, positively, by friends of General Grant in Washington, that he has accepted the Presidency of the Leseepe Nicarauga Canal Company. Thk grain trade of the New York produce exchange, has amended the scales to make them conform to the cental system which will go into operation January Ist. The English mail steamer Durbat, recently made the trip between Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and Plymonth, England, about 6,000 miles, in .■eighteen days and sixteen hours actual steaming. This is said to be the most rapid long voyage ever made. The production of the Pennsylvania oil regions for July amounted to 1,714,517 barrels of forty-two gallons each, an increase of 33* per cent, fiver the corresponding month of 1878. So great is the production at the present time that thousands of barrels go to waste daily. • ■ Up to the Ist of August there had been adjusted and allowed by the pension bureau at Washington 24,779 claims for arrears of. pension, amounting in aggregate to $12,630,996. The number ailoaed and paid through the Indianapolis agency was 1,987, amounting to $047,614. Henky Tallent, a well known wine merchant of Chicago, lost his speech twelve years agp. Some months later it returned; six years ago it again suddenly left him, the original cause being fright. Again it returned, and six mouth* since he bad an accidental fall. He has not spoken until a day or two ago, when be felt a loosening sensation in the throat and found himself again able to articulate. .

0L1879 Cm"tV 882,817, against 56,103,063 gallons in 1878; gallons withdrawn from bond withpaid in 1879 numbered 57,896,779; in 1878, 99,573,689; gallons withdrawn from bond for export in 1879, against 6, 490,252 in 1878; gallons landed abroad 4n 1879 were 7,799,071; in 1878 the number waa 3,864,616. S The production of petroleum in Pennsylvania is now 60,000 barrels daily. Mr. Henry E. Wrigiey, author of a work on the geology of that State, reaches the conclusion that the total future production of Pennsylvania will not exceed 86,000,000 barrels; and that a continued production of anything like the quantity now raised will exhaust the entire possible area of productive territory In Pennsylvania in ess than six years.

The excitement among the oppressed farm tenants of Ireland and England against the extortionate rates demanded by the owners of the land continues, aud in some instances takes the form of mob violence. The aristocratic and unconscionable landlords will in time appreciate the impossibility of their squeezing more «n rentals out of their, tenants than the latter’s annual profits amount to. * The British farming system is destined to an early revolution. , .

a recent estimate gives to the Church of Rome about one-seventh of the population of the earth; to Protestantism, between a twelfth and a thirteenth, and to Christianity as a whole, a little less than three-tenths. Another authority places the whole number of Catholics in the world at 216,356,000, of which number Europe has 153,444,000, America 51,400,000, Asia 9,167,000, Africa 1,695,000, and Australia 650,000.

There is likely to be serious trouble between England and Spain. At last accounts England was moving to get a foothold in Morocco, with the design, as is believed, of annexing it to her dominions. ■ British troops had landed at Tangiers, and were fortifying. There is great excitement in Spain, which is exceedingly jealous of England’s power in the Mediterranean. Spain still fosters a fond hope of some day getting possession of Gibraltar, now held by England, and it is a knowledge of this fact, probably, that causes England to desire to gain a foothold on the African coast oppposite Gibraltar. An International Machine Market, on exhibition,, was recently held at Leipsic, Germany, and the United States Consul at that port recites, in' connection with it, some facts of great interest to Inventors and manufacturers. The fact that the demand for American and implements in Europe—a demand which .-these acknowledged saperiority would] warant—is not as large as might be anticipated. is principally due to the fact that owing to carelessness of new inventors in not taking out patents for their inventions, in thtf* several countries, imitations of all our principa machines are manufactured in Europe rudely,- but at less cost.