Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1879 — NEWSLETS [ARTICLE]

NEWSLETS

An Indian war is threatened in New Nexico. New Yokk wholesale merchants are busy all day and far into the night. The beet sugar crop is estimated at 1,610,000 tons, against 1,500,000 tons last year. 'The Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, was sold, the other clay, to a company of New York capitalists for $200,000. The Great Industrial Exposition of New Sopth Wales was opened a day or two ago at Sydney, with immense enthusiasm. _ - .. Rumors of trouble between China and Japan continue. It is reported that both countries are making warlike preparations. * The Ohio Archery Association will have a tournamenti at Cincinnati on the 2d and 3d of October. Fifty ladies will contest for the championship. During last week $9,000,000 in gold was received in this country from Europe, aud oue shipment of $5,000,000 was notified, as dispatched on Saturday. It is thought that the $25,000,000 appropriation made by Congress for the payment of arrears of pensions will be

entirely exhausted by the Ist of November. The sum of $130,000, the next installment in payment of the Mexican debt to the United States, has been forwarded from the City of Mexieo to Washington. The Philadelphia Commercial Exchange has adopted the cental system as a basis foe the purchase and sale of flour, grain and seeds, to take effect January 1, 1880.. The Oneida community in New York have a farm of 700 acres under cultivation. Last year they cleared $70,000 from this farm. -More than SIOO per acre net profit in one year. When Cetywayo was captured he was utterly prostrated. He was taken

to Ulundi. Luring the march eleven of his follow®* tried to escape and six were successful, the other five were shot. Formerly the Turkish Government allowed only 300 Jews to dwell in Jerusalem. Within the last ten yean restrictions have been removed, and now over 13,000 inhabit their ancient capital. It is announced, by authority of Secretary Sherman, that the Treasury Department will soon make arrrangements to exchange gold and silver coin for United States notes at all Ihe SubTreasuries in different parts of the country.

The Bavarian government has forbidden the importation of Austrian cattle into Bavaria, by way of Switzerland, on account of the prevalence of the foot and mouth disease among cattle in the latter country. A meeting on the land question was held at Tipperary, Ireland, the other day, at which 18,000 persons were present. Resolutions were passed calling for the abatement of rents and the establishment of the present property system. Part of the rock on which stands 4jhe castle of Lanpen. at Berne, Switzerland, measuring 18,500 cubic feet, fell recently on the road below, which is completely blocked up, only a few minutes before a passing dilligence full of people. The castle itself remains intact.

The war veterans of Indiana and Illinois, will hold a grand re-union at Camp Harrison, Terre Haute, Oct. 2d, 3d aud 4th, under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Indiana. The programme provides for the grandest meeting of the kind over held in the State. The Society of the Army of the Cumberland meets in Washington November 20, to unveil tbemouument of General Thomas. A committee of arrangements has been appointed, consisting of General Garfield, Congressman Young, of Ohio, and General McCook, of Sherman’s staff. Stringent rules are published in Russia to l»e observed by the universities where lectures have just begun. The students are forbidden to belong to societies of any kind, hold meetings, complain of or orally disapprove the existing regulations, give private lessons or have their lectures printed.

A correspondent at London, Eng., writes: ‘-There is no prospect of the bi-metallic congress which America proposed should be held in London, and to which the British government provisionally, assented, meeting this year. America’s agents have failed so far to obtain the assent of some of the leading nations.” The Russian journals continue their crusade against Germany, and assert, almost unanimously, although of course in different language, that Germany betrayed Russiaduring the negotiations which closed the war by the Berlin conference, arid her policy transferred, at the initiative of England, the fruits of the Russian victoi ies to Austria.

The state Board of Health, of Wisconsin. has done a good thing for the children of that State, by printing for gratuitous distribution an eight-page pamphlet, entitled, “How Infant Mortality Maj- Be I .lessened.” Two of its suggestions are that the babies should have plenty of fresh out-door air, and sleep in “the largest, sunniest, best ventilated room in the nouse.” The F'ree Thinkers, who have just brought their convention at Chatauqua, New York, to a close, unanimously indorse the Liberal League platform of Cincinnati. The principal speakers were George Jacobs, Colonel Ingersoll, Eizur Wright, A. B. Bradford, Judge McCormick, Drs. A. B. Speeneyy of Mississippi, aud Colby, of St. Louis; Professor Tabey and Professor Bell.

Among the exj>orts from New’ York ~fbr the week ending September 16th, were 2,000,000 bushels of wheat, more than 1,000,000 bushels of corn, nearly 6,000,000 pounds of cut meats, 1,500,000 pounds of butter over 3,000,000 pounds of clieese, more than 2,000,000 pounds of lard, and over 6,500,000 gallons of petroleum. Of the $7,000,000 in exports for the week, $749,953 were directed to London, $1,774,24c! to Liverpool, $630,978 to Antwerp, $444,045 to Glasgow’, and about $250,u00 each to Breraeu, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Havre.

The Vjestnik (newspaper) publishes a letter from Keiv, Russia, describing a terrible fire which occurred in that city on the 31 inst. While a furious storm was raging the fire broke out in seven different places. The offices of the fire brigade and the chief police station, a gunpowder magazine and four petroleum stores were simultaneously set on fire. The whole city was wrapped in thick, black clouds of smoke, and every now and then people were terrified by a series of detonations and loud explosions. The entire garrison and firemen of the suburbs aud many inhabitants labored in earnest to extinguish the fire, but despite their efforts it continued until the morning of the second day after it broke out. The loss was enormous. Many lives were lost, including those of several children. •