Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — NEWS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NOTES.

The Chicago Exposition will close on the IStli inst, A "WAR of life or death” between Russia and England, “sooner or later,” is predicted by a leading St. Petersburg paper. '1 he excess of exports front the United States over the imports for the year ending August 31,1879, amounted to $289,709,341. The Pennsylvania railroad authori tits have notified then freight crews . that their wages will be increased from and after October Ist. ' The announcement is made that the track in Madison Square Garden, New York, on which the recent pedestrian match look place,. Is short fifty-nine feet four inches on (lie mile. . Most of the troops have been forwarded from the Mexican border to the Ute country and the border is left entirely .unprotected,-and a repetition is feared of the raiding outrages of two years ago. The late international walking mutch netted $39,000 for the walkers, which was divided as follows: Rowell, $19,500; Merritt, $7,312 50; Hazael,s4,192.50; Hart, $2,730; Guyon, $1,950; "Weston, $1,365; Ennis, $1,072.50; ; Krohne, SSS7.SO. ' A sieves mine in Utah was sold at! Chicago the other day for $3,090,000, j

q*iii m nji' rfjp v .jr o' .-<•* J , t*jgj the par value of Its stock being $lO,000,000. The mine was purchased three yean ago by its late owners Cat, $25,000. It# net earnings are reported to be over 4,000 per day. The Bev. George Long, a Missouri Baptist preacher, and Frank Goddy met on a public road, near Springfield, with loaded teams, and as neither would give way to let the other pass, they proceeded to fight it out, during which Long disemboweled his anantagonist. « Five of the Directors who assisted in ruining the Glaeglow (Scotland) bank have been released from prison, tl»eir terms having expired. They were hissed by crowds outside the jail, and they should be /eiy thankful that they were met by nothing more hurtful than hisses. __

The elections just held in Germany indicate an overwhelming victory for the Liberals and a corresponding defeat for Bismarck. In spite of laws which virtually prohibit free discussion of public affaire, the German people have proclaimed themselves in ftivor of progress and against the encroachments of kingly power. Some of the lecture associations of England which paid Rev. Mr.. TBlmage, of New York, from S2OO to SSOO a lecture last Summer, lost money by the speculation, and are not yet done abusing him as an “ illiberal Yankee,” he refusing, in any ease, to reduce the amount agreed upon, aud demanding his pay In advance. The prospect is strengthening that we are to have a bloody war with the Ute Indians of Colorado. United .Slates troops, to te» number of 2,000 or 3,000, moving jorthcrly from Texas and New M«iticc, and southerly from the Union Pacific Railway, are now en route to eugage the hostile savages. Friends of Giant in Philadelphia contemplate * ext?. ding to him an nnique reception, in the shape of the re-assembling in that city of the Centennials Congress of 1876, and some outsiders, and present to him a state paper of July 4th, 1576, which bore the signatures of the administration. It was oii exhibition at the Exposition. Tmi Government Ims begun a war upon (he lottery dealers, which threatens to . seriously interfere with their profits. The Postoffice Department has decided, ami will enforce the decision, that hereafter letters directed to lottery companies or their agents shall not be mailed; also, forbidding the sending of money to lottery companies by postal order or registered letter. The . Chinese authorities have expressed u willingness to have the article in the treaty between China and tile United Status, which citizens of either country the right to reside and trade iu the oth#f abrogated. If this is done this country will have t* e privilege of excluding Chinese and the Chinese will lie at liberty to keep Americans out. of their country. The Chinese government thinks tbeir people cun stand it if ours cau. Such an arragement would greatly please the British pooplc wbocould then monopolize the Chinese trade. The liiigntiofi over tqe immense estate of Brigham Young, the late Chief of the Mormons at Salt Lake. Utah, has been settled by a compromise. The suit was brought against the exdcutors of the estate and the Mor mon Church for the recovery ofsi,ooo,000,alleged to have been fraudulently paid by the executors to the church. The seven mutinous heirs, plaintiffs in the suit,received $56,000 and their lawyers SIB,OOO, and a decree Was entered confirming the acts of the executors in turning over to the church, out ofßrlghim’s property, about $1,000,000 worth of property. The mothers of minor heirs are appointed guardians and trustees, and their proportion of the property set apart for them.