Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1879 — MEWS NOTES [ARTICLE]

MEWS NOTES

It is reported that 50,000 l.umlud weight of rails have been recently bought in Germany for the United States. Canadian financial authorities are examiuii.gour national banking system with a view to its adoption in the Dominion. * s ; - Jt It is stated that it cost more seven years ago to send a bushel of wheat to New York than it now costs to send it to Europe. , The Treasury Department has arranged with express companies to transport all shipments of fractional silver to parties ordering it atjjovern* ment contract rates. The number killed dj the recent railway disaster a» Jackson Michigan, was fifteen, and at last accounts two

of the thirty-one who were serioudy injured were not expected lo live.*** 1 A great fire 'recently occurred in the French quarters of Shanghai, destroying 991 houses. No lives loot. Tara year's peanuOrop in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, Is estimated at 1,825,000 bushels, which Is about 450,000 in excess of last year’s I crop. The persons who robbed the National Bank «of Laconia, N. H., last April, have been discovered and Indicted. The amounT of their plunder was $125,000. _Bomh of 'the shrewd me chants in Liverpool have succeeded in creating a corner in American cheese, whereby tbe price has been advanced from 60 to 100 percent ' /• s- 4 The Post itffice Department has reconsidered its detenuluationto exclude letters of lottery companies from the mails until the matter can be farther looked into, and all laws bearing on the subject examined.

The cash receipts of the Cincinnat Exposition, which closed night, were SIOO,OOO. The total number of visitors who passed through the turnstiles was 422,879. It was the most successful exposition ever held in the West. A movement is on foot in Ireland to prepare an appeal, to be addressed through lay and clerical committees to their kinsmen in America, asking for substantial aid to enable them to tide over the inevitable calamities of the coming winter. N - • > A train was stopped at Glendale, Missouri, a small station niueteen miles east of Kansas City, the other night, and tlie express safe was robbed of S3t),OQQ in currency. It is believed that the robbers were led by the notorious James brothers.

Three desjHjradoes, supposed to be a jmrt of the gang engaged in the recent train-robbery in Missouri, have been arrested, and numerous persons are on a hot trail after the rest of them. Heavy rewards are offered for Iheir ca iture. The total number of new cases of yellow fever reported at Memphis last week seveuty-four, of whom forty were white persons. Total to date: Cases, 1,421; deaths. 425. During the previous week, sixty-eight new eases and twenty deaths were reported. The Coroner’s, jury investigating the disaster at the Adrian, Mich., fair grounds, place the responsibility upon the architect and builders of the grand stand, and upon the Superintendent of the fair, all of whom have been arrested on a charge of manslaughter. Fifteen persons lost their lives by the breaking down of this defetiveiy constructed building.

The two sons of Stephen A. Douglas, Stephen A, Jr., and Robert M., have recently came into possession of aiioht $200,000 by tiie decision in their favor of a suit in the court of claims for the recovery of the proceeds from a quantity of cotton belonging to their hrtber and confiscated in Washington county, Mississippi, -by the Federal troops during the war.

A decision has just beeni made by tlie general term, of New York, upon the right of a juror to have a preconceived opinion. The general term decides that if a juror has such control over his mind as to be able, to reach judgment oil the evidence in the same manner as though he had no -opinion before-hand, the exisience of that opinion need not disqualify him. The boom of prosperity, is unprecedented in the West and North. Michigan is selling more lumber than ever before. Minneapolis is sending off 3,000 barrels of flour |>er day, ami the city has 50,000 inhabitants. Duluth, the “Zenith city of the uncalled seas,” is ,receiving 120 car loads of wheat every twenty-four hours, and the Northern Pacific is pushing on. At a variety show in Baltimore the other night, in the last act of the play of Roving Jack, in which a discharge of musketry takes place, a young man named John Nelson, of Queen Anne’s county, Md., a medical student of the University of Maryland, who was seated in the audience, wus fatally shot from the stage, one musket being loadiil with hall instead of blank cartridge. Nelson wasr shot through the head.

England’s revenue for the past year shows a .continued decline over that of the two previous years. The income tax is the only item which shows an advance, but this is solely attributable to the rate having been raised. Even had a full revenue been realized, there would have been u deficit of 53,000.000, according to the budget of expenditures. The aggregate deficit of the last three years amounts to $32,750,000. . A few more wars with savages will prepare the Euglish taxpayers to raise a cry of re’ pudiation.

DußiNd'the year ending June 1, 1875), actual settlers purchased 8,050,119 acres of public laud.. The amount of land thus bought ami entered upon has steadily and astonishingly increased since 1875, during which year 3,500,000 acies were sold to bona-fide settlers.' These figures must be construed as showing a very extensive abandonment of other pursuits for agriculture. It is not at all improbable that this fact has had much to do with the present reVival of business and of manufacturing industries. It has, of course, been an important factor in the enormous grain production «*f the country during the current year.