Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1879 — NEWSLETS [ARTICLE]

NEWSLETS

The “pegging away” process, took $10,352,906 from the national debt during the mouth of October. The Postofflce Department has postal cars on fifty-nine railways, which travel 50,000 miles a day, and carry 400,000,000 pieces of mail matter annually. Italian statesmen of various shades of opinion advocate an understanding between the Latin and Sclavonic races as a counterpoise to the Austro-Ger-man alliance. The murdering, thieving Apache TnriiA.no who have recently been killing and robbing white settlers in New Mexico, now send word to the Government authorities that they are starving and must have help. . The Grand Jury, in session at Salt Lake City, has indicted three prominent Mormons on thie charge of polygamy. Among the indicted is John W. Young, a son of the late Brigham. The Grand Jury has taken a recess of three weeks in order to enable it to obtain the necessary evidence upon which to indict others. The City Council of Urbana, Ohio, offers S3OO reward for the arrest of the missing City Clerk, L. C. Hovey, who hftj> been issuing fraudulent bonds of that municipality. An order has been issued by the Postmaster General to the Postmasters at New York, Louisville and New Orleans, forbidding the renting of boxes in their offices to the lottery agents and companies.

The congregation of the Methodist Church at Mountain ville, N. Y., are debating the question whether they can accept a gift of $250 made by one of their number who recently drew a prize in a lottery. The British in Cabul have set about securing the loot in which that city was knoa nto be rich. They have already unearthed a vast amount of treasure, cjbiefly in gold coin. It is stated, in the cablegrams, that they were led to its discovery by disclosures made by the Ameer."' During the last fiscal year, the exports from this country exceed the imports some two hundred and fifty million dollars. That is, the country has sold that much more than it bought iu that time, and is therefore that much wealthier. This is a state of prosperity never before witnessed in this country. During the year ending September 30, 1879, the following number of railroad accidents aud es persons killed and wounded therein in the United States were recorded: Number of accidents, 843; persons killed, iß2;person*^ injured, 752. In the same period ending September 30, 1878: Number of accidents, 779; persons killed, 200; persons injured, 689. The San Francisco Bulletin publishes facts showing that great activity exists among merchants and capitalists in China. The Chinese merenants will soon place a line of steamers between China and the Sandwich Islands, and others between the islands and San Francisco. The corporation is said to be very wealthy, and its manager,Tong Ken Bing, is a shrewd, grasping, capable business man.

The Government is building a eerie* of towers between Lake Michigan aud the Gulf of Mexico, for the purpose of making a survey of the Mississippi river and its tributaries, with the •bject of determining the true water course from the lakes to the gulf. One hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars were (appropriated by the last Congress for the purpose. One of these towers has recently been erected at Linn Grove (Ind. ?) The revenue receipts from tobacco, for the quarter ending September 30, show a decrease of $1,422,276, as compared with the same period of last year. This is a result of Democratic legislation; and this vast sum goes to swell the profits of the manufacturer, as the retail dealer and consumer pay . the same as before the reduction of the tobacco tax. A London paper says the Irish in America have sent back not less than $75,000,000 to their friends at home since 1847. There is an exodus in operation from Canada to the States. The hard times in Canada is the exciting cause of the stampede. The private fortune of the late Senator Chandler is estimated at $3,000,000. He had recently stated that his income was $125,000 per year. The first day of December, a cablegram states, has been fixed for the celebration at Madrid of the royal marriage between King Alphonso and the Arch Duchess of Austria.

The emigration of English miners to South Wales has been suddenly terminated by the discovery that the movement was the result of utterly false representations, by which large-num-bers of workmen have been cruelly duped. Those who went found them<selves without employment, and are returning destitute, to add to the stress of hard times. Ouray, the head Chief of the Ute Indians, promises that the murderous band of his tribe who committed the recent White River massacres shall be

He has ordered the hostllesto come to his headquarters in ten days, and declares that If they refuse to obey he will • assist the whites in » war of extermination against the guilty savagee. The late Dr. Ayer, of patent medicine fiune, has been described is one of the “pillere” of American society. He was at any rate of sovereign rank, for all Americans are sovereigns. His daughter is therefore entitled to a royal husband, and she is about to avail herself of her right. A Paris paper announces her approaching marriage to Prince Amadeo de Bourbon, who is an oflhhoot ot a younger branch of the reigning house of Spain.

Startling revelations are being made in Hong Kong of a system of human slavery in Chinese purveyors for brothels. Young girls are captured by desperadoes in the country, brought there, sold, kept until sufficiently mature, and then resold. One little Japanese girl was found, showing that the trade even extended to Japan. A rigid examination is progressing, and extraordinary disclosures are already made. Among the many practical and noble benevolent institutions in London is a college for working women, which was established some five years ago, and has since been maintained by private citizens. It has a nightly attendance of 200 knowledge-craving, but hard working girls and wqmen. Voluntary teachers impart instructions upon any desired’’subject which the managers of the institution approve of. Connected with the college is a library, a penny savings-bank, a reading-room, a concert hall and a coffee-room. In 1869 the United States imported stationery valued at $527,475, and exported similar goods to the value of $3 J 77. In 1879 (the fiscal year ending June 30, is meant,) our imports of stationery were $126,862, and our exports during the same period were $1,293,312. This is quite a difference in ten years. The imports of paper now consist almost exclusively of fashionable and fancy writing papers and wall paper, in which the French manufacturers seem to excel. A new law of Michigan, taxing the business of selling liquors, has just gone into effect. Instead of granting license to sell, any one can engage in the business subject to the payment of the tax assessed by law. Intoxicating or mixed liquors by retail require the seller to pay a tax of S2OO per year, malt and fermented liquors $65 per year. On the wholesale business in spirituous liquors the tax is S4OO per

year, and the same for,manufacturing. This is an experiment to find whether taxation is not a better regulator of the traffic than the old license system. Professor Collier, of the BAricultural Department at Washington, has been for some time experimenting witk cornstalks and sorghum to see if they can be used to advantage in the production of sugar. Professor Collier’s investigation'leads him to believe that they can, and that nearly enough sugar can be made American farmers to supply the home demsnd. If he is right this opens an additional field of revenue to the farmers, as by the process suggested, the stalks after passing the mill are still as good for fodder as before. It will be a great thing for this country if it can make ail of its sugar. Twenty-two nationalities, on or about the Ist of October, owned 49,109 sea-going vessels, having in the aggregate a capacity of 14,125,994 tons. Of these vessels, on the Ist of September, Great Britain owned 15,857, with a tonage of 5,994,124, and the United States 5,914, representing 2,041,645 tons. These figures show the relative maritime importance of the two nations, and the United States is ahead of all the others, excepting Great Britain. Every day developes indication that troubles of the most serious character is impending between England and Ireland. Some of the causes of this trouble are set forth in the proceedings of a recent private meeting of the ten-ant-farmers of Ireland, in Dublin, at which thirty-two counties were represented. Mr. Parnell acted as President. Two objects were discussed—the redue tion of rack-rent, and better facilities to occupiers of land to become the owners of it. The sense of the meeting was that the time had gone by when landlords should be asked to abate rents; the abatement of rents would avail little without security of tenure, and the people who till the soil have a right to live on it. Violent measures were deplored, but it was determined to organize to defend the formers against writs of ejection. A letter from Major O’Gorman was read, which declared “before Almighty God that the Irish have more cause for violence than the French had in 1789.” The meeting invited Mr. Parnell to go to America and win sympathy for their cause.