Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1879 — NEWSLETS [ARTICLE]

NEWSLETS

There are now; over 340 tons of gold in the United States Treasury. Richard Schell, the New York politician and financier, is dead. The Arkansas river was recently reported to be nearly dry, in the Indian Territory. The Chicago postofflee did more business last year than any other in the country, except New York. The champagne district of France, loses thirty thousand francs this year, by the failure of the vintage. At Cincinnati, last Sunday, a fire in the distillery pens of Gaff & Co , roasted nearly 900 head of live cattle. The Postofflee Department is fast becoming self-sustaining. It came $1,600,000 nearer paying its expenses this year than last. Dr. Glenn, of California, is probably the largest farmer in the world. His wheat crop this year is 65,000 tons, valued at $2,290,000. Oreoon will ask Congress for the modest little sum of $20,000,000, this winter, with which to 'improve the mouth of the Columbia river.

The island of Jamiaca has recentlybeen visited by f extensive storms and floods, in which nearly one hundred persons are reported to have perished. Mr. E. Johnson, a Randolph county farmer, accidentally swallowed his false teeth, the- other day, and at last accounts it was feared he would die. The Pope is said to be preparing an Encyclical letter upon the subject of education and the general ecclesiastical system of the church, throughout the world. An acre of ground in Montana Territory produced 102 bushels of wheat this season. This is officially certified to by the Secretary of the Territorial Agricultural Society. Walter Hastings, ’recently deceased at Boston, left the bulk of his fortune to Harvard College after the death of his wife. The amount is estimated at $500,000. Col. K. G. Shkyock, of Rochester, proposes to lecture on the life and services of Morton in every- tow-nship of Fulton county, for the benefit of the Morton monument fund. According to a recent decision o the Supreme pobrt, a lottery at Vincennes, operating under a charter granted by the Territorial government, is be£ond the reach of the constitution and iws of the State.

Because he could not bear to see the sufferings of the Nihilist prisoners, which he dared not alleviate, Major Lissovitsch; the commander of the Citadel of Charkoflj committed suicide within a -month after assuming the post. TriE London Court of Common Council recently refused, by a majority ofmrre than three to pne, to open the Guildhall Library'on Sunday, which has the effect of intensifying the discussion on the propriety of Sunday openings of such institutions. In some portions of Canada, complaints are rife regaling a new- development of the potato- disease. Farmer*!holding large stocks are compelled to examine them frequently to prevent the infection of solid tubers by rotten ones. The announcement is again made in the cable dispatches that the Vatican has taken under consideration, with a view to acting upon them, the recommendation ofOardmal McCloskey as to the reorganization and increase of the number of bishoprics in the United States.

A Washington special says that The official figures at the Treasury Department at Washington show that during the month of September the excess of exports over imports of merchandise amounted to (20,6&),087, and for the twelve months ending September 30, $256,848,2177. This is exclusive of gold and silver coin and bullion, the imports of which for September exceeded the exports by $27,130,687, and for the year $27,164,821. The President ot the California State -Vitieultural society has reported 60,000 acres covered with vineyards, numbering 45,000,000 vines, and representing, with the lgnd, a capital of $80,000,000. Another complete report is to be made ten years hence. . A building in Kansas City, Mo., in which 107 mostly children, were employed in cracker making, fell, a few dhy» ago, causing the loss of several lives. The victims were either crushed by the falling walls and timbers, or roasted to death by the ruins taking fire. _ The threat of England to resort to warlike measures against Turkey, it.

the Government of the latter refuses to make certain promised Government reforms,is pne of the latest exciting topics in Europecn politics; but Turkey having given assurances of her intention

to inaugurate the reform* in question, ] there Will probably be nothing serious. At the same time Ranh, naturally jfftVMßj of England, is excited. The church also shares in the prosperity attending the business boom, as i» manifest from the fact that the General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has appropriated six hundred thousand dollars for general missionary work for the year, being an increase of fifty thousand dollars over the last preceding appropriation. The Army of the Tennessee was Grant’s original army, which he kept until Vicksburg, and then banded it to Logan, thence to Howard, and finally to Logan again. The Army of the Cumberland was Buell’s army, which went te Rosecrans and then to Thomas. Then there was the Army of the Mississippi, which Schofield commanded.

Cablegrams announce that at last the ex-Empress Cariotta, widow of the ill-fated Maximilllan, is recovering her reason. Now, for the first time since the tragedy which left her a maniac, she has lucid intervals, is recovering her memory, and converses intelligibly. The prospect of the complete restoration of her mental faculties is regarded as most favorable. Surprising as it may seem, the agricultural products oi one year amount to nearly as much in value as the products of all our mines since 1849. The estimated yield of the mines during twenty-seven years, 1849-75, was sl,617,000,000. In 1877 the total value of the agricultural production of the leading staples was $1,594,000,000. All honor to the American farmer. The condition of affairs lu Ireland is deplorable indeed. Added to the terrors of famine and general destitution, the tenants who, though both ignorant aud poor, are still willing to pay their rents, are threatened with punishment by bands of agrarians who ride in the night and keep up a sort of Ku-Klux organization. The immediate result of this will be an outbreak, and the poor tenants will be the chief sufferers.

, There is said to be a melancholy prospect for the poor in France, as well as in England and Ireland, the coming winter. The price of bread, already high, was recently raised. It will be recollected there is a tariff on tha introduction of foreign grain into France. The potato crop is also represented as exceptionally bad, while the vintage will be largely deficient, both in quality and quantity, In many vineyards what few damaged grapes there are will not be worth the expense of gathering. From all accounts all the nations of Western, and Southern Europe are more or less afflicted with failure of crops, poor trade, and want of employment for the artizan and laboring "classes J President Dlaz, of Mexico, has caused circulars to be issued, directed to all Government employes throughout the Republic, ordering them to abstain from all participation in the coming political campaign tor the Presidency, under penalty of removal, and has recommended to members of the Cabinet the enforcement of this order in each department Some newspapers violently censure this measure as a restriction of the rights of voters, The Chinese continue to pour into the Hawaiian Islands in such numbers tnat 'the question of how to stop them is growing to be of serious importance. They constitute already over a fifth of the entire population, and are almost all males. They are useful on sugar plantations, but they do fftt assimilate with the native population, whose extinction they threaten at an early day, and whom they will hardly replace satisfactorily as loyal subjects and citizens. The Government is trying to get the needed labor supplies from the South Sea Islands, but the owners of the Hawaiian sugar estates, wfio care only for their own business interests, are perfectly willing to take the cheaper Chinese. Over 2,000 Chinamen arrived at Honolulu in the second half of last year, which, considering the scanty population of the islands, is pretty heavy immigration. Henry Powell was thrown lrom his horse one night, recently, near Rockport, his head striking a tree, killing him instantly.