Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1879 — NEWSLETS [ARTICLE]

NEWSLETS

The cotton crop of China is less than half the usual average. English subjects owning slaves in Brazil, have been ordered to free them. The wife of Senator David Davis, died at Stockbridge, Mass., last Monday. An alliance between Russia and Turkey is the subject of gossip in European circles. The Irish Land League is rapidly extending, and branches have already been organized in nearly every county in The insurructionists in Cuba are again active; and Spain will at once send over additional troops to put them down. It is rumored that the proposed increase in the German army is causing great additions to the emigration from that country. Burglarr entered the home of Joseph Hensely at Chicago, a night or two ago, and whep closely pressed shot him. killing him instantly. Father Scully, a Catholic priest of Boston, is accused of refusing sacrament to a dying pmishoner because his children were sent to the public school. The loss to the Government in the amount of money received by postmasters throughout, the country the past two years, will be less than l-20th of 1 per cent. I. - ] The Spanish government has sanctioned a lottery of 2,000,000 francs organized by the committee of journalists for the benefit of the sufferers by floods in Murcia. It is believed the British government will make a liberal appropriation for the relief of the Irish poor ouof the surplus of .£3,500,000 remaining in the church fund. It is said that the Emperor Alexan der, of Russia, has become a confirmed nypoehondriae. He shuts himself up for days, and can with difficulty be persuaded to take food. Fernando C. Beaman has been up pointed by the Governor of Michigan as United States Senator from that State, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Zaehi Chandler. There are 227,902 negro slaves to be emancipated in Cuba under the pending act, which the Spanish Government does not seem disposed to make an accomplished fact/ A new ocean telegraph cable has just beeu laid across the Atlantic, from Brest, France, to Cai>e Cod, Mass. This makes the fifth telegraphic cable connecting Europe and America. A notification has been received at the Post Office Department that the Republic of Venezuela has become a member of the Universal Postal Union, to date from the Ist of next January. » An immense bed of coal has been discovered on the line of the Northern Pacific road. At a point 130 miles west,of Bismarck a fourteen-foot vein of bituminous coal crops out, which will.be used in operating the line. A sanitary commission has pronounced Dublin, Ireland, the most unhealthy city in the Kingdom on account of defective drainage. Hon. F. C. Beamen, recently appointed United States Senator from Michigan, declined on account of ill health, and Hon. Henry P. Baldwin, of Detroit, has been appointed to fill the vacancy.

The commissioner of pensions has published a letter warning all pensioners against persons who are demanding gratuities for having secured the passage ol the arrears of pensions act. During the Lord Mayor’s procession in London, recently, the retiring Mayor was frequently hissed by t» e populace. Wherever the American flag was displayed it was cheered by the crowds aud saluted by the. Councilmen and Mayor-elect. The largest aggregation of silver coin ever known to have been in this country at one time is now in the United States Treasury vaults, where more than $40,000,000 has accumulated. Of this amount $32,000,000 is standard silver dollars. ; It is said that a daughter of General

Sickles, recently ran away from Paris, I France, with a married man named McCarthy, and is now living with him j in London. . I The importation of "neat" cattle from Canada into the United States has been officially prohibited by the authorities at Washington, on account of the jdetuo-pneumonia now prevalent in Canadia x herds. During the present season one line of steamers running between Montreal and Liverpool has carried out 5,463 cattle, 23,212 sheep, 99 hogs, 180 horses and 74 mules. Out of Oils whole number not more than a dozen died at sea. A bank has been established in the City of Mexico in order to develop the mines of the Sierra Mojada. Numbers of Californians are going to the mines. A rich gold mine and a quick silver mine have been discovered at Oaxaca. It is rumored that the United States Government has in contemplation a new move in the fisheries question, and that several officials from Washington are now in Prince Edward Island collecting information relative to the question. In furtherance of his plan for the suppression of lotteries, Postmaster General Key has instructed postmasters iu some of the larger cities to forward to the dead letter office all letters addressed to the assumed name or allies of lottery dealers. Governor Bishop, of Ohio, ha* sued the Cincinnati Gazette for libel, claiming damages to his character to the amount of $60,000. The alleged libel was some strictures of the Gazette on the Governor’s conduct concerning the Cincinnati Police Board. .

One of the New York gas companies has given cheap gas a trial, and finds that it pays. The rates are put at [email protected] per 1,000 feet, according to the amount consumed. Borne hundreds of parties who burned kerosene immediately gave it up and returned to gas. It is now stated that Jay Gould is about to push the construction of the Utah Southern Railroad through Arizona, and down the Colorado valley to San Diego. He hopes to tap the rich mines in Arizona before the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road can get there. The Indians at W illiams Lake British Columbia, are reports, as starving. Tbeirchief has had translated, for publication, a pathetic appeal to her Majesty, reciting how they have been deprived of their lands and means and livelihood by the whites, and asking relief, saying that his young men will not starve in peace. It is charged that the trustees of a prominent Boston institution have been furnishing its coffees made up of roasted peas and rye, worth only three and four cents per pound; also a tea composed largely of stems worth twen-ty-eight and twenty-nine cents a pound, according (to a report of the State Associate Assayer. A new electric lamp is now being exhibited in New York City. The ectricity is generated by a small dy-namo-electric machine, pencil or carbon, which is heated to incandescence iu a hermetically sealed glass tube Containing a nitrogen pencil eight inches long, and it is claimed tnat one pencil will! bu :n three hours a day for one year aud a half. Its cost is two cents. Following is the result of the official count of the recent vote in New York, given in majorities, except in the case of Cornell, which shows his plurality: Cornell, Republican, for Governor, 40,172. Hoskins, Republican, for Lieutenant Governor, 1,130. Carr, Republican, for Secretary of State, Wadsworth, Republican, for Comptroller, 7,65®. Ward, Republican, fer Attorney General, 7,909. Wendell, Republican, for Treasurer, 4,651. Seymour, Democrat, for Engineer and Surveyor, 9,961. Germany has a system of collecting small claims through her postoffices which has been so successful that France adopted it last summer. The charges are from 10 to 20 cents for each collection. During the first fortyfive days tjhe system was in operation 132,000 bills of exchange and .notes were received for collection, and about three-fourths of the amount of money they called for was collected. The number received during the last two weeks of that period was nearly double that of the first fortnight. The average amount of these cluims was only $3.88. J

The gross proceeds of the disposal of the public lands of the United States dni ing the fiscal year ending June 30,1879, were as follows: Cash sales, $894,840.93; fees, commissions, etc., $980,314.43; total, $1,875„155.86. The total expenses are set down (including the surveys) at $1,046,778.94. The British have hanged forty-nine of the Afghans who were found guilty of participating in the massacre of Cabul. The extent of the complicity of the ‘late Ameer in that bloody tragedy is yet to be ascertained. If found guilty of having advised or countenanced the massacre, he, too, * ill be hanged. *, j A Catholic priest of Morris, three miles east of Batesville, this State, was arrested the other day, for brutally beatiug three child reu of his church who acted as pail-bearers at the funeral of a Protestant child three years old. A change of venue was asked by the priest, aud his .preliminary trial was being held Friday evening. A Washington dispatch says that “Secretary Thompson will cover Into the treasury over a million of dollars which were appropriated to his department, but not used, owing to the very rigid economy which he has enforced In the bureaus of that service, rhe appropriation for his own office is

not all used, and every bureau under him' returns a surplus fund to the treasury.” It was thought but a short time ago by his friends that General Sehenck wss utterly ruined by his investments : in Northern Pacific stocks. He had invested nearly his whole fortune in these and they had become worthless, but the recent rise in' stocks includes the Northern Pacific, and they are now more valuable than ever before, and General Schenek has been raised from poverty to comparative wealth. The mere fact that his stocks were too worthless to sell compelled him to hold them till they are now a fortune to him. The latest advices from Los Pinos indicate that the hostile Utes are steadily gaining the ascendancy In the negotiations now pending before the Peace Commissioners. The Chiefs continue to lie with unabated vigor regarding their part in the murders committed at White River and Milk Creek, and the small military detachment guarding the Commission are becoming alarmed at the signs of in* creasing hostility displayed by the angry Indians. It is only too evident that the plan devised ;by Mr. Schurz for the surrender of the murderers will prove a miserable failure. The ravages of the diphtheria in Russia, as detailed in the cable dispatches, are indeed appalling. In Odessa, since last May, over threefourths of the infant population have fallen victims to the malady. In several districts the disease lias been epidemic for the past two years without interruption. At one village over fifty chileren died In two weeks, and in eleven districts it prevailed with deadly virulence. The mortality is not confined to children, but extends to the adult population as well, and the malady ia proving more terrible than any pestilence that has visited the empire for years.