Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1879 — NEWSLETS [ARTICLE]

NEWSLETS

The revised Bible will cost $200,000 before the first oopy is printed. lowa now has 4.721 miles ol railroad, an increase ol 670 miles in a year. The announcement is made that within niuty days boots and shoes will increase twenty per cent in price. The Mexican congress has approved the contract for laying a telegraph cable across the Gulf of Mexico to the United States..

A colony of sixty-five farmers and their families, from England, Ireland and Scotland, sailed from-Liverpool, a day or two since, bound for Texas. The cost of taking the next census is estimated by the Superintendent at $3,000,000, and that for a short time it will give employment to twenty thousand persons. Thk distress in Montenegro is very great; one-fifth' ot the population is almost starving, and the present supplies of food will only last until the end of January. A newly invented locomotive in England is expected to take the place of horses upon the street railways. It emits neither smoke nor rtsam, is

Wl ■! UH— U r * PW* OI Advices from the Canary tetods report the occurrence of heavy floods, which caused some loss of life, the own fall of many houses, the destruction of the cochineal crop, and considerable damage to other mope and other property- . Three has been an increase of $170,000,000 in the circulating medium of this country during the post sixteen months, $18,000,000 of which has been in national hank notes and the rest in gold and silver coin. The priests in France persistently omit from their prayers the prayer for the safety of the Republic,, and the Government’s Minister of the Interior has made official inquiry of the Bish-

ops whether or not this omission is in accordance with their instructions. During the past fiscal year the expenses of the Post Offlee Department of the Government were reduced in the amount of nearly $1,000,000 as compared with the proceeding year, and the receipts were about $1,000,000 larger. Massachusetts has abolished coroners and juries. Inquests in that State are now conducted by medical men, under the instructions of the Courts as to their legal functions. Thus for the results of the change are said to have been admirable. Owing to scarlet fever prevailing at Springfield, 111., the board of health has ordered the public schools closed, till January 1, and adopted a resolution, requesting that no public funerals be held in churches or private residences. There are said to be 500 cases now in the city. A Boston emigration company, headed by a number of leading citizens, has purchased 60,000 acres of land in Tennessee, on the Cincinnati and Southern railroad, 40 miles from the Kentucky line, and will lay out a city and populate it and surroundings with Massachusetts colonists. A local revolution has ocurred in Chihuahua, Mexico, against the State government. .The pronounciators have occupied the capital and captured the Governor and all the State officers. General Trevens, at the head of the necessary forces, has left Zacatecas, and is marching on Chihauhua to put down the rebellion. The agent sent to Europe by the State Department to see if the leading Powers would take the initiative in calling an international monetary conference, has returned. He was not successful. After much trouble he secured a full interview with Bismarck, and found him opposed to the project. The result of the mission shows that no monetary conference can be secured at present. At a meeting of the Russian Technological Society a lecture was delivered on the subject of the fitting out of the four famous Russian eruisers in the United States. The lecture especially referred to the sympathy and co-operation which all had received from the American people. Six men he said, deserted from the expedition, who preferred to remain on the free soil of America, but they were Ger mans from the Baltic provinces and not Russians. Dispatches from Dublin announce that incendiarism ard agrarian outrages are increasing throughout Ireland. The Irish national convention has adopted an amended programme, contemplating absolute autonomy for Ireland with nominal franchise qualifications, and increasing the system of county borohgh representation. British troops are under orders to proceed .to Ireland. * Astronomers are still on the * lookout fora great display of shooting stars, whioh they have reason to expect about this time—on or about November 27—it may be a little earlier or a week later. “The display, should it oocur,” says Professor Proctor, “will possess far more interest than any ordinary metoric shower” because of the fact that “the earth is now passing through the track of a comet wnich is followed by uncounted millions of meteors.” Mr. Peixotto, United States Consul at Lyons, France, in his dispatch to the Department of State, dated October 29, 1879, compares the silk trade of France in 1879 with 1878. The export of pure silk goods has fallen from 101,000,000 francs to 82,000,000 francs. Of mixed silk goods there has been an increase aver 1878 of 3,000,000 francs, and over 1877 of 11,000,000 francs. The total exports of France of all kinds of silk for the first nine months of 1879 have fallen off 40,000,000 francs, while the imports during the same period have increased 320,000,000 francs. The far-famed young city of Leadville, Colorado, is having the usual experience of Western mining towns with the criminal classes. A Vigilance Committee has been organized, that evidently means business, judging by the following note attached to the body of a “strung-up” rascal: To all thieves, bunko steerere, foot-pads and chronic bondsmen tor the same, and sympathizers with the above class of criminals, this is our commencement and this shall be yonr end. We mean business. Let this be yonr last warning, particularly Coo-

ney Adams, Conner CoUlns, Hogan, Ed. Barns, Ed. Champ, P. A. Kelly, and a great many others who are well-known tm this organisation. We are 700 strong.” The anti-rent agitation in Ireland Is, In some respects at least, proving very beneficial. A large number of landlords are advertising reductions of rents of from 25 to 80 per cent, and the British Government has been compelled to inaugurate a system of public improvements in Ireland that will furnish employment to many, and put large sums of-money into circulation. England always acts the part or a bully with Ireland, until the “boys” get “their Irish up,” and then the frightened bully makes reasonable concessions, that should have been made before, as a matter of right dealto*