Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1879 — NEWS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NOTES.

Ijp at Fort Garry Manitoba, Friday morning, the thermometer marked four degrees below sero. An epidemic of malarial fever Is reported id the northwestern provinces of India, attended by a frightful death rate. During October over 85,000,000 postal cards wer sent from the factory—the largest month’s business ever done. ' Gen. Jefferson C. Davis died at Chicago, last Sunday evening, of pneumonia. Gen. Davis was a native of Indiana. It is reported in Montreal, Canada, that she Imperial government is establishing a reserve of 10,000 men in Cafiada, composed of militia of the ominion, for active service at home or abroad, if required. The net earnings of the Pennsylvania Railroad during the past ten months show an increase of more than half a million dollars, as compared with the figures for thtf corresponding period the year before. The long pending disruption between the Jesuit order in England and Cardinal Manning, will be inquired into by the Pope. Several prominent Jeusits and Cardinal Manning are now in Rome preparing for the trial.

A dispatch from Rome, announces that the Propaganda has approved of the proposition of Cardinal McCloskey for the establishmentof three bishoprics in this country under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of New York. It to rumored that the syndicate which have bought the New York Central stock from Vanderbilt, have made a bid for all the Pennsylvania rail read stock owned by the city of Philadelphia, about 60.000 shares of the par value of $3,000,000. Dakota Territory contains 150,932 square miles. The States of Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin contain each only about 55,000 square miles. Kossuth, by the bill recently adopted by the Chamber of Deputies, has lost his right aaan Hungarian oitizsn. The bill makes such provision against any native of the country who shall voluntarily reside out of the country continuously for ten years. Kossuth has been away thirty. The government engineer has surveyed districts bordering on Shannon river, Ireland, with a view to the commencement by the government of a scheme for their drainage, which is to' cost £20,000. The prospect of employment for laborers in those districts is regarded with great satisfaction. The Auditor of State’s report for the past year shows net receipts during the year, $3,187,221.37; deduct cash disbursements, $3,127,685.91, leaves excess of leceipta over expenditures of $59,395.46; add balance of cash in the Treasury October I, 1878, $524,356.46, makes cash balance chargeable to the Treasury October 1,1879, of $383,751.92. The total State debt to $3,998,178.34. Thomas O’Brien, an ex-policeman of St Louis, was found dead in hto room in that eity the other day, where the body must have lain nearly two weeks. It was one of the most hideous ? - sights of the year. The man had wasted away to foe veriest skeleton, probably as a result of starvation incident to an inability to go for food. The report that Princess Louisa Caroline, otherwise Mrs. Lofne, is meditating an entrance into the communion of the Roman Catholic Church is emphatically denied at Ottawa. The Church Record, of London, states that English Catholics have been making great efforts to induce Louisa to the step, but she does not appear convertible.

Ahmt officers at Washington are said to believe that a severe Indian war is impending, letters which have been received from the West give color to the belief, for whatever may have been announced officially, there is nb doubt that the feeling Is to thin effect A government officer who has lived among the savages, is credited with saying that there will be more Indian fightiDg during the next year than sinos the Seminole war. According to the annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the amount of internal revenue faxes collected during the past year

amounts to »1M49,62L JJfce ©ortot pcreanL During the past three yean there has been %117 illicit stills seized, 6,383 persons arrested for illicit stilling, and twenty-seven officers and employes killed and forty-eight wounded while enforcing the internal revenue laws. The Cutaom House returns show the exeas of exports over imports for the month of October, tp have been forty million* | B value, Which represents the movement of merchandise and 'commercial commodities. The figures showing the movenient if coin and bullion present a different showing. They disclose that since the first of July the imports of these exceeded the exports about sixty-five milliens.

It is estimated that the ordinary expenses of the government for Jhe fiscal year of 1880-81, will be $136,347,129. This of course includes the cost of the ocnoas, which will be not for from $3,000,000. With that item excepted, the estimate is considerably below the actual expenditure es the year 1877-78. In no other year since the war has a smaller sum than that which will be asked for been sufficient to operate the governmental machinery. There is expected to bealargerthan usual deficit in postal revenue, but to more than balance this the estimate of Congressional expenses anticipates a saving of $3,000,000, as there is nothing which demands a long session. ■> J * Thb Catholic Archbishop of New England has issued an order to the priests in his jurisdiction for the establishment of church schools, to which Catholic parents are ordered to send their children, on pain of denunciation by the chureh. In commenting on this fact, the Chicago Journal concisely expresses the feeling of all liberal non-Catholics in this land when it say&i “We do not understand the occasion of the growing hostility to our fTee public schools sn the part of the Oatholie priesthood of New England or elsewhere. Our public-school system has no sectarianism in it, and we do not see why either priest or parent should seek a quarrel with a system, the only aim and object of which is to educate the rising generation.” It is said that an] attempt will fire made at the next meeting of the Dominion Parliament to remodel the banking system of and fashion it somewhat after our national bank law. The Canadian Minister of Finance and a member of the Dominion Parliament, have been studying our system. It is, in fact, reported that they have expressed themselves fully satisfied that is is an improvement on their own. At present Canada issues a species of>greei-back currency, which is redeemable iu specie on demand. There is, however, but little of it.* The private banks furnish nearly all the paper money in use, but their issues are simply based on specie and not Government bonds.

The Government of Prussia is moving in the matter of aoquiring all the railways es the country, and doubtless will consummate the scheme in a short time. The plan proposed by the Miuistry is that the present stock of all the corporate railways shall be converted into 4J Government consols. It to also proposed that the Government construct nine new railway lines at a cost of about $16,000,000. The great point made by the Government is that in case of war the roads would be absolutely necessary to the preservation of the Government, and that, consequently, it to more desirable that they should be in the hands of the Government rather than of individuals. Once the Prussian roads are bought by the Government, it to only a question of time when all the others in the Empire will also be purchased. So much of this year’s wheat of the United.. Kingdom has been threshed that the gatherers of statistics have at last reduced the yield to definite figures} The quantity proves to be less than' was produced in any other year since 1816. The average crop, as ascertained by a calculation covering many years, to 29$ bushels per acre,, making a total annual average for the kingdom of 9Q V 227,200 bushels. This year the production was only 18 bushels per acre, on an average, making a total of 54,768,000 bushels. From this must be subtracted 6,846,000 bushels, necessary to be reserved for the seed of next year’s crop. This woul amount to but 7$ per ceDt. of an average yield but it equals 12$ per cent of the present production, and reduces the|quantity available for consumption to 47,200,000 bushels. Again, most of the wheat to shrunken and light, and a bushel, even by weight, will not make the average quantity or quality of flour. From these figures it Is estimated that the people of Great Britain will consume before next harvest 144,000,000 bushels of Wheat from foreign countries. An important question of national polity, which will arise at an early day, will be whether it to desirable to have any more States of vast territorial extent. Dakota comprises an area but little lees than that of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. Its population, which was in 1870 about 14,000, is increasing at sueh a rate that it to thought that by next summer it will be at least 180,000. Six railways are In process of eonstruction through Dakota, and without receiving the grant of a single eet es public land.