Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1879 — NEWSLETS [ARTICLE]

NEWSLETS

Bogus two-and-a-half dollar gold pieces have been put In circulation recently. Maria Turner, formerly a slave, died at St. Louis, recently, at the age of 110 years. The weather prophets predict that skates and sleighs .will be of little use. tills winter. It is estimated that there are 100,000 persons connected with the postal service of the United States. ’ Upper Silesia and Saxony, Germany,are threatened with famine. The poor in the former province have actually begun to starve. One thousand and lixty-five new buildings, mostly of brick, have been erected in Chicago during the present year, at an aggregate expense of 86,464,000. 4 A Philadelphia dispatch states that during the present month about ten million dollars, principally in gold —eagle and half-eagle pieces—will be eoined at the mint.

Mrs. Anson Dohey of Havana, Ills., recently gave birth so four daughters. At last acoounts the children were alive and doing well, but the mother was dead. The subsidence of the water in Lake Tulare, Cal., has uncovered a pre-his-toric settlement, stone buildings, traces of canals once bordered with planted trees, and other evidences of former occupation. Another battle has been fought between the Peruvians and Bolivians and the Chilians, the latter being again victorious. The ' battle was fought on Peruvian soil, and the losses were heavy onTboth sides.; The claims against the Government on file in the office of the Adjutant General of Indiana, known as the Morgan raid claims, are to be transferred in bulk at once to the War Department This will prevent the claims being barred by the statute of limitations. . t The French Government has directed the Governor of Senegal, Western Africa, to send an expedition to explore the region lying between the Upper Senegal and Niger rivers, and report on the feasibility of the construction of a railway between the two rivers. •. Private advices lrom the agricultural districts of Scotland and England indicate that the tenant farmers in those regions are in complete sympathy with those of Ireland in the demand for land reform. The evils of landlordism are only- in degree leas burdensome and impoverishing in Scotland and England than in Ireland.

The volume of business transacted in Chicago last week was literally stupendous. The bank clearings for the week foot up the huge total of $43,859,390.29, being by far the largest week’s business in the history of the city. The excess over the clearings of the corresponding week of last ye&t is $13,199,203.16. It is said that there was more business dane in the commercial and financial centers of this country during November, than any month before in the history .of the country. The bank transactions of the several cities for the month, foot up the enormoqp aggregate of $4,360,256,523. Gbh. Grant helped to plant a tree, the other day, in the South Park at Chicago. The tree was an elm, between sixty and seventy-five years old, fifty feet high and eighteen inches in diameter. The spade used by the General on the occasion had its metallic part silver-plated and its hard wood! handle oiled.

The Irish agitators express their firm determination to continue the war for reforms in the land system, and will continue their campaign with renewed vigor in all parts of Ireland. Their programme has been somewhat modified since the recent arrests, and their speeches now advocate an earnest effort to secure the desired reforms through the united and orderly action of the people, and an appeal to the government for aid for the suffering peasantry. Cf • *

taken up from a lower court, in which other States of*this Union, contrary decisions have been In Bliaoiee It Is the practice of lawyers to render such services when appointed by the Court, gratuitously. k y*M prosecution in the trial of Rev. Mr. Hayden for the murder Mary Stannard, at New Haven, Conn., having spent thirty-four days in presenting thrir'testimony, now rest, and the defense will spend t#o or three weeks

in offering their evidence. The case promises to be the longest and most costly in the history of American criminal jurisprudence.. The evidence against Mr. Hayden is purely circumstantial, and extraordinary efforts to make it binding as possible have been put forth by the State. • Noother criminal trial ever called forth such a vast volumne of expert testimony. It will be interesting of this evidence on the minds of the unfortunate jury, who have been in session for ten weeks, and who will probably be compelled to sit for at least another month. ~ b. . - The beer brewers of Cincinnati ar endeavoring to effect a mammoth combination of interests on the joint stock plan, and by managing the entire business as though it were a stogie institution, hope to control absolutely the beer market of that city, to shut off competition from outside towns, to advance the price, and improve the quality. The combined capital will be about 88.000,000.

The annual report the First Auditor of the United States Treasury Department, General Robert M. Reynolds, shows some interesting figures regarding the cost of running a government like this. This office passes upon all the accounts of the Treasurer of the United States and many of the railroad accounts. The number of acoounts settled reached in the aggregate about 14,000. The total amount of the disbursement accounts audited in General Reynold’s office reached the sum of 81,147,000,000. The position of the Roman Catholic A rob bishop of Boston, on ths school question,is officially given, from which it seems that he cherishes no such hostility tojthe public schools as has been alleged. He urges the faithful to send their children to parochial institutions

The recent session of the National Association of Woolen Manufacturers, held in Philadelphia, furnished an sccasion for reviewing the progress made in that important branch of industry. Within a decade and a half the trade in woolen goods has been, entirely revolutionised. There is now a larger manufacture of carpets in Philadelphia than in the whole of Great Britain. A few years ago, American carpets were generally sold as foreign, owing to the prejudice in favor of the imported article. The Centennial Exposition put an end to any further necessity for disguising the product of our looms, since experts pronounced them equal to foreign makes. In 1872 there were imported of foreign carpets about five and a half million yards. Now, Philadelphia alone produces twenty million yards annually. The capital Invested in woolen manufacturers is 860,000,000. Every loom is now employed, and it would be impossible to estimate the benefits conferred upon those who depend upon this industry for a livelihood.