Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

Praise God and vote the republican ticket in gratitude for the bountiful hat vest ol 1879. Every hour of the twenty-fony adds bushels to the corn crop of 1879, and voters to the republican party. ' 1 .. 1 s=? • Inflation of the granaries and corn-cribs will prove a more substantial foundation upon which to build national prosperity than all the schemes for the inflation of the currency by legislative enactment ever dreamed of by the Pendletons, the Ewings, the Butlers, the Voorheeses, or the De La Matyrs of the world. The most ultra gold bug in. Wall street will not object to the first named kind of inflation. The annual meeting of the old settlers of Jasper, Newton and Benton counties is held on the first Saturday in September of each year, at the old Indian village site four miles west of Rensselaer. No special programme has yet been published for the meeting of 1879, but we presume that it will not gn by default. The officers will certainly issue a formal call, and preparations will surely be made to receive and entertain visitors who may cerfte from abroad.

The Carroll County Voluntary Agricultural Association has issued its prospectus for the fair of 1879, which will be held on the fine grounds of tho society adjoining the city of Delphi, on the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th days of September. Cash premiums are offered to tho amount of 83,000, and the competition promises to be unusually large and spirited in the several departments. It is confidently expected by all concerned that the narrow gauge road will have completed their track into the city by thetime specified for holding the fair and be running trains regularly. This, with the excursion rates which the public may anticipate, will be a great inducement for people of the vicinity of Rensselaer to visit the fair and see tho productions of their neighbors in the bountiful Wabash valley.

A correspondent ofthe Inter-Ocean says that the Washington Star says that Representative Springer says that Gov.’Tildon said that “if the democracy can ride into pmycr on the wave of prosperity which I think is coming , it will remain in power indefinitely. On the other hand, should the republicans retain power, they are liable to hold on for a half century to come. Whichever party wins the next presidency will get the credit ofthe betterment of the condition of affairs which is “urely coining.” With the betterment of affairs generally, with a return of prosperity, there will be a natural increase of mail correspoildence. And this thought suggests that all kinds of writing paper, envelopes, ink, pens, and articlcsih the stationery line, are kept for sale at the postoffice. The stock is the best and cheap.

About five thousand people were in attendance upon the Old Settlers’ Reunion at Delphi last Saturday. They were addressed by Rev. Aaron Wood, Enoch Cox and Hon. Peter Keiser. The writer did not hear the effort'of the first speaker; that of the second was fme in composition and splendid in delivery; the third was a feeble attempt at burlesque, and a labored effort to be smart —it was coarse and illiterate* and unworthy of the occasion and the people. Delphi and Carroll county is the home of many excellent people; people of culture, refinement and enterprise. Among the acquaintances with whom it was the writer’^,pleasure to clasp hands were Major John Milroy of the old Ninth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, as brave a soldier as. ever drew sword in defense of his country’s flag; Major Watt, engrossed with tho cares of a well-conducted postotlice; Recorder Fawcett due. of the bust and most popular officers that ever hold a commission in Carroll county; the Harleys, father and son, up to their eyes in business, with a smile _ and kindly greeting for everybody; Cap. Griftin full of hope for the future of Delphi, and James Morris, Esq., whose proper place is in Jasper county. Itt-was also a gratification to meet Judge

Gpuld who but recently returned from a trip through -Colorado and into Utah, rejuvinated and very much invigorated by the breath of the mountains and the short relaxation from five years of ceaseless, life consuming toil. The people of Carroll county honor themselves in being proud of such a citizen.

The name of Abraham Leopold is a household word in Jasper county. He has been so long and so prominently identified with the business interests of Rensselaer that every man, woman and child who has had •occasion to trade in the town to any considerable extent has heard of Mr. Leopold’s enterprise and. public spirit. lie moved to lienee business with a moderate capital, pursued a system of liberal adver-

tiaing persistently followed, h?s ciirefnlly watpbed over the details qF business. has developed remarkI able skill and called into activity most excellent judgment in all of his business ventures. From a comparatively small beginning Air. Leopold has enlarged his business with the growth of the town and the progress of the times, until from a small stock of miscellaneous merchandise kept in one little room where he had to pay corroding rents, he now manages three largo and distinct establishments which require the investment and constant use of a large amount of capital. He carries one ol the heaviest and best assortments of dry goods and clothing 1 to be found in any town in Northwestern Indiana, then an extensive stock of' staple family groceries, and, recently, hadbought the stock of boots and shoes owned by Mr. Bass to which will be added other now goods to the value of not less than $>5,000, for the selection and purchase of which Mr. Leopold is now visiting the jobbing market. A great advantage which Air. Leopold’s industry and prudence has given to him is the ability to command, ready money to pay for his purchases when .they are made. This renders him independent of the entanglements of the credit system and gives him an untrammeled range of the markets with the powerful auxilliary of an excellent commercial reputation. He may buy at the very lowest possible margins, and the most rigorous competition of home dealers is powerless to cripple or annoy him. Another advantage, and no mean one is it either, which also traces its origin to the same source as the one before

named, is the fact that ho owns all of the rooms in which he does business, by which his expenses are all ot SI,OOO a year smaller than those of less fortunately situated competitors who may be controlling as extensive business. Of Air. Leopold’s interest in matters of general advantage to the local public it is not necessary to make more than a casual remark, which4s that while never obtrusive in his demonstrations those who best know ClFn know that his contributions to advance ineasurcs to promote the common good of the community in which he lives are marked by liberality and cheerfulness. Air. Leopold is not only one of the solid men of the county, but he is also one of the most honorable and liberal men to deal with.

Trials, disappointments, vexation and all manner of tribulation so thickly besert the pathway of newspaper editors that it, has always seemed to us one of the deepest mysteries that people who claim to possess an average stock of prudence and who would like to impress the world with an idea of their shrewdness should be anxious to pass themselves upon the public and upon editors as members of the editorial profession. But, singulai as it appears, it is true.Especially is it true, too, when dtsad head excursions are advertised, when somebody has free conceit tickets to dispose of, or there is a prospect of getting something of value for nothing. There is not an excursion proposed to any quarter of the globe, be it to the dreary regions of frozen Kamscalka or tq the deadly districts of the tropics, that the number of applications for free tickets made by those who have only the crudest ideas of editorial duties and editorial life count ten to one the applieditors. Only last week a train full of alleged newspaper people drew out of LaFayetle on one of the western railroads, on a so-called editorial excursion to "“Denver and other points of interest west of the Mississippi river and among the foothills of the Rocky mountains. Tho proportion of real, far-sure editors and newspaper managers in that tram probably did not exceed one in twenty. The other nineteen were, simply, impostors; were people who deliberatly attempted to palm themselves off upon railroad managers, hotel keepers and the unsophisticated pub’io generally, for something which they were not; clear cases of misrepresentation, of obtaining something under false pretenses, whiijh in other departments of business would be denounced and punished as fraudulent. These people who

traveled on borrowed reputation amt dead-bead passes got along merrily and cheaply enough as far as Kansas City ; but here they were startled with the, to some, unwelcome annoucement thattbe far west, railroad companies had not consefLtsd to any wholesale dead-head arrangement which included all the village clerks of Indiana. They were told that from thence towards the sublime and metaliforous regions of the setting sun ’twas money that made the iron horse go, and nothing ready capital would satisfy the demand? of soulless corporations and sordid monopolies. The result was a sifting out of livery-stable, law office and yardslick beyond the restless waters of the muddy Missouri. They tastt d the

! bitter flavor of the dispppohrtmentit which numbers of the prOfbasjan tficv fiilt nShortfl feed ‘ami thrive upon. The sun of tribulation shone upon their soft and l tender heads, and, like seed sown upon stony ground, having not much depth of earth or* length of root, they wilted. And now ye guileless young editors of the truly valuable and very influential press who chuckled with delight at the prospect of something original by “our . special correspondent” with which to fill up the columns of their journals must increase the size of the blisters on,their scissors fingers ami the dorns on their brains. Ono of the most unpleasant lessons that a young country editor has to learn is that people living a few mi e« away never heard of him »is publication And Aare vlitflb* bt either, and it is terribly deiuorßiizing to their self esteem to find that their accredited representative wlur attempts to travel without paying his Mils is treated as anyifther dead beat; but it is a lesson not without good results, and which cannot be learned too early in hirf professional career.

A cross-cut saw handle has been left at The Union office for identification. See flew schedule of train move/ ments on the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago road. Rev. Thomas Vanscoy will preach at the Methodist Episcopal church next Sunday evening. Mrs. Charles Johnson and family of Whitehall, Alich., are visiting her sister Airs. E. L. Clark. The blue ribbon society will hold a meeting in the Methodist Episcopal church Saturday evening. C. C. Starr, A. Leopold and L. Hopkins are in Chicago for goods with which to refill their store shelves. John Schanlaub is building a cosy, little frame dwelling house in the western edge of town—on the Chicago road, wear Robert Kepner’s. Three brick kilns proved nnaWer to supply the demand this seaSdH and Air. Alfred Thompson has imported brick for hitr house from LaFayette. ,S John Irwin ( an old citizen of the southern part of Jasper, was gored to death bv a bull he was leadiag, last Thursday. The bull was considered docile and was being lead by a small rope fastened to a ring in his nose.

Stephen Donaldson and wife of Ladoga, formerly citizens of JasptF county, are again visiting friends in town and vicinity. Mr. Donaldson is postmaster at Ladoga. He is just up from a bed of sickness and does not look robust. Rev. Chas. E. Lambert, who formerly was in charge of the Methodist Episcopal church at Rensselaer,now professor of latin in Purdue University, has been tendered and will accept the presidency of Willamette University, in Oregon. Hon. C. M. Watson, Auditor Barkley and wife. Recorder Wood, Win. C. Pierce, Lack Smith, Miss Ora Thompson and Horace E. James were tho Jasper county representatives at the Carroll county Old Settler’s Meeting last Saturday.

Dr. Wirt the old reliable dentist whose work has.been known to tho people of Rensselaer and vicinity for twenty years, work that stands the test of time and use, is now at D. B. Miller’s office over the Narrow Gunge Clothing house. All work warranted. Jkt a preliminary hearing before - Justice Harding this afternoon Geo. Smith was recognized in the inm of S3O to appear in the circuit court in defense of the charge of pent larceny. The state of Indiana suspects that Smith purloined a pair of suspenders, valued at $1.50, from Ralph Fendig’s store.. Elder S. Rhorer, pastor of the Christian church at Francesville, preached in the Randle school house in Barkley township, last Sunday afternoon, to a large audience. He is to preach there again the second Saturday and Sunday in September, when they propose to organize a church. The members should build a house of worship, they being abundantly able to do so. Rev. W. G. Vessels will deliver a lecture in the Methodist Episcopal ebureh next Wednesday evening, Auguet2o. Subject,Tinsel and Gold. Proceeds for the support of superaim ated preachers and the widow* and orphans of deceased preachers of the Northwest Indiana Conferenced The public earnestly desired to second this effort *» a worthy cause. Admission 10 cents. About one-third of the voters ot Uuiou township and several people of Newton county attended Justice MeColly’s court in Union township, last Friday. A ?25 hunting dog belonging to 8. Th Barker was killed for killing a ?5 sheep belonging to llobort Swiiw. Barker instituted civil awit for *?• damages Jury trial } verdict fbr appeal- to circuit obufU -win I Phillipa for plaintiff, M. K Chltootw and J, W. Don t hit for defenso. . -

From Washington. T>t Secretary of the Treasury Is reported to have Sodded to remit all fines and penalUrn incurred by Mtasteaippl River steamers Ihr carrying an excess of passengers during nfiUrril IT was stated In a Washington special of the (th that there had been a marked increase in the demand tor the standard silver dollars since Secretary Sherman had issued his order requiring the disbursing officers not to discriminate against such coin in making payments. Treasurer Gilfillan would, next payday, try the experiment of paying ten per cent, of salaries to all employes in the District in standard e lver. The monthly pay-roll In the District is nearly (1,000,000. Tna Secretory of the Interior received a letter from the Indian Chief Spoiled Tail on the Sth, in which the latter says both he and his people want to be like the whites. He says he has had enough of the military; wants his people to work; wants no more scouting; since they had been where they now are his peoole had had no whisky; wherever the military are there la always whisky, and that makes trouble. lie says he wants the Secretary to visit him and stay a month, and see how it is. Secretary Schurz replied, thanking Spotted Tail for his expressions of good will, and promised to visit him on the fiOUi of August and to spend several days on the reservation. It was reported on the 9th that the President had decided to restore all of the cadets recently dismissed from West Point for hazing, as there was a general sentiment among army officials that expulsion will not break up the practice. ; . The East. Ths Republicans of Massachusetts will meet in State Convention at Worcester on the 16th of September to nominate State officers. Tn next semi-annual meeting of the National Agricultural Congress will be ijcld at Rochester. N. ,Y., on the 15th of September. Riv. W. H. H. ("Adirondack”) Mvkrsy having become involved In eerioos financial difficulties, and some of his creditors having taken steps to secure their claims, that gentleman recently disappeared, one statement being that be was worn out with work and worry and had gone off for recreation. The Si. Albans (Vt.) Adverturr of the sth publishes an account of an interview with Miss Hodgkins, Mr. Murray’s amanuensis, in which she stated that all of the reverend gentleman’s business would be settled satisfactorily and honorably; that be would rather die than do anything A New York dispatch of the sth announces the conviction for forgery, in that city, of Charles G. Fisher, Assistant District Attorney of Washington, D. C., from 1873 to 1875. The American Bankers’ Association met in annual Convention at Saratoga on the 6th. Large delegations were present, all sections of the Union being well represented. A letter was read from Secretary Sherman in which he attributes ‘-the ease and facility with which the vast refunding operations ot the Government have been conducted” to the co-opera-tion of the, banks. Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, Was re-elected President of the Association.' The autopsy on the remains of the late Charles Feebler, the actor, held on the 7th, showed that he died from the Inordinate use of intoxicating liquors. It was rumored in New York on the 7th that the stolen body of the late A. T. Stewart had been recovered and deposited at night In the crypt at Stewart’s Memorial Cathedral. The crypt had been carefully sealed and several watchmen were said to be on duty day and night The Pennsylvania Prohibition State Convention has been called to meet at Altoona on the 9th of September. It is expected that a State ticket will be nominated aud an address issued. The following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on August 9th: Na 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, (1.0001.01; Na 2 Milwaukee. (1.(001.01. Oats, Western Mixed, 32035 c. Corn, Western Mixed, 43© Msc. Pork, Mess, (8.63X08.67M. Lard, (5.7505.82 - Flour, Good to Choice, (4.7001.50; White Wheat Extra, (4.7506.25. Cattle, (6.50010.25 for Common to Extra. Sheep, (3 7‘©>.25. Hogs, (3.7004.00. At East Liberty, Pa., on August 9th, Cattle brought: Best, (5 0005.25; Medium, (3.50 @4.75; Common, (3.0003.30. Hogs sold— Yorkers, (3.450X65; Philadelphia, (3.650 3.95. Sheep brought (3.oool.7s—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on August 9th, Cattle brought: Best, (5.0005.25; Medium, (3.0004.12 X. Hogs sold at (4.5005.37 X for Good. Sheep were quoted at (3.0004.50 for Good.

West and South; An entire fauily, consisting of E. P. Lesuenr, wife and two children, were struck by lightning at Rochester, Minn., on the 4th. The woman and children were killed, and Lesueur was probably fatally injured. Volcano, W. Va., was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 4th. Six hundred barrels of oil, ten stores, the postoffice, railway depot, hotel and other business houses, and about fifty other buildings of various sizes were burned, with their entire contents. The burning oil running through the streets * spread the fire in every direction. The loss would be abiut *150,030. The fire was thought to have been the work of an incendiary. A few days ago four unknown men, supposed to belong to a gang of desperadoes .Iran the Indian Territory, entered the village of Coneyvllle, Kan., robbed the Po/toffice and committed other depredations. The citizens resisted, and one of them named Fitzpatrick was killed, and another named Roberts badly wounded. They then left, and although a detachment At troops started in pursuit, they had not been arrested up to the 4th. Ton Custer battle-field, on the Little Big Moro, is to be made a National cemetery. The Special Committee of the (Georgia House of Representatives have reported sixteen articles of impeachment against Comp-troller-General Goldsmith. These allege a defalcation of *II,OOO. Geo. Q. Cannon, Brigham Young and Albert Carrington, executors of the late Brigham Young, have been sent to the Utah Penitentiary for contempt, in refusing to comply with an order of court to pay into the hands of the receiver of the estate certain moneys and securities. Ojr the sth, a Chicago foundryman named Benn, in a moment of passion L Bhot and killed Conrad Englemanu, his foreman. In an instant, realizing the enormity of his crime, he stepped to a rear apartment, drew from his pocket a clasp knife and cut his throat from ear to ear, expiring almost immediately. A dispatch was received on the sth at St Paul, Minn., by General Terry, from Genera] Mlles, in which it U stated that. Major Walsh, of the Canadian mounted police, accompanied by the Sioux Chief Long Dog, had come to General Mfiea’ camp and stated that Sitting Bull’s whole following, numbering 5,000 to 8,000 people, had moved to three Lake, about eighty’ mik* iaorth-WW See, where thef would remain. Assurances were given that UteY would abstain from all hostile movements on this side, return stolen property, art desist from bunting American buffalo unlustTenanted to do so under the supervision of United States offlciaK

A littls girt in New Orleans, named Rosa ChrUVan, wav bitton by a Newfoundland dog on tbe 7th of last month, and died of hydrophobia on the sth Instants The Maryland Democrats met in Blate Conventton at Baltimore on the 7th, ard noml- > nated William T. Hamilton for Governor; 11..present Incumbents for Attorney-General and Comptroller, and Spencer C. Jones for Clerk of Appeals. The platform protests against an Increase of the National debt; denounces the election ot Mr. Hayes as a fraud; optionee Federal interference in elections; etc.,etc. The returns received on the Bth from the election tn Tennessee on The State debt qfietUon indicated that the proposition to«ettlc the debt at fifty cents and four per cent. Interest had been rejected by not less than 15,000 majority. Party lines were not regarded In tbe contest. Rev. Theophiluh VAN de Moohtei., a Jesuit priest of Chicago, who bad announced his Intention to renounce Roman Catholicism and join the Episcopal Church, on the 9th sent to the newspapers a notice that he retracts what ho had said against the Church of Rome, and had “ resolved to return to lbw church that opens Its arms to receive back tin erring child.” The Secretary of State of Kentucky had on the 10th receive 1 returns from fifty-eight counties In that State, which give a majority for Blackburn of 23,514. Blackburn.'* majorityin the State would probtbly exceed 40,000, a Democratic gain of over 5,000 over the two preceding Gubernatorial elections. The Republlcins had gained three or four Senators and ton or twelve Representatives. 1N Chicago, on Auzust 9th, Spring Wheat Na 2 closed at 84%084%c cash; 85085><c for September; 85%085%c for October. Cash Corn closed at 33%033%c for No. 2; 34%034%c for September; 34% (</34%c for October. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 23%@23%c; 23%@23%c seller Soptomlter; 23%c for October. Rye No. 2, 49%c. Barley No. 3, ——o for cas).. Cash Mess Pork closed at 98.1708 20. Lard, cash, 95.46. Beeves Extra brought (4.850 5.25; Choice, (4.5004.70; Good, (4.100 4.40; Medium Grades, (3.5004 00; Butchers’ Stock, (2 4003.25.5t0ck Cattle, etc., (2.40 03.00. Hogs—Good to Choice, (3.2003.55. Sheep—Poor to Choice, 2.5004.75.

The Yellow Fever. A refugee from Memphis died in Chicago on the 4th, exhibiting slight symptoms ofJ.bc yellow fever, but the physician attending him did not think it a genuine case of that disease. The victim had "tramped” a large part of the way from the South, and been subject to great exposure to heat and hunger. One hundred and thirty-seven deaths from yellqy fever occurred In Havana, Cuba, during the week ending on the 2d, an increase of twenty over the previous week. The total number ot yellow-fever deaths during July was 537, against 504 for the same mouth last year. Since the Iteginning of the year 857 deaths had occurred, against 813 for the same time last year. Seventeen new cases—ten white and seven colored—were reported to the Memphis Board of Health on the 6th. Five additional cases (all colored} were announced after tbe regular report was made out, and would be included in next statement. Three deaths bad occurred. The County Medical Society held its monthly meeting in the evening. The members were unanimous in the opinion that every part of the city will be visited i>y the fever before frost cuts it off. Several towns on the New Orleans, St. Louis Chicago Road rescinded their quarantine against New Orleans on the Gtb. There were twenty-nine new cases and five deaths from yellow fever in Memphis on tbe 7th. A circular has been issued calling upon absent Memphians to aid their suffering townsmen.

There were twenty-two new cases of yellowfever (eight white and fourteen colored) officially reported to the Memphis Board of Health on tbe Sth, and seven additional were heard from after the close of tbe day’s report. The deaths numbered eight. The increase in the pumber of deaths was attributed to a sudden change in the weather the night before, the mercury dropping to about seventytwo degrees and remaining there during the day. The Howard Association placed thirty additional nurses on duty; they hud sixty physicians in the field, all of whom were kept busy. A fatal case of yellow fever was at Mayersville, Miss., on the 9th. Considerable excitement existed there. The yellow fever was officially declared to be epidemic in Memphis by the Board of Health of that city on tbe 9th, and absentees were warned not to return until further notice. Twenty-one new cases and five deaths were reported on the 9tb, and twenty-nine new eases and five deaths on the 10th. A majority of the cases were colored people. A clerk in Pratt’s Oil Works, of Williams burg, died at Brooklyu, N. Y., on the 9th, of yellow fever, contracted, it was thought, while carrying messages to a bark which came fiom Havana in June last, and loaded with oil at the works in July. A New Orleans dispatch of the 9th says noqase of yellow fever was then known to exist in that city.

Foreign Intelligence. A very violent storm visited the south ot England on the night of the 3d. Hailstones five inches in diameter fell in extraordinary volume and wrought great damage to the growing crops. Great numbers of cattle, sheep and bogs were killed. It was the most destructive storm that has visited that section for years. A few days ago a family named Monette, consisting of seven persons, and living at Port Vian, Canada, were poisoned by eating bread which bad been standieg near some Paris green. Three have died. According to London telegrams of the sth the steamer Louis David, en route from Antwerp to Naples, was recently wrecked off "Cshant, France, during a thick fog. Twentyseven of her passengers were drowned. On the sth, in Staffordshire, Eng., 3,400 colliers struck against a proposed reduction in wages.

Tub Infanta Marie del Pinar, second sister of the King of Spain, died on the sth of nervous fever. The funeral ot" the Socialist Member of Parliament, Geib.'at Hamburg on the 6tb, was attended by 20,000 persons. On the 6th, the watei urst into the Luding Glueck Mjne at the Zabrize collieries, in Prussia. All the miners in the pit, numbering thirteen, are supposed to have perished. The town of Cbatenois, near Strasburg, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 6th. More than 2,000 people were rendered homeless. Tbe money loss was over 1,000,000 marks. His Holiness, the Pope, has bestowed his pontifical blessing upon the Panama Canal project Thb King of Menelk, ruler of the southern portion of Abyssinia, has abolished slavery in bis dominions. ' Dispatches received from Cape Town on the 7th were to the effect that General Wolseley proposed to occupy Ulundi until peace, was restored; that Cetewayo, whose army was reduced to 1,000 med, had sent in messengers asking for new terms of surrender; etc., etc. > ■’' The German corvette Freys burst her boiler just as she was leaving tbe port of Batavia a few days ago. Four men were killed add several injured. A dispatch received from Copenhagen on tbe 7th says the announcement that the Swedish Arctic Exploring Expedition had escaped from the ice in Behring Straits was premature. According to an Alexandria (Egypt) telegram of the 7th, King John, of Abyssinia, had discovered that the treaty lately negotiated wfttuEgypt did not bear his signature,

and hail ordered the reoccupation by ills army of the districts surrendered to Egypl under its provisions. The Exchange Bank of Montreal dosed its <l<H>ra on, the 7th, after .sustaining a run of uuexuinlod pnqiort’iona The I labilities of the iqetUulioii are -stated to be (900,000, and the usual promise' to psy in full I* made. Rt ssia has notified the Powers of her Inton Hon to construct a military bridge across tbe Danube at Blllstrli. B<>ME<>fi" the Nihilist conllnt-d at (Messi, recently cotpmittod suicide by burning himself to death over his kerosene lamp. Rev. Newman- Hall, the dlstinguishpl Congregational preacher of London, Eng., was divorced from his wife on the Bth. TjlE trade for the investiture of the new Khedive of Egypt left Constantinople on the Bth. On the Sdi Scrvla presented to the Porte a claim for 2,000,060 francs damages for the of property by the Albanians In their raids across the Rprvlan frontier. At Montreal on the Sth tbe Ville "Marie Bank collapsed after a run lasting about an hour. Subsequently, the Managers Issued a notice saying that they owed (575,000 and had over 91,000,000 of assets, and wofild pay every dollar in full. The suspension of the Ville Marie was followed shorfly Sifter by that of the Bank of Hochelnga, whose debts are estimated to be about (300,000. Tills bank claims also'to lie able to paj’ in full. A frantic run was then made ujion the City and District Savings Bank. At the hour of closing the Managers hail met all liabilities', and said ihej- hud abundant means to do so in future. There was great excitement. A< < OHDIN« to a Sernjevo dispatch of the lOtli a fire in that city had destroyed 288 houses,3lß shot s and fojtfy-eight warehouses, involving a pecuniary loss of 100,000,006 florins. Several pcrisons perished in the flames, the number lieing variously estimated at from ten to 2,000. The fire was started by an ex-plosion occurring in -a- spirit warehouse where excise officers were gauging and sealing casks. , A Cahul (Afghanistan) dispatch received on the 9tli announces the final signature of the treaty with the Ameer. This instrument provides tor a telegraph line to Caimi, ancT stipulates Chat the Ameer’s foreign policy shall be controlled by the British Government, which agrees on its part to protect the Ameer from foreign aggression, An Alexandria (Egypt) dispatch of the 10th says the British Government had placed an unqualified veto upon the project ot the return of the ex-Khedive to Egypt. AccoliDiNG to Calcutta telegrams of the *lotli the cholera was still raging among tile natives and troops in Candahur, and spreading toward Herat. The Rumpa rebellion was assuming larger proportions. A Cairo telegram of the 9ti\ says that the administration of the new Khedive was proving altogether unsatisfactory and a fresh crisis in Egypt was threatened. By noon on the 9th the run upon the Montreal District and City Savings Bank had spent its force. At that time many of those who, the day before, were so anxious to get their money, brought it back again. During the flurry the bank paid out (250,000.