Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1879 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

Current Paragraphs. The French Chambers hare been convoked for the 37th of November. Fhillippert, a Peris banker, has absconded, leaving enormous liabilities. The Ohio State Grange will meet in annual session at Cincinnati on the 9th of DeThe municipality of Paris has decided to deepen the river Seine, at a cost of 38,000.000 franc*. _ James L. Gillespie has declined the Republican nomination for Lieutenant-Gov-ernor at Louisiana. Rear Admiral William Reynolds, United State* Navy, died at bis residence in Washington a few days ago. — A recent 'Washington dispatch says an appropriation of $3,750,000 will be asked for taking the census next year. X & Adger A Co., hardware merchants of Charleston, 8. C-, have failed for $383,000. They claim asaeU of *308,000. Secretary Sherman issued an order on the 3d prohibiting the importation of neat cattle from Canada, to take effect December L Eight deaths from yellow fever occurred in Memphis during the week ending on the 3th, a majority of which were lingering eases. t !.'* ; President Hayes issued a proclamation on the 3d, designating Thursday, November 37, as a day of National thanksgiving and prayer. . Since January 1, last, 23,993 German emigrants landed at Castle Garden, against 18,713 during the corresponding period of the previous year. * _ , The wholesale dry-goods house of Btetlauer Brothers A Co., of Chicago, suspended on the 3d. Their liabilities are estimated at $1,730,000.

It has been decided by Prussia, on the death of the Duke of Brunswick, to transfer the principality of Gils to the Crown Prince of Germany. A London telegram of the 9th says the departure of Mr. Parnell for America in the interest of the Irish renters had been postponed, In consequence of the uncertain aspect of political affairs. Major Reno, of the Seventh Cavalry, Is to be again tried by court-martial, upon the charge of being guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. The wife of Bill Young, who was iately lynched at Luray, Mo., swore out warrants on the 3d for the arrest of several persons believed to have been concerned in the hanging. The recent sinking of a railway embankment in India in consequence of a heavy rain, overturned a passenger train, and a number of persons, including three Europeans, were killed and forty-five wounded. It is stated that great improvement has recently become manifest in the mental condition of Carlotta, the widow of the Emperor Maximilian, of Mexico, and complete restoration of her sanity is considered possible.- _ The Postmasters of all the prominent cities of the country have sent their annual reports to the Department for the fiscal year ending June 30. These show that New York stands first in point of business done, and Chicago next. The remains of the late Major General Hooker reached Cincinnati on the evening of the 6th, and lay in state all night. The funeral ceremonies were performed on the 7th, due civic and military honors being paid to the departed hero. The General Missionary Committee of the Episcopal Church, at its recent meeting in New York, appropriated SBOO,OOO for missionary work the ensuing year, which is an increase of $50,000 over the amount appropriated last year.

- The National Christian Temperance Union of the United States and Canada doeed its session at Fort Wayne, Ind., on the Bth. Governor Btl John, of Kansas, was elected Pre sklent and Francis Morphy first VicePresident for the ensuing year. '. General Hatch, Chief Ouray and General Adams hare been appointed a commission to make an investigation Into the circumstances attending the recent outbreak .at the White River Agency, and determine the punishment to be meted out to the guilty. The marriage of King Alfonso with the, Austrian Archduchess has been postponed 'until the Ist of December. A bill has been introduced In the Chamber of Deputies granting to the future Queen an annual subsidy of $90,008, and SBO,OOO annually in case of her widowhood. - Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, the wellknown author and lecturer, died a few days ago at his residence in South Brooklyn, after a week’s illness, of pneumonia. He was sixty-three years old. Writing over the nom de plume of Burleigh, he became widely known in this country. a Henry Grcenebaum, late President of ths German National Bank of Chicago, has been indicted by a United States Grand Jury for abstracting valuable assets and misappropriating its funds. The indictment contains twenty-one counts. Mr. Grecnebaum has been arrested and held to bail for trial in the sum of Itfi^OGQi . The extreme distress in Turkish financial matters is evidenced by a statement recently mads that even the pilgrimage to Mecca, which has hitherto been provisioned at the expense of the Government, is unable to get any assistance, an event which has never before occurred since the establishment of the Ottoman Empire. .

Ex-President Grant. reached his old home at Galena on the sth. He was most enthusiastically received by his old friends and neighbors. An address of welcome was made by Senator McClellan, and other speeches by i Governor Cull oca. Governor Gear, of lowa, Governor Smith, Wisconsin, Senator Logan, Senator Allison, of lowa, Hon. E. B. Washburn e and others. General Grant made appropriate response to the welcoming address. . Mound City, 111., was visited by a destructive conflagration a few days ago, which obliterated nearly one-third of the business and residence structures, and inflicted a loss of from $140,000 to $150,000. All 4he public school buildings, court-house ahd about thirty other buUdings were destroyed. The county records were saved, except some loose documents. An appeal for assists nee has been issued. Contributions of money or provisos* caa De sent to the Relief Committee of hieh R. Fuganxa, Mayor, la Chairman. On the afternoon of the 7th a frail uUding in Kansas City, occupied by J. F. VW** as » candy and cracker factory, fell in

wRh a tremendous crash, ams fax a few seconds limes sprang up from the debris. In the bonding about sixty persons were employed, mainly gills and young bora, and the cries and screams of these ss the fire snread with frightful rapidity were something horrible. The flames were finally subdued, and from the debris sixteen corpses were recovered, and it was believed more would be found when the tuinrwere cleared up. Several were also res; coed, badly, and probably fatally, burned. The Commissioner of Pensions recently received s letter complaining that a certain party had made a demand upon a female pensioner for s*, for services in getting the Arrears of Pension blit through Congress. With a view to expose this disreputable scheme, Mr. Bentley furnished for pnblfciulon his reply to the above letter, as follow*: “ Daaa Madam : In answer to your letter of fbe 3d insi., you are informed that neither Mr. - nor any other persons have any rtgM'to demand pay of you for any efforts they may have put forth to secure the passage of the law granting arrears. Prom tb© paper* which you meioaed, and which, with your oonacnt. 1 will retain, it appears that Mr. is trying to levy a tax for his private use upon your credulity and generosity.” r . The new two-cent postal card is now, or soon will be, ready for distribution. The Universal Postal Union, to which the new cards can be sent, includes Great Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, the Netherlands, AustriaHungary, Serria, Denmark, the Argentine Republic, Roumania, Luxemburg, Montanogro, the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Netheriand colonies, Egypt, British India, the Falkland Islands, Ceylon, Greenland, Hong Kong and other places in China, Jamaica, Japan, Liberia, Mexico, Newfoundland, Peru, Persia and Trinidad. Canada belongs to the Union also, bat the special arrangement between that country and the United States remains in force, letters and postal cards passing between the two at domestic rates.

The Recent Elections. The official vote in Colorado for Supreme Judge hu been announced aa follows: Beck, Republican, 10,930; Richmond, Democrat, 12,702; the Greenback candidate, 1.240. Beck's majority over all, 2,972. The election in Chicago and Cook County, 111., resulted in the success of the Republicans, their ticket being elected by majorities ranging from 4,000 to 10,000. The news received from Wisconsin up to the morning of the 6th indicated the election of the Republican State ticket by majorities ranging from 20,000 to 25,000. The Legislature is largely Republican—the Senate being composed of twbnty-flve Republicans and eight Democrats, and the Assembly sixtynine Republicans, twenty-eight Democrats, two Greenbackers and one Independent. In Detroit, Mich., the Republicans elected their candidate for Mayor by 1,800 majority, and fifteen out of the twenty-six members of the Common Council. In Maryland . the Democrats elected their entire State ticket by a majority of over 20,00). The Legislature will stand: Senate—Democrats, 19; Republicans, 5; Independent Democrats, 2. House of Delegates— Democrats, 06; Republicans, 18. Democratic majority o» joint ballot, 00. In Virginia, the election was for members of the Legislature only, and of these it appeared on the morning of the Bth. that the debt-payers would hsve a small majority In both houses, but the vote was so dose that the official count would be necessary to positively settle the contest

A small vote was polled in Minnesota on the 4th. Republican State ticket elected by an average majority of about 8,000. The Connecticut Legislature, part of which was elected od the 4th, will stand about as follows: Senate—Republicans, 17; Democrats, 4. House—Republicans, 158; Democrats, 83. The net Republican majority in the seven Senatorial Districts,!* 2,613. Cobb, Republican candidate for Supreme Judge in Nebraska, has a majority of about 15,000. The rest of the Republican State ticket elected. The returns received from the Massachusetts election up to a late hour on the night of the sth indicated that Long, the Republican candidate for Governor, was elected by over 18,000 plurality. The Republican candidates for State officers probably all elected. Legislature largely Republican. In Boston Butler had a majority of SJHB over all opposition for Governor; over Long 5,307 —the vote in fnil being: Butler, 23,445; Long, 18,238; Adams, 1,530; Eddy, 99. The local elections in Mississippi on the 4th resulted generally in favor of the Democrats. Holmes County was carried by the Greenbarkers. In New Jersey the Republicans gain one State Senator and four or five members of the Assembly, and will retain control of both branches of the Legislature. The official returns from the late election in lowa giri Gear (Rep.), for Governor, 157,577; Trim We (Dem.), 85,067; Campbell (Greenbacker), 45,429; Dungan (Prohibitionist), 8,258. Total vote, 291,315. Gear’s majority over all, 28,827. According to official returns from Pennsylvania Butler (Rep), for Bute Treasurer, was elected by a majority of 58,675 over Barr (Dem). ’ The returns received in New York City up to the morning of the 10th were to the effect that Cornell (Rep.), for Governor, would have a plurality of nearly 40,000 In the State. Robinson’s (Dem.) plurality in Brooklyn was about 10,000 and in New York City about 18,000. Kelly's vote In the State would not fall modi short of 75,000. Potter (Dem.) for Lieutenant-Governor, and Horatio Seymour, Jr., (Dem.) for Engineer and Surveyor, probably elected—the former by about 3,000 and the latter by about 10,000 majority. The remainder of the State ticket was claimed by both parries. The State Legislature was overwhelmingly Republican. General.

-At the recent political trials at Kieff, Russia, one man was sentenced to be hanged, two men to imprisonment at hard labor for ten years, one to six years, two to four years, one to one month, and two to one week’s imprisonment. It is stated that the German Admiralty, considering the warlike complications in China and Japan, has resolved to reinforce the fleet in the East Asian waters to protect German interests. Owing to strong opposition to the Cabinet in the Assembly, the Bulgarian Ministry have resigned. The Porte has decided to carry out promptly all reforms which it considers necessary, as well as those to which It is bound by treaty stipulations. A Fort Scott (Kansas) dispatch of the 3d aanouneea that Jesse James, the notorious train and bank robber, was shot dead on the preceding day.by George Shepherd, a Kansas aty detective. He was riding over the prairie near the Indian Territory with James when he quickly drew a revolver, placed it within an inch of Jesse’s face, and said: “You robbed and murdered my nephew. I have been long waiting for this opportunity for revenge.” He pulled the trigger and Jesse fell dead. The Berlin National Gazette of the 4th stated that paper* had been discovered at Cabal that seriously compromise the Russian Government in connection with recent Afghan troubles. A passenger train on the New York £ Greenwood Uke Rajlroad ran into an open

draw «$ the Haeksesadt River, Bear Hackensack, N. Y., on the 4to. th* bridge haring been left open by the watchman. The engineer jumped from the locomotive and was killed. -Several of the passengers were hurt, bat none fatally. The car floated on the waGermany is said to Imvedniormed the French Government that she expects France to renress Communism. Th« Russian Government las been requested to withdraw the XI,OOO cavalry Rationed in Poland, on the borders of German territory. -frif The remains of the late Senator Chandler were taken from his residence in Detroit on the morning of the 6th and carried to the City Hall, where they lay hi ftfcte until about one o’clock, and where they were exposed to public view. At one o’clock they were returned to his Ists rss*[fours, and there • funeral services were held, conducted by Rev. Dr. Pierson, of the Fort Street Presbyterian Church, after which the body Wat laid away in the family burial lot at Elmwood Cemetery. The attendance of citizen* .was very, great, and the United States Senate was represented by Senators Anthony, Blaine, Cameron and Perry, and the Secretary and Ser-geant-at-Arms. The PspeirUnenU at Washington were dosed, and the clerks of the Interior Department adopted eulogistic resolutions. It wap reported from Madrid on the sth that a royal decree had been promulgated, raising the state of siege in the Basque provinces and Navarre. . > „ Upper Silesia and Schwarz burg are threatened by a famine in consequence of the bad harvest. A recent Berlin telegram says* the appearance of the English squadron iu Syrian waters would be succeeded by the dispatch of German and Austrian vessels of war to the Eastern Mediterranean.

The American Women’s Suffrage Association, at its session In Cincinnati on the sth, elected the following officers to serve for the ensuing year: President, Henry B. Blackwell, Boston. Vice-Presidents, T. W. Higginson, Rhode Island; Mrs. Hazard, St. Louis; Mary A. Livermore, Illinois; George William Curtis, New York; George W. Julian, Indiana; Theodore D. Weld, Massachusetts: Celia Burleigh, New York; Margaret N. Longley, Cincinnati. Chairman Executive Committee, Mrs. Lucy Stone. Foreign Corresponding Secretary, Julia Ward Howe. Corresponding Secretary, Myra Bradwell, Illinois. Recording Secretaries, Miss Matilda Hindman, New Jersey ; Amanda Way, Indiana. Treasurer, Frank B. Sanborn, Massachusetts. A London dispatch of the 6th says Lord Salisbury had countermanded the order for the dispatch of the British squadron to Vourlah, on the promise that certain specific reforms should be brought about by the Porte by a specified date. An envoy recently sent to the Viceroy of India by the King of Burmah was ordered by the Viceroy to be detained until some settlement of the difficulties between the two Governments could be reached. He was still in custody on the 6th. A Greeley (Col.) telegram of the 6th slates that Edward Clark, who was employed at White River Agency, says Chief Douglass, the plotter of the Meeker massacre, was concerned in the horrible Mountain Meadow massacre, where so many Innocent women and children were butchered by the Mormons and Indians. Clark says that one day this summer Douglass and another Chief quarreled. The Chief in bis anger said he could ruin Douglass if he told the truth about him, that he was a bad man and had participated in the crime at Mountain Meadows. House-to-house inspection was begun in Memphis on the 7th, under the auspices of the National Board of Health, with a view to ascertaining what sanitary improvements are necessary for each dwelling within the corporate limits of the city. , A Tucson telegram of the 7th reports that the Arizona scouts and volunteers had defeated Victoria’s band of Apaches at a point about sixty miles below the Mexican line. A Lewes (Del.) telegram of the Bth says the steamer Champion, from New York for Charleston, was run into the morning before by the ship Lady Oct*via, off the capes, and sank in five minutes after the collision. The ship was badly damaged. Of those persons on board the steamer thirty-two were reported lost. Twenty-five were saved. Constantinople advices of the Bth state that the Turkish newspapers were very violent against England. They declared her demands even more unjust than the attempts of Russia to interfere in Turkish administration, In resistance to which Turkey waged the great war. It was reported from Vienna on the same day that It was expected that the increase of the English influence in Constantinople would be used to Introduce financial reforms, which would facilitate other promised reforms. The Porte and Sultan were spending their whole time over the reform question and the demands of England. The Catholic Bishops of Ireland have adopted resolutions appealing to the Government and all public bodies and private Individuals to help the poor, as the Poor-law act is Insufficient to meet the necessities of the impending crisis. The Bishops at the same time exhort their flocks to bear their trials patiently, to respect the rights of others, to pay their just debts as fully as they are able, and to obey the laws, while using all peaceful and constitutional means to reform the Land laws, which are the main cause of the country’s poverty and helplessness. The St. Petersburg Oolot of the 9th says Russia would consider the entry of the British fleet into the Euxine Sea as a casus belli. .

Sidney A. Grant, late of Cincinnati, and A. F. Wilson were arrested at Denver, Col., on the Bth, on the charge of conducting a fraudulent scheme through the malls, under the name of the Denver Land Company, and taken before a United States Commissioner. They waived examination and were committed. The lands dealt In are In the ssnd hills, forty miles north of Denver, in another county, and were platted and recorded %s North Denver. Although known in Denver but eight days, a perfect avalanche of mall was being received there for 8. A Grant and the Denver Land Company. The Postmaster had been ordered by the Department to deliver no registered letters and pay no moneyorders to Grant —Much has been said and written about making tea, and every housewife has her own ideas in regard to it Green tea should not be allowed to boil; the boiling water should be potted on it covering tightly, and set it back upon the stand about five minutes; fill your teapot or put all the water upon it necessary to serve at the table. Black tea should be boiled very quickly, not more than two minutes; fill up with boiling water and serve at once. In this way you save all the aroma. I think all teas should be made as quickly as possible. Your water should always be boiling hot. In making green teas earthen teapots are considered the most healthful.— Cor. Detroit Post. . —“Some has bad luck from theshtart,” said Mr. O’Conemara, “and sorra taste av anything else iver comes 4o ’em. Wid me, now, Oi was bom a twin the same as me brother, ahd we niver had but wan birthday betune the two av us, qfltjj he doied, long loife to himP’