Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1879 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

Current Paragraphs. The municipsfitj of Paris has decided to deepen the river Seine, si a coat of 38,000,000 fr»n«Richard Schell, the noted Ne w York Democratic politician, died in that city recently, after a three weeks’ Ulnes*. Rear Admiral Augustas H. Kilter, United States Nary, died at hi* residence in Baltimore on the 10th, aged seventy-two yean. A Cabal dispatch of the 16th says forty-nine Afghans ha-1, up to that time, been hauled for complicity in the massacre of the Brltlah Legation. The Disector of the Press at Constantinople has recently ordered Turkish newspapers to desist from attacking England, under penalty of suppression. Considerable uneasiness has been caused In Brussels by the recent action of France in building a number of first-class forts on the Belgian frontier. Mrs. David Davis, wife of Senator Davis, of Illinois, died at her old home, in Stockbrtdge, Mass., on the niaht of the 9th. Bhe had been in poor health for many years. The total amount of silver coin in the Government Treasury vaults in Washington oo the 10th was over H 0,000,000, of which 132,500,000 were staudard silver dollars. Secretary Erarts has tendered to Colonel John Hay, and the latter baa accept ed, the position of First Assistant Secretary of State,- vice F. W. Seward, resigned. The Poet-Office Department in Washington has received official notification that the Republic of Venezuela has become a member of the Universal Postal Union, to date from the Ist of next January. The steamer St. Louis recently left Liverpool for New Orleans, with one hundred and twenty passengers, nearly all for Texas. There are many farmer* among them, some with families, and a number of merchants. The Assistant Treasurer at New York on the 10th purchased the whole of 110,000,000 of six per cent. Government bonds of Jnly, 1881, which he hau been authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to buy at 108. Governor Croswell has appointed Hon. Fernando C. Beaman, Prolate Jndge of Lenawee County, to succeed the late Zachariah Chandler as United States Senator from Michigan. ' The Sultan has ratified the scheme of reforms for the European provinces of Turkey and Asia Miner, and consented to recognize the principle of ministerial responsibility. He lias also ordered the re-eqalpmeat of the forts of the Dardanelles. The Czar has accepted the resignation of Count Schouv&loff as Ambassador to England, and conferred upon him the order of St. Vladimir, in recognition of bis public services. Schouvaloff will remain a member of the Council of the Empire. The Republican Executive Committee will meet in Washington on the 17th of December, for the purpose of electing a Chairman in the place of Senator Chandler, deceased, and also to determine the place of holding the next Republican Nat Tonal Con've niton. „ ' In a recent dispatch to the State Department Mr. Bailey, United States Consul at Bt&agbai, Chius, reporta that the cotton crop Ui that district will not be more than half the average yield. The Consul at Odessa, Russia, reports that wheat crop of that country will fall far short of the usual harvest. - . ■ , At ajpeeting of the grain trade at the New York Produos Exchange on the 10th it was decided to rescind the rules referring to the cental system, and a committee waa appointed to confer with the Board of Managers of the Exchange as to the advisability of continuing the old system of weighing and measuring grain. • j The Irish Local Government Board has recently made a special report respecting the state of affairs in Ireland. The report states that the potato crop/ is everywhere deficient and inferior, and this, combined with the absence of peat fuel, owing to rain, is regarded as the leading cause of distress, which is expected to culminate duriDg the winter and spring. Pauperism la greatly increased, especially in Ulster. The Board of School Trustees of the District of Colombia bad before them on the 11th the question of the application of Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood and si* other women for placing a woman on the School Board. A report waa finally adopted admitting that there is no legal obet&cle to women serving as members of the District School Boards, but taking the ground that there are grave objections •* as a matter of policy, and that therefore the application should be refused." A special telegram from New York on the 13th says exact results had been received from forty-fire out of sixty counties, which would jnsure the election of the entire Republican State ticket except Soule (for Engineer and Surveyor). The majorities were" estimated as follows: Hoskins, for Lieutenant-Governor, 2,170; Carr, Secretary of State, 2,800; Wadsworth, Comptroller, IM00; Ward, Attorney-General, 7,800; Wendell, Treasurer, 1,500; Beymoar (Dem.) Engineer and Surveyor, 8,000. Cornell’s plurality for Governor would reach nearly 40.000. , On the evening of the 18th General Grant received, at the Palmer House, in Chicago, the members at the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, the members of the veteran ciubs. the members of the different posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, and such citizens as choss to pay their respects. In the evening he was duly banqueted. After the cloth wav' removed, there were speeches from Generals Sherman, Grant, Logan, Vilas, Burlburt and Schofield, Admiral Stevens, Leonard Swett, General Wilson, General Woodford, General Tope, Colonel Robert J. Ingersoll,.Emory A. Stores and Mark Twain. The banquet was an exceedingly brilliant oue. ra The editors of all the principal newspapers in St. Petersburg have recently been summoned to the Press Bureau of the Min. istry of the Interior, and instructed with reference to the conduct of their respective papers. They that frequent complaints had been received from Lhradia that articles lu th« St Petersburg press interfered with the Imperial policy, and therefore they must not continue in the same strain. Neither Germany nor Aostro-Hungary, nor the relations of Russia with either of these two powers, nor France, must be discussed. England might bo discussed, but Judiciously. These rules would be continued until the Emperor's return to St Petersburg, a month hence. The Army of the Tennessee hag elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, General W. T. Sherman; Recording Secretary, Colonel L. M. Dayton; Corresponding Secretary, General A. Hickenloper; Treasurer, General If. F. Fore*; Vice-Presi-dent*, Genera! J. 8. Reynolds. Illinois; GenSen. Spooner, Indian*; Colonel Frank

Lynefc, Ohio; Captain^E. Ware, Missouri; Captain C. C. Chadwick, Michigan; Major M. A. Migiey, loan; General L. F. Hubbard, Minnesota; Colonel George TL Bryant, Wisconsin : Colonel W. J. Landrum, Kentucky; General Amass Cobh, Nebraska UCaptain J. B. Raymond, Dakota; General K M. Bane, Utah. . a A number of the members of the Army of the Potomac met in Chicago on the 13th and voted to form a permanent Society. The following officers were chosen: President, Lieutenant-General P. H. Sheridan; Vice-Presidents, General Julius White, Chicago, and R- 8. Robinson, Fort Wayne; Recording Secretary, J. 8. Erly; Corresponding Secretary, C. W. Dean; Treasurer, E. B. Sherman; Executive Committee, General George A. Forsythe, ex-Governor John L. Beveridge, John W. Bennett, R. M. Warebam and Joseph C. Myers. The meetings will be held on the second Thursdays of April and October, the latter to be the annual gathering. The next meeting will be held iu Chicago, in April 1880. A Washington dispatch of the 18th says Postmaster-General Key had arrived at the conclusion thstsll lottery companies and lottery agents are doing a fraudulent business, within the provision of his statutory powers concerning “ schemes to defraud the public.’’ He bad commenced the issuance of special orders to postmasters forbidding them to pay any postal money-order or to deliver any registered letter addressed to persons named in the orders as being concerned in the lottery business. Buch letters are to be stamped “fraudulent,” and to be returned, as are also money-orders, to the senders. All ordinary mall matter addressed to names that are known to be fictitious are to be sent to the Dead-Letter Office. General. The packing-house employes at the Union Bfcck Yards, near Chicago, recently struck for increased pay, and their employers agreed on the Bth to advance the wages of their butchers and laborers twenty-five cents per day, as demanded. The previous rates had been about $1.50 per day for common, and from $2 to $4.00 for skilled, laborers. A Vienna dispatch of the 10th says the oft-rumored resignation of Prince Gortschakoff had become a fact. The Russian Foreign Department would be conducted by De Giers until a successor to the Prince la appointed. A somewhat singular case has recently been tried .before the Superior Court of Springfield, Mass., involving. the right of ecclesiastical discipline to. the extent of injuring an excommunicated man’s business. Joseph Parker, a Holyoke livery man, sued a French Catholic priest for SIO,OOO damages, claiming that the priest had, after excommunicating him, ruined his business by undue exercise of pastoral authority. The Judge, in his charge to the Jury, said the law of the country does not allow ecclesiastical interference with a man’s business after he has been excommunicated from a church, which is the extent of the punishment ecclesiastical authority can inflict; nor is ecclesiastical authority allowed to interfere with any one to deter him from giving his patronage to that business. If defendant only forbade customers of plaintiff from being brought to church in plaintiff’s hacks, he did not exceed his ecclesiastical authoritx; but if after the excommunication of Parker he prevented the employment of h;s backs for other than church purposes, then plaintiff is entitled to a verdict, and the damage must not be limited to the mere loss.of custom entailed, but to all losses which have occurred therefrom. The jury evidently thought from the evidence given on the trial that the plaintiff's business had been seriously injured by undue and unwarranted interference on the part of the defendant, who had forbidden bis communicants to patronize the plaintiff’s hacks under any circumstances, and hence they brought In a verdict for Parker for $3,43a . r At Memphis, Tenn., a few days ago, Mr*. Margaret Myers committed suicide by pouring kerosene oil over her clothes and then setting them on fire. She stated before her death that she had been inveigled into marriage with a man who had since robbed and deserted herself and children. A white woman named Mrs. James Adam*, in Lancaster County, 8. C., the other night, cut the throats of her five children, se fire to her own clothing, and was burned to death. It is supposed she was insane. On the 10th a desperate fight took place at Candelaria Mountain, fifty miles south of El Paso, Texas, in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, between a large band of Indians, about two hundred, and a party of fifty men from Carixa, N. M., thirty-two of whom were killed and eighteen escaped, wounded. The fight lasted all day. In New Orleans on the 10th Edward C. Palmer, late President of the Louisiana Savings Bank, was arrested upon two indictments by the Grand Jury, one charging him with embezzlement in June, 1879, of $47,437 of money belonging to the bank or deposited therein, and the other with publishing false reports and willfully concealing facts as to the condition of the bank, to deceive the public. He was imprisoned in defsult of $40,000 bonds. A Paris dispatch of the 11th announces the death of Abdel-Kider, the famous Algerine chief, at Damascus. He was seventy-two years old. A Bucharest telegram of the 11th •ays the cattle plague had appeared in Moldavia. There was great agitation in Bosnia on the 10th and 11th, In consequence of fears of a rising against the Austrians. The Mussulmans and Christians were making common cause. A strike among the longshoremen at Boston, Mass., ended on the 11th by the employers making the concessions ssked. A large meeting of citizens was held in Cincinnati on the night of the 11th to devise means to aid the suffering people of Ireland. Speeches were made denouncing ms false Lord Beaeonsflcld’s statement that Ireland had never appealed to the Government of Great Britain in vain. The Vienna (Austria) Tagbiatt of the 12th says the treaty of alliance recently concluded between the Balkan principalities, ostensibly against foreign intervention in the Balkan States, but really against the Austrian treaty, stipulates that event of Austria extending operations beyond Novi-Bazar, Bervia will furnish 120/00 men, Montenegro 20,000, and Bulgaria 90,000, to form an allied army, and that Servta will advance Montenegro 75,000 ducats for military expenses. The appointment of a Russian General as Commander-In-Chief of the allied forces was considered possible. At Paterson, .N. J., on the 11th a Deputy United BUtes Marshal arrested Charles H. \ oorhia, member of Congress from the Fifth District of New Jersey, on a charge of abstracting from the First National Bank of Hackensack, of which he was President. collaterals deposited to secure a private loan. The affidavit was made by Cashier Bower and Vice-President De Groot. A Constantinople telegram of the 13th say* the Porte bad demanded of the British Government an explanation of the movements of the British fleet In Turkish waters. It was reported that Russia and Turkey had formed an alliance. An explosion of fire-damp in the Shortheath eoDiery, near Wolverhampton, Eng., on the 13th csu#ed the death of atx miners.

General Hatch, of the Indian Peace Commission, reached Los Pinos Agency on the lsth. General Adana arrived there three or four days earlier. The hostile chiefs, with the exception at Jack, were there and willing to surrender. Jack had persistently refused to come to the Agency and meet the Commission. It had been determined almost beyond doubt that be led the hostile* tn the Thornburgh fight. Ouray had, in a conference on the 11th, told the hostile* they naed expect no mercy. Prince Alamyn, the son of King Theodore, of Abyssinia, who waa brought to England to be educated, after the death of his father and the surrender of his army at Magdala in 1868, died at Leeds, England, on the 14th, of consumption. A meeting of the Irish National Convention Committee was held in Dublin on the 14th, and resolution were adopted to reconstruct the Irish House of Commons on O’Connell’s plan—to consist of three hundred members elected by manhood suffrage—and to meet In Isß2 at the latest. A fire occurred on the second floor of a tenement house on Canon street, New York City, early on the morning of the 14tb, and In trying to escape Mary Babiskt, who occupied apartments on the third floor, leaped from a window to the street, and was fatally injured. Joseph Botslde, who lived on the fourth floor, also threw himself from a window and was killed. His entire family, consisting of wife, two children and mother-in-law, were suffocated. Charles Drews and Franklin Stichler were hanged at Lebanon, Pa., on the 14th, for the murder of Joseph Raber at Indlantown Gap in December last. On the same day a young man named Myron A. Buell was hanged at Cooperatown, N. Y., for the murder of a young girl named May Richards, in June last. Buell made a full confession of bis brutish and fiendish crime. Tho Porte had, according to a Constantinople telegram of the 16th, Invited its creditor* to examine into the financial affair* of Turkey. A London dispatch of the 16th says disorders were increasing in Turkey. Even within sixty miles of Constantinople Circassians were robbing and murdering the Inhabitants. The schooner C. G. Breed foundered in a, squall in Lake Erie on the 16th, abd of the eight men on board only two were saved. A terrific boiler explosion occurred la a shingle mill near East Saginaw, Mich., on the afternoon of the 15th. Three men were fatally and one slightly Injured.