Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1879 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

Current Paragraphs. The failure of the well-known Chicago music fl rm of A. Reed A Sons was announced on the 18th. During the last year the Agents of the Post-Office Department arrested 562 persons for offenses against the Postal laws. At Vienna on the 17th the Archduchess Marie Christine, the future Queen of B|«in, officially renounced her right to the Austrian succession. General Grant has accepted an invitation of the Grand Army of the Republic Post of Harrisburg, Pa, to visit that city on the 15<h of December. At Andover, Mass., on the 18th two young eons of Mrs. H. P. Beard were burned to death by a fire which aq incendiary started in a room they occupied. ‘ The steamer Algeria, from Liverpool, arrived at New York oh the 19th, with £330.735 in specie on board. On the same day the steamer Gallcrt brought SBOO,OOO in French j gold coin. The Merchants' Association at Boston has recently appointed a committee to co-operate with/>thcr organisations in an effort to secure the enactment of a National Bankrupt law. Rev. J. V. McNamara, formerly a priest of the Order known as “The Congregation of the Mission.” was recently installed, at New York, Bishop of the “ludel«ndent Catholic Church.” Tlie will of Rev. Dr. Joseph P. Thompson, who died in Berlin, contains a clause bequeathing to Mrs. Sara De Land, of Grand Rapids, Mich., the sum of 3,000 marks and certain pictures ami books. Mrs. Adelaide Robert, on trial in Chicago for the murder of Theodore Weber, at Chicago, some months ago, has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. She was committed to the Insane Asylum. .The agent sent by our Government to see if the leading Powers would take the initiative In calling an International Mone- I tgry Conference has returned to Washington. Ills mission proved unsuccessful. It is said the Directors of the Bremen Steamship line have decided to refuse trans- I portation on their vessels to a class of heavy ' French silks which are so weighted with I chemicals and oils as to cause danger of • spontaneous combustion. The visit of the Princess Louise to London is said to have for its object the I colonization of Manitolia and Northwestern. I Canada. A company has been formed under I the title of the Lake .Winnipeg Land and Cbionization Association, to give aid and information to emigrants. ' P

General and Mrs. Grant arrived at their home in Galena on the evening of the 19th, having left Chicago in a special car on the morning of that day. They will remain at their home until their departure, in December, for Washington, via Indianapolis, Ciucipuatf, Louisville, etc. Judge *F. C. Beanian has declined, on account of the state of his health, the appointment tendered him by Governor Cros well to till the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Mr. Chandler. The Governor, on the 17th, appointed exGovernor Baldwin,of Detroit, to the position. Recently ten young boys of London, < >utarip, Were discovered in a plot to buy a -schooner and turn pirates on the lakes. They had purchased revolvers, and were concerting as to weapons of warfare. The money for the outfit ($180) one of the boys stole from a relative. The oldest boy is twelve years of age. The boys said they gnt their idea of the plot from reading “Jack Harkaway” and kindred stories. ' * - —— Calls were issued on the 18th for a meeting in Washington, on the Sth of January next,'of the Union Greenback National Committee, Chairman and members of the various State Committees, representatives of Greenback and Labor organizations, and editors of newspapers throughout the country friendly to the principles of the Greenback and Labor organizations, to decide upon the time and place for holding a National Convention. A recent Washington dispatch states that the Secretary of the Interior would soon issue a circular for the information of parties desiring to register their trade-marks, to the effect that the Federal statute upon the subject, by recent decision of the Supreme Court, is declared unconstitutional, and the Patent-Office registration is consequently Ineffectual as a means of protection; but that the Department will, however, continue to register trade marks for persons so desiring. The United States Supreme Court has rendered a decision declaring the provisions of the Trade-mark act unconstitutional. The ground upon which the decision was based appears to have been that the clause of the Constitution giving Congress the power to enact a Copyright law is designed exclusively for tha protection of property in literary productions. The decision will not operate io destroy any valid trade-mark right It merely leaves the law upon that subject as it was before the passage of the act in question, which was intended to afford additional security to the owners of trade-marks.

J. A. Bentley, Commissioner of Pento pension claimants and their attorneys, which reads, as follows : « - “To enable this office to dispatch with better facility the rapidly-increasing current business, a change in the system of arranging the records and tiles has been made which wifl render it necessary that all inquiries Tor the condition of pension claims on account of service rendered after March 4, 1861. should contain the name of the soldier who peaformed military service, with bis State, company and regiment, aa well as the number of claim or pension certificate, as the case may be. Inquiries which do not contain the above information will not be answered, except in special cases where tho failure to furnish ft is explained.” At the session in Washington on the doth of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland the following officers were chonen for the ensuing year: President—General Phil. H. Sheridan. Vice-Presidents—General Massachusetts; General Barnum, New York: General Cramer, New Jersey; General Negley, Pennsylvania; General Duffield, Michigan; Colonel Hobson, Kentucky; Captain E. E. Rhum, Tennessee; General Morgan. Illinois; General Streight, Indiana: General Meyer, Ohio; Colonel Johnston, Wisconsin; Colonel Conover, Missouri; General Martin, Kansas; Captain Wood,' Minnesota ;"and Captain Selleck, lowa. Recording Secretary—Captain Steel. Corresponding Secretary—General Cist. Treasur-er-General Fullerton. Toledo was selected as the place for the next meeting of the Society.. J