Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1879 — General. [ARTICLE]

General.

In Russia diphtheria has attained such proportions that in some sections the percentage of mortality far exceeds the births. On the 17th a Paris correspondent telegraphed that two French explorers had discovered the source of the River Niger. .

, A Paris dispatch of the 16th denies the truth of the recent report of the death of Abdel Kader, the Algerine chieftain. The British authorities are constructing a railway to Candahar. tn Afghanistan. A severe snow storm prevailed in Vienna on the 16th. Albert Gilbert, Assistant Appraiser in the New York Custom-House, was suspended from duty on the 17th, by an order from Washington. Frederick Snyder, an Examiner in the same department, was suspended several days before. The Appraiser said they were not charged with the same offense, but declined making public the charges pending an investigation. A Pesth (Hungary) dispatch of the 17th says one-sixth of the inhabitants of Montenegro were starving. There had been severe fighting on the Turkish frontier, near Bresovitza. The latter place had been plundered by a body of MO Arnauts. A Glasgow dispatch of the 17th says thirteen persons, returning from a fair, were that day drowned while crossing the Lochindaal of the island of Islay. On the 17th General Grant received the public school children of Chicago in the Exposition building. There were 50,000 of them. In the evening he was banqueted and received by the Calumet Club. There was considerable excitement in Augusta, Maine, on the 17th over a report that the-Governor and Council had decided to throw out certain election returns, the effect of which would be the seating of Democratic candidates for Senators and members of the House of Representatives, and the securing of the State to the combined Democrats and Greenbackers for the coming year. a lt was reported that the town of Kettery was to be thrown out because, as alleged, two notices of election instead of three were posted. The throwing out of these would change the result in York County, by unseating three Republican and electing three Democratic Senators. A similar result would be reached In the city of Auburn, where, it is alleged, the notice of election was posted six days only, instead of seven. If this is thrown out it will change the vote in Androscoggin County. Similar changes on alleged technical grounds will change the figures in the State Senate, and give the Democrats and Greenbackers nineteen Senators and the Republicans twelve. The vote as originally canvassed gave the Ke publicans nineteen Senators, and all the others twelve.

A suit has been begun in the Supreme Court of New York against Postmaster James, of New York City, for the alleged illegal detention of a lottery-agent’s letters. These letters were detained under orders from the Postmaster-General. Counsel claim that the law authorizing such orders is unconstitutional. A colored people’s industrial exposition was opened at Raleigh, N. C-, on the 17th. - Recent Canton (Miss.) dispatches announce the arrest of Eliza Pinkston, of Returning Board notoriety, upon the charge of murdering her second husband. The Captain of the schooner C. G. Breed, which recently foundered during a gale on Lake Erie, has been picked up and brought |o Buffalo. The United States Senate Sub-Com-mittee appointed to investigate the SpoffordKellogg contested election case in Louisiana began its labors at New Orleans on the 17th. Several witnesses were examined on the 18th. The Porte officially announced on the 18th that the Sultan had finally sanctioned the projected statutes for the administrative reorganization of Turkey in Europe and Asia, It also announced that the efficacy of these reforms would be speedily and publicly proved by certain and brilliant results. Baker Pasha had been appointed to superintend their introduction throughout Asia Minor. The London Telegraph of the morning of the 18th says that United States bonds were being shipped back to pay for grain instead of gold. The tug Seymour left Cape Vincent, on Lake Ontario, on the afternoon of the 17th, in company with four smaller tugs, with three dredges, seven dump scows and three derricks in tow, bound for Oswego. When within five miles of that port they encountered a gale, and the fleet broke loose. It was reported on the 18th that all the vessels were lost except the Seymour, and that of the thirty-seven sailors on board nineteen had ptrished.’ • It was reported at Berlin on the 18th that 'Russia had advised Turkey to ask all the signatories to the treaty of 1856 to dispatch squadrons to the Dardanelles in case the English fleet entered the Straits. The whole of the St. Petersburg press was violent in its tone on the question. , It was officially denied in London on the 18th that England’s ultimatum had been sent to the Porte;, that the Channel fleet had been ordered to be in readiness to proceed from Malta to the Turkish waters in four days; that England bad demanded from Turkey the cession of a port in the Black Sea, and that a league of Balkan provinces had been formed.

A fearful explosion occurred in Tunnel No. 3 on the Narrow Gauge Railroad from San Jose to Santa Cruz early on the morning of the ISth. It appears that a blast was let off about 2,700 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, which caused an explosion of gas generated by the filtering of coal oil through the roof and sides of the tunnel. Twenty-one Chinamen and two white men were at work tn the tunnel at the time. Immediately about twenty more Chinamen rushed into the tunnel with torches to aid their comrades. When they had penetrated about 1,500 feet their torches caused a second explosion more violent than the first, shaking the mountain to its center. Two white men, Linkle and Johnson, were brought out terribly burned, and about ten Chinamen, all seriously Injured. As near as could be learned some thirty Chinamen were killed. The second explosion wrecked the engines and works. - ,• A London telegram of the 19th says the Government had resolved to squelch sedition in Ireland and, while doing everything it pqssibly could to diminish and relieve distr e ss, would not permit agitators to carry ou their treasonable programme. Several persons had already been arrested for the use of language tending to a breach of the peace, and there was considerable excitement throughout Ireland in consequence. Among those arrested was James Daly, editor of the Connaught Telegraph. Charles G. Bosse, the book-keeper of the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company’s dank at Milwaukee, has been arrested upon the charge of embezzling the funds of the bank. It is stated that the peculations have been continued during a period of ten years, and that the moneys abstracted will aggregate F 200.000. Experts are engaged upon the books, striving to fathom the mystery of his balances and understand his methods of abstraction. The ceremony of unveiling the statue of General George H. Thomas, erected in Washington and presented to the Nation, through the President, by the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, was duly and impressively performed at the National Capital on the 19th. The gathering in the city was very large, and many distinguished personages. civic and military, participated in the proceedings. The oration was delivered by Judge Stanley Matthews, and at its conclusion he formally presented the statue to the people of the United States, through the President, and President Hayes accepted the same in a few brief and appropriate remarks The public buildings were illuminated with

electric lights in the evening, and the neighboring streets were thronged with people. Short speeches were made by Generals Sherman, Garfield, President Hayes, and others. The Irish Home-Rule Executive Committee adopted resolutions on the 19th denouncing the British Government for causing the arrest of Davitt, Daly and Killen for defending the rights of the Irish tenantry. The California Republican State Central Committee recently telegraphed to the President and Secretary of the National Republican Committee, asking that the place of George G. Gorham on the National Committee, as representative of California, be declared vacant on account of his action during the recent State campaign. An unusually heavy fall of snow occurred at Augusta, Ga, on the 19th. It snowed steadily for over three hours. A London telegram of the 20th says the iron steamer Pallas, from Copenhagen for Amsterdam, had foundered off Heimskirk. and that thirty persons perished. Parkhall, near Evesham, England, the seat of the Earl of Yarmouth, burned on the 20th. Loss, SBOO,OOO. About two o’clock on the morning of the 20th the Leadville (Col.)' Vigilantes took a foot-pad named Patrick Stuart, and Ed Frokishaw, a notorious desperado and lot-jump-er, from the jail, and hung them until they were dead. An Augusta (Me.) dispatch of the 20th says that proceedings had been instituted before the Supreme Court by two of the Republican Senators-elect to restrain the Governor and Council from interference with the returns of the late election. The King of Abyssinia demanded on the 20th that bis right to. Soudan and Nubia be acknowledged, and also that he be paid two million pounds sterling. He Refused to make any other treaty. The inquiry into the conduct of the ex-Ameer Yakoob Khan and his Ministers in connection with the massacre of the British Embassy terminated on the 20th, and the report of the Commission of Inquiry was forwarded to the Viceroy of India. Nothing had transpired to alter the unfavorable opinions current regarding the Ameer’s course. Thomas Flaherty, a farmer residing at Moiiasterredan, near Ballaghderen, Count}’ Sligo, Ireland, was dragged out of bed on the night of the 20th, by a party of twenty men with their faces disguised. Having blindfolded their victim, they took him about fifty yards from the bouse, cut off a piece of his right ear, beat him unmercifully with a piece of bush, took away his gun, and there left him. He alleges the cause of the outrage to be that he bad paid his rent before it was due. ** Denis Kearney was arrested in San Francisco on the evening of the 20th upon charge of attempting to break up a public meeting, and held to bail in; the sum of S2OO. Chief Ouray, in a speech before the White River Ute Commission, an account of which was received on the 20th, explained the tergiversation of the Indian witnesses. He said it was because they belived that a plot had been set for their capture. They had since learned that it was not so, and he believed they would hereafter testify truthfully. In response to the request that the further investigation in relation to the White River affair be prosecuted at Washington, Secretary Schurz telegraphed, on the 20th, acceding to the request, provided that the guilty parties in the inassacre be first pointed out and surrendered, and stated that, if this were not done, the whole tribe would be considered guilty of the crime and treated accordingly. The following was the vote cast in Wisconsin at the recent election for Governor: Smith, Rep., 100,533; Jenkins, De tn., 75,039; May, Greenback, 12,995; Bloomfield, Temperance, 387; scattering, 57. Total vote, 189,011. Smith’s plurality, 25,494. ' London dispatches of the 21st represent the agitation in Ireland as rapidly increasing. -The Government had directed a regiment of dragoons stationed at Manchester to prepare for immediate departure, and the troops scattered throughout Ireland had been ordered to concentrate at Sligo, where the parties lately arrested for seditious utterances are confined, and where there are ominous threats of an attempted rescue. On the evening of the 21st an immense meeting was held in Dublin, at which resolutions were adopted denouncing the Government for the arrest of Daly, Kilien and Davitt The arrest of Parnell, the Home-Rule member of Parliament, was threatened. There was great excitement on Wall street, in New York, on the 21st, caused by a rapid decline in stock quotations, ranging all the way from one to twenty per cent Various rumors of railroad combinations, etc., produced the depreciation, which rumors were subsequently denied or proved false, and a partial recovery in values occurred. •