Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1880 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

Current Paragraphs. . Auguste Hekfter, the eminent German jurisconsult, died on t£e sth. George EL Locke, the Yankee comedisa, died in Lowell, Mass., on the sth. • Governor Perkins, of California, was inaugurated at Sacramento on the Bth. Eight thousand- people are reported to be ocrthe verge of starvation in Bosnia. Rev. Thomas- Alfred Stakeet has been recently consecrated Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern New Jersey. jGordon Pasha, the American officer so long in the employ of the Khedive of Egypt, has resigned, and his resignation has bees accepted. ___ ■» Herr Pretorius, ex-President of the Transvaal,' and claiming still to bold the office, has been arrested upon the charge of high treason. . A Berlin telegram of the sth says that in one province in Southern Russia 7,000 persons bad died of diphtheria in each of the last three years. The Receiver of the suspended Grocers’Bank fat New York states that forged paper to the amount of 8125,000 has been found among its “assets. THECalifonria Legislature completed its organization on the oth. All of the officers elected are Republicans, the attempt of the Workingmen and Democrats to urate proving a failure. Smith, of Wisconsin, was Inaugurated on the sth. The military procession was a fine one. All the State officers were sworn ip and conducted to their several departments.

Democratic officials have been elected in both branches of the Maryland Legislature. The Governor,.ln his message, says the balance in the State Treasury September 20, ISTK, was 8050,208. The Massachusetts Legislature organized on the 7th. Senator R. R. Bishop was unanimously chosen President of the Senate, and C. J. Noyes (Republican), on the fourth ballot, Speaker of the House. < Bishop Gilbert Haven, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his home in Maiden, Mass., on the .evening.of the-3d. His disease was primarily neuralgia of the stomach. He was flfty-efght years diL In view of the ravages of diphtheria in the Russian province of Kharkoff, the local Red Crossl- Society has formed three . medical and sauitary detachments tu assist the Government to combat the epidemic. The message of Governor Andrews, of Connecticut, shows a reduction In the State’s income. The extension of the right of voting to women is recommended, at least in all matters affecting taxes. More stringent divorce laws are urged. ~ . * Benjamin C. BoiiEKT.Treasurerof the New York Produce Exchange, died suddenly Oq the afternoon of* the Bth, and, as he had licen discovered to be a defaulter to the amount of about #30,000, it was thought he might have committed suicide. f Major William El Sweet, Chief of the Internal Revenue Division In the office .of the First Comptroller, Treasury Department, Washington, has been recently dismissed for extravagant expenditures which he is said to have made while traveling on Government account. In the caucus __ of the Republican members of the Ohio Legislature on the evening of the 6th James A. Garfield was nominated for Senator' by acclamation. The names of ex-Govcmor Taft, Stanley Matthews and ex-Governor Dennison were withdrawn before the nomination was made.

' Goverxor Cobb, of Alabama, has Tilled the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Senator flouston, by appointing Luke Pryor, of Athena, who waa a law partner of Senator Houston.' Mr. Pry°r baa always before declined public office. The election by the'Legialaturc will take place in November next. \ The special Committee appointed to investigate the negro txodus consists of Messrs. Voorbees, Vance and Pcndh--ton,'Democrats, and Wiodom and Blair, Republicans. It was stated on the 9th that they had decided to examine a few witnesses at Washington before proceeding to North Carolina, Indiana and Kansas. lit the Supreme Court of the United States on the sth Chief-Justice Waite denied the motion of Senator .Edmunds to take up th<s Legal-tender case out of its regular order. He added that the Cdurt would refuse to grant motions to advance cases involving important Constitutional questions so long as they could not be heard before a full bench. The adoption of the cental system has been received with so much hostility by the New York Produce Exchange that the Board of Managers on the sth resolved to recommend a postponement of the experiment until the necessary National and State legislation can be obtained and- the principal commercial exchanges agree upon a time for its simultaneous adoption.

In Chicago a few evenings ago Mrs. Kate Anderson undertook to burrv up her ] kitchen fire by pooling kerosene into the 1 stove from a common oQ-ean. An explosion followed, throwing the burning oil all over her clothing, and before assistance could be ! rendered her she was burned to a crisp from the head to the feet, in a most fearful man- 1 ner. She died in about four hours after the accident. > John Taylor, the Mormon, preached a bitter sermon at Salt Lake on the 4th, declaring that polygamy would be practiced in spite of the Federal Courts, He asserted that 1t was the duty of the saints to obey the commandments of God. regardless of the statute* of their enemies, and leave the results in His hands. A request on his part for the people Who would practice polygamy, law or no law, to signify their intentiop, brought up the hand of nearly every person tn the vtft congregation. _ In his recent message to the New York Legislature Governor Cornell shows that the State debt had been reduced during the last year by cancellation, and that the canals had cost the tax-payers 9960,823. In regard to railroad transportation, the Gov ernor says: “ The public have the right to demand that freight tariffs shall he uniform for like service without discrimination as between citizens and communities, and that they shall also have all reasonable publicity. This should be secured by Just and practical regulations.” . At San Franeiseo on the morning of the 6th Are broke out in a two-story frame dwelling occupied by Daniel Haskins, bis wife wnd Are children.- Haskins and the eldest eon had gone to work, and Mrs. Haskins, •ft®* tvmkfftst, went to her room on the second floor front, and lay down on a bed with ffddia, seed lour Her daughter Annu tg&i

nineteen, and a baby sister were still sleeping in the bade chamber. Thomas, the second son, who was in the lower part of the boose, heard his mother cry “ Help, fire.” Running up stairs be found the way barred by flames. An alarm was Instantly given, bat before the engines arrived the bouse was almost entirely consumed, and the bodies of Mrs. Haskins, Annie, Eddie and the infant were found (n the rains. The origin of the fire was unlrtaown. j GeofiraL An explosion occurred in a Newark (N. J.) celluloid factory on the sth, by which three men were instantly killed and two others fatally burned. By me burning of a Turnei Hall in New York on the morning of the sth four people were suffocated, and several others who jumped from windows sustained injuries of a painful character. At New Orleans on the afternoon of the 31 Collector Morris Marks was assaulted and badly used mp by a man named Martin from Ascension Parish. The difficulty is said to have grown out of an unfulfilled political promise. An Alexandria dispatch of the sth says Gordon Pasha had reported to the Khedive that Abyssinia was surrounded on all sides by discontented tribes and rulers, and that the Khedive need fear nothing in that quarter. He recommended the placing of arms in the hands of the malcontents, and predicted that if his advice were followed King John would soon be displaced by Theodore’s second son.

A Dublin dispatch of the sth says the excitement in Ireland was increasing. A very serious affray had occurred between the constabulary and Galway peasants, during which the latter were fired upon by the police. Advices from Mexico, received on the 6th, say a formidable revolution had broken out in the State of Durango. General Trevino, who was ordered from MoDterey to suppress It, had been defeated and urgently demanded assistance. The impression prevailed that the revolution was likely to become a general one. A Cabul dispatch, received on the 6th,says General Roberts bad offered amnesty to all Afghan insurgents who would lay down their arras and promise not to make war again on the British flag. A St. Petersburg telegram of the 6th says the Polish press had been relieved from censorship. Herr Bok, Secretary of the Boer Committee- in South Africa, has been arrested for high treason. E. W. Cooke, a distinguished English painter and Fellow of the Royal Society, died on the 6th. He was sixty-nine years old. According to Dublin dispatches of the 7th the Irish rent agitation had extended from rural to urban localities. A movement had been organized to reduce rents in Dublin and other large towns. It was stated that the Government had set apart £250,000 to be loaned at an exceptionally low rate ot interest to landlords and local bodies for the construction ,of public works, in order to provide work for nnsKilied workmen. A Berlin telegram of the 7th says Russia has asked Germany to extradite all military deserters, and that the request has been denied.

]N the Augusta (Me.) newspapers on the morning of the 6th affidavits signed by Thomas B. Swann and Moses Hardman were published, in which affiants stated that they had been approached by agents of the Republican leaders and offered 91,000 each for absenting themselves from the opening session of the Assembly, and that they had accepted the money with the intention of exposing the corrupt solicitors. t * - A Paris dispatch of the Bth says the subscription for the memorial to the deceased Prince Imperial had reached the sum of 200,000 francs. A Madrid telegram of the Bth says the new Qtffeen of Spain had become seriously ill from the shock consequent upon the recent attempt upon the life of her husband. had been attached with epileptic fits. The National Greenback - Labor Party Conference met in Washington on the Bth. Abouf 100 to 125 delegates from different States were (n attendance, and, with the exception of thirteen Greenback Congressmen, were mostly representatives of State and local Greenback associations. There were, however,fa few delegates who came as representatives of Trade and Labor organizations. The assemblage was called to order by E. P. Dewees, Chairman of the Greenback-Labor party, who delivered an earnest address, after which Representative Murch was made permanent Chairman. A committee, consisting of members of the National Executive Committee and the Congressional Committee of the Labor party, together with one delegate from each of the States represented in the Conference, was appointed to report upon the time and place for meeting in a Presidential Nominating Convention, and also to report the basis of representation in that convention. A number of resolutions were introduced and referred to the above committee. - ,

Twelve Ute Indians on their way to, Washington in charge of a detachment of the Ninth Cavalry, arrived at Pueblo, Col., on the 7tb. They bad ordered dinner at the Union Depot Hotel, but seeing so large a crowd us pale-faces destroyed their appetites, and they went aboard the train at once and left without eating. Between two thousand and three thousand people were at the depot to see the savages. “Hang the red devils,” “Bhoot the murdering fiends,” and like expressions were 4 frequently heard from a portion of the crowd, and they were pelted with stone coal by some boys who had taken a position on a coal train on a side track. The Indians were terror-stricken and completely cowed; A move was afoot in the morning to organize 500 men and lynch -the savages, but cooler counsels prevailed, and the citizens determined to let the Indians pass without injury. The party reached Kansas City Mo., on ■ the Bth. It comprised Ouray, the celebrated Ute Chief, and ten other Indians who had been selected by General Hatch to go to Washington. Nineteen shoemaker shops in. New York City have recently increased the wages of their employes fifteen per cent. A Reading (Pa.) dispatch of the Bth says the hat factories there were granting an advance in wages asked by the workmen, and work was being resumed. A London dispatch of the 9th says the Fenians in England were becoming active. Twenty villages in the Cracow district of Poland have been inundated by the overflow of the river Vistula. *■ A Lahore (India) telegram of the 9th says the wife and mother of Yakoob Khan, the ex-Ameer of Afghanistan, had been arrested, and were on their way to India as State prisoners. The Greenback-Labor Conference, at its session in Washington on the 9th, fixed upon Chicago as the place, and June 9 as the time, for bolding its National Convention, and a call was issued to that effect by the Chairmen of the Conference and the National Committees. The Greenback editors in attendance upon the Conference organized an association to be known as the GreenbackLabor Press Association, and elected Colonel 8. F. Norton, of Chicago, President, and J. U. Kandall, of Clyde, Ohio, Secretary. Early on the morning of the 9th General Chamberlain issued, from Augusta,

Me., an order stating that, “in view of the extraordinary situation now presented at the seat of Government, I will assume command and protect the public property and Institutions of the State, in trust for the people, until the Governor’s successor has been legally eletAed and duly qualified.” Whan the House met, as soon as the reading of the journal was finished, Mr. Swann, of Minot, arose and read a statement that 81,000 bad been paid him not to appear at the organization of the Legislature. He stated that the money had been paid him by Wallace R. White, of Winthrop, and that he (Swann) should not claim it Mr. Ha Trim an, of Kennebnnk, testified that the same offer had been made to him by White. James B. Clark and Alfred Cushman made substantially similar statements. No business was transacted for want of a quorum. No!Republican was present, and In the Senate only one put in an appearance. The President’of the Senate, Mr. Lamson. having concluded that he had no legal authority to do so, refused to administer the oath of office to members-elect of the Legislature who bad not already qualified. In reply to insinuations that he was implicated in the alleged bribery cases, Mr. Blaine telegraphed an emphatic denial and pronounced the insinuations an unqualified calumny.

Later News. Owing to the cold weather and exposure, says a Cabul dispateh of the 10th, there was a great deal of sickness in the Brit sh army in Afghanistan. A Berlin dispatch of the 11th says the family of Prince Bismarck had been called to his bedside in anticipation of his speedy demise. A St. Petersburg telegram of the 10th says Russia had established a virtual protectorate over Serria. The Ute Indian delegation arrived la Washington on the morning of the Utb. They were met at the depot by two employes of the Bureau Department, who escorted them to their quarters at the Tremont House, where they remained In their rooms all day. The Chicago papers of the morning of the 12th announce that the strike among the employes at the Union Stock Yards was practically at an end, and that the strikers were about to resume work without having accomplished the object of the strike, which was to exclude the employment by the packers of any but members of the Butchers and Packing-House Men’s Protective Union. At Eau Claire, Wis., a few evenings ago a young servant girl attempted to hurry up a fire by pouring oil from a can into the stove, when the usual explosion followed. The clothing of the girl caught fire and completely wrapped her in flames, and before assistance arrived she was burned to such, an extent that it was thought she could not recover. Charles Stewart Parnell has issued an address to the people of America asking for contributions to alleviate the distress in Ireland, and stating that all subscriptions collected for relief purposes may be forwarded to the Treasurers, Drexel, Morgan dt Co., of New York City, who will forward the money to the Treasurers of the National Land-League in Ireland. In his address at the Parnell and Dillon meeting in ‘ Brooklyn Henry Ward Beecher said, speaking of England: “The Government that has only emigration to offer its people has no right to longer exist.” There was no quorum in the Maine House of Representatives on the 10th, and the House adjourned, after a brief session, until the 12th. There was a short sessiouof the Senate, and that body also adjourned until the 12th. On the 11th President Lamson prepared a communication to the Senate announcing that he had decided to assume the duties and exercise the functions of Governor. It was Stated that General Chamberlain had notified President Lamson that he would only recognize -him as a Senator-elect The property of E. F. Pillsbury, the Fusionist leader, was attached by Ebcnezer Sproul for libel. On the morning of the 12th a statement was published over the signature of Wallace R. White, in which the statements and affidavits made by Bwann and Harriman that they had been tempted by White were declared to be “ absolutely, unqualifiedly and maliciously false.” White adds that he courts the fullest investigation by a properly-consti-tuted Legislature, but anil not consent to be Investigated by “co-conspirators of Swann and Harriman.”

Congress. Tuesday, January 6.—Among the bills introduced In the Benate were—to establish a Court of Appeals; to provide that no person on the retired list of the army, navy or marine corps shall draw a pension; to admit free of duty all articles intended for exhibition at the Millers’ International Exhibition at Cincinnati in June, 1880. Mr. Conklin# presented petitions from a larjre number of citizens of New York State, formerly soldiers, remonstrating against the passage, of Senate Bill 406, providing for medical and surgical examination ana the taking of testimony in pension cases. Mr. Ljgan presented a very large number of petitions of soldiers for the equalization of bounties. On motion ot Mr. Morgan, as a mark of respect to the memory of the late Senator Houston, the Senate adjourned.... In the House Mr. Scales. Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported resolutions, which were adopted, directing that the committee investigate and report upon the origin of the recent outbreak of the Ute Indians at the White River Agency, in Colorado, and authorizing it to send for persons - and papers; calling on the Secretary of the Interior for copies of all correspondence since the Ist of January, 1879, by N. C. Meeker with the Secretary of the Interioror Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the copies of all correspondence by Governor Pitkin, Generals Hatch and Adams and Special-Agent Pollock with the Interior Department concerning the Ute Indians. Mr. Blackburn submitted the report of the Committee on Rules, and it was referred to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. Hawk Introduced a bill directing the Issuing of patents for land on which bounty land-warrants have been located. Mr. Forney announced the death of Benator Houston, and the House, as a mark of respect, adjourned. Wednesday, January 7.—ln the Senate Mr. Pendleton gave notice of an amendment to the Bayard Finance resolution, providing that “ said notes shall not be available for any of the reserves required to be kept by the National Banks, and all such reserves shall be kept in coin.” Mr. Windom submitted a resolution instructing the Committee on Appropriations to consider the expediency of establishing an additional Executive Department of the Government, to be called “the Department of Agriculture and Commerce,” which shall embrace In its jurisdiction agriculture, domestic and foreign commerce, manufactures, mines and mining, public lands, geological and other surveys, and railroad statistics. A communication was received from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the correspondence called for concerning the Ute Indians, excepting two letters received from General Adams—one oonoerning the testimony taken by the Ute Commission, and the other eonoernlng further negotiations with the Utes with reference tri their reservations; these letters, the Secretary says, the interest of the public policy demand should be withheld from publication at present. ..A large number of bills were introduced in the House, among which were the following: To regulate coin certificates; to restrict the Immigration of the Chinese; to prevent and punish the sale of fire-arms and ammunition to Uncivilized Indians; for the regulation of inter-Btate freights and passengers, and to relieve the same from the restrictions of local quarantine; for the appointment of a Commission to ascertain the lossee sustained by citizens off the United States from Indian depredations; authorizing the reooinage of the trade dollar; extending the Land laws tothe Territory of Alaska; to establish the Territory off Pembina. The Senate bill amending Sections 2,384 and 2.186, Revised Statutes, in regard to mineral lands, waa reported back from the Committee on Mines and Mining, debated and named—l 77 to 20; the purport of the bill is to add to theexirtlng law the provision that, when the claimant of a patent is not a resident of the land district, the necessary application and affidavits may be made by his authorised agent. Thursday, January B.—The Serge an t-at-Arms brought to the bar of the Senate Messrs. L. T. Smith, Levi Wilson and E. B. Purcell, to answer to a charge of contempt In not obeying the summons to testify in the Ingalls case. After considerable debate they were discharged, having purged themselves of oontempc A bill waa introduced to crests an *d-

dltioiial Land District to Kansas. Mr. Wallace preseated the petition of Drexel k Co. and others, of Pennsylvania, for the withdrawal of the legal-tender quality of Treasury notes. Adjourned to the 13th.. .A resolution wss adopted in the House directing the Committee on Appropriations to inquire into the causes and extent at the probable deficiency In the postal “star” service for the fiscal years 1 (TO and MHO. Several Mils were reported from committees. The Senate bill providing for the publication and distribution of a supplement to the Revised Statutes was amended and pasted. The report of the Committee on the Revision of the Rules was considered In Committee of the Whole, and a lengthy debate ensued on the new rule proposing to transfer tho River and Harbor Appropriation bill from the Committee on Commerce to the Committee on Appropriations. Friday, January 9.— The Senate waa not in session... Among the bills introduced in the House were the following: By Mr. Ryan (Kan.), admitting free of duty clothing and other articles destined for the relief of colored emigrants; by Mr. Hayes (111.), granting a pension to each survivor of the Mexican War who was not engaged in the late Rebellion or who did not abet the same. Several private Relief bills were passed. Adjourned to the 12th.