Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

Current Paragraph*. Frederick, the Duke of SchleswigHolstein, died on the 14th. He was flfty-ooe years old. The Vatican organ, the Aurora, contained a long article on the 14tfc advocating home rule for Ireland. Govsrkor Foster, of Ohio, was duly Inaugurated on the htti. were a great number of citlxena and over twenty companies of National Guards In the procession. The funeral of Frank Lee He. the well-known publisher, took plsce in New York an 'the 13th. Nearly all the persons employed in LsstWs establishment yrhre present. w. | The French Chambers reassembled ton the 13th. Gsmbetta was re-elected Preaidenbof the Chamber of Deputies by s large majority. . ‘ » The lowa Legislature assembled and organised on Ihe 13th, and the Wisconsin Legislature ob the 14th. RspmhUcamofflcers were chosen in both bodies? Upon representations made by the Bee-Keepers’ Association, the Post-Office Department on the 15th reconsidered its order that queen bees be excluded from the maita

The ex-Empreas Eugenie has announced that she will leave for the" Cape of Good Hope on the ttih of March, aad hopes to arrive at the scene of thsftrt nc« Imperial's death by the Ist of June. A bill has been introduced in the New York Assembly providing tfifr the election of PresidenUs 1 Electors by Congressional Dieof two Klectors-kt-Large by the voters of the entire State. The Ohio Legislature on the 13th elected General Garfteid Uußad Stated Senator to succeed Mr. Thurman. Mr. Garfield received the entire Republican vote in the House. The rafmtn the Senate was: Garfield, 20; Thurmltr, 13. ' i • It was reported on the 14th that small-pox was prevailing to such #n extent In Ottawa, Out., that several theatrical companies had canceled their engagements there, and Members of Parliament were urging that the sessions be held either at Mbdtresl or Toronto. ' ; 1* ‘ Mife Brigham, the Marlboro (Mass.) maiden who refused to eat for nine days, died a few days ago of starvation. She labored under the impresaloa that It was wicked to eat, and during her last hours would not allow her atendonts to even moisten her lips. Miss Brigham was seventy-seven years old. / ; ■ ;

There arrived at the port of New York during the month of December, 1879, 9,821 passengers, of whom 8,204 wore immigrants. During the corresponding period of IBTB the total number of passengers arrived at the, port was 5,331, of whom 3,317 were immigrants. The strike among the employes at the Union Stock-Yards, Chicago,, was vtrtaally ended on the 12th, the strikers sbandoning the contest without accomplishing their object, which was to exclude the employment by the puckers of any but members,of the Butchers and Packing-House Men’s Protec Uve Union. A Mobile telegram of the 15th says the exodus of Degrots to the ’ North from Eastern Mississippi bad been over I.MO during the preceding three weeks. One hnndred colored emigrants from North Carolina, en route to Indiana, reached Petersburg, Vs., on the morning of the 15th. They reported that several hundred more Would shortly fol-' low. The Louisville Savings Bank suspended on the 14th, upon the discovery that J. H Roher, the Cashier, was a defaulter for ■over #67,00). After acknowledging the deficit, Rhoer started for the Jail to surrender himself to the authorities, but the Directors overtook him sod informed him that he would hot be prosecuted, and that the stockholders bad deckled to make good the deficit. Telegraphic communication with Oregon, after a week’s istsrrnpUos, was restored on the 14th. On the «th the city of Portland was visited by a destructive hurricane, which caused nearly 9 00,00 damage. One man was killed and several were seriously hurt by falling buildings. The storm raged, with great violence in the Interior, and great damage to property requited and several lives were lost. The lines of railroad extending from Portland to Dallas were buried under fsllen timber so deep that new lines will have to be constructed. The New York Graphic of the 15th had a report from Menlo Park to the effect that the carbon horseshoes, the main reliance of Mr. Edison in perfecting his electric light, had failed, and that in consequence he had decided to suspend their further manufacture. Mr. Edison, however, was not down-hearted. Another report was to the affect that Mr. Edison denied that the lamps had gone out and that-the carbon horseshoes had bmkeu; it was true that some of the lamps bad been cracked, and that air had thus gained entrance to the flame, but this did not affect his invention, and was only a mechanical isoltra trouble with the glass, which he hoped, by continued experiments, to remedy. . c

The Postmaster-General on the 12th sent to Congress the records of Us Popart ment respecting the extent to which the mails Were used by lottery companies and other alleged swindling concerns. The “Texts Gift. Concert Association” is described as “one of the most successful swindles" of the daj. The managers of the ««oncern divided th? day’areceipw among dvtry evening, the unsold numbers Wing placed in the wheel from which the “ prizes” were drawn. The Department also called the attention of Congress to the concerns operating under the titles of the “ Denver Land Compeer" and the “-Kansas Land Company,” denouncing them in strong terms. General. There was considerable rioting at the Chicago Block-Yards on the 13th, resulting from the refusal of some of the packing houses to employ the late strikers. At one time a formidable riot wan threatened, hat the presence of 200 policeman and the display of fire-arms quieted the trouble. A Cabcl dispatch, received in London on the 1 3th, says the Afghan tribes had again become unpleasant and were threatening to attack the British forces. A Cabul dispatch of the 14th says General Roberts had demanded of the merchants of Cabal a contribution of six ly« of rupees, and bad been Indignantly reTßsdfl. The British Government issued or-, den oo the 14th summoning the Baronial session for the purpose of considering methods for providing work fog the immediate employment of unskilled labor in Ireland. There were indications that the distress in County Kerry, Ireland, would amount to a famine. * The. Senate Committee on Privileges and Election* on the 14th continued the examination of witnesses in rebuttal of testimony taken before the sub-committee in New Oriea*. Mr. Twitched and Pierre Magdsre

wmfMMt •6tt*ey*d Md, General Gordon left Alexandria for Europe oa the 14th. A serious disturbance broke out in Heater on the 14th. The military were orders4.out.md cleared the street#, hug uni j before beingobllged to fire upob the people. Several persons were wounded and many arreiti Bide. A Santa Fm dispatch of . the 14th state* that Major Morrow caught wp with Victoria's band on the headwaters of tbePersbaw River two days before. Victoria made a stubborn fljriH tram mon to sundown and then ted toward the head-waters of the Anlma. . Several dead Indiana were left oa the field. The Upted BfeU* force* had one mao Jellied and several wounded. A Galway (Ireland) dispatch of the Is<h says anti-rent disturbances had broken out in the town and pariah of Tuam, and that a company of Infantry jwd-been.sent there to preserve order and protect the proc-ess-server*. ' Sixty able-bodied men, with' their families, were admitted to the Klllarney ' wprit-houae on the preceding day. On the 15th the House Committee on Indian Affaire began an investigation into th*e*oaea«ftdmfdEentUte outbreak General Adams wo* before the committee, and gate a long statement of the grievances of the Indiana- Miss Meeker was present, but did. not testify. Reporter* were exriuddd. * *■ \

In a railway accident at Southport, England, oR the i’ th threw persons were killed amj. twenty seriously hiurt. . A Madrid telegram of the 19th Rays the village Of AkoU del J bear, *ltu teed in the prtrvlßce of Kurds and iconuintag a population of 2tSOO, had been almost wboHy destroyed by a land-slide: Very many of the inhabitants filled or wounded. - NEwyhaa been received from Persia announcing a second defeat inf the Russians by the Turkomans. I A Washington special of the 16th to the Chicago Tribmte says Ouray had a second interview with Secretary Sehurz, and it had been about detenu load to Send him; Jack and one other chief' back to Colorado, hi charge of an agent, for the purpose of bringing on, If possible, the twelve Ute marderere, or a* many of them as can be Induced to come. The dispatch continue*: “Asthere Is no law by which these Indians can be tried or punished %fte r they pome here, It ia believed by those • who are informed in Indian matters that the intention is to play upon the fears of the Indians with a view to get as good tenhs as possible. Ouray baa persisted from the first that be baa no power to bring in these Indians. He assures the Secretary that be cannot compel them unless he can kill them first, which he is perfectly willing to undertake.” ’ ’»-

The Fusion Legislature of Maine met on the 16th and elected Joseph L. Smith Governor. He qualified soon after and delivered a brief message. Later in tbe ilayhe igsued an order relieving General Chamberiain of the trust confided to by Governor Gar* colon. In tbe ceoventeon-oPholh branches of the Legislature an Executive Council was elected and the following Stats prticetfc ctKMea: P. A Sawyer. Secretary of Btatgj Charles A. WbJfe Treasurer; lan, Attorney-General; M. M. Folsom, Adju-tant-General. In the Senate no general business was transacted, and in House a Republican member w.e unseated. The number of failures in the United States last year, as per ibe figures furnished by the (nereaotile agency of R- U. Dun A Co., was 6,658. and the amount of liabilities, #98,149,062. In 187Sthere were 10,478 failures, and tbe llabilitia* were #294,383,132.

; The paymaster of tbe South-side Gaslight end Coke Company, Chicago, while proceeding to the works on the afternoon of the 16th, was assaulted by three men and robbed of 94,000. The crime was one of the most daring ever perpetrated In the city. The Maine Supreme Court rendered an opinion on the 16th upon the twentyseven questions submitted to it not long ago by the body- claimed by tbe Republican. to be the legal Legislature of the State. The opinion is full and exhaustive, and appears wholly to sustain the position taken by tbe Maine Repabiicana. In substance it decides that the Fusion Legislatare is an illegal body; that it lacked a quertun In tbe firet instance, and that while a quorum was wanting ft had no right to ab auy thing bat adjourn; that it eould not assume the duty of legislating by unseating members and admitting others so as to constitute a quorum; that a Legislature so constituted could not presume to elect a Governor and State officers and expect such election to have any valid or binding effect; that the existence of Informalities and technicalities does not invalidate an election or prevent a person duly elected from taking his seat, snd that it is immaterial In that regard whether a member is summoned by the Governor and bU Council or not—the main question being whether he really received the most votes. With regard to tbe provision of the statute thatpo person shall take pert in tbe organisation of s. Legislature unless his name appears upon the roll of the Clerk, and is called by that official at the beginning, the Court very-deckledly declares the law to be Medfcstitutlonal.

Later. Yews. f » The Department of Agriculture estimates the present cotton crop* at 15,02>.:-«J7 Mies of four hundred and fifty jfcnndg each, and the value in round numbers at $331,000,000, against in 187$. ; - , . A woman named Mrs. Margaret Tumj, a widow msed seventy years, died on the l?th, at her home in Walnnt Hills, near Cincinnati, from the effects of voluntary starvation. She had been a sufferer for years from dyspepsia, and a few weeks ago recovered from a serious illness, but the attack had developed in her mind the remarkable hadutination that her stomach was gone. No amount of persuasion could convince her to the contrary, and she from that time persistently refused to take food. After she had suffered from starvation for nearly two weeha she wss prevailed on to take a little meat, which she was in the habit' of bolding in her month a short time, swallowing nothing hut the Juice pressed out of it. This and a few ounces of iiqnid was all that entered her stomach daring her long fast oF tonr weeks. She remained conscious till within an hoar of her death. A Washington telegram of the 17th says the Hoosd Committee efe-Bifnedtlda kind "Labor would report favorably Representative Goode’s bill prohibiting Chinese immigration, striking put the section, however, which provides for the abrogation of Articles $ and 6of the Burlingame Treay. The bill prohibit* carrying more than fifteen Chinese ! passengers on any one vessel, bat excepts from the prohibition Chinese officials and | persona shipwceoked. , P TFIU-iA* M Lends, -formerly Chief Clerk of the Indian Bureau of tb* Interior | Department, was before t£e ilooap Commit-, tee on.lodise Affairs on thhlTih. He attributed the disaffection’ of the Utes to the inattention of Commissiuser HayfiTtb their condition, claims and necessities. He assigned, among reasons and causes for disaffection, failure of the Indies Bureau to send to Indians subsistence, supplies and agricultural implements as It had screed to do; prohibition by the Department of the sale of arms and ammunition upon their reservation, leaving them under the necessity of traveling ninety miles to obtain tbs (to them) nrrosfj

Uea of Me, a*, Without arte. fed lUon f C* er *. themselves upon their reservation; the delay of tbe Department In furnishing their supplies to starring White River Utes, and notice given in two successive annual reports by Indian Commissioner Hajt that, .he proposed nynqval. to India. Territory f Uhfipt making any mention 4t any WopaslUßntb compenrate ffienrfor their lands. In the Maine Fusion Legislature on tbe I7tb very little bust ties* was except the quolUWaUon es four UteocWorV elected on the preceding day. In tbe House there was a lively -debate on the la(e opinof the Supreme Court; and a Committee was raised to consider the question of the Constitutional organization of tbe House, HtKi tea existing condition of affairs. Tb#, Republican Legislature met In the afternoon. In the Senate Committees on Gubernatorial and Senatorial Votes we re appointed, aad the answer# of the Supreme Court 1 6 the questions of the Republican Legislature wars read. In' the House a Committee -ob Gaberwatorial Votes Was appointed, and the opinion of the Supreme Court was read. Tbe Secretary of#t*t* declined to give qp Xbe Gubernatorial returns- to the eemiMluee,' hut the latter subsequently made a report ahowing the vote cast at the late electipp for Governor. The House then selected" Daniel F. Davis and Bion Bradbury as the persons from whoqi the Senate should choose a GovThe pedate thereupon elected nfel as Governor, he receiving tbe entire nineteen votes, and he waa declared the legal flaTprnor of the Ata A Joint was then held and slkf ounctlprs were diateu. S. J. Chfidboarue was alcdted Secretary of State; J. W. Foteer, Btpte Treasurer; Hi B. Cleaves, Attkrafcy Geneml; 8. J. : Gallaghan, Adjntsluftleneral. Mr." Chad bourne forthwith qualified, and tqok posaesatou of the Secretary’»-offlep, butJoujid that tbe great seat of the' State had been removed. In tbe evening another Joint Couventipnwaa held, and Governor Davis took the ohtb of office and read,j| short inaugural address, after which he took possession of the Executive office. The new Governor lssu#d an order notifying General Chamberlain of hia election end eadaeei) with ft e certified copy of the Supreme Coart’s recent opinion, whereupon General Chamberlain Issued an order recognizing the legality of. Mr. Davis’ election, ani announcing nls surrender of the trust conferred upon him by exGovernor Garcelon. r At a meeting of the Counoil of the Home-Role League in Dublin on the 17th a resolution was passed thanking the people of America for th#ir prompt aid to tfe 9‘H tressed in Ireland.

CongresH. Monday, January 12.—1 n the Senate Mr. Paddock Introduced a bill to authorize the pbpointment of Commissioners to ascertain and report the losses sustained by citizens of the United States on account of Indlqn depreda tlons, and to adjust claims arising therefrom. A favorable report was made on the MhiWe bill fbr the increase of penMtaa of totally-disabled Soldiers and sailors. The Military Acudetny Appropriation hill was ndfaiided arid -passe<lr>.. Rsis wt-re introdueedWn tbe House: By Mr. Warner (Ohio), to stop the further issue of National Bank notes, and to provide for the neepasary increase of the volut*P <ft currency by free ooinage of silver and g *fi, anfi the i*>uano*of silver and gold certlfiwriest by Mr. Forsyte, to tnorease tbe circulation of National Banks and to relieve them from the payment of a tax on circulation; by Mr. Shelbom, for the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department: by Mr. Davis, to restrict Chinese immigration; by Mr. Clymer, exempting from taxation promissory notes issued for wages; by Mr. Gunter, toeoßalizektimesteads; also, to graduate and red nee the price of pubhc lands to actual settlers. Resolutions directing the Committee oa Expenditutes in the State Department to investigate the facts relative to the Consulate at liong Kong, and providing for the appolntmtwt ora committee of seven ioinquirelntothe method and manner ol paying pensions, arrears of pensions, bounty and back pay to soldiers, and to ascertain whether any irregularities exist in the payment of the same, and to investigate any subject of complaint which may be lodged with them as to payment, rejection, or suspension of any pension, bounty, or bectk pay, wit Be View to the enactment ofwnch legislation as may correct existing defects ana pro tect tha pensioner in his rights, were adopted. A motion to Suspend the rules and pass the bill providing for the Importation of salt free from duty was lost—yeas U 5, nay s IIA-not,the necosoary two-thirds In the affirmative. Tuesday, January 13.—Numerouslysigned petitions for a commission of Inquiry into the alcoholic liquor traffic, and memorials for the withdrawal of the legal-tender quality of Treasury notes, were presented in the Senate. Mr. Morrill offered a resolution that tbe Committee on Finance be instructed to Inquire as to the practleabilty of refunding the National debt at a lees rate than four per cent, interest, and also . as to whether or not some effective provision can be made whereby bona-fide subscriptions for sums in moderate amounts may be available, and report by tell or otherwise. A bill was passed to admit free of duty articles Intended tor tbe Millers’ International Exhibition at Cincinnati in June next. Mr. Saulsbury introduced (br request) a bill to preserve the secrecy of telegrams....ln the House Mr. BicknelL, Chairman of the Committee on the Counting of Votes for President and Vice-President, reported back * bill to provide for and regulate ihe counting of votes for President and of questions arising thereupon. A petition of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church on the subject of the liquor traffic was presented and referred. The report of the Committee on the Revision of the Rules was further debated in Committee of the Whole.

’ Wednesday, January 14.—A number of petitions of women, asking Bor the re moral of their political disabilities, and fora Constitutional amendment fftvlng Women citizens the right to rote, were presented in the Senate, as were also several petitions ip favor of the Bayard resolution withdrawing the legal-tender quality of the Treasury notes, and for a commission of Inquiry into thealewnllc liquor trafflf The: bill to. Increase the pensions rtf totally-disabled soldiers and sailors from gSO to S7B a month was passed.... The bill tor the free importation of articles Intended for exhibition at the Millers’ International Exhibition, to be held at Cincinnati la 1880, was reported in the House and passed. Mr. McCold introduced a btH to establish a Board of Commissioners of Interstate Commerce. Mr. Buckner, Chairman of the. Committee on Banking and Currency, reported a bill requiring the reserves of National Banks to be kept in gold and silver coin. Mr. Warner, from the Committee on Banking and Currency. reported back the resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to report under what law and under what condition* the United States Treasury became a member of the New York Clearing House, and whether said Clearing House aeeepts Treasury certificates, payable in silver coin, in settlement of balances, or whether the settlement of balances in standard silver dollars or silver certificates is prohibited by the rules of the Clearing House. The report of the Committee on Holes was' further discussed in Committee of the Whole.

Thursday, January 15.—1 a the Senate an additional number of petitions of women were presented asking foe a Constitutional amendment giving women the right of suffrage. Majority and minority reports were made from the Committee on Finance on the Bayard resolution lor the withdrawal of the being adverse to the resolution; the minority report was signed by Messrs. Kernan, Bayard, Wallace and Morrill; both reports were ass. pointed Senator from Alabama, to fill the vacant caused bythe death-of Senator^foustnodiflod oath, t Ifu” 1 eration was resumed In the House of the bill requiring one-half of the reserves of the Na.tknml Banks to be kept in gold and silver coins of the Unit*# Stittw, find Mr. Prtfeel (fowa) spoke in support of the bill. Additional debate was had In Committee ofr.the Whole on thsvefort of the Committee on ft tries. Friday, January 16. The Senate C’WgJgpWp seesien.... A* resolution was adopted in the House calling on the Sec ret ary-of War for. Information as to the number, rank\iytqna and annual pay of every officer on the retired list of the army, a'bill was M*aed donating condemned bronze cannon to the Morton Monument Association at Indiana InCbmmiftee funded by him to the United States, was debated, the opposition to ths same being chiefly

■ —; j 1 " on tbe ground that it was not shown that due care had been taken in guarding the matey from the robbers; the uommittee finally refused—<s7 to Tt— to report the bill favorably to the House. Adjourned to the 19th. , - i. ■ y > » ■ - - 1 * i tiii t . .