Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1880 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

Current Ptncraphi. A Roms dispatch of the 23d says that the iamavif not the organ of the Vatican, but at the Jeaalta. , Thz exploring expedition under Stanley baa established a Belgian trading station In Congo, near Tallola. Tbs Spanish Cortes on the 21st passed the bfll for the abolition of alare nr in Cuba, bjjmf, 230; naya, 10. ■ Two children bf A. J. Wilson set fire to their father's stable at Chatham. Ont, a fear days ago, and were burned to death. A Rome telegram of the 20th says the Pope waa surprised and Indignant at Cardinal MeCloakey’a reception of Parnell in New York. _ a A Constantinople dispatch of the 2tld says the famine in Mosul waa ao severe that the people were selling their children to procure food. A Paris dispatch of the 20th - announces the death from pneumonia of Jules FaTre, the French statesman. He was sev-enty-one years old. A Chinaman who was to have been executed st Portland, Ore., on the 20th, committed suicide the night before by strangling himself Ux-hla cell.

Seth A. Terht, the Secretary of the Territorial Savings, Building Sc Loan Association at Washington, D. C.. has been declared to be a defaulter in the sum of 325,000. The Legislature of Maryland has elected Mr. Arthur Gorman (Democrat) to the United States Senate, to succeed Mr. Whyte, whose term expires on the Ah qf March, 1881. The Cincinnati Times of the 21st saya it had positive information from .authoritative sources that the National Democratic Convention will he held at Moaic Hall in that city. ; The Dlinois Stpte Board of Agriculture reports tjiat the corn crop of the State for 187 V) amt tun ted to the grand total of 306,913,37 V bushels, for which the producers received $97,483,062. At a meeting of the Home-Rule I>ague in Dublin on the 23d.a resolution was vl pted by acclamation thankiDg the people of the United States for their sympathy and Dole liberality to the distressed people of Ireland. A telegram received at the Interior Department ‘in Washington on the 2Jst states that Walter R. Irwin, of Illinois, Chief of the. Private Land Division of the General Land Office, was found dead in bed at Mobile on the morning of that day. The Maryland Republican State Convention to select delegates to the Republican National Convention at Chicago will be held at Frederick C*ty, May 6. . The Kentucky Convention for the same purpose Is to be held at Louisville on the 14th of AprtL On the 22d, the Mississippi Legislature elected J. Z. George, the Democratic •"•ucus nominee. United States Senator, and son, also the Democratic candidate, to be Senator from that State from March 4, 1883. Mr. George's term will begin in March, 1881.

The Snpreme Court of the United State* ha* rendered a decision that soldiers who enter soldier*’ borne* cannot be deprived of their pensions, thus sustaining a former ruling of the Commissioner of Pensions that snch pensions should not be paid to the officers of the homes, but to the pensioners themselves. Mrs. Wallace, of Indiana; Lucinda B. Chandler, of Pennsylvania; Susan B. Anthouy and other delegates to the Women’s Suffrage Association, appeared before a United States Senate Committee on the 23d, and made arguments in favor of a Sixteenth Amendment to' the Constitution, providing for the enfranchisement of women. Ax Oswego (Kansas) dispatch of a recent date says negro emigrants from Texas continued to srrive in that county in great numbers on the Missouri, Kansas Sc Texas Railroad, and by trains across the Indian Territory. The winter was mild, but houseroom was net to be had for them. Some were living in tents and wagons in the woods. Some deaths had taken place, and tome suffering from poverty.

Among’the nominations sent to the Senate by the President on the 19th were the following: James Russell Lowell, of Massachusetts, as Minister to England; John W. Foster, of fnjliana. Minister to Russia; exGovernor Lueius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, Minister to Spain; Philip H. Morgan, of Louisiana, Minister to Mexico; Ell H. Murray, of Kentucky,.Governor of Utah Territory. , Ex-President Grant and party reached Havana, Cuba, on the morning of the 2Jd. As the steamer entered the port, it wrae boarded by a representative of the Cap-tain-General and General Arias, the Civil Governor of the Province, who tendered to General Grant the hospitalities of the citv And an abode in the palace. The party will leave for Vera Crux, Mexico, on the 12th of February, but before leaving will visit Hayti and other West India i«l»nds Among the Executive documents laid before the National House of Representatives on the 21st was a communication from the * Secretary of the Treasury stating that the United States Sub-Treasurer at New York bad for some time employed the New York Clearing-House to facilitate the transaction of his business. That arrangement with the Clearing-House was entered into in November, IS7S, after he had obtained the verbal opinion of the Attornev-General that sueh an arrangement would not be contrary to law.

A Washington dispatch of the 23d represents Secretary Schnrz as saying: “ A certain degree of secrecy is necessary in the Ute investigation, but Ouray is iu no sense a prisoner. In the opinion erf Ouray, as well as myself, several things are to be accomplished by the present negotiations: 1. To have treaty provisions about the surrender of offenders carried out, so that the participants in the White River murders can be tried. 2. To make such arrangement with the Utea aa will avert, from them the Injuries that are threatened 'to be inflicted upon them by the border population of Colorado, and which certainly would qpme if the present boundaries of the reservation were preserved. This accomplished, the present difflcuKhw will pass over without an Indian war, which wOl be a great benefit to the country generally. 3. To secure for them full compensation for every piece of land they may cede to the L nited States, and a safe and advantageous' settlement for the future.” General. China and Japan advices, received on the 19th, report the destruction by fire on December Bof one-half of the city of Hakodate, in the latter country. The number of hou.ee burned was and about thirty

persona perished in the fiamea. Toklo, Japan, waa also visited by a moat destructive conflagration on the 26th of December. Fifteen tbonaand houses were destroyed and over 50,000 people rendered homeless. The loss of life waa something over 100. On the 20th the Harrisburgh (Pa.) Grand Jury again found true bills against Kemble and several prominent politicians and legislators for corrupt solicitation and bribery of members of the Legislature in the interest of the Pittsburgh Riot Losses bill The bills first found were quashed for informality. A Los PiNOfl telegram of the 18th says Chief Douglas came to Chief Shawanano’s camp on the 14th, two miles below the agency, and sent him to the office for rations. Major Sherman, in charge, refused his request, and on the 17th Douglas came to tl)e agency and renewed his demand in person. He was again refused, which created much dissatisfaction among both the Uncompahgre and White River Utea. There waa much uneasiness among the Indians in regard to the pending negotiations at Washington, on account of designing parties having circulated a report that as soon as Ouray returned the Utes must go. The Illinois and Wisconsin State Granges met in annual conventions on the 20th, the former at Blooplngton and the latter at Milwaukee. A Berlin dispatch of the 21st says the Schleswig Deputies who, since the annexation of their province to Germany, had refused to Uke the oath of allegiance to the Emperor William, and who bad consequently been debarred from taking their seats in the Reichstag, bad intimated their willingness to comply with the prescribed formality. , Cabcl dispatches of the 22d say another rising was impending in Afghanistan. The natives under Mahommed Jans to the number of 40,000 were assembling with the avowed object of exterminating the British. The situation was thought to be extremely criticaL An Odessa telegram of the 22d says it was believed that that city had been undermined by the Nihilists, and that its destruction was not far distant. A commission bad been formed to conduct a subterranean investigation. A Washington dispatch of the 22d states that the President bad withdrawn the nomination of William ’P. Seymour as Census Supervisor for the Sixth District of Indiana Commissioner Hayt on the 22d concluded his statements, which embodied a general defense of his administration, before the House Committee on Indian Affairs. Lieutenant Cherry, of the Fifth Cavalry, Adjutant of Thornburgh's command, gave an interesting history of the military movements, but expressed no opinion as to any remote cause of the outbreak.

The taking of testimony, before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, in the Spofford-Kellogg case closed on the 22*1, and counsel were allowed two weeks from the 26th in which to prepare arguments, to be submitted on printed briefs. A London telegram of the 23d says the distress in Ireland was intensifying under the influence of the cold weather. It was stated that there were in Dublin alone 4,000 unemployed workingmen whose families were suffering from the lack of food. The Princess Louise left England for her Canadian home on the 22d. There were three severe earthauake shocks in Havana on the night of the 22d and morning of the 23d. No great damage was done, but the people were greatly frightened, as nottiing of the kind had ever before-been experienced in that city. Mr. Edison, replying to certain French critics who had expressed a belief that his carbon horse-shoes were not durable, stated on the 28d that the lamp in his workshop which had burned the greatest length of time showed no perceptible decrease of electrical resistance. He denied that he parted with airy of his stock daring the late extravagant boom in prices. The Fusion Legislature of Maine met at the usual hour on the 23d. The standing committees were announced in the Senate. The questions for submission to the Supreme Court were' taken up in the’ House, debated and tabled until the 26th. The Republican Senate passed an order for the examination of the accounts of the Btate Treasurer. The House passed a bill to amend the Constitution by providing that a plurality vote for Governor shall elect. White, the Fusion Treasurer, refused to deliver bis office to the Republican Treasurer. At a late hour on the night of the 23d the Republicans at Augusta received intelligence that the Fusionists intended to seize the Btate-House and burn the residences of their opponents. The Governor and Inspector-General discussed the situation hurriedly, and finally called out three companies of militia, to be used as a garrison at the Capitol.

Later News, A Teheran (Persia) dispatch of the 24th denies the truth of the recent report of the defeat ot the Russians by the Turcomans. A Constantinople telegram of the 25th says terrible distress prevailed in Adrianople. Fifteen persons were found dead there in one day from hunger. A Paris dispatch of the 25th says that founder, a high functionary of the War Department for the last twenty years, upon being summoned to produce his accounts, blew out his brains. The building occupied by the Globe printing office, at Cherry Valley, Kan., with sleeping rooms on the upper floors snd a furniture store below, burned a few nights ago, and E. C. Henderson, foreman, and William McClain, a printer of thq Globe office, perished in the flames. General Grant was banqueted by the Captain-General of Cuba on the night of the 23d. j

Wm. L. Leeds, formerly Chief Clerk of the Indian Bureau, was again before the Senate Investigating Committee on the 24th, and testified that it was a fact, as claimed by the Cheyennes, that they were starved at the agency, and that, although Commissioner Hayt knew the facta, he did not furnish the sgent with the supplies called for by the treaty. F crther arguments in favor of a Constitutional amendment to provide for female suffrage were made before the Senate Committee on the 24th, by Mrs. Mcßay, of lowa;'Miss White, of Illinois; Mrs. Bteb!>ins, of Michigan; Mrs. Saxton, of Louisiana; Mrs. Pbmbe Cousins, of Missouri, and Susan B. Anthony. Chari.es Stewart Parnell and Dillon addressed an Immense audience at Buffalo on the evening of the 25tb. During his speech Mr. Parnell said he believed Ireland had a right to a nationality, and if it were possible to gain one be believed that every Irishman’s blood should be shed in her defense. He did not know that a peaceful settlement could be obtained, but, If not, the landlords would have to go. At a meeting in New York on the 34th of the directors and leading stockholders of the Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific Railroads a consolidation was effected, and the three corporations were combined into one new company, to be known as the Union Pacific Railway Company. The capita] of the new company is fixed at 350,000,000. The Union Pacific gets 384,000 shares of SIOO each; the Kansas Pacific gets 96,000 shares, and the Denver Pacific gets 40,000 shares. Sidney Dillon waa elected President of the new eofnpaqy, and GouW

la om of Um directors. The consolidated company owns 2,060 miles of railroad, made np as follows: Union Pacific, 1,258; Kansas 672; Denver Pacific, 106. The military occupied the Maine State House on Um 24th, and It was stated that Governor Davis had notified the entire miUUa of the BUte to hoM themselves in readiness for any emergency. An Augusta dispatch of the 24th says Governor Davis claimed to have poafttye evidence that the Fosionists had their plans folly matured for the seizure of the State House, and that but for the presence of the troops they would have executed them on the night of the 24th. The Arsenal at Bangor waa taken forcible possession of cm the night of the 24th by Colonel White, under orders from Governor Davis. On the 25th Governor Smith, of the the FuslonisU, issued a proclamation stating that his supporters contemplated no violence, and that the placing of troops and artillery in the State House was but another act in the military usurpation under which the State waa languishing. He atyled himself the legal Governor, and expressed a belief that his authority would soon be recognized by all good citizens. Tbe Fusion statement and questions were laid before the Supreme Court on tbe ißth. Notice has recently been received at the Sab-Treasury in Chicago of two new counterfeit bills of five-dollar and one-hun-dred-dollar denominations. The five-dollar is a photographic bill of the Pacific National Bank of Boston. It was first discovered in San Francisco. It is of the series of 1875, Treasury No. E. 171.783, bank No. 3,033; John Allison, Register, and James Gilflllan, Treasurer. The one-hundred-dollsr bill is from an old plate on the National Revere Bank of Boston. Tbe note is worn and torn, bat the paper is good and the work is well done. The officers elected at the recent Convention of the Wisconsin State Grange of the Patrona of Husbandry are: C. D. Parker, W. M.; George H. Hatch, W. O.; Wilson Hopkins, W. L.; Enoch Wood, W. 8.; R. Williams, W. A. 8.; 8. N. Jones, W. C.; John Cochrane, W. T.; n. E. Huxley, W. Sec.; R. W. Hume, W. G. K.; Mrs. C. D. Parker, W. Ceres; Mrs. Wilson Hopkins, W. Pomona; Mrs. H. E- Huxley, W. Flora; Mrs. Enoch Wood, L. A. S.

Congress. Monday, January 19. Mr. Ferry introduced a joint resolution in the Senate for an amendment to tbe Constitution providing that suffrage shall not be restricted on account of sex, or any other reason that does not apply to all citizens. A number of private bills were passed. Mr. Morrill's resolution instructing tbe Committee on Finance to inquire into the practicability of refunding any part of tbe public debt at less than four per cent, interest was taken from the table and referred to tbe Committee on Finance. The bill to prevent cruelty to animals In transportation was debated. ...In tbe House Mr. Townsbend (111.) introduced a joint resolution proposing a Constitutional amendment in regard to tbe election of President and Vice-President, providing for their election by a majority of the votes of the people, and for tbe abolition of the Electoral College. On motion of Mr. Young (Ohio), an invitation of the Clan-na-Gael Association to the House to be present on tbe occasion of an address by Charles S. Parnell, on tbe 2d of February, in aid of Ireland, was accepted, and a resolution, offered by Mr. Cox, was adopted—9B to 42—tendering the hall of the House to Mr. Parnell for his address. Tuesday, January 20. —In the Senate the House bill to admit free of duty articles for exhibition at the Miller’s Convention at Cincinnati was passed. The bill to prevent cruelty to animals in transportation was further debated, and then a motion was made and carried that, in view of the many amendments made to the bill, its importance and the difference of opinion as to its effect, It be recommitted to the Committee on Commerce, in order that a new Pill murnt oe reported: Bills were introduced by Mr. Paddoea to equalize homesteads and for the relief of settlers on. school lands in Washington Terri tor}-. Messrs. Jacob V. Ademeyer and George T. Anthony, recusant witnesses in the Ingalls investigation. were discharged from tbe rule of attachment, the - former having given a satisfactory explanation, and the latter having subsequently appeared and testified before the committee.... Bills and Joint resolutions were Introduced in the House—by Mr. Culberson (Texas), for the discontinuance of the National Banking system; by Mr. Ellis, appropriating $500,000 for the suffering people of Ireland; by Mr. Coring, proposing a Constitutional amendment declaring that the right of suffrage shall be based on citizenship, and that tbe right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States oy any State on account of sex, or for any reason not equally applicable to all citizens of the United States; by Mr. Warner (Ohio), providing for paying United States bonds maturing in 1880 and 1881. The report of the Committee on Rules was further debated in Committee of the Whole. Wednesday, January 21.—The Bayard resolution for the withdrawal of the legaltender quality of the United States notes was taken up In tbe Senate, and Mr. Beck made a lengthy speech iti opposition thereto. Messrs. Edmunds and Garland were appointed members of the Board of Visitors to tbe next annual examination of cadets at the West Point Military School ...Majority and minority reports were made in the House on the bill for tbe relief of General Fitz John Porter—the majority recommending the adoption of a resolution requesting the President to remit the remainder of the unexpired sentence which disqualifies General Porter from holding any office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States. A bill was reported from the Committee on Appropriations for the payment of fees of United States Marshals and Deputy Marshals for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, with a proviso that “ no part of the money ($000,000) hereby appropriated is appropriated to pay any compensation, fees or expenses of Marshals or Deputy Marshals for services rendered in connection with registration or elections under any of the provisions of Title 26, of the Revised Statutes." A lengthy discussion was had in Committee of the Whole on the report of the Committee on Rules.

Thursday, January 22. —1 n the Senate resolutions were adopted calling on the Secretary of the Interior for Information as to what grants of public lands made by acts of Congress to railroad companies, or to States or Territories in aid of such companies, remain incomplete by reason of the failure of the grantees or beneficiaries to comply with the terms of such grants, etc., and whether any member of the Board of Indian Commissioners had become interested in Indian contracts. The Bayard Finance resolution was further debated. Adjourned to the 26th.... The Buckner BankReserve bill, requiring National Banks to keep half their reserves in cola, was taken up in the House, and, after debate, an amendment requiring banks to keep their coin reserve in their own vaults was rejected—33 to 79; a vote was then taken on the engrossing and third reading of the bill, which resulted in 79 yeas to 158 nays—the measure being thus defeated. Mr. Bingleton presented a petition of 500 soldiers of Illinois asking for the passage of the Weaver bill, and requesting soldiers all over the country to organize and keep a record, for future reference, of members of Congress who may vote against that bill. The question of the revision of the Rules was further debated in Committee of the Whole. Friday, January 23.—The Senate was not in session.... In the House the Speaker &nnounced the appointment of a Special Committee on Payments of Bounties, Pensions and Back Pay, as follows: Ooffrotb, Geddes, Myers, McMillan, Harmer, Caswell and Thomas. The proceedings in Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union were enlivened by a humorous speech by Mr. Horr Michigan), in reply to like witty and personal remarks by Mr. Cox (New York) the day before. Adjourned to tbe 2 th. An impecunious young man started afoot from San Luis Obispo to Soledad, in California. Getting fatigued and desperate, he resolved to become a highwayman. He had no weapon, and was physically insignificant; but strategy more than made up for these lacks. He built a fire in the woods near the road, to give the impression that a party was camped there, put his hat and coat on a log to represent a second man, and when a stage came along shouted: “Throw out that box, or you are a dead man.” The driver dropped the treasure box, which contained $320, and was glad to gut away with his life. —2 lovers sat beneath the shade. And 1 un2 the other said: “ How 14 8 that you be» Hare smiled upon this suit of mine; If 6 a heart, it palps for you— Thr voice is mu 6 melody—*Tis 7 to be thy loved l't— Say, 0v nymph, wilt marry met" Then lisped she soft; “ Why Iffly I”