Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

BT TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. XLYlth Cmcnh. Bouti.—The amend me ota to the Cev mi MB were Insisted oaoa tie Mk, and *Oo«»Xereooe Committee wee appointed... The Joist resolution to allow lipAores of the Government PrtattnaOMec holicUre, with par. wee peee md.-.-ThabiU ratlfrlngthe Ctemrreemt m wee farther debated. Memra. Pendleton sod Hill furorls* tt» pssesae. and Messrs. Morgan sad Toiler altMiiai the eouree of Secret ary Schun. House.— Several committee report* »ere made.... The Kit el Appropriation Mil IfiiJ -4.7 W, being e reduction froes the eetlmateeof «ns*3j was referred to thsCommtttee of the Who* . .The Beaate Joint reeoiotloa providing for the payment of wages to eurotoyes of tae Go»ommmt Printing Otßoe tor legal holidays was aaeeecL...The Ann/ ApproprlatloM bill wee tahea up la Committee of the Whole, end Mr. Oymer stated that the measure, as a wh>4u. received the imqaailfled sappott and approbation of the execartire oAeere at the srajr; It provided • imply for the government, •übrd.-tenCe end equipment of the army, the Committee oc Appropriation* preferring that all other objects, »uch as building of Torts, const i action Of telegraph poles, should be charged to other accounts, end provided tor In the Civil Sundry Appropriation MU. Senate. —A note was received on the Tth from the Vice-President stating that be woukl be ebteot several days, and e resolution wee adopted that Mr. Thnrman be chosen to preeide....Mr. Baton, from the Committee 00 Appropriating reported beck the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation MU... .The Ute Agro-meat MU wee further debated and amended. ’ House.—Several bills were reported, one of them providing tor an Increase of the pensions #f certain soldiers aad sailors who ere utterly helpless on account of disease contracted In the aervioe.... Mr. Oook asked leave to oftqr a resolution reel ting the alleged oufc. rage perpetrated upon J. CTwkfttahar, a colored cadet at West Point A sad why, and calling ou the Secretary of War for any information whieii be might , have In regard to the alleged outrage, end aleo as to what steps, if any. had been taken In regard thereto, but object ioarwas made by Mr. Aiken on the ground that the autbonrtr* at We*f Point were inv estimating the matter, and he thought It better to await that decision tnan to jump at oooc'utkms based on fiewepiper reports, eeKdly as the latest report was that It was a w outrage.... During the discussion. In rommlttcaof the Whole, of the Army Appro p-fdtloo but Mr. Sparks, laboring under the impression that improper motives bad been imputed to him, ealied Mr. Ctymer a liar. Explanations followed and Mr. Sparks having withdrawn the offonsiva language the excitement subsided and business was proceeded with. Senate. —The Ute Agreement bill was fui thar discussed cm the Bth. House—Several private bills were reported.... The Army Appropriation bill was taken up bn Go mm It lea of the Whole, the pending question being upon a point of order raised agnlnat tbe a mend met it prohibiting any of the appropriations to be used for the subsistence, equipment, transportation or compensation of any part of the army to be used as a polloe forte to keep i»eace at tae polls at any election held withiu may Htato. After debate the Chair held that If the army was re,loved by the proposed nmemhneot from any additional duty, it would be in the line of retrenchment; it could n<< la> otherwise; the conclusion must .bo arrived at that if the amendment was adopt cd-there would be a saving to the people; therefore, be would rule that the amendment wits In order. An nppi.nl wna taken, and the det-isam was sustained—Kß to SB. Senate. —The Ute Agreement bill was further debated and amended on the 9th, and It was agreed that general debate on the bill ahould cease at thiee p. m. on the 12th, and tt.it a final vote should be bad at four p. iu. on tue same day.... Adjourned to the 12ta. House.—A bill was introduced by Mr. De La Matyr, and referred, establishing a temporury government for Alaska.... Between fifty and seventy-five bills were reported ad vt-rsely from the Committee on War Claims, aad laid on the table.

From Washington. From July 1 to December 31, 1879, the Government revenue receipt* from spirits ilf*silled from materials other than apples, peaches or era pc*, were $28.767,7.8, against $24,645,799 during the same time in 1878. The President approved the Star Mall Route Deficiency bill on the 7tb. The President has nominated William A. Newell, of Near York, to be Governor of Watbinfrtou Territory. Ignatius DonnellV, the contestant in the Donnelly Washburn con teste!-election case, has written a letter to the Cotnm tt e on Elections of the National House ot Represent, stives, asking that the allegation that a friend of his wrote an anonymous letter to Mr. Springer, of Illinois, making a corrupt proposition, be fully investigated. The Military Committee of the lower house at Congress has appointed a sub-com-mittee. consisting of Messrs. Spark*, Johnson and Brown, to inquire Into the alleged outrage upon Cidet Whittaker, at West Point. * On the 9th the Senate confirmed the nominations of James B. AngeJL, of Michigan, as Minister to China, and of Joseph F. Swift, of California, and William H. Treacott, of South Carolina, to be Commissioner* to China, to constitute, with the United States Minister to that country, a commission- to negotiate and conclude by treaty a settlement of such matters of interest to the two Governments, now ; ending between the tame, aa iqaj be confided to it. During the first nine months of the present fiscal year the postage .stamp*, stamped envelopes and postal cards issued to postmaster* upon requisitions aggregated in value I2S, 779,335, an Increase over the issues for the corresponding nine months of the previous, fiscal year of $3,1*16,063, or about H.J4 per cent. The greatest increase was in the sales of postal cards.

' The East. At a dinner party recently given by John Jacob A* tor and wife to President and* Mrv In New York, the vtanda were ■erred upon golden dUfaea worth $26,000. SAWYER, the electric light men, end ' I Dr. Tfceophihn Steele, boarding with their Wires In a fashionable New York boerdinghotue, had a street fight on the evening of the 9th, Ae upshot of which wu the shooting <4 Dr. Steele In the bridge of the nose and the •rreat of Mr. Sawyer upon the charge of assault with intent to commit murder. Thu trouble arose In the first instance between the wires of these gentlemen, end they “took it np” with the resalt stated. A Cuban patriot in New York aaya that, oat of regard for the feelings of the American Government, no more expeditions will be fitted out in this cooatiy te help the revolutionists. A repokt from the Washington ibsf of the sth that Mr. TOden had, on the •dwce of his physicians, concluded to abandon the Presidential canvass, created something of a sensation at New York, but the report was declared on the oth to be without foundation. Xo an intimate friend who called on him Mr.’ Tfllen declared that he had not been examine l by any doctor, o«t there bqd not been any conference between him and his political aaaoci-itea, and that be had not said to any one that he was not a candidate. * , ~ During the night of the 6th a colored cadet a West Point was attached, in the barracks, by three masked men, bound hand and foot, and mutilated about the ears. It waa believed the outrage waa perpetrated by elasemates of the victim. The matter was being investigated. •> * . Thn judgment in the case erf Chastine Cox, the murderer of Mrs. Hull, has been affirmed by the New Torts Court of Appeals. ▲ New York dispatch of the 7th says gold coins, hollowed out and.filled with base metal, were In circulation in that city. On the 7th the Connecticut State Bepuhbcan Convention met at New Haven and elected delegates to the Chicago Convention. The delegation waa said to be divided be- ***** ®*na, Edmunds and Wash borne.

It wm reported on the 7th-that many of Use ofScers at West Pota* believed that WftiUikif, til# wlfflptKl c#dy§4| Ih4 held tkt the Mbmmmot mrUx s# In Juries, m abowa by a medical examination, demonstrated the falsity ad Ms ilaarrlptlnw of the assault made on kin. Others rejected this theory, aad pieced lapHdt confidence la his story. Announcement web made on the 7th that Jackson A Mores, grata exporter*, of Boston, had failed, with liabilities estimated a SIOO,IXB. They operated extensively In Chicago, where, wtth the exception of $25,000 borrowed from personal friends in Boston, their obligations rest At the election in Rhode Island on the 7th there wee no choice for Governor aad Ltcutcnant-Oovtraps, the ReptlbHcsn candidates not receiving a majority of all tha votes cast. The Legists tare, however, is largely Be publican. The widpw of ex-Senator Daniel S. Dickinson died ia Maw York oa the morning of the Bth. In ooneeqoenoe of n fire-damp explosios oe the Bth five miners at work ia tbs Preston eoiUery, la the SebajkiU <Pa.) eoal region, were eeverely tad perhaps fatally burned. The aae ounce ment ia made that the New York Central Syndicate baa dosed out the last of the 360,tfX> shares of stock purchased of Mr. YaaderMM last fall. It waa purchased at L9O, aad sold at aa average of l.aa Jay Gonld la eaid to have secured 58,080 of the shares disposed of on the Bth, aad Mr. Vanderbilt had a proposition from him to parehaae aa additional block of 100,009 shares nndef coa aiders tloa, and would give him an answer ia thirty days. It was stated from New York on the 9th that Williamson, the persecutor of Dr. Dix, had tamed out to be a first-class swindler, forger and mail-robber. Be waa reported to be wanted for forgery in Pittsburgh and for stealing letters in Philadelphia On the 9th Cadet Whittaker appeared before the Board of Inquiry at West Point and waa subjected to a rigid txamloatton. He repeated the story of the assault recently made on him, and it U saidno aerious discrepancies were found in his statements.

West and South. At Narrow Ridge, near Mendocino City, Cal., a few jdays ago, Nell A Hammsland killed his wife and a man named Trank Alien, aa they were asleep, by beating out their brains with an ax. He waa arrested and acknowledged his crime, bat plead extenuating circumstance*. 4 On the 6th Brackett’s block, a' fouratory building in Minneapolis, occupied by merchants, newspaper publishers and manufacturers, was destroyed by fire, caus.ng a loss of $173,000. The local election occurred in Chicago on the 6th. The Republicans carried their tickets in the South and West Towns, and the Democrats in the North Town. The former elected ten Aldermen and the Democrats and Socialists nine. In Milwaukee, the He publicans carried every ward but ohe, and elected the entire municipal ticket, except Clerk of the Municipal Court, by majorities ranging from l,too to 9,600. In Cincinnati the Republicans elected their candidate for City Comptroller by about 4,000 majority, and t£e en ire Board of Education by majorities ranging from 300 to 2,0.10. On the evening of the 6th the S&n Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution declaring Cist the peace of the city had been seriously Imperiled by the alleged l.icendiary speeches of Mayor Kallocb, aud authorising the Judiciary Committee to investigate the matter and report. It waa believed this was the first step toward Impeaching the Mayor. At the late municipal election in Fond du Lac. Sing Yan, a Chinaman, took out hla naturalization paper* and voted. On the 7th the lowa Democratic State Convention was held at Burlington and delegates were selected to represent the State in the Cincinnati Convention. No instructions were given, but the sentiment of the Convention favored Tilden. At a Conference of the Mormon Church, which closed at Salt Lake on the Bth, it was agreed to release many late arrivals from Europe from the payment of debts amounting to SBOO,OOO for their passage money, to authorise the purchase of cows and sheep for poor people, and to appoint fifty elders to proselyting missions In the United States and Europe.

A car attached to a passenger train on tbe Belial re A Southwestern Railway jumped the track on a trestle eighteen miles, from Bellaire, Ohio, on the afternoon of the Bth, and fell fifteen feet to the ground. Four or five persons were seriously injured, one of them fatally. John Petris, fifty-one yean old, of Baltimore County, Md., was married to a young lady of twenty-two ou the evening of the oth. On the morning of the Bth he went out In tbe garden and blew his head off with a shot-gun. ' The Oregon State Democratic Convention met at Portland on tha Bth and nominated fire District Judges and five District Attorneys The platform adopted advocates economy in public affairs, i alforxn taxation, equal protection to capital aud labor, regulation by legislative acta of rates of common carriers, maintenance of public schools, free elections, without interference by military; condemns keeping alive the bitterness of the late war; censures President Hayes for vetoing the Chinese bill; declares the recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court in relation to the Election-laws as favoring the Republican party; pledge* rapport to all laws favoring untrammeled suffrage; opposes a protective tariff, and denounces the third-term movement The Nebraska Republican State Convention far the selection of delegates to the National Convention bas-Jbeen called to meet at Columbus on the 19th of May. The libel suit of lime. Patti against a St Louis newspaper has been dismissed at the plaintiff's cost. On the 7th General Hatch's command, operating in Southern New Mexico, had an engagement lasting four boors, with Victoria’s band of Apaches. The savages finally fled, tearing several of their dead oo the field and considerable stock, which fell into the hands of the soldiers. Captain Carroll, of the Ninth Cavalry, and seven troopers were wounded. Ok the afternoon of the 9th General Mliea, the Indian fighter, passed through 8t Paul aud expressed the opinion trouble with the Northwestern Indians might be expected during this summer, but nothing like a general war. The Oregon Democratic State Convention at Its recent session elected Tilden delegates to the Cincinnati Convention. Ex-President Grant reached Mo. bfleonthe afternoon of the 9th, and waa banqueted by the Cotton Exchange in the evening. The Minnesota Republican State Convention for the election of delegate* to the Chicago Convention will be held at St Paul oe the 90th of May. Twelve cases of small-pox in the town of Matte son, in the southern part of Cook County, IIL, are said to have reunited from t]m blunder of a physician, who vaceftnated the rictima with virus takes from tte Itody of a person who died of suall-oox. On*

child tbas treated has died, and five other* to $ stogie family ere suffering frota the dlseeee Pobtmasteb Fadderman, of Belton, Ben County, Tex., hee ahecbnAed with $4,000 at Government mosey. Two convicts in the Penitentiary at Jefferson Otty, Mo., quarreled toe other day, while at work, one of them finally killing the other with a spade. Refusing to surrender, the murderer was then shot dead by guard* A TEW mornings ago Mrs. Fahey left her home to Ctnctonatl to go to market, leavng her Infant asleep to charge of her seven-year-old daughter. On her return aa how lpter the found the latter burned toe crisp aad writhing to agony on the ioor. Bbe was conscious when found, and said she hadn’t screamed for fear of “ waking the baby.”

Foreign Intelligence. The port of B&toum, on the Black Sea, which waa coded to the Russians by the Turks by the treaty of San Stefano, is being strongly fortified by its present occupants. A Peruvian corvette recently fought her way through the Chilian hiocksda into the port ot Aries, and there discharged anas aad stores tor Ute beleaguered Peruvian* She kept up the fight while discharging her cargo, aad fought he way out again. It was announced from Berlin on the 6th that Prince Bismarck had tendered hla resignation of the Chancellorship of the German Empire. The Immediate occasion of this action was said to be the rejection by the Federal Council of his proposition to increase stamp duties. The Emperor had not decided whether or not to accept the tender. A Bombay (India) dispatch of the 6th says that the report of Mahomed Jan’s death was untrue. A Berlin teh gram of the 6th says the German Geographical Society had started an expedition to Central Africa to establish a permanent station on the banks of Lake Tanganyika. The announcement waa made from Rangoon, India, cn the 7th, that King Tbeebaw, the besotted ruler of Burnish, was dead. It is said that Jay Gould has leased the Great Western Railway of Canada, guaranteeing the bondholders a satisfactory rate of interest. A London telegram of the Bth says that the British steamer Syria, from New Orleans to Liverpool, had been abandoned at sea in a sinking condition. Her crew were rescued by a steamship from Hamburg. A Paris paper states that a note had been received from the Vatican expressing regret at the enforcement of repressive measures, but offering no foHhal protest, and giving the Freuch ecclesiastics no encouragement to resist v A GOOD deal of gunpowder has recently been stolen from the Government mills at Odessa, Russia The armed force which recently invaded Russian territory in Asia, was made up of Tartars and not of Chinese, as repor ed. The British authorities have proclaimed the Peace Preservation act in Basutoland in South Africa in anticipation of trouble with the natives who have been ordered to be disarmed.

It is announced that before retiring from the Ministry Lord Beaconslleld will bestow Baronetcies on two of bis journalis ic friends—Borthwick, of the Pott, and Levy, of the TtUffraph. A new Bulgarian Ministry has been formed, with Zancoff as Premier, and Karaveloff as Minister of Finance. According to a recent letter from Aleppo 4,009 Koords, Impelled by want, had descended from the mountaina plundered the town of Mardene, in Asiatic Turkey, and murdered a number of priests and European merchants. It was reported from Constantinople on the 9th that the Turkish Miuister of For. eign Affairs had demanded the surrender of an American convicted by United States Consul Heap of manslaughter, for killing an Ottoman, and sentenced tv him to two months’ imprisonment Me. Heap refused to deliver the culprit, and it was said ihat negotia ions would follow. According to Paris telegrams of the 9th nine ladies in that city had refused to pay their taxes until allowed to vote. A portion of the Chilian army has been defeated with great loss bv the Peruvians. The Chilian fleet whiuh made the attack oa Aries was so severely handled by the gunners on the shors that it was forced to retire for repairs. Amongthe killed in the naval engagement was the commander of the Huascar, the third occupying that post who has given up his life in the present struggle.

LATER The report of the death of King Tbeebaw, the drunken ruler of Burmah, was denied in a dispatch from Rangoon, which was published on the 11th. The dispatch rays he had bad the email-pox but was recovering. The dispatch adds that tbe astrologers baring attributed his attack to irritated spirits the King ordered a sacrifice of 700 lives. Accordingly seven hundred persons of different rangs were burned alive under the towers of the city walla There was a frightful panic at Mandalay, and thousands were leaving the city. - There was no session of the United States Senate on the 10th. General debate was commenced in the House, in Committee of the Whole, upon the amendment to the Army Appropriation bill prohibiting the uae of troops at khe polls as a police force. Messrs. Hawley, Robeson, Kiefer, McCotd, Haskell, Frye, Conger and Caawell speaking against tbe amendment, the Democratic majority taking little or no part in the debate. W. A. Howard, Governor of Dakota Territory,, died at Washington, D. C., on the 10th, aged sixty-seven' In a caucus of Democratic United States Senators on the 10th it was decided to postpone action on the Bpofiord-Kellogg case until the Geneva Award bill should be disposed of. The lowa Greenback Convention to nominate Btate officers and to select delegates to the Convention will meet at Des Moines May 19. A furious gale did great damage to property at Buffalo on the 10th. The waters of tbe lake were dashed over tbe stone piers with such force aa to submerge many lowlying districts beyond. A train of cars, approaching tiie city, ran into four feet of wstar and was abandoned. Returns received up to the 11th from seventy-five counties in -Indiana and estimates as t > the remainder show that tbe amendments to tbe Constitution were adopted by majorities ranging from 1&.00J upward. The aix day*’ walk in New York for the O’Leary belt ended at half past nine o’clock ou the evening of the lOtb, Hart (colored), being first; Pegram (colored), *eoood; Howard, thin), and Dobler, fourth. Hart made 505 miles, tbe greatest achievement in this line on record. Pegram male 543% miles; Howard, 534%, and Dobier, 531. It was stated on the 11th that, since tbe last disbursement of interest on Government four-per-cent, bonds, when Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt was found to be tbe owner of 931, 00,001, he hadeent *3o,owy<x> additional to the Treasury for registration. There were fourteen hundred busints* failures iu the Uuited 8. ate- during tfie first three months of tbe present-year, *.* nst tw>rr,ty.flvr hundred "tor tbe eorreaoonding period last rear.