Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1880 — NEWS of the WEEk. [ARTICLE]

NEWS of the WEEk.

BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. XLYlth Congress, ftoftm- The Genera Award bill was further debated om the V*h....Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Finance, reported, wtthawchdmcntt. the Senate MU to prorlde for the appointment of a commission to investigate the <(uett lon of tartC ...Mr. Slater tatrodeeed aMI ferfetttna to the United State* unearned lands Included tn the grant nude to the Oregon Central Bailrjad Compear by the , act of May 4, Itfftt, and for other purpoeea. Bouse— Mr. Ewing closed the detmte on the Army Appropriation MU, defendtag tbe proposed amendment relative* to troop* at the potto. after which the **ta*r amendmenta were adopted without dirnion. and that relative to troop* at the poll* by a strict party vote—yea*, 1Id; nays. «. Ik* UU as amended waa then paased—yea*, US: nays. K —«tao a strict party rote, with the exception of Mr. Nk:boll«. who voted in the negative. ....Xr. Thompson submitted a conference rrport upon tee Census Mil, and, after some debate upon a point of order, the report was MTreed to. .. .Xr. Weils, from the Appropriate** Committee, reported the Indian Appropi lotion bill, end Mr. Carttale, from the CW mitteeon Ways and Means, reported back the bill amending the laws relatinjr to internal rereunu, and both bills were referred to the Committee of the Whole. He*ate.—A bill was introduced on the Itth, by Mr. Wallace, to define the amount and manner of the purchase of public loans to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury. ....Mr, Voorbees submitted a resolution instructing the Committee on Pension* to report a bill authorising pensions to surviving sob Idler* and sailor* of the Mexican war.... The Consular am! Diplomatic Appropriation bUI wo* amended and passed. House.—Mr. Hutchins introduced s bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy. . The Indian Appropriation bill was considered In Committee of the Whole. - Senate.—Bills granting pensions to a number ofcpersons were passed on the 15th, sad the Genera Award bill was further discussed. •; 4 House.—Bills were passed providing 'a construction fund for the Navy and to equip aa expedition to the Arctic seas.... The Indian Appropriation bill waa debated ta Committee •of the Whole.and an evening session was held for the consideration of bills reported from the Committee on Naval Affairs, several of which were passed. Senate. —The Geneva Award bill was further debated on the lSth.... Adjourned to the 19th. G House. — Mr. Cdx. Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, reported a rcejiutlhn requesting the President to take to abrogate the Claytoo-Buiwer treaty. .. The Senate bill to remove the political disabilities of Roger A. Pryor was psssed. as was aleo the btll for the relief of qettlers on public lands, providing that, when a pre-emption, homestead or timber-culture claimant hes til' d a written relinquishment of his claim in the local land office, the. land covered by such claim shall be open to entry without further notice on the part of the Commissioner of the Public Land Office...-The Indian Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole.

From W&shinfftoiL. The receipts of the General Government from the tobacco tax for the first six months of this fiscal year, compared with the corresponding period of the last fiscal year in all the districts which returned E30.U00 and upward during the fecal year, show a total increase of 1778,790. The National House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee took n vote an the 15th on the proposftlon to reduce the duty on chrome Iron, which resulted In a Ue. It was then decided to refer all pending matters relating to the tariff to a subcommittee, with Instructions to report, by bill or otherwise, oil the 238. * These was received at the United States Treasury In Washington, from New Turk, on the 16th, a package containing 11,000 and marked “ Income Tax". It was placed In the conscience fund. The President has affirmed the sentence* of courts-martial dismissing two young Lieutenants, one for getting drunk. in full uniform and falling asleep on a billiard-table, and the other for cowaadice in the field In Oregon. * '

The East. The Massachusetts Greenback Convention will meet at Worcester on the 11th of May. It has been decided by the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association to accept the Irish challenge, the match to take place the last week of Jane—on Irish toil. A commercial traveler named Charles H. Worthen has been awarded by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts Wo,ooo damages for the loss of a lex by a railroad collision at Detroit several years ago. On two previous trials the verdicts against the company were for and $20,000At recent elections in New Jersey the Republicans made gains in Jersey City, and the Democrats in 1, boked. On the 13th Kemble, the alleged corrupter of the Pennsylvania Legislature, was held to ball In the sum of $5,000 to appear at Harrisburg on the 20th for sentence. A recent Burlington (Vt.) telegram says that, while Senator Edmunds is not a candidate for the Presidency in the sense of being a seeker for the office, he will accept the trust from a sense of duty if nominated and elected. Widespread and destructive forest flies were prevailing la New Jersey on the Hth. A district of dense pine forest and cedar swamp, fifty miles long and ten miles wide, bad been burned over, and the Urea were still raging. Thousands of game and other birds and many cattle had been suffocated. The smoke was so dense that the sun had not been seen fur two day a The district burned over was sparsely populated. Rev. Dr. Samuel Osgood, formerly a Unitarian clergyman, but who, In 1870, entered the Protestant Episcopal Church, since which time he has been engaged chiefly In literary and educational work, died at his home In New York on the 14th, aged sixtyeight years. Two men named Daniel Miller and CbarjcsFraxer were digging a well near Qordoosriile, Pa., a few days ago. Miller descended, and, not being heard from, Fraser weut down to see what was the matter, and was speeAlj overcome by gas before assistance arrived. Roth died. Br a recent explosion of gas at the works of the New York Gas-Light Company three men were seriously horned, one fatally. - A few days ago, while some men were raising a bridge in Newmill, N. J.» the - steel and iron works of the beam fell, killing William Obendenfer and Lewis Powell ,Rev. W. B. Or vis, a Philadelphia Congregational miuister, has been recently expelled from the Philadelphia Association, because of his connection with the Philadelphia UtatvSrrity of Medicine and Surgery, which is charged with selling bogus medical diplomas. The butter merchants of New York City are seeking an ahianee with the dairymen df the country, with a view of influencing Congressmen to enact laws to‘prevent the adulteration of butter and to regulate the ■ale of oleomargarine. According to a statement made by General Bchofleld on the 15th the pub He had got a wrong impression that the investigation then in progress at West Point in the Whittaker case was the first. The fact was that, upon the presumption that the guilty parties wore fa the corps of cadets, the Commandant of the corps had ased sit his powers in s a thorough and exhaustive investigation, and then seat his report of failure to ferrst out porsotmors to the General Schodold shoo ordered a Court of Inquiry to tuveoligato tha Imputation cask*poo Whip tutor. A wealthy etttson at Mow Turk had

offend fiUXX reward for the detection aad conviction off fee persons who ssesaHed Whittaker. Two English merchants, who arrived to New York a few days ago, blew oat the gas When they retired at their hotel at night. They wen found Insensible next morning, aad it was thought on* off them could not survive. The Massachusetts Republican State Convention wee held at Worcester on the 15th. A platform was adopted, aad Mtears. Hoar, Codsaan, Sanford end See lye were elected dhlegates to the National Convention, by a vote of 779 to SOO for the Grant ticket. Ike delegatee were not instructed, bat are understood to be in favor of Edmunds, with Sherman as secood choice. The Convention adopted a resolution recommending the nomination of Edmonds. At the steel-work* at Harrisburg, Pa., oa the 15th, three men were fatally burned bvthe overturn In g~of e ladle containing from six to seven tons of molten steel. Seven other men were seriously, bat it was thought not fatally, injured at the same time. William Chambers, of New Egypt, N. J., drank a solution of corrosive sublimate fee other day, supposing It was something else. He died soon after. The Maine Democracy will hold their St* e U*nvenlion at Bangor June 1, to nominate State officers and select delegates to the Cincinnati Convention. Extensive and serious damage has been done by recent forest fires ta Sussex, Chesterfield, Dinwiddle and Prince George Counties, Virginia, and two or three persons were bunted to death. Millions of dollars’ worth of property has been 'destroyed by the Urea In New Jersey. Ladd & Davis, extensive dry-goods dealers of Providence, K. 1., have failed, owing 1 ; it Is said, to disastrous outside speculations by the senior partner. The Vermont Greenback State Convention will be held at Montpelier on the 13th of May. A few days ago Fanny Adler, a oonvert from Judaism to Christianity, died in New York City. When they wished to bury her in accordance with the rites of the Episcopal Church, her former co-religionists objected, end created so furious a disturbance that the police bad to be called to suppress it Several speculators in New York and London have got up a corner on opium. Of the 4,030 cases in the world, it Is estimated that the ring has about 3,000 in Its possession. The speculators began to purchase at #4.50 per pound, and the present price In London is #6.5*. • The New York Central Syndicate are reported to have made $3,50J,000 in the recent transaction in Central stock with Vanderbilt. i

West and South. A Denver boy, three years of age, recently swallowed a solution of Concentrated lye. It was stated on the 13th that his throat had grown together, rendering it impossible lor hire UP take nourishment, except a few drops of milk or soup, and the surgeons of Cincinnati, where he had been taken for treatment, said there waa no hope for him, and he would die of starvation. A New Orleans boy, who was recently exercising in a gymnasium, was accidentally strangled to death by getting his head in a swinging-ring. Judge James R. Slack bas been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the new Eleventh Indiana District Ex-Pbrsident Grant was at Vicksburg on the 12th, and arrived at Memphis on the morning of the 13th. An enthusiastic reception was accorded him at esch place. It was reported on the 13th that frost for three consecutive nights had seriously damaged fruit in the vicinity of Augusta, Go. The California Senate has refused to poM a bill to suppress stock gambling. -The delegates to the National Convention selected by the lowa Btate Republican Convention, which met in Dcs Moines on the 14th, were instructed for Blaine. The Missouri Republican State Convention was held on the same day, and delegates selected. After slight opposition the latter were Ins true ted for Gr.-nt- The Kentucky Sta’e Republican Convention also met and selected on instructed third-term delegation. A resolution pledging the members of the party to support the nominee at Chicago was violently opposed, bat finally prevailed. Two immigrants, a man and woman, who arrived at Baltimore a few days ago, with 1,500 other immigrants, were sent to the small-pox hospital In that city on the 14th. It was feared that germs of the disease might have been disseminated among their companions, who had left for the West. A. State Prohibition Convention is to meet ta Springfield, 111., on the Ist of Jane. San Francisco experienced a severe earthquake shock at noon on the 14th. Buildings were shaken, but no serious damage was reported. A few days ago a Warren (Va.) woman, who interfered when her hnsband was punishing their son, was thrown by the infuriated father from a ladder on which she was itanding and instantly killed. The California Democratic State Convention is to be held at Oakland on the 19th of May. Congressman Acklen, of the Third Louisiana District, has failed to receive a renomlnatlon by the District Convention. A little girl, eight years old, of Cleveland, Ohio, died a few days ago, of congestion of the brain, caused by excessive jumping of the rope. Appropriate services were held at the Lincoln monument, in Springfield, HL, on the morning of the 15th, the fifteenth anniversary of President Lincoln’s death. A few of his letters aad speeches were read, and Governor Cnllom made a speech. Last summer a Missouri man named Bloomfield ran away with the wife of his stepson and located in Washington Territory. A few days ago Bloomfield caught her lavishing his money upon a younger rival and murdered her. A mob of fifteen men took a colored murderer from jail in 8L Helena-Parish, La., the other day, and shot him to death. One Johnson Bragg, living near West Moreland Court-House, Va; took offense the other day at being addressed by a negro aa plain "Brazg.” and, after a quarrel with the colored man, killed him with a hatchet The lame, blind and sick of Scott County, Virginia, are reported as being healed by the supposed miraculous powers of a desply-rellglous man named Richard Miller. He cures by the laying-on of hands, modestly gives God the eredft for it and refuses compensation. A pew days ago, a Nashville (Texw.) desperado killed a man because be refused an invitation to take a drink. The rumors that there had been cases off yellow fever a# Memphis during the present year were pronounced on the 18th absolutely untrue by Dr. Thors ton, President of the Board of Health Of that city. Some of the striking employes of the Hudson cotton factory at St Paul, Minn , overpowered a small detachment of police on the Ifith, and dispersed a number of women aad girts who wished to resume their places In the mill. Severe snow-storms were raging in the far West for several days preceding the 18th. The Central Pacific Railroad Waa bfoekadad be tween Emigrant Gap and Ciscos aad several trains war* ditched to eodeav-

aciag to fare* a passage. A heavy aaow•torm also prevailed ta Northern Wisconsia on fee ldfe. Flte desperadoes who had recently escaped from fee Wyoming Penitentiary wore reported on the 16th to be engaged ta robbing stage* and holding op mail-carriers on fee road to Fort Fettermaa. Gewxeal Grant arrived at Cairo, DL, on fee 16th, where he wae enthusiastically received by about 10,000 people. Foreign Intelligence. v ▲ case of yellow fever was reported at Vera Crux, Mexico, on the 19th. Nearly 6,000 emigrants left Germany daring fee week ending on the 10th, for fee United States. A dispatch was received at London on the 18th to the effect that the Burmese Ambassador bad declared. In a statement published there, that there waa not a particle off truth tn the reported massacre at Mandalay. President Diaz has recently congratulated the Mexican Congress on the revocation by the United States military authorities of the order to invade Mexican territory in pursuit of cattle-thieves The Supreme Coart of Canada has declared the Temperance law ot the Dominion to be constitutional. At Madrid on the 14th Otero, the man who attempted the assassination of King Alfonso, of Spain, in December last, was executed. China has refused to ratify the treaty of Kuldja, because it left the mountain passes in the hands of Russia. A recent Bremen telegram says 2,000 Swedes bad left that port this spring for the United States. It was reported on the 14th that Egypt had decided to occupy the Red Sea coast to the entrance of the Arabian Gnlf. The New Market (London) handicap was won by Lorillard’s Wallenstein on the 14th. Robert Laube, ex-Mayor of ChatOnt., died a few days ago from burns caused by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp. A vessel loaded with arms and ammunition for the Chilians took fire while lying In the River Elbe, near Hamburg, tbe other day, and was scuttled to prevent an explosion. The Parliamentary elections in England, except to fill vacancies, closed on the 14tb, and show a clear Liberal majority of about sixty in the House of Commons.

The Dublin (Ireland) Mansion House Relief Committee was in i ecelpt of letters on the 15th which showed that the distress throughout Ireland was increasing. Late advices from South America show that the attack of tbe Chiliaus on the Peruvian City of Mollendo was attended by frightful atrocities. The invaders destroyed and sackeil many costly buildings, and coming to the residence quarter, spared neither age, sex nor condition. At the height of the beastly revel the Chilian officers attempted to check their soldiery, but were unable to rescue tbe women and girls until they had killed with their revolvers several of their own men. The Duchess of Newcastle has lately married Tom Hohler, a British concert singer. In consequence of the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada sustaining tbe constitutionality of the Temperance law, all the bar-rooms at Frederickton, N. 8., have been closed. Ex-Emprsss Eugenie arrived at Cape Town, Sou h Africa, on the 16th. . It is said the Jesuits have offered \he Khedive Of Egypt #BO >,OOO for the Military Academy in that city, with a view tc make that their resting place when expelled from France and continental Europe. Prof. Noudenskjold arrived at Copenhagen on the 16th on the steamer Vega, lie was received with great enthusiasm. Kenealy, the noted counsel of the Tichborne c’aimant in England, is dead. Right Rev. Thomas Josepii Brown, Roman Catholic Bishop of Newport, England, is dead. He was eighty-two years old. The Spanish Cortes has decided tc fix the strength of the permanent army in Cuba at forty thousand men. A correspondent at Constantinople reports a terrible famine at -Mosul, Turkish Koordtstan. Four thousand Inhabitants fled to Bagdad, and hundreds died on the road. The Duke of Edinburgh has consented to take charge of the cargo of the Constellation Intended for distribution in the west of Ireland.

LATER General Schofield, Commander at West Point, testified before the Board of In* quiry on the 17th. He explained his conucc tlon with tße Whittaker case, and stated in conclusion that his own investigations had convinced him of the innocenfe not only of Whittaker but of the cadet corps. Judge Freslon, of the San Fran, cisco Superior Court, rendered a decision on the 17th, confirming the Judgment of the lower court in the case of Denia Kearney. Kearney’s counsel c announced that they would apply to the Bupreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus as the only resort left to them, but some time would necessarily elapse before any action could be taken on the application. The Superior Court ordered a commitment forthwith, which would land Kearney in the House of Correction directly, but it was rumored that, anticipating the decision, and pending application for a habeis corpus, he had absented himself from the city. Twelve white men and an equal number or more of Chinamen were the evening of the l6th by the explosion of about three tons of giant powder in a powder mill near San Francisco. Several buildings were destroyed, and the bodies of some of the human victims could not be found. The value of exporta from this country bf provisions and tallow for March, 1880, was $12,487,512; March, 1870, $11,056,174; nine months ending March 81, 1880, $82,741,275; the same period in 1870, $85,469,506. A small lumber schooner on Lake Michigan was struck by a wind squall a few days ago, and her Captain was washed overboard, leaving a sailor as the sole occupant of the frail craft For four days be drifted around at the merry of wind and wave, wither sleep, and for forty-eight hours was lashed to the mast Finally exhausted nature yielded, and he slept in that perilous position for twelve hours, when he was rescued by a passing vessel. The port of Callao in Peru is blockaded by s Chilian fleet, and of that city and Lima are fleeing into the interior. The spotted typhus fever has made its appearance at St. Petersburg. The United States Senate was not in session on the 17th. A resolution was adopted in the House for an investigation into the facts relating to the reception by Mr. Bpringet of an anonymous letter concerning the case of Donnelly vs. Washburne. The In dim Appropriation bill was taken up in Commit tee of the Whole, and an amendment, offered by Mr. Hooker, to transfer the Indian Bureau to the War Department was ruled out of order, aad the bill was then reported to the House, as amended In committee. Nearly all the amendments wove agreed to—the vote on the one abolishing the Indian Commission being 109 yeas to 6$ nays—and the bill aa amended was passed. It appropriate! $4,570,°°°, the Department estimates being