Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — NEWS SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY.

The empress of Russia is dead. Silver m pence per ounce in London. France m seeking a more secretive ballot. QUb* baa gives an important order, at Vienna, tor rifle*. . _ The Arkansas democrats have nominated Churchill for governor. The due! between Rcchefort and Koechis to be fought in Paris on Thursday. President Hayes has been elected vice prwfltafeta the American Bi ole society. England* proposes to co-operate in the proposed international Polar expedition. The Borm ah insurgents are increasing. The rewmy f haa spread te Mandalay. TW specie in the bank of France increased 5,972,000 francs during the past week. h;' r 4: Senator Minerhead’* mw mill at Chatham, Ont., burned yesterday. Loes, SB,OOO. - . - / The Arkansas democrats, on the 89th ballot, nominated Thomas J. Churchill for govepog. , The Cincinnati cooperage works were destroyed by Are; Lorn, $75,000; insurance, $48,000. The statement ot the imperial bank of Germany shows an increase ot specie of 9,000,000 marks.

A Parte dispatch announces the burning of the steamer Marchioness. Loes, 1< 000,000 franca The statue of Goethe, of Prussia, was unveiled in the presence of a large concourre fit people. . RnAta Wili ac longer permit agricultural implements to be imported to that country free of duty. The Count Festilic* has married the divorcen wite of the Prince ot Monoca, formerly Lady Mary Hamilton. J. Parkhurst, Jr-, A Co's, paraffine and wax work/kt Baltimore, Md., burned. Loa* $25,000; insurance SIB,OOO. A -Paris dispatch says Rochefort and Koechin are to fight a auel. Lackey and Ciemenceous are named as seconds. ExKmnreh* Eugenie arrived, May 28th, at Btayari, Swkaerlaad, sear the spot ,h» PHW. tepsi.!m. mud. y Hf bnUtoß t»dk oTßatUad in. crcasedh|Hl,soo during the part. week. Pro|>odtaa at reserve to liabilities, 401-16 percent** , T%e store house of the Buckeye glassworks, at Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, was damaged SI,OOO worth by fire. Spontaneous combustion. The drogth continues in Jamaica. Water is sold at six cents per gallon. Cattle are dying of thirst, and the failure ot crops is imminent. The senate has confirmed Horace Maynard as postmaster-general; and Felix Castene aa U- 8. marshal for the eastern district of Missouri. The Boston jury trying Charie* Demond for embezzling sso,ovoof the funds of the Home Missionary society, have disagreed and been discharged. The grsenbackers of the six th Missouri district have- appointed a woman as one of the alternate delegates to the national greenback conveflion.

The rebel out-poats near Muahla, Burmah, were unsuccessfully attacked. The rebels captured and decapitated the commandsr of the royal ttoopa. The Phylloxera threatens almost entire extermination to thw wine interests ot France. A society has been formed to devise some scheme to destroy the insect. The czar, upon receiving the news of the death ot the czarina, returned te St Petersburg at once. The duke of Ediqburg will attend the funeral at Bt Petersburg. * Nothing new from Leadville except that at the Chrysolite mine the men will resume work at $3 per day. and are well prepared for defense in case violence is attempted.

1,600 puddlen, in Pitlsburg have struck for an advance in wages. This throws 60,000 men out of employment, as the employers will not accede to the demands of the striker*. The Cincinnati, Hamilton ft Dayton railmad has paid its floating debtof W.000; the interest on the bonded debt has been reduced, and,toe payment of dividend* resumed. £t Osqeola, Ark., George Band ford and Richard McKee, negroes, have been sentenced to be hanged July Bth, for the murder of Armstead Penn, colored, committed last November. s The St. Louis republican anti third term club have appointed a committee, comptoed of 100 influential gentlemen, to visit Chicago and protest- against the nomination of Grant. . *

A duel was fought on the Belgium frontier between Marquis Gen. de Oliver and the Count de Larai. The count was killed. The marquis killed a man in a duel in September last. A fearful wind storm struck St. Louis at 11 o’clock yesterday. The roof was lifted from the insane asylum, porticos were blown down and other senous dam* age One. man was killed. The duel between Rochefort and Coehling was fought with swords on Swiss territory. Rochefort was severely wounded in 4he stetnach; Ksechilng was not hint The duell lasted but two minutes. Senator Gordon’s reason tor resigning his position in the Senate is that he deilrtTtD attasd to his private business. Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown,of Georgia, has been appointed to succeed him and has accepted. The senate yesterday ctufirmed James O. Putnam, ts New York, minister to Belgium; 8 Hyman, surveyor of of customs, at New Orleans; and rejected the nouriaatlo* of P. Q. Stoner, as postmaster stAshland, Ohio ■ - - u , A gang of cireto tM>ts atAdAohto» yesterday .offered s2opremium to the map who- could show.s6oo. Horace Gilbert exhibited about S7OO, when one of The rascals snatched his purse and disap peered in tbl: crowd. No arrest*. - £ »’ 1 ft” stored feamah belonging to toe er Norfolk, Virginia, killed ilia and cook, and seriously wounded the mam. Hethen took* boat and escaped io the shore where he to supp* aed to be hiding in the swamps.

A corresp indent at London writes that the American minister has received in. atr jetioos or advices from Secretary Evarts relative to the fisheries question of a much more amicable character than jndicatodhr repor ts of debates in Congress. The jury in the al wider tout of Mary A. Bwamiller vs. Conrad Culp, at Lima, Ohio, she (Mary) had aolicited intercourse with him but he had refused. The verdict will be rendered this morniag. Tbs Ya lean Iran and nail works, at Chattanooga, thrown into bankruptcy. Liabilities, $362,000; assets, $200,000. The receivers will continue opfailure. J