Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — NEWS SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY.

Berlin conference will meet July The Mount Vcsaviu* railway ii completed. Brig.-Gen. YUjnar died in New York, a few nlghta ago. ▲ll the pdwera hare aow been invited to the Benin conference. Gen. Garcia baa been defeated by the government troops inCaba. A deputation of citizens will meet the American rile teem at Cork. The Greeks are preparing to occupy the new territory they claim. Cowley, of the Shephard’s Fold has lost tea pounds of flssh since his imprisonment. At a land demonstration in county Tipperary. the “stars and stripes” were displays! „ The Continental hotel, Philadelphia, it now lighted with the'electric light, instead of gas. The Enterprise planing milt at Allege P*-, was burned recently. The Pennsylvania railroad pays out this month, aa interest on various bonds, nearly $1,000,000. Buenos Ayres is demoralized by a revo lation, and the port has been blockaded by the national fleet. D. R Radcliffe, liberal member of the English parliament from Eras ham, has been unseated lor bribery. Timothy Doxy, a veteran of the war of 1812, died at Pearsalls, L. I n a few days ago, aged cinety-four years. In the Belgian elections the liberals defeated the socialists in Brussels, and the Catholic party carried Antwerp. The TivrM announces editorially that M. Challemel Laoonr has. been appointed French Ambassador to London. The Flench ministry' is urging the policy of sending gunboats to suppress piracy ih the Gall of Tonquin, China. The Dublin University Club has offered the American team the privilege of bonory membership daring their stay in Dublin. The Havana ah and Charleston railroad has been reorganized and the line will be poshed through rapidly to Jacksonville, Florida. Governor McClellan, cl' New Jersey, has appointed George W. Vroom sheriff of Somerset county in place of the late Hheriff Van Liew. Prussia's proposal relative to the incorporation of the Lower Elbe in the zollverein was agreed to in the bnndesrath, Prince Bismarck presiding. Prince Jerome Napoleon held aloof from the funeral services in commemoration of the prince imperial, in Paris, Paul de Cassagnac conducted them.

The president has approved the bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for an emblematic and commernorati e monument over the .site of Cornwallis’ surrender, at Yorktown, Va. _ ■ The chancellor of New Jersey has ordered the sale of the Stevens battery, September 29,1880, and notices of the same in pamphlet form will be mailed to all foreign coarts. The bill approving the convention with the United States settling the ] indemnity due to the French from America for damage during the civil war has been passed by the French senate. Application for the postponement of the sale of the Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad has been raised at Montgomery, Ala*, and the road will accordingly be put up at auction on the 14th inst. Ons of the grandest processions ever seen in Russia attended the removal of the body of the empress from the Winter palace to Petropaulovski fortress, where th« funeral services were held. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt is to pay the expense of erecting the fruit-canning establishment which is building at Smithtown for the St. Johnland Bociety, and which will give employment to ’ many women. Work on the double track of the long Island Railroad, from Richmond Hill to Hunter’s Point, was discontinued beoause the New York and Rockaway Beach railroad Company is in arrears to the Long Island Railroad for the use oi the road. The citizens of Leadville have organized 800 strong to protect those miners willing to work for the wages offered, and the mayor has i-sned a proclamation stating that intimidating parties will be held responsible tor their acts with their lives. The Savannah and Memphis railroad, running sixty miles from Opelika, Ala., to Good water, was- sold at Opelika recently, to Oliver H. Palmer, Macon Young and H. W. Sibley, of New York, for $834,500. It was bought for the bondholders. The school-ship Constitution has been towed from her anchorage at Twenty-third street, North River New Yorx, to the upper quarantine grounds, off Robin’s Reef. When the ship arrived from her annual cruise she had several cases of scarlet fever onboard. W. L. Bisseli, of Buffalo, N. Y., attorney for the Buffalo and Southwestern railway, admits that a proposition for the consolidation of that road with the Pittsburg, Titusville and Buffalo road, has been made, snd*wUl be considered bv the directors July 12. I

_ The following directors of the lookers Rspid-Transit rail way company hare been elected: Robert M Grlliw&y, Grosvenor P. Lowre*, Thom as R Sharp, a. Sc hi ere mberg, EgUtoP. Fabri, George A. Snxen, Jeee F. Navarro, A. Kegewisch and , William Ailed Butler, jr. Alfred WeUhoose was arrested in New York for offering a forged check on Elias Wo>f A Go, at the office of Zimmerman, • The check was for $1,816. Wellhoose is the son of a wealthy resident of Atlanta, Ga, and was stopping at the Grand Central hotel. recent election for Supreme Judge, 0°“«««en, Legislature and other efflciaia In Maine excited freat interest and drew out a heavy vote. The return* as yet are too meagre to form any opinion as to the result, it is thought the republicans have majority in Portland. The first national bank of Newark N J- k** ctofed iU doors and asked for a receiver. The cashier sailed for Europe, last week, on a leave of absence, but will be immediately re-called. Rumors of an investigation are afloat, but the managers await the government examiner’s report A Pt Lob is lawyer, named Charles A. HU], has been arrested for counterfeiting. Whan arrested he was found manipulating ope dollar bills so as to make ten dollar hills of them, A counterfeiting outfit wss found in his trunk. A man “““i . Buckingham was arrested at an accomplice. 'Tie Marquis of Huntington, secretary of Hite tor Inaii, in the JtouAe of commont, aaid he had not heard orders were giren for the immediate evacuation of vfcba, or its evacuation by a cerfhin date. d^wo^n^j l un ™J r