Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The Bev. Minot J. Savage, of Boston, President of the Unitarian Association of the United States, has declared his abandonment of the belief in a personal God, and finds his conception of the Supreme Being in nature and natural laws. Beading, Pa., has thirty-five building associations, five of which are in a desperate financial condition, and one has held no meeting for several months The Directors of three others some time ago eame to the conclusion that there was something rotten in the management, and an exhaustive investigation was ordered. The climax came last week, when a warrant was sworn out against Osmund Geier, the Secretary of the three associations, charging him with having embezzled some #2S,OCU He was arrested and held to bail in #5,000. His books are reported to be in a terrible condition.... At Mystic Bridge, Ct. during the ceremonies of the dedication of the soldiers’ monument, a salute was fired in honor of the Governor. Two companies of G, A. R. chanced to be passing at the time, and several of the men were seriously injured by the discharge of coarse powder..,. J antes Nutt, son of Capt A C. Nutt, slain by N. L Dukos last Christmas day, shot and killed his father’s murderer at uniontown. Pa, the other day, nutting four bullets into Duke’s bo’dy, two after he had fallen to the ground Young Nutt killed Dukes with the revolver his father carried on the day he vrrna

A sensation has been created at Baltimore by Babbi Lilienthal marrying Miss Lotta Galloway, whom he recently converted to Judaism. The ceremony was performed in Washington, as none of the Baltimore rabbis would officiate for certain reasons Miss Galloway’s sister will take steps to annul the marriage, and intimates that she possesses evidence damaging to Lflienthal's character. The examiner of the books of the bankrupt Augustinian Society, of Lawrence, Mass, publishes a statement showing that since 1881 the deposits and other receipts of the ooncem aggregated #034,950, but he can throw no light on how the money was squandered.... The Seventy-first New York regiment, while encamped near Peekskill, was highly incensed by the sermon of a Methodist minister denouncing the militia and urging parents to keep close watch on their daughters.... A blind pool in petroleum, with a capital of #15,000,000, has been discovered by a Philadelphia journal, the pilot being a banker of Pittsburgh. The figures at which to unload are #1.50 per barrel... .Up to June this year 9,942,810 tons of anthracite coal has been mined, exceeding the output for the same period last year by 1,397,373 tons. THE WEST. Agent Wilcox has been requested by a council of Indian* residing on the San Carlos reservation to represent to the authorities at Washington the inexpediency of returning the renegade Chiricahuas to the reservation, as it is only a question of time when they will again take the war-path, an event for which the entire tribe would be held responsible in a greater or lesser degrea The punishIshment of the offending bucks is urged.... The Harper High-License bill passed both houses ot the Illinois Legislature, received the executive signature, and is now a law of the State It imposes an annual tax of #SOO upon retailers of spirituous ilQuors and #l5O upon venders of beer.

A day of wild excitement was witnessed on the Chicago Board of Trade last week. We quote from the Tribune: “Something dropped on’Change yesterday. The bottom fell out of the lard deal The excitement which reigned intense during several weeks, latterly convulsing the commercial world with grave charges against manufacturers and strong fears of a collapse, culminated in a season of agony not paralleled in this market since 1872. Lara had weakened so badly Friday as to discourage holders, and their inability to continue yesterday caused a further drop of 2 cents per pound from the inside prices of the previous night McGeooh. Bverlngham A Co., the parties at the head of the longs, ana understood to have “owned” fully 400,000 tierces, and the panic which ensued while this found Its way into other hands caused the throwing on the market of fully as much more, beside large quantities of pork, meats and grain. The storm carried down several other firms in the maelstrom, and undoubtedly made it difficult for many others to avoid commercial shipwreck. The direct losses sustained have been footed up at about $2,300,0.0, of which nearly $2,000,0t0 is supposed to fall to the account of the leading firm. How much of this loss is borne by their customers in city and country cannot be told now, but there Is no room to doubt that the tornado has carried desolation into many a bank account East as well as West”.... Gross care essness on the part of the prop-erty-man at the Opera Home in Denver is the explanation made of the alleged attempt to poison Modjeska A vial of phosphorus and sweet oil used by Lawren ?e Barrett in playing Hamlet, was handed the actress to serve as a sleeping potion in rendering Juliet On removing the cork, the liquid took fire, and the vial was handed over to the manager.... The new time-table that went into effect on • the Union Pacific railroad last week reduces the time between Omaha and Ogden twelve hours, and between Omaha and San Francisco twenty-four hours.... The value of exports of domestic breadstutts for the eleven months ended May 81, 1883, was ♦191,414,043, against $107,730,652 for the same period last year. A new American play, by a French author, entitled “The Power of Money,” was produced at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, last week, and will be run for two weeks at that house. It is full of exciting situations, „ the scenery is very fine and the parts are interpreted by excellent artists. The week of June 25 McVicker’s Theater will be closed tor redecoration and to give time for the rehearsals of “Love and Money,” a new realIslistic drama by Charles Reade and Henry Pettitt, that is to be produced the week tollowing by the Boston Theater Company. THE SOUTH. Admiral John Randolph Tucker dropped dead at his residence in Petersburg, Vs. He was aged 72. He left the United States navy for the Confederate navy at the beginning of the war, and at the close of the war entered the Peruvian navy. At Rookford, Coosa county, Ala., a negro named Jordan Corbin entered the house of a peaceful citizen named Benjamin Carden and shot him while he was lying in Ms bed. His wife jumped up and the negro shot her down. Carden’s son started to the

door to gfwan alarm, when he was also shot* AD three parsons were instantly Six members of the Barnett gang, whom a mob attempted to take from jail at Mount Sterling, Ky., recently, to hang, were permitted to enter a plea of guilty of the murder of Vaughn Hilton, and the court sentenced them to imprisonment for life.... Aaron Hanis a colored boy who murdered a white peddler at Enterprise, Miss., was taken from jail by a mob and lynched. He confessed hu guilt. ...AC. Jordan died near Chattanooga, Tenn., at the age of 107... .ExGov. Charles J. Jenkins, of Georgia, is dead.

The Mormon missionaries whp have been proselyting for some .time in the vicinity of Rutherford, N. Q, i&ade themselves very much disliked on account of the shameless manner in which they practiced baptism. The Adamite appearance of the converts aroused the indignation of the people who gathered to witness the ceremony, and at its conclusion the Mormons were notified to quit the neighborhood on pain of summary justice. The libidinous Elders took the hint and left for Utah..,. Soloman Hewett and William Hardee, colored, were hanged in the jail-yard at Conway boro, 8. C.. for the murder of, Jeremiah Stalvey, an old merchant, last October..... Jordon Corbin, a negro murderer and wouldbe ravisher, was taken from the Coosa county (Ala) jail and hanged to a tree.

JEn editor at Dadeville, Ga., named Carter, forgot the Lyttonian aphorism, “the pen is mightier than the sword,” and undertook to fight an enemy with a pistol instead of a quill The consequence was that Carter was slain, while his adversary escaped without a scratch.... J, Lane Borden, President of the female college in Mansfield, La, was shot and killed by the Rev. Ben T. Jenkins, Jr., who was ordained to the ministry about a year ago. It is alleged that the reverend President had ruined a young lady friend of the Jenkins family.

POLITICAL. Mb. Henry Wattebson recounts a visit to ex-Gox Samuel J. Tilden at Grey stone. The latter is described as being in excellent health, active and enduring, with an intellect unclouded and a wit as keen as it was years ago, while he is as much interested in the events of the day as ever he was. Lest all this should cause anxiety among aspiring politicians, Mr. Watterson gives it as his opinion, based upon conversation with his host, that there is no power upon earth that could Induce Mr. Tilden to again become a candidate for the Presidency.

The Greenback party of Ohio held a State Convention on the 13th inst, at Columbus, adopting a platform and nominating candidates for State offices, to be voted for in October. Charles Jenkins, of Mahoning county, heads the ticket as the candidate for Governor. The Governor of Pennsylvania has signed the bill abolishing the contract system in penal and reformatory institutions of the State. The colored Republican club of Washington serenaded 8. W. Dorsey. Acknowledging the compliment, Mr. Dorsey thanked the members of the club for their courage in paying such an honor to one whom the Government had been bending all its power to ruin, and compared the trial 'just closed to the impeachment of Warren Hastings. Mr. Dorsey has written an extremely caustic letter tu the Secretary of the Republican National Committee, in which his past services to the party and the reward he has received are alluded to with bitterness.... The Illinois Democratic State Central Committee. recently in session at Springfield, authorized the Hon. John H. Oberly, its Chairman, to appoint a committee of four to act in conjunction with himself and Mr. Goudy, the member for Illinois pf the National Committee, to secure the selection of Chicago as the place to hold the next National Democratic Convention

The Prohibition Convention of Ohio, in session at Columbus, nominated a ticket as follows: Governor, Ferdinand Schumacher, Summit county; Lieutenant-Gov-ernor, H. T. Ogden, Hamilton county; Supreme Judge (short term), Z. C. Payne, Franklin county; Supreme Judge (long term), D. C. Montgomery, Knox county; Clerk of the Supreme Court, J. H. Beach Ford, Preble county; Attorney General, J. W. Rosenborough, Fulton county; Auditor of State, Gersham Lease, Hardin county; Treasurer of State, V. M Whiting, Huron county; State Commissioner of Schools, H A. Thompson, Franklin county: Member of Board of Public Works, G. C. Cruzen, Hardin county. Ex-Senator Conkling is alleged to meditate the writing of a history of recent political events, in order to be on even terms with his old antagonist, ex-Senator Blaine.

WASHINGTON. Arguments in the star-route trial at Washington were brought to a close, and Judge Wylie delivered his charge to the jury on the 12th lust It was an exhaustive review of the questions at issue, and was attentively listened to. On the following morning a disgraceful spectacle was witnessed in the court-room. The jury, having been out all night, were brought into court to receive instructions on points of law. What followed is thus described by a Washington correspondent: “Crane, the foreman of the jury, and the brains of it, entered, looking somewhat jaded from a night’s confinement in a hot room. There came directly after him a short, dumpy, fluffy-faced man with puffed-up cheeks and a big brown mustache. His eves rolled wildly about He suddenly threw his arms high in the! air, uttered a shriek which, in the breathless stillness of that court-room, seemed almost superhuman, and fell, striking his head against the table and the floor. There was for a few seconds a scene of the most intense excitement The Bailiffs shouted for a doctor. The lawyers on both sides acted as volunteer police to keep the surging crowd off the body. Judge Wylie, on the bench, alone seemed calm. A halfminute had not elapsed before he called the crowd to order, directed the Bailiffs to remove the fallen juror to the ante-room, placed him in charge of a physician, who sprang over the railing from the audience, and quietly said to the lawyers, who urged that a recess be taken, that he should wait to see what the result might be. Dick Merrick, at whose very feet the juror —Vernon—had fallen, had meanwhile shoutr ecL ‘Give him some whisky! That's what’s the matter with him!’ while Bob Ingersoll exclaimed: Throw some water on him, and tear off his cravat!’ AU of these suggestions were followed.” It took about half an hour to sober the man up. The jury requested instructions upon some questions of fact, which Judge Wylie declined to give. The Judge reminded the jury that this'was the second trial of the case, which-had been a most costly one to the United States, and hinted that he would be slow to discharge them before a verdict had been found. When the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia, at Washington, opened on

<m the 14th tn*, the jury in the star-route conspiracy. case reported that they had a verdfctjrf not guiltyy to aU The record ed, the friends of the defendants applauding the while. Five ballots were taken by the jury before an agreement was reached, the first showing three for conviction and nine for acquittal Counsel for the Government stated that the other indictments aghast Brady will be pressed.

A-comparative statement has been prepared by the Treasury Department showing the revenues of the Government for the first eleven months of the fiscal years 1882 and 1888. It is as fallows: For the eleven months ending May 3L 1882, trom customs, #202,880,089; Internal revenue, #183,322,582; miscellaneous, #34,342,6821 For the eleven months ending May 31,1888, from customs, #192,982,866; internal revenue, #133,710,993; miscellaneous, #36,728,051 This shows a decrease in receipts for the present fiscal year to June lof #7,173,940. For the first quarter of the present fiscal year the receipts were about #5,000,000 in excess of the receipts for the corresponding period of the year 1881. There has been a gradual reduction since that time, however, which it is estimated will amount to nearly #10,000,000 by the end of the present fiscal year... .The disposition of the prisoners which Gen. Crook brought back with him to Arizona is likely to be a knotty problem. It is desirable to remove them so far from the border as to prevent a repetition of their recent raids and escapes, while at the same time It would be folly to place them in the neighborhood of hitherto-peace-able Indians whom they might corrupt to their own loose ideas on the value of life and property. At this crisis Secretary Teller has come before the public in a letter, advising that the Indians be treated as prisoners, and held to strict accountability for their crimes He also calls attention to the argument that peace can never be established on the border so long as hoetiles are permitted after each horrible atrocity to surrender to the nearest agency and be thereafter maintained at the public expense ... .Judge William Lily died at Washington the other day of rheumatism of the heart

The President and the Secretary of the Treasury have formulated a scheme by which the number of internal-revenue districts in the United States will be reduced from 126 to ninety-six without in the least impairing the efficiency of the service. The plan will go into effect as soon after July 1 as the Collectors of the consolidated districts have perfected new bond*. It is expected that the scheme will effect a considerable saving... .The District Grand Jury has returned a fresh indictment against Thomas J. Brady for frauds in connection with the star-route contracts.

GENERAL. Ordebs have been sent to the Arch Bishops of the Catholic church jin the United States to appear at Rome in September, either personally or by proper representatives, to receive instructions relative to the plenary council to be held subsequently in New York for the purpose of reorganizing the church here ana framing new articles of discipline. .

In the section of country comprising the Indian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota, the cost of the star mall service for the year ending June, 1882. was #505,082, the mileage being 6,803,078. The cost of the service for'the year ending June, 1883, was #395.666, and the mileage 7,509,707, showing that there has been a reduction in the cost of the service the last year of about #llO.000, while the mileage has increased nearly 1,000,000.

The business failures during the seven days ending June 16, as reported to R. G. Dun &, Co., numbered 186,.as against 173 the preceding week. Of these the New England States contributed 24; Middle States, 26; Western, 53; Southern, 35; Pacitic States, 18; New York city, 11; and Canada, 19.

Heavy rains in Central Illinois, in Kansas, in portions of most of the Western States and in Pennsylvania, have done immense damage to the growing crops, especially wheat Several hundred head of cattle have been drowned by the sudden rise in the rivers, bridges have been swept away, and railroad travel—particularly over the Chicago and Alton, the Rock Island and the Central Pacific—has been much Interrupted The farmers are much disheartened at the continued frequent rains. Their losses will undoubtedly be great

FOREIGN. In the course of a speech before an audience of 20,000 people ..at Birmingham, England, John Bright said the large surplus revenue of the United States would prove the death of the protection policy of this country, and predicted that the next Presidential election would be fought upon the tariff issue.... The explosion of the magazine at Scutari, mention of which has been heretofore made, was caused by lightning. One hundred and fifty persons were killed and fifty-threo wounded Two hundred barrel* of gunpowder and 6,000 cartridges were destroyed. ... .Reports prevail in Paris that American officers have asked leave to serve in the Chinese navy in case of war witlrFrance.

The trial of the dynamite conspiracy case in London resulted in the conviction of Dr. Gallagher, Wilson. Whitehead and Curtin, who were sentenced to penal servitude for life, and in the acquitai of Bernard Gallagher and Ansburgh. The trial was a very brief one. During its progress. Counsel for one of the accused said that “it was a matter of common knowledge that plots existed in America for the manufacture of dynamite for use against England almost with the connivance of the American Government” The Lord Chief Justice, rebuking tjie counsellor, said it was “only due to our friendly relations with the American Government that you unreservedly withdraw your statement” The objectionable remarks were withdrawn... .Lora Granville the British Minister of Foreign Affairs, is said to have tendered his services as mediator between France and Madagascar.

The ocean cable brings the particulars of a most horrible accident, by which nearly 200 innocent children lost their lives, at Sunderland England After the conclusion of a conjuror’s exhibition in Victoria Hall, and when the lower part of the hall had been cleared, a panic seized about 1,2000 children descending from the gallery. At a landing where there was a door through which only one person could pass at a time, a crush occurred an d a child falling, others fell upon it, those behind trampling madly upon them Before order could be restored 186, ranging from 4to 14 years of age. had been trampled to death. Upon the facts becoming known in the city, a crowd of 20,0:0 ppople assembled about* the hall, so wildly excited that it was necessary to call out a regiment, of troops to restrain them.... The Duke of Teck, husband of* the Queen’s cousin. Princess Mary of Cambridge, is in financial difficulties, and will have .to travel on the continent to avoid his creditors Heavy losses on the turf, especially at the last Ascot meeting, have seriously-involved him..'. .Parnell sends out the announcement of his intention to visit the United States this fall