Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. r vr $ A resolution was passed by the Senate, Dec. 18. calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for copies of mortgages given by the Texas and Baciflo railway on lands granted to It. Awon G. McCook was elected Secretary of the Senate; Charles W. Johnson, Chief Clerk: James R.'&nng. Executive Olerk; Rev. L. 1). Huntley, Chaplain, and W. P. Canaday, Ser-geant-at-Arms. A W debate took place on toe proposed rule relating to the eleoUon of President pro torn, ami his right to name a sub* •Utnte, bat no vote was taken. The House of Representatives was not in session. Mr. Oullom, of Illinois, introduced a bill In the Senate, Dec, 19, providing for the aooeptanc* of the Illinois and Michigan canal by the Government. Mr. Fair presented a measure for the sinking of artesian wells in wild lands in Nevada owned by the United States. Hr. Tan Wyek offered a resolution of inquiry as to how much land has been certified to railroad companies since the Supreme Court decision of 1875 on ttie indemnity clauses. The House concurrent resolution lor a holiday recess was amended to read tram Decs. 24 to Jan. 7, and passed. There wan considerable debate on the new rules, several of which were agreed to. In the House, the oath was administered to . Mr. Skinner, from the First district of North Carolina, after some objection by Mr. Ketfer. A joint resolution for a holiday recess from Dec. 24 to Jan. 3 was adopted. Mr. bladfcbura offered a resolution for the creation of five special committees, and Mr. Heed caused to be addod one on the aloobobc liquor traffic, all of which were agreed to- The speaker appointed a special committee an the centennial anniversary ot Washington’s surrender of his commission. The Senate amendment to the holiday recess resolution was concurred in. Th* resolution of Mr. Van Wyck, calling for information in regard to lands granted ta railroads, was, after some debate, adopted by the Senate, at its session on Dec. 20. Mr. Cullom introduced a bill for the appointment by tbs President of five Railroad Commissioners, to exercise supervision over Inter-State, oommeroe. Mr. Mfller, of New York, presented a bill tor a monument to the late Gen. Warren. A communication was reoebredfrom toe Secretary sf the Interior stating that no action has been taken by toe department in relation to the attempted t master of toe Texas and Pacific land grant. The Senate adjourned to Dec. 24. The House indulged in debate over a res* dnfioa by Mr. Geddes to grant a month’s extra , pay to discharged employes, which was finally sent to toe committee on aocoonts. Mr. Keifer called Up ids resolution for the appointment of a committee on woman suffrage, which was rejected, bv 124 to 88. A resolution was passed requesting the President to order a national salute from toe various forts of the country on the anniversary of the surrender of Gon. Washington"B commission. Objection was made to the Introduction of a bill to amend the Chinese restriction act, and an adjournment to Dec. 21 followed. " TEDS EAST. Rev. Mr. Stoddard, in delivering a lecture against Masonry, at Newfane, N. Y., exhibited a huge stone witn an iron staple, which he ol&imcd was the weight used in sinking the corpse of William Morgan in Niagara river. A letter signed “John Joseph Ryan, •itizen of the Irish Republic," containing naturalization papers, was deposited in the Naturalization bureau at New York, the •tier day, asking the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas to erase bis name from the citizen roll, as England was hanging and Imprisoning American citizens without protest. A special surrogate at Buffalo has decided that the widow of President Fillmore was of Bound mind and not under duress when her will was executed, by which her estate was given to several churches and schools. The contestants, her first cousins, have made a disgusting fight, and will have a large bill of costs .o paj\ THE WEST. The Oonnett brothers, of St. Joseph, Mo., held property valued at $2,000,000. Four of the family have taken their Own lives, and W. S. Connett died last week In an insane asylum at Cincinnati.... Near Belleville, 111., Henry Pabst shot Mary Hammer because she refused to marry him, and left her dead. Pabst was followed by a posse. One cf the officers cautiously approached from behind, sprang upon Pabst and tried to pinion his hands to his side. The murderer released one of his hands, turned his revolver over his shoulder on the officer, and fired. The latter struck the pistol, and toe ball went through Pabst’s neck, killing him instantly. The sixth, seventh and eighth days of the Emma Bond case, at Hillsboro, 111,, were unproductive of any new or startling developments, toe time being largely occupied by arguments of-counsel touching jhe admissibility of oertain evidence. Judge Thornton, leading counsel for the defense, made a motion for the discharge of dementi and Pettis, on toe ground, as be oiaimod, that no testimony had boon elicited implicating them in the crime, and pressed his motion upon the court with a powerful argument. Judge Philips, however, refused to view the matter in the same light that the defendants' able counsel looked at it, and decided to let the case be passed upon by the jury. The ninth and tenth days were devoted principally to the efforts of the defense to establish an alibi, dementi, one of the defendants, first told his Story, wbloh was a very straightforward and apparently truthful one. He accounted clearly for his whereabouts and movements on the day of the commission of the crime. Pettis corroborated dementi's narrative — toe two, according.to their testimony, having passed the day together at the Pettis house, and the whole Pettis faiiiily reiufarodd the defense by corroborating the story of the two defendants. The authorities of Vincennes, Ind., captured four persons engaged in the manufacture or circulation of counterfeit money, one of them being a saloon-keeper owning considerable real estate... .The Supreme OOurt of Michigan has sustained the verdict of $20,000 for libel Obtained by Prof. Donald Vimljini against the DeVroit JVeatf THE SOUTH. A dispatch from Austin, Tex., referring to toe recent report that a suit is soon to be brought in the United States Court of Claims to recover the value of slaves emancipated during the war says: “Gov. Ireland, Attorney General Templeton, and several prominent lawyers consulted by the reporter scout the idea that Texas has any more claim on the Federal Government than any other Southern State. They consider the scheme a very foolish one, and that if anybody is engaged in it, which is regarded as doubtful, it fg for political purposes." Guilford Soon, colored, was hanged at Kinston, N. C., for a criminal assault in May last on Mrs. Elizabeth Jones. During the late unpleasantness a Federal soldier aimed at a hog in a Southern cornfield, and hit a contraband who was Stealing roasting ears. The darky hue forwarded to bis Congressman a claim for a penBton, which has been plaoed on fi1e..... Jorry Cox (colored) was hanged for murder at Georgetown. 8. CY He protested his innocence op ti-o scaffold. James Taylor, a negro murderer, was banged Id Jho presence of »,oto people at Giddinge.'Tex. WASHINGTON. Thebe was a large meeting at Ford’s opera-house, under toe aut pices of the Clan-na-Guei, to express, in the words of the call, ** American opinion and feeling in regard to toe judicial murder of Patrick O'Donnell by too British authorities.” Congressman Robinson, of New York, presided, and speeches, •bounding in fiery denunciation of the British, were made by Congressmen Finerty, Calkins and Belford. The following proclamation in regard

to toe celebration of the 100th anniversary of Washington’s surrender of his commission, was issued by the President Deo. SI: Whereas, Both houses of Congress did, on the 20th Inst., request the commemoration of the 28d inst. as toe lOOto anniversary of the surrender by George Washington, at Annapolis, of his commission as Commander-In-Chief of the patriot forces of Amertoa; and Whereas, It is flttting that this memorable act, which not only signalized the termination of the heroie straggle of seven years for independence, but also manifested Washington’s devotion to the great principle that purs is a civic government of and by the people, should be generally observed throughout the United States: Now, therefore, I, Chester A Arthur. President of the United, States, do hereby recommend that either by approuriate exercises in connection with religious exercises on Dqc. 23, or by such public observance as may be decided proper on Monday, Dec. 24, this signal event in the history of American libfertv be commemorated, and, further, I hereby direct that at 12 o’clock noon Monday next a national salute be fired from all the forts throughout the country. L v . In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done this 21st day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and eighth. Chester A. Arthur. POLITICAL. By a strict party vote of 23 to II the Virginia Senate has decided that it alone hae the right to Issue writs for special elections, those sent out under the Governor's seal being deoTared void. Elections had already boen held under the Governor’s warrant, when the Democrats generally refrained from voting.’ , The Democrats of Louisiana, at their State convention, renominated Gov. MuEnery and State Treasurer Burke The Colored National committee met. at Washington and appointed delegates to the National convention at Richmond, Va„ in July next. Each Congressional district was allowed two delegates each to every one Representative. GENERAL. The week’s business failures: Cohen k Koenighelm, gents' furnishing goods,'San Antonio, Tex., liabilities $75,000; J. Levy, dry goods, Rock Island, 111., liabilities $15,000; Louis Rothborg. clothing, Denver. Colo., liabilities $35,000; E. Barusch, clothing, Cadillac, Mich., liabilities $10,000; Tyler & Frost, shoe manufacturers, ,Lynn, Mass.; the Henry Buggy cotiipany, Freeport, Ill.; Joseph Mullet, woolen manufacturer, East Brookfield, Mass.; R. C. Wickham & Co., bankers, Tioga, Pa., liabilities $80,000; P. Sullivan, ladles’ shoes, Cincinnati, liabilities $83,000; C. A. Davis, wall paper, Cincinnati, liabilities $25,000; Slack & Gavill, blanket manufacturers, Rushville, 111., liabilities $70,000; Blumenthul Brothers, general store, Palestine, Tex., liabilities $35,000; Clay Oldham, groceries, Terrell, Tex., liabilities $26,000; James Sutherland, produce, Owen Sound, Ontario, liabilities $130,000: Robert Given & Co., dry goods, Des Moines, Iowa; D A. Drury, shoe manufacturer, Spencei, Mass., liabilities $80,000: G. F. Wood, lumber, St. John, N. 8., liabilities. $250,000; West & Sweeney, paper manufacturers. North East, Pa.; D. M. & E. G. Halbert, dry goods. Binghamton, N. Y., liabilities, $400,000; Lane & Son, grain brokers, New York, liabilities, $350,000; Mark Smith, olething, Erie, Pa., liabilities, $12,000; J. Jjivprnois, fruit importer, Montreal, liabilities $73,040; —H. K. Jones, banker, De Pere, Wis., liabilities, $50,000; Sattler Brothers. clothing, St. Paul, liabilities $80,000; W. P. & A. M. Parsons, buitdeas. New Y’ork, liabilities $500,000; McKinney & Horn, notions, Philadelphia, liabilities $85,000; Goodwillie, Wyman A Co., printing presses, Boston, liabilities, $50,000; P. & M. Raymond, wholesale grocers, - Fargo, D. T., liabilities $50,000; George McDowell & Co., wholesale stationers, Philadelphia; the Beaver Lumber company, Yamachiehe, Quebec, liabilities $108,000; O. A. Nowson, real estate, Columbus, Ind., liabilitire $27,000; W. P. Metcalf, broker, and the American Carpet Lining Company. Boston; Sheldon & Co., millinery, Bloomington, 111., liabilities, $10,000; the Enterprise Machine company, Geneva, Ohio, liabilities $70,000; George W. Craig, dry goods, Montreal, Canada, liabilities $70,000. A railway accident, remarkable for the absence of serious casualties, happened near Cameron, W. Ya„ On the Baltimore and Ohio! A crowded passenger train, drawn by two locomotives, left the track, and two engines, the baggage and mail cars, and five coaches went rattling down a hiH-side, “ scattering the travelers in all directions." it is said that only two people were seriously hurt. The rest were simply cut, biuisod and scared Gen. Grant has received a cablegram from Par's, announcing the completion of the Bartholdi statue... .The cantalover bridge across Niagara river was last week tested by running ui<m It twenty locomotives and twentyfour loaded gravel cars, and there was no visible deflection. The trial was witnessed by 10,000 persons. The City of Mexico has been the scene of a serious riot. Great popular odium attaches to the nickel coins now in circulation there. This feeling made itself manifest when President Gonzalez appeared on the plaza, and he was subjected to insults and rude treatment. Business was suspended. Mexican troops quelled the disturbance by making a charge upon aud firing blank cartridges Into the mob. Diaz walked abroad and was cheered. The dispatches, however, declare that no revolution is probable.... Nov. 28 tho Amerlcan schooner S. J. Watts, of Philadelphia, was boarded off PortauPrincc by a Haytien war-ship’s commander, who threatened to shoot captain and crew if too. ship’s papers were not correct.- Everything beiig found all right; the Haytien said bo was Capt. Cooper, son of Heal Admiral Cooper, of the United States navy... .Business failures in the United States the past week numbered 280. 31 more than for the preced ing week, and an increase of 41 over the corresponding period in 1882.... The striking engineers of the C anadian Pacific road offered to return to work in a body, but Superintendent Egan refused to reinstate men who deserted their trains on the road. FOREIGN. A Paris cablegram says: There is still much excitement in theatrical circles over toe attack made upon Marie Colombia? by Sarah Bernhardt, Feeling runs high, and there are advocates for both parties. Bernhardt publishes a card to the following effect: To Mr Friends tick Public: I chastised Marie Colombier because she insulted me, When she was in want I brought her to America and she shared my profits, Skfe has deceived me. I gave her gold. She gave me calumny. She called me “Sarah Barnum." I am not a Jumbo. Then I gave her the lash. She weighs 300 pounds; 1 Weigh sev-nty-five pounds, Bnt she ran before me—this vile, ungrateful woman, this woman whom I have befriended- this Colombier who was nothing until she met Svnih. I have done with her. 1 did not chastise her for ad vertising purposes.. Sabah Bernhardt. Kerrigan, the informer, whose testimony aided In briuging to justice the wretches who massacred the Huddy family because they had been innocent witnesses of the Lough Mask murder, has been himself assassinated 1 n Cong, County Mayo. He lived in an iron h ut. A far mer recently returned to Irelaod was also killed near Galway by Invinoiblee Advices from the seat of war in Tonquin are to the effect that a French force of 7.000 men. Admiral Corbet commanding, captured the principal outposts of Pont ay, two outworks, and surrounded the citadel. The French lost 200 men and fifteen officers..... All rumors of plots against Gladstone are declared without foundation by the London police,. ~ England is sending to Egypt all the soldiers who can be put Into the regiments now there. An immense strike has been inaugurated by the Lancashire cotton operatives, 14,000 men having left their work.. ..Sontay was stormed by the French on Sunday, Deo. 90, and during that night it was evacuated. The French forces lost fifteen men and had sixty wounded.... .A Rome dispatch aayf the American prelates while at Kora< agreed upon an attitude to be adapt

ed toward the Fenians In America—. Ten of the Glascow dynamite Fenians were found guilty at Edinburgh. Five treire sentenced to life-terms of Imprisonmentand five got seven years each 1 The remains of De Long and liis oomrados of the ill-fated Jeannette expedition reached Irkutsk,Siberia, and were borne in procession, escorted by troops and a lgrgo conoourse of people. Wreaths were placed upon the coffins, and poems were distributed describing party’s exploits.... Oertain indications are not wanting that EH Mnhdl’s army will fade away. The rebels are fighting among themselves, and two ol to" leaders are > on their way to Khartoum to tender their services to the Khedive. It is also announced that the King of Abyssinia has begun war in Egypt.