Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1868 — News Summary. [ARTICLE]

News Summary.

General Neva. —Tita River Neva (fl, (fotSaipYer at 8L Pp wIj&JX I --Dispatehes from Bond.wr state that tl)o waruta Nortluirn ludi* baa «4ul«<d.. Vhere wm ii heavy fall nt sieve-in Mohtrual on Woilnekday, and sleigiiing in good. - Rear Admifid Radford baa been assigned to the coni maud of the European squadrop. —Snow tell to the depth of nearly two feet in Quepoc, ou ttiß lMh. —' -». •«’ ’ The Central Lunatic Asylum aC Colut ibiui, Ouo; was burned ou WeduiwJay,ipght.|B<>in». of the putjeiita wore burned RiU|olph amWlarthc played a match game. in Chicago, on Wednesday evening, for <I,OOO a aide. RtlditU' WiVtie game. The score stood 500 to 3®. 't-vH.il rfiittbrcithat Gon. Prim is negutiat-. ing with the Prince of Asturian with the intent on of making the Tritico King of Spoiu, and himself Regent. —.hrhn W. Colewmn, ah' old resident of Cthcinuati, and for many years tlio leading pork packer, died at litarc'nideiicc Thursday morn-, mg. m HrPovihgton, Ky. —lfrs. Anna McLean, of Springfield, Mas,., fell ftom a window Wednesday night, during au attack of somnambulism, and was.inetantly killed. She Was 83 years old. | -.limes Gore, proprietor of a retail ciglr establishment on Hixth street, Loutsvilto, committed suicide Thursday, by shooting hiinßcf through the head with a pistol. - Tira, receipts of gold in New York, during the fin.t l< >’ months of 1888 amounted to »39 533 785. of which $33,126473 wore from Calkci-ni* alul W),473,583 from foreign porta. . pii.- IT.mary Convention of the Diocese of le'Og Island, on Thursday, fixed the Balmy of lira Bishop at SB,OOO, Dr. Littlejohn v.is subsequently elected Bishop of the Diocese. —Cornelius Dttrinhellcr, of Cincinnati, a passenger Qu the steamer Robert Moore, fell overboard at Lino Port, on tho Cumberland River, below Ctarkraillej Tuesday, and was drowned. —Taking the total vote cast at the recent .election aii a basis- (counting six inhabitants to every voter), the present population of-the state of Illinois is estimated at 2,686,314, which is an increase of 971,561 since 1860. —Anew ci t y ice-boat was launched in Philadelphia on the 18th. Her motive power is twenty per, emit, greater thau the boat used • last year, bljie is built of iron, slid cost $160,000. Hbe will be really (on service about the . first of the year. —A dispatch from Ooitiieii Bluffs Buys that the Chicago, Rock Island and PaOitie Railroad Co. have commenced to lay the track eastward i'roni tbat-i iiy amt-wink will ho eontirr=~ ■ ’ nod iiiitilthe parties laying the track meet at a point Iff miles oast of the Bluffs. —The trotting match for s2,oflo,milo hoatp, beat three iii five. tv wagon Jietwgeu George Wilkes and American Girl, at Union Course, New York, Thursday, was won by George Wilkes in 2:2114, 2:27 < and 2:29- The track was very henry ' American Girl made a close contest. X. —The steamer Providence, from New York tor Bristol. Tuesday night collided with a schooner, and had her port side rail, fore and at(, ami wheel badly stovo in. The steamer put about on an unsuccessful search for the schooner, which, it is feared, sunk with all on boaid. A th e Tuesday night destroyed two wooden binldjngs.on_tliesauth..sidn.oLilUL £U>tl,. near Union street,Lawrence, Mass., involving a loss of $30,0(81. Niles ft Whitney, H. K. Webster J. P„ Pillsbury, Smith & Piider, and Goo. E, Davis, owner of tho buildings, are iho principal sufferers. ■ Eight tires occurred in New York Thursday afternoon, between two and tour-o’elook, in the eastern portion of the city, nearly all in stables. Three boys have been arrested on the charge ot hosing been the incondiirries, Hnd/pno is identified as having been in tfio first stable that io.vklire. __ —AJire.at Springtirl I, M.->., on the 17tb, destroyed tho office of the Leader, a democratic paper; the dry goods store of Dieterich ft Co-, a furniture store, and a livery stable. The loss is $30,600. Tho-building belongedto Governor John S. Phelps, whose loss is SIO,OOO, with no insurance. —Tho second game of billiards between Rudolph and Camic was played in Liberty Hall, Chicago, Thursday night. The game was the American four ball game push shot barred, one thousand points,for 81,000 aside, which was won bv Rudolph on tho sixty-sev-enth innings, The following is the score:— Rudolph 1,000; Crtrmc 64:1. A uwi-uftmed Jatnes Nelson, who lately obtained considcrablo notoriety by bringing extraordinary charges against Mr Brydges, manage,! - of the Grand •rank Railway, was arrested in Toronto, at iho instance of parties from New York, on a clwge of frauduleatlv representiqg himself as tho agent of the Canadian government, and procuring a .large quantity of coal. —Tho ship Isaac Webb, from Liverpool,arrived in Now York on tho 18th. Uhg reports that seven di-.itlo. occurred during tho voyage, among whom wqs Capt. Stowell, on tho 24th ult., from injuries received from a eea shipped by tho vessel. Tho passengers, 354 in number, have been at work on the pnmp« for thirty days, and are completely worn out. She'got ashore in entering the New York bay, but was got off. —A fire occurred Wednesday morning, in •Tames Clarke <t Co.'s building, on Locust, between Second and Third streets, St. Louis, which was damaged: Forbes Brothers ft White, tea dealers, about f 15,000; insured for ■2* 18,50 th J l . C. poopir ft Co., paper collar dealers, lost SIO,OOO, and Fallnii ft Sons, shut factory'.♦l,soo. . lutsnred fur $2,5(10. .—Utkor smalfor losses will ffijell the total to nbont $22,000. Almost the entire damage was done by water. -’-The Wusterp Associated Press held its annual meeting in Cleveland on tho 18th, when the following gentlemen were elected directors for tho ensuing year: H. N. Walker, Detroit; John Knapp, St. Louis; J. Medill. L’hicago; W. N. Haldeman, Louisville: R. Smith. Cincinnati; A. W. Fairbanks:, Cleveland; W. R Halloway, Indianapolis. Subsciiuentlv the following officers were elqcted:— If. N. Walker, President and ox-officiojMiem-ber of the Executive Committee; J. Kuapp, Vice President; J. Medilland R. Smith? r'.xccntivo Committee. —“SojoHi ner Truth,” tho “Lybian Sybil,'’ now 82 years of age, has recently been lecturing t<> erowd.'.'i houses in Erie and Cortland counti.'S, New York. She relut, s her experL cnees both m slaverv and freedom,and shows much of the fire and energy of youth. Slio maintains that men canuot'bn Christians and belong Io the democratic party. She means, if her lite is spared, to goto Washington and greet Gen. Grant, as she did Abraham Lincoln, in tbo While House. —iA.The General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America,’ in convention in Pittsburg, has unanimously resolved to make a reply to the Tope of Rome’s address to Protestant#. It is to be made on tho basta of the Lutheran confession m accordance with , tiro inudamontal principles of faith and ;x>litv oil which tho General Council rests. Doctor’s Schaffer, Krauth, Seise and . Krotel have been appointed a committee to make a ri ply. —The-message of Gov. HpMcrt, of North Carolina, w’ns read totlffi Legislature on the 17th. Ho shows that u tax of one per cent, nd oa/omii ou the properly of the stato.would pay the interest on the state debt, and recommends such a levy" l/e advocates the various internal impruvomenta; cueouruges immigration to Iho slate; congratulates tho state on tho snnprossiou of the rebellion, upon Iho-rsconstrucUouof tho South on the basis of suffragte for all, and upon the election of Grant aud Colfax—all of which dom- __ biuo tojeudiit tlm-Uniiiu perpeliial. -

—The Buj>reu»o Court of tho Diemel of Colnmbm has denied tho petition of u man M bo installed in the ofileu of city asaemsev pf' Washington, he claiming to have boon elected thereto by 24 majority. The ground of the denial was that it approved ih evidence that eighty-five soldiers voted for him who had no other vesidbneo in Hie precinct than that of soldiers nude®., command of n superior. Judge Olin delivered a dissenting Opinion, in which hmeaid lie believed that tho judges of regifitratiou had acted consciaiilioasly.and their judgment as to whowere entitled to vote has conclusive. Thu opinion decides other cases. —A woman's rights convention convened in Boston of> thl' lutli, and was fully attended, Bov. Freeman Clarke presided and made the opening address. AildrCiMUs were made by Julia WnftLHowe, Samuel 'E. Bewail anil Col. T. H. Higginson. It was voted that tho society organize" permanently ns “Tho Now England Woman's Suhr ago Awociatipn,” ami a oonunitieo was appointed to ffatuj a ctifi-* ‘stitutiou and nominate officers, A mein’oritd was nnanlßlomdy adopted to be presented to Congress asking that in. all future amend, it ments-of the Constitution, the rights of womeflha secured, and that in al! future log--Halation fdr ths territories and District of the right pfsUffrage be ghon to women. Senator Vidson made a speecßi in which Ue said tbut when tW quortion kept ttttitiet froift Mher qttdHiioiiß, ho fay ed giving women the right to vote, and that should appeal to the higher andnobler sentiments dr the poeple ami not to thefr yffiaslonr and Ihrir prejudices, Lucy Stone Blackwell, Adelaide Brown and others spoke in the evening. >