Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1872 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. The Monastery of the Escurial of Spain was struck by lightning and partially destroyed on the 2d. The fire was confined to that part of the building in which-the library was loaated. A large number of books and manuscripts were removed, but in a damaged condition. ’. , j The Pope, replying to a deputation which visited him on the anniversary of taking the pTebiscttuffiln"Rome;T!eciarett;that thelrUumph of the church would assuredly come, if not in his life-time in that of his succes- , sors. General Von ScKwelntz, German Ambassador at Vienna, was married in that city on the 4th, to Miss Jay, daughter of Hon. John Jay r American Minister to. . A Washington telegram of the 4th announces that Mr. Mori had just received advices from Japan to the 7th of September stating that the couptry was quiet, and Govermental affairs progressing favorably. Mr. Mori authorizes the denial of the truth of, the statement of the alleged anti-progres-sion movements in Japan, and says that General Capron and Peshine Smith had not been discharged. James Dugan, who arrived in New York city on the 3d, from Sidney, Cape Breton, reports that on the 9th of September the schooner Lancaster, on which he was a passenger, fell in with an abandoned vessel, on which was found a skeleton crushed in by tj# fallen rigging ; five other skeletons were discovered. Examination seemed to show that all on board perished from hunger. The bowsprit of the vessel bore the name “ Glenalvon.” Two decomposed corpses were found in the forecastle. The Captain’s corpse was found in a stateroom, making nine found altogether. The papers found on board were to be given to the authorities at Sidney, with a view to learning the history of the Glenalvon. A Paris correspondent of the London Times telegraphed on the sth that the Russian Ambassador in Paris had received a note from Tanjeff, Secretary of the Emperor’s Privy Council;, withdrawing the congratulations which the Emperor had tendered to Thiers, and expressing the dissatisfaction of Russia at the aggressive attitude of the Radical party of Fiance. r ~ A Madrid telegram of the sth says the report that the Spanish Government would make a claim against the United States for damages inflicted by the filibustering ex-peditions-to Cuba was pronounced untrue. An explosion occurred on board the steamer Senegal, at Liverpool, on the 7th, by which, three men were killed. ■On the evening of the 7th, while King Amadeus was walking in the Plaza del Oriente, Madrid, two men, who were concealed behind a statue, threw several large stones at him, crying at the time. Viva La Republic. The desperadoes took to flight immediately. They were pursued by a number of policemen, but escaped. The King was unhurt. ’ - Forty miners were killed by a recent explosion at the Morley coal-mine, in England. The remains of the late King of Sweden, Charles XV., were bltriecLlienegth Rlddersholm Church, Stockholm, on the 9th, amid very impressive ceremonies..-