Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1873 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. JJismark has received formal notice from the King of the acceptance of his resignation of the Premiership. The King of the Sandwich Islands Is dead, and as he left no direct heir, and did not name his successor, the throne continued vacant at last accounts, and a revolution was expected. By the terms of the biff read in the Spanish Cortes on the 24th, slavery is to cease in Porto Rico in four months from the time the measure of emancipation is passed, and the slaveholders are to be paid for the slave property thus confiscated. A large portion of the famous Dover Cliff, in England, fell recently during a terrible storm of wind and rain, crushing two houses and filling several yards with debris and masses of chalk. The fall was anticipated, and the houses were therefore unoc copied. By the recent wrecking of the steamship “Germany thirty persons were Tost, twelve of whom were passengers, only one being American. During a missionary meeting at Salford, England, on the night of the 25th, the floor of the building gave way, precipitating a hundred persons a considerable distance. Many were Injured, some fatally. A special from Berlin on the 27th ult. says the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg had delivered a note to Prince Gortschakoff, informing him that England would abstain from interfering with Russian progress in Central Asia if it did not threaten Afghanistan. Nine thousand Khivan troops were besieging Russian forts on the Euerba River. Another force of 2,000 Khivese were depredating on the Russian fisheries at the mouth of the Euerba. Reinforcements had been. sen tto the Russian troops in th at locality. Persons entering Germany from France are not now required to provide themselves with passports. Details of the great storms in England show that two hundred and twenty-one marine accidents occurred in November, and over one hundred lives were lost at sea in December. A Hessian convict was pardoned, not long ago, on condition that he would emigrate to this country. Our Minister at Berlin was informed of this proceeding, and he exacted from the Grand Duke of Hesse a promise that nothing of the kind shall occur again. The revenue receipts of Great Britain for the quarter ending December. 31 amount to $78,000,000, an increase of $5,000 over the preceding quarter. Prosecutions have been instituted against the Roman Catholic journals, in Berlin and in the German provinces, which published the recent Papal allocation.

THE NEW WORLD. Gold closed in New York on the 31st at __TlmFresident on tli_e 24thsigned the bill to reduce the expenses and offices of the Internal Revenue Bureau, which passed Congress a few days before, and the work of putting the new law into practical operation would he commenced immediately. The Grand Jury of the Court of Oyer and Terminer have found an indictment against Victoria Woodhull, Tennie C. Clallin and James N. Blood for libel against Luther Challis, .Susan B. Anthony and the other females, to the number of fourteen, who voted at the late election at Rochester, N. Y., have been bound over fortrial before the United States District-Court in the sum of SSOO each. The election inspectors who received the votes have also been held for trial. While about three hundred men, women and children wore in attendance in the upper audience room of the Baptist Church in the Seventh Ward of Williamsport, Pa., on the evening of the 25th, participating in the Christmas celebration, the floor gave way, and nearly the entire assemblage wasprccipttated'“tb~ tTih“~eMlar’b’el6w.'“K’urteen were' killed and forty or fifty wounded, many of them seriously,some of whom would probably die. To add to the horrors of the situation, the oil lamps ignited and threatened to destroy all In a general conflagration, but, providentially, the flames could be reached and were speedily extinguished. The fires in New York City on the 23d and 24th destroyed property to the value of about $1,500,000., In the Stokes trial, on the 26th, a former employe of the Erie Railway testified that some time before the murder, Stokes had declared to him that he would shoot Fisk. When this testimony was given, Stokes lost control of himself and cried aloud that it was all false. It was estimated, on the 26th, that the total number of lives lost by the railroad accident at Prospect Station was thirty, bne of the rescued, who was iu the car for twenty-five minutes a Iler the accident, says several were killed outright, and others writhed about until killed by suffocation. Some were conscious till burned to death. The Union soldiers of St. Louis held a meeting in that city a few days ago, and adopted a memorial to the Senate of the United States, prajffng that body to pass the Homestead act adopted by the House on the 12th of December.

The Chicago express on the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago Railroad was thrown off the track by a broken rail on the 25th, eighteen miles from Indianapolis,and twenty persons were injured, of whom at least three would die. By a snow slide near Central City, Utah, a few days ago, eight or ten teams and teamsters were carried 1,500 feet across Cottonwood Creek. Some of the teamsters were shoveled out, Ijnt it was thought others of them would noCbe found before spring. A Washington dispatch.of the 27th says General Francis A. Walker had tendered the President his resignation as Commissioner pf Indian Affairs, to take effect the Ist of .January, It was understood that the resignation had been accepted. The German Emigration Society, of Washington, together with the National Agricultural Laborers’ Association, of London, it is said, propose to send to thia Country, early in the spring, half a million of German .and" English farm laborers aad mechanics. ,By the recent heavy snow storms at the East the streets in the cities were blockaded and business .almost entirely suspended. Railroad traips were greatly Impeded. The storms were general throughout! the z Country- _ A dispatch from ' Yreka, California, says that on the 21st a party of soldiers, with a

wagon, en route from Camp Bidwell to Captain Berrand’s camp, on Lost River, was attacked by about fifty Modocs. Two soldiers were killed and four wounded. Five mules were killed. The soldiers killed were scalped; No Indians were known to have been killed. The Indian troubles were on the increase, and the Governor of California would be asked for a company of volunteers. The seat of war is partly in Qregon, partly in California on cither side of the boundary line. An ice gorge on the Mississippi River, just above Memphis, broke on the night of the 26th. Six steamers and ten barges at Mem-phis-were Sunk, and four steamers badly injured. Damages about $250,000. The recent election for municipal officers at Tampico, Mexico, is reported to have been very disorderly. During the counting of The votes a disturbance arose. Eight were killed and wounded. Great excitement prevailed. Both parties, called Tampicienos and Tamotipecos, claim to have won the election. The evening receptions of the President and Mrs. Grant will commence January 15, and continue January 29 and February 12. Commissioner Walker’s resignation has been accepted, to tike effect on February 1, not January 1, the date for which it was tendered. By the burning of the City Pest House of Boston, a few Rights ago, 300 small-pox patients were turned out of their beds and east upon the community. By the sinking of the ship Peruvian, with a heavy cargo from the East Indies, just as she was reaching her destination at Boston on the 26th, twenty-five lives were lost, and nearly a million dollars’ worth of goods. The developments in the New York Centre street fire, where several girls were burned to death, show that those unfortunate victims owe their death to niggardliness or A dispatch eUthe~2Sth-says the various parties interested in the ownership of the property in Centre street still refused to take steps for exhuming the bodies of the burned girls from the debris. The Boards of Health and Police stated that they had no legal authority to remove the ruins. In his cross-examination, on the 28th, Stokes denied that he had ever made any threats to shoot Fisk. Several incendiary fires having recently occurred in New York City, there was some talk on the 28th of a Vigilance Committee, and there was a possibility of a violent movement for the suppression of the International Societies in New York and its vicrnlty. - 1 . Numerous protests are arriving in Washington from Wyoming Territory against the dismemberment of that Territory and its incorporation into Colorado. The friends of female suffrage In Wyoming are particularly exercised.

A suit threatening the titles of over a hundred owners of real estate on the South Side in Chicago, and involving property to the value of nearly $2,000,000, has been begun in the Superior Court of that city. The Michigan Southern & Lake Shore Railroad shops at Adrian, Mich., were burned a few nights ago; loss $75,000. At the Belfast'furnace, Ironton, Ohio, the other day, Ellis Moore, James Venters and Andrew Diles went into three boilers to clean them, leaving oper the valve connecting the boilers with the remaining ones of the battery. The engineer, supposing the boilers containing the men to be disconnected, soon afterward turned on steam, and Venters and Diles were so parboiled tha they died in a few minutes. Moore succeeded in escaping. At last accounts twelve men were believed to be buried under the Cottonwood avalanche in the Utah Mountains. The slide came from 1 the very mountain top, a distance of a mile, with frightful speed and force. A letter from Wilmington, N. C., jDecember 27, states that Andrew Strong, one of the notorious outlaws of Scuflietown, was shot dead by a young man named Wilson, whimrStrongTiad warnCiUttf leave tlrc-ptaw. ■ His body was delivered by Wilson to the Sheriff, who immediately paid him SI,OOO for it, which is the standing reward by the county for any of the Lowry gang, dead or alive. Wilson is also entitled to $5,000 re-: ward from the State. Thejonly member of the gang now alive is Steve Lowry. A New Orleans telegram of the 28th says, on the authority of Governor Warmoth’s private secretary, that the statement published in Washington, to the effect that the Governor had abandoned the contest and advised the Legislature not to meet on the 6th of January, was untrue. Disasters on Western rivers destroyed $3,225,200 worth of property during the past year. Fifty-eight lives were lost by explo- | sions, and 365 by falling overboard. The Northfield National Bank, Northfield, Minn., has been organized, with a capital of $50,000. New Year's customs were thoroughly ob- j served on the Ist at the Executive Mansion in Washington, which was crowded for several hours. The Maine Legislature organized on the Ist. John B. Foster, of Bangor, was choifeh President of the Senate, and G. F. Webb, of Waterville, Speaker of the House. Another leading place of amusement in New York City disappeared i<i flames on the Ist. The Fifth Avenue Theater, adjoining the Fith Avenue Hotel on Twenty-fourth street, was burned in the afternoon about half an hour after an immense matinee audience had dispersed. The losson the building and scenery and properties of the theater are nearly $200,000. At the organization of the Massachusetts Legislature on the Ist, Dr. Loring was chosen President of the Senate, and John E. Sanford Speaker of the House. General John A. Dix was Inaugurated as Governor of New York State on the Ist. The Missouri Legislature met st Jefferson City on the Ist, and temporarily organized. Governor Caldwell and the other State officers of North Carolina were inaugurated on the Ist. , „ ■ —A “plant-doctor”. Advertises in England that he will for a fee visit gardens, farms, etc., infested by insects, and give advice as to their destruction. He does not call himself a plant-doctor, but “consulting entomologist.” Wo believe that i a gentleman in Boston, Mass., offers his services in a similar manner.— Hearthand Home. ’ —James M. Swank has resigned the position of Chief Clerk in -the Agricultural Department at Washington, to accept that pf Secretary of the Iron and Steel Association.