Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1873 — THE OLD WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THE OLD WORLD.

Advices from Paris state that a compromise has been effected between President Thiers and the committee of thirty. Ths latter agree to modify their constitutional project by extending the veto power of the Executive so as to allow the President to suspend he operation of a law by his veto for two months after its passage by the Assembly, and also giving the President the right to participate personally in the debate in the chamber on interpellations arid all questions of general policy It is stated that an indictment has been found in Paris against Gen. John C. Fremont and some of his associates who helped him to negotiate the Memphis & El Paso Railroad bonds in the European market, and that the trial will come off there shortly. The Empress Caroline Augusta, widow of the Emperor Francis 1., and grandmother of the reigning emperor, died at Vienna, February 7, aged 81. The Spanish Congress has adopted a bill making military services compulsory on all.' It is announced from Geneva that the Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva has decided against the complete separation of Church and State. A Paris dispatch of the Bth says the northern portion of France had just been visited by a heavy snow-storm,'and railway travel was blockaded. The Swiss Council of State has stopped the salaries, for three months, of -all the priests who read from their pulpits, unauthorized, the papal brief estabilshlhg a separate Bishopric for Geneva. A dispatch was received at Washington from Minister Sickles, dated Madrid, February 11, confirming the previous report of the abdication of King Amadeus of Spain, and stating that a republican form of government had been adopted by a vote of 259 in the affirmative and 32 in the negative. There was great excitement manifested and some attempts at_ disturbance, but the latest dispatches report everything quiet. Advices from Lisbon, February 11, state that an insurrection of natives had broken out against the Portuguese authorities in Loanda, on the southwest coast of Africa. Corvettes with troops have been dispatched to the colony. On the 12tb, the Spanish Cortes, after accepting the abdication of King Amadeus and establishing a republic, elected the following ministerial officers : Figueras, President of the Council; Cordoba, Minister of War; P. Y. Margall, Minister of the Interior; Nicolas Salmeron, Minister of Justice; Francisco Salmeron, Minister of the Colonies; Beran-, ger, Minister of Marine; Castelar, Minister of Foreign Affaire; Becerra, Minister of Public Works; Echegaray, Minister of Finance. The newly-elected: members of the government took seats upon the ministerial bench. A dispatch from Dublin, Ireland, 12th, says that the trial of Rev. Mr. Loftus, the first one of the Galway priests brought before the Court of Queen’s Bench of that city, on the charge of having illegally used his spiritual influence to intimidate voters, and secure the election of Captain Nolan to Parliament, resulted in acquittal, the jury having failed to agree. THE NEW WOULD. Gold closed in New York on the 12th at U4@ll4X- - A dispatch from Washington on the sth says that orders had been issued to the commandant ot the United States forces operating against the Modoc Indians, to make snch disposition of his forces as will tend to protect the settlers and their property in the neighborhood, and suspend further hostile proceedings against the Indians, unless absolutely necessary, until the, arrival .of the Commission recently appointed to investigate the causes which led Captain Jack to wave war upon the whites, and the result of the investigation is made known. A few days ago a horrible discovery was made in Brooklyn, N. T., the particulars of which are as follows. It seems that some weeks since, Jacob Knoop, proprietors of a liquor saloon in that city, gave up business and rented his saloon. The saloon was locked up, and Knoop had not since been seen, until a few evenings ago, when the new proprietor went to take possession. Inside was found the dead body of Knoep, and beside it his dog, feeding on one of his legs. The flesh. had been eaten from the rest of his body/ It is supposed he had been dead several days. A resolution asking Senator Caldwell to resign was introduced into the Kansas Leg islature on the sth. It was laid on the table. President Grant has pardoned Eli Ross Stewart, and Robert Hayes Mitchell, both of South Carolina, convicted of Ku-Klnx crimes, and sentenced to imprisonment in Albany Penitentiary. A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica, Jan 21, says that Sir John Grant bad arrived at St. Thomas from England, to resume the Governorship of Jamaica. The English Government has been largely petitioned to extend bis administration for seven years. The Rev. William Starrs, Vicar-General of the (Catholic) of New York, died in that city on the 6th. ■- -- Philadelphia has appropriated $500,000 in aid of the Centennial Celebration. 1 “tea Cion/an ha» bteo tea years’ imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, for abstracting money from registered letters while s clerk in the Chicago postoffice. McNulty, the Peoria wife-murderer, was hanged at Peoria at one o’clock p. m. on the 7th. He made a long speech on the gallows, protesting his innocence, and asserting that' some of the witnesses for Che prosecution bad sworn falsely against him. President Grant Visited Wilmington, Del., pn the 6th, and was enthusiastically received by the officers of the State and city, and the citizens generallyr The act abolishing the franking privilege does not do away with the free exchange of newspapers, nor the free distribution of papers within the county where published. The Senatorial Bribery Committee at Jefferson Citv made their report to the Missouri House on the Bth, They exonerate Senator Bogy of any attempt at bribery in the Senatorial election. They find, however; that General Dorris did try to bribe two members, but it bad no bearingon the case. All the members of the committee signed the report except Headlee, Republican, who would make a minority report. Ex .Governor Getry, of Pennsylvania, died suddenly at bia home in Harrisburg, while at breakfast with.his family, on the Bth. At February 9, the ord Wall of the Ferguson House fall, crushing a frame I house adjoining, and instantly killing a I

mother and daughter named Dohohue and another young lady named Rleley. Another daughter of Mrs. Donohue had one arm broken in two places, one leg broken, and her breast crushed la, hit Was still anf»~ : A" child two years old escaped unhurt. Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, VicePresident elect, on the lOtb, tendered his resignation as Senator, to take effect March 3. Governor Dix, of New York, states that the $50,000 which he received some years ago from the Union Pacific Railroad, was for his salary as President of that Company, and not as a gratuity or for any other purpose. The horse disease has reached Sacramento, California. Franklin B. Evans, recently tried and convicted at Exeter, N. H., for the murder of his niece, Georgiana Lovering, a girl twelve years of age, has made a confession of his many crimes. Among other things it is confessed that in 1858, he stole away and killed his little niece In Derry, N. H., aged five years. In 1881 he assaulted and cut the throat of a girl of fourteen years, in Augusta, Maine', for which, by the way, another man died in prison. In 1865 he outraged the person of Isabella Joyce, aged fourteen, and then killed her and her brother John, a boy of twelve, in Bussey’s Woods, near Boston. He Is also charged with a similar crime upon the person of a woman found dead in the woods near Fitchburg, Mass., In addition to outraging and murdering the girl for which offence he was convicted. The Missouri State Senate on the 10th, passed a bill authorizing the Jurors to substi tute imprisonment for the death penalty. The lowa Senate has adopted an amendment to their code which Inaugurates the system of compulsory education. The Illinois Supreme Court has granted a supersedeas in the case of Perteet, the colored Chicago wife murderer, who has been twice tried, convicted and sentenced to death. The will of Horace Greeley, dated in 1871, has been admitted to probate. Ex-Mayor Kalbfleisch, ot Brooklyn, N. Y., died on the 12th. A Chicago journal says that advices from the fruit regions of Michigan and Southern Illinois leave no doubt that the recent extreme cold weather has killed nearly all the peach buds. Some. varieties. of grapes are reported to have been also killed. The following nominations have been made by the Liberal Republicans of New Hampshire: For Governor, Samuel R. Mason; Railroad Commissioner, Wm. A. Head. JFor Congress: First District, Emery A. Hibbard; Second, Josiah M. Fletcher; Third,. Samuel P. Cooper. The Louisville Courier-Journal denies the truth of the report recently published concerning an attempted stage robbery near Harrodsburg, Ky., and the killing of the highwayman. It is stated that Mrs. Edwin Forrest, who resides on Staten Island, has given notice to the executors of her late husband that she will apply for her dower in his estate, on the grounds that Mr. Forrest was never divorced from her. When Congress, in canvassing the Electoral vote, on the 12th, reached Mr. Greeley’s name, which first appeared in the vote of Georgia, objection was made to having the votes for him counted, on the ground that Mr. Greeley was dead when the votes were cast, and was not, therefore, a citisen within the meanlag of the Constitution. This point the House settled affirmatively, the Senate adversely. This disagreement compelled, the tellers, in accordance with the rules, to throw out the vote. The Executive Board of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society have fixed upon Milwaukee as the place fer holding the next annual State Fair. Governor Smith, of Georgia, in a recent special message to the State Legislature, says that $2,567,435 must be provided during the current year to meet bonds falling due, and to pay the interest on the public debt.