Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1873 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. In her reply to the address of the British House of Commons on the subject of international arbitration, the Queen says: “I have at all times desired to extend the practice of closing international controversies by their submission to impartial friends, and to encourage the establishment of rules intended for the equal benefit of all. I shall continue to pursue a similar course, with a due regard to time and opportunity, whenever it is likely to be attended with advantage.” The House received the reply with hearty cheers. The Khan of Khiva has signed a convention to pay 2,000,000 roubles indemnity within ten years, in virtue of which he is confirmed on the throne. _ _ ... -■ ■. Samuel Wilberforce, D. D., Bishop of Winchester, fell from his horse on the 19th, aud was instantly killed, his neck being broken. The Shah of Persia and suite left Paris on the 19th, on a special train, for Geneva. Lord Westbury, formerly Lord Chancellor of England, died on the 20th, aged 73. A new Spanish Ministry has been formed, composed as follows; N. Salmeron, President; Fernando Gonzalez, Minister of Finance; Senor Solor, Minister of State; Senor Rodriguez, Minister of Justice; Gen. Gonzales, Minister of War; Senor Maizonavc, Minister of the Interior; Senor Oviedo, Minister of Marine; Senor Palanca, Minister of the Colonies; Senor Gondalez, Minister of Public Works. President Salmeron made a statement of Ms policy, which he said would be in favor of a Federal Republic, and in no way reactionary. A Madrid telegram of the 20tli says the provinces of Andalusia, Murcia, Valencia and Catalonia had proclaimed themselves independent cantons, in anticipation of the adoption of the new Federal Constitution. Declarations of independence were issued at Seville, Cadiz and Barcelona. It was reported in London on the 20th that Igualada had been captured by the Carlists, with 1,000 prisoners, four cannon, and 2,000 stand of small arms. A Loudon dispatch of the 19th says private advices from Vienna, on the 17tli, state that up to that time there had been sixty-one cases of cholera reported, forty-two of which were fatal. In a single hotel where forty-two persons were attacked with the symptoms of cholera, six died. The hotel was then closed. An attempt was made on the 21st to assassinate Marshal Serrano while he was walking in the grounds of his villa at Biarritz, France. The assassin was arrested. The crews of the Spanish-man-of-war Almanza, Vittoria, Mendez, Minez, Fernando and El Catoliea having revolted, the Government has issued a proclamation declaring them pirates, and authorizing their capture and treatment as such by any foreign power on the high. seas. The Carlists have sacked and burned Igualada. The Emperor William visited the American Department in the Vienna Exposition on the morning of the 22d, and spent two hours examingthe display there made. He is represented as saying that, "for improvements and new Inventions since the last exposition America is without comparison in the entire building;’ also, that “America makes here a more varied instructive and interesting display than it has shown in any previous foreign exhibition. Beyond that, the most noticeable feature in your display of industry and art is the constant evidence that the artificers are thinking men, and that your labor seems inspired by constant and active intelligence.” A Bayonne dispatch of the 22d says the Carlists, after getting control of Cartagena, had captured the squadron lying in the harbor at that place. They thus secured three ironclads, one screw frigate and three steamers, the iron-clad and the screw frigate being "among the finest vessels in the Spanish navy A dispatch from Paris on the' 23d says the French Government had refused to accord -the Carlists the belligerent rights for which they had sought formal recognition, and had forbidden Spanish Republicans in France to send their countrymen any aid. The Carlists claimed that their effective force in Spain on the 23d numbered 30,000 men. At a recent council of Generals in Madrid on the 23d, President Salmeron was advised to summon into active service 90,000 men of the reserves. The German troops have evacuated Merzie* res, in the Department of Ardennes, and the town of Charlcvillc, on the opposite side of the river. Tlic garrison remained at Nancy. When it is withdrawn from that city, Verdun will be the only place in France occupied by German troops.

THE NEW WORLD. Gold closed In New York on the 23<1 at 115%. The decision of the Court of Inquiry into the lose of-the steamer City of Washington is to the effect that on the 2d and 3d of July,” soundings might have been obtained and by that means a fresh departure taken, but, unhappily, the presumption that they were too far to the southward for soundings prevailed, and led the Master to neglect this necessary precaution. To this omission, together with the discrepancy in the deviation of the compasses, may be attributed the loss of tills fine ship. The Master’s certificate of service, held by William Robert Phillips, Master, is' suspended for the space of one year from the date of the loss of the steamship. In their verdict in the Goodrich case, the Coronor’s jury declared their conviction that tlie Coronor’s jury, as au institution for the discovery of crime or the detection of individuals, has outlived the period of its necessity or usefulness. They urge that, in cases where the causes of death are uncertain and an investigation is necessary, the latter could be more efficiently conducted by some legallyconstituted criminal or health authorities, ot by both combined, than „under the present system. A ghastly horror has been unearthed in New York City, by the finding of the mutiv lated remains of a wealthy and eccentric woman in her house where she resided alone. The body had been almost entirely devoured by rats, and it is thought the woman when found had been dead three or four weeks. Bhc was a maiden lady by the name of Willetts. The announcement is made that the New York Custom officers, In their Tecent investigations,Tavc discovered such evidences of. fraud on the part of a weil-known importing house as to compel the payment of about $500,000 as a.pcnalty to the Government, and the imprisonment of at least one member of the firm. Governor Thos. A. -Osborn has been chosen to deliver the opening address at the coming Kansas State Fair. ( ■ In the Industrial Congress at Cleveland, on Pm l7tji, resolutions were adopted favorable

to the immigration of free labor, but demanding Governmental protection against the competion of labor imported under contract to , serve a fixed period'oi certain wages; in fat'or of the adoption of laws making arbitration a lggal means of settling difficulties between employers and employes, and recommending the miners of the country to organize a National Association. Mrs. Jacob Sherflns, wife of a hardware merchant at Winona, Minn., was burned to death the other morning by an explosion of kerosene oil with which she was lighting a fire. She died in about four hours after the accident, _ The Salt Lake Journal of the 16th tmnounces that Ann Eliza Webb Young, seventeenth wife of Brigham Young, had forever left him, carrying off' a lot of furniture and personal effects. Her lawyers are about to institute a suit for divorce and alimony in a large sum. ~A special from Mount Vernon, lud., on the 16th, says the cholera was raging fearfully at that place. Commencing on the 10th, there had been about thirty deaths. Business was almost suspended. The Chicago Times of the 17th says there were two meetings of railroad officers in that city, the day before. At one of these it was determined that lumber should hereafter be charged for by weight instead of by the foot, and that the tariff for the transportation of cattle should be increased to what it was before it was reduced by the competition that has been in progress for the last four months. At the other, which was a meeting of the General Superintendents of roads in the State, action was taken to permit the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Road to issue passes, good until the first of January, to shippers of cattle. A terrible kerosene accident has recently occurred at Waterman, 111. It secmß that some children were attempting to start a fire by using the explosive oil, and were set on fire just as their mother, Mrs. Copfer, was entering the house. The mother seized the two children and ran out doors with them in her arms. All three were terribly burned, Mrs. Copfer living about eight hours after the accident, the younger child, a babe, only about two hours, and the other child, two years old, could not long survive. -The complete ticket nominated by the recent Minnesota Republican Convention is as follows: Governor, Cushman ,K. Davis, of St. Paul; Lieutenant-Governor, Alphonso Barto, of Sauk Centre; Secretary of State, S. P. Jennison, present incumbent; Treasurer, Mons. Grinager, of Albert Lea; Attorney-General, George P. Wilson, of Winona. The officers elected by the National Industrial Congress are: President, R. Schilling, of Ohio; First Vice-President, N. J. Reed, (colored) of Virginia; Second Vice-President, E. Sniggs; Third Vice-President, E. McLaughlin, of Illinois; Secretary, S. Keefe, of Pennsylvania; Treasurer, J. C. Keefe, of Pennsylvania. The preamble and one of the resolutions adopted by the Illinois Temperance Union, recently in session at Jacksonville, areas follows: , Whereas, The manufacturers and dealers in intoxicating liquors have organized a society in this State, and raised a large fund for the purpose of breaking down the laws of the State repressing the evils growing out of the sale of intoxicating dnnks, and also for the pnrpose of violating and opposing all laws made for suppressing the sale of such drinks on the Sabbath, in order to prevent the disturbance of the proper qniet of the Sabbath day,and repressing vice; therefore. Resolved, That all men who favor law, order and good government in the State should, regardless of creed, sect, or nationality, unite their influence and means in sustaining the wholesome laws of the land. Resolutions were also adopted thanking Mayor Medill, of Chicago, for the enforcement of the Sunday laws in that city, and tendering thanks to the Father Matthew Temperance societies, composed of Irish fellow citizens, “for the noble stand they have taken in favor of the enforcement of the laws of the land, and the timely and cutting rebuke they lately, as a body, administered to our eommouenemy, 1 ’ A young daughter of WTlliam Wall, residing near Fulton Junction, lowa, tried to kindle a fire with kerosene. The flames communicated with the can, which burst, scattering the burning oil all over her body. Before it could be extinguished, her flesh was burned to a crisp, and she could not long survive. Ex-Governor Colby, of New Hampshire, died at Concord on the 21st, aged 80. E. S. Mills, President of the Brooklyn Trust Company, was recently drowned at Coney Island, and it has since been discovered that he had overdrawn his account about $150,000, and had also accepted of worthless securities to the amount of about $300,000. It is strongly suspected that he committed suicide, though many of his friends think his death was purely accidental. The Illinois Railroad and Warehouse ConS-, missioners, having been called upon for an opinion in the matter, have officially stated that a reduction in favor of all persons alike who are sending articles for exhibition at industrial fairs would not seem to give any business advantage to one person over another, and therefore would not be an unjust discrimination. Wc quote: “The facts that these articles are designed for exhibition at industrial fairs; that such fairs are matters-of public encouragement; that no one is injuriously affected by such reduction, and that all persons sending this class of articles are treated alike, would seem to Justify what would otherwise, as between rival business men, be prima facie evidence of unjust discrimination. When a reduction does not pecuniarily injure any one, but on the contrary encourages the. industrial interests of the country, and thus accords with public policy it leaves, we think, no good reason to declare such reduction an unjust discrimination. It is not mere discriminating but unjust discrimination that is prohibited by the constitution and the statute.” According to the new Directory of Chicago the population of the city is about 465,000. There are 133,070 names in the Directory. The C. R. & P. express train which left Council' Bluffs at 4:25 on the afternoon of the 21st, was thrown from the track hear Casey, lowa, and robbed by seven masked men on horseback. The engineer, John Rafferty, was shot and killed. The mail and express cars were all robbed. The number of threshing machines sold at Des Moines, ’ lowa, this season, exceeds that of any previous year. A Minneapolis (Minn.) dispatch of the 21st says: “Slnce the adjournment of tbe Republi:ean Btate Convention, facts haye come to light, proving that Washburn was nominated on the third formal, ballot, by a majority of three over all. Four votes cast for AttorneyGeneral on that ballot were intended for Washburn, but throwing them out of the count, as they ought to have been, instead Of being counted scattering, Washburn still had a majority of three. The knowledge of these facts Is creating a deep feeling throughout the State, and the question is

whether under the circumstances, Davis can afford to accept the nomination received by mistake. The Tribune to-morrew morning will ask that the nomination, be settled by the State Central Committee.” Dispatches from the town of Louisiana, Missouri, say eight deaths from cholera occurred there between eight and twelve o’clock on the night of the 20th. Hundreds of citizens were preparing to leave the place. Four deaths from cholera occurred at Mt. Vernon, Ind., on the 21st, three in Cincinnati and one in the Ohio Penitentiary. Crop reports from Arkansas, Mississippi and North Alabama on the 21st, were favorable, though the greater poi tion of Mississippi was suffering for want of rain. The larger portion of the business part of Jackson, Tenn., including the Whig and Tribune office, was burned on the 20th. Loss over SIOO,OOO. A recent circular of the Post-office Department cautions postmasters from selling, and the public from buying, the official Btamps of the Department. It seems that postmasters in several States have been furnishing the public with these stamps. Letters under such official stamps are sent from their points of destination to the Dead-letter Office, as they are known to be private letters. One postmaster in Ohio recently received 200 official stamps and sold 140. The Acting Comptroller of the District of Columbia has furnished the Government with an official statement, in which he says the funded and bonded debt of the District, including those of the late corporations,-amount-to $9,236,891. The District of Columbia and late corporations have no floating debt, the current revenue being amply sufficient to meet all the current expenses. The sinking fund revenues are more than sufficient to meet current interest and retire an annual proportion of the outstanding bonds. The amount authorized by the last Legislative Assembly will not increase the debt beyond the amount as limited by act of Congress. A recent New York dispatch says the statement that there is to be no investigation by the deacons and trustees of Plymouth Church relative to the Bowen-Tilton scandal is untrue. The trial has only been postponed on account of the absence of Mr. Beecher and a number of the committee. In the fall charges will be filed against Bowen and Tilton, andhe fully investigated. The sessions will probably be held with closed doors. The American Cheap Transportation Association of New York City, perfected its organization on the evening of the 21st, and adopted resolutions setting forth that the unjust and extortionate rates charged by the various railroads of the country are detrimental to the industries and interests of the nation, and condemning the action of the railroad companies in bribing Legislatures, and defying Judges and Executives! Isaac B. King, father of Lizzie L. King, alias Kate Stoddard, arrived in Brooklyn on the 22d, and Visited his daughter at the Raymond Street Jail. He had not seen her before for six years, and said she was very much changed. A St. Louis dispatch of- the 22d says the cholera had abated ' at Louisiana, Mo., but some fifty persons altogether had died of it since it first broke out, including some of the most prominent citizens. In Prairieville and Troy the scourge raged fearfully, the towns being almost depopulated either by disease or the people fleeing from their homes. Out of one family of nine persons in the former place, all of whom were well on the 18th, only two remained. The disease also prevailed at other towns near by. Business was almost suspended, and most of those who were able were fleeing from the infected places. A reporter of the Evansville (lud.) Journal of the 22d says there were then only about 1,500 people in Mount Vernon, and that the surrounding towns were full of Mount Vernon citizens, who had fled from the city. The Board of Health had requested all persons not to visit the place for the present. - The value of the booty secured by the robbers of the express train near Casey, lowa, on the 21st, did not exceed $2,000. The valuable express matter usually sent by this train on Mondays was forwarded the night before. At their session at Springfield on the 22d, the Illinois Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners received a number of complaints of extortion by railroads. These complaints were against the Illinois Central, Peoria, Pekin & Jacksonville, and the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railroads, it was not improbable that the members of the Board would visit some of the points where the most flagrant extortions are charged to be made, t-o investigate the truth, and if possible devise a remedy for them. Dr. Mary Walker was arrested in Baltimore •u the 22d, for appearing in men’s clothing, but was soon released. • At a meeting of the committee of men in New Orleans on the 22d, it was agreed to call a convention of colored men some time in Novembcrjto meet in that city. The Hon. John P. Hale fell and broke his hip bone at Dover on the 22d, and his case wag considered critical on the 23d. An Italian named Gilone was recently examined at New Haven, on a" charge of keeping Italian boys in a condition of servitude, to profit by their earnings. lie was held In bonds of $4,000 for trial in October, and was committed to jail for want of bail. The Manitoban Court, before which Messrs. Fletcher, Bentley, Hoy and Keegon, citizens of Minneapolis; have been undergoing an examination on a charge of attempting to kidnap the bogus Lord Gordon, rendered its decision on the 23d, committing the prisoners for trial. ■ - . - - - ■ —"

The Chicago Tribune of tfic 34th says the Chicago & Alton Railroad had decided not to prosecute the suits which it instituted some time since against a number of farmers ip McLean- and Livingston Counties, who delayed the business of the road by refusing to pay more than the legal fare, and also by declining to be ejected from the tram. In -a conference held at Springfield on the 33d, between the representatives of the Road and the Railroad Commissioners, the former stated that its tariff would” rearranged within the ensuing four weeks so as to remove all cause for the complaints of extortion evoked by the present rates. «• Governor Carpenter of lowa has offered a reward of SSOO each for the apprehension and - delivery of the Rock Island train robbers. A St, Joseph (Mo.) telegram of the 23d says it was'knovyn there that the robbers had been traced into Nodaway County, Missouri. It • was confidently believed they could not escape, i The whole country was aroused, and the offle- ; ers in every town and village were on the i alert - ! It was announced on the 2Sd that the t, cholera panic had subsided at Mount Vernon, i Indiana, One deatl* was reported In Cinelii-

nati on the 23d, and tvto at Carml, 111. Within the previous week ten persons had died of cholera in the village of Grafton, Illinois. A cholera case was reported in Wheeling (W. Va.) on the 23d, and Lagrange, Ky., had eighteen deaths from that disease within three days. .