Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1874 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

Condensed from Telegrams of Accompanying Dates. Friday, January 16.—At a meeting in Madrid of Deputies constituting a majority of the late Cortes, a vote of confidence in Senor Castelar was adopted, and be was requested topreparea manifesto to the nation.... The Prohibitionists of Connecticut have nominated a State ticket, with the name of H. D. Smith, of Southiifgton, at its head. Resolutions were adopted condemning the depravity of Democrats and the hypocrisy of the Republicans, and pronouncing the license law a failure... .The Kansas Farmers’ Cooperative Association, recently in session at Topeka, adopted resolutions urging Congress to render great centers of Western trade as accessible to ocean tonnage as New York or Boston; strongly dis-, countenancing any continuance of the practice of voting county denouncing the free pass system, and asking Congress to throw the Indian Territory open to white men. They also resolved that they will act in politics hereafter indepcnenduntly of existing parties. They reiterate the doctrine that railways should be subject to National and State regulation, and call upon Congress to provide for cheap transportation between the States. The Executive Committee of the Association state that there are 131 auxiliary societies in the State, independent of the Granges, which number 1,000.... The Secretary of State of Texas, having refused to recognize the Legislature in session at Austin, and to deliver to them the election returns, that body appointed a committee of • seven to canvass and report as to the result of the State election. This committee made a formal demand upon the Governor that he direct the Secretary to deliver to them the official returns. The Governor replied that he did not think the committee entitled to them, but that if they would help themselves they would meet witH no opposition. The committee repaired to the Secretary’s office, and the returns were pointed out to them, when they took possession, the Secretary protesting in writing against the proceedings. Saturday, January 17.—Ex-State Senator Graham, of New York, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years for having, as President of the Walkill National Bank, appropriated the funds of that institution to his own private use, and having proved a defaulter for a large amount.... Several of the leaders in the attempt to get up a street riot among the workingmen in New York City the other day have been held for trial.... A deputy of the lowa State Grange has recently returned from a visit to the destitute farmers «f Lyon, Osceola and O’Brien Counties. He is reported to have found one thousand families in need of succor, and thinks , that five hundred of them must depend on charity for support till spring;... Thc new Texas Legislature after counting the votes of the late State election, formally declared Richard Coke elected Governor and R. D. Hubbard, Lieutenant Governor, both of whom were thereupon sworn into office. Tne Attorney-General at Washington received a dispatch on the 16th, from the United States Marshal at Austin, saying: “The newly-elected Governor Coke was Inaugurated last night. Armed men are guarding the approaches to the offices and to the Capitol, and other armed men have possession of the legislative halls. A conflict seems inevitable. A message from you may save us from disaster.” The Attor-ney-General replied that he could only appeal to the parties to peaceably adjust their difficulties if possible. “Cannot some one negotiate a settlement? I have no pdwer to interfere with force, nor have you any duty to perform, in respect to the matter, except to use your moral influence”.... Up to adjournment of the lowa House on the 16th, ninety-five ballots for Speaker had been had, still resulting in a tie—forty-nine to forty-nine—two members having paired off. * Monday, January 19.—A threatening article in a recent number of the North German Gazette on the policy of France with regard to the Papal questions excites uneasiness and indignation in Rome and Paris. L' Opinion Nationale says: “Notwithstanding their regent success the Prussians are still ignorant of that nobleness which refrains from insultingthe conquered.” Recent dispatches Indicate that there is no prospect of an adjustment of the difficulty among ’the coal miners of Pennsylvania, and the strike, which has become general, promises to be of long duration. ... A special telegram from Duluth says the Indians at Vermillion Lake are dying of starvation. They have eaten two children and one man. The scarcity of game and the failure of the rice crop are said to have been the cause. They claim the Government failed to send the usual supplies of provisions. Several are coming into the settlement for relief.... The newly-installed Governor of Texas made a formal demand on Governor Davis, on the 16th, for the delivery into his possession of the executive office of the State, together with the papers, archives, and all property pertaining thereto, as well as the office of Secretary of State and its archives, papers and property. This demand was not complied with, Governor Davis claiming to be the legal Governor of the State until the 28th of April next. He proposed, however, to submit the question of recognition of the legitimate State Government to the Executive or Congress of the United States, or to both, to which proposition Governor Coke refused to assent. Governor Davis received a telegram from AttorneyGeneral Williams on the 17th to the effect that “more than four years having expired since your election, he (the President) is of the opinion that your right to the office of Governor, at this time, is at least so doubts ul that he does not feel warranted in furnishing United States troops to aid you in holdingfurther possession of it, and he, therefore declines to comply with your request.” Tuesday, January 20.—The President has nominated Morrison R. Waite, of Ohio, for Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Waite is a resident of Toledo, and is sixty years of age.... The temporary structure erected over the remains of the Union Central Depot at the foot of Lake street, Chicago, has been destroyed by fire. Several passenger coaches were consumed. Loss variously stated at from SIOO,OOO to $400,000. Chicago was also visited at the same time by another destructive fire on State street, near Van Buren, five valuable stores and their contents being burned....A dispatch' from Greensboro, N. C., says the Siamese twins died on the 17th. Chang died at four o’clock, and Eng about two hours

after..'.. Governor Coke and his associates in office have secured possession of the State offices of Texas, at Austin, without tneeting with much opposition. Wednesday, January 21.—At Paris, recently, United States Minister Washburne, on behalf of the French residents of Philadelphia, presented ex-Presidcnt Thiers with a gold medal. In his speech Mr. Washburne alluded to the friendship of the Unitsd States during her armed revolution, and eulogized the French people who have taken up their residence in the United States. Thiers expressed his thanks to his countrymen in the United States for the manifestations oFtheir confidence in him, and declared that a Republic was the only government possible in France; consequently the bond of friendship between the two nations would be made stronger... .In the Woman’s Suffrage Convention which was recently held in Washington, Vice-President Wilson said: “Twenty years ago I came to the conclusion that my wife, my mother and my sisters were as much entitled to the right of suffrage as myself, and I have not changeomy mind since.”.... Nine workingwomen were recently killed and many others seriously injured by an explosion in a knitting mill at Bennington, Vt The explosion was caused by the accidental ignition of gasoline, which had escaped from a pipe that leaked.... A bill for the compulsory education of the children of the State has been passed by the Illinois House of Representatives. It provides that children between the age of nine and fourteen must be sent to school for three months of the year, and six weeks of this schoolingpnust be continuous.... The Wisconsin Senate has adopted a resolution “requiring all members to at once return their free passes to the railroad companies, and forbidding them from accepting any other- favors of like character. A similar resolution has been adopted by the Kansas Assembly.... Governor William Pinckney Whyte has been elected to the United States Senate by the Maryland Legislature.... The lowa State Temperance Association has adopted resolutions calling for the repeal of the act exempting beer and wine from seizure, and in favor of the total prohibition of the manufacture or sale of liquor. Thursday, January 22.—The German Reichstag has been convoked for the sth of February....A. H. Hoffman, the popular German poet, is dead, aged seventy-five.... President Grant has approved the bill repealing all parts df the Salary act of March, 1873, except such as increase the salaries pt the President and Justices of the Supreme Court. ... .The United States Senate has unanimously confirmed the nomination of Mr. Waite for Chief-Justree, nine Senators not voting. Those absent or not voting were: Alcorn, Ames, Dennis, Dorsey, Hamilton (Md.), Johnston, Sprague, Sumner, Windom. .... The following are the newly-elected officers of the lowa State Temperance Convention: H. Lewis Todhunter, President; Seward Smith, Secretary; Isaac Brandt, Treasurer. A resolution was adopted by the Convention favqrable to woman suffrage... .Two hundred and seventy five subordinate Granges are represented in the Georgia State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry in session at Atlanta.... The Wisconsin State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry met at Janesville on the 20th, nearly every Grange in the State being represented. The Order was reported to be in a flourishing condition throughout the State. On the 21st reports of officers were made. Mr. Osborn, State Agent, in his report, takes strong ground in favor of combined action agates t such manufacturing companies as refuse to give direct wholesale terms to grange agencies. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Master, Col. John Cochrane, of Dodge County, re-elected; Overseer, D. Williams, of Walworth County; Lecturer, 8. W. King; Steward, C. Foster; Assistant-Steward, A. J. Sexton; Chaplain, E. F. Dunham; |Treasurer, Jonathan Corry, of Rock County, and H. E. Huxley, of Neenah, Secretary. ’ •