Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Spain Willing to Indemnify the United States. Great Fire in Cronstadt, Russia--10,000 People Homeless. End of the Safe-Burglary Con - (piracy Trial. Important Decision by the Supreme Court of Indiana. fwatiei of the Isdiua State Griwre-hdfpendent — — Pint Contention. Tnscnmbi* and Montevallo, Ala., Visited by Destructive Gales. b Gov. Garland, of Arkansas, Offers Rewards for Smith tnd Wheeler. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. FOREIGN. In the German Reichstag on the ‘2lst a motion made by one of the Ultramontane members, directing tbc release of several Democratic Deputies, was defeated. A Rio Janeiro dispatch of the 21st announces the surrender of the gunboat Panama, of the Argentine revolutionist flotilla. The mails from Buenos Ayres to Europe had been stopped. A London telegram of the 21st says Morocco had agreed to cede a port to Germany. A Dublin dispatch of the 22d says the Pope had written to Cardinal Cullen, thanking him and the Irish Bishops for their condemnation of the address delivered by Tyndall at Belfast, and declaring that nothing is to be so much decried as “those spiritual pirates whose trade is to despoil the souls of men.’' The Italian Parliament was opened on the 23d by King Victor Emmanuel In person. His speech related mainly to the reorganization of the financial system of Italy and to measures of public safety, and was warmly received. A Madrid special of the 24th says the Spanish Government had expressed a willingness to pay to the United States indemnity in the Vlrginius case on the same basis as that with which Great Britain was satisfied. A late letter from 8t Petersburg states that a fire recently occurred at Cronstadt, which destroyed the dwellings of 10,000 persons. The rhinoceros in the Zoological Garden at London on the 25th fatally gored two of the keepers.

Madrid dispatches of the 35th say the Carlists had attacked San Marcial, one as the outlying forts of Iran, but were repulsed with heavy loss. A later dispatch says the Carlisle were within 500 yards of Iran. A London dispatch of the 26th says deputations from fifty-two chambers of commerce had waited upon Lord Derby to present objections to the proposed reciprocity treaty between the United States and Canada. A frightful mountain disaster is reported to have recently occurred at Mount St. Bernard. Eleven persons were buried in the snow, and all are supposed to have perished. Large reinforcements for Cuba sailed from Madrid on the 2Sth. London dispatches of the 29th say that Disraeli was very ill and unable to attend to business. On the 29th a storm of great violence prevailed oil the coast, aud many easualties had been re ported, with heavy loss of life. A circular letter from Archbishop Manning has been read in all the churches in his diocese, declaring that all persons who do not accept the dogma of papal infallibility eease to be Catholics- l Madrid telegrams of the 29th say the Republican army now numbers 200,000, fully armed. ' (f

IHXIKSTIC. While Mrs. Riley, of Trenton, X. J., teas lighting s fire with kerosene oil on the 21st, the can exploded, and herself and her infant child were burned to death. In a trotting match at on the 21st “ Fullerton" won -the three heats in 2:20#, 2:20# and 2:20# ’' “ The first Presbyterian Oiureh of Louisville, Ky., has formally withdrawn from the presbytcry of that city, that body having, at its recent session, severely reprimanded Dr. Wilson, pastor of such church, and called upon him to resign his pastoral charge. A communication having been received from the Cheyenne Agency, Dakota, to the effect that about sixty white men, miners, are working in the Sioux Reservation in the Black Hills, Secretary Delano has requested the War Department to remove any person who may be found trespassing, that trouble with the Indians may be'avoided.

Gov. Garland, of Arkansas, issued a proclamation on the 23d offering' fI.OOO for the apprehension of Bmith and SSOO for Wheeler. It is stated from Washington that it was definitely known there that Smith was in the Government Arsenal at Little Rock. The recent heavy winds which prevailed in many portions of the West and South did considerable damage in some localities. Onethird of the residences in Tuscvunbia, Ala., were destroyed by the gale on the evening of the 22d, and twelve persons were killed and many others injured. Half of the town of IContevallo, in the same State, is also reported destroyed, and tap, persons were killed and twenty wounded. Much damage was caused and several lives were lost in different sections of the East by Die recent wind-6torms. * An engine on the Hyde Park dummy road, near Chicago, jumped the track at Hyde Park on the 24th, and the engineer, Charles L. j Morris, was crushed to death under the en- ~ gine, which had turned over, and a newsboy j named Dfive Brown was fearfully and fatally scalded by escaping steam. The Board of Trade of Chicago has been recently engaged in investigating charge* of unsapaunercial tnoeactioo* against W. X.

Sturgcs, who got up the late corner ou corn. When about to vote on the question of expelling - Mr. Sturgis, on the 24th, an Injunction was served upon the Board; thus putting a stop to the proceedings. Reports were recently current that C. S. Qulsenlrary, Treaturgrof the Missouri State Grange, had become a defaulter to the amount of 120,000. The facts appear to be as-follows: At the recent meeting at Kansas City, Mr. Qulscnbury was called J upon for the whole sum In the Treasury. $20,000, It being wanted to invest in a manufactory. It then came out that (Juiscnbury had Invested the funds of the Grange in various ways, and that they could not be realised at once. He raised $4,000 cash and lias since given to the Executive Board of the Grange deeds of trust on two farms .said to be worth SIB,OOO, and executed a bond of persona! security which has been accepted by the Board, and has agreed to pay the whole amount by next July. It is not believed that the Grange will lose a dollar. / A slight shock of earthquake was fell at Newburyport, Mass., ou the 24th. Tbc direction of the vibration was from west to east. The New York Graphic of a recent date announces that the New York Central and Lake Shore Railroads had in contemplation the formation of a joint company witli a view to continuing the two extra tracks (abrnit cotnpleted between Albany and Buffalo) on to Chicago—the two additional tracks to lie exclusively for freight. It seems that the hoax published in the New York Herald a few weeks ago, giving a detailed account of the pretended escape from Central Park of a large number of animals and the killing and maiming by them of a large number of persons, has caused the death of one man —Henry A. Martin, of Plainfield, N.J.—who became so excited over the perusal of the horrible story that be was taken sick and subsequently died. Independence, Mo., lost $150,000 by tire on the night of the 25th. There was an insurance of only $5,000 on the property destroyed. Wesley Underwood, under sentence of death at Palmyra, Mo., for killing Richard Menifee in March, 1871, hanged himself in-jail on the night of the 24th. He was to have been executed on the 27th. • •* In the Indiana State Grange onthe 25th a resolution was adopted declaring “ that the State Grange, in council assembled, has no sympathy witli any past, present or future attempt that may be made by any political party or political aspirant to absorb a Tittle reflected warmth, decency or support by persistently calling and publishing their meetings at the same time and place of ours, aud that a decent respect for our Order requires that such attempts be suitably rebuked by publishing this resolution.’’ In the safe-burglary conspiracy ease at Washington, on the 27th, the jury reported that could not agree upon the guilt Or innocence of Whitely and Harrington, but found Williams not guilty. It is understood that on the first ballot the jury stood eight for acquittal and four for conviction in Harrington's case, and in Whiteiy’s case nine for aeqnittal and three for conviction. The United States Supreme Court has derided that the Indians. in tßcir tribal relations, have no property Tights in fee; also that the timbers and minerals on the reservations are a part of the realty, and cannot be sold or leased. Z The ’longshoremen on the docks in New York city were all on a strike on the 27tii. A terrible condition of affairs is reported as recently existing in the Scranton (Pa.) coal regions', a large number of men were unemployed and riots were almost of daily occurrence, and the few men engaged in the mines were compelled to go to and from their work armed with rifles. Murders were frequent and thefts and assaults were of hourly occurrence. The body of an infant reported to have been stolen from the bedside of its mother in Ereemansburg. Pa., on the night of the 20th has been found in the river at that place, aud Mrs. Goss, the mother,-lias been arrested, charged with having thrown the child into the water. At a recent meeting in Indianapolis,of the Western Bureau of Railway Commissioners it was decided to advance the rates ou all classes of freight from Western points five cents per hundred pounds. Nineteen citizens of Lafourche parish. La., have been arrested ou warrants issued by the United States Commissioners, charging them with the violation of the Enforcement act. AT its recent session the Indiana State Grange made an appropriation of SI,OOO for the relief of the Nebraska sufferers, and a committee was directed to mature a plan far raising additional funds by ealling on subordinate Granges for contributions. The Secretary reported *409 Granges in the State paying dues, with' 53,141 members. There is a balance of $14,800.57 in the treasury.

Jones, of Kentucky, Clerk of the State Court of Appeals, but declared ineligible because of his having accented a challenge to fight a duel, will take liis ease to the court of which he was elected Clerk. The ground of his suit is that the Returning Board had no authority to inquire into the evidence. In his report the. Postmaster-General states the postal revenues for the year ending June 30, 1874, at $24,590,568; expenditures, $32.126,414; estimated expeaditures for the year ending June 80, 1875, $30,964,034; total estimated reVemte, $29,148,156 —leaving a deficiency to be appropriated out of the general treasury of “$7,815,878. These estimates do not include appropriations for steamship service and stamps, amounting to $2,098,500. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell $500,000 of gold each Thursday during De- | comber. .1

It is said that at the* next trial of the Washington safe-burglary case Nettleskip will turn State’s evidence. __ In Hamilton County, N. Y., recently a carpenter named Elias Williams, engaged ie erecting a building', got into a qbarrel with an employe of his named George Smith, while both were drunk. In the course of the struggle Williams threw Smith over a wooden saw-horse and sawed off his head, severing it entirely from his body. Williams soon afterward cut his own throat., A woman in New York city, named Janesch, has been held to await the action of the Grand Jury on the charge of having deliberately placed her little child Carrie or a hot stove and holding her there until she was fatally burned.

| Several Italian miners engaged in a riot near Shoustown, Pa., on the 29th, attacking houses and driving women and children therefrom. They were repelled by a small body of c-itizens, and were’ subsequently attacked by a larger force, and after fighting for nearly an hour were compelled to yield, and the rioters promised to leave the place at once. Four of their number were killed and several severely wounded. Xeno of the citizens were injured.

pkhmnal. A brilliant party was giv«n at the White , House a few evenings ago in honor of Mrs. Fred. Grant, who made her debut in Washing- - (on society. Abopt 300 invited guests were present, and the bride met with a hearty reeeption. Wilbur F. Storey, editor of the Chicago Time*, has given bail in the sum.of $1,500 in the charge of libel preferred against him by N. K. Fairbank. At the recent wedding of the daughter of Wm. Sharon, a San Francisco banker, the fatbet presented the bride with $1,000,000 as a j wedding present ' Supervising-Architect A. B. Mullett has resigned, and his resignation has been accepted by Secretary Bristow. The resignation is said to have been caused by the fact that the contingent fund for expenses in the Treasury building are, by law, under the control of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department, instead of Mr. Mullett, who has been in the habit of controlling this expenditure heretofore, and his attention being called to.the provDions of the law bearing an Rie ease. An appeal*has been taken by Mr. Beecher’s attorneys from the order of the General Term denying the motion for a bill of particulars in the Tilton suit. A court-martial has been ordered by Gen. Ernory for the trial of Lieut. Hodgson, upon charges preferred by Gen.'Mmrow, who wasserit to investigate. Hodgson’s actions and conduct in North Louisiana. - Grange .of Patrons of Husbandry met in convention in Indianapolis on the 24tb. The following are the officers elected for the ensuing year: Henley James, Worthy Master, Marion; C. W. Davis, Lecturer, Kentland; Russell Johnson, Steward; F. C. Phillips, Assistant Steward; B. F. Ham, Chaplain; G. H. Brown, Treasurer, Rensselaer; M. M. Moody, Secretary, Muncie: Alplieus Tyner, State Purchasing Agent, Indianapolis. The General Grand Chapter of Masons of the United States met, at Nashville onthe 24th. The order is reported to be generally prosperous throughout the country. At the recent meeting of the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Nashville, Tenn., the-following-named officers were installed for the ensuing year: John Frizzell, of Tennessee, Deputy General Grand High Priest; R. F. Bower Low, of Louisiana,Grand King; John McClelland, of Massachusetts, Grand Treasurer; C. G. Fox, of New York, General Grand Secretary; Henry Bostwiek, General Grand Royal Arch Captain. The following gentlemen will have seats In Congress this winter by election to fill vacancies: Ohio— William E. Finck (IX;m.), elect*!, ev:e Hugh J. .Jewett (Dem.). resigned. Sew York — Simeon" B. Chittenden (Ind.j, rice Stewart L. Woodford (Rep.); resigned : Richard Schell i3>em.), rice David B. Mellish (Rep.), deceased. , South Carolina— Lewis Cass Carpenter (Rep.), rice Robert B. Elliott (Hep ), resigned. The New York Evening Poet says, authoritatively, that James Russell Lowell has-been offered, and has declined, the Russian mission. The King of the Sandwich Islands arrived at San Francisco Oji -the 28th, en jroute for Washington.

POLITICAL. It was reported from Little Rock on the 21st that tUte Republican State Central Committee of Arkansas had received several letters from the northern part of the State offering—fivecompanies of old Union soldiers to Gov. Smith. John G. Price, editor of the Republican paper at Little Rock, lias published a card denying the authorship of a telegram alleged to have heen sent by him to Senator Dorsey at Washington, and claiming that business throughout the State was almost entirely suspended, and that the White League militia was roaming at large in consequence of the disturbance in governmental affairf. He says he never sent any such dispatch to Senator Dorsey or anyone else. W. B. Wickham was sworn into office on the 23d as Mayor of New York city. 11. B. Strait, Republican, has been declared elected to Congress for the Second Minnesota District, his majority being 228 as determined by the State Board of Canvassers. The official vote for Secretary of State o Indiana has been declared, as follows: J. E. Neff, 182,154; W. W. Curry, 164,902; J. C. Stout, 16,233. The official vote in the “First and Second Louisiana Congressional Districts has been announced. The following are the majorities: First—Randall Gibson, Dem., 6,7i5; Second— - E. J. Ellis, Dem., 4,759.

Gov. Houston, of Alabama, was inaugur:\tedon the 24th. in his address he said: “ I will regard it as one of my highest and most sacred obligations to 6ee that the laws are faithfully executed and the rights of all citizens," without regard to race, color, or previous condition, duly guarded and protected. The citizens of Alabama truly desire peace and perfect restoration of fraternal relations between all sections of our common country. They are loyal to the Government of the United States, and will readily yield cheerful obedience to its authority and laws. They only ask to-be permitted, under the Constitution and laws of the country, to exercise, secure from unwarrantable interference, the right of governing themselves at home by just and wisely-ex-ereised laws for local self-government.” The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that colored children are not entitled to the public- school benefits of the Sftate, because the SUte Constitution provides that only, the ehirdren of “citizens” are entitled to those benefits, and that colored people-, not having been “citizens” when a the State Constitution was adopted, the Fourteenth Amendment of the National Constitution, subsequently adopted, does not supersede this provision of the State Constitution.

A convention or meeting composed of the leading men oft he Independent party of Indiana and a number of delegates from other .Btatis met at Indianapolis on the 25th. A declaration of principles was adopted—favoring a new political organization and advocating the withdrawal from circulation of all National and State bank-notes and the issuing of paper money by the Government directly to tie people, such money to be a legal tender foe public and private debts, including duties on imports. A National Executive Committee was appointed.

The majority against the new Constitution in Michigan at the recent election wasS9,7t>2; against woman's suffrage, 95,877. The official returns from the Dakota election for Delegate to Congress are as follows: Kidder (Rep.), 4,597; Armstrong (Dem.), 2,189. Kidder's majority, 2,408. The official count of the vote of> Missouri gives Hardin, Democrat, for Governor, 37,402 'majority. The vote on the Constitutional Convention, with to hear from, gives ,1,108 majority for a convention, ;