Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1875 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

FHon WASHINGTON. Attt.-Gzn. Williams on the 22d tendered and the "President accepted his resignation, to take effect on the 15th of May. The President has emphatically denied the truth of the statement that h« bad requested the resignation of Secretary Delano. It Was thought in Washington on the 23d that the latter would soon resign, as he had intended doing so for some time, but had held on at the request of the President A dangerous counterfeit five-dollar note on the First National Bank of Paxton, 111., has been discovered in Washington. Further investigation into the mail-con-tract frauds has led to the discovery of other fraudulent bids. About six clerks had been discharged up to the 2Sd for complicity In these frauds, and it was understood that a dozen more were implicated. President Grant has assigned Dr. Lindernian, the Director of the Mint, to make the examination ordered by Congress as to what point in the Western States and Mississippi Valley possesses the best advantages for a mint. The investigation will b* made during Uie coming summer. A Washington telegram of the 24th announces that the Spanish Government had paid $45,000 of the SBO,OOO agreed upon on account of the Virginius affair.

THE EAST. Thk United States Centennial Board of Finance cautions the public against counterfeit medals in commemoration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. They have had prepared at th« United States mint, under special act of Congress, a series of medals with appropriate devices, emblems and inscriptions, and which are the only medals officially issued relating to the great events of 1876, the larger ones hiving stamped upon them, “Act of Congress, June, 1874,” and the others, “By authority of the Congress of the United Btates.” These official medals are of four kinds—small gilt at one dollar; large bronze at two dollars; coin silver at three dollars; large gilt at flvedollurs; or all inclosed in one case at eleven dollars. They are now being sold by the Centennial Board of Finance and its agents, and the profits arising therefrom arc strictly applied In aid Of the preparation for the celebration of the anniversary which the medals commemorate. The election for Sachem of the New York Tammany Society has resulted in the "triumph of John Kelley by a vote of 857 to 5 for Comptroller Andrew H. Green. Mr. Beecher’s cross-examination was concluded on the 21st. His explanations did not materially differ from those made by him in his direct testimony. After a brief redirect examination Mr. Beecher left the stand, and the defense called Samuel White Partridge, formerly cashier for the house of Woodrufi A Robinson, who' identified * check for $7,000 drawn by Mr. Bowen in June, 1872, and deposited with that Arm. He was shown a slip of paper, which he identified as one accompanying the check, and which reads as follows: “ Bpoils of new friends fqr the enrichment of the old.’"’ was made to the admission of the slip, and Mr. Evarts said he would prove that it was In Mr. Tilton’s handwriting. The Judge decided it might be read in evidence. Charles A. Dana, who was arrested upon an attachment issued by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, for libel, has been discharged by Judge Blatchford, of the United States District Court in New York John Harper, semormember of the firm of Harper Bros., publisher, died in New York on.the 22d, in the seventy-niuth year of his age.

Thb cross-examination of Mr. Cleveland was concluded on the 33d, and Mr. Moulton was called to the stand for further cross-ex- 1 animation. He denied that he had ever said j to Mr. Partridge (as the Utter testified in his evidence) that Mr. Tilton "had written the life j of Mrs. Woodhull t&p'ut himself at the head of the Spiritualists of the country, as there were ; more Spiritualists than Congregationalists; he had, however, told Mr. Partridge that the Spiritualists of the country outnumbered the Congregationalists. Mr. Partridge wa» recalled and reaffirmed his former statement on this point, saying in his cross-exami-nation that the conversation occurred shortly after the publication of the pamphlet, A tekriblb tragedy is reported from New Tork. James Laflferty, of Rockville, Allegany County, killed his grandmother and robbed her house; subsequently he shot Miss Van Nay, who had refused to marry him, her mother, and then killed himself. The New York Union League Club-House was partially destroyed by fire on the morning of the 35th. Daniel O’Lbart, the Chicago pedestrian, recently walked. 116 miles in twenty-threq, hours and eight minutes, in New-York city, beating the best time on record. Gold closed in New Ydrk on the 94th at The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 3 Chicago Spring Wheat, $1.21; No. 2 Milwaukee. $1.22 @1.23; No. 2 Northwestern, [email protected]; 8ar1ey,51.4501.50; Oats, Western Mixed.TC @7sc; Com, Western Mixed, 9>094c; Pdrlif New Mess, Dressed Hogs, 10010 Lard, 155£@15>£c. Flour, good to choice, •$5.3005-50; White Winter Extra, $5.6006.40. The cattle market was strong and active, ranging from 11c to ISJfc for common to extra. Sheep, clipped, brought 4J 4 '(d6)ac, sad unshorn There were no live hogs offered. At East Liberty, Pa., on the 24th, cattle brought: Best, $6.5007.50; good, $6,000 6.25; common, $4.5005.20. Hogs sold— Yorkers, [email protected]; Phiiadclphias, £9.000 $.25. Sheep brought $4.6007.50 according to quality.

THE WEST. Advices from Kansas City, Mo., state that four soldiers were corraled by Cheyenne Indians twenty miles south of Fort Wallace, Kan., on the 15th, and a bloody fight ensued in which ten Indians were killed. The soldiers finally escaped in the darkness. A general war is pronounced imminent Gov. Bbvkbidge, of Illinois, has signed the so-called “ Anti-Scalpers’ ” bill, and it goes Into effect July 1. The law provides that daemons dealing in tickets shall hare m certificate signed by the officers of all railroads whose tickets they sell, and that if any person shall sell tickets without such authority he shall be fined not exceeding 1500,

and Imprisoned not exceeding one year, either or both. It also requires railroad companies to redeem pro rota any unused portion of any ticket, and punishes by flna and Imprisonment failure to do so. Szcond-Adventists to the number of one hundred or more, under the lead of Elder Thurman, of Boston, who claimed to, be a prophet and had predicted the second com- ! ing of Christ on the night of the 19th, assemI bled in Chicago on the evening of that day to await the fulfillment of the prophecy. It is said many of them had disposed of all their worldly possessions by giving them away, so conti- • dent were they of the near approach of the reign of Christ on earth. Their prophets now claim that an error in their calculations had anticipated ths event by a period of forty-nine years. Th* Chicago Inter-Ocean of April 23 publishes reports from different sections of the i country, Indicating that the wheat crop in 1 Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri am’. Tcn- | ncssee will be less than an average, while in i Southern Illinois, Wisconsin ami Minnesota ' the yield promised to be large. The i cotton and tobacco plants in Tennes- ! see, South Carolina and Virginia had : been injured by frost, and in those'States, as i well as Ohio, Indiana and Missouri, the fruit j crop will be essentially a failure. The great j fruit regions of Southern Illinois and Western Michigan have also suffered, and the | yield of peaches, pears, apples and berries ' will bo small. Oats and clover have been ! damaged in some localities. A Topbka (Kan.) special of the 22d says : seventy-five of the Indians who escaped fi-awl | the Cheyenne Agency had returned, and more would follow. They were nearly starved I to death.

A Kansas City (Mo.) telegram of the 23d says.the grasshoppers were eating up everything in the localities In that vicinity visited by them in tlie latter part of last season. They are also reported to be making their appearance in large numbers in many parts of Minnesota and Kansas. Official returns from all the counties in Michigan except Schoolcraft, Houghton and Chippewa give Marston (Rep.) for Judge of the Supreme Court a majority of 25,428. A call has been Issued by the Michigan Prohibition Central Committee for a convention to meet at Lansing on the 11th of May. * At an election recently held In Chicago z majority of the votes polled were in favor of reorganizing government under the provisions of the General Incorporation act of 1872. Minority representation was defeated by a large majoif ty. The Citizens’ Association will contest tlie election on the ground of fraudulent voting. Nzak Monument, Kan., on the 23d, Lieut. Hindley, with a company of United States troops, attacked a band of Cheyenne Indians, and, after a running tight of two hours, dispersed them, killing twenty-seven and capturing over 100 ponies. Lieut. Papier and Private Treras fellin the engagement, being fatally wounded. Thirty-three Indians escaped, and it was feared that they would return and inflict vengeance on innoeent settlers. Arthur B. Barrett, the recently-elected Mayor of St. Louis, died on the 2tth, after u brief illness. In Chicago, on the 24th, spring wheat, No. 2, was weaker, closing at sl.ol}£@l.o2 cash. Cash corn closed at 73c for new No. 2 and 70Yc for rejected. Cash oats sold at 61)V@6151c; June options were sold at 61®£c. Rye brought [email protected]. Barley, No. 2, $1.24(2! 1.25. Cash mess pork closed at $21.90(222.00. Lard, [email protected]. Choice to extra graded steers brought $6.60 to s6.S7>*; prime to choice native stock, $5.50(« C<..50 ; Texans, [email protected]; scalawags, $2.75(2.2.7.5. Hogs brought $7.70(38.00 for good to choice, and for extra.

THE SOUTH. Thb majority report of the Louisiana House Committee on Elections, deciding four Conservatives entitled to seats occupied by four Republicans, was adopted on the 20th by a vote of sixty t<sthirty-two. Impeachment resolutions against StateAuditor Clinton for high crimes and misdemeanors in office were passed by the Louisiana House on the 21st by a vote of 73 to 21. A New Orleans dispatch of that date says the Republicans claimed that the action of the Democrats in unseating four Republicans and seating four Democrats in their places was a gross broach of the plighted faith of the Democratic, party, and Messrs. Wheeler and Frye, of the Congressional Committee, lsad expressed the opinion that the four unseated members were to retain their seats under the Wheeler compromise. . Tub Louisiana Senate on the 22d voted—--23 to 10—to take up the Clinton impeachment resolution, and after passing the same to a second reading resolved itself into a : court of impeachment for the trial of the Auditor on the charges preferred against him ; by the House. The House passed a joint ! resolution to extend the extra Session to i May 5. Thb steamer John Kyle, Vhile lying at her dock at New Orleans on the 2Sd, caught Arc : and was turned adrift She floated toward two ; other steamers, the Exporter and Bodman, which were also cut adrift to avoid the burning ; vessel, but they came together, and were all | consumed. Many persons had collected on the decks of the Exporter and Bodman to witness the conflagration, and of them fyom ’ twenty to one hundred perished. The Louisiana Legislature adjourned sine | die on the 24th. In the Senate the resolutkion suspending Auditor Clinton from office fUjr** postponed to 1876.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. A St.Petersbcro correspondent, in a letter j published in the London Daily AVw* on the ! morning of the 21st, says a plot had been discovered in Khiva for the massacre of all i the Russians in the Khanate. The Emir of ! Afghanistan had been accused of complicity j In the conspiracy. The Presidentof the French Geographical Society has handed Minister Washburne the gold medal presented by. the society to the , family of the lateCapL Hall, in commemo- : oration of his exploits as an Arctic explorer. Tex men are on trial-in the City of Mexieo charged with burying three men alive, leav- ; ing only their heads above ground, and then ; dispatching them with hatchets and knives after prolonged torture. i A motion by Dr. Kenealy in the British ; House of Commons, on the 28d, for the appointment of a royal commission to investigate the circumstances attending the Tichborne trial elicited an exciting debate, and was then rejected by a vote of 433 noes to one aye. The police authorities of Posen have notified all Ursuline Sisters in that district who are not natives of Germany that they must leave the country within two months.