Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

POREICN. The North German Gasette, Prince Bismarck's organ, says in its issue of the 12th that the relations of Germany and France have at no time since the war been more friendly and satisfactory than at present. The Catholic Bishops of Prussia have decided to dissolve the religious orders which the State tolerates rather than see them subject to Governmental supervision. An Old Catholic school in Silesia was mobbed on the 12th by “a crowd of women. 7 ’ Part of the island of Saghalicn has been ceded by Japan to Russia. The steamer Faraday has found the United States direct cable and will lay the same with all possible dispatch. Divers examined the wreck of the Schlllar on the 14th. They found her broken up—a confused mass of iron and timbers. None of the specie was recovered and no cargo was visible. A Santander dispatch of the 14th says the Carlists had shelled Guetaria and inflicted great damage. The fire was returned from the fort and from five mcn-of-war in the harbor. Hal f of the city of Peshawur, Afghanistan has been destroyed by fire. The trial of Count von Amim, on appeal has been fixed for July 1. Berlin dispatches of the 16th announce the release of the priests lately imprisoned at Posen. The alleged principal in the late conspiracy against the life of Prince Bismarck, one Danin, had been arrested at Cracow. The Roman journal La Voce Della Verita has been suspended for publishing the Pope’s address to the German pilgrims. DOMESTIC. The Philadelphia Press of the 11th says that owing to the severe frost and late spring much of the expected wheat crop in Pennsylvania had been killed and the season delayed eight or ten weeks, and it was probable that not over half a crop will be gathered, and even that amount depends upon the continuance of dry weather. On the evening of the 10th William Embry, editor of the. Leavenworth (Kan.) Appeal, shot and mortally wounded Col, D. R. Anthony, editor of the Leavenworth Times. The shooting was the result of a quarrel of several weeks’ duration, which is said to have originated in some strictures made by Anthony in his paper upon certain actions of the Leavenworth Typographical Union, which -Embry hotly repelled in the Appeal, following it up by damaging accusations against Anthony’s official conduct as Postmaster at Leavenworth.

The Southern Memorial Association lias adopted a resolution that “all the soldiers of the Federal and Confederate armies be cordially invited to join the Memorial Associa tion in decorating graves at Arlington on the Ist of June.” The Secretary of the Treasury at Washing, ten was informed cm the 12th of additional seizures of distilleries. A Washington telegram 6ays a searching investigation will be made into the conduct of the Supervisors and other prominent internal revenue officials, and all against whom charges have been or maybe preferred, with a view to secure the prompt punishment of the guilty parties engaged in the whisky frauds. A farmer named Geo. N. Kirkman, living near Nevada, lowa, was hanged by a mob on the night of the Bth. This outrage is supposed to have grown out of a family feud whidY had existed for some time, the old gentleman having had two of his sous-in-law and several other parties put under bonds on a charge of a former attempt on his life. The Toledo Blade of the 18th publishes an elaborate crop report from statements by competent parties at 150 points in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and lowa. These statements indicate that there has been from one-quarter to one-third of the wheat crop winter-killed, but that this has been nearly offset by the increased number of acres sowed and the quantity of spring wheat put in.About one-quarter of last year's crops still remain in the farmers’ hands. The amount of corn being put in this year greatly exceeds that of last year. The Postmaster-General has issued an order forbiding payment by the Postmaster at Cincinnati of postal money orders drawn to the order of L. D. Sine, who is engaged in conducting a gift enterprise. AH registered letters addressed to him .are to be returned to the offices from whence mailed. A Philadelphia special of the 14th says the miners in sonfe sections of the State were beginning work under protest An outbreak had occurred among the miners in Fayette County, and fifty of the ringleaders were arrested and put in jail. Four convicts at Sing Sing jumped on an engine which was passing through the afeh at the prison on the 14th, and presenting revolvers at the engineer and fireman compelled them to get off, and then cut the engine loose from the train and ran it off, making thenescape. They crippled the engine before abandoning it, A Kansas City (Mo.) special of the 14th says the feud between the James boys and the Youngers had been settled, and they were again operating together, having recently purchased some of the fleetest horses in the State with a view of committing further robberies. They have been joined by two other desperadoes.

Dispatches of (he 14th state that in Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri a grasshopper panic already prevailed. The pests had started on their line of march in a northwesterly direction, and were destroying everything green in their way. ' While the steamer Senator, plying between Portland and Oregrgp City, was being loaded at the former jftwpa few days ago, her boiler exploded, rendering the vessel a complete wreck and killing the Captain and several of the mew. The engineer has been placed under bonds to answer to the charge of manslaughter. The Postmaster-General, under authority of an act of Congress, has ordered that the rate of United States postage on letters sent to or received from foreign countries with which different rates have not heed estabpostal convention or other arrangement, (when forwarded by Ttssels regularly employed in trawporting the mail, be reduced from ten to five cents tor each half ounce or fraction thereof, to take effect July 1, 1873. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a can for $5,000,000 coupon bonds, upon which fire interest will cease on and after Aug. 15

Whisky seizures were made in Boston and Brooklyn by Government officers on the 16th. The citizens of Council Bluffs, lowa, joined in a public demonstration and a torch light procession on the night of the 15th to rejoice over the recent decision of the United States Circuit Court at Dcs Moines declaring the former city to be the eastern terminus of the U. P. R. R. PERSONAL. Mrs. Kate McDonald, long a servant in Mr. Tilton's employ, testified on the lltli in rebuttal of some of the evidence given by Bessie Turner relating to affairs in Mr. Tilton’s household. Bhe was followed by Mr. Tilton himself, who, in detail, denied much of the testimony given by several of the witnesses for the defense, including the defendant, Messrs. Johnson, Wilkeson, Tracy, Miss Bessie Turner, etc. He was not cross-exam-ined. The American Social Science Association met in Detroit on the 11th. An address was delivered by D. A. Wells on the “ Relations of Capital and Labor." The ninth annual reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic, recently held in Chicago, was largely attended by veteran soldiers and distinguished officers from ail parts of the country. « •• A Washington Associated Press dispatch of the 12th says nothing was known at the Executive Mansion of the reported probable resignation of Secretary Fish at the end of the present fiscal year, :

Mrs. Woodlnill was present in the Brooklyn City Court on the 12th at the instigation of the defense, who wished the Judge to instruct her to deliver up certain letters of Mr. Tilton. To this Mr. Fullerton objected unless she was put. oil the stand by the defense. Judge Neilson refused to order Mrs. W. to produce the papers, saying she might do so if she saw fit. After being allowed a brief explanation in which she claimed that the letters in her possession contained nothing discreditable to her or to the party writing them, she delivered up the documents, which were examined by the counsel but were not used before the jury. Mr. Moulton was then recalled by the prosecution and contradicted much of the testimony of Mr. Beecher. He was not cross-examined. Stephen Pearl Andrews was recalled to identify a signature of Col. Blood, and then.the prosecution announced that their side rested the case. Mr. Freeland was recalled in sur-re-buttal and contradicted Mr. Bowen’s testimony relative to the alleged interview between Messrs. Beecher and Bowen at his house.' Mrs. Ovington was also recalled by tie defense and contradicted the testimony of Mr. Albert B, Martin and Mr. Tilton relative to Mr. Tracy’s interview with Miss Turner at the witness’ house on the 2Stb of July, 1874. The National Temperance Convention met at Pittsburgh on the 13th, with a large attendance of enthusiastic Workers. The evidence in the Beecher trial was closed on the 13th. -The testimony of Henry C. Bowen was contradicted by Messrs. Eggleston, Claflin and Storrs, and a portion of it confirmed by his son, John E. Bowen. A few other witnesses for both sides were examined, and the counsel announced the close of the testimony. The court adjourned to the 19th. At its recent meeting in Chicago the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic elected Gov. John F. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, Cbmmander-iu-Ghief for the ensuing year; J. S. Reynolds, of Chicago, Senior, and C. J. Buekbee, of Connecticut, Junior Yice-Commanders-in-Chief; John IV. Foye, of Massachusetts, Surgeon-General.

The great May musical festival in Cincinnati this year was a magnificent success. It closed on the 14th.' , Judge Pierrepont, the new Attorney-Gen-eral, took charge of his office iu Washington on the 15th and was called upon by the heads of bureaus and others. Maj. H. W. Bingham, Indian Agent at Cheyenne, arrived in Washington on the 15th with Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and seven other Sioux Indian chiefs and an interpreter. The Audrews-Wharton Black Hills party captured by the military on White River and taken to Fort Randall on the 13th, have, with the exception of two of them who refqsed to sign the parole, been, by order of Gen. Sheridan, released on parole, and their arms, horses, wagons and outfits restored to them. The Governor’s Guards, a military company of Springfield, 111., won the prize banner at the competitive drill on the occasion of the late soldiers’ reunion in Chicago.

POLITICAL. A delegate State convention has been called in lowa of Democrats, Liberals, 'AntiMonopolists and all who are opposed to the Republican party, to meet at Des Moines, June 24, to nominate a State ticket. The call is signed by the Chairmen of the different opposition organizations in the State. The following ticket has been nominated by the Republicans of Kentucky: For Governor, Gen. John M., Harlan, of Louisville; Lieutenant-Governor, Robert Boyd; AttorneyGeneral, Hon. Cassius Goodloe; Register of Laud Office, Reuben Patrick ; Auditor, Dr. Wm. Berry; Treasurer, P. B. Ratclifle. The New York Assembly has unanimously passed resolutions calling upon the Government to recognize the belligerent rights of Cuba. A Little Rook (Ark.) telegram of the 14th says final arrangements had been made by the Confederate and Federal soldiers for a joint decoration on the 29th of May. The colored people are included in the arrangements. * Col, J t . H. Britton (Dem.) has been elected Mayor of St. Louis, vice Arthur B. Barrett, deceased. The vote was: Britton 15,611, Henry.Overstolz (lud.) 14,994. Cannons were tired at Little Rock, Ark., on the loth in honor of the proclamation of President Grant one year ago recognizing Baxter as Governor.

—A process for producing a green bronze on iron, devised by Paul Weiskopf, is given by Dingier's 'journal aS follows: One part oi sylvate of silver is dissolved in twenty parts of oil of lavender, forming a Sort of varnish, which imparts a beautiful and permanent green bronze appearance to cast and wrought iron, sheet iron and wire- The surface to be bronzed is cleansed and dried, but need not be polished. The varnish is thinly applied with a camel’s-hair brush, and the object heated quickly to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The proper temperature is indicated when the article shows a bright green color which is even all over it. To produce a bronze drawing Venetian turpentine or colophonium solution is substituted for part of the lavender oiL It is better to rub up the dry sylvate of silver with resin in a mortar or on a palette, and then add enough lavender oil to make it as thin as ordinary paint. Articles of iron bronzed in this way can afterward be electroplated.