Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

rOBNGN. * A Barcelona dispatch of the 18th announces the capture of an important Carlist position at Montserrat, with a Government loss of ninety-three killed and wounded. The Carlist low was unknown. ' Twenty-one members of the Oommittec of Thirty in the French Assembly resigned on the 19th on account of the failure of a measure advocated by them. A San Sebastian dispatch of the 19th says the small-pox had broken out In the Carllst camps, and was raging violently. A dispatch from Hendaye, Spaing" on the 20th says the Carlisle, after two days’ heavy fighting, had occupied Usurbil and Ario, from which the Alphonsist troops had retreated with heavy losses. A Dublin dispatch of the 21st says Judge Keogh, before whom Moore’s election petition was heard, had decided that the late John Mitchel was disqualified from holding a seat in Parliament because he was a felon and an alien. A Rome dispatch of the 21st says the Italian Government had ordered the removal of all Bishops who have uot received the royal exequatur indorsing their appointments. The Belgian tribunal at Liege has dismissed the charges against Duchesne of plotting for the assassination wf Prince Bismarck. It was thought in Berlin on the 22d that the finding would not be regarded by Germany as a settlement of the matter. A religious procession passing through the streets of Brussels on the 2Sd was broken up by the populace.

— DOMESTIC. It was reported on the 18th that the Mexican banditti were again raiding on the Texas border in the vicinity of the Rio Grande, committing many depredations and outrages, and capturing cattle and driving them into Mexico. In Chicago, on the 19th, several criminal prosecutions against persons implicated in the whisky frauds were tried before United Btates Commissioner Hoyne. Two gaugers, named Rutisbauer and Watson, were held to bail in the sum of $5,000 each, and Messrs. Golson & Eastman, rectifiers, were each held in the sum of SIO,OOO. Osceola, Pa., was nearly destroyed by fire on the 30th, all the public buildings except the Catholic and Methodist Churches being burned, together with about 300 dwellings. Twelve hundred people are rendered homeless. A large quantity of lumber was destroyed. Loss estimated at $3,000,000; insurance light, A committee appointed by the Illinois Humane Society at its recent annual meeting to prepare an appeal for the organisation of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals have issued an address to the humane men and women of the Northwest, calling on them for concert of action in this direction. The committee state that the Illinois Humane Society (whose headquarters are at 275 East Madison street, Chicago, Albert W. Landon, Secretary) will be glad to forward to applicants such imblicatious as may aid in the formation of State or local societies, and it invites correspondence upon this important subject The centennial of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was celebrated at Charlotte, N. C., on the 30th. There was a large and enthusiastic gathering of people from that and adjoining States. The hoisting of the stars and stripes in Independence Square was greeted with enthusiastic cheers, and flags were displayed from all the principal buildings and other places in the city. Many distinguished gentlemen were present and delivered addresses. — Secretary Cowan and Commissioner Smith had a council with the Sioux Indian delegation in Washington on the 21st; but little was accomplished. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail had expressed a wish to change hotels, as they were stopping at a temperance lrouse, which did not suit them. The Commissioner refused to make the change. Postmaster-Gen. Jewell has ordered the reletting of the mail contracts in which frauds were discovered. Speaking of the grasshopper ravages the Chicago Tribune of the 23d says its “ reports from the sections in the Northwest so terribly desolated last year are generally of a more encouraging character than any which have been received heretofore. Nebraska is especially hopeful of escaping a renewal of the visitation; in Missouri, between prayer and Paris green, there is a feeling of encouragement; in Kansas the farmers have recovered from their alarm and feel reassured; and in Minnesota and lowa the prospects are not considered as gloomy as heretofore.” Thejnews from Osceola, Pa., on the 21st was to the effect that fires were still prevailing in the woods in that neighborhood. About 250 buildings in the town were consumed and SOO families rendered homeless. Relief was greatly needed. Houtxdale, a town of about 900 inhabitants, six miles from Gseeola, is reported entirely destroyed and the woods in that neighborhood on lire.

Seven of the Sioux Indians, including Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, left the hotel quarters assigned them by the Commissioners in .Washington, on the 23d, and went to the Washington House. This step on the part of the Indians is considered a bold one. It was thought in Washington on the 23d that Hie proposed negotiations with the Indian delegates would not be accomplished so easily as the Government bad anticipated. A Tyrone (Pa.) dispatch of the 23d says the destruction and desolation caused by the fire at Osceola and in the woods in that region were very much greater than previously reported. Nine-tenths of the town were burned, leaving scarce enough ashes to mark where the buildings had stood. A disease strongly resembling cerebro-spinal , meningitis has broken out among-., the horses in St. Louis, and proves fata] in’ many cases. PEBHONAL. Asa B. Matthews, Collector of Internal Revenue of the Ninth Illinois District, has been appointed United States Supervisor of Internal Revenue for the district embracing the States of Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, vine D. W. Munn, removed. r , The Sioux Indian delegation was received by President Grant on the I9th. The arguments of counsel in the TlltonBeecher suit were begun on the 19th, Judge Porter opening on behalf of the defense. He was very severe in his denunciations of Messrs. Tilton and Moulton, the former of whom was prekent during the entire day’s proceedings. Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the late President

Lincoln, has been adjudged insane by a jury in the Cook County Court at Chicago, and was, on th» 30th, rei novel! to a private insane asylum at Batavia, flj. The. Chicago Tribune says the long y ears of painful brooding over the dread Ail homicide of her husband bad gradually produced the' necessity for Mia action now taken. That paper also ar»ys; “Aa will be seen from the evidence, V.ra. Lincoln’* mind has been for ten years '„he prey to growing madness, and this fact, now made public, will cast a new light or, many of her past actions, which were harshly criticised hv those .who did not know her, and which, while understood by her personal friends, could not be explained i by them, since to have done have been to hava> exposed her mental condition, which it was then hoped might improve.*’ The funeral of Gen. John C. Breckinridge totk placqjat Lexington, Ky., on the 19tli, j and was attended by an immense throng of people. Hon. Jesse D. Bright, cx-Unlted States Senator from Indiana, died at his residence in Baltimore, Md.,on the 20th, of organic disease of the heart. He was sixty-three years old. Cardinal McCloskey. has been presented with a' $30,000 diamond cross by the young lady pupils of St. Vincent’s Institute, in New York city. The United States Centennial Commission met in Ph il adelpbia on the 21st, and elected the following officers: President, Gen. Joseph R. Hawley-, Connecticut: First" Vice-Presi-dent, Orestes Cleveland, New Jersey; Second Vice-President, Jcfrn D. Creigh, California; Third Vice-President, Robert Sowrv, Iowa; Fourth Vice-President, Thomas H. Caldwell, Tennessee; Fifth Vice-President, John MaXeil, Missouri; Sixth Vice-Pres-ident, YVilliain Gurney, South Carolina; John L. Campbell, Secretary; John L. Shoemaker, Counselor and Commissioner. Executive Committee— Daniel J. Morrell, Pennsylvania; Alfred T. Goshorn, Ohio; N.M. Beckwith, New'Tork; Alexander R. Boteler, West Virginia; Richard G. McCormick, Arizona; John Lynch; Louisiana; Charles P. Kimball, Maine;. Samuel F. Phillips, North Carolina; Frederick L. Matthews, Illinois; William Phipps Blake, Connecticut; James E. Dexter, District of Columbia; J. T. Bernard, Florida; George B. Loring, Massachusetts.

Dftniel O’Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, has accomplished the unprecedented feat, at the skating rink iu Chicago, of walking 500 miles in 153 hours, 2 minutes and 50 seconds, thus beating the time set for the walk by nearly three hours. In the course of this walk he accomplished 50 miles in nine consecutive hours, 300 miles in less than fifty hours, and made a mile in seven minutes and twenty-eight seconds, the shortest time on record. He now claiifls to be the champion pedestrian of the world. Supervisor of Internal Revenue McDonald, of St. Louis, was removed on the 23d and Ferdinand Myers appointed as his successor. POLITICAL. The Wisconsin Republican State Convention has been called to meet at Madison on Wednesday, July 7, for the nomination of candidates for State officers. An attempt to remove the public archives of West Virginia from Charleston, W. Va., to Wheeling, the new capital of the State, was thwarted on the 20th by the enforcement of the injunction issued by Judge Smith. Gov. Jacobs denied the authority of the court in the matter and protested against the interference, but decided not to remove the public property, holding the court responsible for its safe-keeping, the State officers deciding in the meantime to make their headquarters at Wheeling. A State Temperance Mass Convention of women met at St. Louis ou the 30th. Miss Ida Buckingham was chosen President. - The State Constitutional Convention, in session at Jefferson City, was requested to incorporate a clause iu the new Constitution giving the ballot to women. The New York Legislature adjourned sine die on the 23d.