Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN. Moody Aid Saukey, the Chicago e van gelUtc, have *heen forbidden to hold services «J Eton College, England. J. FL lUtadall & Sons, of London, and Marshall of Manchester, England, Tailed an the Sttt, arith aggregate liabilities <4 SL,400,000 Scrims riot* occurred to East tYtirsia on the fcldt, Instigated, it was said, "by the Ultranmtantjs. ft ‘fa reported that the Marquis of Lome and \he Princess Louise intend making a tout of the United States. Ca unt von Arnim has been foend guilty of al»t .-acting public documents drom the archlv es of the Paris Legation- and sentenced to nh»> i months’ imprisonment. 1 ntelligence from Fiance, dated midnight, J* oe 35, represents that th<* k,ss of life by the do od in the Garonne had been appalling. O' per 900 houses had fallen in Tonlouse, and ft was Teported that over 1,000 lives had been I os‘t In the St. Cyprian quarter 218 corpses •a* d already been recovered. More than 20,00 0 persons in Toulouse alone were deprived of. the means of subsistence. At Tremoull--1« st five bowses only remained standing out of 4 (XL In the district of Foix two villages had 1 seen < snftrely -submerged and many dead bodies, bad been ' found. The crops of all kinds throughout the Inundated districts "were altogether destroyed. A totter received in New York on the 25th giv es on aecountof the great earthquake at Cii •cartOySoutti America, on the 18th of May, Tl >e first shock leveled every wall in the city, bv awing in a single instant 8,000 people out of a poputofeou of 10,000. Beveral who were n< Pt killed vubsejuently died of their injuries, a ad many were murdered by robbers, who I tendered in bands. Reports from San < Joyetono, Santiago, Grarulata, Arhaleda, ' OtieUtelh. and San Cristabel, all aggregating ajpopuktton of 30,000, confirm the previous account of the destruction of life and properly in rthose places Garcia, the Spaniard who stole a portion of Murillo’s famous picture from the Seville Cathedral, and who was kidnaped ia Out a ;and subsequently sent to Spain, is reported 'tat have been «hot at Madrid without trial. ’Theimportant Carlist fortress of Mis*vet,■on ’the river Ebra, is officially reported to have •arrandered. A'iJerlin dispatch of the 25th says Count "von Arateft would appeal from the late deoisiionof the Kammergerichtin his case. The total damage by the late inundation of 'the Garonne region was estimated on the 38th at ft >out £lft,“000,000. The lowest estimate of 'deaths in the flooded districts was 2,000. "Fearful inundations have recently occurred in -ilohamia, Moravia, Corinthia, Tyrol mad ■ Herat, with considerable loss of life and immease destruction of property.

DOMESTIC, •Tie Treasury Department at Washington haa received information of the circulation in th£W«stof a new and dangerous counterfiit of.fffhr-ceat scrip of the series of 187 S. The ite* rs il outline is well calculated to deceive. T%e n-amber and letter are slightly wider end heat it «■ than on the genuine one, while in the lo wer left-hand corner the figures 1601 look e lore Bice 180 with a short, perpendicular das h. The Board of Education of Rochester, N. i-. hcs, by a vote of twelve to four, ordered the disr •oniin iance of religious exercises in the pub lie sofcools of that city. A W ilkwfcarre (Pa.) telegram of the ‘■2d says a final settlement of the coal-mint g troubles had been reached, aud all the collieries in that region would start on the 3SdThe ! res idetrt of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Co mpany had announced that the Miners' l inion should no longer dictate who should be employed or discharged, and that men SGiou Id not be forced to join the union in order to e nter the mines. A dispat eh was received at the Indian 1 Bureau in Wi whington, on the 3Sd, from Prof. -Jenney, of the Black Hills expedition, dated near Harne y’s Teak, June 17. He says: I ihave d:seov ered gold in small quantities, oc "the north b» lade Castle Creek in terraces cr bars of quart* gravel. I arrived here yester•day. About fifteen miners have located c camp on the orcek above here and hare ■comma.ced working. Gold is found from Castle Crock southwardly to French ‘Creek, .at this point, and the deposits are almost » wholly in Dakota. The region has not been fully explored, but the wield of g"old thusN.ar has been quite small, •sad replete of the richness of the gravel bars are greatv exaggerated. On French Creek the deposits of gravel are very unfavorably sits ate d. The water supply is small and failing and the grade is too little to admit of tailings bd-ng carried off by the stream. The prospect at present is not such as to warrant extended ex ploration* in mining." In accordance with, a decision rendered by Judge B.’odfett that th? alleged illicit distillers must surrender tUeir books to the Government officials, the United States Marshal on the 3Sd took possession cf all books belonging to the establishments ateently seized in Chicago.

A new and dangerous /ounterfeit five-dol-lar note on the First Naftonal Bank of Can•ton, IIL, is reported from Washington. It is a'knilarw) the counterfeit fives on theTraders’ XationA ?ink of Chicago and the First .National Bapk of Paxton, IF. The report of tie commit ion to examine it it* the ftondition of the Oaicago CustomHouse was made fiublic in Washington on th. ? 34th, and is to the effect that the foundation are unsafe aud the stone of a poor quality. Secretary Bristow indorses the report* and has decided to stop work on the building until the meeting of Congress. The severe wind and rain storm on the night of the £3d destroyed fifty houses and three miles of sidewalk and fences in Decorah, lowa. Much damage was done in -ether Western towns There were three executions for murder in TStw England on the 25th. At Dedham, Mass, James H. Costley was hanged for the murder of Julia Hawkes, and at Thomas ton. Me., Bosis H agner and -John True Gordon swung from the same scaffold— the former for the nrader of two Norwegian women tor the purpose «f robbery and the latter for the murder' of bis brother, his brother’s wife and infant child. Gordon was insensible when hur.g, haring in the morning stabbed himself in the hcNet for the purpose of pommittjng AUteide. , . Three rtofgar factories were seizajia Cin-

on the, ss lh for UHclt distillation of. wtfisky. .. _ t The Chicago. Trilmne of the 30th publishes m. dispatch fr-om Omaha, signed i>y United State* Senators Hitchcock and Paddock,, which aaya the reports of grasshopper rav. ***• in N ehraska published In the Chicago T'AP* l * d e re greatly exaggerated. The grass. h°PP*f r j had done but little ft.uriage, and only In ir olated cases. The crops pmnised «l*t’adldly. k . A dispatch has been ipoetoed at tin Indian T;ureau In Washington ‘tram India*:.lnspector Daniels, dated June 34, in which it is stated that the Red Clerjd and Spotted Tail Indians had signed an agreement to relinquish their rights in Nebraska (or the sura O.' 125,000 in horses, cows, wagons, etc. A tornado passed over the northwestern part of Detroit city on the •evening of the 27th. Its path was about 500 feet wide, and thirty houses, besides outbuildings, etc., were deetroyed. ftfour persons were-killed and many others? njured, some seriously.

rERNOKftL. Wm. M. (“Boos”) Tweed vaas in New York city on the 23d and madv his appearance in the Cburt of ‘ Oyer and Terminer, and was held to bail in the sum e!f SB,OOO to answer an indlciment found against him in 1873, and of s|‘,ooo on the Grand Jury indictuient of Mav last. He was subsequently taken in custody on 1 the civil suit and conveyed to Lud-low-Street Jail, to remain until bail in the sirm of $8,000,000 shSald be furnished. Mr. Beach concluded his argument for the plaintiff in the Titton-Beeeher trial on the 38d, after which Y r. Tilton’s counsel presented to the court affidavits concerning additional evidence Which they desired adtnTWed, and a sked lor a reopening of the ease to that end. The f’udge took the matter uniter advisement.

After the opening of hie court on the morning of the 34th -Judge Neilson announced ‘That, under the circumstances, lie was compelled, on an examination of the affidavits, to deny the application for reopening the TiltonBceeher case, and, in accordance with Mr, Beach’s request, the papers were filed with the Clerk of the court. The Judge then .proceeded to dediver his charge to the jury, ■which was concluded a little afternoon, and At one o’clock the jury retired for deliberation. Prof. Donaldson and three members of the press made a balloon ascension from Toronto on the 2Sd and were picked up the next day by a vefttvl five miles off Point Peter, on Lake Ontariqf ’They reported having suffered great hardships, being in the water four hours, clinging to the basket of the balloon, which was dragged through the w ater at a fearful speed. Mortimer'Yhompson, better known as Q. K. Philander Doestieks, P. 8., died in New York city oe the 25th, after a short illness. At Plymouth Church prayer-meeting, on the evening of the 25th, Mr. Beecher referred to the scandal trial and said lie should continue to act as pastor of Plymouth Church because he folt that, no matter what the verdict of the jury might be, his congregation woulchstill have faith in and stand by him. The jury had not agreed on a verdict up to the morning of the 26tli. Judge O. S. McFadden, Delegate to Congress from Washington Territory, died at Olympia on the 25tli. Mrs. Tilton has published an affidavit in which she denies all the statements made relative to herself in the affidavits of the al. leged new witnesses upon whose evidence a reopening of the Beecher ease was asked for by Mr. Tilton’s counsel. She also solemnly de - Clares that she is absolutely innocent of all the offenses changed against her with relation to Mr. Beecher, except that under the influence of her husband she had made charges against Mr. Beecher which were false and entirely unfounded, ard which her husband knew to be false.

iPOLITICAL. The Maine (Democratic State Convention met at Augusta on the 22d and nominated Gen.. Charles W. Roberts for Governor. The platform declares in favor of one term for the President, with a yearly salary of $25,000. The New Hampshire Legislature on the 23d elected Benjamin F. Prescott Secretary of State, and alao chose the Republican nominees for State Treasurer, Printer and Commissary General. The New Y<ank State Prohibitionists have nominated: For of State, G. D. Dusenbery; Comptroller, Anson A. Hopkins; Treasurer, Stepher B. Ayers; State Engineer and Surveyor, Gemge A. Dudley; Canal Commissioner, Ira D. Sell; State Prison Inspector, John B. Gibb; Attorney-General, Ed. T. Marsh. Strong prohibition resolutions were adopted by the convention, which was held at Syracuse ou the 23d. i The California Independent State Convention, held at Sacramento on the 23d, adopted a lengthy platform, .a large portion of wliieh is devoted to the trac spoliation' question. A full State ticket was nominated, headed by Gen. Bidwell for Governor and the present acting Governor (Pacheco) for LieutenantGovernor. The lowa Opposition State Convention met tt Des Montes on the 24th and nominated Kon. Shephard Leffler bar Governor; Capt E. P. Woodward for Lieutenant-Governor; W. J. Bnight for Judge of the Supreme Court; A. R. Wright for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The platform adopted declares against a third term and favors a reduction of the President's salary aad the resumption of spevie payment as soon as the tame ean be done without injury to the business interests of the country, and in the meantime favors a sufficient supply of national currency for business purposes, and opposes the present National Banking law. A moti. n that the party organization be knowu as Democratic was laid on the table. In tbeNew Hampshire House of Representatives on the 25th a final vote was taken on the resolutions censoring the Governor and the Council in the Senatorial matter, and they were adopted by a party vote of. IF 4 ayes I to 166 cots.

Tms, wiith his autograph, was Dr. Oliver W ecdell Holmes' xontributieu to a bazar and fancy fair at Manchester, England, for the benefit of a sick Gbik dren's hospital:*' Hugged in the clinging billows' grasp. From sea-wp>ed fringe (p mountain heather The British oak with rooted grasp Her slender handful holds togetherWith cliffs of white and bowers of tveen „ And ocean nawowing to caress her ’ And hills and threaded streams between— Our little Mother-isle. God bless her! r*— —lt isa good suggestion ofa correspondent of the Hunday-Stkool Timet that everv teacher shall note in a pass T book each bunclay the points made in the day’s lesson in his class, so that when the ‘time of quarterly review comes the teacher shall be able to recall' not only the ground passed over, but the observations mad* in passing.