Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN. The great shooting-match between the American and Irish teams occurred near Dublin, Ireland, on the 29th ult. The shooting at 900 yards range was won by the Irish team by a single-point out of 675. The shooting of the 1,000 yards range was won by the Americans by a score of 303 against 299., The entire match was won by the Amerlca#t\am by a score of 967 to 929. » The total damage by the recent floods in France was $24,000,000. Ferdinand, the ex-Emperor. of Austria, died at Prague on the 2SM.h. The successor of Baron Ben born, late Austrian Minister to the United States, was announced on the 30th ult. as Count Hoyosprinxenstein. Decosta, Raalte & Co., of London, failed on the Ist, with $1,200,000 liabilities. The liabilities of Kilburn, Kerhard & Co., whose failure was also announced, are $3,750,000. On the 2d Lady Franklin was reported as slowly improving, with a prospect of ultimate recovery. A report was received in London on the 2d announcing that the Alphonsist Gen. Loma had been worsted by the Carlists, and had lost 1,200 men. The Carlists had evacuated the province of Valencia. A Madrid dispatch of the 2d says that Gen. Jovellar, the Alphonsist leader, had de. seated the united bands of Dorregaray, Cucala and Vellelain, near Villa Franca.

DOMESTIC. The United States Treasury Department was reorganized on the 30th ult., under the Kellogg bilL The salaries of all bureau officers and chiefs and assistant chiefs of divisions have been increased, but the general force of the Treasury will by this bill be reduced to the extent of 884 employes, at a savi ing, it is claimed, of $500,000. Pemberton, who recently [killed Mrs. Bingham, in Boston, for the purpose of securing a small sum cf money, has been- tried, convicted and sentenced to be hung. At Lima, Ohio, on the 30th ult, Mrs. John Courtney attempted to build a fire with coal oil. The usual explosion followed and she was fatally burned. The Bureau of Statistics shows the imports into the United States for eleven months, ending May 81, to have been $490,444,228; and theexports $490,174,599. As compared with the same period last year this has been a falling off of imports of $56,104,289, and of exports of $167,680,031. The following is the statement of the public debt for June: Six per cent, bonds $1,100,865.M0 Five per cent, bonds 607,13’-,.50 Total coin b0nd551,707,998,800 Lawful money debt • 678.000 Matured debt 11385.8*> Legal-tender notes 3..>,M1.t>-. Certificates of deposit 58,415,000 Fractional currency 42,129,424 Coin certificates 21,796,300 Interest 38,647,556 Total debt 52,270,932,087 Cash in TreasuryCoin ...". $79,854,410 Currency- 3,973,951 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law .... ... 58,415,000 Total in Treasury $142.248.361 Debt lees cash in Trea5ury52,128,688,726 Decrease during June 1,431.949 Decrease since June 30, 1874,.. 14,399.514 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid.... 1,938.705 Interest paid by the United States.. 26,264,102 Interest repaid’by the transportation of mails, etc 6,134,311 Balance of interest paid by United States.” 20,129,791 The Inter-State Educational Convention began its session at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 30th ult, a large delegation of teachers being present from Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky and Illinois. A permanent association was formed, to meet next June in Memphis. Several dismissals have taken place since the Ist insL in the U nited States Treasury Department Treasurer New has issued an order forbidding the clerks in his department leaving their desks during office hours, on pain of dismissal. Albert Brown, a colored man, was hanged at Towanda, Pa., on the Ist for the horrible murder, in August last, of a little five-year-old girl named Cora Greenleaf. The village of Meridian, Jefferson County,. Neb., has been almost entirely destroyed by a tornado, and Alexandria, a small town in the, same county, was also badly damaged by the same storm.

PERSONAL. The commission to count the funds in the Treasurer’s office at Washington consists of Dr. John B. Blake, formerly President of the National Metropolitan Bank; Mr. S. E. Middleton, of the banking firm of Middleton & Co.; A. H. Liepold, of the Freedmen’s Bank Commission; Will H. Harvey, Special Agent of the Treasury, and Messrs. C. H. Brown, John Patton and T. C. Dickenson, chiefs of divisions in the Treasury Department They commenced the work on the night of the 30th ult A Washington dispatch of the 30th ult says Secretary Delano had not abandoned his desire to retire from the Cabinet, but the period at which this might take place was uncertain. Indianapolis (Ind.) dispatches of the Ist state that Robert Dale Owen had become deranged on the subject of Spiritualism, and that he had passed through that city in charge of his son on the way to his old home. The jury in the Tilton-Beecher case sent a note to Judge Neilson on the morning of the 2d to the effect that it was impossible for them to agree. They were subsequently called into court, and in the presence of the Court and counsel for both sides announced that they had not agreed upon a verdict, and expressed their regret that they had found it impossible to do so. The Judge then addressed them briefly, and in the course of his remarks said he would like to learn from them explicitly that the application to take further testimony had not in any way clouded their vision or occupied their thoughts, directly or indirectly. To this Foreman Carpenter responded that he tad questioned many of the jury on this point; and they had not had it in their thoughts at all. The Judge expressed his gratification at this, and then discharged the jury. Mrs. £eecher went to the railing and shook hands with each juryman as he passed

out. Tt is authoritatively announced tha they stood on the final ballet nine to three in favor of acquittal. One juror stated that at one time they stood eleven to one in favor of Mr. Bewcher; agal« nine to three, and still later seven to five; and another juror says at one time the jury stood divided six to six, It Is nttnored that the plaintiff’s counsel will move for a new trial.

POLITICAL. The lowa Republican State Convention met at Des Moines on the Soth ult., afid nominated: For Governor, ex-Gov. Bainuej J. Kirkwood; Lieutenant-Governor, J. G. Newbold; Supreme Judge, Austin Adams; State Superintendent, A. Abernethy. The'platform adopted favors the gradual resumption of specie payment and a tariff for revenue so adjusted as to encourage home industry; declares that Uie Republican party of lowa is opposed to a third term, and demands that all railway and other corporations shall be held in just subjection to the law-making power, etc. * • The California Democratic State Convention, held at San Francisco on the 30th ult., nominated William Irwin for Governor. Resolutions were adopted—condemnatory of the Republican party and Administration; in favor of a tariff for revenue only, and of a currency convertible' into gold and silver at the will of the holder; and declaring it the right and duty of the Legislature to regulate corporations, whether railway, gas, telegraph, water or otherwise, to limit tijeir charges in the interest of the public, and to compel them to serve all citizens without discrimination and at reasonable rates, etc. The California State Temperance and Reform Convention, recently in session in San Francisco, nominated a full State ticket, headed by W. E. Lovett for Governor. The Democratic nominee for LieutenantGovernor of California is James A. Johnson.