Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

RkMKIGN. Dvfaff the Hut soar months Moody and Sankey have held 285 meetings in England, which have been attended by 2,170,000 persons. The amount of money expended for building*, printing, etc., was £140,000. The evangelists declined to receive compensation for their sei vices. The cotton mills in Ashton, Stalybridge, Dunkenfleld and Moseley, England, on the 13th gave notice of a lock-out on the 24th, because the workmen in certain departments had refused bo refer disputes in regard to wages to arolttation. A Santander dispatch of the 13th announces the wreck of the Spanish steamer Bayonne on the Biscayan coast. Her crew were saved by Carlist fishermen and the Carlists had threatened to hold them as hostages, to be shot if the Royalists bombard any more coast towns. The Carlists were removing their artillery from Estell*. Moody and Sankey, the evangelists, leave England for the United States on the 4th of August London dispatches of the 15th say that heavy mtns had lately occurred la various parts of England and Wales. An immense dam in Cinderford Valleys Gloucestershire, had buret, flooding the forest of Dean. The river Ogmore, in Wales, had overflowed its banks, Inundating the town of Brigend, drowning several persons and much live stock. At Concarvan a reserve pond for supplving the Mownopthshire Canal had buret its banks, entirely destroying a factory and several dwellings, and drowning thirteen persons. Lambert Brothers <fc Scott, of London, failed on the 15th with $1,000,000 liabilities. It was reported in London on the 15th that an insurrection had broken out near Bhamo, in Burmah. A St- Petersburg letter to the London Standard says the Russian city of Morschansk had been recently destroyed. Over 900 lives were lost and more than 2,000 were seriously burned. It was thought that over 1,000 buildings had been destroyed. The property destroyed Was valued at 5,000,000 roubles. A London dispatch of the 16th says the amount of coin and bullion in the Bank of England was greater than ever before. A Madrid telegram of the 16th says the provinces of Valencia and Castellon were free from Carlist troops. The insurrection was confined to the mountains of Navarre and the Basque and Catalonian provinces. A Berlin dispatch of the 17th says the Government had ordered that declaration o f submission by the Catholic clergymen to the new laws should be kept strictly secret, to secure them from persecution by the Ultramontanes. Lady Franklin, widow of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer, died on the night of the 18th. Over 12,000 persons met in Hyde Park, London, on the night of the 18th to protest against the grant of £150,000 to the Prince of Wales for his Indian journey. A San Sebastian dispatch of the 18th announces that the Carlists had begun the bombardment of Puigcerda.

DOMESTIC. An extraordinary council of Cabinet officers was held in Washington on the 13th, at which the subject of our relations with Venezuela was considered. The latter Government by a convention signed in 1866 agreed to pay a certain amount as indemnity for injuries sustained by certain American citizens. A portion of the sum was paid, but a balance remains due, which our Government has sought in vain to obtain. The Venezuelan Government has at last expressed a disposition to pay up in full, but claims the privilege of designating the particular parties to whom the money shall be paid. This proposition will be rejected by our Government, and unless the matter is speedily adjusted the United States Minister to Venezuela will probably be withdrawn. The Postoffice Department estimates that the consumption of postal cards for the present fiscal year will be 125,000,000. The estimate is baaed on the consumption of last year and the demand, which exceeded the supply. About 750 Mormons, m route for Utah from Europe, arrived in New York on the 14th. Between-500 and 600 of them are adults, including la number of young women. They are under the charge of seven agents appointed by Brigham Young. The extraordinaryfeat of walking SOO miles in ninety-eight hours and fifteen minutes wa s recently accomplished at Schenectady, N. Y., by W. H. Craft. The last mile was made in nine minutes and/orty-eight seconds. Baltimore is excited over the tnarriage in that city of a scion of English nobility to a colored woman. The Baltimore papers set up the bridegroom as a direct descendant of the Plantageset family of England, and say that, a few years ago, when public indignation was at its height against the Prince of Wales, he would, had the indignation assumed a more tangible form, have been in the direct line for ascending to the British throne. By direction of the President the General of the Army has ordered that, until the result of the labor of the Commissioners to treat with the Indians is known, all parties of citizens who attempt to go to the Black Hills country, on the present Indian reservation, be prevented from going, and that those who are now there be forcibly expelled. Gen. Sheridan ha* instructed Gen. Crook to take the necessary steps to enforce these commands. The July returns to the Department of Agriculture, which are unusually full, show an improvement of the crop during June in all the cotton States except Texas. The National Division of the Sons of Temperance, at Providence, R. L, on the 15th, voted by States on the proposition to authorize colored divisions, and it was rejected. The Suffrage Committee in the Connecticut Legislature reported on the 15th in favor of allowing women to vote in Presidential election*. - ; ' The United States Grand Jury in St Louis on the 15th and 16th presented nearly thirty indictments to the United States District Court as persons connected with the so-called whisky ring. The first sample of new wheat was exhibited on ’Change hi New York city on the 15th. The Roman Catholic clergy of Lawrence, Maes., have issued a card condemning the riot whieh occurred in that city on the 12th, and expressing a hope that the ringleaders may be made to feel the enormity of their V 1 '

Prof. Donaldson, the aeronaut, who has been traveling in company with » Barnum's Hippodrome and making balloon ascensions after the conclusion the afternoon pertormances, made hi* second-trip from Chicago on the 15th, accompanied by Mr. Newton 8. Grlmwood, a reporter of the Chicago Jowwal. After ascending _)nto the air the balloon took a northeasterly course, sailing over the lake in the direction of Muskegon, Mich. About seven o’clock in the evening ft was sighted by a schooner about thirty miles northeast of Chicago, at which time the balloon was skimming the surface of the lake. The schooner followed after it until it was observed to rise suddenly into the air, when the chase was given dp. A very severe gale occurred on the lake about midnight, and, as no further tidings had been received in Chicago from the balloon or its occupants up to th<* morning of the 17th, grave apprehensions were felt for their safety. It was the opinion of experts that the balloon could not possibly have reached the Michigan shore before the storm burst upon it, and that the aeronauts perished in the lake. It is said by some that the balloon was a rotten, patched-up affair. 7 The Typographical Union of Washington has, by a vote of 146 to 46, decided not to comply with the demand of employing printers for a reduction of rites to employes on the 2d of August. ___ - A young married woman, wife of Henry Peden, of Indianapolis, Ind., used kerosene oil to kindle a fire, on the 17th, and was fatally burned.

rKRSONAL. The attachment suit against the property of W. 8. King, of Minnesota, brought by the Pacific Mail Company to secure the repayment of money alleged to have been improperly paid to him to induce the passage of what is known as the Pacific Mail Subsidy bill, was dissolved on the 13th by Judge Young, of Minneapolis. Two of the persons appointed by the. Japanese Government to represent its interests at the Centennial Exposition have arrived in Washington. The great annual University boat-race at Saratoga, N. Y. ( on the 14th was won by the Cornell University boys, Ithaca, N. Y., Columbia coming in second; Harvard, third; Dartmouth, fourth; Wesleyan, fifth; Yale, sixth. Thirteen colleges participated, Bowdoincomingin tenth. The distance was three miles; time of winners 16:53X minutes. This is the second victory this year for Cornell, their Freshmen crew having won in the race the day before. The Kings County (N. Y.) Grand Jury on the 15th presented indictments against Joseph Loeder and John J. Price, who are charged with having sworn falsely against the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton. A Beaver (Utah) dispatch of the 14th says John D. Lee had turned State’s evidence, and would be a witness for the prosecution, and make a full statement of all he knows of the Mountain Meadow massacre. It is said he •has taken this course because he believed he was sacrificed to appease the wrath of the Government and shield more guilty parties by perjury, if necessary. The trial had been set for the 19th.

Loeder, indicted for perjury in connection with the Tilton-Beecher case, was arraigned in the Brooklyn court on the 16th, aud pleaded “not guilty.” Price was not arraigned. One of Brigham Young’s wives died on the 17th. Her name was Emmeline. Information was received at Washington on the 18th that the St. Louis United States District Court Grand Jury had indicted Chief Clerk Avery, of the Treasury Department, for complicity with St. Louis distillers in whisky frauds. Geo. N. Jackson, the cashier of Collector of Internal Revenue Buckner, of the Louisville (Ky.) District, died recently from the effects of poiaon. Since his death he has been discovered to be in default in his cash accounts to the extent of about $75,000. No positive tidings from Messrs. Donaldson and Grlmwood, the missing aeronauts, had be?n received in Chicago up to the morning of the 19th. A vessel Captain reports having seen something floating 4n the water which had the appearance of being a life-preserver and a basket, and another Captain thinks he saw the body of a man in the lake off Grand Haven- The report that Donaldson's balloon was a rotten and poor affair is indignantly denied by the managers of the hippodrome with which Donaldson was connected.