Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1875 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOHEIGN. . A London telegram of the 27th smys large number* of cotton mills and other factories "were closing or bad dosed up because, in some instances, the operatives refuse to comply with a demand fp[| redaction of wages and, in other instances, the refusal of employers to Increase the wages. Thousands of working people are thus thrown out of employment. The British House of Commons on the 27th, after a long debate, agreed—l7B to 19—to gtvs the Government bills precedence over Plirasoll'a Shipping bill. Particulars have been received in New York of a terrific storm of bail and lightning* which visited Geneva, Switzerland, on the 7th of July. The storm only lasted about ten minutes, but the hail-stones were so large and fell In such a compact mass that great 'damage was done to roofs, windows, etc. Nearly every gas-lamp in the streets was smashed to atoms and the lights extinguished. Three persons were killed by the falling of a house. The report telegraphed from New York on the'27th that the Union Bank, of London, had Tailed in consequence of the suspension of Duncan, Bherman At Co. proved to be a mistake. London and Liverpool dispatches of theUSth say the failure of Duncan, Sherman & Co. had produced no appreciable effects on the general markets in those cities. A Paris telegram states that news of the failure had spread consternation among the Americans hi that city. Thirty-one cotton mills in Dundee, Scotland, had been closed up to the 28th, and over 12,000 operators had been thrown out of employment. A Glasgow dispatch of the 28th announces the burning of Grant's cotton mills, involving the lose of over £SOO,(XX). Several employes were severely burned and 800 were with great difficulty saved. In the House of Commons on the 22th Mr. Plimsoll read an apology for his recent violent speech, and was discharged from censure. Thfe banquet given by the Mayor of London to the Mayors and Prefects of other cities occurred on the night of the 29th. Six hundred and fifty persons participated. The United States was unrepresented. Over 2,200 workmen employed on the StGothard tunnel struck for higher wages on the 29th. The Swiss Government sent a body of troops, who dispersed the rioters, killing two and wounding several. The Carlist town of Seo de Ur gel has been taken by assault, but the citadel held out up to the morning of the 28th. The British Channel Tunnel bill passed the House of Lords on the afternoon of the 80th uH

A Constantinople dispatch of the 30th ult. Announces the dismissal of the Grand Vizier in disgrace. * The report to the London Board of Trade by a coart of inquiry into the circumstances attending the loss of the steamer Vicksburg on the morning of the 81st ult It cefc~ r officers of the lost ste&m6hiP I boys Th| They weaving-factory in Belfast, Irelatni intKjursed on the 81st ult, involving thetegks of $750,000. The K*a*t Herald of the 30th ult says the Government had authorised the circulation of the Bible in Turkey. A Btj Petersburg dispatch of the 81st ult. announces the destruction of two-thirds of the Russlfo team of Briansk by fire. An immense meeting in favor of amnesty for Fenian convicts was held in Hyde Park, London, 94 the Ist It was estimated that 100,000 ntvfado tvere assembled. < If she £3 Inter.’ DOMESTIC, [ A Centennial Board of Finance announce tfeiven addition to the collections and subsl “ already made, $1,000,000 will be r*“(fM for building purposes alone in the months of this year, and make a appeal for aid to the citlsens of Philadelphia and the country at large. . A mixed train of twenty-two cars on the Northern Pacific Railroad went through a bridge across the Mississippi River at Brainard on the 27th, killing five persons and wounding several others. The Bectetary of the Treasury has issued a call for the redemption of $14,897,300 of 5-80 bonds of 1868, of which $14,830,550 are coupon bonds and $66,650 registered bonds Those include ail the bonds issued under the aptof Feb. 85, 1868, 001 heretofore called in for redemption. A -slight shook of earthquake was felt in Connecticut on the morning of the 28th. Dispatches of the 28th from Fort Barrancas, FUu, state that the yellow-fever was prevailing there to an alarming extent. The total National Bank circulation out. standing July 28 was $350,152,538. Testimony for the defense in the Mountain Meadows massacre trial was begun on the 29th. The theory of the defense is that the Indians were the perpetrators of the outrage, having been provoked thereto by the emigrants themselves, who had enraged them; that Lee held no military or church office, and that he tried to protect the emigrants, and ijtept when the massacre was proposed. A dispatch was received in Washington on the 37th from Prof. Jenney, in the Black Hills, dated July 17, stating that he had discovered gold ia paying quantities in gravel bars on both Spring and Rapid Creeks, from twenty to thirty miles northeast of Harney’s Peak. The deposits were the richest yet found in the hills and are very favorably situated. The Chicago Timet of J ulj 29 says: “We have advices from the States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky as to the condition of the winter wheat crop that are not aa encouraging aa those previously received. A week ago there vase a good prospect of at least two-thirds or a crop. Recent rains, however, have seriously impaired the grain. That portion of it harvested has been wet, and is, in many localities, rotting lit the shock. Those farmers who were fortunate enough to grain stacked will gqffer.hut little. There is, however,littie b'6pe nrfw for even half a crop of winter wheat Unless jthe weather should improve there is likely to be oonsidarable loss in the spring wheat crop from the same cause.” - The Secretary of the Treasury bas.direeted the retirement of sfo) 16,472 ia legal.tenders, that amount being 8 per cent of the additional National Bank notes issued during the month of June. Until farther orders the outstanding legal tender? will be $374,775,108. A Washington special of the 29th ult. an-

nounce* that the negotiations for the lightBsaa mail train from New York to Sad been completed and were apthe Pgafcnuter-GenerftL The first leave New York on thd Ist of Ocbe time to Buffalo Is fined at eleven eveland, fifteen; Toledo, eighteen, and Chicago, twenty -six. It will carry neither passenger* nor express matter, but will be cenfined exclusively to the mail business, carrying letters, newspapers and newsdealers’ packages. The train will be called “ The New York Central and Lake Shore Railroad Postoffice,” and will

be composed of four cars. The ordinary passenger time between New York and Chicago Is thirty-six hours. A late dispatch says a second fast train has been provided for over the Pennsylvania Central route, to leave New York at eight p. m., the former train leaving at four in the morning. The village of Hcrveyville, Hendricks County, Ind., was visited by a terrific tornado a few days ago. Houses were demolished, and several persons, Including five women, were killed. Much damage was done to crops in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, lowa and Nebraska by very heavy rains during the week ending July 31. Disastrous floods occurred in mauy localiUes. The Assistant-Treasurer at New York has been directed by the Secretary of the Treas ury to sell gold during the month of August as follows: <1,500,000 on the first and third Thursdays each, and $1,000,000 on the second and fourtlf Tjjurbdays each; total <5,000,-

PKKSONAL. James Gilfillan, long an employe in the Treasury Department at Washington, has been appointed to the chief clerkship in place of Avery, resigned. The old and prominent New York banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Co. suspended on the 27th. Much excitement was produced in commercial and financial circles by this failure, which was entirely unexpected. The suspension was caused by heavy speculations in cotton. The liabilities are placed at between <5,000,000 and <«,000,000. Mrs. Celia Burleigh, the well-known w omansuffrage agitator, died at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 27th, aged forty-eight years. Ex-Chief Clerk Avery, of the Treasury Department, was arrested in Washington on the 28th by a Deputy-Marshal and taken before the District Court, being admitted to bail in the sum of <5,000. Tke New York Evening Post of the 28th says the losses of Duncan, Bherman <fc Co. on cotton exceeded <1,000,000. John Mason & Co., sugar-dealers of Philadelphia, suspended on the 28th. Liabilities about <2,000,000. The Commercial Warehouse Company of New York and one or two other smaller institutions were reported on the 28th as having failed. The Tobacco Exchange Banking Company, of Louisville, Ky., closed its doors on the 28th. J. B. Ford & Co., publishers, of New York, have failed. Their failure, it is said, does not affect the Christian Unfan, of which they were the publishers. The New York World states that Henry Ward Beecher has decided to give up his usual course of winter lectures during the coming season. He will devote his spare time to completing his “ Life of Christ” and writing for his paper. _

Ex-President Andrew Johnson of paralysis and heart disease at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Brown, in Carter County, Tenn., on the morning of the 31st ult. He was sixty-six years of age last December. The announcement of his death caused profound sorrow throughout his State and in other sections of the country. The news was conveyed to President Grant, at Long Branch, on the afternoon of the 31st, and he was deeply affected by” the information. An executive order was immediately issued that the Executive Mansion and the several departments in Washington should be draped in mourning until the close of the day designated for the funeral of the ex-President, and that all public business should be suspended on that day. The War and Navy Departments were also instructed to pay suitable honors to the memory of the deceased. POLITICAL. The Minnesota Republican Btate Convention met at St. Paul on the 28th, and nominated John S. Pillsbury for Governor; J. B. Wakefield tor Lieutenant-Governor; J. 8. Irgens for Secretary of Btate; 0. P. "Whitcomb for Btate Auditor; William Pfaender for State Treasurer; Geo. P. Wilson for Attorney-Gen-eral; 8. H. Nichols for Clerk Superior Court; Charles A. Gillman for Railroad Commissioner; James Gilfillan for Chief-Jus-tice. The platform adopted favors that policy of finance which shall steadily keep in view a return to specie payment; advocates a tariff strictly for revenue, but adjusted so as to be the least burdensome and most favorable to the interests of home industry and labor; demauds that railway and other corporations shall be held in subjection to the law-making power, and approves of the third-term letter of President Grant. The following is a list of the State elections to be held this year: California ..Wednesday, Sept. 1 Arkansas .Monday, Sept. 6 Maine .....Monday,' Sept 18 Icwa. Tuesday. Oct. la Ohio Tuesday. Oct 1* Virginia Tuesday, Nov. 4 Kansas Tuesday, Nov. 2 Maryland Tuesday, Nov. 2 Massachusetts Tuesday, Nov. 2 Mississippi Tuesdav. Nov. 2 Minnesota Tuesday, Nov. 2 Missouri Tuesday. Nov 2 New York Tuesday, Nov. 2 New Jersey Tuesdav, Nov. 2 Pennsylvania Tuesdav. Nov. 2 Wisconsin Tuesdav. Nov. 2 Texas Tuesday. Dec. 7 The Michigan State Temperance Association was recently in session at Jackson and resolved—that the no-license policy is right in principle and should never be overthrown; to make the enactment of a prohibitory law an issue of paramount importance; that they would support no candidate for the Legislature of 1877 who is not in favor of such prohibition, and that, in their judgment, “there is no practical difference between the present Liquor-tax law of this State and a license law, which would be clearly in violation t>f the Constitution, and merit the same condemnation on the part of all friends of the temperance cause." The Democratic State Convention of Oregon has nominated. Lafayette Lane for Congress. The platform adopted favors the early resumption of specie payments and the legisr lative control of railroad fares and freights —The beauty of sincerity; “ Oh! Hen; ry, this is too awful! Here come the Wellington Slowbones, who've invited us to din 6 with them some day next week, and l'ye just posted 'a letter to them declining the invitation and I've suddenly forgotten what excuse I made!”

The Death of Ex-President Johnson. A sfineiai' telegram from Greenville, Tenn.,lj§ilv'Bl, to the Chicago Times gives the folliving particulars ot the death of Menatof and cx-Presidcnt Johnson: Ex-President Andrew Jolinaon expired at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Win. K. Brown, formerly Mrs. Stover, at halfpast two o’clock this morning, of paralysis and heart-disease combined, sunerinduced by a low state of the system and over-exer-‘ ti’on, as is supposed. Mr. Johnson left Greenville on Wednesday morning at six o’clock for a visit, to his w ife and daughter, Mrs. Brown, at the residigiee of die latter, which is some seven alii a half miles northwest of Carter’s Station, in Carter County, this Shite, in apparent good health and spirits. He rode from Carter’s to the farm-house in an open carriage and was apparently* much fatigued with the ride, which is over a very rough piece of road, and complained also of excessive thirst. Aside from the fatigue, however, he seemed in unusual good spirits, and spent the day in visiting witli the family and looking about the farm. About four o’clock, having come in from a short walk, while sitting in his chair, laughing and chatting with His daughter 5 aud grandchildren, he suddenly fell from his chair to the floor, speechless and apparently in great pain. There were no persons in the house at this time except Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Brown and her three children. Mr. Johnson soon rallied somewhat, and', being helped to a couch, regained his speech and requested Unit no physician be-sent for, as it was but a trifling matter. «ifo physician, in fact, was called in until tjie. next day in the afternoon, when Dr. Jobe, a country physician, was sent for, who applied vigorous treatment of counter-irritation and administered an emetic. As a result, Mr. Johnson seemed easier, but,the symptoms continuing of a serious character, the relatives at Greenville, comprising his ion, Andrew Johnson, Jr., and Mrs, Judge Patterson and her children, were sent for by* messenger, and requested to bring witli them Drs. Broyles and Taylor, physicians of Greenville, the former Mr. Johnson’s family physician for many years. They arrived at the farmhouse on Friday at six o’clock, only to discover that the illustrious patient was already past help and in a totally unconscious state, having lost the power of speech and sinking very* rapidly. During the day Mr. Johnson had rallied at intervals, and conversed briefly of family matters, not, however, as a man Conscious of approaching dissolution. The last act of consciousness apparent was in answer to a question from Dr. Jobe concerning the breaking of an arm, some years ago, by an accident, and a request to know which arm it was. Mr. Johnson raised his right arm slightly in response, and this was the final act of consciousness evidenced, and from this time, about six o’clock Frday evening, up to the hour of his death, he gave no token of sensibility. The only persons present at the time of liis death were his wife, his sou Andrew, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Brown’s three children, of the relatives; together with Drs. Jobe, Broyles and Taylor. Maj. Pettibone, Assistant United States District Attorney for East Tennessee, who is a fel-low-townsman of Mr. Johnson, tells me that Mr. Johnson last Sunday had a conversation with him concerning his health, during which he stated that, since his recovery from a severe attack of cholera two years ago, he had never fully recovered the use of his lower limbs, and was at times conscious of extreme difficulty in making his lower extremities, from the knees down, obey the behests of his will, often stumbling in walking, and some two weeks ago, in fact, having fallen a#d bruised his side and face considerably. Aside from this fact, however, the Major states that he declared himself in excellent heal tli.

Mr. Johnson would have been sixtyseven years of age the 19th of December next, had he lived. He was of very robust habit, a tremendous worker - , and bade fair to live for twenty years, apparently, allbougli Dr. Taylor states that he had looked for a breiak-down of health at any time. Mr. Johnson's son immediately started for the station, after the death of his father, and took the train for Bristol, and telegraphed from thence the news to this place, there being no telegraph station at Carter’s. The news burst like a thun-der-clap from a clear sky upon his fellowtownsmen here, and produced the most profound sensation. The news soon flashed to neighboring cities, and telegrams came pouring in by scores, driving the operator at this point nearly crazy. r-The other day, when a Vicksburg boy had trouble with a neighbor's boy and came out first-best, he realized that something must be done at home, and he slid into the house and said: “ Mother, you know how good and kind you have been to Mrs. B—r-, next door?” “ Yes, I have tried to be a good neighbor to her.” “ Well, do you know that she says you clean your teeth with a whitewash-brush, and that father ought to have a pension for living with you?” He slid out, and when Mrs. B reached the gate, on her way to the house to ask why her boy must be pounded up in that way, she heard a shrill voice calling*t>ut: “Vile wretch, don't you enter that gate or you'll get scalded!” She returned home, and the young statesman dropped down under a shade-tree, kicked up his heels, and softly chuckled: “ That settles her. and now I want to catch her Tom again for just fourteen seconds.” — Vicktburg HertUd. —A gentleman about to pass into a California hotel with two ladies, the other evening, found he had a freshly-lighted cigar to dispose of. There w&s a pleasantlooking young lad near the door and he asked him to hold the weed until he returned. When the gentleman came out he was so pleased with the boy’s honesty that he gave him five cents, saying: “Don't you smoke?” “Y'es,” said the boy. How is it you didn’t make off with this cigar, then? Many boys would have done it,” said the gratified gentleman. “I don’t know about "that,” said the youth; “it must be a pretty hard-pushed boy who’d run away with such a cigar as that.” The ladies, tittered, but the gentleman didn’t—A Detroit commercial traveler walked down the aisle of a passenger coach the other day, having on an outlandish linen duster ana an old straw hat, and seven women, who had seats by themselves, piled their baggage on the spare half and looked out of the windows to avoid Seeing him. While he was sifting on the woodbox and chewing the bitter cud of reflection a man with a brass watch-chain and a three-dollar set of glass-diamonds entered the car; and six of the women lilted their sacbels down and moved close up to the • side of the car. Such things arenot right, j hut they always will be! — Free Pros. —Probably one of the most thriving spectaeksjjn life—one Jlqit sends through I the observer the greatest variety of emotions in a moment—is that of a girl darting her lips under her lover's mustache to capture a cherry held between his teeth.