Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

POBKIGN. A Madrid dtepatc* of the Sd says the Alphoneiet troops continued to be success ful in 1) directions. Gating to the improved prospects Spanish funds had sensibly appreciated 1 nrlng the preceding week. Ten thousand people attended the closing religious services by Messrs. Moody and Sankey at Liverpool, England, on the Sd. According to a Berlin telegram of the 4th Tuifcev was collecting a large force with the View of 'ending the Reraegovlnian insurrection at a-stogie blow. The TVcnch National Assembly adjourned on tbe-tth. It will reassemble Nov. 4. A water-spout burst over Kirn, in Rhenish Prussia, on the sth, Inundating the place and doing great damage. A bridge and several bouses were swept away and thirteen persons drowned. A Calcutta dispatch of the 6th reports disastrous floods in the northwestern provinces of India. Many dwellings bad be&n destroyed and, it was feared, numerous lives lost The centennial anniversary of the'birth of O’Connell, the Irish Liberator, was celebrated at Dublin, Ireland, on the sth and-6th. ‘On the former day religious ceremonies were held in the cathedral, at which Cardinal Manning officiated. On the latter tberewere processions and orations and in the evening illnminattoa* and a banquet At the latter a disturbance arose, caused by the Lord Mayor palling on Charles Gavan Duffy to respond to a toast—“ Tin* Legislative Independence of Ireland." Mr. Duffy on rising was greeted with tremendous uproar and calls for the Home-ruler, Butt. The Mayor made repeated and ineffective attempts to gain a hearing and finally vacated the chair. Dr. Butt then began to speak, when the gas was extinguished and the company dispersed in great confusion, leaving unfinished the series of regular toast*. At Rome on the sth, at the chapel of the Irish College, pontifical high mass was celebrated in honor of O’Connell’s memory. A London "dispatch of the 6th announces the dosing of eighteen additional cotton mills at Oldham. The number of idle operatives was about «0, 080. there wea an amnesty demonstration at Dublu on ihe 7th, in the cemetery where O’Connell <g buried. Over 40,000 persons were prenent, including several members of Parliament. Resolutions were adopted favoring home rule and for the imprisoned Fenians. ~ ; . According to accounts-from Damascus to thettd of July, cholera was raging violently. Fourihundred cases were retorted daily, but the seal number 'was thought u. Be considerably larger The ‘ disease was atv> reported as >ragiag at-Antioch and other towu* adjacent. , -f Cspt. 'Bogardus, the American pigeonshooter, recently easily defeated Rimell, the English.champion. There were serious riots in Glasgow beween -Orangemen and Home-rulers during the -OlConnell celebration. Several of the Tioters.aad. policemen'were Injured. f Another revolution h«s broken oat in Kokhand, in Central Asia The Khan is said to have "fled and his troops to have fraternlzed'wttn the insurgents.

DonEsnc. - . A Bohemian woman anti babe were fearfully burned in Omaha on the 3d by the explosion of a can of .kerosene oil with which the woman was attempting to kindle a fire. The house was destroyed. Bbe public debt statement for July is as follows: Six per cent, bonds $1,095,858,550 Fiae per cent, bonds 613,632,750 Total- cola -bonds $1.i09.4«1.8J0 Lawful mono? debt .'... $11,678,000 Matured debt 10.678,307 Legm-tender-wotes 374,834,985 Cert: flea tee of cepoeit 64.275,000 Fractional aarrency 41,145,393 Coin aertifieates :.. 22,725,100 Interest 27,110.460 Total debt $2,264,928,445 Cadh jn Treasury— Coin $68,912,700 Cmreuosr .... 4,3i6,969 Special -deposits held . for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by 1aw....... ..... 64,270,000 Total da Treasury _ $167,529,669 Debt less cash in Treasury $2,127.398.72b Decrease -during .July 1.294.887 Bonds issued to the Pacific Bail way Companies, interest payable in lawful monev, principal outstanding. $64,623,512 Interest, scented and not vet paid.... 323.117 Interest paid by the U nited States.. 38,20i,807 Interest repaid by the transportation of <nails,.etc 6,214,159 Balance of interest paid by United States 21.588.647 The census of New York city has been completed, and the total, population is shown to be L-064,272 —an increase in five years of 91,166. A severe hail-storm, accompanied by an earthquake shock, vi&ted Omaha, Neb., on the morning erf the 4th. The hail-stones were no large that they demolished the windows mad roofs in the city to the extent of several th oosand dollars. '.The heavy rains which continued in many sec Haas of the West up to the sth caused the hea . neat floods known for many years, at,lhis seasc <o, in the Ohio .sod Mississippi Rivers and sever. Uof their tributaries. Immense damage ha * been done to harvested and growing crops, 1 arge tracts -of land being inundated. Railroai t travel was-suspended pn some of the roads in the flooded districts, and much damage to i woperty other than crops was inflicted. ; Fifty do! hu* of conscience money, due for income tax, was received at the Treasury in Washington <w the sth irons Pittsburgh, Pa. The comm ittee who made the count of the funds in the United States Treasury have completed the- *r work and report all correct except the $47,. *9 deficiency, which robbery, they think, was committed bysome one connected with the d ’epartment An Indianapolis - dispatch of the f>'h gays that from the most reliable information the loss from the recent floods in the central and southern portion of I'adiaaa would aggregate 50 to 60 per cent, of t.he entire crop. In the low lands along the W ahaah Biver it was es timmted that 2(*0,000 ac.’eaof corn bad been entirely destroyed, wbic b alone, at fl 5 per acre, would aggregate SB, OftOJIOO. The finding Of two bo Ute# on the lake shore near Chicago, contain tog messages purporting to come from Doua'-Maon and Grimwood, the missing aeronau to. ha* been reported to the Chicago dailies. I'wt their genuineness is questioned by parties competent to jq4c*r Phi of the documents reads aa fol

lows: “ July 15—2 a m.—We cannot stay up more than an hour longer, as the gse is rapidly escaping, N.8,G." A tornado passed over a portion of Knox County, Ilk, on the evening of the sth, doing considerable damage to life and property. Mrs. Jqhn Anderson, of Henderson Township, was killed outright, and many others of the injured were not expected to survive. In Wataga eight houaea were blown to pieces and several persons wounded. To the north of Knoxville the new residence of Mr. Burton was totally destroyed and all his family injured. A number of local architect* who were appointed to investigate the disputed questions relating to the new Custom-House building in Chicago have unanimously reported in favor of continuing the work on the original plan and with the same materials. This report has been forwarded to the Washington authorities. There arc now on the Government rolls the names of 228,034 pensioners, a decrease of 4,871 since last year. The amount paid out in 1874 was $1,225,000 less than in the previous year. A number of journeymen printers, -under the authority of the Washington (D.C.) Typographical Union, have accepted the employers’ terms of fifty cents per 1,000 ems for genera] composition and forty cents per hour Tor time work, and the strike may now be regarded as over. Benjamin B. llalleck, a clerk in the cashroom of the Treasury Department in Washington, was arrested on the 7th under suspicion of being concerned in the $47,000 robbery. Wm. H. Otman, a saloon-keeper, and an old gambler named Brown were also arrested as accomplices in the theft. A special telegram of the evening of the Bth says Hallock had made a full confession, saying that Otman put up the job, Brown being used by him (Otman) as a go-between. It was thought $40,000 of the money would be recovered, aud that Otman’s property in Washington would be sufficient to cover the balance. An explosion occurred in a Government arsenal near Philadelphia on the morning of the 7tb, and one boy was killed and eighteen others wounded. The entire business portion of the village of Victory, near Auburn, N. Y., was destroyed by fire on the night of the 6th. Forty buildings were consumed. Loss estimated at $250,000. An old woman named Patterson and a boy, Charlie Watson, were burned to death in one of the houses. Peter Barnes, a fireman, fell from a ladder and was instantly killed. ~

PERSONAL. All of the Executive departments in Washington and also the offices of the District Government were closed on the 3d, out of respect to the memory of px-President Johnson. Like tributes of respect were paid in New Tork, Boston and other Eastern cities, and also in many cities and towns of the South and West The second annual meeting of the National Bunday-School Assembly commenced at Fairpoint, Chautauqua Lake,N. Y., on the Sd. A Beaver (Utah) dispatch of tire 3d says tM Indian chief Beaverite had toid the Associates, press reporter that Lee secured the aid of the Indians to kill the emigrants by an offfer of clothi&g, guns and horses; that Lee commanded during the fight; that the Indians had no animosity against the emigrants; that the story about the amigrants poisoning an ox or spring is all a lie.- that Lee, the coward, wants to throw all the awme on the Indians. Judge Boreman charged the juryon the afternoon of the 3d. The funeral of ex-President Johnson occurred at Greenville, Tenn., on the 3d, and was conducted by the Masonic fraternity, of which the deceased was a -member. The ceremonies were of an imposing character. Many distinguished citizens were among the large number of people in attendance at the fuueral. Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish poet and novelist, died at Copenhagen, Denmark, on the 4th, aged about seventy. The National Educational Association was recently in session at Minneapolis, -Minn., and was largely attended. The officers elected for the current year are: W. T. Phelps, of Minnesota, President; W. D. Henkle, of Ohio, Secretary; A. P. Marble, of Massachusetts, Treasurer. Thirty-three Vice-Presidents were chosen, the first being D. B. Hazar, of Massachusetts. A Colored Editorial National Convention was recently held in Cincinnati and was attended by representatives of all the colcred newspapers in the country and by some leading men of the colored race not connected with the press. The question of civil rights was discussed. The O’Connell centennial was observed in many cities at the East and West on the 6th, tile celebration in some places beginning eu the sth and ending on the 7th. Commander Andrew Jackson Drake, United States navy, died at Newark, X. J., on the night of the 4th.

A New York telegram of the sth announces that Drexel, Morgan & Co., es that city, had made arrangements with Duncan, Sherman & Co. and Alexander Duncan, father of the leading member of the firm of D., 8. & Co., by which the branch houses as the former firm in Loodon and Paris will cash all orders and letters of credit of the latter firm held by travelers in Europe. A committee of the creditors -of J. B. Ford & Co. have recommended the acceptance of thirty-five cents ou the dollar, in twelve monthly installments, commencing Dec. 15, with interest. The jury in the case of John D. Lee, charged with being the leader in the Mountain Meadows massacre, reported on the 7th that they Vere unable to agree and were discharged by the Court It is said they stood nine for acquittal and three (one Gentile and two Mormons) for conviction. Hon. Charles Schaeffer, State'Treasurer of Minnesota from 1860 to 1868, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver in a cemetery at St. Paul on the morning of the tfch. He was about forty-five years of age, and is supposed to have been temporarily iasasts at the time of the suicide. His former wife is buried in Oakland Cemetery, where he took his own life. POLITICAL. The Mississippi Democratic State Convention met at Jackson on the 3d and nominated W. L. Hemingway for State Treasurer. The platform adopted is mainly confined to Bute matters. . Rev. Charles Thomson has been elected Chief of the Cherokee Nation over Cot D. W. Ross, by a large majority. A* the recest election i a Alabama the call for a constitutional oomention was carried by 15/100 majority, A Louisville (Ky.) telegram of the 4th plas6* iUcCreery's (Dem.) majority for Gocernbr it between 90,000 and 40,000 , . The Massachusetts Republican State Con-

ventljon will be held at Worcester on the 28th of September. Private Republican advice* from North Carolina, received in Washington on the 7th, indicated that the Republicans had tarried the Btnte at the recent election and Would have a majority of ten in the Constitution*! .Convention.