Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FORKION. The subscriptions raised throughout Germany to indemnify Prussian priests for the ■withdrawal ofthe Stale grant amount to only *3so.ooo—less than half the sum withdrawn. A steam yacht carrying the Queen and ' royal faAHj\ while crossing from Osborne to Portsmouth on the afternoon of the 18th, tan into and sank the yacht Mistletoe. A party of ladies and gentlemen were oh the latter, three of whom were drowned and one killed. A steamer shipping war materials at Barcelona, on the 17th, suddenly exploded agd sunk. Fifty person® were killed by the explosion or drowned. A Madrid telegram of the Wtb says a royal brigade under command of Gen. Delatre had routed the CariistGen. Dorregaray while endeavoring to penetrate into Aragon, and f&rced him to retreat with his command into Catalonia A Constantinople dispatch of the 30th says later intelliwatce from the scene of the Insurrection in Herzegovina had been satisfactory; a prompt pacification of the troubles was anticipated, it was reported at Vienna on the same day that the siege of Trebigne had been some of the insurgents driven across the frontier. Russia, Austria and Germany had advised the susjxjnsion of hostilties to afford an opportunity to ascertain the grievances of the insurgents. AU the powers had agreed In urging Servin and Bosnia to remain neutral, and the .Vemorial Diptonnitigw says this advice would be backed by •force if necessary. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 20th says the Russian Gen. Kaufman bad been directed to organize an expedition against Khokand to avenge attacks upon the Russian soldiery. It was reported in Paris on the Hist that Turkey had finally accepted the friendly offices of the foreign powers in securing the restoration of .peace in her northwestern provinces. The late Emperor Ferdinand of Austria left, by his will, >6,000,000 to the Pope, which had already been paid over on the 21st. A Ragusa dispatch of the 22d announces the capture of seven forte near the Montenegrin frontier by the Herzegovinian insur. gents. It was rumored al Santander on the 22d that a plot had been discovered having for its object the murder of Don Carlos. Several Generals suspected of complicity had been incarcerated. The Swiss National Council, has passed resolutions for the suppression of convents and Sisters of Charity.

DOMESTIC. As a passenger train on the St. Louis & St. Joseph branch of the St. Louis, Kansas City Railroad was Passing over a trestle-work over a ravine near Gower Station, on the morning of the Wth, the structure gave way, precipitating the mail and express chr and twopussenger cars down a distance of twenty feet. Feeling the trestle giving away the engineer put on all steam and succeeded in .running his en. gtne safely over, breaking loose from the train. There were fifty or sixty passengers on the train, and over forty were injured, but the only one killed was a man supposed to be <E. J. Anglina, of St. Louis. Several others were likely to die from their Injuries, among them Capt, W. H. B. Warren, of StJoseph, Mo., and Judge R. A. Ehfoolt, member of Congress from the Tenth Missouri District, badly cut and bruised. Prof. Junney, in a letter to the Indian Bureau, dated Black Hills, July 3d, says that in localities in the valleys of Spring and Rapid Creeks toe.gravel bars contain gold in quantities sufficient to yield fair remuneration for labor-economieally and skillfully applied, assisted by proper tools and mechanical appliances, at least a moderate amount of capitai or its equivalent, and such a system of working as an experience of twenty-five years has taught the miners of the Pacific slope to employ. While the valuable placer deposits as tar as discovered are by no means rich or very extensive compared with those of California, still there is enough o. the precious metal to develop the country, and stock-nahing and agriculture will do the rest. The-Cttisens of Augusta, Ga., and vicinity have been recently considerably excited over an alleged conspiracy on the part of the colored population in Burke, Jefferson and Washington Counties to massacre the whites. Several arnests were made, and it is said some of those .arrested have confessed to the conspiracy. An Augusta dispatch of the 20th says effectire -steps have been taken to preserve peace and good order, and no further trouble was apprehended. The ringleaders would be tried at a special term of the Superior Court The troubles in Williamson, Jackson and Franklin Counties, 111., continued up to the 19th. A few days ago J. B. Maddox, swellknown Franklin County farmer, was notified that the Ku-Khix proposed to make him a domidharv visit on a certain evening. The Sheriff was notified and .concealed his posse about Mr. Maddux's residence. The outlaws came as expected and, on beingtsummoned to surrender, opened fine on the Sheriff's party. The fire was returned and one of the nutlaws mortally wounded. The ringleaders were arreate 1 and imprisoned. According to tbeNatjonal Statistical Bureau im migration in o the-United States shows a dec rr-a.r- of-fifi.UUO for the year ending June 30, 1 875, as compared with the previous year. Lo efce'i prtn -works at Bassaic, N. J., suspend*. td va the 19tl\. throwing 300 persons out of work. Jam*, w BL Noe, Sr., leading member of a brush-u laaataeturipg firm in Sew Fork city, while int ifpeetiag his store the morning of the 22d encou wiered a mrgiar.whomhe attem pled to arrest, b*t himself so badly beaten with an Jrd jn bar as to render his recovery, doubtful. ' was bound and robbed by the burglar, wfit • threatened to return a*l kill him if any oil tery was made before the robber had time make good his escape.

A few days at Reading, Binger wps.<ordci vd bf her husband, who had introduced a noth » woman into the house, to leave the premises sad take her two little girls with her, while be would retain their boy. Next»day kbe Went to the canal with the children and, after filling a basket with stones' in which operation the children assisted, she bound the basket securely do her body and, taking the three children in her arms, leaped into the'canal and all were drowned. Jt was yrith difficulty that the pol?ce subsequently

protected the husband froiQ assault by his indignantneighbors, and on the occasion of the funeral, which occurred On the 21st, and was attenfed by over 1.000 people, shots were fired at higb, when he was hurriedly placed in a carriage and driven off under guard of the police. -- According to the Louisiana StaU Rsgurttr of the22d the population of the city of New Orleans, as shown by the recent census, is as follows; White, 145,721; colored, 67,647; total, 203,368, an increase of 11,966 upon the census of 1870. The population es the whole State is: White. 404,361; colored, 450,029, an excess of colored over whites of 45,668, and total Increase of 188,115 over the census of 1870. .

rERKONU. The Board of Directors o! the Winnebago County (Ill.) Agricultural Society on the 16th voted—five to four—to sustain the previous action of the Secretary in inviting Jefferson Davis to deliver the annual address in September. A telegram was subsequently received from Mr. Davis saying that unforeseen events madp it impossible for him to attend the fair. The body of Newton 8. Grimwood, who accompanied Prof. Donaldson in his last balloon ascension from Chicago, was found on the shore of Lake Michigan, between Stony Creek and Montague, Muskegon County, Mich., on the morning of the 17th. The bqdy was partially buried in the sand, and had evidently lain there for some time, and was in a partially decomposed condition. It had on all his clothes except hat and shoes, and in addition thereto a bursted life-preserver. It was found by Mr. A. Beckwith, a mail-carrier, and was fully identified by letters and notes of the trip which were found on the remains. Rev. Charles G. Finney, for many years President of Oberlin College, died very suddenly on the 16tb, ; fit bis residence at Oberlin, of heart disease. Mr. Dunean, of the firm of Duncan, Sherman & Co., has issued a circular to creditors proposing to pay thirty-three and a third cents on the dollar in full settlement of the indebtedness of the firm, to be paid in installments with 7 per cent, interest. The body of young Grimwood reached ■Chicago per steamer on the 19th, where it was received by the father and other friends of the deceased and at once conveyed to Bristol,lll., where it received final interment. A large concourse of sympathizing friends escorted the remains to the grave. The ■watch found on Mr. Grimwood’s person had stopped at 11:20 o’clock, thus indicating that the plunge into the water must have occurred at that moment, which was probably about the time the aeronauts encountered the fiercest part of the storm. Mr. Wood, of the Chicago Journal, who superintended the bringing of Mr. Grimwood’s remains over the lake, stated on the 19th that traces of the balloon —consisting of sand-bags and pieces of the cloth of which the air-ship was constructed —had been found about eight miles north of where the drowned man came to land. The opinion in Michigan seemed to be that the body of Prof. Donaldson had been covered with sand cast up by the waves. News was received at Washington on the 20th of the death at Callao, Peru, of RearAdmiral Collins, commanding the South Pacific fleet. He died of erysipelas after an illness of three days, and was buried with military honors in the Protestant cemetery at Belle Cota, near Callao. The American rifle team met with a heartyreception on its arrival at New York on the 21st. John Gordon, the Black Hills miner who was under arrest at Omaha, was released on parole on the 21st. He subsequently surrendered his parole and then, by direction of his counsel, attempted to escape. He was again arrested by Gen. Ruggles and confined in the guard-house, when he had the General arrested for false imprisonment and also caused the arrest of the General and his clerks for assault and battery.

POLITICAL. The Louisville Courier-Journal of the 16th gives the official returns of the Kentucky State election, which show a majority of 36,139 for MeCreery. The House will stand ninety Democrats to ten Republicans. The Democrats of the Fourth Congressional District of Maine have nominated J. C. Madigan to fill the unexpired term in Congress of the late Samuel F. Hersey. Mr. Hymen, colored, Congressmattf-elect from North Carolina, who arrived in Washington on the 17th, says the delegates to the convention in his State stand sixty-one Republicans to fifty-nine Democrats, the two delegates claimed as Independents having been elected on the straight Republican ticket. The Democratic State Convent ten of Massachusetts is to meet at Worcester on tlie 22d day of September. Hon. D. M. Key, of Chattanooga, has been appointed by the Governor of Tennessee to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate ■caused by the death of Andrew Johnson. Mr. Key is forty-five years old, and is said ■to. be quite popular In his own section, but is no| generally known throughout the State, never having figured much in Teunes■see politics. The Republican Convention of the First Mississippi Congressional District met *at Senatoria on the 18th, and split, one wing nominating G. Wiley Wells, ex-Uuited States District Attorney, and the other A. P. Howe, of Pareda, for Congress—the latter being favs red by a majority of the colored voters. A call “has been issued for the second anaual meeting of the Woman’s National Chris tian Temperance Union, to be held in Cincinnati on the 17th, ISth and 19th.of nextNovembez. Each State is entitled to as many delegates as it has Congressional districts.

The u timers” used by horsemen are splendid pieces of mechanism. and cost from S4OO to SSOO each. The favorite maker is Judes Jurgensen. The best of them will time as close as the fifth of a second, and they are gotten up in magnificent style. The latest invention in the world of “ timers” is one gotten up for a driver to use while driving his trotter. It is carried in the inside poeket of his blouse, and a small rubber tube runs from it close to the driver’s mouth. Just before reaching the quarter post he puts the end of the tube in his mouth, and as he darts by each quarter he givea a quick, short blow in the tube and the time he passed is recorded upon the dial of the timer. These newly-invented timerascost S6OO. We are informed that they are just I being introduced in this country'—Ptrughisteptie\N. Y.jßagle. '. ' , j

WfJY is a man who is confined to his house by illness like an absent boy who longs to go home? Because the latter is homesick and the former is home, sick, too.