Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN. | A London dispatch of the 7th says 15.006 animate in Dorsetsh Ire were suffering from the foot and mouth disease. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 7th anounces the uefeat of 80,000 Khokand rebels y Gen. Kaufman on the 4th. On the night of the oth the Protestant cemetery vault in Montreal containing the remains of Guibord was guarded by eighteen men, heavily armed. A general feeling of Insecurity still prevailed among residents in the suburbs. Cardinal McCloskeywaa cordially received by His Holiness the Pope on the evening of the Bth. A Loridon telegram of the 9th announces the loss of the steamer Martin Weiner, from Shields, England, Tor Hamburg, with all on board. A Madrid telegram of the 9th states that Gen. Jo veil ar had returned from the field and resumed the Ministry of War. A Vienna dispatch of the 10th says the Pope had instructed the Catholic Bishops in Bosnia and Herzegovina to use their Influence in calming the people and to facilitate the pacification'of those provinces. The Coroner's jury in the case of the persons drowned on the Mistletoe by being run down by the Queen’syacht returned a verdict on the 10th of accidental death, but censured the officers of the royal yacht for tlieir carelessness. A London dispatch of the 11th says the Privy Council had been asked for an executive order to present the holding of fairs or markets throughout Warwickshire on account of the prevalence' of the foot and mouth disease. During the preceding week 8,000 cases had been recorded in Norfolk. Sheep and pigs were affected as well as cat- . tie. A Belgrade dispatch of the 11th says 1,000 Turks had recently encountered sixty Bosnians and killed them all. A crisis oocurred in the Spanish Cabinet on the 11th, and the entire Ministry resigned. The next day Gen. Jovellar formed a new one. The daughter of Prince Bismarck lias been betrothed to the Prussian Count Wendlzuenlarberge.

DOMESTIC. In the case of a colored man in Brooktyn, N. Y-, who applied for a mandamus to compel the Board of Education to admit his son to a school set apart for white children, Judge Gilbert, while reserving his decision, said on the 7th that the system of commonschool education was established for the = public and all persons had access to it. The Board of Education had no power to exclude any. It was reported in San Francisco on the 7th that >an Indian outbreak had occurred in Eastern Nevada and Western Utah. A num ber of settlers and miners had been killed, and women and children were being removed to places of safety. Troops and volunteers were going to the scene. Gov. Beveridge, of Illinois, has addressed a note to the State’s Attorney at Rockford concerning the recent duel in Winnebago County, and expressing the hope that prompt measures will be taken to vindicate the law. Mrs. C. H. Young, of Kansas City, Mo., was fatally burned on the night of the 6th by the explosion of a lighted kerosene lamp which she was carrying from one room to another. Mrs. Lucretia Mott Peer, of Brooklyn, X. Y., testified in the Westervelt trial on the Sth that oft July 6, 1874, she saw in a street-car in Brooklyn a man whom she now recognized as Westervelt, accompanied by a little boy about four years old, who seemed to be afraid of him, and whose features she recognizes in likenesses of Charlie Ross. Capt. John C. Jones, of New York city, committed suicide by jumping into the rapids and going over the American falls at Niagara on the Bth, in sight of several hundred visitors. An explosion occurred in the celluloid factory at Newark, N. J., on the Bth, setting the building on fire and destroying it. Of thirty men in the building at the time some escaped uninjured, but several were either killed outright or fatally injured. The Chicago and Cincinnati Industrial Expositions were opened on the Sth, to continue one month. The fifteenth biennial session of the American Pomologieal Society was begun in Chicago on the Bth. Marshall P. Wilder, of Massachusetts, was re-elected President, and W. C. Flagg, of Illinois, Secretary. A Washington special of the 9th says the Secret Service authorities in that city had information that a company of Italians had gone West with a large amount cf the counterfeit $lO bills of the First National Bank of Philadelphia. These counterfeits are said to be exceedingly dangerous. One of them was recently received at the Treasury cash-room and exchanged by the experts for sinal money. The counterfeit is a perfect imitation on its face, but there are a few defects on its back. A very heavy rainfall occurred at Chicago and in a large section of Illinois, Wisconsin and lowa on the 9th, doing considerable damage in the way of floods. Three accidents occurred ou the Wisconsin Division of the Northwestern Railroad, caused 1 by washouts. At Lawrence a bridge was washed away and a passenger train plunged into the stream at that place and completely wrecked, the engineer, baggageman, newsboy and one passenger being killed and several others injured. Two accidents occurred to freight trains, causing loss of life. A special dispatch from Vicksburg, Miss., on the 9th reported all quiet in Warren, Yazoo and Hinds Counties, where disturbances had occurred. A Washington telegram of the same date says the President had instructed Xbe Adjutant-General of the army to direct the commanding General of the Department of the Sooth to famish assistance to the Governor of Mississippi, to enable him to maintain order and preserve life, in case such assistance became necessary. The prosecution in the Westervelt trial closed its testimony on the 9th. On the 10th Mrs. Westervelt testified that on the 6th f of July, 1874, the day when her husband was, accenting to the evidence of Mrs. Peers, seen In a street ear with Charley Boss, he remained in the home all day. She remembered it distinctly, as It wss her birthday. At Augusta, Ga., bn the 9th, Jake Hicks, colored, was tried for connection with the late fHeged attempted insurrection. After tot testimony was submitted Judge Johnson

charged the jury that there was not sufficient Evidence to convict. A verdict of not guilty was returned and all the prisoners discharged, and the court adjourned. This ended the prosecution, except against the two leaders, who, it wee thought, had left the city. The neebunts given of the recent disturbances in Mississippi ditler somewhat A to the origin of the difficulties and the number of colored people killed. One statement says throe whites were killed and five or six wounded. Five or aix were killed on the barbacue grounds and an unknown number two were killed the next morning, and two or three, others were reported found dead. Another report says thirty negroes were killed and fifty or sixty wounded. A Washington dispatch of the 10th says a telegram had just been received by the Attorney-General, from the Sheriff of Hinds County, Miss., reporting that perfect peace prevailed throughout that countyr"thatpeace officers were not prevented from executing legal process, and that good citizens would aid him in the discharge of his duties, if needed. The Attorney-General expressed the opinion that the difficulties were at an end. F. B. Hancock’s Bank, at Greenville, Ky., was robbed, a few nights ago, of nearly $35,006 in United States bonds, currency and gold coin. One of the severest storms experienced on Lake Michigan for years occurred a* the night of the 9th, and much damage to vessel property and great loss of life are reported. The most sgrious casualty was that which occurred to the propeller Equinox, of the Grand Trunk line. She was loaded with salt, and had in tow the schooner Emma A. Mayes, and when within about ten miles of Point Saublc, and during the severe gale, she sud' denly sank, carrying down with her all on board, including the crew and Capt. Scott’s daughter and niece, and a gentleman and lady whose names have not been ascertained. Twenty-four persons are supposed to have been on board at the time of the accident.

A distiller at St. Joseph, Mo., under prosecution for violation of the Internal Revenue laws, pleaded guilty on the 11th. Mike Scully, a pedestrian of Columbus, Ohio, has recently completed the task of walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours. PERSONAL. The Governor-elect of California, Win. Irwin, is a native of Butler .County, Ohio, but, has been a resident of California since 1852, and lias been prominent in the polities of the State since ISfil. Miss Bessie Eaglesfield, a young lady lawstudent, was admitted to practice in the Circuit Court at Terre Haute, lnd.,-on the Sth. The President has appointed Virgil D. Stoekbridge, of Maine, Examiner-in-Cliief of the Patent Office. A largely-attended meeting of the friends of the late W. C. Ralston was held in San Francisco on the night of the Sth, at which reso< lutions favorable,to the character of the deceased, and denouncing the Evening Bulletin and Morning Call for their alleged brutal, and unjustifiable attacks upon his private character, were adopted. r The Red Cloud Investigation Committee commenced its open session in Washington on the 10th. Bishop Hare made a statement in relation to his knowledge of conducting Indian business affairs. Commissioner Smith and Prof. Marsh were present. Hon. Henry T. Blow, of St. Louis, died suddenly of congestion at the United States Hotel at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 13th. The division of Maj. Powell’s exploring party in charge of A. H. Thompson, arrived at Gunnison, Utah, on the 11th, en route for home, having concluded their explorations for the season. * Mrs. Abraham Lincoln arrived at Spring, field, HI., ou the 11th in charge of her son Robert. A telegram says she'was not regarded as being any better, mentally, than when she first went to Batavia. POLIXH.tL. All the State constitutional amendments submitted to the people of New Jersey on the 7th were adopted except the clause repealing the "Five-County act 4 ’ : * Dr. Edward Ransom, Democratic nominee for President bf the North Carolina Constitutional Convention, was elected on the 7th ou the fourteenth ballot, thus securing ,Democratic organization of that body. The New York Republican State Contention was held at Saratoga on the Sth, aud the following ticket was nominated: For Secretary of State, F. W. Seward; Comptroller, F. E. Spinner; Treasurer, Gen. E. A. Merritt; Attorney-General, Geo. L. Danford; State Engineer, O. H. P. Cornell; Canal Com- ■ missioner, Wm. E. Tinsley; State Prison In-I speetor. Rev. Benoui T. Ives. The platform adopted declares against further currency inflation and in favor of the speediest possible return to specie payments; recognizes as conclusive President Grant’s declaration that he is not a candidate for renomination, and ; ig > | declares opposition to the qlection of any j President for a third term; indorses the Ad- ; ministration of President Grant, etc. The Democratic-Reform State Convention of Wisconsin, in session at Milwaukee on the Sth, renominated the present State officers by acclamation and adopted a platform indorsing the reform resolutions adopted in 1873, including the declaration in favor of a souud.currency in coin or its equivalent. — The Maryland Republicans met ;n State Convention at Westminster on the Sth. and

adjourned to meet in Baltimore on the 23d. The Pennsylvania Democracy, in their State Convention at Erie on the 9th. adopted resolutions on the currency question similar to those in the Ohio platform., They demand that the policy of contraction be abandoned and that the volume of money be made and kept equal to the wants of trade; favor the extinction of the National Banks' ana the retirement of their circulation, to be replaced by full lesral-tender issues by the j Government, and the establishment of a sysi tern of free banks of discount and deposit j under State regulation. Judge Cyrus L. Pershing, of Cambria County, was nominated for: Governor on the eleventh ballot, and his nomination was made unanimous. The Farmers' and Mechanics' Conference, recently held in Cincinnati, passed resolutions demanding the repeal of the National Banking law and the issue of paper money directly by the General Government, to be made a legal-tender for all debts, public and private, including duties on imports, and to be interchangeable for registered interest bonds. Anti-monopoly resolutions were also adopted,and one favoring the limiting of the Presi dent of the United States to one term of office. The Republicans of the Third Mississippi District have nominated Finn is H. Little for Congress. - , .' The new California Legislature is made up as follows: Senate—Democrats, 19; Inde pendent Democrats, 5; Independents, 9; Republicans, 7. House—Democrats, 60; Independent Democrat, 1; Independents, 7; Republicans, 1L