Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

I FOREIGN, Die London Standard of the 14th taya 613 Ben and US women had been recently In. dieted in Russia, of whom 365 were indicted for participating in the Socialistic movement A freight train on the Grand Trunk Railroad was thrown from the track on the morning of the 14th and totally wrecked, and several ofthe employes on the train were killed. The rains took fire and a large number of cattle were roasted to death. Madrid telegrams of the 16th announce the capture of the Carlist town of Oyarsun together with the Governor and his subordinate officers. A fire at Paderborn, Prussia, on the 12th, burned 100 buildings and made 800 families homeless. In the Papal Consistory, on the 17th, His Holiness the Pope announced the creation ofa seven additions! Cardinals and seven Bishops and Archbishops, none of whom were Americans. The Consistory concluded, with the ceremony of conferring the ring and title on Cardinal McCloskey. The Carlist Committee of London published a report on the morning of the 18th, Jrom Hendaye, that the Alphonsisis under Tarda had murdered several Carlisle in cold blood in the Aran Valley. Bands of Carliste .near Tolosa had refused to continue the struggle longer, and their commanders had been placed under arrest by the Carlist authorities.

A Constantinople dispatch of the 19th says latest Advices state that the Consuls of Austria, Germany and Italy had despaired of bringing about negotiations between the bo6nisn insurgents and the Turkish Commissioner. The English, French and Russian Consuls, whose special province was the pacification of Herzegovina, were hopeful. A Vienna dispatch of the 19th says an insurrection had broken out at Tiskovae. The Turkish guard-house had been burned and the garrison had fled. A Constantinople dispatch cf the same date says a telegram had been received from Mostar announcing the defeat of a large force of insurgents near Vishegrad. During a storm at River du Loup, in the Province of Quebec, on the 18th, snow fell to the depth of twelve inches.

DOMESTIC. In New York city on the 14th Mrs. Uda’s patent aerial ladder was being experimented with, and alter being put together and derated, and when eight or ten men had mounted it, the structure suddenly snapped in two, and the occupants were precipitated to the ground, and three of theta instantly killed and as many more dangerously if not fatally injured. The charge for messages between America and Europe by the Direct Ocean cable is twen-ty-five cents currency per word: The first new fast mail train over the Pennsylvania Central for the West left New York city at 4:9(1 on the morning of the 18th and reached Chicago on the morning of the 14th, making the distance in twenty-six hours This being a preliminary trip, made in advance of the time ..fixed upon for the beginning of the fast train via the New York Central, no mails were carried. Several Pennsylvania Central officials and Eastern newspaper men accompanied the train on the trial trip. Serious troubles were reported In Tallahatchie County, Miss., on tiie 13th, but advices of the 14th were to the effect that the excitement had subsided. White boys of the senior class of the New Orleans Central High School declined to attend, on the IStb, because a colored man had been appointed professor of mathematics for -that school bv the school board. A> confidence-man calling himself the Hon. G. W. Benton, was arrested at Muscatine, lowa, on the 15th, for having sought to fleece the unsophisticated by inserting an adver--tisement in the Chicago Tribune for a Congressman’s clerk, offering $2,000 and expenses, and instructing applicants to address him at that place. His plan was to reply to each applicant that, as agent for the Congressman, he had.inquired into his qualifications, etc., and would forward the appointment on receipt of five dollars to defray -expenses of advertising, telegraphing, etc. He had received a large number of letters n answer to the advertisement. A terrible storm prevailed in Texas on the 16th; A special of the 17th says the city of -Galveston was mainly under water, and that in the principal streets it was from three to five feet deep. The Santa Fe Railroad bridge across the bay has been swept away and it was reported that thirty pereors employed on the Government works in the harbor had 4>sen drowned. The first of the fast mail trains over the New York Central and Lake Shore Roads reached Chicago on the morning of the 17th, in a trifle over twenty-six hours from New York city. A similar train also .left Clicago lor the East on the evening of the 16th. ' These trains now run regularly, carry ing the mails and newspaper packages. The xews from Galveston, Tex., received on The 20tfi was to the effect that the damage -done by the storm in that city had been over•estimated. But few lives were lest, and the samount of destruction to property would not •exoeed 4800,000. A Santa Fe dispatch of the 19th says tremendous storms had prevailed throughout . slew Mexico during the previous ten days, a ad the town of Las Cruces had been nearly d esteeyed by the bursting of a water-spout. Gi seat damage had been done to the wheat ert --

PERSOKAi. M r. finfith, Commissioner of Indian read * statement before the Red Cloud Commissi cm in Washington cm the 15th, in which he em tphatically denied the charges made agains t him by Prof. Marsh. The Jh®. W. JE. McLaren, of Cleveland, Ohio,« vs. on the 15th, elected Bishop of the Episcop d Bioeeae of Illinois, receiving thir-ty-nine i«td sixty clerical, and fifty-five out of fifty-ei fit lay votes on the seeond ballot. His electa. » was then made unanimous. The Episcopal Council of the Fond du Lac Diocese have chosen as Bishop the Rev. John Henry Hob wt Brown, of Cohoes, N. Y. The ninth*, reunion of the society of the Grand Army «f the Cumberland was held at Utica, N. the 15th. Senator Conkling made the welc tuning speech. Gen. Sherman and CoL J. Waterman delivered lengthy and eiYxjoent orations. President Grant, Gens. Hoc deer and Slocum and ex-Gov. Seymour were jneeent and made brief speeches. Gen. P. B. Sheridan was chosen President of the society for the ensuing year;

\ Gen. H. M. Cist, Corresponding Secretary; Col. John W.. Steele, Recording Secretary, ' and Gen. f. S. Fullerton, Treasurer. The ' next meeting is to be held at Philadelphia July 6 and 7,1876. District Attorney Britton, of Brooklyn, and the Rev. H. W. Beecher having ex pressed a willingness to enter a not'.e prosequi in the libel suit of the latter against Frank D. Moulton; Mr. M. emphatically demands a trial under the Indictment pending against him. Ex -Senator Carl Sebum arrived at New York on the 14th from Europe. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has declined the proposed public reception at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn. Benjamin B. Halleck, accused of the larceny of $47,090 from the United States Treasury, waived an examination on the 17th, and was remanded to Jail in default of $40,000 bail. Theodore W. Brown, accused of the same larceny, was examined on the same day and also remanded in default of bail. Ex-Representative White, of Alabama, has been appointed an Associate Justice for Utah. Secretary Delano was before the Ren Cloud Investigating Committee on the 17tb, and gave a flat denial to some of the statements made by Messrs. Marsh and Welsh. MrDelano’s statement closed the evidence before the commission. It was announced in Boston on the 18th that Postmaster Burt, of that city, had been removed from office, and Edward C. Tobey appointed as his successor. N. B. Judd, Collector of Customs at Chicago, has resigned his office, to take effect Oct. 1.

POLITICAL. The Attorney-General was vi sited in Washington on the 15th by a delegation representing the Republican voters of Mississippi, who called to explain the condition of affairs in that State. They asserted that, owing to the White League organizations, which were very general throughout Mississippi, Repub-i lican voters were not able at all times to exercise their political rights. They claimed that there was always danger of serious difficulties unless their State Government, which was utterly unable to give them protection, should have assistance from the general Government. Upon the advice of the Attor-ney-General the delegation would return to Mississippi and confer further with the Governor and ascertain what they could do in their own support. A State Temperance Convention held at Janesville, Wis., on the 15th nominated the following Btate ticket: For Governor, H. C. Tilton; Lieutenant-Governor, D. W. Gilfillan; Secretary of State, H. AV. Brown; State Treasurer, D. W. Ball; Attorney-General, William Monroe.

The Nebraska Republican State Convention met at Omaha on the 15th and nominated George B. Lake, T. F. Gantt and Samuel Maxwell for Judges of the Supreme Court. Gen. Plaisted, the Republican candidate for Congress from the Fourth Maine District to succeed Samuel F. Hersey, deceased, is elected by about 1,000 majority. In a letter to Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, published on the 16th, Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont quotes from a dispatch he had received from President Grant, in which the latter says: “ The whole public are tired out with these annual outbreaks in the South, and a great many are ready now to condemn any interference on the part of the Government. I heartily wish that peace and good order may be restored without Issuing the proclamation; but if they are not, the proclamation must be issued; but if it is, 1 shall instruct the com- • mander of the forces to have no childish play. If there is a necessity for military inference, there is justice in such interference as will deter the evil-doers.” The President then suggests that Gov. Ames be urged to exhaust his own resources to restore order before receiving Government aid, which can be given him when necessary by the troops now in his State. The New York Democratic State Convention was held. at Syracuse on the 16th and 17th. The platform adopted declares that “ a speedy return to specie payment is demanded alike by the highest consideration of commercial morality and honest Government," aud reaffirms the declaration of principles adopted by the State Convention of last year. The following is the State ticket nominated: For Secretory “<& State, John Bigelow; Comptroller, Lucius Robinson; At-torney-General, Charles S. Fairchild; State Treasurer, Charles N. Ross; State Engineer, John D. Van Buren; Canal Commissioner, Christopher H. Wolrath; State Prison Inspector, Rodney R. Crowley.

The Democratic State Convention of Nebraska was held at Omaha on the I,7th, and nominated E. A. Thomas for Judge of the Supreme Court. The resolutions adopted declare in “ favor of a sound currency,,coin or its equivalent, as essential to stability in business, and a restoration of prosperity; steps toward specie payment, no step backward.” The Orange County (N. C.) election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Graham, resulted in the election of the Democratic candidate (Patterson), by some 600 majority, giving the Democrats two majority in the convention. In the Bill of Rights adopted by the Alabama Constitutional Convention on the 17th is asection which reads as follows: “The people of this State accept as final and established the fact that from, the Federal Union there can be no secession of any State."

Oh, she was an A 1 Conneaut belle, of the “very first water” or more; and she married a regular fine-haired “ swell” who clerked in a dry-goods store. And he clerked, and he clerked, till at last he fell into trouble with some of the money; and they went out West in a way, folks tell, not particularly funny. And’ after a time the belle came home, the old folks for to see; and the neighbors asked, when they found she’d come, what her husband’s biz might be. “ Oh, he is a railroad man now,” she said; “Assistant Conductor,” said she; bui some one as he shook his bead, what the dickens that might be. And then, with that high old “style” of hers, she answered the interrogation: “He assists in slacking the speed of the cars when tie train approaches a station.” — Ashtabula Uews.

John W. Forney, writing from London, says: It would surprise you if the money spent upon what are known as pet dogs could be faithfully set forth. As you walk the streets of London you see hundreds of thousands of tfiese little animals carried or led by ladies, and it is a common thing, as the nobility and gentry ride along in their splendid equipages, to see a variety of spaniels and noodles resting on the costly cushions. Some of these little pets are not much larger than a cotton or snowball, and with ftne, fleecy covering, nothing else visible save their black, piercing eyes, they present a laughable appearance. .