Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

1 FOKEIKK. A dispatch from Bag-weirs de Euehon, pub- j listed In the London Time* of the 7th, report# that the inhabitants of Arran Valley had inaugurated a gornral rising against the Garllsts on acocant Of the cxacttoUs of the soldiery, and that the latter kad been o*mpelled to take refuge In the mountains. Brown, Kerens ft. Williamson, heavy sugarrefiners of Glasgow, Scotland, failed for a large amount on the 7th. Ft was stated that several other eedaVdshmerits were involved. Owing to popular outcry the British Admlralty on the 7th suspended the circular of July 31, directing the surrender of 'fugitive slaves found on British vessels. The "Gardes. House,*’ belonging to Henry Allers Hankey, locator 1 , near Wo tminster, England, valued with its contents at over $2,50(1890, -was tota% destroyed by fire on the night of the 7th. The EooJeriastical*Court has 'deposed the Bishop of Berlin. The QubWne Forts had deenstJ, according to a OonShmtinopte dispatch of the 7th, that dortng 'five yearsdrom Jan. J, 1876, the interest on end the sedemption of the public debt will be paid one-half ir. cash and the otter half in 5 per cent, bonds. J. special publidaed in the' London Mom•inf Standard of the 9th statnf that the Servian ®tf.puti*3 had mdt on the Cay previous and rejected the motion for war by a vote of 62 <o 21. Two'Canadian: prope Hers—the St Audley -and the BristrK —were burned to the water’s ■edge at HamiP on, on Lake Ontario, on the night of the Hi. Aerordingdo a Brussels dispatch of the 9th -diploaiatic relations between Venezuela and Holland • had been interrupted by the abrupt departin'oof the Minister of the former power trow the Hague because of a failure to agree in certain pe nding negotiations. A Loudon telegram -of the 9th says the -cholera hod broken out in the province of Mysore/* Inlia. _ . ■Hr. 'Forbes, Lord Bishop of Brechin, in fiteothmd. died on the Mh.

DOMESTIC. A horrf ole outrage «nd murder was comiznitttu at Pembroke, X. ,H., on the 4th. The mutilated body of a young lady named Josie Longjtnafi was found'bn the evening of that day in a piece of woods half a mile from the road over which she had started in the morning to go to school. The head was misaing, having been entirely severed from the bodr. “ Anterican Girl"- ‘dropped dead ’on the track while trotting a race at Elmira, N, Y., on thc3d. She was valued at $30,000. The Comptroller. off the Currency has called upon'National BanksYor a report exhibiting their ooadit ion at 4JSc close of business on Friday, the l6t of Oalobcr. The United Btates Assistant Treasurer at New York has been directed to sell $1,000,Oooia.gvld o n each®.ursday of the present month-S4,C 00,000 in all. Mary horses ia Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis ai d ot her Western localities were suffering, from s ymptoaac of the epizootic on the Tth, and the > disease seemed to be spreading. Serious dit '.turbine es occurred at Friar’s To»t,ffKUs., ■< »n the' -sth and 6th. It seems that-at a Ck raserertive convention on the night oftthe 2t 1 Senator Alcorn severely criticised the offiei ii canfiuct of Brown (colored), Sheriff of the t jounty. and the next day Brown used savere lai tguade :n reply, when Alcorn threatened to s hoot him. Brown then summoned numnah er off negroes, who prepared to come to kis as eistaur;. On the sth all the women and chi idee* cere sent from Friar’s Point, and the p face »r.s attacked by a force of 506 negroes, Who were repulsed by white rforcee under Gen u GhaLners. In the skirmish •eight negroes . indione white man were wounded.

A Columbus ( Ohio' dispatch of the Tth aays the hog dise ise was playing sad havoc dn that section. . Six thousand hogs had already died in I .'raniiin County so far this month. Friar's Point spt >ciaidispatches of the 7th -state that Gen. Chi ibserc was driving the colored forces, under Pease (colored) and was determined to capl ure i.im if possible. In the skirmishes whit 4t toed place on the sth a white man Wae fata By wounded and three negross were h illed ; uid one wounded, probably totally. Senator Aiocrn on the Tth sent 1 a telegram to htty.-Gcu. \l’ierrepont stating that there wasuo question of politics in these disturbances; the whites were to a man for defense, and the negroes s*l o had been misled were fast being reoonc iled. He stated that his-name had been moi‘ ridiculously aseociatedcn the patter. George W.l*enarerton, these urderer of Mrs. Bingham, at iJasff Boston, is .March last, was hanged at Bos too. on the Bth. A Memphis diqpatch of the Bth says the Tmar’s Pont War was considered at an end. A Helena apechvl <f same dagJ states that Bhetiff Brown w.w at that place and had said he would net return to FriarVßflnt, and that the negroes there threatened to kill him if he did. Chalmers W£s still seeking to effect his capture.

United States SkjiMtor Pease and UnitedStates Atty. iWells, of Mississippi, and the Attornep-Genecil of that State ,-called on Atty.iGen. Pierpepont.U. Washington, on the 4r.ii, and Assured him that if there wj.s no in•fcoference by the General Government in K&seissippi the result woCd be tbe-iedemp-tfem of the State t om serious fcifficul--1 tec now enisling. Jsiin By an, of Beston, died on the Oti. from th e affects <tf injjirias received in a prizefight the'ity befee-e with Michael Carney. The latt tried. A named JSumpe Pemterton, under arresh. fior horse-steaiiig, was lynched at Forest Ci 111.,-early on the morning- of the 6th. The > Chicago Journalol the 9th says that private information and press .dispatches frejm var Veus parts of the West indicated that although here and there some of the corn was dama, ted by flood or frost, yet the aggregate crop will be “literally stupendous.” Advices fron i tha South also indicated that the cotton vWop will be better than the Asesage. _ ' .PERSONAL. True bills have teen found by the Grand Jury of the District of Columbia against Benjamin B. Hallei '-k, William H. Ottman and T. W. Brown foi ‘ having been concerned in the $47,000 robbe.T of the United States Treasury. The New York Supreme Court on the 6th confirmed the decision of the lower court

denying the motion to vacate the order of arrest on the $6,000,t)00 suit against William M. Tweed aad ordering $3,000,000 bail. The Catholic ,Total Abstinence Union of AUertca was in session iu Cincinnati on the oth an d 7th. Very Rev, Patrick Byrne, of New .lebsey, was chosen President and James O’Brien, of New Tevk city, Secretary for the ensuing year. President Grant and party returned to Denver Sn the 7th from Southern Colorado. A New York dispatch of the Bth announces that Messrs. Moody and Bankey will begin their revival on the 31st of the present mouth in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Rink, which has the capacity for accommodating from 7,000 to 8,000 persons. The services will be on the same general plan as that pursued In Great Britain. m John Siney, President of the Miners’ Na?“ tional Union, and Ningo Parks, a prominent and active member of the same were recently tried at Clearfield, Pa., on the charge of riot and conspiracy. The former was acquitted and the tatter convicted and sentenced to hard lhtor for one year and fined ohe dollar and costs of about $1,500. The American Board-of Foreign Missions, which met in Chicago-on the sth, adjourned on the Bth after a very interesting session. The principal officers elected for the ensuing year are: President, Per. Mark Hopkins; VicePresident, Hon. Wm.E. Dodge; Corresponding Secretaries, Rev. Selah B. Treat and Nathaniel G. Clark; Recording Secretary, Rev. John O. Means;Treasurer, Langdon S. Ward; Auditors, Hon. Thomas 11. Russell. Hon. Avery Plumer and. Elbridge Terry. Westervelt, convicted of being implicated In the abduction of Charlie Ross, has been sentenced to sewn years’solitary confinement in the Penitentiary. The member? of the firm of Duncan, Sherman & Co., the bankrupt bankers of New York city, west- arrested on the Bth, on complaint of John A. Roebling’s Sons, on - a charge of fraud. They were released on bail of $5,000 each. Mr. Duncan has withdrawn his offer to pay his creditors 33 per cent, in notes. ' ■ ' • ' • ' * ■ —i ' - Another sat has been instituted against Wm. M. Tweed to recover the sum of $983,640 alleged te have been fraudulently paid on warrants certified by him.

POLITICAL. At Jthe town elections in Connecticut on the 4th tbe larger places generally voted for liquor license and the smaller towns were about equally divided on the question. Hartford geve 1,100 and East Hartford 2 majority for license and Danbury voted no license. The Labor-Reformers of Massachusetts have nominated Wendell Phillips for GoVernor; Wn. Mr Bartlett, Lieutenant-Gov-ernor; Israel W. Andrews, Secretary of State; S. B. Coffin, Treasurer; John F. Fitzgerald, Stole Auditor, and H. B. McLaughlin, Attorney-General. Resolutions were adopted —favoring a reduction in the hours of labor and a system of factory inspection; condemning the action of the manufacturers- of Fall River; favoring the greenback currency and the retirement of National Bank currency. "it a Prohibition meeting held in Boston on the 6th John J. Baker was nominated as a candidate‘or Governor. No other nomina; tlons were made. At the recent election in Connecticut it was voted to change the time of the State election from the spring to the fall of the year and to mahe the Governor’s term of office two yeare. The U.--S. Supreme Court has decided, in the appealed St. Louis Minor case, that the new amendments to the National Constitution de not, confer the right of suffrage upon anyone, and that the Constitutions and laws of the several - -States which confine that right to men alone arc not necessarily void.