Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN. A Paris dispatch of the 12th says 500 Carllstaoldlers had crossed the frontier at Port de Vanasque into'France and had been disarmed by the French authorities. The Madrid Imoarcial of the 13th says the French authorities were seeking to interne ■Gen. Saballa, and Don Carlos had ordered that he be shot wherever found. -Letters from the Arctic expedition were received in London on the 12th. On the 6th and 7th of August the voyagers were at Way - gart Straits—all well. A harmless duel with swords was fought at Nesunt, near Paris, on the 10th, between a -couple of Americans named Riggs and Paine. The latter was slightly wounded. A telegram from Shanghai to the London Times of the’ 14th says the aspect of affairs at * Pekin was more satisfactory. A Rome dispatch of the T3th says Italy would be represented at the American Cen- ' tennial, after all. , In consequence of his perpetual troubles with the Prussian Government the Prince Bishopof Breslau en the 14th dissolved his connection with the Prussian portion of his dioeese. According to a special telegram to the London Fem of the 14th Russia was preparing for a military expedition against Bokhara, in Centra] Asia. London dispatches of the 15th say that fifteen workmen had been seriously, if not •fatally, injured on that day by the overflow of molten metal at the Walsall iron-works. ■A severe gale had prevailed during the preceding day along the British coast, and several vessels had been wrecked, involving the loss of numerous lives. A Constantinople telegram of the 15th announces the recent defeat of a large insurgent force. Over 160 rebels had been killed *nd.the remainder compelled to cross over into Montenegro. .The Tnnes of India of a recent date says 20,000 persons had been rendered homeless ■by the late floods in the province of Guzerat. A Madrid dispatch of the 16th says Don Carlos had imprisoned Dorregaray and other of hi*leaders, and dismissed them from his service. A Munich telegram of the 16th says the Bavarian Ministry had been forced to resign by the UltraAontanes. A Berlin dispatch of the 16th states that in consequence of the Pope’s intercession the Emperor of Germany had remitted one year of Cardinal Ledochowski’s term of imprisonment for resisting the Prussian Ecclesiastical laws, and <that a full pardon would probably follow. A London dispatch of the 17th announces the arrival of the steamer Pandora from the Arctic region. Tire-graves of Sir John Franklin’s men were discovered with the head, ■boards and inscriptions thereon intact, and a glimpse had of King William’s Land where no vessel ever touched. « The London Times of the 18th publishes a -special from Ragusa announcing that the Turks had crossed the Austrian border and had menaced the village of Erzeg. Troops had been sent thither. A Berlin special of the 17th says that Rus-sia-had commanded the Polish proprietors in the provinces of Milua, Groduo, Koona, Minck and Vitepsk to sell their farms to Russian tenantry, the Government fixing the price, thus completing the impoverishment of the Polish nobility. Arthur Davis and wife, of Toronto, Canada, have been sentenced to be hanged in December next for the murder of. a Miss Gilman by malpractice.

DOMESTIC. An official statement of the number of grain and molasses distilleries in operation -on the Ist inst., and their daily capacities, .shows the number of distilleries to be 174, - with a total daily spirit-producing capacity of ,189,683 gf-llons, an increase over September -of fortyfive distilleries, and 18,874 gallons .daily. A high wind in Philadelphia on the 12th folew down the unfinished Agricultural Hall, .on the National Centennial grounds. The building was about one-third completed and entirely of .wood. Eight laborers were injured, five seriously and one fatally. The building was under contract to be finished byJan. 1. Three colored men were attacked in New Orleans on the night of the 12th, one of them'being killed outright another mortally -and the third -slightly wounded. Two white • ; mea charged wdth the crime, were arrested «and put in jail, and a mass meeting was held •on the 13th at which resolutions were aidoptied disclaiming responsibility for the outrage, condemning all violence and pledging support to the law of the land. jL Washington dispatch of the 14th says: ■ Although this Government has repeatedly . «id emphatically expressed its desire to the fc punish Government for the termination cf tl ,ie insurrection >in Cuba, and tendered its gt urd offices to produce an accommodation be toeen the contending parties, it has never go, sc to the extent of the late transatlantic ; stoi T by diplomatically threatening to ackno ■hedge the rights of the Cubans in case host be <tot closed before the Ist of Janu ne xt” Tn i beXlnitedjßtates District Court at Salt Lake, the 13th, Judge Horeman delivered a strong charge to the Grand Jury in opposition to polygamy or bigamy, and in regard to enfo. ‘ eic g the law of Congress of >1862 pnnishu 'g the offense. He stated that it had never b< respected, and every possible means hi 'been used to prevent its enfosoement. H • malted upon the jury to indict all persons ki own to be guilty of polygamy. A run wt »1“ progress on the Home Savings Bank 1 * Boston on the 15th. The offi. cers stated t isattbe bank was in a perfectly safe conditio sand they Were paying all demands witho it requiring the regular notice. On the even tog of the 11th Dr. Saunders, of Clinton, La., . was poisoned with a solution of arsenic, in a dipper and bucket of water, administered b. T one Catherine Mathews, sister-in-law of John Gair (colored). When arrested she cot fessed her guilt, and said John Gair and Bo bert Bay instigated her to the act The Dep '“ty Sheriff and posse arrested John Gair in Baton Rouge on the 14th, and started with th. prisoner for Clinton. About night they we. ’e met by a body of fifty or more armed me.t, who disarmed the officers, took possessio u of Gair and shot him to death. The womi® was subsequently taken from the jail and Aung by the same or a similar band.

Information has been recently received at Washington that Russia will be represented at the next year. By order of the Postmaster-General a rearrangement of the fast-mail service between New York, St. Ixruls and the Southwest is to be shortly made so that all such matter as naturally belongs to the Pennsylvania Railroad shall be sent by that line instead of the New York Central and Lake Shore route. The Chicago Journal of a recent date cautions people against counterfeit flve-dollar notes on the First National Bank of Aurora, 111., and says they are the same as these of the Traders’ National Bank of Chicago and of Paxton, 111., with the exception of the change in the name df the bank.

PERSONAL. Michael Carney, the surviving principal in the fatal prize-fight near Boston, and the seconds of the have given themselves up to the police authorities. The Women’s International Christian Association met at Pittsburgh on the !2th. Mrs. Samson, of Boston, was elected President and Mrs. John H. Winters, of Dayton, Ohio, VicePresident; • One of the indictments against Charles Mcllrath, late State Auditor of Minnesota, for alleged malfeasance in office in connection with schodl lands, was tried at St. Paul on the 12th, and resulted In a verdict of not guilty. President Grant and party arrived in Chicago on the 12th, on their return to Washington from the West. The dry-goods house of Strauss, Lehman <fc Co., of New York city, suspended on the 13th with liabilities estimated at $500,000. A Frenchman named LaPage was arrested in Suncook, N. H., on the evening of th,e 13th on suspicion of being the guilty party in the Langmaid murder. The trial at Murphysboro, 111., of John Bulliner and Allen Baker (two of the Williamson County (III.) Ku-Klux) for murder has resulted in a verdict of guilty and a sentence of twenty-five years in the Penitentiary. A new trial was refused. President Grant arrived in Washington on the 15th, and a regular session of the Cabinet was held, at which a large amount of routine business was considered. Additional failures of business firms were reported in New York city on the 15th, the heaviest being that of Moses S. Herman & C 0.—5200,000 liabilities and about SIOO,OOO assets. James E. Danham, Postmaster at Bridgeport, Conn., has been suspended by the President for having sold appointments. The Grand Jury ‘of Winnebago County, 111., have indicted Messrs. Foster and Edwards, of St. Louis, the principals in the late duel near Rockford, their seconds, the surgeons, and Mr. Postgate, the newspaper reporter—all for being connected with said duel. Indictments were also found against Patrick Flynn, ex-Sheriff of the county, and F. B. Wilkie, of the Chicago Times, for conspiracy and subornation of perjury in obtaining affidavits to damage the character of Miss Early, of Rockford, who, it will be remembered, obtained a heavy verdict against Mr. Storey,of the.TVmcs,for defamation of character, and which verdict had been appealed from by the defendant. Mr. Flynn was arrested on the 15th and was released on $1,500 bail. Mr. Wilkie went to Rockford from Chicago on the 14th and gave himself up the next day to the authorities, and was also released on giving bail to the same amount. The Dioceses of Albany, New York, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin have all reported favorably to the consecration of Dr. McLaren as Bishop of Illinois.

POLITICAL. The North Carolina Constitutional State Convention adjourned sine die on the evening of the 11th, after a session of thirty-one. working days. Henry J. Yates (Rep) was elected Mayor of Newark, N. J., on the 12th by a majority of 3,390 over Andrew Smalley (Dem.). The Michigan Supreme Court has decided the State law taxing the liquor.dealing business to be constitutional and not in contravention of the clause in the Constitution prohibiting the Legislature from passing any law licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors. The Massachusetts Democratic Executive Committee decided on the 13th to place the name of John Quincy Adams upon the ticket as candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, vice Gen. Bartlett, declined. . The Hon. Charles G. Davis is the Democratic candidate for Congress in the First Massachusetts District. The National Women’s Congress assembled at Syracuse on the 13th for a.three-days’ session. A number of prominent women were in attendance. Prof. Maria Mitchell delivered the annual address. Several other speeches were made. The State Register, at Des Moines, had returns from seventy-four counties in lowa on the 15th, giving a majority -of 24,529 for Kirkwood, and estimated his majority in the State at about 30,000. The Republicans would probably have a majority oi thirty-two in the Senate and sixty in the House. A Hard-3 Honey Convention was held at Detroit,on tie 15th, at which resolutions were adopted declaring against all schemes for currency infiation or any form of irredeemable paper currency, and opposing any policy which has not the direct purpose to establish the currency .on a par with, and actually interconvertible .with, coin. Letters in favor of hard money-were received from Senator Christiancy, ax-Gov. Blair and -others, and delegates were appointed to attend the Cincinnati Convention. An Omaha dispatch of the 14th states that tin Republican -majority in Nebraska would be about 10,0OQ, and that the new Constitution had been adopted by a very large majority. A dispatch was received in Washington an the 15th from Jackson, Miss., to the effect that military operations had been suspended by Gov. Ames upon ample and minute assurance of, leading citizens of the State that there should be peace and a fair and free election. They would not undertake to answer far lawlessness, h*t ! guaranteed to aid the civil officers in the execution of the laws.

Gov. Houston, of Alabama, has appointed Kov, 16 as tie day for the people to vote upon the new Constitution which.,the convention of that State has just completed. Unofficial returns received at Columbus on the 15th from all the counties in Ohio' give Hayes a majority of 4,753 over Allen and a Republican majority es seventeen in the House and three in the Senate. Tia? entire Republican Stale ticket is probably elected. v ary, for Lieutenant-Governor, ran about 10,000 behind Allen in the State. The Texas Constitutional Convention has adopted a provision making the Governor's term four years, and providing that no person shall be eligible for more than one term in eight years.

A Washington dispatch of the ITtfi states that in a lengthy conversation between the President and ex-Benator Pease, of Mississippi, the former said he was much gratified that the two political parties had effected an amicable adjustment by which a fair election would be held and peace maintained in Mississippi. Pease was assured that no removals would be made in that State for mere partisan reasons, and Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont told him that none coming under his department would be disturbed.