Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREir.lt. The Supreme Court of Germany on the 30th indorsed the verdict of the Kammergericht iu the case of Count von Arnim. Prof, Wheatstone, the distinguished English scientist and electrician, died at Paris on the «>th. , 1 ‘ A recent St Petersburg dispatch reports the burning of 300 dwellings, a synagogue and five schools in Widsy, Russian Poland. Several persons perished and more than S,OOO persons were rendered homeless. - - The London Morning Echo of the 23d gives additional particulars of the flood. It says the valley of the River Don had formed a lake half a mile wide and fifteen miles long; that many collieries and iron works had been flooded and thousands of operatives thrown out of employment. At Darlington the flood was particularly severe, the gas-works, among other establishments, being drowned out At Ruthcrham, iu Yorkshire, over 1,000 people were out of work. A Paris dispatch of the 21st says the work of sinking a shaft 100 meters deep will shortly be begun near Calais, preliminary to the cutting of the English Channel tunnel. The King of Bavaria, on the 21st, Issued a royal decree adjourning the Bavarian Diet until further notice. The King refused to accept the resignation of his Ministers. Several Important failures occurred In London and Manchester, England, on the 22d. The London Times of the 23d says London merchants had been able to Import American caScoes at a profit. On the 21st and 23d a severe gale passed over the Scottish coast. Up to the morniug of the 23d five vessels had been reported lost with all on board within a distance of forty miles. A Madrid telegram of the 22d announces the arrival at Santander of the New York murderer, Bharkey. According to rumors which prevailed in Bedin on the 24th Bismarck was about to tender his resignation, of the Chancellorship of the German Empire in consequence of the precarious condition of his health. Madrid dispatches of the 24th say that the Government had refused permission to the Republicans to hold electoral meeting*. Senor Marfori, formerly Minister of the Colonies, had been arrested and would be expatriated.

DOMESTIC. The report of the special commission appointed to Investigate the charges made by Prof. Marsh of mismanagement and fraud at the lied Cloud Agency was made public on the 18th. The commission found no fraud in connection with the beef contracts, but discovered that the Government and Indians had been swindled by flour and pork contractors. The charges of incompetency against Agent Seville are sustained and the appointment of a new man in his stead is recommended. Ex-Secretary Delano and Commissioner Smith are exonerated from any complicity in the frauds, though the latter is alleged to have been neglectful in some instances. Several changes are recommended in the management of Indian affairs. The receipts of the Postoffice Department for the fiscal year ending June 30,1875, were $37,561,502.68; expenditures, $33,011,309.45; leaving a deficiency balance of $6,049,806.77. At Canon City, Col., a few nights ago, a twelve-year-old girl named Carrie Buckingham, who was visiting her sister, Mrs. Evans, undertook to start a fire with coal-oil. The can exploded, her dress caught fire, and in a moment the flames communicated to Mrs. Evans and her infant, one year old. The three were fatally burned. * According to a Washington special of the 19th the receipts from internal revenue for the three months ending Sept. 80 had shown an increase of $1,780,356 over those of the corresponding quarter iast year. —Ar Mrs. Genty, of Oil City, Pa., left her home in the charge of thrte children on the 19th. During her absence the children undertook to kindle a fire by the use of kerosene-" oil, when the usual result followed, and a little boy was fatally burned. One of the two girls escaped from the house uninjured, but the third child, a little girl about four years old, shut herself up in a closet and was burned to death, the house being destroyed by fire. The other day the Sheriff of Portage County, Wife., was killed by two brothers named Amos and Isaac Courtwright, whom he was attempting to eject from a building. On the morning of the 19th a party of masked men, numbering forty, went to the jail at Stevens Point, seized the turnkey, beat down the door of the jail, took out the Courtwrights and hung them to a pine tree overhanging the road.

Prof. James C. Watson, of the Michigan University, has recently, discovered a new planet It shines like a star of the tenth magnitude. A colored man named Isaac' McAfee has been recently convicted and sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for having about a year ago caused a terrible accident on the Selma (Ala.) & Dalton Railroad by placing obstructions on the track. Two white men are to be tried for the same offense. What is called a Centennial excursion arrived in Philadelphia on the evening of the 20th. There were delegations from Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Toledo, Cleveland and Buffalo to the number of 125. They met with an enthusiastic welcome by the Philadelphians.' Excursionists g were also in that city from 8t Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Reuben Benton, while playing croquet at Titusville, Pa., on the 30th, was accidentally struck in the head with a mallet, and so badly injured that he died in a few hours. A large mass meeting was held in New York city on the 20th to advocate the continuance of the reading ctf the Bible in the public school*. The property bequeathed by the will of the late Isaac M. Singer, the sewing-machine man, At Denver, CoL, on the 21st, a policeman discovered in-the cellar of a small tenementhouse recently vacated by some Italian musicians the dead, bodies of an old man and three boys, all Italians, who had been murdered, the throats of all having bean cut. The watch factory at Freeport, IJL, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 21st. Loss $150,000. The fire was the work of an incendiary. The Postoffice Department has decided to order railway postal-car service between the cities of Pittsburgh and St Louis, 't&t the Pap Jlandle & Vandalia route, passing through

Indianapolis, and the service will be begun as soon as the department esn make the necessary arrangements. , Frits Kaiier, twenty-one years of age, jumped from the tower of the Chicago. Water Works on the afternoon of the22d, and fell a distance of nearly 200 feet and was dashed to pieces on the turrets at the base. He was deranged and had recently been an inmate of an insane asylum. ■ • Dun, Barlow & Co.’s New York Mercantile Agency has issued a statement of business failures in the I'niitcd States during this year up to the Ist of October, which shows a total of failures during nine months of 5,334; liabilities, *131,172,503. The greatest number occurred in the last three mouths, involving liabilities estimated at $54,328,237. Henry Brown (colored) waa hanged at St. Louis on the 22d for the brutal murder in Maylast of a farmer named Philip Pfarr. Dr. Lindermap. 'Director of the Mint, estimates the gold and silver production of the country next year at $100,000,000. / The Commissioner of Pensions has con - eluded his annual report. The Invalid armyroll is 105,478, at an annual cost of $10,961,218. The roll of army widdWs is 104,885, at a total annual rate of $12,835,579. The survivors of the war of 1812 number 16,875, at an annual rate of $1,524,000. The widows of the war of 1812 number 5,163, at a total annua) rate of $495,648. The invalid roll is 1,036, at a total annual rate of $182,613. It is estimated that by December next there w'll be 12,500 applications for Increase of pension under the new law. In a recent letter to the New York Herald Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, the well-known Arctic explorer, expresses his belief in the existence of an open Polar sea, and regrets that the Pandora did not winter there and renew the search for the records of Sir John Franklin’s expedition in the spring. He reiterates his belief that in the vicinity of the pole there is an open navigable sea in the summer;that it may be reached by ship or boat by way of Smith’s Sound, and that the north pole is within the reach of any nation that will think it worth while to spend money enough to get to it. A few nights ago Mr. and Mrs. Murray, married only a few weeks, were burned to death during a tire in the house of Susan Bradley, at Cheshire, Conn. The town of Vermillion, near Sandusky, Ohio, was almost wholly destroyed by lire on th«22<U Eleven business blocks In the heart. of the town were burned. Loss estimated at $75,000; insurance light. Two men were arrested, charged with setting the place on fire Mrs. D. L. Murden, of New Orleans, was burned to death on the 22d by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp, and her husband was severely burned iu attempting to extinguish the flames. Prof. Atchinson, the aeronaut, attempted a balloon ascension at the recent Elkhorn (Ky.) Fair, but when several hundred feet high the balloon took fire and was burned, and he was precipitated to the earth and 60 badly injured that his recovery was considered doubtful. The Charlottesville (Va.) National Bank suspended on the 23d. Several business firms in that section closely connected with the bank were also forced to suspend.

PERSONAL. O’Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, recently walked 100 miles in the unprecedented time of eighteen hours and fifty-eight seconds. The President has appointed ex-Senator Zachariuh Chtndler, of Michigan, as Secretary of the 'lnterior, vice Delano, resigned. Mr. Chandler took the customary oath and entered on the duties of the position on the 19th. A reunion of Union and Confederate soldiers was recently held at Elizabeth, N. J. Fourteen"veteran companies participated. Frederick Hudson, for many years managing editor of the New York Herald , died at Concord, Mass., on the 21st, from injuries received the day before by being struck by a locomotive while riding across a railroad track in a buggy. Gen.JSol Meredith, of Indiana, died at his home in Cambridge City, on the 21st, of a cancer in his stomach. The District-Attorney of Brooklyn has entered a nolle prosequi In all the libel suite growing out of the Beecher-Tilton scandal. Messrs. Moody and Sankey began their revival labors in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) rink at S:3O o’clock on the morning of Sunday, the 24th. The building was densely packed. An afternoon service was also held, to which at least 5,000 people were unable to gain admittance. Two churches in the immediate neighborhood were thrown open to the crowds and services held therein, Mr. Sankey visiting and singing in both of them. Announcement was made that services would be held every evening during the week except Saturday. The trial of Col. John A. Joyce for conspiracy to defraud the Government revenues was concluded in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri on the 23d, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty on all four counts of the indictment.

POLITICAL. The vote polled in Cincinnati nt the Into election was the largest ever cast in that city, being 39,530. The vote in the county was about 47,000. At the election in California on the 20th Prof. Carr, the Republican candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction, was elected. All the Judges but one in office in San Francisco, both Democratic and Republican, were re-elected. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided the action of the Wood County canvassers in throwing out the vote of the town of Lincoln at the election last year to be illegal. The decision was made „on a contest over the county offices, but the counting of the votes of Lincoln will elect Alexander S. McDill (Rep.) to Congress instead 1 of George W. Cate. The certificate of election had been given to the latter. A fine of S2OO was imposed on the leading canvasser who threw out the votes. \ A Cincinnati dispatch of the 22d says official returns from seventy-six counties in Ohio, arid what were deemed authentic returns from the remaining twelve, show Hayes’ majority to be 9,549. * A Des Moines (Iowa) telegram of the 22d says Gov. Kirkwood’s majority then stood at 31,356, with Lyon and PaSo Alto Counties to hear from, which would increase it about 200 g Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont received a letter from Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, on the 23d, in which the latter states that all the threatened troubles in his State had subsided. He had disbanded the militia on the assurance of his j •political opponents that there should be a ! fair election, and peace prevailed over the en- j lire Stale, with no prospect of further out-! boeaks. 'X, ' The election registration in New York city j ‘this year aggregated 144,934, agaifist 146,218 \ last year. '