Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

forkign. A London dispatch of the 26th says the leading Catholics of England had arranged to give Cardinal McCloskey an imposing welcome on his arrival. The British Admiral in the Mediterranean had been instructed to take action relative to ,the recent attacks upon English merchantmen by Spanish pirates. A Montreal dispatch of the 26th officially announces that the remains of Guibord will be buried Nov. 18, the sixth anniversary of his death. - The Germsn Parliament met on the 27th. A speech from the Emperor was read by the Secretary of State. A Berlin special of the same date says a council of physicians, acting in behalf of the Supreme Court, had declared that Count von Arnim was unable to bear the term of imprisonment to which he had been sentenced. A Loudon dispatch of the 28th says the number of cases of the cattle plague for the ■ quarter ending Oct 16 was as follows: In Somersetshire, 83,W0; Cheshire, 50,000; Dorsetshire, 48,000; Gloucestershire, 44,000; Oxfordshire, 89,000; Warwickshire, 43,000; Norfolk, 31 t 000; Cumberland, 23,000. Throughout England and Wales there had been over 500,000 cases. A Madrid telegram of the 2Sth says it was rumored that the Carlist Gen. Dorregaray had been shot, by order of Don Carlos. A Boston special of the 28th says a report had reached that city that two Boston ships —the Jewess and the Delia M. Long—and an English craft-, name unknown, which sailed from port nearly two years ago and had not been heard from for a long time, had become becalmed near the Auckland Islands and were boarded by the savage inhabitants of that locality and the crews—thirty in number —were captured and taken ashore and eaten by the cannibals, only one man escaping to tell the tale. The survivor was one of the crew of the Jewess, who told the story to a Biddeford (Me.) Captain who had come across him at a foreign port. A Vienna special of ihe 29th ult. says it was reported there that the Turks had murdered sixty Christians in Bihacza, a fortified town near the Dalmatian frontier. Dr. Strousberg, of .Vienna, had failed, with liabilities amounting to 25,000,000 guilden, and bankruptcy proceedings had been commenced against him both In Vienna and Berlin. "A Berlin dispatch of the 29th ult. says Archbishop Ledochowski would be expelled from Germany as soon as his term of imprisonment had expired. The Carlists in London on the 29th ult. claimed that the Carlist army had recently achieved an important victory at Lumbier, in Navarre. Loudon dispatches of the 29th ult. announce the failure of Kai tengell & Campbell, mer--chants of that city, with $2,006,000 liabilities. A daughter had been born to the Duchess of ■Edinburgh—a grand-daughter to the Queen. The Leeds (England) Mercury of the 30th ult says the large iron-producers, Blockow, Vaughan & Co., employing in their collieries, mines and works over 10,000 men, had given notice to their employes that all work would be suspended Nov. 13. A Cairo (Egypt) telegram of the 30th ult. announces that the Egyptian army 'had en. tered Abyssinia, and that the inhabitants were retreating, offering no resistance/ London dispatch of the :81st ult says the British expedition to punish piratical natives on the Congo River bad been heard from. Many villages had been burned and.a large number of natives killed. The iron-clad Magenta, the flag-ship of the Vice-Admiral commanding the French squadiron of Toulon, caught Are on the 30th ult. and ultimately exploded. The London Times of the morning of the Ist estimates that 200 searpen had been ■drowned in the North Sea during the gales of the preceding three weeks, A Santander special of the 31st ult. announces the capture of Ordune by Gens. Loma and Quesada.

Mjusnc. A New York dispatch of the 26th gives a rumor current in that city that the members of the secret order of United Irishmen Redivivi of New York had recently held a secret meeting at which Thomas McGeajrhan, accused of betraying the secrets of the order, was tried, convicted and sentenced to die the death of a traitor. A young daughter of R. A. Hotchkiss, of Burbaak, Bakota, was so badly burned a few days ago by the explosion of a kerosene lamp that she died shortly after. Virginia City (Nev.) has been nearly destroyed by fire. The entire business and thickly-settled portion of the city was, on the 26th, laid waste, all the hotels, churches, newspaper offices, public buildings, telegraph and express offices, stores and business places and a large number of dwellings being hunted. Tea thousand people were rendered homeless. The greater part of the business section of Austin, Miss., was destroyed by fire on the 26th. Loss about $50,000. Official returns give the following figures (or the Gubernatorial tickets at the late election in California: Irwin, Democrat, 61,509; Phelps, Republican, 31,322; Bidwell, Independent, 29,752; LOrett, Temperance, 856." Irwin’s majority over Phelps is 30,187, and.® over all. * W A Columbus special of the 96th gives the jiTOte for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor at the recent Ohio election as follows: For Governor: Hayes, 297,813; Allen, 292,264; Odell (Prohibitionist), 2,597. Hayes’ plurality, 5,540; majority, 2,952. Lieutenant-Gov-ernor: Young, 297,931; Cary, 287,968; Thomp. eon, 3,630. Young’s plurality, 9,963; majority, 6,333.

The news received on the 26th from the re cent election in Oregon indicated the election of Lane (Dem.) to Congress by about 1,200 majority. President Grant, on the 27th, issued his proclamation designating Thursday, Nov. 25 as a day of thanksgiving and prayer throughout the United States. Dr. Linderman, Director of the United States Mint, is authority (or the statement that the conflagration at Virginia City will result in a decrease of <1,000,000 per month of gold bullion and of <1,500,000 per month ol silver at that place for the next four months. ▲ severe earthquake shock was felt at Memphis, Tenn., and in portions of Mississippi on the evening of the 27th. Three of the participants in the late murder pf the four Italians in Denver have been ar-

rested. One of them, arr Italian, confesses to having played his harp while five others cut the throats of their victims. Reports from Virginia City on the 27th estimated tRe total damage by the fire at from $3,000,000 to $7,000,000. Two men were killed by a falling wall. Unless immediate relief was received the suffering of the homeless and destitute would be intense. The, school-houses, the only public buildings' which escaped the tames, had Men converted into temporary lodging-houses, but they did not afford shelter for half of those whosehomes were destroyed. Bread was scarce, but liquor was plenty, and the streets were alive with a drunken mob. The military were protecting the property of the city. The agricultural returns received at Wash-, ington for October Indicate that the wheat crop of this year will average about 80 per cent, of.last year’s production, and is inferior in quality, averaging 14 per cent, below a sound condition. The condition of the carii crop is unexceptionally high; the product reported this year falls short of 1874 about 4 per cent. The oats product is 5 per cent, greater than last year. The potato crop promises to be extraordinary, both in yield and quality. Tobacco is 2 per cent, above the average. Barley is 87 per cent, of last year’s crop, and buckwheat not far from the average. A Virginia City dispatch of the 28th says the mines in that place were all right, there being no fires in the workings. The damage done to the Ophir shaft was limited to a few feet at the top. The rebuilding of the mining mills and machinery would be begun at once. A number of firms in the city had resumed business. Relief was being daily forwarded from San Francisco and other localities. • The Secretary of the Treasury gave directions on the 28th ult. for the retirement and cancellation of $704,880 United States legaltenders, that amount being 80 per cent, of the National Bank circulation issuedin September. This will make the amount of outstanding legal-tenders, until further orders, $373,236,244. > On the 29th ult as a man named Small was riding in a wagon near a railroad wharf in Portland, Me., he saw two children playing on the track and a train backing down on them. He sprang from the wagon to rescue the children and succeeded in doing so, but was himself run over by the train and killed. At Athens, Ohio, on the evening of the 29th ult., three small children of a colored 'man named” KrumSley were left KfITOBiF alone, and during the absence of their parepts the house took fire (it is supposed from the upsetting of a lamp) and the children were burned to death. The Secretary of the Treasury has instructed the Assistant-Treasurer at New X'ork to sell $500,000 in gold coin on each Thursday during.the month of November, making the total amount to be sold $2,000,000. The Carleton Mills, Philadelphia, were destroyed by fire on the morning of the Ist, involving a loss in buildings, machinery and stock of about $1,000,000. Some damage was done to adjoining property. Judge Dillon, of the United States Circuit Court at Des Moines, has decided that there is no penalty under the law for sending vulgar and reproachful matter on postal-cards through the mails; but that it is the duty of the first Postmaster into whose hands such cards come to destroy them. An advance has recently been made in railroad passenger fares between the West and East, the rate from Chicago to New York now being twenty-two dollars for firstclass tickets.

PERSONAL. The formal inauguration of the statue to Stonewall Jackson, presented to Virginia by a number of English gentlemen, took place at Richmond on the 26th. Fifty thousand strangers were in tho city on the occasion, and the demonstrations are said to have been very grand and imposing. An indiettnent has been found by the Grand Jury against Joseph LaPage for the murder of Josie Langmaid at Ppmtfroke, New Hampshire. —j • John Dolan, indicted for the murder of James H. Noe, a merchant of New York city, was convicted on the 27th and sentenced to be hanged on the 10th of December. Benjamin Boyd and wife, arrested at Fulton, 111., by United States officers, on a charge of counterfeiting, were brought before Commissioner Hoyne at Chicago on the 27th, and, waiving examination, were held for trial in bail of $36,000 for the man and $15,000 for the woman. The Driggs party, arrested at . Centralia on a similar charge, were taken to Springfield and committed to jail in default of bail, ranging up to $40,000, to await the action of the United States Grand Jury. Hon. Amasa Walker died at Boston on the 29th ult., aged seventy-six years. At Salt Laks on the 29th ult. Judge Boreman issued an order requiring brigham Young to pay the sum of $9,500 to Ann Eliza, awarded in the divorce suit, or to go to jail. Brigham was sick in bed and, still refusing to pay, was placed in the Marshal.