Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1876 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

nu w ahhotm. .~. A WArauroTOX telegram of the 24 th Mye PortmasteMten. Jewell had Invited the portmaster* of the larger cities to a conference in that eltv itis naw law redUAbur . admo. to a Washington’Associated Press dispatch of the Mth it was believed that Senator Morrill would not qualify a$ Secretary of the Treasury. Mb. Blainr left Washington for his Maine home on the afternoon of the 37th. His general health had not changed since his recent relapse, and his condition caused great anxiety on the part of his friends. . Tan President on the 98th sent to the Senate the nomination of Albert M. Wyman, formerly of Nebraska, to be United States Treasurer, vice John C. New, resigned. Mr. Wyman was Assistant Deputy of the Treasurer. THE BAST. Tub Maine Republican State Convention was hold at Bangor, on the 23d. Belden Connor, present Governor, was nominated for reelection, and Presidential Elcctors-at-Large were chosen. Resolutions were adopted endorsing the Cincinnati platform and candidate*; reaffirming adherence to prohlbitten, and recommending ex-Bpeaker Blaine for appointment to succeed Mr. Morrill In the United States Senate. Ix a trot againt time at on the 23d, Goldsmith Maid accomplished the first heat in 8:17K, the second in •:», and the third in 2:l7Jf.

Thb salary of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, as pastor of Plymouth Church, has been recently fixed at $20,000. A tblbgbam of the 2»d announce* the marliage, at Lake George, N. Y n of Robert Dale Owen to a daughter of the late Martin A. Kellogg. of Hartford, Conn. A Jambs C. Rbbp published a letter in New York on the 2Sd, announcing himself as the author of the famous “ Fave" dispatch to Josiah Caldwell, asking him to forward by cable a vindication of Mr. Blaine. Reed says he does not know how Blaine learned that, Caldwell had cabled the Judiciary Committee. He further states that three years ago he was Caldwell's confidential clerk, but today is simply his friend. Mbs. Larry McCarty and four children were badly burned by a kerosene lamp explosion at Ogdensburgh, N. J., on the evening of the 24th. The mother and one daughter died the next day. Thb Vermont State Republican Convention met at Montpelier on the 27 th, and nominated Hon. Horace Fairbanks, for Go vernor, Col. Redfield Proctor, for Lieutenant-Gov-ernor, and John O. Page for State Treasurer. Presidential Electors-at-Large were also nominated. Resolutions were adopted, endorsingthe action of the Cincinnati Convention. Mbs. Wm. Hotlbhousb, of Springfield, Mass., was fatally burned on the 27th by the explosion of a can of kerosene oil with which she was kindling the kitchen fire. Thb decision given by Judge Dykman in the case of Moulton m. Beecher, argued at Poughkeepsie, has been reversed by the New York Supreme Court, thus giving Mr. Moulton the right to bring An appeal can be taken by Mr. Beecher to the Court of Appeals. A New York dispatch of the 27th says the Committee appointed by the late Advisory Council of Plymouth Church to select a commission for the Investigation of the charges or evidence in the case of Mr. Beecher, had Chosen as such commission, Judge Nathaniel Shipman, of Connecticut; Hon. Asahel Finch, of Wisconsin; Judge 8. B. Gooklns, of Indiana; Hon. Jonathan E. Sargent, of New Hampshire, and Judge Joseph C. Knapp, of lowa. At New York on the 28th Mr. Samuel Sloan was elected President at the Michigan Central Railroad Company. I Gold closed In New York, on the 28th, at 112. The following were the dosing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee, 11.15 gl.18; Gate, Western 33@35c; Mixed, Corn, Western Mixed, 57@60c; Pork, Mess, 119.40;’ Lard, Flour, good io choice, [email protected]; White Wheat Extra, 25.5507-75. Cattie, B@U>Mc far good to extra. Sheep (shorn), 4J<@6X C - At East Liberty, Pk, on the 23th, cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; medium, 24-40 @4.90; common, [email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, 36.00@6J»; Philadelphia*, $6.25@ 6.40. Sheep (shorn) brought $4.0005.00 according to quality.

WEST AND SOUTH. A band of masked men entered the jail at Burlington, Ry., on the morning of the 23d, and took therefrom Smith Williams, a colored man accused of murdering a white man last fall, and hung him to a tree by the roadside. A volley of bullets was then fired into the hanging body. A Chktkknk dispatch of the 23d states that news had been received there that Gen. Crook's military expedition had a four hours’ battle with the Sioux on the 17th. Gen. Crook’s loss was ten officers and men killed and several wounded, and there were a number of casualties among his Indian allies. The loss of the Sioux was thirteen killed and a number wounded. The todians fled. Gen. Crook’s horse was shot under him. Two spans of the railroad bridge acrots the' Missouri River at Kansas City were burned ob the 23d. It wotild probably take a couple of weeks to repair the damageJudge Blodgett, of the United States District. Court at Chicago, on the 34th, sentenced A. C. Hering, who had plead guilty to having been connected with the whisky ring, to pay a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for two years in the County Jail. W, B Miller, was sentenced to six months in jail and a fine of $3,000; George T. Burroughs to one year’s imprisonment and $3,000 fine. Sentences were pronounced against several other confessed and convicted members of the ring, the imprisonments ranging from one day to one year in jail, and the fines from s2ootos3 t oo& Rbedbss from various points in lowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, received on the 27th, show quite discouraging prospects in regard to the crops. Wheat and other graine were said to be greatly damaged by the frequent rains, and In some locaHties the Hossiau fly and chinch bug were Vigorously at work.

Church, died «t hte rssidsn-a, in Luthervllte, Md., on the 26th, of inflammation of the bowels. A ChbybxXb telegram of the 27th annonnccs’the arrival At Fortt Fettonan of a' wagon-tmfin from Croak'settap, bringIngihe ■uundef -ln the late cfifagenient. Th«y endured me trip well, ads all Were likely to redbver. -©apt. ' Hoflty, whose wound was in the face, would be able to leave for Fort Russell Ina few days. Gen. Crook, It is stated, wbhid make short excursions with the cavalry until the return of, the train and infantry, when he would endcavorto strike the Sioux hard. * Wu Prohibition Con: vtenUon met at* Lansing 6tt Mie <Bth and I laced the following ticket in nomination: ( overnW, Hob. Albert Williams; Lieilien«it Governor, Rev. E. Curtis; Secretary of £ late, Merritt Moore; State Treasurer, A. L. < hubb; Attorney Ganeral, D. P. Sagendorf; t uperintendent of Public Instritetlon, J. W. icKlver; Commissioner of Land Office, E. 1. Brewer; Auditor General, D. J, Smith; Member of State Board of Education, L. R. Hamon. The action of the Cleveland Natl «>•*! Convention was entjorevd. , Lout sb Hawthorns (Mr*. Morton, of New York), a well-known actress, accidentally feH out of a sixth-story window of the Tremont House, Chicago, early on the morning Of the 28th, striking on the stone pavement below. Her body was terribly mangled, and her death was instantaneous. No one saw her fall, and the cause of the accident iaun known.

1 Ix Chicago, on the 28th, aprtng wheat. No 2 closed at sl£[email protected]>{ cash. Cash eorn Closed at46Jscsor No. i Cash oats No. 2, sold at 3O@3OMc; Aughst options were sold at 29Xc. RyeNo.2,67X@sßc. Barley, No. 2, fcl@6lJ*(c. Cash mesa pork closed at $19.20 019.90. Lard, [email protected]. Good to Choice beeves brought 24.25@4.'96; medium grades, |[email protected]; butchers’ stock,' 23.00@ B.W; stat* cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs brought [email protected] for good »p. choice. Sheep (shorn) sold at [email protected] for good' to choice. _ FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Thb ton don Dotty Nem of the 23d publishes a letter from Constantinople, which gives shocking details of the pillage and putebery In Bulgaria by the’ Turkish troops. of men, women and children bad been massacred, and dozens of villages destroyed. A reign or terror prevailed In Constantlnople, ahd ’the new Government had allready become exceedingly unpopular. Ser*via was continuing its warlike preparations, and its army was in full force on the Turkish 'frontier. The Eastern question was again revived, and presented a more serious aspect Than ever. A London dispatch of the 24th announces the death of Matthew Noble, the well-known English sculptor. j The mad train On the Saragossa & BarceIlona Railway, In Spain, ran off the track on the 24th, between Taurega snd dervia. Seventeen persons were killed and thirty-seven injured.

I It was reported from London on the 24th that Charles Brent, the Louisville forger, had voluntarily signed a release of the money taken from him on his arrest, and that he would probably return to 1 America. An explosion In Birley pit, at Sheffield, England, on the 26th, killed *ix, men—all who were in the miue at the time of the ca- : tastrophe. A London telegram of the 26th says the British Cabinet was divided upon the Eastern question, and that serious Government al complications were likely to follow. According to Cettinje and Constantinople dispatches of the 27th, all Montenegrins between the ages of seventeen and sixty had been summoned to arms. The Porte had rejected the ultimatum of Servia, and the Turkish troops on the frontier and the Danubian flotilla had received order* to commence hostilities against Servia when the signal should be According to. dispatches of the 28th, the Servian volunteers to the number of 8,000 had already crossed the Turkish frontier and, were marching on Serpyevo. A regular wat patilc prevailed on the Paris Bourse, founded on the belief that It would be impossible tp confine the war between Turkey and Servih to the limits of the Ottoman Empfre, find that a collision between Russia and England would eventually result Mias Hxbrikt M i rtinrav, tjiefainous Eniish authoress, died at London on the night’ of the 27th; She was seventy-four years old. , ■

CONGRBSHIONAL. Several bills of minor importance were passed in the Senate, on the 22d. after which the Naval Appropriation bill was further considered, Mid amendments werp agreed to increasing some of the items as passed by the House, and the bill, as amended, was then passed... .The Consideration of tM Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was resumed in, the House, in Committee of the Whole, and abont half of the bill was disposed of. The Senate amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill were " non-con-curred in, and a Coherence Committee was appointed' _.

In the Senate, on the 23d, the bill reported from the Judiciary Committee to amend the second, fourth and fifth sections of the Enforcement act. to meet the ■ objections to the law expressed in the recent decisions of the Supreme Court, was taken up and, after considerable debate, was finally passed—2s to 13—Utter being amended in Cunimitteepf the Whole. The Senate amendments to the Naval and Indian Appropriation bills were insisted upon, and Committees of Conference were appointed... In the the House, reports were made from the Election Committee and adopted—in the Idaho contested election case, unseating T. W, Bennett, the sitting delegate, and declaring »nn- en-, titled to the seat; declaring J. H. Raluev, the sitting member, entitled To a seat from the Eirst District of South Carolina, and H. B. Strait, from the Second Minnesota District. The Senate amendments to the Navy Appropriation bill were non-concurred in and a Conference Committee was appointed. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was disposed of in Committee of the Whole, several amendments being adopted, anareported to the House, when all thewmendmente on which separate votes were net asked were agreed to in bulk; the amendment to strike out of the bill the clause repealing the 1 ayes In relation to the registration of voters, and the appointment of supervisors of election' as deputy: and special deputy marshals, was rejected: other amendments were being disposed of, the House being still in session up to a late hour. In the Senate, on the 24th, the House bill for the allowance of certain claims reported by the accounting officers of the Treasury was amended and passed...-. Before its adjournment on the night of l>e 23d. the House disposed of the proposed amendments to the Postoffice Appropriation bill, and it was then passed On the Mth, Mr. Say’er was elected temporary Speaker, in the absence of the Speaker pro tern. No further business was trans -acted. . I

The Army Appropriation bill was amended In the Senate, on the 26th, by increasing the amounts of several items in the bill as ,xissed by tte House, and the trill. as amended, was passed—2s to 12. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was referred to the Committee on Appropriations... Among the bills tetsbdnced in the House was one to further provide for the redemption of legal-tender notes. A bill was also introduced, and the previous question moved. PtoV Ing for the repeal of the Resumption act, but -■» previous question was not seconded- o WO. A motion to suspend the

rule. and poo the bill to contlnaa into the next year the appropriation* made for the current year waa rejected—to to 118. A new Conference Committee waa aiMMihited on the Legislative Appropriation bill. Bill. were peered -reviving the law for the payment for hor.ee and equipment* lost duriiMMlte war an* extending the time for tiling dflu* tta»efo< etc.; flor the issue of di.ureu GoWumtet irmt to Mater and Tvrrltorle* for ihetrprotSOllon againstbidieur. ' AitEFOKT'was made irf the Senate, on thl'*’B7th, ftotn the Secretirfy of the Treaanry. showing the amount of balance* due the Government from public officers, etc., since 1888. A new Conference Committee was granted and appointed on the Legislative. Judicial aud Executive Appropriation bill. The bill to regulate the anaesament and collection of taxer for the support of the government of the District of Columbia war aun uu'.d and parsed. The House Joint resolution toauthorirc the irstrttttf sttM, etc., to Mate* Sid Territories, for protection against the Inane. was amended and passed- -Bille were naered Jn the House—in regard to the yule of rnlritiion« llqnora In the Indian TWvitory: providing Ir the sale of a Cherokee strip of land in Kansas. ttnanlmons report war made tn the case sis Mr. dams. Cierk of the House, to the effect that in no Instance had he. directly or Indirectly, rec«iv< J pecuniary or other ooueideration for any appol •». ipent taade by him. ’ ‘ ■

Ik the Senate, on the 98th, the Fjouae bill for the sale of Cherokee land* in Ka' jobs warn passed. The amendment* to the Army -’appropriation bill were insisted npon and a Conference t oinu-ittee ordered. The Douse hill j or tke lame of coin, and the Senate bill reported * jy the Finance Coiumlttee a* a substitute /"WfivJuacnssed >rt length, and an amendment tOfnalgeWnverceiu a legal tender for any amount except for the pwvment of customs dues and interest on the public debt prevailed—lß to 14—when it was discovered that there was no quorum preaerff. ...in the House the Senate amendment* tv tb-e Army Appropriation bill were non-eoncurred ’.n and a Committee of Conference waa appointed. The Senate amendments to the Silver Coin bill were considered, and several were rejected. One authorising the purchase of sufficient silver to coin 220.800,OO), with an amendment authorizing the coinage of a standard silver dollar, and making it legal-tender in payment of all debts, public and private, was adopted—llo to 45, The Geneva Award bill waa coasMered.