Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1876 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

Orders have been lawe* from the War Department tor the rocraWng of S,M3 addlUonal wtr tor the cavalry regiments. The principal recruiting * tattoo* are at St. Louie, Chicago, Indianapolis, Itoffalo. Bo*tea and New York. Branch office* will be opened In aerenl Waatera cittee, to secure the required number as aoan as possible. Tub remains of the late Bpeahor Kerr arrived In Washington <on the morning of the 83d, accompanied by Mrs. Kerr and her son, Representatives Milton Baylcr, 8. S. Cox and H. Casey Young and Mr. Adams, Clerk of the House. The casket containing the body was removed to aapecial car and a detail of six men of the Capitol police was placed on guard. The outer cover of the casket was removed, and the body laid in state until 10:30 a. m. During the morning a number of Mr. Kerr's Wends and others visited the depot to view his remains. At 11:80 the casket was closed, and at U:W the funeral party, with the remains, left for New Albany, *ia Harrisburg and Indianapolis. President Grant issued the following proclamation on the 21st: It is with ertaeme pain that the President annonnees to the people of the United States the death of the .-peaker of the House of Representative*, the Hon. Michael C. Kerr, of Indiana. A mu ot great Intel actual endowments. large culture, great probity and earnestness la his devotion to the pubhc (interest*, ha* passed from the position of power and usefulness to which he had oeea recently called. The body over which he had been seleated to tpresMe not being In session to render its tribute of affection and respect to the memory of the deceased, the Presided invites the peopto of the United States to a solemn reoognltioa of the public and private worth and the service* «f a pare and eminent character. U. 8. Grant.

THE BAST. At Portsmouth, N. H., on the 19th, John Sullivan was buried alive by the caving-in of an old well. A lorge force Immediately went to work to tHg hini out, and at midnight he was extricated alive. He was buried under forty feet of oerth and stone*. . The whaling bark Catalpa arrived at New Yortc on Ifacmorniug of the 19th, from New South Wdlca, with the Fenian prisonera who escaped from that country some time since. The names of the men are Michael Harrington, Thomas Darragh, James Wflson, Robert Cranston, Thomas Henry Bassett, John J. Brcolin (alias Collins), Thomas 'Desmond (alias Johnson), John King (alias Jones), and Thomas Brennan (alias Hall). They met with a hearty welcome at the hands of their fellow patriots, who culled upon them and escorted them to the O'Donovan Rossa’s Hotel. Saturday, the 19th, was the first day when visitors were admitted to the Centennial Exposition at hdlf-rate, or for twentv-fi ve cents. The attendance on that day amounted to over (10,000 persons. Annocxormhnt was made on the 19th of the failure of Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Boston, Masa. His liabilities are stated at SBO,000 and Ms assets at 3220,000. Th* employes of the New York <fc New Jersey Railroad struck on the 21st, and traffic on the road was suspended. Non-pay-ment of wages for the past four months, and the pro tee ting of notes given for the previous Sour months’ wages, are said to be the cause of the strlke. " * A Lawrenoe (Mass.) dispatch of the 21st says the Atlantic Mills wlli start up Sept. 14, giving employment to 1,200 operatives. A dispatch from Pt Richmond, Pa., states that two miners (James Martin and Peter McCaffrey) ware attacked by a crowd of Mollie Maguires on the afternoon of the 21st. They were beaten with bludgeons, stabbed with knives and treated to a shower of bullets. McGaffhey was killed and Martin was so'terribly injured that he died in a short time. Thb New York IVenting Post of the 22d says that at u meeting of the coal combination on that-day the organization was broken up. The announcement of the disruption of this great oombiaation caused considerable excitement at Pottstllle, Pa., and a great deal of uneasiness was manifested in the mines as to the ultimate result. It was generally conceded that there would be a decline in the price of coal sad a corresponding reduction Summers’ wages. * A slight frost occurred in some portions of New York *i»d Pennsylvania on the night of the 30th.

•The President and Mrs. Grant were in Philadelphia on ihe 2Sd, on a visit to the Centennial Exhibition. The Supreme Lodge of the World .Knights of Pythias, convened .in independence H .11, Philadelphia, on the 23d. At the conclusion of the session a street parade was participated in by aboat 12,000. members, comprising delegations from every-State and Territory in the Union, and from the British provinces. V. A Car* Mat (X. X) dispatch of the 2Sd says the Conference of Delegates elected by the Methodist Episcopal Church, North and South, to effect a reunion of those bodies, had resulted in assttstactogy,understanding. A basis of union, had been agreed upon, which would soon be made,public. ; - Tsue New York RepuWhean State Convention met at Saratoga on the 28c!. John M. Franck w*s chosen permanent chairman. The resolutions adopted reaffirm 'the principles declared in the National Platform adopted at Cincinnati. The .first ballot for candidate dor Governor resulted in 242 votes for ex-Gov. JE. D. Morgan; 128 for Wm. M. Kvarta, and forty-two for other candidates. Mr. Morgan's nomination was then made unanimous. Sherman 8. Rogers was nominated for lieutenant - Governor. The New' Yoifc Liberal Republican Convention met at the same place and time, and resolved to support the National Republican ticket, and endorsed the nomination of K. D. Morgan for Governor. The delegates from eighteen counties held a meeting at which, on motion of a member of the Liberal Slate Committee, it was resolved that, inasmuch as they had been refnsed admission to the liberal Convention unless they pledged themselves in advance to anpport the Republican Administration, that assemblage, called by Mr. Cochrane, was Incompetent to take any action as Liberal Republicans, and expressing confidence in Gov. Tiiden’s State Admlaiafcrdttsn, and recommending the Liberals of the oenntiy to sup- j GoUi closed in New York on' the 23d at 110%. The following were the closing quo. Mlone forproduce: No. 2 Chicago Spring

Wheat, [email protected]; No. * Milwaukee, 97c Oats, Western and State, ««*42r. Cera, Western Mixed, 55@58c; Pork, Maas, 318.25; Lard, 10K<; Flour, good to choice, 34.64V9ft.10; W%lte Wheat Extra, ♦5.15(87.50. Cattle. 9®loc for good to extra. Sheep, 4@flo. At East Liberty, Pa., on the 23d. cattle brought: Best, 34.87>f((tA.00; medium, 31 JO <84.75; common, 3480(84.25. Hogs sold— Yorkers, 36.35(86.50; Philadelphia*, 3f1.50@ «80. Bheep brought $4-00(85.00, according to quality.

wnt and socra. Thb Independent Btatc Convention of Indiana to fill vacancies on the State ticket met at Indianapolis on the 17th. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the platform of the Independent State and National Conventions, and denouncing the act of 1878 by which the sliver dollar was dropped from uor list of coins, and demanding its return; that free coinage should be encouraged to enable the Government to pay its obligations In silver, as it has a right to do under original contract; that all values should be taxed equally, including Government bonds and greenbacks. Nominations were then made to till the vacancies on the State ticket. Advicks from line hostile Indian ceuntry up to the 18th were to the effect that Gen. Terry’s command met the head of Gen. Crook's command early on the 10th. The latter were following a large Indian trail in the direction of Powder River. Upon a short consultation of Gens. Terry and Crook, the commands were united and proceeded on the trail Crook was following. Medicine Cloud.whe has recently returned to Bismarck from the hostile country, estimates the forces of Sitting Bull at from 8,000 to 10,000. The hostile camp was on Tongue River, south of the Yellowstone. The Indians were reported os being in a constant state of alarm. Capt. Collins, who arrived at Bismarck on the 17th, from Fort Buford, failed to oonflrm the squaw reports of a recent battle between the Indians and Terry's forces. Col. A. P. Field, Attorney-General of Louisiana, died <at New Orleans on the 19th, aged sevcqty-sic years. Capt. Gxorge T. Anthony, of Leavenworth, is the Republican candidate for Governor of Kansas, and not ColiD. R. Anthony, editor of the Leavenworth Timet, as at first announced. The two gentlemen named are cousins. Speaker M. C. Kerr died at Rockbridge Alum Springs, Va., at 7.20 on the evening of the 19th, after a prolonged illness during which lie suffered greatly. His last moments are said to <hawe been comparatively free from pain. The sews <of his death cast a gloom over the city of Washington and other sections <af the country. He was forty-nine years of age,'having been bom at Titusville, Pa., on the 15th of March, 1827.

A Übs Moines (Iowa) telegram says the grasshoppers oatne down on the Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific Railroad, near Neola, on the 30th, do .great 'numbers, traveling southwest. Trains were delayed by them. Four trains were blockaded two hours on the afternoon of 'the 31st. Continued rain had prevented their feeding and no harm had yet been done to the growing crops. It is reported that all but twenty-seven of the Utes who left Fort Fetterman after having been feasted and armed, and having indulged in numerous war dances, deserted at Cheyenne River a few days ago, taking with them the asms which were furnished them to fight the Sioux with. The Indian Commissioners at Washington sent an order to nearly all the Indian agencies, on the 23d, prohibiting all sales of arms or ammunition to either whites or Indians by parties holding licenses as Indian traders. A Bismarck special of the 33d says a large war party of Bioux appeared on the opposite bank of the fiver from Berthold Agency a few days previous and demanded supplies. Upon being refused, they opened fire for fifteen minutes>when they withdrew and moved south toward Fort Lincoln. A white scout had Just come in with dispatches from the iSosebud, announcing that Gens. Crook and Terry, after effecting a junction, had left their tents, etc., behind, and were in hot pursuit of the Sioux, expecting to come up with them before they reached the Yellowstone, f The Republicans of the Nineteenth Ohio Dis'rict have renominated Hon. J. A. Garfield for Congress. The remains of Mr. Kerr, arrived at Louisville, Ky., on the naghtof the 23d, and were escorted to New Albany by a 'deputation of citizens. Thb Governor of Wisconsin, on the 23d, issued a requisition, on the application of the Chief-of-Polioe of Milwaukee, for the arrest of W. F. Storey, ofithe Chicago Times, for slander. The Democratic State Convention of Kansas was held at Topeka on the 23d. John Martin was nominated .for Governor, T4»«candidates on the Greenback ticket for Lieutenant-Governor, .Treasurer, Auditor and Superintendent of Schools were ~noinb nated for the same offices on the Democratic ticket.

A passenger train on the New Orleaus and Jackson Railroad broke through a bridge eight miles south of Jackson, Miss., on the night of the 22d. Four persons were killed, sixteen injured, and all the passengers lost their baggage. A railroad disaster also occurred near Baltimore bn the morning of the 23d, on the Philadelphia, Wilmington A Baltimore Railway, a passenger train running into a standing freight train, the latter having been detained bye disaster to another freight train, ten cars of which were burned by the explosion of a lamp. The passenger train was badly wrecked, and three passengers were injured. A Greenback Mass Convention was held in Chicago on the 33d. Addresses were delivered by Gen. Gary, candidate for VicePresident, Sydney Myers and others, and a letter from Peter Cooper, candidate tor President, was read. Resolutions were adopted endorsing the action of the Independent Xaional Convention; providing for the appointment of a committee of twen-ty-five to address letters to Messrs. Tilden

and Hayes asking of each whether, if elected to the Presidency, and if Congress should peas a bill to remouetize silver coin at its former standard, he will, by bis official action, prevent such bill from becoming a lav; also if Congress should pass a bill p ovtding for a Government paper currency and the retirement of ad other p*per money, the Government currency to be a full legaltender and interchangeable for Government registered bonds at such rate of gold interest as will make the currency of equal value with coin,;be, as President, would sign

muck bill, or would feel at liberty, aa Presides!, to veto tiie same. lb Chicago, on the 23d, Spring wheat, No. 3, closed at cash. Cash corn closed at 44e for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2 sold at 39tf@31c; September options were sold at 80%<\ ltye No. 2, Cash moss pork tlbsed at 316.80 @16.85. Lard, Good to choice beeves brought 34.5f1(<i5.10; medium grades, $4.00(84.40; butcher*’ stock, 32.50 <88.25; stork cattle, etc., 32.35(83 25. Hogs brought $5.75(86.40 for good to choice.. Sliccp sold at |[email protected] for good to ebriiee. —— -

ffOHEION INTBUICBNCE. Late advices report a famine hi the north era provinces of China. Thousands of deaths were occurring daily. Servia Is sgld to be ready to treat for peace, but she will not consent to the deposition of Prime Milan, or the sacrifice of any territory; nor will she submit to Turkish administration. The reportof aTurkish defeat at Brlsanski on the Bth has been confirmed. The King of Dahomey is said to hold four Frenchmen as hostages, and be has threatened to kill them if the British squadron fires upon the natives. The Lisbon banks, im-lucllng the Bank of Portugal, were forced to close their doors on the 19th, because of a general run. The Government extended the payment of all commercial paper for a period of two months. Telegrams of the 20th report a Bcrvian victory at Tesfcia, the Turks having been driven over the frontier after a severe engagement. London dispatches of the same date state that an insurrection against Turkish authority had broken out at Retins, in Crete. A dwelling-house atSt. Lawrence, N. F., was destroyed by fire a few days ago, andtwo sons of the owner—a Mr. Kelly—perished in the flames. According to London dispatch cs of th 21st, the Emperor'uf Morocco had. notified the Porte of his 'lnability to send the customary subsidy to the Turkish Sultan, because his resources had been depicted by the suppression-of late disturbances in his own country.

Belgrade dispatches of the 21st say. the Great Powers had renewed their propositions for a peaceful settlement of the difficulties with Turkey, and that Prince Milan had received them favorably. Camille Claude, a Republican Deputy of the French Assembly, was killed by lightning on the 20th. Official announcement was made at Belgrade on the 26!d that the Serbs had recaptured Gurgosovatz and reoccupied Tresibaba. The Turkish -officials implicated in the murder of the foreign Consuls at Salonica were publicly and formally degraded on the 22d, and salutes were exchanged between the forts and the foreign men-of-war in the harbor. On the 23d, Rosa Bonheur, the distinguished artist, was thrown from her carriage and dangerously .injured while riding in the environs of Paris. According to Vienna telegrams of the 23d, the Sublime Porte had signified its readine.-s to treat with Servia upon the basis of a war Indemnity and guarantees against breaches of the peace for the future. The Servians had been able to maintain their position at Alexitmis against the united and repeated attacks of the several Turkish divisions. The war party in Servia had at last succeeded in overcoming Prince Milan’s pacific tendencies, and it was stated the war would henceforth be prosecuted with great vigor.