Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1876 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

VBM WAimNOTON. A Washington dispatch of the 34th say* the Secretary of the Treasury had concluded the contract for the tale of $800,000,000 tonr-and a-half per eent bond* to be l**ucd under the funding acta of 1870 and 1871, and due la 1881. The combination unite* the three partie* who have been competing for the loan. The amount taken by each inn ia $40,000,000 at par and interest, leas one-half per cent, commission, out of which all expenaea are to be defrayed, including the preparation and delivery of the bonds. The combination embraces London, Philadelphia and New York parties. Tib Foetm a* ter-General has recently decided that the term “printed matter,” a* used In the act approved July 13,1876, does not Include blank books, blanks, charts, etc. This class of matter, Is, therefore, liable to the old rate of postage of one cent for each ounce or fraction thereof. On the 38th, Judge Tarbell, of Mlssiaaln. pi, was tendered the office of Deputy Firsffi Comptroller of the Treasury, vies Col. William Hemphill Jones, of Delaware, whose resignation had been called for by the President. Tun tenth annual meeting of the Army of the Tennessee will be held in Washington on the 18th and 19th of October. The statue of Gen. McPherson will be then unveiled. Senator Logan, who succeeded Gen. McPherson In command on the day of hla death, will deliver the oration. Dimctob Lihderman, of the Mint, reports that all the mints are now running on subsidiary silver coins to their full capacity, and that the monthly coinage of silver will be about $3,500,000. A Washington telegram of the 28th says twenty-tight employes of the Pension Office had been notified that their resignations would be accepted, and that one month’s pay from Sept. 10 would be granted. Sbc'y Morrill has revoked Sec’y Bristow’s order of July 18,1875, placing Special Agents under the direction of the Solicitor of the Treasury, snd they will hereafter act under the direction of A. K. Singer, Supervising Atreni, subject to the orders of the Secretary.

THE BAST. Ths Connecticut Prohibitionist* have nominated Rev. Joseph Cummings for Governor, George P. Rogers for LieutenantGovernor and Ruel P. Cowles for Secretary of Bt*te. They have also chosen Presidential Electors, and have passed resolutions condemnatory of the Republican and Democratic parties, and demanding that the Whisky ring be broken up. Ahhochcbmeht is made of the death of Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis, the celebrated advocate of woman suffrage. She died at Providence, R. 1., on the 35th. Os Saturday, the 36th, being probably the last of the twenty five cent admission days, the attendance at the Centennial Exhibition was greater than on any previous day. Number pf paid admissions, 95,873; total admissions, including free list, 104,-514. The receipts during the week ending on the 35th were about 1106,000. Os the evening of the 36th a man named George E. Adams was arrested at Buffalo, N. Y., on suspicion. He has since confessed that he threw the Lake Shore trains off at Lake View and Northeast, Pa., causing the death of one man at the latter point; also, that he was the pretended hero at Fairport, near Rochester, who saved a New York Central train by arousing a farmer near and telling him that he had seen several men tearing up the rails he had misplaced himself. He claims that his object was to make sympathy with the railroads, and then get employment; that he intended to flag the trains on the Lake Shore Road, but was too late in both cases. Adams was formerly a brakeman on the Lake Shore A Michigan Railroad. The counsel for Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in the suit for alleged malicious prosecution brought by Francis D. Moulton, have served upon the latter's counsel notice of application for a change of venue on the ground that the selection of an impartial jury in Brooklyn is impossible because of the great divisions of public opinion among those from whom the jury would have to be selected. Fms Molly Maguire prisoners—Mundy, McGeheon, Carrol, Roarity and Boyle—who were recently convicted of the murder of a policeman at Tamaqua, Pa.—have been sentenced to be hanged. A Providence (R. I.) dispatch of the 38th states that, in view of the improved demand for prints, Sprague Mills, in that State, and the Maine and Connecticut print works, which had been idle several weeks, would start up at once. Tux New York Republican State Committee organised on the 39th, with Alonso B. Com' ■'K* Chairman. Av the great coal sale which took place in New York city on the 29th, prices ranged from 32.75 to $3.90 per ton—a decline of from one to two dollars a ton. These low prices had a depressing effect in the Pennsylvania mining regions, the coal operators contending that the nrices brought will compel them all to suspend operations, unless the tolls and labor can be reduced to a much lower figure than the present, with the chances against them even in the case of great redactions, as the miners will hardly submit to lower price* than are now prevailing. The Democrats of Berks County, Pa., have renominated Hon. Heister Ciymcr for Congress. Oh the 80th nit. the managers of the Centennial Exposition decided to have two more twenty-five cent days—Sept. 2 and 9. The Connecticut Republican State Convention was held on the 80th ult,, and nominated: For Governor, Henry C. Robinson, of Hartford; Lieutenant-Governor, F. J. Kingsbury; Secretary of State, Gen. F. A. Walker; Treasurer, Jeremiah Olney; Comp, trailer, EH Curtis. Tax Mew York Democratic State Convention met at Saratoga on the 30th ult. and adopted a platform ratifying the nominations of Tlkton and Hendricks and endorsing the resolutions of the Bt Louis Convention. -When nines were being presented for candidates for Governor then were loud calls for “deymonr." A dispatch was read from him saying Us name must not be need, aa his health would not permit. A motion was

then made alud unanimously carried to nominate Horatio Seymour by acclamation, the Convention to then adjourn to the Slat. A committee Waa appointed to notify him of the action of the Convention. An Independent Greenback ratification meeting was held in New York on the evening of theSOtb ult., at which Messrs. Cooper and Cary, candidates for President and VicePresident made speeches. Gold closed In New York on the 80th at 110. The following wero the closing quotations for produce: No. 9 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee, 99c. @$1.10; Oats, Western snd State, 84@42c. Corn, Western Mixed, 64@56e; Pork, Mees, $10.78; Lard, 10j<c; Flour, good to choice, [email protected]; White Wheat Extra, $&[email protected]. Cattle, 9@lo}fc for good to extra. Sheep, 4@s){c. At East Liberty, Pa., on the 80th, cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; medium, $4.50 @4.75; common, [email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphian, $6.65® 8.75. Bheep brought [email protected], according to quality. \

WEST AND SOUTH. A general order from the War Department, Issued on the 34th, directs Col. Huger, upon assuming command of the Department of the South on or about Sept 1, to transfer the headquarters of the Department to . Atlanta, Ga. The companies of the Second Infantry now in the Department of the Gulf will be transferred to the Department of the South, and the headquarters and companies of the Sixteenth Infantry, now In that Department, will be transferred to the Department of the Gulf. The Hon. Joseph R, Underwood, ex-Unit-ed States Senator from Kentucky, died a*t his residence at Bowling Green, Ky., on the 2Sd, In his eighty-sixth year. A Greenback State Mass Convention was held at Grand Rapids, Mich., on the 24th, and a full State and electoral ticket was nominated. 'The State ticket is headed by Chauncey K. Carpenter for Governor and Levi Sparks for Lieutenant-Governor. Hon. G. A. Finkelnbkrg has withdrawn his declination of the candidacy for Governor of Missouri on the Republican ticket, and has formally accepted the nomination. > John L. Rocbtt, Territorial Governor of Colorado, Is the Republican candidate for Governor of the new State, and Lafayette Head for Lleutenaut-Govcmor. The final obsequies of the late Speaker Kerr took place at New Albany, Ind., on the 25th. All the business houses in the city were closed out of respect to the deceased, and nearly the entire population turned out to the funeral. The procession was one of the largest ever witnessed in that section. The funeral services were performed by the Rev. 8. Conn, of the First Presbyterian Church. Among the attendants were Gov. Hendricks and several other State officers. Arras in Savannah, Ga., on the night of the 25th destroyed a number of business houses, involving a loss of over $200,000. A horrible scene occurred at Dayton, Ohio, on the 25th, the occasion of the hanging for murder of James Murphy. The rope broke, and the condemned man fell to the ground. He was again taken on to the scaffold, and, the piece of rope being doubled, was again swung off, and strangled in something over a quarter of an hour. Grasshoppers were reported as being very thick in the vicinity of Omaha, Neb., on the 28th, and doing a good deal oMamage to vegetables and late corn. Damage was being done by the insects in other sections of the State. A block of buildings in San Francisco, including the Railroad Hotel, was destroyed by fire on the Right of the 2Sth. Loss about $500,000. Over 200 poor families were rendered homeless. One fireman was killed. It was reported on the 29th that Gen. Sherman continued to be of the impression that the hostile Sioux had been divided up, and that they were endeavoring to get out of the Powder River and Big Horn country. He was of the opinion that they did not want to fight any more, and that they would endeavor to cross the Yellowstone to get away.

At a meeting in Chicago, on the 39th, of the National Sportsmen's Association, Greene Smith, of Peterboro, N. Y., was chosen President for the ensuing year; John A. Nichols, of Syracuse, N. Y., Recording Secretary, and T. C. Banks, of New York city, Corresponding Secretary. The second race off Chicago, on Lake Michigan, between the yachts Frolic, of Chicago, and the Ina, of Toronto, Canada, came off on the 28th. The Ina came in Blightly ahead, but the referee decided against her because she did not round the stasc-boat from the port side, which the articles of agreement called for, but sailed in on the starboard side. The distance sailed was thirty miles. The Frolic having won the previous contest on the 36th, was declared entitled to the stake money, but the Captain of the Ina protested, and refused to allow the stakes to be delivered up. The lowa Democratic State Convention met at Des Moines on the 30th ult The St Louis platform was adopted, and John Stuberauch was nominated for Secretary of State, Wesley Jones for Treasurer, Wm. Groneneg for Auditor. - The Dayton Sbort-Line freight depot at Cincinnati was burned on the morning of the 30th ult. A large quantity of freight was destroyed, involving a loss of some #300,000.

Milton Satlkr, Acting Speaker of the National House of Representatives, has been renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the First Ohio District Reports were received at New Orleans on the 29th ult to the effect that the residences of David Faulk and Isaac Garrett near Monroe, had been fired into, and an attempt had been made to kill Lamay Faulk, a planter, living on the river below Monroe. Mr. Garrett’s house received about seventy bullets. Mr. Faulk saw two men, both colored, enter his gate. They exploded two caps, aiming at him, and went on. Several white families in the vicinity had come to Monroe for safety, and appeals had been made to volunteer companies there for assistance. A Munroe telegram says it was thought this trouble grew out of a disturbance which occurred a few nights before at * Republican barbecue. On the afternoon of the 80th, Dr. B. N. Dinkgrove, former Sheriff, and late Tax Coli ec *? r °* Mm Pariah, was killed while going to dinner. His assailant was an unknown * W * y shootlng me victim. The impression is said to have been general that this asssssinsdon was the ? f “ oW (trowiag out of the Doctor e killing » m. WUnberfey, hi self-defense, some six yean ago.

1r Chicago, on the 80th, Spring wheat, No. t, closed at 92@92){c cash. Cash coin closed at 42)£c for No. 2. Casti oats No. 2 •old at Sl)<j@3lKc; September options were sold at Slftc. Rye No. 2, 57)4 Cash mess pork closed at $15.60 @15.65. Lard, $9.70@».75. Good to choice beeves brought [email protected]; medium grades, [email protected]; butchers’ stock, $2.50 @8.50; stock csttle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs brought [email protected] tor good to choice. Sheep sold at [email protected] for good to choice. FOBBI6N INTJKJULM2KNCK. Vierna telegrams of the 25th say that Prince Milan had on the night preceding made definite propositions of peace and had asked the mediation of the foreign powers. Gen. Tchcrnayeff had telegraphed that the operations in the vicinity of Alexlnatz had resulted in utter defeat to the Turks, they having lost 15,000 in killed, wounded and prisoners. The Servians lost among others thirty-one Russian officers killed. Austrian territory had been violated by a Turkish force which crossed the frontier and carried away a large quantity of provisions and killed one man and wonnded another. Austrian troops had arrived at the frontier, and it was thought hostilities impended unless the act were disavowed by Turkey and proper reparation were made. A Belgrade special to the London Standard of the 27th, says the Porte had declined to listen to the peace propositions of Bervia until after the surrender of Alexinatz. It had also demanded that Prince Milan should address his demands directly to the Turkish Government instead of through the medium of the foreign Powers. A London dispatch of the 28th says Schuyler’s report to the American Legation at Constantinople fully Confirmed the previous reports of Bulgarian atrocities. Much of the slaughter had been done by the Turkish regulars. Mr. Schuyler declares that sixty-five villages had been burned 1 and 15,000 men, women and children killed. A Belgrade special of the 28th says that Gen. Tchemayeff’s reports of his victories atAlexinatz were generally discredited. The Turks claimed to have achieved a victory. According to Belgrade dispatches of the 29th, ihe agents of foreign powers had handed a note to the Servian Prime Minister in which they state that they had been instructed to stop further hostilities. At a grand council of Ministers, held at the Turkish Capital on the 29th, It was agreed to depose the Sultan and proclaim Abdul Hamid. Lord Ribblesdalb, step-son of Earl Russell, has committed suicide in Switzerland.