Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1877 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEE K.

GL vtL T 4 * Frovideuae, nomit. -aadt for Governor, A.C. Howard for V M U»**UioMor, and the present Incun geertaary o< State, Attorney-U' j#e|m , ||4 Ty^ur^. Th * C /orooer’s Jury which for some month investigating the Ashtabull -ns s SL- lUL -■ a wurilin# •> .. # ■ WMwMTf wHUN OUi, IuDuBTIHI la vCnJlvv, f®’ jsnrlng the Railroad Company, andchargthat the bridge fill m consequence of defects and errors in design and construction. : 'V''

A lstb London dispatch declares that Lord Derby, the British Minister of Foreign Affairs had told her representative that Turkey could not expect help from England in case of war. An alarm es fire in the Roman Catholic Church of 8L Francis Xavier, on Sixteenth street, near Fifth avenue, In New York, on the night of the Bth, caused a stampede from the galleries, and; In the rush that followed, six women and ode boy were trampled under foot and' killed. No one qlse was very seriously hurt. ( ( A mass mbktinq of business men w*f* hold. In front of the Treasury Building in Wall street. New York City, on the Bth, to protest against nay attempt on the part of the Senate to abridge the Constitutional rights of the President, his proposed policy of pacification In the South, and reform In the lie sendee. Resolutions wore adopted declaring that the policy indicated ln< the im augural message In favor of the permanent pacification of the South, with equal, protection to all citizens, of thorough reform In the civil service, and of an early return to specie payments, commends Itself to the country as entitled to the fairest trial. A utvrrso of the St.,jLoqlß Merchants’ and Cotton Exchange was held on the 9th, and a resolution adapted heartily approving the course thus fap-tparked out by the President, and, urging .Missouri Senators to rise above all party feeling and, give him a generous and patriotic support The LeavenWorth (Kan.) Board of Trade met on the same dap, and adopted resolutions Inflowing President Hayes' Cabinet appointments. On the'Btb, the Turkish Minister of Fori eign Affairs published the reforms' which Turkey proposed to inaugurate throughout the Ottomjin Empire. A Bucharest dispatch of the same date says Roumanla would ally herself to Russia, in the event of war, uulese, the European Powers would guarantee her neutrality. A Pxxa correspondent of thq London Timer of n recent date says Turkey, under Buitan Abdul Hamid, waa fast relapsing into anarchy. The Palace issued orders without consulting the Forte, and the Porte transacted business without guidance from or communication with the Sultan.

) At the Rhode bland Prohibition State Contention, recently held in Providence, Charles C. Van Zandt was nominated for Governor; A. C. Howard for LieiitenantGovernor; J. M. Adderman for Secretary osf State; W. R. Fierce for Attorney-General.: and Samuel Clark for Treasurer —the Republican nominees With the .exception of Pierce, t President Hates’ new , Cabinet wss •warn into office on the 12th, and assumed charge of the . several departments of the Government. All took the iron-dad oath exempt Postmaster-General Key, who took the oath in the modified form. A London telegram of the 12th reports the appearance of the rinderpest near Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and the foot and month disease in Cheshire, Somersetshire and Flintshire. . ' " The Nicholla Louisiana Legislature ha? adopted a resolution accepting the declaration pf non-interference with the affairs of the State by the President as a happy, augury for the future, and. deriving “tbia General Assembly wifi earnestly cooperate with President Hayea in every ef* fort to restore confidence and fraternal relations among the whole people of this. great: country;” Got. Packard stated to a report, er, On the 12th, that he had full confidence In the final success of his Government, but that he was' “annoyed at the persistence with which the most glaring misstatements are repeated, even by Journals usually well Informed.” 11 : Simon Cameron resigned the Uuited States Senatorship from Pennsylvania, on the 12th, and Gov. Harfrann at once'notified the State Legislature of (the fact The resignation of John Sherman as Senator from Ohio was received by Gov. Young, sad Sent to the General Assembly, on ,the same day..,,: . .

The latest intelligence from Bosnia reports that murders and outrages were on the increase iu that country. Many Christiana were fleeing to Austria, leaving thilr prop, erty to be plundered by bashbbazouks. 1‘ ■' A ConstanVtnorlb dispatch of the ' 13th says placards had been potted In Stambonl, calling on the Pbrtc' to declare war against Russia, and threatening the Ministers if thfey make any further concessions to Montenegro. ‘ Exßecretart-of-War Cameron was, on the 13th, nominated by. the Republican members of the Pennsylvania Legislature for United States Senator, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of SUnoh Cameron, his father. Reports from the Ninth Georgia Ccmgres* elonri District, received on the 13th,Indicate the election of Bell, the regular democratic nominee, to fill the vacancy caused bv the election of B. H. Mill as'United States Sena-* Secret art - pir - the,- Navy Thompson -reached Washington on the morning of ihei ISth, and, after an interview with the President, was sworn in and assumed the duties of his Department. , The elections in New Hampshire, on the 13th, resulted to the election at the Repub. Hean candidate for Governor by about S,WO majority. The Republicans elected : Congressmen certain,'and the'third was' In doubt . SI-*;, ;• t • l 1 I The conflicting, claims of Hampton and Chamberlain. , Governorship of. South Carolina came up in the Circuit Court at Charleston! 8. C., on the IStb, in: a case in* .valving the validity of a commitment by a Trial Justice appointed by Gov. Hampton. Judge Reed decided that the authority ©fthe Trial Justice must be respected us that of a de/aeto and de>* State officer. The other Gatuit Judges throughout the State have made similar decisions. Tun majority of the Sdtrtte Committee on KelW to the from Louisiana, but it was believed, on the 13th, that report would not be presented at the present cession of the Senate.