Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1877 — CURRENT PARAGEAPHS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT PARAGEAPHS.

on Aeßba v (ttiA »«■. -it ' 1 Tu Colorado potato-beetle bu been dl^ Bremen v cn goodnbrou^ li^wtrtwrai-Tiiwobi^^ ku beep nominated and confirm Collector «f AePgtfttaffcrtW.Mfiiio iibrt . 1 " r "> Alt I*|plltt cruising In the Wt olftnti reeeady took fire end wu deotroTcd. Twenty persona perished. Tnn <Xn»rdicßt Legislature has lately passed iMM making the legal rate of intereat six per cent In'the absence of s contract SxcaxTftßT JCvakts has appointed Frederick W. Seward, «an of the late Secretary Wra. CL Seward, lnd>S< First Assistant Secretary-of t State. ,v*ic « ill fi» »..•■• Tnn Kfcodive of Egypt has promised ts place 80,009 troops sad four raen-of-waT at the disposal of the Sultkn in the event of war wi A Russia. i<« j «li i»' • —rrrrz - A LSTTnnshssJjeen received from Stanley, the African nnplnrer, announcing, under date of Au«t JStttiu* he had completely surveyed Lake Tanganyika. ,-/ ‘H . A laws’ fire in St Johns, N. 8., destroyed property valued at #BOO,OOO. Eight persons ire re knMets have Men killed, being buried beneath «A«a building*. ioorWi ii. -a- r-d Tnn of the victim* of the recent panic In the St Francis JCsvler Church, New York City, nip said by the examining physician to have died fawn shack or fright , j - 1 * . JxxNyfjHfsu*. a N«w York speculator in lard and atheamoftisioM, and an occasional operator in atokks, has recently railed, with liablfitia WStimatßdat #1,000,000. ,c! Siti■; t«* mo • --<i ■i. A cinansf Hoboken, N. J-, named Joseph H. Lewis, has bequeathed his entire estate, amounting to over #1,000,000, to th# National Government to help pay the National debt

At i mM meeting of the Cabinet in Washington, Mgasra. Everts and Schnra were appointed a committee to frame civil* uervioe role* for adaption by the different departrnmU. r ’ .„n.bl i b-i* v. Tnn second trial of Alexander Sullivan tar the murder of Francis Hanford, in August last, waa concluded in the9th, by a verdict of V hot guilty.” jury was out Are hooV. Mr. SulUvan was discharged tromeuatody*,,’;. -,' t • ... : t T ** ordered CoL Despotovijkh, who w«a sent during thefiervian war 4° Bosnia to foment insurrection, to return to Sorvia. Qeepotovitch refuses to obey, and declares his intention to keep up the disturbance. Tn contest over tie will of thSlate Commodore Vanderbilt waa ended, on the 18th, by all tbwMUfcatentr withdrawing their objections, ■ Tttf'flHlerences between Wm. H. Vanderbilt bud the contestants were arranged outside of court. ‘ ! ' til *«> - r . The Treasury Department has lately is, sued the forty-second call for the redemption of 5-90 bonds' of 1865. The amount called in whs 810,000,000-8T,003.000, coupon and 83,000.000 registered, interest and principal payahleJunel^^ Tn United States Supreme Court has decided adversely to the. plaim in the celebrated Ckorpennhag n**«,o* an appeal from the Court of Claims. The Court holds that the duty devolved upon the Postmaster-General, under Umlacd 'ot Congress,is wholly minis, terisi, end ton©-sense judicial, on that of any arbitrament. i, a. i • -uti f■■ *C'v . . •

Tn Butter,-Egg-abd Cheese Association, lately in seMkm at Chicago, adopted resolutions denouncing .the product known as oleo-maiyarinc, and recommending: that its sale be dtecoontemtn6ed by all dealers. The resolutions also t&fmmend that State Legislatures bb petitioned to pass laws against its manufacture, the ob]ect being to prevent its Bailing under false COtera ms genuine batter. A DwnaMlbM recently been rendered by the United States Supreme Court relating to the RigbtHhunttw enacted by Congress, to the effect that <Ute mat Is In the nature of a direction by the SnHed States to its agents, and is not * cOtrtrafct with the laborers to that effeett'anjdbeh'not prevent the officers of the Gothmtebht from making agreements with laboferk by which the day’s labor may be made •more or less- than eight hours, The act does hot prescribe the amount of compensation t6be paid for the labor of eight hours or of nuy ,hther tijne. 1