Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1877 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CWMMT MUASMPHS. 'Walter Bagehot, the distinguished En«U* writer w ao-omy, fodaU. Cbl. Mitchell, an American officer of tea Kgyptiaa ataff, is a prisoner in Abyssinia. Mbs Alta M. Hulett, the well-known Ckirefo woman lawyer, died at Ban Diego, OaL, aatheMth. _____ Callaghan & Lynch, heavy stock broken in Ban Ftancisno, have failed, with liabilities naohing •900,000. The trial of Peter B. bwceney. the ** brains" of the New York Tweed Hing, has been fixed for the fixat Monday in June » The Indianapolis Typograpnical Union No. 1 recently pawed a resolution to disband aad return its charter to the National Union. • The late John D. Lee, the Mormon reneatly executed for “ participetion in theMountJ ainWeadnvu mama raw," left eighteen widows and aixty-foar children. The Rhode Island House of Representatives have defeated the proposition to amend the Constitution so as to allow women to vote when taxed, by a vote of 26 to "ZII The New England Glass Company, ot East Cambridge, Mate., has decided to wind up its bnsintwa, being unable to compete with Southern and Western concerns. A resolution has passed the Massachusetts State Senate submitting to the people a ' proposed amendment to the Constitution giving to women the right to vote stall elections. The Kentucky Cash Distribution Company, a lottery concern, has lately filed a petition in bankruptcy. One drawing has taken place and another baa been extensively advertised. ___ The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the forty-fourth call far the redemption of MObonda The call is for •10,000,000, and the internet and principal will be due aad payable on the 27th of June. The fast-mail train from Scotland, known as the “ Flying Scotchman,” ran off the tack at Morpeth, England, on the 24th. The train was thoroughly wrecked, and five persons killed and many wounded. An Amsterdam banker recently offered Russia a loan of 25,000,000 roubles, at eight per cent, but the negotiation fell through because the hanker insisted on disarmament and an engagement to raise no other loan for five years.

A London correspondent of the Edin* burgh Scotsmen aaya Mr. Eugeae Schuyler, United States Canaul-Oeneml at Constantinople, fa in trouble with hie Government inconsequence of his published communications in reference to Turkish outrages. The Pennsylvania Legislature has elected Cameron to the United States Senate, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Simon Cameron, his father. The vete in joint convention stood: Cameron, 147; Dill (Dem.), 92; scattering, 8. Regulations have been issued by the United States Treasury Department which permit the shipment of silver directly to parties making deposits. The United States pays the transportation expenses. Deposits must be not fans than <I,OOO nor more than <IO,OOO. In the contested election case of Pacheco as. Wigginton, in the Fourth California District, the Supreme Court of that State has overruled Wigginton's demurrer to Pacheco’s (Bap.) application for a writ of mandamus commanding the Secretary of State to issue a certificate to Pncbeoa. • t According to a late Washington telegram, the roll of the House of Representatives of the Forty-fifth Congress, as prepared by Clerk Adams, shows 138 Republicans and 153 Democrats, two coo to in Louisiana bring doubtful Kight Mate are contested by Republicans and three by Democrats. The Special Committee of the Ohio I mpsljfan; to investigate into the circumstances attending the Ashtabula disaster submitted their report on the 220. They conclude that from 80 to 100 persons lost their lives; that the bridge failed becaaae of faulty construction, and that such defacta could have been discovered at any tone by careful inspection. The Secretary cf the Treasury has issued a circular, in which he indicates the rules regulating the employment of persons in his department. This states: First, that no more persons will be employed than are actually demanded by the wants of the service; second, tost those employed will receive the same pay as those in ordinary employment; third, that the heads of banana must look after their subordinates and report from time to time as to the needs and efficiency of their charges; fourth, in regard to extra clerk-hire, it must be regulated by the neoeeritoe es the ease and the term of the appointment must be stated in the contnoL