Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1877 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

An explosion occurred on the sth, in the office of Measim. Jewett, white lead manufacturer*, in New York, by which George W. Jewett, the head of the him, and O. D. Jewett, his nephew, were killed, and Joseph A. Dean seriously injured, (hie aeoount states that a misunderstanding existed between O. D. Jewett and his partners, and that he was about to withdraw from the firm. He came to the office erased with liquor, when angry words pawed, and he pulled a hand-grenade front his pocket and threw it on the floor, an explosion following, with the result above stated. Another aeoount states that young Jewett was insane. It waa believed that Dean would recover. According to a Vienna telegram of. the Cth, Bnaaia te&jifcsstei trifeoPort* a derflSria for a categorical answer aa to the aoceptance of the protocol and disarmament. The Sultan, on the Bth, conferred the Star of the OsaaanH upon Edhem Pasha, the Grand Timer, aa a token of his approval of the policy pursued by him. Gen. Wade Hampton arrived at Columbia, 8. C-, on the 6th, from Washington, and addressed a large oeneowse of people in the afternoon, stating that hia policy aa Governor would be om of peace and harmony, and that be would support President Hayes in carrying out the policy indicated in hia inaugural address. He also reiterated the pledges made to the colored people in hia campaign speeches, and said that in the adminhttntaon of law he should know no > race. A strike among the cotton-spinners in the Lancashire (Ragland) district waa imminent on the Bth. Odessa telegrams of the 7th report that hurried preps ratinsw were making in all ports at the .Black Baa to meet aa apprehended attack by the Turkish iron-clad fleet. The Beading (Pa.) Railroad Company decided, en the 7th, to suspend all engineers on the Germantown A Norristown Branch belonging to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. They woe given two days in which to decide wbathaktiwy would abandon the Brotherhood or the Baibimd Company. A London special of the 9th says intelligence had jmt been received to the effect that the Porte had relented the principal clauses of the protocol, and refused to admit the Bnaoian dootrSte of disarmament ; declined to send an with Montenegro aa she pleased. War was 000aiderod inevitable and imwliunt A Borne (Italy) telegram of the 9th reports the appearance of armed bands of Interfcmrfof ttdHy of the On the morning of the 9th, the Louisiana

Interests of the two Gubernatorial claimants. The Commission stated, among other things, that the moment the members of the Legislature, whose'election was undisputed by either party, should mset together aa one body, it would constitute the State of lonisiana. If this were done, self-government and the withdrawal of the army would follow in twenty-four hours, they thought. - The President la constantly in receipt of letters from persons of both political and from all parts of the country, heartily approving of his policy, according to an Associated Press dispatch of the 9th. The National Reform Association met in Convention at Chicago, on the 10th. The object of the gathering was to take action looking to the maintenance of the Bible in the publlo schools, “Sabbath lawn, the oath and other Christian features of oar Government, and to provide for them an undeniable legal basis by a religions amendment to the Constitution." Bov. Jonathan Edwards was chosen President, and addresses were delivered by him and W. W. Everts, D. D., of Chicago. A Constantinople telegram of the 10th announces the discovery of the evidence of two Runeian inoendiitry agencies in Bulgaria. The Porte had issued a circular, in which stress was laid on the desire of Turkey for peace, but declaring that foreign interference in Turkish affairs would not be submitted to. The Turkish Chamber of Deputies had rejected the demands of Montenegro. Affairs wore regarded as extremely critical. The United States troops were withdrawn from the Columbia (8. C.) Court-House, on the 10th, in accordance with the President's agreement with Wade Hampton. Mr. Chamberlain, also, issued a proclamation finally retiring from the contest for the Governorship of South Carolina. A Bucharest telegram of the 11th says the Turks were very active in that region in forwarding military preparations. Twenty-four Krupp guns had recently arrived, and would be used for the defense of the Danube. Bismarck was, on the 11th, granted leave of absence until August next. The State papers and the Government of South Carolina were formally transferred to, Gov. Hampton at noon on the 11th. A Washington telegram of the 11th ■ays the Treasury Department had instructed the various Sub-Treasurera not to pay out any more legal-tenders of the denomination of $1 and $2The Southern Hotel, the largest hotel in Bt» Louis, was burned on the morning of the 11th. The loss of life is varionsly estimated at from twelve to twenty. The money loss waa in the vicinity of $1,000,000. A Fort Smith (Ark.) dispatch of the 11th says the Heater family, arrested on the charge of being the Kansas Benders, had been released after an examination by Judge Parker. Kansas parties failed to identify them.