Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CU9IKt.nl r^KAlinArno. KxPrwklcnt Grant and wife returned to Washington o*l the svenlng of the »d. ■ aa - - ftt tut Ohio Bttte Republican Convention will h* bsid a* Clsvakuad, hag. 1. Capt. Geo. Barker, the oldest FreeMaeo* in the United States, died at Hudson. N. A occurred, aarty on the nomine of the 23d, at Oban. ArHon. Geo. Schneider, of Chicago, has been appointed United State* Minister Resident to the Republic of Bwitseriand. The boiler of a Hoar mill at Alexandria, Egypt, a*ph»ted ou the 23d, killing sixteen pernone and injuring many otbara. By a rote of 22 to 0, the New York Senate recently peeved a bill prohibiting betting on elections, pool-celling st more. tec. The King of Abjmlnia has released the American Gen. Mitchell. At last account* he lad reached Mnstownh in a pitiable condition. The Massachusetts Home of Repre■entaMves bee rejected the Prohibitory Liquor bill paaed by the Senate, by a vote of 117 to 106. . | A Calcutta telegram of the 28d announces a serious outbreak of obolera in Aky&b. TwentyAre,per cent, of the European population had died. .= ‘ V. ,«... D thing the eighteen months ending March last, 84,278,810 pounds of fresh beef were shipped to Borope from this country. Ha value was #8,036,488. The National Exchange Bank, of Minneapolis, Mina., suspended recently, owing, it is said, to the financial embarrassment of H. Mil* ler, of Troy, the President of the institution. Gen. Wm. E. Lathrop, Commander of the Masonic Grand Commandery of the United States, a Mason for sixty yearn, died at Rochester, N. 1., on the 23d, aged eighty-three years. The New York Assembly has lately paaed a bill providing far electing Electors-* tLsuge an the State ticket, and other Elector* on the tickets in the several Congressional Districts. The Porte has asked Bervia for a permit fox Turkish troops to traverse Servian territory in aider to eras the Danube. The Servian Government replied that it would observe strict neutrality unless the Turks violated or crossed the froSier. ‘^ Late intelligence received at the Treas* uny Department is to the effect that the counterfeiting of silver coin is rapidly increasing. Reports front the Black .Rills state that attempts had beta made to circulate counterfeit M coins there, and that several arrest* had been mads. The Postmaster-General has directed that hereafter appointments of Poetoffioe dorks, route agents, mail-route memeugma or local agents, shall be made only for six months, and that at the expiration of this period no reappointment will be made unless the appointee pMB B fffttirfnrtrry *TiTi^ ni f** nw

At Boston, on the 2lst, Dudley Kimble (•fed four and a half yean) and Stephen Cox (aged seven), sons of prominent business men, qnanded at play. The younger, saying, “I will fix you," went borne, took his father’s revolver, and abut the elder through the temple, in dieting injuries from which he died two houn after. . , An explosion at Poutypridd, Wales, on the 11th at April, imprisoned nine men behind a cohunn of coal forty yards thick. Conttnwoaa eparariooa for their reeone Msolted in the opening of commonication with them on the 19th. Five were alive, hot four had wan* tiered to other ports of the mine and, it is beltaeaJ -j IIcVPQ, pCiInUvCU From reports published in the Chicago ItUrr-Ottmti «n the Slvt, from 459 oouodes in tlliswt Indiana. Ohio, lowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee and Maryland, it appears that wheat is unusually promising. Peaches are likely to prove a partial failure. Apples promise finely, and the smaller fruits premiss sheet an average crop. The Louisiana Commissioners’ report was given ont fay the President, on the 35th, and is dated New Orleans, April 31. It givesan account of the position of affaire on the arrival of rim Commission at New Orleans, and states that the Commiwionere found it to be very difficult to ssoertsin the precise extent to which the respective Governments wore acknowledged in the various parishes outside of New Orleans, but it was safe to say that the changes which had taken place in the parishes after the on g&nlzation of the two Governments on the 9th of January, 1877, were in favor of the Nicbuhs Government. The legal question upon which the right of the respective Governments depended is then di seame d in the report, and it is stated that there was no judicial tribunal, acknowledge to be authoritative by both partire, fay which tire legal title could be solved. The onty hope of a practical solution was by a union of so many members of Urn rival Cegidsturesgs would make a Legislature with a Constitutional quorum in both Senate and House of whom title to their sente was valid under either Wribdifllrel * ’"** &a<aij;w ‘ of ttember* to constitute a qoomm of Betombeof hrtfog benefit to that State, approved by the patriotic people of all sections.”