Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1877 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CWNOT PARAGRAPHS. ' *•> L The Dime Savings Bank at Bethlehem, Ffe.taaaaß.-Axl ", Hon. Caleb Cuahiag recently arrived at New Yaak famMbu Austria haa decided to issue a procla—atiaaof The Louisiana Legislature adjourned eiM die en She aftsmooa of toa 90th. J. D. Defrees has been appointed Pub* tic Printer ta ptabe of A. M. Clapp, Ttmgmrt. The President has appointed John E. King Sa be Collector of Curtonuot New Orleans -——• ♦ The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention is to be held at HsnWxrg, on the Sth.cf August. _ Ex-Senator William G. (Parson)Brownlew dx-d a few mornings ago at his rwdeooe ia Knoxville, Tenn. Another outbreak of the cattle plague has compelled She slaughter of 124 head in Middlesex, England. The plague has appeared at Reshd, a Fenian town. There were 176 deaths at Bagdad from the 16th to the 23d. Russia, at the request of Austria, has dedared the navigation of the Danube reopened, subject to certain local restriction*. The water-power property on the American aide at N iagara Falla was recently sold at auction to a Buffalo gentleman, for $71,000. An English steamer, while entering the harbor of Kertch, without the necessary precautions, waa lately totally destroyed by a torpedo. The Maine Republican State Committee have recently re-elected Senator Blaine as Chairman, wishing his eighteenth consecutive year in that position. The Bey of Tunis has offered the Sultan 18,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry, provided the Porte pays part of the expenses of their equipment and transportation. The Czar has telegraphed to the Prince «f Montenegro: “lam firmly resolved tins time to realise the reared mierion of Bums and my predecessor. God will aid us.” Great Britain and France, on the 30th ult, issued proclamations directing their subjects to observe the strictest neutrality in the war between Turirey and Russia. Entrance into or departure from the Bosphorus and Dardanelles during the nighttime has been absolutely prohibited by the Porte. AU fights have been extinguished. A large number of persons, mostly flre- - men, were boned beneath the ruins of a burning building at Montreal, Canada, a few mornings ago, and nine of them were crushed burned to death, and several others were injured. Hie suit of the English owners of the Emma Mine against Trenor W. Park and others, to recover the $5,000,000 paid for it, on the ground of misrepresentation and fraud, has been decided in favor of the defendants, after a four months'trial. Up to the 27th of April, the United States Treasury had paid out 630,344,000 in silverocin, of which amount 018,095,000 were in place of fractional currency, and 612,249,000 for currency obligation. The balance on hand amounted to 63,500,000. The Coroner's jury in the case of the Southern Hotel fire, at St Louis, has rendered a verdict that the fire originated in the basement It also censures the lessees of the building for having made no provisions for extinguishing fire; for carelessness in the storage of inflammable materials, and for making no efficient efforts on the night of the fire to awaken their guests and employes. Judge Schaeffer has decided that Ann Elim is not entitled to a decree of divorce from Bagham Young, the alleged marriage being polygamous, and therefore null and void; that during the time plaintiff was with defendant as his polygamous wife she was serving him as a menial servant, and would be entitled to a reasonable compensation far her service, but having received in this instance, in the form of alimony, mote than each service waa shown by the proof to be reasonably worth, she should go hence without further compensation. The eighth annual report of the Board of Indian Oommiationen, just published, oondudea with the following The immediate compliance on the part of the Government with terma of existing treaties with all the Indiana; appropriations for consolidating agencies; a generous appropriation for educational purpoem; discontinuance of tribal retotisns; axtenoMSi of law far protection of life and property; allotments «f land; estahlishment of industrial and agricultural boarding schoote, compelling the attendance of all between seven and eighteen yean of age; issue of supplies to be made to beads of famines; increase of salaries to Indian Agents.