Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CVM£*T WUIAWtAm. . Tfce Qemral Assembly of Ohio has adThe Minnesota State Fair la to be held at Hinneapelia daring tbs fin* week in Sep. John Lee & Sons, blanket manufactam* at ITaaliin. England, have failed for £656,000. The decrease of the United States debt ttom March t, 1889, to April SO, 1877, waa #*56,104,8ii Henry Sawyer, United States Consul at ftarinam. Sooth America, daring ttM last twenty ywM, died recently. The President has signed a convention betwesa the Poatoflkw Department at the United Mtatea and that «f Italy. The Transvaal Republic has been formally —to the British Empire and the British iWf bowtedat Pretoria. The Turkish authorities have suspended tfaePma law of 1865, and placed newspapers ander administrative control. The Governor of New York has vetoed a bill which pawed the Legislature authorizing the of women to aobonl offices. A decree has been issued by the Servian Government, forbidding Servians from leaving the country without permission of the authorities. [ The exports of oleomargarine from Mew Sort, during the seven months ending IS, aggregated 3,649,629 pounds, worth #*81.747. » The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has affirmed the sentences of the Mollie Maguire murderers, and directed that warrants for execution issue. The King of Abyssinia has again declared war against the Khedive as Egypt The ipifar has, in ooaseqaence, refused to further assist the Porte. The Turkish Chamber of Deputies has approved the bill for a state of siege throughout Turkey. General amnesty has bean granted to the Bulgarian*.

The low* State Republican Convention for the i it Governor, LieutenantGovernor, eto, has barm called to meet niDesMotnes oo the 27th of Jnoe. An Albany (N. Y.) special of the Bth ■»-« ittoney-Oenmi Fsirehild had returned the dooament to Tweed known a* his confession, and declined to order hi* release. Thomas Carlyle, the distinguished Britkh author, haa written a letter te the London Time*, protesting against taking part in the trouble between Torker and Russia. Geo. M. Pinney, Clerk to Pay-Inspector Spaulding, who defaulted for a large amount and fled from San Francisco eighteen months ago, has surrendered to the United States authorities. The sentence of Maj. Reno of dismissal from the army for indignities offered the wife of a brother officer has been commuted by the President to suspension from office without raak or pay for two years. The full text of .Lord Derby's reply to the Russian, Government has been published In it he plainly states that the British Government did not approve of the action of Russia in crossing the Pruth. Two Deputy United States Marshals and two special United States Bailiffs have been ar rested at Glasgow, Ky., cm a charge of shooting with intent to kill. The trouble arose from an attempt to arrest illicit distillers. The Russian Minister, Count Shiskin, has formally notified the Secretary of State, at Washington, that a state of war exists between Russia and Turkey. Similar notice was given by the Turkish Minister some time ago. Roumania has been notified that, in consequence of the Raasian-Ronmaaian Convention, its agency at Constantinople is suspended. The Porte directs, nevertheless, that the Roumanians in Turkey shall enjoy the protection of the laws.