Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1877 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CUUtEHT PARASMPKS. The Turks ere tortitying the passes of the Balkan Mountain.. The Russian vanels at San Francisco have been ordered to the Persian Gulf. The Atlantic Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Albany, N. Y n has failed. Only one man escaped from the Turkah monitor which exploded near Ibrall. Prince Milan and his Cabinet have formally assured Austria that Servlawill not disturb the peace. The village of Eyschofl In Valois has been destroyed by fire. Over 900 people were rendered homeless. A Mrs. Wil berg was severely burned, In Chicago, on the 10th, by the explosion of .a kerosene oil stove. It Is reported that the American officers in the «ervice of the Khedive of Egypt have refused to bear arms against Russia. At Carson, Nev., on the 15th, ex Judge Chas. H. Bryan was strangled to death by a piece of moat while eating his dinner. Dr. Taylor Lewis, of Union College, died at Schenectady, N. Y., on the night of the Uth. He was seventy .five years old. The Miridites have driven the Turks from Orosehi after a sanguinary fight, in which an entire Turkish battalion was destroyed. _ A recent flood has overflowed both banks of the Tigris, completely blockading the City of Bagdad, and sweeping away 200 housea In Kiamisle. The lowa State Temperance Convention has been called to meet in Des Moines on the sJ9th. The State Temperance Alliance meets on the preceding day. A British fleet has been stationed at Port Sai A opposite the entrance of the Suez Canal, with the avowed intention of protecting that thoroughfare. A Turkish gunboat has been captured by a Roumanian battery below Widdin. She was built at Pesth and was en mute tor Rostchuk for her armament. Ex-Gov. Tilden is said to have declined an invitation to attend the recent New York Chamber of Commerce banquet, ut which President Hayes was a guest k St. Petersburg letter of a late date says the Russian troops under Gen. Kaufmann will cross the Pamir into India in the event of England taking part in the Turkish war. * ' s The manager of the Royal Aquarium at London has learned from his correspond, ent at Oban, Scotland, that the reported capture of the sea-serpent at that place is a shameful hoax. Owing to the sudden fall of the water In the Danube, making it impossible to get out the Turkish monitors in the old bed of the river opposite Ibrail, the Porte has ordered that they be abandoned or destroyed.

Tbe collections of Internal revenue duties the fiscal year, up to the 15th, are reported at $108,000,098. Commissioner Rauni thought the aggregate returns for the entire fiscal year would be up to the estimate—--8190,000,000. Tbe unveiling of tbe monument to Fitx-Greene Halleck, in Central Park, New Turk, occurred on the afternoon of the 15th. The presentation speech was made by the President, and the speech of acceptance by Mayor By. The Delaware & Hudson Canal Company issued a circular, on the 11th, stating that, on account of the unusual competition, prices for coal would be made from day to day. This was understood by the New York coal men to mean war and low prices. The New York Senate Committee of Investigation have made a report, stating that they have been unable to find any testimony to substantiate the charges against Senator Woodin, preferred or stated in Tweed’s “confession.” The Senate unani. mously adopted the report. The fifty-second anniversary of the American Tract Society was celebrated Th New York on the evening of the 18th. The receipts for last year, according to the an. nual report, ware 8441,198, and the expendi. turns, 8441,119. About 6,000,000 copies of the Society’s publications were circulated during 1876-T7. ' , . Poindexter Edmondson, who was to have been hanged at Bloomfield, Mo., on the 15th, has been respited by the Governor until July 15. He was convicted solely on I circumstantial evidence, and a dying man is nald to have lately confessed that he committed the murder for which Edmondson was found guilty. The Ambassadors of Austria and Germany have been instructed to remonstrate at Constantinople respecting the formation of Polish legions, such as would include Polish suMeets at Germany and Austria. The Turkish manifesto was indiscriminately addressed to Poles inhabiting Prussian and Austrian districts. Five children, the eldest of whom was nine years of age, were burned to death in a house at little Hook, Cortland County, New York, a few days ago. Mr. Dunnegal and wife, parents of the children, made every effort to tyscue the little ones, whose cries for bfipeould be distinctly heard above the flames, which had made conwhen Recovered.