Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1877 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. -Persia has announced her intention not to join Russia. The whole east coast of Atchin has been ■eeded to tbo Patch. w President MacMahon has required Don Carlos to leave France. The Sheik U 1 Islam has proclaimed a holy war against Russia. ■ ■ - England has notified the Powers that she wW protect the Sues Canal. The Turkish troops which fled from Ardahan have been defeated in the mountain passes near Kars. The Russian and Roumanian authorities have issued a decree prohibiting all traffic on the Danuto. -- ~-- y The Town of Creswell, N. C., was totally destroyed by fire on the night of the 18th. Great distress prevails. The Turkish Chamber of Deputies has adopted a resolution demanding the impeachment of Mahmoud Neddin Pasha. , The greater part of the business portion of the town oF Woodstock,. N. 8., was consumed by Are on the 17th. Loss, 1800,000. Com. Edward W. Carpenter, of the United States Navy, died at Shrewsbury, N. J-, a few days ago, aged eighty one years. W. H. C. Hosmer, well known as the Bard qf Avon,” died at Avon, N. T., on the morning of the 23d. He was sixty-three years old. _ A letter from Kossuth has been published, in which he urges an alliance be-, tween Turkey and Hungary against their common enemy, Russia. *

The reported capture of Sukum Kaleh and the rising of the Circassians, who massacred the garrison and burned the town, has been officially confirmed. Fire prominent candy-manufacturers of Boston have been indicted for the use of poisonous ingredirata. and held to bail in thesum of *6,000 each. Michael Donahue died of hydropho bia, In Chicago, on the evening of the 16th. He was bitten six weeks before by a strange dog with which he was playing. Prince Milan has sent an autograph letter to the Emperor Alexander, In which he states that Berria was ready to take the field with 40,600 men, provided Russia would pay the expenses. ; ’r The Secretary of the Treasury, it is stated, has recently tendered the Solicitorship of the Treasury to ex-Gov. Chamberlain, of South Carolina. The Governor declined the appointment. During the Whlt-Monday amusements at Hull, England, on the 21st, a balloon, about to ascend, was blown against a gas jet and exploded. Eighty-six of the spectators were injured, six dangerously. At Cleveland, Ohio,‘recently, Mrs. John Dona van quarreled with her husband and then jumped into the river with her two children, aged two years and eight months respectively, la herarms. AU were drowned. ;» » —J ■' Another call (the forty-seventh) * has been issued if or the redemption of 5-20 bonds and console of 1865, to the amount of *10;COQjOOO, principal and accrued interest to be paid ou the 21st of August, interest to cease on that day. The South Carolina Legislature has elected Associate-Justice Willard Chief-Jus-tice by a vote of 84 to 44 for all other candidates. CoL Henry Mclvor, the Democratic nominee. has been riueted as Justice Willaid's succeasor. ■ _ During April, *84,500,000 of National Bank notes were redeemed by the Redemption Agency. Since the organisation of the agency Che counterfeits rejected amounted to Sl4,ooq,and the stolen and other notes rejected to nearly *27,000. A reward of *IO,OOO has been ofiered by Hr. F. T. Bagnum for the restitution of the stolen boy, Charley Ross. Immunity is promised to the persons making the surrender. The father of the bog has, it is said, sanctioned the arrangement An Odessa letter says the fail of Sukum Kaleh had caused a panic at Odessa and other Blaek Bea porta. All confidence in the shore batteries and torpedoes had been loak The Governor of Odessa had endeavored to calm the public by issuing proclamations. W Chester, Pa., on the 2M, during the launching of an iron steamer, several workmen, who did not hear the warning and failed to get out of the way as the vessel started, were killed, and others ware seriously injured. Thoaekßled or fatally injured numbered seven. f t ... w , J ■ The Attorney-General of the United States has derided that it is lawful for the Secretary of War to indorse upon officers' vouchers for pap the words: “ The within account Is believed to be correct, and would be paid by me if I had public funds available for that purpose.** A recent Washington telegram says Secretary Sherman had stated that whatever was done under the Resumption act would be communicated first all to the public. Nothing would be dose until after the most careful consideration and with the sanction of the President -a » fl'tij- 1 Advicre'from Asia Minor report that the Mohammedan insurrection In the Caucasus had proved aaftrious cheek tothe advance of the Russian Army. The Insurgents were constantly harassing the Russian outposta. A large force of Circassians attacked the RusStans near tile frontier, and competied them to retreat Ex-President Grant and family left Philadelphia for Europe, bn the 17th, on tiro ffi*J~WlTtlflT* TnAlffiVtffi An jxlwKxreriuf j. Aa a theepteodaa of the event was a massage from President Htytu and wife, con-

veytng their good wishes and hopes for a speedy and aucceesful voyage. ■W* —*— Fite childras, the eldest of whom was nine years of age, were burned to death in a house at Little Hook, Cortland County, New days ago. Mr. Dunnegtd and wife, parents of the children, made every effort to rescue the little ones, whose cries for help could be distinctly heard above the roaring of the flames, which had made considerable headway when discovered. In the Rockford Court-House disaster, the Coroner’s Jury have tendered a verdict finding that the falling of the building was owing to the neglect of Henry L. Gay, the architect. The Board of Supervisors was also censured for carelessness in the examination of the plans and specifications, and for employing an Incompetent architect to superintend the construction of the building.