Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1877 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CORItEHT PARAGRAPHS. Famine ta threatened in many districts of Bosnia.... - ... ... .. The Ctar has issued an Imperial decree forbidding the granting of letters of marque. Roumania has appropriated for the use of her army the 900,000 francs tribute usually paid to Turkey. Several of the Softas and officials concerned in the recentemeute at Constantinople have been expatriated. Ex-Gov. Warmoth, of Louisiana, and Miss Bailie Durand were married ut Newark, N. J., a few days ago. A call has been issued for a State Republican Convention to meet at Harrisburg, Pa, on the 29th of August The horse Tenßroeck recently ran a mile in 1:39%, in Louiaville, Ky. This is two seconds faster than the same distance had been previously made. Gov. Cullom, of Illinois, has vetoed the bill passed by the last Legislature, to make silver coins a legal-tender for the payment of debts in the State of Illinois. Fletcher Harper, the sole surviving member of the original New York publishing house of Harper A Brothers, died in that city on the 29th. He was seventy-two years old. _ The little schooner New Bedford, only twenty feet long, sailed from New Bedford, Mass., on the 29th, having on board Capt Crapo and his wife. She is bound for London, England. _____ On the night of the 36th, the dwelling of Henry Tower, of North Clarendon, Mass., was burned and two of his children, aged niue and eleven years respectively, perished in the flames. J. Lothrop Motley, the American historian, formerly United States Minister to the Court of St. James, diedin London, England, on the 30th ult, of paralysis. He was sixtythree yean old. The Circuit Court of Dearborn County, Ind., has lately decided that the law courts of Utah have no jurisdiction in divorce cases over residents of other States, and that such divorces are illegal and void. The Turkish Commander has notified the inhabitants of Rustchuk, Varna, Bhumla and Silestria that all persons who have not provisions for at least six months must leave within twelve days from May 28. The mystery surrounding the disap* pearance of Willie Dean, of Chicago, was solved on the 29th, by the finding of the body of the boy between the railroad tracks and the breakwater at the foot of Twenty-first street in that city. Secretary Thompson, of the Navy Department, has transmitted orders to United States Naval Commanders in foreign waters to show suitable attention to ex-Pres-Ident Grant and facilitate in all regards his tour of observation. Simms, the fugitive slave, who was captured by Atty-Gen. Devens when ha was United States Marshal, at Boston, during Filmore’s administration, and turned over to the Savannah authorities, under the Fugitive Slave law, has been appointed messenger In Gen. Devens’ Department At Hartford, Conn., on the 35th, two self-confessed guilty officers of the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ National Bank of Hartford— Jaa. L. Chapman. Cashier, and John C. Tracy, President—were sentenced to several years hard labor in the State Prison. The crimes were embezzlement and perjury, and the amount embezzled *598,000. A recent letter frotfl Sweetwater, Tex., states that the town of Double Mountain, in the Panhandle of Texas, had been captured by Apache Indians, and all the stock In the town run oft Severe fighting between sixty huntersand twine that number of Indians is also reported, the Indians being virtually defeated with considerable loss on their side. The Chicago Common Council has passed an ordinance requiring that all fresh fruits and berries sold in that city shall be sold in aliquot parts of a bushel, according to the table of dry measures, and that all fruit or berries, fresh or dried, shall be of equal goodness in every part of the package. The penalty for a violation of the ordinance la a fine of not less than *5 nor more than *25. ‘ - May 30 was generally observed as Decoration Day throughout the country. The ceremonies at Arlington Were participated in by the President and Mrs. Hayes and the Cabinet, the President and his wife, with flowers brought by themselves, decorating the graves of dead soldiers, and especially the monument to the unknown. Allthq Government offices in Washington were closed on that day. At the recent session of the Grand Lodge of the Good Templars of the World, at Portland, Me., the following we* elected officers fur the ensuing year: Theodore D. Kanouse, of Wisconsin, G. W. C. T.; Rev. Stephen Todd, of England, l ß. W. G. C.; Mrs. A. H Brookbank, R. W. G. V. T.; W. 8. Williams, of Naponee, Ont, R. W. G. A; R. 8. Scott, of St Louis, Mo., R. W. G. T.; Mrs. M. B. O’Donnell, of Lowville, N. Y., Chief Superintendent of Juvenile Templars. The report of the Grand Secretary shows a membership of 450,000. _____ On the 25th, in an interview with a reporter of the Memphis Avalanche, Gov. Stone, of Mississippi, stated that he had requested Judge Haoom, Circuit Judge, to call an extra session of his court for the purpose of bringing the guilty parties in the Kemper County tragedy to trial, and that as Governor he had exhausted his authority. He had visited DeKalb as soon as he had heard of the riot, but found nothing to do aa the rioters hud dispersed. He thought it exceedingly

• r v• - T . • * doubtful if a jury io Kemper County would convict the rioter*, ail of whom realded there and were well known.