Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

Iff' —— •IMMWf PAHAiiWPMIi i Anthony Gardner hm Men elected DMM hee been eqodnded between Abyssinia and Egypt. The Queen of Holland died on the Bd. She waa fiftjntac years old. The Moafteangriim, recently attacked and eaptorad Uw Turkish Village Stony. The Greek Ministry ha* been reoootructed nadir the leadership of Canaria. Iter French Cabinet hsa forbidden all. political meetings of over twenty persons. The next Ohio Democratic State Convention M to be hMd at Columbus on the ttlh of July. • ■.•!■’!, iThe Turkish War Minister has issued orders to the loeal Journals, forbidding theca to war news. ■ , \ H , In oonsequence of the opposition of Austria,, the Forte-has abandoned the idea of forming a Polish Legion, > .■ -. A school-teacher in Haitfard (Conn.) died recently of hydrophobia. He was bitten by a dog on the 80th of last April. .... Recent advices received at Ottawa, Canada, indicated that Sittlng. Bull was at Wood Mountain, in Canadian territory. A man died of hydrophobia a few days ago, at Bangui Center, Maas. He was bitten ahept two months previous to his death. The fiftieth anniversary of the Episcopacy of the Fbpe sms celebrated at Rotes with imposing demonstration*, on the 3d.

'The Russian Army on the Danube is to be increased to 400,000 men, and provision contracts for this number haze been made. Montreal, Can.,, was viaited by a destructive fire on the 80th hit Sixty houses were burned, involving a loss of hearty $500,Lydia Sherman, the Connecticut Borgia; who recently escaped from the State Prison, was subsequently captured at Providoaoe, At In consequence of the unprecedented stage of water in the Danube, operations in the north of Turkey are brought to a stand stiff. -V J ' 1 “ * .<>'/ ■ i. i» * ■■■ t . •;} The tariff for passenger travel between Qhkpgp and New York and Boston has been reduced to 815 and file respectively, op limited tickets. A conspiracy has been discovered in Belgrade, against Trincc Milan and favoring the Prince of Montenegro. Numerous arrests have been toads. 4i tee/Mass., a few days ago, a twelveyear old girt, named' Cswthorn, was fatally burned by the explosion of a can of kerosene. She was kindling a smoldering fire. The house of Alexander Snyder, in Portland, Ontario, wto burned on the night of thefifith ult Two of his children perished In the flames, and his wife was seriously burned. - - On the Ist, there were coin bonds outstanding, $1,608,064,656; total debt, 82,880,303,211; cash in Treasury, 8166,904,809; debt lees cash in Treasury, 82,055,377,342; decrease during May, 86,981,074. ■ i / m < —*.' The bridge leading from the railway platforms at Bath, England, gave way on the 6th, and ever one hundred persons were plunged Into the stream below. Twelve pereons were killed and fifty-one injured.

The estate of James M. Sweeney, a deceased brother as Peter 8., la to pay the sum o( $400,000 to iho City of New York, to make good, in part,'the stealing* of the former; a compromise haying been effected to this end. Austria recently sent a note to the Porte, demanding a written declaration that restrictions on the navigation of the Danube should not ontlast the war or serve as a precedent Turkey and Itußsia have both sent the deeiarstfondemanded.' Two persons, named , Mullins and Hughes, who attempted, several months ago, to steal the remains of ex-Prealdent Lincoln from his tomb at Springfield, 111., have been adjudged guilty and sentenced to the Penitentiary for one year each. a rt .m ■■ we , _ A New Talk City Judge has recently held that the rale of the Longshore Union Protective Association, forbidding its members to work for leas than forty cents an hoar, is void, being against public policy, and that members dismissed for its violation must be reinstated. ! ' m t#r T T * T ‘ i Ti The Secretary of State baa recently *»ated.in speaking of thelateaUegedoutrage SpteUh cruisers, that, while hs was sensible of the friendly relations between Spain and the United States, he did not Intend to allow our flag to be outraged; while Spain would he held responsible for guy insult,, he would see that this Government fulfilled *4 Obligations to Spain. It was recently reported from Washington that all representations on the subject of the Chisolm massacre bad been referred to Atty.-Gen. Devons, who would examine the . laws for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is any.authority ter the Federal Courts to interfere. The Secretary of State has taken part in (beinvestigation because of tiie Cact that the British authorities complained that one of th* parties iinusacred was a Brit-