Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1877 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK

paraotaws. %■ s. ’-' u m w ,*i nr Alex. Barclay & 00., of Goltenburg, Sweden, have tailed for $1,340,000. John SI C. Abbott, Uw author, diod on the 17th. Be *u seventy year* old. A fire at Burlington, lowa, on the morning of the 19th, destroyed property valued at $190,000 _ * The Porte haa demanded of fcervia an explanation of the object of Prince Milan’* recent visit to the Caar. Ex-benator Pratt, of Indiana, died at hi* reaidence, In Logansport, of heart dlseaae, on the morning of the 17th. ) < , ~ ■■ An ordinance has been passed by the Chicago Common Connell prohibiting the selling of fire-work* at retail it the city. Lady Sterling Maxwell, better known as Hon. Ur*. Norton, died on the 15th, at her husband's residence in Perthshire, England. _ The Commander-In-Chief of the Ottoman Army l*M Usued au order directing that every Roumanian soldier taken prisoner shall be put to death. At Bridgeport, Pa., a few nights ago, five tramps were sleeping on the furnaces of an abandoned lime kiln, when the walls gave way, and four of the men were killed and one fatally injured. The entire Freshman class of Princeton College, numbering nearly one hundred students, has been suspended and ordered to leave town. The offense charged was “ bulldoxing” the faculty. The price of newspapei competition in Philadelphia has been reduced by the Typographical Union of that city to forty cent* per 1,000 ems, and book work to thirty-five and thirty-seven cents. A complaint has been filed, by the United States District Attomcv for the New York District, against Samuel J. Tilden, to recover |l&0,000 alleged to be due as unpaid income-tax from 1861 to 1671.

A few days ago the First National Bank of Mount Vernon, 111., sent a package containing 88,000, per Adams Express, to the Third National Bank of Bt. Louis. When the package was delivered it proved to be brown paper. t. ■ The engineers who made the geological explorations and soundings for a sub-marine tunnel between France and England report that the tunnel is perfectly practicable, as there Is a continuous bed of chalk between the two shores. . W A National Christian Temperance Convention is to be held at Lake Bluff, north of Chicago, to begin ou the 10th of July and continue five days. Dr. Reynolds, assisted bv the officers of the Association, will have charge of the meetings. Ex-President Grant was presented with the freedom of the City of London, at Guildhall, on the 15th. About 800 of the dignitaries of the Corporation participated in the ceremony. The gold casket containing the parchment was elaborately engraved and ornamehted. '■ ■ On the 16tb, the Treasury Department resumed the shipment of one and two-dollar notes, legal tenders, in limited quantities, to banks and those sending National Bank or greenback currency for redemption, and also to an amount not exceeding ten dollars to each applicant. _______ J The recent election in Georgia, as to whether a Btate Convention should be held for the purpose of remodeling the Constitution, resulted in s majority of about 10,000 in favor of such Convention. The northern counties of the Btate Toted almost unanimously in the affirmative. Secretary Sherman has written a letter, indorsed by the Cabinet, in which he ex. presses the opinion that the new 4 per cent Government bonds, principal and interest, will have to be paid in gold, according to the laws in force on the 14th of July, 1870, when the bonds were authorised.

Tbs President has issued a proclamation appointing a public sale of Government lands at the Laud Office at Harrison, Ark., on the Ist of October, under the act of Congress reopening to public sale the lands in Arkansas and other Southern States, previously reserved for homestead settlement. Great excitement libs been recently caused in the East, because of tho exclusion of Joseph Seligmsa, n prominent New York banker, from the Grand Union Hotel, at Satatoga Springs, on the ground that he was an Israelite. It was stated, on l>ehalf of Mr. Seligman, that it was unlikely that proceedings would be commenced against Rilton, under the Civil Rights act, as had been strongly advised. Judge Hilton stated that he had done what he conceived to be bln duty, in the protection of the interests of the property placed in his charge; there was a class of people whom he would not have in hia betel, and be had a right to