Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1877 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

The celebrated trotting mere Ledy Twenty-two persona have bees recently drowsed by Inundations In the Province of deaton AOo., henry shipping merchont* aod traders, Of London, here felled for £500,000. . im _ The President hen Appointed Gen. Willleae 0. Lodvc, of Minnesota, Commissioner Of Agriculture. , , , Gen. Sherman has started far the Yel lowstone Riser, for the perposo of tospectTbe town State Democratic Convention, for the nomination of State officers, has been called TO meet at Marshalltown on the 20tli n « •«, »i; * , ii ?, W A«|Wl> L, Cass Carpenter, an United States Revenue Collector, st Charleston, 8. C., has hoes arrested and held to ban upon the chsrjps sf “ rala’lug'’ State revenue warrants. Tha Deputise of the Cretan Assembly have sent a telegram to the Sultan, asking for a mined Commission to examine the question at Issue between the Mnaaulmen and Christians. fL-V’.! ZE:,J A potato field at Mulheim, on which the Colorado beetle appeared, has (men covered with petroleum’hnd tan-bark, and set on Are, the German Government Iwtesanltyinf the owner. »< •„ ••■<'»* ’ The house of Mr. ILhtreUle, at RochestarvUle, Cap.; torn burned a few nights ago, and his son, eleven ydkra old, perished In the flames. Mr*. L. and her mother were also fatally burned. The Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, Just published, contains 188,196 names, whleh, allowing throe and s half persons to each man, as ordinarily estimated, would show a population of B*l^4l. The American Tract Society has Elected the following-named officers for the ensuing year: President, Wm.C. Chapin; Vtee-Pres-Iflents, John G. Tappan, Gem Eraatus Blakeslee; Secretary and Treasurer, Arthur .Gilman. «. , 1 ,, ,v The amount of United States currency outstanding, on the Ist, according to the official statement, was: Old demand notes, legal-tender notes, $359,764,832; notes of 1863, 1WJ.285; compound Interest notes, 8100,260; fractional currency, $20,403,187.34; total, 83f»,«27£7«.8*. The stage from Deadwood was jtopped by higfcwiytnen, near Cheyenne River, S few nights ago, and both the treasure boxes taken. The robbers sent word, by the driver to the managers of the stage line to send them a pair of gold-scales, as dividing dust with a spoon was not glwaya satisfactory. The balance of the $1,500,000 advanced to the Centennial Exposition has been paid over to the % Unlted States Treasury by the PresidentoT the Centennial Board of Finance. The Government allowed the 820,000 advanced by the Board to pay the salaries of facial customs officers In the early days of the Exposition. _ The ooinage reports from all the Mints n the United States, except that at Carson aty, Nev., slate tha| the aggregate ooinage for the fiscal year is 871,000,000, showing an increase over that of the last fiscal year of #14,000,000. The total amount of stiver coin issued up to the tat was f«,191*587, of which 111,09!,526 was issued on account of currency obligations, and 821,140,081 in redemption of fractional currency. A statement has bean published by the President of the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn., to the effect that the Company not only has all the assets It claims, but that they are worth all the Company claims them to be, and that Jt will pay every Just claim. He urges policy-hold-ers everywhere to renew their policies. This la in reply to the recent report of the Insurance Commissioners of Um State, reflecting upon the financial standing of the Com/ P“J. J A colored barber, named Riley Covingtoe, was recently arrealed at Cairo, IIL, for the murder of two men at Osceola, Ark., about a year ago. He was taken to She latter place, and immediately after reaching there was taken from the Sheriff' by a crowd of white and colored men, and dragged to the outskirts of the city, where ropes were tied around hia neck and feet, and a male hitched to each rope and driven In opposite directions, literally tearing the man to pieces. ■maeffißMMk Some yean ago, a Mrs. Sarah M. Victor was convicted In the courts of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hung- Sentence was commoted to Imprisonment for life, After eereral years’ confinement ip toe Penitentiary, toe prisoner wearied of the life sate applied to the Columbus Courts to have the original sentence carried out, on the ground that alto had not consented to commutation. The Judge had the matter under advisement for eighteen months, and, on toe 26th, rendered to opinion that Mrs. Victor was, to toe eye of the law, *n escaped prisoner, and isausd an order for her delivery to toe authorities df Cuyahoga. An application was subsequently made to the Supreme Court for leavpto file a petition in error, end Mrs. Victor was remanded to the. Penitentiary to

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crossing of the Danube, and promising the people protection and equitable treatment. A Pern special of the 28th ult. announces the capture of Batoum by the Ruaflflj A London telegram of the 20th sava the Turkish forces In Montenegro were menacing Cettlnje, the capitalThe Russian Commissariat has telegraphed to hurry up eupptice for the army, representing that the country south of the Danube Is entirely destitute and that famine Impended In Bulgaria. It was reported from Constantinople, on the 78th ult,,that the Russian bridge at Matchln had been destroyed by the Turkish gunboats. A Nlcopolis dispatch of the 29th ult. says the attempt of the Russians to cross tbe Danube at that point on the preceding day was a dismal failure. Ten of (be boats employed were sunk and toe slaughter was frightful. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 30th ult says tbe Osar's proclamation on crossing the Danube was regarded there as the signal for a Bulgarian Insurrection throughout tbe Peninsula. A dispatch from the Cxar had been received aanounctag that the Turks had retreated and, that all Bulgaria except the quadrilateral might hd considered In the hands of the Russians. A Turkish monitor, on the 80th ult., sank a Russian gleamer embarking troops and warlike material near Wtdtn. A Constantinople telegram of tbe 80th ult. reports a terrible battle progressing near Sisters. At last accounts, the Turks were ksstily sending forward reinforcements and were taflicUmg great damage upon the Russians. A Sfaumla special of tbe Ist reports the defeat of a Russian force advancing Inland at Biela. D was also reported that the Turkish monitors at Nlkopolls had been abandoned, and that the Town of Nlkopolls hud been evacuated. The Porte has published the following official dispatch: ’‘ The Russians, defying the rights of humanity, and without any military necessity, have completely destroyed the flourishing Town of Euutckuk, which Is now nothing but a heap of ruins. They spared neither mosques, churches, hospitals, nor public buildings. We hereby make known their act to the Justice and humanity of Europe.” A Bucharest dispatch of the 8d says that all able-bodied Bulgarians had been summoned to present themselves at the Russian camps, to be organized into a force for their own protection. According to Turkish reports, tbe Russians In Asia have been defeated five times since June 16. Their losses on the 80th ult. were believed to be 10,000, and their wounded filled 800 wagons. The advance of the Russians across the Danube has aroused an intense wnr feeling Id Constantinople, and all available troops, Including the Imperial Guards, have been ordered to the front. The Czar has issued a proclamation for. mally declaring the independence of Bulgaria. On the 4th, Mukhtar Pasha telegraphed to Constantinople that tbe Russian left wing In front of Kars had been almost annihilated, and was retreating In.great disorder in the direction of Bayazld.

GBNBRAL. The steamer Lady of the Lake exploded near Plymouth, Mass, on the 28th, and eighteen were scalded—six fatally. There was a strike among the compositors of the New York Tribune on the evening of the 29th ult., the managers having asked a reduction in the rates for composition of six cents per 1,000 ems, and having come in conflict with the Printers’Union on one or two other points, new men were put to work at once, and the proprietors of the office claimed that they would get along without re-employing any of the strikers. The New Hampshire House, on the 29th ult., debated a resolution Introduced by Mr. Sinclair, a Democratic member, indorsing the Southern policy of President Hayes. Without coming to a vote, the matter was laid on tho table. It was stated in Chicago, on the 30th ult, that the Secretary of the Chicago Life Insurance Company had disappeared, and waa a defaulter to the amount of SIOO,OOO. The President returned to Washington from his New England trip, on the 80th ult He Intends, It is etated, to spend the heated term at the Soldiers’ Home, near Washington, occupying the cottage used by President Lincoln. Severe tornadoes passed over portions of Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania, on the Ist, causing great destruction of life and property. The little Village of Ereildoun, Pa., was almost entirely destroyed. Twenty houses were rased to the ground and one woman waa killed, five other persons were Injured, two fatally. A London telegram of the 2d ssys the British Cabinet had finally, after a warm discussion, resolved to extend no material aid to.the Bui tan. A small fleet had been ordered to Bestka Bay, but this was believed to have no sinister signification. A Bucharest dispatch of the 2d says Koumanla had decided to Inaugurate offensive warfare against Turkey, with the intention of securing the acknowledgment of the absolute independence of Koumanla, the dismantling of the Turkish forts along the Danube and full indemnity for war expenses and depredations of Turkish Armies. the Russians have occupied Tiraova, the ancient capital of Bulgaria, and Prince Tcberkoski has been proclaimed Provisional Governor of the Province. A Shumla telegram of the 2d says already 200 women and children had been killed by the bombardment of Rustebuk. It waa reported that the Csar would attend personalty to the reduction of that stronghold. A London dispatch of the 2d says the Turk* in Kara made a desperate sortie on the morning of the SOth, but were compelled to withdraw, after several hours’ fighting, with heavy losses. The Roumanians crossed the Danube on the night of the 80th ult near Kalafat, and have commenced the Investment of Wldin on the land side. t . The warlike sensation of the 2d was the offer of Gen Garibaldi to the Roumanian Government to send experienced officers to form an Italian legion. By advleo of the Cmr, the offer was declined with thanks. Austria has warned the Porte that she will not permit Montenegro to be crushed, and sanoonem that she will enter Bosnia If Ife* Turks menace CstUnjs.

Two men named Bellinger and Pierce, were carried over the falls at Niagara a few evealags ago, and, of course, were killed. They had been boating In tlienver above toe falls, and gut Into tbe raptda, when they jumped oat of the boat and attempted to swim ashore. A companion who remained In the boat waa rescued. According to the public debt statement there were coin bonds outstanding. nn toe Ist, to the amount of 41,697,886,500; total debt, 82JMA, 184,1 b 8; cash In Treasury, 8186,085,960; debt less cash in Treasury, 82,060,156,228; decrease during June, 83,229,189; since June SO, 1676, 889,761,121. A large block of warehouses at Brad, ford, England, waa burned on the Bd, Involving a loss of 1500,000. A Constantinople telegram of the 4th announces the death of tbe Grand Sheriff of Mecca. The Pan-Presbyterian Council opened In Edinburgh, on the 4tb. A targe delegation of Americana participated. A Romo dispatch of the 4th says the Countess Lambertine, who asserts that she Is the natural daughter of the late Cardinal Antonelll, has commenced an action claiming the whole of bis property, which Is estimated at many millions of francs. A special election for Mayor was held at Terre Haute, Ind., on the Bd, and Henry Vairbanks (Rep.) waa elected by a plurality of eight votes, his opponents being A. M. Black (Dem.) and C. M. Foote (Ind. Greenback.) The Commission to investigate the charges against Senator Grover, of Oregon, met at Portland, on tbe 2d. Many prominent politicians of tbe State bad been summoned as witnesses, apd the preparations made indicate a thorough inquiry.