Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1877 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

Condensed Telegraphio News, CVRRRNT PARAGRAPHS. Potato-bugs hare been discovered in Dublin. The export of horses from Germany has been forbidden by Imperial decree. Portugal has consented to act with England In suppressing the slave trade on the Mozambique coast Miss Kate Kelley, of Decatur., 111., ir%B stung in the lips, by a bee, a few days ago, and died eight minutes afterward. Philadelphia, Pa., has been chosen as the next place for the meeting of the PanPresbyterian Council, now in session at Edinburg, Scotland. At Providence. It. 1., on the 10th, tbe one hundredth anniversary of the capture of Gen. Prescott by Col. Barton was commemorated on the scene of the exploit On the 11th, at Council Bluffs, lowa, Kate Wells, seven years old, was fatally burned by the explosion of a can of kerosene oil, with which she was kindling a Arc. It has been recently stated that the loss in valuation of real estate and personal property In the City of Boston, compared with last year, reaches the sum of $60,000,000. On the 9th, Vermont celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the adoption of its first State Constitution. A large number of distinguished citizens from all parts of the Btate were present at Windsor on the occasion. Tbe official canvass of tbe vote in Minnesota, at . tbe special election on the old railroad-bond question, gives the following result: Noes, 59,176; ayes, 17,824. Majority against the proposed plan of scttlcmeut, 41,850. It is stated that the sufferers by the fire in St John, N. 8., have been amply provided for by tbe donations received from other cities, and that the insurance money received for propertv destroyed will go far toward rebuilding the town. The Keeseville (N. Y.) National Bank was entered, a few nights ago, by seven or eight masked burglars, who bound and gagged the watchman, blew open the safe and vault and got away with $15,000 belonging to tbe bank and $60,000 belonging to individuals. Announcement is made of the failure of the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company, of Paterson, N. J., caused, it is said, by business depression, injudicious purchases of paper and investments in real estate. The stockholders lose about fifty cents on the dollar, but the depositors are safe. The Mexican Government has sent a communication to the United States Government insisting upon a modification of the recent order to Gen. Ord in relation to depredations on the Rio Grande, claiming that it is in contravention with the treaties between the two countries. A Washington special of the 6tb says the order lmd not been modified and would not be.

Capt. Howgate’s proposed Polar expedition promises to Ite a success, so far as pecuniary assistance is concerned, contributions bavins; keen so liberal that h# has been able to procure the vessel necessary, the Florence. A Washington dispatch of the Bth says the vessel will snil from New Loudon on the ‘JOth, under the command of Capt. Tyson, who was navigator of the Polaris, and who has been on several Polar expeditions. A scoundrel, calling himself O. L. Evans, has flooded the West with circular proposing th-t the recipient purchase twelve tickets in the Georgia Lottery, at a cost of slo, and agreeing to so manipulate the numbers drawn from the wheel as to make one of the tickets draw a prize of $10,(HO. The victims have been numerous. The New York police force have called upon the address named in the circular, but Evans could not be found. The Wisconsin State Greenback Convention was held at Portage, on the 4th, and the following State ticket placed in nomination: Governor, E. P. Allis, of Milwaukee; Lieutenant-Governor, E. H. Benton, of Fond du Lac; Secretary of State, J. H. Osborn, of Winnebago; State Treasurer, William Schwartz, of Shet-oygan; superintendent of Public Ins ruc'ion, Geo. M. Steele, of Appleton; Attori ey-Genera!, Henry Hayden, of Wood. The Sparta resolutions were adopted as the platform of the Convention. In reply to a letter from the Postmaster at Mad Lon, Wig., stating that four of the five members of the Republican State Central Committee were Postmasters, and asking if their s gnxtures to a call for a Btate Convention would be considered a violation of the President’s recent order, the Post-master-General stated, on the sth, that although he would prefer each official should interpret the P esidential order for himself, yet he is of opinion that to merely provete for the meeting of the Convention and to call it to order, without attempting to control its organization or future action, would not be ineonsist nt w ith the spirit or purpose of the President’s instructions. The Greenltack State Convention of Icrwa was held at Des Moines, on the 10th. Resolutions weirc adopted demanding the uncondit oual repeal of the Sped -Resumption act f J in. 14, 1875; the abolition of National Banks, and the issue of legal-ten-der pfcp. r money by the Government, and receivable fo> alt dues, public and private; the r monetization of the silver doll .r, making it a full legal tender; that all le al m aus be exhausted to eradicate trie traffic in alcoholic 1 quors, and the abatement of the evil of int mperance, and comme d every honest«flT..r for the furtherance of civilservic- reform The following nominations were made by acclamation: For Gov-rnor, Daniel P Btubbs, of Jefferson County; Lieu tenant-Uovernor, A. H. McCready; Supreme Judge, John Porter; Sup rintendent of Public Instruction, 6. T. Ballard. Mrs. Mary Parish, of Port Lae, N. Y., who has been conspicuous in the temperance

movement In that aectlon, was recently r ruVally assaulted by Edward Hanlon, and beaten until her life waa despaired of. Hanlon called at her house, and after mitk lug some pretense to draw her outside, suddenly knocked her down. She begged for her life, when he told her the names of six men who had hired him to kill her, and rare her fifteen minutes to prepare to die. Her entreaties were vain, and when she offered him one hundred dollars to spare her, Hanlon again struck her down and kicked her in the head, placing his foot across her neck, nc bad nearly suffocated her, when a neighbor curac to the rescue. The names of the men given byHanlon arc those of men against whom she had proceeded for selling liquor without license.