Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1877 — EPITOME OF THE WEEK; [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF THE WEEK;

Condensed Telegraphic News. CV*BE!<T PARAGRAPHS. The total aneaaed value of property in lowa for 1877 la $394.243,140—a decrease of <1,180,000 since 1875. The Senate of the University of London baa decided to admit women to decrees in other departments as well as that of medicine. The elections in Servia have resulted in the election of the Government candidates Its majority in the Skuptschlna is stated to be 108. The German Government has direcied all American ships in German harbors to he carefully inspected, to see that their cargoes contain no specimens of the Colorado beetle. Four men were killed and eight injured oy the explosion of a boiler in Keefer’s orc mills, at Millerstown, Lehigh County, Pa., on the 14th. Several horses and mill* s were killed, and the engine house, boilers, etc., utterly wrecked. The subscription to the new Government 4 per cent loan amounted to $68,000,000 up the evening of the 16th, of which $63,000,00' were through the Syndicate, and 85,000,000 through the Treasurer and Assist-ant-Treasurers of the United States. A recent Washington dispatch states, on high official authority that, before taking any fun her steps toward a recognition of the Dias Government in Mexico, the United States Government will await the promised reparation for the actual invasion and conflict by Mexican troops upon the soil of the United States. The fifty-first call for the redemption of 5-20 bonds of 1865, and consols of same year, was issued by the Treasury Department on the 16th. It is for $10,000,000, of which 87,000,000 are coupon and $3,000,000 registered bonds, principal and interest to be paid at the Treasury on and after the 16th of October next, interest to cease on that day. President Hayes has, it is said, decided that those members of the Republican National Committee who are Federal office, holders do not come under the new rule that Government officials shall not take an active part in partisan campaign operations, for the reason that they will have nothing to do, as committeemen, for three years to come. The State elections to be held this year are as follows- Alabama, Aug. 6, Legislative; Kentucky, Aug. 0, Legislative and County; California. Sept. 5, Legislative; Vermont, Sept 5, full ticket; Maine, Sept. 10, full ticket; Colorado, Oct. 2, Legislative; lowa, Oct 2, full ticket; Ohio, Oct 2, full ticket; Louisiana,Nov.6, Legislative; Massachusetts, Nov. 6, full ticket; Minnesota, Nov. 6, full ticket; Mississippi, Nov. 6, Legislative; Nevada, Nov. 6, full ticket; New Jersey, Nov. 6, Legislative and County; New York, Nov. 6, Legislative and State; Pennsylvania, Nov. 6, Legislative; South Carolina, Nov. 6, Legislative; Tennessee, Nov. 6, full ticket; Texas, Nov. 6, full ticket; Virginia. Nov. 6, full ticket; Wisconsin, Nov. 6, full ticket

THE TCRCO-RISSIAN WAR. A London telegram of the 12th says the bombardment of Rustchuk was recommenced two days before, and that au assault was made on that day, which was repulsed with great loss. The Russian cavuhy were at Schipka Pass, in the Balkans, on the 12th. The military and civil commandants of Sistova, Timova and Osman-Bazar have been summoned to Constantinople, for trial by court-marpal. An Eraeroum dispatch, published on the 13th, says the attempt of the Ru-sians under Gen. Tergukasoff to relieve the besieged garrison at Bayazid had failed, notwithstanding those within the citadel made a determined sortie. The relieving troops were forced to retreat after suffering heavy losses, and were again defeated in an engagement near Mt. Ararat A dispatch from Russian sources says the garrison had been relieved and the Turks beaten back. A Pera dispatch of the 15th announces that the Russian advance guard of Cossacks had reached Jeni-Sadargh, a railway station beyond the Balkans, halfway between Jamboli and Adrianople. According to advices from Ragusa of the 15th, the Montenegrins had resumed hostilities. The Turks were reported to have been defeated at Kolashir, with great loss. A London telegram ot the 16th says the passage of the Balkans and the extraordinary advance of the Russians in the direction of Adrianople had unsettled all Europe, and indications were ominous for a- European war. The passage through the Tivarditska Defile of the Kalkan Range had been confirmed both by dispatches from Constantinople and St. Petersburg. A Constantinople dispatch of the 16th says all available troops had been sent to Adrianople, to oppose the anticipated Russian advance to the Bosphorus. The Mohammedan civil population were panic stricken and were abandoning the country. It was reported that the Russians had been defeated north of Timova. The Russians have established a military tribunal atTelvi, to try Mussulmen accused of complicity in the Bulgarian massacres. Several have already been executed. The capture of biikopolis, with 6,000 men, forty caftion and two monitors was reported on the 16th. A war correspondent telegraphed to a London paper, on the 17th, that Russia, after blockadin g the fortresses of the quadrilateral, would have 100,000 men available,fo r crossing the Balkans. Already 22,000 men are south of th*- Balkans. The Sultan, on the 17th, directed the immediate formation of ten battalions of auxil aries, composed of the Mussulman .and non-Mussulman inhabitants of < onstantinople for the reinforcement of the army in The Russians have occupied Kustendjt. A Peeth (Hungary) dispatch of the 18th says the passage of the Balkans by the

Russian* had produced great consternation at that point, and the Hungarian Journals demanded the immediate action of AustroHungary against Russia. Twenty-throe members of loading Kurdish families Inhabiting Russian territory had been banged by the Russian Gen. Mdikoff, according to an Eraeroum diapatcb of the 18th. ■— T" ~ v - - GBNRRAL. Ex-President Grant and party reached Frankfort-on-the-Main, on the 12th. and were received by the American Consul-General and a reception committee. At a meeting, on the 12th, of white and black citizen* of the region In South Carolina known as the scene of the Ellenton riot last fall, with a view to the restoration of peace and harmony, resolutions were unanimously adopted looking to a cessation of race trouble and to a dropping of pending prosecutions in the State and Federal Courts. In a letter to CapL Howgate, the originator of a plan to establish a colony for Arctic exp oration, the Secretary of the Navy declines to detail a civil officer to accompany the expedition, on the ground that he does not consider himself authorized to do so, and for the same reason he regrets that he cannot comply with the request for a loan of Instruments belonging to the navy for use on the expedition. At the Cabinet meeting, on tlie 13th, it was decided to call upon the Governor of Washington Territory for volunteers to assist in the suppression of the Indian troubles in the Northwest. Nine companies at Atlanta had been ordered to Idaho.

Poindexter Edmondson was hanged at Bloomfield, Mo., on the 13fh, for the murder of Wm. Shaw last October. On his trial his mother and two sisters sworn that he was in bed and asleep at the time of the homicide, but the jury gave no credence to the story and convicted him. Subsequently an idiotic brother died and the family swore that, on his death-bed, he had confessed that he himself murdered Shaw. On this testimony a reprieve was granted, but the deathbed statement could not be substantiated to the satisfaction of the authorities, and he was hung as above stated. He died protesting his innocence. The Galveston News of the 13th has a special from Brownsville, in which it is stated that Gen. Canales and Gen. Devin had had a conference, at which they had no difficulty in coming to an agreement in relation to suppressing raids. They were of opinion that they could render the passage of troops' from one side to the other unnecessary, by discharging their respective duties. Gen. Canales thought the publication of an order of such importance as that of the Secretary War to Gen. Ord, without notice to Mexico, was disrespectful to the Diaz Government, but he waived that, and would co-operate with our authorities in any measures necessary to insure peace and to secure the pres ervation of order on both banks of the Rio Grande. Application was made, on the 14th, by the Insurance Commiselnner'of Connecticut for the appointment of a receiver for the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company. A San Francisco dispatch of the 14th announces that Chief Joseph and his band had, four days before, surprised and murdered a party of thirty-one Chinamen who were coming down the Clearwater in canoes one of the parry escaping. An official telegram was received from Gen. Howard, on the 14th, which .states that, on the preceding day, he had encountered and defeated the Indians, 300 strong, near the mouth of the Cottonwood. The Indian loss was thirteen killed and several wounded. The losses of the troops were Capt. Bancroft, Lieut. Williams and eleven enlisted men killed and twenty-four others wounded. At Montreal, Can., on the 14th, resolutions were passed by the Irish Catholic and National Societies condemning the killingof Hackett, on the 12th, and earnestly appealing to their co-religionists to abstain from any acts calculated to disturb the peace cr offend the Orangemen on the occasion of the funeral on the 16th. A large number of Orangemen of Montreal and other Canadian towns turned out at the funeral of Hackett, in that city, on the 16th. There was no serious disturbance further than that some boys were tired upon by a crowd of roughs and two of their number were seriously wounded. The North SL Louis Savings Association and the Bank of St. Louis suspended on the 16th. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company are having trouble with their striking engineers and firemen, consequent upon a reduction of wages. The strikers have committed various lawless acts and, on the 16th, the military was called out to suppress a riot at Martinsburg, West Va. On the following day a company of militia undertook to move a train west from Martinsburg, but 400 strikers, armed with every conceivable weapon, rushed upon the train and beg n to uncouple the cars. They were ordered back, but replied with jeers and threats, and finally fired on the soldiers, wounding one. The officer in command then ordered his men to fire, and one of the rioters was killed and several wounded. On the evening of the 11th, about seventy trains, consisting of 200 freight cars, were held by the strikers. The cattle on the east-bound trains had been turned into the stock-yards or adjacent pastures. What- was reported by the attending physician to be a clear case of cholera occurred in New York, on the 17th. The attending physician pronounced it genuine Asiatic cholera, but the Sanitary Insp< ctor was of a different opinion. The patient, a man aged forty-nine, died aud a Coroner's inquest would be held. Safvet Pasha, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affaire, has resigned. Aarifi Pasha, once Foreign Minister and Ambassador to Vienna, succeeds him. On the 18th, the President received a dispatch from Gov. Matthews, of West Virginia, requesting United States troops to put down the striking mob on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. An order was immediately issued for troops to be sent, and 300 were disp itched under Gen. French. The Pres dent also issued his proclatnation reciting the condition of affairs in tmft s ction, and Commanding the rioters to disperse. Samuel J. Tilden, late Democratic candidate for the Presidency, sailed for Europe, on the 18th, on the steamer Scj thia. A Sta’e Temperance Convention has been called to meet at Grinnell, lowa, on the 22d of August. —An eel is not as slippery as a politician ; bat it can Ike on water longer.