Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1877 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

FRUHR WASHINGTON. A Washington telegram of the 17th says the War Department had received information that the local difficulties tn El Paso County, Tex., which grew oat of the right and title to certain salt mines, had assumed quite a threatening aspect. The few United States troops and State militia in the county had been surrounded, .and unless soou relieved it was feared they would fare hadly. Official information, received at military headquarters in Chicago on the 17th, shows that the mob at San Elizario, the seat of the troubles, consisted of about 300 citizens of El Paso County; that no Mexicans bad crossed the river to take part in the disturbances, and that the Mexican authorities had given positive orders that none of their citizens should cross. About 300 troops had been ordered from posts in New Mexico .to aid the civil officers in El Paso County. President Hates, on the 19th, signed a pardon for John A. Joyce, of SL Louis, who was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States of taxes On distilled spirits. The pardon is full and unconditional. The National Woman's Suffrage Association is to meet in Washington on the 7th of January. THE EAST. The seventieth birthday of J. G. Whittier, the poet, wascelebrated in Boston, on the 17th. by the publishers of the Aifaatie Monthly. Oliver Wendell Holmes read a poem, “Mark Twain” responded in a characteristic vein, and was followed by Charles Dudley Warner, Henry W. Longfellow, ami others. A coal on. car, on the Erie track at Paterson, N. J., took fire on the 17th; the tank burst, and the flaming liquid ran into and flooded the street, communicating the flames to several houses, some of them half a mile awar. Three oil-cars burst in succession, and several others were destroyed. Many houses were consumed and their inmates rendered homeless. So intense was the heat from the oil flames, which shot up hundreds of feet into the air, that paint was blistered on houses a 'mile distant. The National Reform Convention, to advocate the express acknowledgment of God in the Constitution, met at Rochester, N. Y., on the 18th. Two hundred delegates were present. At a meeting of coal-producers, held in New York, on the 18th, a combination was formed to regulate the produetion of the mines, by designating the quota each company might put U{x>n the market, and establishing a penalty of J? 1.2 5 per ton for all overshipmento. A Board of Control was established, each interest being given the right to manage its own sales and make its own prices. A joint exchange for the sale of coal was, however, provided for. A committee was ap-poinU-d to regulate the quotas of shipment of he different interests. A ten-tkak-old boy, named Willie Hopkins, was abducted from bis home at Braddock’s Fields, near Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 16th, by a man, supposed to be a tramp. He is described as being a pretty boy, with full face, light com]>lexion and hair, and rather stoutly built. His £. fwrily giEat dißtrcffljoreriiiß.losß, lux mother lieing almost insane from grief. Tilt proprietors of the Wilkesbarre (Fa.) Xrm have been sentenced to ten months' imprisonment in the County Jail and fined S7OO each for an alleged libel upon the Sheriff of the county. A like sentence was imposed upon the same defendants for libelling a citizen of Wilkesbarre. ■ —— John Van Hoesen, the alleged ringleader of the railroad rioters at Albany, N. Y., and vicinity, in July last, has been found guilty and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonmentThomas Rooney’s house at West Point, N. Y-, was burned, a few days ago, and two children,aged three and five years, perished. They were-locked -in the house, -the parents being. absent, and were found clasped in each other's arms, lifeless and charred. A boilek in the candy manufactory of Ernest Greenfield, 63 Barclay street, New York, exploded about five o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th, with fearful results. The boiler was under the sidewalk, and when it burst tore away the entire front of the building and scattered the wreck in all directions. Fire immediately followed the explosion, and the walls of the building, five stories in height, soon fell in. There were employed in the factory nearly 200 girls and lx>ys, ranging from eight to twenty years bL age, a large number of whom lost their lives, many others being badly injured. The money loss would reach about $500,000. At Randolph, Mass., a few nights ago, three children of Mrs. Catherine Ryan were suffocated by coal gas, as was also Mary E. Burry, aged fourteen, who wasstopping with them. Mrs. Ryan herself was not expected to live. Gold closed in New Yorki on Dec. 20th, a 102%. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, $1.31%01.32; No. 2 Milwaukee, $1.33X01.34. Oats, Western and State, 85@40c. Corn, Western Mixed, 65065 1 „e. -vPork, Mesa, Good to Choice, $5.7006.00; Winter Wheat, $6.0506.75. Cattle, $9.75011.00 for Good to Extra. Sheep, $4.0005.75. Eags, $4,500 At East Liberty, Pa., on Dee. 20th, Cattle brought: Best, $6.00(86.50; Medium, $4.75 @5.75; Common, $3.2504.25. Hogs sold —Yorkers, $4.1504.25; 4.40. Sheep brought $3.0005.25 —according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on Dec. 20Jh, Cattle brought: Best, $5.0006.00; Medium, $3.00 @3.75. Hogs sold at $5.2506.00 for Good. Sheep were quoted at [email protected] for Good. WEST AND SOUTH. A few days since, an armed mob took possession of the Town of Osceola, Mo., went to the Court-House, and seized and carricd awav all documents relating to tax matters. The trouble arose from the levy of a special tax to pay- judgments for past-due interest on. rail road bonds. The Democratic caucus of the California Legislature, on the 17th, nominated J. F. Farley for United States Senator. The vote on the final ballot was as follows; parley, 42; McDonald, 18; Hager, [lB. On the 18th, the Legislature elected Mr. Farley to the Senate, by a strict party vote. W. F. Endicott, President of the late Cenr tral National Bank pf Chiaeo, is found to be a defaulter and has left for parts unknown. It seems that, like Spencer, he gathered up the cash of the concern and left his notes secured by his bank stock as collateral in lieu thereof. It was believed, on the 18th, that the depositors would receive little and the stockhplderß notbiag. The Springfield (HL) Savings Bank has suspended. The liabilities are stated to be about $175,000 and the promise made to pay lu full. Rev. Mb. Habbis, Rector of St. James Church, in Chicago, has been elected Bishop of the new Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, HL DiSPA times received at Gen. Sheridan's headquarters in Chicago, on the night of the 19th, Dorp Capt. Blair, in command at Fort Bliss, report that tbe Texas Rangers at San Elizario, in El Paso County,Tex., surrendered; «n the morning of the 18th. Judge Howard, agent for the salt 'miljee, Atkinson and Mcßride were shot, and fl»e rest of the Rangers were disarmed and liberated. The mob bed dtepersed. It was composed entire Jy of native-

born ciuzc-is of Texas,.and no help was given them from the Mexican side of the river. The Fort Benton Accord] of the 17th announces the receipt of trustworthy Intelligent that Sitting Bull, with a large Sioux following and the unsubdued Nez Pervez, had crossed the frontier, and were then encamped in the Bear Paw Mountains. On the 19th, Rev. Geo. F. Seymour, brother of Horatio Seymour, of New York, whs unanimously elected Episcopal Bishop of the new Diocese of Springfield. 111. «. Maj. J. B. Jones, commanding the Texas State forces, telegraphed to Representative Mills, In Washington, on the 20tb, that hie Lieutenant at El Paso had informed him that ISO of the mob al San Elizario, to whom the Lieutenant was forced to surrender, and who subsequently killed three of their were Mexican cltizena from Mexico. The recent troubles in El Paso County, Tex., are said to have grown out of a dispute as to the ownership of extensive salt mines in that section, at which the people of the surrounding country have obtained salt from time Immemorial, free of cost. A number of American speculators. Judge Howard among them, ret up a title to the mines. In attempting to maintain this title Judge Howard quarreled with the people in the neighborhood, and at last shot and killed a man who espoused the cause of the resident Mexicans. He then fled the wranfry'T>uFre!eeutTy''returned, and was captured with his adherents, and three of them, including the Judge, were killed, as already announced. - . The next Indiana Democratic State Convention is to be held at IndiamqHilis, on the 20th of February next. The South Carolina Legislature has ratified, by more than a two-thirds vote, the amendment to the State Constitution levying an annua) tax of two mill* upon all taxable property in the State for the support of free schools. In Chicago, on Dec, 20th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at $1.0801.08% cash. Cash com closed at4s%c for No. 2. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 25c; and 25‘. t c seller February. Rye No. 2,56 c. Barley No. 2, 584$es± Cash Mesa Pork closed at $11.75. Lard, $7.72%. Beeves —Extra brought. $5.2505.50; Choice, $4.60(85.00; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, $3.5003.85; Butchers’ Stock, $2.3503.10; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs brought $3.9004.15 for Good to Choice. Sheep sold at $1.0004.50 for Poor to Choice. * FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. According to a Constant inople telegram of the 16th, the Porte had been officially informed that Russia desired to treat with Turkey directly and that mediation would only make the terms of settlement harder. A Pera correspondent of the London Titne* telegraphed, on the 16th, that the Turkish powers of resistance were altogether exhausted and that the Porte would gladly make peace on any reasonable terms. Tnr. Servians, on the 16th, occupied with arttl tery the Heights of Topolinitza and 'Zcanika. THERE was great discontent at Stamboul and other,point* in Turkey, on the 16th, and fears were entertained of violent outbreaks on the part of the populace. The Italian Ministry resigned, on the 16th. The steamer Mexican, which sailed from Port Royal, 8. C., on the 15th of September, for Liverpool, had not been heard from at the latter port up to the 16tli, and it was feared that she had foundered with all on board. iNthc lio;h'of allavim; th:: prevalent'discontent the Porte has decided to grant fuller autonomy to Crete. The Russian losses up to the 13th of December aggregated 77,658 men. Dispatches from St. Petersburg of the 17th state that Germany and Austria had refused Turkey’s request for mediation, and England had notified he Porte that she proposed to observe strict neutrality.- Italy and France had also declined to interfere to bring about an understanding, but promised to co-operate with other Powers more directly interested. The Turks have evacuated and burned Elena, and the Russians have reoccupied the position; -te,. : :-.;EjmuxEmajntoyretatlaus.h>ttingbcen.gireilto the recent Turkish circular asking the mediation of the Great Powers, it is officially explained that Turkey dws not ask for interference as a vanquished State, since she had yet two lines of defense which she believed , could not be broken. The object of the circular was simply to express the willingness of the Porte to treat on the basis of the proposals made at the Constantinople Conference and ■rejected by her before the commencement of hostilities. According to London dispatches, of the 13th, tbc-Brittsh-Cablnct xcas divided upon the question of interference In Eastern affairs. .It was stated that Disraeli favored an immediate declaration of war against Russia. Parliament had been called to meet, on the 17th of January, and would be asked to grant money for increasing the efficiency of the army and navy. ; Prince Milan has occupied Adlie, the Turks having concluded to abandon the position. The main Servian Army has effected a junction with the Russian forces. According to Athens (Greece) telegrams of the 12th, the fall of Plevna had revived the warlike demonstrations of the Greeks, and the Cabinet were deliberating upon the proper .42mrse..to..he.pursued for-redressing grievances she had against Turkey. According to Vienna dispatches «f thy. 12th, the Porte was greatly astounded at the fall of Plevna, as it was hoped to the last that Suleiman Pasha would be able to relieve Osman Pasha. There was some talk o; unfurling the greet, flag of the Prophet, but it was Believed at Vienna that cooler counsels would prevail, and that an attempt would speedily be made to negotiate a peace direct with the Czar, without the Intervention or mediation of any European Power. The Montenegrin insurgents were defeated, on the 19th, by a Turkish column'inarching to the relief of Scutari and Antivari. The Servians have captured Fort'lnramor, nearNisch. A Rome (Italy) telegram of the morning of the 20th announces the.. death of Countess Mirafiore, wife of Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy. A Berlin telegram of the- 19th says it had been sesni-officially announced that, while the German Government desired that thewar between Turkey and Russia should cease, it would neither itself advance any obstacle, nor, so far as she could help, permit any other Power to hinder the extinction of Turkey as a European Power. The Porte has instructed its representative •t Rome to ask lot an explanation of the inGreece. According to Constantinople telegrams of the 20th, the course of England had produced a bad effect in inspiring hopes that the longdelayed assistance of Great Britain was about to be tendered. It was believed that Turkey was less willing t<> negotiate for peace than during the days immediately following the capture of Plevna. V . K St. Petersburg dispatch of the 20th says the calling together of the British Parliament was there considered as equivalent to a declaration of war. FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 15th, a secret rewiqn was held for the purpose of considering the difficulty which had occurred the day before between Measra, Ctmkline and Gordon during the Executive session. After the doors were reopened, a paper was made public, signed bv Messra. Hamlm. Ranuim, Howe and McDonald, to the effect that thefwords uttered during the miaaDtimtandtar alluded to, by Messrs. (A>nk|iiw and Gordon, were mutually felt to be unHw; that the report* of the incident which had'

appeared in the papers were inaccurate and unjust to both gemtleoieu; that upon careful inquiry aa to what was said bv each speaker, and what was understood to be said by the other. It is certain that the first offensive wonts were inspired by sn honour misunderstanding of what had been innocently said by the other mwaker; ail that s*« offensive was the outgrowth of misapprehension. The paper concludes aa follow*: "We, who are the mutual friends of lx>th Senators, are of opinion tluit it is due alike to the Senate and tliaspeakers, that whatever was felt to be unkind or otfenaire, iro the remarks either, should be treated aa if never uttered, and. we are now authorized to state, are mutually and simultaneously withdrawn.". . Adjourned to Jan. 10. In the House, the Democratic hide endeavored to force a vote on the resolution of Mr. Wood for wholesale investigations, but the Republicans intensified dilatory motions, and a motion was finally agreed to to postpone the matter until .Nln. 10 .. A resolution waa adopted authorizing the Committee on Foreign Affairs to sit during the recess in the investigation of the Mexican border troubles.. . .The Senate amendments to the Post-Route bill were concurred in. ... Adjourned to Jan. 10.