Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1878 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

During Ik week ending on Ute IGUi, Dm Bwtary oI the Treeeoiy purchaaed silver MUn sufficient to run the mints shout five weeks. The priee paid was not sa greet as expected by imlltoo-holders. In ragaid to the sUtemenU, recently pubnaked, thet the Tieesery Department would piece •100,000,000 -per-cent, bonds upon the market, the Secretsrj- of the Treasury announces that, le response to applications, he had asked that terms for placing such bonds be swfaaMtad for his consideration. The offers received, up to the 18th, had not been satisfactory, and the Secretary stated That only 4-per-cent bonds would be told, unleu 4)f -percents could be disposed of at their relative value with 4rpercents, the latter being placed at par. He would, st any time, reeeive bids for cent. bonds ou that basis. Src’t Sherman was before the Finance Committee of the United States Senate, ou the ifitb, and stated that, in his Judgment, It wu unwise and injudicious to repeal the Specie-Resumption set, as resumption could be -brought about by the date fixed in the law rtj.'i,’ y" ' — r" without difficulty. Tn total subscriptions to the 4-per-cent. trovemmeut bonds, up to the 19Ui, amounted to •S,«U£OO. _ TIIK KMT. The Lechmere National Bank of East (Jambri'lge. Mass., wu robbed, on the 16th, of about •90,000 In Government bonds and other securities. The robbery of the institution wu effected by the President of the institution being called to tbe door to See a lady who wanted to transact some business The officer immediately returned to the inside office, hut hesnbaequenttv discovered thatdnrtnghts brief absence the vaults had been robbed of trunks containin’ the amount specified. Ax eleven-year-old boy, named John Foley, died of hydrophobia at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., a tow nights ago. He was bitten by a dog about six weeks before his death. The National Committee on the Dairy Fair met at Utica, N. Y., on the 20th, and elected Col. R. H. Llttler, of lowa, Secretary. It was decided to bold the fair in New York City, next autumn. The election returns from all the towns in New Hampshire foot np as follows: Prescott (Rep.), 391,377; McKean (Dem.), 37,863; Kendall, 331; Flint, 238; scattering, 89. Prescott's plurality, 1,614; majority, 841. The House stands: Republicans, 205; Democrats, 165. The Pennsylvania State Central Democratic Committee has called a State Convention to meet at Pittsburgh, on tbe 23d of May. The Rhode Island Btate Convention of the new National party, wu held at Providence, on the 30th, William Foster was nominated for Governor; Jason P. Hazard for LieutenantGovernor; Henry Appleton for Secretary of Btate, and Andrew B. Moore for Treasurer. The Rhode Island House of Representatives have defeated tbe proposed Constitutional amendment giving to unmarried women and widows the right to vote on propositions to impose taxes, to appropriate money ai>d for members of <lty Councils, hr a vote of ID to 35Isaac A damn the manufacturer of the print-ing-press bearing his uime, died, at Sandwich, K. H-, on the 20th. He left an estate valued at from 84,000,000 to $6,000,000. A Pbovidexce (R. I.) dispatch of the 21st states that a family named Murray then had four children dying dead of diphtheria and three others were not expected to live during the day. The father, who was almost insane, threatened to shoot the undertaker, and a policeman had been placed in the bouse. The bill granting female suffrage at municipal elections has been defeated in the Massachusetts House of Representatives—the vote being 93 for to 137 against. The Rhode Island State Republics n Convention was held at Providence on the 21st The present State officers were renominated. The Rhode Island State Democratic Convention met at Providence, on the 23d, and nominated J. B. Bamaby for Governor, and Isaac Lawrence for Lieutenant-Governor. Gout closed in New York, on March 22*1. at 1013 - The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring, Wheat, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee, Oats, Western and State, 30435 ft. Corn, Western Mixed, 46@52c. Pork, Mess, $10.25. Lard, $7.40. Flour, Good to Choice, $5.®5<55.85 ;' Winter Wheat, 15.8X46-50. Cattle, [email protected] for Good to Extra. Sheep, [email protected]. Hogs, $4.25 @4-60. At East Liberty, Pa., on March 23d, Cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; Medium, $4.35(3 4.50; Common, $3.50(44.26. Hogs sold— Torkers, $4.00(34.15; Philadelphia*, $4.35@ 4 50. Sheep brought [email protected] according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on March 22d. Cattle t-i ought: Best, [email protected]; Medium, •3.37HV44.00. Hogs sold at $5.25(35.87f0r Good. Sh*rp were quoted at $4.00(36.25 for Good. ___! -- WEST AND SOUTH, The heaviest snow-storm experienced since .ie settlement of the Black Hills by white men, occurred in that section recently, extending over a period of five days. The snow was over four feet deep on a level at Deadwood on the 12th, and mail and telegraphic communication with the States was interrupted. Folk tramps were burned in a car ou the Iron Mountain Railroad, at Piedmont, Mo., on the 18th. They were stealing a ride in a cattle car. OuvnA Willard, editor-in-chief of theChicago Evening Pott, died a few days ago, aged forty-three years. Ox the 18th, the Louisiana State Supreme Court rendered its decision in the appealed case of Gen. Anderson of the State Returning Board. It reverses the opinion of the court below, which found him guilty of fraud and perjury, and orders his immediate release from custody. Ox the 17th, at Kalamazoo, Mich., Dr. E. H. Van Duesen, late Superintendent of tip? Michigan State Insane Asylum, was mulcted in the sum of $6,000 as damages for malpractice and false imprisonment, Mrs. Nancy Newcomer of Chicago being the complainant. Tau United States Secret Service force arrested fOULr operatorsTn counterfeit coin, named Quigg, Lee, Hoofer and Hartman, at Chicago, on the evening of the 19th. A large quantity of metal, dies and finished coin was secured. The general meeting of the American Social Science Association will be held this year in Cincinnati, Ohio, beginning May 18 and ending May 24. Tun lowa Republican Blate ConvenUon ls ib be held at Des Moines, on Wednesday, June 18. The Wisconsin Legislature adjourned, on the Slat, after a session of seventy-one days. An extra session will be hdd in June to act upon the report of the Commissioners appointed to revise the Statutes >rThe Arkansas State Centra] Committee have fixed Upon Little Bock as the place, and July 4 as the time, for holding the next Dem- j aptotic State Nominating Convention. Ati't-Gex. Ogden, of Louisiana, ha* asked tor*, rehearing lu the Anderson case, J A Naw Orijuxs Grand Jury, to whom was fefafttQ the charge* contained (n ej-Gov.

Wells’ letter of the 16th ult., against the parlies concerned In the prosecution of the late Returning Board, reported, on the 23d, that none of them were sustained. Tna boiler In Wm. Hally taw-mill near Richmond, Va., exploded, on thX 2sd, killing five persona, and more or ieas seriously Injuring five others. Disrarcnss from Tuxas, received In 8L Louis on the 23d, say the Commission appointed by President Hayes and Gov. llubbanl to Investigate the San Eliza rto and El Pam difficulties of a saw months ago had adjourned. They advise the stationing of 200 Federal soldiers at El Paso. The result *f the Commission is said to hare prodtft-ed great dissatisfaction In Texas. Maj. Jones, who represented Texas In the Commission,, will make a minority report, which, it is expected, will recommend aggressive action and the punishment of alleged Mexican Insolence. IX Chicago, on March 23*1, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at sl.oAftl.ofiX cash. Cash corn closed at 414« c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2 sold at 24c; and 369»c seller May. Rye No. 2, ,5.5 c. Barley Mo. 2 45><®40c. Cash Mess Pork closed at $9.30. Lard, •7.l‘Jlf. Beeves—Extra, brought $5.00(35.25; Choice, $4.50(44.75; Good, $4.00(34 40; Medium Grades, $8.65(33.90; Butchers' Btbck, 2.50(43.50; Stock (attic, etc., $8.00(43.60. Hogs—Good to Choice, $3.05(43.90. SheepPoor to Choice., $3.50(45.25.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 18th, tn the event of war between Russia and England, Turkey would be entirely neutral. Ox the evening of the 18th, O’Donovan Rossa, the Fenian, lectured at Toronto, Can. During the delivery of the lecture ah Orange mob attacked and gusted tbe buildit.g, and subsequently the hotel where he was stopping, leaving only the bare walls standing. About 150 persons were injured. Jr dor Leonard, who was lately reported to have been sent to Cuba to investigate certain alleged eases of kidnaping, died at A losnos telegram of the 19th says .it had been officially stated that Scrvia would not recognize the Russo-Turkish peace conditions until they had been passed upon by the European Congress. The state of siege continued, and Yranja had been reoecuptcd. The February dividend of the Turkish guaranteed loan, amounting to about $400,000, was paid by the British Government. The obstructions in the* Danube have been removed and navigation resumed.

A movement to erect Albania into a Principality, under the protection of Italy, was recently brought to light at Bcrat. The ringleaders were arrested. A Vienna dispatch of the 20th says Gen. Tcherkosky, late Provisional Governor of Bulgaria, had committed suicide, because lie had been threatened with removal. At London, on the 20th, the Earl of Roseberry was married to Miss Hannah (le Rothschild. The fair bride brought her husband the comfortable dowry of between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000. A Rome (Italy) telegram of the 20th says the proclamation of the Catholic Hierarchy in Scotland would be made at the next Consistory. * The official text of the treaty between Turkey and Russia was published on the 20th. It is substantially as heretofore published. It was believed in London, on the same day, that Great Britain would resist with all the means at her disposal the-absorption of territory in Asia Minor bv Russia. According to an Athens (Greece) telegram of the 20th, Hobart Pasha having agreed not, to bombard Thessalian villages, the insurgent leaders had consented to negotiate with him fora settlement of tlieir difficulties. It was reported he had offered autonomy to Thessaly md Epirus. - ■ According to Hungarian papers of the 21st, Count-Andrassy, the Austrian Premier, had, on the preceding day, absolutely declined to enter into an alliance with"Great' Britain against Russia. It was reported that Sir 11. U. Elliot, the British Ambassador, had thereupon declared that England would not participate in the Congress. It was believed in Pestb that an Austro-Russian alliance had been formed.

A redout was received in London, on tiie 22d, to the effect that a revolution had brokeu out in Roumania and that Prince Charles had been compelled to flee the country. A dispatch, received on the morning of the 23*1, stated that Roumania had refused to accept Independence at the hands of Russia, or permit the passage of Russian troops over her territory during tile occupation of Bulgaria. An Athens dispatch of the 22d says the ne-gotiations-between Hobart Pasha and the Greek insurgents had come to naught, becaUfe TBe fofnier had declined foiecbgnize the Provisional Government of the Thessalians. According to St. Petersburg specials of the 23d, no matter how willing Russia might be to withdraw her troops from Turkey, it could not be done so long as the British fleet remained in Turkish waters. The tone of the Russian press was exceedingly belligerent. It was reported that Russia had demanded that the British fleet quit the Sea of Marmora at once, claiming that its preseuce there was a violation of European International law and a defiance of the provisions of established treaties.

FORTY-FIFTH OONGAkSXA bill was introduced and referred in the House for the establishment of a mint at Indianapolis... The bill making available for the payment of certain Southern auUbellum mail contractors the sum of $375,000 already appropriated was further considered in Committee of the Whole, and it having been demonstrated that snch mail contractors had been paid, or payment had been provided for by the Confederate Congress and Postmaster-General, a motion was agreed to to strike out the enacting clause of the bill, and this action of the committee was concurred in by the House, without division. Bills were passed in the Senate, on the 18th—House bill appropriating $275,000 for fortifications and other works of defense, and for tbe armament thereof, for the fiscal year 1 ending June 30, 1879; Senate bill to prohibit Members of Congress from becoming sureties on certain bonds. .Among the bills introduced was one' making appropriations for detecting trespassing ou public lands, for bringing into market public lands in certain States, and for other purposes .. An adverse report was made from the Judiciary Committee on the bill providing that any woman who shall have been a member of the bar of the highest court of any State or Territory, or of the District of Columbia, for a period of three y ears, may be admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States—the ground of the adverse report being that there was no obstacle in the present law to the admission of women to practice in the United States Courts, the court* nmkmg tbeir own rules touching the admission of attorneys, and the proponed act would discriminate in favor of women, by compelling the court to admit thgm when it was not bound to admit me n. Bills were introduced in the Houm—granting pensions to soldiers who enlisted out of prisons; for the payment of certain Southern mail-contractors, providing that no claims shal be paid which have previously been paid by tbe Uonf«terate Government; establishing a mint k2“*C T !, l i. e - Kv.; repealing the law appropriating sOTs.ooofor tie payment of certain Southern mail-eontrartora; to grant to the State of Ohio unsold public lands remaining in the State: granting alternate sections of land to the State S*.M umssippi to aid in tbe construction of the ShipJbland. Ripley A Kentucky Railroad: for the appointment of a Commission to ascertain on what terms a treaty of commerce with Mexico can be arranged: for the erection of a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson. In the Senate,- on \he 19th, the House bill to authorize the granting of an American register to a foreign-built ship, for the purpose of the Woodruff Scientific Expedition Around the World was paaeed without amendment... A heated debate occurred on the unfetion of *pwopnating money to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the prosecution of timber thieves. A Conference Committee was ordered on the Ben*te amend mentis to tiie Military Academy Appropriation bill. reports were made on the matter of .th* chatg** •gainst Poorkeaper Folk, the former declaring

Mr. IVlk to be unfit for the position, and recommending a resolution declaring the office vacant, and the latter declaring that no corruption . haring tarn proven, or even charg*-*! against Mr. Pulk, it would be a grievous wrong to adopt the majority resolution. - Bills were passed - fixing thecomm* rotation of Juror* in united BtAtr* C/Ourtn, n*durinf it from thro© to two dollnr*: fixing the fee* of Clerks of said Court*; firing the compensation of United States Marshals and Deputies, limiting that of the former to $6,060. Chief De|>utirsto $2.5' <i, and other Deputies live dollars per dav; Senate hill appointing (len. Sherman R -gent of thr Smithsonian Institution, in plane of Geo. Bancroft, resigned A bill was introduced to authorize the coinage of gold and silver on the same terms .. .The General Deficiency bill isl.3H6.4061 was considered in Committee of the Whole. Bills were introduced in the Senate, on the 30th—for the protection of homestead settlers on public lands; to repeal the Pre-emption laws and provide for the nalu of timhfer on the public landa....The bill making appropriations for detecting trespasses on public lands in certain State*, and for other purpose*, wn* further considered, the pending question being on an amendment by Mr. Beck forbidding any charge for wood or timtier cut on public lands in the Territories for the rise of actual settlers, and not for export, and providing that, in the event of timber being exported from the Territory where it grew, it should be liable to seizure by United States authorities, wherever found.

In the House, a bill was reported from the Printing Committee regarding the ad verti*ing of mail lettings, providing that notices shall he published in one or more papers in each State interested that the proposals for mail lettings will be received at a certain date, and that all information pertaining thereto can be obtained on application to the Second-Assistant Postmaster-General. An amendment was offered and adopted providing that no sul>-letting of contract* should be permitted, and whenever any sub-letting did occur the contract should be cansidered as terminated, and the bill, as amended, was passed. .The Deficiency Appropriation bill was considered and amended in Committee of the Whole, reported to tbe House and passed. In the Senate, on the 21st, the President’s anawef to a resolution of Mr. Blaine, adopted on the 14th, regarding the Fishery Commission. and award was received, containing the correspondence with Great Britain relative to the selection of Delfosse, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Belgium, ns third Commissioner under the twenty-third article of the Treaty of Washington on the question of the fisheries .. The Dill to employ temporary Treasury clerks and to bring into market public lands, ere, was further delisted. Jn the House, a bill was reported, ordered printed and recommitted to establish a Postal Savings Depository as a branch of the Postoffice Department, and to aid in refunding the interest-bearing indebtedness of the United States.... A Conference Committee was appointed on the Military Deficiency bill. . .The Naval Appropriation bill < $>14,048,681 -iH.GOO.OOO less thnn last year, including deficiencies, nnd $2,600,(ti1l leas than the estimates for the next fiscal year; was reported as unanimously agreed to by the Committee on Appropriations, and. after being considered in Committee of the Whole, wbh IKisscd without amendment. .After the transaction of some other business in the Senate on the 22d, the House bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporary clerks, and making appropriations for the same and for detec ting trespasses on the public lands, and for bringing into market the public lands in certain Stab's, and for other purposes, was taken up, amended and passed, one of the amendments forbidding any charge for wood or timber cut on unsurveyed public lands in the Territories for the use of actual settlers, and not for export, and providing that in tbe eyent of timber being exported from the Territory where it grew, it should tie liable to seizure by the United States authorities wherever found. . . Adjourned to the 25th. ... A bill .was reported front the Committee on Coinage, in the House, to amend the laws on the subject of coinage, to iierfect h double metallic standard, to provide for issuing gold and silver bnilion certificates,and to retire certain silver coins now in use.... Bills were introduced and referred—providing that iiersons intending in good faith to make actual entry and settlement under Homestead acts shall receive, through the Secretary of the Interior, free transportation for themselves, families, farming utensils and personal effects to their new homes, and nisii seeds for two years’ cultivation: to provide for a more economical survey of public lands: to reorganize a system of suiierintendence of railways. .. AJaree number of private bills (principally pensions) were passed .. Adjourned to the 25th.