Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1878 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

non WAinmim, Tu Tmnrjr Department In Wmhlnffton received Information on the *W that the Ca Mdlu Qomrnmeut had decided to exact a dal] of IT% pc cent, ml valorem upon all Importation* of United States silver coin thlppod Into that country. Ho*. Gao. C. Gonna*, of California, haa beea chaen Secretary of the Republican Con Xteadoaal Committee. 0* the 83d, the Senate, In KxecuUve acs•lon, reconsidered the vote refuting to confirm J. K. Colburn aa Cotmul-Generel to Mexico, and voted to confirm by a good majority. Gnoaoa F. Bmttu, formerly Member of the National House of Representative* from Louisiana, has been nominated to be Collector of the Port of New (Meana. This Is said to have been a compromise nomination. William, son 6t Mr.' Kvarts, the Secretary of Btate, died at Washington, on the 39th, of consumption. He was twenty-seven years oM. _ THE BAIT. BisHor McOoskket,- under date of New York, April 30, says: “ 1 give my unqualified denial to the articles which have appeared in different papers against me-” Mrs. Banlater, net Richards, whose napie was con nected with the scandal, has declared, with the most tragic Indignation, that there is not a word of truth in the story, and hat sent a dispatch to Mr. MeOoekrey, In New York, demanding bis immediate return to clear himself and her from the vile charge. Ho*. William Oktox, President of ths Western Union Telegraph Company, died at his residence in New York City, on the 23d, of apoplexy.

A Fall River (Mass.) dispatch of the 23d says Geo. T. Hathaway, Treasurer of the Border City and Sagamore Mills, had been proved a defaulter to an amount estimated at from •000,000 to 0700,000. Ills method was similar to that of Chaoe, Treasurer of the Union Mills. The Governor of Rhode Island has called s special session of the Legislature to consider the Insolvent laws of the Btatc, In view of the impending repeal of the National Bankruptcy law. The property and franchises of the Erie Railroad were sold, on the 34th, to ex-Gov. Morgan, of New York, for 16,000,000. President and Mrs. Hates, Accompanied by the Secretaries of the Treasury and Interior and the}r wives, and others, reached Philadelphia, on the 34tli, in response to invitations extended by the Municipal Government and the National Union League of that city, ■they met with a very cordial anil enthusiastic inception during their three days' sojourn in the city. The New York State Prohibition Convention met at Albany, on the 24th, and nominated George H. Danford aa a candidate for Judge of the Court of Appeals. Resolutions were adopted demanding the prohibition of the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors; protesting against the proposed Moffett BcllI*unch act; favoring the enfranchisement of of women; opposing the National Banking system; favoring currency expansion, etc., etc. At Catssauqua, Fa., a few days ago, a tightrope i>erformer, while walking backward over a rope, missed his footing and fell Jo the ground, a distance of fifty feet, and was fatab A mas, aged about fifty years, leaped from the new suspension bridge into the rttcr at Niagara Falls, on the 36th. There was an eu* vclope In the pocket of bis coat addressed to Edward M. Great, Waterford, Kaciue Co., Wis. Golu closed In New York, on April 36th, at 100%. The following were the closing quotations for produce; No. 2 Chicago Spring, Wheat, *1.25%0t.26; No. 3 Milwaukee, *1.2701.27%. Oats, Western and Btate, 35,a66c. Corn, Western Mixed, 53@55c. Pork, Mess, ♦IO.OO. Lard. *7.25, Flour, t.oodto Choice, *5.1505.85; Winter Wheat, 15-9J06.50. Cattle, *8.00011.00 for Good to Extra. Sheep, *5.5006.75. Hogs, *3.(10 03.80. At East Liberty, Pa., on April 36th, Cattle brought; Best, *5.0005.25; Medium, *4.600 4.80; Common, *3.5004.50. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *3.6003.75; Philadelphia*, *3.900 4.00. Sheep brought *3.ooos.2s—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on April 26th, Cattle brought: Best, *5.12%05.62%; Medium, *3.62%04.12%. Hogs sold at *5.0005.50 for Good. Sheep were quoted at *4.0006.00 for Good.

WEST AND SOUTH. Storm Like, lowa, and vicinity were visiled by a tornado, on the evening of the 21st, and many dwellings and other buildings wefe blown down. Bii persons were reported killed and a number of others more or less injured. A DeadwooD (D. T.) dispatch of the 21st says the severest storm ever known In the Hills had been raging since the night of the 16th, the heavy snow, rain and hail doing much damage to the placer mines and shafts in the gulches by flooding. Operations in the quartz mills were almost entirely suspended, and the roads were impassable. A call has been issued by the Republican State Central Committee directing a meeting of the Michigan Btate Republican Convention, at Detroit, on the 13th of June. The International Bunday-Bchool Convention, which, for three days previous, had been in session at Atlanta, Oa., adjourned tme die on the evening of the 19th. Before adjourn • ment, the following were named as the International Lesson Committee for the next sewn years: Rev. John H. Vincent, D. D., New Jersey, Methodist; Rev. John Hall, New York, Presbyterian; B. F. Jacobs, Illinois, Baptist; Rev. Warren Randolph, Indiana, Baptist; Prof. P. G. Gilbert, LL.D., Illinois, Methodist; Rev. Richard Newton, D. D., Pennsylvania, Protestant Episcopal; Rev. B. M. Palmer, Louisiana, Presbyterian; Rev. W. G. E. Cunningham, D. D., Tennessee, M. E. Church*South; Prof. Austin Phelps, D. D., Massachusetts, Congregationallst; ifiv. John A. Broaddus, D. D., Kentucky, Baptist; Prof. L. Raugher, D. D., Pennsylvania, Evangelical Lutheran; Rev. Jaa. A. Warden, New Jersey, Presbyterian; Rev. D. H. McVicar, LL.D., Quebec, Presbyterian; Rev. John Potts, D. D., Ontario, Methodist. :—; -

At Franklin, La., on the 224, three negro men, convicted of as many murders, suffered the extreme penalty of the law. As the drop was sprung, Brown, one of them, fell to the ground, the rope breaking. A new rope being obtained, be way again hung, this time snecesafnlly. News was received at Galveston, Tex., on the 224 that Indian raiders had crossed from Mexico, and were killing the ranchmen and driving off the Mock. Two white boys, named Taylor, bad been carried off and the mail-car-rier murdered within twenty miles of Fort Daria Col. Salisbcet, a prominent citizen of Columbus, Ga, and proprietor of the Columbus /inquirer-Sun, was fatally shot in the back by Dr. B. M Palmer, while entering a railroad ear at Beale, Ala, on the 20th. Aooordwo to a recent issue of the Omaha Bu, it has turned oat that J. W. Daniels, recently bung at Warrensburg, Mo., was judicially murdere4 It having been positively ascertained that he was innocent of fie crime

charged It waa a case of circumstantial evidence purely. At a recent base-ball game In Cleveland, Ohio, Albert Walker, fourteen years old, waa struck in the bead, by the hatter, and fatally injured. - J , O. C. Zellers, Cashier of the National Bank, of Tiffin, Ohio, absconded after banking hours, on the 30th, taking with him *50,000 of the funds of the Institution. t t Severe and destructive wind and rain stonna have recently occurred in many sections of the West, doing great damage to property in some localities sad involving the loss of several lives. , A Jacksonville (Fla.) <lis|*trh of the 2?ld says McLin and Dennis, members of the Florida Returning Board at the last Presidential election, had confessed tbst perjury and fraud had boon resorted to to secure the Electoral vote of that State for Mr. llsycs. It was announced from Detroit, on the 23d, that Bishop McCoskrey, of Michigan, had decided not to go to Europe, as he had intended, but would return to Detroit at once and insist upon an investigation of the chsrges of immorality preferred against him, which charges he denounced aa unqualifiedly false. A State Prohibition Convention has been called to meet at Decatur, 111., on the 6th of June, to nominate candidates for State officers, etc. _ , , The Indiana State Republican Convention lias been called to meet at Indianapolis on the sth of June. Mrs. Peter Keolek, living a few miles be low Oonnrrsville, Iml., recently gave birth to five fine hoys, all of whom, at late accounts, were doing well. In Chicago, on April 36th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at *1.12%01.13 cash. Cash corn closed at 41%c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2 sold at 26%c; and 26%c seller June. Rye No 2, .V.l%c. Barley No. 2, 47(«47%c. Cash Mess Pork closed at *8.75. luird, *7.00. Beeves—Extra, brought *4.7505.15; Choice, *4.3504.65; Good, *4.0004.25; Medium Grades, *3.7504.00; Butchers’ Stock, 8.0003.90; Btock Cattle, etc., *3.2503.90. Hogs—Good to Choice, *3.2503.50. SheepPoor to Choice, *3.7505.50.

FOREIGN IN TELLIGENCE. It was rumored In Constantinople, on the 23d, that the Turks in the Mussulman district of the Balkans had armed themselves and attacked the Russian troops, whose loss was reported to have been 900 men and thirteen officers. It was also reported that the Bulgarians hail attacked and plundered eight Mussulman villages. A plot has been discovered at Constantinople to depose the Sultan and restore ex-Sultan Murad. According to Constantinople dispatches of the 23d, another Mussulman outbreak had oc curved in Macedonia. The Porte and Grand Duke had organized a mixed commission, to examine into the circumstances attending the late outbreak In the Balkans district. A Manchester (Eng.) dispatch of the 23d says about 90,000 operatives In Lancashire were out on a strike. <3f these, nearly 64,000 were weavers. According to a St. Petersburg dispatch of the 23d, sixty-five officers of the Russian Navy had sailed for the United States. In the event of war with Great Britain, thev would take command of vessels purchased in and crews enlisted from the United States. These vessels would prey upon British commerce.

A Paris dispatch of the 23d says all the European Powers, except England, had declared their readiness to accept the Invitation to the European Congress unreservedly. England alone insisted that all questions relating to the East should be considered as of European, and not merely as of Tureo-Kussian conocrßi Ax Adrianople telegram of the 24th says the typhus fever was decimating the Russian troojis in the vicinity of Adrianople and Rosdusta. According to Constantinople dispatches of the 34th, the 30,000 Irregular Turkish troops hi the Batoumdistrict bad refused to laydown their arms. Announcement was made, on the 24th, that Prince Gortscliakoff, the Russian Premier, was seriously ami dangerously ill. Ills disease was typhus fever. Prince Bismark had also been attacked with erysipelas in the loins. A violent gale prevailed in the Black Sea, on the 34th. A Turkish corvette, with ninety men on board, sank during the height of the storm. There were no survivors. A Vienna telegram of the 25th says that Grand Duke Nicholas had threatened to hold the Porte responsible for the Koumelian ihsurrection. Prince Charles, of Roumania, has refused to accede to the demand of Russia for the dismissal and reconstruction of his Cabinet. The Porte has peremptorily ordered the evacuation of Batoum, on the Black Sea. The Turkish Seeraskierate received intelligence, on the 25th, that the Roumelian insurrection was rapidly spreading. Another battle had been fought, in which about thirty Russian officers had been placed hors du combat.

The Pope issued an encyclical, on the 25th, confirming and renewing the protests of Pope Pius IX. against the encroachments on the civil rights of the Papacy. A London dispatch of the 25th says the Government had rejected the scheme for the simultaneous withdrawal of the British fleet aud the Russian armies, for the reason that British acceptance of this proposition would be a practical admission of the correctness of the limits assigned by Russia to New Bulgaria. The impression prevailed at London, as well as at Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Paris and Constantinople, that war was inevitable, and that nothing short of a miracle could prevent it. According to a St. Petersburg dispatch of the 26th, Russia and Great Britain had agreed upon the propriety of an exchange of views on the present status of the Eastern question before the meeting of the Congress. It was stated that Austria, Germany and Italy also favored this course and had called upon the British Cabinet to state its views. A Constantinople telegram of the 26th says seditious meetings were nightly held in that city, and a general uprising was feared. Ex-Bultan Murad had recovered his health, and was looked upon as the coming ruler. He was closely watched and constantly guarded.

FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 22d, a bill was introduced and referred to repeal that section of the Revised Statutes which provides for a tax on the notes of State Banking Associations... Mr. Blaine submitted resolutions declaring that any radical chango in the present Tariff laws would, in the judgment of the Senate, he inopportune, eta., and that it shonld be the fixed policy of the Government to so maintain our tariff for revenue mJm afford adequate protection to American In the House, the resolutions of the Maryland Legislature reopening the Presidential question were referred to the Judiciary Committee... Bills were intro lueed and referred—repealing the law imposing a tax on the notes of State Banking Associations; prodibiting Members of Congress and other employes of the Government from rr<*iving any compensation for service* Tendered by them in any proceeding, contract or claim in which the United States may be directly or indirectly interested; regulating foreign insurance companies doing business m .the United States ...The billproviding for the issue of fractional currency and for the issne of Treasury notes of the denominations of one, two, three and five dollars, was defeated—--120 to 121 ... A motion was made to suspend the roles and pass the River and Harbor Appropriation bill. Mr. Cox (New York) made V the point of order that some itema in the bill were ■ffunrt Constitution, J b«t the Speaker decided that the point raised was one for the House to determine. After further opposition, and amid much confusion, the motion to suspend the rales and „.P*as. the. bill was agreed to —166 to 66—and so the bill was passed (appropriating $7,900,000,) Mr. Cox (New

YariDtfcen ran to a privileged question for the panam of itnenting a protest against the pn*M«v of the bill, signed by twenty-eight m mbera of the limine. Amid much excitement and cm (union a motion to adjourn finally prevailed —II* to 101. The protect wnt liirned by Menem. Knott. McKrniie. black hum. Springer. Luttrell, Cl> mer, WlilU(Ky.), Finley, Beebe, Jonee (N.H.), Gniliale. Caldwell (IVnn.l. McMahon, Kill*. Cox <N. V,). Hewitt (N. Y.l Fort, Spark*. Turney. Neal. Gardner. Browne, ltobineon (inn.), Candler, Htengrr. liioe (Ohio), Dickey. Hamilton. In thu Senate, on the 23d, the amendment of the House to the hill granting a pension to Gen. James Shields, increesing the amount from fifty dollars to *IOO a month, wse referred. .. The House bill to prohibit the coinage of the twenty-cent silver piece was penned.... The hill to extend the time for the eonntruction and completion of the Northern Pacino lUilrand was further considered, and several amendments were agreed to. after which the bill an amended was isuscd, without division. In the House, thu Speaker ordered the protest against the summary pannage of the River and Harbor bill to be read. Mr. Oonger objected to words referring to alleged combination of members for the spoliation of the Treasury, and Mr. Cox IN. Y.) withdrew that portion of the protest, anil proceeded to address the House, to which objection was made, and after considerable tumult and confusion, the Speaker put the question ss to whether the gentleman from New York should be allowed to proceed, and declared it carried—lo 3to 87. Mr. Conger also objected to words in the protest declaring that " And this encourages similar attempts on the Treasury to gratify local intemtn,'' bat the Speaker ruled that they were not disrespectful to the House. The reading of the protest having been completed, a number of hoars were went in personal,wordy controversies between different mcmliers, after which it was decided that the protest did not present a question of privilege- yeas. 62; naya 180. A motion that, as a matter of courtesy to those who signed the protest, it lie entered on the journal, was then rejected The report of the Conference Committee on the Deficiency bill for temporary clerks in the Treasury Department whs agned to. a compromise having n*en effected. . The Indian Appropriation hill was reported and referred to Committee of the Whole.

The report of the Conference Committee on the House bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temiairary clerks was agreed to, and tho hill was passed, in tho Senate, on tho 24th.... A hill waa also passed to amend the law in relation to the deposits for savings. Bills were passed in tho House —extending the operations of tho Light-Honae Board over the Illinois River for the establishment of lights, buoys, etc.; providing that the hailing place of every vessel of the United States may be tho town where the vessel was built or where the owner resides; Senate Funding bill in regard to the Pacific Railroad Companies—2l3 to 2 the negative votes being oast by Messrs. Butler and Lynde. Tiie amendments to tho Naval Appropriation bill were insisted upon by the Senate, ou the 2Sth, and a Conference Committee was appointed ..A report was submitted from a majority of the Conference Committee on the bill to provide for deficiencies in the appropriations for the sorvire of the Government for current and prior fiscal yean, and. after explanation hy Mr. Blaine and considerable discussion, it was agreed so—36 to 19 ... Adjourned to the 29th. The Senate bill for the repeal of the Bankrupt law elicited a lengthy debate in the House,and an amendment was agreed to explicitly providing for the reiwal of the title sixty-one of tho Revised Statutes, and tho act approved June, 1874, entitled “An act to amend an act to establish a uniform system of Imnkruptcy,” and farther providing that all penal actions or criminal prosecutions arising prior to the papsage of the bln under the arts proposed to he repealed shall continue in full force until dii-posed of. The bill as amended was then passed—26 to 99.... A report waa made from the Committee on Foreign Affair*‘in reference to the Mexican border troubles, together with a bill in relation thereto, requesting the I’resideut to keep on the Texas border not less than 5.000 men to protect American citizens, and authorizing the crossing of the border by United states troops, until such treaty stipulations shall he made with Mexico as may secure an efficient protection to American citizens and property. Senate not in session on the 26th. A bill was passed in the House exempting from enrollment and admeasurement all vessels not propelled .by steam or sail, except veasels’of that character engaged in trade with contiguous foreign territory ... The Poetoffice Appropriation bill was reported from Committee of the Whole, and several amendments were agreed to. one of them providing that the compensation of Postmasters of the fourth class shall be based upon the number of stamps canceled, instead of the number sold at their offices. The bill, as amended, was then passed.