Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1878 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

Tn gold coinage during July aggregated •80.000 and the silrer coinage •1,0*7,000. Tn icUneCbld of the Uovernment BuNanof ButtaUd baa completed a comparatt«o atatoment of tfc« ImporU and export* 01 the UnitodßtatM for the yean 1877 an,11878, ending Jooe SO, lowing the following renulta, •parte value*: Export* of merrhaadia- <i 1878, domestic. ««0 881.788; foreign, 814, 900,405; total, **4,8*,300; imports, $487.061.5 W; excenof export#, $357,832,667. In 187 T, exporta, d. moatlc, $588,670 ?-*; foreign, BU.Bj4.MM; import*, 4451,833,127; excess of Import*, $151,158,003. Exports of cold and •Over in 1878, *33783,225; import*, $29,821,fU; excess of export*. $B,Bll-813. In 1877, exporta $98,162,337, Imports, $40,774,414; cxeee* of export*. $15,887,823. The total excess of sxporte over Import* In 1878 was $361,744,575; in 1877, $.66,588,817. Tbb Secretary of the Treaaury, on the 7th, tamed the atxty-aixth call for the redemption of $5,000,0u0o( the 5-30 bonds of 1865, principal and interest to be paid at the United State* Treasury on and after Not. 7. President Hates has appointed John P. Hoyt, of Michigan, to be Governor of Idaho Tenltory. According to a Washington dispatch of the Bth, the demand for the standard silver dollars was steadily Increasing. So far during the then current week, the banks had ratted for ssllo,ooo. There was little demand for the certiheatea tor sliver dollars, which had been printed to the extent of $19.000,000. It was decided at the Cabinet meeting, on the oth, that theie was no reason whatever why the former orders to the American force* la Texaa should not be fully carried out. and the President directed the Secretary of War to telegraph Gen. Ord reiterating existing orders with reference to the protection of i American Interests and the prompt pursuit and punishment of any parties making raid* 1 across the Rio Grande from Mexico.

TBS KANT. Reese, Trait a Woods, steel manufacturer*, of Pittsburgh, Pa, suspended on the Bth. Hie liabilities of the firm are $960,000, and their assets about $600,000. A labor number of workingmen met in Fanenil Hall, Raton, on the evening of the j sth. and were addressed bv Dennis Kearney, ■ the “Labor Reformer.” of California. Large numbers were unable to grin admittance. 1 The *;leaker, who was enthusiastically received, assailed capitalists and monopolists, the publishers of newspapers and the telegraph managers in rigorous and somewhat profane term*. He *l>oke of the victory the Workingman's organization claims to have achieved in California, and advised' the work-in-meß to cut loose from all parlies, and to take charge or their own affairs. A few days ago, an insane young woman of Benton, aged twenty-seven years, poun d kerosene over her bead and clothes, set it on Are and was burned to death. A dispatch from Rochester, X. Y., on the Sd, says Prof. Lewis Swift, who had just arrived home, confirmed the discovery at Denver, during the recent eclipse, of the Planet Vulcan. He end Prof. Watson agree as to the distance and direction of the planet from the sun, and expect to confirm the discovery by other obsci vat inns. AT the late Kearney meeting, in Boston, resolutions were adopted extending a hearty and cordial support to Deunts K -arney, “ the apostle of the laboring classes of Catilornia.” The Grain Committee of the New York Produce Exchange have made the following changes in the last year’s grade* of grain; Inserting the words “pure amber” in No. 1 amber winter wheat, which shall be bright, ! sound, dry, plump, pure amber and well : cleaned; substituting the word “ winter” for white in No. 1 amber white wheat, which j Hull be sound, dry, plump and well cleaned, I and inserting the words “or amber” in No. 3 red winter wheat, shall consist of sound red or amber winter wheat, unfit to grade No. 1 Other grades unchanged. At Buffalo, ou the 6tb, the trotting horse Rants made the unprecedented time of a mile in 2:13)f minutes. This is the fastest time ever made by a trotting horse to harness. At Newark, N. J., a few days ago, Mrs. Eli- * nor Williams, wife of Rev. W. R. Williams, r was burned to death in consequence of the explosion of the can of kerosene with which she was kindling the kitchen fire. On the saute day Mra. Anna Zellers, of the same place, ' was terribly and fatally burned by a similar careless use of the same explosive. A bill a] owing women to vote at school meetings has been passed bv the New Hampshire Legislature. This is the first substantial victory won by the Woman Suffragist* of New England. The Teachers’ Convention, which bad been in session in New York City for several days, coududed Its deliberations on the 9th. 8. S. Packard, of New York, was elected President for the ensuing year. The next meeting is to be held at Cleveland, Aug. 6,1879. I Severe storms of wind, rain and lightning visited a wide extent of country iu the Eastern States on the evening of the 9th. At Wallingford, Conn., s brick school bouse, Catholic Church, forty dwellings and a large number of barns were demolished by the wind, and thirty persons were either killed outright or fatally wounded, and a number of others were more or leas injured. The damage to property was estimated at 4100,000. Severe thunder stonus were experienced at various points in Massachusetts, and many persons were killed by lightning. The storm extended throughout port ons of New York. New Hampshire, etc., doing great damage to buildings, fences and stock.

Gold dosed in New York, on August9Ui, at 1 J 0)4- The following were the closing quotations tor produce: No. 3 Chicago Spring Wheat, *U«X«I-10; No. 3 Milwaukee, *U19J401.10; Onto, Western, 30@33>4e. Com, Western, Mixed, 45049J4C. Pork, Mess, #lO 90. Laid, *7.80. Flour, Good to Choice, *4.3505.75. Winter Wheat, *5.80@ 0-50. Cattle, *8.25010.25 for Good to Extra. Sheep, $3.5004:50. frogs, *4.6004.70. AT East Liberty, Pa., on August Bth, Cattle brought: Best. *4.9005.00; Medium. *4.15 04AP; Common, *8.6004.00. frogs soldlor ken, *4.3004.60; Philadelphia*, *4.700 4.90. Sheep brought $3.0004.15-aecordiug to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on August 9Lh, Cattle brought: Beat, *47305.25; Medium, tS K04.12i4. Hogs sold at *5 [email protected] for Good. Sheep wfcre quoted at *3.2504.12*4 lor good. WSBT AXB ItOCTB. In Chicago, during July, there were thirtynine toil area, with aggregate liabilities of *{,- 738,88*. Thk Mastin Bank, of Kansas City, Mo., dosed Its doors, on the 3d. Liabilities estimated St over *1,900.000, with assets nominally stout the same in amount. The wholesale grocery Arm of E. M. Bishop & Co., of Cincinnati, was also among the failures suite Toprk* (Kan.) National Bank closed its doom, on the morning of the sth The inducing cause, ft is said, was the failure of the Maatio Bank, of Kaunas City. At a largely-attended anti-Chinese demonstration in Ban Franc'aeo, on the evening of the sth, the gist of one of the speeches was that a committee of workingmen had waited |

on the Board of Supervisors, and would wait qxain. and it It would not listen to a petltlou ,if thy people to demolish Chinatown a* • put lie nuisance, the workingmen would !*e called upon to march upon that locality and leave not one brick upon another. This appeal met with an putbumt of. applau e. A resolution was adopted to organise the worklugnien of the State into a Committee on Public Salety, for mutual protection, subject to the call of the Vice-President of the Executive Committee of Organization. The Louisiana Bute Democratic Convention met at Baton Rouge, on the 6th, and adopted a platform indorsing the levee system, the Ntcbolls Government, the Stale Ponding law snd the Congressional Investigating Committee; demanding Government aid for the Texas Pacific Railway and the Brazilian Steamship Line; expressing sympathy lor the laboring classes; advocating the alailition of Natioral Bank* and the substitution of greenback* for Naiionsl Bank notes, the same tube a full legal tender for all debts, public and private etc., etc. Four men who offered to sell their votes were expelled from the Convention. E. A. Burke was nominated for State Treasurer.

Concerning the crop prospect In the Northwest, the Chicago Journal of the 6th says the wheat and oat harvests were turning out fairly, notwithstanding serious damage in some localities. Corn was doing well, with prospects of a fair average yield. Barley short. Potatoes not yielding as well as hail been expected. Fruit, where not killed in the early spring, generally turning out well. Southern Illinois and Eastern Michigan will give a fine yield of peaches, apples, etc. The damage dime to the wheat crop in Northern lowa aua Southern Minnesota wa* not as disastrous as first reports Indicated. Tiik Delaware State Democratic Convention Which met at Dover, on. the bill, nominated John W. Hall fpr Governor. A bardmoney platform was adopted. Resolutions were also adopted denouncing the conspiracy which seated Mr. Hayes, and approving the course of the Potter Investigating Committee. Ox the 6th, the journeymen shoemakers of Chicago struck for higher wages. They bad lieen receiving 49 a week, but demanded 412. The manufacturers offered 410.50, hut this they refused to accept and struck. , The fast train on the Pittshur.h, Cincinnati A St. Louis Railroad, which left Pittsburgh at midnight, coll.ded, early on the morning of the 7th, with a irelght train near Mingo Station, Ohio. Fifteen persons were killed and over fifty wounded, many of them fatally.

A Bismahck (D. T.) special of the 7th says the grasshop|iers were doing much damage to the crops in that region. They were slowly moving in an eastwardly direction. In North Carolina, at the recent State election, tin; Democrats elected ninetv-seven members of the Legislature, the Republicans fifty and the Independents nine, with fourteen districts re;>orted doubtful. At Greenville, 8. C., on the Bth, a demand ■was made, by the United States Marshal upon the Sheriff, for the surrender to the custody of the United States Court of the three Internal Revenue OHirers—Kaue, Durham and Moore—under Indictment for the killing of an employe of an illicit-distiller, w ho, it is said, was offering resistance to the officers when In the discharge of their duties. The Sheriff refused to release the prisoners himself, but quietly permitted the Marshal to secure tue keys. The latter thereupon released the prisoners and at once locked them up again, thus satisfying the writ of hubeax cotjjuh and placing the prisoners in the jurisdiction of the Federal Court.

The Colorado Republican State Convention met at Denver, on the Bth, and nominated Janies B. Belford, fyr Congress; T. \V. Pitkin, for Governor; H. A. W. Tabor, for Lieuten-ant-Governor; N. H. Meldrum, for Secretary of State: M. 8. Culver, for Treasurer, and C. Ws Wright, for Attorney-General. The platform condemns the seating of Patterson by : the last Congress; favors a currency of gold, : silver and papery made equal in value; opposes the Resumption act, etc., etc. The South Carolina State Republican Convention met at Columbia, on the Bth. The ninth article of the platform which was adopted reads as follows: “We deem it Inexpedient to nominate candidates for Governor and other St.ite officers, because, owing to the condition of affairs in this State, occasioned by rifle-dub rule and two years of Democratic rupremacy, it is inqiossihle for Republican voters in many counties—without Incurring great personal danger—to organize for the campaign, or to vote at the election when held.” The recent Texas State Greenback Convention nominated a full State ticket, headed by W. H. Hammons for Governor and J. S. Paines for Liimtenant-Governor. A Coroner’s investigation into the cause of the late railroad accident at Mingo Junction, Ohio, was begun, on the 9th. Conductor Sterling, of the freight train, had been placed under arrest, and committed to Jail, in default 0L45,r00 nail, on a charge of manslaughter. The deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans, from noon ou the Bth to noon on the 9th, numbered twelve. Total number to lastmeutioued date, 431. and deaths, 118. The number of new cases during the preceding twenty-four hours up to noon, on the 9th, was forty-four. Up to the 9th, since the recent openlug of the United States Court at Greenville, S. C., 267 cases of illicit distilling had been disposed of. On the 9th, several distillers came in from the mountains and pleaded guilty, and 100 more were expected to surrender within a day or two. In Chicago, ou August 9th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 97@97*ec cash, 97c for August, for September. Cash Corn closed at 39>jc for No. 2, for August, for September. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 22>£c; and seller September. Rye No. 2,52 c. Barley No. 2, 88%@90c for cash,r for September (New.) Cash Mess Pork closed at 410 50. Lard, $7 70. Beeves—Extra, [email protected]; Choge, [email protected]; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, 43.25(33.50; Butchers’ Stock, $2.50,u3.00; Stock Cattle, etc., $2.50(913.00. Hogs brought |[email protected] for Good to Choice. Sheep sold at $2.50 4.25 for Poor to Choice.

roKKiun isTßLunsaca. Tile freedom of the City of London was presented to Lords Bearonsfield and Salisbury, on the 3d Lord Beaeonsheld delivered »n address, in which be expressed himself as sanguine that the permanent peace of Europe was assured. The Workingmen’s Congress, announced to meet in Paris, on the 3d of September, has been prohibited by the French Government. Full returns from the late Parliamentary elections in Germany, show the following results: Conservatives elected, 93; Liberals, 110; Ultramontane*, 96. Sixty-six second ballots are necessary. The cabmen as Paris have struck for higher p*y. An alarming degree of sickness is reported' aa prevailing in the Island of Cyprus. A London telegram states that over 17,000 Russians are sick with typhus in Bulgaria. Considerable excitement prevails In Bucharest, on the 6th, over a reported misunderstanding between Russia and Roumania. over the determination of the boundaries of the Dobrudscha. Li_ A Rome (Italy) telegram pf the 6th says' thafßismartk and the Vatican .had settled' their respective difficulties on the basis of amnesty for all violation of the Falk laws and the .estoration of the convention existing before the establishment of the Empire. In the international pigeon-shooting match at London, Eng., Capt. A. H. Bogardus, the American champion, was the winner by one bin!.’- ; > r „.

According tin Viennadizpatehoa of the 7th, 8,000 Montenegrin" Bad joined the Insurgent* In Herzegovina. ' There were luMiratiou* that a holy war would he proclaimed in Bospis. It was stated Hint the Austrian Cabinet was urging the Porle, In view of the Bosnian and' Herxegovlnan difficulties, to make an explicit declaration of It* intention*. AN explosion occurred in the Scrcmerston coal-mine, near Berwick, Eng., on the afternoon of the 7th. Thirty-five persons were In the mine, of whom only two had lieen rescued up to the morning of the Bth, and these were badly burned. The Austrians have circulated a proclamation in Herzegovina announcing that all person* wbo oppose them will be tried by drumhead court-martial. Annoi'kcembxt was officially made, on the Bth, of the betrothal of the Prince Im|ieri*l of France to the Prince** Tbyra ol Denmark. The dory Nautilus, from Beverly, Mass., retched Havre, France, on the Bth. She made the passage In flfty-alx days. A Rone (Italy) dispatch of the Bth announces the appointment of Cardinal Deacon Lorenzo Nina as Papal Secretary of State. By the explosion of a Russian powder magazine at Frateall, In Roumania, on the 7th, fifty-five persons were killed and thirty-one Injured. According to Turkish accounts, putllshed on the 9tb, the Austrian losses, since they began the occupation of Bosnia, had exceeded 1,000 in killed and wounded. —ft was stated In the London papers of the 9th that letters bad been received from British officer* In the Gulf of Saros, saying that the Russians were fortifying the coast opposite, and that no hopes of permanent i>eace were entertained. An explosion recently occurred In themlnes of the fortifications of Kars, resulting in fires which destroyed the greater part of that city.