Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1878 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

AoOM&HW to Ike Nml Jta*txtrr, receully taMMd, the total nnmber of officer* in *ll tWchM tt the CrtW (Kates Ntvy aix! M> rtne Corps, active and retired, U 8,067. It la atated tkattke formal reception of the Cktaeet Eaabanj in Washington next September tO not be exceptionally elaborate. Tfae (Mem Ambassador and suite mill he reonfred by Ike President and Cabinet In the earns Manner that ether foreign Ambassador* TU Cabinet, no the 13th. approved the Unitenal Foetal Treaty recently concluded at Aooouhho to the returns made to the Department of Agriculture for August, the average condition of the oottoo crop in ten cotton State* was 95 per cent, a decline of 4 percent. it bee been publicly announced that President Hayes bee accepted an Invitation to be preeent at the Minnesota State Fair, to beheld at SC Paul, the Ant week in September. T<pa Traaeury Department, on the lrtth, taened the sixty-eigbUi call for the redemption of 99,900,000 of 5-90 bonds of 186 V The principal and intareat are to be paid on and after Nov. 18, interest to cease on that day. -MU KUT. Tnx Connecticut National Greenback party held a Mate Convention at New Haven, on the 14th, and nominated a full ticket, headed by Charles Atwater for Governor, and Henry Manchester for Lieutenant-Governor. The hrtt.h the old political parties for their financial legislation, and demand the issue of a new and full legs l trader paper money, and the payment or the outstanding bonds In absolute money as soon ae possible: the repeal of the Resumption act; the establishment or Postal Savings Banks; an Income tax; oppose the importation of servile Chinese labor; denounce all seditions and violent measures and look to the ballot-box only for the redressing of grievance*. A UfOKTXK for an Eastern paper says of the recently-arrived Chinese Embassy, that Chon Lan Pin, the Chief Ambassador, is sixty yean of age, and a graduate of Han Lin College. He ranks second in the Empire, being next to the Imperial family. He is the only one of the Embassy of noble rank, and cau be readily distinguished by his polished mauner. He told the reporter that the hoodlum outrages In Saa Francisco are looked upon in Chine with feelings of bitter enmity. He thought the Embassy would tend to mitigate the evils spoken of and create more friendlv teettng between the two Nations. Gold closed In New York, on August ltitli, at 100#. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, *1.12#@1.13; No. 2 Milwaukee, 91.1301.18#; Oats, Western, 81@33#0.. Corn, Western, Mixed, 45050 c. Pork, Mess, *11.87#. Lard, $7.70. Flour, Good to Choice, 94-3505.75. Winter Wheat, *5.800 6.50. Cattle, *8.00010.35 for Good to Extra. Sheep, $8.7505.00. Hogs, f4.65g4.75. At laat Liberty, Pa., on August 10th, Cattle brought: Beat, $5.0005.50 ■ Medium, 94.20 04.70; Common, $3.8004.00. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *4.3004 40 , Philadelphia*, 94.850 5.10. Sheep brought sl7so4.so—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on August 16th, Cattle brought: Best, 95.0005.50; Medium, 93.5004.50. Hogs sold at [email protected] for Good. Bbeep were quoted at 93.2504.25 for rood.

mwan and rocth. Ok the 12th, the Kvmiug r<mt, of St. Louis, published s statement to the effect that the State Treasurer had, during his whole term of oflfce, carried among his assets a worthless check on the Maatiu Bank for $2)10,000, which was accepted by the Legislative Examining Committee as cash. This, with other amouuts of a like nature, makes a total deficit of over $500,000, in addition to the amount lost by the failure of the National Bank of the State of Mlatonri and the Mastin Bank. , The Treasurer’s bond is said to be practically worthies* The fW'i authority for these statements is not given. A bold and daring train robbery was perpetrated about half-past one o’clock, on the morning of the 18th, about one mile below Winthrop Junction, opposite Atchison, Kan. Four men boarded the passenger-train bound sooth, at Winthrop Junction, getting on the platform between the baggage-c*r and the . first coach. When the conductor started to go through the train from the baggagc-car the lender of the four men presented two revolvers toward him and ordered him back into the baggage-car. The robbers then entered the car and ordered the baggage-man and a young man with him to hold up their hands, which they did. Frank Baxter, express agent, was sitting in s chair in the lighted end o< the ear, his Mils in his lap and the express safe open beside him, busy with his work, when a revolver was suddenly thrust in his face, and be was ordered to bold up bis haute. The leader of the gang then deliberately transferred the money In the safe, about ss,t to a sack they had with them. With their pistols In bis face they then ordered the conductor to stop the train, and he pulled the bell-rope. As the train slowed up the robbers backed out of the car, still covering the inmates with their pistols, and disappeared in the darkness. The entire work was done in fine minutes, and none of the many passeugers on the train knew of the robt>ery until the perpetrators had escaped. At a mass Convention of Prohibitiouists, held st Lansing, Mich., on the 13th. a State ticket was nominated, as follows: For Governor, Watson Bnyder, of Tpsllanti; Lieuten-ant-Governor, J. W. McKeever; Secretary of State, Traverse Phillips; Treasurer, D. H. Stone; Attorney-General, E. G. Fuller; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Samuel Dickie; Commissioner of Land Office, W. G.

Brown; Auditor-General, L. L. Farnsworth; Member of the Board of Education, Charles Latov. The usual cold-water resolutions were adopted And the Convention declared in favor of a currency issued by the Government, but redeemable, on demand, in gold and stiver. \ A Bull City (Ore.) dispatch of the 13th announces the further surrender of Indians in that region, and says the Indian troubles there might be considered over for the season. Tu recent Nebraska Greenback State Convention nominated J. W. Davila for Congress, L. G. Todd for Governor, and O. T. B. William* for Secretary of State. The platform demaods that the coinage of silver be placed’ upon a footing with gold; the repeal of the National Banking law; public lands for actual settler*; the abolition of the importation of coolies, and declares that the Government ha* the power to issue absolute paper money. Att’y-GsM. Yocmaxb, of South Carolina, who was In Washington on the 15th, says the people of his State had no desire to resist the authority of the General Government The recenfreontroversjf there, growing out of revenue matters, was purely judicial, and one of "x - - Thebe were thirty-thietf new cate* of yellow fsver and six deaths reported in Memphis for (he twenty-four hours ending at nine p. in., pn the 15th. Nearly all the towns In all direcMoot around that city were quarantined (ttfiiaat It, find the same may be said of other jnfeetadßonthern localities Great excitement ytffi exlstsdln Grenada, If las., where tfiedjs. j

ease waa continually spreading. City Marshal and Acting-Mayor Molton telegraphed to the Mayor of Wilmington, N. C., that the town was a grave-yard, and asking for help to pay nurses and bury the dead; the Mayor was dying, and he was the only city official left. Not over 900 whites were left In the place. Four niw cdSet were re|>orted it Vicksburg. A tow-boat, with several rase* of fever on board, arrived at Cincinnati, but was not permitted to land. It wn* going to Pittsbargh. Strict quarantine regulations bad been decided upon at Cairo,. IH., and arrangnu-nta had been Rude by the authorities of At. lamils and Mississippi County,'Mo., to thoroughly Inspect all trains Ironi the 8011th as 1 hev crossed the Mississippi River at Belmont, and passengers found sick would be taken to the quarantine hospital. There were, ninetyeight new cases and seventeen deaths reported in New Orleans for the twenty-four hours ending at noon, on the 15th; of the deaths, seven were children under five years of age. Tiik thirty-second annual meeting of the Supreme Council of the Temple of Honor and Temperance of North America waa recently held at Jauesvllle, Wia. The following officers were elected for the ensuing y ear: W. T., F. U. Rage, Connecticut: M. W. V. T., J. A. Watrous, of Wisconsin; M. VY. R , K. 0. Bull, of New York; M. W. T., C. Kelley, of Pennsylvania; M. W. C , Rev. G. N. Hicks, of New York; M. W. U., J. W. Graham, of Tennessee; M. W. G., T. Keats, of Texas. The hext meeting is to be held at Hartford, Conn., on the second Wedncad jy 111 August, 1879. Tnx Greenback State Convention of Colorado, at Its recent session at Denver, noml-nati-d K. 3. Buckingham for Governor, P. A. Simmons for Lieutenant-Governor and J. E. Washburn for Secretary. A full ticket was put hi the field. The platform declares for the issue by the Government of a full legal-tender absolute paper 'money; the immediate repeal of the Specie-Resumption and National-Banking laws, and against the further issue of Government bonds, and favors AtaTAti xttltreomeff nTFf Tr:ooo. A tei.eoram from Galveston, on the 16th, says all the troop* under the command of Col. Mackenzie, at Fort Clark, except two companies of Infantry (left as a guard;, had crossed or were crossing the river into Mexico. The »men bad 140 rounds of ammunition and ten days’ rations each, and the artillery was well supplied with ammunition. They (were on the trail of stolen animals. Gkrat dsmage was done lu the Towns of Austin and Eureka, Nev., on the 16th, by cloud-bursts a«l consequent freshets. Several buildings were wrecked in the business portion of the former place. A call has been issued for the Louisiana Republican State Convention, ti> lie held at New Orleans, on the 16th of Sepjiemlier. A traveler for a wholesale New York jewelry firm was robbed of over SIO,OOO worth of gold w atches, chains, etc., at the Palmer House, in Chicago, affow days ago. Telrghams of the 10th say that the scenes in the plague-stricken Town of Grenada, Miss., tieggared description. The strongest men ami women ami helpless children were sick, dying or dead, entire families I icing prostrated and swept away in a few hours. The population had decreased to a little over 200 souls. Sixteen new eases of yellow fever were re|«>rted in Memphis, on the Kith, and five deaths. Everyone who could getaway had left, or was about to leave, tiie city. One hundred ami eight new tases and nine deaths were reported in New Orleans on the same day, and three new eases In Vicksburg. Is Chicago, on August 16th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 98090 cash or August, and 9401M#c for September. Cash Corn closed at S9#c for No. 2;39#0 for September, 39#c for October. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 22#c; 22#c seller September. Kye No. 2,62 e. Barley No. 2 (New), $1.16 for cash, 91.15# for September (New.) Cash Mess Pork closed at $10.40. Lard, 97.40. Beeves—Extra, *5.0005.50; Choice, *4.4004.75; Good, $3.8504.30; Medium Grades, $.8.4003,7.1; Butchers’ Stock, 92.500.8.00; Btock Cattle, etc., $2.600.8.00. Hogs brought $4.1504.70 for Good to Choice. Sheep sold at *2.7504 87# for Poor to Choice.

rOKKIWH IXTKLLIUKMCK. According to a Constantinople telegram of the 11th, the Porte had resolved to grant large concessions to Crete, but would refuse the demands of Greece. At Paris, on the 10th, the InternaUo al Monetary Conference met and organized under the Presidency of M. Leon Say. No other business was transacted, and the Conference adjourned to await the arrival of other members. Ex-President Grant has reached St. Petersburg, Russia, and been cordially received by both Government and people. On the occasion of the Nihilist- trials at Odessa, recently, the crowd fired upon-the troops. The lire was returned and several were killed. Lewis Baker, who shot William Poole, In New York, in 1855, died lately in Paris. According to Constantinople dispatches of the 12th, the inhabitants of Batoum had notified Minister Ledyard that they considered themselves udder the protection of England, and would hoist the British flag upon the attempt of Russia to occupy the city. A Rcssian torpedo-boat exploded in the harbor of Nleolaieff, on the 12th, killing thir-ty-four persons. According to a Berlin telegram of the 13th, Bismarck had instructed the German Ambassador, at Constantinople, to inform the Porte that a continuance of its ambiguous policy would risk the existence of Turkey in Europe. Ox the 13tb, in the British House of Commons, the Uuder-Seeretary for India, in introduciug the Indian budget, stated that the number of deaths In India from famine was officially estimated at 1,850,000. According to a Berlin telegram of the 14tli, there had lieen, since the attempted assassination of the Emperor William, 563 arrests for insulting that potentate. Of these 521 had resulted in conviction—thirty-one offenders being women. The aggregate of sentences Imposed was 811 years, and five of the accused committed suicide before trial. The 18th of September is the date fixed upon for the distribution of the awards to the successful exhibitors at the Paris Exposition. On the 12tl), a party of Young Britons (an Orange organization) came from Montreal to Ottawa, Can,, for the purpose of joining their brethren in the latter place in a street parade and celebration. Out of this demonstration grew several serious disturbances, the Unionists assembling in large numbers in what is called Lower Town, and threatening and assailing the Orangemen. Several collisions occurred, and the military had to be called out to-qu«il the riotous demonstrations, which extended over a period of three days and nights. Daring the melee, on the 13th, the Britons attacked and dernoliebei^ several buildings, and tiffed firearms freely. Several persons were injured, and several arrests were made by the authorities. The train conveying the Montreal Young Britons borne: was hied Into, on the morning of the 14th, at Gloucester Station, but no one was injured. The excitement at Ottawa continued late into the night of the. 14th, bat tbe efforts of the Mayor, Assisted by leading citizens of both factions, to preserve the peace and disperse the crowds, were finally successful. . "‘~A Vienna dispatches of the 15th report another disastrous defeat of (he Austrian troops in Bosnia. The dispatch adds that It had been at last recognized that the arrangements for tbe Austrian occupation of the Turkish Provinces were fatally inadequate, and that, new pikas had been devised. A Pams telegram of tlie ISth say* that, independent of liie awards of the Exposition proper, the United! States Agricultural Ex-

hU44 had been awarded a Diploma of Honor ami tbe United States Educational Exhibit the grand gold medal. The British Parliament waiduly prorogued, on the 16th, until the 2d of November nexL la the a|ieeeh read frufo the throne, Her Majesty c mgrqtulaled members upon the preservation of the peace of Kuro|ie, thanked llirtu for I lie alacrity with which they responded to Iter demand for supplies, and felicitated the country upon the acquisition of Oyptu. Ackthia and Turkey, on the Kith, c oncluded a convention for the occupation liy tin-former of the Turklah Provinces of Bosnia and llcrxegoviua. The treaty binds Turkey to aid Austria in preserving peace. Ukhmany and Italy have decided to mediate In favor of the rectification of the Greek frontier, and have sent some men-of-wsr to Greek waters us a demonstration. Emu. Hokdkl, the man who attempted the assassination of the Emperor of Germany on the 11th of May, was beheaded, on the lfith. (Ikx. Me/.extow, Chief of the Czar’s private police, was assassinated in the public street* of St. Petersburg, on the 16th. The assassins inode their escape. ? Tiie Czar of Russia lias ordered an army of observation, consisting of 80,000 men. to i»e stationed in Bessarabia until after the proposed reforms south of the Danube have lieen accomplished.