Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1878 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

nma WAunisrow. A DUFMCK tram Waahington, on the 25th, say* Ike southeastern coast cities had «o far escaped the yellow fever. The Secretary of War had made liberal provtelom for furnishlac ration* to Um draUtate In the South, and order* were given on that day for a supply ot 5,000 rations for Grenada. Litteral contribu |iona ware being made for the yellow-fever sufferers. Tu Treasury Department at Washington, OB the 26th, issued the stny-nlnth call for the redemption ot 5-20 bonds of 1865. The call is for 85,600,000 (<me-half coupon and one-half registered), to be paid, principal and interest, oa and after Nov. 26, interest to cease on that day. The coin balance in the Treasury, on the 28th, was •237,000,000, an Increase of over •30,000,000 since the first of .the month, and of over •140,000,000 since a year ago. Tu California Labor Reformer, Dennis Kearney, was in Washington, on the 28th, and called on the President, by whom he was courteously received and entertained for a ’ few-mements in general conversation. 'A cbxsus has recently been taken in Wrashington, D. C., and shows a population of 131,000, of whom 43,000 are colored. There were found twenty-two colored persons over 100 years old, one being reported as old as 110. Seventy persons were between ninety and 100. Tns standard silver dollars coined up to the 30th ult amounted to 812,826,500, of which 82,659,184 were outstanding, leaving 810,237,316 on hand. The demand for them was said to be increasing. THE EAST. There were two cases of yellow fever discovered in Philadelphia, on the night of the 24th. A man died at the New York City quarantine hospital, on the 23d,„ of yellow, fever, contracted while unloading a cirgo of logwood. The annual session of the National Agricultural Congress was begun at New Haven, Conn., on the 27th. Tu Prohibition State Convention met at Hartford, Conn., on the 28th, and placed the following ticket In nomination: Governor, Jesse G. Baldwin; Lieutenant-Governor, Geo. P. Rogers, Jr.; Secretary of State, A- 8. Beardsley; Treasurer, W. 8. Williams; Comptroller, Edmund Tuttle. A call for a Democratic State Convention has been issued by the Massachusetts Central Committee. The place fixed upon is Worcester, and the time Sept. 17. A call has been issued for a State Republican Convention to meet at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 25th of September next. Gov. Rick, of Massachusetts, lias refused the requisition of the Governor of South Carolina for the surrender of the j>erson of Hiram H. Kimpton. Dexnis Kearney was in Philadelphia, on the evening of the 3Jth ult, and delivered a two-bours’ speech to the workingmen of that city. Gold closed in New York, on August 30th, at 100 - The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, 81.02%@1.03; No. .2 Milwaukee, Oats, Western, 24>4@33XeCorn, Western, Mixed, Pork, Mess, 811-20. Lard, 87.45. Flour, Good to Choice, •[email protected]. Winter Wheat, 85.80@ 6.50. Cattle, [email protected] for Good to Extra, cheep, [email protected]. Hogs, 84.40@4.(J0. Av East Liberty, Pa., On August 30th, Cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; .Medium, 84.00 @4.50; Common, [email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, Philadelphian, 84.50@ 4.80. Bheep brought [email protected] according to quality. At Baltimore, Md. on August 30th, Cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; Medium, Hogs sold at [email protected] for Good. Sheep were quoted at [email protected] for good.

WEST AM> WITH, A Memphis dispatch of the 25th says instances were known in that city of parents deserting their children, and children their parents. The wife and three children of a prominent citizen were taken with the fever during his absence from the city. He was telegraphed for by the Howards, and replied, “Take care of my family.” His wife died, and the children were conveyed to the City Hospital, where one oi them died on the 25th. A man died in Cairo, on the 24th, of, it Is supposed, yellow fever. He was from Memphis. A somewhat similar case occurred in Pittsburgh, the victim dying on the 26th. The health report from the Surgeon-General's Office in Washington, issued on the 25th, gives the total of cases in New Orleans so far at 1,073; deaths, 534; Vicksburg, 400 cases and sixty-nine deaths; Memphis, 144 cases and fifty-three deaths during preceding six days; Canton, Miss., eighteen cases and eight deaths; Port Gibson, Miss., 118 cases and nine deaths. In Grenada, so many of the remaining population were stricken with the disease that definite information of the number of eases and deaths could not be obtained. A Grenada special of the 27t.h says the situation there was more encouraging, but help was still needed. The night before people had died without an attendant of any kind. Generous contributions were being made all over the country, on the 27th, for the relief of the suffering South. During the twenty-four hours ending at six p. m., on the 28th, there were 119 new cases and fifty-eight deaths in Memphis. Of the latter forty-seven wide whites and eleven colored. More physicians were needed. Dr. Mitchell reported that he found scores of people sick and dying without have ing been seen br physicians. He says the scenes of death and distress were indescribable. The negroes had become clamorous for rations, and surrounded the commissary department, but the crowd was kept back by a colored military company. The new cases in New Orleans numbered 220; deaths, fiftyseven. In Vicksburg there were 125 new cases and fifteen deaths. Port Gtbfton and Canton, Miss., were suffering severely? Two drugstores were the only business places open in the latter place. Another death from yellow fever occurred in Cincinnati on the 28th. A number of deaths from fever were reported from country places adjacent to Memphis, on foe29HL The deaths te that city, w-M day, numbered seventy; new cases, ninety-' nine. A drenching raiu fell in tip; afternoon. The number of new cases in Vicksburg, during twenty-four hours ending on the 29th, was 120; deaths, Seventeen. Up the 30th, nearly •30,000 had been subscribed, in New York City for the relief of the yellow-fever localities, •15,000 In Chicago and proportionate amounts in other Eastern and Western cities. There were fifty-seven yeliow-fever interments in Memphis during the twenty-four hours ending at six p. m. on the 30th u!L During the same time seventy-two new cases were reported, but this did not exhibit a true index of the state of the epidemic, as several physicians failed to report. At New Orleans, the new cases numbered 109 and the deaths fifty-seven. One hundred and sixty cases were reported in Vicksburg; deaths, thirteen. There was a slight increase in the death-rate at Grenada. Among other affecting incidents attending M»e fearful scourge in the South, It is reported, bv a Grenada telegram of the 30th, that Tom Marshall, the telegraph operator there, was dom wWi tha fever, and that the body of his BWe **, Who died three days before, remained unburied for want of money. A collection was taken up by telegraph opepthvg in Calm

for Marehall’* relief. The Cairo Board, of Health modified their quarantine regulation, oa the 30th, so as to allow the resumption of through trains from New Orleans on the Mo., Bt L AC. R. R., through passengers to fiass through the town in locked cars, which are not to be unlocked until three mile* away from the city. A dispatch was recently received from Hon. Emerson Etheridge, now in Europe, declining the recently-tendered Rc|Miblican nom instlon for Governor of Tennessee. Tn strike of the Crispins in Chicago was ended, on the 24th, by a compromise tat ween the manufacturers and workmen, and the latter were to resume work on the 36th, good feeling prevailing between the employers and employes. y Seniors Indian troubletlfn Oregon were reported, on the 25th. Sqtajral settlers at Priest’s Rapids, on the Columbia River, bad been killed., Hon. Stephen Conn, formerly Member of Congress from the Second Kansas District, died a few days ago. ■ The Association for the Advancement of Science, In session at 8L Ixmls, on the 27th, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Goo. F. Barker, Philadelphia; Vice-Presidents, 8. B. Langley, Allegheny City, Pa., and Maj. J. W. Powell, Washington; Grand Secretary, G. A. Little, Georgia; Treasurer, W. F. Vaux, Philadelphia. The Permanent Secretary, F. W. Putnam, holds over. The next session of the soeiaty is to be held at Saratoga, on the third Wednesday in AUgust of next year. While Mrs. Marshal Charley, of Oaktown, Ind., was using kerosene oil to start the fire in her kitchen stove, on the evening of the 26th, the can exploded and she was fatally burned, A serious accident happened to an excursion train on the Grand Rapids A Indiana Railroad, on the 28th. Two coaches were thrown down an embankment near Lockwood, Mich., and thirty-five persons were injured, several seriously and three fatally. The cause of the accident was supposed to have been a broken rail. A dispatch from San Francisco, on the 29th, says Gen. Howard bad concluded a peace with the Oregon Indians, requiring all ■the Indians concerned Jnd«p»edi>lionsXobe delivered up. He was going to Walla Walla to make similar arrangements with the Washington Indians. The Greenback State Convention of Tennessee was held at Nashville, on the 29th. The resolutions adopted demand the abolition, of the National Banks; the issuing by the Government of legal-tender paper money, to be an absolute dollar equal to a dollar in gold or silver; that the public lands shall beheld in trust for homes for American citizens; that, a postal depository be established, and certificates be issued on deposits; a graduated tax on all incomes over 81,000; declare opposition to the importation of servile Chinese; denounce all violent measures, and appeal to the ballot-box for a redress of grievances. Judge E. H. East was nominated for Governor. At one o’clock, on the afternoon of the29th, three men entered the bank at Concordia, Mo., and one of them asked the cashier to change a ten-dollar bill. While he was doing so, another of the men jumped overthe counter, caught the cashier by the arm and placed one hand over bis mouth. The men then took what money was in sight, and putting a pistol to the cashier’s head, coinfielled him to open the safe. The robbers took all the paper money (between 83,000 and 84,000) there Was in the safe, but refused to take the silver, of which there was between 82,000 and 83,000. The robbers made their escape from the town, on horseback. The whole affair occupied about ten minutes.

The Democratic Territorial Convention was held at Yankton, Da iota; on the 29th, and resulted in the nomination of Bartlett Tripp, of that place, for Congress. The Kansas State Republican Convention was held at Topeka on the 29th and 30th ult The following State ticket was nominated: Governor, J. P. St. John; Lieutenant-Gover-nor, L. U. Humphrey; Secretary of State, James Smith; Treasurer, John Frances; Auditor, B. I. Bom brae; Attorney-General, Willard Davis; Chief Justice, A. IL Horton; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Allen B. Lemon The platform adopted denounces the issue of irredeemable money as a species of of repudiation, but favors the withdrawal of National Bank notes and the substitution therefor of greenbacks, the same to be a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except when otherwise specified in the contract; advocates the doublecoin standard; indorses the decision of the Secretary of the Interior in respect to unsold land-grant railroad land, etc., etc. In Chicago, on August 30th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 90%c cash; 90%c August, and 90%c for September. Cash Corn closed at 37%e for No. 2; 37%c for September, 38’je for October. Cash Oats No. 2 eold lat 20%e; 21^c. seller September. Rye No. 2,47 c. Barlev No. 2, (New) 81.01 for cash, [email protected]%c for September (New.) Cash Mess Pork closed at 89.25. Lard, 87.07#. Beeves—Extra, [email protected]; Choice, Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, [email protected]; Butchers’ Stock, [email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., 82.75(33.25. Hogs brought [email protected] for Good to Choice. Sheep sold at [email protected] for Poor to Choice.

rOKKIUn INTKLLIUKXCK. A Berlin •, telegram of the 25th says that Nolieling, the man who attempted to assassinate the Emperor Willieli*, either was or feigned to be insane. He had been removed to an insane asylum for ex pert examination. Constantinople dispatches of the 2iitb announce the removal of the Russian headquarters from San Stefano to Rodosto. b Two violent earthquake shocks were experienced in portions of Germany, on the 26th. Beyond a shaking up of the people, no great damage was done. . A man named Deutsch has beCn wrrestod as the assassin of Gen. Mezentzow, the Russian Chief of Police. According to Vienna dispatches of the 27th, it bad been definitely ascertained that thiffiServian Government had instigated and aided the insurgents in their opposition to the Austrian occupation of Bosnia. A Belgrade disnatch of the 27th announces the resignation of the Servian Ministry. Premier R'isties had been intrusted with theformatior. of a new Cabinet A deputation of Ulemas waited on the Sultan of Turkey, on the 27th, and demanded that he change his Cabinet. “A ViennY dispatch of the 28th says'the Bosnian Insurgents had offered to submit to Austrian occupation if liberal autonomy were offered. " , According to a>Constantinople telegram of the 28th, the Lazis had concluded not to resist further the Russian occupation of Batoum. According to Berlin dispatches of the 29th, a sanguinary battle between Russians and Bulgarians had been fou;ht at Jamboli, because the former had endeavored' to sjop the maltreatment of Jews and Turks. Many on both sides were killed or wounded.. Several fatal cases of Asiatic cholera have recently appeared in Sweden. The International Monetary Conference, lately in session at Paris, adjourned one die on the 29th. The American delegates urged the. Conference to take positive action; but only a formula was adopted affirming the necessity of maintaining the monetary character of silver as well as gold, and recommending that each State be left free to use either or both, End to allow or disallow the free coinage of silver- ( According to Pera telegrams of the 80th Uft, Gan- To4l«ben hfd peen directed to sus-

pend the cmlxrka’lon of Ruulan troops, because ot the failure to withdraw the British fleet Dr kino the assault upon and capture ok Scrajevo, the Bosnian capital, by the Austrians, the Italian Consul was killed.