Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1878 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

TBbbb WM* htefl in the United States Treui tart* to secure tonk dreulaUon, *13,780,400 towcar* public deposit*. and 94,932,300 to •KBre smtMcrlptions to the 4-per-cenL bonds. Afloomute to a Washington apectal of the 19th, the m* plan of registering thlrd-claaa stall natter, which had been tn operation three weeks, *ad proved to be a great success, and reports front all directions showed that its advantages were appreciated by the public. SbC’t Sbexmax stated, on the 19th, that 400,000 ounces of sOrer would be the amount purchased weekly by Ute Treasury DepartAlludixg to recent alleged political perseeetioe and outrages tn South Carolina, Louisiana sad other Southern States, a Washing ton apodal of ths 90th says the President desired it to be understood that be would protect the colored race in Ute enjoyment of their rights to the utmost of his power. No effort Would be spared to execute the laws and vigorous Measures would be taken to bring violators of taw to justice.. It was feared at Washington, on the 90th, that the Arctic vessel Florence had been lost off the Atlantic coast, with all on board, during recent gales. The vessel sailed from New London, Conn., eighteen months ago, for the "XiSde rajjgioM*, aider the direction of Capt. Howgate, and was to have been followed by another vessel, with additional supplies and men, bet the appropriations asked for not being granted, she returned, and was' at Newfoundland, on the 28th nIL, and should have reached New London in ten days thereafter. She had a clew of three officers and ten seamen. At the Cabinet meeting, on the 23d, the heads of the several Departments presented estimates for the next fiscal year, which were reduced to the lowest figures possible, in view of the falling off in the revenues. The aggregate amount required will not vary materially, from the appropriations made for the present fiscal year, with the exception of a deficiency in the Postoffice Department, and increased expenditures in the Indian Office. Tux Poetmaster-General esti mates the amount required for the Postal Service for the next fiscal year at 936,561,900. The estimated postal revenues will fall abort of this sum by 95,907,876. The amount appropriated for the current fiscal year is 933,256,373, of which *4,98,274 comes from the general Treasury. It is estimated, therefore, that *1,085,602 more than this year’s appropriation from the Treasury will be required for the next fiscal year. Thebe was a coin-balance in the United States Treasury at the dose of business. en tbefifith,of *298,105,000; currency balance •12,377,000, Including 910,000,000 of the fractional currency

rxa east, Admix al Paulding, Senior Flag Officer on the retired list of the Navy, son of the captor of Maj. Andre, during the Revolutionary War. and the last surviving officer of the Battle of Lake Champlain, died at Hunttagton, L. L, on the 90th. —r" Hbxbt Havemeteb, of New York, denies all knowledge of the cipher dispatches relating to the last Presidential election. He says: “I never sent any of those dispatches, and never authorized any one to send them, or any of them, for me. .1 never knew, and do not know, the meaning of the cipher or any of the ciphers, In which they or any of them are written, and could not read them if I would. During a short period immediately after the late Presidential election, a large number of telegrams were sent to my address for other persons, and called for by messengers. The practice was commenced without my consent, and, after a few days, discontinued, by my requirement, because their frequency rendered them a great annoyance. I never knew the contents of those telegrams.” A fearful storm of wind and rain swept over portions of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, etc., early on the morning of the 23d, doing immense damage to property. In Philadelphia nearly one hundred warehouses along the river front were carried away, churches, railway depots, school-houses, dwelling houses, etc., were demolished and the lower section of the city was completely flooded. Several fatal casualties were reported in different parts of the city. At Chester, Pa., seventy buildings were unroofed, and many of them entirely destroyed. At Harrisburg, Pottstown, Morristown, Scranton and other places in Pennsylvania; New York, Brooklyn, Albany, in New York; Trenton, N. J., Baltimore, Md., and other cities, great damage was done by the storm. _ A bbaham 8. Hewitt failed to secure the Congressional nomination in his (the Tenth New York) District. The Democratic nominee chosen in his stead is said to be an antiTilden man. lx Philadelphia, a few evenings ago, some one threw a large stonq, at Speaker Randall, who was addressing a political meeting at the time. The Speaker’s escape is said to have been a very narrow one. The dispatches received in New York, on the 24th, from various points, are to the effect that the storm of the day before was one of the most violent experienced-for years. The storm came from the tropics, and from midnight to noon rapidly Increased in energy, ft was centra] near Baltimore, and was attended by an unusually heavy rainfall. At Washington, the fall was 8.45 inches; kt Baltimore, 9.74; Norfolk, 2.86; Lynchburg, 2.01; Smithville, N. C., 4.32. At Cape May the wind was alghty-four miles an hour; at Mount Washington, 120 mites an hour. The damage in Philadelphia was estimated at 92,000,000; 384 dwellings and stores were unroofed and otherwise Injured; the fatal accidents were six, and thirteen other persons were seriously injured. Many vessels were wrecked and lives jW *be coast and ip the rivera. , Hartwell, the conductor who had charge of the train wbieb met with the recent accident at Wollaston, Mass., on the Old Colony Railroad, has been held In 910,000 for trial for manslaughter, In December next. Engineer Hurlburt, of the freight train, is adjudged guilty of gross negligence in occupying the inward track without giving the proper signal, and Engineer Westgate, of the forward engine of the excursion train, has been declared not a suitable person for the position, owing io a wantof familiarity with tiie track, etc. Gold closed in New York, pn Oct 2&th, at IOOJIf. The following were the cloeing quotaUOM for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat (New), Na 2 Milwaukee (New), 92@92J£c. Oats - Western Mixed, 27X@31c. Coni, Western Mixed, 45047 c. Poriq Mesa, 98.30. Lard, *6.50. Flour. Good to Choice, [email protected]; White Wheat Extra, Cattle, 96.75® W tor Good to Extra. Sheep, At Em* Liberty, Pa., on Oct 25th, Cattle brought: Best, *4.75®5.00; Medium, 94.25 ®4.90; Common, *8.25@3X0. Hogs sold— Yrnksre, 6800®«2.5; Phitedelpblaa, 93.35® Ma »eep brought 93.00@4.(B—according At Baltimore, Md., on Oct. 23d, Cattle brought; Beat, *4.60 @ 5.25;' Medium, •A»®4.00. Hogs sold at *4.00©5.25 for tor Good. ** ■ awes boot**. Browr Rev. Btlvmteh H. Rosecrams, 9*O,W that pty,

<m the night of the 91st, of hemorrhage of TxaChariaetoo (8.C.) Wsws Mtrf Courier of the 19th, alleges that a Republican meeting at LautoavDle, in that State, had been captured by a force of about 800 “Red Shirts,” who proceeded to run the meeting on a divtelon time schedule, making several Democratic speeches. The meeting wax, it is said, originally composed of about 9,000 men, women and children, mostly colored. Thb extensive dry goods house of Dodd, Brown A Ua, of BL Louis, failed, on the 99d, with liabllltiesestimatedat*!,soo,ooo, the bulk of which was owing In New York. Thia was the largest firm In the dty, and one of the largest, in its bus In ess operations, in the West. 7 A St. Louis dispatch of the 23d says DecaE if and Edwards Counties, in the Sappa Valy, Kan., lately raided by the Cheyenne Indians, bad been desolated by prairie fires, and nearly everything not destroyed by the savages had been consumed. Several persons had perished In the flames. The total Democratic vote, at |he recent election In Indiana, was 194,491; Republican, 80,755; National Greenback, 89,448. A meeting of representative Democrats from all over the State of lowa was held at Burlington, on the 23d, and it was decided unanimously that the first Tuesday in November is the only legal election day for Congressmen In the State, and that the omission of the Governor’s proclamation does not de* prive the people of jurisdiction. Ix Chicago, on Oct. 25th, Spring Wheat Na 2 dosed at 79>fc cash; 80Jtfc for November; and 81%c tor December. Cash Corn closed at for No. 2; for November; 33)#c for December. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at and 19%c seller November. Rye No. 2, 43Xc- Barley No. 2,93 c for cash, 95Xc for November (New). Cash Mess Pork dosed at »7.32 - Lard, Beeves —Extra brought *[email protected]; Choice, *4.15 @4.30; Good, »[email protected]; Medium Grades, *[email protected]; Butchers’ Stock, *[email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., *[email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep Poor to Choice, *2.95@3A0.

TDK YELLOW FEVER. Dr. Mitchell, Medical Director of the Howard Association, at Memphis, tendered a banquet, on the evening of the 21st, to his corps of volunteer physicians. It is reported to have been a grand affair. It was the initiatory step toward the disbandment of the corps. The Association was rapidly sending off all the nurses from abroad, their services being considered no longer needed—now that cold, frosty weather had made Its appearance. Twelve deaths—six in the dty and six in the suburbs—were reported on the 22d. Announcement was made, on the 99d, by the Peabody Subsistence Association of New Orleans that no further funds would be needed by them. They return sincere thanks for the noble generosity exhibited in furnishing money and provisions for the distressed of that dty. No requisitions would be issued after the 26th.

Manx sections of the South were visited by heavy frosts on the morning of the 23d, and the yellow-fever scourge was rapidly abating In most of the Infected regions. Absentees were returning to the cities, and business was being resumed. Twenty-six new cases and nineteen deaths were reported in New Orleans. There were eight new cases and four deaths in Memphis, the new cases being those t of returned refugees who had not taken the precantion to have their houses ventilated before occupying them. There were no new cases nor deaths at Cairo. A reduction In the number of new cases and deaths was reported from other .localities. The total number of deaths, to date, at New Orleans, was given at 3,794; cases, 12,599. *. Generai.ly-kncoikaging reports were received from the South, on the 24th, although the weather at Memphis was warm and springlike, and of the fourteen new cases reported within the city limits, a majority were of returned refugees. Dr. Mitchell had again warned absentees to remain away until officially notified that it was safe to return. The deaths in New Orleans numbered sixteen and the new cases ten. The St. Louis Board of Health bad ordered the raising of the quarantine at that port. New cases of the fever and additional deaths were reported at several of the interior towns, one case at Cairo, 111. There were eighteen deaths at Memphis, nine within and nine without the city limits. The weather was again warmer at the South on the 25th. The Mayor of Cairo, 111., gave notice that refugees from that city had betler atay away until the temperature was lower; mercury then indicated 70 deg.; two new cases and one death had occurred within twenty-four hours. Eighteen deaths were reported at Memphis—seven being within the city Htnits; eighteen in New Orleans; one new case at Brownsville, Tenn.; eight new cases and one death at Baton Rouge, La.; ten new cases and six deaths at Jackson, Miss.; four deaths in Vicksburg; two at Holly Spffngs;' Mobile, Ala., and from one to five deaths in each of several other towns in the infected districts.

rOKBIUH INTELLIGENCE. According to a Constantinople telegram of the 20th, the Sultan had on that day declared to Minister Ledyard that he would on no account form an alliance with Russia. A fresh rising of the Turkish Croatians was announced, on the 20th. On the 19th, the German Reichsrath finally passed the Aoti-Sociallst bill by a vote of 221 to 149. The Parliament was then prorogued. Lord Dcfferin, the retiring GovernorGeneral of Canada, left for England, on the 19th. Ox the 19th, the whole management of the City of Glasgow Bank—the Secietary, the Managing Director and the Board of Directors —were arrested and_B£pamtely -confined in the City Prison upon the charge of fraud. They each declared they would have voluntarily surrendered had they known they were wanted. At Pontypool, Eng., on thp 20th, a railroad accident occurred, wbichxesulted in the death of twelve persons and serious injury to twenty — - i The following failures in Glasgow and other parts of the United Kingdom were reported on the 21st: Lacour A Watson, shipping agents; James Morton A Co.; Alexander Bell Son, in the Spanish trade; Cooper, Scott & Co., in the African trade. Aggregate liabilities, about 950,000,000. The distribution of the Exposition prizes took place at Paris, on the 21st. President MacMahon conducting the ceremony. Several American gentlemen received decoration# of the Legion of Honor.

The Sultan has authorized Baker Pasha to employ 40,000 men upon the defensive Hues of Constantinople. '.SEVERALOrangemen of Canada, have entered actions for damages against the Mayor of Montreal for false arrest, on the 12tb of last July. David Grant, County Master, claims •10,000, and the others *5,0u0. TwOA*D.A HALFMU44ON .FRASOb sent by the National Bank of Genoa, Italy, to Ancona, have been stolen en rovlr. Three of the employe® have been arrested for the theft Dubixg the week preceding the 22>), 13,000 Turkish prisoners were returned to the Bosporus by the Russians. _ . Bulgarian insurrectionary movements are reported in the vicinity of Salonica.* ~ • ’> I'llH Tse Austrian budget for 1879 estimates a deficiency of florins. The entire Italian Cabinet resigned on t In- ——~- Besbarahia was formally surrendered to Russia on the 990. The Czar has issued sn ukase directing that military furlough# |>e granted only for

particularly-urgent reasons, and In no case to extend beyond February. , Constantinople advices of the 29d were to the effect that trouble bad arisen between Russia, the Porte and Roumella, over the internal administration of affaire lq the latter country, and fears were entertained of * very serious outcome. The withdrawal of ths British fleet from the vicinity of Gallipoli baa been abandoned for the present, In consequence of recent offensive Russian movements. The latter Government baa notified the Porte that her troops will not leave Adrianople until « definitive treaty has been signed. A Bombay dispatch of the 28d says the British advance on Cabpl had been postponed until next year. The British ' on ti;e frontier was suffering from fever. M, Bucuaxan & Ca, marchanta, of Glasgow, failed, oh the 28d. Liabilities, 96,250,(XJI. The Drumpellier Coal Company also suspended. Liabilities. *400,000. The Albanian League disclaim ail responsibility for the murder of Mebemet Pasha, and declare that he was assassinated by brirands. According to St. Petersburg dispatches of the 24th, it bad been decided to establish the Central Government of Bulgaria at Sofia. Gen. Htolipin had been Intrusted with the administration of affairs in East Roumelia. A Vienna telegram of the 24th says the Porte was assuming a hostile attitude toward Russia. The army was, being rapidly recruited and officers on furlough had beencalled in for active duty. Cardinal Culi.en, Archbishop of Ireland, is dead. He was seventy-five years old and was nominated Cardinal in 1866.* A call has been made on the shareholders of the City of Glasgow Bank for *3,000 per share. The German Government baa forbidden the circulation of Socialist newspapers In Germany. Ainoqg the Interdicted sheets are the two Chicago Socialist newspapers. The Russian press unanimously advise that aid be given to the Ameer of Afghanistan in its present contest with Great Britain. The London Standard of the morning of the 26th has a sensational dispatch fro)n .Vienna, stating that the immense military preparations of Russia compelled the belief there that she was meditating still fnrther conquests. According to a Simla dispatch of the 25tb, the British troops gathered for the invasion of Afghanistan numbered 38,000, with 150 siege guns. d Ox the evening of the 25th, a man shot at the King of Spain as be was driving in a Madrid street. His Majesty was unhurt, and the would-be assassin was arrested.