Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1878 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

raum WMiuJWTti. Tnuwrtn the United BtateaTreasury, OMthetah, •MMOS.TOOin Government bond* to recure buk dreuUtkm, and $18,868,400 to rorare public deporita. ft was Mated, unofUclally, that after the Ist of January next, aa aa aM to the resumption of apede payment*. It was very likely the Ttaaaury Department will send to partie* doslriug it the standard silver dollar, In qoantitie* of SI,OOO and upward, free of transportation, in exchange for like aw*M of greenback* deposited with depository banka. \ Im another letter to Minister Welsh on the subject of the Halifax award, Sec’y Evarts takes direct issue with the finding of the Com aaiaaton, both as to the amount of the award and the manner In which it was rendered, holding that the sum of $5,500,0001* an outrageoe* and utterly indefensible price to place upon the benefit* of twelve years of taking in Canadian waters, and that, if paid at all by the United States, it must be regarded as covertag the value of those benefits in perpetuity, and not for sny term of years, and that the adoption of this r any other award by the Commission by a bare majority is not in accordance with the term* of the treaty providtag for the Commission, and that the award is not, therefore, binding upon the Government. A Washington dispatch of the ISth says Sec’y Sherman, referring to the reported withdrawal Of one and two-dollsr United States notes, had stated that the story was started a year ago, and caused an unnatural demand for small bills. The story was unfounded, and no order had been given the Printing Bureau to limit the issue of ones and two*. They were issued to everybody who demanded them, and no order had ever been made for their withdrawal. After the Ist of January next, no bills of less denomination than five dollar* can be issued by National Banka, and if the one and two-dollar United States note* were withdrawn it would make place for more silver, but the Secretary thinks the public at large ought to have option to take gold, altver or paper, of any denomination coined or printed, and that this la the best way to secure the largest circulation. It was stated in Washington, on the 12th, that Lord Salisbury, in his reply to Sec’y Evarts, was as earnest in his position that the Canadian Fishery Award was made in accordance with the Treaty of Washington as Evarts was in maintaining the opposite view. The correspondence was not likely to be concluded before the award would become due, on the 23d, and it would probably be paid under protest

AM interchange of opinion toA place among the member* of the Cabinet, in Washington, on the 12th, concerning the alleged violations of the Election laws, especially in Louisiana, during the recent elections, the United States Attorney for that State having furnished a list of cases showing personal violence, intimidation, etc. The sentiment of the Cabinet was that all such alleged violations should be In-' quired into, with a view to the punishment of . the offenders. Bbc*t Sussman, on the 13th, issued a circular to the effect that any person subscribing thereafter for 4-per-cent. bonds might par for them with any of the 5-20 bonds of the act of March 3, 1865, redeemable at the pleasure of the Government after the Ist of July, 1870, in the same way as if they were called at the date of subscription in regular course; but the subscription must be accompanied with a full description of such bonds, which bonds must be forwarded to the Department within thirty days thereafter, to be applied like called bonds. Of such bonds there was outstanding, on the 13th, the amount of $26,085,750. Annocnckment was made, on the 14th, that the United States Government had, through a banking house in New York, completed the purchase of sterling exchange to the amount of about £1,100,000 to meet the (5,500,000 required by the Halifax award to be paid to the British Government, at London, on the 23d, and that agents of the United States Treasury Department would make the transfer at London, on that date. Dubing the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, the American Consuls abroad collected fees aggregating $635,914.11. This is an excess of $110,240.26 over the salaries paidmaking the Consular Service self-supporting. A number of the clerks on the contingent rolls of the Patent Office, in Washington, were discharged, on the 14th, for lack of funds. Half of them were women.

»■« EAST. The Village of Cape May, a noted summer wstcringplace on the Atlantic coast, was almost destroy ed by fire on the morning of the 9th. The fire originated in the attic of the Ocean House, and, fed by high winds, spread thence to the principal hotels and cottages adjacent thereto, nearly all of <hich were totally destroyed. About forty acres were burned over, and the aggregate lo‘ss is stated to be *700,900. The fire was incendiary in its origin. Norman B. Jv»t>, formerly United States Minister to Berlin and a Member of the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, died in Chicago, on the morning of the Uth, aged sixtythree years. Three brothers, named James, David and John Tabor,'owned and operated a farm near Chenango, N. T. James and David disagreed as to how it should be run. A few days ago, David hilled James with a pitchfork and then went into an ad joining wood and blew out his brains with a shot gun. At the recent election in New Hampshiye the vote for Governor was as follows- Head (Bep.), 38,065; McKean (Dem.), 31,083; Brown (Greenback), *,885; Prohibition and Scattering, 129. Head over ail, 488. A Mirnxs of the New York ClearingHouse, in which fifty city banks participated, was held in that city, on the 12th, to take action on the coin question in view of the resumption of specie payments on the Ist of January next. The following line of action was decided on, to take effect Jan. 1, 1879: Gold coin to be treated aa lawful money and not to be received on special deposit; special exchange of gold checks at the Clearing House to be abolished; balances to be paid in gold or legal tenders; silver dollars received on deposit only when payment can be made in kind; silver certificates not available for tiie payment of balances, and dollars only as subsidiary coins in small amounts, say under *10; special gold accounts to be discontinued. TBE Workingmen ofßoston have nominated a full ticket for municipal offices, headed by Davis J. King, hatter, for Mayor. Mayor Prince has been renominated by the Butler faction for the Mayoralty. Tux return* from the Pennsylvania election show that Hoyt, Bep., for Governor, received 319,567 votes; Dill, Dem., 297,060; Mason. Nat,, 81,758; Lane, Prohibition, 3,653. Total vote, 7W.038. Hoyt’s piurauty,-za,ooz. A Nuw Yom telegram of the 14th say* the Greenback-Labor organ* claimed that their party had east this year 877,000 votes, as against 187,000 last year, and 83,000M1®6. Paor. Edison was reported to be suffering from ill-health, on tip 14th. He had given up his experiment* with the electric light and hi* efforts to diaoover some mean* of deadening the round connected with the operation of the Metropolitan Elevated Ball way in New York City, because of th? jja'arorebta tondi, ,opa p< M* hpaltV

In New fork, on the 14th. the United State* Board of Trade adopted resolution* recommending to Congress the most liberal legislation upon the subject of the Postal Service consistent with the rapid transmission and quick delivery of all proper meltable matter, and heartily approving the steps agreed upon by the Secretary of the Treasury and the New York bankers for the National resumption of specie payments. Chauncy LJfliey, of 8L Louis, was re-elected President of the Board, and 8. B. Covington, of Cincinnati, Vice-President. A can on the New Brunswick Kailroad jumped the track at Florenceville, N. 8., on Che night of the 14th, and slid down a high embankment. Arrived at the bottom, it caught fire and was totally destroyed. One man was killed, one boy burned to desth snd about fifteen persons more or less seriously injured. It waa asserted by the police of New York City, on the night of the 15th, that there was no truth tn the reports that the stolen body of Mr. Stewart had been discovered. It was reported that four men had been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the stealing of the remain*. A Nzw York dispatch of the 15th say* one of the chief operator* concerned in the Manhattan Saving* Bank robbery was in custody, and that other arrest* would soon be made. According to the official return* made to the Bureau of Statistics, the number of foreigner* arriving at the Port of New York, during October last, was 13,568, against 8 623 .during the same month last year. During the nine month* ending Sept. 30 last, there were 64,963 arrival*. During the same time last year the number was 69,522. The New Haven (Conn.) Board of Education have decided—7 to 1 —to keep the old uniform plan of religious exercises in the public school* of that city. One of the two Catholic members voted with the majority. The Hewitt Congressional Labor Committee met at Scranton, Pa., on the 14th. Five witnesses were examined, who traversed the entire range of grievances which the mining and laboring classes are suffering under. Hickey, a prominent Labor-Reformer, attributed the hard time* to several causes—among them, freight discrimination, coal combination and ever-populatlon; he would have Congress take up the matter of railroads; they should be compelled to relinquish their mining business. After more testimony of a similar character, the committee adjourned ri»e dis.

Gold closed in New York, on Nov. 15th, at 1005 - The following were the closing quotation* for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring, Wheat 95%@96c; No. 2 Milwaukee 97X@98c. Oats Western Mixed, Corn, Western Mixed, 43@ 47c. Pork, Mess, $7.65. Lard, Flour, Good to Choice, [email protected]; White Wheat Extra, [email protected]. Cattle, $6.50(3 10.00 for Good to Extra. Sheep, $3,[email protected], Hogs, [email protected]. At East Liberty, Pa., on Nov. 15th, Cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; Medium, $3.50 @3.90; Common, [email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, [email protected]; Ph 11 ad el ph las, $3.10@ 3.20. Sheep brought [email protected]—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 15th, Cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; Medium, [email protected] Hogs sold at for Good. Sheep were qu*ted at [email protected] for Good. WKMT AMD SOUTH. A Winnipeg (Manitoba) dispatch to the St Paul Pioneer-Free* of the 10th says a war had broken out between the Sioux and Blackfeet and Apsiniboine Indians. Several of the latter had been killed, and serious trouble was feared. A dispatch from Pembina, D. T., on the Bth. says Sheriff W. 11. Anderson, of Dallas, Tex., who wa* in pursuit of William Collins, of the famous band of train robbers, found him in the former place and attempted to arrest him. Collins resisted, and the men exchanged lire with fatal effect, both dropping dead in two minutes. Henry Gkeemebaum, formerly President of the German-American Savings Bank of Chicago, has been held to bail in the sum of $25,000 to answer to the charge of embezzling $90,900 of the funds of that institution. Georoe Fessler, the defaulting Treasurer of Stark County, Ohio, pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzlement, on the 11th, and was sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary, and to pay a fine of $60,000.

On the 12th, Judge Witherspoon, of the Canvassing Board of Madison County, Fla., wa* arrested by a Deputy United States Marshal, and held in $3,000 bail, on a charge of receiving and destroying one of the precinct returns, which gave Bisbee (Rep., for Congressman,) fifty-seven majority. A colored Inspector in the same county had been committed to jail, charged with not doing hi* duty. The Canvassing Board of Alachua County were also arrested, on the same day, by a Deputy United States Marshal. It is said that they had thrown out three precincts, one because the name of a voter was wrong on one of the tickets, and two because the duplicate precinct returns did not agree. Should this action of the Board be sustained, Bisbee’s majority in that county would bereducedfrom 550 to 97, and he would be defeated. A Charleston (S. C.) dispatch of the 12th says three managers of election at one of the polls there had been arrested under warrants from the United States Commissioner, for obstructing a Deputy Marshal at. the recent election, and refusing to publicly count the ballots. They gave bail. Eighteen citizens of Orangeburg had also been arrested and put under bail for obstructing United States Marshals in the discharge of their, duties at the election. A two days’ session of the National and International Commercial Convention was held, recently, in Chicago, and a large number of distinguished men, from all sections of the Union, were present a* delegates. The Hon. George W. Morris, of Kentucky, was chosen Permanent Chairman. A series of resolutions was adopted, after lengthy discussion, declaring i a favor of a grant by Congress of material aid to the Texas Pacific Railroad, and an extension of the time for the completion of the Northern Pacific; immediate provision by Congress for ocean mail-service between the chief ports of the United States and all important commercial pointe on the coast of | South America; that a suitable and navigable cheap water-line should be opened up between the waters of Virginia and North Carolina; that a committee be appointed to visit Washington and-presentthe resolutions to Congress.

Two more perrons were arrested at Charleston, 8. C., on the 13th, who are charged with offenses against United States laws at the recent election. William L. Daggett, a prominent Democrat, who was charged specially with ballot-box stuffing, in a letter of exCongressman Mackey, published in Northern newspapers, had begun proceedings against Mackey for ÜbeL Col. Thomas B. North Carolina, who was in Washington, on the 13th, stated that the Republicans would not have a single Representative in Congress from his State, as Martin and O’Hara would be counted out by the local Returning Boards, and Russell, elected as a Greenback Republican, did not -Intend to act or vote with the fiteptjbllcans. Judge McAllister, formerly Judge of the Illinois Supreme Court, recently decided, at Chicago, that as indebtedness based upon “option” deals and evidenced by notes of hand cannot be collected, even .though the note* ** negotiable and held by innocent third parties. The taint attaching to the , original transaction remain* upon the paper forever. It is by law made worthies* and void. > Thu annual Convention of the American Woman’* Suffrage Association w*f. recently

held at Indianapolis, Ind. Report* of the work In Kansaa, Mtaaouri, California, Ohio, Me., claimed a growth of public sentiment in favor of the equal right* of womoh; In California the Constitutional Convention had adopted * section removing the restriction of sex from the ballot. Mr*. Rebecca N. Hazzaid, of Missouri, was chosen President of the Association for the ensuing year; Lucy Stone, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Julia Ward Howe, Foreign Corresponding Secretary; Henry B. Blackwell, Home Corresponding Secretary; Lei Ila A. Partridge and Myra Bradwell, Recording Secretarie*, and F. A. Hinckley, of Rhode Island, Treasurer. Two PROMINENT parties were arrested, at Zanesville, Ohio, on the 14th, upon the charge of wholesale body-snatching. In the wagon driven by the accused four recently-interred dead bodies were found. On the 14th, return* from all the counties in Minnesota were published, showing a Republican majority of 17,824. It wa* reported from Charlestown, W. Va., on the 15th, that 900 Indictment* bad been found against Illicit distiller* and other violator* of the Revenue law* in that section. In Chicago, on Nov. 15th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 80XJfX«»h; Sljfc for December; 82c for January. Cash Corn closed at 32J4"c for No. 2; 815*0 for December; 325fc for January. Cash Oat* No. 2 cold at 20J4c, and 20c seller December. Rye No. 2, 44H'c- Barley No. 2, 82@85c for cash, 85e for December. Cash Me** Pork closed at $6.80. Lard, $5.85. Beeves —Extra brought [email protected]; Choice, $4.10 @4.50; 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, [email protected].

THZ YELLOW FMVBZ*. Elmwood Cemetery at Memphis was thronged with people, on the 10th, looking at the hundreds of new-made graves, and mourning for the loved and lost In many instances persons were unable to find the grave* of departed friends. Most of the visitors had recently returned to the city. Many of the graves were unmarked, and it was not easy for friends to find where rested the remains of their lost loved ones. It was a sad sight to witness the bowed forms hovering over the graves all through the cemetery. There were four deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans, on the 12th, and three in Jackson, Miss. Three new cases were reported in the latter place, and two at Vicksburg. A Jackson (Mlm.) dispatch of the 14th says no new cases and no deaths from yellow fever had occurred there within forty-eight hour*. The Howard Association announced that they bad ample means to meet all claims upon them, and that no more contributions for that locality were needed. Three yellow-fever deaths occurred in New Orleans, on the 14th. A Vicksburg telegram of the 14th says refugees were returning there daily, but the medical faculty had not yet decided it safe for them to do so. The members of the National Yellow-Fever Commission left Memphis, on the night of the 15th, for Richmond, Va. In their forthcoming report, they will advocate’s system of National quarantine under the direction of the United States Government The Commissioners are convinced, from their investigation, that the fever at New Orleans was caused by; importation, -and was carried from there to every other point. Under favorable circumstances, the disease might prevail in any part of the United States. From the experiences of the past, the Commission are of the opinion that the only reasonable means to keep yellow fever from this country is a strict National quarantine. There were seven deaths from yellow fever reported in New Orleans during the twentyfour hours ending at 6 p. m. on the 15th. Most of them were cases of relapse, some after one or two months’ recovery. Five of them were children. Total deaths to date, 4,003.

There were two new cases at Vicksburg, on the 15th, and three at Delta, La. The total number of deaths from yellow fever, at the South, up to the 15th, was reported at nearly 14,000. FOlUltiZ IMTMU.IWBXCB. The Russian occupation of Roumania has ceased. The Benhar Coal Company, of Edinburgh, Scotland, suspended, on the 9th. The liabilities aggregate £734,000. Over one-half of the cotton mills in the District of Ashton-under-Lynn have suspended work in consequence of trade depression. The Paris Exposition was formally closed on the afternoon of the 10th. The total receipt* since the opening have been 12,653,746 francs. Austria has granted general amnesty to the Bosnian and Herzegovinan insurgents. The Russians have reoccupied the territory adjacent to the Gulf of Saros. According to Constantinople dispatches of the 11th, Midhat Pasha had been appointed Governor-General of Syria. The Porte has granted local government and a Constitution to Eastern Roumelia. According to a Rome telegram of the 12th, the Pope had appointed Father McCabe, the late Cardinal Cullen’s Vicar-General, to succeed the deceased as Archbishop of Dublin. The difficulty between Spain and Morocco has been settled, the latter Government indemnifying the families of the assassinated Spaniards and saluting the Spanish flag. Moncasi, the man who recently attempted to kill the of Spain, has been sentenced to death. The announcement was made, from Berlin, on the 12th, that Germany would occupy the entire Samoan Archipelago. \ According to London dispatches of the 12th, information had been received that a Russian General had marched from the Caspian Sea, and was in Afghanistan,, with an army numbering 8,000, on the road io Herat. A Simla telegram of the same date states that it had been ascertained that the Afghan priests were preaching a holy war against the British infidels. ‘

A Pera dlsr atch of the 12th says the Porte had accepted the principle of the rectification of the Greek frontier. The withdrawal of the Russian Missipu from Cabul i* not an accomplished fact, according to a London telegram of the 13th. A skhiocs and wide-spread insurrection against the Turks has broken out in the Nejd District in Arabia. Snow-storms of exceptional severity were prevailing in the north of England and throughout Scotland, on the 13th. - In reply to a request from the Vatican for their vlpws pn the pending negotiations with Germany, the exiled German Bishops have addressed a memorsal to the Pope, asking that some just and equitable arrangement be reached. ‘ . According to a Philippopoli telegram of the 14th, the International Commission had adopted with spme slight modifications the programme of reform in Eastern Roumelia, proposed' by the Turkish Government Taixe, the distinguished French author/ has been elected Member of the Academy. Thb Tiber at Rome ha* overflowed it* banks and the lower portions of the Eternal Cityare under water. A Rome (Italy) dispatch of the 14th says the Vatican had determined to cut loose from the Ultramontane party in the German ta£According to Berlin dispatches of the 15tb, there had been prohibited, since the promulgation of th- Anti-Bociallst law, fO2 societies, 25 newspaper* »nd 88 books. ’ ~

BWTTUHLAND has renounced the Convention of 1865 constituting the Latin Union. The Marquis of Lorn*, Governor-General of Canada, with the Marchioness, a daughter of the Queen of Great Britain, left Liverpool for Halifax, on the 14th. At Preston, Eng., 850,000 spindles, 1,500 looms and 1,200 workmen are idle, and moat of the cotton-mills are running but from two to four days a week. The Glasgow High fourtbf Judiciary ha* refused to admit to bafl any more of the Director* of the suspended City of Glasgow Bank. A max, named Johnson, charged with forgery on a Missouri Bank, ha* been arrested, in Scotland, and sent to London for extradition. Bombay dispatches of the 15th say the Indian Government had given the Commander of the British troops at Simla Stringent order* to supervise all pres* telegram*. THE.following failures were announced on the 15th: John Lomas & Co., manufacturers of chemicals, at Jarrow-on-the-Tyne, for $500,000; Yeung, Liston & Co., ship-owners, London, for $500,000; James Forrest <t Co., Blackbum, cotton spinners, for $150,000; Wilhelm, Preston Jt Co., Hamburg, crockery and glass, for a very large amount, and five Glasgow brokers who defaulted on settlement.