Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1878 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

wma WANUMHM. li< M interview with Baltimore merchant, ' «>•*- (MU IKa rwtinfo Ow 'wfl* ovcy onnmiMffi iikiicml . i uie [hi l® relM apoo *0 relieve the difficulties attend Ing specte reeumptipn aa follows: The pres ent exchange of coin for Greenbacks; the receipt of United States notes for customs dure; Um reatnMMaee of notes at par throurhout the country after resumplton by receiving there for bonds and cast oma. Im his annual report, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs asks for the Indian Service during the next year the sum of 85,200,000, which Is *500,000 more than the appropriation for the current year. The increase h principally for the purpose of extending edicatftreal facilities to certain tribes, and to subsist a number who are unable to help tbemeetvea. The National Bank circulation outstanding, on the 28d, was 8321,852,841. Of gold notes there wore 81,468,830. Amount of bonds on deposit to secure bank circulation, 8840,405,900; to secure public deposits, 010,888,400. Up to and including the 98d there had been coinsd, since their remonetization, 19,814,551 standard silver dollars. Of this number 10,000,000 were ta the United States Treasury, some 4,900,000 were in the mint vaults, and the balance, a little over 5,000,000, was tn general circulation. The total was about 1,600,000 in exeem of the minimum required by law. The Commissioner of Pensions has addressed a circular to all Pension Agents and others interested, calling upon them to take care that the address of pensioners written in vouchers shall be their true, proper and usual address, to the end that the extortions practiced upon pensioners by agents who offer to secure them the money, or identify them at banks where they can draw the money, for a fee taken from their stipend, may be abated. Massas. Hua, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and A. G. Mills contractor, were arrested in Washington, on the 27th, on an indictment found in the United States District Court at Chicago, charging them with a conspiracy to defraud the Government- They gave ball of 85,000 each for their appearance to answer Dec. 16. William A- Potter, ex-Chief Supervising Architect, was arrested in Washington, on the 29th nit., and held in 85,000 ball on a charge similar to that against Messrs. Hill and Milla, arrested the day before. A meeting of the Joint Commission on the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Deportment was held in Washington on the 29th ult No testimony was taken, but a resolution was adopted inviting the Secretaries of War and of the Interior and Gens. Sherman and Meigs and Commissioner Hayt to testify.

tmm east. Ox the 23d, the Pittsburgh pressed-glass workers, numbering 1,500 men and boys, were locked out because they declined to submit to a reduction of wages. The Vermont House Of Representatives, on the 25th, passed a joint resolution instructing the Congressmen from that State to use all honorable means to prevent the repeal of the Resumption yet Five lottery-ticket dealers were arrested in New York, on the 26th, on complaint of the public-school authorities, for sending lottery circulars through the mails to scholars in the public schools. They were held to bail in 81,000 each to answer. Mjlfleson, the Manager of the English Opera, in New York, has been arrested at the instance of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, for employing twenty-six little girls in ballet At the municipal election in Providence, R. L, on the 26th, Thomas -A. Doyle (Rep.) was re-elected Mayor, by a majority of 1,000 over four other candidates. Robert Heller, the well-known magician, died in Philadelphia, a few days ago, after a very brief illness. A Chinaman was recently naturalized in the Court of Common Pleas, New York City. It was stated in New York, on the 28th, that no trace had yet been discovered of the robbers of the Stewart tomb. A well-known ixjiice official said both the members of the police force and the detectives were growing weary of the fruitless search. The factory of the Wyoming Thread Company at Fall River, Mass., was burned on the morning of the 29th ult. Loss, 8100,000. Gold closed in New York, on Nov. 29th, at 100&. .The following were the dosing quotations for traduce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee, 99Xc®81-00. Oats, Western Mixed, 29@ 31c. Corn, Western Mixed, 46J< @4fc. Pork, Mess, 87.65. Lard, 86.10. Flour, Good to Choice, 84.1504.50; White Wheat Extra, 84.5505.25. Cattle, [email protected] tor Good to Extra. Sheep, 83.5005.50. Hogs, 83.1803.30. At East Liberty, Pa., on Nov. 29th, Cattle brought: Best, $46804.75; Medium, $4,250 4.50; Common, $3.3003.60. Hogs sold— Yorkers, $2.7002.80; 2 95. Sheep brought s3.OOo4.2‘>—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 29th, Cattle brought; Best, Medium, $3.0008.35. Hogs sold at $3.5004.12J< for Good. Sheep were quoted at $3.0004.25 for Good

wmr ai» south. Indictments have been returned .by the Grand Jury of the United States District Court at Chicago against ex-Bupervising Architect of the United States Treasury William A. Potter the present Architect, James G. Hill; Edward Burling, ex-Superintendent of the Cfastom House Building of Chicago; G. C. Pruning, Assistant do.; Mueller and Mills, contractors, and other parties, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government of large sums of moneys by furnishing an infe • rior quality of material for the construction of the Government buildings in Chicago. Nkw* was received in Ban Francisco, on the*36Ch, that the Columbia Bi ver Expedition sent out by Gen. Howard for the purpose of capturing the renegade Indians had been a complete success. The Indian camp had been surrounded in the John Day Valley, and the eiitira outfit captured. Eight of the principal Chiefs were ea raafr to Vancouver, and the rema'nder had been sent under escort to the Warm Springs Reservation. Judge Whitaker, of the Superior Criminal Court at New Orleans, on the 26th, charged the Grand Jury to inquire into the frauds alleged to have been perpetrated at the last elec tlo#. He said the Jury WBicorapoeed of members of all political parties, and they couM, as good citizens, make a diligent and impartial inquiry Into the frauds, and he pledged the .support of the Court and Iteofficemto asaial them. A XOVKO man named Frank Turner, * ed twenty years, called receptly at the bouse of Samuel Judd, about six miles from Williamstown, Ky., and invited Judd to drink from a bottle, battue latter declined, whereupon he waa ordered upon his knees, at the muzzle of a revolver, and while In that position, Turner deliberately cut Judd’s throat with a knife. IW Alabama Legislature, to Joint Conventtoq,on the 37th, elected Gov. George 8. Houston United States Senator. There were only two votes in the negative. Hkavt enow storms occurred st Louisville, and Cairo, IIL, en the 27th. s '

The total vpte soc -CoverHor la Kansas a> the late elpfeUon Was as fallows; fit Jotas (Ben.), Goodin (D»), 87,900; Mitch ell Greenback), 97,057. The vote on UM rematMerbf tha Mata ticket aggregates about the same. lx Chicago, on Nov. 29th, Spring Wheat Nt 9 closed at Me cash; 84c for December; 84%c fur January. Cash (torn closed at 81J<c for No. 2; 3Ut,c for December ;*V<e tor January.' Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 20J»'c, and 90)* c seller December. Rye No. 9,45 c. Barley No. 2,97J<«98c for cash, 98c for December. Cash Mem Pork doaed al 86.80. Lard, 85.75. Peeves —Extra brought 84.9504.50; Choice, 83.90 04.15; Good, 83.4003.75; Medium Grades, $8.0003.30; Buchers’ Stock, $9.3003.75; Stock Cattle, etc., $3.2502.65. Hogs—Good to Ultafce, $2.6002.96. Sheep—Poor to Choice, Mjniutt. ♦ roaires ntniintno. According to a Rome (Italy) dispatch of the 94th, the Government had proof of the existence of a vast association, whose object is the assassination of King Humbert. A Sophia (Bulgaria) telegram of the 24th says Information had just been received there that the Turkish redifs had lately massacred 830 of the Christian inhabitants of Chreanttra, In Macedonia. On the 23d, the British column operating from Quettah occupied, without resistance, the Afghan fort known as Sibl, due east from Dazar. Announcement was made, on the 24th, that The greater part of the garrison lately occupying Fort AH Musjid had been captured. In accordance with the provisions of the Berlin Treaty, the Bulgarian Assembly has been sunononed to meet at Timova, on the 37th of December, to prepare organic laws for the Province, and elect a reigning Prince.

Pbince Gobtschakopv, the Russian Premier, has again unconditionally tendered his resignation to the Czar. Russia and Roumania have arrived at an understanding in regard to the passage of Russian troops over Roumanian territory. A Lahore (India) telegram of the 25th says the most of the prisoners occupying Fort All Musjid had been released on parole. Over 10,900 cotton spinners at Oldham, Eng., have struck against the late reduction in wages. Over 100 mills have shut down. J. &J. Fbnton, bankers of Rochdale and Heywood, Eng., have failed for 82,500,000. The news from the Indian army received in London, on the 26th, was to the effect that Gen. Browne’s victorious column had reached a point 100 miles from Cabul, and that the hill tribes, which were expected to be hostile, or at least neutral, were giving in their adhesion to the British. Shere All’s forces seemed to be mainly engaged in the attempt to get out of the way. On the 24th, about midnight, the German steamer Pomerania, from New York for Hamburg, collided with the Welsh bark Noel Ellian, off Folkestone, in the Straits of Dover, and sank in about ten minutes. Of the 220 persons on board the ill-fated steamship, 170 were saved. At Pesth, Hungary, oa the night of the 26th, while Tisza, the Hungarian Prime Minister, was entertaining Count Andrassy, the Austrian Prime Minister, a bomb loaded with dynamite was exploded in an alley adjoining the ministerial palace. No one was killed, but the.palacc was badly shattered. Pbince Charles, of Roumania, has issued a proclamation declaring the annexation of the Dobrudscba, and proclaiming liberty and equality for Mohammedans and Christians. According to a semi-official announcement in the Vienna Political Correrpoxdence, on the 28th, Russia had decided to actively support the Ameer, in the event that England occupied any points in Afghanistan from which Russian supremacy in Asia might be substantially threatened. Henry Taylor & Sonß, grain and flour merchants, of London and Glasgow, have failed for $6,500,000. The Supreme Spanish Tribunal has condemned Moncasi, the would-be assassin of King Alphonso, to death. News was received in London, on the morning of the 27th, that another revolt had broken out in Kurdistan, and that a large military force had been sent to repress the revolt According to a Constantinople telegram of the 27th, trouble was Impending between Turkey and Persia, concerning the occupation, by the former Power, of the Province of Kbotoud. Persia had threatened hostilities unless the Turkish troops were removed and the Province surrendered.

At London, on the 28th, Lady Annie Louisa Gooch, who had been arrested on a charge of attempting to pass off a spurious child as the heir of her husband, was committed for trial. A Peshawvr telegram of the 29th uIL says that Gen. Browne’s communication* in the rear of Fort Alt Musjld had been cut by the Afghans, and that a serious attempt to force the pass between the fort and Jumrood had disastrously failed. > James Ramsay, a Dundee (Scotland) merchant, failed, on the 29th ult., for $400,000. The Porte has directed the withdrawal of the legation from Washington and suppressed many of the minor consulates. Since the conclusion of the war with Russia, Turkey has received twenty-nine vessel loads of rifles and cannon, mostly from the United States, so that her army is better armed than ever before. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lome, in their progress'through Canada, reached Montreal on the 29th uIL They were most enthusiastically received. The city was gorgeouslyulecorated and the uopuhur. demonstrations unprecedented. An address was presented by the municipality, to which the Marquis made appropriate reply. In the evening the city was splendidly illuminated.