Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

Ho*. Jobm*Casry. family ildefJuaUt* of the Oottrt of UUUas, AM at Washington, MUm HWI He tea* appointed by PreeWent On the eronln* of the Utb, the Republican United State*Senator* held*caucus, at which, It waa a creed to leetat to the uunoal limit the ilatat mlintinii of the Howe to tocorporate in tha variotM Appropriation btlla anything like B«C*t Siiutit, on the 12th, Issued another eal] for the redemption of &*> bonds. The rnn called tar la *80,000,000, interest and principal parable on the 18th of May. Sncfr Banana* sent a letter to the National Honan of . Representative*, on the 13U>, lu which he state# that the estimate of expenditurea fur the next Been! year amounts to The estimated receipt# are: Frame—loans, ♦188,000,000;Internal revenues, $108,000,000; miscellaneous sources, 813.500,000; total receipts, 8857,500,000-lea Ting a deficiency of *27,061,418. O* the 14th. the Freeldent nominated H. C. Bure hard, present Member of Congress from the Fifth Illinois District, to be Director of United States Mints, In place of Dr. Llndermann, deceased. Tan President has approved the bill allowing women to practice before the Supreme Court. ______ <—lift The East.. O* the 10th. at Troy, N. T„ G. F. Simmons, erased tty the elopement of his wife, poisoned hia throe children, and then cut his own throat. Ok the evening of the 13th, the New York Tattenails was entirely destroyed by fire. Of the eighty hones stabled there, over sixty perished. Tax New York Court of Appeals has overnded the ruling of the lower Coart that convicted Dr. T. 8. Lambert, President of the American Popular Life Insurance Company, and has ordered a new trial. Dr. Lambert was convicted of perjury In making an alleged fraudulent affidavit to the company's annual statement.

A meeting was held at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 14th, participated in by Bishops Peck and Huntington. Chancellor Haven and other wcUknowo Methodist clergymen and laymen, at which It was resolved to take measures for the suppression of the Oneida Community. As eleTeu-yeae-old boy (Willie Zeizler) committed suicide In Philadelphia, on the 13th, by hanging himself in the cellar. He lived with his grandmother, who was away from home at the time the deed was committed. The reason assigned for the suicide is a disturbance of mental balance, caused by reading religious books. Fiscs the death of L. H. Conklin, late County Treasurer of Oewego County, N. Y., hia accounts have been investigated, and a shortage discovered of over 1133,000. At Somerville,Me., a few days ago, Ephraim Hysverand wife left home to do some trading, leaving their three children, aged four years, two and a half years, and eight months, alone In the boose. By some means the building caught fire, and, with its contents, was destroyed, the throe children perishing in the flames. About a year before another child of the same parents was burned to death. Thx following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on Feb 15th: No. Z CUcagoßpringWheat.Bl.UßXai.o3; No.3Milwaukee, 81.023tfi1.03. Oats, Western Mixed, 81033 c. Corn, Western Mixed, 46>{0 47c. i Pork, Mess, 88.85® 10.00. Lard, 86.80. Flour, Good to Choice, 83.9X84.50; White Wheat Extra, 84.55(85.25. Cattle, IS 25® 10.25 for Good to Extra. Sheep, 84.50® 5.73. Hogs, 84.»>®4.30. At East Liberty, Pa., on Feb. 15th, Cattle brought: Best, *5.25®5-50; Medium, 84.75 05.00; Common, 83.6004.25. Hogs sold— Yorkers, 84.00®4.10; Philadelphia*, $4-3u@ 4.50. Sheep brought 83.4005.10—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 15th, Cattle brought: Beet, 85.00 @ 5.25; Medium, 13.5004.00. Hogs sold at 85.0005.75 for Good. Sheep were quoted at 84.0005.25 tor Good.

West aud South. Hox. Isaac P. Christiaxct, United States Senator from Michigan, placed bis resignation in the bands of Gov. Croewell on the 10th. Tax Inquire into the conduct of Maj. Reno, at the battle of Little Big Horn River, in the summer of 187 ft, which had been in progress at Chicago for four weeks previous, was concluded on the morning of the 11th. The decision will not be made public until approved or disapproved by the military authorities at Washington. The officials of the Ohio A Mississippi Railroad deny the report that trains were tietained at Flora, 11L, on a recent Sunday, on account of the enforcement of the State Sunday laws. They say the dispatch to that effect originated with some misinformed or evilly-disposed person. A terrible accident occurred at Kansas City, Mo., on the 11th. The walls of a cut being made there for the Chicago & Alton Kail road caved in, and four teams and about forty men Were buried under 6,000 yards of falling earth. 81x persons were killed outright, and several others were wounded. The Michigan Democratic State Convention has been called to meet at Lansing, on the 28th of February; the Greenback Convention at the same time and place, and the Republican Convention at the same plate, on the 6th of March. William B. Fleming has been elected to Congress from the First Georgia District, to succeed the late Julian Hartridge. The Missouri Court of Appeals has decided, to restrain the Be Louis School Board from permitting the teaching of foreign languages and the ornamental branches in the labile schools of that city, that the whole matter is in the hands of the Legislature, and that court# have no power in the premises. A National Conference of colored citizens will be held at Nashville, Term., on the 6th of May. The object of the gathering is said to be “to consider the situation of the colored people in the South in respect to the enjoyment of life, liberty and property ; also their educational, moral, social and political condition, and the question of emigration.’’ P. B. & Pinch back (colored), who failed to secure a seat In the United States Senate, has accepted the position of Revenue Agent in the Louisiana District Zachakiah Chandler was nominated for United States Senator, to succeed i»— p. Christlancy, by the Republicans of the Michigan Legislature, on the evening of the 13th. Tub late reports of the reappearance of the yellow fever $t various points in the South are emphatically denied by dispatches from Louiivtlie and New Orleans. While doing a trapeze act, in a Detroit theater, on .the evening of the 13th, Marie Azurine lost her graap upon the bar, and fell headlong, a distance of thirty feet, into the proscenium. The result w*s a broken ribs, and fata!-tn-At Baltimore, Md., on the IMb, five Jndg< s of Elections were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment, for interfering with the Uriied

States Supervisor at the rocent Congressional election iu that city. AT New Orleans) fp the 15th, the United States District Attorney presented thirty-two additional tadlciiusbta, involving 100 arrests, for violatttai Of tbs Elect** law In the Parishes of Caddo, Tanas, Rapides and Natchitoches. A Mxoup named Sam Hall is lying in the County Jsil at Columbus, Ohio, convicted, on circumstantial evidence solely, of the murder of a man named Holmes, In 1876, artd senteuced to be hung therefor, Hall says that he waa in the State Penitentiary for horsestealing from 1872 to 1877, escaping in the latter year, and consequently could not have committed the murder. Investigation has shown his story true, and be will not, of course, be executed. Had he not been in prison at the time of the murder be would be hung for a crime be did not commit. A tike broke ont fn the Soldiers’ Orphans' Home, near Xenia, Ohio, on the morning of the lAlh. There were 600 children in the Home at the time, and many narrow escapes are reported. The building was entirely destroyed, the teachers and officials losing all their personal effects. The loss to the State Is about 875,000; no insurance. lx Chicago, on Feb. 15th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 90X®»lc cash; 91 91 Xc for March. Cash Corn closed at 33c' for No. 2; 83t*e for March; 87%c for May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 21Xc*. 25c seller March; 25c for May. Kye No. 2,45 c. Barley No. 2, 77X078c lor cash; 77X<&VSc for March. Cash Mess Pork closed at 89.6509.70. Lard, 86.70. Beeves —Extra brought 85-10®5.5J; Choice, 84.75 ®5.00; Good, |[email protected]; Medium Grades, 83.75®4.00; Butchers' BUK:k, 82.65®3 50; Stock Cattle, etc., 82.6008.60. Hogs—Good to Choice, 83.6004.10. Sheep—Poor to Choice, 83.5005.00.

Foreign Intelligence. According to advices from the Interior of RomU, received In 8t- Petersburg on the 10th, general unheallhlnessand predisposition to epidemic existed. The small-pox, typhus fever, si otted fever ami plague were making sad havoc »t Tver, Orsk, Kelff, Tambov and Rostov. The cattle plague had also appeared at Ekatermoelav aud twenty-seven adjacent villages. Of 2,500 bead attacked, more than half had perished. Dbuibcque, the Director of the French Mint, baa been sentenced to six years' imprisonment and to pay a line of 125.900,000 franca for embezzling 1,400,000 francs in bullion, lodged in the mint by the Rothschilds. Delbecque substituted galvanized copper bars for the silver abstracted. Advices from Cape Town, South Africa, received on the 10th, report that a British force, consisting of a portion of the Twentyfourth Regimeut, a battery of artillery and 000 native auxiliaries, had been utterly annihilated near the Zugela River by 20,000 Zulus. The latter captured 102 wagons, 1,000 oxen and an immeuse quantity of provisions and ammunition. During the battle the Zulus lost 5,000 men. Among the killed were forty British officers. In consequence of the disaster. the British forces had been compelled to recross tbe border. . It was the Ameer of Bokhara, who recently died, and not Shere All, as reported. The British Ministry has directed that 10,000 men be sent to reinforce the troops operating in 86uth Africa. According to a Liverpool telegram of the 11th, the Privy Council had directed that, on and alter March 3, all cattle arriving from the United States must be slaughtered in the abattoirs ou the docks at Birkenhead and Liverpool, within ten days alter landing. Os the 11th, the- President of the Italian Board of Health predicted that if the plague penetrated Europe one-third of the population would perish. The Emperor opened the German Reichstag, on the 12th, with a speech from the throne, delivered in person. Russia has notified Roumanla that she will not permit the quarantine of eoldiers returning from Turkey. According to a Tangier (Morocco) dispatch, published on the 12th, the Governor of Fez had been forced to take refuse in a mosque to escapd 1 the violence of tbe'populace, who bad risen against him. The Sultan had suffered an attack of paralysis, and anarchy reigned throughout the Empire. • At Liverpool, on the 13th, over 40,000 docklaborers and other workmen held a public meeting to discuss tbe question of wages. There was grest excitement, but no violence. llKNgif Goodyear, the well-known American India-rubber manufacturer, died In Paris, on the 13th.

A dispatch from the Cape of Good Hope, published in the Manchester (Sag. ) Vtuirdian on the 13th, states that the native levies serving with the British, bad risen en ww, massacred their officers aud deserted in a body to the Zulus. Up to the evening of the 13th. the British Colonial Office had received no confirmation of the report. Ex-President Grant and party reached Bombay, on the 13th. The British Parliament reassembled, on the afternoon of the 13th. According to advices of the 14th, all Italy appeared to tc panic-stricken through fear of the advent of the plague. The line of steamers running to Egyptian ports had been discontinued, and the importation of Kgyptlafi cotton prohibited. - On the 14 th, the pi sene was reported to have appeared in Bessarabia. The weather, in some portions of Canada, on the 14th, was the coldest of the seasou. At Ottawa, the thermometer indicated 21 deg. below zero, and in several localities the met' enry was frozen. The favorite Swiss tourists’ resorts, Meyrlngen. Hansen, Btcln and Eisenbolgen, were recently destroyed by fire. Thousands of people were rendered homeless. The announcement of the death of the King of Corea was made on the lath. A Constantinople telegram of the 15th rays the Powers had decided that Roumanla had an unquestionable right to hold Arabtabla. Tux .Cabinet crisis in . Vienna -has been settled by the appointment of Dr. StTeffiaj-er as Premier. The spotted typhus fever was said to be Increasing in virulence at Salonica. on the 15th. A severe storm visited the Coast of Galicia, on the 14th and 15tb. Two vessels Weft blown ashore and tWcfitV-elght persons drowned.

Congressional Proceedings. The credentials of Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, were placed on file in the Senate. on the 10th.... A bill was introduced and referred, authorizing the conversion of National gold bonds.... The House bill authorizing an issue of certificates of deposit of the denomination of ten dollars, inaiaof the refunding of the public debt, was passed, with an amendment increasing the interest to 4 per cent-. ■- A petition of the Catholic Young Men s National Union was P,v?*ente<i and referred, protesting against an alleged discrimination m the appointment of Army Chaplains and Indian Agents, whereby (whose soldiers, seamen and Indians are deprived of the benefit of their religion, and art: pftced in the charge of denominations in which they hare no interest or confidence... . Mr. MoUreenr spoke in favor of the transfer of the Indian Bnrean to the War Department .. .A resolution was agreed to instructing the Committee on Agriculture to consider what can or ought to be done by the General Government to better advance, encourage and foater agricultural inBills were introduced in the House—to restore the franking privilege as to letters sent or reoeived by Member* of Congress; to abolish the mileage of Members of Congress, and to sulweibill repealing the law in regard to the test oath of Jurors. and also the law lor the appointment ana payment of Supervisors of Election and their aids, were rejected—yeas. 126; nays, 118; not two-thirds in the affirmative.... A motion ws» also defeated—yean. 3a; nays, 1 -f-to suspend I -v >' J

Um rules apd pass tbe bill to establish postal savings banks Tbr Legislative. Kxautiveand Judicial Appropriation bill 1516.1 M 478) was oonfidered in Committee of the Whole. • Several bills were reported In the Senate, on the 11th. among them being tbe Potaoffice Appropriation bill, with amendmeuts . .. Tbe Conference report on tbr Naval Appropriation bill was agreed U.jsnd tbe bill was passed, appropriating tit,029,968. being 8128.624 less than toe appropriation for the present bscal year, and 8167,412 less than tbe estimates for the next year. ... .A number of hills were passed for the removal of political disabilities. la tbe House, the Conference report on the Naval Appropriation bill was agreed to ...The Legislative Appropriation bill waa farther debated in Committee of the Whole The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was reported from the Committee on Commerce, ordered printed and recommitted. - ’ \ In the,Sen ate, on the 12th, a resolution was adopted providing for tbe appointment of a select committee to inquire into the circumstances attending the recent evoape of the Cheyenne Indiana from Fort ltobinnon, their subsriiuept slaughter, etc.... The House bin to restrict the immigration of Chinese to the United States was taken up, so that it should be unfinished business on the 14th. The Conference report on the bill to abolish the volunteer navy wna agreed to in the House ... .The testimony taken by tbe Judiciary Committee in the matter of Jndga Blodgett, of Chicago. waa ordered printed The legislative. Judicial and Executive Appropriation hill was farther considered- in Committee of the Whole, and some proposed amendments were disposed of. Mr. Kellogg introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 13th, to necore tbe completion of a line of railway from San Antonio. Tex., to a point at or near K 1 Paso, on the ltio Grande.... Tbe House bill to restrict the immigration of Chinese waa taken up. arid Memrs. Sargent and Grover advocated its paswigc. and Mr. Matthews spoke against it. Mr. Blaine then took the door, but yielded to Mr. Hamlin, who said he knew there waa a majority to pass the bill, but he asked that the minoritv be triated decently, and moved to adjourn, which motion prevailed—23 to 23. In the Honae, the Legislative Appropriation bill was farther considered in Committee of tbe Whole, after which the session was devoted to memorial services of the late Julian Haitridge. A letter was received from tbe Secretary of the Treasury, and referred, stating that there will probably lie a deficit in tbe revenues of the Government during the next fiscal year of 827.041,0'41. and asking authority to issue 4-per-cent, bonds to cover such deficiency.

In the Senate, on the 14th, the credentials of Benators-elect Jonas (La.), Groome (Md.) and Vance !N. C.) were placed on file. .. A hill was introduced and referred to amend the Pension laws, and punish claim agents for a violation thereof.... l'he bill to restrict Chinese immigration wna taken up, ami Messrs, Blaine, Matthews, Thurman and Jones advocated such restriction. .Several amendments were submitted, and Mr. Hamlin obtained the floor and began an argument against the proposed measure. A number of bills were passed in the Honse donating condemned cannon for monuments. . . . A bill was reported and referred to the Committee of the Whole anti adzing tbe President to appoint Gen. James Wnietds as BrigadierGeneml on tbe retired list, such appointment being in lieu of the pension which be' now receives. .. An exciting debate occurred, in Committee of the Whole, on the question of war claims. Mr. Hamlin, in the Senate on the 15th, continued bis argument against the Chinese Immigration bill, and, after remarks by other Senators, an amendment waa agreed to providing that the bill should not apply to persons who may only seek temporary residence for educational purpose*, and whu shall have a certificate from the Chinese Government for that purpose. Other amendments were agreed to, and the bill was finally passed-39 to 27—as follows: Veat— Allison. Bailey. Bayard. Beck. Blaine, Boojh, Cameron (Pa.), Coke, Dennis, Dorsey, Eaton, Eustis. Garland, Gordon, Grover, Hereford, Jones (Nev ), Kirkwood, Lamar, McDonald, McPdersbn, Maxey, Mitchell, Morgan, Oglesby, Paddock. Patterson. Plumb, Hansom, Sargent. Bandars, Sharon, Shields, Spencer, Teller, Thurman, Voorhees. Wallace, Windom—39. Nayt— Anthony, Bruce. Burnside, Butler, Cameron (Wis.), Conkling, Conover, Davis (111.). Davis (W. Va.), Dawes, Edmonds. Ferry; Hamlin, Hill, Hoar. Howe, Ingalls. Jones, (Fla.). Kellogg, Kernan. McCreery, McMillan, Matthews, Memrnon, Morril 1 , Randolph, Withers 27. Messrs. Barnum and Chaffee, who would have voted in the affirmative, were paired with Messrs, ltollins and Wadleigh. In the House, tbe Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was taken up in Committee of the Whole, and announcement was made from the Committee on appropriations that a bill would tie reported in a few days to pay the arrearages of pensions. Several proposed amendments were disposed of ...Tne 1 deficiency Appropriation bill w>*s reported, ordered printed and recommittedi