Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

From Washington. In tkcnwof Um widow Maty &.* Ollvri aßaiiMt ex Senator Simon Cameron, for MO, MOdatMKO forbreaob of promlarof marriage, wMch came «p In Um Circuit Court in Waab laßtou, ou Um 17th, Um plaintiff testified that, ta Mr. Cameron proposed man iag< to her, and she accepted. Three letters frow I him were submitted, one o' them closing with Um sentence: “Too will be my wife.” Defendant did not come to the bouse where she Heed, as humid the people there dtJ not like It. She saw him quite often in Washington. Is the caucus of the House Republicans that resulted in the nomination of Mr. Garfield for Speaker, the following resolution was adopted: ffesateed. That it is the sense of this caucus that no teßuhatiou shall be entered upon during this Mssion of Onoanws other than that foi which the searion was specially called. Tux National House of Representatives was organised, on the 18th, by the re-election oi Mr. Randall as Speaker; Mr. Adams as Clerk; Mr. Thompson as Sergean teat-Arms; Mr. Field as Doorkeeper; Mr. Stewart as Postmaster, and Rev. Dr. Harrison as Chaplain Mr. Randall received 144 votes, the exact number required to elect. Tin following is the full text of the President's Message to Congress, sent in on the 19th: Fruow-Cmntxs or the Ren ate and House or RarusßKTanvnß: The failure of the last Connem So make the nquirite appropriations for Tnsialativti and jnawial purposes, for the iiipi asri of the several Executive Departments of the Government, and for the support of the army, has made ft necessary to oallaatsrion of the Forty-sixth Oosutshl Ihe eatimafee of the appropriations needed, which were sent to Congress bv the Secretary < f the Treasury at the opening of laM session, are renewed, and are herewith transmitted to both the Senate and House of Representatives. Regretting the existr enos of the emergency which requires a special arasion of Congress at a tone when it is the grneral Judgment of the country that public w. Ifare will be beat promoted by permanency in our Irgisiatinsi and by peace and rest. 1 commend .here few neoeasary measures to your conndernte Attention. (Signed) Rutherford B. Hayes. Washington. March 19.1879. At a caucus of Democratic Senators, held In Washington, on the 2Cth, Col. Burch, of Tennessee, was nominated for Secretary of the Senate, end R. J. Bright, of Indiana, for Sergeant-atiAnns. A General Court-Mabtial has been ordered for the tral of Col. D. 8- S'anley, of the Twenty-second I ifantry, and Col. Hazen, of the S.xth In.an try. __ Gbn. F. A. Walkeb was, on the 2Otb, nominated by the President to be Superintendent of the forthcoming Census. Ost the 90th, the National Executive Committee of the National Greenback party issued another address to the people o the United States, in which they statethat no dependence te to be placed in the professions of the avowed friends to the cause; that the hope for finan dal relief with n old party lines has been exl tinguisbed, and that they have been, in seversinstano s, misled by nominees of the party and others who obtained its support. It is only possible thn a new organ zat.'on to found a party which shall accom; Hsh the desired end. To succeed,-a-uniform effort must be ira le, and a position bold, aggressive, indepen lent and uncompromising must be taken. Notice was given, op the 20th, that the Uniteo 8 ates Treasury Department wou'd at once redeem the called bonds embraced tn the seventy-eight hto eightiet h calls, incl usive, paying interest to date o' redemption, or it would rede* m at once the bonds included in said calls, with interest to date of maturity, and apply the proceeds to the payment of any * sutsc ipt ion for 4-per-cent. consols. Tub joint Democratic caucus of both houses of Congress met on the 22d, and decided upon the “ modification” of the Election laws by repealing the provisions creating the office of Chief Supervisor, and those relating to the appointment of Deputy Marshals.

The modification further contemplates the appointment of one officer from each party who shall have no authority, but who shall be allowed to inspect and scrutinize th£ votinz lists, challenge voters, etc., and to have only powers of inspection and observation. It was also decided to repeal Sec. 5522, whieh prescibes penalties for interfering with Supervisors, ete. A motion also prevailed to send to the President these measures attached to the various Appropriation bills, as during the last Congress. No decision was reached in respect to general legislation. The East. The distribution of the net proceeds of the late pedestrian -contest in New York Isas follows, according to a dispatch of the 17th : Rowell, <21.500; Ennis, <12.300; Herriman, •8,500; O’Leary, •1,060. Weston, once an American pedestrian of some note, has, it i reported, chai engcd Rowell for the; osse c sion of the belt, the match to occur in London, beginning on the sth of May, and continuing six days. A scientific examination of the “sulphur” which fell in the shower over the Lehigh Valley, Pa., the other day, proves it to be the pollen from a species of pine brought by the wind from the Jersey forests. Surrogate Colvin, of New York City, on the 19th, rendered a decision affirming the vtlidity of will of the late Commodore Vi nderbilt. It was believed that the contestait would appeal. Ox the 19th, two men were Instantly ki led 'Snd four seriously injured by the premature explosion of dynamite in the Pottsville (Pa.) Colliery. Thi Republicans and Democrats of Rhode Island held their State Conventions at Provideoce on the 30th. The former renominated the present State officers, and the latter nominated Thomas W. Logan for Governor; J. D. Bailey for Lieutenant-Governor; Davis 8. Baker, Jr., for Becretary of State; Charles H. Psge for Attorney-GeneraL Bartholomew O’Donnell, eighty years of age, finished an eighty-mile walk in twentysix hours, at Brooklyn, N. Y., a few evenings •COThs following were the closing quotations tor produce in New York, on March S9d: No. 9 Chicago Spring Wheat, •LlO M LO6; No. 2 Milwaukee, <I.OO @ LOA Gate, Western Mixed. 81%@32c Corn, Western Mixed, 44X*45c. Pork Mess, [email protected] Lard, <6 61X06 65 Flour, Good to Choice, [email protected]; White Wheat Extra, »[email protected]. Cattle, 58 [email protected] for Good to Extra. Sheep, 54.75 @ 6 25. Ho**. 14 5004.75. At East Liberty, Pa., on March 23d, Cattle brought: Best, 55.2505.50; Medium, 54.500 5.00; Common, 588004.25. Hogs soldtorkers, M. 9004.00; Philadelphlas, <4.603 ♦ 75. Sheep brought [email protected] to quality. AT IsMmori, MA, on March 29d, Cattle brought; Best, 54.87X@'»75; Medium, •[email protected]. Hogs sold at for Good. Sheep were quoted at <4,[email protected] for Good. ' ,/s.' Went aud South. At a Baptist Church fa B»ltlmore, MA, a few nights ago, M m Louisa Donaldson, while assisting to baptise a lady, suddenly expired, ft was tboqght death was caused by heart A HOOT* near Ponca, D. T., was destroyed by fire • few days ago, and Mrs. Bigley, nfasty years old, waa burned to daath.

A three-cornered shooting affray occurred at Vicksburg, Mita., on the evening of the |Bth, which resulted in the Instant death of CapL W. H. Andrews and W tj L. Greene. *Bd the fatal wounding of UapL W. F. Fitzgerald. The difficulty arose over an election of officers of the Hibernian Society. Rbv. Db. DbKovbn, of Racine, W'a., a distinguished Epiacoital divine, died, on th* 19th, Tom apoplexy of the heart. Dr. DeKoven was once elected Bishop of the Diocese of 1 lit note by the Diocesan convention, but the Standing Committees refused to confirm the choice. A telegram from Santa Anna, Southern California, of the 20th, states that a man whom Dennis Kearney had severely traduced in a speech, alter waiting until the speech was finished, gave the orator an unmerciful beating. The Southern Bank of New Orleans, the oldest bank in the city, failed a few days aid, and was placed in the hands of Receivers. The deficiency Is stated to be 9700.000. The Mechanics' and Traders' Banti-followed suit, and ■s soon as the news got abroad a panic ensued, and a run was precipitated, directed mainly against the Canal, Louisiana State, Germania, Union and People’s Batiks. Oh the 20tb, the Clearing-House, as a measure tending to allay the excitement, adopted a resolution declaiitig that until March 29 no depositor should check out more than 9200 in one day, an<f that all other drafts should be paid in certifli d checks. -The following is a list of banks who** temporary suspension was announced, on the 20th: Germania, Hibernia, Louisiana, Mutual, New Orleans, Stite »ni Vn on National Banks, Bank of LaFayctte, Citizens’ Bank of Louiriana, Citizens’ Savings Bank, Louisiana Savings Barß, Metropolitan Bank, New Orleans Canal and Banking Company, People’s and Workingmen’s Banks.

Is a recent letter to the public, Archbishop Pu'cell, of the Diocese of Cincinnati, narrates the causes which led to bls present pecuniary embarrassment; gives in detail his expenditures on behalf of the Diocese, which he says should have lieen tome by the members of the churches, and dec ares that but ior the generous sympathy of Catholics and I’roustents alike he would have suuK under the weight of h s troubhs. lie makes an appeal to all Catholics and others who feel lor others’ woes to help him out of bis embar-•'ra-smeuts. A not t one hundred Democrats audtlrtrtyfour Reoubl can ■> and Indi pendents have been elected to the Louisiana Slate Constitutional Convention. The Memphis (Tenn.) and Woolen Mills were struck by lightning, ou the morning of the 22J, and entirely destroyed. Lo-s, 49J,00J. By this disaster 15J persons are turown out of employment. A man caught robbing a store at Jamestown, Ky., a lew nights ago, was shot dead by the proprietor, who had been aroused by the noise made by the robber. Fifteen buckshot penetrated the body of the bur K lir. A. Hr ard, the paying teller of the Mechanics’ & Traders’ Bank of New Orleans, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver, on the morning of the 21st. The money u the vaults of the bank was about being counted by a civil officer, and Huard, being a defaulter in a large amount, it is thought .tie committed self-destruction to avoid the consequences or detection. Information was received in Washington, on the £2d, from Cob Walsh, who is in command ot the mounted police on the Dako a frontier, reporting that Sitting Bull and his wa-riors were showing a very ugly and insubordinate disposition. They bad as yet made no movement toward the boundary line, but serious trouble was apprehended as soon as spring should open. Col. Walsh estimated the strength of Sitting Bull’s band at 7,000, all told, ot whom -2,500 were warriors, well armed and equipped. Gen. Sherman deeded to take active measures, by the forwarding ot troops, etc., to guard against the apprehended raid of the Indians across the frontier, and a pos-ible attack upon Forts Stephenson, Buford and Totten.

A bill has been introduced in the Illinois House of Representatives to annex the City of St Louis to the State rs lll.nois. In Chicago, on March 22d, Spring Wheat N x 2 - closed at 90X@91e cash; 89Xc for April; 94 @ 94Xc fur May. Casti Corn closed at 34,X C for No. 2; 32c for April; for May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 23%c, and 253*c seller May. Rye Na 2,45 c. Barley No. 2, 74&@75c for cash; 73%@74c for April. Cash Mess Pork closed at [email protected] Lard, 56.47 X Beeves —Extra brought 54.9905,25; Choice, 54.50 @4.91; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, <3.75@415; Butchers’ Stock, 52.65(33.91; Stock Cattle, etc., 52.60(33 90. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice 54.0005.85.

Foreiern Intelligence. 8’ According to London dispatches of the 17th, it was not true that Col. Pearson had defeated the Zulus, at Ekowe, with great slaughter, as nad been previously reported. The Zulus spread the report themselves to prevent the sending of reinforcements. The Orange Free State Government had 1 refused to aid, or permit its citizens to aid, the British against the Zulus. It was reported in Berlin, on the 17th, that the Government contemplated proclaiming a state of siege in Berlin in consequence of the Socialist agitation. The Reichstag took cognizance of the report, and there was great agitation and violent debates. 'Count von" Eulenburg stated that Bismarck and the Emperor had lately received letters threatening assassination, and infernal machines had been discovered in Berlin.

The Village of Vernet, near Vichy, France, containing 100 houses, was wholly destroyed by fire on the 17th. Ox the 18th, the French Minister of Finance pai 1 to the Bank of France 65,000,(00 francs, the last installment of the milliard borrowed during the Franco German War. A bill has been introduced in the French Assembly whose avowed aim is the exclusion of the Jesuits from the right of teaching. A St Petersburg dispatch of the 18th says that Russia bad notified Turkey that she pro posed to leave troops south of the Balkans, until she was guaranteed that the payment of the war indemnity would not be prejudiced by the terms of the projected Turkish loan. ; Wacthiee, the Belgian explorer, died, some time ago, in Central Africa, of dysentery. Dispatches from Vienna of the 19th say many avalanches had recently occurred in the Austrian Tyrol. At Blelbcrg, ten houses had been crushed, forty persons killed, eighteen seriously hurt and fifteen missing. A Havana (Cuba) telegram of the 19th reports (hat during her last trip to the West Indies, the British steamer Bolivar ran down and sank the Hayti en stesmer Michael. Sixty persons on board the latter perished. London telegrams of the 26th say that Schmidt, the Financial Director of Eastern Roumelia, while on a recent'tour through the country, was mobbed b ? the Roumelians, and forced to call upon the Russian troops for protection. This incident has revived the proposition for a mixed .occupation of the country alter-the departure of the Russian forces. The Wigan Rolling Mills, the largest manufacturing concernJn_ Lancashire, has suspended. The Spanish Government has proclaimed a state of siege in the Basque Provinces during the elections. Pinto, the Portuguese explorer, who lately crossed that, he ha* saved, all bls papers, charts and field notes, and a diary of his explorations of the Upper Zambesi with its seventy-two cataracts,

Tub appearance of pleuro-pneumonia in a herd of cattle shipped from Chicago io Liverpod is d< nt din a London dispatch of the 21 at. The rep rt waa instigated, it te said, by Canadian operator*. Oxthe Mat, the German Re.chatag adopted, without debate, a motion to suspend nroce< d Inga against the Socialist Deputy Fritzsche, during the Parliamentary aetslon. The French floating battery Arrogant* re-" ccntiv foundered off Hyeres. Of the 122 person* on board, furty-teven were drowned. Qveknei. Bhoh ,of Havre, failed, on the 21st, for 2,000,(XX) francs. , A Paris telegram of the 22d says the expenses of the International Exposition were 55.000,000 francs and the receipts 30,000,000 frahes. A Case Town (South Africa) dispatch, received on the 22d, says the Molraora tribe had rebelled against the British authority. A I.ATE arrival from Yokohama reports the continued depreciation of the paper currency of the Empire. Japan had threatened to make the Loo Choo Island* a dependency of the Empire. According to Madrid dispatches of the 23d, SenorCastclar and 103 former Deputies of the Cortet had issue 1 a manlfes'o to the Democratic party in Spain, announcing as their program tie a sincere return to the Constitution of 1807; universal suffrage; the inviolability of Spanish territo.y; payment of interest on the public debt; religious and educational liberty; freedom of the press, etc. A telegram from Calcutta, received on the 23d, reports that complete anarchy prevailed in Mandalay.

CoiigreKbional Proceedings. The Forty-sixth Congress assembled in special se sion on the 18. h. At noon the VicePresident called the Senate to order, and, after prayer, the President's Proclamation convening the extra neosion was read .. .The Senatore-elect were then sworn in. at ter which tne credentials of Mr. Bell, of New Hampshire, who was appointed bv the Governor to fill the vacancy, were, submitted. Mr. Wallace moved to lay the credentials on the table for one day. but withdrew the motion temporarily to allow Mr. Itol tins to make a statement of the facts in the cane. The question involved is the right of a Governor to appoint a Senator, the vacancy being caused by neglect of the Legislature, and not because of death or resignation Mr. Rollins cited precedent* with a view to showing that Mr. Bell should he admitted but Mr. Wallace's motion »a» renewed and carried.... Mr. Thurman offered th-- formal resolution to wait upon the President ard House of Kepresentatives. Clerk Adam* called the House to order and read the President’s Proclamation.... Ihe rollcall was then completed. 285 members responding to their names... The Clerk gave Mr. Hull I Dem.l. of Florida, a seat, and allowed the lowa delegation to come in. his position in bothe men being that a Governor's certificate and the seal of the State gave the bolder a p>ima fne'e right to seats... Nominations for Speaker were then made, and Mr. liandall waa re-elected on the first ballot, the vote being: Banda) 11 Dem.), 141; Garfield ißep.i. 125; Wright (Greenback'. 18. and Kelley, 1... Mr. Bandall made a brief address on resuming the Speaker’s chair, and took the oath of office, an<i administered the same to the mem- 1 ben, objection being made to the swearing in of Mr. Hull, of Florida.... The foltowing officers were then re-elected: Clerk, Adams; Sergeant-at-Arms. Thompson: Dixirkeeper. Field; Postmaster. Stewart; Chaplain, Bev. W. P. Harrison. . Seat* were then drawn for, and the House adjourned. A number of bills were introduced in the Senate, on the 19th. among them being the following: To reorganize the army; to remove all political disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment; to repeal the act of July, 1862, requiring the test oath; authorizing the local taxation of legal-tender Treasury notes; joint resolution providing for the enforcement of the Eight-Hour law.. .Mr. Edmunds offered a resolution, which was objected to and laid over, that all bills and joint resolutions except those making appropriations for the support of the army and for the Legislative. Executive and Judicial expenses of the Government, shall be referred to appropriate committees and not be reported until the next (December) session A memorial of a number of the members of the Kansas Legislature was pre-ented and referred, asserting that the election of Sei'Htor Ingalls was secured by bribery and corruption, and a-king toe Senate for a full opportunity to offer proof of tne assertion... The credentials of Mr. Bell as Senator from N' w Hampshire were, <>n motion of Mr. Wallace, referred to th- Judiciary Comm ttee... .The President’s Message was received, read and referred. . _»r

In the House, after considerable discussion of the Florida contested-election case, the resolution that Mr. Hull be sworn in was adop'ed—l4o to 136-and he took the modified oath.... The Committee on Rules was announced as follows: The Speaker and Messrs. Stephens, Blackburn. Garfield and Frye.... The President’s Message was read and referred. After prayer and reading of the journal, on the 20th, the Senate adjourned until the 21st. Jn the House, the petition of citizens of Cincinnati in relation to the election of Meters. Butterworth amt Young was called up and the whole matter was referred to a select committee. with leave to sit during the recess. The same committee was also authorized to inquire into the operation of the Supervisors’ law in Cincinnati at the last election. Messrs. Butterworth and Young declared themselves heartily in favor of this action. A large namber of bills were introduced in the Senate, on the 21st, among which, were the following: To repeal so much of the Revised Statutes as prohibits the appointment to the army of any person engaged in the late Rebellion; providing for the organization of the hlihsissippi River Improvement Commission, the deepening of the channel of the river, and the protection of alluvial lands; aut orizing. the purchase of foreign-built ships by citizens of the United S ates: providing for retiring the tradedol'ar and its lecoina.-e into the standard silver dollar; io equal ze bounties of soldiers, sailors and marines of the late War for the Union.... A joint resolution was submitted, proposing an amendment to the Cons: itntion, giving the President power to except, in his approval of bills, either items of appropriation or special legislation. giving his r< asons to Congress -the items so disapproved to be treated as in the case of a veto.. ■. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution, which was objected to. and vyent over, condemning as unconstitutional and insurrectionary the attempt of one bouse to make the passage of Appropriation bills conditional on the consent of the other house and of the President to provisions they do not approve.... Mr. Edmunds called up his resolution proposing to confine tbe business of the session to the object for which it was called, and it was laid on the table, by a strict party vote—3s to 23 After an Executive session, and the referring of the .President's nominations to appropriate committees, an adjournment was had to the 2lth. A resolution was offered in the House, and referred increasing the membership of tbe Committee on Elections from eleven to nineteen.... Objection was made to the reference of several bills, after which the Honse adjourned to the 25th.