Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

From Washington. There were newly 1.400 new bills IntroIn the Natlousl House of Representatives, on the Site, assay of them relating to (HTtoiwui. on the 81st, Issued the ntnstT ninth mil f~~ the redemption of bonds ■jm. —n ■■— ttr tBS.SeO.3OO of 10-40 bonds of 1864. Principal end Interest will be paid on and after July 81, Interest to Cease on that gnc’T Brisin has ordered a revenue etnsmtr to proceed to Alaska for the protection of the Government Interest* In that Territory. Oh the 2M, the Bret Treasury warrant for the payment of arrears of pensions wss signed in Washington. It was thought back pensions could be paid as rapidly as the accounts could be made up. or at the rate of 61,500,000 a month, unless unexpected appropriations are hereafter made by Congress. Tun Secretary of the Treasury, on the 33d, leanod a call for the balance of the loan of 5-per-oeota, amounting to 6360,000. Thane bonds ore registered bonds, and can be exchanged for 4-per-oenta at par, or paid at maturity on the 33d of duly. The following have been named as the ExecutteMtOommlttee of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee: Representative Hubbell, of Michigan, Chairman; Senator Allison, of lows; Senator Rollins, of New Hampshire; Representatives Hiscock, of New York; Fisher, of Pennsylvania; Jorgenson, of ’Virginia; Davis, of Illinois; McKinley, of Ohio; Orth, of Indians; DunneU,of Minnesota. A Washington dispatch of the 34th says the Secret Service of the Government had come Into possession of what la said to be s most remarkable counterfeit twenty-dollar Untied States legs 1-tender note, and Is calculated to deceive even persons accustomed to handling notes of that denomination. Wbat makes It more remarkable is the fact that the work on the note is executed with a pen and ink. All the intricate figures and curves, all the heads, the seal, the fine engraving work, and even the fiber In the paper, are almost perfectly counterfeited by the pen and Ink. The signature of John Allison, formerly Register of the Treasury, Is almost exact, while that of John C. formerly Treasurer, Is perfect. The who!? bill, back and face, Is pronounced a wonderful piece of pen-work. It wss detected at the Bub-Treasory In New (Meant. Tup Army Appropriation bill was passed by the United States Senate, on the 25th, with the political legislation salt came from the House, by the following vote: Torn— Bailer, Bayard, Beck, Butler. Call, Cockrell, Coke. Davis (ill.), Eaton, Farley, Garland. Gordon. Groome, Grow. Hampton, Harifuw— Allison, Anthony, BelL Blaine, Booth. Brae. Burnside,Cameron(PadtOameron(Wisd. irons (Nev.). Kellogg, Kirkwood, Logan. MoMillan. Morrill. Paddock, Platt, Plumb.Ttollina, Davis (W. Va.) was paired with Windom, and Hoar with McPherson. On the 25th, Col. William M. Lowe, an exConfederate officer from Alabama, and the National Member of Congress from the Eighth District In that State, challenged Gen. John A Lpgan, Senator from Illinois, to fight a duel In accordance with the provisions of the code. The former bad charged Senator Logan with raising troops for the Confederate service during the earlier periods of the wsr, and this charge the Senator characterized as a lie. Tuu lower House of Congress, on the 36th, passed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, with the political legislation relative to Supervisors of Election, etc., by s vote of 140 to 119. All the Republicans voted In the negative. All the Greenback ere, except Barlow (Vt.) and Kelley (Pa.) voted with the Democrats for the bill. President Hates has issued a proclamation warning all persons contemplating a forcible settlement upon lands In the Indian Territory, that all so taking possession of such lands, without permission of the proper agent of the Indian Department, will be at once removed therefrom, according to the laws, and with military force, if necessary. The East. Gen. John A. Dix died in New York, on the night of the 21st. He was. eighty-one years of age, and had been in failing health for some time. At Penobscott, Pa., on the night of the 33d, three children were burned to death by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp in their sleeping-room. Oh the morning of the 23d, the roof of s mine belonging to the Wilksbarre Coal and Iron Company near WQkesbarte, Pa., fell In, imprisoning five miners who were at work in the chambers at the bottom of the slope, and also crushing two boys who were sent in the, mine to warn the men of their danger. It was thought the men could not be reached before life would be extinct At a mass meeting of the citizens of New York City, at Cooper Institute Hall, on the night of the 23d, to consider the negro exodus from the South, letters were read from Wendell Phillips, Wm. Lloyd Garrison and others. Resolutions of sympathy for the colored people, who were leaving the South for Kansas, were adopted, and liberal subscriptions made. On the 23d, the New York Senate, by a vote of 17 to 10, passed the Assembly resolution tendering to ex-President Grant the hospitalities of the State of New York, and also adopted a resolution—23 to 4—for the appointment of a joint committee of both houses of the Legislature to attend the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Bepnblic at Albany, on the 17th and 18th of June next Chaeijs H. Hartwell, conductor on the Old Colony Railroad, charged with manslaughter in cawing the accident at Wollaston, Mass., some time ago, was found guilty, on the 24th. , ’ Six men, named Charles Drews, Frank Steictaler, Henry Wise, Josiah Hummel, Israel Brandt and George Zechman, on trial at Lebanon, Pa., for mordering an old man named Joseph Baber, In order to obtain the insurance on his life, have been found guilty, the jury rendering their verdict after five hours’ deliberation. The amount" of insurance held by the murderers on the life of their victim was 610,090, divided among six comOh the evening of the 24th, burglars Mew open the safe of the Laconia (N. H.) National Bank, securing about 66,000 In cash and a quantity of securities. Jesse Pomhbot, the Boston boy-murderer, made ac unsuccessful attempt, on the 26th, to eecspe from the Massachusetts State Prison, by sawing through the bars of his eelL Tub following wow the closing quotations for produce in New York, on April 36th: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected]; N 0.3 Milwaukee, 61.00®L0A_OsU, Wetir £*#££* FWkTMe-, 69-00010-*. Lard’ 66.90666,26. Flour, Good to Choice, 63.95 aatil'-y mjw vt for Good to Extra. 'Vv .'VvV, ' ■"

AT East Liberty, Pa., on April 26th, Cattle brought: Beat,.AVOK.t.V,V): Medium, 6«.75@ A 00; Common, 65. , Uqt4.30. ‘Hogs sold— Yorkers, 63.4008.56; Philadelphia, »78@ 8.86. Sheep brought 63.3505.80— according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on April 26th, Cattle brought; Best, $5.00(46.76; Medium 63.25«4.2&. Hogs sold at 65.00(<t5.62‘< for Good. Sheep were quoted at 64.0005.50 for Good.

Went and South. , About one-half of the business portion of the Town of Kinsley, Kan., waa dettroyed by tin, on the morning of the ?lst. Lose, about 975,000. '• 1 v • ■- Tub Superior Court of Cook county, 111., haa aet aside the recent sale of the banking property of the suspended Fidelity Savings Bank, on the ground that it was sold too cheaply, r’ Tib Louisiana State Constitutional Convention met on the 21st, and organised by the electltg) of Gov. L. A. Wilts aa Permanent Chairman and A. C. Harris aa Secretary. A riBB in Eureka, Nev., while a heavy wind waa prevailing, early on the morning of the 22 1, burned over a apace of one-half ml,le in length on Spring, Buel and Main streets. The total loss waa estimated at nearly 91,t* h,000, on which there waa not over $125,000 Insurance. Cold weather, accompanied by a fall of snow, succeeded the Are, causing much suffering among the houaelesa people. There was no lack of-food, the provision stores meetly escaping the flames. AT Charleston, 8. C., on the 22d, Judge Bond, of the United States Circuit Court, in etructed the jury to And for the defendants in the Barnwell County election-conspiracy cases, because of a defect in the information. The remaining political cases were continued until the November term of the court. Ex-Tbkasuheb Cakdosa and ex-Cong ressman Small, of South Carolina, were pardoned by Gov. Simpson, on the 23d. While Edwin Booth was playing Richard 11., at MeVicker't Theater, In Chicago, on the night of the 23d, an attempt was made by a man named Gray to assassinate him, two pistol shots being fired by the would-be murderer. Intense excitement followed the dastardly act, and the perpetrator waa secured before he could fire the third time. Mr. Booth waa unharmed. It waa thought by some that Gray was insane, but he stated to a reporter that he had been trying for two years to asSagstnate Booth. He is from St. Louis, and twenty-three years of age. He positively refused to give the motive which led to the attempt on Booth’s life. -The Inter-Ocean says it was supposed that some morbid feeling regarding the assassination of President Lincoln by J. Wilkes Booth led to this murderous assault, though the man claimed some special reason for his act Thb Notre Dame University, near South BewLind.. was entirely destroyed by fire on the morning of- the 23d, No loss of life was reported. The total loss was estimated at 9200,000; insurance, 960,000. 'At a subsequent meeting of the faculty, it was decided to rebuild at once. Ox the 23d, a resolution was adopted by the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, to the effect that there was no intention whatever on the part of the' Convention of impairing or restricting the political, civil or religious rights of any class. Oh the 2Sth,' at his residence in Baltimore, Md., Rev. Edward R. Ames, D. D., LL.D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, quietly breathed his last He was seventy-four rears old. Dcbixo the session of the Louisiana State Constitutional Convention, on the 24th, a resolution that the members take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States was laid on the table by a vote of 64 to 63. L. D. Richards, the Kansas murderer, who, before his death, confessed to have murdered from twelve to twenty persons during his career, was hung at Minden, Kearney County, Kan., on the 26th.

The trial In Chicago of Peter E. Stevens, for the murder of his girl-wife last year, ended, on the 27th, to a verdict of manslaughter, the jury fixing the penalty at fourteen years to the Penitentiary. The trial lasted three weeks. After the rendering of the verdict, Mrs. Young, the mother of the murdered woman, attempted to shoot the prisoner as he was being taken from the court-room, but a handkerchief she held in her hand accidentally caught under tbe hammer of the pistol and prevented tbe discharge. She was immediately unarmed and taken to her home, where she was prostrated with severe sickness, insanity and brain fever being threatened. It was reported from New Orleans, on the 26th, that the Migration Relief Association (colored) had formally organized, and was prepared for correspondence with similar associations West, North aud East. The Rev. C. H. Thompson Is Chairman. A telegram from Vidalla, Concordia Parish, reported that 3,000 negroes were then on the river bank awaiting transportation Kansasward. A Manhattan (Kan.) dispatch of the same date says the arrival there of 2,00 colored refugees had the effect of setting the people to work providing for them. They were well sheltered aud cared for, and arrangements were being made to procure them work on farms and to families. A committee has been appointed to solicit aid. On the evening of the 27th, in Chicago, Joe Tinan, thirteen years old, snapped what he thought was mn empty pistol at the head of Roger Canfield, sixteen years old. The empty pistol proved to be a loaded one, and Canfield dropped dead. Tinan only wanted “to scare him,” he said. In Chicago, on April 26th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at 88@ 89c cash; 89c for April; 89%@899|c for May. Caah Com closed at 33j*c for No. 2; 33%e for May; 3>c foi June. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 23%c, and 24J(c rellCT May. Rye No. 2,46J£@46>{c. Barley No. 2,67@65c for cash; 67i<$6Sc for ApriL Cash Mess Pork dosed at [email protected]. Lard. 66.05. Beeves —Extra brought [email protected]; Choice, 64 60 @4.80; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, [email protected]; Butchers’ Btock, 62.75(44.00; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, *[email protected].

Foreign Intelligence. The Japanese Government has officially notified the United Btates Charge d* Affaires of its desire that ex-President Grant shall be the guest of the Nation on bis approaching visit to Japan. A palace, was being fitted up for the occupation of the distinguished American. Servia has requested the Porte to send troops to the frontier to prevent any further incursions of Albanians. A Lahore (India) telegram of the 21st says heavy snow-storms had prevented hostile operations in Afghanistan. Bt a vote of 22,633 to 234, the Durham (Eng.) strikers have decided to continue the strike. About 7,500 colliers in Belgium have also quit work, on account of reduction In wages. According to Cape Town dispatches, received in London and published *** the 23d, Lord Chelmsford had, on the 4th, succeeded in relieving CoL Pearson at Ekowe, after a desperate engagement, in which over 1,200 Zulus were killed. On the 28th and 20th of March, CoL Wood, who was sent out with a cotuihn, tji a diversion in favor of Lord Chelmsfcrd, ftwght two desperate first cf which he was badly worsted- Next d*y he recovered his lost ground, and irt(Hcted signal panishment upon the Zulus, whore losses exceeded 2,500 men. Tfie British lost 220 men.

A FRiZE-noiiT between Tom Allen, of St. Louis, Mo., snd Jack Stewart, of Scotland, for the championship of the world snd £IOO, came off, hi Landon,|on the 22d. Twenty-four rounds were fought, during which neither received a scratch, and the referee declared the fight a draw and all bets off. Aooordino to Belgrade dispatches of the 22d, there had been continued fighting for three days between the Servians and Albanians. Daring that time the former had lost 700 men and had not been able to die lodge the latter. Accori>ino to the late census of Sptlu and Its adjacent insular dependencies, the populat lon numbers 16,635,860, an Increase of 925,334 Wince 1868. On tbe 23d, at Epsom, Eng., Parole, tbq American flyer, won the Metropolitan stakes, making tbe third race won, within a week, by the American gelding. By these race*, Lotlllard, his owner, Is over 6200,000 ahead. Tre Shakespeare Memorial Theater, at Stratford-on-Avon, was formerly opened, on the 23d, tbe 315th anniversary of the great poet’s birth, by tbe performance of the comedy "Much Ado About Nothing.” A brilliant audience was present. According to an Athens (Greece) dispatch of the 23d, tbe Cretans had again revolted against Turkish rule. A High Court or Criminal Justice has been organized, under the Presidency of the Grand Duke Constantine, brother of the Emperor, to try Solovieff, the Czar’s would-be assassin. On the 23d, German newspapers published a report, that tbe Tartar Inhabitants of the Russian-Town of Orak, fearing forcible baptism, had revolted, burned the town and murdered the town officials. Over 2,000 persons were arrested in St. Petersburg for political offenses during the week ending April 23. Turguenieff. tbe distinguished novelist, has been expelled from Russia. It has been ascertained that the number of persons killed by the fire-damp explosion in the Agrappo Coal-Mines, near Mons, Belgium, on the 17th, was 117. Up to the 23d, only fortyseven corpses had been recovered. Simla telegrams of the 23d sav that Persian troops were marching from Meshed toward the Afghan frontier. According to a London telegram of the 24th, Rev. Francis L. Patton, D. D., of Chicago, had been appointed to the Chair of Apologetical Theology in the Presbyterian College of London. The recent, inundation at Moscow, Russia, and vicinity caused the destruction of thirtyfour railroad bridges. The announcement is made that an International Congress, under the Presidency of M. de Lesseps, will meet In Paris, on the 15th of May, to consider the various schemes for the construction of a ship-canal across the Isthmus of Darien. According to the estimate of the Turkish Government, 200,000 men will be required for the occupation of Roumella. According to Victoria (British Columbia) dispatches of the evening of the 24th, the local Parliament 1 bad that day passed a striugent resolution, and directed that it be cabled to Loudon, asking that the Province be allowed to secede from the Canadian Confederation on the Ist of May. It was believed that the connection of Canada on the Pacific was seriously threatened. " On the 25th, several of the heaviest iron establishments in England were forced to close their doors, because they were unable to obtain fuel. This was one result of the Durham strike. The widow of Walter Savage Landor, the ooet, died at Florence, Italy, recently. A Belgrade telegram of the 25th says Turkish regulars had surrounded the Albanian rafders into Bervia, and forced them to surrender their plunder, which would be returned to the Servian owners. Sixteen Professors in the Russian Universities have tendered their resignations because of the spread of Nihilism among their students. The Russian Ambassador at Constantinople has requested permission to open all letters leaving that city for Russia. At 9:30 p. m., on the evening Of the 26th, the six days’ pedestrian match, In London, waa finished, the score standing: Brown, 542 miles; Corkey, 492; Hazael, 473; Weston, 450. Brown beat the fastest previous record (that of O’Leary) by 21 miles. Over 14,000 persons w itnessed the finish. The British squadron in the Pacific has been ordered to cruise in Peruvian waters. On the 26th, England and France addressed individual notes to the Khedive of Egypt demanding the appointment of English and French Ministers in the Egyptian Cabinet They also demanded that these should not be removed except with the consent of these Powers. According to a letter received in Paris, on the 27th, from Moeadoz, in Morocco, more than 13,000 persons had died in that town from hunger. The Public Prosecutor at Warsaw, in Poland, has been arrested for Nihilism. Rome dispatches of the 27th say the Pope had asked the representatives of foreign Governments whether he could rely «upon their protection in the event of an attack upon the Vatican by the Republicans. Some of them had replied affirmatively. Dr. Wiedb, of Zurich, Switzerland, has been arrested on the charge of conspiracy to assassinate Queen Victoria and the King and Queen of Italy. Dr. Wiede is editor of the Neue GexeUichafl. Congressional Proceedings. Consideration was resumed of the Army Appropriation bill in the Senate, on the 21st, Messrs. Bayard, Blaine and Maxey taking part in the discussion relative to the nse of United States troops to keep peace at elections. ....An Executive session was held. A large number of bills were introduced in the Honse. among them the following: For the distribution of the unexpended balance of the Geneva award: to prevent the further increase of tbe bonded debt of the United States; for the issue of fractional currency; for retiring the trade-doUar, and for the redemption of (he fractional silver coin; in regard to the observance and enforcement of the Eight-Hoar law; regulating the exchange of silver bullion for the standard silver dollar, and providing that gold add silver jointly, and not otherwise, shall be a fall legal tender; repealing the tax of 10 per cent, on State Banks—and several other bills relating to finance, and several relative to the Pacific Railroads; authorizing tbe Secretary of War to furnish tents and rations to oertain destitute ooloredemigrants in Kansas, and appropriating $75,000 for that purpose... Speeches were made, in Committee of the Whole, on the Legislative Appropriation bill by Messrs. Browne, New Frost and De aster. ~f A bill was introduced and referred ini, the Senate, on tbe 22d. for the relief of the destitute colored persons now emigrating from the Southern States.... The Army bill was again taken op. and Messrs. Garland and Davis (I1L) made speeches in favor of the proposed repeal of tbe Election laws, and Mr. Allison argued against such repeajL , The Subsidiary Silver Coin bill was amended and passed in the House; it provides that silver coins of smaller denomination than one dollar may be exchangeable into lawful money, when presented in stuns of twenty dollars; makes lawful money exchangeable into silver coins in like amount; makes subsidiary silver coins a legal-tender for all debts, public and private, in sums not exceeding twenty dollars, and makes minor coins receivable at Postoffioes to tbe amount of three dollars.... A Deficiency bill for ab0ut625,000 was reported and passed ...The Legislative Appropriation bill was further debated in Committee of the Whole. In the Senate, on the 23d, the morning hour was principally-occupied with the resolution relative to removals and appointments without the intervention of the.presiding officer, and several amendments were agreed to, bat no final action was taken.... The Army bill was further debated by Messrs. Williams and Jones TF7S.7,"M» which Mr. 'Blaine tritßtHevr'thcT amendment formerly offered by him, and gave notice that he would again submit it after the sixth section of the bill had been acted upon. A running and spirited debate ensued between Mr. Blaine ftpd Messrs, i<slier, Saolsbnry, Randolph, etc. ' r

Resolutions were adopted In the House appropriating $3,000 to meet the expense of the Labor Committee, and granting the committee leave to sit during rooms; requesting the President to consider the expediency of entering into a convention with nance lor the negotiation of a treaty which shall secure a move equal interrhaoire of the product* and manufactures of the two noon trite Additional speeches were made, in Committee of the Whole, on the legislative Appropriation bill. , Mb. Conklino made a lengthy speech In tbe Senate, on the 24th, in opposition to tbe repeal of the law providing for the nse of the army to prosei vs peace at elections, after which a motion to strike oot the sixth section of »he Army bill was rejected—26 to 96—a stnrt party vote. Mr. Blaine then renewed his amendment providing penalties for any officer or other person who should appear, armed with any deadly weapon, within a mile of any polling place, where an election for Congressman was being held, which amendment was also rejected -26 to 35. Other amendments, similar in character, were offered and met with a like fate. After discussion, it was screed that a vote on tbe sixth section of tbe bill and tbe amendments still pending should be taken at three p. m., on the 76th. The discumion on tbe Legislative bill was continued in the House, in Committee of the Whole, and the time for the termination of the debate was fixed at five instead of two p. m., on the 25tb. In the Senate, on the 25th, considera-' tion was resumed of the resolution relating to appointments by the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and an amendment Beclaring that no Union soldier shall be removed except for canae. and that no Confederate soldier shall take the place of any dismissed Union soldier, was defeated by a strict party vote- 26 to 34; the resolution was then agreed t 0.... The Army bill was taken up, and an amendment offered dv Mr. Paddock to modify the existing law which forbids any part of the army from being used as a pone comltatut. so that troops may De so used in Nebraska, Colorado, Oregon, and other States and Territories, and In the Indian country generally, was laid on the.table—4o to 28. The sixth section of the pending bill was then read, which prohibits the presence of troops or armed men. under charge of any Government officer, at the election polls in any State, unless it be necessary to repel armed enemies of the U nited States, with a provision that nothing herein contained should be deemed to abridge the Constitutional duty or power of the President of the United States to comply with Sec. 4 of Art. 4 of the Constitution, on application of a State Legislature or Executive. An amendment offered by Mr. Edmunds that nothing in this section of the bill should tie held to abridge the power of the President under Sec. 6298 and 5299 of the Revised Statutes, recognizing the validity of providing by law for the presence of an armed power of the United State* to repress violence at the polls, whether at Federal or State elections, was laid on the table—4o to 28. Other amendments were proposed and laid on the table, and the bill as it came from the House was then liassed 41 to 80.... Adjourned to the 28th. Several speeches were mads in the House, in Committee of the Whole, on the Legislative Ap- • propriation bill, the debate closing at five p. m., when the committee rose and the House adjourned. The Senate was not in session on the 26th. The Honse went into Committee of the Whole on the Legislative Appropriation kill, under tbe five-minnte rale, the disenssion ending at two o’clock, when a motion to strike ont all the proposed legislation except the provision in regard to tbe test-oath was defeated without division. Mr. Garfield then offered an amendment, which was also defeated—yeas, 123; nays, 130—striking out all the proposed legislation. The committee then rose and reported the biU and amendments to the House, and all the amendments were agreed to without a division. Mr. Garfield endeavored to obtain a separate, vote .upon the political clauses of the bill, and Mr. Bragg upon an amendment- which he wished to offer abolishing the Southern Claims Commission, but both propositions were objected to. The bill was then passed—l4o to 119.... A motion to adjourn nntil the 80th was defeated—--91 to 162—and then an adjournment until the 29th was agreed to without division... .There was then a rash to introduce bills for reference, and several were so introduced and referred, include ing one to establish religious equality in the Indian Territory, and one (by Mr. De LaMatyr) to substitute legal-tender money for National Bank notes. Several other members were on the floor with bills to be introduced, when a stop was pnt to such proceedings by an objection from Mr. Kelley, who said he did not want to have Monday's sessions abolished, and then to have sheafs of bills introduced Saturday afternoon. .. .Adjourned to the 29th.