Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

From Washington. It was reported from W*mhln(fton, on the 98th, IkM, ovine to the great preeeure upon theTmwty Department in thelaeueof the 4-porrest. bund* already anbeertbed for, and tb« redemption of the MO and 1(M0 bonds, UM oMterakw of the refunding certiflcaLw Into bbeds will oaoeaeartly be poetponed until on or after duly I. Oonoummax Idu Cuu, Representative from the Fifth town District, died very sad - danly la Washington, on the afternoon of the 96th. Ho waa taken 111 the night before. Ylasphjrridans attrtbnted bis death to overwork. He wan serving hia aeoond term la Tn United States Snpreme Court, on the 98th, rendered a decision virtually annulling the damn' Test-Oath Act, by holding that a Juror la no mote obliged than a witness to dedara oa oath that ha has been guilty of any crime or Infamous act, In order to test his quaMcatlooa as a Juror; If guilty, It must be proven by other competent testimony. Justice Field delivered a separate concurring opinion, but going further, and claimed that the Teat-Oath Act la dearly unconstitutional. Justice Strong dissented from the opinion of the Court. Tub National House Select Committee on the Game of the Present Depression of Labor hdd a meeting, on tbe 29th nit., at which Ibe members present expressed the opinion that, if enlSdent funds could be obtained for the purpose, H would be.advisable to visit San Francisco for the yqrpoee of taking monyThe public-debt statement, issued on the Ist, shows the following: Total debt (including interest of $97,155,204), $2,475,587,875. Cash in Treasury, $448,467,156. Debt leas cash in Treasury, *9,027,130,218. Increase during April, *19,952. Decrease since June 80, 1878, $8,005,614. Ob the Ist, in the National House of Representatives, a motion to pass the Army Appropriation bill, notwithstanding the veto of the President, tailed by a vote of 120 ayes Id 110 non Iras than the Constitutional majority. Ik a caucus hdd on the 3d, the Democratic members of the National House of RepresentaUve* determined a line of action in regard to the Army Appropriation bill, and agreed upon the exact terms of the measure, to be separately passed In lieu of the sixth section; it bring also agreed that all consideration of the bill should be deferred until this independent political measure should have been acted upon by the President. The title agreed upon for the new bill is “A Bill to Prevent Interference by the Army with Elections,’’ and it provides in substance that Becs. 2002 and 3003, Rev.aed Statutes, shall not be construed as authorising the presence of United States soldiers at the polls, except under orders of the President to repel armed enemies of the United States, or in pursuance of the Constitutional requirement—upon the application of the Legislature of a State (or of the Governor when the Legislature cannot be convened) to repress domestic violence. The East. Attbb being for four days entombed In a Wllkeabarre, Pa., coal mine, the imprisoned men were released, on the moral ftp of the 28th. The business portion of Gotham, N. H., was destroyed by fire on the aftei’hoon of the 28th. _____ At Carbon Hill, Pa., on tbe 29th ult., the house of John L. Keogh was destroyed by Ore, and a son, aged eleven years, and a daughter, of thirteen, were burned to death, and a younger child, aged five, was so badly injured that its recovery was doubtful. Mr. Keogh bad his face and hands terribly burned in bis endeavors to rescue his children. A few days ago, at noon, two men entered the Workingmen’s Savings Bank of Allegheny City, Pa., while tbe Cashier, G. L. Walter, was revolver at Walter and threatened to kill him if he moved. The Cashier grabbed the revolver and succeeded in getting possession of it. Tbe other robfcer, who bad been stationed at the door, then came forward.with a cocked revolver, and the two men jumped over the counter and attempted to seise s package containing *16,000 in bills, but Walter fired at them three times and drove them back over the counter They then.; ran out followed by the plucky Cashier. They succeeded in getting away with about *1,500. Mas. Sanaa B- Hale, editress of Godey't Ladg't Book, died iu Philadelphia, on the evening of the 30th nit She was eighty-four years old, and had been connected with the Lady’* Book as ita editress for fifty years. Fobtt-nihe failures occurred in New York Cite daring April. The liabilities footed up $1,199,863, and the assets, $633,121. Ik the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, on the 2d, a resolution was adopted, by a strict party vote, authorising the appointment of a joint committee to welcome Gen. Grant, upon his atrival in this country, in the name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing there shall be no expense to the State. Ok the morning of tbe Ist, Charles F. Freemn, of Pocassett, Maas., woke his wife and told her the Loud had directed him to sacrifice his youngest daughter. They got up, and the father procured a butcher-knife and stabbed the little one In the breast. She gave one scream and expired. He told a reporter that be bad been directed by the Lord to kill little Edith, but that she would rise again in three Osya. Freeman and bis wife are Second Adventists, and believed to be insane. The a consenting party to the Wiling, it is funeral services over the remains of Edith Freeman, the victim of her father’s fanatidsiu, took place in the Methodist Church, at Pocasset, Mass., on tbe 4th. The bony »M brought to the church iu a email otsket by Allen P. Daria, a sympathizer with Freeman in his deed. After depositing the re”*r % ritar, Davis announced hls.lntention of addressing the audience, but was prevented from so doing by threats of arrest. After the funeral sermon tbe body was taken to the Tillage cemetery and deposited in a grm, Daria being again prevented from inking an address tn vindication of Freeman. The Adventists were deeply mortified that tarir prophecies that the child would be restored to life In three days had failed of fulfillment Freeman and his wife were coraEwalt the action of the Grand Jury. They exhibited no signs «*wj«pr.eor regret for tbe deed they had The following were the closing quotations 2* ta *** May 3d: Nn. 9 Chicago Spring Wheat, sl.olW@i flsNo. 3 Milwaukee, •LOo@L* Orisf WW* Corn, Westera Mlxect **h@**%c- Pork, Mesa, $9.25010.15. Lard, or » «<** to Choice, $3)95 White Wheat Extra, $4.5505.25. c * tU, < iMawmSS for Good to Extra. Obcep, *4.SO@637><. Doga, $3 45®3 50. irlUtSberir', KT on broqgbl: Beat, $5.2505.40; Medium, $4,800 AflO; Common, $3.8004.00. Hon sold— To*?* $3.0003 05; Philadelphia, $4)000 4.10. Sbeep bronght SB-2505.50—according oqwMtir*

At Baltimore, Md., oa May Bd, Cattia bronght; Beat $4.87X05. MM; Medium SAIIKOtOO. Hogs sold at ss.(Xkrts.so for Good. Bbeap wore quoted at $4.0005.80 for Good. f |[ West and South. Ik the case of Green and Baldwin, of the Olive gang, lately on trial for their lives, at Hastings, Neb., the jury, after being cmt for twenty hours, reported that they could not agrees, and were discharged. One favored a verdict of manslaughter and eleven of acquittal. Gbk. Alfred Sulky, of tbe United Btatee Army, died at Vancouver Barracks, in Oregon, on the 27th. j < Paul Bottok, who several weeks ago undertook to float. In his life-saving armor, down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from Pittsburgh, Ps., to New Orleans, reached the latter city, on the 27th. He was very much tuned ud considerably fatigued. An immense crowd welcomed him. Judob Cadt, of the 8L Louis Criminal Court, on the 28th, fined about fifty lottery venders from SSOO to *BOO each, for selling lottery tickets of the Missouri State Lottery, and they were commute,l to jail until the tinea should be paid. The aggregate of fines amounted to $35,000. Ox the 28th, W. F. Cassebohm, Assistant City Treasurer of Bra Francisco, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head.’ He left a note to the Coroner, in which he stated that be had lost $20,000 of the city’s money in stock speculations, which he could not replace, and preferred to meet death rather than exposure. ' - AFt kb broke out in the residence of a Mr. Butler, at Grand Rapids, Mich., on tbe 29th ult., while Mrs. B. was absent at a neighbor’s next door, leaving two little girls, one three years and the other eight months old, in the house alone. Tbe fire was discovered too late to save the children, and their bodies were chirred beyond recognition. The mother has since lost her reason. Ikformatiok was received, on the 29th ult., by tbe Colored People’s National Board of Immigration of St Louis, that several thousand negroes were then at different places along the banks of tbe Mississippi River, below Memphis, either ready to start North as soon as transportation could be procured, or preparing to leave their homes for St. Louis and beyoud. It was ssld the steamers refused to take them on board, aud the whites refused*to sell them provisions. Ex-Congressman C. L. Cobb, of North Carolina, died, at Elisabeth City, in that State, on tbe 30th ult. Mbs. Ellen Norris, of Chicago, was severely and probably fatally burned, on the evening of tbe 29tb ult., while attempting to kindle tbe kitchen fire by usiug kerosene. The trial of Thomaa Buford, indicted for murdering Judge Elliott of the Keutucky Court of Appeals, has been post poneduu til the third Monday in May. At Chicago, on the Ist, the Chicago A Pacific Railroad, running from Chicago to BryoD, Ogle County, 111., with a right of construction to Savanna, 111., on the Mississippi River, was sold, under foreclosure, to John H. Wren, for *916,000. The Democratic State Convention of Kentucky met at Louisville, on the Ist, and nominated Dr. L. P. Blackburn, for Governor; J. E. Cantrell, for Lieutenant-Governor; P. W. Harding, for Attorney-General; Fayette Hewitt, for Auditor. In Chicago, on the alternoon of the Ist, Mr. Theodore B, Weber, a member of the wholesale boot aDd shoe firm of Geo. W. Weber & Co., was shot and fatally wounded by Mrs. Amelia Robert, a woman with whom he had for sixteen years been disgracefully connected, and to whom be bad, it is said, paid large sums of money. The supply having been latterly cut off, she shot him in the office of Jussen «fc Anderson, ins attorneys, as above stated. Mr. Waber was the instigator of the receDt prosecution of Henry Greenebaum, the well-known German banker of Chicago.

The other night, near Forsythe, in Taney County, Mo., a posse ot citizens attempted to arrett a gang of horse-thieves, and in the melee which followed two of the former were killed and one seriously wounded. One on the other side was killed and one mortally wounded. The rest of the gang escaped. The announcement is made of the result of the April election in Michigan, by the Board /\ f O * i t mk W OtrlU/ AJIDTISocir, u lOllOffS . \JB Dip Dell (Rep.), for Supreme Justice, 132,313; Shipman (Detn.), 120,270; majority, 6 043. The Republican candidates for Regents were elected by a somewhat smaller majority. A Convention of Representatives of the Btate Boards of Health of Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee met at Memphis, lenn., on the 30th ult,, for the purpose of consldaringjmd deciding upon concerted measures to prevent the re-introduction and spread of the yellow fever in the United States. An Atchison (Kan.) dispatch of the 2d says over 300 colored refugees from the South had landed there on that day, in a generally destitute condition. Their arrival was entirely unexpected, but their temporary wants had been provided for. In the platform adopted at their recent State Convention, the Kentucky Democracy heartily indorse the posttion of their members in Congress, “in coupling with the Appropriation biUs a demand for the redress of grievances by the repeal of existing laws which tolerate the presence of soldieis at the polls, the continuance of the test-oath at, a condition for jury-service, and the employment of Supervisors and Deputy-Marshals to control elections.’! In the Miles polygamy case at Salt Lake, Utah, on the 3d, Daniel H. Wells, Counsellor to the Twelve Apostles of the Mormon Church, was fined *4OO and sentenced to two days’ imprisonment for contempt, in refuting to answer certain questions relative to polygamous marriages in the Endowment House. In Chicago, on May 3d, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at cash; for May; for June. Cash Com closed at 38J£c for No. 2; 33%c for May; foi J une. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 25.Vc, and seller May. Rye No. 2, 47@48c. Barley No. 2,69370 c for cash. Cash Mess Fork closed at $9.35 @9.40. Lard closed atj [email protected]. Beeves —Extra brought »[email protected]; Choice, 14 50 @4.70; Good, $4>[email protected]; Medium Grades, $3.85@4-15; Butchers’ Stock, [email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, *&[email protected]. -c ' Foreign Intelligence. According to London dispatches of the 28th the Emperor of Germany had sent autograph letters to all the European Governments proposing an International alliance of Sovereigns against the Socialists. night of the 28th. in the British House of Commons, a resolution censuring the Government for increasing the National expenditures was defeated by a vote of 230 ayes to 303 noes. Dispatches from India of the 28th announce the utter collapse of the Quartermaster and Commissary Departments of the British forces operating in Afghanistan. The Powers' interested have unanimously agreed upon joint mediation between Turkey and Greece. According to the St Petersburg Golot ot the29th.ult., 12,000 prisoners, with their famHies, would be sent from Novgorod to Siberia during the summer. On the 29th ult.. Prince Alexander, of Batten burg, was unanimously elected to the Bulgarian throne by the AsaemMy jot Notables, with the title of Prince Alexander'!,

Count Schouvaloff has Informed the Powers thst the demolition of the Danublsn fortresses will be finished by tbe 3d of August next The German agriculturists have petitioned their Government to prohibit tbe Importation of American cattle. The earthquake, which occurred at Meareh, In Persia, on the 23d of March, totally destroyed 21 villages and killed 923 persons, 2,000 sheep, 1,125 oxen, 124 horses and 56 camels. ' t, News was received, on the 30th ult, of the destruction by lire of the better portion of the City of Orenlmrg, on the Ural River, in Russia. The loss was enormous. Numerous lives were lost, and more than one-half of the inhabitants were without a place to lay their heads. The fire was of incendiary origin, and is ascribed to Nihilists. Tbe Village of Gretchenko, on tbe Volga, had also been totally destroyed by 11 rc. According to s South Africa dispatch, published on the IXRb ult., Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, was at Zanzibar, organizing a mysterious expedition into the Interior of Africa. 1 The puhllshersof the Paris devolution Francalve have been heavily fined and imprisoned for publishing a letter justifying the Commune. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the Ist says the wife of Prof. Botkin, the Czar’s physician, bad been arrested on the charge of Nihilism. The wife of tbe Chief Military Prosecutor had been similarly accused. The two-year-old stakes at Newmarket, Eng., were won, on tbe Ist, by the American horse Papoose. Gen. Grant reached Hong Kong, China, on the Ist. According to Cape Town dispatches, received on the 2d, there were abundaut indications that peace would speedily be secured. It was stated that Cetewavo himself bad offered to surrender provided lie could secure satisfactory terms. Several foreigners have Wfcn sent out of Switzerland for inciting the Italians to revolution. According to Berlin dispatches of the 2d, Solovicff, who attempted to assassinate the Czar, had declared that, although he was compelled, under threat of death, to lire at the Emperor, he purposely missed him. Mandalay (India) dispatches, received in London on the 2d, say that, despite the peaceful desires of the King of Burmab, the mass of the people favored war with Great Britain. V Up to the 3d, the London and Westminster Bank, of Loudon, had taken, altogether, *35,000,060 of the 4-per-cent, bonds of the United States. Liect. Dcbrovina, arrested at Novgorod, Russia, on suspicion of being a member of tbe Revolutionary Nihilist Committee, was hanged, on the 3d. According to Calcutta telegrams of the 4th, the cholera had made its appearance at Delhi, Rawulpendee, Wrumitzar, and other places in India. Simla dispatches, published on 4he 4th, 6ay that the Afghan troops In Badakshan had been driven out and a new and independent ruler firmly established. The French Radical Republicans of Boideaux have returned Louis Blanqui, a Communist, serving out his time ,Juj New Caledonia, as the'r Deputy in the French Chamber of Deputies. Congressional Proceedings. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was received in the Senate from the House, on the 28th, and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.... The House Joint resolution to repeal certain clauses in the Sundry Civil Appropriation act of March 3, 1879. was passed.../Mr. Williams introduced a bill, which was referred, to regulate the legal value of metal money (making till gold and silver coins, including trade dollars, equally legal tender for all debts, public and private, to any amounts and of tbeir nominal valne), and to provide for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver bullion, and to restore coin to circulation. ...The bill providing for the publication of tne Revised Statutes was passed.... Mr. Pendleton introduced a bill to allow beads of Departments to hold seats in the two Houses of Congress, and made a speech in support of the measure, after which the bill was laid on the table to he called up hereafter. House not in session.

In the Senate, on, the 29th nit, a resolution making an appropriation to defray the expenses of the extra session of Congress was under discussion,when the House resolution announcing the death of Representative Clark jwas received. The.-proceedings were at once stopped, and a resolution was passed for the appointment of a committee to accompany the Honae Committee, with the remains, to iowa, and the Senate, as a farther remark of respect, then adjourned. The President’s Veto Message on the Army bill was received in the House, and was laid upon the Speaker’s table and not opened.... The announcement ot the death of Representative Clark, of lowa, was then made, a committee was appointed to accompany the remains to lowa, ana then, as n further token of respect, an adjournment was had for the day. In the Senate, on the 30th ult., the House bill providing for certain expenses of the present session of Congress was amended and passed... .The bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States was debated. The President’s Message vetoing the Army Appropriation bill was read in the House, ana was ordered to be entered in the journal and printed... .Bills were passed—extending for two years from October, 1878, the time for the payment of pre-emptors on certain public lands in Minnesota; amending the section of the Revised Statutes prescribing a penalty for conspiracy against the United. States... Bills were reported—to prevent the importation of diseased cattle, and the spread of infectious diseases among domestic animals; amending certain sections of the Revised Statutes relating to coinage and coin and bullion certificates. Consideration was resumed in the Senate, on the Ist, of the bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or infections diseases into the United States, and Mr. Harris, Chairman of the select committee on the subject, explained that the object, and the only object, of the bill was to regulate commerce with foreign Nations, so as to prevent the importation into the United States of contagions or infectious diseases, and to regulate commerce among the several States, so as to prevent the importation of such diseases from one State into another.... A bill was reported to provide for the payment of bounty and back-nay to those who were deprived of the same by frauds with which they had no connection. The House refused—l2o yeas to 110 nays, not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative—to pass the Army Appropriation bill over the President’s veto. Three Greenbackeiw voted for, an d nine against, the bill—the vote in other respects being a strictly party one.. Adjourned to the ocL ' A bill was introduced and referred in the Senate, on the 2d, amendatory of, and supplementary to, an act to aid in the construction of the Texas Pacific Railroad. It authorizes the oompany to extend its line from its present western terminus to El Paso, there to onite with the Southern Pacific Railroad; lands granted to the former are transferred to and vested in the latter, extending along its portion of the road, and each company is required to complete its road within six years; provision is also made for other railroads to unite with these roods at El Paso, the object being to form complete lines to the Pacific from the Gulf and South Atlantic States... .The bill to prevent the introduction of contagions or infections diseases was farther debated... .Adjourned to the sth. House not in session. u • • , The Senate was not in session, on the 3d.' t~ In the Honse, the bill relating to contestedelection cases was reported back from the Committee on Elections, with a few unimportant amendments.... Consideration was resumed of the bill reported from tbs Coinage Committee, amending toe statutes relating to coinage ana coin ana bullion certificates, and Mr. Warner submitted an amendment, and made an argument in ite support, providing tost gold and silver bullion which shall become the property of the Government by the return of certificates to the Treasury, in payment of does thereto, shall be coined and paid out the same as other money. T i A newly-married lady, who, as In dUty bound, was very fond, of her husband, notwithstanding his extreme ugliness ©f person, once said to a witty fjnend: “ What do yon think? My husband hfrUHffOOt tSn dolilars'for a large baboon on purpose to please me!” “ The dear little man!” cried the other. “ Weil, it is just like him!” sacques—Jilted lovers.