Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

From Washington. Is reply to * resolution of Inquiry, Soc’y Wiihih reported to the Senate, on the 19th, that thorr had been redeemed in coin alucc its. 1, itn, legal-tender; notes to the amount of $4,133,513. Under the provisions of the Kesamplion act, the coin reserve of the Treasury had been increased to *188,000,000, that being about 40 per cent, of the notes outstanding to be redeemed, and believed to be the smallest reserve upon which resumption could be prudently commenced and tuccees.'nl]y maintained. Tula roaerva arose from the sale of >95,500,000 in bonds and from surplus revenues, and it must, under the existing law, be maintained unimpaired for the purpose for which It waa created. Tn Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, slightly amended, was passed In the United States Senate, on the 90th, by a vote of 37 yets to 97 naya. The bill would go to the House for action on the Senate amendments. The vote in the Senate was: Tsat—Bailer. Bayard, 'Beck, OaU. Cockrell, Oake, lie vis (W7\a.l. Eaten. Garland, Gordon, Groomn, Grovar, Hampton, Hama, Hereford, Houston, Johnston, Jonas, Jones (Fla.), Kenan. Lamar McDonald, McPherson. Marry, Korean. Randolph. Banaum, Saulubnrv .Slater, Thannan. Vanoo. Voorhaea. Walker, Wallace. Whyte, William*, Witheta-37. JTapt—Affiann, Anthony. BelL Blaine. Booth. Brace, Bornaidc, Cameron (Pa.), Cameron Messrs. hTu (Ga.l. 'Farley. Pendleton. Butler DM Teat. who. would have voted aye. were paired, respectively, with Messrs. Dawes. Jones iNav.L Hamlin. Plumb and Carpenter, who would have voeed no. Aoookdino to a Washington dispatch of the Slat, the Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service had been instructed to transmit to the National Board of Health all papers belonging to the Treasury Department relating to disinfecting ships with yellow lever on board, and to inform the board that the Secretary of the Treasury will give prompt consideration to an \ suggest lons that the Board of Health mar make in relation to the subject. A Washington telegram of the 23d says that at the rate at which the 4-per-cent, refunding certificates were being disposed of, they would all be sold within the succeeding ten days. They were then being disposed of bypurcha*ers to brokers, at s premium of $2.90. There was a great rush for them at all Eastern and Western points where the ti ivernment agents were employed in potting them on the market. * According to a Washington dispatch of . the 24th, intelligence had been received there that Hen. Grant would leave Yokohama for San Francisco about the last of June. Arrangements had been made for s large excursion party to meet the ex-President at the latter city. Oh the 84th, after a continuous session of twenty-one hours, the National House of Representatives passed the Warner Silver bill, by a vote of Hi ayes to 97 noes.

The East. Ax Eastern telegram of a recent date says Mrs. Freemar, the wife of the Pocasset (Mass.) Adventist, who killed his child as a sacrifice, as he claimed, by the command of God in aviaion, bad realised folly the enormity of the act, to which she consented at the time of its commission, and was constantly bemoaning the death of her child. She would take scaoxly any food, and was said to be grieving herself to death. Ix a report from the Board of Home Missions, which was read before the Presbyterian General Assembly at Saratoga, on the 20th, th« following interesting facts are shown: Number of missionaries engaged in the work, 1,202; Sunday-Schools organized In 1878 and 1878, 364; number of scholars, 111,881; churches organized daring these years, IgO; increase of membership, 10,872; total number of communicants in churches under control of the board, 65,415; aggregate of congregations, 107,781; number of SundaySchools, 1,157; number of church edifices, 1;665; vaiueof sarr.r, *2,859,373; receipts for the year, 8292,559. Gloccestek (Mass.) dispatches of the 21st announces the loss of the tisbinz schooner Ida E Baker, with her crew of twelve men. Owe H. P. Peer, on the 21st, lei red from the Suspension Bridge across Niagara into the river, 190 feet below. The descent was accomplished in four seconds. The jumper was picked up none the worse for the feat. Axnocxcehext was made, on the 21st, that Sup’t Kiddle, the head of the New York City public school system for the last ten years, had resigned, and that his resignation had been accepted. Mr. Kiddle is the author of a recent work On Spiritualism, whifch has created something of a sensation. A kesolutiok was unanimously adopted in the Presbyterian General Assembly at Saratoga, on the 22d, requesting Rev. Dr. Patton, of Chicago, not to accept the invitation to a professorship In England, but to remain in the United States. The report on Colored Missions represented the' receipts from church sources as 852,911; front State School funds, 84,200. Expenditures on account of missions, (40,360; printing, 8607; officers and investments, (9,416. There are forty-eight ordained missionaries, of whom thirty-six are colored and fifty-eight teachers, of whom thirty-six are colored. The will of the late Judge Packer, of Mauch Chunk, Pa., was read, pa the 22d. It.gives 81,500,000 for the permanent endowment of Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pa.; 8500,000 for a library for the same Institution; 8300,000 to St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, and 830.000 to 8k Mark’s Episcopal Church, at Mauch Chunk. Several bequests are kept private for the present. p: - The Widow Oliver lectured In Pittsburgh, on the night of the 23d, and the affair is said to have been a regular farce. Tin re were only tweoty-three persons present, and not half a dozen of them paid their way. The manager then wait out mod stood on s prominent street corner and distributed tickets free to everybody who pas-ed. Even in this way be did not succeed In filling the house. Vi ilia xu Llotd Gakbisox, the distinguished orator and anti-slavery agitator, died In New York City, on the evening of the 25th. The cause of his death was nervous prostration, resulting from paralys e of some of the vital organs. He was seventy-four yearn old. A fire began in the buildings upon the Brooklyn (N. Y.) wharfs, a little after mid-, niaht, and it was noon, on the 24th, before the Hanes were extinguished. During that time property variously estimated to be worth from 8500,00 Uto 81,000,000 was destroyed. \ 1 A fisheen ax named Pylus Walker, who lUved near Niagara, was swept over the American Falls on the 25th, in the presence of a large crowd of excursionists. It seems Walker was under the influence of liquor at the time of the accident, and lost an oar in the swift current of the stream above the Falls, While trying to row to Goat Island In a skiff. > He was quite a noted character at the Falls, sod had been the rescuer of many lives exposed to danger in the rapids of the river. The following woe the closing quotations for produce In New York, on May 24til: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected]; No. 8 Milwaukee, BLO4@ 1.04*. Data, WestasHsasss

£4.50; White Wheat Extra, $4.55'<5 96. Cattle. sß.oo<£lo.oo for Good to Extra Sheep, *3 7506 37*. * Hogs, $3 8304 Off AT East Liberty, Pa., on May 34th, Cattle brought; Beat, $5.0005.25; Medium, *4 500 5.00; Common, $3.7504.95. Hogs sold— Yorkea, $3.5003 00; Philadelphia, $3.7(10 3.80. Sheep brought $27504 23 according to quality. hr* At Baltimore, Md ~ on May 24tb, Cattie brought; Beat, *3.12*06.62*; Medium $3.7504 37*. Hogs sold at 14.50 <15.37* for Good. Sheep were quoted at *3.5004 30 for Good.

West and South. Concerning the recent shooting it Provo City, Utah, of the murderer Wallace Wllkerson (who chose that manner of death In preference to hanging), a dispatch fays the prisoner erlnced great nerve, and sat In a chair facing three guns, distant about thirty feet, without cither bandaging or closing his ryes. At §’ signal from the Marshal, three concealed marksmen fired. He lesped from the chair, exclaiming, “Oh, God!” fell forward on his face and continued writhing, breathing a few gasps, for twenty-seven minutes, when the physicians pronounced him dead. Judge Dundy stated to a Omaha Herald reporter, on the 10th, In reply to certain remarks reported to %ave been made by Oen. Sheridan In regard to the effect of the Judge’s decision In the Ponca case, that such decision was based upou the fact that there was no United States law or treaty stipulations setting apart a reservation in -’the Indian Territory for thosf nor for removing them thereto, or keeping th m thereon, and that they could not, there ore, be removed there by force. It Is not claimed, In the opinion, that Congress might not authorise such temoval by law, or that a treaty might not be made which would justify a resort to force. It was not •claimed that the decision would apply to those Indian tribes having reservations to which their treaties require them to remove and remain thereon. The State Colored Convention which met at Richmond, Va., on the 30 th, adopted resolutions indorsing the nomination of cx-Prcs-ident Grant for President In 1880. Tne Biennial Convention of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States met in Baltimore, on the 21et. Dwight L. Moody was elected Pres dent The Treasurer’s report shows the receipts for 1878 to have been 110.875, and the expenditures f 10,873, leaving a balance of two dollars. Four hundred and eighty associations report a membership of 65,430. On the 31st, the business portion of the Town i f Washington, La., was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of over (100,000. Gen. RobinßoN, Chairman of the Ohio Republican State Central Committee, published a letter from Sec’y Sherman, on the 31st, in which the latter asked that he he not nominated for Governor, and stated that if nominated he should he compelled to decline. A Pkouibition Convention was held at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 21st, for the purpose of nominating a State ticket. Kyland T. Brown waa nominated for Governor; Rev. J. V. R. Miller, for Lieutenant-Governor; Abraham Spainhawcr, for Secretary of State; William 8. Hubbard, for Treasurer, and Jeremiah Leiter, for Auditor. An address to the people of the State was adopted, arguing the necessity of independent political action if Temperance men ever expect to accomplish anything. Resolutions were adopted to make a complete canvass of the Btate for Prohibition, and to demand a Prohibitory law of the next and all succeeding Legislatures, hut in the meantime to accept the best Constitutional measures that can he obtained for abridging the liquor traffic. x.f On the 31st, the lowa State Democratic Convention met in Council Bluffs, and nominated the following: For Governor, H. H. Trimble; Lieutenant-Governor, J. Or Yeoman; Supreme Judge, Reuben E. Noble; State Superintendent, Irwin Baker. The platform adopted demands the strict construction and observance of the Constitution and its amendments; declares that the State and General Governments should he sternly restrained to their respective spheres and allowed to exercise only the Constitutional powers; condemns the policy and purposes of the Repub--1 can party; commends the attitude of the Democratic Members of Congress; favors the substitution of legal tenders for National Bank notes; advocates unlimited coinage of silver dollars, etc., etc. The Broadway Savings Bank of St.. Louis, thelargestTh'stiruTlo'noTTtS'klnTTiriTyat'clty, suspended on the 21st. Over (100,00.) of the money belonging to the public schools was deposited with it. The bank had a heavy line of depos tors. J. M. French’s menagerie establishment, near Detroit-, was burned on the morning of the 22d. One elephant, five lions, a zebra, leopard, and other valuable animals perished in the flames. The seventh annual exhibition of the Chicago Inter-State Industrial Exposition is announced to open on the 31 of September and close on the 18th of October.

On the 23d, tbe assignee of Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, and his brother, tiled with the court a statement of assets aud liabilities as follows: Assets, *1,181,569.47, of which amount *418,536.28 is thought to be doubtful or worthless; liabilities, *3,697,651.49. Both branches of the Illinois General Assembly have passed a Militia bill which, in substance, forbids the arming of independent bodies. Before such will be allowed to arm and parade, they must connect tlieihselves with some authorized military organization. A man named Nicholas Altenhofcr, living in the Town of Kewaskum, Wis., on the 23d, caught his six-weeks-old child by the heels and beatjout his brains on the kitchen wall. He then carried the dead infant two miles to a priest and acknowledged the crime. The Cashier of the lately-suspended Broadway Savings Bank, of Bt. Louis, J. P. Krieger, Jr, has been arrested for embezzlement ami criminal conversion of ,the funds of the insliiution. Suits a criminal proceedings have also l>cen commenced against the Directors. s On the evening of the 24th, the workingmen of San Francisco celebrated the adoption of the new by getting up an immense torchlight processiou. It was a pronounced success, over 10,000 torches being in line. The meeting of the California Democratic Btate Convention has been postponed until the Ist of July. 'The Republican Convention meets on the 15th of June In Chicago, on May 24th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at *l.ol%@l.ol%cash; *l.ol%(jf 1.01% for May; *l.ol%<gl 01% for June. Cash Corn closed at 35%c for No.. 2; 35%c for May; 35%c foi June. Cash Oats No. 2 sold. at. 29%c, and 29%c seller Juue. - Rye No. 2, 61@51%c. Barley No. 2,64365 c for cash. Cash. Mess Pork , closed at *9 50 @9.55. Lard closed at *[email protected]%. Beeves —Eltra brought *4 [email protected]; Choice, *4 65 @4-80; Good, *[email protected]; Medium Grades, *4.00524 35; Butchers’ Btock, *2.65&4.W; Btock Cattle, etc, *2.40@3.«5. Hogs—Good to Choice, *[email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, *2.75(g5.60. — ; L, foreign Intelligence. According to Bombay telegrams of the 19th, armed bands of robbers were travt rstni the Poonah District and engaged in murder, rapine and incendiarism. In a proclamation issued by Wassado Bulwund, their leader, a priee was set upon tbe Governor’s head aud a Repetition of tbe horrors of the Indian Mutiny threa toned. The latest intelligence from Mandalay, re-’ Ofived On the 19tb, was to tbe effect that the Kiqg of Burmah bad ordered fresh levies of trppps/Md that all foreigners had been' forbmn tcosM to tb« Royal residence.

Ahooanptfl lo Bt. Petersburg dispatches of the 19th, news hi d that clay been received of the defeat of the Russian Army at Morv by the Tekko-Turcomans. Tier Russians Vow forced to retreat anil leave behind them an Immense quantity of booty. Full returns of, the recent vote In Switzerland, upon the question of the re-establish-ment of capital punishment, give 191,197 ballots in favor, and 117,260 against. ACOORPINO tolSlinla dispatches of the 19th, the Vice-Royal Council had that diy been summoned to consider the draft of the Afghan Treaty. a The cholera has made its appearance In most of the cities of the Punjaub. A Berlin telegram of the 20th announces the resignation of Herr Forekcnbach, the President of the Gorman Parliament. 1 He assigns as reasons for the resignation his 111liealth and the antagonism between hi* own v<ews on the tariff question and those of the mujorlty of the Reichstag, llerr vonSlaufenberg had also announced Ids Intended resignation of the Vice-Presidency, lor substantially similar reasons. Owing to the failure of the African Trading Company of Rotterdam, VV. l’olak ik Co. and S> men* A Co., of the same city, lave beep forced to suspend, and the Bank of Mtlnlvcn, the Bank of Darmstadt ami the Bank of Roti ter dam are said to tie seriously embarrassed, lolly, Kolb Hi Co., a London house with Hoi land connections, was also forced to suspend payment on the 20th. 4 A London tele?,ram of the 20th announces thj conclusion of peace with the Ameer of Afghanistan. The Macedonian insurgents have re'used the Turkish peace proposals, and sent a deputation to th ; Powers, demanding autonomy. llerh Seydenjte, a prominent Conservative, was elected President of the German Heidis'arr, on the 21st, to fill the vacancy fchu-cd hy the resignation of Von Forekcnbach. PiKiiuß Jules Mene, the distinguished French sculptor, died, at Paris, on the 22(1.. The Phillippopolis Committee, which was formed to promote the union of Bulgaria and Roumrlia, has been dissolved, through the influence of the clergy of that city. i/ According to an Athens (Greece) telegram of the 22d, an engagement had been fought at Perlasia, Thessaly, between the Turkish troops and the Thessalian insurgents, in which the former lost 45i) men killed ami wounded, and the latter, seventy, including their leader. T“ William Shaw, Member of Parliament for Cork County, Ireland, has been chosen by the Home-Rulers in the British House of Commons as their leader, in place of Dr. Isaac Butt, deceased. The Rotterdam Trading Company has, it is announced, lost 7,000.000 florins bv the failure of the African Trading Company, of that city, and has been forced to ask the indulgence of its creditors. Beveral of the Antwerp hanks are also greatly embarrassed by the failure. Sophie von IlEitsEriELu and a male accomplice have been sentenced to be shot at Kfeff, Russia, for belonging to an illegal society, for forging passports and for attempting the assassination of policemen. Ax Athens dispatch of the 23d says Greece was getting ready to mobilize 30,(XX) men, and bad sent an officer to J,he United . States to purchase iron clads. On the 23d, the British Privy Council directed that all foreign cattle be slaughtered within fourteen days of arrival, instead of ten days as heretofore. According to Berlin telegrams of the 23d, Germany and Franco were heartily co-oper-ating oti the Greek question, and opposing the British methods of solution. President Grew pardoned 400 Communists, on the 24th. The British Government lias ordered the prosecutiou of the Directors of the West of England and South Wales Bank, on the charge of misrepresenting the financial condition of the bank in their annual report. According to a Hague dispatch of the 25th, there had been fighting again In Acbeen, in which the Dutch were successful. An Athens telegram of the 25th says the agitation in Crete was increasing, and a rising was feared. Congressional Proceedings. Consideration of the Legislative, Exccntiveand Judicial Appropriation bill was resumed in the Senate, on the 19th, and Mr. IMame madwa tenftthy-speech. 8B the political

legislation of the bill, Messrs. Bayard, Morgan, Hampton and Vance answering certain points made by the speaker. Mr. Logan offered an amendment in effect giving to honorably dig charged wounded or diseased Union soldiers the preference for appointment to civil offices and liositions in Government Departments, when qualified therefor, which amendment was ruled out of order as changing the existing, law. The bill was reported liack to the Semite, and the amendments made in committee were agreed to. except one authorizing the appointment Of three I additional clerks in the Postoffica Department, which was disagreed to—2s to 26. ft was then agreed that the vote on the so-called political part of the bill should be taken at four p. m. on the 20th. , House net in session. In the Senate, on the 20th, Mr. McDonald asked leave to introduce a bill authorizing the President of the Pnitecf.States to employ the militia and land and naval forces of the United States to enforce the laws whenever their exeention is obstructed by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the judicial authorities, etc., and preventing the military from being used as a jtosse comi talus, except in cases as authorized by the Constitution Rnd laws: but Mr. Edmunds objected to the introduction of the bill, on the ground that previous notice had not been given, and Mr. McDonald then gave notice that he should subsequently ask leave to introduce it. .... Further debate was had on J the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, after which motions made by Mr. Edmunds to strike out the political clauses of the bill were defeated, and the bill as amended was then passed—37.t0 27. ..The Contagious Diseases bill was taken up, but without any action thereon the Senate adjourned to the 22d. In the House, the Warner Silver bill was taken up. and the third section, allowing a deposit of bullion in any mint and its being coined for the benefit of the owner, was finally agreed to—ll 3 to 110-after which the fourth section, providing that charges for melting and refining should be fixed by the Director bf the Mint, was amended such charges shall be the difference between the market value of bnlfion and the legal tinder of coin. The Democrats and Green hackers who voted V>x this amendment were: Beltzhoover, Bliss, Covert, De LaMatyr. Deuster, Gibson, Hurri, Jones, Martin (Del.), Martin (N. C.), Morrison, Morse, O'Reilly, Poehler, Ross, Russell (N. O.k Springer. Talbot and F: Wand; and the Republicans and who voted against it were: Daggett, Ford, Gillett, Kelley, I .add, Lowe, March, Steven'on. Weaver and Yokuro. A motion to reconsider and to lay such motion on the table (thus making the vote on the amendment final) was agreed to—ll 6to 105 - which result was greeted with applause on the Republican side. The Senate was not in session on the 2Ht In the House, the Legislative Appropriation bill was received from the Senate and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.... A bill was introduced and referred for an International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Products in New York City....the Silver bill was taken up, and the fourth section as amended was agreed to-113 to 109--. he Republicans greeting this result with applause. Fifteen Democrats and one Greenbacker voted in tbe affirmative. A motion to reconsider was then tabled - 110 to 109. The fifth section, permitting tbe payment of small silver coins to the extent that they may be required in exchange for gold coin or for standard silver dollars, or for United States notes at par in sums of not less than fifty dollars, was agreed to. The sixth section, making gold coins and standard silver dollars legal tender in all payments, was amended—l 42 to 75—by the addition of a clause directing the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be paid out, without discrimination. standard silver coin belonging to tbe Government that may be in the Treasury, the same as gold coin, in liquidation of all kinds of coin obligations against the Government. and the section as amended was then agreed to. The seventh section, providing that silver coins of smaller denominations than one dollar shall be legal tender for any amount in any one pay, menti-Was also agreea-toT Tne eighth--Sijetioti-s&tborizing the issue of certificates for gold and silver coins and bullion tiaMfted. was then read, and Mr. Wanttropfted the previous quettioD. refusing to asmwMoa Proposition of Mr. Isfeas:

V’ciiun on the table was subsequently defeated lMb* 1(12 and a motion to adjourn was then agreed to. Bf.vkral bills were reported from committees in the Senate, op the 23d .. .A bill was introduced to regulate tnlcroouzne with ciSzena of tbe Chinese Empire visiting or residing in the United States, and for other purpaeee.... Mr. McDonald asked end obtained leave to introduce the bill, of which he gave notice on the 20th, regulating the uae of the army... .The bill to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious and infectious diseases was taken up, and Mr. Harris stated that the appropriation asked for had been reduced from $650 (XX) to S6OOIXIO, on aerount of the removal from the hill of tbe direction to the board to investigate the diseases of cattle. Several amendments were offered and rejected. ' In the House, the bill to repeal and amend the laws relating to the transfer of cases from State to Federal Courts came up as the business of the morning hour, but the Republicans refused to vote on the demand for the previous question, and a cull of the House consumed the time, and the bill went over till tbe 24tb... ■ Consideration of the Warner Silver hill was, resumed and the committee's amendment was agreed to providing that certificates of deposit shall be in denominations of not less than five dollars, instead of ten dollars. It was decided that debate should be allowed on the eighth section, and. after discussion, the previous question was seconded on the section and the pending amendment thereto. An amendment was then agreed to making the minimum denomination of certificates twenty dollars, and providing that certificates of deposit shell be issued at the average market value of bullion in standard silver dollars in New York and Han Francisco for a week preceding such deposit. In the Senate, on the 23d, the Contagions an.l Infections Diseases bill was taken up, and several amendments were agreed to—one of which provides that tbe bill shall not remain in force for more than four years after its passage—and the bill as amended was finally passed—34 to 12. In the House, the Warner Silver bill was taken up. and the eighth section whh adopted as ami nded. The remaining sections of the bill were, after considerable debate, agreed to, and Mr. Warner moved the previous question on the engrossment and third reading of the bill, on which there wereeigbty-six yeas and no nays, the Republicans refusing to vote, ns they des'rednn iippnrtnnivy to offer amendments totthe bill. A roll-call sho.ved 100 members present, and the’ Sergeant-at Arms waa directed to take iuto custody and bring to the bar of the House such members as were absent without sufficient excuse. Severn' members were thus arraigned, and the usual noisy and amusing scenes took place when the delinquents were called upon to offer excusi s for their absence, the favorite excuse seeming to be " the pangs of hunger.” Motions to adjourn were voted down, and tbe House was still in srsaion at three o'clock on the morning of the 24th. the Sergeant-at-Arms being still searching for absentees, many of the members being asleep upon lounges at the rear of the desks. The Senate was not in session*jon the 21th. The all-night session of tbe Honse continued until nine o'clock in the morning, amid much filibustering nnd confusion, when a motion to adjourn finally prevailed-89 to 70.... The regular session began at n00n....A Constitutional amendment was introduced and referred relative to the election of President and VioePreaident .... Tbe Post-Route bill waa then passed, and the Silver bill was taken np, and Mr. Warner withdrew his demniKi for the previous question. A substitute offered by Sir. ltyan was then rejected—--69 to 137—and the bill was passed—ll 4to 97 which result was greeted with hand-clapping on the Democratic side. The Republicans and Green backers wilio voted aye were; Messrs. Be Iford. Cannon. Daggett, De LaMatyr. Ford. Fort, Gillette. Ladd, Maish, Martin (N. C.). March, Russell (N. C.), Stevenson, Weaver and Yokum. The Democrats and Green back ere voting no were: Mes-rs. Bliss, Covert, Deuster, Hurd, Jones. Morrisen, Muller. Poehler and F. Wood. .... Adjourned to the 27th.