Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

F*w*i Washington Sbo’x Surma* iMaed a clrcuUr, on the 9Bth, requesting holder*of csllod-honds which ■MfltniUWore-the *m of July to send them toM*Ptp*|)WM>t for payment during the month of June. Jr thU way the holder* of neh bond* win receive phyment for them, Wtthhrtetuat to maturity, before the bonds W«*. AH United flute* bond, forwarded for redemption, should be addressed to the “Lain DleVdou, Secretary’* Office." end all registered bond* should be assign**! to “The Seotetarj of the .Treasury —for redemption.” Tn* Ways and Means. Committee of the National House' hare reported a resoluUon for theufltouniment of OtMferesa on June 10. TM Chief of the Bureau of Statistic*, in ttie tenth monthly statement of the current flscsl year of tm porta and export* of the United gtiha says the excess of exports over Imports of merchandise was, for the ten months endbijt April SO, of (his year, (041,*443,623; da.TWS, f227',*4£,<187. POr the twelve months •ndta**prit|o,.lß7fi,i $272,815,719; do., 1878, f221A80,01A A WxsunhßTOjt telegram of the 28th says that President did uo* advise the sending of boat*d°wa the Mississippi to bring north the colored refugees said to be awaiting transporUtkn, as had bten'stetod. A Wusisston dispatch of the 28th says it was positively and authoritatively denied that the Preaidant had decided to disapprove the ffodinga of the Court of Inquiry in the FitsJohn Porter case. Oil the 39th, the President vetoed the act making appropriations for the Legislative. Executive and Judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 90, 1880. Hoy. E. C. Ixgebsoll, ex-Member of Congress froth Illinois, and brother and lawpartner of OL Robert Ingersnll, died at bis residence in Washington, on the morning of the 31st nit., of heart disease. Taut coinage of the United States Mint during the month of May footed up 1,795,090 pieces, valued at $2,094,508.

A dispatch from Washington on the 31st nil'announces that the last of the ten-dollar refunding certificates had been delivered to the Treasnrerand would be distributed, on the 3L among the Postmasters who bad filed the necessary bonds and become depositaries. This t lxes all forms of subscription to the 4-per-eent. bonds, and no one need hereafter apply at the Treasury Department for them. At Washington, on the Slst ult., the Democrats of both houses of Congress met in joint caucus and, alter full discussion, decided to pass, at the preaent session the Army and Legislative bills divested of their political sections, which would be passed and presented to the Executive as Independent measures. It was resolved also that the Army Appropriation bill should provide that , troops should not be transported into any State for election purposes, and that the Legislative Appropriation bill should contain bo appropriation to pay Deputy Marshals and Supervisors appointed to set In elections. Tb£ construction of these bills was committed to ar Sub-Committee consisting of Senators Thqrman, Baton, Vance and Bailey, and Rcpresefi'tativcs Ewing and Reagan. The follofftAg tea statement of the United States currency outstanding, on the Slst nit.: Old dbmsbd notes, 861,530; legal-tender notes, all ibsnes, 3346,661,016; one-year notes of 1863, (49,285; two-year notes of 1863, $14,350; two-year coupon notes of 1863, $23,750; com pound Interest notes, $261,660; fractional currency, all issues, $15,874,781. Total, $362.986,322. _ The East. The United Btates District Attorney for the Southern District of New York has filed a bill of discovery lb the ctse of the United States against Samuel J. Tilden, to recover for an alleged nonpayment of income tax. Richard's cotton storage warehouse, in. New Yqrk City, was burned by an incendiary fire on the night of the 26th. Loss on building and contents, $330,000. A call has been issued for a meeting of the Maine Republican State Convention, at Bangor, on the 28th of June. The Globe Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, closed its doors, on the 27th., Ox the 27th, Henry Ackley, an inmat* of the PnUadelplria House of Refuge, twelve years old, was locked up in a dark cell as a punishment for some trifling offense. He became crazed with flight and killed himself. Ox the afternoon of the 28th, the fifty-fifth anniversary of the American Baptist Publication Society was held at Saratoga, N. Y. The total receipts of the Bociety for the year were stated to he (335,413, and the total issues since 1824 footed up 107,300,000 books, tracts and periodicals. During the passage of the schooner Mary A. Witham from Miragoane to New York, re cently, three seamen died of yellow fever. Cardinal kcCix»SKET and the Catholic prelates who recently assembled in New York City to aasi t in the dedication of SL Patrick’s Cathedra] have issued an address to CatlMics, calling upon them to contribute to a fund for the payment of the debts of Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati. It is stated that New York bankers donated the sum of SIOO,OOO as a starter. Miss Delia Wheeleb, only sister of VicePresident Wheelqr, died at Malone, N. Y., on the evening of the 28th. She was sixty-five years old. Funeral services 1 were held over the remains of William Loyd Garrison in Roxbyry, Mass., on the 23th. Eloquent eulogies were > prono meed by Wendell Phillips, Rev. Samuel Johnson. ; Theodore D. Weld and Lucy Stone Blackwell, after which the deceased was accompanied by a large number of people to the Forest Hill Cemetery. A dispatch from Island Pond, Vt, on the 30th nit., says there had so far been eleven deaths of the children who drank from a poisoned brook in that vicinity, a few days before. Of these, five were the children of John Aldrich—his entire family. Edward Moore lost two; Fred Simpson, one; L. Wilson, one; John Cole, one, and Mr. Park, one. Others could not live. Twenty-seven children were poisoned by drinking from the brook. Potato tops, poisoned by Paris-green, which were throw into the stream, were regarded as the cauaa of the poisoning, rather than the carcasses of dead animals. Terrible distress prevailed Id the town, and Work was suspended. The farmer who allowed the carcasses to be thrown in the water would be arrested. v Thb Women’s Home Mission Society of the West, at their session at Saratoga, N, Y., on the 3Dth tilt., adopted resolutions instructing the Executive Board, whenever the new organization authorized by the American Baptist Home Mission Society should be properly formed, to transfer the works, assets and papers to such and also instructing such,Board & affectionately invite their auxiliaries and branches to transfer their relations totke Society in New York. In the meantime a foil set of officers were chosen to keep up the old organization until they see fit to dissolve. Mrs. J. N. Crouse, of Chicago, was elected President. -v, Thb following were the dosing quotations for produce in New York, on May 3Dt: Na 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected], No. 2 Milwaukee, tU.3® 1.06. Oats Westlarn Mixed, 86# 35)4c-. Coro, Western J^usd,

41#44c. Pork, Mesa, *9.05#10.10. Laid, Flour, Good to Choice, $4.00 #450; White Wheat Extra, $4.56(45.25. Cattle. $7.75#0.80 for Good to Extra. Sheep (clipped), $8.00#5 3& Hogs, $3.70# 890. At East Liberty, Pa., ou May 81st, Cattle brought: Beat, $& 10«5.75; Medium, $4.00# 5.00 ; Common, $3 70#4.25 Hog* sold— Yorkers, $3.50#365; Philadelphia, $3.05# A 75. Sheep brought s3.7s#4.2U—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on May 29th, Cattle brought; Best, $3.0033.50; Medium $A50#4.25. Hogs sold at $4,501*5.87)4 sots Good. Sheep were quoted at (3.50# 4.50 fdr Good.

West an<l Sooth. Jrixjß Baxter, United States Judge of tlic Sixth Judicial Circuit, has recently decided that the acta of the Ix-gtslsture of Tennesaee repealing the charter of the City of Memphia and creating the taxing district of Memphla are unconstitutional and void.' Ox the rooming of. the 38th, a band of masked men entered the Jail at Bakersfield, Cal., overpowered the Jailer, and took Thomas and William Y oakum, two brothers charged with murder, and hung them to the gratings of their cells. The announcement was made, ou the 27tli, that the National Agricultural Congress would meet, next fall, lit the City of Madison, Wls. The Congress was appointed to be held at Atlanta, Ga., but fears of yellow fever have Induced the change to Wisconsin. Tub Ohio Kcpubllcan State Convention was held In Cincinnatian the 28th, and tlic follow - (agnominations were made: Coventor,Charles Foster; Lieutenant-Governor, Gen. A. Hlckenloper; Supreme Judge, W. W. Johnson; Attorney-General, George K. Nash; Auditor, John F. Oglebee; Treasurer, Joseph Turney; Member of Board of Public Works, James Fullington. The resolutions condemn, very emphatically,’the course of those now controlling both branches of Congress; felicitate the party on the success which has followed the financial efforts of the Administration, andthsnk and -honor the President and the liepubllcan members of Congress for the stand they have taken against the carrying out of the design &or the Democratic majority In the National Legislature, etc., etc. Tlie Greenback State Convention of lowa met at DesMolnes, on the 38th. John Porter was elected President. There were two elements In the Convention, one favoring the

payment of bonds in legal tender notes, and the other in favor of such payment being made in the lawful money of the Government, gold, silver or legal-tender notes. Tlic latter party prevailed, whereupon the WapeHo County delegation withdrew from the Convention. The resolutions adopted declare that (.be Government shall issue all money, whether gold, silver or paper, all to be a legal tender for tbe payment of all debts, public or private, and that the Government bonds be paid in the legal-tender money of the country as soon as possible; that the National Ranks must be abolished, and legal-tender greenbacks be substituted for their circulation; demand the unlimited coinage of the silver dollar; Indorse the Arrears-of-Pensions act; condemn “the violence of party spirit in the legislative halls of Congress, which seeks to revive the dead issues of the past, while conspiring against and deliberately refusing to provide measures oFrellef adequate to the necessities of the present;” denounce all interference, either by threats, by bands of armed men, or by troops at the polls, or by frand or bribery, with the right of all qualified electors to vote according to their ednscientious convictions; demand that all official fees and salaries shall be from 25 to 50 per cent.; the use of all just and legal means for the suppression of ihe evils of intemperance; favor the repeal of the Railroad Commissioners law and the adoption of suitable legislative action to restrain and equalize freight; etc.* etc. Nominations were made as follows: For Governor, Daniel Campbell, of Clark County; Lieu-tenant-Governor, M. 11. Moore, of Dubuque; Supreme Judge, M. H. Jones, of Dav.s; Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. A. Nash, of Polk County. Ox the morning of the 29tli, the Washington House in Hagerstown, Md., was burned to the ground. Many of the guests managed to escape by sliding down the pillars of the porch, but eight persons were burned to death, and thirty-five were more or less injured. A RAin was recently made by members of the Bhcep-Eaters Tribe of Indians upon the settlements located on the South Fork of the Salmon River, in Oregon, in which two men. named nugh Johnson and Paseall Dawson, were killed. A cyclone swept over portions o$ Holt and Nodaway Counties In Missouri, near Barnard and Bolckow, twenty-five miles north of St. Joseph, on the evening erf the 29th ult. The storm moved at a velocity of sixty miles an hour, demolishing houses, uprooting trees and destroying property of every description. Tne direction of the cyclone was northeast and southwest, and when several miles east of Barnard it suddenly disappeared. Its track, covering territory half a mile wide, was a scene of desolation. A number of casualties are reported. The Illinois House of Representatives, on the 30th ult., voted down the “ Hinds Temperance bill”—that allowing women to vote on the License question—by a vote of 52 ayes to 56 noes. j, Decoration Dat (Friday, 30th ult.) was very generally and. appropriately observed throughout the entire West and East and in many portions of the South. The exercises mainly consisted, as usual, of processions, addresses and the strewing of flowers on the graves of the patriotic dead. All the bnsiness houses on the west side of Main, street, in the Town of Silver Reef, in Utah, and some twenty residences, were burned, on the morning of the 31st ult. The seventy-five hour walk, at Chicago, for the O’Leary belt and the championship, was brought to a successful close, on the evening of the 31st ult. The score of the lour leading men at the close was: Parry, 263 miles; Dobler, 263; Banks, 254; Sherry, 243. On (he Slst ult., by a majority vote, the Tennessee Supreme Court decided that the act of the Tennessee Legislature repealing the charter of the City of Memphis was Constitutional and valid, thus deciding directly contrary to the conclusion of the Judge of the United States Court, a few days before. A salute of 100 guns was fired from the Bluffs, in Memphis, when the decision wa6 announced. A terrific tornado passed over portions of Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri, ou the nighY of the 30th ult. Its course was markyd by death and desolation. Building; and everything that lay In its path were leveled and scattered like chaff. Up to the evening of the 31st ult, reports bad b»en received that more than fifty persons had been killed. Both houses of the Illinois Legislature adjourned Hue die on the 31st ult. The Legislature of Michigan formally closed its sessions on the Slst ult, although no business had been transacted for several days before, and most of the members had gone borne. ", lx Chicago, on May 31st, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at $1.0101.01)4 cash; sl.ol@ 1.01)4 for June; 98)4@96J4c for July. Cash Corn closed at 35)4c for Na 2; 35)4c for June; 36%c for July. Cash Oats No. 3 sold at 29c,' and' 29c seller Juue. Rye No. 2, 52#52)4c. Barley No. 2, 65@67c for cash. Cash Mess Pork closed at $9.70 @9.63)4. Lard closed at [email protected])4- Becvev —Extra brought [email protected]; Choice, (4.70 Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hoga—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, $2.5005.00.

Foreign Intelligence. Gen. Bin Garnet Woinelev wh, on the aOlh, appointed Commander-In-Chief of the Hrit sli fares* In South Alclca, relieving Lord CbelmafonL 7*" Katherine Cm Rcntix was hung In the Jail, at Taunton, Kng., on the 26th, for the murder of her husband, at Chard, some months ago. • Tiie British steamer Ara was recently sunk in a collision off the coast of ludta. Seventy lives were lost y 41 Notice was given In the British House of Commons, on the night of the 36th, that Yakoob Khan, the Ameer of Afghanistan, and the British representative had each signed a detlnitive treaty of peace. It was stated that every political and commercial advantage sought for by the British had been secured. A telegram was received- from Siberia at St Petersburg, on the 26th, announcing the arrival at Bchrlag’s Straits of the Vega, with Prof. Nordensjold, of the Swedish Exploring Expedition, on board. INTEL!JOBXCB was received in St. Petersburg, on Ihc Stith, that the Nihilists had lately set fire to a village In the District of Ufa. Over 180 bouses were burned. A London telegram of the 27th says the Arbitrator, to whom was referred the question of the reduction of the wages of the South Yorkshire coalminers, had decided against any reduction whatever. A Naples (Italy) dispatch of the 27tli announces a violent eruption from Mount Etna. AteoHOlKi) to a Simla dispatch of the 27th, the late treaty with Yakoob Khan provides that India shall pay that potentate a yearly subsidy of six lacs of rupees.. Delioeokois, tuc Greek Minister of Finance, died, at Athens, on the 27th. According to a Pliilippopolls dispatch of the 2S»th, Aleko Pasha, the .newly-appointed Governor of Eastern Itumelia, had that day entered upon his duties In that city. In obedience to the express command of the Sultan, he wore the red fez, the symbol of Turkish authority, much to the disgust of the Panslavlst inhabitants of the city. Two extensive conflagrations have recently occurred at Moscow, presumably the work of the Nihilists. The successful horse In the Derby races, on the 28th, was Lord Norrey’s S r Bevys. Lorillard’s Uncas, the American horse, was withdrawn before the start. A Pahis dispatch of the 29th announces the death, from yellow fever, of M. Roche Monart, the French Minister to Hayti, after an Illness of two hours. Ills Private Secretary and the First Secretary of Legation had also died from the same disease, and the Second Secretary of Legation was sick. At Purls, on the 29th, the Ship-Canal Congress adopted, by a vote of 98 to 8, the Panama and Lemon Bay route across the Isthmus of Darien. The Congress immediately thereafter dissolved. Accokiiixo to Messina (Italy) telegrams of the 29th, the eruption from Mount Etna had increased greatly in volume, and a huge stream of lava was pouring down the western slope, threatening several villages with destruction, and causing great alarm among the inhabitants. Mefsina itself had suffered from showers of cinders. The British troops In Afghanistan have been ordered hack to the newly-established frontier lines. Tiie American horse Parole won another victory over the Epsom course, in England, on the 30th ult., winning the gold cup and any quantity of side bets. According to Cape Town (South Africa) dispatches, received on the 30th ult., a large force of dissatisfied Zulus, leaving the country to surrender to the British, had been intercepted a few' days before by the army loyal to King Cetewayo, and after a desperate engagement in which many on both sides were killed* overwhelmed and driven back; A train on the Madrid <& Saragossa Railway was captured by Spanish brigands, on the 20th ult., and robbed of 18,000. Lacoste, a Frenchman naturalized la the United States some years ago, has been expelled from France for renouncing his nationality without performing his military duty. United States Minister Norris endeavored to avert the enforcement of the oider, but was able to accomplish nothing^ According to a Rome (Italy) dispatch of the 30th ult., the Pope had prepared an encyclical protesting against the bill passed by the Italian Parliament reqalring the civil marriage to precede the religious ceremony. On the 31st ult., William Henry Purchard, of the engineering firm of Clark ifc Pureliard, of London, failed for $4,500,000. The Governor General of St. Petersburg Las ordered that no more poisons he sold in that citv. ” ip The overflow of lava from Mount Etna lias destroyed the Village of AWOT77 Prtnce issued a notetothe authorities of the Cities of Hamburg and Bremen, on the 31st ult., Inviting them to surrender their privileges as free ports.

Congressional Proceedings. In the Senate, on the 26th, the bill to provide for an exchange of subsidiary coins for lawful money, and making snch coins a legal tender in sums not exceeding twenty dollars, was debated, as were also the bills relative to the transportation of animals, and authorizing the employment of the militia and land and naval forces in certain cases, and to repeal the Election 1aw8... .The President pro tern, announced his signature to the Legislative ApproS nation bill, the House having agreed to the enate amendments thereto, and the Speaker having signed the same. The House was not in session. In the Senate, on the 27th, the bill relative to the transportation of animals was taken up and debated, and, on motion of Mr. Edmunds, the subject was then postponed until the first Mondav in December next. In the House, the bill relative to the removal of cases from State to Federal Courts came up, the pending motion being to second the previous question, but the Republicans resorted to the, policy of refusing to vote, and thus consumed the morning hour, the bill going over without action.... '1 he Senate bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States was considered and passed, without amendment. The bill to make subsidiary coin exchangeable for lawful money was taken np in the Senate, on the 28th, and amended so as to make such coin legal tender in snms not exceeding ten (instead of twenty) dollars. Other amendments were also agreed to, an 4 the bill as ameqded eras passed.... The bill providing that the principal officers of the Executive Departments of the Oovemment may occupv seats on the floors of the Senate and House was, on motion of Mr. Pendleton, referred to acommitteeof ten, to be appointed by the Chair... .'A bill was 'introduced in relation to the election of Senators from the State of New Hampshire. In the House, the bill relative to the removal of causes from State to Federal Courtrf came up aa regular business of the morning hour, but the Republicans refused to vote, thus leaving the House without a quorum, and the hour was used up without any advance being made in the bill. ... A bill was introduced and referred to convert the gold in the Treasury into silver, and to authorize the issuing of certificates therefor.... A bill relating to the issue of bonds by the District of Columbia Commissioners was passed, the amount being limited to (1,200,000. In the Senate, on the 29th, the McDonald bill to authorise the pee of military forces in certain cases was taken up, and Mr. Wallace moved to strike out the fifth section andgnbV stitute what were known as the political clauses of the Legislative bilL Mr. Wallace then spoke in favor of the bill, and during the discussion a spicy personal debate occurred between Messrs. Blaine and Hill...,The President pro ttm. announced the following as the select committee on the bill providing that the principal Executive officers of the Government may occupy seats 6n the floors of the Senate and House: Messrs. Pendleton, yoorhees, Bayard, Butler. Farley, Conkling, Allison. Blaine, Ingalls and Platt.,..Adjourned to Jhne 2. In the House, a resolution was reported from Abe-Ways and.-Means Committee for the .final adjournment of Congress bn the 10th of Jane. -. . fTbc message df the President, vetoing the Legislative Appropriation bill, was .received, read and referred. , Jhe vote on the passage of the bill over thereto resulted in 112 yeas to 91

nays, leaa than the net saury two-thirds in (he affirmative, i Thu wee a strict party rate, only four Green backer* voting - two affirmatively, and two negatively... The Senate amendments to the Buhaidiarv Coinage bill (the principal one being that limiting the legal.tender quality of ■ubetdiary coin to ten dollar* instead of twenty dollar*) were concurred in.... Adjourned to June 2. ■ •