Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

- -. Washington Ti * President sent a massage to the National Hoots ot Representatives on the SflVl, yotoiog the taiptemautary Judicial Appropriation hi), and one announcing his approval of the Amy Appropriation Mil. Tn total Bales of refunding certificates up totha SBd aaountel to taa,HSU,mu, leaving but $!«,« to bn disposed of. Information has recently been received at tha Dapartnaeat of State in Washington that the period tor resetting applications for spar* In ilia International Exhibition at Melbourne, Australia, has boon extended to October 81, 1879. Tn Secret Service branch of the Treasury Department baa lately oeeu informed that a new counterfeit Ove dollar legal-tender note has been put In drcnlatlon in various parts of the country. It purports to be of the aeries of 1835, and besua the names of Allison. Register, and Wyman, Treasurer. It Is executed on printed imitation fiber, which la lighter than the genuine. Experts pronounce It to be a dangerous counterfeit. Tn Democratic members of both houses of Congress lull a caucus on the afternoon of the 95th, to receive the joint report of their Advisory Committees on the subject of making further provision for next year’s Judicial expenses. The report presented recommended the passage ot two Mbs In lieu of the bill that had just bean vetoed, one to provide for the ordinary expenses of the Courts, and the second appropriating #600,000 for fees of United States Marshals and their Deputies, bat prohibiting the use of any money appropriated for the payment of Marshals for service in connection with elections on election date. A resolution was rejected—4l to 70— declaring in favor of the passage again of the recently-vetoed bi!L The report of the Advisory Committees was, after an animated discussion, dually agreed to, the btlie to be reported to the House through the Committee on A >| roprtations. During the year ended May 31, 1879, the excess of exports of merchandise over imports amounted to #269,709,876. Tub Uulted flutes Senate, on the 28th ult., rejected the nomination of D. T. Corbin, of South Carolina, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. The East. A negro named Chastine Cox was arrested in Boston on the 23d, charged with being tbe perpetrator of the mysterious murder of Mrs. Hull, of New Tore. He was formerly em ployed as private waiter at Mr. Hull’s bouse. A portion of the jewelry stolcD from the house at the time of the murder was found In a pawn-shop in Boston, and Mrs. Hull’s watch was found on his person. He made a full confession, saying that he entered the house on the night of the murder for the purpose of jobbery only, and that he did not Intend to kill her. A fxw days ago, Professor Swift, of Rochester, N. Y-, discovered a new comet in the constellatioa Peiseus, right ascension, two minutes thirty aiconds, declination north, fifty-eight degrees. It is quite bright and has a short tail, and Is moving eastof north at the rate of shout one degree per day. hf v. Hknrt C. Rxii.lt was consecrated Episcopal Bishop of Mexico, at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 24th. Ox the afternoon of the 23th, at Hamburg, N. Y., a special coach attached to the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern express, and conalning a funeral party bouud east, was thrown from the track and overturned, the heat having spread the rails. O. E. Britt, a prominent Milwaukee merchant, and Mrs.d£dwin Marshall, of Medina, X. Y., were fatally, and five others severely, Injured. Oxthe2slh, by a party vote, the- New Hamp-h re Legislature adopted resolutions commending tte course of the President In vetoing the various appropriation bills. At Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 23th, Ralph Woods, seven years old, undertook to kindle a fire in the kitchen stove by pouring kerosene 0.l upon the hot embers. Tbe inevitable explosion followed, and the burning oil was scattered in all directions, fatally burning Ralph, and slightly burning his infant brother. Thb Maine Republican Btate Convention was held at Bangor on the 26th. D. F. Davis, of Corinth, was nominated for Governor, on the third ballot. The resolutions adopted declare that this country is a Nation, and not a confederation of States; that it is the right and duty of the Government to protect the citizen and insure an honest and pure ballot; that the action of the Democratic majority in Congress is a revolutionary attempt to coerce the Executive; pledge to tbe President and the Republican members of both houses of Congress a hearty support in their efforts In opposition to the alleged revolutionary course of sueb Democratic majority. A boiler in an engine bouse attached to a saw and planing mill on Front street in Philadelphia exploded on tbe morning of the 27th, shattering to pieces tbe buildings adjacent. One bouse was razed to the ground, so that a stranger would hardly conjecture its previous existence, and in the ruins were buried a wnole family. The engineer was instantly killed. A Mrs. McAvoy and her three children and Claude and Stella Long, children of one of the tenants, were killed in the rules of the house above mentioned. In one bouse one «nd of the exploded boiler shot through the brick wall and lodged on tbe second floor, and so demolished wverything that all evidence of habitation except the building ltseir was extinct. Thx body of Madame Holland, who was lately carried over Niagara Falls, was .recovered on the 27th. At New London, Conn., on the 27th, the eight-oared race between crews from Harvard and Yale Colleges occurred, the former proving an easy winner in twenty-two minutes ami fl f ♦mmki aftfirtn ila ; _< ill Let? II SrntiHiH. A strike was in progress among the spinners at Fall River, Mass., on the 28th ult., and a slight disturbance occurred in one of tbe mill -on the afternoon of that day. Aid waa being solicited throughout New England and In New in behalf of the strikers. The following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on June 28th: No. B. Chicago Spring Wheat, 81.1! @1.15; Na 2 Milwaukee, #1.1101.15. , Oats Western Mixed, Corn, Western Mixed, 40ai3tfc. Pork, Mess, [email protected]. Lard, •8.33® i Flour, Good to Choice, *4.15 ® t 50; White Wheat Extra, #4.5505.25. Cattle, #8.00010.00 for Common to Extra. Sheep (dipped), #8.0004.50. Hogs, *3 90® 4.20. At East Liberty, Pa., on June 28th, Cattle brought: Best, 84.9005.00; Medium, 83.800 4.40; Common, fl.ttiof.OO. Hogs sold— Yorkers, #10601.05; Philadelphia, $4,150 4.89. Sheep brought sß.ooo4.7s—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on Jane 28th, CatUa brought; Bart, $4.5006.60; Medium $8.6001.28. Hogs sold at $4.7505.50 for Good. Sheep were quoted at $8.0004.20 for Good. _) Wait and South. Rxr. Robert Colltxr, the distinguished Chicago Unitarian clergyman, has resigned the pastorate of Unity Church in that city, and accepted a call to the Church of tbe Messiah to New York City. Thx rnrtdeaoe of J. F. Reynolds, In Jones NtXW, <!•., wue destroyed by fire on the mprplagof the 93d, and his daughter and sister-in-law, young girls aged twelve and sixteen yean, respectively, perished In the flames. Reynolds was also totally burned.

A call tor a State Convention of tbe Greenbsckers of Wisconsin has been laaard. Tbe place is Watertown, tbe time July 13, and the Object, the nomination of a State ticket. Aoooanixatoa Frankfort. (Ky.) dispatchof the 23d, abend of unknowu men attacked the house of Samuel Faulkner, at Sand R *<\ twelve miles distant, on tbe eight of the 91st, sail severely wounded him as be was escaping from the batk door. They then set fire lo the house and it was burned to the ground. The inmates, Henry Russell, seventeen years old, and Faulkner’s two daughters, aged twelve and three years, respectively, perished in the flames. At Beloit, Wisconsin, on the 341 b, Miss Martha Feet, in 187 ft Chairman of th< Wisconsin Women’s Centennial Committee, committed suicide by hanging. The First National Bank of MouticiTlo, Ind., fa ted on the 241 h. A Convention ot the Nationals who withdrew from the Columbus Convention was held In Toledo, Ohio, on the 24 th/ The Convention refused to nominate a State ticket, but adopted a plitform declaring that the United States should exercise its roost vital function, the coinage of money, without the interference of any foreign power; that the Government should supply the entire currency medium; that all bank issues should be suppressed; that the so-called specie resurrifc tion is a fraud and a swindle; that tbe locking up of the people’s money In the National Treasury is in atrocious and Inexcusable crime; that the coinage of the silver dollar ol 41214 grains should be unlimited; etc. On tbe morning of the ‘2sth, at Kansas City, Mo, C. L Hart and wife died from drinking tea made of stramonium, which Mrs. Hart liuil prepared under the impression that, it was boneset The River Improvement Convention, called to meet in Quincy 111., til July, has been postponed until some time In the Fall. Congress being in session, and many Senators and Representative' being, consequently unable to he present, arc the alleged reasons for the postponement. The Ohio Democratic State Central Committee met at Columbus on tbq 20th, and organized by electing John G. Thompson as Chairman; J. Frank McKinney, as Chairman of the Executive Committee; Irving Duugan, as Vice-Chairman, and J. G. Rinehart, as Treasurer. In the evening, in response to a serenade. General Ewing and General Klee, the candidates for Governor and LieutenantGovernor, respectively, made elaborate speeches. The boiler of the Government tug Clytle exploded on the Missouri River, a few miles below Nebraska City, Neb, on the 27th. Four persons were killed or fatally injured, ar.d several others were badly scalded. At Wytlieville, Va, on the 38th ult, as the east-liound mail train was passing a bridge, the engine and three cars broke through and plunged Into the creek, eighty feet below. The express messenger was killed outright, aud the conductor, two mall agents and several passengers were more or less seriously hurt. On the 28th ult, the steamer May Queen exploded her holler while backing out from Rockwell’s Island, in Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. The boat was utterly destroyed. Captain Rockwell, the owner, and Haines, the engineer, were fatally scalded and bruised, and some half score of passengers were more or less injured. A seventy-five hour walk between Dan O’Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, and Peter Crossland, the English Champion, was concluded at Chicago on the evening of the 28th ult., O’Leary proving the winner. His distance was 250 miles, ami Grassland's 225 miles and three laps. The stake was SIO,OOO and the gate receipts. Baltimore, Md, was visited, on the 38th ult., by a terrible wind aud rain storm. which dgjuged the principal streets and unroofed between forty and fifty buildings near the Custom-House and In the vicinity of the Maryland Institute. On the 28th ult., the Louisiana Constitutional Convention adopted a resolution, by a vote of 62 to 50, instructing the State officials not to pay the July Interest on the State bonds until so directed by the Convention. In Chicago, on June 28tb, Spring Wheat Na 2 closed at $1.070107)4 cash; 97&@ 97)4c for July; 91){®91%c for August Cash Com closed at 36<<130>6c for No. 2; 36)4 c for July; foi August. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 324£c, and 32%c seller July. Rye No. 2,53053 V& llarley No. 2, 70®70'jc for cash. Cash Mess Pork closed at $9.85 @9.87)4. Lard closed at #[email protected]){. Beeves —Extra brought $4.7505.00: Choice, #4.45 @4.65; Good, $4.1004.40; Medium Grades, $3.7504.00; Butchers’ Stock, #2 5003.75; Stock Cattle, etc., 82.4003.40. Hogs—Good to Choice, $3.6503.93. Sheep—Poor to Choice, *2 2504.75.

Foi-eiem Intelligence. The London Timex of the 23d says that great depression characterized business affairs at Sheffield. ■ During the week preceding there bad been local failures, with liabilities aggregating $10,000,000. - It is reported from Paris that the first sod of the Darien Canal will be turned on the Ist of January, 1880, and that the enterprise will be completed eight years afterward. According to London telegrams of the 24th, the ex-Empress Eugenie continued very much depressed, and there were great fears that she would succumb to her terrible affliction. Os the evening of the 24i.h, the Prince Jerome Napoleon issued a manifesto declaring that he adhered to his former declarations of republicanism; that he- was not a pretender to the Imperial throne, but that he was lawfully and by the Napoleonic rule, established by the founder of the house, the head of the family, and that its policy as a family or a dynasty should be and could only lawfully be dictated by himself. His dormant claims barred the succession of any other pretender. Several cases of yellow fever have recent* ly appeared near Lislion, Portugal. A committee of the French Assembly has reported in favor of the re-cstablishment'of divorce in France. A street disturbance occurred in Paris on the night of the 24th, between the Radicals and the Imperialists. A large number ol the former had gathered about the doors where the Imperialists were in consultation, and as the latter came out greeted them with loud cries of “Hutrah for the Zulus! Down with the Imperialists!” etc. The Imperialists, irritated by these exclamations, made a quick onslaught on the brawlers, and a lively street fight ensued, which was, with considerable difficulty, quelled by the police. According to St. Petersburg telegrams of the 26th, arson was rife in that city and throughout the Empire. The Town of Szyran, on the Volga, had been nearly destroyed by lire, and many persons had been arrested at Kieff, St. Petersburg and Moscow for clandestinely dealing in incendiary explosives. Abdul Rapmax, pretender to ihe Afghan throne, who has hitherto lived in Central Asia under , Russian protection, lias invaded Afghanistan, and the Afghan troops in Balkh have revolted. A Cairo (Egypt) dispatch of the 26th says the Sultan had that day issued his firman deposing the Khedive of Egypt, and appointing his son, Prfoee Mohammed Tewfik, As bis ■accessor. The latter had been publicly proclaimed Khedive from the walls of the citadel. The Khedive had expressed hie intention to reside permanently In' Paris, and to take his favorite wife thither. Tub Russian Nihilists recently stole 100,000 roubles from the military chest at Kieff, and left behind them a receipt signed by'the lutionenr .Committee. . j,.. Am insurrection has broken jqut In (be Djuraa district in Turkey, and tb* Governor of Ralonica has made an argent call npon the Porte for reinforcements.

Rome dispatches of the 27th say the Pope had abandoned for the present the ides of diplomatic relations with England. Ait'ohdinu to London dispatches of the 27th, a Protestant school-house in Maynus, Galway County, Ireland, had been sicked by a mob of Irish Catholics, and the. Bibles used therein thrown Into the scs. The late Prince Imperial’s will was opened on tbe 27th. His property is bequeathed to his mother, and Prince Victor Na;>oleon is designated an,jits aucccsaor. ..... According to Paris dispatches of the 28th ult, the Government had decided to require of all Generals of the Army a renewal of the oalli of allegiance to the Republic. A Tin.ia telegram, received on the 9Hlh nit, sajs the Tckkc Turcomans had made an Irruption a lnto Persian territory, captured and destroyed two forts and taken many prisoners. Tiik editor of the Paris Triboulel has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 3.000 francs for caricaturing President Grcvy. , Diking asevero thunder-storm which passed over Paris on the night ot the 29th ult, several (icraons Were killed ty lightning. According to a Bt. Petersburg telegram of the 39th ult, the Russian Minister of the Interior had issued orders to repress the truveliug4gftalors who were Inciting the peasants to disturbance by spreading false repprJs of the impending redistribution of land. It was dispatched from Constantinople on the 29th ult. that England and France had notified tljp Porte that they would not consent to the abrogation of the trade of 1861, which authorized the Khedive to conclude treaties with foreign powers and maintain an army.

Coiiffrcssiona] Proceedings. In the Senate on the 28d, a concurrent resolution wan reported from tho Committee on Appropriations fixing the date of final adjournment on the 20th.... A few unimportant bills were panned, and a resolution wan adopted directing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish information an to the action of the National Hoard of Health under the act authorizing the contract for the purchase and construction of refrigerating ships, etc. Among the bills introduced in the House was one to remove the duty on quinine, and one to prevent the payment of per diem to Members of emigres* when absent from their duties, except in esse of sickness... .The I’resident's message vetoing the Supplementary Judicial Appropriation bill was read, and the vote on the question whether the bill should be passed, notwithstanding the objections of the President, resulted in 104 yeas to 78 nays- not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. Ho the bill was defeated. In the Senate on the 24th, the resold tion fixing the 25th as the day for final adjournment was recommitted.... A joint resolution providing thirty days’ extra pay for Congressional employes bciDg under consideration, Mr. Ingalls offered in amendment, as an additional section, the provisions of the J udicial Expenses bill, just vetoed, divested of the political and jury clauses. Mr. Wallace moved to amend the amendment by adding the clause of the vetoed Judicial Kxpenses bill precluding the appoint ment of Deputy Marshals, which latter amendment was agreed to by a party vote. Mr. Wallace also moved to amend the resolution by adding the jury clause of the vetoed bill. In the House, a resolution for final adjournment at five o'clock on the 25th was defeated—--82 to 103—several Democrats voting in the negative. Among those voting no were the following Qreenbackers snd Democrats: -Acklen. Bouck, De La Matyr, Klam, livins, Felton. Ford, For, sythe. Gibson, Gillette, Herbert, Jones, Kinglaiwe, March, Myers, New, Parsons, Phister. Kichardson (H. C-), Stephens, Stevenson, Thompson. Upson, Weaver, Yocum...The Speaker announced the appointment of the following Select Committee on the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic: Davis (Mo ). Bouck, Nicholls, Simonton, Williams (Ala.), Brewer. Norcross, Miller and Updegraff (0hi0).... Mr. Briggs was appointed a member of the committee to investigate the alleged election frauds in Cincinnati, in place of McCook. dediued. ■. .The so-cal led Political Assessment bill was taken up. and the Republicans availed themselves of dilatory motions, etc., to prevent action upon it. A resolution was introduced in the Senate on the 25th, by Mr. Vest, declaring that the complete remonetization of silver, its full restoration as a money metal, and its free coinage by the Government, are demanded alike by the dictates of justice and wise statesmanship .. A concurrent resolution, submitted by Mr. Beck, providing for a joint committee of five Senators and seven Hepresentativea to reiiort next December what change, if any, should be made in the mode of guarding and collecting the revenue. and as to whether any change should be made in the method of appropriating money, whether by annual or permanent appropriation, was, after debate, referred to the Finance Committee ... Mr. Burnside introduced a joint resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, declaring that the people of the United States would not view without serious inquietude any attempt of the Powers of Europe to establish, under their protection and domination, a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien, and such action could not be regarded in any other light than as, a manifestation of nnfriendly feeling toward thes*> United States... .The joint resolution providing additional pay for the employes of Congress was taken up, and a lengthy debate followed on the pendinu amendment to add the language and provisions of the recently-vetoed Jndicial Expenses bill relative to Deputy Marshals and the jury question. Resolutions were adopted in the House instructing the Committee on Kules to sit during vacation for the purpose of codifying and simplifying the Rules of the House, and calling on the Secretary of War for information as to the number of massacres which have been committed by Mexicans and Indians in Texas since January. and also as to the number and class of troops under the command of Brigadier-General Ord.

In the Senate on the 26th, the report of the Conference Committee on the Letter Carriers'Deficiency bill was adopted... .A substitute for the House bill extending the provisions of an act entitled “ An act for the relief of certain settlers on public landß until October 1, 1880, was reported and passed. ..A favorable report was made on the joint resolution providing for a committee to investigate' the best means of guarding and collecting the public revenue, etc., and the resolution was passed—the committee to consist of three members of each house... .The new Judicial Expenses Appropriation bill passed by the House was received, read a second time and referred to tho Committee on Appropriations. in the House, the bill prohibiting political assessments came up hs the business of the morning hour, and dilatory tactics were resorted to by the Republicans to prevent action on the previous question.. The Judicial Expenses Appropriation liill was considered in Committee of the Whole, amendments were offered and rejected. and the bill was reported to the House and passed—92 to 67. All the Oreenbackers present except Forsythe, voted for the measure. ... A motion was then made to go into committee on the bill muring appropriations to pay fees of United States Marshals and their general Deputies, general debate to close in one minute. A motion to increase the time for general debate to one hour was adopted—l 27 to 32—and the House then adjourned. In the Senate on the 27th, the resolution providing for additional pay for Congressional employes wn* again taken up, and the pending amendments wore withdrawn, and the resolution was passed as it was reported from committee, with slight amendments... .The House Judicial Expenses bill was reported from committee, and a motion to add $600,000 for fees of United States Marshals and Deputy Marshals was rejected--15 to 38-and the bill was passed without amendment— 29 to 16.... The House joint resolution fixing the 30th as the time for final adjournment was referred to the Committee on Appropriations... .A resolution was adopted providing for a joint committee to codify the laws relating to the survey and disposition of pnblic lands, etc. . .The House bill making appropriations to pay the fees of United States Marshals and their deputies, was read twioe and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The morning hour was dispensed with in the House, and the bill appropriating $600,000 to pay the fees of United States Marshals and Deputy Marshals was debated in Committee of the Whole, reported to the House and passed -88 to 69. Though several Greenback members were present, only one (Stevenson) voted, he casting his rote in tbe affirmative.... A bill was passed correcting clerical errors in the Army Appropria tion bi 11.... A joint resolution for final adjournment on the 30th was adopted -93 to 73 - a strict party vote, with the exception of Aeklen. who voted in tbe negative. All the Oreenbackers present voted in the negative. - In the Senate on the 28th ult., Mr. Vest's resolution declaring in favor of free coinage was taken up. and an amendment was offered and rejected—2o to 21-to insert the words “at as early a date as these objects nan be accomplished consistently witn the public welfare.’’ -. ..The House bill to,correct two verbal errors in tbe Army Appropriation bill was passed Tbe bill making appropriations to pay the fejjs of United States Marshals and their deputies was reperted from the Committee on Appropriations, and, after debate and the rejection of amendments to strike ont the clause making it a penal offense to violate any ad the provisions of the bill or of the various sections of the Revised Statutes, and to strike Out all of the provisions of the bill except the clanse appropriating $680,060 for the payment Of tbe fees of the Marshals and their deputies, the bill was passed without amendment—2s to l#—* strict party vote. In the House, the Senate bill exempting from ffißkJSWb.not propelled wbotrrtly sal! or iblernAl motive power of their own. sms amended so as to provide that nothing in the act of in the existing laws shonld be construed to require the enrolling or licensing of any flat-boat, barge, or like craft not pro-

'polled by sail or internal motive power of its i own. and the bill m amended waa then passed . The joint resolution providing for a further treaty with Mexico, authorizing the President to appoint onenor more Commission era, not to exceed three, at a salary of $6,000 cash, to take steps with a view of entering into a farther treaty with that country, was adopted ...A Conference Committee was ordered on the Senate Joint resolution in reference to comittoe clerks, etc.