Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

Prom Washington. Tm Peetmester-General Iseued a circular -Oh Mie 14th directingpostmasters at flrspclaaa offloqs Vo pay their letter-carriers at the rate of #I,OOO par year, from February 21 to May M, 1H», Inclusive, and a* the mum vale thereAccording to a Washington telegram of the 14th, the outetandleg 1(140 bonds would be failed In .during .the.mouth of July A Washington dispatch of the 15th aaya two vessels on the Eastern coast, one at New Orleans and a fourth on the lakes were enlisting hoys for the United Ststes Navy. Thk question of the importation of cattle from abroad wta considered at a Cabinet meeting in Washington on the 15th, and it Was decided that such Importation heretofore prohibited should be allowed under certain conditions, such conditions to be specified In ac realar about to be prepared by the Actlag Secretary of the Treasury. From the Ist to the 17th of the present month the Treasury Department In Washington Issued w irrants to the amountof #4,840,009 on requisitions from the Secretary of the Interior for arrears of pensions. Of the total aacount appropriated (#35,000,000) there had already been paid #10,212,000. A Washington Associated Press dispatch of the 18th says ex-Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota, had bren tendered and had accepted the office of Secretary of War- The change would not be made until the present incumbent had been confirmed as the successor of Judge Dillon. A dispatch from Washington on the 30th rays the demand for standard silver dollars continued at the uniform rale of shout #550,000 monthly, a little over onc-'ourth of the Coinage. Treasurer GUfillln farnreil paying them oat on all indebtedness of the Government at the rate of five or ten dollars on fg<4) hundred* ,

The Bast. A severe hurricane and hailstorm visited portions of Vermont and New Hampshire on the 14th. Crops were destroyed, bouses unroo'ed and widespread ruin wrought. ' Taft State Convention of the Pennsylvania Greenback-Labor party was held at Altoona on the 15th, and resolutions were adopted declaring in favor of the payment of-the National debt strictly in accordance with the terms Of the contract, and that no more interest bearing bonds be issued; that the Federal Government only shall issue money, such money to be a full legal-tender, and that full legal-tender greenbacks shall be substituted for National Bank notes; favoring a graduated income-tax law; declaring that all debts doe for labor performed should take precedence of all other claims; favoring the estabhsfementof National and State Labor Bureaus; etc., ot-. Henry Carey Baird was nominated for State Treasurer, but declined, aud Peter Sutton, a farmer of Indiana County, was . nominated in bis stead, Pitts’ Aoricui-tural Works at Buffalo, N-T;, were burned on the morning of the T ldth. Low about 1310,000. Tub Pennsylvania Democracy held their Btate Convention at Harrisburg on the Kith. , - The resolutions adopted declare, among other things, that the military are, and ought to be, in all things subordinate to the civil authorities; thst the right to a free ballot is a right preservative of all rights; that the presence at the polls of a regular military lorcc, and of a host of hireling officials claiming power to arrest and imprison citizens without warrant? or bearing, destroys all freedom of elections and upturns the very foundation of SelLgovernrnent; that “ Rutherford B. Hayes, having been placed in power against the well-known and legally-expressed will of the people, is the repre tentative of a conspiracy only, and his claim of the right to surround the ballotboxes with troops snd Deputy Marshals to Intimidate electors, and his unprecedented use of the veto to maintain his unconstitutional and despotic power, are an insult and amhuaoe totbe country;” favor the “Constitutional currency of gold and silver, and ot paper convertible into coin;” oppose the system of subsidies by the General Government; etc., etc. D. O. Barr, of Allegheny, was nominated for State Treasurer by acclamation. Tbb loss of life by the late tornado near Boston was twenty-three. Outside of a line drawn twenty miles around Boston, there were about half a dozen persons killed. 14 ChastineCox (colored) has been found gailty of the murder of Mrs. Hull in New York City, and sentenced to be hanged on the 29th of August next The New Hampshire House of Representatives has recently, by a large majority, indefinitely postponed a bill for the abolition of capital punishment - •* Six cadets have receutly been dismissed from the West Point Military Academy by the Secretary of War, for hazing. The New Hampshire House of Representatives has passed a bill regulating railway passenger and freight rates. The First National Bank of Butler, Pa., failed on the 18tb, and was placed in the bonds of a receiver. The Greenback-Labor party of New York trill hold’their State Convention at Utica on the Ifcth of August, for the nomination of a State ticket. Is New York City, John Hope bos been convicted of the robbery of the Manhattan Savings Bank of *3,000,000 in securities and cash, and sentenced to the Btate Prison for twenty years. The Secretary of the 6mitbsonlan Institute Is informed by telegram from Professor Foer--Bter, of Berlin, that the suppored new planet discovered by Professor Peters, on the 17th of June, la“Trigga.” The following were the closing quotations tor produce In Now York. on July fvth; “ So- 3 Chicago Spring Wheat, •[email protected]; No, * Milwaukee, i1.07ai.10. Oats, Western Mixed, 37*@39c. Corn, Western Mixed, 43045 c. Pork, Mess, *8.«[email protected]. Lard, 05.00a5.05. Flour,,Good to Choice, SL6>ad-50; White Wheat Extra, $4.75 @5.25. Cattle, (7.00 a 10-50 for Common to Extra. Sheep, $3 5005.50. Hogs, *4.20® 4.3 At Kast Liberty, Pa., on July 19th, Cattle brought; Best, *5 0005.10; Medium, *8.50 03 81; Common, E3.0j03.30. Hogs sold— Yorkers, 03.85@3,95; Philadelphia, *4.00® 4.10. Sheep brought *3.oo®4.6s—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on July 17th. Cattle brought: Best, *5.12*06.25; Medium, 03.5004.25. Hogs sold st *(.SU®S.SO for Good. Sheep were quoted st [email protected]* for Good. —

J-t ■ went and South. —i ; f irCWlhte, Ky., on 5 the lttb, a mulatto named John Breckenridge, dialled with a f; felonious assault upon Miss Aannle Bern, Was taken from the jail by a mob of masked nxm and bung from the bridge on the Torkstown pike. T»* Wisconsin Greeubackers met in State Convention at Watertown on the 15th, and nominated Colonel Reuben May for Governor; Colonel Wm. L. Utley for Llentenant-Gov- «*«■; Oeorte W, Lee lor Secretory of State; Peter A. Griffith for State Treasurer; Colonel George Goodwin for Attorney-General, and Or. W. H. Scaries for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The platform calls for the immediate JMgrumt of anUnited Stotesjwnds 'Hwh§*l ■mtam rwiboUGoo of the National banking system; the issue of greenbacks to OHM* the just obligations of the Government; the unlimited coinage of gold and silver; the Nutt* Off the rate of interest by National law; _,ote*»>«te. •/ \ i 1 -

A Washington dispatch of the 15th aaya Information had recently been received at the Treasury Department that fine cod-fishery banks lie along the coast of Alaska, from the Peninsula of Uoalaska, through Norton 1 # and Kotsebue’s Sounds into Behring’s Straits, and that the fish In quality and alae are equal to tho*e caught off the Banks of NewfoundIabI,”" -1..■ i. ii ,i. Thb lowa State Prohibition Convention was held at Ced«i Rapids on the lflth. A aeries of resolutions was peeeed recognizing the traffic In intoxlceting liquors as the great moral, financial, social and political evil of the present age; expressing the belief that the prohibition of such traffic la the only sound legislative theory upon which tbit vexed question rsn be solved and the Nation saved from bankruptcy and demoralisation; Insisting upon the enforcement of the present Prohibitory .law jit the. State, and upon such amendments by the, neiaL. Legislature as will. place ale, wine and beer under ’he same condemnation aa other Intoxicating liquors; favoring the right of fcmalea to vote on the question of Temperance; Indorsing the effort to amend the State Constitution so as to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors except for mechanical and medicinal purposes, Including malt and wine liquors. After a spirited discussion a resolution wss adopted —(I to 82—declaring It Inexpedient and unwise at this time to nominate a State Prohibitory ticket Alter the adjournment of the regular Convention aboitt forty of the delegates met and nominated a State ticket, as follows: For Governor, G. T. Carpenter; Lieutenant-Governor, Frank 8. Campbell; Supreme Judge, J. M. Beck; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Professor J. A. Nash. Mu. Charles Lehmann, President of the Lumbermen’s Union of Chicago, was cut-aged on the 17th In examining his revolver to sec if It was In working order. Sitting opposite to him in the house was Ills wifo playing with their child on her knee, when suddenly the weapon was discharged, and the little fine fell dead on the mother’s lap with a bullet In Its brain. Both parents were nearly crazed at the sad occurrence. The Davenport (Iowa) glucose factory burned on the morning of the IStb. Loss, *175,000. Professor Uarpentrr, the nominee of the lowa Prohibitionists far "Govern or, has "fleclincd the nomination. , A State Convention of the Union Grecn-l»ck-Lahor Party Chartered Clubs of lowa has been called to meet at Marshalltown on the 12thof August. Very Rev. Father Juenokr, Vicar-Gen-eral ol Nesqually, Washington Territory, and Rev. Father Marty, of Dakota, have been elevated lo the Catholic Episcopate. .In Chicago, on July 19th, Spring Wheat N 0.2 closed at 91*@91*c cash; for August; 91*091*c for September. Cash Corn closed at r6*c for No. 2; 36c for August; 36*e for September. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 28c, and 25%c seller August. Rye No. 2, 52*c- Barley No. 2, 70@70*c for cash. Cash Mess Pork closed at *B.OO 08.10. Lard, cash, *5.7905,75. Beeves —Extra brought *4.8535.20; Choice, *4.50 @4.65; Good, *4 2504.45; Medium Grades, *3.7504 10; Butchers’ Stock, *2.4003.25. Btock Cattle, etc., *2.5003.30. Hogs—Good to Choice, *3.3003.85. Sheep—Poor to Choice, *2.5005.00.

Tlie Yellow Fever. A man called the Shasta, from Port au Paix, St. Domingo, arrived iu great distress twelve miles below Philadelphia; on the 17th, seven of the nine' men on board being down with yellow fever. Four deaths had occurred, the Captain being among the number Tiieke were live new cases of yellow fever and one death reported In Memphis on the 17th. The eases occurred among the members of two families named Hester, living under one roof on Clay street. Mrs. James Hester died at noon on that day, of black vomit. There were one or two other suspicious cases in the city. Five new yellow-fever cases were reported to the Board of Health In Memphis on the 18th. Three of them were in households in the neighborhood of the Hester families. One death occurred in the afternoon. The total number of cases reported since the 9th was sixteen; deaths, seven. Large crowds of citizens were leaving on every train departing from the city, and business was almost entirely suspended, especially among the wholesale merchants. While It was still claimed that a majority of the physicians did not apprehend that the fever would rage In an epidemic form, they all advised those who could do so to leave the city. Quarantine regulations were being enforced against Memphis in many Southern cities and towns. Seven new cases were reported in Memphis on the 19th, and ten new cases and five deaths on the 20th. The city authorities were sending poor people out of the city as fast as possible, while the wealthier portion of the community still remaining were making preparations to seek other localities. Dr. Saunders, the acting President of the Board of Health, stated that the fever was not as malignant as last year, and yielded more readily to treatment. Dr. Minor, Health Officer of Cincinnati, published an order on the 21st, declaring the establishment of quarantine against infected points in the South. Boats would be stopped in mid stream, ten miles below the city, and examined, and railroad trains would be subjected to rigid inspection. A partial quarantine against Memphis was .being put in force by the St. Louis authorities, fifteen milc6 below the latter city. The Cairo Board of Health, on the 20tli, refused to lessen their quarantine restrictions in the least An uneasy feeling prevailed in that city, and a very strong effort would be made to keep the fever out of that place. The railroad passengers from the South were all transferred to new cars on the other side of the river and went through Cairo under guard, with locked cars as far as Centralla, to prevent any passengers leaving the train.

Foreign Intelligence. On the 11th the British Parliament was assured by Lord Salisbury that the entire Kussian force would evacuate Turkish territory within the time prescribed by the Treaty of Berlin. A Berlin telegram of the 14th says Herr Von Gessler had been appointed German Minister of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs, tqjpucceed l>r. Palk. Cnotfcka has made its appearance at Smolensk and othetoplaces in Russia. A Constantinople dispatch of the 14th says the Circassians were murdering and plundering on the east ccast of the Sea of Marmora. The ex-Empress Eugenie has issued an address in which she thanks the English people for their sympathy at the death of the Prince Imperial. * The Western District Bank at Barrow-in-Furness,' England, suspended payment on the 15th. The liabilities are stated to be about $250,000, and the usual promise to pay iu full is made. Serious labor riots have recently occurred in the iron foundries in Silesia, in consequence of a demaud for Increased wages. were called out, and several of the Workmen were killed and many others wounded. In consequence of the trade depression in Lancashire, England, large numbers of operatives are emigrating to the United BUtes. A circular has been addressed to Catholic Bishops throughout the world calling on them to promote a monster clerical pilgrimage to. Rome for the next feast of the Epiphany. A Bucharest telegram of the 16th tnnounces Roumanian Ministry, because of differences over the question of the emancipation of th e Jews, w A Paris dispatch of the 16th says several of the Officers who attended the funeral of the late Prince Ira perial had been removed, aadotharasent to Algiers.

TtfßEisn workmen at the Araeilzf In Constantinople mane an exceedingly riotous demonstration on the 17Qi, Ik-Ciuso their wages were apt forthcoming. 'A Homo Kong telegram received on the morning of the 18th says China was making preparations to engage In a war with Russia, to regain control of the latter’s conquests In Central Asia. ♦ • A CarE Town dispatch published In Lon-don-on the 17th announces the arrival of Sir Garnet Wolseley, and his assumption of the command of the British forces in South Africa. A London telegram of the 17th says there were ugly rumors of a collapse In the Irfiii trade, and fears of a general failure were openly expressed. News was received In Halifax, N. 8., on the I7lh of the loas of the steamer State of Virginia, on the 12th, by running on to Sable Island, off tbc coast of Nova Scotia, during a dense fog. Tbc vessel was totally wrecked. The loss of life was nine, the remainder of the passengers being taken ashore in safety. On the 18th, in a speech to a delegation of Bonapartlsts, l’rince Jerome Bonaparte said tlie Republic was at present, by right, the legal government of Frtiu-c, apd It was the duty of all Frenchmen to support it like men. He further said he would emphatically discountenance auy Intrigue whose object was the immediate placlngof his dynasty In power. On tlie 18th, a pleasure yacht In the St. Lawrence River was capsized by a sudden squall, and of the twelve persona on board eight were drowned. The victims were all members of wealthy Canadian families. The accident bccurred at Point aux Trembles, near Quebec. , - ' A London special of the 20tli says several attempts had lately been made to throw from the trsek the train upon which Queen Victoria travels from London to Scotland. Great excitement has recently been caused in Brussels by the charge that certain Jesuit priests had been guilty of posting placards demanding the assassination of the King. It is reported that the mental condition of ex-EmpressCarlotta is much improved. A Vienna telegram of the 19th says Turkey had distributed sixty-eight battalions of infantry, with the requisite tomplcnient of artillery and cavalry, between Adrainople and the frontier of Eastern Kouruclla, as a guaranty against disturbances. A statue of Thiers will he unveiled at Nancy on the 3J of August.