Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

From Washington. Ton Secretary ol the Smlthaonlen Institute In tnforesed by telegram from Professor Poetstar, of Berlin, that the suppored new planet discovered by Professor Peters, on the 17th «( Jane, ls*'Trttra.” At tee Cabinet meeting In Washington on the M the yellow-fever question wes discussed, and the Acting Postmaster-General eras Instructed to nse all means In his power to keep mall eommcnicattoo open. A STATES!*NT was made on the 334, by the Comptroller of the Currency, showing that the National Banks already organised and In operation were entitled to receive, upon the deposit of the necessary amount of United States bonds, 973.527.530 additional circulation. In other words, they could increase their draulstlon one-fifth If at any time they were In want of an additional amount, or If any profit could be made by such Issue. Mu. flncaitOß, United States Minister to Russia, has tendered his resignation. It wee reported from Washington on the Mth that ifoeial and positive instructions had been sent by the War Department to prevent General Miles from bringing on an Indian war, and telling him that the only purpose in sending him Into the field was to protect navigation on the Missouri River. Secretaries McCrary, Thompson and Scburs were of the opinion that every precaution should be taken to prevent hostilities with the Indiana It was thought to be the Intention or General Milee to reconnoiter Sitting Ball's camp. A uttlk over 6,000,000 acres of public lauds were entered for homestead settlement durin; the year ending on the 30th of last Jane. ' ‘ The Imports of merchandise for the year ending June 30,1879, were $445,793,141, and the exporta 9710,438,743. The East. R. G. Dun & Co., in their quarterly circular recently issued, give the number of failures In the United States daring the second quarter of this year at 1,534, with liabilities aggregating 923,006,725. The figures (or the same quarter last year were 2,470 failures, with liabilities of 948,755,940. For the first six months of this year the failures number 4,058, as against 5,835 for the same time last year, and the liabilities amount to about 965,000,000, against about 9130,000,000 for the first six months of last yew. AT Fall River, Mass., quite a serious disturbance occurred on the 21st, caused by a demonstration on the part of the wives of some of the striking spinners against the wife of a weaver who bad gone to work in one of the mills. The latter's bouse was stoned and several windows were broken. The police quelled the riotous proceedings. A shoe-factort lu Poughkeepsie, N. Y., owned by John O. Whitebouse, who employed 4ioo hinds, was struck by lightning And entirely destroyed by fire on the 23d. The engineer, George Morgan, was burled in the ruins, and died soon after being taken out Ox the afternoon of the 23d, at Huntingdon. Pa., a premature sand-blast explosion resulted in the Instant death of three persons who were managing the blast. Fragments of their bodies were scattered all over the surrounding territory. Great excitement and indignation have been created among the Hebrews in New York City by an announcement made on the ‘.21 by Austin Corbin, President Of the Manhattan Beach Company, that he did not desire Jews to patronize his hotel at Coney Island. <■ The Pennsylvania Republican Bute Convention was held at Harrisburg on the 23d, and Hon. Samuel Butler nominated for State Treasurer. The platform accepts the issue raised by the Democrats jin Congress, and declares for free suffrage and bonestclections; appeals to voters to put down the attempt to subvert the National authority for the purpose of building up the heresy of State Sovereignty; denounces the attempted repeal of the Election laws; congratulates the country on the resumption of . specie payments and the securing of a stable currency; denounces the attempts of the Democracy to starve the Government into compliance with its revolutionary schemes; protests against changes in the tariff and revenue laws; calls on veteran soldiers of the Union to rebuke the Democratic party for turning their comrades out of office to make room for Confederate soldiers; sympathizes with persecuted Southern Republicans, and assures them that a Solid North will bring them relief from the tyranny of a Solid South; etc., etc. Judge Davis, of New York City, has granted a writ of error in the case of the People against Ch as tine Cox, convicted and sentenced to be huug for the murder of Mrs. Hull. The case will come before the Supreme Court ol the State on the Ist of October. lx New York City on the evening of the 24th, Prank Portelli, an Italian confectioner, stabbed and instantly killed Michael Bolander, foreman of the factory where he had worked, because he had been discharged by him. At Ellington, Chautauqua County, N. Y., on the evening of the 23d, Mrs. Charles Crosby was strangled in her bed by some tramping vagabonds, it is thought. Mr. Crosby himself was very badly hurt, but will prohablv recover. Or the night ol the 24th the Empire, Reciprocity and Lake Ontario flouring mills, with the elevators attached, in the city of Oswego, N. Y., were burned to the ground. The loss is variously estimated at from 9150,900 to $200.000. The New York Republican State Convention will meet at Saratoga on the 3-i of September. At Cape May, N. J.. on the 94th, B 8. Ford, a Maryland State Senator, waa drowned while attempting to save the life of s lady friend, who was bathing with hha, and who, together with himself, was lifted off her feet by a heavy breaker. She was saved, but Ford perished. br Upper St. Clair Township (Pa.,)the other day a man named Tonee was bitten by amttlesnake, while cradling. He at once cut out of his leg s large piece of flesh in the hope of counteracting the effect of the bite, but in vaio. He died shortly after in violent convulsions.

It U uid General Butler has announced his willingness to again contest for the Governorship of Massachusetts, and a call has been issued Inviting those favorable to his nomination to elect delegates to convene at Worcester on the ad of September for the purpose of indorsing such nomination and making up a general State ticket During dune, 1878, there arrived at-the port of New York 19,264 passengers, of whom 16,939 were immigrants. During the year ending Jam 90, 1879, the immigration aggregated 99,234, against 72,163 for the year precedfng. Disastrous floods, caused by heavy rains, occurred at Pittsburgh, Pa., and vicinity on the 26th. The rain-fall up the Mononghetr. Valley and along the line of the Baltimore * Ohio BaUrosd was the heaviest known for yeata* The damage to growing crops was very Tmn following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on July 26th: Nm 2 Odcego Spring Wheat, f11.05Q1.07; No. 3 Milwaukee, g1.06Q1.07. Oats, Western Mixed, 96*«87r. Corn, Western Mixed, 48Q4Mtfc, Pork, Mass. Lord, »6 flour. Good to Choice, CstUe, ta.2mtlo.oo tor Common to Extra. M.«#5.50. Bogs, f4.20Qt.30.

At Bast Liberty, Pa., on July 20th, Cattle brought: Beet, 94 8005.03; Medium, 98.60 01.69; Common, 93.0J05.90. Hogs sold— Yorkers, 9S85&30O; Philadelphia, tS 06jt 4.00. Bheep brought 95.00(94.75— according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on July 20th, Cattle brought: Beat, 95.0005.25, Medium, 13.2004.90. Hoga sold at 94.5005.75 for Good. Sheep were quoted at 93.0J04.50 [or Good.

West and South. A dispatch from Port Keogh, Montana Territory, wm received on the ‘Aid, announcing the arrival of a courier from General Mile*’ command, stating that a light had occurred with the Bioux at the mouth of Beaver Creek a few day* before. loss was four killed and two wounded. The courier stated that all of Sitting Boll’s force was In that vicinity. On the 23d the jury found Thomas Buford, murderer of Judge Elliott, of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, guilty of the crime of murder, and fixed Ms punishment at Imprisonment In the Penitentiary for life. A call has been Issued for a Democratic State Convention to be held at Madison, Wis., on the 9tb of September. Tax Georgia Independents will meet at Atlanta, In State Convention, on the 22d of October. On the 23d a State Convention of the Creenhack-Labor Party met at Jackson, Miss. A aerie* of resolutions was ad opted, and an Executive Committee was appointed, after which the Convention adjourned without date. No nominations for Btate officers were made. The Louisians State Constitutional Convention adjourned sine die on the night of the 23d. Before adjournment, Plnchback and other colored Republican leaders made addresses thanking their colleagues for the courtesy shown them, and expressing their firm conviction that no State Constitution in the Union more effectually guarded the civil and political rights of all classes than that Of Louisiana juat adopted by the Convention. They hoped their work would be ratified by the people. The Republicans of Wisconsin met In State Convention at - Madison on the 23d. Governor Smith and all the present State officers were renominated by acclamation. A platform was adopted declaring the United States to be a Nation and not a Confederacy of foreigu States, and that its Government is clothed with permanent authority for the regulation of all subjects of National concern; that it Is the duty of the National Government to enforce-the right, of every voter to the free exercise oT suffrage at Congressional elections; that the Republican party is opposed to any military interference with elections except when It is necessary to maintain the public peace and protect the Constitutional rights of citizens; that the course of the majority in Congress in refusing to make appropriations for the orJinary and legitimate expenses of the Government, with the purpose of compelling the President to approve a measure which he deemed unwise and wrong, was revolutionary and subversive of the Constitution ; that the practice of attacoing “ political riders' 1 to Appropriation bills is revolutionary legislation, and should be prohibited; that thanks are due the President and the Republican Members of Congress for their successful resistance of the revolutionary attempts of the majority in Congress; that the successful resumption of specie payments has vindicated the wisdom of the Republican policy on that subject; etc., etc. A grand mass meeting celebrating the twenty ifth anniversary of the party in the Btate was held in the evening, at which speeches were made by Senator Chandler and others. A trotting match In Chicago on the 24th between the famous trottiug horses Rarus and Hopeful was wou by the former in the following time: Rarus, 2:17%, 2:21 and 2:18. Ropeful, the blind pacer Sleepy Tom made the unprecedented time of 2:12%. Mattie Hunter made the mile In 2:13, the fastest time ever made by a beaten horse. Ex-Senator Robert W. Johnson died at Little Rock, Ark., on the night of the 20th. He represented Arkansas in Congress—first as Representative and then as Senator -from 1847 to 18fil. A gravel train on the Milwaukee branch of the Northwestern Railway, as it was backing onto a side-track near Waukegan, 111., on the evening of the 20th, ran against a cow, and the first car was thrown from the track, telescoping the rest of the train. Nineteen men were employed on the train, nearly all of whom were upon the forward car. They were thrown from the car, and many of them buried beneath the ruins of the wrecked traiu. Four were killed and seven others serioubly, and perhaps fatally, Injured. IN Chicago, on July 20th, Spring Wheat N 0.2 closed at94%@94%c cash; 94%@94%c for August; 92%@92%c for September. Cash Corn closed at 35%<$ ss%c for No. 2 ; 35%c for August; 30%c for September. OkshOatsNo. 2 sold at 26%c, and 24%c seller August. Rye No. 2, 52%c. Barley No. 3, 51<g55c for cast. ■ flash Mess Pork closed at #B.GO <36.65. Lard, cash, $5.52%@5.85. Beeves —Extra brought $4.9035.20; Choice, $4.50 (94.70; Good, $4 25(94.45; Medium Grades, <3.75(94 10; Butchers’ Stock, [email protected]. Stock Cattle, etc., $2.50(93.00. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, 12.50(94.75.

Tlie Yellow Fever. Secretabt McCrabt Issued an order on the 21st directing the Quartermaster General to supply the poor people ol Memphis with tents. A corpus of sailors suffering from yellow fever were admitted hospital in New York on the 20th, and one.of them died the next day. t " The brig Akbar, from Havana for New York, was reported on the Slat to have been boarded by another brig, in response to a signal of distress, and the Captain and three men were found sick with yellow fever, oue man having died the day before. A case of yellow fever was discovered In Hoboken, N. J., on the 2id, the person attacked being a man named Charles McCormack, who bad just arrived there from Memphis. He was taken to the pest-house, and measures were taken 'to guard , against the spread of the disease. On the same ’day a Dennis Manning, fireman on a steamer plying between Havana and New York,.died of yellow fever in Brooklyn, N. Y. x „ - Telegrams of the 23d announce that the entire Bouth was rigidly quarantined against Memphis. There were eighteen new cases and four deaths reported In Memphis on the 24th. Two car-loads of tents furnished by the Government had arrived, and the authorities intended establishing a camp on the Paducah Railroad, seven miles north of the' city. Great trouble was experienced in finding means of transportation, as the Superintendent of the railroad refused to furnish cars, for fear the indignant citizens along the line would destroy the track. There was also a disposition among the colored people to oppose being forced out of the city or removed to the camjg. A special telegram saya there were lese Stan 4,000 white people remaining in the city, wgiile the blacks numbered not less than 12,000. The Howard Association had about fifteen nurses on dutyr" Db. Kilpatrick, Sanitary Inspector of the National board of Health, telegraphed from Mississippi City on the 24th that the cases there, previously reported, were yellow fever, and that one death had occurred.

A refugee from Memphis died of yellow fever In Cincinnati on the 24th. A second death occurred in Louisville on the same day and there was another case of tbe fever, the Eleven cases and tpn deaths were reported in Memphis on the 25th. Captain John Jt. i

Cameron had been commlsaloned Colonel by the Governor and assigned to the command of the local troojis at Memphis, Two colored’ military companies had already recognized lilt authority and would obey hla orders. The Howard Association had twenty three nurses on duty. A refugee from Memphis died of yellow feVff in New .York on the 25th. A death from the same disease also occurred In Baltimore on the same uay, the victim being a Spanish sailor recently arrived from Havana. The St" Louis city authorities decided on the 25th that no boat or people from Memphis should be allowed to come up to the former city after the 20th. A Proposition hail been telegraphed to Washington that a refugee camp be located on an Island near the St. Loula quarantine landing. No case of the fever had yet developed among the Memphis refugees In Bt. Louis or at quarantine. There were thirteen new cases and three deaths reported in Memphis ou the 261 h, and fourteen cases and nine deaths on the 27th. At a meeting of the Howard Association, held on the afternoon of the 27th, it was resolved that the Association needed no assistance as yet from physicians and nurses from abroad to attend to the comparatively few cases under their charge. Two colored mill, tary companies hail gone into camp ou the bluffs, under orders of Colonel J. T. Cameron. The Police and Fire Departments of the city had been strengthened, and the authorities Ho longer anticipated any trouble. A special telegram from New Orleans on the 27th says three well developed cases of yellow fever had manifested themselves there, all in the upper part of the. city. There was no fear, however, of the disease becoming epidemic, owing to the precautions taken by the Sanitary Society. Sporadic cares occur every year, and the appearance of the disease there at this time should give no cause of alarm under ordinary circumstances.

Foreign Intelligence. In consequence of recent rains in Yorkshire and Dor hi shire. Eng., large tracts of land have been over flowed, anjLcrops ruined. On the 21st, there was a fall of suo# in the province of Daupblny, in Southeastern France. According to a St. Petersburg telegram of the 2lst, the town of Nijnl Novgorod had tieen visited by a destructive conflagration. The great bazar and a great number of shops were burned. In one of the latter an explosiou occurred which killed twenty-one persons. The Porte has refused to permit the United States war steamer . Qumebaug to enter the Black Sea, because her tonnage exceeds 800. A Bucharest telegram of the 21st says Prince Charles had threatened to abdicate unless the Roumanian Jews were emancipated. London dispatches of the 21st say the antirent disorders in Ireland were Increasing and called for strongly repressive action. London and St. Petersburg dispatches of the 22d say that Russia was inaugurating extensive operations in Central Asia to neulralize'British prestige in Alghanistan. On the 22d, Price, Boustead & Co., of London, extensive merchants and army agents, sidled for over 13,000,(MX). Germany has forbidden the transit of Russian cattle and sheep over her territory, on account of the appearance of the'Mnderpest. The Bulgarian distiicts adjacent to the' Danube have been placed in a state of siege, because of apprehended disturbances. The statement was made from London on the 23d that the luternational Company, organized til 1870 to construct an above-ground railway across the British Channel, would soon commence operations. An American, named Milton Farrow, has won the Albeit prize in the shooting match at Wimbledon, England. War between Turkey and Greece is said to be imminent.

A dispatch was received from Cape Town on the23d announcing that Lord Chelmsford had beaten the /ulus In a pitched engagement. The British loss was ten killed and fifty-three wounded, while the Zulu loss was between SOO and 1,000. Lord Chelmsford’s forces then burned Ulundi and many military kraals. On the same day a dispatch was received from Sir Garnett Wolseley stating that he had halted all reinforcements, as lie believed the war substantially over. The battle mentioned above was fought on the 4th. A London dispatch of the 24th says a se rlous riot had occurred on that day lit the shooting grounds at Wimbledon. It seems that a large mob endeavored to force an entrance into ihe grounds, and, to effect their purpose, smeared the fences with petroleum and set them on lire. The constabulary charged the mob, and finally drove them back, but not until a great many persons on each side were badly hurt. There were several important failures of cotton-spinners at Manchester ar.d Burney, Eng., on the 24th. A dispatch from Ottawa, Can., on the 24th says the Canadian Department of the Interior did not credit the reports, from American sources, that Sitting Bull’s band was on the war path. Recent orders from the Northwest stated that he and his men were peacefully inclined, and their relations with the mounted police were never more satisfactory. Holders of Louisiana securities met in London on the 25th, and after a long discussion instructed'the Chairman of the meeting to telegraph to the President of the .Louisiana Constitutional Couvcntion a strong protest against the measures of repudiation proposed by the Convention. On the 25tb, the ex-Empress Eugenie wrote to Queen Victoria, begging that no penalty be inflicted upon Lieutenant Carey, the officer in charge of the escort when the Prince Imperial was killed. A Hamburg dispatch of the 25th announces that the international Bank of that city had suspended and gone into liquidation. Russia has assured the Powers that every Russian soldier will have quitted Turkish soil by the 4th of August. Disastrous floods were reported in Belgium on the 251 h. A large amount of property had been destroyed in the valley of the Rbice. Russia has announced her intention of establishing and fortifying a maratitne station on ihe Siberian coast A dis'patuh lrom Constantinople on the 27th says the financial condition of Turkey had become exceedingly desperate. The paper issued by the Government was absolutely worthless, and even its copper money was current at only sixty per cent of its nominal value. A Calcutta telegram of the 27th announces the breaking out of a rebellion in the Rumpa district in India. A London telegram of the 27th says that 300 of the striking engineers in Brad.ord, England, had abont perfected their arrangements for emigrating to the United States. According to the London Daily Neva of the 27th, Upited States Minister Welsh had resigned, in consequence of domestic bereavements, and would sail for home on the 20th of August. . » St. Petersburg dis patches of the 37th say agrarian disturbances had broken out in, Poland. ' Petro-Pauloosk and Tralsk, in West Siberia, have been burned by the Nihilists. A large spinning concern in the Canton of Zurich, in Switzerland,,, suspended payments on the 27th. The Manager absconded, and one of the Directors committed suicide.

V * i ' '*»w A Michigan lady writes: “ What is the good of having nice things if we are not to enjoy them? I don't believe in keeping the nicest and most enjoyable part of the house closed, to be opened only for company. I thiskr otir crtvn family would appreciate it more than company.” ,