Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

Tu TtwliViit baa, by executive order, ro•torad to the public domain 8,1159,350 acres ot Uod 0* the northeastern bank of the Ml»■oort Rtrer, eorreapoodtnjc In teneral outline* to thn area withdrawn by executive orders of Jan«ary 11 a»d May 8, 1878, now reyoked. Kmd aacUoha or territory immediately adjoint** the Orand River, Cheyenne and Indian ftoffi AffMdM are Kill withheld. A WaanraoTost dispatch of the 18th say* the President had dcddad to attend the Indiana State Pair at Indiana polls in October. A nonossn counterfeit of the one dollar bills of the NaUpaal Ragle Bank of Boston. lisas., am* discovered In the National Uvak Redemption Agency In Washington on the MR. ThespWrions note Is much darker In appearance than the gaanlne, bdt U well caknlated to deceive. Tttn crop returns to the Department of Agriculinre Dor this month np to the 15th ahow a alight decHoe from the condlUon In July. The average for the while country was ninety -one per eMt, a loss of two per cent, fdaoe July. The condition of spring wheat was eighty-two per cent, against seven ty-Sve In 1878; In the West and Northwest there was a general decline, censed by draught, rust and chinch bugs; the condition or the whole country was seven per cent, bett«r than last year. Ir was reported on the 15th that Wm. H. Cashier of the Citizens’ National of Washington, was a defaulter to the amount of 960,000, be having used the funds Of the bank tor speculative purposes. He IssaM to have made a full confession. Universal sorrow prevails In Washington over the death of Nellie Grant Sartoris, who left a great many warm friends In that city. Her death was sudden, and private dispatches say she only lived about sixty hours after tbe birth of her child.

The East. Tut New Tprk Tammany Committee on Organisation on the 11th adopted resolutions declaring that under uo circumstances would the Democracy of that city vote for Lucius Robiason as candidate for Governor. Imkiorants to the number of 103,2*5 arrived at the port of' New York during tbe year ending on the Slat of July; previous year, 74,199. A uksoostr* occurred at tbe residence of ex-Senator Sprague at Narraeansett Pier, R. L, the other day between that gentleman and Roacoe Cockling, Senator from New York, in which the former brought a shot-gun to bear and threatened to use it unless the latter left hts boose. Mr. Conkllng left at once, and It is stated d«t Mrs. Sprague also left her husband’s home. The trouble arose from the reported attentions of tbe distinguished New York Senator to Mrs. Sprague. This Is the version of the affair as published In the New York paters of the 11th. Another version is to the effect that the trouble was not between Senator Conkllng and ex-Senator Sprague at all, but between tbe latter and a German music teacher, and that Mr. Sprague ordered the professor to leave his house because he objected to his methods of teaching, and that when Mr. Conkllng interceded for the teacher Mr. Sprague resented tbe Interference. Walter Paine, Treasurer of the Linen Mills at fall River, Mass., is reported to be a defaulter la the sum of about SIOO,OOO. W. H. Kemble, a distinguished Pennsylvania politician, was held to bail on the 13th to answer to the charges of perjury and attempted bribery of members of the Pennsylvania Legislature.

The Mawachusetts Prohibitionists will hold their State Convention on the 34th of September. New York dispatches of the 13th state Hut negotiations were pending between >• Jndce Hilton and the parties In possession of the body of the late A. T. Stewart, for the mtorn of the stolen remains. The report •hat the body had been recovered was untrue. The price demanded by the robbers was (290,000, and no questions asked. Tmmoxt Tuple in Boston was destroyed by fire on the night of the 14th. The loss on the building, which was owned by the American Bible Society, was estimated at over •100,(0). Several firemen were injured by falling walls, but "none, it was thought, were dangerously hurt. The parties interested In the SpragneConkUng difficulty maintained a profound silence up to the 14th, with the exception of Professor Linck, the German teacher, who published a long statement in which he declared that the trouble originated with him, and that Senator Conkling had no part in it exce|A as a peacemaker. On the evening of the 14th - Mrs. Sprague published her Tendon of the affair, which substantially corroborates tbe allegations .of Professor Linck. She says Sen ail or Conkling came to Rhode Island as counsel for Governor Sprague and on his express invitation, to effect some sort of arrangement with the trustee of the Sprague estate by which money could be obtained for the support of herself and children. Mrs. Sprague further saya no hostile words passed between her hnsban! and Mr. Conkling at her house. A TELEGRAM from Providence. R. L, on the 15th saya Mrs. Sprague remained at Caaoochet the night before. Mr. Sprague had declared that he would have the children at all h»E»rds, and had forbidden the servants to obey any oPhis wife’s orders without consulting him. \ Ahyockcemext was made on the 14th of tbe death, at Burlington, N. J., of Bishop Odenbeimer, of the Episcopal Church. He was sixty-two years old. il oil tank at Parker’s Landing, Pa., was struck by lightning on the 14th, and the contents (18,000 barrels of oil) were entirely cod tamed by fire. In the evening of that day the heat communicated to an adjoining tank became so great that tbe 80,000 barrels of oil contained therein suddenly buret Into flames ami were also consumed. Several men on the top of the tank at the time of the explosion were severely injured. A call has been issued for tbe New York Democratic State Convention to meet at Syracuse on the 10th of September. By e collision between an excursion and a freight train on the Narrow Gauge Railroad between Philadelphia and Atlantic City on the 14th a conductor, two brakemcn, a news agent and a deaf mote were killed. " Ti; The New York Sun of the 17th contains a lengthy account of an interview with Mrs. Sprague, who is reported as saying that she had sent for the reporter for the purpose of giving expression to her side of tbe case. She denies that she indulged in recriminations at a recent meeting which occurred between her husband and herself. She aays her husband is morbidly jealous, but has not had from her the slightest canto for it; that his jealousy of Senator Conkling began more than a year

ago, and Out she know of her husband having more recently written a letter to » friend in which be declared, Ma purpose of killing both Senator Conkling and Professor Unelc; that she “considered visiting bar house for tbe purpose of giving Mr. Sprague ipoit wbea

whole affair to Mr. Sprague's hatred ot Mr. Ltnek. Mrs. Sprague denies all the reports about sending notes to Senator Conkllng on the night of the altercation, In the Senate Chamber, with Senator Lamar, arnl denies Kith's; any cause for public gossip. Tun (showing were the closing quotations for produce In New York, on August lttth: No. 3 Chicago Spring Wheat, SI.OO®I.OOX ; N 0.3 Milwaukee. 51.00411.00 X. Oats, Western Mixed, 30®32Xv- Corn, Western Mixed, 44#47c. Porlc, Mess, 18 90 40.00. Lard, tO.OOffO.O2X. Flour, Good to Choice, _44.Wff6.95; White Wheat Extra. $4.75 45.35. Cattle, 47.Wff10.25 for Common to Extra. Sheep, $8 2 iff 5.85. Hosts, s4.o9ff«. 50. * At East Liberty, Pa., on August 16th, Cattle brought: Best, f5.50®525; Fkir to Good, $4.10ff4.i1); Common, 83.00ff3.3i). Hogs sold —Yorker*, $8.60ff5.75; Philadelphia, 14.003 4.10. Sheep brought $3.00ff4.75 according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on August 16th, Cattic brought: Best, SSOO ff 5.25; Medium, 83.25ff4.13X' Bogs sold at $4.7535.50 for Good. Sheep were quoted at $3.0X44.50 for Good.

West and Bonth. A Btatb Convention of the lowa (Irceubackers was held at Marshal I tow non the 12lb. A State Central Committee was appointed, with George H. Wilson as Chairman, and resolutions were adopted Indorsing the Chicago platform of March 4, 1879. Announcement Is made that llic National Liberal League will meet in Cincinnati on the 13th of September, for the purpose, among other things, of considering the propriety of taking political action at the coming Presidential election. The Democrat* of Wisconsin will bold their State Convention at Watertown on the 9th of September, for the nomination of State officers. The tweifticth annual meeting of the Chicago District Camp Meeting (on the grounds at Desplalncs, on the Chicago it Northwestern Railroad) will continue from the 19th to be 29th of August, under the Superintcndency of the Presiding Elder, W. C. Willing, D.D. The various railroads leading Into Chicago will sell tickets from many points at excursion rates to parties desirous of attending the meetings. A number of colored mtn of the better class Irom different points In Mississippi arrived at East St. Louis on the 13th, tn route for Kant as on a prospecting t rip. Advices from General Miles, under date of Port Peck, August 11, received at St. Paul on the Htb, repoita the capture by Lieutenant Whittier, with a detachment of the Fifth Infantry, of Bbort Bull’s band of Sioux from the Spotted-Tall or Rose-Bud Agency. The band contained tifty-seven Indians and about one hundred ponies, and were on their way to join Bitting Bull’s camp. The capture was made near Poplar Creek, where the Indians were attempting to cross the Missouri River. The National Archery Tournament, which was held in Chicago on the 12th, 13th and 14th, was a highly successful affair, and was participated in by clubs from various portions of the country. Will F. Thompson, of Craw- , fordsvlite, Ind., won the championship of the United States, making the best score in all the cou tests. Mrs. Spalding Brown, of Hastings, Mich., won the ladles’ championship. Several valuable prises were awarded for the best shooting in the different contest*. 1» Chicago, on August 16th, Spring Wheat No. 2 do*ed atß4Xffß*Xc cash; for September; 84%®84X C f° r October. Cash Corn closed *t 38X@*iX c for No. 2; S4X@34Xc for September; 34}j ®34%c for October. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 23X@23Xct seller September; 24 X c for October. Rye No. 2, 49c. Barley No. 3, 39®49c. Cash MessPork closed at Lard, cash, $5.70ff572X- Beeves—Extra brought 44.90jT 5.30; Choice, *[email protected]; Good, $4 25® 4.50; Medium Grades, 43.75®4 10; Butchers’ Stock, $2.50ff3.25. Stock Cattle, etc., $2.40 ®B.OO. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, 2.50(44.50.

Tlic Yellow Fever. The health officers of Louisville, Ky., were notified on the 11th of a case of yellow fever in that city, and the victim, a young physician who had recently traveled through the infected district, was taken to the yellowfever hospital. _ : The Common Council of New Orleans adopted a resolution on the 12fh declaring that there was then no case of yellow fever in that city. " The nuipber of new cases reported to the Memphis Board of Health for the twenty-four hours ending at six p. m. on the 12th was twenty-two. The deaths numbered seven, five within and two outside the city limits. Over 815,T500 In donations had been received to data by the Committee of Safety. The National Board of Health at Washington reieived advices from Tampico, Mexico, on the 12th, to the effect that the people of the latter place were dying off like flies, the yellow fever prevailing there worec than in New Orleans last year. It was emphatically denied on the 13th that any cases of yellow fever existed at Corinth, Miss. The Mayor of that city and the President of the Board of Health telegraphed as follows: “ Not a case of fever of any kind in Corinth.” Fohty new cases and ten deaths were officially recorded in Memphis on the 14th. Of the new cases thirty were colored, This report does not include the cases that were being treated by physicians aDd nurses and by tbe Howards outside the corporation line, of which at least a dozen were developed on the 14th. A special dispatch of that date says the fever whs spreading rapidly. The authorities were feeding about 3,000 people in the various camps, and there was not a single case of fever reported at any of them. At a meeting of public health officers (members of the National and State Boards of Health, eta) held for consultation at tbe hospital quarantine boat below Cairo on the 15tb, it was decided to continue perfecting the system of isolation of Memphis, under the rules of the National Board, and to use every possible. means to induce the colored people tq. move into camp, and thus deprive the fever of material to work on.

A fatal case of yellow fever was reported at Bailey Station, Term., (twenty-five miles east of Memphis), on the 17th. A sailor from Havana died of yellow fever in the quarantine, hospital at Baltimore on the lfith. Forty-six deaths from yellow fever occurred in Memphis during the week ending on the 16th. The new cases reported during the same time numbered 183—112 of which were colored. There were twenty-one new cases reported on the 16th (fourteen colored) and seven deaths (six white). On the 17th toe new cases numbered twenty-five (twelve white and thirteen colored) and four deaths (all white). Comptroller Porter, of the Treasury Department at Washington, stated on tbe 16th that tbe National Board of Health was of tbe opinion that contributions for the support of the people Hi Memphis in camp were absolutely necessary to prevent the spread of the yellow fever into other States. A requisition upon the 8500,000 appropriated by Congress would be honored. A St. Louis dispatch of the 17th says two new cases of yellow fever bad been sent to quarantine near that city—one of tbe patients being (font Greenville, Miss., and the other * resident of St Louis who had recently been 48, Hemphia. ~- Foreign Intelligence. It was reported from St Petersburg on the llth that the Russian Government had elaborated a plan for the confiscation and secularisation of a great number of convents *nd

monasteries belonging to the Greek Church in Russia. - _ - •, ' Late Kusiian advices rc(K>i? increasing coolnuea between that country and Germany. To prepare lor possible contingencies, four first-class fortresses have liefy ordered to be constructed near the. German lifie. Great damage to crops has been caused, to Cheshire aiul Lancashire, England, by the recent overflow of the. River Mersey. The disaster caused the loss of se v'4ra l-Hvca. ON the night of the 11th a serious rlcA otecurrcd at Belfart, Ireland, brought onNiy a Catholic procession. To suppress It troops were called out, and many persona were Injured. At Alexandria, Egypt, one Mirzam, a broker ind naturalised American, recently shot dead Ilahnn Pasha, a confidential agent of the cx-Khedlvc. Mirznm surrendered himself and was locked up to await the return ot the United Stgica Consul-General, who hasbeen ordered by the hbme Government to try him for murder. It was reported from Vienna on the 12th that Count Andra sy, the Austrian Premier, had tendered his resignation, and that I he Emperor had accepted it. On the 12th the Dresden police made a descent on the houses of leading Socialists and captured a large quantity of forbidden literature. ' * A Constantinople telegram of the 12th announces the outbreak of Asiatic cholera in that city. It was thought tbe cases were sporadic only, and to prevent the spread of the disease a military cordon had been placed around the hospitals. A caulk dispatch of the 13th announces a collision between the steamer Corsica, from New York, apd the steamer Scmtrainidc, from Boston, the result being I lie sinking of the latter vessel. Her crew was rescued. Her cargo belonged to Chicago parties. A recent hurricane in Denmark destroyed over one hundred farm houses, killed fifty persons and caused incalculable damage to growing crops. y Russia Is reported to have formed au offensive and defensive alliance with Persia. Twenty soldiers of the garri.son'at Scrajtevo perished in the recent lire at that point. Acooumso to a Vienna telegram of the 13th there had been remarkable underground commotion at Wieliczka, in the center of the salt-mine region, in Galicia. A row of bouses had been split in twain, and the inhabitants had fled in a panic, fearing an earthquake.

Two fatal cases of cholera in Loudon were reported on the 13th. The American filly Saratoga won the plate at the Kiinncyiuede races on the 13th. • The British House of Commons on the 14th committed Charles E. Grissell to Newgate Prison, for evading tli eg peak er ’ swarruii t. for his arrest He had been char ted with attempting to bribe members, and when the warrant for Ills arrest, was issued he fled to France. He returned on the 14th, and wag imprisoned as stated. A new Austrian Cabinet has been constructed, with Count Tjbafe-as Premier. .( Henry M. Stanley, the African reached Sierra iJeone on the 34th of .Inly, and started at once flor the River Congo. —The British Parliament was prorogued on the 15th by royal -speech from the -throne, read by Lord Biac-ohslleld. The Queen congratulated the ipembers of Parliament upon the good resultsfoMfiie session, and upon the satisfactory condition of affairs at home and abroad. \ Two distinguished English agriculturists, Messrs. Pell and ReaH T t)2ve been named as a Commission to visit tli* United States to collect evidence for the/ Royal Commission on i Agricultural Distress in Great Britain. Nellie Grant Sartoris, daughter of exProsldcnt Grant, died at her home In England tin the 15: li. Seuious riots occurred at Lurgan, Ireland, on the 15th, during the progress of a Home Rule procession. Stones wore hurled at the police, who retaliated by firing on tlic mob, killing two and wounding others. Lord Lurgan’s lodges an l a house belonging to a Protestant w ere subsequently gutted. A Boston physician named Moseley was recently killed w hile descending the Matter- - horn, in Switzerland. On the 15th the trouble among tlic shiplaborers of Quebec culminated in a terrible free fight between the French and Irish members of the Ship-Laborers Benevolent Society. Of tlic former about 3,010 were opposed by a somewhat smaller number of the latter. After terrific fighting, during which five persons were killed and more wounded, the French -party were driven back. Subsequently a great many hardware stores were sacked, and all the guns and ammunition found confiscated “By one or the other of the contendfiig Tactions. During the evening each /party held meetings and adopted resolutionajto wipe out the other. The Mayor declining to act, the other magistrates called out the military, but they were few and were practically powerless. At midnight the city was substantially in the hands of the mol) and there were serious forebodings of what would occur on the morrow. A dispatch was published In the New York Herald on the 15th, announcing the arrival of the Arctic steamer Jeannette at the port of Illuluck, in the Island of Onalaska, on the 2d of August. She would sail for St. Michaels on the 6th of August.

A St. I’etershurg dispatch of the 16th announces the blowing trp of the Government powder-magazine near that city. Several soldiers and workmen in the vicinity worn killed. The magazine was undermined anil blown up presumably by Nihilists. _ Toe i toting between, the Catholics and Protestants at Lurgan, Ireland, was resumed on the 16th and continued on the 17th. There was also rioting at Gilford. In the efforts to suppress the disturbances, twcDty policemen were more or less injured. The Ameer of Afghanistan has lately replied to a letter from General Kaufmann, the Russian Commander in Asia, informing him that all future correspondence must be conducted through the Indian Government. Many persons were killed and a great many buildings destroyed by a recent water-spout near Pays deGex, In Switzerland. The Turkish Government has dismissed Aleko Pasha from the Governor-Generalship of Rumelia. The Emperor of Germany has pardoned Admiral Batch, commander of the flag-ship' Koenig Wilhelm, who was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for running down the Grosser Kurfuerst r’ The anticipated riotous demonstrations at Quebec did not occur on the 16th, although there were many hand-to-hand individual fights and several persons were more or less hurt. The city was quiet on the 17th.