Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

Tn amount of United States currency outstanding on the 80th Ult to stated as foljinie. ■..■. 946,51,016 Ow-mr MM of I*9 0.146 ; is.?Mo© IWtal. 8362,850,006 Tn public-debt statement, issued on the Ist, shows the following: Totaldebt (Including Interest of 818.814.4 M), 82,273,462,432. Cash in Treasury, 8943606,298. Debt, less amount In Treasury, 82.030,766,204. Decrease during August <3,597,895. Increase since June 80, 82,568,948. Thb receipts by the Government of refunding certificates for conversion into four-per-cent. bonds up to and including the Ist instant aggregated 885,706.000. The total irnuee of the four-per-cent, loan by the Treasury Department amounted to 8740,975.800, leaving 8736.700 not vet disposed of. During the month of August the silver payments from the United States Treasury and the 'mints amounted to 81,865,000, exelusive of the amount returned for silver certificates. - The aggregate weight of the coin thus distributed is fifty-stx tons. The number of standard silver dollars coined during August was 3,787,05!); total number coined up to the Ist instant, 40,237 050. Thu Postmaster-General has ordered an actual daily count in all postoffices, from tbs Ist to the 7th of November, of all letters, packages, postal cards, etc. The publishers of newspapers are requested to furnish postmasters with the number of papers mailed during the same time. It was reported from y Washington on the 6th that of the ten-dollar refunding certificates there had been sold by the Treasury Department 840,012,780. For the purpose of making the sale 799 Government officers, mostly Postmasters, were .designated by the Secretary of the Treasury as depositariea. But 509 of that number, however 1 qualified by filing a bond, and through them eales were made to the amount of *28,560,900. Seventy-six National Banks sold sold by the United Blates Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers. Not a cent had been lost to the Government in the transaction. There had been up to date 885,860,650 of refunding certificates presented for conversion tntofour-ler-cent bonds.

The East. A Providence (R. I.) telegram of the Ist to the Boston Herald denies that Mrs. Sprague left Newport in a steam yacht on the 30th ult, and adds: “Governor Sprague denies in toto that be left any watch over his wife, or that he intercepted any of her messages or letters.” It was said that the Governor would take immediate steps to regain possession of his daughters. A special from Providence on the Ist to the Chicago Inter-Ocean it was probable Mrs. Sprague had been aided in her escape by old friends of her father, and that she would be landed somewhere oft the European coast and be guarded in her seclusion until some definite understanding and settlement with her husband should be arrived ah A special to the New York Timet at the 2d says Governor Sprague had stated that his wife certainly did not leave in consequence of any threat or act of violence on his part; that no act of wloJpKe was committed by him then or at any other time. Thb Republicans of New York held their State Convention at Saratoga on the 3d. Senator Conkling was unanimously chosen temporary Chairman, and Vice-President Wheeler was subsequently elected permanent presiding officer. A. B. Cornell was nominated on the first ballot for Governor, receiving 234 of the 450 votes cast A motion to make the nomination unanimous was adopted wiJh a single objection. The rest of the ticket nominated is as follows: For Lieutenant-Govern-or, George C. Hoskins; Secretary of State, Joseph B. Carr; Comptroller, James W. Wadsworth; Treasurer, Nathan D. Wendell; Attor-ncy-General, Hamilton Ward; State Engineer and Surveyor, Howard Soule. The platform, adopted declares the United States to be a nation, and not a league, and to be supreme within its own Constitutional sphere; denounces the doctrine of State sovereignty as being the baleful mother of nullification, secession and anarchy; arraigns the Democratic party for its policy during and since the war; declares that the Republicin party neither justifies nor* tolerates military interference with elections, but seeks only to protect the ballot-box from the Interference of force and fraud; that the successful resumption of specie payments is the crowning element of Republican financial policy; that it is the province and plain duty of the State to supervise and regulate moneyed and transportation corporations so as to secure just and impartial treatment of all interested; etc., etc. The New York Prohibition Bute Convention met at Syracuse on the 3d and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, Professor John W. Mears; Lieutenant-Governor, James H. Bronson; Secretary of State, A. H. Hopkins; Comptroller, C. W. AUi; Treasurer, Stephen Merritt; State Engineer, John J. Hooder; Attorney-General, Walter Farrington. a A reunion of the Smith family was held at Peapack, N. J., on the 4th. There were present 3,500 Smiths from various sections of the Union. East, West and South. Charles Demons, late Treasurer of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, was arrested in Boston on the 4th, charged with embezzlement The amount of his defalcation was placed at over 820.000. A DISPATCH to the New York World from Kingston, R. L, on the 3d, says Mrs. Kate Sprague was then at Jamaica Plains, Mass., where some cousins of hers were spending the summer. la a conversation with a Dr. Perry, of New York, she had led him to bebelieve that her departure from her husband's residence was solely in consequence of the inability of her counsel to get Mr. Sprague to come to an understanding about the disposition to be made of the children. A Providence telegram of the sth says Mrs. Sprague had filed a petition in the Superior Court asking for the appointment of a trustee of her property and estate in South Kingston. Ex-Governor Seymour is reported, in a dispatch of the sth. as having declined being a candidate for Governor before the New York Democratic State Convention, and as haring, in a letter, rebuked the existing divisions in the party in that State. Mbs. William H. Keens died at Philadelphia a few days ago, of hydrophobia, the effects of a bite by a small Nack-and-tan terrier bu wvcbb uului e. Am entire family at Linden, N. J., was recemtly poisoned by esting toadstools in mistpke for mushrooms. - Two children died from the effects of tbe poison, and the other members of the family had a narrow escape from death. , The f<fllowfng were the dosing quotations for produce In New York; on September 6th: No. 3 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected]<; Na 2 Milwaukee. Oats, Western Mixed, 81«88c. Corn, Western Mixed, 42tf«4«Xc- Pork, Mess. 88.90.7J9.00. Lard, 86.15ffi6.90. Floor, Good to Choice, »4.50®6.26; White Wheat Extra. 8175'1*5.35. Crttiei”M7s«ia2sfor Common to Extra. 8a.50ffi5.25. Hogs, <3A0»4.00.

Ar East Liberty, Pa., od Septembrrfiih, Cattle brought: Beet. 85.00ffib.li6; ' Fair to Good, 84.80ffit.00; Common, 83.00ffi8.30. Hogs sold -Yorkers, 88.6003.70; Philadelphia, 48.80« 400. Sheep brought *8.00.1*4.50 according to quality. ("* At Baltimore, Md., on September 6th, Cattle brought: Best, 85.00J8A25; Medium, 88.50(34.50. Hoge sold at 84.75W5.50 for Good. Sheep were quoted at 83.00(4*4.50 for Good. - ? < Wert and Souili. Nbab Atlanta, Ga., the other day a little child fell over the steep aide of Stone Mountain, which has a perpendicular height of 1,630 feet. The little one caught on a ledge of rocks, and by sticking her fingers In the erevicea, managed to hold on until an alarm was carried to the town, three miles off. A large crowd hastened to the place, when they found the child fifty feet below the brink of the mountain, she having slid down rather than fallen outright. A man named Joy Goldsmith was let over the brink with a stout rope. He reached the child just as she was exhausted’, and they were drawn to, the top amid the most intense excitement. The mother awaited the child at the brink. The little girl wai considerably bruised, but all were thankful that matters were no worse, as the escape from death was a remarkable one. Thb following was the vote cast for Governor at the late Kentucky election, as officially announced: Blackburn, Democrat, 125,979; Evans, Republican, 81,882; Cook, Greenbacker, 18,954. Blackburn's majority over all, 24,963. A hurricane passed over New Orleans, Morgan City, La., and the section bordering on the Gulf and the Atchafalaya, on the afternoon of the Ist. A great many walls and buildings were blown down, coal-boats and steamers sunk and sugar-bouses destroyed. Scarcely a plantation between New Iberia and Morgan City escaped. At Frankfort on the 2d Governor-elect Luke P. Blackburn was duly inaugurated Governor of Kentucky, in the presence of a great multitude of people.

The Republicans of Minnesota met in State Convention at St Paul on the 3d. John 8Pillsbury, the present Governor, was renominated on the first ballot. C. A. Gilman was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor. The resolutions adopted indorse the financial policy of the present National Administration, which is claimed to be vindicated by the “eminent success which has attended the resumption of specie payments;” demand that “ every Constitutional means be exerted to maintain that liberty and security throughoutthe South which all citizens are entitled to under the Government;” favor Civil-Serv-ice Reform enactment by Congress; demand retrenchment in every department of the National and State Governments, and declare that “the Republican party sots its face absolutely against evervthing that savors of monopoly,” and will use all Constitutional means to protect the people against unjust discrimination and combination by rail road or other corporations. Tire Inter-State Exposition at Chicago was formally opened ou the night of the 3d. It will continue six weeks. At a meeting of the St. Louis Colored Refugee Board, held on the night of the 4th, reports were made going to show that there had been little falling’off in the’ negro emi gration northward, and that the number tni.ht be expected to Increase after the crop was gathered. It was stated that a better class of people was coming, and that the demand for assistance was not so pressing and genera] as it had been. On the morning of the st’i the steamer Alaska, of the Detroit and Put-in-Bay line, exploded the dome of her boiler while in Lake Erie near the mouth of the river. Both engineers and oue deck-hand were killed, and ten deck-hands seriously scalded—some fatally. One passenger only was hurt, and he slightly. Dispatches received Francisco on the evening of the sth say that threefourths of the vote cast at the late election had been counted. At that time Perkins, Republican, for Governor, led Glenn, Democratic, about 17,500 votes, and the indications were that Perkins’ plurality would reach 23,000. The Republicans had apparently elected all the Congressmen, though the vote was very close in the San Francisco District Kalloch was elected Mayor of the latter city beyond a doubt, and the Workingmen had evidently elected the Sheriff and some of the municipal officers of Bau Francisco. The trial of Henry Gully for the murder of Cornelia Chisholm, daughter of Judge

Chisholm, was begun at De Kalb, Miss., on the sth. People were pouring Into the town, and the deepest Interest In the trial was manifested. Several ladies from the country had requested seats in the court-room. Gen eral Woodford, who went to Mississippi as an escort- for Mrs. Uhlsholm, would remain jgt De Kalb till the close of all the trials, but would take no part In the proceedings. A Convention of Croquet-Players has been called to meet at the Palmer House in Chicago, on the 23d Inst., at two o’clock p. qh. for the purpose of establishing Natiorfal Rules by which all players may be governed. Several distinguished players will be in attendance. All organized clubs are invited to send delegates, and skilled players generally are invited to attend. Those intending to be present are requested to send their names and addresses to J7X Stoddard; T77Mi<Hson street, Chicago. 111. lx Chicago, on September 6th, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at cash; 87@87 Vc for October; for November. Cash Corn closed at for No. 2; 34X@34Mc to October; 33Xc for November. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 23X@23J<c seller October; for November. Rye Na 2, Barley No. 2, 73ffi74c. Cash Mess Pork dosed at 88 Beeves—Extra brought *4.80 5.15; Choice, 84.50£4.70; Good, 84.00@ 4.35; Medium Butchers’ Stock, *[email protected]. Stock Cattle, etc., *2.30 03.00. Hogs—Good to Choice, *[email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, 2.50®4.00.

The Yellow Fever. There were three new cases in New Orleans on the Ist, one Of them being the son (aged eight years) of the late General Hood. One death was reported. Twenty-eight new cases (fifteen colored) and four deaths were officially reported in Memphis on the 2d. The fever bad evidently gained a foot-hold at Buntyn Station, six miles east of the city, eight cases in all hav ing beeti reported in that immediate neighborhood. Judge Jones gave the quarantine breakers at Houston, Texas, a healing on the 2d, on write of habeas corpus, and discharged the prisoners, the Judge holding that the Board of'Health had no power to declare ,quarantine, the power being vested in the Bpard of Aidermen alone. It was said the next proceeding would be to arrest the Mayor, Health officers and members of the Houston Board of Health on the charge of conspiracy to obstruct, and obstructing, the United Slates malt ’ - W. J. Smith, acting President, and T. Roane Waring, Secretary, of the Memphis Howard Association, issued an appeal on the 4tb, to the public at large, for substantial aid. Every dollar imtheir treasury had been used up, and no alternative was left them but to appeal to the cbarity of the Nation." They say: “The generous-people throughout the Union will not fall to respmffl to this call for help. We feel that we are performing ■ Batted duly to and distressed people atdoSg whom our lot is cast The bounty of . a common r people was showered uoon us i u 1878, ’ and to those same willing givers we appeal. If help U not Bprodfly furnished wo will be compelled

to abandon the work in which we have been engaged, leaving huudreda to suffer and die for want of a Howard's helping hand.” The official report showed twenty-seven now cases (fifteen colored) and ten deaths in Memphis on the 4th. Three additional cases were reported at Buntyn Station. A dispatch from New Orleans on the Sth, In noticing the enforcement of the National Quarantine law in regard to vessels leaving the “ Infected port of New Orleans,” says the population of the city was not less than 200,000, and there was then but orfe cam of yrildW fever there, and that was in the Fourth District, fully two miles from the business center. Total caves In the city so far, twentytwo, and deaths, nine. Ox the Sth five seamen, just arrived from Jamaica and Hayti, wore admitted to the yellow-fever quarantine hospital at New York. Nixmsex new cases (twelve white) and thirteen deaths were reported in Memphis on the stb. Liberal contributions were being received by the Howard Association in reE>nse to the appeal for aid. Jay Gould sent 000 by telegraph from New York, and expressed himself as certain that '‘generous jteople throughout the country will contribute liberally to aid your stricken city. At any rate (be adds) keep ou at your noble work till I tell you to stop, and I will foot the bill.” In acknowledging the receipt of this liberal donation, Mr. Binltl| says the expenses of the Association aggregated *I,OOO a day, and should the fever continue to spread the expenses must necessarily increase. There were seventeen new cases reported in Memphis on the 6th, nine of them whites and eight colored. The numbered seven,-five of whom were whites. The total number of eases reported during the week was 152—seventy-eight whites and seventyfour colored; total number to date 1,005. The deaths from yellow fever during the week numbered forty-three (thirty-three white), and the total number to date (6tb) was 27(1. The Odd Fcl lows ’ Special Relief Committee announced that they were again forced to the necessity ot appealing to the Brotherhood at large for material aid. Such contributions should rf»e sent to Marcus Jones, Grand Patriarch of the State and President Of the Comftiittee, Memphis, Tenn. Three new cases and one death were reported to the New Orleans Board of Health on the 6th. 1 I' The new cases reported in Memphis on the 7th numbered eleven (seven colored), and the deaths numbered eight. The Howards’ weekly report showed that they had’ 211 nurses on duty, attending 130 white and seventy-live colored families.

Foreign Intelligence. The Receiver of the East of England and South Wales District Bank closed, on the Ist, Thomas W. Booke & Co.’s sheet-iron and tinplate works, near Cardiff, Wales, which had been in operation since 1840, continuously. Over 1,500 workmen were discharged and paid off. ' '■ • x Kino Alfonso’s marriage to the Austrian Archduchess Marie Christine has beei/nxed for the 28th of November. The United States Consul at Alexandria has officially notified the Egyptian Government that the United States demands to be represented upon the Commission to provide for the liquidation ot the Egyptian debt According to Calcutta dispatchesof the 2d the British Resident at Mandalay had been forced to leave his post through fears of his personal safety. A conspiracy to depose King Theebaw had been discovered among his Min-i isters. On the 2d at Bonchamp, France, an explosion of fire-damp occurred in the coal-mines, by which fifteen persons were killed and a large number Injured. General Lazarbff, the commander of the Russian Expedition against the TekkeTurcomans, has latelydied, and LieutenantGeneral Tourgoukasoff has been appointed as his successor. Kino Theebaw, of Burmab, has gathered an army us 40,000 men upon the frontier, with the avowed object of making war upon the British in India. - . The National Railway of .Switzerland has been sold for 4,000,000 francs. It cost 32,000,000 francs. f According to a Cape Town dispatch published ou the 3d, Cetewayo was in full flight, accompanied by a few followers, and Lord Gifford was in pursuit, with a party of mounted natives. His Prime Minister, two of his sons and three of his brothers had already surrendered. , A conspiracy for the uprising of the Mohammedans of Eastern Roumelia has been discovered. The new .quay at Galatz, on the Danube, one hundred and eighty meters long, sunk on the 3d. The announcement was made on the 4th that the French Government had decided to tunnel Mont Blanc. A telegram was received at Gottenburg, Sweden, on the 4th, from Professor Nordenskjold, the Swedish Arctic explorer, dated Yokohama, Japan, September 3, announcing the safe arrival of the Vega at that place. According to a London telegram of the 4th, when the usual toast to the Queen was proposed at a recent banquet given at Limerick to Mr. Parnell, the Home-Rule leader, it was received with violent hisses and other disloyal expressions. It was stated thtrt the tcnrd-Lieutenafit of Ireland had directed the Limerick Superintendent of Police to report upon the circumstances attending these qnpleasant and unparalleled demonstrations.

Lurgan and some of the surrounding districts in Ireland have been placed under the provisions of the Peace-Preserving act Berlin telegrams of the Sth say the reported resignation of Prince Bismarck was a canard, originating On the Bourse, and intended to affect the price of securities. There was no truth in it On the sth the steamer France, plying between Bordeaux and Royan, exploded her boilers, killing one person, mortally injuring three, and seriously injuring twenty-five others. A severe earthquake shock was felt in the vicinity of Szegedin, Hungary, on the.4th. According to St. Petersburg dispatches of thes;h the murderer of Prince Krapotkine, Military Governor at Charkoff, some time ago, hul been arrested and taken to the latter place for trial. It is stated that he was bribed to commit the crime by one of the Socialists recently hung at Odessa. The crops having failed in Bulgaria, the Government has prohibited the exportation of cereals. The Portuguese Government has authorized the laying of an ocean cable between Lisbon, the Azores and the United States. The Viceroy of India received a letter from the Ameer of Afghanistan on the 6th announcing that twelve Afghan regiments had revolted and were at that time besieging both, himself and the British Embassy. Lord. Lytton immediately dispatched a large ‘ force to Cabul and made arrangements to thoroughly guard the passes. On the 7th another letter was received announcing the destruction of the Embassy and the massacre of Major Cavagnari and his entire suite, numbering seventy persons. “Cham,” the distinguished French .caricaturist, died at Paris on the 7tb. Ox the 7th the steamer Brest, en route from Havre to New York, weut ashore off the Lizard*, between Havre *nd Liverpool. Ot the passenk-ers.on board, seven were lost Recent heavy rains have caused the Neva to overflow its banks at St Petersbuigb, and Inundate all the ontlying suburbs. The destruction of property is very great ” Mass-meeting resolutions are like jerked beef, always cut ;i nd dried when u»ed.«r-Y. O. ficayune.