Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

Jrrom wasliinfirton, Tn Oo*nria«loncfr of Education, in a report recently published, gives hoc Interesting statistics regarding the condition of the public schools In the prominent dties of the country, from whk£ the following comparetire statement is compiled:

f I life Washlngt’n, D.C M,480t IMVT *333,7» $*1.75 Ssa Francisco.... SLB69 $4,735, 800,710 2ABO CWcago > . boos* aw «MW M.M LouUnile. 46,000 11,961 2HMOS O.W New Orleans.... 17.U6 154® $09,948 Baltimore 71,500; 95367 KB Boston 1530*1 AM 2,015480 95.94 Detroit *,739 M4l *s*l4 .. Buffalo 4<Xoooj 13420 905,000 23.40 New York 98M*71».7Tr TIM ClsctruisU. IkU** 24,430 w. Lotus inko® tun 1,100,7301...... dereUiKl 45,429 *,145 997,7* Mi Philadelphia.... 202J24 BM$7 I,«lU* PittsburST.... 4L4® 14401 4*3,0® 3500

The United States Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers bare been recently directed to pay out both gold and silver upon all Government obligations. The Treasury Department in Washington has recently decided that the “ statute authorising the redemption of called bonds where clear and unequivocal evidence has been furnished that they hare been destroyed does not spply to coupons which, at the time of their destruction, were detached from the bonds.”j In the case in question coupons bsd been destroyed after they had been detached from the bonds, and could not, therefore, be redeemed by the Government. The Acting Secretary of the Interior De partmeut has decided that a woman occupying to her husband the relation of a plural or polygamous wife cannot be permitted to make a homestead or pre-emption entry of public land. Recent reports state that the excess of exports over imports in this country for the year ending August 31, 1879, amounted to $289,700,341. The public-debt statement, issued on the Ist, shows the following: Total debt (including interest of $33,501,082), $3,209,061,131 Cash In JJreasury, $334,778,679. Debt, less amount In Treasury, $3,027,303,453. Decrease during September, $2,563,753. Decrease since June 30,1879, $4,803. According to a recent Washington telegram there was then In the Government Treasury but $6,179,000 in gold in denomlnsr tions of less thsn twenty dollars—an amount not sufficient to meet any active demand upon the Treasury for small coin. To supply this deficiency, it was said the Treasury Department intended to recoin most of the foreign gold received at the New York Assay office Into flve-dollar and ten dollar gold pieces. A statement has recently been issued by the Treasury Department at Washington relative to the four-per-cent, bonds, to the effect that all the proceeds of the sale of such bonds had been paid Into the Treasury, except the called bonds and coupons ui transit* from the Government’s agent in London. The amount of called bonds outstanding, not yet presented for payment, was $28,971,800, all of which bonds were provided for by cash In the Treasury, except $607,060, for which an equal amount of unsold four-per-cent bonds was * retained In the Department The aggregate or the four-per-cent, bonds sold was $740,847,960.

Up to the Ist Inst, arrears of pension claims to the amount of £30,734,507 had been The average amount of arrears in each case was #->45. The whole number of cases setled in September was 13,287. It is estimated that there are still about 6,000 or 7,000 ItensioHers entitled to arrears whose cases ' bare not been settled. Followlxo U the coinage of the United States mints for September: Gold, #6,860,120; stiver, #2,306,092; minor coins, #14,004. The total number of pieces was 3,996,912, of the total value of #9,279,806. lx a statement made on the 3d the Comptroller of the Currency says the whole -amount of additional National Bank circulation issued since the publication of his annual report in 1878 was $11,833,325. The amount of circulation issued In the months of November and December, 1878, and in January, May, June, July and August, 1879, was considerably less than $1,000,000 for each month. The amount Issued in February was *51,648,401; March, $1,081,026; April, $2,018, 634. The amount issued in September, 1879, was $3,480,973 —more than twice the amount issued during the preceding four months. The total average amount of additional circulation issued the pass four months has been . at the rate of a little more than #1,000,000 per month. A Washington special of the sth says the Post-ollicc Department had made a decision, l which had been adopted by the PostmasterGeneral, and which will be strictly enforced, prohibiting the mailing of letters to lottery companies or their agents; also forbidding the sending of money to lottery companies by nos til order or registered letter. The lottery agents in Washington were indignant at this decision, and thought it would not stand. It was said the lottery companies could take the case to the courts and maintain their right to the use of the mails.

The East. The trustee of Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague was refused admission to the Sprague residence at Canonchet on the 29th ult., by the ex-Govenior, although he was accompanied by Mr. Chaffee, the trustee of the Sprague estate. The object of the visit was to make an inventory of the property In the house, that Mrs. Sprague might indicate what she claimed as her personal property. Tns American Literary Bfityau announced on the 30th ult. that the friends of Mr. Redpath had not heard of or from him since his mysterious disa pea ranee from New York City some Ume before. endell Phillips has declined the Domination for Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts tendered him by the Greenback State Convention. Dvring August there arrived at the port of New York immigrants, against 7,619 du ring the same month last year. The total arrival of immigrants during the year ending - August 31 was 108,507, against 75,065 during 1878. Or the receipts of the recent pedestrian contest in New York, Charles Rowell U entitled to about #19,500; Samuel Merritt, #7,300; George Haxael, #4,:00; Frank Hart, *2,700; George Guyon, #2,000; Weston, #1,400; Ennis, #1,100; Krohne, #9OO. Rowell, walked a little over 115 boars; Merritt, 117; Haxael, ninety-nine. The Council of the Massachusetts Medical Society have recently resolved to admit women to membership. At its session in New York on thfe 2d the joint Executive Railroad Committee Voted an advance in East-bound freights to a >*—«- of thirty-five cents on grain, forty cento for fourth-class and fifty cento for fire hogs from Chicago to New York, to take effect October ia The following were the closing quotations for produce to New, York, on October 4th: Nq.2 Chicago Spring Wheat, #1.2*31.28*; No. 2 Milwaukee. #[email protected]*. Oats, Westrn Mixed, 36@37c. Cora, Western Mixed,

54064*t Pork, Mew, $0.0009.56. Lard, $6-5006.60. Plow, Good to Choice, S6J6 @6.75; WUte Wheat Extra, $5.1006.50. Cattle, $6-5009.75 for Common to Extra. Sheep, $3 0006.00. Hogs, $*.7004.10. At Bast Liberty, Pa-, oa October 4th Cattle brought: Best, s*[email protected]; Pair to Good, sLffio4>?s; Common, S3JD@kOO. Hogs sold—Yorkers, $8.7603.90; Philadelphia*, $4.0004.10. Sbeep brought $8.0004.36 —according to quality. At Baltimore, M<L, on October 4th, Cattle brought: Best, $4.7505.00; Medium, $8 sßos 9ft Hogs sold at s4*Oo&*7X for Good. Sheep were quoted at $3.0004.36 for Good. t - West and South. A call has been issued by Hugo Preyer, as Chairmaa of the Union Greenback Labor party of the United States, for a Union National Convention, to be held at St. Louis on the Bth of next January, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the Presidency sad Vice-Presidency of the United States, and to transact such other business as may come before the Convention. The chartered Greenback Clubs in each county or parish are called upon to bold a County Convention on the 36th of December to elect one delegate to the National Convention. The Chairman says, In the call, “ there wID be no fusion with either of the old parties at any time or under any rirmmiUnfH ”

About 80,000 children of the San Francisco public schools attended a reception given by Oenersl Grant at the Woodward Gardens in that city on the 20th nit. At Milwaukee on the 90th nit. a servant girl named Mary Schwarts used kerosene to light a fire. Her clothes were set on fire, and she was fatally burned. She ran shrieking through the streets Into a saloon, where the flames were extinguished, but too late to save ber life. At 8t- Louis on the afternoon of tbe 26th nit. Professor Wise, the noted aeronaut, and George Burr, Teller of the First National Bank of that city, made a balloon ascension, Intending to remain np all night. Nothing had been heard from the balloon or its occupants np to the 30th nit. They were thought to have taken a northeasterly coarse, and may have landed In some place In Michigan or Canada remote from civilization. Great anxiety was felt in St. Louis concerning their fate. President Hates and party were at Springfield, 111., on the 90th alt., and arrived at Indianapolis, Ind., dn the evening of the Ist They were met and greeted at both cities, and at many points along their line of travel, by many thousand* of people. A Rawlins (Wy. T.) dispatch of the Ist reports almost another Custer affair on the southern borders of the Territory. It seems that Major Thornburgh, of the Fourth United States Infantry, was sent on the 14th Into the Milk River When within twentyfive miles of the White River Ute Agency, after narrowly escaping an ambuscade In a narrow canyon, the command was met by about 300 Ute hostlles. After some delay an engagement followed,during which MajorTbomburgh and thirteen enlisted men were killed, and thirty-five others .were wounded. Every officer In the command except one was hit. The Indians also, killed about 200 Government mules and destroyed a large amount of other property. Finding that they were getting the worst of it the troops fell hack to the corraled train, made breast works of tbe wagons and intrenched themselves as well as tbey could. After confronting them until the night of the 29th the Indians withdrew. An expedition nnder General Merritt was sent for their relief on the afternoon of the Ist. Nothing had been heardfrom Indian Agent Meeker since the 27th of September, and it was believed he and his family bad been massacred.

The Republicans of Nebraska held their State Convention at Omaha on the Ist Amasa Cobb, present incumbent, was nominated by acclamation for Supreme Judge, and John L. Carson and J. W. Gannett were placed in nomination for Regents of the State University. A “stalwart” platform was adopted, in which was a resolution welcoming the return of General Grant, and characterizing him as “the champion of our Union, the protector of our Nation, and the hero of the great rebellion.” Gexkral Grant and wife, accompanied by a small party of relatives and friends, left San Francisco on the 30th ult for the Yosemite Valley. At Stockton they met with a brilliant reception at the hands of the authorities and a large assemblage of citizens. At Adrian, Mich., on the 2d, during the progress of a race at the Fair Grounds the graud stand, upon which over 2,000 people were standing, suddenly gave way, and precipitated its burden to the ground. Six persons were killed outright, and several others fatally Injured. About 150 persons beside were more or less seriously hurt. The accident was the result of faulty construction. Th* reunion of surviving prisoners of the late war, held at Toledo, Ohio, on the Ist and 2d, was well attended. The proceedings were of a very interesting character, consisting of addresses and Reminiscences of war .experiences, etc. A procession on the 2d had fully 2,000 soldiers in its ranks, about one-half of whom had been prisoners of war during the rebellion.

Dzstbi ctivk prairie fires have recently occurred iu many parts of Minnesota. Th* Bunker HiU (Ill.) correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat writes that be saw Wise’s balloon pass that point (thirty-two miles northeast of St. Louis) about 6:30 on the evening of the 28th ult., the day of the ascension. From there the balloon took a course almost directly north, and was subsequently seen about ten miles away. A son-in-law of Professor Wise denies that the balloon was old or rotten, and says It was entirely new, had never been used before, and was one of the best ever made. Thr number of dead by the Adrian (Mich.) disaster had reached thirteen up to the evening of the 3d, and there were said to be 224 sufferers under medical treatment The town was a scene of woe, lamentation and monraIng- „ - A Rawlins dispatch of the sth says a herder Just In from the Ute country reports that a man named Taylor, who had been with the Utes, had told him that he rode around Captain Payne’s intrenched camp on the Ist, and that he then held the position all right. Subsequently heavy firing was heard in that direction. Mr. Taylor says the White River country was full of bostUes, Including, beside the Northern and Southern Utes, the Arrapaboes, Bhoshones, Snake and Bannocks. Nobody at Rawlins doubted that Agent Meeker and bis family had been murdered. The miners In North Park had been ordered to leave under penalty of massacre.

A dispatch from St. Louis on the sth says a telegram had been received from Girard, IIL, from a reporter who had accompanied John Wise, Jr., to explore the Macoupin Creek bottoms to search of the lost balloonista, to the effect that they had found no trace of the balloon or its occupants to that section, and they did not believe they had come down south of Springfield. The balloon was seen Bunday night (28th uIL) by fanners east of Girard, very high to the air, and circulars were also found near Illiopolls. This explodes a theory advanced by some the missing travelers had landed In Macoupin County. Ox the 4th the Governor of Colorado was notified that the Indians were threatening Lake City and Ouray and the San Juan country, and asked to send troops and ammunition. Ix Chicago, October 4th, Bpring Wheat, No. 2, closed at #[email protected]* cash; for November; *i.Oo*eilOX for December. Cash Cora closed at 37*®87*e for No. 2; 37®87*e for November; for December. Cash Oats, No. 2, sold ai27*« seller November; 26*0

for December. Rye, No. 3, 60*. Barley, No. t, 75076*. C*ah Mew Pork dosed * $8.9009.96. fold, cash, $6.2006.86. Beeves —Extra brought $4.6006.00; Choice, $4.50 04.75; Good, $4.1504.40; Medium Grades, s3*o4-00; Butchers’ Sleek, $3.400675; Stock Cattle, etc., $3.3603.90. Hogs—Good to Choice, ssoooß3ll , Sheep—Poor to Choice, $2.5004.26. The Yellow Fever. Mobile, Ala., has removed all quarantine restrictions against New Orleans. There were only two new eaew reported in Memphis on the let The deaths numbered three, two of than being beyond the city limits. Eleven new cases (seven colored) and three deaths were reported to the Memphis Board of Health on the 2d. Two cases (children) were reported seven miles south of the city, where eight persons had recently died of the fever and five others were still suffering from the disease. Three was a material decrease in the number of new cases and deaths fn Memphis during the week ending on the 4th. The deaths were twenty and the new cases sixtyeight. Tbe total number of cases to date was 1,347; deaths, 408. These figures do not comprise the eases and deaths that occurred oatside the corporation lines. Six cases (five white) and four deaths occurred on the sth.

Foreijrn intelligence. On tbe 30th nit the Russian version of the late battle with the TSkk e-Turcomans was received. According to this, instead of a Russian defeat, it was a substantial Russian victory. The latter lost seven officers and 178 soldiers killed, and sixteen officers and 234 soldiers wounded, but they captured the ene ray’s intrenchments and tnfllcted upon him a loss of several thousand men. The expedition had not been abandoned, as reported from Simla. On tbe 90th ult. a lighter laden with gunpowder exploded at Marburg, near Hamburg, on the River Elbe. The entire crew were killed and the vessel demolished. The house of Wedstein, Hamburg bankers, has failed. According to a Vienna telegram of the 30th ult. the health of the Czar had become very poor. He was suffering greatly from mental fatigue, and was daily becoming more ill. Rome (Italy) telegrams of tbe 80th ult. sav the Belgium Bishops had rescinded their late action with respect to communal gnd normal schools, and that the Pope had approved the course they had taken. According to Berlin dispatches of the Ist the late election throughout Germany for members of tbe Diet had resulted In tbe success of the Liberals. On the Ist five of the City of Glasgow Bank. Directors were released from imprisonment, their terms having expired. They were received with bootings and imprecations as they emerged from prison. In an agrarian fight near Castlebar, Ireland, on tbe Ist, two men were killed. The tenants of the Marquis of Headford have written to his agent threatening the death of that nobleman unless tbe rent be reduced.

General Roberts’ cavalry advance reached Zabid A bad on the 2d. The announcement was made from Simla on that day that tbe attack on Cabal would be made on the sth. According to Vienna telegrams of the 2d the troubles in Eastern Roumelia had degenerated Into guerrilla warfare. Tiie Governor of Kars has directed the closing of all Armenian parish schools existing by the authority. of the Turkish Government. The Lisbon (Portugal) Health Commission has announced that all the Atlantic ports of the United States are free from yellow fever, and directed the removal of all quarantine restrictions. According to London dispatches of the 8d the tenant-rights and land-reformmeetings in Ireland were receiving the serious attention of the Government. Information had been received of an intended rising of the “ Peep o’ Day Boys.” While these reports were considered to a large extent sensational, tbey had led to the multiplication of police precautions and preparations for any possible contingency. A Simla dispatch of the 3d says the Afghan rebels had cut the British lines of communication on both sides of Shutsrgardan Pass.