Weekly News Review

A LARQE number of the Fall River (Mass.) milis have suspended manufacturing, throwing some 4,0C0 oporatives out of employmont, Georqe E. Watehman, the former raymaster of the Pacific Mili, at Lawrenoe, Mass., has lioon conictol of tealing $111,000, and Hcuteuced to twclïo yoars iu tho Ktate prison. Thb Piiiladolphia Commercial Exc'iango lias petitioned CongreBH to increaso tho B'audÍDg army Thcro wcrc ninuty-fivo failir-i8 in May in New York city, with total Habilitios oí L5,G86,306, aad sssets í'.)55,483. Tho aggregato liabilities werc 2, 000,000 less than h o total of tho previous month. THE WJEST. Chicago elevatora contain 721,020 bushels of wheat ; 909,104 buahels of corn ; 218,555 bushels of oatB ; 32,855 bushels of rye, and 307,017 bnshels of barley, niaking a grand total of 2,149,151 bnshela, agaiiiBt 5,633,147 bushels at this period last yoiir. The Hon. J. Scott Hnrrison, the sou of President Harrison, and tho fatbcr of Gen. Ben ITarrison, of Indiana, died buddenly at his reaidence, near Ijanrenceburg, Ind., a short time ago. Ho was nearly 70 years old. A party of four maskert meu entereil a sleéping car of a Union Pacific near Percy Station, Utah, a few days ajio, and reliovcd tho passongors of a considerable portion of their poney and valuables. They fired tlirei) hots in tho slecper without injiiry to tho paesengers. They etnick one pasteDger with a pistol, cutting the scalp sonie. A paktï of four maeked men boarded a passenger train on the Union Pacific railroad, near Percy slat km, Utah, entercd ono of the üleeping cara and robbed the paBsengers. They llreil three shots in the leeper -without injnry to the paasengers. They strnck one passenger with a piBtol, cuttiug the scalp omo, ... On the farm of Robert Lynn, four miles from Hillsboro. O., a portable saw-mill engine exploded, tieotherday, killing three and gevorely scalJing Reveral others. One man was thrown completely over a tall tree. The boiler was fouud 300 yards distant Edward Webb, a black desperado, was executed at Mansficld, Ohio, ou the 80th uit., for tho mnrderof n old gentleman named Wrn. 8, ï'inney in December last. . . . Wliilo a charivari was" being given a now-married couple at Wallace, Ohio county, Ind., the bride, Miss Sowers, was shot and instautly killed by a paper wad üred from a musket. A terribiï destructive tornado visited the town of Riohmond, Mo., a few daye ago, causing a diatressing loss of life and proporty. Tlio storm lovled everything in its path, a breadth of at least 600 yarda, demolishing buildings to their foundations, stripping trees of their bark and foliage, and lovcH'ig wverything as if swept by a torront. Over 100 bonnes in tho town and vicinity were swept away. ïnolve persons were killed outrigbt, and unward of 100 injvued, inany of them beyond hope of recovery. The cyclone was the color of steam, and at times tho funnelshaped eloud would break open in places and eruit what appcared like black smoke, then gatiter together again, and, with inercsvsed foroe, continue on itB niarch of deütruction. At tirst it approached slowly- notj faster, perhaps, than a man could walk. Then it moved faster, levcling everything in lts path with theground, and producing almoRt ■complete devastation. The sound it produced was iufernal, rcsembling that of a great cataract. Amid the wails of women and rbildren and the groans of the dying. strong men shed tcars to witucss the general destruction, and tho death aud suflering of relativos and f rienda. A shocking tragedyis reported from BpringSeld, Mo. A Mrs. Thompson, while laboring under a teinporary fit of insanity, I arose from her bed during the night, went to the room of her 17-year-old daughter, and cut her tl rcat from ear to oar. 8he then euded her own life in tho samo rnanner. Advices from Idaho Territory report an uprising of the Bannock Indians. Gen McDowell has ordered a detachment of troops to the ecoue of the disturbances The four desperadooa who recently robbed the paesengers of a train on the Union Pacific railroad have been captured by a party of eleven men from Kawlius, who went in pursuit of tho robbers. The btolcn valuableB hivo beeu recovered. THE SOUTH. A sleei'ikg -coach on the Loiiisville and Nashvillo ) ailroad ran off tho track at NoliD, Ky., a few days ago, killing Iwo persons and inj uring five otiiers. WASHINGTON. Secretaby Sherman is credited with declaring Tinequivocally that no more Governmciit bond will be pold for redemplion pnrpoees, as the success of the last $50,000,000 i)4 per cents, assures over $200,000,000 gold surplus before January uext, especially as our ])romÍFing crops and tho largo European deniaiul for American products render any considerable export of gold this year highly improbable The official Ktatemont of the receipts from custems and internal revenuc for the prefent fiscal year, np to May 27, show a very heavy f alling off from tho same period last jear. Followino is the full text of the bill passcd by Congress to prevent the further retirement of legal-tendcr notfcs : Be it enactcd, etc., That from and aftcr the passage of tbis act it 6ba)l not be lawful for the Secrctary of the Treasury, or other oflicer íisder hun, to cancel or retire any more of the United States legal-tecder note; anti when any of eatd notes nuiy le redeemed or bo receivod iiito the treasury, nnder any law from auy eource wbatevcr, and sball beloög to the United Stat s, tbey sball nït be retired, caneeled, or detroyed, but they ehall lm reiBBued, and iftid out ;lh;m m, and kept in circulation : pro1ded, nothing herein sliall prohibit the rar-fl!ation and deBtruction uf njntilated notes, and the issue of other notes of liko denomiuation iu their stead, as now j)rnviled. All acts and parís of acts in conflict lifrewith aro hereby repealed. Tue President hns nominated Crowley 1 Dake, of Michigan, to bo United States Marshal of Arizomi. The barikers of the Syudicate have oompleted their purchase of L50,000,000 of i)4 per cent bonds. The Jnne public-debt statement is .o follows : Six per cent. bonds $ 738,010,000 Five per cent. bonda TD8,266,W9 Fonr and a half per cent. bonda 235,(KH),O(}0 Four per cent bouds 91,S,Vl,(lOO Total coin bonds $l,768,735,í.r)0 Lawful moneydebt % Ï4.óö(),(K0 Vitured debt: $ 6,14%SC0 LcKal tenders 346,743,318 ('erlillcatts of depoHit íi.'íOñKK) Fractional currency G,fi5H,fi9J Coin certifleates 52,8'23,fï40 Total without interest $ 451.930,652 Total debt 72,240,8l 9,802 Total Interest 31,335,417 Oash in treasury - com $ 189,708,021 Cash in treaeury - currency 3,094,748 Currency held for rcdemption of f ractional currency 10,OCO,000 Special depc-Blts held for redcmptloD of certiücates of deposit 35,7t5,000 Total in treasury $ 238.607, 769 Dobt less cash in treasury $2,033,037,450 l)ecreane of debt durinf; May 3.070.198 Dccrcaee siuce Judc 30, 1877 XJUtt) VVi Bonds lamed to Pacitic ltailroad Compantee, interest payablo in lawful money; priucipnl óutstandlng 84.B28.513 Interent accrued and nót yel pald l,i.15)H7 Interest paid by the United íUtir;; 87 636.3 ií Interest repaid by transportaron of mails, etc 9,152,577 Balance of interest paid by tho United States 28,112,767 POLITlCAIk Postmaster General Keï is out in an open letter, addressed to the people of the South, warning them against any attempt to unseat President Hayos as fraught with danger to the public peace, and urging them to support no perton for Congress who is not pledged to siistain the titlo ef Mr. Ilayes. Congros8mau Potter, of New York, Chairman of the Special Presideutial Investigating; Committee, ha aláo writtcn a letter upou the subjoct of the pending investigation, in which hc saya: There íb not the slightet-t chance of rovolution or disturbance. Wlu n the whole country wa at fpvf r heat on the pubjret of the election, a way v;;n found to (c(a)ilirh a tribunal lo pa? upon tbè election, and cvery oue pubmitted to that determiuation. The. PruidfOt's titlo rtsts upon that. If now it Bhould appear that there wa fraud wh'ch palpably afTfcted he electoral vote, aud whch the comniiHsion did not uotlcí1, and, if a lejral remedy (xtwtn for corrrcting tho error. ou cannot believe that bucU a pioceedin. undrr t'tf law, could leaï to disturbance. lf there be no Bnch Ie((al remedy eiiBtlng, ond CongreeB Bhould hcreafter, by the approval of the President, or by twothirds of both housefi without that approval, provide one, why rliould the legal ditcrmication thereaiter had any more produce diBturban e ihan the dr c'eion of tho Electoral Commiseion dld ? Eeprebentativb AiiEx. H. Stephems has writtcn a lottor ia reply to tlie atatemoutof Congrcsemaa Potter touchiug lhc object of the pendipg Proaidential icvegtlgation. Mr, gtopna vioffs the wboo proocèdiog ft? " ntv wiso, unfortunato and misohiovoun," and thiiikB "its effect will bo to disturb the poaco, harmony and quiet of tho country." In cloeing Mh etter he saya : My own opinión íb, as I have repeatedly paid, that thís affair will prove in the end either a conceniptible farco or a horrible trapedy. Whether it will leart lo the Mexlcanization of our Federal repubhc, the rcs.nU must 8bow ; luit I aay, as I eaid on anotbcr recent c;caeion, that all soft words inwulliüK in the mind of the pcoplc of this country the idea that Mr. Hayes can be peaceally tmscatí'd by Con,'it'HK ore as delusivo and uileful :lk ihc w1úshtinpB of th rtiat :irrh-üond, iu the Bbape of atoad, in tho ear or Sve, froni which sirung all our wofu, Tho Democnitic Gongrenamcn frotn Toimessoe bitterly denounoe PosimaKter Genoral Koy for writing a letter in opposition to tho invoi-tigation. Thcy asert tliat it vas prepareii for liiin, aml that tho only choico lef t him was to Bigii it or leavfl tho Cabinet. Mr. Key protests that he wroto tho letter wilh Ibt best of motives, without dictation f rom or consult ation with any ouc, and tbat. if ho hal tlm thing to do over again, he wouldn't alter a word of it. The Iowa State Democratie Convention met at Dea Moines on Wednesdiy, May 29, and nomiuated the following ticket : For Secretary of State, T. W. Walker; Auditor, Col. Eiboeck; Treanurer, E. D. Fenii; Begiater of the Stilte l-aud-Office, T. S. Bardwell; Jodgc of tho Supreinc Court, J-udge J. C. Knapp; Olerk of tho Suprime Court, M. V. Qamion; lïoporter of the Supreme Court, J. B. EUiot ; Attorney General, John Gibbons. The platform favors a tari ff for rovenue only, opposes the granting of subsidies by the General Goverument, denounces tho linancial system of tho Kepublicau party as responsible for the miser and want that now afllict the country, favor the repeal of the Hesuniption act, opposes any further retircraent of TJnlted States notes, and domauds a "tboroiiRli examination iuto Uio election fraudsof 1870." The Prohibitionists of Pennsylvania have placed a Stato ticket in the field, as follows: Governor, Gen. F. H. Lane; Lieutenant Governor, John Shallcross; Secretary of Internal Affairs, Calvin ParBons; Supreme Judge, Daniel Aguew. TnE Demócrata of Alabainahaveuomïnated B. W. Cobb for Governor. . ..James G. Blaine ha boen re-elected Cbairman of the Maiue Kepublican Stato Committee. GENEKAL. The Grond Lodgo of tho World of the Independent Ordor of Good Templara has just held its annual session at Minneapolls, niinu. The report of the KifihtAVorthy Grand Secretary statcs that the total membership of the order at tho last report wa 401.642. The number of ïnerubcrs now reported is 31G.717, with estimates for lodges uot heard from of 4C7,4r3. The mimber of lodges at the last report was 6,439. The number at present is 6,738. President Hayes visitcd Gettysburg on Decoration day, and was waylaid and pnvnped by the irrepressililo interviewer. Nearly the whole interview relates to the Potter investigation. "Does it giveyou as much alarm as the letter of Mr. Key to tbc peeple of the Sonth expresse ?' asked" the correspondout. "It gives rao no more personal alarm thau any other citizen. But I hnvc loarned to look with ajiprehent-ion on the growtli of caucns influence in America. I am endowed with a trust wbicli I niust diechargo like a uiagittrato. Mr. Key did not oxaggcrate the case when he wrote : ' No man need hope Ibat the sebemes of the men who bavo engiueered the movement to unsoat Protident Hayes t can be cairied ont without a bloody civil war.' That was what Mr. Key wrote," Raid the President. " Such schemes cannot be c&rríod out without war. I swore to preserve the onstitutiou of the Ucited States, and will deliver the executive cih'ce in its intcgrity to my successor." " You do not admit, then, that Con gress lias any power to displaco you from office V "They can impeach me in the House of Iïepresentativep, and try me in the Senate. Tliuro is no othcr way iu w'hich I wül rtcoguize auy attempt of Congress to remove me. It is my desire to admiuister the governmeut kiadly and wisely. But there is a point at wtich I may ay, ' Go thus far, if you will ; not farther.'" FORKIGN NJEWS. A cable dispatch mnounces the death of E&rl Bussell, cx-Prenüer of Ecgland, iu the 8Gth year of bis age. As a reason for moving bis army a little nearer Constantinople, Todlcben explains that malaria! diteases prevail to a terrible extent in the región between San Stefano and Adrianople. The Kussians have lost 15,000 men iu that región from fevers in tho last two months. A terrible marine disaster occurred in tbo English chaimel on the morning of the 31st uit. Tho Germán squadron, consisting of the ironcladn Prussen, Grosser Kurfurst and Kcnnig Wilholm, were stcaming down the channel, c.n route for Plymoutb. When opposite Ludgate, England, about five' miles from the shore, tho Kcenig Wilhelm ran into the Grosser Kurfurst. The shock was terriric, the latter vessel filling and sinking within live minutes after the colusión. To add to the horrors of tho tituation, the boilers of the vessel exploded, scattering death and destruction in every direction. The ill-fated vetsel had on board fiOO persons, about 400 of whom were lost. The Grosser Kurfurst was built in 1874. and was one of the most powerfiü ironclads in the Uermsn navy. A second and more serious attempt has been made upon the life of the Germán Empcror. While the aged sovercign was driving in the avenue Unter der Linden, the assassin firíd two charges of a doublc-barrel shotgun at him írom a window of his apartments. The Emperor was wounded in one arm and on the check by bnckshot and small shot. The would-be assasiin is a Dr. Nobeling. When his door was forced open he flred upon and wounded the hotel-keeper, and tried to commit suicide, but was secured. The Emperor's personal attendant jumjied into the carriage and bupported him until tho carriage reached tho palace. The Eaiporor was convoycd to bed and sevoral grains of shot extracted, causing great loss of blood. He suffered great pain, but nover lost cousciousnesB. The steamship Idalio, of the Williams & Guion line, went on the rocks ou the coast of Ireland. during a heavy for, and in twenty minutes after striking fonndered in decp water. Through the coolness and courage of tbc officers every passenger and the entire crew wero savcd. Tho ship and cargo are a total loss. Tho passengers and crew lost all their baggage, the passengers saving only what they had on their persons. A CA.BLH dispatch says the Beiliu cougress for tho c]iscu3sion of the San Stfano treaty is composcd as follows : liismark and Cour.t Yon Bulow, for Germany ; Lords Beaconsiicld, Salisbury, and Odo liussell, for Great Britain ; Couut Schouvaloff and 11. D. Outril, liussian Ambaseador at Berlin, for Uussia ; Count Andrasy and Yon Huymerle, for Austria ; M. Waddiiigton and De öt. Vallkr, for Franco ; Couut Corti and Count Do Launay, for Italy. The TurWsh repreeentativea are not annour.cod as yet ...Burliu dixpatches deiiy that Nobling is eiiher a Socialist or n ultiamontane. They say he is a Protestant of good faruily and fortuno. He had acoomplices, who had bcoD plotting tho assassination of the Emperor for six montiif.