Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1877 — CURRENT EVENTS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT EVENTS.

The Georgia Constitutional Convention has decided to give the Legislature power to regulate freights and fares on railroads. Befobe the end of September more than 7,000 men will be sent from Spain to reinforce the useless army engaged in the hopeless attempt to reduce the insurgent banditti of Cuba to submission. The Maryland State militia have all been paid for their services during the strike, men and officers receiving the same rate of pay as in the regular army. Over SIOO,OOO was required to meet this expense. It is said the real inventor of the present Russian war is Gen. Ignatieff, the shrewd Ambassador who played so successfully against all the diplomats of Europe. Gortschakcff is credited with opposition to the war, and Ignatieff with an ambition to succeed Gortschakoff as Prime Minister. / Indian and other outrages are constantly reported on the Texas frontier, and the movements of Gen. Ord’s troops are watched and signaled to the Mexican robbers by some, of their confreres on this side of the river. The Rio Grande frontier has become a name of terror, and is now the grand culminating point of border ruffianism, both America and Mexico furnishing their full quota of rascals. The East Indian famine is assuming alarming proportions. It is now feared that the entire country may suffer from scarcity of food, owing to the dearth of rain. In Madras and Mysore it is deemed certain that the famine will continue with increased intensity for six months longer. No doubt the royal promise to do all that is possible to mitigate the terrible calamity will be carried strictly into effect. Another stupendous tunneling enterprise has been projected. The scheme is to tunnel the Hudson river, from Jersey City to New York. The bore will be two miles long and twenty-three feet wide. Beginning in'Jersey City it will end near Washington square, in New York. It will cost $10,000,000, and will be used chiefly for transferring railroad freight, which at present must be loaded and unloaded for ferry transfer.

' Pittsburgh and the county of Allegheny will have to pay dearly for their disgraceful imbecility during the late riot, by which millions of property were destroyed. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is listing all the claims of merchants and others who lost freight by the burning of a thousand or two of its cars, and will present the bill to the city and county for payment, together with its own claim of several millions of dollars for the destruction of locomotives, cars and buildings. The belligerent habit which Spanish cruisers on the coast of Cuba have contracted of late is not only becoming disagreeable to American merchant vessels wliich happen to be sailing in that quarter, but has suggested to the authorities at Washington the necessity of making a thorough investigation into the many complaints recently lodged with our Government. This sort of target practice will hardly pay as a regular busi ness, when we take into consideration the disastrous effect such outrages, if unpunished, will have upon our commercial interests in Cuban waters. The House of Lords had a debate the other day on the state ot Ireland, which indicates that the island is, on the whole, peaceful and prosperous, though there are two or three counties where there is considerable agrarian crime, that is to say, violence on the part of the tenants against their landlords. Lord Oranmore and Browne, who introduced the subject, and who was deeply impressed with the need of more active measures, had some figures to show that agrarian crimes were on the increase, and drew a dark picture of the state of affairs in certain counties.

Peace is concluded between Egypt and Ahyacinla, nn terms which make the miserable war between the Khedive anti King John a drawn battle. The uld frontiers are to be restored, and the Bogos country will be given to Egypt; and, on the other hand, Abyssinia is to be at liberty to have an agent at Massowah, and to have free communication with foreign countries, except that the importation of powder and guns is limited to fifty pounds of powder, ten guns and 5,000 caps—an arrangement not likely to be long satisfactory to warlike, powder-loving Abyssinians. Col. Gordon is not, however, yet free to begin his often-postponed task of putting down the slave trade in the Red sea, for an insurrection has broken out in the province of Darfur, and he is busy suppressing it.