Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1877 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAE IN TffE EAST. A telegram from /i Ama, reportu a sixkours’battle n'* r Tuf* 8 # 11 ’ “ whi ch the Russian?, accord, 1 o{ £kinh accounts, were repulsed with th<?<. men. Disease is rapid! ann v I 1 the ranks of the Russo-Roumanian \ The total strength of the invaders in%.ilgaria, including all the reinforcements, is only 230,000. Russia has agreed to pay Scrvia 1,000,000 roubles a month from the time the Servian army assumes t|*e offensive, A dispatch' frpm the Russian headquarters on the Danube the Czarowitz has declared it impossible to winter his army iu Bulgaria unless Rustchuk or some other fortress previously surrenders. The sentence of death passed on the Geshoffs, the English merchants at Philip|x>polis, has been commuted to one of exile. The Hungarians have made a hostile incursion into Roumania. Turkish reports from Schipka represent military operations as entirely suspended by tne weather. Intelligence from Biela states that Suleiman Pasha’s army is decimated by typhus, GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Advices from the City of Mexico report that the Mexican Congress “has authorized the Government to expend $300,000 in the construction of a factory for breech-loading arms. The Government has contracted for $200,000 worth of Remington arms. The Government has ordered the Collector of Customs at Vera ’ Cruz to remit monthly to the United States $25,000 on account of the payment of the American debt.” ' D. D. Spencer, the absconding President of the collapsed Htate Havings Bank of Chicago, is living in Paris. . In order to check the outflow of gold to America, the Bank of England has raised the price of its gold eagles a half-penny. The Spanish Government has paid the American Minister at Madrid $570,000 on account of claims for losses incurred by American citizens in Cuba through the revolution. Another terrible colliery explosion has occurred in Lancashire, Eng., causing the death of forty miners. Henry Meiggs, the railroad-building millionaire of the Andes, is dead. An American named Bedel took a conspicuous part in the electoral contest in France, and has been expelled from the country by order of the Government. A Paris telegram says that “ Gambetta ha& been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of SBOO for placarding his recent address to the electors of his arondissement. The printer of the address was sentenced to fifteen days’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $100.” DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eastt. The statement of, William M. Tweed, submitted a short time ago to Attorney General Fairchild, is made public, and contains the names of twenty-one Senators paid for votes or silence. Col. Forney has sold his paper, the Philadelphia Press, to Col. W. W. Nevin. The price paid was SIBO,OOO. The remains of the late Gen. Custer were interred in the cemetery at West Point, on the 11th inst. One of the heaviest banks in New York is reported to have just taken out $2,500,000 of circulating notes. This move will necessitate the retirement of $1,800,000 in greenbacks. This is said to be part of a scheme on the part of the New York banks for the contraction of the currency. Gilman, the swindling New York insurance broker, has been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. New York pity has raised SIOO,OOO to defray the expenses of transporting that other needle of Cleopatra’s to this country, the Khedive of Egypt having agreed to donate it to any American city that would take it off his hands. West. The business part of the town of Vacaville, Solano county, Cal., has been swept away by fire. Loss, SIOO,OOO. A singularly horrible tragedy was enacted in a Chicago hotel a few days ago. A mannamed J. M. Gladden, hailing from lowa, murdered a married woman, the wife of one Bell, with whom he had been criminally intimate, by cutting her throat, and then ended his own life by the same means. The Kansas City Times states that grave doubts exist as to the guilt of Joel Collins, who was recently killed as one of the Union Pacific robbers, and his father, a wealthy citizen of Dallas, Texas, has employed counsel to investigate the matter. It is claimed thaj; Collins could not have been present at the train robbery, that he was returning from the Black Hills, where he had sold a drove of cattle for $20,000, and his conduct when captured is accounted for on the hypothesis that he supposed ho had fallen in the hands of robbers, and was determined to resist to the end. Dan O’Hara, a prominent citizen and leading Democratic politician of Chicago, is dead. James Berry, supposed to be one of the Union Pacific train robbers, has been arrested in Callaway county, Mo. The Milwaukee papers report the mysterious disappearance from that city, where he has resided for a year or two, of John M. Binckley, Attorney Genetai of the United States under President Johnson. His mental faculties have been seriously impaired of late. South. Colored Congressman Small, of South Carolina, has been indicted for bribery by a Columbia Grand Jury. The Mayor of the fever-stricken city of Fernandina, Fla., has addressed a piteous appeal to the people of the Northern cities for aid. Internal Revenue Collector Mott and six deputies lately arrested two illicit distillers and seized a large quantity of whisky in Burke county, N. C. While the revenue officers were descending a mountain with their booty they were constantly assailed by a party armed witfi rifles, and all but one wounded. The Odd Fellows’ Hall at Little Rock, Ark., X one of the finest buildings in the State, has been destroyed by fire. Loss heavy. WASHINGTON NOTES. Attorney General Devens wants an appropriation of $225,000 to cover the deficiency in his department during the past fiscal year. The commission appointed to investigate the origin of the Patent Office fire very unanimously agree that the fire was not the work of an incendiary. Ihe demand by business men for silver currency seems to be increasing. The Treasury Department the other day received a telegram from a prominent firm in New York, offering to pay greenbacks to the amount of $30,000 for so much silver coin. The department replied that the Government could not spare so large s snm in silver.

The President has accepted an invitation to attend the Virginia State Fair on Oct. 30. The President and several members of the Cabinet attended the Maryland Fair, at Frederick, last week. An important decision has been rendered by Secretary Schurz, which confirms the title to their lands of many thousands of settlers on the line of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, and firmly fixes them in the possession of the homestead which they have cultivated and improved. The Democratic caucus for the nomination of officers of the House of Representatives was held on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 13, Hiester Clymer, of Pennsylvania, presiding. For the Speakership, Randall, Sayler and Goode were nominated, the names of Morrison and Cox having been previously withdrawn from the contest. Randall received the nomination on the first ballot, the vote standing : Randall, 107 ; Goode, 23 ; Sayler, 12. The caucus made the nomination unanimous. John G. Thompson, of Ohio, was renominated for Sergeant-at-Arms by acclamation. Adams was renominated for Clerk on the first ballot. There were three ballots for Doorkeeper, resulting in the choice of Col. Polk, of Missouri. J. M. Stewart, of Virginia, was nominated on the first ballot for election as Postmaster. Rev. Dr. Poieel, of the Southern Methodist Church, was nominated for Chaplain. POLITICAL POINTS. Senator McDonald, of Indiana, in an interview the other day, stated that Democratic Senators generally, he believed, would vote to confirm Hayes’ nominations, and that Butler will be seated from South Carolina without much opposition. The Democrats have carried Ohio by a majority of about 25,000, and secured a majority in the Legislature of about forty on joint ballot, which insures a Democratic United States Senator in place of Stanley Matthews. In lowa the Republican majority is between 40,000 and 50,000, and the Legislature largely Republican. A large meeting of New York Republicans, called for the purpose of indorsing President Hayes, was held in Cooper Institute one night last week. Prof. Dwight, of Columbia Law School, presided. George William Curtis was the principal speaker. Resolutions strongly indorsing the national administration were adopted. • At a meeting of the Georgia Republican State Committee, held at Atlanta, the other day, the members almost unanimously voted to disband their organization. The German and Independent Citizens’ Committee, of New York city, have resolved that neither the Republican nor Democratic parties are worthy of confidence, and placed in the field a separate ticket for State officers. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A recent dispatch from Mesilla, New Mexico, says : “An armed mob of 400 Mexicans — 100 from the Mexican side of the river—have possession of the county of El Paso, in Texas, fifty miles below this place. The mob threaten to massacre all the Americans. They have arrested and imprisoned the county officers. Several prominent citizens have fled from the county. A small detachment of the Ninth United States Cavalry started for the scene of the trouble to-day, to protect the United States Custom House and Government property. The Mexicans claim that El Paso county belongs to Mexico.” The authorities at Washington have information touching this alleged invasion, to the effect that it is not an international quarrel, but a purely local affair, growing out of the disputed rights of the parties in reference to tho possession of some salt mines in that region. A New York dispatch says “the new schedule of freight rates on all Western-bound traffic,as agreed to by all the railroad lines, abolishes all special classes, which are merged into the fourth class. The rates established are on a sliding scale, and will shortly be increased, as they were not fixed for any definite period. Among the special instructions to freight agents are that 20,000 pounds will constitute a car-load, unless otherwise specified, and where special class rates are made on articles or carload lots, they must be understood to mean 20,000 pounds or more of each article named, and freight must be delivere 1 on the same day and be all for one consignee.” The managers of the railway trunk lines, at a conference in New York, the other day, decided to advance rates on West-bound freights 33X per cent. One hundred stone-cutters have sailed from New York for London. Tho men are engaged for one year, their pay being 9d. an hour. Another company of 100 is to follow. The Woman’s National Congress was in session at Cleveland last week. Miss Abbey W. May presided. Tucson (Arizona) telegram : “ A most serious and threatening state of affairs exists at El Paso, Texas. The entire lower portion of El Paso county is in possession of the mob, and Americans throughout the county have afikndoned their homos and fled to El Paso for safety. Judge Howard, who killed Louis Cordis, succeeded in making his escape to Messilia, where he still remains. Cordis is said to have been the leader of the mob, who are all more desperate and threatening in consequence of his death. A largo number of outlaws are encamped near the county-seat. They declare they will fight the troops if the latter attempt to make arresst. Judge Blaker isen route from Fort Plavis with troops to restore order.” Hon. Edwards Pierrepoint, United States Minister to England, has tendered his resignation, to take effect Dec. 1.