Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1878 — NEWS SUMMARY [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY

THE WAS nr THE BAST. The Czar has returned to St. Petersburg, where he had a most enthusiastic reception. A cable dispatch says profound gloom prevails in Constantinople. The Saltan ana a majority of the people are anxious for peace, but they are overruled by a party of Pashas who know that the end of the war will bring them heavy punishment. A small element is determined on war to the death, and demand a levy en masse and the unfurling of the flag of the Prophet. A London dispatch saj s the fear of England going to war is dying out there, but the Government still continues warlike preparations. The total Russian loss by the war to Doc. 20 s 80,412. A Turkish dispatch from Erzeroum says it is believed the siege of that place will soon begin, • « the Russian forces are overwhelming, and Russian infantry is advanced into the plain of Erzeroum. A cable dispatch says the Rervians have taken Akpalanka, on the Sofia road, after eight hours of fighting, and are advancing en Virot. Severe weather prevails over the whole seat of war. The Danube is frozen over, and part of the bridge has been carried away at Ibrailo. Another change has been made in the Turkish Cabinet, Said Pasha becoming Minister of Marino and Uacouf Pasha of War. Thu British Minister, Layard, has spoken unofficially in such a way as to convince tho Turks u.at England will aid them, and they are last regaining confidence. Their depreciated paj)er currency has taken a sadden rise. Tho following words are attributed to the Czar in reply to a deputation headed by Prince Gortschakoff : “ England intends, apparently, to exercise a pressure upon the liberty of our action, but we will not consent to mediation, and are armed against intervention.” A St. Petersburg journal says the Porto’s request for mediation will be declined, because, according to international law, mediation is only possible when solicited by both belligerents. Otherwise mediation becomes intervention. It is rumored that Osman Pasha, tho oom-mander-in-cliief at Plevna, is to bo tried by a Russian military court for the slaughter of the wounded after several engagements of tho past summer. There seems little doubt that England has consented to accept the offico of peacemaker, and will undertake to bring about an adjustment between Russia and Turkey. The announcement is now made otlicially in the London Advertiser that the British Government has acceded to Turkey’s request, and will try what can be done toward prevailing upon Russia to negotiate terms of poaco. Reinforcements ordered for tho Russian army exceed 250,000 men. The Army of tho Baltic, numbering 00,000 men, is also being formed. Russia has bought 200,000 rifles in Berlin. A Loudon dispatch of Dec. 29 says: “I am informed, on good authority, that in English military circles war is considered almost inevitable. Arrangements are completed and regiments alloted for an army of 80,000 men, and steps are already taking toward the formation of tlm nucleus for a reserve army. Profound uneasiness prevails here, and there is great depression in trade and finance.” There are no complaints of an unseasonable mildness in the weather on the Danube. Show at the headquarters of the Russian army near Rustchuk is two feet deep ; the roads ore no longer passable for wagons ; sledges for winter tise have not been provided ; the Quartermasters declare that they cannot keep up the supplies for the cava’ry, and grave fears are entertained that the bridges will be broken by ice, completely interrupting tho movement of food for man and beast. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. A cable from London says that Capt. Wiggins, an Englishman, just returned from the Jenisol and Obi rivers, in Siberia, reports that route as practical to the North pole, with an opon soa all the way. He reports that there is an immenso commerce into Siberia from China. Capt. Wiggins, with his schooner of forty tonß’ burden, Bailed from the capital of Siberia to St. Petersburg and anchored before tho Winter Palace, where his vessel was visited by the imperial family and by great crowds of people. Steps are to be taken to organize a lino of trading steamers, and thus open to the world the marvelous timber, grain and mineral resources of Siberia. Seven tons of gold were taken from one mine this year. Wheat equal to that from California is sold at sl6 a ton. Beef is one cent a pound. Therb are telegraphs everywhere, and the large cities and people exhibit the great spirit of enterprise that Bus ia has carried into the country. The reconstruction of the intornal administration proceeds apace iu France, under the auspices of the new Ministry. The reinstatement of all the municipal councils dismissed since the 16th of May has been ordored ; prosecutions for press and publication offenses have been dismissed, and the triumphant republicans are gathering the spoils of viotory iu all directions. The latest advices from Havana point to tho conclusion that the revolution which has been going on in Cuba for the past nine years is gradually disintegrating. Bands of iusurgents numbering from twenty-five to seventy are daily surrendering, and it will not be many months ore the Cespedes Provisional Government finds itself without a follower. Sonora, which has always a disturbance of some kind on hand, is enjoying an Indian war at present. A few days ago a party of Sonoran troops attacked an Indian camp. Twenty-seven of the attacking force were killed, and the Indians went on with their cattle-stealing just as if nothing had happened. The people of Alsace and Lorraine are petitioning the German Government to remove the military government that was plaosd over them at tho conclusion of the Franco-German war, and for restoration of the civil authority. The Panama Star and Herald of a late date says : “ A rebellion broke out at Puerta Arenas. Tho rebels, after cruelly assassinating tho Captain of the garrison, set fire to the building, including the hospital, with all the patients in it, stole *7,000 from tLe treasury, and robbed all the commercial houses. In the confusion they were killing o&ch other, the houses composing the colony only half remain standing. 'The total number killed is forty, with fourteen wounded.” Don Carlos has been expelled from France.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. The success of the underground railway in London has proved so great as to induce a number of English capitalists to enter upon a similar undertaking in New York. It is expected that the cost of the proposed road will be about *8,000,000. Efforts to bring to justice a gang of forgers who last spring endeavored to negotiate *200.000 in forged bonds of Quincy county, 111., (tpd ?««$• Mo., bore in

the arrest of three New York brokers, Joel N. Hayes, Ferdinand Hertog and Wm. Muir. Cornelias Tobin, of Boston, Mass., threw a lighted kerosene lamp at Mrs. Mary L. Mekegan, setting her clothes on fire, and she burned to death. Tobin was arrested. Robert P. Parrott, the inventor of the Parrott guD, died at Cold Spring, N. Y., last week. Netter k Co., bankers in New York, hare failed for *200,000. W. H. Roberts’ building, at Rondout, N. Y., was burned the other night, and his wife and daughter and James Brophy perished in the flames. Charles E. Johnson, son of wealthy parents, and a nephew of HeDry Ward Beecher, shot and seriously wounded his wife in Brooklyn, N. Y., last week. Johnson’s wife had left him on account of his violent temper, and for this reason he attempted to morder her. A receiver has been appointed for the People’s Savings Bank, of New York city. Gon. Ouurge W. McCook, of the famous Ohio McCook family, died in New York last week. Seven vessels and thirty-seven men were lost by the Gloucester fishing fleet the past season. West. They have a summary way of dealing with horse-thieves out on the Pacific coast. Five of the gentry were taken from the jail in Bakersfield, Kern county, Cal., the other night, by a body of indignant citizens, carried into tho District Court room, tried before a regularlyimpaneled jury, convicted and hung. The Coroner’s jury soon afterward brought in a verdict of "Hung by parties unknown.” Dexter Park, Chicago’s famous racing course, is to be turned into a lumber-yard. A general resumption of activity in the Indian market is noted in the dispatches from the West. A large body of hostiles are skirmishing in the Black Hills country, leaving the miners in a state of uncomfortable uncertainty as to their intentions ; in Sonora the Indians were victorious in an encounter with troops, and in Idaho trouble is anticipated from the Bannocks. An expedition is forming at Fort Lincoln to capture Sitting Bull and his band. Kate Noonan has been acquitted of the murder of Wm. H. Sidle, at Minneapolis, Minn., on tho ground of emotional insanity. Tho wife of J. B. Bowman, Mayor and wealthy citizen of East St. Louis, 111., committed suicide the other day by shooting herself through the heart. Arizona dispatches report the extermination of a band of thieves,who had been robbing the mails and preying upon wagon trains in that region. A portion of the band were pm-sued by a detachment of cavalry, under Lieutenants Rucker and Toney, who continued the chase until thoy struck a permanent camp of more than thirty lodges. Alter a gallop tltrough the village the troopers counted fifteen dead brigands, and captured a number of horses and a large quantity of stolen goods. A sad salamity occurred near Central City, Col., a few nights since. The residence of Thomas Terrill was destroyed by fire, and Mrs. Terrill and two sous and Robert Jeffrey perished in the flames. The deaths from scarlet fever in Chicago for eleven months of tho past year numbered 787. Tho heaviest transaction in mining property that has yet occurred Dioofc Hills country was completed the other day in the sale to California capitalists, for the sum of *400,000, of the four mines belonging to the Golden Gate Mining Company. The matter of prices of admission to firstclass dramatic entertainments has been agitating the managers of the country for some time, bringing out a great diversity of opinion in regard to a proposed reduction. Mr. McVicker, of Chicago, has taken the bull by the horns, and reduced the prices at his theater about 25 per cent., hoping an increase in attendance more than sufficient to compensate for the change. The amusement tariff has been too high for some time and McVicker deserves success in his recognition of the fact. H<> util. Detective William C. Pride, of Memphis, while half asleep, imagined he heard a burglar at tho window, took a pißtol from under his pillow and, in attempting to cock it, the weapon was discharged, the ball passing through the body of his 5-months-old child, and also through the body of his wife, causing the death of both in a few hours. Postmaster Clarkes, of Hernando, Miss., was garroted and robbed of *6OO Postoffice funds, a few nights ago. WASHINGTON NOTES. Gen. Sheridan testifies before the House Military Committee that there has been no raids by Mexicans into Texas during the past year, or since the Diaz Government obtained control, and bat few, if any, cattle have been stolen. A Washington telegram says: “In the attempts of both sides to count up the silver and anti-silver vote in the Senate, both sides admit that their respective counts show an exceedingly close vote. In case of a Presidential veto, it is claimed by the opponents of the bill to have 26 votes, exactly enough to sustain a veto, with Sharon away. The full vote is 75. If there are 25 Senators to sustain a veto this would make a tie, and the Vice President could vote the same as if the Senate was equally divided.” MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Flora Temple, the famous trotting mare, died the other day at Chestnut Hill farm, near Philadelphia. She had reached the unusual age of 82 years. The following business failures are announced : The Dal* Silk Manufacturing Company of Paterson, N. J., liabilities *300,000 to *400,000, nearly all secured ; The Taunton (Mass.) Savings Bank, liabilities *1,353,763, assets represented at *1,404,513 ; Riggs Bros., private bankers, HI.; George Baker, banker, Chester, Pa., liabilities *159,000, assets *192,000. A telegram from Mesilla, New Mexico, says: “Texas rangers started from El Paso to recover their arms, taken from them by the invaders. Arriving at Socorro they met an armed body of Mexicans, whereupon a fight Four of the invaders were killed and ranger wounded. Gen. Hatch, who is in the advance, has sent back for more troops.” * The crop reports received at the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, indicate that the wheat crop of this country for 1877 was abont 360,000,000 bushels, or about 50,000,000 greater than for toy previous year. The corn crop, estimated, from the same reports, is 1,300,000,000 bushels. The crops of oats and potatoes were correspondingly large. Of wheat, it is estimated that 110,000,000 bushels oan be spared for export. Lieut. Walter Walton, Assistant Inspector of the Life-Saving Service on the North Carolina coast, makes a report in relation to the loss of the Huron, showing that Evan O’Neill, a fisherman, saw the ship pounding to destruction as early as 1 o'clock in the morning, and heard the screams and cries for help of those on board. He went home and ate his breakfast, giving no alarm that would have saved many lives, but waiting until sunrise, when the work of plundering the dead bodies washed ashore could euiawetu*- Tbs wwludee! «jt

is shocking to record that, ent of ninety-one bodies found, about twelve of whom were officers, not a single trinket such as would be deemed a relic by relatives of the dead was found on the bodies. Watches and chains, money, and even Auger-rings, had been stripped off by those who first found the bodies as they washed up. Good evidence is found in the ease of Lieut. Sfanonds, whose third and fourth fingers ‘of the left hand had been scratched and gouged by the body-rob-bers in their haste to secure their ill-gotten booty.” The failure, is announced of the Rockland County (N. Y.) Bank, the Jersey City (N. J.) Savings Bank, the Real Estate Savings Bank (St. Louis, Mo.), and J. D. Parker & Coi., wholesale druggists, Cincinnati, Ohio. POLITICAL POINTS. A call has been issued for a meeting of the Indiana Democratic State Convention at Indianapolis on the 28th of February next. Washington dispatches say Secretary Evarts authorizes the announcement to be made that the differences are abont to be healed that have divided the President and the Republicans in Congress, and that the restoration of harmony is near at hand.