Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1878 — NEWS SUMMARY [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY

FOBBIGN JTEWS. By the stranding of the British steamer As tarte, on «ft o| thirty of the crew j>sriih*B,'only men being saved., I \ fit i,l The marriage of thff-Eerl of Itoseberry |o .Miss Hautmh de Rothschild, only daughter of Baron Meyer de Rothschild, was celebrated at London, on the 20th of March, first civilly .at the Registrar’s office and again in Christ 'Church, Mayfair. Advices from Tilt is state that typhus is raging among the Russian troops in Asia, Gens. MelikoiT, HolowefT and Rohelkoffnikoff are reported to have died. It is believed that more men have been lost by sicknes since the cessation of hostilities than on tli •> battle-field during the war. A dispatch from Paris say work is suspended in the printing-houses and the publication of books Is stopped in consequence of the printers’ strike. The newspapers continue ‘ their regular issues. The London Times' editorial on the fisheries award says: “ The reckless language of Blaine and Gen. Butler is not only throwing discredit on tho country, but damaging the system of settling international disputes by arbitration/’ London dispatches of March 23 state that "the feeling of irritation between the British and Russian people is increasing, and the opinion is generally expressed throughout Europe that the prospect* for the meeting of a congress have boon largely diminished during the past three days. Russia has sent, or is about to send, a formal request for the withdrawal of the British fleet from the Sea of Marmora.” The most horrible cruelties are being committed by the Turkish soldiery in Thessaly. Cities are being sacked and burned, and women, children and old men massacred like wild beasts. The insurrection is said to be gaining ground. A formidable fleet of German men-of-war is on its way to Nioaraugua for the purpose of|enforcing the claims of the German Government in the case of Consul Eisenstuck. The groat international walking match at London resulted in a signal victory for the American contestant, Daniel OLeary, who has unquestionably demonstrated bis right to the claim of being the champion pedestrian of the world. O’Leary covered 520 mi'es in 139 hours, tho greatest walking feat on record. By his victory he wins the bandsomo sum of -1*8,500. A Constantinople dispatch says the Sanitary Commission, which lately arrived at Erzeroum from Tiflis, found 20,000 corpses buried two feet under ground, frozen but not decomposed. The commission were deliberating whether tc j cremate the corpses or use quicklime. England and Russia are both making big I preparations for war, and at this writing the chances of war aH against peace seem largely in favor of the former. A teriiblo niarino disaster occurred in the British channel last week. The British training ship Eurydice was capsized by a sudden equal], and over 300 people drowned.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

East. O \ ing to the recent panic among savingsbank dejiohitors, the Massachusetts Legislature has enacted a law to prevent •depositors from drawing their mouey. It is entitled “an act for tho better protection of depositors in savings bauks,” and an idea of its provisions may be obtained from a Boston dispatch, which says “the Brighton Five-Cent9avings Bank promptly availed itself of the law, aud the Bank Commissioners directed that from March 21 to Sept. 21 not over 10 per cent, be paid each depositor ; 10 per cent, additional be paid between Sept. 21 and March 21, 1879. No further additional amount <o be paid after tho latter date except by orde* of tho Commissioners.” Two negroes, Samuel Chambers and George Collins, were hanged at New Castle, Del., on the 22d of March, for the crime of rape. National Bank of Tarrytown, N. Y., has fai ed. Liabilities about SOO,OOO in exoess of assets. Isaac Adams, the printing-press manufact uror. died at Sandwich, N. H., last week, leaving a fortune estimated at from $4,000,000 to $6,000,000. He bought what is known as the Adams printing press from tho inventor for an old gun. A young man was knocked down in the streets of Brooklyn, N. Y., the other day, and robbod of $3,500. He had just drawn the money from a bank for a large manufacturing firm, for the purpose of paying tho workmen. Tho highwaymen, four in number, escaped. Mrs. Lucy L. Day, an old woman aged 80, was murdered near Syracuse, N. Y., the other day, by her daughter, a married woman aged 46, who stabbed her at the dinner-table with a knife. West. Oliver A. Willard, for the past five years oditor-in-chief of tho Chicago Evening Post, is dead. Chicago elevators esntain 1,351,601 bushels of wheat; 252,225 bushels of corn; 225,938 bushels of oats; 167,877 bushels of rye, and 612,107 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 2,609,743 bushels, against 8,572,279 bushels at this poriod last year. Cleveland had a $200,000 blaze last week. The victims were the Non-Explosive Lamp Company. Reports that seem to be trustworthy from the region on both sides of the Dominion line, north aud northwest of Fort Benton, leave little room to doubt that the hostile Indians are preparing for a general war upon the Montana and Dakota settlements. More than a dozen large bands of Indians are roaming about, ostensibly engaged in hunting, but with supplies of ammunition so abundant as to prove their hostile intentions. SJoouts who have visited the camps of these savages, just across the boundaijjy, estimate the number of warriors at 6,000 or 6,n00. ' t

South. A New Orleans dispatch says that, in the case ot the State vs. Thomas C. Anderson (oil an appeal for a new trial), the Supreme Court reversed the verdict of the jury, and ordered the prisoner to be released. The oourt held that the alteration of the Vernon county returns dirf 5 not constitute forgory. Texas highwaymen have been at their again. A train on the Texas Central t*ilroad was robbed by four masked men near Hutchins Dali s county. The express matter wak taken the mail plundered, and the express messenger •rounded. A horrible crime was committed last week near Wheeling, W. Va. Tho bodies of Mrs. Oeorge Wallace, her 4-months-old child, and her niece, aged 14, were found murdered, and theii bodies shockingly mutilated. The hus band of the murdered woman and his brother are under arrest, charged with the deed. A Richmond (Va.) dispatch says three men named McFadden, one named Moody and a colored man were drowned recently while attempting to cross the James river, near Patterson’s landing. j). the explosion of a saw-mill boiler near

Richmond, Va., a few days ago, five people were killed, two fatally wounded, and five seriouriy injured. Three negro brothers, Jerry, Isaac and Jacob Childs, were executed at Abbeville, Ala., on o| nypder of Mrs. Ton

WASHINGTON MOTES.

Mies Ada Sweet has been reappointed Pension Agent at Chicago. The President expressed much gratification at the release of Thomas C. Anderson, and said the entice Union would applaud the lection of the Louisiana Supreme Court as patriotic and in the interest of reconciliation. A. Washington dispatch says : "A change in the eagle on the new Qobar, which has met such unusual and severe criticism, ie-seriously contemplated by the Director of the Mint. None of the patterns drawn for this bird were satisTfctory, birtt, as the law of Ifi&l requires’afl eagle on one side and the effigv of Liberty pn the othor, nd option existed, and ww* of the lot was picked out and put on the dollar. Another attempt to draw an eagle will b* made, and, it ishoped, wjth better success.” The Judiciary Committee of the House has authorized its Chairman to report a bill repealing the Bankruptcy law. Secretary Sherman has given his views at length before the Senate Finance Committee regarding the House bill repealing the Resumption acts. He sftld he thought It tinwise and inexpedient to repeal the Resumption act. Not that it would have any influepqe jit home, bnthe thought it would beleeplng m with the creditor and the people abroad if we resume in 1879, as we had promised. He thought it was entirejy practicable, and that resumption could be effected without the slightest injury to onr commercial prosperity. The Secretary gave the amount of gold and silver now in the treasury vaults, stating the sum to be about $60,000,fl00„ or $70,000,000 outside of all demands. He was questioned in regard to the effect of the Silver bill on the resumption question, and said that he had to admit that the effect of the bill generally had been good, and that in connection with resumption it had been a decided advantage. Orders have been issued from the Treasury Department, authorizing the purchase of silver bullion in lots of 10,00*0 ounces or less, at the mints ; the price to be equivalent to the market rate in London—.payment to be made in silver dollars as fast as they are coinedi and in gold when silver is not available. The death of Hon. John Allison, Register of the Treasury, is announced. He died suddenly of apoplexy. Mr. Allison was 86 years of ago. He was appointed Register of the Treasury by Gen. Grant in 1860,

POLITICAL POINTS.

The Pennsylvania Democratic State Conven- ' tion has been called to meet at Pittsburgh on the 22d of May.x The GreerSbackers of Rhode Island held their State Convention at Providence, on the 20th of March. William Foster was nominated for Governor; Jason P. Hazard for Lieutenant Governor; Henry Appleton for Secretary of State, and Andrew P. for General Treasurer. Complete returns of the New Hampshire election foot np as follows: Piescott, Republican, 39,377; McKean, Democrat, 37,863; Kendall, Greenback, 251; Flint, Temperance, 223; scattering, 99. Prescott’s plurality, 1,514; majority, 941. The Republicans have a large majority in the Legislature. The Republicans of Rhode Island have nomi nated all the State officers for re-election. The lowa Republicans will hold their State Convention at Dos Moines, on the 19th of June. A bill granting female suffrage at municipal elootions has been defeated in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The Democrats of Rhode Island have nominated J. B. Bamaby for Governor. The lower house of the South C> olina Legislature has passed a resolution, by a large majority, requesting the Governor, in case he deems it expedient, to instruct a nolle prosequi to be entered in any of the prosecutions against former State officers. Montgomei-y Blair is authority for the statement that a bill will shortly be introduced in Congress proposing to reopen the Presidential question. There are rumors at Washington of contemplated Cabinet changes. Some of the gossips claim that Secretary Evarts is to go out; others assert that Messrs. Schurz and Key will retire, and some have it that all three are to receive the “grand bounce.” MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. In the House of Commons at Ottawa, Canada, a motion to prevent the employment on the projected Canadian Pacific railway of ftny person whose hair may be more than five inches in length has been defeated. The measure was aimed at the Chinese. The appearance of O’Donovan Rossa, the well-known Fenian leader, was the occasion of a serious riot in Toronto, Canada, one day last week. The hall where! he was lecturing was stoned, a couple of taverns where Irishmen had congregated were attacked, and. numbers of shots and showers of stones were exchanged by the hostile forces. Some twenty persons were perforated-with bullets, and the number hurt by tb£ flying stones were too numerous to name. The police had considerable difficulty in quelling the riot. Gen. Sir William O’Grady Haley, Command-er-in-Chief of the British troops in North America, died at Halifax, N. S., last week. It now turns out that the mission of Congressman Leonard to Havana, where he died of yellow fever, was a purely private one, and not as an agent of the Government, as lias been stated. He went there for the purpose of seeing a young Cuban lady whom he had met in New Orleans, and to whom he was engaged to be married. Her parents opposed the match, and, to hearJHHHbr, and txJ lieving wag forbiddqp to |bld communication with him, he determined to go to Cuba an*s<*i*fthtaißelfc • The United States steamer Wyoming, which recently sailed from New York with a cargo of articles for the Paris Exposition, was found to be in a leaking condition when about a fourth of the way over, and was compelled to put back.. % '& John Wallace, suspected of the murder of his wife, child, and niece, mention of which has ljjjt week, taken from fhl jftl ff%jt« leton, W. Va., and hung by a mob of infuriated citizens. The fiend made a full confession, which cleared his brother of complicity in the crime, but implicated one George Villiers, who is now in custody.

FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Monday, March 18. —Senate.— Mr. Edmonds, from the Judiciary Committee, reported adversely upon the House bill admitting women to Dractice law In the Supreme Court or other United States coui ts, because it is discretionary now with those courts to decide who shall practice before themed this bill would Compel the courts to admit women when it would not admit men to that privilege Mr. MoCreery inquired of the Chairman of the Jul diciary Committee what progress was nu' i-g in regard to the repeal of the Bankrupt law. A: .. Edmunds replied that the committee was making pro.

gress, and he hoped that there would be a report 500 n... .Mr. Windom called up the HonM but poking appropriations for fortifications and other Wbrks of defense. It was passed without dieenssioc.'The MU spproprfetes *27»,000... .Mr. Thurman called np the Senate bill to prohibit member* of Congress from becoming sureties on certain bonds. Paused. The Senate resumed consideration of the ‘Pacific Railroad Sinking Fund bill, and Mr. Ohristiancy, of Michigan, made a vigorous legal argument in support of the Government's right to enforce ths collection of the railroad’s debt. : Hops*.—Mr. Springer tried to get before tbe Home, for action, the bill providing fp* the ties coinage of silver, as provided in the original Bland bill. The opponents of the bill, by filibustering, prevented him from succeeding.... The following bills were introduced: By Mr. \Mnce, granting pensions to soldiers who enlisted out of prisons-, also, for the payment of certain Southern mall contractors (this bill provides that no claims shall ba paid which have heretofore been paid by the Confederate Government) ; by Mr. Gibson, for the appointment of a commission to ascertain on what terms a treaty of commerce with Mexico can be arranged; by Mr. Monroe, relating to telegraphic communication between the United States and foreign countries; by Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, establishing a mint at Louisville; by" Mr. Sampson, proposing an amendment to the constitution providing that the President shall be elected by a direct vote of the people; by Mr. Conger, repealing the law appropriating 1375,000 for the payment of certain Southern mail contractors; by Mr. Ewing, to grant to the B'.atc of ‘hio tbe unsold public lands remaining in that State; by Mr. Cox, of New York, for the erection of a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson. Tuesday, March 19.—Senate.— I The day was an extremely animated one in the Benate. When the Deficiency bill came up there was a long, heated, bitter, personal discussion upon the timber question. It was a renewal of the contest of last week, in which Mr. Blaine, the Massachusetts Senators and the Secretary of the Interior, by his acts, were the central figures. Mr. Blaine renewed hu attack upon Mr. Schurz. An exceedingly lively debate followed, the Interior Department and the administration being defended by Odessrp; Christianoy, Dawes ana Hoar. Mr. Christianity charged the opposition to Schurz with having espoused the. cause of the poor settler who carries li.s flag along the frontier only for the purpose of attacking Secretary Schurz. Mr. Sargert declared that Schurz, by the enforcement of obsolete laws, was seeking a cheap reputation as a reformer. An angry colloquy ensued between Messrs. Sargent and DaWes. Apologies were demanded by both and given by neither. Senator Dawes charged the people of the Territories with being thieves and depredators, and Sargent accused the people of Massachusetts of stealing Plymouth reck.... Mr. Morgan addressed the Senate in support of the Thurman Pacific Railroad Sinking Fund bill. He drew a forcible picture of the tremendous power of corporations in this country, which is greater than the power of same kingdoms, and declared that the country either must ultimately succumb to these corporations or become their masters. The time had come, he said, when the Pacific railroads should pay the debt of justice or be unmade by the power which had made them. House. —Two reports were made from the Committee on Civil-Service Reform in the case of Doorkeeper Polk, charged with carelessness or malfeasance in the duties of his station. The majority report was to the effect that evidence showed Pqlk’s un fitness to hold tne office, and recommended his dismissal. The minority report claimed that the evidence did not sustain the charges, and recommended the retention of P01k..,.Mr. Smith, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported a bill making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensioners. It appropriates *29,289,000.. ..Mr. Durham, from the same committee, reported back the West Point Acadtmy bill, recommending concurrence in some of the Senate amendments and non-coneurrenoe in others... .Mr. O’Neil presented the remonstrance of printers, electrotypers, book-sellers, engravers and others against the action ofthe Committee on Ways and Means in not imposing duty on imported stereotype and electrotype printing plates. Referred... .The following bills were introduced aDd referred: By Mr. Blackburfl, for the better protection of plays aud dramatic literature ft provides that the Copyright law shall cover all plays purchased from a foreign author for the purpose of playing or publishing in the United Str.tes) ; by Mr. Springer, to authorize ihe coinage of gold and silver on the same term*, and to promote the deposit thereof.... A resolution proposing that there should be no further action on the tariff, and recommending that the Ways and Means Committee be discharged from tho bill, was introduced in the House, but could not be acted upon, owing to a single objection which was interposed.... A new movement was made in Pacific railroad matters by the adoption of a resolution calling on the Attorney General for information as to what proceedings are pending against the Kansas Pacific Toad at the instance of the Government.., .The remainder at the day was passed upon the Deficiency Appropriation bill, few Changes being made in it.

Wednesday, March 20. —Senate. —Mr. Mitchell introduced a bill for the protection of homestead settlers... .It was ordered that there be printed for the use of the Finance Committee the statement made by tbe Secretary of the Tieasury in regard to the repeal of the Specie Resumption aft, and the tables submitted by him on the snhlcct. 77 Mr. Allison introduced a bill to repeal the Pre-Emp-tion laws and provide for the sale of timber on the public lands... .The Senate bill to amend section 2,464 of tbe Revised Statutes, relating to the cultivation of timber on the pnblic domain, was discussed briefly and passed—yeas, 39; nays, 12.... Messrs. Windom, Blaine and Withers were appointed a conference committee on the part of the Senate on the Military Academy Appropriation bi 11... .Mr. Howe offered a resolution asking the President to inform the Senate whether Judge Whittaker, who presided at the trial of Thomas C. Anderson, in New Orleans, was ever in the employ of the Government whether he was a defaulter, and to what amount, and, if so, whether legal proceedings had ever been taken against him. Mr. Howe said that at home and, elsewhere he had been accused of not yielding very cordial support to the President’s policy, and, if it would suit the convenience of the Senate on Monday next, he would like to take up this resolution and " submit some remarks, by way of excusing, himself, bo far as he was able.... Consideration waß resumed of the Pacific Railroad Sinking Fund bill, and Mr. Mitchell spoke in favor of the bill reported by the Committee on Railroads. ... .Mr. Teller, of Colorado, obtained the floor, and, in a long speech, arraigned Mr. Hoar for having called the people of the Territories thieves and plunderers. Mr. Hoar responded that he could not conceive the mental condition of a man who put such a construction upon his remarks. HousE.--In the House the bill regulating advertising for mail contracts was passed. It requires advegtissineiit* to -be brief, and to,ref« fur details to the p^etoffice Department. U aRo jiroflifits tho subletting of mail contract*, and declares sqch con- ‘ traete annulled... .ilia House thou werfi lino com- I mittce of the whole on the Deficiency Appropriation bill, and, after a few unimportant changes, it was reported to the House and passed... .Mr. Ellis offered the usual resolutions in regard to the death of the Hon. J. E. Leonard, of Louisiana, and gave notice he would call them up for action Saturday, April 6. Thursday, Marcji 21.—Senate.—Mr. Hereford offered a resolution calling upon the Finance Committee to report .the House bill rejpeahng the Resumption act within one week. Mr. Morrill objected, and it went over.... Mr. Teller spoke one hour in the Senate on the Pacific Railroad Funding bill, and then the Senate resumed the discussion of the Timber bill. Mr. Jones, of Florida, made a strong attack on Secretary Schutz, claiming that he was not pursuing the policy of his predecessors, but one which would work disastrously forjuA large number, pf citizens.... lands had been ovasive and not candid. Mr. Mat* thews defended Secretary Schurz. He said the real gist of the accusations against the Secretary of the Interior was not that usually heard about the negligence of a public officer, but that, according to his sense of duty he was enforcing the law. Because of that he was arraigned as oppressive to inividuals, as being un-Ameriean. He (Matthews) thought it was one of our cherished maxims that the best way to secure the repeal of obnoxious laws w f t4 j4t fi°l ‘tla - House.—Mr. Waddell, Cttisi rmancf the Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads,’ reported a bill ta establish a postal savings depository as a branch of the Postofflce Department.... Mr. Chalmers introduced a bill providing for the orgaaisaHon of the ■iSKSS.stffi'vs’Ssasirljfcs passed. The amount appropriated is f 14,018,684. Friday, March 22.—Senate, —Mr. McDonald addressed the’ Senate 111 favor of the Thurman Pacific Railroad Sinking Fund bill, after which the Deficiency bill was taken up, and, after adopting the amendment appropriating $20,000 to assist Secretary Bchurz in prosecuting the timber depredators in the public lands, the bill was nut to a vote afifi passed, V House.—Mr. Ward, of Pendsyltraf W. introduced -»Hill supplementary to tieTlomellAa^ qJwfe of the United States, providing that persons bona fide intedding to make actual entry and settlement under the Homestead acts shall revive, through the * Secretary -of tho ‘ f inferior, free transportation for themselves, families, farming utensils, and personal effects to their new homes, and also seeds for two years’ cultivation. .. .Mr. Atkins Introduced a bill to provide for the more economical survey of the public lands.... Mr. Hunton introduced a bill to reorganize a system of superintendence of railroads.... A large number of private bills were passed.