Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1878 — NEWS. SUMMARY [ARTICLE]

NEWS. SUMMARY

FORBIGN NEWS. Lore’, Salisbury, the new British Minister of Foreign Affairs, has addressed a circular to the pow irn, giving England’s reasons why she cannot enter the proposed congress. Nearly every ar'acJe of the San. Stefano treaty is condemned, aa tending to establish a dangerous Russian supremacy in the East. Lord Salisbury claims not only the right to discuss each clause of the treaty in detail, but to raise objections to the treaty in the aggregate. In a word, England wishes to set aside the whole treaty, and begin, de novo, th e work of settling the Eastern question l>y d xecussions in a Congress. Queen Victoria’s message in relation to mobilizing the reserves was read to both houses of the British Parliament last week. It states Very briefly that the present state of public affairs in the East constitutes a case of great •emergency, within the meaning of the acts of Parliament, and that therefore the Government is about to direct that the reserve force and the militia reserve force be forthwith called out for permanent service. Debate on the message was postponed for a week. A London 'dispatch states that “ Russia is irritated by the rebuff from France. The latter, being approached for a separate recognition of the Treaty of San Stefano, replied that she •would not participate in a combination against England.” Drnught and famine prevail to a disastrous extnnt in Morocco. Prince Bismarck has revived the hope of a congress of the power?, by proposing a meeting for a revision of the treaties of 1856 and 1871. Ron mania is bitterly opposed to the cession of Bessarabia to Russia, as well as several other provisions of the treaty of San Stefano, and a rupture between the Russians and Roumanians is exceedingly probable. The prizes in the late London pedestrian match have been distributed. O’Leary received $3,750 ; Vaughan, $1,300 ; Brown, $525, n ad. other contestants got smaller sums. A special from Berlin reports that mobilization han been ordered in the four remaining Russian military districts. Advices from Cettinje state that Russia has requested Montenegro to prepare for a renewal of hostilities. Prince Nikita ft taking measures accordingly. It is reported that the Khedive of Egypt has announced that he will declare his independence should Turkey form any alliance against England. A correspondent at Pera understands that Austria has assured the Porte that she will oppose any effort to enforce the San Stefano treaty.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. I'Juist. Failures: Booth A Edgar, sugar refiners, Boston, liabilities $750,000; Joseph Poulks’ Sons, shipping and commission merchants, New York, liabilities $450,000; Manning & Bears, cotton brokers, Boston, liabilities $200,0)0. There ilts a terrific explosion and conflagration on the Lehigh Valley railroad, at Slatington, Pa., the other day. An oil train, going at •a speed of twenty miles an hour, dashed into •a freight train preceding it. An oil tank exploded with terrific force, killing four persons and wounding twenty-one. Nineteen oil cars and four merchandise cars were destroyed in the conflagration that followed. The loss is estimated at $200,000. A shocking tragedy was enacted on the stage of a theater at Pawtucket, It. 1., a few nights ago. One feat of the company consisted of the shooting of an apple from the head or hand of a pel former. Mlle. Volante, trapeze performer, belli an apple on her head, and Mrs. Jennie Fowler, known on the stage as Franklin, was to isheot the apple. With uncommon recklessness the shooter stood with her back to a mark, taking aim by the reflection in the mirror. The rifle was discharged and Mlle. Volante fell dead on the stage, shot through the forehead. Mrs. Franklin was arrested. » One of the most sickening hoirors of the year occurred at Bath, N. Y.. a few nights since. L. C. Ford, an insane man, sent to the Steuben County Poor-House from Hornellsville, set fire to the building used for the insane department of the County House, in which upward of sixty insane people were sleeping. The fire spread rapidly, and made the rescuing of the imates a matter of great difficulty and danger. About forty were rescued by officers and citizens, and some others escaped ; but fifteen of the crazed unfortunates perished in the flames, and one was Injured shockingly, and probably fatally. At Cambridge, Mass., three men were killed, one fatally injured, and three others more or less injured, by the explosion of a boiler in beavey & Co.’s stamping manufactory. West. The great drama entitled “A Celebrated Case,” written by the authors of “The Two Orphans,” is the regnant theatrical sensation in Chicago. It is produced in that elaborate style and with those fine scenic effects for which McVicker’s Theater has become famous. The play will run another week, and will then be succeeded by “The Exiles,” which has had a great run in the Eastern cities. Chicago elevators contain 1,127,438 bushels of wheat; 724,983 bushels of corn; 226,311 bushels of oats; 169,074 bushels of rye, and 549,686 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 2,798,092 bushels, against 8,970,868 bushels at this period last year. Henry Crouch, his wife and two children were drowned in a pond near Augusta, Mich., by the capsizing of a boat, a few days ago. Joseph P. Bugbee, hitherto one of the most honored business mon of Indianapolis, has been arrested for forgery. The amount of his forgeries is somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,000. The first annual conference of the Mormon church since the death of Brigham Young has just been held at Salt Lake. The saints appeared to be well pleased with the new administration, which is in some material respects an improvement upon that of Brigham. South. Returning Board Anderson is again at liberty. Ihe Louisiana Supreme Court having refused a rehearing of the case, Judge Whittaker ordered bis discharge from custody. The Bank of Jacksonville, Fla., was recently robbed of $7,500. A man engaged the attention of the cashier while a confederate entered the rear door, stepped into the vault, and secured the money. The safe of the Treasurer of the Eatontown Branch railroad, at Eatontown, Ga., was lately robbed of $6,000 in cash and $20,000 in notes and mortgages. Another train robbery is reported from Texas. An express train in the Texas Pacific was stopped by road agents at Eagle Ford Station, and relieved of all the treasure it carried. The amount stolen is not stated.

POLITICAL POINTS. The President nominated Joshua G. Hall us United States Attorney for New Hampshire ; Milfo . J. Williamson, as United States Marshal for th j Western District of Tennessee : Harrv H. JJcilillen, as United States Marshal for the

District of Delaware; Dewitt Clinton Baker, as Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of Texas ; Robert A. Sidebotham, as Secretary of the Territory of Idaho. Gov. Van Zandt, the Republican candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, has been reelected by 3,309 majority. A private meeting of the Republican National Committee and old Congressional Committee was held at Washington one evening last week. John A. Logan presided. There were present Z. Chandler, E. Hale, W. E. Chandler, Charles Foster, and others. The object of the meeting was to consult informally about the organization of the party for the fall campaign. It was decided to ask the Republicans in Congress to reorganize the Congressional Committee, and to make arrangements for an earnest fight to carry the next Congress. The Attorney General of Maryland is of the opinion that tbe Blair resolutions for the reopening of the Presidential question are wholly inoperative.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Secretary Sherman has again been before the House Banking and Currency Committee to answer interrogations and express his views on the subject of resumption. He is confident that, with the 4 per cent, bonds put in the form of a popular loan, and with the assistance of the proposed savings-bond system, the Government will be perfectly able to resume Jan. 1, 1879. Following is the public-debt statement for April 1: Six per cent, bonds $7.38,620,200 Five per cent, bonds 703,266,650 Four and a half per cent, bonds 200,000,000 Four per cent, bonds 79,850,000 Total coin bonds $1,721,736,850 Lawful money debts 14,000,000 Matured debt."s 8.060,780 Legal tenders 347.911,054 Certificates of deposit 25,215.000 Fractional currency 16,950,115 Coin certificates 57,883,400 Total without interests 447,959,570 Total debt. 52,191,7577200 Total intere5t.*.22.290,773 Cash in treasury: Cotas 138,357,608 Currency 751,851 Currency held for redemption of fractional currency 10,0)0,000 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates ot deposit 25,215,000 Total in treasurys 174,324,459 Debt less cash in treasurys 2,039,723,514 Decrease of debt during March....... 2,313.614 Decrease since June 30,1877 20,434,708 Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Compapanies, interest payable in lawful money: Principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 969,352 Interest paid by United States 37,896,334 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 9,159,143 Balance of interest paid by the United States 28,737,190 The President and a large number of other dignitaries went to Chester, Pa., last week, and witnessed the launching of a steamship at Roach’s yard. The case of the United States against exAssistant Secretary of the Treasury Sawyer, ex-Commissioner of Customs Haines and F. W. Brooks, charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government of $57,000, resulted in a verdict of not guilty.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Canadians are driving forward the work on the Manitoba section of their Pacific railroad, with great energy. Several thousands of laborers are employed upon it. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Monday, April 1. —Senate. —Mr. Mitchel], from the Committee on Railroads, reported a bill to extend for eight years the tune for completing the Northern Pacific railroad. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Windom dissented fiom the report, and Introduced another bill. Referred to the Committee on R . llroads.... The bill to regulate the advertising of i .ail lettings was passed... .Messrs. Beck and Ch: i itiancy addressed the Senate in support of the Pacific Railroad Funding bi 11... .The Senate, in executive session, confirmed a number of appointments, and rejected the nomination of Alex. Reed to be Postmaster at Toledo, Ohio. House.—Bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Stephens, for the financial relief of the country, and to facilitate the return to specie payments without injuriously affecting the commercial business of the people; by Mr. Money, to regulate contracts for carrying the mails; by Mr. Bright, to prevent the reduction of the national currency by fraudulently withdrawing legal-tender notes from circulation ; by Mr. Fuller, declaring the waters of the Hot Springs of Arkansas forever free to the people ; by Mr. Williams, of Michigan, granting jurisdiction to the Court of Claims upon the claims of officers and soldiers of the late war ; by Mr. Harrison, to provide for a more efficient civil service in the United States... .Mr. Hartzell introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution forbidding the assumption or payment of claims for losses growing out of the destruction of property within the limits of the Statesengagedin the rebellion. Referred... .Mr. Durham reported back from the Committee on Appropriations the bill providing for temporary clerks in the Treasury Department, and for deterring trespassers on public lands, recommending nonconcurrence in nearly all the Senate amendments. Tuesday, April 2.—Senate.—The Senate spent the day in discussing the Pacific Railroad Funding bill, and Mr. Burnside's bill to remove all restrictions in regard to the enlistment of colored men in the army and navy r without reaching a vote on either. House.—The proceedings in the House were of an unimportant character. Mr. Harrison, of Illinois, explained the report of the majority of the Civil Service Committee,which recommends the adoption of the resolution declaring the office of Doorkeeper vacant. On account of frequent interruptions, and from the excitement of manner in which he met these interruptions (chiefly from Luttrell, Franklin, Clark of Missouri, Crittenden, Eden and Ellsworth), the delivery of his speech was attended with great uproar, confusion and merriment, but Harrison himself was very resolute and determined in urging on his own side of the House the propriety of expelling the Doorkeeper. Wednesday, April 3.—Senate.—The Senate devoted another day to the Pacific Railroad Sinking Fund bill. Speeches were delivered by Messrs. Booth and Dawes, after which there was a long running debate The Naval Appropriation bill was reported to the Senate and placed on the calendar. House.—Mr. Banks, from the Committee on Rules, reported back the resolution admitting one representative of each public journal which employs a permanent correspondent for reporting proceedings of Congress to the halls and passways around the House. Adopted.... Mr. Reagan, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the River and Harbor Appropriation bi 11... .Thecase of Doorkeeper Polk was the subject of another long discussion in the House. Thursday, April 4.—Senate.—The Senate indulged in an animated debate over the Pacific Railroad Funding bill, Messrs. Thurman, Matthews, Blaine, Hill and Conkling being the chief participants. The contest finally narrowed down to Messrs. Thurman and Hill, neither of whom seemed disposed to let the other have the last word,, and, even after the adjournment, the disputants continued their arguments as they left the Capitol.... A resolution was adopted authorizing the appointment of a select committee of seven to consider the subject of taking the tenth census... .The Senate authorized the printing of 25,000 copies of the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture. House. —Mr. Butler introduced a bill to authorize the reissue of fractional currency of the denominations of 25 and 50 cents.... The House finally disposed of the case of Doorkeeper Polk by adopting the report of Mr. Harrison, Chairman °5 ( ' Service Committee, declaring the office of Doorkeeper vacant. Friday, April s.—Senate.—The Senate passed the Naval Appropriation bill, discussed the Pacific Railroad Funding bill, and adjourned until Monday. House.—Messrs. Butler and Cox furnished considerable amusement by a wrangle over the election of Doorkeeper, in which they indulged in a good deal of wit at the exnense of each other. It was brought about by Mr. Butler nominating Gen. James Shields for the vacant Position, and insisting upon going into an elec: ion before a caucus had been held by either par” The House decided to postpone the election to kiSuduv .... After spending some time on the private calendar, the House adjourned till Monday.