Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1878 — HEWS Of THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS Of THE WEEK.

gOBEIGM KIW& Ex-King George of Hanover is dead. The European congress for the settlement of the Eastern question assembled at Berlin, the capital of the German empire, and held its first formal sitting on Thursday, June 13. Prince Bismarck was chosen to preside over the body. A Constantinople dispatch says the Russians refuse to permit the 20,000 refugees encamped around, Varna and Shumla to return, to their homes unless those fortresses are surrendered. The Porte still declines to give them up. / A London dispatch says the foil text of the agreement between Great Britain and Bussia, signed on the 30tb of May, is published, and confirms the correctness of the synopsis given in tbo dispatches of date. The agreement reserved to Russia and Erglatd the right to raise and (Recaps in the congress all questions not Included in Its stipulations. The great strike of cotton operatives in England is about over, the workmen having acceded to the demands of the mill-owners for a wage reduction of 10 per cent. DOMESTIC INTELLIGEN C B. Hast. Murphy, the temperance crusader, is campaigning in Massachusetts. In Worcester he obtained 672 pledge signatures at his first meeting. Andrew True, of Haverhill, Mass., while in a drunken fit, fatally stabbed bis wife and then killed bimself. William Cullen Bryant, poet and journalist, and for many years editor of the New York Evening Vast. died on the 12tb of June, n the 84 th year of his age. Mr. Bryant began -jtng verses at the early age of 10 years, and . . -oil, when only 18 years of age, composed his great poem, “ Thanatopsis.” Scribner, Armstrong k Co. is the firm name of the celebrated New York publishing house no longer. Mr. Armstrong has withdrawn, and “Charles Scribner’s Sous” is the new name of the house. Philadelphia has another Charley Ross case. Little Nellie Glazier, the 4-year-old daughter of William H. Glazier, of North Seventh street, is missing. It was at first supjmsed that the child was drowned, but there is a growing belief that she was kidnapped. West. A telegram from Salt Lake says: “throe or four men were killed on Goose creek, aliout forty miles nerth of Terrace, Utah, by the Indians, and most of the ranchmen in that vicinity have come into Terrace and Kelton. A small force of infantry left for those stations, ns considerable alarm prevails along the railroad.” Chicago elevators contain 700,233 bushels of wheat, 1,566,751 bushels of com, 151,258 bushels of oats, 61,25!) bushels of rye and 287,345 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 2,746,846 bushels, against 5,337,418 bushels at this period last year. Mrs. Nancy Clem, Indiana’s noted criminal and money-broker, has been arrested on a charge of grand larceny. A serious Indian outbreak is threatened in Oregon. The Chicago Communists had a big gathering in Chicago on Sunday, the 17th inst. They marched in procession, some 4,000 strong, to a grove in the suburbs, and indulged In speech-making, eating and drinking. Everything passed off quietly. Bouth. Thomas Winans, the Baltimore millonaire, is dead. Gen. B. L. Bonneville, the oldes officer on the retired list of the United States army, died at Fort Smith, Ark., a few days ago. He was 85 years old. Washington Irving made his name famous many years ago. A dispatch from San Antonio, Tex., says that Gen. Mackenzie, at the head of 500 United States cavalry and a battery of artillery, had crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico in pursuit of raiders who had been stealing stock from ranches on the American side. Tho troops had fiftoen days’ rations, and exciting times were expected.

WASHINGTON. In the United States Court of Claims there has been rendered against the Union Pacific railroad a judgment for $ 1,367,716 in the 5 per cent, suit, subjeot, however, to a deduction of #593,627, an amount admitted by the United States to be due, being half of the compensation for carrying the- mails, troops, munitions of war, etc., leaving #774,089 due the Government. The President nominated Reuben E. Fenton, of New York, William S. Groesbeck, of Ohio, and Francis A. Walker, of Connecticut, United States Commissioners at the International Monetary Conference ; William Hayden Edwards, of the District of Columbia, Consul General at St. Petersburg ; Alexander T. Perrin, of Kansas, United States Consul at Padong ; E. Jeffords, United States Attorney for the Southern Distriot of Mississippi. A table has been prepared in the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue which shows the receipts from internal-revenue taxes for the present year will be #10,000,000 less than they were estimated at. The President nominated E. S. Hammond, of Tennessee, United States District Judge of the Western District of Tennessee; John S. McClary, Receiver of Public Moneys at Norfolk; S. S. Lawson, of Illinois, Indian Agent at the Mission Agency, California; Asa D. Baker, of New York, at Red Cloud Agency, Minnesota; Henry J. King, of Minnesota, at Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota; William H. H. Wasson, of Illinois, at Flandreau Agency, Dakota.

POLITICAL. The Ohio Republican Convention was held at Cincinnati on the 12th inst Milton Barnes, for Secretary of State, and Judge White, for the Supreme Bench, were nominated by acclamation, without a dissenting voice. For the Board of Public Works two ballots were taken, the choice falling upon George Paul, of Akron. A resolution was reported by the Committee on Resolutions indorsing the policy of President Hayes. Gen. Beatty, the leader of the anti-Hayes element in Ohio, offered a substitute condemnatory of the Hayes policy, and followed it with a speech bitterly denouncing the administration’s Southern, civil service and financial policy. The substitute was rejected by a large majority, and the platform as a whole adopted. of Michigan held their State Convention at Detroit on the 13th of June. There were 642 delegates present, representing every county in the State. EiBeuater Zachariah Chandler presided. The' platform denounces Communism and depreoat#s the rpopeping of the Presidential dispute

as fraught with danger to the oountry. It makes noaUusiw whatever to the administration or its jHilfey. Gov, Crosweß tod Lieut Gov. Sessions were nominated for re-election by acclamation pWilfiaa? Jenny was nominated for Secretary of State, Gen. B. D. Pritchard for Treasurer, W. I, I.atimer for Auditor General, James W. Nea‘Joith for Commissioner of the State Land pffiee, Otto Kirchner, for Attorney General, H. Ha .Tarbeßtor Superintendent of Public Instruction, ( .*nd. George FEdwards for member of the State Board of Education. Ex-Senator Chandler was made. Chairman of the State Central Committee by acclamation. The Potter Ihvestigating' Committee called oa Secretary Evarts for aH the porrespondenee in Sbis departmentfib this commission sent to Louisiana last year fog the purpose of settling the disturbance between the Niclioils and Packard Governments. The Secretary of State replies that, after consulting with the President, he is instructed to say that, while he (the Preaident) thought it quite compatible with the public Interest that the desired correspondence should be submitted-to Congress, he did not believe the committee, under the resolution from which its authority is derived, had any business whatever with the Louisiana Commission or the papers connected with it. Consequently the papers will be sent to the House of Representatives, but not to toe comWMSfi The President has caused it to be known that his views upon the subject of the assessment of Government officials for political purposes correspond with those recently made public by Schurz. The President maintains that uo assessments can be mide or collected, that all contributions for political purposes will be entirely voluntary, and that the tenure of no official will be in any degree weakened from a failure to pay an assessment.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS, The International Typographical Uirion has just held its annual session at Detroit. The following officers were chosen for tho ensuing year: President, John Armstrong, of Toronto ; First Vice President, Otis P. Martin, of Chicago; Second Vice President, T. J. Vaughn, of Richmond, Va.; Secretary and Treasurer, William White, of New York ; Corresponding Secretary, Charles Wright, of Cincinnati. The next meeting will be held in Washington city. A serious labor strike was inaugurated in Quebec, Canada, last week, and nearly all the factories and work-shops in the city were closed in consequence. Grain in sight in the States and Canada : Wheat, 6,976,000 bushels ; corn, 10,898,000 bushels; oats, 2,847,000 bushels; rye, 526,000 bushels ; barley, 1,209,000 bushels. The labor strike at Quebec, Canada, culminated last week in serious disorders, necessitating the calling out of tho military. The mob was fired upon, and one man killed and a number seriously wounded. The affair created the wildest excitement and alarm iu the city. Jesse Grant, son of the President, has returned from Europe. He says bis father will probably return in tho spring. Hon. E. F. Noyes, Minister to Paris, has come homo for the purpose of testifying before the Potter committee.

FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Monday, June 10.— Senate. —Mr. Spencer tried to call up his investigation resolution, but it was decided to refer it to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. ...The hills to strengthen the foundation of the Washington nonument, and designating the time for holding elections for Congressmen in Weßt Virginia and Colorado were passed... .The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was discussed. House.— The bill to enforce, under penalty of fine and Imprisonment, Sec. 1,754, Revised Statutes, which provides that soldiers and sailors honorably discharged by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness received in the line of duty shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they possess the necessary capacity, was passed... .The following bills were introduced: By Mr. Butler, for the relief of the industrial classes, for the prompt settlement of public lands, and for the belter protection of the frontier from Indian depredations; by Mjt Morse, authorizing the appointment by the President of three Commissioners to confer with Commissioners on the part of Great Britain, and to ascertain o»> what basis a treaty of reciprocity ca>i be negotiated with the British provinces in A merica ; by Mr. Cor, of New York, to reduce the duties on imports 16 per cent... .The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill occupied the attention of the House nearly the entire day. Tuesday, June 11.—Senate.—A number of bills were passed, among them the River and Harbor Appropriation bill; the Senate bill to reimburse Kansas for expenses incurred in repelling invasions and suppressing Indian hostilities ; the benate bill to provide lor the sale of portions of Fort Leavenworth military reservation in Kansas; the Senate bill to provide additional regulation for homestead and pre-emption entries on public lands —it provides for the publication of notices of intention to enter agricultural lands under the law named. House. —The Home devoted nearly the entire day, in committee of the whole, to the consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Wednesday, June 12.— Senate.— Mr. Saunders introduced a bill proposing to grant the right of way and forty sections of land per mile to aid the construction of a railway and telegraph line from Omaha, through Dakota and Wyoming, to the National Yellowstone parks, to connect With the Northern Pacific railroad in Montana, east of the 113th meridian... .The select committee to inquire into the alleged ' lrauds in Louisiana, under the resolution of Mr. Matthews, was authorized to sit during the session of the Senate.. ..The Senate bill authorizing Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to prosecute suits against the United States, in the Supreme Court of the United States, on account of Bales of public lands in each Btate; the Senate bill in relation to the Venezuela Mixed Commission, and the Deficiency Appropriation bill were passed.... Mr. Voorhees presented the petition of Peter Cooper, praying for the repeal of the SpeoieResumption act, and remonstrating against the proposed adjournment of Congress until some legislative measures for financial relief have been passed. Referred.... The House joint resolution to provide for the enforcement of the Eight-Hour law was postponed till next December. House. —The House devoted the day to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Mr. Kelley offered an amendment providing that no money herein appropriated shall be used for eng-aving, Issuing, B‘lllbg, or otherwise disposing of bonds a* other securities of the United States for the purpose of bringing about or providing for the resumption of specie payment. Rejected—ayes, 89; nays, If 6. Amendments for the reissue of $lO,000,000 of treasury notes now held for the redemption of fractional currency, and for advertisement of the sale of bonds, were ruled out of order. Thursday, June 13. —Senate.—The bills fixing the salaries of the Surveyors of Customs at Baltimore aad Portland, Me., at $4,500 per annum, each, and the Survey* at New York $3,500, were passed.... The House bill to restore certain lands in lowa to settlement under the Homestead law. and for other purposes, passed. It applies to all vacant, unappropriated lands heretofore withdrawn for. the Mississippi and Missouri railway in that State.... Mr. Voorhees moved to lay the calendar ssiddf and take up the bill to repeal the Resumption act. After a sharp disoUßsion the motion prevailed—3o to 29—and Mr. Ferry presented a substitute for the House bill agreed upon by the Senate Finance Committee. Mr. Voorhees moved to amend by what was virtually the House bill. After a brief debate the result was the passage of the following substitute for the House bill,, which unconditionally repealed the Resumption' act' “Be it enacted: That from and after the passage of this act United States notes shall be receivable the same as coin in payment for 4 per cent, bonds now authorized by law to be issued, and on and after Oct. 1, 1878, said notes shall be receivable for duties on imports.” House.— The House was engaged all day, and hi the evening until midnight, on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Friday, June 14.—Senate.—The Committed bn Privileges and Elections reported adversely on the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the rconstitution forbidding the disfranchisement of persons on aooount of sex. Mr. Hoar submitted a minority report.... The bill to create a sinking fund to pay the Indebted.

ness due the Government by the Mm rate Pacific railroad was passed.... Mr. McDonald (by request) Introduced a bill to provide an additional fund for the repayment to die United -States of ■ moneys advanced in aid of tbs Union Pacific Bailroad Company. ..TbeHoupe billAa'Oicresse toe pensions of certain pensioned soldiers and sauora who have lost both handy, both reef, or fight of both eyes in the service Of the country, from S6O to $75 a month, wU« passed.... "Mr. Oglesby, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported back the memorial of B ilUsm McGarraban. praying the passage of a laW to atilhorfte the perfecting of the patent claimed to have been issued to him by the United States for certain lands in California, with the recommendation that the prayer of the petitioner be denied, and that the memorial be indefinitely postponed. So ordered. Houax.—Mr, Burcbard (Republican), of Illinois, introduced a resolution dedaring that any attempt to interfere with the title of President Hayes “would be revolutionary and disapproved by the House,” and moved to suspend the rules and adopt it. Agrfedto*r-yeas,-SOfi; nays, M. SuiweqnenUy the Judiciary Committee reported a resolution to the same effect, though wordod somewhat differently. This was also adopted by a vote of 234 to 14.*the following being the negative vote: Black-' burn, Bbss, Boone, Cooke, Cox of New York, Hamilton, Henry, Kimmell, Mayham, Pridemore, Robertson of Louisians, Smith of Georgia, Springer, Warner.... The House passed a large number of private bills. Satcbday, June 15.— Senate. —Mr. Morgan submitted a joint resolution proposing an amendment to theoohstiluMorf allowhig'-tjfi off the United Statestoappro^an^M^^ap^opri^ any person for crime discovered in connection with the inquiry. -The Committee bn Finance was discharged from .the further consideration .ot a large number df ’ petitions in regard to the repeal of the Speaie-Ra-sumption act, remonetization of silver, together with numerous bills in regard to the payment of customs duties in legal-tender notes, and the “ Goloid ’’-Coin bill, nearly All of the subjects hav. ing been covered by bills passed.... Conference reports on the Army and River and Harbor bills were agreed Ad,and. theblUs passed.. _TMfi amendment of the House to the bill of the SefcfiSiincreasing the pension, of Gen. Shields, of Miseouri, to SIOO a month, was concurred in, and the bill passed. House.—The House did nothing beyond discuss the bill to amend the Internal Revenue laws and listen to conference reports on appropriation bills. Some of the Republicans filibustered to prevent ihe passage of the Internal Revenue bill, the proposed reduction of tho tobacco tax constituting the objectionable feature... .Both houses agreed to postpone the final adjournment to Tuesday, June 18.