Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1878 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. A dispatch from Constantinople says it is reported that a convention has been arranged between Austria and the Porte. latter accepts the occnp.itiqp of Bosnia and Horz-govina. Austria engage* to prevent aj»V future alliance between Russia and Montnu - gr<> and Her via, and to preserve order in Bui garia be'wecn the Mussulmans aid (hiitians. even, if necessary, during Russian occu pad n. Lord Beaconsfield’s reception by t\, Engfi-h nopulace, on hia return to iJinJd* ‘ From Berlin, was of the most, enthusias m 'character. His journey from Dovtr to the British metropolis was one grand ovation. The Greeks arc maintaining a state o' insurrection and anartihy in Thessaly and Epirus, fearing that pacification there would enable the Turks indefinitely to postpone a compliance with the directions of the treaty of Berlin. The Ambassadors of the powers are delaying the dispatch of Turkish troops in ironclad’s to the Greek coast, pending the efforts • et by dip'omacy in motion. A great strike of miners is in progress at Anzjn, Franco. Higher wages and eight hours for a day’s labor are demanded. In the shooting contest at Wimbledon for the Elcho shield, between Ireland, England and Scotland, the Irish team won with ease.

The health of the Emperor Willi elm s steadily improving. All the members of Nobeling’s family have, chang’d their name to “Edeling.” The Official Gazette, of Havana, publibhes a royal decree, dividing the Government .and administration of Cuba into six civil provinces, named Pinar Del Rio, Havana, Matanzas, Santa Clara, Puerto Principe, and Santiago de Cuba.

The programme agreed upon by the Liberals in the English Parliament is outlined in the cable dispatches. The plan is to attack the Ministry upon the policy of neglect and indifference pursued toward the Greeks by En gland in the congress, as well as to criticize the terms and liabilities upt n which the acquisition of C prus was .secured, upon Ihe ground that grave responsibilities have been incurred without lhe previous knowledge of Parliament in the undefined engagements relative to a bett r administration of the Asiatic provinces. While Disraeli is quite certain to ■carry the day in both houses, it will not be without receiving some hard knocks in the course of the frav.

Gen. Grant, at last accounts, was traveling in Norway. Great dissatisfaction exists throughout Servia regarding the stipulation made by the Berlin Congress requiring Servia to contribute towards paying the Turkish debt. It is estimated that Servia’s share will be 5.000,ouo piasters.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. James Gordon" Defines, ui uic York Herald, has returned from Europe, where he has been sojourning ever since his duel with young May, near Baltimore. Several cases of yellow fever, some of them fatal, have occurred in the Brooklyn navy yard. Peter Bresnaham, now confined in the Canton (N. Y.) jail, awaiting execution, has confessed to having murdered four men. A. M Ac R. Davies, umbrella manufacturers, New York, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. Total liabilities, $300,000. Andrew J. Kerwin, a prominent New York builder, has failed for $2,000,000. The workshops of the new State prison, at Concord, Mass., have been destroyed by fire. Loss, $150,000.

West. Oregon advices report another battle between the soldiers and Indians. The fight took place on the Umatilla reservation, a luge number of people of that tribe watcliiog the progress of the affair, without taking auv pa t in it. The troops engaged were inf-ntry, under the command of Capt. Miles, and numbered about 300. The Indians were estimate-d at 400 or 500. The latter were put to rout with the loss of about a dozen braves. Capt. Jules’ loss was ins'gmticant. The city of St. Louis has been suffering a season of phonominal y hot weather, the thermometer ranging from 90 to 105 degrees in the shade for several days in succession. Business was > lmost wholly paralyzed, people being afraid to venture out bf doors. Hundreds of people were prostrated by the heat, and a knd of a panic seized upon the coinmdfiity. In one day there were 150 ca-esof sunstroke, forty-nine of which were fatal. Other Sections of the West and Northwest have suffered from the extreme heat, cases of sunstroke being reported from many tpwris and cities in Illinois, lowa, Wrioonsiu and other States. In many instances farmers have been prostrated by the heat while working in the fields. No-such weather has been experienced within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.

Georg© Leggett, the best known gambler in It dianapolin, was murdered, the other day, by J.ihn Acbey, another gambler. The monument to the memory of the lamented Stephen A. Douglas, which was begun by citizens of Chicago, shortly after his death, has just been completed. It-is located on the grounds of the Chicago University. There were 159 fatal cases of sunstroke in St. Louis in one week. The boiler in Davis’ planing-mill, at Barnesville, Ohio, exploded a few mornings ago, destroying the entire building, and killing three parsons outright. Three more were fatally and several badly injured. A sad accident happened near Johnstown, Tnd.,afewdaysago. While moving a steam thresher on the farm of John Shackley, the boiler exploded, killing John Shackley, Frank Jones, Patrick Johnson, and John Clauhence, and dangerously wounding Albert Shackley, Henry Ashler, James Dixon, Alex. Humphrey, Thomas Smith, and two others. Rich placer diggings have been dis covered on Colorado river in Arizona, about twenty miles above the town of Aubrey. A Baker City (Ore ) dispatch reports a battle between friendly Umatilla Ind ans and a band of hostile Bannocks. Seventeen of the latter were killed, and twenty-five women and children and seventy head of horses captured. St. Louis has had a fatal case of yelow fever.

SOUtll. The first white man was whipped, under the new law which has just gone into operation in Virginia, at Hampton, on the 14th inst. Williams, the negro constable of the town, executed the sentence of the court. The man was a sailor named McCormick, convicted of stealing an anchor. Farmers about Alexandria, Va., have Veea greatly byroads of tramps

u[Xij their pjrtuni-as, and a few .nigh tg|go one Of their favorite rßiaezvoM waX surrounded by special police from Alexandria, aad seventeen tramps capttjred, nearly all ijpf, them -trong and able-bodied. Th'ey were taken before the authorities of the city and committed to jail for seven days, where they were orders I to be kept in close confinement and fed on bread Andvrater. There is a conflict of authority in Horith Carolina between the State and United •fates courts, the former refudng to transfer <> the Federal Courf the cases of some reveIV < fficers chargeoynth murder., ’’Parker, at New Qrieans, a i fl bi other-in-lai -'iff ©en Bdtler,haft be«n.re- i moved. ■ The Potter 'sub-committee in Louisiana has signified its willingness to summon <vnd hear all the witnesses on intimidationr® quested by Secretary Sherman.

POLITICAL POINTS. Ch ariei Foster has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Toledo. (Ohio) district. "• ’ » - The Democrats the Thiri Copgressional District of Illinois have nominated James R. Doolittle, Jr. (son of exfifemftor Doolittle), for Congress. The Democrats of Golova do have nominated W. A. H. Loveland for Governor, and Thomas M. Patterson (present incumbent) for Congress. WASHINGTON NOTES. George W. Fish, of Michigan, has been appointed United States Consul at Tunis. About sixty female employes of the Patent Office were discharged, last week, because of the reduction in the appropriations. The resignation of J. B. Dodge, Statistician of the Agricultural Department, asked for by the Commissioner some weeks since, has been accepted. v The United States Treasurer has written to the Assistant Treasurers authorizing them lo use the standard silver dollars in their vaul ‘ npa yment to persons presenting check s, to ies desiring them, upon the disburseme of pay-rolls, and ih exchange, in moderate amounts, for greenbacks and national-bank notes, and for payment in lieu of $1 and $2 notes.

Commissioner Williamson, of the Geneml Land Office, has prepared a statement of the disposal of public lands during the last fiscal year, which shows a very marked increase in the number of emigrants moving into the Western States. The figures which he piesents show an increase in the occupation of lands in Dakota during the last year of 1,225.000 acres : in Kansas of 1,360,000 acres; Minnesota, 761,000 acres ; Nebraika, of 363,000 acres ; making a total increase in these four States of 3,700,000 acres.

Tne President left Washington last week for a trip to Ohio. Attorney General Devens is of the opinion that resumption cannot be legally attempted before Jin. 1, 1879.

about the probability that a collision will occur between American and Mexican troops, whenever Gen. Ord next finds occasion to send an expedition into Mexico in pursuit of cattlethieves. Representative Eppa Huntou, of Virginia, challenged Columbus Alexander, of Washington, to meet him on the “field of honor.” The latter replied ’in a tart letter, neither accepting nor refusing the challenge, so the matter rested at last accounts. The affair has caused some excitement at the capital. The case of disputed jurisdiction which has arisen in South Carolina relative to the indictment in a State court of four inb rnalrevenue officers upon a charge of murder was considered at a Cabinet meeting a few days ago, and it was determined that firm and vigorous measures be taken to assert the supremacy of the Federal over the State law.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. An English steamer sailed the other day from New Haven, Ct., for Constantinople with arms and ammunition for the Turkish Government. She has on board 20,000,000 cartridges, 47,000 rifles, 54,000 eaber bayonets and 10,000 scabbards. The total value of the cargo is $1,035,000. The Orange war in Canada is being carried into trade, the loyal Protestants of Ontario and other parts of the Dominion, it is said, having resolved to buy no more goods in a city where mob rule prevails. The people of Eastern Canada are suffering from the discomforts of a protracted drought. Crops are suffering greatly in consequence. The leaders of the Orange order at Montreal, Canada, have determined to make no further demonstration until the question of the legality of their organization has been decided.