Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1878 — NEWS Oh THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS Oh THE WEEK.

FOBBXGN NEW A It is calculated that Austria will ba able to export this year from 12,000,000 to 13,000,000 of quintals of wheat, 2,500,000 of rye, 4,000,000 of barley, and 2,500,000 to 8,000,000 of oats. The Bosnian insurgents are estimated at 65,000. A Chinese mission is about to go to Russia regarding the frontier question. It is reported that two students were the assassins of Gen. Mezentzow* at St. Petersburg. A Constantinople dispatch says the Russian army of occupation has 20,340 sick. The cable gives meager particulars of a terrible disaster in Hungary. A furious storm almost entiiely laid waste the town of Mickalez, destroying 1,000 bouses and causing the death by drowning of between 500 and 600 people. At Erlau, also, many houses were swept away by the flood, and a large number of people drowned.

domestic intelligence. JEUist. A number of deaths have occurred at Hyde Park, near Boston, within a few days, from working a lot t>f Siberian curled hair, sent from New York, Mt was in a filthy condition when received, and was sent back. The next lot contained some also in a bad condition, and it was from this that ten people died. New York failures: George W. Beach, railroad contractor, liabilities $120,000; Joseph Stiner, tea merchant, liabilities $270,000; Nathaniel Burchill, builder, liabilities $288,000, no assets ; Young, Smith & Co., importers of sugar, liabilities $345,000 ; Francis Williams, merchandise broker, liabilities $112,000, no assets. Peters’ oil cloth factory, at Newark, N. J., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $150,000. Ex-Collector Thomas Murphy, of New York, went through the bankrupt court just before the expiration of the law. His liabilities arc scheduled at $726,000. West. A dispatch from Cheynne says that Sheriff Widdowfield and a ntan named Vincent were lately killed, in a canon of Elk mountain, by a party of highwaymen.

Judge Hollins, of Deadwood, a victim of the stampede to the Stinking Water gold region, arrived at Bismarck, D. T., the other day, by steamer. He reports it a fraud, and the man Wetmore, who led the party into the country, a liar. There was no gold, and the Deadwood party is now struggling to get out. They found absolutely nothing. Three highwaymen recently rode into Concordia, a town of 1,500 inhabitants in Lafayette county, Mo., dismounted in front of the principal bank, walked in, and, after intimidating the cashier into silence, helped themselves to all the paper money in the vaults, some $4,000, They then mounted their horses and galloped off. Two men were killed and another mortally injured by an elevator accident in Kingsland, Ferguson & Co.’s building, in St. Louis, Mo., last week. Great forest fires, extending almost continuously for a distance of 160 miles, are reported as raging along the north shore of Lake Superior. Frank A. George, superintendent of the money-order department in the St. Louis postoffice, has absconded, taking with him about $6,000 of the postoffice funds. Sontti. Yellow, fever bulletin, Aug. 26: Memphis—New cases, 100; deaths, 26. It is a sad and dreadful outlook, as awful as a doomed city ever was forced to contemplate. The fever breaks out in a new spot almost every hour, and the death rate runs up. To a stranger the utter desolation of the situation could not be realized. New Orleans—New cases, 125; deaths, 44. The disease is extremely malignant. In the town of Plaquemine, below Baton Rouge, there are new cases every hour, almost invariably resulting in black vomit and death. Grenada—Fifteen deaths in twentyfour hours, and the epidemic still raging. Only ten active men e place. Physicians and nurses completely xhausted. Vicksburg Death-rate and suffering on the increase. New cases in the twenty-four hours, 105; deaths, 25. A Washington dispatch says that Internal Revenue Commissioner Raum has ordered Collectors Woodcock and Cooper, of Nashville, Tenn., to employ forty additional men each, and to make the woods so hot for the “ moonshiners ” as to compel them to surrender. The Comnjissioner is confident that all illicit whisky-distilling in Tennessee will cease in thirty days. '

The yellow-fever reports from the South, on the 29th ult., were not encouraging. At Memphis the plague had become more violent. But 3,000 white people were left in the city. New cases, 119; deaths, 58. The physicians were completely worn out, and were resting', while friends of the sick were searching in vain for medical attendants. At New Orleans the death rate was steadily advancing ; deaths for the preceding twenty-four hours, 57. At Vicksburg a larger number of new cases were reported than on any previous day, though the mortality was not so great. Canton, Miss., which had a population of 3,500 when the plague appeared, was almost completely deserted; not a single business house open except stores; the Court House was locked up, all the officials having left the town; nothing but hearses and coffins were to be seen on the streets. Grenada, Miss., reported twenty deaths in the preceding twenty-four hours. With the exception of physicians and nurses nearly every living soul in the town was down ;.ith the plague. At Port Gibson, Miss., the fever was extremely malignant, and showed no abatement. A severe fight recently took place forty miles northwest of El Paso, between a squad of Texas State troops and a large body of Indians from Port Stanton reservation. Seven Indians and one Ranger were killed. Yellow-fever bulletin for Aug. 31; New cases in Vicksburg for the preceding twenty-four hours, 160; deaths, 13. Memphis —New cases, 100; deaths, 57. New Orleans— The deaths increased to 59, the largest number of the season to date. Canton, Miss.—The disease frightfully fatal; half the cases reported had died, and very few had recovered Grenada— Slight increase in the death rate; no material for the spreading of the fever. The deaths in New Orleans on Sept. 1 numbered eighty-eight, and the fever was on the increase ; whole number of deaths to that ate, 1.003. At Vicksburg there were ninetyeig t new cases of fever and twenty-five « « A Memphis dispatch of Sept 1 says: This Sabbath day has been a sad one for Memphis, death having visited eighty-one house o.di, and sickness more than 100 more. Feop.e go about the streets in mourning, and

Christian burial for their dead is a boon which few are blessed with. At Elmwood sba’low graves are dug, and sometimes a short prayer is uttered by a minister, but, more frequently, there is no service, and the dead are put away hastily.”

WASHINGTON NOTES. Orders have been issued by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to the Collector at Nashville, requiring him to enlist all the men necessary for a “short, sharp, and decisive campaign” against the “moonshine” whisky-makers in Tennessee. Dennis Kearney, the labor agitator, called at the White House the other day and had a short conversation with the President, during which he complained bitterly of the unhappy condition of laboring men, depression of business, and general hard times. The President argued the subject in a quiet manner, and is reported as having done all the talking, “giving Kearney very little opportunity to say anything. The President explained that the country had not yet fully recovered from the effects of the great war, but that matters were beginning to adjust themselves to ante-war conditions; that for several years there was an inflated condition of business, with a surplus of money, which many mistook for property, but that now business was getting down to bed-rock, so to speak, and the people were learning again the value of a dolls r. He said he thought that all money should have a gold basis, srd that resumption would do much to relieve Hard times, which he did not think would last much longer.” Secretary Evarts has asked for the resignation of Gen. Philip Sidney Post, for several years Consul General of the United States to Austria. The Postoffice Department has decided to begin, on the Ist of October, the transportation of gold and silver coin through the mails as third-class matter at the rate of one cent postage per ounce. Sergt. Boston Corbett, who shot John Wilkes Booth, has written to the Postmaster General from Camden, N. J., asking employment in the pestoffice there. He says he has never held a position under the Government, although he thinks his services deserve reward.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Democrats of the Richmond (Va.) district have nominated Gen. Joseph E. Johnston for Congress. Judge E. H. East, of Nashville, has been nominated by the Greenbackers for Governor of Tennessee. The Republicans of Kansas, in convention at Topeka last week, nominated a full State ticket, headed by J. P. St. John as the candidate for Governor. Gen. Bntler, in a card accepting the nomination of voters who signed a paper expressing a wish to choose him Governor of Massachusetts, says: “I take the trust with all its cares, and will devote all of the intelligence, of the labor, forethought, and energy which in me lies, and use all the power which they and those who think with them may give me, to relieve the people’s burdens and bring about a more equal and efficient administration of the laws of this Commonwealth, which they wish.”