Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1878 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Austrians are reported to be committing great excesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Reliable reports of the French harvest hhow it to be very good in two departments, good in twelve, fair in twenty-three, poor in forty-six, and bad in seven. A Berlin dispatch says the basis for the fntnre agreement between Germany and the Vatican has been settled, which does not involve even the partial repeal of the Falk awe. A Vienna dispatch says the insurrection in the parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina neenpied by the Austrians is in the u#to»tremity. It is stated the insurgents at Trebinje are already between the Austrian and Turkish fires. The cable reports a terrible marine disaster on the English coatt. The excursion steamer Princess Alice, returning from Gravesend to London with about 800 passengers, was run down by a screw steamer. The Princess Alice was struck amidships, and sunk immediately. The number of persons drowned is estimated at 550, including an extradins ry proportion of women and children. It is said that France and Italy have jointly notified the Porte that they will not permit the bombardment of the Greek coast in the event of a war between Greece and Turkey. The Turkish troops are reported to be encroaching upon Greek territory. A London dispatch says that “ later estimates of the number of persons drowned by the collision on the Thames are higher than those given at first. It is now stated that between 630 and 700 were lost, the majority of the estimates favoring the latter number. A diver says he felt the corpses packed four and five deep in the cabin of the Princess Alice.” The International Congress on Weights, Measures and Coins, in session at Paris, unanimously adopted a resolution deploring tbo fact that England, Russia, and the United States had not yet adopted the metric system. The American and English delegates passed a resolution petitioning the English and American Governments to appoint a mixed commission to consider the adoption of the metric system in both countries. A Berlin dispatch says it is rumored that the powers intend jointly to remonstrate against the Porte’s backwardness in executing the treaty of Berlin, especially as regards Montenegro and Greece. Mehemet Ali Pasha, who was sent to pacify Albania, was mobbed at Yacona, sixtyseven miles northeast of Scutari. He tied the place and took refuge in a shed, but was pursued by the Albanians, who called upon him to organize an attack against the Austrians. He refused, and was, with twenty members of his suite, massacred. Complete anarchy prevails n Albania, and further atrocities are apprehended.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Jliist. A dispatch from Elizabeth, N. J., states that Orville, the unfortunate brother of ex-President Grant, has been rent to an insane asylum at Morristown. His maniacal eccentricity seems to be the conception of immense speculations, gigantic business operations, etc The commitment to the asylum is reported to have been made at the instance of the patient’s friends. West. Chauncey I. Filley has been removed from the St. Louis postoffice, and Samuel Hays, ex-Btate Treasurer of Missouri, appointed in his place. The city of Sandusky, Ohio, was thrown into the wile est excitement last week by a cruel murder, followed by the summary execution of the author of the crime. Alice O’Donnell, aged 19 years, employed as a domestic in the family of A. K. We t, was missing. Suspicion fell upon William Taylor, aged 28, a negro coachman of West. Taylor was arrested, and confessed to ravishing and murdering the girl, telling where the body was concealed. He conducted officers to the spot, six miles out of the city. The body was found, the brains knocked out, and the throat cut. On arriving in the city again, the officer found the city in the greatest state of excitement, as the. news of the confession had spread like wildfire. He was fearful that he could not keep his prisoner, and, on consultation with the Sheriff, it was decided to take him to Norwalk for safe-keeping. Accordingly they started, as privately as possible, but bad only got a short distance when they were overtaken by a posse of mounted men and the buggy containing the Sheriff, Deputy, and prisoner was turned back toward the city. Soon this party was met by thousands of excited citizens on foot, and, as soon as the city limits were reached, the whole cavalcade halted. Every moment the excitement became greater. The Sheriff had, meanwhile, disappeared, and the crowd, picking up the buggy, turned it over and took charge of the prisoner. The mob was now led by the brother of the murdered girl, and hi rage approached that of a wild animal. The defenseless prisoner was beaten in the most horrible manner possible. Howls of rage and shouts of fiendish triumph went up. At length he was evidently insensible, but the mob was not satisfied. The murdered girl’s brother had adjusted the rope around the prisoner’s neck, and now, with a shout of vengeance, threw it over a lamp-post. A thousand hands reached for the other end, and as many as could grasp it held it fast and drew the limp, lifeless form from the ground and fastened it there, thus satisfying the ends of justice before the law could take its course.

Congressman Frank Welch, of Nebraska, is dead. A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, reports that J. H. Adams and Cornelins Finley, of Santa Clara county, Cal., were murdered at Davidson’s canon by Mexican bandits. President Hayes was accorded an enthusiastic reception at the Minnesota State Fair, in St. Faul. He delivered a lengthy speech to an audience of 50,000 people. The address consisted largely of tabular statements showing the reduction of the public debt, the decreased rate of taxation since the war, the condition of the currency, etc. He concluded as follows: Now, my friends, with this picture, a* I think, so full of hope for the future for you and I as individuals, I do not venture with confidence upon predictions of prosperity reviving. I have no spirit of prophecy, but, reasoning, let u* see how it stands. The debt is a great burden upon labor and capital. It Is greatly, diminished and is still diminishing. Taxation is a great burden upon labor and capital, and it is greatly diminished and still diminishing. So, too, as to the expense* of the Government; and then, with that which helps us, a sound currency coming, and immigration coming, may I not confidently say that these are indication*, at least, that we are marching to the threshold of reviving general business prosperity 7 And now shall we look around for a new way to pay

old debt*, or ehall we march in the paths marked out by the father*—of industry, of economy 7 Shall we do what Washington and Franklin would advise ? This is the question pefore the people to-day, my friends. I inter upon no argument on a disputed question, but I say, as my opinion—we may be mistaken all of us, but I believe it- that a restored financial cond tion dept nd* largely upon sn honeet currency ar d I say this: The commerce of the world is the commerce now in which we are taking part, and that is the same thing the globe around - • . • • Where there are very hard times in one great nation, scoter or later it goes clear around. We should then base our financial system on principles afid by instrumt ntalitie* that are sanctioned and approved by the judgment of the whole commercial world. Then, I ’repeat, if we want our standard financial prosperity Jo.be based upon sure and case foundations, let u* remember—let ns all remember—that its best security is an untarnished national nracHt and a sound, constitutional currency. ' The Bannock Indians have not yet had all the fight whipped out of them. Dispatches from Camp Stambaugh report an engagement between a band of obstinate savages and a few soldiers and Crow scouts, in which the hostiles were pretty badly whipped, their chief and a large number of ho rses being captured. A dispatch from Camp Stambaugh, Wyoming Territory, reports that five masked men surprised and captured the herding-camp of W. P. Noble, eighteen miles from thereThe four herders were tied up, and the in" traders held possession of the camp two days, when they left, going west, taking with them all the camp outfit, provisions, etc., and thirteen good horses. It is supposed that they are part of the gang of robbers who tried to wreck the train on the Union Pacific railroad some time ago. Houth. Reports of the yellow plague in the Southern cities up to Sept. 4 show no abatement of the epidemic. At Memphis there were eighty-six deaths for the previous twenty-four hours, about half of them colored people. Physicians and nurses were well-nigh worn out, and the situation was extremely discouraging. A Vicksburg dispatch thus describes the situation in that city: “This truly has been the saddest day Vicksburg has experienced for fifty years. There is no telling of the suffering witbin our midst. No pen can picture the dreadful state of existing affairs here, and the outside world can form only a faint idea of the misery of the poor of this plagueridden city. If this devastating disease keeps up the strides of the past twenty-four hours, there will not be one left to tell the tale in a short time. There is no way to-day of getting at the correct list of new cases. The death-list—oh, horror !—exceeds any during the scourge of the never-to-be-forgotten 1853. No person seems to be exempt from attack, not even those who have bad the yellow fever before.” At New Orleans the plague was on the increase so far as the number of new cases was concerned, though the mortality was not so great, thirty six deaths being reported for the twenty-four hours. The fever has broken out at Brownsville, Tenn., Holly Springs, Greenville and Delhi, Miss., and Hickman, Ky., and the inhabitants of those towns were fleeing as fast as they could get away. At Hickman the epidemic raged several days before it was ascertained that the disease was really yellow fever, and then a wild panic ensued. Owing to the terror of the people, the Buffering in these rural towns will be greater, proportionately, than in the la> ge cities.

There were eighty-nine deaths from yellow fever in Memphis on the sth iast. A dispatch from that city of that date says: “We have settled down into a state of despair that is hard to break by the closest home-thrusts from the plague. We know nothing of what the outside world is doing, nor do we care. Doctors, nurses, drugs, sick-rooms, coffins, graves, engross our attention by their petrifying monotony of occurrence.” At New Orleans 201 new cases and e’ghty-six deaths were reported on the stb. In Vicksburg the plague showed no abatement, the number of deaths being greater than on any preceding day, namely, 45 ; number of new cases reported, 183. At Holly Springs, Miss., Hickman, Ky., and Brownsville and Union City, Tenn., the situation was truly distressing. Business was completely suspended in all these places everybody having fled that could get away. There was sore need of supplies and nurses. An address has been issued by the Howard Association at New Orleans setting forth the urgent need of help from the people of the North, East and West to enable the charitab'e organizations to continue their work of relief. For the twenty-four hours ending at 6 o’clock Sept. 8 there were 101 deaths from yellow fever in Memphis, and 400 new cases; in Vicksburg, for the same period, there were 185 new cases and 42 deaths; in New Orleans, 223 cases and 87 deaths. At Grenada the pestilence had abated somewhat, simply because there were uo more victims . At Hickman, Greenville, Canton, and other t owns where the plague had appeared the mortality roll continued to increase. The total deaths from yellow fever in all the plague-infected cities up to the 7th of September, were as follows: Ccwew. Deaths. New Orleans 4,900 1,500 Vicksburg 2,900 550 Memphis 3,500 800 Morgan City 30 10 Grenada, Miss s'lo 170 Canton, Miss 125 45 Ocean Springs, Miss 20 7 Holly Springs, Miss 125 35 Hickman, Ky 93 35 Louisville, Xy 35 12 St. Louis- 40 15 Cincinnati 8 5 Other points 500 150 T0ta113,003 3,334

POLITICAL POINTS. The Arkansas election, held Sept. 3, resulted, of course, in the re-election of Gov. Miller and the entire Democratic State ticket, the Republican party having placed no candidates in the field. The Minnesota Republicans held their State Convention at St. Paul last week, and renominated Hon. John M. Berry for Supreme Judge, S. H. Nicholls for Supreme Clerk, and O. H. Whitcomb for Auditor. The Southern and civil-service policy of the President was indorsed. The Democrats of Kansas assembled in convention at Leavenworth, on the 4thinst, and placed the following ticket in the field : Secretary of State, L. W. Barton; Treasurer, C. C. Black; Attorney General, J. F. Cox; Superintendent of Public Instruction, O. F. McKein ; Chief Justice of Supreme Court, R. M. Ruggles ; Auditor, Osborn Shannon. Proctor, Republican, has been elected Governor of Vermont by about 18,000 majority. In the First and Second Congressional Districts the Republican candidates were chosen by the usual majorities. In the Third district there was no election, owing to the fact that neither of the three candidates received a majority of all the votes cast. The Greenback candidate captured the largest number of votes, and came very near of an election. The New Hampshire Greenbackers

have nominated Warren G. Brown for Governor. The Republican State Convention of New York has been called to meet at Saratoga, Sept. 26. The Democrats of Minnesota held their State Convention at St Paul last week and nominated the following ticket: Associate Judge of the Supreme Ccurt, William Mitchell, of Winona; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Dillon O’Brien ; Auditor of the State, Mahlon M. Black. A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Tribune says: “A gentleman who bolds a high official position in Washington, himself a resident of New England, who has just returned from a month’s visit to New Hampshire, Maine and Maoßnuhuaeltß, say* the greenback movement In New England surprises him in its extent. In Massachusetts he found the excitement raised by Gen. Butler was very great, and says that it has had the effect to frighten the aristocratic and moneyed portion of the people, who, for the first time in many years, will take an active interest in the campaign. They are determined that Butler shall never be elected Governor of Massachusetts, and no legitimate means will be left untried to accomplish this resolution.”

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The public-debt statement for August, printed below, shows a reduction of the national indebtedness for that month of <6,475,504. Six per cent, bond* $723,553,850 Five per cent, bonds 703,266,650 Four and a half per cent, bonds 250,000,000 Four per cent, bonds 141,850,000 Total coin bonds $1,818,670,500 Lawful money debts 14,000,000 Matured debts 11,978,650 Legal tenders 846,743,256 Certificates of deposit 49,460.000 Fractional currency 16,351,728 Coin and silver certificates 44,017,850 Total without interest.....s 456,572,831 Total debt. 52,301,216,984 Total interest 27,890,917 Cash in treasury: Coins 238,420,709 Currency 2,122,171 Currency held for redemption of fractional currency 10,000,000 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates ol deposit 49,460,000 Total in treasurys 300,002,881 Debt less cash in treasurys 2,029,105,020 Decrease during August 6,475,504 Decrease since June 30 6,681,811 Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Compapanies, interest payable in lawful money: Principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 646,235 Interest paid by United States 89,835,039 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 10,241,749 Balance of interest paid by the United States 29,593,290 Coinage of the United States mints in August 8,502,400 Double eagles 5,349,000 Quarter eagles 125,000 Standard 3,028,000 Gen. Lew Wallace, of Indiana, has been appointed Governor of New Mexico, vice Axtel, suspended. The decision lately rendered by Secretary Schurz, holding that lands granted to railroads by the Government become subject to pre-emption at the end of three years after the completion of the roads, has been reaffirmed by that officer on an appeal for its suspension or reversal. The d ecision can only be reversed by the United States Supreme Court.

It is announced from Washington that the Secretary of the Treasury has finally decided that 10,000,000 silver dollars now in the vaults must go out. To accomplish that he has caused to be issued a circular which provides that silver dollars may be obtained by any person in the same manner in which fractional silver currency can now be obtained. The treasury proposes to send out, at its own expense for transportation, silver dollars, in sums of not less than SI,OOO or more than SIO,OOO, to any person who may make corresponding deposits in currency with any subtreasury, designated depository, or national bank designated as a depository. In addition to that, for the present, at least, all nationalbank notes sent for redemption in multiples of SI,OOO and not exceeding SIO,OOO will be redeemed in standard silver dollars. Commissioner Raum informs the Secretary of the Treasury that the internal-reve-nue tax collections for the fiscal year ending June 30 last were $104,717,437 accounted for, and $9,705 unaccounted for. The deficiency will be made good by defaulters or bondsmen. The Commissioner of the General Land Office has prepared a circular to registers and receivers throughout the West directing the enforcement of Secretary Schurz’s reodnt decision in the Dudymott case, under which much of the laud granted to the Union Pacific railroad is to be opened up to pre-emption and settlement. According to treasury authority, all silver bullion f<jr coining purposes is now purchased in this country. Until recently large quantities were bought in London. Now the Government can secure all the bullion it wants from native holders, buying at the London rate. Most of it is purchased in San Francisco and New York. Secretary Sherman has issued an order to Treasurer Gilfillan and all sub-Treasurers, directing them to exchange standard silver dollars for United States notes. “Under this order,” said the Secretary, “the people can exchange United States notes for standard silver dollars, and with the latter they can pay customs duties or buy the 4-per-cent. bonds.”