Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1878 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Barre and Lebiez, the murderers of Madame Gillet, were publicly guillotined, in the preßence of an immense crowd, at Paris, on the 7th of September. Nobeling, the Socialist, who attempted to assassinate the Emperor William of Germany, has died of his wounds. A London dispatch says that “over 600 bodies have been recovered of the persons drowned by the disaster to the excursion steamer Princess Alice. A large majority of the bodies have been recognized.” Later accounts of the murder of Mehemet Ali by Albanian insurgents report that his suite were not assassinated in the fight in which their master met bis death. The engagement resulted in the killing of 400 persons, Mebomet being surrounded and unable to escape. In the late fight at Bihacs, a small fortified town near the Dalmation frontier, the Bosnian rebels inflicted a loss of 600 or 700 men on the Austrian forces. The resistance of the rebels was so obstinate that the Austrians were compelled to retire and leave the place for the present in possession of the enemy. A Vienna dispatch says the Bourse is much disturbed by the retrograde movement of the Austrian army in Bosnia. Count Wilhelm von Bismarck, second hou of Prince Bismarck, has been elected Deputy to the German Parliament from Langensata, the Catholics turning the balance in his favor in consequence of his promise to be guided by his father’s conciliation toward the Church of Rome. A dispatch from Rome says in the negotiations between Bismarck and the Vatican it has been agreed that the churoh shall be ruled in accordance with the Prussian constitution, and that the Falk laws shall remain in force, but subject to a declaration as to the manner of their execution. The German Emperor has completely recovered from the wounds inflicted by tho assassin Nobeling. A Paris dispatch says a diploma has been awarded the State Departments of Public Instruction of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Kansas, the Milwaukee public schools, and the St. Louis public schools. Reports from Servian sources estimate the losses of Austrians in engagements with the Bosnians, between the 4th and 6th of this month, at about a hundred officers and three thousand men. It is stated that the Austrians, with heavy reinforcements, have commenced offensive operations against the insurgent intrenchments on the banks of the Save, but without achieving decisive results.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eust. A dynamite magazine exploded near Bradford, Pa.-, the other day, killing four mon. Their bodies were blown into a million fragments. South, Memphis dispatches of Sept. 9 represent the condition of affairs in that city as tiuly appalling. The new cases of yellow fever for the preceding twenty-four hours reached the fearful figure of 411, and the deaths about 120. Over 2,000 people were down with the pestilence. The doctors were working hard, but hundreds of persons were dying without being able to get a physician. "A walk or a ride through any street of the city,” telegraphs a correspondent “reveals the scene of death at almost every step, while the stench from rotting bodies is most loathsome, the number of unattended cases being so numerous that many are found daily only by tracing up the scent till its source is reached, and then it is often the case that three or four dead bodies are found in one room.” At New Orleans the number of new cases for the twenty-four hours was 144, and the deaths 87. At Hickman, Ky., 60 cases of fever were under treatment, in a population of 200. A dispatch of the 9th from Jackson, Miss., says: “ The fever has broken out at several new points in this State—. Bolton Lake, Lawrence station on the Vicksburg and Meriden railway, and Gilman station on the New Orleans road; Dry Grove, in Hinds county. No abatement at Vicksburg. Holly Springs. Port Gibson, or Greenville. At Grenada only three or four remain to be attacked.” The deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans, on the 11th of September, numbered 90; new cases, 258. Business was almost entirely suspended, and it was estimated that there were over 50,000 unemployed people in the city. At Memphis there was no abatement of the plague. A dispatch from that city says: “We have at this date 3,500 sick to provide for and 10,000 well people to feed. The average increase of cases is 100, and the average deaths 100 per day. There are no signs of abatement of the fever, though the weather has turned cold, and we have hopes that the back of the epidemic has been broken.” At Vicksburg there were 31 deaths, a slight decrease. There was also a slight decrease in the number of new cases. In the other towns of the South where the pestilence had found a lodgment there was no abatement. The number of deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans on the 13th was 58; new cases, 228. At Memphis there were 203 new cases and 93 deaths. The disease had assumed a mild form, and yielded more readily to treatment. Vicksburg reported 31 deaths; the wea'her was growing cool, and there was hope of an early abatement of the plague. At Holly Springs, Hickman, Brownsville, and other towns in the interior, there was little or no abatement of the epidemic. * A man named Vallour St. Martin, confined in the jail of St. Charles parish, La., for the murder of a colored man, was taken out at night by a mob of negroes and summarily put to death. He received the contents of at least fifty guns, and was literally riddled with bullets beyond all recognition. West. A small steamer was sunk, the other day, in the Missouri river, near St. Charles, and three of the crew were drowned. Two Deadwood coaches, one bound up and the other down, were recently robbed by three bandits not far from Hat creek, Wyoming. The treasure boxes were broken open and robbed of their contents—which amounted to little, by the way—the mail sacks were gutted of all registered letters, and the passengers relieved of their money, watches and jewelry. President Hayes and party, alter taking a trip up the Northern Pacific railroad as far as Fargo, Dakota, and inspecting the great wheat-fields of that region, returned to Minneapolis and looked in upon the Exposition. He thence journeyed to Madison, and was present at the opening of the Wisconsin State Fair. His Excellency next visited Milwaukee, where he was the guest of Hon. Alexander Mitchell. There was a hpavy frost in many

parts of the Northwest on the night of Sept. 11. A pairful report has reached Fort Keogh, to the effect that Gen. and an excursion part# bad been surrounded in Yellowstone Park by hostile Bannocks, and twen-ty-seven of the escort killed. Mrs. Miles and severaVotber ladies were with the party. Two deaths from yellow fever occurred last week at Gallipolis, Ohio, a point on the Ohio river 200 miles above Cincinnati. They are attributed to the tow-boat John Porter, which passed up the river three weeks ago, with seve.al ca.-es of fever on board, and was finally abandoned near Gallipolis, where it had since remained, anchored in the river. Much indignation was felt along the river that the authorities of Gallipolis should allow such a breeder of pestilence to remain afloat, and, to appease their wrath, the GaUipolians marched down to the river and scuttled the John Porter. A report has reached St. Paul that Sitting Bull and his entire force of warriors have returned to this side of the line, splendidly armed and equipped. A Memphis refugee died in Chicago of yellow fever last week. No alarm was manifested over the fact, as it is impossible that any new cases should be developed on Lake Michigan, owing to the coolness of the atmosphere. The editor of the Cairo Bulletin— Thomas Nally—died last week of yellow fever. The proprietor and business manager have fled the city, along with many others, and the paper has suspended publication. Gen. Miles, with a force of about sev-enty-five soldiers and friendly Crow Indians, encountered a band of Bannocks, a few days ago, in the National park, and gave the savages a severe whipping. Thirteen were killed and thirty-four captured. It is probable that this fight furnished the ground for the report that Gen. Miles and a party of excursionists had been surrounded and were in danger of massacre by Indians in the Yellowstone park. The September returns to the National Department of Agriculture give the average condition of the corn crop at 92, against 96 in August, and of the wheat crop at 87, against 92 in September of last year. It is believed by the Department that the total wheat yield will reach the popular estimate of 400,000,000 bushels. Official tables of the census of the District of Columbia aro just published. The population of Washington is 131,949, of Georgetown, 11,571, and of the county, 16,533; total in the District, 160,051. The proportions of white and colored are as follow.: Whites, 96,427; colored, 53,624, showing the extraordinary proportion of one colored man to every two whites. Advices from the West report that hostilities may probably be the remit of the tour of the Cheyennes to the North. They left their reservation in the Indian Territory several days ago, and are dafly expected to reach and attempt to cross the Union Pacific railroad. To prevent tho latter intention from being carried out, considerable military force has been concentrated at Sidney, Neb., which will move at a moment’s notice by rail to any point where there is reason to expect that the savages will attempt to pass the road. The regular weekly robbery of “ the coach from Deadwood” occurred the other night near Hat creek, Wyoming. The usual monotony was varied, however, by a fight between the messengers and bandits. “While the robbers were engaged in going through the pockets of the two passengers and the mail sacks the two messengers, who were riding about* 200 yards in the rear of the coach, came up, dismounted, and crept up within fifteen yards of the robbers, when they were commanded to ha t, and fired upon. The fire was returned, and one of the robbers fell dead. The others retreated to a gulch, keeping up a steady fire oa the messengers, who returned it, but dared not leave their position. The coach meantime had driven on, and, after waiting some time, and seeing that they were not strong enough to dislodge the robbers, the messengers mounted their horses and rejoined the coach, leaving the mail sacks lying in the road near the body of the dead robber. The messengers are confident that two of the robbers who got away are badly wounded.”

POLITICAL POINTS. The electors of Maine failed to make a choice for Governor on the 9th inst. The Greenback candidate surprised his competitors by polling nearly 40,000 votes. No one candidate having received a majority of all the votes cast, the choice of an Executive devolves upon the Legislature. The New Hampshire Republican Convention met at Concord, last week, and nominated Nathaniel Head fcr GovernorThe Prohibitionists of Massachusetts have put a full ticket for State officers in the field. The Greenbackers of Massachusetts met in convention at Boston and nominated Gen. Butler for Governor by acclamation. The Republican State Committee of Tennessee has nominated Dr. E. M. Wright for Governor, in place of Emerson Etheridge, who declined. Murch, who has been elected to Congress over Eugene Hale, in Maine, is a stonecutter. The Democrats of New Hampshire have nominated Hon. Frank A. McKeon for Governor.

Full returns of the Maine election show that the House will have sixty-five Republicans and two Democrats elected by the aid of Republicans, and twenty-seven Democrats and fifty-seven Greenbackers. Sixteen of the twenty-seven Democratic Representatives wei e chosen on the straight Democratic ticket over both Republican and Greenback candidates, and will hold the balance of power in the House. The other eleven were chosen by Greenback aid.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A dispatch frcm Austin, Texas, says : ‘Sheriff Kerber, of El Paso, reports to the Adjutant General that his deputy arrested, on the 18th ult, Antonio Alizares, a fugitive from the penitentiary, who is also under indictment for the murder of Judge Howard and others and put him in the San Elizario jail. The same night Mexicans from Mexico crossed the river and rescued the prisoner.” Northern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, and the lower section of Canada were visited last week by a series of most destructive rain storms. Rain fell almost incessantly for three or four days. It descended in furions torrents, accompanied by high winds. Railroad bridges were washed away, and in some instances houses were carried ofl by the raging torrents and their inmates drowned. Railway travel was seriously impeded, and on many roads temporarily suspended. Toronto, Canada, reports that no such a visitation has been experienced in that vicinity since 1861. In Northern Ohio

the damage to crops and manufacturing establishments is immense; the entire loss in Ohio alone, it is estimated, will exceed $3,000,000. In Western Pennsylvania the damage was equally serious, and in the vicinity of Meadville was attended by sad loss of life. A train on the Pittsburgh and Erie road ran into a floating culvert and went down, killing three persons. Six people were drowned by the sudden rising of the waters and the washing away of their houses, making the death-list nine in the vicinity of Meadville, while the property-damage is placed at $100,090. The galenas also severe on the lakes, and a number of vessels were driven ashore.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The President has appointed the exrebel Gen. Longstreet Revenue Agent for the district of Georgia and Florida. A Washington dispatch of the 17th inst., says: “ A circular was issued, on Saturday, by Treasurer Gil Allan, which takes the place of all circulars heretofore issued concerning the standard silver dollars. It names 120 national banks as designated depositories of the United States, to be supplied by the treasury, upon their application, with the standard silver dollars from the mint free of expense, in accordance with section 3,527, Revised Statutes. It is expected the coin furnished wilt be put into circulation by being supplied by public disbursing officers to manufacturing and other establishments, to other banks and bankers for distribution in like manner by them, and generally where it is be used as current money. The Assistant Treasurers of the United States are also authorized to use the standard silver dollars in their vaults for the general purposes approved in this last circular.”