Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1878 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Sultan has authorized Baller Pasha to employ 40,000 mon to complete the defensive lines of Constantinople. A dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt says “the inundation from the Damietta branch of the Nile is advancing. It now covers 120 square miles. Twenty villages have been submerged, and from 000 to 1,000 lives lost.” The cable announces the death of Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin. He liad been suffering from delicate health over since his return from Rome, where ho attended the conclave last February. Heart disease was the immediate cause of his death. A cable dispatch states that “affairs near Constantinople are more and more assuming the same semi-hostile phase as before the meet«*>4F X-UiniCU HUUyq have been moved into positions vacated by the Russians, and the earthworks are being repaired and armed before Constantinople and Gallipolis. The Turks are arranging to increase their forces, and are summoning half-pay officers to active duty. A special committee for the defense of the capital has boon formed at the Seraskieratc. ” The persons on trial in Paris for connection with the Socialist Congress have been comh Mined to various penalties of fine and imprisonment for six months or more, except two women, who were acquitted. Alfonso, the young Spanish monarch, while driving through the streets of Madrid, a few days ago, was fired upon by a Socialist assassin named Juan Moncasi. The aim of the a sassin was bad, however, and the King escaped without injury. Moncasi was promptly arrested. Bulgaria is threatened with a serious religious war. The Clyde (Scotland) iron-workers ■are on a strike against the 7% per cent reduction of their wages. The iron-workers number 20,000. It is believed the call for $2,500 per share will exhaust the means of the smaller shareholders of the City of Glasgow Bank, and throw the burden of the assessment upon the few wealthy. Baker Pasha has undertaken to complete the fortifications of Constantinople within two months. The Sultan has ordered Osman Pasha and the Minister of War to give him the most ample assistance. Juan Moncasi, who attempted to shoot King Alfonso, when arraigned in Madrid was asked, “What was your object in leaving your home on the Mediterranean and coming to the capital?” to which ho replied, defiantly, “I came here to kill the King!”

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. IRnst. Benj. H. Latrobe, the famous civil engineer, has just died at Baltimore, aged 71. His father built the National Capitol and many public buildings in leading cities. It is believed that the little vessel Florence, commanded by Capt. Tyson, which recently returned from the Arctic regions and touched at Newfoundland, en route for New London, Ct., has been lost at sea, together with all on board, consisting of thirteen persons. Nothing has been heard of the vessel since she left Newfoundland, several weeks ago. A storm of frightful violence passed over a large part of the Atlantic seaboard on the morning of Oct. 28, doing a vast amount of damage to property, and causing no inconsiderable loss of life. Philadelphia seems to have boon tlio chief sufferer, where property valued at over $1 ,(XX), 000 was destroyed, several persons killed, and a large number wounded. Something like a thousand dwellings wore unroofed, scores of churches damaged more or less, the Pennsylvania railroad left in ruins, and the whole water-front of the city submerged. Great damage was done in other places in Pennsylvania; and in Washington and Albany, in fact all along the track of the gale, the effects wore most disastrous. The hurricane originated in the West Indies. The storm that passed over Pennsylvania and Now York, playing such wild havoc in Philadelphia, wis even more destructive on water than on land. Eight vessels wore sunk and twenty-two damaged in the harbor of Philadelphia, while all along the Delaware river innumerable wrecks mark the track of the gale. An oyster fleet, bound up the river, was scattered like chaff, nearly every vessel beng either sunk or driven ashore, and several lives lost. On Chesapeake bay the storm was the severest experienced for years, and many vessels were driven ashore. The steamer Express foundered at the mouth of the Potomac, and fifteen lives were lost. Along the Atlantic coast the wind attained a velocity of eighty to ninety miles an hour, and for over a hundred miles the coast is dotted with wrecks. The most stupendous bank robbery that has startled the country for many a day occurred in New York city on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 27. Between 0 and 7 o’clock of that morning masked burglars entered the Manhattan Savings Bank building, at the corner of Broadway and Bleecker street, and, after handcuffing the janitor, made him, under threats of instant death, reveal the combination of the safe to them and deliver up the keys of the bank. They then proceeded to rifle the vault of nearly everything it contained, consisting of about $3,000,000 in cash, securities and jewelry. The property lost, nearly all of which stands in the bank’s name, and is therefore not negotiable, consists almost entirely of United States bonds and local securities, only SII,OOO in cash being secured bv the robbers.

Went. Bishop Rosecrans, of the Catholic Church, diod last week at Columbus, Ohio, of hemorrhage of the lungs. Dodd, Brown & Co., the largest wholesale dry-goods merchants iu St. Louis, have failed for $1 ,'500,000. Their creditors are principally in New York. Ihe Sapna valley, in Kansas, recently raided by Cheyenne Indians, has been devastated by prai ie fires, and nearly everything not destroyed by the Indians consumed. Several persons are said to have perishod in the flames. A shocking murder occurred near Vincennes, lud., a few days ago. John D. Vacolet, a farmer, his wife and two sons were murdered in cold blood while sleeping in their beds. The deed is supposed to have been committed by a hired man on the premises for the purposo of robbery. A dispatch received from Capt. Johnson by Gen. Crook, at Omaha, dated at the camp of the Third Cavalry battalion on Chadion creek, announces that Capt. Johnson had effected the capture of almost the eutire band of renegade Cheyennes, beside 140 head of live stock. Among tho 150 prisoners was Dull Knife, tho head chiof. Katio Mayhew has secured a bonanza m “ M’liss,” her new play, and gives an excellent delineation of tho peculiarities of “ the waif of Smith’s Pocket.» It was presented last

at McVicker’s Chicago Theater, and was received by large audiences with so much enthusiasm as to demand its continuance for another week Miss Mayhew is a plucky little woman, and deserves the success she is achieving in her present venture, after having successfully defended it through the courts. Provost, the fiend who was arrested for the murder of the Vacelet family, near Vincennes, Ind., committed suicide in hisx-ell, in the Vincennes jail, by hanging himself with a towel. Mouth. John S. Carlisle, a prominent Virgin ian and ex-United States Senator, is dead. The yellow fever is dying out in the South, and refugees are returning home by the thousands. The Memphis local physicians are now attending to the few remaining cases in that city, and the relief committee has closed out its charitable work The Peabody Subsistence Association of New Orleans has taken similar action. In the inteliux 4.1. • » m/llvj U similar encouraging state of affairs is reported, the cold weather seething to have checked the march of the pestilence everywhere. Residents of Memphis returning to the city are making discoveries jhe reverse of pleasant Many of them realizw'that their private residences have been broken into, and robbed of every portable article that could be carried off, in some cases the marble mantels having been taken down and removed.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The official estimates required for the postal service for the next fiscal year aggregate $36,551,900. The estimated total postal revenues will fall short of supplying this sum by $5,907,876. It is stated from Washington that the decision of Attorney General Devens overruling a former decision of his, in which ho now decides that banks, in making up then - statements for taxation, may deduct the amount invested in United States bonds, including premium as well as face value, is exciting much discussion at the ■ Treasury Department. This decision will probably have the effect to take at least $2,000,000 out of the treasury. Postmaster General Key has returned to Washington from his protracted visit to the Pacific coast. •

POLITICAL POINTS. Sam Cox and Fernando Wood have boon renominated for Congress in Now York. Abram 8. Howitt was defeated for a renomination by Orlando 8. Potter. The Tammany Democrats of New York city have nominated Augustus Schell for Mayor. In opposition to him the anti-Tam-manyitos and Republicans are supporting Edward Cooper, Democrat, a son of Peter Cooper. At the recent election in Indina the Democrats polled 194,990 votes, the Republicans 179,049, and the Greenbackers 39,156. Democratic plurality, 15,941. Secretary of State Evarts went over to Now York, the other day, and made a talk on the finances in Cooper Institute. The President and Secretary Sherman attended the Cumberland (Md.) Fair last week, and delivered brief addresses on the financial situation.