Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1878 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The convention concluded between the countries of the Latin Union provides that the coinage of gold shall remain free, and the coinage of silver, suspended indefinitely, cannot he resumed without the consent of all the members of the union. The convention requires the ratification by the chambers of the countries in the union. Gen. Grant was dined by the King of Portugal on the 7th of November. A Paris dispatch says that “ after a long and animated debate and many calls to order the Chamber of Deputies declared the election of M. Paul de Cassagnac invalid.” A Bombay dispatch states that the Afghans in Khybor pass are deserting largely in consoquenoo of sickness and hunger. Hopes are entertained that the Ameer will submit unecvadationally to the British. The mortality among tho Afghans at Jellalabad is from tliirty to forty daily. A telegram from Constantinople says Rus&ia is establishing a second line of defense at Adrianople. A St. Petersburg dispatch says the health of the Czar is becoming more and moro uncertain, and causes great anxiety. The recent storms in Europe have covered tho Alps, tho Apponnines, and tho Black Forest, as well as tho mountains and plains of Austria, with snow. Tho Emperor of Austria has granted a general amnesty to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Benhar Coal Company of Edinburgh, (Scotland, with a capital and stock debentures of ovor $0,000,(XX) lias suspended payment. The receipts of the Paris Exhibition, from the opening to the close, were 12,053,746 francs. A Constantinople dispatch says a Greek vessel was seized in the Dardanelles by pirates, who killed the sailors. The vessol was rescued by boats from tho British fleet, and tho pirates arrested and delivered to the Turkish authorities. Lord Beaconsfield, in an after-dinner speech the other day, unfolded somo of tho ideas of tho British Government regarding affairs in the East. Ho did not feel apprehensive of troublo on the Indian frontier unloss Asia Minor and the Euphrates valley were occupiod by either a very strong power or vory weak one; and ho hinted that England might take tho initiative and obtain control of that territory herself.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kant. The latest startling sensation in New York is the robbery of tho grave of the late Alexander T. Stewart Tho spoliation was discovered early in the morning, and the discovery was quickly followed by the issue of orders to the police of tho city for a diligont search of every precinct for tho lost body. Tho objoct of the horrible and revolting crime was, doubtless, to obtain money for tho return of the stolen remains—an object not very likely to be realized, for the dead man’s heirs declare that they will rather pay thousands for hunting down tho ghouls than dollars iu the way of bribery. It appears that an attempt was made to find the grave a month ago, but failed. The robbers wasted somo work in digging around the slab supposed to cover the vault, and discovered that there was no grave under the stone. They appear to have obtained better information before making a second attempt, learning, among other things, that a watchman who was employed for a few nights to patrol the place after tho first failure had been economically dismissed. A New York dispatch announces that Mrs. A. T. Stewart lias offered a reward of $25,000 for tho recovery of the body of her late husband, stolen from the family vault in St. Mark’s Church grave-yard, and the conviction of the thieves. Another of the audacious robberies which are becoming matters of almost daily occurrence in Now York, is reeordod. Six thieves took possession of a jewelry store, covered the proprietor, his clerk, a customer, and the passers-by with revolvers, packing all the portable jewelry that was within reach into Ja hag, and made off with it. The affair occurred at 6 o’clock in the evening, in a crowded thoroughfare, while hundreds of pedestrians wore passing to and fro. A portion of the immense brewery of Bergner A Engel, in Philadelphia, has been burned. Loss, $50,000. The famous summer resort on the Jersey coast, Capo May, has beon almost laid in ruins by fire. Nearly all the hotels and many private cottages wero swept away. Tho loss is placed at $500,000. Tho fire is believed to have l>eon the work of an incendiary. South. A lynching affair is reported from Arkansas, a colorod man being taken from the jail at Clarksville, tho other night, and hung. He was confined for an assault upon a white woman.

A painful accident lias befallen Gov. Waclo Hampton, of South Carolina. While ant hunting, the animal which ho was riding took fright and broke its bridle. The Governor leaped to the ground, and in so doing broke his right leg in two places, tlio bones protruding through tho flooh. Official reports published in New Orleans show that there have been no new cases of yollow fever since the 4th of this month. Tho Board of Health notifies absentees that there is no longer any danger. w. H. Anderson, Sheriff of Dallas county, Texas, pursued William Collins, a notorious highwayman, away out to Pembina, Dakota, and attempted to arrest him. Collins resisted him, a fight ensued, and each succeeded in killing tho other. West. By the explosion of a boiler in the saw-mill of Joseph Ents, at Savannah, Mo., two men wero killed and two others seriously injured. J ive two-story brick tenement houses on Corro street, between Eighth and Ninth streets, Bt. Louis, burned the other night. Loss about SB,OOO. Three persons lost their lives in the fiames. Nearly all the cabinet-makers in St. Louis, Mo., are on a strike for an advance of wages. POLITICAL POINTS. Returns from the November elections, as received by telegraph on the morning of Monday, Nov. 11, indicate the results noted below: Jllinoix. —Entire Republican State ticket eloeted, and the Legialature is Republican by a small majority. The Congressional delegation stands 12 Republicans, 0 Democrats and 1 Groenbackeer. Wisconsin.— The election in this State was for members of Congress and the State Legislature. The Congressional vote may be summed

up as follows: First district, Republican; Second, Republican; Third, Republican; Fourth, Democratic; Fifth, Democrat; Sixth, Democrat; Seventh, Republican; Eighth, Republican. The Republicans elect a clear working majority of the Legislature on joint ballot Michigan. —Returns indicate that the Republican State ticket is successfully a large plurality, and that both branches of the Legislature are Republican. The Congressional delegation is solidly Republican. Minnesota.—Tho Republicans have about 15,000 majority on the State ticket. The Democrats elect one Congressman—Poehler, of the Third Missouri. Democrats and one Greenbacker are elected to Congress. Nebraska. —The Republicans elect their Governor and member of Congress by about 10,000 majority. Kansas.— The Republicans elect their State ticket by 30,000 majority, and every member of Congress. The Legislature is largely Republican. Pennsylvania. —Tho Republicans carry the State by about 15,000 majority. The Congressional delegation stands 16 Republicans, 2 Greenback Republicans, 8 Democrats, and 1 Greenback Democrat New York. —The Republican State ticket is elected by a small majority. That party also gains four or five Congressmen, while the Legislature is also largely Republican, thus insuring the ro-election of Mr. Conkling to the United States Sonate. In New York city Tammany Hall was overthrown, the combination ticket headed by Edward Cooper, anti-Tam-many Domocrat, being elected by over 15,000 majority. New Jersey. —The Republicans have probably elected fivo of tho sovon Congressmen—a. Democratic loss of two. Connecticut. —The Republican candidate for Governor leads his Democratic competitor 2,000 or 3,000 votes, but as the Greenback vote is about 8,000 there is no choice, and the election will bo decided by the Legislature. As that body is Republican by a large majority, the eloction of a Republican Governor and United States Senator is assured. Massachusetts. —The Republicans made a clean sweep, Bon Butler being defeated for Governor by upward of 20,000 majority. Only one Democrat elected to Congress—Leopold Morso, of Boston.

Rhode Island. —The Republicans elect both of the Representatives in Congress. New Hampshire. — I The Republicans elected their candidate for Governor, carried every Congressional district, and secured a working majority in tho Legislature. Vermont. —There was a special election for Congressman in tho Third district of Vermont, resulting in the choice of Barlow, Greenbacker. Virginia. —The election was quiet throughout tho State, and tho vote small. Gen. Joe Johnston was olected to Congress iu tho Richmond district. Tho Republicans elect ouo Congressman—Jorgensen—in the Fourth district. Georgia. —The election in Georgia was very exciting. Tho nogroes united with the Inde--1 pendents and the result is the election of two or three Independents to Congress. A. H. Stephens was re-elected without opposition. Delaware. —The Democrats elected the Governor and Representative in Congress. Maryland. —The Democrats elect all the members of Congress except in the Third district, where Umer, Republican, is chosen. Tennessee. —The Democrats elect their State ticket by a large majority, nine of the ten Congressmen, and secure a large majority in the Legislature. Texas. —The Democrats make a clean sweep, electing all the Representatives in Congress and a majority in the Legislature. Mississippi.— The Democrats send an unbroken delegation to Congress. Louisiana. —E. A. Burke, the Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, is elected. The Democrats also carry all six of the Congressional districts.

Kentucky. —The Democrats oleet their Congressmen in every district. Arkansas. —All of the Representatives returned to Congress aro Democrats. Alabama. —All of the Democratic nominees for Congress xvere elected, except in the Eighth district, where Lowe, Independent, was chosen. Nevada. —The Republicans elect their State ticket and member of Congress, and have a majority in the Legislature. Florida. —Tho vote is so close that it xvill require all the returns to determine the result. South Carolina. —Tho Democrats carried every Congressional district and every county in tho State except one. The Legislature is consequently largely Democratic. North Carolina. —The Republicans elect txvo members of Congress in North Carolina, all tho other districts being carried by the Democracy. Dakota Territory. —Bennett, Republican, is elected to Congress by a small majority. Washington Territory. —The race between the Republican and Democratic nominees for Congress is so close that it xvill require all the returns to docide which has won. New Mexico Territory. —Otero, Republican, is elected Delegate to Congress. Idaho Territory. —Ainslee, Democrat, is olected to Congress by a small majority.

Utah Territory. —Cannon (Mormon) was reelected to Congress without opposition. Wyoming Territory. —Downey, Republican, is elected to Congress by 800 majority. The official canvass of the October election in lowa shows that Hull, candidate for Secretary of State, who headed tho Republican ticket, has a majority of 1’0,967 ovor his Demo-cratic-Greenback opponent, who received 123,577 votes.

WASHINGTON NOTES. At a recent Cabinet meeting there was a general conversation regarding points to be brought to the attention of Congress in the President's message. It was unanimously agreed that tho message should contain some recommendation for the enactment of legislation either to increase the weight of the standard silver dollar or to diminish its coinage, or to adopt both these means of preventing a further depreciation of its value. The money-order service the past year yielded a net profit to the Government of about $3,000. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The women of Salt Lake City who oppose the practice of polygamy have issued an address to the women of tho United States, reciting the melancholy facts connected with the base uses to which religion has been put in that region, and announcing the contemplated circulation of a petition to Congress, subjoined to which it is hoped may appear the name of every Christian woman in the country. The liabilities of Dodd, Brown & Co., of St. Louis, are $1,700,110; actual available assets, $960,869. The United German Bank, of Baltimore, has ' suspended payment to depositors, requiring thirty days’ notice. Nearly 200 persons have been indicted lor illicit distilling in the United States Court for West Virginia William Loeker, John Grant, Edward Yanibalt and William Richards were drowned

at White Haven, Nova Scotia, by the upsetting of a boat The Secretary of State has addressed a second communication to the United States Minister to England on the subject of the Halifax fishery award. Mr. Evarts takes direct issue with the finding of the Halifax Commission, l>oth as to the amount of the award and the manner in which it was rendered, holding that the sum of $5,500,000 is an outrageous and utterly indefensible price to set upon the benefits of twelve years of fishing in Canadian waters, and that, if paid at all by the United States, it must be regarded as covering the value of those benefits in perpetuity, and not for auy term of years; and also making the objection that the adoption of this or any other award by the commission by a bare majority is not in accordance with the terms of that clause of the Washington treaty providing for such a commission, and that the award is therefore not binding upon this Government