Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1878 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. War has been declared between Great Britain and Afghanistan, and the Indian troops are advancing upon the Ameer’s dominions. The decline in wages in England seems to be general, and affects nearly all kinds of lal>or. A cable dispatch says that “ appalling distress and destitution exist among the mechanics and laborers of Sheffield, in consequence of the business depression.” Public meetings havo boon called to devise mean of relief. A bloodless duel was fought near Paris, the other day, between M. Gambetta, the distinguished French statesman, and M. do Fourtou, a member of the Assembly. There was one exchange of Hliots; weapons, pistols; distance, thirty-five paces. Neither was hit The first blood of the Afghan war was shed on the 21st of Novomber, in a contest for the possession of Fort Ali Musjid, at the entrance of tho Khyber pass. The Indian troops assaulted and captured tho fort after a sharp engagement, the garrison retreating to tho other end of tho pass. Tire British lost 300 in killed and wounded. Austria and England are to have extra sessions of Parliament. A cable dispatch reports the massacre by Turks of 320 Bulgarians in a Macedonian village. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Tho Manchester paper mills, in Dutchess county, N. Y., have been destroyed by tiro. Loss, 975,000. Thomas H. Power, of tho firm of Power A Weightman, tho groat quinine manufacturers, has just diod in Pliiladolpiiia. Ho loaves an enormous fortune. A New York dispatch states that Judge Hilton offers a reward of 950,(XX) for evidence that will secure the arrest and conviction of the five persons believed to have boon ongaged in the robbery of tho Btewart vault, or ho will pay 910,(XX) for the arrest and conviction of any one of them. At Wilmington, Del., on Saturday last, nine convicts—six black and threo white—wore publicly live being also pilloried. South. Mount Sterling, Ky., was tho scene of a bloody mob tho other day. Thirty shots wero lirod, two men instantly killed and three wounded. By a decision of tho Supreme Court of Florida tho Canvassing Board of Alachua county havo been commanded to count tho ro turns of throe precincts which they rojocted. Those precincts givo Bisboo, Republican, 450 majority for Congress, and elect him by a majority of 200 over Hull, tho Democratic candidate. The matter will be contested, of course, before tho House of Representatives.

W est. A very heavy shock of eartliquaki was felt throughout Houthorn Illinois and Southeastern Missouri, on the night of Nov. 1!). The wavo extended as far south as Little Rock, Ark. A serious coal-mine explosion occurred near Sullivan, Ind., a few days ago. There wore thirty miners in tho pit at tho time of tho accident, seven of whom wore taken out dead, and several others woro ho badly burned that they can hardly recover. Tho “couch from Dcadwood” was robbed by two bold highwaymen, near Fort Fottorman, tho other day. Another Indian outbreak is threatened in Oregon. ' WASHINGTON NOTES. It is announced that tho work of redeeming legal tenders in coin on and after Jan. 1, 1.379, will lio conlinod to the New York subtreasury alono, and will not bo undertaken at the various Western and Southern sub-treasu-ries. Gen. Sheridan and Gen. Gibbon, in their annual reports to tho General of the Army, made some serious charges against the efficiency and integrity ‘of tho Indian sorvico, as administered by the Interior Department Bocrotary Schurz has takon notice of those charges bo far as to indite a sharp letter to tho War Department defending tho Indian office against what he terms tho unjust attacks of Bhcridan and Gibbon. Ho calls upon these oflieors to make good their charges by spocific proof—failing to do which, ho suggests that they would do well to hold their peace. The $5,500,000 duo England on account of tho Halifax award was paid on tho 21st inst. Another call for $5,000,000 6 per cents, is made, making the total called for redemption this year 9' < .H),000,000. Tho following aro said to be the essential points in Secretary Bherman’s resumption programme : 1. United States notes will be redeemed at the New York sub-treasury in gold or silver coin, at the option of the holder of notes, without limitation us to amount. 2. Legal-tender notes of a special issue of large denominations will bo delivered in place of gold certificates, and there will be no further issue of gold certificates. 3. Holders of notes who prefer gold instead of silver will obtain gold, and the treasury will not force upon tho holder of notes the kind of legaltender coin that is not desired. 4. Legal tenders, even without tho enactment of any law affirmatively authorizing it, will be everywhere received for customs duties. 5. Silver dollars will bo exchanged for legal tenders or national-bank notes in multiples of 91,000 at any sub-treasury or national bank which is a United States depository, the expense of transportation to be paid by the mint.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Cameron element in Pennsylvania, it is stated, favors Blaino as a Presidential candidate. The Republican majority in Illinois, on tho State ticket, is about 30,000. The total Greenback vote is about 65,000. Official returns from sixty-two counties in Kansas give the Republican candidates 70,787; Democratic, 33,533; Greenback, 23,433. The Republican vote in sixty-nine counties in Michigan from which official returns have beon roceived is 124,949; Democratic, 77,908; National, 74,011. Returns from all the counties in New York give a Republican plurality of 37,616; Republican vote, 389,676; Democratic, 352,060; Greenback, 71,020; Prohibition, 3,533. The Detroit Free Press places the National vote in Michigan at 75,000, as against 8,000 two years ago, and estimates that 23,500 Republicans and 43,500 Democrats of 1876 voted the National ticket. The official count in Pennsylvania gives Hoyt, Republican, for Governor, 319,567 votes; Dill, Democrat, 297,060: Mason, Greenbacker, 81,758; Lane, P •ohibition, 3 653 Re publican plurality, 22,507; tgt*l vote in the 702,088.

The Greenbackers polled over 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania at the recent election. Gen. John B. Gordon has been reelected to the United States Senate from Georgia. The full vote of Wisconsin for Congressmen at the late election foots up: Republican, 99,578 ; Democratic, 92,925 ; Greenback, 13,028. There will be an unusually large number of contested-election cases in the next national House of Representatives. Alexander H. Stephens is of the opinion that the currency question will not bo an issue in the Presidential election in 1880, because it will be dead. Following is the official vote of Illinois at the late election: Superintendent of Public Instruction—Blade, Republican, 20(5,559; Etter, Democrat, 171,355; Hall, National, (55,507; Kate L. Hopkins, Prohibition, 2,266. State Treasurer—Smith, Republican, 215,262; Cronkrite, Democrat, 170,111; Bates, National, (55,(523; Gorin, Proliibition, 2,192. The drainage amendment to the constitution received 295,780 votes, and is therefore adopted. Chairman Atkins, of the Appropriation Committee, thinks there will be no extra session. Speaker Randall is of the same opinion.