Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1878 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOKEIGN NBWB, Arrests continue in the centers of revolution and disaffection in Spain. Gortschakoff, the Russian Prime Minister, has tendered his resignation! There has been a heavy gale and considerable loss of life on the Spanish coast. The Socialists are growing exceedingly bold n Italy. A great strike of cotton operatives is in progress in Oldham, England. England is taking vigorous measures to suppress the Transvaal (South Africa) rebellion. During a panic on a ferryboat in the Mersey, at Liverpool, fifteen Jumped overboard and were drowned. A cable dispatch reports that Turkish Bedifs and Circassians sacked 1,200 houses in the Melnik district, in Macedonia, and massacred the inhabitants without distinction of age or sox. While the Hungarian Prime Minister was entertaining Cotint Andrassy at Pesth, the other night, a bomb charged with dynamite was exploded in an alley near by. .The windows of the palace were badly shattered, but no one was hurt. Advices from the far East to Dec. 1 report that the British force invading Afghanistan through the Khyber pass were cut off from retreat by a large force of Afghans, who were well supplied with artillery, and posted upon an elevation of 7,000 feet. The Board of Health of Bavaria has recommended cremation in the following contingencies: First, after battles; second, during epidemics; third, for conveyance of to distant parts; and, fourth, where the soil is unsuitable for burial purposes. Gladstone bitterly assails the British Ministry for rushing hastily into a war with Afghanistan. Ho thinks the Government ought at least to havo waited until Parliament met before declaring war.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. XBaut. A fire at Rochester, last week, destroyed 3125,000 worth of property. The opera house at Petrolia, Pa., has boon burned. Incendiary. A Chinaman has just been naturalized in New York. A boiler explosion, attended with sad loss of life, occurred last week at the coal works of Heid Brothers, near Uniontown, Pa,. Hix miners wore killed by the accident, and a number of others badly injured. Lyman Tremain, a leading member of the Albany (N. Y.) bar, and an ox-member of Congress, is dead. West. Judge Burns, of the Indianapolis Circuit Court, has inflicted a fine of 310,000 upon one Warren Tate for contempt of court Tate’s offense consisted of shooting a man dead in the room whore Judge Burns wan holding court, and engaged in trying a case wherein Tate and his victim were the cdhtestants. Hon th. A large party of moonshine distillers wore arrested at Catlettsburg, Ky., last week, and their stills destroyed. Jackson, the county seat of Breathitt County, Ky., has been the scone of a serious outbreak and bloodshed. The trouble grew out of a collision between two rival bands of outlaws, numbering some twenty men each, who happened into the town about the same time. During the progress of the fighting, which was carried on in a desultory maimer for several days, hundreds of shots were fired; some half a dozen people were killed, including the County Judge, and a number of others wounded. The steamboat Cotton Valley, bound from New Orleans to Shreveport, collided with tho steamer Charles Morgan, in the Mississippi river, opposite Donaldsonville, La., and sunk in a few moments. Four passengers and about a dozen of the boat’s crew, mostly colored, went down with the boat. WASHINGTON NOTES. Supervising Architect Hill, recently indicted by the United States Grand Jury at Chicago for conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with tho construction of the Custom House in that city, was arrested in Washington last week and held to bail in 35,000. Mueller and Mills, the men who furnished the stone for the building, were jointly indicted with Hill. It is stated in a Washington dispatch that “the fight over the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department has begun in earnest, and promises to be one of the liveliest of the session. Tho Congressional committee will give both sides a chance, and the Interior Department and tho War Department will havo an equal opportunity. ”

FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Monday, Dec. 2.—The second session of the Forty-fifth Congress opened in the presence of a very large and distinguished audience, the galleries and all available space being occupied. In the Senate Mr. Beck introduced a bill to provide lor the retiring of the trade dollar, and for its lnto standard silver dollars: Mr. end- introduced q bill looking to the Same Kirn’Xl M o‘ B,aine introduced a resolution inti... s..n o t„ the . J’niifiary Committee to report to the consbtnH het ? ,er ’ at the recent elections, violated na L rightl ’ of any citizens were is necc«i!>™ ny * Btate , what further legislation "ns2tX B Srirtts 1, X tect A Ci “ In f ? r ‘ a Bo eomm"tJe aß toin o what leaialation i« B P r ®ad of the yellow fever; tion into the country', was received and read. The House wm order by Speaker Randall, without “ny •peech of welcome, the President’s Message ™ read, after which an adjournment waaVoted (Hit transacting any further busfuoss, W