Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1879 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Advices from India state that among ths principal points of agreement with Yakoob Khan are the British command of the passes, with sufficient territory to constitute a scientific frontier, the appointment of a British resident at Oabul, and the control of the foreign relations of Afghanistan. Among the stipulations of the treaty between India'and Afghanistan is the cession of Ali Kheyl (the Feiwar pass), Lundi Khotal (the Khyber pass), and the Pisheen valley beyond Quetta. The British will restore Candahar and Jeilaiabad, and ultimately Dakka. It appears that the late popular vote in Switzerland does not definitely restore capital punishment, but leaves the several canton* free to restore it or not, by local law. The Prince of Bulgaria has declared his intention of issuing a proclamation when he assumes sovereignty, discountenancing any agitation against the treaty of Berlin. There has been a sanguinary fight between Turks and insurgents in Thessaly, in which the Turks were badly worsted. The protracted coal-miners’ strike in the North of England is almost ended. The London Times severely criticizes the California constitution, and calls it “the most astounding instrument ever framed for the government of a community.” Greek brigands recently ambuscaded forty-six Turkish soldiers, killed fourteen, cut their bodies in pieces, and hung the pieces on trees. Queen Victoria emphasized her birthday (May 25) by abolishing the tolls on the London bridges. The British Government has ordered the prosecution of the Directors of the West of England and South Wales Bank, at Bristol, on the charge that they were guilty of misrepresentations in their annual reports. . The election at Limerick, Ireland, for Member of Parliament in the place of the late Dr. Isaac Butt, resulted in the choice of Gabitt, Home Rules, over Bpraight, Conservative Gen. Grant will leave Japan for San Francisco about the last of June. Two of the Nihilists lately-tried by couff-martial at Kieff, Russia, have been sentenced to be shot, and ten others—among them three women—to long terms of imprisonment —One hundred and eighty-six houses in a village in the Government of Ufa have been burned. The suspected incendiaries were arrested.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Want. Wesley W. Bishop, of Norwich, Ct., has l>een sentenced to the State prison for life for the murder of his wife. At Niagara falls, last week, a daredevil named Peer, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators, leaped from the Suspension bridge, below the falls, into the river, a distance of 196 feet, thus surpassing Sam Patch’s great jump at Niagara falls, of 142 feet, in 1829. In the center of the bridge, from which point Peer jumper!, or rather let go, was a small windlass on which was wound '.tM feet of light wire, fastened to his body in such way as to keep it in a perpendicular position during the descent. He struck the water with aloud thud, disappeared for ten seconds, and came out none the worse for his ducking. Horace Waters & Sons, piano dealers, New York city, have failed. The Nassau Linseed Oil Works, Brooklyn, N. Y, have been burned. Loss, •250,000. William Lloyd Garrison died at the residence of Mrs. Villard, his daughter, in New York city, on the 24th of May. The cause of death was nervous prostration, consequent upon paralysis of the bladder, and kidney trouble of long standing. The remains were removed to Boston for interment Mr. Garrison was born in Newburyport, Mass., in 1804, and was therefore 75 years old; began to write for the press when 15 years old, being then an apprentice in the office of the Newburyport Herald; established the Liberator, an anti-slavery paper, in 1831; in 1832 organized the New England Anti-Slavery Society, and in 1843 was chosen as its President, a position which he occupied until the close of the late civil war. Mrs. Jennie R. Smith and Covert D. Bennett have just been tried at Jersey City, N. Y., for the murder of Mrs. Smith’s husband, a policeman, in August last. The evidence was purely circumstantial, but so strong as to result in their conviction for murder in the first degree. Paige, the Boston commission merchant, who undertook to swindle his creditors out of 1100,000 by a fraudulent failure, has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment at hard labor. The new St. Patrick’s Cathedral, on Fifth avenue and Fiftieth street, New York, was dedicated to public worship on Sunday, May 25, under invocation to St. Patrick, with grand, solemn, and imposing services. The new edifice is the largest and finest church building on the American continent. Pypus Walker, a fisherman and boatman at Niagara falls, was carried over the American falls the other day. ■ He was drunk at the time. His body was not recovered, and it is said that the remains of those who go over the American falls never are found. ' , West. A German gardener named Longi behm, living in Contra Costa county, Cal., killed his little boy and girl, aged respectively 8 and 4 years, by beating them with a club and cutting their throats, and then ended his own miserable existence by blowing his brains out with a shot-gun. Lieut. Charles M. Carrow, of the Seventh United States Cavalry, committed suicide in his room at the Planters’ House, in St Louis, Mo., by placing a large-sized army revolver to his head and sending a bullet through bis brain. Jay Gould has bought the St. Joseph (Mo.) railroad bridge over the Missouri river for 1600,000, as a private speculation. Every railroad car on the several roads crossing it win have to pay him from $4 to #5. Reports to the Chicago Inter-Ocean from several places in the Northwest indicate that winter wheat promises well except in Kansas; that spring wheat occupies a large acreage and is improving; that the corn crop bids fair to be the largest ever known; that less oats have been sown and the crop is backward; that the prospects for rye are not very flattering; that of barley there is an average acreage, and that the hay crop will be light A murderer named Orlando Cassler was hanged at Seward, Neb., on the 20th of May. At Terre Haute, Ind., a negro, named Nelson, has been sentenced to the penitentiary one year and fined 11,000 for marrying a white woman. John Jones, the leading colored citp

zen of Chicago, is dead. He was an old resident, had accumulated quite a large fortune, had held important public trusts, and was greatly respected by all classes. The jewelry store of Eugene Jacc&rd & Co., in St Louis, Mo., was robbed of over •3,000 worth of jewelry a few nights ago. A barn containing a collection of wild animals belonging to P. M. French, the circus manager, was burned down at Detroit, a few nights ago, and quite a number of the beasts perished in the flames. The gigantic perfoiming elephant, Sultan, five large performing lions, wo California lions, an ibex, three kangaroos, one tiger, one zebra that had been trained to trot in harness, a sacred cow and her sacred calf, and a Rocky mountain bighorned deer, were burned, besides an extensive collection of stuffed animals. The scene during the fire baffles description. Two of the lions fell upon each other and fought desperately, and the cries and struggles of the other imprisoned brutes was pitiful to witness. The statement made by the Assignee regarding the affairs of Archbishop Purcell shows the total amount of claims to be $3,697,651, and the assets of all kinds $1,181,566, of which 9418,536 are scheduled either as doubtful or worthless, so that there remains only 9700,000 out of which to pay the cost of liquidation and administration, and distribute dividends. At Kewakum, Wis., a shocking murder was perpetrated, a few days ago, by a crazy farmer named Altenhofer. He beat the brains out of a 6-weeks-old child by knocking its head against the wall and cutting its scalp open with a picture frame. He then carried the dead infant two miles to a priest, and acknowledged his crime. J. Phil Krieger, Jr., cashier of the collapsed Broadway Savings Bank, St. Louis, has been arrested on a criminal charge of malfeasance in office or embezzling funds from the bank. A fire at Dallas, Ore., last week, burned 9200,000 worth of property. In Chicago, the other day, a boy went on top of Haverly’a Theater building to recover a base-ball that had lodged on the roof. He lost his footing and fell to the earth, a distance of seventy feet. He was instantly killed, being crushed to a pulp. South. Buford, the murderer of Judge Elliott, at Frankfort, Ky., has obtained a change of venue to Owen county, and the trial has been set for the second Tuesday of July. The people of New Orleans are making giant efforts to put their city in a yellow-fever-proof condition. They have provided for the daily flushing of the gutters with river water, through the whole length of the city. Steam pumps are to be provided for the purpose ; street-sweeping machines are to be introduced, and boats prepared for the transportation of filth to a safe distance down the river. Near Odenton, Md., a few miles from Washington city, last week, John Stinchcomb, aged 65, shot and killed his brother Lewis, aged 55, and then shot himself. The two quarreled about a division of property. Great excitement prevails in Northern Texas over the discovery of silver at Brownwood, 120 miles southwest of Dallas. The assay of ore proves that the vein is a very rich one. A specimen of 120 grains of ore contained 70 per cent, of silver. A daily paper has been started, claims are being located, and hundreds of people are rushing there. Six persons were recently drowned in the Calcasieu river, near Lake Charles, La., by the capsizing of a small steamboat.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Massachusetts Greenback State Committee have made preliminary arrangements for a vigorous campaign in t[io fail The lowa Democratic State Convention was held at Council Bluffs May 21, 476 delegates being in attendance. Gen. A. C. Dodge presided. H. H. Trimble, of Davis county, was nominated for Governor;!. O. Yeoman, of Webster county, for Lieutenant Governor; R. E. Noble, of Clayton county, for Supreme Judge, and Irwin Baker, of Warren county, for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The resolutions denounce the Republican party and indorse the course of the Democrats in Congress in insisting upon the repeal of the laws authorizing the use of troops at elections; favor the substitution of United States treasury notes for national-bank notes, and of the abolition of national banks as banks of issue, and favor free and unlimited coinage of the silver dollar of grains. Secretary Sherman has written a letter to Gen. Robinson, Chairman of the Ohio Republican State Committee, in which he says that he cannot, in the present situation, accept the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio, if tendered him. The Prohibitionists of Indiana met in convention at Indianapolis the other day, and nominated the following candidates for State officers: For Governor, Ryland T. Brown, of Marion county; Lieutenant Governor, Rev. J. V. R. Miller, of Monroe county; Secretary of State, Abraham Spainhower, of Greene county ; Treasurer, William L. Hubbard, of Marion county; Auditor, Jeremiah Leiter, of Fulton county.

WASHINGTON NOTBS. The President has nominated William J. Galbraith, of lowa, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana; John F. Morgan, of Illinois, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho; Norman Buck, of Idaho, Associate Justice of the same court Representative Atkins, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, expresses the opinion that an of Congress will be had between the Ist and 10th of June. During a debate in the Senate, last week, Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker, conspicuously seated in the ladies’ gallery, enthusiastically applauded by thumping on the floor with her umbrella. The doctor became so noisy that the President pro tem. ordered her to be put out Three doorkeepers and a policeman surrounded her, but she refused to go, saying she had come to hear the speeches and proposed to stay, and stay she did. The report that United States Circuit Judge Dillon had determined to resign his seat on the bench and accept a position in Columbia Law School of New York is fully confirmed, and it is authoritatively announced from Washington that Secretary of War McCrary will be appointed as his successor. The House committee on the state of the w respecting the asoertainmen and declaration of the result of the election gs

President and Vice President have agreed upon a bill and authorized Representative Bicknell, Chairman, to report to the House with the approval of the committee. The bill provides, in effect, that in case of any contest between different sets of electors in any State, the Supreme Court of that State shall decide between them, and the decision shall be final unless it shall be overturned by the concurrent action of both houses of Congress.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 19th, consideration was resumed of the Legislative Appropriation bill, and Mr. Blaine spoke in opposition to the proposed legislation. He was frequently interrupted by Democratic Senators, and the debate at times grew quite animated. A communication waa received from the Secretary of the Treasury in response to a resolution of the 16th in«t., calling for certain information in regard to the operations of the Treasury Department. The Secretary writes: “There has been redeemed in coin since Jan. 1, 1879, of legal-tender notes, an amount of 94,133,513. As to the amount of coin authorized to be retained in the treasury for the purpose of maintaining the resumption of specie payments. I have to state that under the provisions of the Resumption act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, in order to prepare and provide for the redemption of United States notes, to use any surplus revenue in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. and to issue certain bonds of the United States, the coin reserve of the treasury has been increased to $130,000,000, that being about 40 per cent, of the note* outstanding to be redeemed, and believed to be the smallest resei ve upon which resumption could be prudently commenced and successfully maintained, as set forth in my last annual report. This reserve arose from the sale of $95,500.000 in bonds and from surplus revenues, as authorized by law. and it must, under the existing law, be maintained unimpaired for the purpose for which it was created.” The House was not in session. The Senate, after a prolonged and somewhat acrimonious discussion of the bill making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Government for the next fiscal year, quietly passed it on the 21st, by a vote of 37 yeas against 27 uajs, and then adjourned over until the 23d. The bill, as passed, embraced all the amendments agreed upon by the Democrats in caucus. Mr. McDonald asked leave to introduce a bill authorizing the President of the United States to employ the inilitia and land and naval forces of the United States to enforce the laws whenever their execution is obstructed by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the judicial authorities, etc., and preventii g the military from being used as a posse comitatus except in cases as authorized by the constitution and laws. Mr. Edmunds objected to the introduction of the bill, on the ground that previous notice bad not been given. The House was engaged all day upon th* Warner Silver Coinage bill. The House devoted another day to the con. eideration of the Warner Silver bill, on the 21st, without reaching a final vote on the measure. The Senate was not in session. In the Senate, on the 22d, Mr. McDonald obtained leave to Introduce his bill regulating the use of the army, and Messrs. McDonald, Wallace and Edmunds gave notice of their intention to speak thereon. The bill to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases was discussed at great length, without action. In the House, there was another warm day’s work on the Warner Silver bill. The bill to amend the laws relating to the transfer of cases from State to Federal courts wa« taken up. but the Republicans refused to vote on the demand for the previous' question, thereby blocking business. The Senate, on the 23d, passed the bill to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases, by a vote of 34 yeas to 12 nays. The bill making subsidiary coins exchangeable for lawful money of the United States, and to make such coins legal tender in sums up to S2O, was discussed. The House concurred in the amendments to the Legislative Appropriation bill, after which the Warner Silver bill was taken up and discussed all day, and all night until 8 o’clock in the morning of the 24th. The long contest over the Warner Silver Coinage bill was ended on the 24th, and the measure was passed by 114 yeas to 97 nays. The Republicans and Greenbackers who voted “aye” were: Messrs. Belford, Cannon, Daggett, De La Matyr, Ford, Fort, Gillette, Ladd, Marsh, Martin (N. C ), Murcli, Russell (N. C.), Stevenson, Weaver, and Yokum. The Democrats and Greenbackers voting “no" were: Messrs. Bliss, Covert, Deuster, Hurd, Jones, Morrison. Muller. Poehler, and F. Wood. The Senate was not in ses-ion.