Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1879 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOBBXGIT NEWS The English Derby was won this year by Lord Norrey’s horse Sir Bevys, against whom the betting was twenty to one. The Darien Ship Canal Congress at Paris adjourned on the 80th ult, after a session of nearly two weeks. The result of its labors is the adoption of the Panama tide-water-level canal project of Lieut Wyse, the cost of which is estimated at <150,000,000. The enormous cost of thia project, though the cheapest one submitted, renders it doubtful if the money to carry it forward will be forthcoming in this or the next generation. A furious naval engagement recently took place oft Iquique, Peru, between the Chilian wooden vessels Esmeralda and Cayadonga and the Peruvian armor-plated frigate Independence. All three vessels were sunk. The Esmeralda was originally a Spanish gunboat The Independence was the most important vessel in the Peruvian navy. Her armament consisted entirely of Armstrong guns. The latter were 100-pounders. In Berlin there are rumors of a reconstruction of the Cabinet, and Bismarck’s retirement is talked of as a possibility. Mount Etna, in the Island of Sicily, is in a violent state of eruption, and several villages are in danger of destruction. There has been another desperate battle in South Africa, but the English were not directly engaged in it A large band of Zulus, it appears, among them one of Ce tv way o’B brothers, were on their way to the English camps for the purpose of surrendering. They had crossed the frontier into Natal when a pursuing force, said to have been commanded by Cetywayo himself, fell upon them, slaughtered large numbers of them and dispersed the remainder. Lacoste, a Frenchman naturalized in the United States some years ago, has been expelled from France for renouncing his nationality without performing his military duty. Mr. Noyes, the American Minister, fruitlessly endeavored to secure the revocation of the order. A train on the Saragossa and Madrid railway in Spain was recently stopped by brigands, near Calataynd, and robbed of SB,OOO. Parole, the American horse, has scored his fourth brilliant victory on the English turf, winning the Epsom gold cup with •ase. A committee of the French Chamber have decided in favor of the prosecution of Cassagnao. The Portuguese Cabinet has ?esignec In consequence of internal dissensions.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ICant. The only sister of Vice President Wheeler has just died at Malone, N. Y. She was unmarried, and 05 years old. A smash-up on the Pittsburgh division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad resulted fatally to Engineer Pritchard and two tramps who were stealing a ride on the train. At Newark, Vt., a few days ago, a party of nine children drank water from a brook, the waters of which had been polluted by the carcasses of a horse and several sheep, and were poisoned, from the effects of which seven died soon after, their bodies becoming putrid and demanding immediate buriaL Others cannot survive. A dispatch from Gloucester, Mass., records the loss of another fishing vessel, with its crew of fourteen men. Wednesday, May 28, was the anniversary of the birth of Tom Moore, Ireland’s national port, and the day was signalized in Brooklyn, N. Y., by the unveiling of a bust of the poet in Prospect Park. An immense throng turned out to witness the ceremonies. A committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, after an exhaustive investigation, have reported to that body that they find the following named persons have been guilty of corrupt solicitations of members of the legislature in connection with the Pittsburgh Riot bill. Representatives Rumberger, Armstrong county, and Smith and Petroff, Philadelphia; W. H. Kemble and ex-Represent-ative Charles B. Salter, Philadelphia; Alexander W. Lanseuring, of Carbon; Jesse K. Crawford, of Blair, and Christopher Long, of Cumberland counties. A dispatch from Island Pond, Vt., the scene of the recent heartrending poisoning affair, says: “ Two more children of John Aidrich died from drinking from the poiwned brook, making five, his entire family. Mrs. Aldrich is insane. Eleven children who drank of the polluted brook have died so far. Potato-tops, poisoned by paris green, which were thrown into the brook, are regarded as the cause of the poisoning rather than the carcasses of dead animals. Terrible distress prevails in the town, and work is suspended. Twenty-seven children were poisoned by drinking from the brook.” A fire at Silver Reef, Utah, destroyed a large portion of the business center of the town and twenty residences. The loss is estimated at $500,1’00. A Milwaukee eorrespondent of the Chicago Tribune tells a rather startling story regarding Senator Carpenter. It is to the effect that he is a slave to tobacco, and is killing himself by its excessive use. This correspondent says that Mr. Carpenter smokes twenty cigars a day, that he is hardly ever without one in his mouth, that he has wasted so that his limbs have become emaciated to the semblance of pipe-stems, and that he is a very sick man. West.

An examination of the books and papers of the lately suspended Broadway Savings Bank, in BL Louis, reveals a condition of rottenness that is absolutely shocking. By false accounts the institution has been robbed of nearly $300,000 by the cashier, Philip Krieger, Jr., son of the President of the bank. While Krieger has been systematically plundering, the bank has been declaring 10 per cent dividends semi-annually, and the stock has been away above par. A negro tramp who obmmitted an assault upon a lady at a farm-house near Quincy, 111., a few weeks ago, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for forty-eight years. He was convicted on three similar indictments, sentenced on one to twenty years and on the others for fourteen years each. A mob of seventy-five armed men overpowered the jailer of Bakersfield, Cal, and entered the cells containing two murderers, Thomas and William Yoakum, and lynched them by hanging them in the cells. William Yoakum was chained to the floor of his cell, and, as the chain could not be loosened, he was hung with the chain on his feet He was shot several times after hanging him. Troy Dye, formerly Public Administrator of Sacramento county, Cal., and his partner in crime, Edward Anderson, were hanged at Sacramento, on the 29th ult, for the murder of A. M. Tullis last August

In some parts of Missouri locusts have made their appearance in vast numbers. The Illinois Legislature at its recent session appropriated $9,000 to complete the Donglas monument in Chicago. Eva Williams, age <4, and Emma Davies, age 13, daughters of the proprietors of the Chittenden Hotel, at Columbus, Ohio, were drowned while bathing in the Olentangy river. The Chicago church-choir “Pinafore” company are billed at Haverly’s for the week commencing the 9th inst., when something exquisite in the way of music is promised. Thi tyoupe is selected from among the best singers in the Garden City, and has been in rehearsal for some time. If the success of similar combinations in Philadelphia and Boston can be taken as an example, this will prove the most acceptable of the thousand and one musical crews at present on deck. The mystery of the Manhattan (N. Y.) Bank robbery of October last, by which money and securities worth about $3,000,000 were secured by the burglars, has at last been revealed by the confession of the night watchman, who was one of the gang implicated in the affair. The plot of the cracksmen was formed three years before its successful execution, but was postponed from time to time, as unexpected obstacles were encountered. After the robbery and division of the swag, each member of the gang was assessed S6OO, which was sent to Washington to defeat the bill introduced in Congress to duplicate the stolen bonds, as, if passed, it would be almost impossible to negotiate the originals. Three members of the band who took part in this extraordinary robbery have been arrested, and the New York police are on the track of the others

WASHINGTON NOTES! The following notice to holders of called bends has been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury: Tbeasuby Depabtment, Office or the Secretary of the Treasury, Washington. D. 0., May »H.—Holders of called bonds which mature before .he Ist of July next are requested to send them to this department for payment during the month of June. In this way the holders of such bonds will receive payment for them, with interest to maturity, before the bonds mature. The very large payments of called bonds to be made in July will fully occupy the different offices of the department in that month, and preference in the order of liquidation will be given to the maturing bonds rather than to those bonds, past due, the holders of which have failed to present Jhem for payment. All United States bonds forwarded for redemption should be addressed to the “Loan Division, Secretary’s Office,” and all registered bonds should be assigned to “The Secretary of the Treasury for redemption.” When parties desire checks in payment of registered bonds drawn to the order of any one but the payee, they should assign them to the Secretary of the Treasury for the redemption account of owner or owners, giving the name or names thereof. As it is impossible to notify directly the holders of such called bo&ds, the press of the country is respectfully requested to give publicity to this notice, that there may be no delay in the payment of the bonds, and that an accumulation of money in the treasury may be avoided. John Shebman, Secretary. The Chief of tho Bureau of Statistics, in the tenth monthly statement of the current fiscal year of imports and exports of the United States, says the excess of exports over imports of merchandise was, for the ten months ending April 30, 1879, $241,443,623; ditto, 1878, $227,042,087; twelve months ending April 30, 1879, $272,215,779; ditto, 1878, $221,680,012. At a Cabinet meeting, the other day, the Attorney General gave an opinion in relation to the Eads jetties, to the effect that Capt Eads is entitled to the payment of $500,000 claimed to be due under his contract, notwithstanding the slight filling up of the river above the jetties, and the Secretary of War has ordered the payment to be made. The Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, at Washington, have rejected, by a vote of 4 to 3, the bill repealing the duty on quinine. Eben C. Ingersoll, formerly a Representative in Cohgress from Illinois, and a brother of Col. Bob Ingersoll, died at Washington last week.

FEDERAL FINANCES. COINAGE. Coinage executed at the United States Mint during May: No. of Pieces. Value. Gold 30,l<KJ $ 789,400 Silverl,36o.ooo 1,300,000 Bars 455,000 4,70 S T0ta11.793,790 $2,094,508 INTERNAL REVENUE. The following is a comparative statement of the receipts from the internal-revenue service for the eleven months of the present and previous fiscal year to May 31,1879: Present year51<’4,052,062 Previous year 101.881,141 Gain for present year.s 2.170,914 Receipts for the month of May, 1879. ...$ 15,< 27.178 Receipts for the month of May, 1878.... 12,295,794 Gain for present month;s 2,731,384 CURRENCY STATEMENT. Following is a statement of the United States currency outstanding: Old demand notess 61.530 Leeal-tender notes, all issues 846,681,016 One-year notes of 1863 49.285 Two-year notes of 1863 14.300 Two-year coupon notes of 1863.. 23,750 Compound-interest notes 261.66 J Fractional currency, all issues 15,874,781 T0ta15362,966,82* THE REDEMPTION BUREAU. The following is a statement of the operations of the National Bank Redemption Agency for May, and eleven months ending on the 31st ult, as compared with the corresponding periods last year: National-Bank Notes Disposed of. Month. 11 Months. Notes fit for circulation,assorted and returned to hanks of issue $ 8,759,600 $103,343,500 Notes unfit for circulation, assorted and delivered to the Comptroller of the Currency for destruction and replacement 4,457,100 35,639,600 Notes of failed, liquidating and reduiing banks deposited in the treasury; 1,251,800 4.266,200 Totals for 1879514,469,590 $146 269.850 Totals for 1878 22,016.360 190,8.43,800 Decrease 7,547,800 44,625,450

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The bill reported by Mr. Bayard, to provide for an exchange of subsidiary coins for lawful money, and making such coins a legal tender in sums not exceeding S2O, was taken up on the 96th, and Mr. Edmunds spoke against the bill. When Mr. Edmunds concluded, consideration began of the bill heretofore introduced by Mr. McDonald, authorizing the employment of the militia and land and naval forces in certain cases, and to repeal the Election laws, and Mr. McDonald addressed the Senate in support of his measure. The bill relative to the transportation of live stock was discussed. The House was not in aesaion. The proceedings in Congress were not specially interesting on the 97th ult. In the Senate, Mr. McDonald asked leave to present the petition and memorial of the ex-soldiers and sailors of Providence, protesting against violations of the civil-service reform, especially in relation to the appointment of custom officers in Providence, and alleging interference by Federal officers in elections. The petition, after a spirited debate, went over, on objection. The bill relating to the transportation of cattle was then taken up. Mr. Edmunds said this was a subject of general legislation, and not one contemplated in the convening of the extra session. He moved that it be postponed until tho first Monday in December next. The motion was agreed to. In the House, the morning hour was frittered away by filibustering motions of the Republicans to prevent action on th bill relative to the removal of cases from State to Federal courts. The bill to prevent the Introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States was then taken up and passed in precisely tbe shape it came from the Senate. The Ways and Mians Committee reported Fernando Wood’s resolution, fixing the day of adjournment for June 10. The bill providing for the exchange of subsidiary coin for lawful money of the United States under certain circumstances, and to make such coins a legal tender in sums not exceeding $lO, was passed by the Senate on the 28th ult. Mr. Call, of Florida, addressed the Senate in support of the bill to allow the use of the militia and land and naval forces of tbe United States in certain cases, and to repeal the Election laws. Nothing of importance transpired in the House, the day being devoted to District of Columbia business.

The Senate discussed the McDonald bill to authorize to use of military forces in certain cases, on the 29th ult. Mr. Wallace delivered a three-and-a-half-hours’ speech in favor of the bill, after which Messrs. Blaine and Hill indulged in one of their characteristic colloquies. The President pro tern, announced the following as the select committee on Pendleton’s bill providing that the principal executive officers of the Government may occupy seats on the floor of the Senate and House of Representatives: Messrs. Pendleton. Voorhees, Bayard, But’er. Farley. Conkling. Allison, Blaine, Ingalls, and Platt. In the House, the resolution of the Ways and Means Committee, fixing the 19th of June as the day of final adjournment, was, on motion of Mr. Atkins, laid over for consideration on Saturday, 31st. The message of the President vetoing the Legislative. Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was received and read. Tbe reading was listened to with close, and, for a time, respectful attention. Only an audible titter went through the Democratic ranks when tpe sentence was read as to the effect of the existing law being to secure honest elections. Again, when the sentence was read as to what good faith, honest endeavor, and judicial authority can do for the protection of ti.e elective franclii e. the Democrats laughed outright, and the Republicans, as a coun-ter-demonstration, applauded. The House refused to pass the bill over the President’s veto—yeas, 112: nays. 91; not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. This was a strict parly vote. Only four Greenbackers vot ii, two (Ladd and Stevenson) in the affirmative, and two (Barlow and Ford) in the negative. Tbe message of the Presid nt was then referred to the Committee on the Judiciary with leave to report by bill or otherwise at any time. Neither branch of Congress was in session on the 31st ult. The two advisory committees of the House and Senate Democratic caucuses held a joint meeting and reached substantially a unanimous agreement as to the course of action that should be adopted by the dominant party in Congress with regard to the appropriation bills. It was decided to recommend the passage of the Army Appropriation bill, with the proviso that none of the money shall be used in the payment of expenses incurred should the troops be used for police purposes at the polls. It was also determined to pass the other bills, omitting any provision for the payment of Supervisors or Deputy Marshals of Elections. The committee also agreed to recommend the paisage of a separate bill containing the principles vetoed by the President relative to the method of drawing juries and the abolition of the juror’s test oath.