Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1879 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS G. W. M. Reynolds, the widely-known writer of sensational fiction, is dead. The anti-landlord agitation in the West of Ireland is causing some apprehension n England. Bismarck has forbidden circulation in the empire of the Mtonn-7jiu t * Russian revolutionary organ, published, » n Geneva. The insurrection in Algeria is ended, and 4,000 insurgents are > the hands of the French. The committee jo which the Divorce bill was referred ) >M pronounced in favor of re-establishing 'jivoroe in France. The Bahian last week signed a firman deposing Khedive of Egypt in favor of his son, Pr ajca Mohammed Tewfik, and the Khed*ve signified his compliance with tho demand fhr his abdication. This arrangement was afterward carried out, and Tewfik was saluted sas Viceroy of Egypt The ex-Khedive, his Finance Minister and Prince Hassan leave for 'Constantinople. He is to receive a pension of . .£5,000 a year. The Indian Government has received information that Abdul Itapman, pretender to tho Afghan throne, who has hitherto lived under Russian protection, has invaded Badakshan, and the Afghan troops in Balkh have revolted.

Arson is rife in St. Petersburg, and in every part of Russia. The town of Bzyran, on the Volga, has been nearly destroyed by . fire. A number of persons have been arrrested at Kieff, Bt. Petersburg, and Moscow for clandestinely trading in explosives. Lord Laurence, formerly Viceroy of India, is dead. Advices from Buenos Ayres report that Chili had concluded a treaty with the Argentine States containing a clause which gives tho whole of Patagonia to the Argentine Republic. The French Prince Imperial, in his will, appoints Prince Victor Napoleon as his The French Government has determined on tho occasion of the distribution of new colors to tho army to require the Generals to take the oath of allegiance to tho republic. This aotion is owing to the fact that a number of Generals attended the requiem mass for the Frinco Imperial. Dispatches from South Africa report that tho Zulus are sning for peace. Lord Beaconsfield is suffering from .•a sevore attack of the gout. A Berlin correspondent reports tluit thero is a mysterious coolness between Russia and Germany, and the Czar, in const quenee of it, will not visit the empire. A Paris dispatch states that the editor of the Tribnnlct has been sentenced to six months’ imprison mont and B,(XX) francs fine for caricaturing President Grety, Ministers I’erry, and Lepero, and M. Gam bet ta. Bad weather is reported in England, seriously damaging tho hai vosl, prospects. Fortunately America will be able to supply all •deficiencies in tho British markets. Crops in all parts of France havo also been in jured hv rainu.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Must-. The mystery which has surrounded the killing of Mrs. DeForest Hull, ill New York, has been cleared up by the arrest o! tbo murderer in Boston. The capture was brought about by a negro man selling to a pawnbroker in the latter city a cameo set, and at the same tinjo exhibiting a gold watch. Two days later a description of the jewelry stolen from the Hull residence was received, and tho set was Hater identified by two ftionds of the murdered ■woman, who canto from Now York for the pur■poso. Meantime the man had disappeared, but tho description of Chastino Cox, a negro who formerly lived opposite Hull’s residence, was sent on, which described him pretty well as nearly as the pawnbroker remembered hint. Tho city had been watched night and day by Boston detectives, but the game was finally nabbed by a newspaper man, who suspected a negro whom lie saw on tho street, followed hint to a church, and thon informed the police, who arrested him. Cox was found to have Mrs. Hull’s watch, and made a free confession, in which he stated that, having lived opposite the Hull mansion and been occasionally employed there, tie knew the place and the habits of the inmates. Ho entered tho honso to rob, but, Mrs. Hull awaking, lie put his hand over her mouth until she was qiret, and thou tied her in tho way she was found. She revived again, when ho gagged her with the sheot, and discovered that he had overdone the work, and that Bhe was not breathing. Then ho loft the lioueo, and had boon skulking ever sinco.

Tho Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has sustained the decision of tho lower count in the case of Pete Maimers and John O’Neill, Mol'.y Maguires, convicted in Northumberland county and sentenced to be hanged for tho murder of Coroner Hesser in 1874. A collision occurred the other evening 01 tho Metropolitan elevated railway at Franklin Street station, in West Broadway, New York. Tho up-town train was delayed thore for a short time, and another train ran into it. The hind carriage of the first train and the engine of the second train were badly wrecked. Tho New Jersey Court of Appeals has dismissed the writ of error in the case of Mrs. Smith and Covevt Bennett, convicted of the murder of Policeman Smith, and it seems certain that the guilty pair will die on the scaffold. A very seriou3 railroad accident occurred a few days ago on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, near Buffalo, N. Y. A funeral car attached to the regular express tram jumped the track, and, after dragging along a short distance, turned on its side and was wrenched from the train. The other cars held to the track. The coupling broke. The special coach left the track at tho side toward the lake, and the body of the car, wrenching away from tho trucks, landed almost bottom up. The car was badly wrecked. Of the cloven passengers, not one escaped uninjured, and two or three of them were so badly wounded as to render it douotful if they will recover. Albert Weber, the piano manufacturer, died in New York last week, leaving an estate valued at over 11500,000. An immense tabular boiler in a Philadelphia sash and planing mill exploded a few days ago, killing the engineer and three other persons. The annual boat-race between the Harvard and Yale crews, for the college championship, resulted in an easy victory tor Harvard. The “long strike” in Pittsburgh has come to an eud. The workmen employed in making glass chimueys havo agreed to resume work, after continuing their strike fpr two years,

Two children of Mr. Wiswall, of the Harlem Railroad Company, were killed by lightning, one afternoon last week, in front of their*bo«ne in Morris# nix, N. Y. South. Official reports from the Mayors and Presidents of the Boards of Health of the following cities and towns: Memphis, Vicksburg, Jackson, Miss , Shreveport, La., Collierville, Tenn., Hickman, Ky., Grenada, Miss., Helena, Ark., Holly Springs, Mies , Decatur, Ala., Tuscumbia, Ala, bring the gratifying intelligence that in none of the places mentioned has the health outlook been more favorable. In no instance has there been any indications of a return of fever. Better health than usual at this season of the year prevails, and every precaution tbit eanitarv regulations can suggest has been accomplished toward preventing the recurrence of last year’s epidemic. Quarantine regulations have been established, ready to be enforced should an exigency arise. A Frankfort (Ky.) dispatch says: “On Sabir day night at Sand Rifle, twelve miles distant, a party of unknown men attacked tne house of Samuel Faulkner, severely wounding Faulkner as he ran from tho house, and then setting fire to the dwelling, which was consumed with its inmates—Harry Russell, aged 17 (who was also shot), and two children of Faulkner, aged 11 and 3 years. No cause is given for this brutal affair.” The Crescent City Oil Works, at Mechanicsville, near New Orleanß, La., burned the other day. Loss, #125,000; insurance, #115,000. One of the most remarkable feats ever accomplished in railroading was performed on Saturday, June 28, by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, in a change of gauge on 700 miles of road. Heretofore the gauge has been five feet. The regular business of ttie road was interfered with only about six or seven hours. The cost of tho change will not fall short of #2,000,000. West. Investigation of the reports concerning cattle disease in Colorado have proved that thero was needless alarm, no new cases having been developed for some time previous to the examination. The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that Guetig, the Indianapolis servant-girl murderer, must hang Sept. 19, which will be the first anniversary of his enme. The plea of the prisoner’s drunkenness at the time of committing the murder was of no avail, tho court holding that this was an aggravation, rather than a palliation, of the offense. Nine hundred feet of snow sheds on the Contral Pacific were burned recently. Ex-Congressman Robert M. Knapp, of Jerseyville, IIL, died at his home in that place, a few days ago, aged 49 years. Last week’s great rain-storm in Central and Western lowa and Eastern Nebraska did very serious damage by flood and lightning. The drowning of the wife and two daughters of a farmer at Stuart, lowa, is reported, their house being washed away by the sudden rising of a small stream.

R. S. Taylor and Robert Taylor, brothers, and B. C. WreD, all farmers, between whom au old feud existed, mot iu Wellsville, Mo., a few days ago, and renewed their quarrel. The Taylors fired four balls into Wren’s body, mortally wounding him, and Wren killed R. S. Taylor instantly and fatally wounded Bob. The earnings of the Central Pacific (OaL) Railroad Company for May were #1,541,(K)0, and for the first five mouths of the year $0,200,100, against $0,410,800 in 1878. A Fort Wayne (Ind.) paper reports that tliero is groat excitement at Coesae, fifteen miles west of there, over the attempts of a Baloon-keeper named Jerry Owen to murder his four motherless children, the oldest of whom is aged 9. He first assaulted a son, aged 7, whose ear he tore nearly off, seized a large butcher-knife and stabbed a daughter of 9 years three times, each wound penetrating to the skull. Bhe can hardly survive. He took a large, thick club, four feet long, and beat all four children, the youngest a babe of 2 years, until their bodies were literally a mass of wounds. I’he fiend was arrested. The boiler of a Government steamboat exploded at Nebraska City, Neb., last week, blowing the boat to atoms, killing two persons, mortally wounding two othors, and badly scalding several moro. By the explosion of an upright boiler in an iron-mill at Youngstown. Ohio, a number of persons were badly injured, some of them, it is feared, beyond the hope of recovery. The pleasure steamer May Queen exploded a boiler on Lake Minnetonka, Minn., the other day, fatally wounding four persons, and seriously injuring some half a dozen othors. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has revoked the licenses of several of the disreputable dens of iniquity in that city, and threatens to close up many others if their owners do not mend their ways. A seventy-five hours’ pedestrian contest for SIO,OOO, at the Exposition building, iu Chicago, between Daniel O’Leary, of Chicago, and Peter Crossland, of London, was won by the former. O’Leary made 250 miles and tbo Londoner 225 miles. In the Chicago Directory for 1879, just issued, there are 161,212 names, being 7,605 more than were shown in the same book last year. Supposing that these names, most of them heads of families, represent an average of four persons each, the population of Chicago would be 644,848. WASHINGTON NOTES. The excess of exports over imports of merchandise in twelve months ended 81,1879, was $269,709,876; for twelve months onded May 31, 1878, $241,859,939. The excess of exports over imports of gold and silver coin and bullion was for the twelve months ended May 31, 1879, $5,284,615; for twelve months ended May 31, 1878, $7,243,901. The receipts from internal revenue during the last year amount to $110,033,988; for the fiscal year, over #113,036,000, an increase of over $3,000,000, despite the reduction of the tax on tobacco. POLITICAL POINTS

The convention of Nationals, who withdrew from the Columbus Convention, was held at Toledo, June 24. The convention was called to order, by M. N. Odell, of Lucas, and J. T. Throckmorton, of Ross county, was elected temporary Chairman. Charles Coughlin, editor of tho True Nationalist, of Toledo, was made Secretary, with two assistants. The following is the substance of the financial planks of the platform adopted: That the United States should exercise its most vital function, the coinage of money, independent of the action of any foreign power; that it is the duty of the General Government to supply the entire currency medium; that all bank issues of currency should be suppressed; that “ the so-called specie resumption is a fraud and a swindle; that the locking up. in the treasury of tho United States of the larger part of the scauty volumo of the people’s money we denounce a$ an atrocious crime, without excuse

or palliation; and that we demand the unlimited coinage of the silver dollar of grains.” Letters were read from Peter Cooper and others. The convention refused to nominate a State ticket, and after several speeches the meeting adjourned. Representative men of the Butler wing of the Democratic party state that the General will receive and accept this fall a Labor Reform and Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts. At a meeting of the Ohio Democratic State Central Committee, at Columbus, June 26, J. Frank McKenney was made Chairman of the Executive Committee, in place of John G. Thompson. The Maine Republicans, at Bangor, June 26, nominated the Hon. D. F. Davis, of Corinth, for Governor, on the third ballot. The platform adopted asserts that this country is a nation, and not a confederation of States; that it is the right-and duty of the Government to protect the citizens and insure an honeet and pure ballot; that the action of the Democratic majority in Congress is a revolutionary attempt to coerce the Executive, and that President Hayes should be supported in his resistance to such attempts; and that it is a mat er of rejoiciDg that the Government promises to pay are kept, and the dollar of the laborer is as good as the dollar of the capitalist The Ohio Democratic State Committee have decided to formally open the campaign early in August, with speeches by Pendleton, Thurman, Ewing, Steelman, and others.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The Senate confirmed a number of appointments on tlie 23d. Th*t of D. T. Corbin, of South Carol!' a. as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah Tenitory, was reported from the Judiciary Committee adversely and placed upon the calendar for consideration by the Senate hereafter. In the House, the President's Secretary deliverid a message in writing, vetoing the Supplementary Judicial bill; also, announcing that he had signed the Army bill. At the conclusion of ilie reading of the veto message, the House proceeded to vote on the question whether the bill should ho i assed, notwithstanding the objections of tho l’re< dent, and it was decided in the negative —yeas. IU4; navs, 78: not the necessary two-thirds , nting in the affirmative. in the Senate, on the 24th, the proceedings were tame and of no general interest. In the Homo, a resolution providing for adjournment June 25 was voted down—lo 3to 82. The Political Assessment bill was taken up, and the Republicans availed themselves of the parliamentary privilege to prevent action upon it. Mr. Burnside introduced in the Senate, on the 25th ult., a joint resolution to the effect that, the people of this country having for fifty years adhered t. j tho Monroe doctrine, they “ would not view without serious Inquietude any attempt of the powers of Europe to establish, under th> ir protection and domination, a ship-canaljacross the Isthmus of Dr.rien, and such action could not be regarded in any other light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward these United Mates.” llie resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr. Vest introduced the following joint resolution, which was ordered printed: -l That the complete remonetization of silver, its full restoration as a money metal, and its free coinage by tike Government of the United States, are demanded alike by tho dictates of justice and wise statesmanship.” Mr. Windom read what he stj led a political apt ech, reviewing the record of ihe Republican and Democratic parties for the past twenty years. A long political debate ensued, which was participated in by Messrs. Wi 'dom, Saulsbury, Davis (W. Va.), Ilgalls and Beck, The House occupied the day in debatii g the Senate bill exempting irom license and other fees vessels not propelled wholly by sail or by internal motive-power of their own.

In the Senate, June 26, Mr. Vest called up the silver free-coinage resolution, but, objection being made, it went over. After a short executive session, the Judicial Expenses Appropriation bill was read twice and referred. The reeular order was resumed, being the joint resolution relating to the extra pay for Congressional employes. Messrs. Davis (W. Va) and Allison engaged in a short discussion upon the financial questionsleave of absence granted to members was made by Mr. Armfield, and objected to. The bill making appropriations for certain judicial expenses and the bill making appropriations to pay the tees of Marshals' and their general deputies, were reported lrom the Committee on Appropriations and ordered printed and referred. The bill prohibiting political assessments came up as business of the morning hour. Mr. Garfield sought an opportunity of speaking against the bill, but was cut off by the previous question, whereupor dilatory tactics were resorted to by the Republicans. Tho Senate, on the 27th ult., passed, by a strict party vote, the Judicial Expenses Appropriation bill as it passed the House. Mr. Vest’s silver resolution was debated without action. The House, after a sharp debate, passed the hill appropriating SOOO,OOO to pay the fees of U. S. Marshals and their deputies. A resolution was passed, by a party vote, providing for an adjournment on Monday. Juno 30. The Benate, on the 28th ult, discussed and again postponed the resolution of Mr. Vest declaring in favor of the free coinage of silver. The bill making appropriations to pay the fees of United States Marshals and their deputies was passed after a brief discussion, Mr. Logan making the principal argument against the bill. The House passed the bill exempting from license and enrollment fees vessels hot propelled wholly by sail or Internal motive power of their own, and the joint resolution providing for a further treaty with Mexico. The Senate, in executive session, rejected the a noraintion of D, T. Corbin as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah.