Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1879 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS Paris dispatches indicate that the Bonapartiet party in France is fast going to pieces. It is said that Prince Jerome, who has been named as its leader, will openly pronounce in favor of the republic, after the funeral of the Prince Imperial. Matters are becoming interesting in South America. The Chilians, to the number of 10,000 or 15,000 are preparing a descent on the Peruvian capital. Such an expedition is made possible by the absence of the Peruvian army in the South, and the fact that the Peruvian transports are blockaded in the harbor of Callao. Cable reports of the condition of crops on the continent of Europe are of such a character as to promise a good demand for American grain. In all the Governments of Southern Russia—the great wheat-raising belt of the empire—the wheat is reported as almost totally destroyed by drought, hail, grasshoppers and beetles. In Northern Italy and other wheat-growing countries the prospects are deplorable. Characteristic dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica: “Advices from Port-au-Prince, Hayti, state that the populace fired upon the Henate. The Senators fled. Many were shot. Fighting continues.’’ A dispatch from Odessa, Russia, states that the trials of forty-five Nihilists have been concluded. Six wore sentenced to terms from two to three years’ imprisonment. The rest were acquitted. The contemplated international industrial exhibition at Moscow, Russia, is postponed from 1880 to one year later. Another coal-pit disaster took place lately near Glasgow, Bcotland. Thirty-one persons were in the mine at e time of the explosion. Four persons were burned alive. Twenty-one corpses have been recovered, and it is probable all in the mine are dead. The ex-Khedive of Egypt has been arrested at Naples. A dinner was given by Prince Bismarck, at Berlin, in honor of Hon. Andrew D. White, the newly-arrived United States Minister, on the 2d. The Cuban Government has asked Spain to send to that island and distribute among the sugar plantations about 40,000 troops, to be employed in the double capacity of guards and field-hands. A London dispatch of Sunday says tho Rev. T. DeWitt Talmige preached at Agricultural Hall that afternoon to two congregations of 20,000 people each. Thousands upon thousands of persons thronged the streets leading to the hall for miles, almost blockading the passago of vehicles and pedestrians. Many pcoplo wore crushed, and Dr. Talmag :'s carriage was almost demolished by tho crush of the g o it crowd, every iiu'ividn vl in which wai anxious to see the distinguished American preacher. The deposed Sultan of Turkey, who, aft' r being kicked out of tho throne, was placed for safe keeping in ono of the palaces and guarded, lias effected his oscape, and there is coiu-i lei ablo exei emeut over the fact in Constant -ople. Four hundred Nihilists were recently arrested at Ivieff, Russia, and a great store of Weapons scizej. The depressed condition of the agricultural interest in Great Britain has finally occasioned tho appointment of a commission by Parliament to iuvertigato its causes. In u hurricane on tho river Loubs, in France, a steamer with fifty-throe passengers ivas sunk. Only five persons wero saved.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE * TCnut. George Bancroft, the historian, was seriously injured by being thrown from his horse at Newport, K. 1., a few days ago. Nimrod Spottenhuber, convicted of the murder of John Iveson, at Lebanon, Pa., last December, has just been hung there. Four horrible murders were commit tod in New York and vicinity July 4. The most prominent was that of John F. Seymour, a cousin of Bishop Seymour, of the Diocese of Springfield, 111. Two friends engaged in a quarrel at Staten island over a trivial matter. Both carried loaded revolvers, and one shot the o’her before ho had a chance to draw his weapon. The third case was the shooting of a man by a former omploye in the streets of Nyack. Finally, one member of a steamboat excursion party shot another through the head for refusing to drink with him. A ladle of molten steel upset in a Scranton (Pa.) rolling mill, fatally burning two workinon. Among the accidents and catastrophes occurring on the Fourth, one of the most melancholy was the partial overturning of an overloaded excursion steamer on Lake Quinsigamond, near Worcester, Mass., whereby a large number of the passengers were pitched into the water, and seven wero drowned. A somewhat similar accident occurred near Trenton, N. J., where the breaking down of an overcrowded wharf gave & crowd a wettin g and a scaro, besides drowning three persons. W est. A dispatch from Sutro, Nev., announces the completion of the famous Sutro tunnel, for the reception of water from the Comstock mines. As an engineering work the success surpasses all expectations. In eight hours the water in the Hale & Norcross and Savage mines was lowered 100 feet, demonstrating the capacity of the tunnel to perform all tho work ever claimed for or expected of it. The great undertaking has cost $6,000,000. A. F. Clark, a member of the Cincinnati City Council, has been sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment for tampering with election roturns, while acting as judge of election, last fall.

A Dead wood dispatch says that “Lame Johnny,” one of the parties who robbed the coach near Buffalo Gap, a short time ago, while on the way from old Red Cloud Agency to Rapid City, in charge of Deputy Sheriff Smith, of Cheyenne, was taken from the coach, a few nights ago, near the place where the robbery was committed, by three masked men, and hung to a tree near by. The census of Nebraska returns a a total population of 384,410, being an increase of 72,662 since last year. Tho increase since 1870 is 261,417. A pair of thieves, who took advantage of the absence of all but the oashier at dinner, robbed a bank at Galesburg, 111, of about $12,000 in money. One of the heaviest storms ever experienced in that section occurred on the 3d inst. The storm extended all over the States of Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin and Southeastern Dakota, doing much damage to buildings, railroads and orops. From tho former State reports of casualties are received as follows: At Vasa, Goodhue (Kjunty, nine jwsqjie were killed and thirty

injured by lightniDg and the fall of a building. At Winnebago, the wife of Nathaniel Steven was killed by lightning. At Mountain Lake, Lawrence Lawless was killed by lightning. Bed'Wing reports f 100,000 damage to property in the city. Every town in the south and east of the State suffered heavily, but details are wanting. At Menomonee, Wis., a house was carried away by the flood, with two persons, not since heard from. At Warrenton, Wis., the residence of William Rush was carried away, and with it the family, including Mr. Rush, wife and daughter, a young lady about 20 years of age, all being drowned. Another young lady, daughter of Mr. John Davis, of Rush river, was drowned in attempting to get ont of the house, which was flooded with water to the depth of several feet Ten mile* northwest of Lemars, Plymouth county, lowa, two young men named Kass were killed. They saw the storm coming and ran into a barn for shelter, when the wind struck the building with terrific force, completely demolishing it and crushing them to death in the ruins. The aggregate loss of life by disasters connected with the storm throughout Minnesota will approach twenty. The wounded will probably ip«Ch fifty, thirtysix being ijjjured by the wreck of the Orphan Asylum at Vasa. The damage to property is great, but there is no data for exact estimate. A Milwaukee dispatch says that “reports from over 100 different points in lowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin say the lato storm did no damage to the crops. Some of the wheat was knocked down, but it is all coming up aga : n. The grasshoppers Sid considerable damage to a small section along *he Sioux valley. All the reports give very flattering prospects.” A panic occurred among a party of bathers at a Bohemian picnic at St. Paul, Mo., on the Missouri Pacific railroad, and two of them were swept away by the current and drowned. FEDERAL FINANCE. I THE DEBT STATEMENT. The monthly debt statement for July 1 is as follows: Six per cent, bond* $810,932,500, Five percent, bonds 015,905,500 Four and a half per ceDt. bonds 250,000,000 Four per cent, bonds 601,029,;t()0 HcfundinK certificates... 12.842,v10 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,901,716,110 Matured debt 37.075.030 Legal tenders $346,742,486 Certificates of deposit.... 30.370.0(H) Fractional currency 15,851 0< 5 Gold and silver certificates 17,880,060 Total without interest 410,835,741 Total debt $2,319,507,842 Total interest 30,792,091 Cash in treasury 363,152 677 Debt less cash in treasury $2,027,207,250 Increase during Ju' e 21,788 Docrease since June 30, 1878 8,579,575 CURHKNT LIABILITIES. Interest due and unpaid...., $ 4,897.621 Debt on which iuterest has ceased.... 37,075.080 Interest thereon 2.( 00.708 Gold and silver certificates 17,880,050 United States notes hold for redemption of certificates of deposit 30,370,000 United States notes held for redemption of fractional currency... 8,375,934 Called bonds not matured for whicn 4 per cent, bonds have been issued... 104,072,410 Cash balance available July 1, 1879.. 148 473,503 Total $ 363,152,577 AVAILABLE ASSETS. Cash in treasury . $ 363,152,577 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad Companies, interest payable iu lawful money: Principal outstanding.. $ 61.623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid.. ... 1,933.705 Interest paid by the United States.... 41,773,745 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 12,596,053 Balance of interest paid by the United States 29 177.691 APPROPRIATIONS. The following memorandum of appropriations liae been furnished by the Treasury Department: For fiscal year 1877, $124,122,011; for 1878, $114,C69,453. Appropriations for rivers and harbors wero omitted for this year, and the Postoffice Appropriation bill was $3,000,000 less than in 1877. For 1879, f 146,364,309. This includes increased deficiencies, increased river and harbor appropriations, and the Halifax fisheries award. SILVWB. The treasury issued $13,350,942 in standard silver dollars. Of this amount $6,518,012 has been returned. The amount now held in the treasury is $28,147,351. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. The total receipts of the Government for the fiscal year ending Jane 30 from all sources amount to $276,250,227. The total ordinary expenses, not including iuterest on the public debt, amounted to $164,508,384. GOLD COIN. The total amount of gold coin and builion in tho treasury Jan. 2, the date of resumption, was $ 135,382,630. The amount in the treasury June 30 is $135,236,474.61. COINAGE. Coinage at mints during June, 1879: Denomination. Pieces. Value. Gold. Doublet) igles 135.380 $2,707,600 Half-eagles 22,580 111,000 Total gold 157,200 $2,818,6U0 FOR THE TEAR. Eagles 10,341 $1 031,440 Half eagles 2-38.4*0 1,442,130 Tlireo dollars 86,3 (4 109.132 Quarter-eagles 460,720 1,10(5,800 Dollars 8,020 3,020 Total gold 2,759,421 $40,980,912 SILVKR. Dollars 27,227,050 $27,227,050 Half-dollars 450 225 Quarter-dollars 350 112 Dimes 450 45 Total 27,228,440 $27,227,432 Standard silver dollars coined to date 35,801,000 Coinage curing the year ending Jnne, 1879 Gold double eagles 1,861,717 >7,234,340 POLITICAL POINTS The Maine Democrats held their State Convention on the Ist inst., and renominated Gov. Garcelon by acclamation. The Democrats of California have nominated Dr. Hugh J. Glenn, the great Colusa county farmer, for Governor.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Two thousand, five hundred and twenty-five bills were introduced in the House during the late session of Congress. President Hayes, with his family and members of his Cabinet, left Washington on the 3d inst., on a Potomac steamer, for Fortress Monroe and a short cruise on the ocean. A letter of instrnctions from Attorney General Devons is to the effect that the refusal of Congress to appropriate money for their fees does not prevent United States Marshals from performing all the duties of their office. They will, however, be compelled to take their chances of ever getting paid through an appropriation hereafter. The friends of Secretary McCrary now say that he will certainly be appointed by the President to be Judge of Dillon’s circuit, to take effect on the let of September, and that the President and Secretary McCrary both rely upon assuranoes received from the Senate Judiciary Committee and other Democratic Senators individually that McCrary will be confirmed. Unless the President has changed his mind very recently, it is not so oertain that AlexanflW H. Ramsey, of Minnesota, formerly United

States Senator, will be appointed successor as Secretary of War. Bo says a Washington correspondent A report from the Pension Bureau shows that arrears of pensions, under the new law, in 13,890 cases had been adjusted prior to the Ist of July, the amount involved being $7,230,5713, and the average to each pensioner a fraction less than $530. The number of cases remaining for adjustment is supposed to be less than 35,000.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Mr. Vest’s resolution for the complete remonetization and free coinage of silver was finally disposed of by the Senate on the 30th ult. The resolution* on motion of Mr. Allison, was referred to the Committee on Finance, where it will sleep until the next session. The President’s message calling attention to the failure of Congress to appropriate money for the necessities of the Government was read in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr. Windom introduced a bill making appropriations for the payment of Deputy Marshals, mi mis the polj teal clauses. The bill was indefinitely postponed by a party vote. In the HouoO, a message was received from the President announcing his approval of the udirial Expenses bill; also a message vetoing the bill making appropriations for the pay of Deputy Marshals. The House refused to pass the bill over the veto, the vote standing: yeas, 83; nays, 02 not the necessary two-tbirds voting in (he affirmative. The House, by a vote of 125 yeas to 23 nays, passed the bill putting salts of quinine and sulphate of quinine on the free list. Mr. Cannon moved 1o suspend the rules and pass the bill appropriating SOOO,OOO to pay the fees of United States Marshals and their general deputfiß during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880. Rejected by a party vote—yeas, 01; nays S 3. SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT. Following is the text of the President’s special message sent to Congress on the 30th ult.: To the Senate and House of Representatives: The bill malting an appropriation for the payramt of the fees of United States Marshals and their general deputies, which t have this day returned to the House of Representatives (in which it originated), with my objections, having on its reconsideration by that body failed to become a law, I respectfully call your attention to the immediate necessity of making some adequate provision for the due and efficient execution by the Marshals and Deputy Marshals of the United States of the constant and important duties enjoined upon them by existing laws. All app.opriations to provide for the performance of these indispensable duties expire to-day. Under the laws prohibiting public officers from involving the Government iu contract liabilities beyond the actual appropriations, it is apparent that the means at the disposal of the executive department for executing the laws through the regular ministerial officers will, after to-day, be left inadequate. The suspension of necessary functions in tho ordinary administration of the first duties of the Government for the shortest period is inconsistent with the public interest, and at any moment may prove inconsistent with public safety. It is impossible for me to look without grave concern on the state of tilings which leaves the public service thus unprovided for and public iuterest thus unprotected, and I earnestly urge on your attention the necessity of making immediate appropriations for the m intenance of the service of Marshals and Deputy Marshals for the fiscal year which commences to-morrow. " R. B. Hayes. June 30,1879. Very little was done in the way of legislation by either house on the final day of the extra ses-. sion, July 1.. In the Senate, the House bill placing quinine on the free list was passed bv an almost unanimous vote. No further effort was made to pa-s the Marshals’ Appropriation bill in either house, but in the Senate Messrs. Windom and Eaton argued the question of responsibility for the failure of the bill. After the passage of the customary resolu tions of thanks to the Vice President (Wheeler) and Vico President, pro tem. (Thurman), the latter at 5 p. m. arose and said: “Senators: Thanking you sincerely for the respect and approbation expressed in your resolution adopted to-day, and for the kind aid you have uniformly given me, while temporarily performing the duties of the chair, and wishing you all safe and pleasant return to your homes, 1 now. In’ obedieica to the concurrent resolution of the two houses, declare the Senate adjourned without day.” In the House, Speaker Randall, at precisely 5 o’clock p. m., rose in his seat and spoke as follows: “Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: Before we separate, I desire to return my thanks as presiding officer of this House to the members of this House, of every po.itical division, and to say to them that I appreciate their uniform kindness aud conduct; and now, in o'edience to the terms of the concurrent resolution of the two houses fixing the time of final adjournment of the first session of the Forty-sixth Congress, I declare this House adjourned without day.”