Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1879 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

VOBBION KIWI. The whaling ship Our Queen, of Dundee, Scotland, with fourteen whales, was eaught in the ice in Lancaster sound, between Baffin’s bay and Barrow strait, and crushed. The crew were saved. Advices from South Africa report that King Cetywayo has taken to the bush to escape the pursuing British. Ex-Prfesident Grant left Japan for Ban Francisco on the 3d of September, and will arrive about the 21st The Czar of Russia and Emperor of Oermany have had a meeting at Alezandrowe. The subject of their conversation has not been given to the public. Spain will send 20,000 troops to Cuba, to suppress the new insurrection. A large number of amnestied Communists arrived at Paris in a body the other day. They were enthusiastically received at the station by friends and relatives, with cries of “ Vivo la Itepubiique.” They looked generally very pale and careworn. Thoir reception by the membors of their families was very affecting. Many of the men brought with them pet animals, snob as dogs and cats, the companions of their pa'nful exile. The conduct and bearing of the pardoned men was excellent. There were no revengeful expressions board. Prof. Nordenskjold announces from Yokohama his safe arrival at that port on the Vega, with which he has demonstrated tho feasibility of tho northern passago. Tho expedition doubled East cape, midway in Behring’s strait, on tho 20th of July, and proceeded thenco to Lawrence bay, Port Clarence and Bobring’s island. The remains of Sir Rowland Hill were buried in Westminster Abbey. The funeral procession was witnessed by thousands of people. It is said the opposition in Spain to tho inarriago of Ki.jg Alfonso with tho Archduchess Mario, of Austria, is assuming serious proportions. Nov. 28 is the day set for tho marriage.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE, xffiatet. Jefferson Borden, for many years a loading capitalist of Fall River, Mass., is now a financial wreck, all of liis property having boen attached by creditors. His ruin was brought about by the speculations and peculations of Paine and Durfee, his sons-in-law. Pleuro-pnenmonia in man and beast is attracting the closost attention of tho medical profession in the Eastern States. Many cattle found to bo Buffering with tho disorder have beon killed. The prevalence of this complaint on the Atlantic seaboard is to be made the subject of a thorough investigation by tho New York health authorities. A sail-boat capsized in Lake On tario, near Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y , tho other day, with dis'ressing result. There wero nine persons on board, seven of whom attempted toswim ashore, a distance of half a milo, and wore drowned. Two clung to the spar above water and wore rescued. Cases of pleuro-pnenmonia among the cattle of tho East are again bocoming too common to bo pleasant. A number of cases have been discovered recently among the cattlo in the stock yards at Now York, and many moroon dairy farms within forty miles of that city. Jay Gould, the railway magnate, has contributed #5,000 for-tho benefit of tho suffering Memphians, and will give more if needed. The wife of Sheriff Kern, of Philadelphia, has just died of hydrophobia. Six weeks ago site was bitten by a pet dog. Two children have just been fatally poisonod at Linden, N. J , by eating toad-stools. "West. Advices from the West report that Col. Miles has returned to Fort Keogh with his command, consisting of seven companies of tho Fifth infantry, bringing with him nearly 1,000 half-breeds, who have beeu furnishing ainiß and ammunition to the Indians between the Yellowstone and the boundary line. He has cleared the country of all roving bands, and driven Hitting Hull's followers across the American liue, besides breaking up the illicit traffic in arms and ammunition between the half-broods and hostile Indians. The campaign was very successful, considering the small loss to Miles. A wonderful feat in swimming has been performed by a woman at Lake Geneva, Wis. Mrs. Edward E. Ayer, of Harvard, 111., swam across the lake from Harvard Park to Gamp Collie, a distance of two miles, in two hours aud ton minutes. A San Francisco dispatch says that Charlos Do Young, who attempted to assassinate I. H. Kallocb, has been admitted to bail in the sum of #25,000. A San Francisco dispatch says the Eureka stage coach was Btopped above Nevada City by twelve masked men, tho express bag taken, and the passengers made to stand up n the road and deliver their personal proporty. William F. Cummings, banker, of Moore’s Flat, resisted the robbers when they attempted to take a gold bar belonging to him, and was shot through tho head and instantly lulled. _ A Chicago paper says the cost of building in that city is 20 to 25 per cent, higher than it was six months ago. Bricks are worth nearly twice as much now as they were then, and wages have advanced 50 cents a day for bricklayers, and 50 to 75 for unskilled workers. Three men were recently taken from the custody of a constable by a mob in Mendocino county, Cal., and hanged. Their offense was the larceny of a saddle and some harness. Three young people, named Louis Summit, Alice Cottrell and Ellen Delinger, were drowned near Petersburg, Ind., a few days ago. They were being ferried across White river in a fiat boat, and the mules attached to the wagon in which they were sitting, becoming frightened, precipitated the vehicle and its human freight into tho water, with the result mentioned. The Bteamer Alaska, plying between Detroit and Sandusky, met with a serious disaster near Detroit. The lining in her steamchimney blew out, knocking the front end of the boiler into pieces. The escaping steam scalded eight of the crew. The two engineers, one fireman and one deck-hand jumped overboard. The latter was saved, but the other three were drowned and their bodies lost. Nebraska is filling up and growing. A late census, shows a population of 386,400, being an increase of 263,417 since 1870. Quincy, 111., was visited by a fire last week, which swept away about #IOO,OOO worth of business property. A freight train on the St. Louis division of the Wabash road ran through a bridge near Carpenter station, kiliing Engineer Corcoran and Brakeman Unemeyer, and seriousljr injuring the fireman. The engine and

eight cars jumped the track and went through the bridge. South. David Contrill, aged 18, shot and killed Frank McConnell, aged 10, in Caldwell county, Ky. The first of the Chisholm murder cases—that of Henry G. Gully, charged with mui dering Miss Cornelia Chisholm—hae taken upintbeCircuitCourtof Kemper county, Miss., at DeKalb, on the sth of September. Gen. Troodford, of New York, was present, but stated that he could take no part in the proceedings. He simply went as an escort to Mrs. Chisholm. A terribly destructive storm recently visited the country round about New Orleans. Several steamboats and a large number of canal boats were sunk, and sugar-houses, warehouses, and other buildings wero wrecked by tbe score. The loss will reach hundred;) of thousands of dollars. Nine deaths fronp yellow fever and orty four new cases at Memphis for tho forty eight hours ending on the evening of Bept. 2. The National Board of Health have approved of the plan submitted by the Buporintendent of Quarantine), for the establishment of a quarantine picket, encircling the entire city and suburbs. Fifty men have beon assigned to patrol duty, to enforco this new quarantine law. The wife of ex-Lieut. Gov. Charles P. Johnson, of Missouri, committed suicide at St. Louis, last week, by taking arsenic. Her mind had been impaired for some months. At Memphis, for the forty-eight hours ending at 0 o’clock p. m., Bept. 4, there were sixteen deaths from yellow fever. Fifty-five new cases were reported to the Board of Health for the same period. The fever was gradually spreading in the suburbs and toward the country. • The Howard Association have exhausted their funds, and have issued an appeal for aid to the country at large. At a meeting of the Colored Refuge Board at Bt. Louis, last week, reports were made going to show that there has been little falling off in the negro emigration northward, and that the number may be expected to'increase after the crop is gathered. Twenty-two deaths from yellow fever and forty new cases of the disease were reported to the Memphis Board of Health for the three days ending on the evening of Bept. 7. Total new cases for the week, 152, of which seventy-eight were whites and seventy-four colored. Total number of cases since the breaking out of the disease, 1,005, and total deaths, 272.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Government is making full provisions for furnishing coin in Now York in exchange for the gold bullion which is coming in so rapidly from France and England to pay for the enormous quantities of grain now being exported to those countries. A Washington dispatch of the Bth inst, says: “ The President and family left today for the West. Gen. Sherman will accompany the President to Cincinnati, and attend the Exposition there. Secretary Evarts will join the President in his visit to Kansas, and remain with him until his return, early in October. Secretary Thompson loaves to-morrow for Indiana, and Secretary McCrary on the 30th for lowa. The latter will inspect some Western posts. When Postmaster General Key returns, Gen. Tyner will go to Indiana.” POLITICAL POINTS. The Republicans of Minnesota held their State Convention at St. Paul on the 2d inst. John 8. Pillsbury, present incumbent, was nominated for re-election to the Governorship on the first ballot, and C. A. Gilman, of St. Cloud, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor, on the fourth ballot. Ex-Gov. Seymour has written a letter declining to be a candidate for the Governorship of New York, and rebuking the existing diesensions in the Democratic party of that State.