Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1879 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

VOBSXOW MIWI King Cety wayo, in the keeping of his British captors, yet retains royal notions of his own as to how royalty should be treated, even in captivity. He demands a whole ox roasted daily for his dinner, and, when informed that he would be treated according to his station, straightway asked that ten more of his wives be sent for at once. The Russian press make a fresh outbreak of hostility against England and Germany. The bt. Petersburg Novoe Vremya says : “ Sooner or later a war of life and death with England is inevitable. The only question now to be considered is, which is the most available route to Hindoostan.” The Duke of Beaufort, proprietor of large estates in England and Ireland, says it is impossible to compete with American productions. He advises that British farmers should devote their attention to raising cattle. Revolting details of the sufferings of the famine-stricken people still cohie from Cashmere. There is reason to hope that the worst is over, but undoubtedly the relief measures have been miserably mismanaged by the Maharajah and his and the loss of life has been terrible. Gen. Roberts, in command of the British army advancing on Cabul, gained an important victory on the 7th of October, near the Afghan capital. The native position was carried, twelve guns captured, and the enemy pursue 1 until nights all. The loss of the AngloIndian troops was eighty killed and wounded.

The terrible Peruvian ram Huascar, which lias been playing havoj with Chili’s little navy for a long time, has at last been captured by the Chilians. Spain will send 4,000 troops to Cuba this month. The specie balance in the Bank of France continues to diminish, indicating, the drainage of bullion from that nation. Bismarck has a majority of 175 in the lleichstag recently returned by the people of Germany. In the Afghan war a British force Hsnt to cut off the retreat of the enemy, on the road between Bannian and Bohistan, captured seventy-eight guns in Nhalpur. The guns were found in an abandoned cantonment, and among them are seventeen Armslrongs. Two hundred and sixty-seven farmers and their wives sailed recently from Liverpool for New ()rlean u , on their way to Texas. They are for the most part well provided with money, and hail from Durham, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and- Gloucestershiio. A IS unfit dispatch of the 12th says: The public eiibyof Gen. Roberts into Cabul took plane y< n erdav. The number of guns captured thus far is 110. The troop’, during tlif ir mar-h on Cilmi, worked splendidly, although they were obJig> d to cm rv their rations with tncni, and, owing to the want of transportation, they were several days without tents. Roberta has iasiu d a proclamation to the • people of Cabul wa nin : them against resi-tance, and promising punishment to the guilty only. The Ameer is strictly gnu del. The recent great trial of Nihilists at Ht. Petersburg has been completed. M-irsk', Gen. Drenteln’s assailant, will be hanged, and Weimar, concerned with Solovieff, who at tempted the life of the Czir, will be I atiished to Biberis. Count de St. Vallier, French Ambassador at, Berlin, has been spe ilally requ s ed by Waddington, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, to tender his heartfelt thanks to Bismarck for the “ kind and friendly way in which he spoke of France during his laie visit to Vienna.” It is reported from London that a tleet of Russian vessels are under sailing or Jei s to proceed to Japanese and Chinese waters, bearing letters of marque and reprisal. The news is considered ominously suggestive to the commercial interests of Great Britain. It is rumored that the Russian Government has demanded from Constantinople separation for insults to which the Russian Consul General at Salonica was recently subjected by the populace of that city, threatening to send a war-v< ssel to Salonica, if the demand is n>t complied with. Other foreign Consuls at Salonica have asked their Governments for instructions.

IjOMWBTIO INTELLIGNNOA The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania liftH affirmed the constiutionalify of the act of the Logielature declaring Allegheny comity responsible for the destruction of property during the Pittsburgh riots of 1877. The sum involved, and which must now be paid by the property-owners of that county, is approximated at $2,5<X),000. 11. W. Steele, confidential bookkeeper for the Broadway (N. Y.) umbrella firm of Isaac Smith, Sou & (Jo., has left for parts unknown, carrying with him S(X),(XX) of his employers’ funds. Peter McManus, a Mollie Maguire, was hanged at Sunbury, Pa., last week, for the murder of Coroner Hesscr in 1874. John ONeill, sentenced to be hanged at the same time, was reprieved. The six men who were advised by Gen. Butler to cist their votes last fall in Bos ton, when their right to do so was doubtful, havo lioen sent< need to pay tines and the cost of prosecution. By a collision on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, near Wheeling, W. Va., an engineer and fireman lost their lives—also, two lads who were stealing a ride. The New York walking match was won by the young man Murphy, with Howard second and Faber third. Wont. A mob of several hundred people rode into Janesville, Wis., the other day, with the avowed purpose of lynching Baumgarten, the wretch who so cruelly murdered little Sandy White. The Sheriff was apprised of the coming of the mob in time to spirit the prisoner away. The fate of the two men—Prof. Wise and George Burr—who ascended in a balloon from St. Louis on Bund iy evening, Sept. 28, still remains a mystery at this writing. A party under the direction of Prof. Wise’s son, who went from St Loirs to explore the vast bottom lands of Macoupin c unity, II)., on the theory that the lost balloon was wrecked therein, returned to that city the other day, after a very wearisome work. They only succeeded in proving beyond all question that the theories about the balloon landing south of Springfield, 111, are fallacious, and forces the conclusion that the telegraph operator on the shore of Lake Michigan, who thought he saw a balloon passing out over the lak eat 11 o’clock on the night of Sept. 28, was correct The junior Wise refuses to believe tjiat hjs grandfather has been kdled, and holds

to the theory that the balloon landed in Canadian woods, remote from a telegraph station. A Bismarck (D. T.) dispatch says prairie fires are burning the country. “Mandan was saved by the citizens turning out and fighting the fires with sacks and brooms. The woods along the Missouri are on fire. The country between Bismarck and Fargo is all burned. The fires have driven all the chickens into town; the houses are covered with them, and the boys are killing them with stones. The woods are all afire around Deadwood. Several saw-mills are reported to be burned or in great danger. The inhabitants are busy cutting down trees around the town to stop the fire. Thousands of cords of wood have been burned. ” Gen. Grant, after spending a week of quiet and repose in the romantic and delightful valley of the Yosemite, returned to San Francisco on the 7th inst, and was thence driven to Belmont, the palatial residence of Senator Sharon, where a grr.rd reception was given in his honor. The National Humane Society, in session at Chicago last week, adopted a resolution, that a reward of >5,000 be offered for the invention of a car suitable to transportation of stock, the vehicle not to be patented. Gen. Grant sailed from San Francisco for Oregon on the steamer St. Paul, on the 9th of October. BoaatM. A dispatch from White Wright, Grayson county, Texas, gives brief particulars of a horrible ciimo at a place known as Brush, eight miles south of that place: “ Some unknown white men surrounded the house of Thomas Watson, colored, the family consisting of a mother and two children, a boy of 18 and a girl of 9 years, called them to the door and shot them down in cold blood, killing the mother and son instantly and mortally wounding the little girl. The authorities at that place are working faithfully to bring the murderers to justice, but up to date no arfests have been made.” Three men were killed and five seriously wounded by the explosion of a saw-mill near Willis, Texas. A quarrel between the late Mayor and the late Chief of Police of Harrisonburg, Va., culminated in the fatal shooting of the former by the latter in a public street of the town. The 100th anniversary of the siege of Savannah, Ga., was celebrated at that city last week with most imposing ceremonies, and the corner-stone of the monument to the brave Sergt. Jasper was duly laid.

POLITICAL POINTS. The official returns of the vote for Governor of California show as follows: Glenn, Democrat, 47,562; White, Workingman, 44,620; Perkins, Republican, 67,973. The Massachusetts (straight) Democratic Convention, in session at Boston last week, nominated the following ticket for State officers: For Governor, John Quincy Adams, Jr ; Lieutenant Governor, W. P. Plunkett; Secretary of State, Gen. M. T. Donohoe; Treasurer and ReceivAr 4-teweral, David N. Skiilinga; Auditor, William R. Field; Attorney General, Richard Olney. J. G Abbott, P. A. Collins, George W. Gill and Reuben Noble wore elected delegates at large to the National Convention. The Democrats of Louisiana have nominated ex-Mayor L. A. Wiltz, of New Orleans, for Governor. An election was held in Colorado on the 7th of October fer a Supreme Court Judge and county officers. Beck, the Republican candidate for Judge, was elected by about 4,000 majority. One of the United States Marshals in the South, now in Washington, is authority for the statement that Grant will have a solid dele ■ gation from that section of the Union in the next Republican convention. The Senatorial committee which has been engaged for several weeks in an investigation of the aliened bribery of certain members of the Kansas Legislature at the time Ingalls was re-elected to the Senate, last winter, has adjourned to meet again in Washington in December.

WASHINGTON NOTES The stock of silver in the treasury continues to accumulate, despite the large amounts paid out Of s'andard silver dollars the stock on hand is $31,560,000, and the total silver coinage in the Government vaults is $48,500,000. Mr. Schurz, who has returned to Washington, expresses the opinion that the Ute war will be long and tedious, but not necessarily a formidable one. The official figures furnished by the General Land Office at Washington show at what an extraordinary rate the public domain is being disposed of. For the year ending the 30th day of June, inclusive, 8,600,000 acres were taken up'; and, at the rate at which entries are being made, the amount for the current year will be about 10,000,000 acres. In 1877 but 3,481,000 acres were taken, and in 1878 7,760,000. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the exports of petroleum and petroleum products from the United States during August, 1879, amounted to 46,397,776 gallons, valued at $3,630,112. Admiral Almy has received a letter from Gen. Grant, saying that he intends to spend the Christmas holidays in Washington.