Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1879 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

vor»<»x mrwA Russia has sent a fleet of privateers into Chinese waters, and English merchants are becoming excited in consequence. Thirty persons have died lately in a small town of Southern Russia from eating poisoned fish. Gen. Roberts entered Cabul, on the 12th inst., accompanied by the Ameer and hie suite. British troops of all arms lined the road, and the artillery fired a salute when the British standard was hoisted at the entrance to the city. A dispatch dated Simla, Oct. 14, says the camp at Ali-Kheyl has been attacked by large numbers of neighboring tribes. The attack was repulsed. Twenty-three Afghan corpses were found, and it is believed many more were earned off. The British casualties were only five wounded. The tenant-farmers in two counties of Ireland are practicing as well as preaching. Five hundred agriculturists met ia County Mayo and solemnly pledged themselves to pay no rent until a reduction shall be granted proportionate to the fall of prices of all kinds of produce.

Opposition to the new tariff and to the proposed emancipation of the slaves in Cuba is increasing in strength and virulorce in Npain. Apparent inability of the Government to carry out its proposed measures had already caused Gon. Martinez Campos, Minister of War and President of the Council, and Albacete, Minister of Colonies, to tender their resignations, and it is generally believed the entire Cabinet will speedily follow thoir example. While in this land we are rejoicing at our plenty, the distress in Hungary, among the agricultural classes, is such that it is feared the measurei undertaken for their relief by the Government will come too late to enable them to do their fall planting in season. Throughout the country thousands of people are without money with which to buy food. The recent inundations in the Spanish provinces constitutes one of the most appalling disasters of the century. In the Malaga and Ali<-into districts alone 2,0 W) houses wore swept away by the Hoods. The damage to property is estimated at 30,(MX),(XX) francs. Five hundred and seventy bodies of the drowned have already been recovered. How many have lieen carried to the sea is matter of n.are conjecture, but it is estimated that not less than 1,000 people were overtaken by the Hood and perished. Yakoob Khan has notified the British of his in'ontion to abdicate the throne of Afghanistan. Gen. Roberts is said to have attempted to dissuade t 'O Ameer from his purpose, < ffo.-t, his do'ermination being unaltei aldo. The French Government has taken meatis to protect t-clf against, the Communistic and 110 iapartist ngbato.a by oidering tho procurers general to suppress pub'i :nt ons and disperse nioctmgi 1.0 Pile to the repnl Ic. A dispatch from Afghanistan reports that the magazi ne Ba ahis-nr, at Caimi, has been blown iv>. Tse ry seven of the British force and many Afghans weie killed by the explosion.

DOMNgTIO INTELLIGENCE. HI Ret. The death of the venerable Henry C. Carey, of Phi I ado pliia, wainouiijcd at the advanced ape of 86 years. He was tho bestknown of American wi iters upon the subject of protection. Dr. Le Moyne, the cremationist, who built the furnace at Washington, Pa, died lately, and was burned in his own crematory. Henry H. Farnum, President of the National Bank of Port Jervis, N. ¥., died a few days ago, aged 71 years. He was married six days before, and leaves to his widow $1,000,000. A boat-race between the two crack oarsmen, Courtney, of New York, and Hanlan, of Canada, was extensively advertised to come off at Chautauqua lake, N. Y., on the 16th of October, and many thousands of people assembled to witness tho match. No little excitement was caused by the discovery that sometime during the preceding night Courtney’s boat-house had been broken into and his two favorite boats eawed in twain. In consequence of this bit of rascality, Courtney declined to row. Hanlan then went over the course alone and put in a claim for tbe stakes. I he remains of tho late Dr. Le Moyne were cremated in the furnace erected by him at Washington, Pa., on the 16th inst. Tho process of incineration was rather slow, on account of the insufficiency of heat, but tbe managers of tbe affair claim that it was a success. Kt. Rev. William R. Whittingh am, I the Episcopal Bishop of Maryland, died at bis summer home in Orange, N. J., last week, aged « 4 years. He had been confined to his house for nearly a year. Freeman, the Pocasset (Mass.) fanatic, who offered up his little daughter as a sacrifice, has been indicted for murder in the first degree. No bill was found against fare. Freeman. Bouth. Dispatches of the 12th inst., from Grayson, Ky., give the situation of the Underwood war at that date as follows: “Jesse Underwood w s shot in tjie door of his father's house, known as Fort Underwood, yesterday morning. The Holbrook party surrounded tho house, threatening to kill anybody who would dare to bury Jesse’s body or rescue George, who is oadly wounded, and with the women and children, all that remains of the unfortunate Underwood family, inside of the house. George today sent word to the County Judge, praying for help and protection. Tho Governor has been appealed to, but has not responded. This is the fifth murder within the last three weeks in Carter county, four of the murdered men being Underwoods and a member of the Holbrook tribe, and nothing has been done to check this fearful bloodshed.” A Memphis dispatch of Oct. 16, says: “Total yellow fever deaths to date, 584. Rev. Jacob J. Peres, who died yesterday, was the learned Jewish divine, well known all over the country. Concordia, Miss., has lost sixteen out of forty-eight cases. There is no hope of the fever abating here during the continuance of the present warm weather.” A gang of Georgia desperadoes is terrorizing the people in the vicinity of Milledgeville, Ga. Their chief occupation is murder and arson, and they defy tho civil authorities. A dispatch from Gastonia, N. C., says Revenue Agent Blacker, assisted by Deputy Collector Gyles, has unearthed gross frauds in Gaston conn'y, N. C , carried on by registered grain distillers in collusion with Government officers. The negro exodus continues to boom. Arrivals at St Louis from the South average from tun y to thirty families per week, those flow coming being mainly from Alabama and

Tennessee. It is reported that the movement will be larger than ever in the spring. A dispatch from Sparta, .Ga., states that the accounts of the outlaws in the eastern portion of Baldwin county have been greatly exaggerated. The trouble is a political one. The outlaws burned the gin and cotton-houses and fodder-stacks of Mr. Robson, for the purpose of drawing him out of the house to shoot him. They killed a negro man for reporting them to the Grand Jury. They burned the tannery and barns of Luke Robinson and whipped a colored woman and her daughter in Hancock county. The gang have taken refuge in the swamps of Oconee and Ogechee. Two passengers were killed at Maywood, 111., by a collision between an accommodation and a gravel train on the Northwestern railroad, the other evening. Two men who are believed to have been of the paity of masked desperadoes who robbed the express car on the Chicago and Alton railroad at Glendale last week have been arrested at Holden, Johnson county, Mo. The circumstances attending their capture indicate that the detectives were not mistaken in their men. Lachutte, an Indian, for the murder of a Chinaman, was hanged at New Westminster, Cal., a few days ago. Thirty-nine Mexicans were killed by he Apache Indians, at Hillsborough, New Mexico, last week, and their bodies burned Santa Fo has organized for defense against the savages. A serious railroad accident happened on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, near Cleveland, Ohio, on the morning of Oct 15. An express train, running at t'.io rate of twenty-live miles an hour, dashed into a freght train which had stopped on the road on account of the inability of its engine to pnll tho heavy load, demolishing tho caboose and several freight cars loaded with coal and merchandise, and wrecking also the engine of the passenger train and the mail and baggage cars. Tbe car following the engine was a postal car, in which a gang of clerks were at work. The car was telescoped for about ten feet by tho tender of the engine, and three of tho clerks were caught in the debris, and were unable to extricate themselves, all being eeriously injured about the logs and lower parts of the body. Three or four other persons were injured by the collision, but all will probably recover.

Great preparations are being made in Chicago for tho reception of Gon. Grant on the 12th of November, it being the intention to make the affair surpass the San Francisco reception. The railroads will undoubtedly offer reduced fares, and all soldiers are invited to attend. Tbe manager,of the military parts of tho affair desire the soldiers, where it is practicable, to form in companies or equads, and forward statements of the number of mon to the Secretary of the Union Veteran Club, Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, so that they may be assigned, in advance, to their proper position inline; also to report whether accompanied with music. Baumgarten, the perpetrator of the atrocious murder of little Sandy White, near Janesville, Wis , has been sentenced to a life term in the Wisconsin penitentiary, having pleaded guilty. The Coroner’s jury has completed its investigation into the causes of the Michigan Central railroad horror at Jackson, and has returned a verdict severely censuring the yardmister, who ordered the switch-engine upon the track within ten minutes of the time the express train was due. The jury, in the verdict, also censures the switchman in charge of the engine, and the engineer of the switchengine. The nephew of Wise, the missing aero ant, who was also bis manager, has published his view of the fate of the men who went up in the Patbfin er. He is firmly of the belief that the balloon sailed beyond Lake Michigan and descended in some forest, and, the aeronauts being injured, probably were starved. Gen. Grant left Oregon on the 16th inst, and returned to San Francisco, where he was entertained by the Forty-niners at Pioneer Hall, and presented with a certificate of membership in the Pioneers' Society. The determination of the authorities at Washington to abandon the campaign against the Utes has brought out indignant protests from the Governor and leading citizens of Colorado, and an expression of bewilderment and disgust from Gen. Sheridan. The people of the State in which the Indian reservation lies notify the Government, through an Inspector of the bureau, that the savages must be taken away, or they will be exterminated by the State itself, regardless of Federal law or officers. They complain that confidence can not be restored so long as the murderous devils infest their territory, and that their only hope for peace and prosperity lies in the removal, dead or alive, of the authors of all the late mischief. Chicago’s great Inter-State Exposition came to an end on Saturday, Oct 18. The exhibition has been a great financial success, the attendance during the last three weeks having been very large. During this period the receipts were more than enough to cover the expenses of the entire six weeks. A horrible murder is reported from Milton, Rock county, Wis., the victim being a one-legged tin-peddler named Ed ward Fogarty. Evidence pointsjto Henry Christensen and the wife of Fogarty as the authors of the crime. After murdering their victim they carried the body some distance, placed it in a clover rick, and then set fire to the rick, partially consuming the corpse. Christensen confesses that he killed Fogarty, claiming that he acted in selfdefense.

William Howard, ex-City Treasurer of Madison, Ind., who was shot in au altercation with Maj. Simpson, editor of the Madison Star, died on the 18th inst. Simpson, who was out on bail, was rearrested; also John L. McFetridge. local editor of the Star, who is implicated in the affair. WASHINGTON NOTESThe question of transferring the Indian Bureau from the Interior to the War Department is being again agitated. Returns to the Department of Agriculture for October show an average condition for the cotton States of 81 per cent., a decline since Sept. 1 of 4 per cent. Compared with October, 1878, there is a decline of 9 per cent. The condition then was 90. Storms of great severity visited Louisiana and Mississippi, causing great damage. Insect injuries are not reported to any great extent; although almost universal, their appearance was too late to do much damage. Unfavorable weather in Alabuna and Georgia, in September, was reported. Drought in Texas has shortened the prospect in that State nearly 25 per cent Resumption began at Washington in reality on the 15th inst It was mid-month payday, when in the Treasury Department the clerks received their semi-monthly salaries. Every dollar of these salaries was paid in specie, 10 per cent in silver dollars and 90 per cent in gold coin. The epnunission appointed by the

President to visit Cuba and investigate the yellow fever has returned to Washington, having spent three months on the island. The Commissioners sayjthat it would be impossible at this time to furnish for publication any intelligent synopsis of the work of the commission, because of the great mass of material which must be classified and collated. They state, however, that the commission discovered, beyond all controversy, that yellow fever permanently dwells in Cuba, and that hospital and other statistics in the possession of the Commission show that during the period embraced between 1856 and the present time scarcely a single month has passed without deaths from yellow fever occurring on the island. ’* The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the value of exports from the United States of live animals of all kinds increased from <5,844,653 during the fiscal year of 1878 to $11,487,754 during 1879. Of the total exports of live animals the last fiscal year, 71 per cent was sent to Great Britain. The value of exports of cattle increased from $3,896,818 during 1878 to $8,379,200 in 1879. Speaker Randall, Chairman of the Committee on Rules, says that that committee has completed its task, and has reduced the present riles to fifty, and has made them so simple that it will be in the power of any member of ordinary capacity to understand them. A meeting will be held in Washington soon for the purpose of acting upon the codification and for preparing a report' to be submitted to the House immediately upon tho assembling of Congress. The present rules are 166 in number, and so complicated and cumbrous that very few Congressmen over become familiar with them. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has telegraphed to Revenue Agent Blocker, of North Carolina, to cause the seizure of all fraudulent distilleries, and tho arrest and vigorous prosecution of fraudulent distillers and dishonest officials.

POLITICAL POINTS. A. C. Woodworth has been put upon the Massachusetts Greenback ticket for Lieutenant Governor, in place of Wendell Phillips Elections were held in Ohio and lowa for State officers and members of tho Legislature on Tuesday, the 14th of October. In Ohio there were three candidates for Governor—Charles Foster, Republican; Thomas Ewing, Democrat, and A. Saunders Piatt, Greenbacker. The vote of the State in recent ye irs has been as follows: Year. Rep. D< m. Grbk, Proh. 1875271.120 27!HM>6 38.833 5,674 1877249 105 271.625 29.401 4.836 1876330,698 323 JB3 3.057 1,636 At the election held on the 14th inst. the entire Republican ticket was chosen by a plurality of about 20,000. Tho Greenback vote was unexpectedly small. Following is a list of the State officials elected: Governor Charles Fo ter. Lieutenant Governor Andrew Hickenlooper. Supreme Judge William V. Johnson. Attorney General George K. Nash. Auditor John F. Oglevee. Treasurer Joseph Turuey. Member of Board of Public Works James Fullington. The Legislature is Republican in both branches by small majorities, which insures the election of a Republican United States Senator to succeed Mr. Thurman. In lowa there was also a triangular contest, John H. Gear, having been nominated by the Republicans for Governor, Henry H. Trimble by the Democrats, and Daniel Campbell by the Greenbackers. Gear is elected by a majority of upward of 30,000 over both of the other candidates. The vote of lowa in recent years has been as follows: Year. Rep. Dem. Grbk. 18781.34.544 1,302 123 577 1877121,546 79,353 34,228 1876 171,332 112,121 The Republicans this year secure the Legislature by the usual heavy majority. Official returns of the late election in California show the vote on Chinese immigration to have been: In favor, 883; against, 154,683.