Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1879 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NOBBIGN NEWS. The commission appointed for the purpose by the Spanish Government have matured a plan for the emancipation of slaves in Cuba. The commission recommend that all ■laves be freed in seven years from the date of the passage of an Emancipation bill, which is to be prepared and presented to the Cortes. Bulgaria and Bervia have formed a defensive and offensive alliance. There is great distress in Hungary on account of the bad harvest, and the Government has suspended the collection of taxes until the harvest has been gathered. From the tenor of late cable dispatches it would appear that no AustroGorman treaty of alliance had been signed by the Emperors, as stated. It is intimated, however, that such a treaty has been concluded, and that it is in writing, bnt does not require signatures. A St. Petersburg dispatch says the Russian press expresses great indignation at Salisbury's allusions to Russia in his recent speech at Manchester. The Ojflcial Meuenger •ays it is unusual for a foreign Minister to speak thus of a friendly nation, and that such language is not calculated to contribute to the maintenance of peace and good relations. The work of removing to America the Cleopatra’s Needle presented to the city of New York by the Khedive of Egypt is to begin at once. Lieutenant Commander Gorringe, of the United States navy, has chaige of the work.

Labouchere and Lawson, the London editors who recently engaged in a street encounter, have been requested by a commitlee of the Beefsteak Club to withdraw from that organization. They have used beefsteiks of late only as plasters for black eyes, and the sacrilege has been relented as above. The Municipal Council of Berlin recommends the universal adoption of the practice of cremation. The Emperor of Austria has given to the Spanish Envoy Extraordinary his formal sanction to the marriage of the Archduchess Marie Christine to King Alfonso. Advices from Cabul report that the mutinous Afghan regiments have been dispersed. The disarmament of Cabul and the surrounding district is proceeding. Ths Ameer will be practically in safe-keeping until the inquiry into the massacre is finished. There has been a further advance in the price of wool and iron in England. The Turkish Government has prohibited the exportation of grain. The political relations between Germany and Russia are said to nave improved lately. Hungary is in a bad way financially. The budget for IWO will show a deficit of -over 17,000, (XX) florins. The bill to be presented to the Spanish Cortes for tho abolition of slavery in Cuba provides that slaves ag <1 over 55 yoirs elia l 1880: those 45 years of age, in 1882; those 40, in 1881; those 35, in 1886; those 3 •, in 1888; a’l others in" 181 X-. Three hundred and fifty pesetas is to bo paid the owner for ea h slave liberated.

As a favor to Russia, the new Turkish Cabinet has recalled the troops from the East Roumelian frontier. In France and Italy the grape vines are being rapidly destroyed by phy 1 x- ri, an 1 the importation of insect-proof vims from America is suggest d as a remedy. In England the cattle trade shows signs of a marked revival. Disastrous floods are reported in the Island of Jama'ca. Thirty thousand people in Hungary are said to be on the a ergo of starvation. Germany has decided to continue the duty on cereals imported into the empire until the Ist of January next The Governor of Alexandria has delivered to Lieut. Commander Henry H. Gorringe, of the United States navy, by the order of the Khedive of Egypt, the obelisk known as Cleopatra’s Needle. The work of removal has begun, and it will probably reach America about a month after it leaves Egyptian soil, which will be at an early date. It will be loaded and transported much as was the one carried to London.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE, The village of Chittenango, fifteen miles oast of Syracuse, N. Y., is greatly excited over the alleged crimes of a modern Borgia, whoso deeds, if proved, eclipse the bloody deeds of the ancient demon of that name. Mrs. Fi ances Schroeder, a married woman, is charged with poisoning her father, mother and aunt The woman and her husband are both under arrest. The Montauk steam cotton-mills at Sag Harbor, Long Island, have been burned. Two hundred operatives are thrown out of employment The loss is $200,000; insurance, ♦IOO.OOO. The new American Rapid Telegraph Company has all its poles set between Boston and New York, and over 100 miles of wire strung, putting up two st: ings, those b< ing all that will be required by this new proci si. The work is going on from both ends of the route. The method of telegraphy used by this company is purely mechanical, mcesa cs being sent by simply turning a crank, und requires no hand-key operators. Peiforated paper is used in preparing messages for transmission, and they are received on strips similar to the Morse system. Cheapness, as well as rapidity, is the basis of merit in the aims of this new company, and, if successful, they claim it w'ill sweep the entire field of telegraphy. The fall trade is unusually brisk in the Eastenj cities. We.t, Cincinnati papers report that the Ohio river is lower than it has been for twenty years. At hundreds of points between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh it can be forded easily. Scarcely a boat can be seen anywhere. Navigation i< nearly suspended, and freight is piled up in great quantities at all points between Pittsburgh and Louisville wai ing for the rise A package of circulars from Prof. Wise’s balloon Pathfinder were picked up a few days ago on the beach of Lake Michigan, near Lake Station, Ind. This leaves no doubt that the balloon seen in th-t region on the day of Wise’s ascension was the Pathfinder, and strengthens the theory that the vessel and its passengers weie lost in Lake Michigan. A frightful tragedy was enacted in the city of Bloomington, 111., on the 20th of October. At noon of that day, William Hogg, an old and respected business man of Bloomington, entertd his home. and,.drawing a Smith & Wesson seven-shot pistol, shot his daughter Mamie, aged 18, probably fatally, bhe was Stooping filling a valise with clothing, and fell

over insensible, the ball entering just behind the ear and passing downward into the throat Hogg then went into the yard, where bis son Willie, aged 12, was playing, and, calling him to him, shot him in the same place. He then plajeithe revolver to his own head and fired, the ball entering hi* temple and lodging in the brain. Willie, not being stunned, ran away. The father was on his back on the floor of the summer kitchen, with the pistol in his right hand, and the blood pouring from his Wound. Hogg’s wife was absent at the time, and so probably missed a terrible death. Hogg died in about ono hour. Financial trouble is supposed to have caused the deed.

A telegram from Los Pinos announces that Gen. Adams, the Commissioner of the Interior Department to effect the release of the women and children captured at White River Agency, had reached Chief Ouray’s house, and would immediately proceed with an escort of Utes to the camp of Douglas, the chief who held, the captives, which is about 100 miles distant An Indian runner from that camp brought the welcome intelligence that the captives were safe and kindly treated. A Tucson (Arizona) dispatch has the following in regard to the Indian war ir New Mexico: Silver City letter says of the slaughter on the 18th: “Arriving at the scene of the tragedy, we found sixteen persons dead. We buried them. Five others are known to have been killed. We have found no Indians about It is now believed that Victoria’s band is trying to go through by the Burro mountains to Mexico. Cob Morrow says he has troops enough to whip Victoria, but it will take two months to do it. He needs a couple of light howitzers. Volunteers are being raised at Mesilla and Las Cruces. In tho fight on the 13th the Mesilla and Las Cruces company, numbering thirty, were massacred by ICO Indians, only one man (Hicks) escaping.” The county jail at Breckenridge, Minn., was burned last week, and the only prisoner, a colored man, was burned to death. The ninth annual session of the North American Bee-Keepers’ Association was held at Chicago last week. There was a large attendance of delegates from different sections of the country.

A hortible tragedy was enacted at Stringville, a village near Cleveland, Ohio, one night last week. A young German named Louis Nailer, in a fit of passion drew a revolver and shot his father dead. His mother, who interfered, was also mortally wounded, receiving one shot in the head and two in the body. The fiend then directed his attention to a young brother, shooting him through the breast and inflicting a dangerous wound. The murderer was arrested and confessed the crime, but says he does not know why be did it. Dr. Kalloch, Mayor-elect of San Francisco, was given a benefit and reception combined, in that city, one day last week. Although the admission fee was sl, a large hall was packed and many were unable to gain entrance. He spoke in a bitter strain of the attempt to assassinate him. Gen. Laz. Noble, a prominent citizen of Indiana, died recently in Colorado. Criminal indictments have been reI*. vnisvvWy MUi/ltUi tviici «.» er of he grand stand at the Adrian (Mich.) Fair Grounds, the fall of which, some weeks ago, killed and maimed so many people. Advices from Utah are to tho effect that the Uintah Ute and Snake Indians are on the war-path, and that already some settlers on the Ashley fork of the Green river have been massacred.

Capt. P. D. Tyrrell, of the Government secret service, who has been in St. Louis off and on for several weeks past working up a counterfeiting case, has at last had his labors rewarded by the capture of a gang of seven persons who are accused of counterfeiting and putting into circulation silver dollars and halfdollars. Gen. Grant arrived at Sacramento, Cal., Oct. 22, and was accorded an enthusiastic reception. He was escorted from the depot to the Capitol by a procession numbering 12,000 people, and spoke as follows: “Of all the hospitality bestowed, all the honor conft rred, there has been nothing so grateful to my heart as the receptions I have received at the hands of the people here. I would not say what has been done abroad. It has been all that could be done for mortal, but it has not been for me. It has been done for the people whom I see before me—for the people of a great country that is recognized abroad as one of the greatest countries of the world. If we all, every one of us, could see other countries as I have seen them, we would make better citizens or, at least, the average of our citizens would be better.” In the evening, Gen. and Mrs. Grant held a reception in the Capitol and shook hands with 9,000 people. The city was illuminated, and there were arches, fireworks, calcium lights, and all that sort of thing. On the 23d, the ex-President attended a ba becue and military review of the veteran soldiers and sailors, and dined with Senator Booth.

Advices frem the Cheyenne Indian Agency, in Dakota Territory, report that large numbers of Minneconjou Sioux have left the reservation and gone on the war-path. News comes from New Mexico that “Victoria’s band has divided, one party going in the direction of the Florida mountains, and the other for the Burro mountains. Capt. B iyer has issued a warning to all the settlers on the upper Gila to be on t. L e alert, as there is great danger ahead. Maj. Morrow is in hot pursuit of Victoria with 300 soldiers. ” Gen. Grant bade farewell to San Francisco and turned his face eastward on the morning of Oct. 26. The evening previous he was tendered a farewell banquet by the citizens of San Francisco, and in reply to a toast by the Mayor responded as follows: “Gentlemen of San Fbancisco: The unbounded hospitality and cordiality I have reci ived since I first put my feet on the soil of California has taken deep root in my heart It was more than I could have expected, and, while it has entailed some little fatigue at times, I assure you I have only been grateful for it I have previously been in California, and on the Pacific coast, but have been away a quarter of a century, and when I landed here the last time I found that none of the pioneers had grown old; but, if I should remain away another quarter of a century, I might be compelled to confess that some of you had grown old, and I want to see you again in your prime and youth. Gentlemen, in taking my departure, I want to thank you all.for the farewell reception given me this evening, and to express the hope that, whether or not I am to have the happiness ever to visit your city again, I shall at least meet one and all of you elsewhere, and, if it should not bo in this life, that it may be in the Better Country.” The grain-speculation mania shows no signs of abatement in Chicago. Haverly’s Mastodon Minstrels are at his Chicago house during the present week, and, as everywhere, the house can not hold the crowds that attend This is probably the most remunerative of all' Col. Haverly’s numerous ventures in tho amusement field, and he has gathered together about? all the minstrel talent t > be found in the country in one monster aggregation, The ctey of the old '’nigger show"

is passed, and It now requires ability of a high order to become a member of the Mastodons. The mystery surrounding the fate of Prof. Wise and his companion, George T. Burr, who left St Louis in a balloon on the 27th of September last, has been cleared away by the discovery of the remains of Mr. Burr in Lake Michigan at Miller’s Station, Lake county, Ind. The balloon was seen passing that point late on the night of the ascension, and it must have been wrecked soon after reaching the water. Since the opening of the Ute Indian war thirty-three whites have been slain, while thirty-nine savages have been made to bite the dust Special Agent Adams, who was sent out by Secretary Schurz to meet the hostile Utes, reports that he visited the camp of the hostiles between Grand and Gunnison rivers, ■nd that, after holding a conference with them, the captive women and children were delivered tj him without conditions. The captives were unharmed, and had not been subjected to any insult or injury. The Indians desire peace, and claim to have been forced into the outbreak. Gen. Adams also reports that after leaving the bos tiles’country I e met Indian runners who reported tl-cir “ lookouts” had a fight, on the 20th of Octo' <■ , with a hunting party from Merritt’s camp, 1 rought about accidentally by the scouts firing on an Indian, in which a scout named Hume, Lieut. Weir, and two other whites and two Indians were killed. The Indians claim they were posted at that place merely to observe the movements of the troops; that they did not want to fight, and did not fight until Hume killed one of their number.

Gen. Morrow, with a force of 300 soldiers, is now in hot pursuit of the murderous I and of Indians who have been recently committing masssacres and thefts in New Mexico. A band of Sioux is also reported to be on the war-path in Dakota, and two companies of the United States Eleventh Infantry are now in pursuit of them. Gen. Merritt’s force in Colorado is being reinforced, and, if not prevented by heavy snows, the probability is that the murderers of Maj. Thornburgh and Agent Meeker will be hunted down shortly with vigor. South* The cotton crop of Alabama has been seriously damaged by rain. One night last week, a mob of 200 men rode into Martinsburg, Elliott county, Ky., overpowered the jailer, took two prisoners, John W. Kendall and Wm. McMillan, to a tree near by and hanged them until dead The men hanged were known to belong to a gang of outlaws. They also attempted to secure John Cohn, a desperate character, living in town. He managed to escape, but in doing so was wounded in the left shoulder and left limb. The ninety-eighth anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis was celebrated in a spirited manner, on the 23d of October, by the people of Yorktown, Ya., where the memorable event transpired. Yellow Jack has been vanquished by Jack Fmst. and the Southern piague is at an cud.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Supreme Court of the United States has sustained the constitutionality of the Pacific Railroad Funding law passed in May, 1878, by which the Pacific railroads who are in arrears upon their obligations to the United States Government are required to set apart a certain portion of their earnings each year for the extinguishment of such debts. Dissenting opinions were filed by Justices Strong, Bradley and Field. It is authoritatively announced from Washington that Secretary Sherman will not be a candidate for the Ohio Senatorahip as the successor of Judge Thurman. The following is the official vote cast in Ohio for Governor, at the election held Oct. 14: Foster, Republican, 336,261; Ewing, Democrat, 319,132; Piatt, Greenback, 9,129; Stewart, Prohibition, 4,145. Foster’s majority over Ewing, 17,129. The President has decided to leave the English and Russian missions vacant until the meeting of Congress. In his annual report to Congress, Secretary Sherman will recommend the passage of a law enabling him to continue his refunding operations, by authorizing him to exchange 4 per cent bonds for 5 or 6 per cent, bonds before their maturity. At a Cabinet meeting last week the Ute Indian troubles were discussed. Secretary Schurz and Gen. Sherman gave all the information in the possession of their departments. The discussion turned upon what steps should bo taken toward the Indians, and it was decided that for the present only precautionary measures should be adopted. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs last week received a dispatch from Agent McGillycuddy at Red Cloud Agency, saying: *• Twenty Sitting Bull Indians just in with a pass from Maj. Walsh (British officer at the nearest post across the border). Many more will come when the Missouri freezes. Do you want them fed ? ” To this Commissioner Hayt replied as follows: “The Secretary desires me to say that the Sitting Bull Indians returning must be looked upon virtually as prisoners of war. They must surrender their arms and ponies. The idea must not be permitted to spread that they can simply come back and be fed. Every one of them, if fed, must be made to earn his rations by work for the Government. Enforce this policy strictly, and keep them well watched.”

POLITICAL POINTS. The Louisiana Republican State Convention was held at New Orleans Oct. 20-21. The following ticket r o- State officers was nominated: For- Governor, Taylor Beattie; Lieutenant Governor, James M. Gillespie; Attorney General, Judge Don A Pardee; Auditor, Claudius Mayo; Superintendent of Public Education, Dr. R. T. Bousano; Secretary of State, James D. . Kennedy (colored.) A resolution was adopted declaring Grant the unalterable choice of the convention for President. There was an election in Baltimore for Mayor, last week, the vote result ng: Latrobe, Democrat, 25,729; Hooper, Republican, 19,830; Mathiot, Greenback, 95. The official canvass of the vote on General Assembly at tho late Ohio election gives the Republicans 69 and the Democrats 45 members of the House, while in the Senate the Republicans have 22 and the Democrats 15—a majority on joint ballot of 31. , • Ex-Senator Rumsey, of Minnesota, confidently expects to be Secretary McCi ary’s successor in the War Department, and has engaged a residence at Washington.