Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1879 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

foreign ifxwa. August Rosenberg, editor of the ondon Town Talk, having pleaded guilty to the charge of libeling Mrs Langtry and Mrs. Wost, the English professional beauties, has been sentenced by Justice Hawkins to eighteen months’ imprisonment, and to give bonds in $5,000 for good behavior for eighteen months after the expiration of his term of seclusion. The presiding Judge, in notifying the prisoner of the penalty, said he regretted that the law would not pormit him to add to the sentence hard labor. Servia and Montenegro have again form*d an alliance for offensive and defensive purposes, the present movement being directed chiefly against the Albanians, who threaten their neighbors with invasion. The terrible Peruvian iron-clad Huascar has at last been captured by the Chilians. Austria’s finances are in a badly dilapidated condition. The Ameer of Afghanistan has abdicated. The Universal Peace Congress at Naples broke up in a row. John Blackwood, Sr., the famous Edinburgh publisher, is dead. The Cleopatra Needle, which was presented to the city of New York, has been seized by the creditors of Egypt. Humbert, the Communist, whose late election to the Municipal Council occasioned such a stir in Paris, has now been made a candidate for tho Chamber of Deputies. Madrid advices roport heavy rains throughout Hpain. At Malaga a water-spout uprooted trees aud injurod many persons. At Vera,. in Alnioria, the river overflowed and flooded tho mines, throwing 1,500 men out of work. Twenty-one persons were drowned and thirty horses, and 500,000 posotas’ worth of ore carried away. Advices from Afghanistan report that Col. Kennedy mot and defoatod a noted freebooter of Cabul, after a sovero engagement, in which the British lost thirty-three men. Bix thousand (iliilzam attacked Col. Hughes’ force, who repulsed them witli heavy loss. Gen. Huberts was preparing to go into winter quarters. It is reported from Romo that Italy has entered into an alliance with Austria and Germany against tho excessive preponderance of England and France. John Baldwin Buckstono, the famous comedian, and many years lessco of tho llaymarkot Thoator, London, lias just died at the ago of 77 years. , Ex-Empress Eugenie has returned to Chisel burst. An official return laid before the French Chamber of Deputies shows 3,065 Communists amnestied, 1,300 being prisoners and 1,7(Kl comb lnuod by default. About 1,000 romaiu excluded. Don Carlos, tho Spanish Pretender, has been driven out of France. The Cuban emancipation movement is rapidly gaining strength in Hpain. Capt. Carey, the valiant warrior who ran away wlion the Zulus dissected the l’rince Imperial, announces that ho will resign his commission in the army. Tho truth in regard to the Russian (lofoat'at tho hands of the Turcomans, at GeokTepo, in Central Asia, on tho Sikh of August last, is beginning to leak out at last. It turns out to have been a genuine Waterloo for the Czar’s troops. A St. Petersburg paper admits that “tho affair resulted in an indescribable piinic,” aud tho percentage of the Russian loss was “enormous and unprecedented. ” Letters from Russia state that unlisual activity prevails in all the arsenals and ship-yards of the empire. Heavy contracts have been made in Germany for guns of every description and the belief at Moscow and 8k Petersburg is that tho Government has in contemplation some movement which will again plunge Europe in war. It is stated in a cable dispatch that tho “creditors of the Egyptian Government liavo not soizod the obelisk, but threaten to do so. It seems there is no court in Egypt of competent jurisdiction to issue a writ for tho seizure. Mariett Pasha, who lias charge of the Egyptian monuments, cpposos tho removal, and urges the French Consul to protest to the Khedive on the ground that such a removal will be a violation of tho convention between Egypt and the European powers, by which it is provided that no E yptiau monument or work of ait shall leave ih-j country. Commander Gornnge has In i,tod the American flag over the obelisk, and surrounded it with a guard of po from tho Consulate. Ho declares that ho will i\sist with force any attempt to interfere with him.”

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. H2ms. Mrs. George Frauds Train was found dead in hor bed at ber mother’s house in Now j York, a sow mornings ago, the cause being ! parahsisof the heart. The business portion of Parker, a town ill the oil regions of I’onuevlvanis, Ims ] been almost destroy d by fire. The loss is estimated at SOOO,OOO, and the insuranc) at $200,000. There have been tierce gales on the North-Atlautie coast and throughout Now England, accompanied by snow, sleet and rain. On Mount Washington tho wind lnow at the rate of 130 miles an hour. Mr. Bonner, of the New York Ledger, has sold eighty-six young trotting horses for a total of $34,740. Tho sales were made by auction. Jacob Abbott, a well known author, died at Farmington, Me., last, week, aged 7(3. He was a brother of John 8. 0. Abbott Thomas J. Jackson, of Albany, N. Y., was a passenger on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway train that broke through tho bridge at Ashtabula, Ohio, Dec. 29, 1876. By that accid- lithe rociived injuries from which ho has never recovered. He sued the railroad Company, and an Albany jury has just awarded him $24,000 damages. West. Intelligence comes from tho West of a serious outbreak among Spotted Tail’s band in Southwestern Dakota. It appears that a warrior shot an employe of the agency, Henry Young, the only excuse being because his heart was bad from mourning his sister’s death. Ag nt Nowell arrested him for trial. That night tho warriors fired on the camp from surrounding heights till morning, obliging tho Agent to release the prisoner. On obtaining his liberty he was presented with thirty ponies and a wife. Tho nearest troops are 178 miles distant. The remains of W. 8. Bodie, the oiiginal discoverer of the Bo<jio mining dis tries, and who pern-hod in a snow-storm Nov. 14, 18.7.), were < Hoovered the other day about a mile hoiuli west of tint town of Bodio, Cal. The Wabash pail way, of Ohio, Indi-

ana and Illinois, and the Bt. Louis, Kansas City and Northern railway, of Missouri, have been consolidated, aud will herea'ter be operated under one corporation. The Northwestern Transportation Company’s steamer Amazon, from Milwaukee, carrying twenty-eight passengers and 875 tons •f flour, and sundries, struck on a sand-bar while entering the harbor of Grand Haven, Mich., on the morning of the 28th uli She grounded fast within a hundred feet of the pier, and was placed completely at the mercy of the waves. At last accounts she was badly broken, but it was hoped she would bo saved in a damaged condition. The passengers and crow were all rescued and removed in the car of the lifesaving station. At a meeting of the Chicago Division of the American Paper-makers’ Association, held in Chicago Oct. 30, the price of print-paper was again advanced from to 1 cent per pound, making the price of first-class paper 8 cents per pound at the mills. The limit of credit was reduced from ninety to sixty days. Advices from Arizona Territory report that the Navajo Indians have broken out, and that the troops at Fort Wingate have been dispatched against them. They stole all the stock, including the_train mules. It is also reported that the Apaches captured a station on Jornado del Nierto, near Port Craig, and killed thirteen persons. Mrs. and Miss Meeker and Mrs. Price and her two children, late captives among the Utes, have arrived in Denver. Mrs. Meeker is very feeble and ill. It io stated that Gen. Edward Hatch, Gen. Charles Adams, Special Agent, and Chief Ouray have been appointed a commission tj investigate the Uto outbreak. Since the beginning of the Indian troubles in New Mexico, in September, over sixty white settlers have been murdered by the savages. Gen. Joe Hooker was buried in Cincinnati. Marimus A. McLean died in Chicago last week from hydrophobia, produced from a dog bite inflicted several months r.go. Chicago has a phenomenon in the sliapo of an honest aud conscientious policoman. He found a pnrso containing 11,100, and straightway restored it to the owner. Where— O where is Barnum? The San Francisco Grand Jury has returned a true bill against Charles De Young, of the Chronicle, for assault with intent to murder. De Young will bo remembered as the man who shot and nearly killed Rev. J. 8. Kalloch, some weeks ago. Mrs. Lydia Young, the widow of Bill Young, who was lynched at Luray, Mo., has caused warrants to be issued for the arrest of all porsons known to have boon concerned in her husband’s sudden taking off. Big Snake, a Ponca Indian chief, and brother of Htauding Rear, was recently shot and killed at tho Ponca Agency whilo resisting arrest. Advices from Los Pinos, Col., chronicle the safe arrival there of Gen. Adams and Count Dooulioff, the peace commissioners who negotiated the reloaso of tho Meeker familyThey made a narrow escape from being shot when they came in sight of Merritt’s command. They were mistaken for hostile Indians, and the soldiers had covered them wi Ji their rifles and were in the act of firing, when the timely display of a white flag averted the impending calamity.—Geo. Adams reports to Secretary Hchurz that bo had another long council with White River Utes at Grand river; that they aro willing that tho guilty parties bo surrendered and punished; that he has faith in Ouray’s alnlity to compel the surrender of those found to bo guilty, and that in order to assure this ho (Adams) recommends the appointment of a commission of three (one of tho number to be a military officer) to make thorough investigation to find out the guilt y and determine thei punishment. Secretary Schurz approved tho plan, and ordered Gen. Adams to go ahead.—Gen. Adams telegraphs Secretary Schurz that Chief Ouray has ordered the. White river Utes to come to Uncompaligro, where a commission is to sit to investigate the White river massacre, and where those found guilty aietobe surrendered. South. All the male members of the Underwood family, of Carter county, Ivy., having been killed by the Holbrooks and their allies, the latter now issue a proclamation making war on the Underwood women and children, and commanding them to leave the country under pain of death. There were 1,521 cases of yellow fever in Memphis during the prevalence of the epidemic, of which 473 proved fatal. Advices from Wheeler county, Tex., sty a good deal of feeling exists there, owing to arrests of persons by United States Deputy Marshals ou blank warrants to suit the cases. Tho arrested parties were released on writs of habeas corpus in the State courts, but were rearrested by the United States officers. The Marshals also swore out warrants for officers of State courts for interfering with Federal officers. A squad of soldiers from Fort El iott lias gone to make arrests. Trouble is anticipated.

POLITICAL POINTS. The four proposed amendments to the Stato constitution, voted upon at the recent election in Ohio, were rejected, not one of them having received a majority of all the votes cast.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The actual cost of the postal service of the United States for the last fiscal joar, as shown by the official figures, was a little over $30,000,000. The* total expenditures were more than $33,(00,000, being a reduction as compared with ihe preceding year of over $1,000,000. Of this three-quarters was effected by the operation of the law reducing the compensation of Postmasters. The greatest item of expenditures was $9,100,706 for railway postal service. But the old-fashioned horseback and stage-coach transportation yet holds an important place in the postal service, no less than $5,537,345 having been paid for i during tho year. The compensation of Postmasters for tho same period was over $7,000,000.

MUSGELIiANEOUB GLEANING*. The United States mints have coined nearly $50,000,000 of the standard silver dollars authorized by the “Silver bill” which passed Congress in February, 1878, and of theso only $12,221,010 are now in circulation, the remainder being piled up in the Government’s vaults. The Province of Nova Scotia has Seen visited by a storm of unusual violence. Bridges and wharves were swept away, buildings demolished, many vessels wrecked and some lives lost The fire fiend begins to boom with the first advent of cold weather. Tho following is the reoord for one day (Nov. 2): At Ohi-

cago, the large furniture factory of A E Andrews was destroyed, and the Wheeler A Wilson building*segously damaged, losses respectively $70,000 and* $15,000; one-third of the town of Mound City, IIL, burned, loss $70,000 to $80,000; at Logansport, Ind., a large wagon factory, and at Michigan City. Ind., the depot of tho Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad were destroyed, losses *4o*ooo ana $20,000 respectively; at Bridgeton, Ma, several buildings were burned, involving a loss of $26,C00, and at Greenville, Mich., a shingle-mill valued at $14,000 was destroyed.

NATIONAL FINANCES. THE REDEMPTION BUREAU. Following is a statement of the operations of the National Bank Redemption Agency for October and the four months endmg Nov. 1, compared with the corresponding periods of last year: National-bank Notes Four Disposed of. October. Months. Notes fit for circulation assorted and returned to bank of issue $1,76-1,800 $13,020,700 Notes unfit for circulation, assorted and delivered to Comptroller for destruction and replacement with new notes 1,640,000 9,453,501 Notes failed, liquidating and reduci banks deposited in tre sury 359 500 1,831,200 Totals 1 i 79 3,771 200 24.311.400 Tota s for 73 12,478,fin0 07,022,350 Decrease 8,707,450 42,711,450 NOTE CIRCULATION. The Comptroller of tho Currency reports the whole amount of additional circulation issued since the publication of bis annual report in November, 1878, as $15,435,375. The total average amount issued the past twelve months has been at the rate of about sl,300,000 per month. The increase of circulation for tho year ending Nov. 1, 1878, was $4,216,684, and tho total decrease? from Jan. 14, 1875, to tho Ist of November, 1877, was more than S3O,OOO,<XH). The total amount issued for the month of October was $3,602,050, and during the months of September and Octobor $7,514,170, or about one-half of the whole amount issued during tho year. The increase in logal-tender notes deposited for the purpose of retiring circulation during the year ending Nov. 1, 1870, was $3,270,001, leaving the not increase of national-bank circulation issued during the year at $11,484,582.