Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

POBBIQM NSWS. South American advices report that the allied armies of Peru and Bolivia hare again been defeated by the Chilians with heavy loss. The allies are said to be in a state of disintegration, and tho war is regarded as practically at an end. An awful disaster is reported from Scotland. A portion of the bridge across ffio Frith of Tay was blown down while the train from Edinburgh to Dundee was crossing, and all the passengers, 200 in number, were drowned. A dispatch from the Viceroy of India says that Gen. Itoberts defeated and dispersed the Afghans around Cabul on the 23d inst., and reocoupied the city. The death is announced of William Hepworth Dixon, the historian and traveler, and for many years editor of the London Atherurum, ii tho 59th year of his age.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. West, Bradley & Cory’s corset and suspender factory, in New York, burned the other night Ttio loss amounted to about $300,030. At Mount Holly, N. J., the clwellirg of Matthow Gloason, a laboring man, has been totally destroyed by fire, his three little children perishing in tho flames. At Bangor, Me., on Christmas day, considerable excitement was caused by reports of the intended removal of arms from the State Arsenal to Augusta. Two trucks wore loaded and had proceeded a ways toward tho dopot, when an excited crowd overtook them and demanded an explanation of tho drivers. An unsatisfactory reply being given, the mob undertook to unhitch the horses, when a young man Bprung on one of the wagons and stated that ho tv»o a clerk in the office of the Adjutant General, and that ths munitions of war were intended for use in dofouse of the State House. At this the crowd became furious, and tho Mayor advised the clerk to beat a retreat, notifying him that he was powerless to resist the crowd. The arms wore then returned to the arsenal, under an escort of polico. Alexander Stuart, the well-known sugar merchant, and ono of Naw York’s solid men, is dead. The city of Boston has jnst suffered from another destructive conflagration In the business quarter. The fire started in the rear of Houghton, Osgood & Co.’s publishing house’ destroying that establishment, tho paper warehouse of Rico, Kendall & Co., and numerous other large and valuable buildings. Tho loss is roughly estimated at from $3,000,000, to $4,000,000.

SouthTwo negro murderers were lynohed in Ruseell county, Ala., recently, by a mob composed of whites and blacks. A freight train on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad broke through a burning bridge near Durant station, in Texas. The locomotive passed over safely, but the tender and twenty-two cars were wrecked and burned. Mike Kolly, flreman, fell into the fire and was burned to death. Brakcman Abernethy was in jived. Wade Hampton, Jr., son of the exGovernor of South Carolina, died a few days ago of malarial fever, at his plantation near Greenville, Miss. Robert and Dennis Patrick (colored) quarreled in Madison county, Ala., while killing hogs, and in the scuffle the brothers closed and rolled into a oalilron of hot water, and were literally cooked alive.

West. The destruction by fire of some of Boat’s brewery buildings in Milwaukee entailed a loss estimated at #315,090, with an insurance of #208,000. William McKee, senior proprietor of ♦ho Bt. Louis Olobc-Dcmocrat, is dead. Ouray informs Gen. Hatch that the guilty Utes have at last concluded to surrender, with the exception of Jack. Jack is implacablo, and thinks of joining Sitting Bull. A generous lowa lady—Mrs. Ocrdelia Miller, of Watorloo—has made a donation of #20,000 to the Qarrett Biblical Institute, at Evanston, HL The holiday trade of Chicago was veiy heavy indeed. They have been having some frightful winter weather in the Red river valley in Northern Minnesota, Dakota, and the British possessions, and extending away to the Pacific coast in spite of the warm Japan current. At St. Vincont and Pembina, the spirit thermometer showed 58 degrees below zero; at Crookstou, Minn., 56 degrees, and at Brainerd 52 degrees were tho figures. A serious accident occurred on the Jacksonville branch of the Chicago and Alton railroad, between Berdan and Whitehall, 111., on the night of Dec. 25. The night express from Bt. Louis for Kansas City was thrown from the track by a broken rail, and thrown down an embankment Two of the coaches caught fire from overturned stoves, and were consumed. The terror-stricken passengers were obliged to make the utmost exertions to save themselves. Two persons were killed and twenty-four injured. The killed were Col. T. P. Bond, of Auburn, 'IIL, and Charles Payne, the colored sleeping car porter. The wounded were taken to Jacksonville and kindly cared for.

The friendly Ute chief Ouray presented himself at Los Pinos on Christmas day, with the chiefs selected to acoompany him to Washington, but, as he had brought in only a part of the murderers of Thornburgh and Meeker, Qen. Hatch refused to start until the demands of the commission bad been complied with. Ouray demanded more time, and the General, giving him five days, promised to await his coming at Cline’s ranch, thirty miles away. A very distressing casualty, the result of a practical joke, is recorded in the Chicago papers. Mr. M. B. Gould, a business man of prominence, and Gen. Waite, by way of jest,, led a colored janitor to think there were burglars in the latter gentleman’s room. The janitor tried to get into the room but was not aide to, and threatened to shoot if the supposed burglars did not come out. Mr. Gould was holding the door and laughing over the excitement of the janitor, when the latter executed hie threat, firing through the door and instantly killing Mr. Gould. Mr. Woolf, author of the popular comedy, “ The Mighty Dollar,” has written another play of the same character, called “A Million,” and it is constructed for the actor who made such a success of the former production. “A Million” is put upon the stage for the first time at McVicker’s Chicago Theater, the present week, with Mr. and Mrs. Florence in the leading ioles. Mr. Florence preferred making his first appearance in the new part at this Jiouse to anywhere else in the country, know-

ing that it would receive all the accessories in the way of scenery, etc., that go so far to make or mar a new drama.

WASHINGTON NOTES. In the Supreme Court of the United States Senator Edmnnds has made a motion to advance the case of Juilliard vs. Green, which was entered for the purpose of testing the validity of the act of Congress forbidding the further retirement of legal-tender notes and requiring them to be reissued and kept in circulation. It seems to be the purpose of the House Commit'ee on Elections to make rapid work with all contested cases, and to have the entire docket of the coramitteo cloarod at the present session. This has very seldom, if ever, been done. Two enterprising young men, who contemplated stealing Gen. Grant’s Arabiar horses and holding them for a reward, have been arrested in New York. Commissioner Raum is opposed to granting amnesty in the future to “ moonshiners. ” Gen. Grant arrived at Washington on tho 27th nli There was no public reception. Tho General attended church there on Sunday, the 28th, returned to Philadelphia on the 30th, and on the same day started for Havana by way of Richmond, Ch& rleston, Savannah and Cedar Keys, £fter spending a few weeks ia Cuba, he will revisit the scenes of his earliest military achievements in Mexico, and then travel through Texas, ascend the Mississippi and visit Colorado, returning to Galena in May, and reaching Long Branch by June. It is reported from Washington that Gov. Van Zandt, of Rhode Island, has been offered the post of Minister to Russia, and that Stanley Matthewa is booked for the English mission.

POLITICAL POINTS. T. B. Jeter, State Senator of South Carolina, is now Governor of the State, Lieut. Gov. Simpson having been made Chief Justice of tho Supremo Court. A caucus of the Republican members of the Tennessee Legislature resolved in favor of Gen. Grant for the Presidency. The meeting of the Maine Republican State Committee and prominent Republicans from various parts of the State, held in Senator Blaino’s residence, at Augusta, resulted in the appointment of a committee to advise and cooperate with the Republican members of the Legislature!. A meeting of the Maine Greenback State Committee was hold at Augusta last week, at which thero was a full attendance. Delegates wore appointed to the National Convention in Washington, those at large being Congressmen G. W. Ladd anil T. H. Murch and Solon Chase. Resolutions wore passed indorsing tho action of the Governor and Council. They declare full confidence in them, and believe they counted ihevote honestly; denounce the utterances of the Republican politicians in public meetings, and the denunciations against the Executive Department of the State as an insult to tho Governor and Council and a clisgraco to tho State as well as to the party.

There is no doubt, says a Washington correspondent, that there is a very considerable Grant movement in Virginia, and that if Grant should be nominated there would be a powerful combination in that State to support him. The Washington Post makes the following editorial announcement: “Gov. Seymour does not want the Democratic nomination, and, so far as he is personally concernoJ, will make no effort to obtain it. But, if the convention nominates him, as it will, he will not refuse his party’s call. This is the Seymour movement in a nut-shell.” A dispatch of Dec. 27, from Bangor, Mo., says that influential Democrats have unitea in an appeal to Gov. Garcelon to acoept the suggestion of ex-Gov. Morrill, and allow the courts to settle the pending troubles.. The same dispatch intimates that the Governor is likely to heed the request.