Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1880 — NEWS OF. THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF. THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The death is announced of Jules Favre, the eminent French statesman and Republican member of the Senate for the Department of the Rhone, and also member of the French Academy. An appeal to the people of the United tates, on behalf of the Irish race, states that lie distress is of an acute character, certain to involve actual starvation if aid bo not promptly and liberally forthcoming. A dispatch from Rome represents the Pope as surprised and indignant at Cardinal MeCloskey’s reception of Parnell in New York. Serious inundations and damage to property are reported in Holland and Poland. It is believed that Russia will—at least temporarily—abandon her designs at Merv. There has been a complete restoration of tho kindly relations between Germany and the Vatican, and negotiations are proceeding satisfactorily. There has been another colliery explosion in England—near New Castle—by which upward of a hundred luckless miners were hurried into eternity.

Violent earthquakes are reported in Salvador, South America. There has been a negro insurrection in tho Department of Cbincha, in Chili, and some horrible butcheries are r ported. The bill abolishing slavery in Cuba has passed the Spanish Cortes by an almost unanimous voto. Another outbreak at CabuJ, with Mohammed Jan as the loader, is looked upon as certain. The Afghans claim that they were dispersed in tho recent engagements because they had no cannons, end assert that tho next time they will bring heavy ordnance to bear on tbe British. * French scientists and electricians look with favor upon Edison’s light, and think it will prove a success. The Germans propose to largely ineroaeo their present enormous army. The official banquet in honor of Gen. Grant look place at tho palace, in Havana, oa tho night of Jan. 33. It was a very brilliant affair. Tho British and tho Portuguese troops are united iu tho suppression of tho slave trade iu the Mozambique channel. The cotton manufacturers in Bolton, England, have agree 1 to advance wages 10 per cont.. if tho revival of trade continues. Under the provisions of tho act which recently passed tho Spanish Cortes for the abolition of slavery iu Cuba, all slaves over 55 years of age are immediately freed, and the remainder are gradually cinane patod, according to their ages and other conditions. It is provided that slavery in Cuba shall entirely cease within ton years from this time. London dispatches report that the British Government is contemplating a now move in Afghanistan. It is said that the troops are to be withdrawn from Cabul and stationed at Jelalabad, while the Afghans are to bo given the privilege of selecting a sovereign.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. The jury in the case of the Rev. Mr. Hayden, the Connecticut preacher charged with the murder oC Mary Stannard, failed tj reach a verdict, elevou favoring acquittal, and one murder in the second degree. The trial lasted over threo months, and has attracted a largo sharo of attention all over the country. Threo members of the Pennsylvania Legislature, ex-State Treasurer Wm. H. Kemble and several other prominent Pennsylvanians have been indicted at Harrisburg for bribing members of the Legislature. The joint executive eommitteo of the trunk lines, at a meeting in Now York city, resolved to maintain the present rates on eastbound freight from Chicago. Margaret and Lizzie Anderson, sisters, of Boston, engaged in a street brawl, when Margarot drewa long-bladed clasp knife and stabbed Lizzie through tlio heirt, causing instant death. They belonged to the disreputable class. Another case of religious fanaticism or somnambulism, involving the death of two children, has come to light in Massachusetts. At 2 o’clock on the morning of Nov. 18 last, a Are was discovered in the house of Mrs. Beard, at Andover, and her two little boys were found dead in bod in their room in an ell of the house. They lay as though quietly asleep, and evidently bad passed away unconscious of the touch of the flames. It now transpires that the mother of the little innocents killed them while laboring under an insane hallucination. Three men wore killed and three fatally wounded in a collision between two freight trains on the Philadelphia and Erie railroad betweou Cameron and Sterling, Pa. A number of Now York butter dealers have been convicted and lined for eelliDg unmarked oleomargarine. The substauce sold to one of the dealors, which half a dozen experts had testified was Western butter of a low grade, did not'eoutain any butter whatever.

West. At a meeting of the leading plow manufacturers of the West, held in Chicago, it was voted to advance tho prico of plows 10 per cent. On single-shin plows tho raise is 50 cents oi all of ten inchos and upward, and a proportionate advance on double-shin medium landslide plows. On wood-beam cultivators there was an advance of $3, and a liko raise on iron beam. Fourteon-inch sulky plows were advanced <5 each, and sixteen inch .s(>. These were all the advances made. The Miami powder-mills, three in number, in Greene county, Ohio, exploded with terrific force the other day, killing two employes. Trees in the vicinity, fences and buildings looked as if a hurricane had passed over. Two men who wero killed wore literally blown to pieces; only three hands and apiece of skull could be found among the ruins. The works have been in existence thirty-five years, and in that time thirty-four persons have lost their lives by explosion. Douglass, one of the guilty Ute Indians, and the protector of many others equally villainous, has put in an application at Los Pinos for supplies. Commissioner Hayt says no notice will be taken of the hungry savages until they surrender the murderers of the Meeker family. The stock of grain in store and afloat at Chicago reaches the enormous amount of 10,227,071 bushels. A Chinaman named Wong Fook, who was to have been hanged at Portland, Ore., for the murder of one of his countrymen, suicided to his cell by strangulation. Advices from New Mexico report another engagement between Maj. Morrow’s command and Victoria’s band. After a fight of several hours’ duration the Indians were finally routed. Lieut, R. f.

French, of the Ninth cavalry, was killed while gallantly leading his company. The hostiles’ loss could not he ascertained, the country being inexpressibly rough, giving them a chance to carry the wounded ofT after the Indian fashion. It is stated that three different expeditions will be organized to thoroughly clean out the Indians under Victoria in Southern New Mexico, and give the country peace. Chicago is suffering from an epidemic of crime, and the papers of that city are loaded every day with accounts t>f murders, shootings, robberies, garrotings, burglaries, etc. The city is full of daring and desperate criminals, who, sotting the laws and tbe police at defiance, ply their vocations in open daylight as well as under covor of darkness. So indignant have the citizens become at the alarming state of affairs that three or four attempts have lately been made to take the law into their own hands and hang some of the lawless classes to lamp-posts, and were only prevented from doing so by the timely interference of the police. The Illinois Central Railroad Company has made a very important addition to its lines by purchasing the New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago railroad, which runs from New Orleans, via Jackson, Miss., to Cairo, 111.,

where it joins tjie Illinois Central line. The lumbermen of Chicago have advanced the price of lumber 4 per cent A Chicago highwayman was indicted, tried and sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment in tho penitentiary within less than three days after tho commission of tho crime. Intelligence comes from Las Yegas, New Mexico, of a bloody battle between citizens, and a party of cow-boys. The latter rode into town late at night, intending to wreak vengeance on tho City Marshal, whom they found at a dance. After the exchange of a few shots the officer fell, mortally wounded. Tho tights were then put out and tho fight continued in the dark, the friends of tho dead man taking a hand. When the combat ended, it was found that two of tbe attackers had been hilled. The rest, somo of them wbunded, no doubt, mado their escape. A daring bank robbery occurred at Danfortb, 1)1., a few nights since. Tho cracksmen arrived in town on an evening train, gagged an old man who lived over tho bank, blew opon tho vault, and, taking about $5,000, made good their escape. The Mayor of Columbus, Ohio, was halted by highwaymen iu one of the public streets of that city, a few nights ago, and relieved of his money and a gold watch. A Chicago paper reports that within a few weeks the railroads have invested $500,000 in the purchase of depot grounds and track yards in and around that city. The Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific railroads have been consolidated into one now company, to Lo known as tho Union Pacific Railway Company. Tne capital of the new company is fixed at $50,000,000.

South. A negro named Austin Jordan, living near Warrenton, Va., abandoned a wife and five children and eloped with Miss Corder, tbe beautiful daughter of a wealthy and respectable farmer, the pair carrying awaysl,oJo belonging to the girl’s father. They were pursued and brought back, and the negro placed in jail, from whence he was taken by a mob and hanged to a tree in the village cemetery. The work of sewering the city of Memphis has been commenced. Three men were killed and several daugerously wounded by the explosion of a boiler on a sugar plantation near New Orleans. Five men were crushed to death by the fall of a building that was being raised at Opelika, Ala. The report of the New Orleans Supervise of Steamboats shows that during the past year not a single death was occasioned by steam explosion, a fact unprecedented in the history of Mississippi steamboat navigation.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The President has nominated James Bussell Lowell to be Minister to England; John AV. Foster, Minister to Russia, and Lucius Fairchild, Minister to Spain. Mr. Lowell is at .present tho representative of tho United Statos at Madrid, Mr. Foster at the City of Moxico, and Mr. Fairchild Consul at Paris. Tho President has also nominated Eli H. Murray, of Kentucky, to bo Governor of Utah Territory, vice Emory. Seth A. Terry, Secretary of the Territorial Havings, Building and Loan Association at Washington, is a defaulter to the amount of $25,000. There was an important meeting at the Interior Department the other day, in which the Colorado delegation in Congress, Gen. Adams, and Ouray, Jack, Wash and Sowsriok par ticipated. Mr. Schurz laid an injunction of secrecy upon all the members of the conference, but it is believed tha,t the following statement gives the practical result of the conference : The land question was thoroughly discussed, and an agreement was reached which was satisfactory to all present, except, it is Baid, to Senator Teller. This agreement is that the Utes of Southern Colorado shall be removed to the Grand River valley, in the western part of the State, about midway north and south, while the White River Utes are to be removed to Uintah Reservation.

The House Committee on Railways and Canals has agreed to report favorably a resolution appropriating $7,000 to make a survey and ascertain the practicability and cost of the construction of a canal between Lakes Michigan and Erie. The majority of the House Committee on Military Affairs, considering the case of Fitz John Porter, recommend the adoption of the following joint resolution: That the President bo requested to remit the remainder of the unexecuted sentence which disqualifies Fitz John Porter from holding any office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States. Gen. H. Y. Boynton, the well-known newspaper correspondent, has sued Gen. Sherman for libel, the latter having denounced Boynton as a slanderer and a man without character. The quarrel grew out of an attack by Boynton upon Sherman’s autobiography. The visit of the Ute chief Ouray and his companions to Washington has apparently been satisfactory to him and Secretary Schurz, so far as promises are concerned. The present understanding is that the Utes shall abandon the greater part of their immense reservation, and be allotted land in severalty in the Grand River valley. The Colorado Senators were inclined to insist on the removal of the Indians from the State, but, as Ouray intimated that he would fight before he weuld leave, the suggestion was not pressed. Pledges have again been given that the murderers of Thornburgh _ and Meeker shall be given up. Gen. Adams left Washington for Colorado last week, with Jack and Sowerick, of the White River Utes, and Wash, an Un:ompahgre. Jack and his companion are charged

with the delicate duty of bringing in the twelve guilty White River Utes, dead or alive. Wash carries the orders of Ouray to his tribe, who are to do all in their power to assist Jack in his undertaking. Adams will take no part in the actual work of capturing or killing these outlaws. That work is left wholly to the Indians themselves. William M. Leeds, late Chief Clerk of the Indian Office, testified before tbe Senate select committee to examine into the circumstances connected with the removal of tho Northern Cheyennes from the Sioux reservation to the Indian Territory, that the complaint of these Indians that they were being starved at their agency was true. The Indian Office, he said, was informed by their Agent of the lack of food, and Commissioner Hayt failed to furnish the Agent with the supplies which the treaty called for. It is stated in Washington dispatches that the reason why Gen. Sp’nuer resigned the United States Treasury-ship was that Secretary Bristow insulted- him by suppressing his report, and interfered with the appointment of his subordinates. * _________

POLITICAL POINTS. It is said that Gen. John A. Logan has espoused the cause of Secretary Sherman, and will support him for the Republican nomination. The West Virginia delegates to the Chicago Convention will be divided between Sherman, Blaine, and Washburne. Ex-Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, has an elaborate essay in the last North American Review in behalf of a third term for Gen. Grant. J. Z. George has been chosen United States Senator from Mississippi. Ho will succeed the colored Senator Bruce, whose term expires March 4, 1881. Gen. Randall L. Gibson, at present a member of the House, has been elected by the Louisiana Legislature United States Senator from that State. The term, of Kellogg, whom Gibson will sucoeed, does not expire until March 4, 1883. Several prominent Ohio Republicans have inaugurated a Blaine boom in that State. A Philadelphia dispatch says that “ a few weeks before Grant visited here he was popular in tho minds of the people for President Recentlv there has been a great change, and tho counties of Western Pennsylvania are not only instructed for Blaine, but public institutions, workshops, mills, etc., by straws, indicate a decided preference for the Maine statesman.” A very strong anti-Grant and antiBiaine movement is making in Massachusetts. Presidential straws: A poll of the New Jersey Legislature shows a nearly equal division among its members between Blaine and Grant, tho former being slightly ahead, and Sherman altogether without support. The Keokuk Gate City interviewed seventy of the leading Republicans of lowa, and found thirty-four of them for Blaine, twentyeight for Grant, and eight for Sherman. In Portland, Oregon, tho vole stood sixty-two for Blaine, fourteen for Grant, and thirteen for Sherman. Members of the California Assembly have taken a vote as follows: Ropublicans—Blaine, 13; Grant, 11; Gai’tiold, 3; Washburne, 3; ConkliDg, 1; Sherman, 1. Democrats and Workingmen—Seymour, (i; Thurman, 21; Davis, 1; Tilden, 1; McClellan, 1; Bayard, 1.

DOINGS IN CONGBESS. A joint resolution was introduced in the Senate on the 10th inst., by Mr. Ferry, for an amendment that suffrage shall not be restricted on account of sex; and Mr. Pratt present'd a resolution inviting other Governments to co operate in the Panama canal. A number of private bills were passed. Bills Introduced: By Mr. Sanders, granting an increase of pension to tho widow of Maj. Thornburgh; by Mr. McDonald, to allow a rebate on duty paid on imported salt used for curing fish or in packing; by Mr. Wallace, a resolution, which was adopted, calling on the Secretary of State for full information concerning tho labors of the Spanish- American commission on claims growing out of the Cuban outrages. Tho special order—the bill to prevent cruelty to animals in transportation —was then called up and debated at length. The Chair appointed Senator Pryor to replace the late Senator Houston on the Committee of Privileges and Elections claims Pcstoffices and Post-Roads. Appointments: William J. Phillips, United Stales Marshal Eastern District Texas; John McNeil, United States Marshal Eastern District Missouri; Augustus Ash. United States Marshal Distrust of Nevada: DeForest Porter, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona; Jacob B. Blair, Associate Justice Supreme Court of Wyoming; Melville C. Browne, United States Attorney for Wyoming; AVilliam Gallon, Receiver of Public Moneys, Warsaw, Wis.... Under the call of States for bills in the House, the following important measures were presented: By Mr. Bailey, relating to the inter-oceanic canal, and requesting the President to Invite tho co-operation of the Governments of the principal maritime nations of Europe in the selection of the route of the isthmus ship transit; by Mr. Vanee. to repeal the duty on salt; by Mr.-Cobb, for the distribution of the unappropriated moneys of tee Geneva award; by Mr. Townshend, proposing a constitutional amendment In regard to the election of President and Vice President, providing for their election by a majority of the votts of the people, and for the abolition of the Electoral College ; by Mr. Bland, repealing the law res ricting tho sale of tobacco; by Mr. Young, for the retirement of officers of the army of a certain grade; by Mr. Wells, incorporating the J. B. Eads Inter-Oceanic Transit Company, and appropriating $200,000 for surveys for a Panama canal survey. The Hall of the House was tendered to Mr. Parnell for an address, on the 2d of February. A resolution of Mr. Kelley in regard to the tariff laid over. Bills were passed: For the settlement of all outstanding claims against the District of Columbia; appropriating $145,C00 for the construction of a bridge across the Potomac river at or near Georgetown. D. C. Mr. Windom presented a petition in the Senate, Jan. 20, for the removal of obstructions to navigation in the Red river of the North. Mr. Logan pres, nted petitions for the reduction of the duty on zinc and for the equalization of bounties. The House bill to admit free of duty articles for exhibition at the Millers’ Convention at Cincinnati, was passed. Mr.HiU introduced a bill to provide for the erection of a public building in Denver.

A resolution was adopted inquiring into 'the condition of the Pensacola navy yard, and the coat of restoring it. Mr. Logan, by request, presented the petition of soldiers for the passage of the Weaver bill for the payment to soldiers of the difference between greenbacks and gold when they were paid. After passing several unimportant bills the Senate took np the special order, the bill to prevent crnelty to animals in transportation, and several proposed amendments were discussed, and the bill was recommitted. Mr. Paddbck introduced a bill to equalize homesteads; also a bill for the relief of settlers on school lands in Wa hington Territory. Two witnesses under attachment for contempt in their galls bribery case purged themselves from the contempt and were discharged.... In the House the following bills were introduced: By Mr. Warner, for paying United States bonds of ’SO and ’Bl by authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue certificates ot deposit not exceeding $500,090,690, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, redeemable after three years, and payable In fifteen years; by Mr. Willits, disqualifying a person who practices polygamy from voting or holding office; by Mr. Culberson, for tbe discontinnance of the national-banking system; by Mr. Cravens, for the settlement of titles In the town of Hot Springs, Ark.; by Mr. Conger, a resolution of the Michigan Legislature against any increase of duty on low grades of sugar; by Mr. Loring. proposing a constitutional amendment “that the right of suffrage shall be based on citizenship, and the right of citizens to vote shall not be deniedorabridgedbytheUnitelSlatesorany State on account of sex, or for any reason not equally applicable to all citizens of the United States.” In the morning hour consideration Was resumed of the bill relating to the na-tioDal-bank reserves, and Mr. Chittenden spoke against the legal-tender quality of greenbacks. A petition that the duty on steel rails shall be $lO per ton was received. The balance of the day was spent In committee of the whole upon the rules.

Messrs. Edmunds and Garfield were appointed members of the Board of Visitors to the next annual examination of cadets at the West Point Military School, at the session of the Senate of Jan. 21. Mr. Edmunds from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported a bill relating to tie removal of suits by corporations, and to make further provisions relating to suits by and against corporation?. Mr. Cockrell, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported adversely the Senate bill in relation to brevet army appointments, and it was indefinitely postponed. Mr. Beck then addressed the Senate in opposition to the Bayard legal-tender resolution, consuming the entire session... .In the House, Mr. Sparks, Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, reported back the bill for tbe relief of Gen. Fitz John Porter, accompanied by a majority report thereon. Mr. McCook presented a minority report. The bill was made a special order for the 13th of i ebruary. Mr. MacMahon. from the Committee on Appropriations, reported a bill for the payment of fees of United States Marshals and Deputy Marshals for the fiscal year ending June 30,1880. Consideration was resumed in the morning hour of the bill relative to fractional bank reserves, and the House was addressed by Messrs. Lounsberry, Buckner and Townsliend. The House then went into committee of the whole upon the rules. The Speaker laid hefore the House various oecutive communications. Mr. Covert offered a resolution calling on the Commissioner of Agri_ culture for information relative to the sugar beet. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution in tho- Senate, Jan. 22, which was adopted, calling on the Interior Department for information in regard to land grants. Sir. Teller offered a resolution, which was adopted, calling on the Secretary of the Interior to inform the Senate whether r.ny memb. r of the Board of Indian Commissioners had become interested in Indian contracts. It was resolved that when the Senate adjourned to-day it be to meet Monday. Tbe Bayard resolution was taken up, and Mr. Coke, of Texas, made a speech thereon. Mr. Ferry pre sooted a resolution authorizing the sale or lease of the Gratiot military reservation. A bill was intro dueod by Mr. McMillan to protect the navagability of navigable rivers, and prevent deposits of sawdust and other materials therein. The Poe id-nt withdrew the nomination of William P. Seymour, as Census Supervisor of the Sixth district of Indiana... .Tn the House, Air. Buckner's bill, requiring the national banks to keep one half of ti eir reserves in coin, met with a defeat, the motion to engross the hiil receivi ’g only 79 votes to 158 in the negative. Tho House then went into committee of the whole upon the rules, when considerable fun was evolved out of the dry subject by Messrs. Frye and Cox. The House was in session on Jan. 23, not very much business being transacted, however. Bills introduced: By Air. Me Lane, providing that there shall be established a sinking fund in the treasury of the United States, into which the Central Pacific road shall gay sl,2oo,oloper annum,and the Union Pacific $850,000 yearly; by Mr. Springer, authorizing certain books and mementoes in possession of the Government to be placed in Memorial Hall of the Lincoln Monument Association, Spricgfield, 111., which was passed; by Mr. McCook, a joint resolution, which passed, for the erection of a military storehouse at Omaha. The Speaker announced the appointment of the following special committee on pay ment of bounties, pensions, and back pay: Cos froth, Geddes, Myers. McMillan, Harmer, Caswell, and Thomas. Air. Henderson, from the Committee on Commerce, reported a resolution, whieh was passed, calling on tho Secretary of War for information relative to. the obstructions in the harbor at Rock Island, 111. A number of private bills were passed; Air. Horr, of Michigan, replied to Air, Cox’s sarcastic speech of the day before in the same vein, and Air. Hawley arose to a question of privilege upon the report in the Globe, which he claimed misrepresented his remarks.