Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

roßßionr news. A bloody and relentless internecine war is be/ng waged in Afghanistan. Austria it to assume complete civil control of affairs in Bosnia. A grand ball was given in the palace at Havana in honor of Gen. Grant and party. Nine persons were killed and forty injured by a railroad collision in the eubnrtw of Paris. xhe British Parliament was opened Feb. 5. The* Queen’s speech, which was read by Lord Cairns, contained brief reference to the la to wars in Afiica and Asia, and the impending famine in Ireland. A letter from Havana say* the recent earthquako left all the pnblic buildings and most of tlie private houses, except those of wood, in Ban Cristobal, in a heap of ruins. Gen. Roberts, commander of the British forces in Afghanistan, reports that he bas hanged eighty-two persons fob complicity in the revolt at Cabul. The National Legislature of Switz irland has voted to restore capital punishment in that country. Details of the recent hurricane iu the Philippine islands show that twenty-five vessels of all kinds, including four foreign friga'es, were destroyed, and that forty-six persons were drowned. War is threatened between Chili and the Argentine Confederation. In Ireland, a Dublin dispatch reports, “the relief measures have already had a beno•flcial effect A more hopeful spirit is growing among the people.” Another bloody conflict between rival parties of natives has occurred at Herat, in Afghanistan.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East A member of the New York Legislature, believing the line should bo drawn somewhere, has introduced a bill making it a misdemeanor for any female to engage public ly in a walking match. Peter Nagle, an elderly man, boarded with the Widow Shockiell, of Beading, Pa., and fell violently in love with her. Bocommg jealous ou account of her receiving tho attentions of other boarders,. Nagle brained her with a lmt diet and tlieu ended his own mieoiablo existence by severing his jngular vein with a butcher-knife. Tho schooner Kate Newman was wrecked off the Now Jorsoy coaeti during the recent severe gale, and all of her est-w but one lost. A bold bond robbery was perpetrated in New York a few days ago. Mr. Albro, a wealthy Texas cattle raiser, wliilo iu the act of entering the United States Hub-treasury with a saclio), containing 9125,000 in registered bonds, was knocked down by a highwayman, who seized the eaehel and made his escape, Adolph E. Borie, ex-Secrctnry of the Navy, died at Philadelphia a few days ago. Ho had boon in ill-hoalth for a long time, and hiß demiso is attributed to a general breaking down of bis system. His ago was 71 years. A terrible crime is reported from Londonderry, N. H. A young man named Prank Dillingham, aged 20, the son of a respectable farmor, outraged and murdered liis auut, Mrs. Bar&h Dillingham, and then attempted unsuccessfully to take his own life. Contributions to the Irish relief fund are coming in rapidly in New York. A reverend exposer of Masonry has narrowly escaped lynching in Boston. His combined show and lecture was interrupted by yells, cat-oalls, and then by missiles, and further violence might lnvo been resorted io but for tho in'orvention of the police. Five prisoners, all of them convicted of petty offenses at tho February term of court, wore publicly whipped in tho jail-yard at Newcastle, Del., ono day last woek, iu the presence of about 200 spectators. Two of them wore white; the rest were black. There has been another cremation in the LeMoyno furnace, at Washington, Pa. The body was that of Miss Dolly Hartman. Everything passed off smoothly and satisfactorily.

We«t. The favorite German dialect comedian, Gua William*, ia giving tho Chicago public a chance to laugh this week bv liia comical representation of “ Our German Senator,” in liia now pi ay of that name. Mr. Williams is simply perfect in tho German dialeot, and is a very line general actor as well, and is drawing large houses to MeViekor’s elegant theater. We can not forboar noticing the superb mounting all plays receive at this popular house, Messrs. Malmsha and Rogers, the scene painters seeming to improve oacli soaeon on what. was before thought perfection. A fight occurred recently, near Fort Buford, between fifty lodges of Sioux from Spotted Tail aud Fine Ridge Agenoies and a party of Gros Ventres. The latter were victorious, putting their enemies to rout and capturing all of their ponies. Denver advices report great excitement thoro over the discovery of rich gold diggings twenty miles weßt of the city. There was a great rush to the new mines. The Milwaukee County Hospital has beon destroyed by fire. Two of the inmates perished in the flames. Dangerous counterfeits of the $5 gold piece are circulating quite freely in California, the imitation being so perfect that the bogus coins can only be detected from the genuine by weight, as the former, while containing apparently an equal quantity of gold, are onlj 700 fine, Burned: A block of buildings at Fort Collins, Col, loss $50,000; a block of ten business houses in Wa-Keenv. Kansas. About a dozen Chinamen were cremated at San Fxancisco by the burning of a Chinese wash-house. Dispatches from Los Pinos chronicle the arrival there, of Gen. Adams and party. Capt. Jack and Bower wick left immediately for Grand river, at whioh point Douglass and the White river Utes were enoamped. Jack made no promises, and refused to set a time for his return. “ I will do my beat to effect a surrender of the prisoners,” were his parting words to Gen. Adams. A daring bank robbery took place at Knoxville, 111, a few nights ago. Mr. E. O. Runkle, President of the bank, sleeps in the building. Three robbers effected an entrance, bound Mr. Runkle and demandod to be placed iD possession of the combination that unlocks the safe. Mr. Runkle refused to give the information. The robliera, not satisfied, resorted to ’orhire, and roasted the aged President’s feel In a shocking manner. _ They also beat him and hung him up by the chin. At last they departed, taking with them $3,150, whioh amount wu not locked up. Another car load of negro exoduiti

from North Carolina arrived at Indianapolis last week. Three or four weeks ago a party of cow-boys rode into the town of Las Vegas, New Mexico, and killed the Marshal, who was participating in a dance. Several of the gang were killed on the spot, and three of them captured. On the Bth inst a mob took them from the jail and hanged them in the plaza of the town. South. The Louisville and Nashville company has purchased the road from Pensacola to Beima, inua gomuig «■ n°w>uu nne from Chioago to Pensacola bay. The Conrt House at Dallas, Texas—a fine brick structure costing ? 1,000,000 —has been destroyed by fire. John A. Anderson, lato Pnblic Administrator of Memphis, is a defaulter to -tho amount of $75,000. A negro cabin on a plantation near Columbia, 8. C„ was destroyed by fire, a few nights since. Two men, & woman, and six children perished in the flames. WASHINGTON NOTES. A Senate committee has gone to New York to investigate Chief Supervisor of Elections John I. Davenport (Secretary Sherman issued a circnlai on the 3d inst., inviting proposals for the sale to the Government of 5 and 6-per-cent bonds to tho amount of #11,000,000. The railroad men are endeavoring to convince Congress that the duty on steel rails ought to be reduced. Mr. Parnell and party called upon President Hayes last week. Parnell, in conversation with the President, mentioned the object of his viair. to the United States, and spoke of the favorable results achieved. The President said he sympathized with Ireland in her distress, and hoped that means would bo found to alleviate it promptly. Parnell asked about emignation to this country. The President replied that the States, not the General Government, regulated it. At the Cabinet meeting, the other day, the sentoco of the court-martial which recently tried Mai. Reno, recommending liis dismissal from service, was affirmed, and the proper orders to that effect will soon be issued.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Connecticut Republican Convention will bo held ai New Haven, April 7. Washington telegram: It is reported, on what is apparently excellent au hority, that Senator Conkling announces that under no circumstances will he permit the nee of his name at Chicago as n candidato for the Republican nomination for President He eays bia name must not bo thought of, and that all his influence in New York will bo exorted in behalf of Gen. Grant.—“ Tho friends of Blaine say to-day that he could easily have beaton Camel m and Grant in the Harrisburg Convention jf ho had interested himself to organize his forcei for that purpose. ” The District of Columbia Republican Convention chose Savles Bowen and John T. Cook, the latter a colored man, aa delegates to the Chicago Convention. Bowen is for Blaine, and Cook for Grant.

THE NATIONAL TREASURY. Following is a statement of the public debt on Feb. 1. 1880: Six-per-c*nt. bonds $270,845,550 Five-per-cent. bonds 600,405,850 «, Four-and-a half - per-cent. bonds 250.000,000 Four-por-cent bonds 788,770.150 Hol unding cert! Ocates.... 2,000,800 Navy pension fund 14.000,000 Total coin bonds $1,781,680,850 Matured debt ..$ 12,002,445 Legal tenders 340.742,858 Certificates of deposit... 12,035.000 Fractional currency.... 15,008,749 J Gold and Blver certift- / cates 10,464,010 Total without interest $ 394,510,005 Total debt $2,188,109,891 Total interest 16.827,118 Cash In treasury 203,742,208 Debt less cash in the treasury $2,000,784,240 Decrease during January 11,014,203 Decrease since June 30, 1879 20,423,015 CURRENT LIABILITIES. Interest due and unpaid $ 3,328,031 Debt on which interest has ceased..- 12,002,445 Inierest thereon 034,083 Gold and silver certificates 19,404,010 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 12,035.(’00 Cash balance available Jan. 1, 1880.. 213,742,258 AVAILABLE ASSETS. Cash in treasury $ 203,742,208 Bonds issued to Pacific railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 64,028,512 Interest accrued a id not yet paid.... 828,117 Interest paid by United States 45,051,155 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc . •• 13 580,004 Balance of interest paid United States. 32,005,061

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. De Lesseps has 130 surveyors at work at the isthmus on the route of the proposed inter-ocoanic canal. The natives of Alaska are fighting among themselves and slaughtering each other like Kilkenny cats. The Anglo-American Cable Company is now sending telegrams across the ocean at the rate of 12% cents per word. This is the result of competition. Before the committee of the Board of Indian Commissioners investigating the charges against Mr. Hayt, at New York city, a son of the ex-Commissioner appeared as a witness. His testimony was of the most damaging character, confirming the reports relative to the San Carlos silver mine, heretofore published. m everv particular. A frightful tragedy is reported from Lucan, Ontario. A mob of masked men entered the dwelling of a family named Donnelly, who wore suspected of being the authors of several incendiary fires in the neighborhood, and murdered the father, mother, one son and a girl, a niece. A boy named Connor, the only other inmate, took refuge under a bed and escaped. The band then set fire to the house, which, together with the murdered bodies, was totally consumed. Another son, residing about three miles from the homestead, was called to bis door abont tho same hour and shot dead. The Board of Indian Commissioners has fully approved the action of Secretary Bchurz in removing Indian Commissioner Hayt. *jr The flow of gold from Europe to jhis country has commenced again, the steamer Frisia, which arrived at New York the pther day, bringing $309,000 in coin. Six persons were drowned by the upsetting of a schooner, near Si John, N. B.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In the Senate, Feb. 2, Francis B. Griffith was nominated for Supervisor of the Census of the Sixth district of Indiana, vice William P. Seymour, whose nomination was withdrawn. Mr. Thurman, from tbs Committee on Jodi el ary, reported s MU for reviving and continuing the Court of Com. alMlonere of Alabama OUlxm, and foe tbs distribution of tho unappropriated money of'the Geneve

award... .In the House, among the bills Introduced and referred were the following: By Mr. Phelps, appropriating #IOO,OOO for the relief of sufferers in Ireland; by Mr. King, for the appointment of acomxtlaelon of engineers to examine routes of interoceanic communication; requesting the President to tender to Peru, Bolivia and Chili the good offices of this Government for the restoration of peace; by Mr. Bland, for the free coinage of the silver dol- ; Ur; by Mr. Blackburn, providing for the registry or enrollment of any vesael built in foreign countries; by Mr. Coffroth, granting pensions to aolddiers and sailors of the late war who were disabled while in the military service; increasing the pensions for the loss of leg or arm; by Mr. Bhelley, for the delivery of letters having insufficient postage; providing for the election of a Consnsiiuuat Printer; by Mr. Young, to i»«.ea*e the efficiency of the Na,w xioard or Health; by Messrs. Cowgill and Colerick, bills to facilitate transportation between Lake Eric aud tho navigable waters of the Wabash; by Mr. Brown, proposing a constitutional amendment providing that the House of Representatives shall be composed of. 300 members, to be apportioned among the several -tatea as provided in section 2 of article 14 of the amendments to the constitution; by Mr. Bland, for the free coinage of tho standard silver dollar: bv Thompson, providing that no claim of a citizen of a State which did not go into rebellion shall be disallowed on account of disloyalty unless it be proven; by Mr. Newberry, amending the Patent laws: giving the Conrt of Claims jurisdiction of Indian depredations; by Mr. Fort, to put certain articles imported and used in the manufacture of paper, glass and woolen fabrics on the free list, and to reduce the duty on printing paper used for books, pamphlets, magazines and newspapers. The bill making appropriations for the improvement of the Susquehanna. Ohio and lenhessee rivers was passed, as was also the hill authorizing the Secretaries of the Interior and War to employ additional clerkß for < he rem alnder of the fiscal year, to expedite tlio settlement of the pension applications. The Speaker announced the appointment of Messrs. Felton, Phillips and McKinley as visitors to West Point; also the appointment of Mr. Phillips as a member of the Committee on Education and Labor and of Expenditures in the Department of Justice. The House then went into committee of tho whole upon revision of the rules, to defeat a vote upon Mr. Weaver's greenback resolutions. On rising, a recess was taken till evening for the purpose of listening to Mr. Parnell.

Mr. Bayard, from tho Benato Finance uommlttee, reported the Warner Silver bill adversely, on the opening of the session of Feb. 3. Mr. Beck stated that the report was not unanimous, and the minority hoped to be heard in regard to the bill at some future time. The bill was placed on the calendar. A resolution offered by Mr. Teller wss adopted, asking information in regard to tho location and lands of the Northern Pacific railroad. Memorials for a reduction In the duty on sti cl roils were presented by Mr. Kirkwood. A. resolution from the Military Committee to inquire into the expediency of retiring non-commissioned officers on pay after thirty years’ service was adopted. Resolutions of respect to the memoiy ot the late Congressman ItushCiark, of lowa, we-o> passed, Messrs. Allißon, H roford and Kirkwood delivering eulogies. Presidential nominations: James Q. Howard, to be Appraiser of tho Port of New York; George Walker, of New York, to be Consul General at Paris; Wilber A. Goodspeed. of Ohio, to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Ol io; Robert M. Wallace, of South Cafolina, United States Marshal for the District of South Carolina .. .In the House, on motion of Mr. Frost, the privileges of the floor were granted to Parnell and Dillon, the Irish agitators. Mr. Davis offered a resolution, which was adopted, directing the Committee on Agriculture to inquire into •• the most feasible method of extending the benefits ot the Agricultural Bureau over that portion of the United States west of tho 100th meridian. A resolution was adopted calling upon the Treasury Department for information in regard to new public buildings. The bill providing that no person shall serve as a petit juror in any United States court more than three weeks during any one year was passed. Aft: r the conclusion of the morning hour the House went into committee of the whole upon the revision of tho rules, and a political debate ensued upon the rule defining the dut’es as the Appropriations Committee. The vote upon rejecting tho amendment of Mr. Brown, Republican, upon which tlio debato occurred stood 107 to Ui.

A resolution, offered by Mr. Kern an, was adopted iu the Senate ou the 4th inst., asking the reason of the suppression of statistics of imports by Collectors of Customs, Mr. Kirkwood introduced a bill to provide for the payment of additional bounty to the soldiers of the army of the United States during tho war of the Rebellion. Twelve thousand copies of the eulogies to the late Senator Chandler were ordered printed. A bill introduced by Mr. Hereford confers jurisdiction in war supply-claim cases upon United States District Courts, which shall certify their judgment to Congress, and Congr ss may appropriate the money to pay such judgments, if favorable. Ihe bill authorizing the conversion of national gold banks into natioual banks was passed. The President nominated Charles L. Holstein, of Indiana, to be United States Attorney for the District of Indiana; Alex. C. Wells, Surveyor of Customs District of Louisiana; Edgar W. Mann, Register of the Land Office of Cheyenne, Wy. T.; James L. Haworth, of Kansas, Indian Inspector... .In the Howe, consideration was resumed of the bill determining the jurisdiction of United States Circuit Courts, and regulating the removal of causes from S‘ate to Federal courts. Tlio House then passed the joint resolution appropriating $20,000 to enable the Fish Commissioner to represent the United States at the Exhibltloh in Berlin iu April. The remainder of the day was passed in committee of the whole upon the revision of the rules.

Mr. Anthony’s resolution was adopted in the Senato on tiio stli, that tho Senate shall each day proceed to the consideration of general orders, debate to be limited to five minutes on an objection to carry any bill over. Tho first bill on the calendar was (he bill to prohibit military' interference at elections. Mr. Allison—“ I object to that.” Mr. Maine—‘Why object to that!” Mr. Cockrill—“Tmre can be no objection to that.” The bill was laid aeide. A number of other bills v ere objected to or referred to committee s. Jhe bill to amend the Census act was pissed. It requires the. enumeration in cities having over 10,000 inhabitants to be made in two weeks from June 1.1880, instead of four weeks, as provided by the origin* lait. Mr. Allison introduced a bill for the relief of certain employes on work for the improvement of theses Moines rapids. Mr. McDonald introduced a bill to establish a port of delivery at Indianapolis. ‘After an executive session, in which the nomination of John M. Morton to bo Collector at San Francisco was rejected by 10 to 42, the Sena e adjourned till Monday... .In the Mouse, the Senate bid for the conversion of national gold banks was passed. The following bills wers introduced: By Mr. O’Connor, making silver certificates receivabie at the United States treasury in the redemption of circulating notes of the issue of national Links: requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to pay current interest on all registered United States bonds without respect to date of assign ment or transfer. Mr. Wood presented a resolu tion. which was adopte !, asking the Secretary of the Treasury in regal’d to taxes assessed and collected in each State. The morning hour having expired, the House went into committee on the revision of the rules.

The House onlywas in session on the 6th inst., and it was engaged upon the private calendar. Among ihe bills introduced were: -By Mr. Dickey, appropriating $25,000 for the purchase of Fraye’s equestrian picture of Gen. Winfield Scott; by Mr. Washburn, for the relief of settlers on public lands. Mr. Whitthorne offered a resolution, which was adopted, calling on the President for information as to the proceedings of the International Polar Congress held at Hamburg, Germany, Oct. 1,1879. After very little business the House adjourned to Monday.