Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Experts estimate th? losres of the farmers of the United Kingdom during 1871) at from .£100,000,000 to £150,000,000. Benjamin Moran, the American Minister to Portugal, is a'most a hopeless paralytic, and it is feared must abandon his post. The Italian Parliament opened on the 17th inst. The speech from the throne treats almost exclusively of internal affairs. The new Rassian expedition against the Turcomans will be divided into three columns, Gen. SkobelcfT commanding the main army, numbering 20,000 men. Reports from the interior of Ireland show that, while there is much suffering, thero is no stai ration. The ftAhuion House fund is being distributed without delay* "or* stint. Land meetings seem to have been abandoned. A Havana dispatch says the insurgent leaders Mariano Forres and Miguel Ramos have surrendered in the district of Bayomo, with four field officers, five line officers, and more than 200 armed men. No satisfactory clew to the authors of the late explosion in the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg has yet been found. The official reports of the desperate affair do not differ materially from the first advices concerning it, all agreeing that the imperial family had an almost miraculous escape. Throughout Europo the utmost horror at the enormity of the crime is manifested. The Turcomans are preparing to give the Russian legions a warm reception. A council of war has beon held at Merv, and messengers have been sent to Persia and other neighboring countries asking support. A Havana letter says that the Government has discovered a conspiracy among the Creoles for uprising in Vuetfa Abja, and secured six of tho ringleaders, who wore < m ployed on a railriad. Thioo thousand Remington rifles and a vast quantity of fixed ammunition, arms and munitions were smuggled in from tho United Htitcs, and the insurrection was to bogin on the first week of March.

Prof. Maskelyne, of tho mineral department of the British Museum, has examined Mr. Hannay’s artificial diamonds, and pronounces them a success from a scientific standpoint. Famine and diphtheria are thinning out tho population of tho interior of Ru s'a at a frightful rate. England, Franco and Germany have officially recognized tho independence! of Ronmania. A man believed to have been concerned in the plot to blow up tho Czar at Moscow has been arrested in Paris. A Dublin editor has been arrested for libeling the Lord Mayor. A six-days’ pedestrian match at London for the English championship lias been won by Blower Brown, who scored 552 miles. Russia has asked all European govornmonts to co-operate in the arrest of Nihilist rotugoos. A lady of high rank has been arrested in Ht. Petersburg on suspicion of being connected with the Winter i’alaeo conspiracy, and several high officials have been placed under surveillance Six more of the soldiers of the Palace Guard who wore wounded by the dynamite mino explosion in Ht. Petersburg havo died of their injuries. A St. Petersburg dispatch reports that tho Czar contemplates declaring tho whole Russian empire in a state of siege, as a preliminary to t io measures to bo taken to crush out Nihilism.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kust. Charles Lane, of Bainbridge, Pa., murdered liij wife aud three children by administering to them poison, aud then killed himself. Four men were killed at Randolph, N. H., by the explosion of a boiler in John F. Thom peon’s saw-mill. Joseph Lenox, a Now York millionaire, and founder of the Lonox library, is dead, aged 80 years. The spoon factory of Holmes, Booth A Hayden, at Waterburv, Ct., has been burned. The loss is estimated at 1150,000; insurance #82,000. Capt. Archibald Milliken, G. Addison ltoßo and E. \Y. Rose wero drowned at Providence, It. 1., while endeavoring to board a vessel during a gale A bill to incorporate the American Bell Telephone Company has passed the Massachusetts Legislature. The capital is enormous for a singlo corporation, being $15,000,000. The telephone business has developed marvelously within the last year or two. A fire in New York destroyed a large five-story building, Nos. 884 and 880 Broadway. Losses estimated as follows: Hazcn, Todds & Co., importers of silk, $400,000; Dickorhoff, Kuillaer A Co., tailors’ trimming 3, $250,0C0; James Wilde, Jr., it Co., manufacturing tailors, $150,000. Loss on buildiDg, $50,000. Two firemen lost their lives while fighting the flames. The Rev. Dr. Charles P. Bush, Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, has just died in Albany. New York papers charge that the bodies of patients who die in the Bellevue Hospital are used for dissecting purposes. An investigation has been ordered. Joseph Lewis, a wealthy octoroon, who died in Now York a year or two ago, bequeathed $1,000,000 to Uncle Sam, to be applied to the extinction of the national debt. A woman came forward, represented herself as Lewis’ widow, and put in a claim to the estate. She now confessos sho never saw him, and the money will probably be turned over to the Government.

West. Jim Somers and M. Somers, nephew and uncle, killed each other at Brule City a few days ago. Preparations are making at Fort Leavenworth for a lively campaign in the Ute country this spring. Douglass, Johnson, Sowerwick and Thomas, four of the Ute savages concerned in the Meeker massacre, were brought into the Los Pinos Agency, last week, and at ones started for Washington under a strong military escort. The statement that thousands of adventurers are gathering in Southern Kansas preparatory to a raid on the Indian Territory is confirmed by dispatches from that quarter. F. H. Bowen, of Dubuque, lowa, adopted a rather novel method of putting an end to his life. He asked for a pail of water that he might bathe his feet before retiring to bed. This was supplied him, and his wife retired to her own chamber, leaving him ftlpne. Next morning, on opening his room

door, she was horrified to find him dead. He bad taken the pail of water and placed it underneath the side rail of the bedstead, then rolled back the tick, He removed two of the cross slats of the bed, climbed upon the bedstead, thrust his head through the aperture into the pail of water, and was discovered in this position. Mr. Bowen was a newspaper writer of considerable ability. Two Ohio men claim to have solved 'the problem of perpetual motion. A model of the machine which they have in operation has beon sent to Washington for a patent.

Three men werh killed, two fatally injured, and three others seriously burned, by the explosion of a boiler in a distillery at Peoria, 111. The Illinois Press Association held its winter session in Chicago last week. There was quite a la’-ge attendance. President 'Hrrlvrty, in his annual address, said that were it not for the increased price of print-paper he should be able to congratulate bis brethren upon an increase of prosperity. The association voted a -unanimous indorsement of the efforts now making in Congress to secure a reduction of tariff on paper and the admission free, of du'y of chemicals ent ring into its manufacture; and by a unanimous vote the association adopted a petition to Congrets setting forth thc< embarrassment and loss inflicted upon publishers by the present high price of paper, and praying for rolief from the burden by legislation which will be fa ; r and equitable alike to the manufacturers and consumers of paper.—A canvass of the members of the association, as to their Presidential preferences, shows that among the Itepubl cans lilaine is first, Grant second, and Washburne third choice; while amoDg the Democrats Tildon, Bayard, and Seymnur stand in the order named.

According to tho Cincinnati PriceCurrent, Chicago, Cincinnati, Ht. Louis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee and Louisville—the six leading packing cities of the West—have slaughtered, since Nov. 1, 1879, 4,172,000 hogs, against 4,905,500 hogs for the same time in 1878-9. The packing in the West during the present winter season is expected to show a reduction of some 0 0,000 hogs as compared with the returns for the winter sea-on of 187 s 9. A man has been arrested in San Francisco for viola'mg tho law forbidding the employment of Chinese. Tho Chinese quarter of Saa Francisco Las been officially declared a nuisance, and will probably be demolished. A Cairo dispatch statei that parties interes'ed in tho coai mines in Northern Illinois arc securing colored mineis to tako tho place of the strikers. Several hundred, cellectocl from various point} in Tennessee through their agency in Cairo, havo already gone forward.

South.. Floods in the Ohio, Cumberland and Barren rivers have caused great destruction of property. In convention, at Dalian, the negroes of Texas decided that, whatever may bo the condition of the race elsowhcro, no necessity for leaving that Htato exists, as the soil is fertile and cheap, and school facilities are ample. A family of nine women and children, livirg on tho bank of a creek near Mayfield, Ky., were surrounded by water and all drowned. Tho house was washed away. Tho printers and publishers of New Orleans, at a public meeting held the other day, unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the Louisiana Congressmen to support the bill reptaliug the duty on paper and the chemicals and materials used in the manufacture thereof. During the session of the Louisiana House of Representatives tho other day, Hpeaker Ogden’s parliamentary pistol fell from his hip pocket and was discharged. He has been cited to answer a chargo of carrying concealed weapons. Page Wallis was lynched at Leesburg, Va., for outraging Mary Marmon. He was first hanged aud then riddled with bullets. His victim was with the mob, and exercised the privilege of shooting the first bullet into his dangling form. A dispatch from Fargo, on the Northern Pacific railroad, iu Minnesota, says: “Winter is so sovero that railroad travel west of here is almost practically abandoned. It is costing the Northern Pacific sioo a passenger from Fargo to Bismarck. A dozen trains are now trying to get either way. The depression of the mercury, tho velocity of the wind and tho depth of the snow have all been unprecedented. The oldest aborigine has no recollection of any similar winter.” John Hall and Burrell Smith, the negro murderers of Maj. H. H. Pugh, were ex°cuted at Murfreesboro, Tenn., on the 20th of February. Tho hanging was witnessed by nearly 15,000 people, many of whom had choice reserved seats at $1 apiece. After hanging eeventeon minutes tho bodies of tho culprits were given ovor to a party of physicians, who tried by means of electricity and other agencies, to restore them to life, but the experiment proved a flat failure. The Maryland Senate lias passed a bill punishing by flue and imprisonment people speaking iu loud or unseemly tones, or using profane or obscene language. A fire at Batesville, Ark., has destroyed $75,000 worth of business property. Two mea were killed and several injured by a falling wall.

WASHINGTON NOTES. It is stated from Washington that the charges of bribery and corruption against Senator logslls, in connection with his re-elec-tion as Senator from Kansas, will be dismissed, the committee investigating them having decided that they have not been sustained. A decision has been rendered by the Attorney General of the United Btates to the effect that in case of a land-grant railroad deviating from tho line of construction as definitely located in the law making ‘he grant, the State is not entitled to the benefit of the lands granted; in other words, the railroad must as far as practicable follow the line as located, or forfeit the lands.

The Superintendent of Census, in a circular to the Supervisors, says the appointments of enumerators must be non-partisaD. He is aware of no reasons existing in the law for regarding women as ineligible for appointment as enumerators. Each Supervisor must be the judge for himseif whether such appointments in any number would be practically advantageous in his district.

Brumidi, the celebrated fresco-painter, long employed in the Capitol at Washington, is dead.. The allegorical circle in the dome, reresenting the progress of tho American reppublic, which the old man hoped to finish, is incomplete, and there is no one known who can take up the dead artist’s brush and complete the work, which by his own labor would have taken over two years more. Congressman Fort has addressed an* other letter to Fernando Wood imlHng Mm to set a time for the consideration by the Ways

and Means Committee of the bill reducing the duty on print paper. Mr. Wood is understood to favor the postponement of the paper measure until the Steel-Rail and Hngar bills are disposed of, but Mr. Fort says if the committee permits a month to elapse without action he will call the matter up in the House under a suspension of the nT.es. No credence is given in administration circles to the charges preferred against Gov. Hoyt, of Wyoming Territory.

POLITICAL POINTS. At the First Assembly District Oneida Republican Convention in Utica, N. Y., two conventions were held, each claiming to have a majority of duly-elected delegatee One elected lioscoe Ccnkling, Garden Hackett, and J. P. Richardson as delegates to the U.ica Convention. The ether elected Samuel S. Lowery, 8. A. Millanl, and N. A Pierce. The latter adopted an anti-th rd-term icsolutioa. The Burlington (Vt.) Republicans have chosen an Edmunds-Grant delegation to the State Convention. In eighty-eight localities in Ohio, 1,821 Democrats are for Thurman for President, 1,097 for Tilden, and so on down till llie 4.581 who have been interviewed are aU placed. In the same territory 6,824 Republicans have expressed themselves. Of these 2,936, or 456 less than half, are for Sherman, and Blaine has 1,926. At a meeting of the Republican Central Committee of Massachusetts, the other day, Senator Dawes was selected to preside at the coming State Convention, and John E. Sanford for Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions. These appointments are in the interest of harmony. Dawes is a haif-hearted Grant man, while Sanford is an opponent to a third term. State Conventions have been called as follows: Michigan Republican at Detroit, May 12; Pennsylvania Greenback at Harrisburg, March 23; Massachusetts Republican at Boston, April 15; New York Greenback at Albany, March 15; Kansas Republican at Topeka, March 31. Senator Logan has written a letter, in which he discusses somewhat at length the question of the Presidency. He declares himself very decidedly in favor of Grant, and thinks the cry against a third term without sound reason. The Prohibitionists of Rhode Island have nominated a full State ticket, headed by Albert Howard for Governor. A Blaine club has been organized in Chicago. The North Carolina delegates to the National Republican Conven'ion arc said to be almost so’id for Grant, notwithstanding they were elected for Sherman.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A woman in Canada recently gave birth to five childron. Four of them have since died, but the mother is reervering. Weston has agreed to walk six days with O’Leary, naming San Francisco as the place and the second week in March as the time. Benj. Brandreth, the well-known pill-maker, is dead, aged 71. The horses in and about Montreal are suffering from small-pox. Gen. Grant and party arrived at the City of Mexico on the evening of Feb. 21. The city was illuminated, and the party were received at tho depot by members of tho Government aud escorted to the Mineral College by 5,000 infantry and 500 cavalry.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In the Senate, on Monday, Feb. IC, Mossrs. Wimlom, Blaine and Withers were appointed a conference committee on the disagreement of tlie House to the Senate amendments to the Military Academy Appropriation bill. Nearly the whole session was consumed in discusßiou of llie 5 per cent. Military Land Warrant bill, Mr. Allison making a long argument in favor of the bill, and Mr. Edmunds opposing it.... In the House, the morning hour having expired while bills were being introduced, Mr. Weaver demanded the regular order, and the Speaker immediately recognized Mr. Voffrotk, as Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, to move to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution tor a session Wednesday night for the consideration of prnsion bills. This brought forth a protest from Mr. Weaver, but the Speaker adhered to his ruling. Bills were introduced: By Mr. Townshend (ill.), to repeal the duty on medicines; by M;. Henderson, reducing the duty on iron and ste ); by Mr. Richardson (S. C.), to return to the producers of cotton the tax collected by the Government which has beeen declared by the United States Supreme Court to have beon illegally collected: by Mr. Persons, admitting lree of duty machinery for manufacturing cotton fabrics; by Mr. Keifer, granting pensions to certain sailois aud soldiers of the late war who were confineel In the so-called Confederate prisons; by Mr. House, requesting the President to open negotia'ious with certain foreign Governments relative to the importation of tobacco into their dominions; by Mr. Baker, amending the statutes prohibiting the employment of convicts in the manufacture of such articles as may be brought in compeli ion with skilled labor; by Mr, Frost, to repeal certain sections of the acts relative to the use of Marshals and Supervisors at the polls. On motion of Mr. Bragg, the Senate bill for the removal of the body of the late Gen. George Sykes from Foit Brown, lexas, to Weßt Point, N. Y., was taken irom the Speaker's table and passed. Discussion upon the lottery bill, forbidding lotteries in the District of Columbia, occupied the remainder of the day.

Many petitions were presented in the Senate on the 17tli inst., from railroad companies, against the reduction of the duty on steel rails. Mr. Saulsbuiy presented a majority report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the Ingalls case. The report finds that bribery and corruption were employed to secure Mr. Ingalls' election, but that there is no evidence that Id trails authorized such Improper acts, or that they, in fact, secured his election. Mr. Cameron (Wis.) presented a minority report, signed by Hoar, Logan and himself! concurring in that part of he majority report which exonerates Ingalls, blit expressing the. opinion that, w! en the report states corruption was employed, it should in justice sta’e what was proved, that such means were employed in opposition to his election. The reports were ordered printed. Mr. liandolph introduced an amendment to the Fitz John Port r bill, authorizing the President to appoint Gen. Porter a Colonel of infantry, with commission dating from 18fik. Mr. Logan presented a resolution sending a naval vessel to Ireland with relief. Mr. Jones presented a memorial of the Union Soldiers' Ass, eiation of New Orleans, asking the Senate to unseat Kellogg as Senator from Louisiana. Bills were introduced and r> ferred as follows: By Mr. Thurman, for the construction of a building for use by the United States at Toledo, Ohio; by Mr. Vest, for the improv'ment oi the Missouri river at St. Cnarles. The bill authorizing the Secretary of the Interior and tho Secretary of the Treasury to employ additional clerks to facilitate the transaction of pension and other business was taken up, and, after a long discttesiOD, passed. The 5 per cent. Laud Warrant bill was considered until adjournment. John S. Stidiper, Third District of lowa, was rejected as Census Supervisor Iu the House. the District of Columbia Lottery bill was considered and laid over. The House then resumed consideration, in the morning hour, of the bill regulating the removal of canses from State to Federal Courts, and Mr. Knott spoke upon the bill, which went over. The remainder of the day was passed in committee of the whole up n the revision of the rules.

The Joint resolution passed the Senate, Feb. 18, which authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to employ a naval vessel or charter a ship for the purpose of transporting to the famishing and poor of Ireland Buch contributions as may be made for their relief. Mr. Thurman, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported adversely the Senate bill extending the jurisdiction of the United States Circuit Courts, and the bill was indefinitely postponed. The Military Warrant bill was debated the whole day... .In the House,abill was Introduced by Mr.Morton.flxing the duty on malt at 25 cents per bushel. Mr. Wood reported the Befunding bill, and it was made the

*l>ecial order for the' first Tuesday in March. Mr. Gibson introduced a bill to s cute a more uniform collection of duties on imported sugars. The bill to regu ate the removal ot causes from State to Federal courts was debated in tbe morning hour. Mr. Cox, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, submitted the unanimous report of the committee in regard to the charges made against Mr. Acklen, of Louisiana. The committeee found that Mr. Acklen did present snch a report as alleged, but they make no recomm.ndation, not having been instructed to do so by the House. Considerable d scussion ensued as to whether any furthtr action should be taken in the matter by the House. The House finally referred the Acklen matter to the Judiciary Committee, to investigate and report what further action, if any, is necessary.

The whole session of the Senate on Thursday, Ftb. 19, was occupied by Messrs. Morrill, McMillan, Saunders and Morgan In discussion of the “Five per Cent. bill.”. ...In the House, Mr. Bland, from the Committee on Coinage, Weights ind Measures, reported a bill to establish a mint at St. Louis, which vas printed and recommuted, Mr. B ackbura endeavored to dispense with the morning hour and consider the rules, b- t was unable to obtain the necessary tw.i-tl>irds vote, and the bill regulating tbe removal of causes from State to Federal Courts was taken up and discussed during the hour. Afterward, the discussion of the rules oc.upied the day. On the 20th inst., in the United States Senato, the {following bills were passed: Providing for the delivery of dutiable a: tides in the mails, and for indemnity for lost registered ar icles; to repeal the provisions of the Revised Statutes authorizing the advancement of navy officers thirty numbers in rank for extraordinary heroism, Ihe bill to authorize the Pjesident to appoint Sergt. John Dolan, of the Fifth Cavalry, a Second Lieutenant, and to place him on the retired list, was in eliuitdy postponed upon the reading of a telegram from the Secretary of War to Cockrell, statin.' that Dolan was killed in llie late battle with the Utes. Tte bill to authorize the compilation and printing of the naval history of the war was passed. Mr. Logan made a set speech upon the Five per Cent, bill, after which the Senate went into executive session. On opening the doors. Mr. Morrill moved to t ke up the bill admitting free of duty contributions for the Kansas refugees. Objected to by Mr. Pendleton. The President nominated Howland E. Trowbridge, of Michigan, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Adjourned to Monday In the House, a resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to the amount oi land subsidy granted the St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad Company: the disposition made of those lands, and wl>y the said road has not been completed to a junction with the Union Pacific raiboad at Kearney, Nebraska. The Senate joint resolution was passed auth rIzlng the Secretary of tbe Navy to desig nate a vessel of the United States to carry, free cf charge, contributions for the relief of tlie suffering poor of Ireland. A bill was introduced bv Mr. Stevens, to place co-tain articles imported and used in tlie manufacture of paper on the free list. Mr. King Introduced a bill dividit g Louisiana into judicial districts. Tbe day was passed in committee of tlie whole upon revision of the rules. Adjourned till Monday.