Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1880 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Intelligence comes from Bombay that a steamer from Yingorla, bound to Kurrachee, foundered, and five Europeans and fifty-nine natives were lost. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Czai'ri accession to the Russian throne occurred on the 2d of March, and the event was celebrated at 8t Petersburg with great iiomp. Thero wero gorgoous decorations by day and brilliant illumina'ions by night. The Emperor appeared in tlie thronged streets, in an open carriage. Decrees were published granting pardons t> prisoners, remitting the arrears of taxes owing by the rural population, and awarding orders of distinction. While alighting from a carriage at his residence in St. Petersburg, Gen. Melikoff, chief of the new Supreme Executive Commission, was fired at by a young Nihilist, but with s' cli bad aim that he escaped uninjured. The wouldbe assassin was promptly arrested. .George F. Slasson, the well-known American billiardist, and Vignaux, the French champion, will begin at Paris, on the evening of March 27, the most-notabio match game of billiards over played. The game will be for 4,<XM) points, and will run five nights, or 800 points each night. The contest is for $2,000. The Unitbd States, Great Britain and Franco are going to try to stop the war between Chili and Peru. The members of the Mansion-House Commitiee are unanimous iu expressing the belief that tiro most serious distress in Ireland is yet to bo mot, principally iu the months of May, June anil July. The tide of Irish immigration to this country has already commenced. The young Nihilist who attempted assassinate Gon. Melikoff, at St. Petersburg, on the 3d of March, was tried by court-martial and sentenced to death on the 4tli, and wae hanged at daylight on the morning of the sth. His demeanor when in tho presence of his Judges was very doliant, tho severest cross-ex-amination failing to shako his determination to maintain silence as to his accomplices. On leaving tho court-room the assassin declared that soonor or later tho tyrants who now oppressed Russia would fall by the hands of members of the organization to which he belonged. A dispatch from Berlin states that a movement for independence lias been set on foot in Finland. Eight men were killed and thirty wounded by a boiler explosion at Glasgow, (Scotland. The Russian Nihilists have issued a manifesto justifying tho attempts upon (ho life of tho Czar, and declaring that tho struggle must continue until tho Czir abdicates or grauts a constitution. Twenty-three deaths resulted from the boiler explosion at Glasgow, (Scotland. France lias decided not to surrender the Nihilist Hartmann, who was engaged in the Moscow conspiracy against tho Cz it’s life. From Armenia come heartrending accounts of tho Buffering in that, faminestricken land. Thousands wero endeavoring to escape to the neighboring I’eri-ian provinces. Tho roads wet o covered deep with snow, and many perished on the journey. Four Turkish villages are reported to have boon tired by order of a Russian officer commanding llulgariau m litia.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blast. Nearly tho whole of tho village es Bon.cn, N. Y , lias boon destroyed by fire. Losh about $10(1,(100. William H. Vanderbilt has voluntarily raised the wages of luh vast army of employes. Henry l’opper, a prominent member of the Wilmington (Del.) bar, and the law partner of Senator Bayard, was fouud dead in his bed, in that city, a few mornings ago. Two and a half million dollars more are asked for to complete the great bridge across the East river botweon New York and Brooklyn. Over $11,000,000 has already been expended on the work. Royal B. Conpnt, ex-cashier of the Elliott National Bank, of Boston, convicted of embczzlomcnt, Ims been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. A fire-damp explosion in a mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa., caused tho death of five miners. Thomas Doty, Samuel Morgan and H. C. Volbradt wore drowned in the Ohio river at Beaver, Pa., while attempting to cross n a skiff. Work lias been commenced on a ship canal between Barnstable and Buzzard’s bay, on the peninsula of Cape Cod. Tlie ditch will cost about $25,000,0J0, and when completed will enable coasting vessels to escape the duigerous passage around the cape and the Nantucket shoals. West. E. O. Stockton, a nephew of old Commodore Stockton, committed suicide at St. Louis, Mo., the other day. The lowa Legislature has passed a law prohibiting tho manufacture and sale of oleomargarine. The amount of lumber received at Chicago during 1871) was 1,467,720,001 feet, an increase of 25 per cent, over tho preceding year. Joseph Pulitzer, of the Post-Dispatch, and William Hyde, of the Republican, indulged in a fight in one of the public streets of St. Louis, the other day. Hyde knocked Pulitzer down, rolled him in tho gutter, blacked Iris eye, and went away, apparently satisfied. Pulitzer drew a pistol, but dropped the weapon before bo could get a chance to use it. No serious damage. ' All the property at Leadville, Col., of B. F. Allen, the ox-banker of Chicago and lowa, has been attached by his, creditors. Chicago elevators contain 8,740,623 bushels of wheat, 5,189,057 bushels of corn, I, bushels of oats, 249,318 bushels of rye, aDd 007,798 bushels of barley, making a total of 15,921,530 bushels, against 12,572,792 bushels at this period last year. Vessels in the harbor are laden with 202,329 bushols of wheat, 2,055,001 bushels of corn, and 37,308 bushels of oats. The Western paper-makers held another meeting at Chicago last week. The prices of paper were fully discussed, and it was decided to make no further advance for the present. They decided to send a memorial to Congress setting forth that the pnoe of rags, etc., has advanoed, and that It would be ruinous to tho paper trade of the country to remove the duty on paper. J. W. Mackay has purchased for $5,000,010 the interest of James C. Flood in the great Comstock mines.

At Marysville, De Kalb county, Mo,, George W. Rose, a prominent lawyer, became intoxicated, and went home and began abasing hie wife, when the Bon, aged 21, interferedThinking to scare liis father, he drew a revolver and fired, tho load striking the father in the heart, killing him instantly. Miss Jessie Baymond has withdrawn her suit for seduction against Senator Hil), of Georgia, and signed a paper acknowledging that she has no claim against that gentleman, (hat lie is entirely iuuocent, and that the suit was begun by Miss Be’.va Lockwood, the woman lawyer, without her (Raymond’s) knowlelge or consent. The people o* Western Missouri and Eastern and Southern Kansas are greatly agitated over the military preparations to prevent incursions of settlers into tho Indian Territory. Indignation meetings are boing held, at which tho President’s course is vigorously denounced. Chief Douglass, one of the Ute prisoners confined in Fort Leaven worth, escaped from tho guard-house by jumping from a sec-ond-story window. He was pursued for half a mile, and recaptured after a desperate struggle. A bill to restore capital punishment in Wisconsin lias hern defea'ed by the Wisconsin Legislature. A violent wind-storm or series of storms swept over a wide section of the West on the night of the 4th inst., causing immense destruction of property and considerable loss of iife. Indianapolis, Cleveland, Toledo, and Louisville suffered severely by the blow. Charles Colby was hanged at Santa Cruz, Cal., on Friday tl;e stli inst. On the same day two Missouri murderers paid the penalty of their crimes—Walker Kilgore at Mexico, and Joseph Core at Lebanon. Much of the fall-sown winter wheat in Central Wisconsin lias been ruined by the alternation of freezing and lhawirg weather the past winter. A man died in Chicago, the other day, of hydrophobia, communicated two months before by tho bite of a dog. A 15-year-old son of Prof. Willard, of Chicago, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. The stockholders have reorganized the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lou svillo Railroad Company, and changed its name to the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway Company. A lad of 18, of Columbus, Ohio, has become insane from the bite of a dog received over a year ago. Tiiomas W. Keene, wiio was the most popular loading man ever iti San Francisco, has made himself exceedingly popular in Chicago duiiog several engagements in a subordinate capacity n ith combinations. Ho now has organized a troupe for tho production cf a new play eallod “ The Two Mothers,” playing tho principal part himself. This play lie H producing at McViclce-i’d this week to first-rate houses. In substance the story recites tho well-known Tieliborne case, varied sufficiently to meet the requirements of a good acting piece and a satisfactory one. During the present Boston season “The Two Mothers” was played, and tho verdict was decidedly favorable. A fiuo cast, and good scenery, of course, eoruth. The large wagon manufactory of James, lloosa & Graham, at Memphis, Tenn., has been burned. Loss, $(15,000. The Virginia Legislature has repealed the Moffet bell-punch law and restored the old liquor license system. An appalling tragedy was enacted in Newberry eountv, 8. 0., ihe . other day. A farmer named Sherman, while laboring under a temporary fit of insanity, murdered his wife and brother by cutting their throats with a keen-edged knife, and then ended his own life in the same manner. Four men living near Careysville, Ky\, opposite Shawneetown, 111., were drownod in the Ohio river, last week, by the capsizing of a skiff. The sale of the New Orleans and Mobile railroad has been ordered by tho courts. Judge Ilayes, of the United States Court for the district of Kentucky, is dead.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The public-debt statement for March 1 is as follows: Six-per-cent, bonds $268,918,000 Five-por-cent. bonds 501,418,900 Four-aud-a-half - per-cent. bonds 250,000,000 Four-per-cent, bonds..... 738,962.00(1 Refunding certificates.... 1,883,950 Navy pension - fund 14.000,000 Total coin bonds $1,770,212,850 Matured debt $ 10,823,135 Legal tenders 346.742.271 Certificates of deposit... 11,485,000 Fractional currency.... 15,631,811 Gold and silver certificates 19,452,260 Total without interest $ 393,311,102 Total debt $2,174,347,087 Total interest...’ 17.110,787 Cash in treasury 190,351,653 Debt less cash in the treasury $1,995,112,220 Decrease during February 5,672,019 Decrease since June 30,1879 32,095,035 CfnilKNT 1,1 ABILITIES. Interest due and unpaid $ 3,662,288 Debt on which interest lias ceased... 10,823,135 In crest thereon 897,008 Gold and silver certificates 19,452,520 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 11,485,000 Cash balance available March 1,1880.. 150,031,706 Total $ 196,351,653 AVAILABLE ASSETS. Cash in treasury $ 196,351,653 Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 61,623,572 nterest accrued a id not yet paid.... 646,235 Interest paid by United States 46,661,156 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 13,656,910 The House Ways and Means Committee lias practically decided that there shall bo no tariff legislation at this session of Congress. The financial question was the subject of discussion at a Cabinet meeting last week. Secretary Sherman complained of the accumulation of silver coin in tho treasury, and stated that the silver certificates were a great hindrance lo its free circulation. Tho condition of tlie revenues was represented as exceedingly gratifying. Senator BeDj. H. Hill, of Georgia, has been made defendant in a suit for seduction, in which M ss Jeesie Raymond, of Alabama, is plaintiff. She alleges that the Senator took advantage of her friendless condition to effect her ruin, and demands damages in the Bum of SIO,OOO for the injury wrought The quinine manufacturers are trying to convince Congress that the duty on that drug ought to be restored. At a conference between Secretary Schurz and the Ute chieftains, last week, the Colorado Indian question was settled so far as it can be by the Execu'ive Department. The savages accepted the terms proposed by the Government, and will cede the reservation now occupied by them. The White River Utes will go to the Uintah reservation, in Utah; Ouray and the Uncompahgros to lands on Grand river, in the same Territory, and the Southern Utes to New Mexico. The new treaty will be submitted to Congress at an early day.

An extensive reduction in the working force of the Government Printing Office has been made, in consequence of the exhaustion of the appropriation made for the maintenance of the office during the present fiscal year. It is stated in a Washington dispatch that “the subject of the tariff will a;a : n be forced upon the Ways and Means Committee in some shape or other. Mr. Fort has been promised by Mr. Wood that the committee will fix a timo to hear arguments for and against the passage of his bill, to reluee the duty on paper, and to abolish the tariff on soda-ash He thinks that a majority of the committee will favor'the bill. Mr. Fort is confident that a two-thirds majority of the House would vote for his t il! if he could obtain a chance to put it upon its passage under a suspension of rules.” Isaiah Hanecom, Commodore and Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, died at Washington last week. There is a fair prospect of the Agricultural Bureau of the Interior Department being made a separate executive department, with its chief occupying a place in the President’s Cabinet, the bill to that effect liaviDg been reported favorably to the House,

POLITICAL POINTS. The Brooklyn Republican General Committee, by a vote of 52 to 82, laid on the tible tho resolution approving Grant and the Utica Convention. The Republican State Convention of lowa for the purpose cf selecting delegates to the Chicago Convention will be held at Des Moines on the 14(h of April. The convention to nominate candidates for State officers will meet later in the season. Edward McPherson succeeds George C. Gorham as Secretary of the Republican Congressional Committee. A Republican United States Senator, who lias gono into the prophet business, names Blaine and Logan as the ticket that will be nominated at Chicago. The Washington Post, in an “inspired” editorial, double-leaded, announces that Samuel J. Tilden will, without doubt, be a candidate for tho Presidential nomination before the Cincinnati Convention. The Maine delegates to the Chicago Convention have been instructed for Blaine. The Greenbackers of the Seventh Indiana district have renominated Rev. De La Ma*yr for Congress. Of the four Indiana delegates-at-large to the Chicago Convention, which was chosen by the State Republican Committee, last week, three are known to be for Blaine. A Greenback National Convention,under the auspices cf Brick Pomeroy, met at St. Louis last week and nominated Stephen I). Dillave, of New Hampshire, and B. J-. Chambers, of Texas, for President and Vice President. A “ John M. Palmer Club,” the object of which is to give tho ex-Governor a boom for President, has been organized at Springfield, 111. A State Convention of the lowa Democracy has been called to meet at Burlington, April 7, for the clioosingof delegates to the National Democratic Convention. The Kansas Democrats will hold their State Crnvention at Topeka, on the -OR. of May. The Kentucky Democratic Central Committee has called a State Convention of tho party to meet at Lexington, Juno 17. The Ohio Prohibitionists met in convention at Columbus, list week, and nominated candidates for S’ate officers and Presidential electors. Representative Fort, of Illinois, is confident that a majority of the delegates to the Chicago Convention from Illinois will be for Grant. A State convention of “Young Republicans” of Massachusetts was held at Boston the other day. Resolutions were adop'ed deprecating the nomination of either Grant cr Blaine, indorsing Hayes, congratulating the Independent Republicans of New York and Pennsylvania, calliDg for civil-service reform, and recommending that greenbacks ho deprived of their legal-tender function. The House special commitiee on the inter-oceanic canal has unanimously voted to report to tho House resoln im3 reaffirming the Monroe doctrine, and declaring that the United States must control any crnal that may be cut through the American isthmus. Speaker Randall has expressed the opinion that Congress will adjourn by the 15th of Mav.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. On the assembling of the Senate, March 1, Mr. Jones introduced a bill for removing the obstructions in Bed river. A resolution for information upon “Star” postofflee routes was passed. A message from the President in regard to certain old Spanish claims in Florida was read. Senator Anthony introduced a bill pensioning public officers after fifty years’ service. Mr. Hoar made a speech upon the Alabama claims. Mr. Randolph and Mr. Logan spoke pro and con upon the Fitz John Porter Relief bill. The President nominated James B. Butler, of New York, to be United States Attorney for Idaho, and the following Supervisors of Census: William H. McDowell, Third District

of Ohio: MosesM. Hobart, Sixth District of Ohio; J. A. Newton. First District of Tennessee; and Spencer Smith, Third District of 10wa... .In the House, the following bills were introduced: By Mr. Chittenden, making the duties on carpeting and carpet-rags 50 per cent, ad valorem; by Mr. Aiken. to encourage the cultivation of the tea-plant; by Mr. Waldron, repealing all acts gran iDg lands in the Indian Territory to railroads, conditioned on the extinguishment of the Indian titles; by Mr. Ellis, extending for ten years the time for the completion of the Texas Pacific railroad; by Mr. Converse, for the survey and disposal of public lands; by Mr. O. Turner, abolishing all tariff duties on printingtype, trace-chains and agricultural implements; by Mr. Atkins, placin<r wood and straw pulp and chemicals used in the manufacture of paper on the free list; by Mr. Townsliend (111.), placing printing type and paper on the free list: by Mr *ldrich, amending the internal-revenue laws: by Mr. Clarr, for the erection, in Washington, of a monument to Gen. G. A. Custer and the officers and privates of the Seventh cavalry, who wire killed In the battle of the Little Big Horn: by Mr. Culberson, prescribing six years from the time action is approved as t e time within which claims in favor of or against the Government shall be prosecuted; by Mr Page, admitting steam-plow machinery free of duty: by Mr. Berry, repealing the duty on grain bags and gunny cloth; by Messrs. McMillan and. #ickev, placing prinling-paper on the free list; by Mr. Lowe, to abolish tie tax on brandy made of apples, peaches, and other fruits; also to return the cotton-tax collected under the acts of Congress which have sluce been declared illegal and void: also, to repeal the tax on tobacco in the hands of the producer: also, to reduce the tax on distiHed spirits to 21) cents ppr gallon. Bv Mr. Hutchinson, to reorganize tlie militia of the United States. Night session* wero ordered for March 3 and 10 to consider pension bills. The bill for tlie purchase cf a site for a postoffice at Baltimore was passed. Mr. Hoar introduced a resolution in the Senate on the 2d inst. instructing the Committee on Judiciary to inquire whether any person has been arrested and imprisoned for petitioning the Senate iu regard to a seat in that body. The resolution was adopted. It is evidently aimed at the Louisiana case. The Senate passed the House biil appropriating $550,( 00 for the purchase of a site for a postoffice and other Government buildings in Baltimore. Mr. Logan occupied the entire day after the morning hour with a set speech upon the Fitz John Porter case, his remarks being unfinished at the adjournment. The President withdrew the nomination of Mr. Pinchback for Naval Officer at New Orleans.... In the House, tho morning hour was dispensed with, and the report ot the C mmittee on Revision of the ltule.s was presented from committee of the whole, with amendments, and, after several yea-and-nay votes, was adopted, and the new code was ordered to go into effect next Monday. A communication was received from the Secretary of War to the Senate, on the 3d inst., giving the number, age, rank, elc., of officers retired from the army since the act of June 13. IS7B. Mr. Thurman, from the Judiciary committee, rejjorted adversely on the Bouse hill for removal of political disabilities of individuals. A House bill was passed giving a drawback of tariff upon certain machinery, and canned goods exported whore the cans are made of foreign material to the amouir of 70 per cent., and the machines to the amount of one-half. Bills were Introduced: By Mr. Vest, for the ( rection of a public building at Hannibal, Mo.; by Mr. Jonas, fc-r the relief of M- s. Betty Taylor a,d Mrs. Knox Wood, daughter and granddaughter of Zachary Taylor. Mr. Carpenter submitted a resolution instructing the Commit <e on t: e Judiciary to inquire whether Congress has the right to make the Indian territory a separate judicial district, and to organize a court or conns therein, and if so, what jurisdiction ought to be conferred upon said c urts an l to report b. bill or otherwise, 'the bill fertile i\ lief of certain actual seitlcis on the Kama. I rust and Diminished Revenue lands in Kansas pass! d. The bill restoring to the public domain part of tlie Fort Kipley (Minn.) milita-y reseivation passe*. Mr. Logan spoil c the whole, day, alter the morning hour, upon the Pitz John Porter case, and had not concluded his remarks at adjournment. The President nominated Charles A. Galloway to be Collector of Internal Revenue of the Third district of Wisconsin.... In the Hons -, the morning hour was consumed in discussion of the bill regulating the removal of causes from State to Federal Courts, ihe morning hour expired without final action on the bill; and the Senate resolutions relative to tlie late Senator Houston, of Alabama, were taken up. Eulogies were pronounced by Messrs. Wright, Fernando Wood, Cox, Forney, Lowe. Williams. Herbert, Herndon, Lewis, -amford, Shelley, House, Atkins and Harris. The House then, as a mark of respect, adjourned. Bills were introduced in the Senate on the 4th inst. as follows: By Mr. Llair. to provide for the payment of pensions to widows and minor children upon the death of pensioners totally disabled from-wounds in service; by Mr. Harris, to make the crime of rape punishable with death; by Mr. Morgan, a joint resolution declaring Indians citizens of the States and Territories in which they reside. The Appropriation Committee report! d a bill for sundry c.vil «xper.scs of the Government. The Senate took lip and passed ih - House bill making additional appropriations of $135.00(1 for the support of certain Ind an tribes for the year ending June 30, 1880. The morning hour having expired. Mr. Logan continued his remarks upon the F.tz John Porter ease, not reaching a conclusion at adjournment. The Sen it reject d the nomination of John McNeil, ot St. Louis, as United states Marshal for the Eastern Be trie) of Missouri.... In ihe House. tbo bill regulating removals from State to Federal courts was passed, alter discussiou and amendment Mr. Gillette introduced a bill to provide lor the payment of ihe public debt, to l»e used as a substitute for Mr. Wood’s Funding bill, and it was ordered jnin oil. Mr. AikPii offered n bill making the Agr, cultural Department an independent branch of the Gow raiment. Mr. Wood addressed tlie House, in committee of the whole, upan his Funding bill.

In tho United States Senate, March 5, Mr. Garfield introduced a joint resolution extending until April 15 the time allowed the Secretary of the Interior to instruct the United States Land Office at Little Rock in relation to the Hot Springs reservation. The bilFrelieving Pay-Director Charles W. Abbott from liability for the defalcation of his subordinates passed. Mr. Baldwin, from the Committee on Commerce, reported adversely on the House bill to amend the statutes relative to the importation of neat cattle, and it was indefinitely postponed. Mr. Logan, after the morning hour, completed his long speech upon the Fitz John Porter bill. Mr. Carpenter then obtain!d iho floor, and tlie Senate adjourn d....1n the House, Mr. Rfagan reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information relative lo the condition of the harbor of Grand Haven. Mich. Mr. Hendercon reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information as to the improvement of the Rock Island ranids of tho Mississippi river. These resolutions viere adopted. Lills were introduced and referred as follows: By Mr. Ellis, to pirnish with death the crime of rape in tho District of Columbia; by Mr. Carlisle, fixing the duties on sugar. The House Appropriations Committee reported a Deficiency bill, aiuoi g the items provided for are public printing, $400,000; life-saving service, $5,000: mail-route messengers, $10,000; daily postal-car clerks, $15,000; route agen’S, $5,000; Chicago public building, SIOO 000. Mr. De La Matyr offered a resolution, which was adopted, directing the Census Committee to inquire into the advisability of taking the census in Alaska. Owing to the absence of a quorum, very little business was transacted, and the House adjourned till Monday. Tlie Vico President laid before the Senate, on the morning of the 6th inst., a letter from the Commissioner of Pensions submitting a revised o timate of the deficiencies for the ai my and navy pensions for the fiscal year ending June 30 next. Mr. Teller introduced a bill to enable town sites to be entered on public lands Some bil’s of a personal nature being disposed of. the bill to amend section 2,447, Revised Statutes, in relation to the issue of patents for private land claims confirmed by act of Congress.was passed. Mr. Carpenter occupied the remainder of tlie day upon Fitz John Porter’s case, speaking in opposition to the bill.