Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1880 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

TORBIOIT VIVA The British troops have been defeated in an engagement with the Afghans. The new British Arctic expedition ■will sail in May. The General Postoffice at Capetown, Booth Africa, was recently robbed of all the diamond* awaiting shipment by mail, valued at £75,000. The winter sowings of wheat in the (South of Russia have suffered greatly from frost There are 73,000 people in Donegal, Ireland, who need relief. A censns is being made of the city of Bt. Petersburg, and all persons without fixed occupation or means of subsistence will be driven from the city. - Gen. Roberts, commander of the British forces in Afghanistan, lias received a letter signed by all the chiefs at Ghuznee, intimating that, being assured of the friendly intentions of the English, they are ready to negotiate. Many arrests of Nihilists are being made at Ht. Petersburg and Odessa, in Russia, Mr. Parnell has reached his native land. H'j was warmly welcomed at Queenstown with bands of music and large crowds.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ICast. The workingmen of Chicago have resolved, iu public meeting assembled, that the Chinese must go. The coal managers have agreed to another advauoe of 25 cents a ton. William D. Hilton, formerly Superintendent of tlio Providence and Worcester railroad, confesses that ho has issued forged paper to the amount of $8 ',O(X>, purporting to bo indorsod by William S. Klator and Lyman A. Cook. His operations have been going on for two yoars. A bill repealing the law prohibiting the intermarriage of whites and blacks has been defeated iu the Rhode Island Legislature. Prof. Sawyer, tlio rival of Edison in the achievement of a practical, economical electric light, claims to have solved the mighty problem. A public exhibition of his new lamp was given in Now York a few nights ago, and those who witnessed it are of tlio opinion that it will prove a big success. The lamp is based upon the incandescence of a pencil of carbon immersed iu nitrogon gas, and is not different iu principle from the old Saw-yer-Mann lamp. Tlio pencil is contained within a globo two inchoa in diameter and ten inches high, soalod at the bottom by means of a eetnout, which, while adhering perfectly to tlio glass and metal, is sufficiently elastic to compensate for the unequal expansion of tho two, and softens only at a temperature of 501) degrees Fahrenheit. This cement is a compouud long sought for unsuccessfully. Tho coat of the lamp is less than |1 25. Tlio light is readily lowered to a glimmer by simply turning a button. Fros. Sawyer estimates tho cost, compared with gas at $2 per 1,000 feet, in the proportion of two to ten. The light is a trille stronger than gas, but steady, soft, and pleasant, and very much like gas. The Connecticut House of Representatives has passed a bill granting female suffrage on liquor-license matters. William Pearson was executed at Genesee, N. Y., on tho 10th of March for the murder of Bradley Witliey. The Connecticut Legislature has refused to pass the bill giving women the privilege of voting on the lio3nse question. The office of the Boston Journal has been destroyed by fire. A firo in Troy, N. Y., burned nearly $300,000 worth of property. While a servant of J. H. Haverly, the well-known Chicago theatrical manager, was checking tho manager’s valise at a Boston railroad depot, a thief snatched it and fled. Tho contents are valued at $5,000. West. News of a terrible Indian massacre oomes from Colorado. The victims wore a party of prospectors, including Joe Lacomo, Joe Chaves, Pat Kano, Bill Trinbrom, Dave Btockliammev, and several others. The affair ooourred in the vicinity of Blue mountain. At a meeting held in Chicago in behalf of the negro emigrants, it was decided that Kansas wan not large enough to take care of all the refugees, and a resolution was adopted inviting 50,000 of them to settle in Illinois.

In liis telegram to military headquarters in Chicago announcing the presence of Sittiug Bull ou United States territory, Gen. Miles states that he is reliably informed that, wliilo Sioux war parties have been depredating on the settlements, their camps have been obtaining supplies from no less than four Government trading establishments between the Missouri liver and the boundary line. A San Francisco dispatch says the nnmber of Chinese departure* to the Eastern States has been greatly exaggerated. Dennis Kearney has been sentenced, by a San Francisco police magistrate, to six months in the work house and to pay a tine of *I,OOO. The Wisconsin Legislature has adjourned sine die. The Leavenworth Times prints reports from County Clerks of various counties n Kansas in regard to the condition and acreage of fall wheat from every point in the State, by which it appears that the acreage is 20 por cent, greater than last year and the condition fully 50 per cent, better, so that the yield this year will exceed 80,000,000 bushels. A dangerous S2O United States reasurv note has made its appearance in the West. It is of the scries of 1875, letter O, and printed on imitation fiber-paper. The shading under the words “United States'’ is darker than in the genuine note, but the general appearance of the bill is good. Forty- two mercantile firms in Chicago have petitioned Congress for the passage of a uniform Bankruptcy law. Julius De Boer was hanged at Pontiac, HI, on the 16th of March for the nrarder of Miss Ella Martin, a beautiful young girl, on the 19th of Ootober last The culprit was only 18 years old, and a native of Germany. A murderer named Fields, confined in the jail of Winchester, 111., for a oold-blood-ed murder, was shot dead in his cell by a mob of masked men, a few nights ago. Martin Power, of Chicago, quarreled with his wife at the breakfast table, and became so enraged that he drew a pistol and shot her three times, winding up by pointing the weapon at his own head, and blowing out his worthless brains. The woman may possibly recover. j A convention called for the purpose of promoting the construction of a shill-canal connecting the great lakes and the Mississippi river was held at Ottawa, 111., last week, about 600 delegates being present. Resolution i were ad ptad favoring the enlarging of the Hinois

and Michigan canal to the dimensions of a ship canal by means of Government aid, and a committee was appointed to urg* upon Illinois Congressmen the importance of moving in the matter forthwith. Three attempts to fire the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce were made in one day last week. The object of the incendiary is a mystery. Ten children, seven in one family and three in another, have died of diphtheria, at Zanesville, Ohio. The notorious Mrs. Clem has been convicted at Indianapolis of po jun and grand larceny iu connection with ono of her peculiar business transactions, and will lie sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. Peter Stout, a wealthy farmer living near Stoutsville, Ohio, fatally shot his brother the other day. Gannon,a co-laborer of Dennis Kearney in the labor agititions in San Francisco, has been sentenced to SI,OOO fine and six months’ imprisonment for having used indiscreet language in a public speech. Bartley Campbell’s “Gdley Slave” is continued at HaverlyV, iu Chicago, another week. The engagement has been one or the best of tlio season, tho play seeming to have taken a fast hold upon public favor. The stage settings have attracted considerable attention and excited applause. They are varied in character, handsomely finished, and marked by a c ire of detail highly commendable. South. A large section of Texas has been visited by a severe “norther,” which kilted the fruit and necessitated the replanting of corn. Heavy rains and damaging floods are reported in Virginia and Georgia. Cowboys recently captured, a town in Baylor county, Texas, shot the (Jonstable, and dispersed the Justices of the Peace. The lower house of the Kentucky Legislature lias refused to give Henry "Ward Beecher permission to speak ?n its hall. A child with two well-developed heads, four hands, two trunle, twenty-four ribs and two spinal columns has been born in North Carolina. S. T. Myers, a boy of 18, was hanged at Dallas, Texas, March lit, for llie murder of his step-mother. Edward C. Palmer, of New Orleans, lias been sentenced to the penitentiary for three years for embezzling the funds of the Louisiana Bank, of which li) was President. A negro child-murderer was lynched by the people of Page county, Va., last week.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Missouri Democratic State Committee met at 8b Louis, last week, and decided to call tho Stato Convention on May 20. A strong sentiment in favor of Seymour for President was manifested by tlio members of tlio committee. A State Convention of Illinois Greenbackers will be held at Springfield April 21. Levi Z. Leiter, the great Chicago drygoods merchant, is prominently mentioned in connection with tho Democratic nomination for Governor of Illinois. The Michigan State Greenback Convention, held at Jackson March 10, chose the following delegates-at-large to the National Convention : H. 8. Smith, Grand Rapids; M. W. Field, Detroit; Walter Childs, St. Joeeph county; Hubbard Taylor, Bay City. The Michigan Republicans will meet in Stato Couvention at Detroit on May 12. At a meeting of the Illinois Democratic Committee, at Springfield, it was decided, after considerable discussion, to hold but one State Convention for th^. selection of delegates to the Cincinnati Convention and for tho nomination of candidates for State offices and Pre-i----dcntial Electors. This will be held at tho Stite capital on the 10th of June. The Republicans of Rhode Island have nominated Alfred H. Littlefield for Governor—the present incumbent, Van Zindt, declining a renomiuation—and sent a delegation to Chicago said to be unanimous for Blaine. The Pennsylvania Democratic Commit’ee met at Harrisburg last week, and fixed upon Harrisburg, April 2S, as the time and place for the meeting of the Stato Convention. The friends of Ti’den wanted the convention called later, but, being largely in the minority, they were defeated. The New Hampshire Democratic State Convention has been called for May 5. A Washington dispatch says that Tilden stock went down on the news that the Democratic Committee at Pittsburgh had manifested a strong dislike to Tilden’s nomination, and that the Democratic Stato Committee of Louisiana is opposed to Tilden and favorable to Gen. Hancock. Rhode Island men say that it is not true, after all, that the delegation from that Stato to the Chicago Convention will vote for Blaine, as it is uninstructed. So says a Washington dispatch. It is reported that the Hancock managers are attempting to organize a strong movement from Washington for their favori'e. Southern men are at the head of the scheme. The first State expected to pronounce for him in Louisiana. Then some of the Gulf States are expected to follow. The Democratic primaries in Allegheny county, Pa., were swept by Tilden, his opponents securing only thirty delegates out of over 500.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Gen. Sherman recommends that Maj. Reno shall be suspended for one year, deprived of six months’ pay, degraded five files in the rank of Major, and confined within the limits of the post where his regiment is stationed during the period of suspension. The President has confirmed the sentence of dismissal in the case of Maj. Marcus A. Reno. It is stated in a dispatch from Washington that “a oareful canvass of members of the Ways and Means Committee develops the

fact that a majority will vote in favor of the removal of the duty on all articles used in the manufacture of paper. In connection with the suggestion that an early adjournment of Congress is impossible, it can be said (says a Washington correspondent) that an early adjournment is not probable, and would be contrary to all precedents in Presidential years. The fo’lowing are the dates at which Congress has adjourueJ in such years: 1832, July 16; 1836, July 4; 1841, July 21; 1844, June 17; 1848, Aug. 14; 152, Aug. 31; 1856, Aug. 18 and Aug. 30; 1860, June 28; 1864, July 4; 1868, July 27; 1872, June 10; 1876, Aug. 15. Ex-Senator Christiancy’s friends state that there is not a particle of truth in the charges made by his young wife against his honor and eobriety, and claim that she makes them for the purpose of lettiug herself down easy, as the evidence of her unfaithfulness is of such a character that no court can refuse to grant ari unconditional divorce.

DOINGS IN CONGBESS. Bills were introduced and referred to committee* of the Senate on Monday, March 15, as follows: By Mr. Johnston, for the suppression of infectious and contagious diseases among domestic cattle; by Mr. Plumb, to amend section 3,&S'J of the Bevised Statutes, relative to public lands. Very little business of importance was transacted by the upper house, the time being occupied by reports ot committees and other miscellaneous business. The President nominated Jacob Kendrick Upton, of New Hampshire, to be Assistant Secretary of I lie Treasury; Arthur Edwards, of Michigan, to be Agent for the Indians at the Omaha and Winnebago Agency, Nebraska; and Edward H. Bowman, of Illino.s, :o be Agent for the In iians at the Pawnee Agency, Indian Territory.... In the House, tills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Singleton, making telegraphic communications ss ioviolable as letters In the mail; by Mr. Daggett, to reduce the price of public lands within railroad limits; by Mr. Covert, to create a scientific commission to establish legal tests for the protection of dealers in butter, oleomargarine, etc.; by Mr. Scales, for an allotment of lands In severalty to the united band of Peoria Indians; by Mr. Whittaker, reducing tho expenses of taking pre-emtions and homesteads; by Mr. Kelley,a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to turnish a statement of tho bonds purchased between the Ist of Jauuary, 1841, and the Ist of January, 1359; by Mr. Ward, to reduce the expenses of collecting the revenue: by Mr. Young (Tenn.), for the appointment of a commission on the method of, settling claims against tho United States; by Mr. Tucker, appropriating $25,000 for the relief of the daughter and graud-daughter of Zachary Taylor; by Mr. Downey, appropriating $25,000 to protect and Improve the TellOwstone National Park; by Mr. Fort, calling on the Secretary of War for information as to the distance and the cost of a can ai for the commerce between ihe navigable waters of the Illinois river and the Illinois and Michigan canal, by way of the Kankakee river; by Mr. Acklen, a bill proposing a constitutional amendment. The amendment declares that the Union of these United States shall be perpetual, aud all acts or attempts to separate or destroy the Union shall be treason against Ihe Federal Government, and be punished as such; the States’ limits and boundaries to be inviolate, and the rights of the State to mako and enforce its local laws shall never be interfered with by the Federal Government; by Mr. Buckner, for an adjournment of Congress on the 24th of May. A bill was passed to abolish tolls on tha Louisville aud Portland canal.

On the morning of March 16 Mr. Davis (Ill.) resented in tho Senate a memorial from citizens of Chicago, praying the enactment of a uniform bankruptcy law, and made a speech supporting the memorial. On motion of Mr. Thurman, the resolut on offered by Mr. Kellogg for a committee to investigate the newspaper charges against him was laid on tho table. Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill to fix the day for tho meeting of the Electors of the President and Vice President, and to provide for and regulate the counting of votes for President and Vice President, and the decision of questions arising thereon. Deferred to a select committee on the subject. The afternoon was devoted to consideration of the Star Route Deficiency bill, the Senate remaining in session till 6 o’clock without reaching any conclusion... .In the House, a debate on the Funding bill was ordered for next Saturday. Ihe morning hour being dispensed with, the House went into committee of the whole upon the Deflciciency Appropriation bill. This was discussed the whole day, but not conc'uded. Mr. Dibrell, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to withholding pensions allowed to soldiers of the War of ISI2. Adopted. The first business transacted in the Senate on the 17th inst. was tho passage of a bill removing the political disabilities of Rogor A. Pryor. Mr. Hampton, from the Military Committee, reported a bill to survey and mark the Gettysburg battle-field. After discussion for nearly Ihe whole day, the Btar Service Deficiency bill was passed. The President nominated Matthias C. Osborn, of Alabama, to te Tl nited Slates Marshal for the Middle md Southern District of Alabama. ...In tho House, Mr. Taylor offered a lesolstion for tho appointment of a special committee to investigate the present method of settling claims against the United States. All the day’s session was consumed in discussion upon the Deficiency Appropriation bill, no conclusion being reached. Debate was the order of tho day in both houses on Thursday, March 18. In the upper house, after a few committee reports, the Benate proceeded to consider the House bill for the establishment of titles in Hot Springs, the question being on the substitute reported by the Senate Committee on Public Landß. The bill was explained by members of the committee, and, after debate, the Senate went into executive session and soon adjourned... .In the House, the morning lour was dispensed wi'h, and that body went immediately into committee of the whole upon the Special Deficiency bill. Debate continued till adjournment, without action.

The Hot Springs bill was taken up in the Senate on the morning of the 19th inst., amended and passed. Mr. McDonald introduced a bill refunding certain duties paid on imported articles by the University of Notre Dame, St. Joseph county, Ind. Mr. Anlhony presented the memorial of Susan B. Anthony asking for a removal of her political disabilities. Miss Anthony complains that, while the prayers of men for the removal of disabilities have been granted, such prayers have been denied to women. She asks that her petition receive the same consideration as if her name were Samuel B. Anthony. Mr. Plumb introduced a bill to provide for an allotment of lands in severalty to the United Peoria and Miami tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory. In executive session the nomination of Bev. Thomas Simmons to he Census Supervisor for the Fifth district of Georgia was rejected. The President nominated Charles Adams. of Colorado, Minister to Bolivia, and the following to be United Sta'es Consuls: Bret Harte, of California, at Glasgow; George L. Catlin, of New Jersey, at Stuttgardt; P. Lange, es lowa, at La Itochelle; W. P. Mangum, of North Carolina, at Tien Tsin; Alex. C. Jones, of West Virginia, at Nagasaki; Harry A. Conant, of Michigan, at Naples; William L. Scruggs, of Georgia, at Cantou; Victor Thompson, of Mississippi, at St. Thomas; Henry C. Marston, of Illinois, at Malaga; John A. Holderman, of Kansas, at Bangkok; a'so, Henry C. Snowden, to be Supervisor of the Census for the Second district of Pennsylvania. Adjourned to Monday... .In (he House, the morning hour was dispensed with, private business laid aside, and the bouse went into committee of the whole (Carlisle In ihe chai ) on the Special Deficiency bill. Political discussion was resumed upon the measure, many amendments being offered, but the bill was finally passed. The proposition which was finally adopted was this: That the appropriation for the payment of Marshals and Deputies should be made, and the validity of the Election laws recognized, with this addition: “ Provided, that hereafter Special Deputy Marshals of election for performing duty in respect to any election shall receive *5 a day in full compensation, and that all appointments of snch Special Deputies shall be made by the Judges of the United States Courts in the circuit or districts in which such Marshals are to perform their duties, the Deputies to be taken in equal numbers from the different political parties.” A. bill appropriating SIOO,CUO as a deficiency to the public printing was passed. A resolution in regard to the abrogation of the Chinese treaty was offered. The Senate was not in session on the 20th inst., and the House held a meeting for debate on the Funding bill. Judge Kelley opposed the bill, because he thought the debt could be wiped out soou, one-four h of it having been paid off in the last fifteen years. He attributed the revival of prosperity to the facls that silvet had been re monetized, and the cancellation of greenbacks had been stopped. Mr. Frye eulogized the Republican party for reducing the interest. Mr. Felton spoke in favor of a substitute of his, which provided for the monthly coinage of 4,000,000 silver dollars, and for the application of the coin reserve in the treasury, in exctss of 25 per cent, of the outstanding greenbacks, to the purchase of bonds for cancellation. Mr. Orth favored the bill because a reduction in the interest charges would enable the Government to indulge in internal improvements, such as the improvement of the Wabash river and its connection with Lake Erie by canal. Mr. Dunnell took occasion to compliment Secretary Sherman,