Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK

FOREIGN NEWS. The French Government has ordered the cloHing of al) Jesuitical CHtablialnnentH in France within three months. There is every prospect of a war between China and Russia. There is to be a meeting of the German and Russian Emperors shortly. Bismarck celel rated his 66th birthday on the 2d of April, and received letters and presents from all parts of Europe. A terrible tire occurred recently in Montaimont, a village of Savoy. Seventeen inhabitants perished, and thirty-one dwellings were destroyed. The result of the English ( lections is not regarded with favor by any continental government save the Russian. The extreme Radical press of France, however, are very jubilant over the matter. The health of the Emperor William is not good, and much anxiety is felt in German official circles in consequence. It is reported that 20,000 Chinese troops have crossed the boundary into Russian territory. Forty-two persons were killed by the late colliery explosion in Belgium. A body of Afghan soldiers under the h ad of Mohammed Jan has been defeated by the British, and Mohammed himself killed. Dr. Kenealy, who has been living for years on his Tjcliborne-trial notoriety, has been very badly defeated in his Parliamentary candidacy.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Two men were killed and several injured by a boiler explosion at Buffalo. A fire at Bradford, Pa., destroyed MOOJItX) worth of property, including the Academy of Music. The New York retail grocers have agreed to petition ('ongress to pass a law preventing the sale or manufacture of oleomargarine. A gang of marauders is stealing stock and burning barns in Chester county, l‘a. West. Mrs. Clem, the notorious Indianapolis woman, has been sentenced to four years in the Indiana penitentiary for forgery. A San Francisco man has gone crazy over the 15 puzzle. Mrs. Holloway and her infant child were burned to death at Warsaw, Ind. It is believed they were murdered. A party of twelve in a wagon were thrown over an embankment, near Terre Haute, Ind., drowning two ladies. Miss. Lavina Goodell, a well-known woman lawyer of Janesville, Wis., is dead. Two noted desperadoes undertook to release a murderer confined in the jail at Las Vegas, and, meeting with resistance, shot and killed the keeper, and fled. During the winter packing season— Nov. 1, 1879, to March 1,1880 6,950,451 hogs were slaughtered and packed in the West, against 7,480,618 during tlii' season of 1878 9. Chicago alone slaughtered 2,525,219, A violent cyclone passed over a section of Southeastern Kansas one day last week, demolishing houses and killing several people. A large white-lead establishment at Joplin. Mo., has been burned. The loss was •t , '}oo,ooo, and the insurance •'■<27,000. A boiler explosion near Rushville, 111., destroyed a saw-mill, killed three men. and seriously injure I two others. South. During Gen. Grant’s visit to Houston, Texas, somebody shut off the gas from the city, necessitating the use of candles, and spiked the cannons. The Mayor offers a reward of *SOO for the arrest of the miscreants. Two card-players in Bandera county, Texas, quarreled, adjourned to the street, and shot each other dead. The Brown county (Tex.) Court House and jail have been burned, with several prisoners. A bill doing away with public executions in Kentucky has passed both houses of the Legislature of (hat State. Ben Johnson, a negro, charged with rape, has been lynched at Winchester, Ky. Gen. Grant was created a Duke by the Carnival Court, of New Orleans. Died at Baltimore, Md., Hester I’resburg, aged 125.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The excess of American exports over ; imports for the year ending Feb. 2!) last was ■ $212,298,963. I In the contested-election case of Washburn vh. Donnelly, from Minnesota, the House Committee on Elections have decided to report that neither of them is entitled to the seat. Following is a statement of the public debt issued on the Istinst: Six percent. bondss 256,887,700 Five percents 498,',162,900 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four per cents 739,017,350 Kelunding certificates 1,830,450 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin b0nd551,760,698,400 Matured debts 9,922,965 Legal tenders 346,742,211 Certificates of deposit... 8,495,000 Fractional currency 15,625,297 Gold and silver certificates 20,145,420 Total without interest. 391,007,928 Total interest'.s 19,870,513 Total debt 52,161,629,293 Cash in treasury.. 201,106,983 Debt less cash in trea5ury51,980,392,824 Decrease during March 14,719,396 Decrease since J une 30, 1879 46,814,432 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid 2,518,642 Debt on which interest has ceased 9,922,966 Interest thereon 881,565 Gold and silver certificates 20,145,420 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 8,495,000 Cash balance available, April 1, 1880.... 159,143,388 | Totals 201,106,983 Available assets— Cash in treasury 201,106,983 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 969,352 Interest paid by United States 45,651,155 Interest repaid by transportation of mails 12,983,707 By cash payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 32,012,249 The Cabinet has decided to recommend legislation looking to the establishment of a civil Government in Alaska. POLITICAL POINTS. Tlie New York Democrats have issued a call for a State Convention, to meet at Syracuse, April 20. The Tammany Democracy have also called a State Convention for the same time and place. The Kansas Republican Convention piet at Topeka on the 3fst nit. There was an

I exciting contest over the manner of choosing 1 the delegates to the National Convention, the I Grant partisans insisting upon the district plan, ■ while the friends of Blaine wanted them chosen ■ by the convention. The latter, being in the I majority, carried the day, and ten delegates, all j of them said to be Blaine men, were elected. The Grant delegates from the Second and Third ■ Congressional districts subsequently met and | selected a delegation to Chicago, to contest the i seats of the Blaine men. Secretary Sherman delivered a speech .at Mansfield, Ohio, on the 31st ult. He admitted that he was a candidate for the Presidential nomination, but declared that if the Republicans i of Ohio did not, in th< ir convention, express a i preference for him and support it with substantial unanimity, his name would not he presented to the National Convention. The local (flection in San Francisco has resulted in the triumph of the anti-Kearney t : cket ( The Nebraska Democratic Convention, held at Omaha, chose delegates to Cincinnati said to be friendly to Tilden, and resolved in favor of the two-thirds rule in the nominating convention. The Democratic Central Committee of Vermont is in favor of Hancock for President. United States Senator Paddock, of Nebraska, whose term will expire next year, is a candidate for re-ele :tion. The Republican Convention of Utah Territory selected a Blaine delegation to the Chicago Convention. A State Convention of the Greenback party of Missouri has been called for May 20.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. On the meeting of the Senate on Monday, March 29, Mr. Kirkwood presented a memorial from the lowa Legislature protecting innocent users of patent articles, and Mr. Cameron presented a memorial of the Wisconsin Legislature recommending an appropriation to enable the Secretary of War to construct improvements of the Upper Mississippi river. Several bills were introduced and referred. Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill in the Senate on the 30th ult., to provide for the sale of the Miami lands in Kansas; also, providing for the proper punishment of crimes on Indian reservations; also, a bill for the relief of settlers on Shawnee lands in Kansas. The Senate rejected the following nominations of Census Supervisors: Thomas H. Sher\vood, First district, Pennsylvania; Charles P. Jadwin, Fifth district, Pennsylvania... .In the House, the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was passed. Mr. Clymer reported the Army Appropriation bill, and it was referred to the committee of the whole. The report states that, after the deliberate study of estimates and full inquiry of the various officers of the War Department, the committee had concluded that the estimates of the department con’d be reduced $1,201,(575, leaving the sum of $2(5,425,800, which is recommended in this bill, and which is $317,500 less than the amount appropriated for the present fiscal year. The Senate Elections Committee had printed the testimony and reports in the Kellogg-Spofford case, in which was included the testimony of Webber, a witness whose testimony was discredited by the committee and ordered omitted, therefore Mr. Cameron (Wis.) rose in his place on the morning of the 31st ult and made an explanation. After some talk the report was recommitted for the purpose of expurgation. The bill providing for an International Exhibition in New York in 1883, was amended and passed. The Committee on the Judiciary reported adversely on the bill making Feb. 22 a legal holiday in the District, and it was indefinitely postponed. Tlie bill introduced by Mr. Paddock to equalize homesteads by allowing locations in more than one place, where necessary to make up 1(50 acres, was passed. The Immediate Deficiency bill was taken up, and a long and rather sharp debate ensued between Messrs. Blaine, Edmunds, Eaton, Beck, Allison, Davis, Carpenter, Whyte and Dawes. ....In the House, a large number of bills were reported from committees, most. of which were placed on Um calendar. The Post-lloute bill was passed. Consideration was resinned of the contested-election case of Bradley vs. Siemens, from the Second district of Arkansas. The report of the committee, in favor of Mr. S'.enions, was adopted, by 149 to 21. Mr. Wallace, on behalf of a majority of the Senate select committee on alleged frauds in the. late elections, submitted to the Senate, on the 2d inst., a special report and a bill concerning political assessments. The Vice President laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of War recommending an appropriation of $50,000 for the new military post between Forts Custer and Assiniboine. A pension bill for a scout was discussed and opposed, but no conclusion reached. The Senate adjourned to Monday. The President nominated John R. McFie, of Coultersville, Randolph county, 111., as Supervisor of the Census for the Eighth district of Illinois, and George 8. Houghton, of Tabor, lowa, Supervisor of the Census for the Third district of lowa In the House, the Star Service Deficiency bill occupied the day; the Senate amendments were concurred in, and the bill was passed. 'l'he Senate was not in session on Saturday, the 3d inst., while the House met for general debate only. Accordingly, the meeting resolved itself into committee of the whole on the state of the Union, and a number of members “spoke their little pieces’’ upon whatever subject they were primed for.