Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1880 — REWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

REWS OF THE WEEK

POKtaOX MEWS. The beginning of the end of the Beaconsfield Government Is signalized by the resignation of Lord Lytton of his position as Viceroy of India. The Russian Government is convinced that the Nihilist machinations find all their elements in England and Germany. During a fire in a creosote manufactory, London, one of the stills exploded, killing eleven persons and wounding several. Cable dispatches announce the election to Parliament of O’Connor Power and Mr. Parnell from County Mayo. Gladstone’s son is also dected from Worcestershire, East The emigration from Germany to the United States is rapidly increasing. During the week which ended on the 12th inst. 6,800 left Bremen. Most of the emigrants are skilled workmen. Russia intends to increase its fleet in Chinese waters to fifteen vessels. Vigneaux, the French champion, defeated Blouson, the American, in the big billiard match in Paris; score, 4,000 to 3,118 points. Vigneaux made a run of 1,451, and Slosson one of 1,108 points. The game was for $2,000 and the world's championship. The result of the Parliamentary elections is that the Liberals will have a majority of about sixty over the combined opposition, including the Home Rulers. Five thousand persons in the province of Orenberg, Russia, are starving, the long winter having exhausted their supplies. Otero, the assailant of the King of Spain, has been executed at Madrid. The American horse Wallenstein, owned by Mr. Lorillard, won the race for the Newmarket handicap, in England. Letters received by the Dublin Mansion House Committee show that the distress throughout Ireland is increasing. Dr. Kenealy, the noted Tichborne lawyer, is dead. He was a member of the last Parliament. The ex-Empress Eugenie arrived in Cape Town, recently, on her pilgrimage to the place where the Prince Imperial was killed. Bismarck, through his organ, the North German Gazette, complains that the Ultramontane# have not carried out their compact with him. They have opposed some of his measures in the Reichstag, and he now threatens to retaliate. It is said the prisoners of Moscow, Nijnee, Novgorod, Samara, and other depots in Russia awaiting exila to Siberia number over 20,000. Poison was recently discovered in one of the dishes on the Czar’s table.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Hart, the colored man, who won the recent six-day, go-as-you-please pedestrian match in New York, pockets $17,000. Ohastine Cox (colored), the murderer of Mrs. Dr. Hull, and Pietro Balbo, a wifemurderer, will be hanged in New York, May 28. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has awarded Charles H. Worthen, formerly with Field, Leiter & Co., of Chicago, $45,000 damages for the loss of a leg by a railroad collision at Detroit several years ago. On two previc us trials the verdicts against the company 1 were for SIB,OOO and $20,000. Destructive fires are reported in the great pineries and cedar swamps of New Jersey. Myriads of birds and many cattle have suffocated. Daniel Miller and Charles Frazer were ■pothered to death in a well they were digging near Gordonsville, Pa. By an explosion of gas at the works of the New York Gaslight Company, one workman was fatally and two others seriously burned. A schooner, with all hands, went down in a gale in Long Island sound. Lucy Davene!, a trapeze performer in a circus which exhimted at Philadelphia, fell to the ground during one of her acts, receiving injuries from which she cannot recover. She is 18 years of age. While some men were working in a pit underneath a large vessel which contained molten metal, in the Pennsylvania Steel Works, near Harrisburg, Pa., the ratchet broke and the contents of the vessel were poured into the pit. Two men were fatally and five seriously . burned. Ladd & Davis, extensive dry-goods dealers of Providence, R. 1., have suspended, owing to disastrous outside speculations by the senior partner. A colored military company returning from a funeral in Philadelphia, being assailed by roughs, routed the gang with a bayonet charge. West Reports from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky show that much of the peach crop has been injured by frost Col. Hatch telegraphs from New Mexico in relation to his recent engagement with Victoria’s band of Indians, that Capt Carroll and seven men were seriously wounded, and that the loss of the Indians was thirty killed. The latter were so severely punished that it will probably have the effect of bringing them to terms. Several notorious desperadoes have escaped from the Wyoming penitentiary, at Laramie City. A. wealthy Indiana farmer, named Daniel Swygart, living near South Bend, has starved himself to death under the balludnatieft that, if he ate, his family would suffer. Chicago elevators contain 8,854,759 bushels of wheat, 4,340,822 bushels of corn, 650,548 bushels of oats, 118,903 bushels of rye, and 462,427 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 14,426,959 bushels, against 10,873,447 bushels at this period last year. Owing to the over-supply of flour with which the market is crowded, the Minnesota millers have decided to suspend production for one mouth. The Western Nail Association has decided that there shall be a further suspension of production for two weeks. Three men—strangers—were drowned in the Mississippi river at Rock Island, DI., by the capsizing of a skiff. San Francisco has had another severe earthquake shook. A little Cleveland girl has died of congestion of the brain brought on by jumping a rope. A. R. Foote, one of the partners in Pomeroy's Democrat, La Crosse, Wis., has been sent to jail on a charge of forgery. Jake Muldrow and Nathan Fancett were hanged at Mexico, Mo., for the murder of a young man named Inlow, in September last. Maj. Maclean has overtaken Victoria’s band of Apaches in Arizona Territory, and is driving them beyond the fines into Mexico. The five desperadoes who recently es-

caped from the Wyoming penitentiary are robbing stages and holding up mail-carriers on the road to Fort Fetterman. w A shocking accident is reported from San Francisco. Five thousand pounds of giant powder exploded at Berkeley, near that city, by the careless blow of a workman putting a cover on a box, and twenty-five human beings were torn into minute fragments. The people employed in the manufactory were both Chinese and whites. Twelve Chinamen and an equal number of white men were killed. The effects of the explosion were indescribable. Five thousand pounds of giant powder exploded instantly, hurling the victims piecemeal into the bay and on the ground in the vicinity, hire a leg and there a hand. In one place would be found a human foot and in another a piece of skull. An arm was found a quarter of a mile from the scene. The pigtail of one of the Chinamen, with a piece of the scalp, was found lodged in a tree 300 yards away. Heavy timbers butted strongly together were splintered into shreds and scattered over the ground for acres in extent, while the waters of the bay between Fleming’s point and Sheep island, two miles distant, were covered with the debris. Large trees in the vicinity were twisted and thrown down like reeds before a fierce gale. The houses near the acid works, a quarter of a mile distant, were partially wrecked, the windows and sashes being broken by the concussion. The Superior Court at San Francisco has affirmed the decision of the lower court in the case of Kearney, and he will have to serve out his term in the House of Correction. South. A squad of revenue officers surrounded the stronghold of Buck Singleton, the notorious moonshiner, in the mountains of North Carolina, and, after a brief engagement, drove the crooks from their position. One of the officials was killed, and several woundetj. The outlaws’ retreat, which was palisaded, contained sixteen stills and, 600 gallons of whisky, all of which were destroyed. J. Tucker, colored, charged with the murder of Abe Frazer, in 1877, was taken from jai at Greensburg, St. Helena parish, La., by fifteen men, and shot to death. A Petersburg (Va.) negro, who recently assaulted a white lady near that city, has been lynched by a mob. Tire internal revenue officers have destroyed in Pickens and Cherokee counties, 8. C., nine distilleries and 10,000 gallons of mask and beer, and secured six copper stills. Frost for three consecutive nights has seriously damaged fruit in the vicinity of Augusta, Ga. Heavy frosts in Virginia have seriously injured fruit and vegetation. Bishop Pellicier, of the Roman Catholic diocese of San Antonio, Tex., is dead. William S. Bates was hanged for murder at Barnwell Court House. 8. C., on the 16th inst. On the same day, Bill Walker (colored) was executed for murder at Calvert, Texas. His last words were, “he was not going to hell, but would fiy straight to heaven.” Forest fires are raging in the Virginia wilderness. Several persons have been burnt to death, and a great deal of property destroyed.

POLITICAL POINTS. __ The Louisiana Democratic Convention expressed a preference for Gen. Hancock as a candidate for President, but the delegates to Cincinnati ro uninstructed. The Democrats of the Eleventh Indiana district have nominated Gen. James R. Slack for Congress. Republican State Conventions for the appointment of delegates to4he National Convention at Chicago were held on the 14th inst. in lowa, Missouri and Kentucky. In lowa the Blaine men were largely in the majority, and the twenty-two delegates were instructed to cast the votes of the State as a unit, and to use all honorable means to secure the nomination of James G. Blaine. The Kehtucky Convention instructed its twenty-four delegates to vote as a unit for U. 8. Grant. In the Missouri Convention the Grant sentiment was also largely predominant, and the thirty delegates to the Chicago Convention were instructed to vote as a unit for his nomination. The political friends of President Grant opened the campaign at Chicago last week by a large mass meeting in Central Music Hall, presided over by Robert T. Lincoln, and addressed by Messrs. Storrs, Swett, Logan, Stephen A. Douglas and other prominent Republicans. Resolutions indorsing the candidacy of Gen. Grant were adopted with a hurrah, and a permanent Grant club was organized, with Robert T. Lincoln President, and one Vice President from each city ward. The Republican Convention of Massachusetts adopted resolutions commending Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, for the Presidency, and appointed four delegates-at-large to the Chicago Convention, without giving them any positive instructions. The delegates are: George F. Hoar, of Worcester; Prof. Julius H. Soelye, of Amherst College; Charles R. Codman, of Boston, and John E. Sanford, of Taunton. The other delegates will be chosen by district conventions. The Maine Democrats will meet at Bangor June 1, to nominate State officers and select delegates to the Cincinnati Convention. The Greenback State Convention will be held at the same time and place. The Vermont Greenback State Convention has been called for May 3. The Greenbackers of the District of Columbia have elected the following delegates to the National Convention at T. J. Durant and Lee Crafidal ;• alternates, R. W. Wade and W. W. Johnson. The Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Rules and of the Senate select committee on the subject .of counting the electoral vote held a long private meeting at Washington, last Saturday, with a view to agreeing to some recommendation in regard to the electoral count at this session. It was substantially decided to recommend that the two houses of Congress shall adopt a new joint rule providing that in case only one certificate of the electoral vote of a State be presented to Congress, it shall not be rejected except by affirmative vote of the two houses, and that in the case of dual returns neither shall be counted unless the two houses agree that ohe of them is the true and valid return.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The returns of April 1 to the Department of Agriculture show an increase in the area sown in wheat last fall to be 13 per cent, more than in the fall previous. In the area sown in rye there is a decline of 6 per cent, as compared with the year previous. The condition is 98, the same as last year. There was a large increase in fall-sown wheat in those States that heretofore have exclusively sown in the spring. The experiment was unfortunate, and all—particularly lowa and Nel raska—report great disaster from the winter. On the whole, tire wheat crop thus far looks as favorable as in the spring of 1879. The condition of the live stock, as represented, is very favorable—better than for years. No disease is reported other than cholera among swine, and that is no worse, if as bad as last year. DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In the Senate, on Monday morning, April 12, Mr. Pendleton presented the report of the conferefte committee on the Census bill. Bills were introduced: By Mr. Ferry, to regulate promotion and fix the rank of line officers of the army; by Mr. Vance, defining and limiting the use of the Page patent; by Mr. Vest, to reduce the duty on lead ore; by Mr. McMillan, to repeal the law taxing the circulation of State banks. The conference report on the Census bill was taken up and adopted. The Ute treaty was taken up and passed, by a vote of 37 to 16. The President nominated •). M. Bynum, of Rienzi, Supervisor of Census in the First District of Missis ippi.... In the House, the Senate bill passed appropriating $200,000 for the erection of suitable posts for the protection of the Bio Grande frontier. The Senate amendments to the House bill for a public building at Paducah were concurred in. Bills introduce!: By Mr. Pheljis, extending for three years from the Ist of Jmy next the time within which the application for arrears of pensions may be filed; by Mr. Chalmers, causing a week’s notice to be given of the purchase of bonds by the treasury; by Mr. Hurd, supplemental to an act to estab.ith regulations as to imported goods in bond, with duties paid; by Mr. Geddes, proposing a constitutional amendment that no person shall be eligible to the office of President for more than two terms; by Mr. Goode, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to secure adequate coaling stations for the use of the navy; by Mr. Martin, permitting the use of domestic materials in the construction of steam and sail vessels for foreign account; by Mr. Willits, to regulate promotions in the army, and to fix the rank of line officers; by Mr. Money, regulating the compensation of the transportation of mails by railroad; by Mr. Warner, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to transmit subsidiary silver coins through the mails as third-class matter; also establishing a bureau of mines and mining manufactures and statistics; by Mr. Coffroth, calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to the delay in the payment of bounties and back pay; by Mr. Ainslie, amending the Pacific Railroad acts. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President, transmitting the report of the Secretary of State relative to Chinese immigration. The House went into committee of the whole for a three hours’ talk on the Army bill, which time was occupied by the Republicans, the Democrats again refraining from debate. The amendment was adopted in committee forbidding the use of troops at the polls, and the committee rose and the House adjourned. In the United States Senate, on the loth inst., Mr. Slater introduced a bill forfeiting to the United States the unearned lands included in the grant made to the Oregon Central Railroad Company. The joint resolution legalizing the health ordinances of the District of Columbia was taken up and passed. The session of the day was passed in debate on the Geneva Award bill, no conclusion being reached In the House, Mr. Thompson submitted the conference report upon the Census bill, and, after some debate, the report was .agreed to. A bill giving the widow of Ma.i. Gen. Curtis, of lowa, a pension of SSO per month was passed. A*ter deb ,te, the Army Appropriation bill was pat. 3d by a party vote. An evening session was held for action upon pension bills, a number being passed. Mr. Wallace introduced a bill in the Senate on the 14th inst to define the amount and manner of the purchase of public loans to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury. A bill was offered by Mr. Maxey for the relief of certain officers and privates of the United States army. Mr. Voorhees submitted a resolution instructing the Committee on Pensions to report a bill authorizing pensions to surviving soldiers and sailors of the Mexican war. A bill to remove certain Apache Indians from one agency to another was passed. Mr. Cameron (Wis.) introduced a joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to permit members of the soldiers’ reunion at Milwaukee, in .Tune, to use artillery flags and camp equipage belonging to the Government, which was passed. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was taken up. The amount appropriated is sl,146,135, an increase of $7,900 over the bill as passed by the House. The bill passed. ....In the House, the bill passed authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of a part of Fort Dodge military reservation to actual settlers, under the provisions of the Homestead laws. , The House went into committee of the whole and acoated the Indian Appropriation bill. Mr. Hutchins introduced a bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy. An evening session of the House was held for the consideration of bills reported from the Committee on Naval Affairs. In committee of the whole, the bills for a permanent construction fund for the n?vy, and for an expedition to the Arctic sea were reported favorably to the House. A bill for the relief of the owners of the Grapeshot passed the Senate on the 15th inst., after which the Geneva Award bill was taken up and discussed without action. Mr. Baldwin Introduced a bill to authorize the purchase of a site to enlarge the present Government building in Detroit and for the purchase of a site and erection of a Government building in said city. Bills passed granting pensions to a number of persons... .In the House, an evening session was ordered for Thursday next for the consideration of the Immigration bill. The regular order being demanded, the Speaker announced the pending question to be upon the passage of a bill reported last night from the Committee of the Whole providing a construction fund for the nay. Wlthoutv debate the bill was passed, as also a bill to equip an expedition to the Arctic seas. The Indian Appropriation bill was discussed all day, no conclusion being reached. In the evening a session was held, at which a number of bills reported from the Naval Committee were passed. Mr. Edmunds reported adversely to the bill against allowing locations for unsatisfied private land claims, sending them to the courts, and it was indefinitely postponed, on Friday, April 16. The pension claim of Jesse Phares, a scout, was discussed. A report from the Secretary of State in reference to awards of Mexican claims was laid before the Senate. The Geneva award was discussed all day, and then the Senate adjourned till Monday... .In the House, the Senate bill removing the political disabilities of Roger A. Pryor passed. Mr. Cox, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a resolution requesting the President to take steps to abrocate the ClaytonBulwer treaty. Mr. Wilson, from the same committee, reported a joint resolution for the disposal of the Chinese indemnity fund. On motion of Mr. Bouck, the Senate joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to loan the flags, tents and camp equipage for the soldiers’ reunion at Milwaukee in June next passed. On motion of Mr. Dibrell the bill passed authorizing the Secretary of War to turn over certain condemned cannon to the Government of South Carolina, i On motion of Mr. Valentine, the bill passed for the i relief of settlers on public lands. It provides that j when a pre-emption, homestead, or timber-culture claimant has filed a written relinquishment of his 1 claim in the local land office, the land covered by such claim shall be open to entry without further i action. The Indian Appropriation bill was under 1 discussion all day. The Senate wag not in session on Saturday, April 17.... In the House, the bill passed providing sos the reapportionment of the membare of the Legislatures of the Territories of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. A joint resolution passed authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish artillery, etc., to the soldiers’ and sailors’ reunion In Cohnnbus, Ohio, in August next Mr. Calkins introduced a bill amending the laws relative to internal revenue. The Indian Appropriation bill was then passed. Mr. Manning offered, under instructions from the Committee on Elections, a resolution for an ibvestigation into the facts relating to the reception .ny Mr. Springer of the anonymous letter relating to Donnelly ve. Washburn, and It was adopted. The balance of the day was spent in committee of the whole on the Special Deficiency big.