Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK

tokeign news. Heavy gales, causing much damage to shipping and considerable loss of life, are reported on the coast of Hcotland. Beaconsfield tendered his resignation to Queen Victoria on the 22d of April. The summons of the Queen to Mr. Gladstone, in response to which he has undertaken the formation of the new Ministry, marks the consummation of the Liberal triumph in Great Britain. It is a full recognition of the signiticange nt- the result of the Parliamentary elections, >»i<denotes the abandonment of any effort to gWiran evasive, half-way acknowledgment of tlifl^hivi-ysal of policy demanded by the nation. '' ” , The Brfjfsh. .forces in Afghanistan recently reptyU^f^.AMd-dispersed 3,000 native cavalrymen,.inflicting severe losses on them. Gen. Stewart’s recent victory at Ghuznqe t6 have been decisive, and the press of IndiS regards the campaign virtually at an end. A missionary at Bagdad reports that a dreadful famine prevails in Mesopotamia and Kurdistan, and that thousands of Christian converts are starving. A French' Deputy who recently cast some reflections on a brother of President Grevy has been excluded from the Chamber for fifteen sittings, and placed on half pay for two months, by order of Ganibetta, “ for insulting the President of the republic.” A London dispatch announces that the following Cabinet appointments have been made: Earl Granville, Secretary of State for the Foreign Department; the Marquis of Hartington, Secretary of State for India; H. C. E. Childers, Secretary of State for War; Lord Seiborne, Lord High Chancellor; William E. Foster, Chief Secretary for Ireland; Lord Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Fast. The Western file works, at Beaver Falls, Pa., have been destroyed by fire, causing a loss of #400,000. Madison Square Garden, in New York city, has been the scene of a shocking accident, involving the death of several persons and the serious injury of many more. A fair was being held in the building, and many people were in attendance. At the portion fronting on Madison avenue a dancing-hall and art gallery had been arranged, and it was here that the disaster occurred. The Madison avenue wall fell outward into the street, and that portion of the roof was at once precipitated upon the heads of the dancers and the occupants of the art gallery, burying many people beneath the ruins. Several persons were killed outright, and a number maimed and bruised, some of them fatally. Ten thousand tons of ice, stored on the banks of Lake Champlaiu, slipped into the water, and the owners, who had contracted to deliver the stock to a New York firm, mourn the loss of #60,000. By a break in the Erie canal at Utica, N. Y., much damage was done by the overflow that resulted. The break is a very serious one, and will interrupt canal navigation for three or our weeks. Three men were killed in New York city, the other day, by the fall of a scaffold. Over 300 families have been rendered destitute in Ocean county, N. J., by the recent forest fires. They lived principally by the cultivation of berries. Frank Crill, a murderer, who was executed in New Jersey, last weak, was a very particular man. Just before, going to the gallows, he asked the Sheriff to warm the hand-cuffs and noose. A brass band played in front of the jail while the trapeze act was in progress. South. The boiler of a saw-mill exploded at Warmington, W. Va., totally destroying the mill and killing one of the employes. Graham Ormsby’s team became fractious while being driven upon the ferry flat at Wickliffe Landing, on the Kentucky river. His mother, sister and Miss Miller and the horses were plunged into the river and drowned. The young man, who was on his way to be married, narrowly escaped death. Forest fires are reported in the swamp regions of North Carolina. Vast tracts of timber have been destroyed and several people burned to death. West. By concentrating his forces Gen. Hatch recently surrounded, captured and disarmed the whole band of Mescalero Apaches, in New Mexico, numbering 460 persons. Just as the troops were preparing to escort their prisoners to a place of safety about thirty of the savages made a break for liberty, but a well-directed volley brought down fourteen of them, only sixteen of them making their escape. It is estimated that not less than 200 persons were killed and #5,000,000 worth of property destroyed throughout the West by the recent tornadoes. Seven men, who recently left Point Bte. Ignace, on the northern shore of Lake Michigan, in a small boat, intending to go to Black river, have been drowned. A Chinaman named Ah Lee was hanged for murder at Portland, Ore., last week. A body of forty masked men broke into the Moberly (Mo.) jail, and took therefrom three persons who were charged with having murdered an old man. They hanged two of them and set the third at liberty. A. B. Adair, whom the Greenbackers have nominated for Lieutenant Governer of Illinois, is a printer, and foreman of the Chicago Daily News. At Memphis, Mo., three men lost their lives by a boiler explosion. Western Kansas is suffering from a severe drought, and a partial failure of the crops is predicted. Charles De Young, one of the proprietors of the San Francisco Chronicle, was shot and killed in his office, on the evening of April 23, by a son of Dr. Kalloch, on whom DeYoung made a murderous assault, last fall. Nugent and Redemeier, murderers, were executed at St. Louis, Mo., April 23. The first named left a paper in which he protested his innocence and claimed that he had not had a fair trial. Both died without a struggle. Dennis Kearney will be given another hearing in the Superior Court of San Francisco, the Supreme Court of California having issued a writ of habeas corpus. The people of Marshfield, Mo., are to have 500 army tents to live in while they are rebuilding their homes. A Government life-saving crew at Huron City set out, a few mornings ago, to rescue the crew of an unknown vessel which had gout ashore during the night a few miles south of that place, but soon after leaving port the surf Ldat was swamped, and all but the Captain, six

in number, were drowned. The crew was a gallant one, and had a record for bravery and success second to none on the great lakes. A destructive tornado swept over a section of Central Illinois on the night of April 24, doing considerable damage to property and ■ causing some loss of life. In the vicinity of I Taylorville, Christian county, four persons were 1 killed and about a dozen seriously injured. In Macoupin and Adams counties many houses I were blown down and several persons injured. The reception of “The Tourists,” at Haverly’s Chicago Theater, at the opening of the present week, left no doubt of the financial ; success of the engagement of that talented party of variety actors. There are several parties of this kind now on the road, and, so far as known, all are doing well. The plan is to i give an old-fashioned variety performance, with just enough plot to hang the various acts upon, and it takes immensely with the public. This . troupe contains considerable first-class talent and several really fine singers.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The House is getting along with business very rapidly, and there is now some hope that an adjournment can be had the last of May. Speaker Randall still insists that Congress can adjourn by May 31, and it, no doubt, can do so if it attends strictly to the appropriation bills and ignores other business. Senator Ben Hill and the Washington correspondent of a Baltimore paper had a row the other day. The correspondent is a belligerent man, and, when Hill approached him on the floor of the Senate, and called him a scoundrel, he replied that the Senator from Georgia dare not go out into the corridor and rejieat the language. The death of the oldest pensioner on the rolls is announced from Washington. She was a colored woman reputed to be 110 years of age, the widow of a soldier of the war of 1812, and had been in receipt of a pension for over sixty years past. E. B. French, second Auditor of the Treasury, is dead. He was appointed by President Lincoln, in 1861. POLITICAL POINTS. Hon. Dewitt C. West, of Utica, N. Y.. said to be one of Horatio Seymour’s intimate friends, confidently believes that, while the exGovernor does not seek office, if the Presidential nomination is unanimously tendered him, he will comply with public sentiment and accept. The New York Democratic State Convention assembled at Syracuse on the 20th of April, and completed its work on the same day. It was oiganized in the interest of Tilden, the delegates being favorable to his claims by a large majority. Resolutions indorsing him were adopted without much opposition, and the delegates to the National Convention, although not instructed, are known to be firm Tilden men. A resolution m favor of the retention of the two-thirds rule in the national body was adopted. Seymour’s name was mentioned during a discussion, and was received with mingled cheers and hisses. A proposition from the Tammanyites for a reconciliation was returned with a chillingly courteous but evasive answer, indicating no disposition to harmonize with the bolters. The Tammany anti-Tilden John Kelly Democrats also held a State Convention at Syracuse at the same time. Lieut. Gov. Dorsheimer, Erastus Corning, John Kelly and Amasa J. Parker were the shining lights of this convocation. The latter presided. They adopted resolutions protesting against the one-man power as undemocratic, and stigmatizing Tilden’s career as selfish, treacherous and dishonorable. Delegates to the Cincinnati Convention were chosen. The Illinois Greenbackers held their State Convention at Springfield April 21. Delegates were appointed to the National Convention to be held at Chicago, Presidential Electors chosen, and the following ticket for State officers placed in nomination : Governor, A. J. Streeter, of Mercer; Lieutenant Governor, Andrew B. Adair, Chicago ; Secretary of State, J. M. Thomson, of Will; Auditor, W. T. Ingram, of Jackson ; Treasurer, G. W. Evans, of Jefferson ; Attorney General, H. G. of Jacksonville. Texas Democrats send an uninstructed delegation to Cincinnati, but express the highest esteem for Gen. Hancock as a friend of constitutional liberty. The Prolribitionists of Connecticut have nominated George P. Rogers for Governor, and selected a Presidential electoral ticket and delegates to the National Prohibition Convention. The Democrats of Vermont met in convention at Montpelier on the 22d of April A resolution instructing the delegates to vote as a unit at Cincinnati was adopted. The convention chose delegates known to be favorable to the candidacy of Gen. Hancock. The Republican Convention of Georgia, after a noisy session of three days, chose twenty-two delegates to the Chicago Convention, eight of which are reported to be for Blaine, eight for Sherman, and six for Grant. Nearly three-fourths of the delegates are negroes. The delegates from Oregon to the Chicago Convention have been instructed for Blaine.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In the Senate, on Monday, April 19, a bill providing that whenever Circuit and District Courts of the United States are held at the same time and place, there shall be but one grand and petit jury summoned to attend said courts at one and the same time was passed. A bill was introduced by Mr. Hamlin authorizing the President to make the necessary arrangements to carry Into effect any conven-

lion between the United States >nd Nicaragua for the adjurtment of the claim* which may be duly concluded between the two Governments. The discussion of the Geneva Award bill then proceeded, Messrs. Carpenter and Blaine indulging in considerable personality, though not descending to abuse. The contest closed by Mr. Thurman remarking that the two Senators had set themselves right on the third-term question, which elicited a general laugh. Mr. Wallace submitted a majority report of '• the select committee on frauds in elections in regard to their investigations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island....ln the Mouse, bills were introduced as follow*: By Mr. Herbert, providing that the Preai- I dent of the Senate shall submit to the Senate and House, when assembled to count the votes for President and Vice President, all packages purporting to contain electoral votes; by Mr. Warner, declaring that the option of tender in payment ot moneys from the treasury belongs to the Government alone; by Mr. Weaver, asking whether or not the Treasury Department has at any time anticipated the payment of interest on the public debt; by Mr. Sanford, donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the education of girls; by Mr. King, providing for the appropriation of the lands necessary in the Improvement ot the Mississippi river; by Mr. Clark (Mo.), donating twelve condemned cannon to aid in the erection of a monument to the late Gen. Shields; by Mr. Hutchins, to limit to two years from the time tax is payable the time within which suits or prosecutions for violation of the internalrevenue laws may be brought; by Mr. Finley, to reduce to sl4 a ton the duty on steel rails; by Mr. Shellabarger, appropriating $150,000 for the purpose of beginning work on the public building in Pittsburgh, Pa.; by Mr. Culberson, for the discontinuance of the system of national banks; by Mr. Martin, of West Virginia, to declare forfeited to the United States certain lands conditionally granted to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company; by Mr. Gibson, appropriating $150,000 for ths erection in the public squares of Washington city statues of Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, John Adams, Randolph, Pinckney, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun. The bill for an international exhibition in New York passed, as did the bill for a public building at Pittsburgh. The bill to pension the Mexican war veterans was laid over, after debate. At the request of Mr. Beck, the House amendments to the bill for an exhibition in New York in 1883 wore concurred in by the Senate, on the morning of April 20. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, reported adversely on the bill to increase the pensions of wounded soldiers of the War of 1812, and one bill iu relation to the compensation and expenses of Pension Agents, and they were indefinitely postponed. A bill for the extension of the Government building at Cleveland was passed. The Vice President appointed Mr. Allison a member of the special joint committee on the evasion of the stamp tax on tobacco, iu place of Mr. Voorhees, who had requested to be relieved. Mr. Williams introduced a’ joint resolution for the erection of a’ monument over the grave of Zachariah Taylor, situated near Louisville, n.y. The bill for the erection of a public building at Denver was passed. On motion of Mr, Harris, a bill providing for a marine hospital at Memphis was passed. The debate on the Geneva award occupied the day, no vote being had.... In the House the entire day was consumed in filibustering upon a question of allowing debate upon concurring in the Senate amendments to the Immediate Deficiency bill. The - Republicans demanded two hours to debate the bill, while the Democrats limited the time to half an hour, whereat the entire day was wasted in dilatory motions. In the evening a number of pension bills were passed. The bill as amended, to grant the pension of enlisted privates, was passed by the Senate on the morning of April 21. After a little miscellaneous business the Geneva Award bill was taken up, and, after debate, indefinitely postponed. The President nominated for Supervisor of the Census for Ohio Meredtih R. Willet, of Bryan, for the First district; John H. Little, of Springfield, for the Second district; Cyrus Cado, Sr., of Pleasantville, for the Fifth district; and William A. Hunt, of St. Clairvllle, for the Seventh district... .In the House, the Senate amendment to the House bill to repair and extend the public buildings at Cleveland, Ohio, was concurred in. Several speeches were made upon a resolution directing the Committees on Agriculture to report what can or ought to be done by the Government to better ad vance, encourage and foster agricultural interests. The wrangle over the Deficiency bill was continued, the Republicans leaving the House without a quorum when the previous question was ordered, so that the matter was left at night as it was in the morning. An evening session was held for consideration of a bill to establish a code for the District of Columbia. A resolution was introduced in the Senate by Mr. Morrill, on the morning of April 22, in regard to the “ poem ” of the Delegate from Wyoming, printed in the Record, but withdrawn on notice of the matter being taken up in the House. Mr. Baldwin introduced a bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Detroit river. Mr. Harris presented a petition of the German Society, of New York, praying for protection to emigrants. The Senate then took up the Army Appropriation bill, and passed it in the shape it was received from the House, voting down all amendments, and the Republicans doing all the talk. The vote on the passage of the bill was 28 to 18. Jefferson’s desk was presented by Mr. Dawes. The Senate rejected the nomination of John B. Stickney as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. The President nominated Edgar M. Marble, of Michigan, to be Commissioner of Patents, and Joseph K. McCammon, of Pennsylvania, to be Assistant Attorney General, vice Marble In the Hecord is the speech in blank verse, entitled “ The Immortals,” which is copyrighted by Downey of Wyoming, ana which purports to be in support of bis bill providing for the painting of Biblical pictures on the walls of the Capitol. Mr. Garfield called attention to this fact, and moved that the speech be referred to the Committee on Rules to inquire whether it is competent for a member to copyright his speech. The motion was agreed to. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President, informing Congress that the Coolidge heirs, of Massachusetts, desired to present the desk on which the Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, and transmitting a letter from R. C. Winthrop expressing, the wish of the donors to offer it to the United States, that it might have a place in the Department of State in connection with the immortal instrument which had been written on it. Mr. Crapo then offered a resolution thanking the donors for their patriotic presentation, and it was adopted. The Naval Appropriation bill was passed. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendment to the Fortification bill, and a committee of conference was ordered. The Deficiency bill was then taken up, and an hour given the Republicans for debate. An evening session was given up to discussion of the bill to regulate immigration. In the Senate, on the morning of Friday, April 23, the Post Route bill was taken up and passed. Mr. Ransom reported the Texas Pacific Railway Extension bill without recommendation. The bill authorizing a retired list of non-commis-sioned officers after thirty years’ service was debated. On motion of Mr. Cockrell, the House joint resolution, authorizing the Secretary of War to lend tents to the Governor of Missouri for the use of sufferers by the recent tornado in that State was passed. The Kellogg-Spofford contested-election case was debated all the session. Adjourned till Monday... .In the House, Mr. Cox, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported back a joint resolution for the abrogation of the Clsyton-Bulwer treaty, as the unanimous report of the committee. Mr. Waddell alluded to the terrible tornado which had swept over the town of Marshfield, in his district, and which had left quite a large number of persons homeless and destitute, and introduced a joint resolution directing the Secretary of War to furnish the Governor of Missouri with 500 tents for the benefit of the sufferers. The joint res lutlon was passed. The Speaker announced the appointment of the following members a« a select committee to investigate the alleged corruption in regaid to the contested-election case of Donnelly vs. Washbum: Messrs. Carlisle, Bicknell, Reagan, Lounsberry, O’Neill, Updegraff (Iowa), and Butterworth. The Special Deficiency bill was P"' se ™,’ th , .^ enate amendment being non-concurred in. rue bill was sent to a conference committee The House then took a recess until 7:30, the evening, session being for consideration of the bill establishing a municipal code for the District of Columbia.