Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Russian provincial newspapers report ■deaths from starvation among the (>easantry tin various parts of the empire. Bismarck is suffering intensely from meuralgia, and only awaits the passing of important Government bills by the Heichstag to proceed to Luxembourg. A brother of the Turkish Minister to the United Htates goes into exile for life foi conspiring against the Sultan. Diplomatic relations between France and Mexico, suspended since 1862, have been resumed. In concluding extradition treaties hereafter, Germany will insist on the inclusion of regicides as among the offenders to be surrendered on demand. Tuesday, April 27, was observed as a national holiday by all ranks and classes of society in Madrid, the occasion of the celebration lining the official announcement of the interesting condition of her Majesty the Queen, an event over which all Spaniards, in accordance with ancient usage, insist upon becoming as merry as their monarch. A dispatch from Cabul reports an engagement at Hyderabad between Gen. Ross and large Isjdy of Afghans. The enemy was defeated with a loss of 1,200. The British loss is not given. The Chinese Government is reported to be making extensive preparations for war witli Russia. The Irish Lund League, at a conference held in Dublin, resolved in favor of pushing a bill in Parliament to suspend evictions in Ireland for the non-payment of rent for two years. At the opening of Parliament, April 29, lit. Hon. 11. B. W. Brand was re-elected Spe ik r of the House of Commons. The 62d anniversary of the Czar’s birthday was celebrated m Ht. Petersburg last week, and <>,ooo pardons were issued—to convicted or suspected criminals. A filibustering expedition is reported to have been fitted out at Bristol, England, to convey arms and ammunition to the insuigents in Crete, who, it is stated, intend to take the field. By a lire in Aldersgate street, London, six persons lost their lives. During a fire in a Moravian town some malicious scoundrels attacked the Jewish inhabitants, killing one of them and seriously injur ing several others. 'Die Chiliair squadron has bombarded Callao, Peru, without effect. Russia is reconstructing her frontier fortresses, especially those on the. west, and Kars.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blast. The temporary repairs of the Erie canal are complete, and boats are moving again. Testimony before the Coroner’s jury in the cases of the victims of the Madison Square Garden disaster shows that the wall which fell wits built in defiance of law, and that the specifications were at first rejected by the Superintendent of Buildings, lint afterward approved. The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, which met in hot haste, to consider the cases of Kemble and the other convicted bribers, recommended executive clemency, and the Governor immediately released them from imprisonment. A New York carpenter, who made a large sum of money by a lucky deal in mining stock, scattered $10!) m nickels and pennies ! along the streets, for lie benefit of the newsboys and I ootblacks, who followed lain in crowds. Col. Thomas A. Scott has resigned the Presidency of (lie Pennsylvania Railroad Company, owing to ill-health, and will not trouble himself with business hereafter. He has been connected with the road for over thirty years. Mr. George B. Roberts, first Vice President, it is said, will be his successor. Ex-Congressman William Wirt Warren, of Boston, is dead. West. Dr. J. T. Webb, of Minneapolis, a brother-in-law of President Hayes and Stanley Matthews, is dead. Telephonic conversation has been successfully held recently over the Western Union Telegraph Company's wires between Rockford, 111., and Dubuque, lowa, a distance of ninetysix miles. A contested-election case in the Leadville (Col.) Common Council ended in a general drawing of revolvers on the part of members and spectators, but order was restored before any firing had been done. J. J. Hoover, who killed a saloonkeeper named Bennett, at Fairplay, Cal., was taken from jail and lynched. The seventh annual convention of the National Butter, Egg and Cheese Association held its session m the Chamber of Commerce, at Indianapolis. About 200 delegates were in attendance. A resolution favoring a tax of 10 cents per pound on oleomargarine was passed. Clement Shaw, a witness who testified before the Coroner’s jury that Charles De Young fired on young Kalloeh before the latter shot at De Young, has been arrested on a charge of perjury. A letter received in St. Louis from Las Vegas, N. M., reports the killing of exMayor Joseph Brown and a few other Ht Louisians by Indians. Mr. Brown left for the frontier some time ago, with B. Roodhouse and David Wright, of Carrollton, 111., and it is supposed that the gentlemen last named are the ones meant in the letter. Thirteen Mexicans were killed near Han Jose by a band of savages. Telegrams from Colorado show that prospectors are moving on the Gunnison country, in the vicinity of the White river Utes, in large numbers, and that trouble may occur at any moment. Ouray advises that troops be sent out at once to keep the peace, as he fears that bloodshed at this time weuld cause the repudiation of the agreement recently entered into at Washington. M. H. De Young, the surviving proprietor of the San Fraucinco Chronicle, has been arrested on the complaint of Mayor Kalloeh on the charge of libel. The libel consists in republishing in the Chronicle an editorial in the New York World which accused Kalloeh of inducing Clementshaw to swear at the inquest held on Charles De Young that young Kalloeh shot in self-defense. Dennis Kearney will be produced before the Supreme Court of California on the 11th hint., on another writ of habeas corpus. A destructive fire has occurred in the business portion of Jacksonville, Ilk Several houses, including the postoflice, were destroyed. The entire loss is estimated at SBO,OOO. Six miners, returning from a prospecting tour in Washington Territory, were droinied by the upsetting of their canoe. A fire which originated in a laundry joeated in the ba-.omen) <g the priiirip::! hotel

of Battle Creek, Mich., was not got under control until serious damage had been done. The two principal hotels of the town were completely destroyed, and some adjacent buildings suffered also. Two firemen and a woman who jumped from the third story of the hotel on the kitchen attached were seriously injured. The dispatches from New Mexico announcing the killing of ex-Mayor Brown, of Ht. Louis, and two Illinois gentlemen are contradicted. The Methodist Episcopal General Conference lx:gan its quadrennial session in Pike’s Opera House, Cincinnati, a few days ago, Bishop Hcott presiding. The delegates, numbering about RM), are entertained at private houses. The conference will be in session one month. Indians have run off’ail the stock from the Belle Fourche »nd Red Water valleys, Dakota. South. A large jiortion of the town of Macon, Miss., was destroyed by a cyclone, on the night of April 25. A dispatch from that point thus describes the awful visitation: “The day had been unusually sultry. At 8:30 p. m., two terrible currents of air, one from the northeast and the other from the southwest, bearing clouds charged with electricity, were hurled together right at the ill-fated locality. It was a war of storms. Besides incessant lightning, balls of fire were seen whirling across the clouds, varying in size from a chestnut to that of a man’s head. Right in the center of that part of town around the railroad station the storm met, and the work of destruction commenced, and in less time than it can be told the place was in ruins. The loss of life was fearful. Through a beating rain, and against pitiless winds, the citizens rushed to the scene to aid the sufferers. Through the night squads of men combined and went to work to remove the debris, gather up the wounded, dying and dead that were scattered everywhere. The scene beggars all human attempts at description. Eighteen were killed outright, and forty more or less wounded —some perhaps fatally. After the storm some of the ruins caught fire, but it was checked before spreading to any extent. About 10 o'clock a perfect water-spout visited the scene to render it more horrible. Men and women were found decapitated, limbs torn from bodies, and otherwise mutilated, a quarter of a mile from their homes. Htock was all killed in that vicinity. A bolt of goods from a store was found eight miles from town in a tree-top.” Outrages by moonshiners continue in Northern Georgia, and, as the United Htates Marshal is supposed to be inefficient, several special agents have been sent out with instructions to organize a campaign against the crooks. For having preached that the recreations as well as devotions miglrt be indulged in during the Sabbath day, the Rev. Mr. Moore, of Covington, Ky., has been declared guilty of heresy by the authorities of the Presbyterian church in that district. A duel between two Cuban cigarmakers, at Jacksonville, ‘'la., resulted in the death of one of the principals. Three shots were tiix-d. Five Georgia negroes have been sentenced to death for arson. An inmate of a lunatic asylum at Richmond, Va., killed his room-mate because he “ smelled like fried ham ” A Mrs. Houston, living near Austin, Texas, in a fit of insanity attempted to murder her five children, by driving knitting needles into their brain, through their ears. One was killed, and two others seriously injured. Three colored laborers were suffocated while digging a well near Charleston, 8. C.

POLITICAL POINTS. Referring to the report that Grant’s inline will not be presented to the Chicago Convention if there appears to be much opposition, to him, Senator Logan says the General is in the hands of his friends, and that he will not be withdrawn until he is beaten.

J. Madison Wells, of Louisiana, is of the opinion that there will be two delegations to Chicago from that State, one for Grant and the other for Sherman. He says the colored people nre unanimous for Grant, but politicians are for Sherman.

Three Republican and two Democratic State Conventions were held on the 23th of April. The Ohio Republican Convention met at Columbus, and was organized in the interest of Sherman. In the vote for dclcgates-at-large the Sherman candidates received about 400 and the Blaine candidates about 200 votes. Resolutions were adopted requesting the district delegates to Chicago to support Sherman for- President, indorsing the administration of President Hayes, and pledging the support of the Republicans of Ohio to the nominees of the Chicago Convention. The following ticket for State offices was nominated: For Secretary of State, Charles Townsend, of Athens; Judge of Supreme Court, Geo. W. Mcllvaine, of Tuscarawas ; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Dwight Crowell, of Ashtabula; Member of the Board of Public Works, 8. R. Hosmer, of Muskingum. The Pennsylvania Democrats met in convention at Harrisburg, but did nothing dining the day beyond organizing and caucusing for the settlement of the differences between the Tilden and anti-Tilden men, led respectively by Speaker Randall and Senator Wallace, both of whom were present as delegates. A compromise was finally effected, satisfactory to all parties, committees appointed, and an adjournment for the day voted. In the Connecticut Democratic Convention, held at Hartford, a delegate offered an antiTilden resolution, which caused some confusion, and a good deal of warm talk. Thomas W. Waller, President of the convention, took the floor, moved the indefinite postponement of all resolutions and the adoption of one pledging the support of the Cincinnati nominee, then quickly regained the platform, put the question himself, and carried the motion by acclamation unanimously. It is said a majority of the delegates chosen to the Cincinnati Convention are favorable to Tilden. The South Carolina Republican Convention met at Columbia and adopted, with but few dissenting votes, a resolution “instructing and solemnly pledging” the delegates to the National Convention to “ vote as a unit to the end of the contest for the world-renowned and most available candidate, Gen. U. S. Grant, and that, upon all questions arising in said convention, they are earnestly recommended to vote in like manner.” The Republican Convention of Arkansas, held at Little Rock, was quite as emphatic for Grant as that of South Carolina. It adopted a resolution instructing the delegates to Chicago to vote for Gen. Grant, and use their individual and collective efforts to secure his nomination as long as his name is before the convention. The Democrats of the District of Columbia held a convention at Washington to nominate delegates to the National Convention. Cincinnati. William Dickson and A. A Wilson were chosen, and resolutions adopted instructing them to insist upon recognition by the convention.

The California Republican State Convention was held at Sacramento April 29. the

I proceedings being harmonious. A resolution was adopted instructing “ delegates to the Republican National Convention to vote as a unitfirst, last, and all the time, for James G. Blaine, and to use all honorable means to secure his nomination for President of the United States.”

The Indiana Greenbackers were in State Convention at Indianapolis April 29, and nominated Richard Gregg, of Dearborn, for Governor; Lieutenant Governor, Thos. Defender, of Silencer county; for Secretary of State, J. B. Yeagley, of Marion; Auditor of State, Geo. VV. Demaree, of Johnson county ; for Treasurer of State, John F. Ullery, of St. Joseph county; Attorney General, John L. Miller, of Tippecanoe ; Reporter of the Supreme Court, Thomas Marshall, of Delaware county ; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Capt. Wessler, of Vanderburg county; for Superintendent of Public Instruction, L. E. Pleas, of Howard countv ; Judge of Supreme Court, W. A. Tipton, of Fountain county. Delegates were appointed to the National Convention, among whom was one lady, and a platform adopted. The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention concluded its business on the 29th ult., the only contest being upon the unit rule for delegates to Cincinnati. The vote upon this resolution was very close, but finally a resolution “that delegates to the National Convention be, and they are hereby, instructed to oppose the abrogation of the two-thirds rule,” leaving out the portion for unity, was adopted. Delegates-at-large were appointed, two being proposed by Senator Wallace and two by Speaker Randall, and the district delegates are understood to be about half for Tilden and the remainder for Hancock for the Presidency. George A. Jenks was nominated Supreme Judge, and Col. R. I‘. Dechert, of Philadelphia, Auditor General. Andrew H. Dill was elected Chairman of the State Central Committee bv acclamation.

The Democratic members of the Senate have decided to support the joint rule regulating the counting of the electoral vote proposed by the special committees. This provides that the concurrent action of both houses will be necessary to count or reject the vote of any State. A conference of anti-third-termers from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York has been held in New York city to adopt a line of action for the future. A New York dispatch says it was finally decided to nominate a third candidate if Grant is placed in the field at Chicago. The Independents claim a large following in the East. A Republican Senatorial caucus has decided to second the Democrats in every effort they may make to secure an early adjournment, and to refrain from any political discussion. The Wisconsin Greenhackers will have a State Convention on May 27.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives providing for a tax of 10 cents per pound on oleomargarine. Postmaster General Key is to be appointed Judge of the United States District Com! for Tennessee. D. W. Middleton, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, is dead. He had been connected with that tribunal for over fifty years. James H. McKenney has been promoted to the vacancy caused by the death o f Mr. Middleton in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States. At a Cabinet meeting the threatened invasion of the Ute Indian Reservation for mining purposes was the subject of a somewhat protracted discussion. It was decided to send Gen. McKenzie and his forces into the reservation to prevent a collision between the whites and Indians. Maj. Gen. Heintzelman, who commanded a division at Bull Run, died in Washington one day last week.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The long negotiations between the United States and Great Britain relating to the Fortune bay (Newfoundland) attacks on American fishermen ended, a few days ago, in the refusal of the British Government to recognize the justice of the American claims. Lord Salisbury replies to the demand of the United States for $193,003 damages by a positive refusal to pay or to recognize the justice of the claim.— A Washington dispatch states that two men-of-war are to be sent to Canadian waters to protect American fishermen. The bill to legalize marriage with a deceased wife’s sister has been defeated in the Canadian Senate. The bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wife’s sister, which passed the lower branch of the Canadian Dominion Legislature several days ago, was defeated in the Senate. The Canadian Minister of Agriculture has beeirpersuaded by a large number of porkpackers at Montreal to rescind the absurd order, recently issued, prohibiting the importation of hogs from the United States. Pauchot, the postman, won the six-day pedestrian match at Buffalo, covering 406 miles, and dropping bruised and exhausted at the end of the race.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Discussion occupied the morning hour in the Senate on Monday, April 26, upon a proposition directing the President to appoint colored cadets to West Point After the expiration of the hour, debate upon the Kellogg-Spofford election case took up the whole day.... In the House, bills and resolutions were introduced: By Mr. Brewer, amending the statutes relating to the erection of public buildings; by Mr. Dunnell, placing .chains, trace-chains, and halter-chains made of wire or rods, wrought bound nails, spikes, rivets, cut nails, ana spikes, cast-iron butte and hinges and horseshoe nails on the free list; by Mr. Cox, a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for Information as to the number of persons connected with the life-saving service disabled, or who have lost their Jives ; by Mr. Vance, to relieve the distillation of fruit from the taxes now imposed by law; by Mr. Bayne, for the erection in Washington of a statue of Gen. Custer; by Mr. Thomas, to tax the manufacture of oleomargarine; by Mr. Loring, a resolution calling for correspondence relative to the interference with American fishermen in Fortune bay, Jan. 6, 1879; by Mr. Singleton, for the relief of Maj. Reno; by Mr. Morse, a resolution directing the Committee on Naval Affairs to inquire whether any officer of the navy is on the active or retired list without having been legally appointed. Mr. Blackburn was appointed Speaker pro tem., Mr. Randall leaving the city for three days. The bill passed for the relief of certain homestead and pre-emption settiers in Kansas. Mr. Coffroth, Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported back the resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to the cause of the delay in paying bounties and back pay. Adopted. The District of Columbia Appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole. The amount appropriated in the Mil is $3,423,697. of which one-half is to be paid out of the treasury of the United States and the other half out of the revenues of the district The bill was passed, but, no quorum being present, was laid over. Messrs. McMahon, Cobb and Monroe were appointed a committee of conference on the Special Deficiency bill, and Mr. Claflin was appointed on the Springer-Manning committee in place of O’Neill. Mr. Deuster introduced a resolution for a special committee on the revision of the Naturalization laws.

The joint resolution authorizing the President to reappoint Stephen A. McCarty Lieutenant Commander in the navy, at the foot of the list, was passed by the Senate on the 27th of April The House bill to authorize and equip an expedition to the Arctic seas, to establish a temporary station for the scientific observation of Lady Franklin bay, etc., was passed. When the morning hour expired, the Kellogg resolutions were temporarily laid aside and the Indian Appropriation bill was taken up and discussed until adjournment. The President nominated Felix Coste Marshal of the Eastern District of Missouri.... In the House, the resolution calling for information

upon the Fortune bay outrages was adopted. The session of the 15th of May was set aside for the consideration of bills reported from the Committee on Education and Labor, particularly the bill to restrict Chinese immigration; to enforce the Eight-Hour law, and to apply the proceeds of the sale of public lands to education of the people. The District of Columbia Appropriation bill was passed. A bill for a commission of seven upon orthography in public documents and schools of the District was introduced. This bill was introduced at the instance of the spelling reformers. The bill for the registration of trade-marks was then passed.

In the Senate on the,morning of April 28, Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, presented a report ol the select committee to investigate the accounts in the Treasury Department, and submitted some remarks thereon. Mr. Ingalls presented a report of the minority. Mr. Blaine submitted a resolution calling on the President for copies of the correspondence between the United States and Great Britain relative to the outrage on American fishermen at Fortune bay. - Adopted. Bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Maxey, for the relief of D. C. Burnett; by Mr. Morgan, to enforce the observance of the constitution in regard to the election of President and Vice President; by Mr. Vest, for a public building at St Louis. After the morning hour, the Indian Appropriation bill was taken up and discussed till adjournment... .In the House, bills were reported from the Committee on Public Buildings, and referred to the committee of the whole, for the erection of public buildings in the following cities: Marquette, Mich.; Leavenworth, Kan., and Frankfort, Ky. A resolution was adopted appropriating $3,000 to defray the expenses of the Committee on Mississippi Levees. A bill was passed authorizing the Secretary of War to lend certain arms, etc., to the Soldiers’ Reunion Committee of the Northwest. The House then went into committee of the whole upon the bill amending the internal revenue law, known as the Carlisle bill. This measure was discussed all day, no action being had. The House met in the evening, and immediately went into committee of the whole on the bill establishing the municipal code for the District of Columbia. No action was taken.

The Senate indulged in a little verbal sparring on the morning of Thursday, April 29, on the proposition to have the President appoint two cadets each year for West Point. Senator Conkling made a most stalwart sjieech, while Senator Hoar opposed the amendment as recognizing differences in race and assuming that there is not at West Point perfect equality before the law. Amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill were made, and the bill was passed. The following bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Teller, to grant titles to lands patented by the United States; by Mr. Ingalls, to facilitate the business of the Treasury Department. The joint resolution authorizing the President to call an international sanitary conference at Washington was passed. The report of the conferrees upon the Immediate Deficiency bill was agreed t 0... .In the House, Mr. McMahon submitted a conference report on the Special Deficiency bill, and it was agreed to. The Senate amendments to the Post Route bill were concurred in. The House went into committee of the whole on the bill amending the Internal Revenue laws. The bill was not disposed of at adjournment. The House met at 7:30, and immediately went into committee of the whole on the bill organizing a Court of Pensions. After some time spent in general debate, the committee rose and the House adjourned.

Mr. Allison made a speeqli in the Senate, on the morning of the 30th ult., upon his amendment to the bill to establish a retired list for non-commis-sioned officers, the amendment being to direct the President to appoint two colored cadets-at-large to West Point yearly. The morning hour having expired, the Naval Appropriation bill was taken up and passed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to any recent changes in the rulings of the department affecting the entries of town sites on pub ic lands, and requesting him to suspend action thereon pending Congressional action on the subject. Adopted. Mr. Vance then spoke upon the Kellogg case, but before the conclusion of his remarks the Senate adjourned for the purpose of allowing Senators to attend the funeral of Mr. Middleton, late Clerk of the Supreme Court, which was about to take place from the Capitol. The President nominated Orange Ferris, of New York, to be Second Auditor of the Treasury, vice French, deceased:... In tha House, bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Chalmers, extending the letter-carrier system to cities of 10,000 inhabitants; by Mr. Welle, to establish an assay office in St. Louis. The House then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Stevenson in the chair) on the private calendar. The committee rose, and a number of bills granting pensions passed, and the House adjourned.

The Senate was not in session on Saturday, May 1... .In the House, the bill passed for the relief of Notre Dame College, at South Bend, Ind. On motion of Mr. Price, the bill passed providing that the oath of affirmation in verifying returns made by the national banks may be taken before notaries public. Mr. Money, of Mississippi, offered a resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to send 4,000 rations to Macon, Miss., for the use of the sufferers made destitute by the cyclone of April 25. Adopted. May 13 was set aside for the consideration of the bill to establish additional training schools for Indian youths. Mr. Blackburn, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the Postoffice Appropriation bill. Ordered printed, and recoinmeitted. The bill recommends an appropriation of $38,600,000. The House then went Into committee of the whole on the bill amending the Internal Revenue law. All day was passed on this bill, no action being reached.