Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Thirteen of the men who wrecked a IpasHrtiger train in Spain, last year, ha ve been oewiit-noed to death, and thirteen to twenty j'rxj'ti’ imprisonment. Extensive preparations continue to be made by Russia in anticipation of a war with China. War material in large quantities is being forwarded to the Russian provinces adjacent to the Chinese territory. Fourteen hundred people in North Hungary are living on grass and mushrooms, nml t he famine is increasing. A Constantinople dispatch states that /fifty brigands have been killed near Salouica, .others captured and their prisoners secured. Queen Victoria, in the speech on the opening of the British Parliament, expresses the hope that, in concert with other powers, Great Britain may succeed in securing the fulfillment of the treaty of Berlin, both with reispect to reformsiii the Turkish administration ■and the settlement of territorial questions. In reference to the affairs of Ireland, it is announced by her Majesty that the renewal of the notorious Peace Preservation act, which expires within a few weeks, will not be asked by the Government. The Queen congratulates Parliament and the country on the cordial relations existing between England and all foreign nations. The British Government favors the recent act of Congress authorizing an International Sanitary Commission to be held in the United Stiites. There has been considerable full in American railroad stocks at London, in consequence of the failure of the Philadelphia and Reading Company. Within a few days the. European powers will send identical notes to Turkey, demanding a settlement of the Armenian, Greek and Montenegrin questions, and. if the mswer to this is not satisfactory, a conference will be. held in Berlin in Julv.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. 1-Caat. John H. Foster <V Co., of Boston, grain commission merchants, have failed, with liabilities of about 150,000. The brewery of John Gardiner A Go., Philadelphia, has been partially burned. Loss, $200,000; insurance. >130,000. A young man living at Port Jervis, N. It., who, on a small salary, has dressed expensively, had plenty ot money, and ma le the girl to whom he was engaged presents of diamonds, is under arrest for the forgery of 260 checks mi his employers' bank account. Forty buildings in Coudersport; Potter county, Pa., have been destroyed by lire. The loss was about 5200,000. Au abandoned mine under Scranton, I’a., is caving in. the results being great alarm and the destruction of considerable property. A .sensation in Eastern financial circles has been produe'd by th" suspension of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, winch are practically identical. Seventy buildings have been destroyed by lire in Edenburg, Pa. Most of the citizens were at a circus when the conflagration started, and nothing was done to extinguish the flames until about twenty houses bad been ignited. Maj. John T. Harrold has obtained a judgment of >:>0,00i) against the New York Elevated Railroad Company for inpiries received in an accident on the roid. Several Philadelphia firms have foiled owing to the collapse of the Philad'hihia and Reading railroad. An express agent at Bed Hook. N. Y., has run off with $5,800 belonging Io a na

We«t. Potter Palmer Ims sued the Chicago J'ribunv for libel, claiming .*25,000 damages. Fifteen squntters, who recently attempted to locate on tin' North fork of the Canadian river, in Indian Territory, have been arrested by a detaelime Indians attacked a wagon train en route to New Mexico, near Fori Davis, Texas, killing a man ami a woman. Eleven other personl in the vehicles tool; to the bill.; and imide their escape. Tire whites are fleeing from the San Pedro region, New Mexico, on account of the incursions of the Indians. Nine prospectors are known to have been killed, and it is supposed that five others have been killed. A Santa Fe telegram states that the horses of Gen. Hatch’s command having given out, the troops are following Victoria on foot. The Indians lately killed seven people at Lunas ranche, besides killing some herders in another locality and stealing some children. A party of invaders of Indian Territory have been arrested by Gen. Pope. 1). K. Jones, the inventor and first manufacturer of hicifer matches, has just died at Chillicothe, Ohio, aged 89 years. A train on the South Pacific Coast railway, carrying a large number of picnickers, jumped the track near Santa Cruz, Cal., killing thirteen and wounding nearly forty of the passengers. Many of the latter will die. An excursion train became stalled in the tunnel at St. Louis, and, the ears filling with smoke and coal gas, a panic among the passenger.; ensued, which resulted' in the serious injury of many. Tom Boyd, the new Sam Patch, jumped from the suspension bridge at Cincinnati into the Ohio river, the other day, receiving no injuries. South. Henry S. Foote, Superintendent of the New Orleans Mint, and an old-time Southern politician, died recently at his home, near Nashville, Tenn. Hon. John B. Gordon, United States Senator from Georgia, has tendered his resignation, and yx-Gov. Joseph E. Browu has been appointed his successor. Clark Mills’ equestrian statue of Jackson was unveiled at Nashville, Tenn., in the presence of 20,000 people. A large section of Georgia has been visited by a tremendous rain-storm. It is said the fall in twenty hours amounted to nine inches. Bridges were swept away, trains stopped, and crops ruined.

POLITICAL POINTS. The California Workingmen’s Convention adopted a resolution in favor of Senator Thurman for President, by a vote of 11. to 41. The Minnesota Republican Convention, held at St. Paul, May 19, instructed the delegates to Chicago to vote for Senator Windom for President. - A resolution declaring Blaine to be the second choice of the convention was voted down. An anti-third-term resolution was q furred to a committee and not reported hack.

The Dakota Republicans have elected two delegates to the Chicago Convention for Windom first, and Blaine second. The Virginia Democratic Convention selected twenty-two delegates to the National Convention at Cincinnati. They are uninstructed, but are understood to be favorable to J mitre Field. The Minnesota Democrats held their State Convention at St. Paul May 20. The delegates to the National Convention received no instructions. The resolutions declare that tiie State delegation should act as a unit; that the Democrats of Minnesota would “never again submit to a reversal of the popular will by fraud or violence,'' and that no President should have a third term. The California Greenbaekers have elected four dclegates-at-large, headed by Denis Kearney, to the National Convention to be held at Chicago. The Mississippi Greenback Convention was held at Jackson on the 20th of May. Delegates to the Chicago Convention were aj>pointed without instructions. The Democratic State, Convention of New Jersey, in session at Trenton, May 20, adopted resolutions denouncing centralization and the presence of troops at the pulls, favoring hard money and opposing monopolies of all kinds, favoring the two-thirds rule in convention and declaring that Mr. Hayes occupies the Presidency bv fraud.

The California Democrats elected an unpledged delegation to Cincinnati and adopted resolutions declaring that Mr. Hayes was seated by fraud, and that the issues of the present campaign are the right of self-govern-ment, maintenance of the reserved rights of States, and resistance to imperialism and Chinese immigration. Thurman was the favorite Presidential candidate by a large majority. The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists, at their State Convention, held at Altoona, nominated a Stat<' ticket, elected delegates to the National Temperance Convention, and nominated Presidential Electors. A resolution was adopted condemning the pardon of the Legislative bribers. There is a good deal of dissatisfaction among Georgia Democrats at the appointment of ex-Gov. Joseph E. Brown to succeed Gen. Gordon in the Senate. At a large Democratic meeting in Columbus, [Gov. Colquitt was denounced for appointing Brown, and declaring that he (Brown) is not a representative of Georgia, nor of the Democratic party, but a t ian who betrayed the State in her hours of trial. Brown is almost a Republican, and was one for several years after the war. He was delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1868, and voted for Gen. Grant’s nomination, sustaining him in the convention, and acting with the Republicans for several years. He is one of the wealthiest men in Georgia. The Nebraska Republican State Convention met at Lincoln May 20, and, after an all-day and night session, elected six Blaine delegates to the Chicago Convention. The Greenback Convention of lowa was held at Des Mornes may zo. a. vv. Walker, of Poll;, was nominate I for Secretary of State ; Matthew Farrington of Bremer, for Treasurer; G. W. Swearingen, of Fremont, for Auditor ; W. A. Spurrier, of Adams, for Attorney General, and Thomas Hooker, of Dallas, for Register of the Land Office. The delegates to the National Greenback Convention at Chicago were instructed to vote for Gen. J. B. Weaver for President. The Illinois Republican State Convention, after a stormy three days’ session at Springfield, selected forty-two uncompromising Grant men as delegates to the National Convention at Chicago, and adopted the following resolution, offered by Senator Logan, who led the Grant cohorts in the, convention ; “liriiolvi'il, That, Gen. U. S. Grant is the choice, of the Republican party of Illinois for the Presidency, and the delegates from this State are instructed to use all honorable means to secure his nomination by the Chicago Convention, and to vote as a unit for him, and the said delegates shall have power to till all vacancies.” The following resolution was also adopted : “A’cso/red, The Republicans of Illinois, in convention assembled, declare that they will support the nominees, of this convention for State offices, and the nominees of the Chicago Convention for President and Vice President.” Senator Logan heads the dele-gation-at large to the Chicago Convention. The delegations from the nine Congressional districts that were favorable to Washburne and Blaine protested against the action of the convention in choosing the district delegates, but as the Grant men were in the majority they were overruled. The following Stale ticket was placed in nomination : Governor, Shelby M. Cullom ; Lieutenant Governor, John M. Hamilton ; Secretary of State, H. D. Dement; Auditor. ('. I’. Sweig rt ; Treasurer, Edward Rutz; Attorney General, James McCartney. Alabama Republicans have instructed their twenty delegates to the Chicago Convention to support Grant. Seymour clubs are being formed in Chicago. The Galena Gazette, whose editor is a personal friend of Gen. Grant, and knows whereof he speaks, publishes the following in the issue of May 24 : “'An item has been going the rounds of the press asserting that George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Lwbjer, had stated that Gen. Grant would order his name withdrawn from the contest at the National Convention m Chicago. Neither George W. Childs nor any one else has authority for making such an assertion. Gen. Grant's name has never gone before the public as a candidate for the Presidency by any word or act of his own, and he most certainly will not order his name withdrawn. A very large class of American people have chosen to make him their candidate, and if the Republican National Convention at Chicago sees fit to tender him the nomination he will not decline it. This we know to be a fact, and wo publish it because it is well that the Republicans of the country should cease to hold the matter in doubt.”

WASHINGTON NOTES. A Mr. George, at present connected with the Census Bureau, but formerly interested in railroad matters in the South, has sent a letter to the-Senate Committee on Pacific Kailroads, charging bribery and corruption on cer tain members and ex-members of Congress. He states that in 1871 the incorporators of the Texas Pacific railroad paid •‘5=92,000 to Congressmen and Senators in order to obtain a land grant, and that, later on, bonds to the amount of $1,000,000 were distributed for the same purpose. The charges have created quite a sensation at the capital. It is said that in case Congress adjourns without providing rules for counting the electoral vote, President Hayes will immediately call it together again. The President has decided to appoint Horace Maynard, United States Minister at Constantinople, to succeed Judge Key as pQitniant r Geperal.

The much-talked-of boat race on the Potomac was won by Hanlan, Courtney giving up, and going to his boat-house without making the entire course. The President has nominated Postmaster General Key for Judge of the Eastern district ot Tennessee, Horace Maynard for Postmaster General, and Gen. Longstreet for the Turkish mission, to succeed Maynard. An expert in penmanship has testified that Finley wrote the anonymous letter to Mr. Springer. The ship Liberia has sailed from New York with sixty emigrants for the African republic. Within four days two steamers landed 4,0000 f the best class of German emigrants in Baltimore, and nearly ail of them left immediately for the West. Upward of 2,500 emigrants arrived at Boston in one day, and at once proceeded to Chicago, whence they will scatter tlirough the West.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and ten other Sioux chiefs will go to Washington soon to discuss the proposition to permit railroads to run through the Sioux reservation. Trickett, of Australia, has challenged Hanlan to row him on the Thames, in November, for the championship of the world. The General Assembly of the Northern Presbyterian Church was opened on May 20, in Madison, Wis., with a sermon by Dr. Eels, of Cincinnati, and Dr. Paxton, of New York, was elected Moderator. The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church met at the same time in Charleston, S. C., listened to a. sermon by Dr. J. P. Wilson, and elected Dr. T. A. Hoyt, of Nashville, Moderator. By a vote of 229 to 139 the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in session at Cincinnati..decided not to elect a bishop of African descent. Judge Treat, at St. Louis, decides that a river steamboat, which employs a crew for a roun 1 trip and dismisses them before the trip is ended, is liable for their transportation back to the starting point and their wages until their arrival.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Copies of reports upon Alaskan affairs were received by the Senate on the morning of Monday. May 17, from the Secretary of the treasury, in response to a request. A communication from the Secretary of War was received, transmit ing the petition of officers of the army for the enactment of such legislation as will entit’e all Lieutenants of the army who have served fourteen years in the gr ide of Lieutenant to the rank of Captain. A bill parted for the construction of a public building at Peoria, 11!. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the bill lately introduced by him, reguiatii g the pay and appointment of Deputy Marsha’s. Mr. Vance submitted a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the Senate what method is observed in the revenue service in subtracting tare on foreign sugars imported in boxes. Adopt'd. On motion of Mr. Pendleton, the S' mate passed the joint resolution authorizing the Secretary ot War to furnish artillery, tents, etc., for use i t the so'diers’ and sailors’ reunion at Columbus, onio, m Aumi.-i, 1880. Tk. PosioH'ive Appropriation bill was taken up and passed, as amended. A message from the President was received, inclosing a synopsis by Secretary Evarts of the correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britaai in rohition to the Fortune bay outrages. Mr. Hyner and the Secretary agree that it is. the imperative duty of the United States to consider what measures should be taken to maintain the rights of Americans under the treaty of Washington, and to obtain redress for the. denial of those rights. Mr. Evarts advises the President to recommend that Congress reinforce the duties on fish and fish oil, the product of provincial fisheries, as they existed before the treaty of Washington came into operation, to ho continue until the two Governments shall arrive nt an agreement regarding the iuterprelaiion of the treaty.... In the House bills were introduced: By Mr. Cox, requesting the President to commuircate to the House all correspondence in regard to the persecution of the Jews by the Russian Government; by Mr. Young (Ohio), to tax and regulate the manufacture and sale of glucose or grape sugar: by Mr. Young (Tenn.), calling on the Secretary of the Interior for copies of the written testimony taken by the comluission to investigate the charges against the Indian Bureau ; by Mr. Turner, proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting Congress passing a bill appropriating more than $10,009, except by vote of a majority of the members elected; by Mr. Whittliorne, for the adoption of a suitable meter to accurately measure the quantity and test the gravity ami temperature of distilled and malt liquor. After a short debate, the motion to suspend the ru’es and pass the River and Harbor Appropriation bill was agreed to—-yeas, 17!); nays, 47, The bill authorizing national, banks to loan money on mortgages was defeated. A bill was passed providing times and places for holding United States Circuit Courts for the District of lowa.

Mr. Davis, of Illinois, from the Judiciary Committee, reported favorably to the Senate, May 18, on the bill to establish a District ami Circuit Court at Chattanooga, and to add the county of Gruudy to the Eastern district of Tennessee. The bill passed. The bill torn p ibie building at Pittsburgh .was passed, a.-, wijre the bills for an additional land district in Kansas, and to construe and define the act to cede to the State of Ohio unsold lauds in Virginia, the military district oi that State. A resolution was agreed t > asking what action had been taken in regard to the claim of Kansas for 5 per cent, of her sales of public land. Messrs. Withers, Beck and Booth were appointed members of the couieii-uce committee on ine Postolfice Appropriation bill. Messrs Saulsbury and Morgan spoke in favor of Spofford in the contested-election case from Louisiana. It was resolved that on and after Thursday next the Senate meet at 11 a. m. The Committee on Appropriations was given leave to sit during the daily sessions of the Senate for the remainder of the session. The President nominated Nathan Goff, Jr., of Clarksburg, to be United States Attorney for West Virginia, and Andrew J. Evans, of Waco, to lie United States Attorney for the Western district of Texas....ln the House, Mr. Loring introduced a bill to give effect to the message of the Pre ident re’ative to the outrages upon our fishermen under the Washington treaty. An ret to place colored persons who enlisted in the army on the same footing as other soldiers as to bounty and pension was pasred. The Pension Deficiency bill was passed. The Agricultural Appropriation bill was referred to the committee of the whole, where it was discussed at length and amended. An evening session was held, when the Court of Pensions bill was debated.

On the meeting of the Senate on Wednesday, May 19, Mr. McMillan presented various communications favoring the bill for establishment of a school of forestry. Mr. Cameron presented the petition of the widow of Gen. Ileintzelman praying a pension of SSO per month. A short debate upon the Political Assessments bill took place. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, opposed reopening the Louisiana contest-ed-election case in a speech. The President nominated Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, for Postmaster General; James Longstreet, of Georgia, Minister to Turkey, and David M. Key to be United States District Judge for the Eastern ano Middle districts of Tennessee.... In the House, the Agricultural Appropriation bill passed with several amendments, and then, by a vote of loti against 97, the House went into committee of the whole on motion of Mr. Tucker, who stated his intention to call up the Tariff bill. The opponents of the tariff succeeded in postponing consideration of this bill, and the House adjourned till evening, when a session was held for consideration of the District Code.

hi the Senate, on the 20th inst., after reports from the majority and minority of the select committee on counting the electoral votes, the bill to establish a retired list for non-commissioned army officers was taken up, and amended so that when an enisted man has served as such fifteen consecutive years in the army honorably and faithfully, and the last five years thereof as a non-commissioned officer, he shall be eligible for appointment as Second Lieutenant in the army corps of the line in which he has served, and passed. Mr. Cockrell introduced a bill donating twelve condemned cannon to aid in the erection of a monument to Gen. James Shields. Mr. Garland spoke in favor of unseating Mr. Kellogg.... In the House, the bill regulating the Municipal -Code of the District was passed, as was the bill to carry into effect the second and sixteenth articles of the treaty between the United States and the Great and Little Osaize Indians. The House went into committee of the whole and considered several reports from the Committee on Public Lands, and continued the same order of business at the evening session.

The Marshals bill was taken up in the Senate on the 21st inst., at the request of Mr. Bayard, and, after amendments, was passed. The Committee on Commerce was given leave to sit during the session of the Senate. The bill loaning tents, etc., to soldiers’ reunion at Muscatine, - lowa, was passed. The Legislative Appropriation bill was passed, after a short discussion. ~

In the House, a bill making appropriations for the payment of certain claims reported allowed by the accounting officers of the treasury was taken up and passed; also, a liill for the relief ot John D. Defrecs, Pub.ic Printer. Mr. Cox, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported back a resolution calling on the President for information in regard to the expulsion of Israelite citizens of the United States from SL Petersburg by the Russian Government. Adopted. The House then considered bills reported yesterday from the committee of the wbo'e relative to public lands, and the various bills agreed to in committee of the who e were passed. Mr. Colerick, from the Committee on Elections, reported a resolution relative to the contestede’eclion case of Duffy vs. Mason, Twenty-ninth district of New York, declaring Mason; the sitting member, entitled to the seat. The resolution which was the unanimous report of the committee, was adopted. The Pension bill Was passed. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was reported t > the House, appropriating $20,729,987. The aggregates submitted to the committee aggregated $24,374,020. The present bill exceeds the amount appropriated for 1880 by $1,255,953. Senator Morgan’s resolution determining the method of counting the electoral vote was discussed at some length in the Senate, on Saturday, May 22, but no action was taken. The bill passed extending the northern boundary of Nebraska so as to include the present Territory of Dakota south of the fortythird parallel, east of Keyapada river and west of the main channel of the Missouri river, when the Indian titles shall have been extinguished. On motion of Mr. Hampton, the bill was taken up and passed to complete the survey of Getiysburg battlefield, and provide for the compilation and preservu'i in of data showing the various positions and movements of troops in that battle, illustrated by diagrams. It appropriates $50,090.... The House discussed the bids reported from the Committee on Public Bni'dings and Grounds. None were jiassed. The bill passed to provide that dealers in icat tobacco who do not sell or consign for sale leaf tobacco to an amount exceeding 25,000 pounds in anyone specia -tax year shall pay license of but $5.