Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The purser’s room of the steamer Saratoga, plying between Havana and New York, wan robbed of $23,600 in specie. Marie A’exandrovna, Empress of Russia, died at St. Petersburg on the 3d inst., after a long and painful illness. She was married to the Czar in 18-11, and was the mother of six children. A duel with swords was fought on Swiss territory, the other day, lietween Henri Rochefort and M. Koechlin. Rochefort was seriously wounded. On the same day a hostile meeting in Belgium between two Spanish noblemen had a more serious result, one of the. combatants having been slain. Tho Burials bill, which provides for the interment of the dead of Catholics and Dissenters in the public cemeteries of England, has passed the British Parliament. Bismarck is again threatening to resign if certain measures of his are not adopted. Turkey is about to issue a circular to the European powers promising to carry out the reforms demanded by tho terms of the Treaty of B< rlin.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blast. A prize-fight of sixty-two rounds, Masting an hour and a half, occurred near Mc’Keesport, Pa., the other day, between two roughs known as Jack Fleet and Morge Tutubull. The first named, who is 54 years of age, was defeated. Both men were severely punished'. Two old widow ladies named Chilsey and A vent, living together at Avon, Ct., were brutally murdered by some unknown person a few nights since. The motive for the terrible crime is a mystery. Goss and Ryan, two notorious bruisers, foiight at Colyer’s Station, W. Va., last week. Tho battle, which was a desperate one, lasted eighty-seven minutes, and resulted in the victory of tho Irishman. Both of the brutes were terribly punished. Herman Lissberger, of New York, a heavy importer of metals, has failed for $2,000,000 or $3,000,000. South.. Sherrard Clemens, for thirteen years n member of Congress from Virginia, has just died a pauper in St. Louis, Mo. Twenty-live lives were lost, 575,0(H) worth of property destroyed, and thousands of sheep drowned by the late flood at Brackett, Texas. Some negroes refused to pay for some liquor they had ordered and drank in a Baltimore beer saloon. The proprietor of the place made an effort to eject them, when they raided the house. The police interposed to prevent further disturbance, when they were assaulted with stones. They .drew their pistols and tired on the crowd, killing one man, and wounding several persons, among whom was a woman. This quelled the riot. A story of u thrilling tragedy comes by telgraph from Collin county, Tex. A farmer named Bradley left 4<200 received for cattle with his wife for safe-keeping. A stranger asking to stay for the night was given a pallet on the porch. At midnight he saw two men, supposed to belong to the family, enter. Hearing cries of murder, he looked through the blinds and saw a woman on tho lied with her throat cut. Snatching a six-shooter, the stranger sprung toward tho door and fired, killing both parties. Mounting his horse he rode to the nearest neighborhood, and, accompanied by a party of four, returned. .Mrs. Bradley and both the robbers were dead, one of whom was shot through the heart, the other through the head. Tho robbers proved to be Mrs. Pruett and daughter—the former (it) years old and owner of considerable property, with an independent inheritance of $17,000. The colored'seamen of a Norfolk (Va.) schooner mutinied, killed the Captain and cook, and seriously wounded the mate. They then headed the boat for the shore, and at last accounts were hiding in the Virginia swamps A North Carolina druggist’s clerk, whose private whiskj bottle had been dosed by his employer with croton oil, has sued tho latter for $20,000 damages.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Maine Greenback and Democratic State Conventions met at Bangor on (lie let inst. Both conventions nominated Gen. Garris M. Plaisted for Governor. Only the Democrats nominated Presidential electors. The Greenback delegates to the National Convention were instructed to support Solon Chase for President. The Democrats gave their delegates no instructions. The Democrats of Alabama have renominated ail of the present State officers. The Alabama Democrats met in State Convention on the 3d inst., and chose delegates to the Cincinnati Convention. The preference is generally understood to be for Field, Thurman. Bayard and Hancock, though no instructions were given and no expressions required. It is understood none are for Tilden. Resolutions were adopted favoring the two-thirds rule.—The South Carolina Democratic Convention also met on the 3d, and chose a solid Bayard delegation to Cincinnati. The Arkansas Democrats, in a threedays’ convention, on the thirty-ninth ballot nominated Thomas J. Churchill for Governor. The remainder of the ticket is as follows: Jacob Frnlich for Secretary of State, William E. Woodruff, Jr., for Treasurer; Auditor, John Crawford ; Land Commissioner, D. W. Lear; Superintendent of Instruction, J. L. Denton ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, E. H. English ; Chancellor, S. W. Carroll; Chancery Clerk, J. W. Calloway. A terrible wind-storm visited St. Louis a few days ago, doing $250,000 worth of damage and causing the death of several persons. The big bridge was slightly damaged. A law suit, involving $30,000,000, is in progress in the Probate Court of San Francisco. Ex-Gov. John Wood, of Illinois, died at Quincy a few days ago, aged 82. The Colorado Democratic State Convention, in session at Denver last week, selected an uninstructed delegation to Cincinnati, the members of which are in favor of Judge Field for President. ■ The Alabama Democrats have put up the following State ticket at their late convention: R. W. Cobb for Governor, W. W. Screws for Secretary of State, H. C. Tompkins for Attorney General, and I. H. Vincent for State Treasurer. The convention renominated the present bench of Supreme Court Judges—Chief Justice Bryckell and Associate Justices Stone and Manning. In South Carolina, the State Democratic Convention nominated a State ticket as follows : For Governor, Johnson E. Hagood ; for Lieutenant Governor, J. D. Kennedy; for Secretary of State, B. M. Sims; for Treasurer, J. P.

Richardson; for Comptroller General, J. C. Coit; for Attorney General, L. F. Youmans ; for Adjutant and Inspector General, R. Manigold ; for Superintendent of Education, H. 8. Thomson.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Following is the monthly public-debt statement issued on the Ist inst.: Six per cent bondss 242,001,900 Five per cents 488,848,700 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four per cents 739,4114,700 Refunding certificates 1,413,100 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin b0nd551,735,61*8,400 Matured debts 8,134,965 Legal tenders 346,742,046 Certificates of deposit... 12,815,000 Fractional currency 15,592,934 Gold and silver certificates 20,274,370 Total without interest. 305,424,350 Total interest 19,742,521 Total debt 52,139,257,715 Cash in treasury 206,613,516 Debt less cash in trea5ury51,952,386,719 Decrease during May 15,928,033 Decrease since Juno 30,1879 74,820,536 Current liabilities Interest due and unpaids 2,890,785 Debt on which interest has ceased 8,134,965 Interest thereon 830,55(1 Gold and silver certificates 20,274,370 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 12,815,000 Cush balance available, May 1, 1880 161,667,839 Totals 206,613,516 Available assets— Cash in treasurys 206,613,516 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,615,587 Interest paid by United States 45,651,155 Interest repaid by transportation of mails 13,084,815 By cash payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 31,911,111 A Washington court has given Mrs. Senator Christiane,y $l5O per month alimony and S3OO counsel fees.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Mr. Davis (W. Va.) stated to the Senate, on the morning of Monday, May 31, that the Appropriation Committee would not yet report back the House resolution providing for adjournment, bu? hoped it might be practicable for Congress to adjourn about the 10th or 15th of June. Mr. McMillan introduced a bill for the relief of certain settlers on swamp lands in Minnesota. Mr. Baldwin introduced a bill for the appraisement and sale of the Detroit arsenal building and grounds. The joint resolution passed authorizing the sale o the Port Huron and Northwestern Railway Company of a portion of the Fort Gratiot Military Reserve, and authorizing Port Huron to grant the right of way through Pine Grove Park. The House joint resolution requesting the President to open negotiations with France, Spain, Austria and Italy, with a view to removal of the restrictions upon the importation of tobacco in said countries was passed. The House bill passed providing times and places of holding Circuit Court of the United States in tiro District of lowa, and for other purposes. Mr. Williams made a speech in favor of pensioning the soldiers of the Mexican war. The Yorktown monument joint resolution passed. The resolution submitted recently by Mr. Pendleton requesting the President to inform the Senate whether any Census Supervisors appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate have been removed by him < r witn ms consent, was adopted. The report of the Committee of Conference on the Distri :t Appropriation bill was adopted. The bill to compromise the claim of the United States under the Lewis will case was passed, as was the bill to permit Elias C. Boudinot, of the Cherokee nation, to sue in the Court of Claims for damages by the seizure of his tobacco manufactory for the alleged violation of the Revenue 1aw5....1p the House, the Senate amendments to the House bill for the relief of certain homestead and pre-emption settlers in Kansas and Nebraska were concurred in. The joint resolution passed granting the use of artillery, etc., to the Soldiers’ Reunion in Northeast Missouri. The conference report on the District of Columbia Appropriation bill was agreed to. The conference report on the joint resolution for printing 300,000 copies of the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture was agreed to. The General Deficiency Appropriation bill was referred to the committee of the whole. Consideration was resumed of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, and it was passed, 112 to 53. Amendments to the Executive bill were concurred in. The Senate amendments to the Agricultural Appropriation bill were non-concurred in. The House then went into committee of the whole on the General Deficiency bill. The first vote showed no quorum, and the House adjourned. On the meeting of the Senate on the morning of Tuesday, the Ist Inst.. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Exodus of Negroes from Southern to Northern States, submitted a report of the majority, and Mr. Windom announced that he would hereafter submit the views of the minority. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was received from the House and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The Senate insisted on its amendment to the Legislative, Executive, Judicial, and Agricultural Appropriation bills, and committees of conference with the House were appointed. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill ym considered all day, the House amendments being investigated. A number of changes were made. The President nominated Robert S. Gardner, of West Virginia, to be Indian Inspector, ...In the House, there were, at the out-

set, two set speeches on the Inter-State Commerce bill, one by Reagan and one by Henderson, which came In under »the license given to the rule for general debate upon an appropriation bill The Deficiency bill was un in committee at the time. Mr. King introduced a resolution for the appointment of a committee to investigate the expenditure of appropriations on the Red and Wachita rivers for the last ten years. Also, authorizing the Secretary of War to enter into contracts for keeping open the mouth of the Red river. Mr. Pendleton presented, and the Senate adopted, on Wednesday, June 2, a resolution asking whether the sections of the Revised Statutes authorizing judicial powers by Consuls was in accordance with the constitution. The River and Harbor bill was completed and passed. A bill was reported favorably for the purchase of additional grounds and the erection of a public building at Detroit The House went into committee of the whole on the General Deficiency bill, and completed that measure. It was then reported to tho House and the main question was ordered upon it. The resolution heretofore introduced by Mr. Butler calling for copies of papers relative to the New York Central 5-per-cent. tax was adopted by the Senate, on the 3d inst. The bill appropriating $41,000 to erect a monument to Gen. Herkimer at the battle field of Oriskany, N. Y., waft passed. The House bill amending the transportation of dutiable goods was taken up. On motion of various Senators the following places were included in points of destination : Nashtille, Knoxville, Omaha, Grand Haven, Peoria, Quincy, La Crosse, Keokuk, Alton, Cairo, Kansas City, and St. Louis. The bill was then passed. The Tariff Commission bill was then taken up, and, after a long debate upon various amendments, the bill was passed. The President nominated Eugene Schuyler, now Consul General at Rome, Consul General and Diplomatic Agent of the United States at Bucharest, and William N. Penthye, now Vice Consul at Tientsin, Secretary of the Commission to China... .In the House, the joint resolution appropriating $30,000 for a monument to mark the birthplace of George Washington was agreed to unanimously. The Committee on Ways and Means reported a resolution for the final adjournment of Congress at noon on the 10th inst., which was agreed to without debate—v eas, 106; nays, 68. The General Deficiency bill was then taken up and passed. The House then eonsid-.. ered the Senate amendments to the Postoffice Appropriation bill, some being accepted and others rejected. After the introduction of a petition for the passage of a bill granting lands in severalty to the Indians, the House adjourned. The bill for the relief of settlers within the late Fort Kearney Military Reservation, Nebraska, was passed by the Senate on Friday, June 4. Mr. Voorhees sent to the Clerk’s desk and had read a resolution under which the Exodus Committee was appointed, and spoke at considerable length thereon. A general debate followed upon District of Columbia matters... .In the House, on motion of Mr. Cannon, a joint resolution was passed authorizing the delivery of arms, etc., to tho soldiers’ reunion at Decatur, 111. The Senate amendments to the House bill granting condemned cannon for the erection of a soldiers’ monument at Marietta, Ohio, were concurred in. The Semite bill passed for disposing of the Fort Harker Military Reservation. The Postoffice Appropriation bill, as amended by the Senate, was takeu up and the amendment in regard to the star routes non-concurred in. Mr. Vance, from the Committee on Patents, reported adversely on a bill to repeal an act renewing the patent of Henry Voelter for the wood-pulp process. Laid on the table. Fernando Wood stated that he would not call up the Refunding bill this session, as the House has resolved to adjourn June 10, but gave notice he would bring it before the House the first Wednesday in December next The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the private calendar, but, after considering three pension bills, the House refused either to adjourn or to proceed to business, add it was only by the Speaker’s voting in the affirmative on a tie vote that the motion to adjourn was carried.