Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Pope refuses to accept Cardinal Mina's resignation as Papal Secretary of State There is revolution in Buenos Ayres, and a state of siege has been declared. Mr. Ratcliff, a Liberal member of the British Parliament for Evesham, has been unseated for bribery. The French Government has called on the Jesuits to leave France by the 30th of June. Those engaged id educational work will be permitted to remain till the 31st of August July 14, the anniversary of the capture of the Bastile, has been set apart by the French Chamber of Deputies as the national fete day, instead of Aug. 15, the Bonapartist holiday. Nearly 30,000 emigrants left Liverpool for America during the month of May. The Lord Mayor of Dublin has telegraphed the Mayor of every city in the United States, saying that funds are still needed for the relief of the distress in Ireland, and soliciting further contributions to the Mansion House fund. The Peruvian port of "Arica has been captured by the Chilians. The British troops are preparing to evacuate Cabul. The island of Cuba has been visited by severe earthquake shocks. Queen Victoria declines to visit Ireland. Au attempt to serve processes of ejectment on some tenants residing in Galway, Ireland, resulted in a furious fight, during which many were wounded on both sides. While the Spanish warship, Cuba Espanola, was entering the harbor of Santiago de <'uba, her boiler exploded, killing twenty persons and wounding 113, of which eighty-four wi re troops being transported. A Constantinople dispatch says the foreign Ambassadors have presented a collective note Io the I’orte announcing the supplementary conference to bo held at Berlin, and urging the -ftilfilhnent of the noil-executed ellltises of the treaty.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blast. John Brougham, the celebrated actor, has just died in New York city. He was 66 years old. The Fourth National Bank of Newark, N. .1., has closed its doors. A disastrous tire occurred last week at Titusville, l’,i. Lightning set fire to a tank containing 25,000 barrels of oil, and the petroleum, boiling over, ran down a hillside, igniting every building with which it came in contact. In a short time a furious conflagration was in progress. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Handlctte A- Ellis, extensive dealers in metals at Boston, have failed, with liabilities of $80(1,000. Hon. -lames A. Bayard, formerly a Senator of the United States from Delaware, ami father of the present Senator Bayard, died last week at his home in Wilmington. Del. The d<ceased was first chosen in 1850 to represent his State in the Senate, and served continuously until March 3, 1869, when he was succeeded by his son, the present Senator. The loss by the oil tire at Titusville, I’a., is estimated at not less than $1,500,000. West. Gen. Hatch reports a fight in New Mexico between Maj. Morrow and a band of Apaches, in which tlie troops were victorious, killing three savages, one of them a son of Victoria, aml driving the remainder from tho field. More than forty people were injured by tho falling of tho chiu’eh roof at Mount Cory, Ohio. John Davidson, a desperate character, at Murphysboro, 111., assaulted Jerry Kane in a •aloon, and was stabbed to the heart by the latter. The Soldiers’ reunion at Milwaukee was a big affair. About 60,000 people were in attendance. Gens. Grant and Sheridan put iu nn appearance, and were enthusiastically welcomed. Among other distinguished soldiers present were Gens. Washburne, Bragg, Bintliff, Bryant, Gibbon, Starkweather, and Cols. Townsend and Vilas. The address of welcome was delivered by Gov. Smith. Two County Commissioners, the Treasurer, and tho Register at Deadwood, Dak., have been indicted for the misappropriation of public funds. South.. A duel was fought near Richmond, Va., by W. C. Elam, editor of tho Richmond H’Ai'l/, and Col. Thomas Smith, son of ex-Gov. William Smith, in which the former was seriously injured. The large wholesale drug house of Arthur, Peter & Co., Louisville, Ky., has been destroyed by fire, and the establishment of Kahn <t Wolf, wholesale clothing, and Johnson, Neafuan & Co., wholesale grocers, adjoining on either side, more or less damaged. Loss $160,000. A larger acreage than usual is under cotton crop in the Southern States this year. Berry Russell, ex-President of the Lafayette Bank of New Orleans, has been arrested on the charge of embezzling a portion of the bank funds. A man at Orangeburg, N. C.. whose wife had left him, owing to ill-treatment, shot her and her mother with a double-barrel gun. Four cattle thieves were recently lynched in Brown county, Texas. W. S. Colman, the editor of a paper published at Marshall, Texas, was fatally shot by a person named Jennings. An article in Colman’s paper reflecting on Jennings was the cause. Henry Quarles, a negro wife-murder-er, was hanged at Houston, Texas, on the 11th inst. Col. Gerard Stith, ex-Mayor of New Orleans, is dead. He was at the time of his death, and for nearly forty years, foreman of the. New Orleans I’icai/une office. Ex-Gov. Albert G. Brown, of Mississippi, was thrown from his horse info a pond and drowned, near Jackson. Miss. Deceased was 67 years old. was Governor of Mississippi two terms, served his State as member of Congress, and was elected to the United States Senate in 1853, and re-elected in 1857’for a second term of six years, from March 4, 1859, to 1865. During his service in the Senate he was the recognized leader of tho Southern Democracy. WAbHINGTOK NOTES. The Senate struck out of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill the clause directing all sums a ppropriated by the measure to be paid in silver dollars. A 1 >il 1 granting a pension to Mrs. Elizabeth Upright, of lowa, who had eleven sons in the Union army, has been passed by the House of Representatives. in response to a resolution of the Semite, the Secretary of the Treasury has forwarded to that body a statement showing that the specific expenditures of the United States -n the War of the Rebellion were $6,187,243,385.

POLITICAL POINTS. Most of the delegates to the Cincinnati Convention elected by the Democrats of Tennessee express personal preferences for Bayard, Thurman, Seymour, or Field, but will vote for the man who, on consultation, seems most likely to win at the polls. The Michigan Democratic State Convention met at Saginaw on the Bth inst, and selected an anti-1 ildensetofdelegates toCincinnati. Don M. Dickinson, of Detroit; O. M. Barnes, of Lansing ; Coh I. E. Messmore, of Grand Bapids, and Dr. Foster Pratt, of Kalamazoo, were the dclegates-at-|fl,rge. A resolution sustaining the

two-thirds rule was adopted. Hon. O. M. Barnes called the convention to order, and nominated Hon. O’Brien J. Atkinson as temporary Chairman and John M- Bulklev. W. M. Noble, and George C. Stewart as Secretaries. These gentlemen were afterward continued as permanent officers of the convention. The Rhode Island Legislature has reelected Gen. A. E. Burnside to the United States Senate. W. M. Springer has been renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Twelfth Rlinois district Democratic State Conventions were held in Indiana, Maryland and Georgia on the 9th of June. The Indiana Convention was presided over by ex-Gov. Hendricks. Franklin Landers was named for Governor, Isaac P. Gray for Lieutenant Governor, John T. Scott for Judge of the Supreme Court, * Gabriel Schmuck for Clerk of the Supreme Court, and A. C. Gordwin for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The delegates to Cincinnati were instructed for Thomas A. Hendricks. The Maryland Convention indorsed Senator Bayard, but the delegates were not instructed. The Georgia Convention appointed delegates to Cincinnati favorable to the nomination of Justice Field.

The Illinois Democratic Convention met at Springfield, Juno 10, and nominated Lyman Trumbull for Governor ; Lewis B. Parsons, of Clay, for Lieutenant Governor ; John H. Oberly, of Alexander, for Secretary of State ; Louis C. Starkel, of St. Clair, for Auditor ; Thomas Butterworth, of Wmnnbago, for Treasurer ; and Laurence Harmon, of Peoria, for Attorney General. Nearly all the candidates were selected by acclamation. A resolution instructing the delegates to Cincinnati to vote for Seymour was received with great applause, but, after debate, it was referred to tho Committee on Resolutions, where it was.suppresscd. The delegates are said to be divided between Seymour and David Davis. They were instructed to vote as a unit at Cincinnati. The National Greenback-Labor party met in National Convention at Chicago on Wednesday, June 9. Congressman De La Matyr, of Indiana, was made temporary presiding officer, and Richard Travelleek, of Michigan, was elected permanent Chairman, with a Vice President from each State. The convention was in session during the 9th and 10th, and throughout the entire night of the 10th, adjourning at 6 o'clock 6n the morning of the 11th. Congressman J. B. Weaver, of lowa, was nominated for President on the first ballot, which resulted as follows: Whole number of votes cast, 716: necessary to a choice, 359 ; Weaver, 420 ; Wright. 84 : Butler, 99 ; Chase, 101 : Allis, 12. Gen. B. J. Chambers, of Texas, was nominated for Vice President on the first ballot. Senator Don Cameron says Gen. Grant's defeat, at Chicago, was owing to cowardice on the part of some of his supporters.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In the Senate, on Saturday, June 5, a bill was passed for the sale of the Detroit Arsenal. A message was received from the President replying to a resolution of inquiry stating that two Supervisors of Census had been removed and successors appointed by him. Tho Senate insisted on its amendments to the Legislative Appropriation bill, and a conference committee was appointed. The Senate concurred in the House amendments to the hill for the. immediate transportation of dutiable goods. The bill appropriating $251,(100 to reimburse the Creek orphan fund passed. The House bill to regulate the compensation of night inspectors of customs was amended ami then passed. The Senate bill to promote the civilization of the Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin (granting them their pro - rata proportion of the annuities of the Winnobagoes of Nebraska and Wisconsin for the purpose of securing homesteads) passed. The House bill granting to the corporation of Council Bluffs, lowa, for public purposes, the meandered lake near that city, passed.... In the House, the Senate amendments to the following House bills were concurred in: Requesting the President to open negotiations with France, Spain, Austria and Italy relative to the importation of tobacco to their dominions, and to amend statutes relative to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods. A number of bills of a private nature were passed ; also, bills amending the statutes relative to affidavits of homestead and preemption settlers; authorizing the St. Paul and Chimgo Short Line Railroad Company to construct a bridge across Lake St. Croix; providing for the transportation of mails between East St. Louis and St. Louis. Conference committees were appointed on the River and Harbor bill and on tho Postoffice Appropriation bilk Iw the Senate, on the 7th inst., Mr. Kernan made a speech in support of the resolution unseating Kellogg. Mr. McDonald obtained the floor, and gave way for other business. The- bid refunding tho duties on an imported altar to the Notre Dame University, St. Joseph county, Ind., passed. The bill abandoning the Fort Sedgwick (Neb.) Military Reservation and restoring it to the public domain passed.

The bill authorizing the purchase of ground and the erection of a public, building at Detroit passed. Mr. Beck, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported, with amendments, the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. The House bill prohibiting Government suits against timber trespassers on public lands prior to March 1, 1879, and enabling defendants in suits now pending to settle them by acquiring lit e to the lands under existing laws was called up. The section reducing from $2.50 to $1.25 per acre lands wh se price was raised more than twenty years before the passage of this act on account of grants of alternate sections for railroad purposes was stricken out. As thus amended the bill passed... .In the House, the Senate bill ratifying the Ute agreement, with amendments of the House committee thereto, passed—yeas, 174; nays, 15. On a motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill for the erection of a public building at Rochester, no quorum voted, and the House adjourned. The Senate did nothing on Tuesday, June 8, with the exception of a desultory debate upon a few amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, the news from Chicago occupying the attention of members... .In the House, the bill passed placing the rate of duty on barley-malt at 25 cents per bushel. A bill was passed granting a pension to Mrs E.izabeth Upright, of lowa, who had eleven sons in the Union army during the Rebellion. The Public Building bill was called up, but, the news of Garfield’s nomination at Chicago being received, nothing was done. The Republican members sent, congratulations to the nominee. In the United States Senate, on the morning of Wednesday, June 9, the Committee on Appropriations reported back the resolution providing for adjournment of Congress June 10, with an amendment substituting June 16. The amendment was agreed to. The conference report on the Postoffice Appropriation bill was concurred in. The Senate concurred in the various amendments of the House to the Ute Agreement bill, and disagreed to others, and appointed a committee of conference. The bill repealing certain laws relating io permanent and indefinite appropriations was discussed without conclusion. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was then taken up, and occupied the remainder of the session. Capt William B. Remey, of the Marine Corps, a resident of lowa, was nominated by the President to be Judge Advocate General

of the Navy, with the rank of Colonel. ...In the House, Mr. Bice introduced a joint resolution looking to the abrogation of the fishery clauses in the treaty of 1871 with (Meat Britain. The legislative AppropriatOon bill wa| recommitted to the conference committee, with instructions to yield to the wishes of the Senate relative to the salaries of Senate employee. Mr. Beagan submitted a conference report on the Biver and Harbor Appropriation bill, and it was agreed to. The conference committee on the Agricultural Appropriation bill was unable to agree, and a new one was appointed. The adjournment resolution, as amended by the Senate, was adopted. A conference committee was appointed upon the Biver and Harbor bilk In the Senate, on Thursday, June 10, the port of the conference committee on the Biver and Harbor Appropriation bill was presented and adopted. The House bid admitting classical antiquities free of duty passed, with an amendment remitting the duties paid on imported salt in curing meat foi exportation. On motion of Mr. Kernan, the House joint resolution passed, levy of a duty of 35 per cent ad'valorem on all articles designated as cut hoops,; The Senate spent the day upon the Sundry Civil: bill, and passed it There was a great deal of wrangling over amendments, but no considerable changes. The President nominated John F. Hartranft to be Collector of Customs of the District of Philadelphia; Virgil D. Stockbridge, District of Columbia, to be Assistant Commissioner of Patents ; Bol>ert G. Dyrenfurth, of Illinois, to be Examiner-in-Chief of the Patent Office; Charles Doughty, of Michigan, to be Register of the Land Office at East Saginaw ; William P. Dunnington, of Minnesota, to be Register of tho Land Office at Red Wood Falls; William B. Harriott, of Minnesota, to be Receiver of, Land Office at Red Wood Falls; and John W. Allen,'* of Minnesota, Receiver of the Land Office at Fergus. Fa115....1n the House, Mr. Reagan submitted a re-' port announcing that the conference committee on the River and Harbor Appropriation bill had come to an agreement thereon. The report was agreed to. Tho electoral count resolutions of Senator Morgan were discussed all day, Messrs. Bicknell, Harris, Lounslierry and Carlisle speaking in favor of the adoption of tho resolutions, and Messrs. Bobeson and Updegraff protesting strongly against them. No action was taken on tho resolutions when the louse adjourned. On the morning of June 11, the Senate insisted on its amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill and to the bill relating to timber trespasses on the public lands, disagreed to by the House, and a committee of conference thereon was appointed. The bill making Indianapolis a port of delivery passed. The bill authorizing Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois to sue the United States in the Supreme Court, on claims for sales of public lands in those States, passed. The bill authorizing the city of Winona, Minn., to construct a wagon-bridge across the Mississippi river, passed. The President pro tern, appointed the following Senators to represent the Senate at the Yorktown centennial celebration : Johnston, Rollins, Dawes, Anthony, Kernan, Randolph, Eaton, Wallace, ’Whyte, Ransom, Butler, Hill of Georgia, and Bayard. After the exiiiration of the morning hour, the Kel-logg-Spofford resolutions were discussed and laid 0ver....1n the House, the Senate bill regulating tne appointment and pay of Deputy Marshals was discussed all day and passed by 110 to 85—a party vote. The debate on the bill took a wide range, Kcifer, of Ohio, Williams, of Wisconsin, and Hawley speaking for tho Republicans, and Cox doing the talking for the Democratic side.

On Saturday, June 12, in the Senate, Mr. Garland moved to concur in the House amendment to the Deputy Marshals bill, sent back by the House this morning. Mr. Hoar objected to present consideration of the bill, and it went over until Monday. The General Deficiency bill was reported and passed with little delay. The House bill for the allowance of certain claims reported by the accounting officers of tho treasury under the act of Juy 4, 1864, passed. The Senate insisted on its amendments to the bill establishing titles in Hot Springs, and appointed a committee of conference. A communication from the Postmaster General showed the amount paid on contracts in Holladay’s mime between 1861 and 1866 to be $1,9. 6,423. Consideration of the bill granting pensions to certain so’diers and sailors of the Mexican and other wars was resumed, as in committee of the whole and was discussed most of the day. The conference report on the bill relative to timber trespasses passed. The President sent in the nomination of John Nazro as Collector of Customs for the Milwaukee district. ... .Tn the H use, Mr. Atkins submitted a conference report rn the Legislative Appropriation bill. He stated that the House conferei s had yielded in respect of salaries of Senate emp'oyes. The report was agreed to. Mr. Scales made a conference report on the Uto Agreement bill. He said the bill as agreed to provided that if there should be sufficient arable land inColorado the Indian-- should be sett cd in that State, but if not they should be set tled in Utah or New Mexico. The Senate, resolution proposing a joint rule for counting t’.ie electoral vote was taken up, and filibustering was resorted to by the Republicans to prevent the passage of the resolution. On motion of Mr. Duni.ell, a Senate bill was passed authorizing the Mississippi I'.ii er Logging Company to construct and operate sheer booms at or near Straight slough.