Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Mews from (Jabul confirms the reports of a general rising of the Central Asian tribes. In the British House of Commons Sir Harding Gifford’s motion that Bradlaugh be not permitted to take the oath nor make an affirmation was adopted by a vote of 275 to 230. This, in effect, unseats him. In the district of Lauban, near Breslau, Prussia, torrential rains killed fifty-six persons and destroyed 105 houses. It is announced that Queen Victoria will visit Ireland in August, for the first time in thirty years. Bradlaugh created an exciting sceqe in the British House of Commons tho other day. When he attempted to address the Speaker he was met with cries of “ Withdraw 1” from tho opposition. He was afterward accorded tho privilege of speaking in his own behalf from behind tho bar. He made a vigorous but vain.appeaL Labouchere’s motion to allow him to take the oath was overruled. Bradlaugh was then called to the table and informed of tho decision of tho House. Being requested to withdraw, he twice refused, in a respectful manner. The Speaker, by an overwhelming vote, was authorized to enforce his removal. Bradlaugh continued obdurate, and had to be forcibly removed beyond tho bar, returning twice. He was finally arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms and confined in the towor. Tho British negotiations with Abdur Rahman, as to Afghanistan, are coming to naught, !>ecause the chiefs of the tribes repudiate his claims to the Amecrship. The crops in France do not promise well this year. A two-thirds yield is about all that the French farmers expect. The Russians in Central Asia are again reported defeated by *he Turcomans, and in retreat. Dispatches from'Bpenos Ayres state that the civil war, long impending there, has at last broken out, and that many have been killed and wounded. The British House of Lords has rejected the bill legalizing marriages with a deceased wife's sister. The German Bundesratli has refused to entertain the proposition to restore the double coin standard. Havana advices report that another Cuban insurgent chief has surrendered with thirty-three, officers and 251 privates. A dispatch from Constantinople says there is no security there for life or property. Assassinations and robberies are of every-day occurrence, but no attempt is made to arrest the guilty parties.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blast. Boone, a deputy collector at Brooklyn, is missing, with f 19,000 of Government funds, and Commissioner Baum has taken steps to secure his arrest A fire in 'Purport, Pa., a town of 2,000 inhabitants, destroyed two hotels and twentynine stores. Two men were killed and two fatally injured by a failing wall at a fire in Elizabeth, N. J.) the other night. President Hayes Avas in Ne>v Haven, Ct., Inst week, visiting tho graves of his ancestors and attending the commencement exercises at Yale. The passengers of the steamer Narraganselt who were so fortunate as to escape have determined to bring suit against the Htonington Line for damages. West.

At McVieker’s Theater, the present week, is being produced, for tho first time in Chicago, Franz Yon Suppo’s opera comique, “ Boccaccio,” by the 11. B. Malm Comic Opera Company. Tho costumes of the opera were designed from the well-known painting of “Dante in Exile” and other historical works. The libretto is a creditable piece of literary workmanship, and the music is very bright nnd sparkling. The two Cincinnati afternoon papers, Times and Star, have united their fortunes, and will hereafter appear as a hyphenated Journal, under the title of tho Times-Star. A San Francisco dispatch says : “I. M. Ivallocli, having been released from arrest on the charge of killing Charles Do Young on Account of a defect in tiie proceedings nnd immediately rearrosted on a new complaint, was this afternoon held to answer without bail.” Bishop Borgcss, of Detroit, has issued a pastoral prohibiting lawn fetes, fairs, excursions, picnics, beat-rides, etc., to be given as means of raising funds for tho benefit of churches in that diocese. The largo paper-mill of the Woodsdale Paper Company, near Hamilton, Ohio, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, SBO,OOO ; insurance, $35,000. Three boys, under 20 years of age, were hanged on the 26th of June, at Canton, Ohio, for tho murder of an old weaver. They lmd been habitual readers of fiasliy literature and their awful crime and shameful death wore the legitimate results of its pernicious teachings. Hayde Brown, the murderer of his mother-in-law, Avas executed at Huntsville, Mo. The population of Columbus, Ohio, has been ascertained to be 51,337, which is a gain of 20,063 in ten years. The population of Fort Wayne- is 25,057, against 17,718 ten years ago. A prominent real-estate dealer in Chicago named Newell chose a novel mode of ending his existence. Ho loft liis homo, in tho western part of the city, one evening, and his Avifo received a letter from him tho samo night, written from a down-town hotel, saying that he had discovered that lead Avas a better iloating substance than cork; that, acting on this discovery, he Avas about to invent a lead life-preserver, was going out in one of the like steamers to experiment with it, and on his return to the city would sell his patent for SIOO,OOO and pay off all his debts. There is no doubt that he went out in the boat and tried tho lead preserver, and Avas of course drowned, for his clothes were found on tho boat on its return to tho city. The deceased Avas financially embarrassed, and was doubtless temporarily insane at the time of committing the rash act.

At Elkhart, lud., a dissipated young man named George Elliott became crazed because Mamie Daccy, with whom ho was passionately in love, refused to receive him. He was finally granted a private interview, and as soon as he was closeted with her he shot the unfortunate maiden twice, inflicting fatal wounds, and then blew his own brains out. A broken rail threw a passenger train from the track on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, near Sargent, Kan. One man was instantly killed, a man and his wife fatally injured, and many others seriously hurt. The wife of Hon. James D. Williams, Governor of Indiana, died at Indianapolis last week. By a collision between a wrecking train and a freight on the Vandalia road, near East St. Louis, the other day, two men were killed and eleven severely injured. South. The City of Wheeling, W. Ya., according to the new census enumeration, has a population of 37,700, which is an increase of 12,700 over the population of the city in 1870. T. H. Holmes, a Lieutenant General in the Confederate service, and a great favorite of Jefferson Davis, has just died at the age of 76. While the Democrats of Wheeling, W. Ya., were fifing q, cannon in honor of til© nom-

ination of Hancock the gnu exploded, killing a man and a boy. Three negroes were killed by lightning near Louisville, Ky., the other day. "WASHINGTON NOTES. The excess of exports over imports for twelve months ending May 31, 1880, was $162,183,693. The Secretary of War has suspended the recommendation of the West Point Board that Whittaker be dropped for having failed in his studies. By this action the colored cadet will have an opportunity to apply for trial by court-martial in order to vindicate himself if possible. The President Has appointed Paul Selby Postmaster at Springfield, 111., Arice D. L. Phillips, deceased. He has also appointed Daniel B. Dyer, of Kansas, and John H. Sullivan, of Indiana, Indian Agents. Horace Maynard, the new Postmaster Genera), will arrive in Washington about July 15, it which time Judge Key’s commission will be ready. POLITICAL POINTS. The Greenbackers of the Fifth Maine district have nominated Congressman Murch for re-election. The Republicans of Maine have renominated Gov. Davis, and the Vermont Republicans have nominated Roswell Farnham for Governor. The Greenbackers of Vermont have nominated M. O. Heath for Governor, G. F. Clough for Lieutenant Governor, and Fletcher Tarbell for State Treasurer.