Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TORSION NEWS. The rifle-match at Dollymonnt, Ireland, on the 29th ult, between the American and Irish teams, waa won by the former, by a total Bcore of 1,292 to 1,280. At 600 yards the contestants tied, with 436 each. At 900 yard* the Americana scored 436 to their opponents’ 428, and at 1,000 yards the former made 420 and tho latter 416. The Lord Lieutenant and the Lord Mayor of Dublin were among the ■liectators. A state of siege has been declared in all the Turkish provinces bordering on Greece. Dispatches from the far East state that the Russians have been twice defeated by tho Tekko Turcomans, and once by a party of Chinese. A very little war satisfied the people of Ruenos Ayres. The national troops whipped them out of their boots, and they made proposals for peace, which were accepted. Belgium has given official notice of tho severance of diplomatic relations with the Vatican. Turkey is preparing to resist the decrees of the Berlin Conference. 11l the shooting at Dollymonnt, Ireland, on the 30th ult., the Americans were again victorious, Laird carrying off the XlO cup, and Scott that presented by the Earl of Spencer. Tho religions decrees were enforced in Franco, on the 30th nit., the Jesuits quitting their establishments under protest and declaring that they yielded only to force. There was some disorder at Avignon, Marseilles, and other laces on tho part of sympathizers with the banished brotherhood. The American riflemen were banqueted by tho Lord Mayor of Dublin. A bailin' who had been serving ejectments was shot, and killed by ambushed asKiiilnts in the neighborhood of Balia, county Mayo. Gam be! fa intends to appear as a candidate for the (’handier of Deputies in every department in France at the next election. His success in a large majority of (lie districts, which is considered certain, will make him President of the republic in 18H2, if M. Grovy does not make room for him by resigning before that ime. The total revenues of Great Britain for the fiscal year closing June 30 were X 81,962,063, a falling off, as compared with tho prior year, of X 1,258.264. Mr. Gladstone, in replying to a question in the House of Commons, the other day. said, in view of what was transpiring in Ireland, he did not consider the present a titling time to allow tho Fenian exiles lo return. The strong feeling in Franco against, the rigid policy adopted toward the Jesuits is indicated by the announcement that many of the magistrates are resigning rather than enforce the (iovermiient decrees. Tho Sultan does not intend to quietly submit to tho decisions of the Berlin Conference. and has ordered defensive works to be erected as soon as possible at the Dardanelles. During the expulsion of the Jesuits from tlieir chapel at Paris, several English Jesuits called on the crowd to witness that their rights were, being violated, and said they would appeal to the English Ambassador. In the contest for the Abercorn prize cup, at Dollyinount, Ireland, on the 2d inst., two of the American team, Jackson and Hcott, made the highest scores. Fenton, of the Irish team, was third, Briidlnugh bus made uftirmntion in the House of Commons in accordance with tho order adopted on motion of the Government. He will therefore retain his seat. Great sympathy for the French Jesuits is manifested throughout Spain. Even some of the Radicals condemn their expulsion. The Turkish Foreign Minister has informed tho European jKiwers who participated in the Berlin Conference that the I’orto will not agree to tli • cession of Duleigno to Montenegro. Volunteers are being actively enrolled to prevent the disintegration of the Turkish territory.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. The residents of Tinmouth, Vt., objected to Mrs. Harriet Packard, a grass-widow serving as housekeeper in tho residence of a widewor, and, taking her from bed by force, they troated her to a coat of tar and feathers. A collision between freight trains on the Pennsylvania, railway, near Altoona, Pa., resulted in the death of two men and the destruction of twenty-five cars. The official returns of tiie census enumerators show the population of Philadelphia to be 847,542. Erie’s population is 28,565, a gain of 51,000 since 1870. During the progress of the Yale-Har-vard boat-race, at New London, Ct., F. W. Lincoln, President of tho Boston and Albany railroad, and Mrs. Dr. William Appleton, of Boston, who were viewing tho contest from a railroad car, were accidentally thrown from the platform and almost instantly lulled. Congressman De La Matyr has been married to a widow at Friendship, N. Y. They were engaged in youth, but quarreled and separated. Jim Elliott, the prize-fighter, has been sentenced to two years in Sing Sing for burglary. There Avore 200 deaths from sunstroke in New York, during the six days ending oil July 1. The fifth annual eiglit-oarcd race over a four-mile course between Yale and Harvard was won by the former in twenty-four minutes and twenty-seven seconds. Tho honorary degree of Doctor of Laws has been conferred upon President Hayes by Yale College. Two deaths from yellow fever have occurred at the New York quarantine station. A Jersey City Avoman, sick and destitute, killed her three children, believing that they would go to heaven. W e>mt. Six escaped convicts from the Idaho penitentiary stopped a stage-coach on the Challis and Utah line, relieved the seven passengers—five men and two women—of all their valuables, and then divested them of all of tlieir clothing. Tho unfortunates traveled several miles in a state of nudity, and, procuring some sheets and blankets, continued their journey to the railway, where they obtained suitable appareL The woolen mills at Burlington, Racino county, Wis., have been destroyed by fire. J. P. Willard, the Superintendent, perished in the flames. George M. Harenoourt, ft well-known Cincinnati brewer, is dead. The population of Indianapolis figures up 76,031, and that of Milwaukee 118,122. A break in what is knoAvn as the Sny levee, an embankment which protects the Illinois river bottoms for many miles north and south of Quincy from overflow of the Mississippi river, has called an immense destruction

of farming property and some loss of life. It is estimated that 500,000 bushels of wheat and thousands of acres of standing corn have been ruined. Many houses and bams floated away, and considerable stock has been drowned. The region flooded is forty miles long by from fonr to ten wide, and comprises some of tbe best land in the State of Illinois. A flood in the Columbia rivdr, Oregon, has damaged property to the amount of SIOO,OOO to $200,000. Omaha’s jKipulutiou foots up 30,605, a gain of 14,000 in ten years. Other populations are thus shown by the census returns : Springtield, 111.. 19,683 ; Torre Haute, 26,519, making it. the third city in Indiana; Indianapolis, 75,077. The census returns indicate that Kansas will have nearly 1,000,000 population. The pleasure steamer Mary exploded her boiler on Lake Minnetonka, Minn., killing four persons and painfully injuring several others. H. Hendrick, Cincinnati's oldest insurance agent, is dead. Reports from various places in Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Missouri (says the Chicago Tribune ) indicate a healthy condition or the crops. Tho corn yield promises to lie unusually large, and the grain crops, except in tho case of winter wheat, will ho better than tho average. Even in Kansas, where the reports for a time were unsatisfactory on account of drought., the yield will be much better than anticipated. Fruit in all places is exceedingly abundant, nxd a plentiful and cheap market will be the consequence. Bo u tlx. By the returns of tire census enumerators the population of Louisville, Ky., is 126,556, a gain of over 25 per cent, in ten years. A census enumerator in North Carolina was attacked by an i literate family, and half killed before he could make his escajie. Scott Bell, colored, was hanged at Ktarkville, Miss., on the 2d inst., for tho murder of Jim Henry, colored, on tho ltith of May last. He made a speech from the gallows saying he was going homo to heaven, and wanted all his friends to meet him there. English Carter, alias L. R. Jones, was hanged the same day, at Huntsville, Texas, for the murder of W. K. Spaulding in July last.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Tho Comptroller of tho Currency reports that the total number of national hunks organized during the fiscal year is sixty-one, with a capital of $7,352,070. The total number of banks which have gone into voluntary liquidation during tho same period is twenty, with a. capital of $2,601,000. Tho total coinage of the United States mints for the year past was over $84,000,000. Of this amount nearly $28,000,000 was silver. Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, lias made an estimate of the population of the United States from the lights before him (which are as yet very fragmentary), and lie thinks there will be in the neighborhood of 48,000,000 people. The public-debt statement for June is as follows : Six per cent, bonds $ 335,786,400 Five per cents 484,804,900 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four per cents 787,980,800 Rclunding certificates 1,367,000 Navy pension fund... 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,723,903,100 Matured debt $ 7,621,465 Legal tenders 344,741,991 Certificates of deposit... 14,465,000 Fractional currency 7,214,954 Gold slid silver certificates 20,378,870 Total without interest. 888,800,815 Total Interest 22,845,547 Total debt $2,120,415,870 Cash in treasury 201,088,622 Debt IeHS cash in treasury $1,942,172,295 Decrease during June 10,214,424 Decrease eince June 30, 1879 85,034,961 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 2,368,395 Debt oh which interest has ceased 70121,455 Interest theroon Gold end sllvor certificates 20,878,870 Uuited States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 14,465,000 Cash balance available, July I,* 1880..... 156,440,457 Total $ 201,088,622 Available assets— Cash In treasury $ 201,088,622 Bonds issued to Padflc. railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding. 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,938,705 Interest paid by United States 45,651,155 Interest repaid by transportation of mails 13,615,292 By cash payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 31,380,664 POLITICAL POINTS. J. Don Cameron wrote a letter from tho White 'Sulphur Springs, where he is sojourning for the benefit of hi« health, positively declining the Chairmanship of the National Republican Committee. He says his health and the advice of his physician forbid it. At the meeting of the National Republican Committee at New York, last week, Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut, and S. W. Dorsey, of Arkansas, were elocted Chairman and Secretary respectively.