Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

rOBXIGN NEWS. The oelebration of the annual fete day—anniversary of the fall of the Bastlle —occurred at Paris on the 14th of July, and was one of the most Imposing demonstrations ever witnessed in the Frenoh capital. President Grevy opened the ceremonies in the hlppodromo at Longohamps, in the presence of a magnificent assemblage. His remarks, which were briof, were followed by a salvo of artillery, a review of the troops and tho presentation of new colors to all the regiments of the army. The enthusiasm afld the brilliancy of the spectacle were unparalleled even in Franoe. Notwithstanding the vast orowds, the best of order prevailed. Tom Taylor, the well-known English playwright, is dead. The London Times says the report that the export of grain from Russia is to be prohibited is probably entirely unfounded. Another terrible colliery disaster has occurred in Wales. By an explosion of firedamp in one of the Loudon and South Wales Cohiery Company’s mines, in Monmouthshire, the entire night shift of workmen, reported at 120, were in an instant buried 900 feet under ground, without the possibility of the survival of one of them. The scenes at the place of the accident were very affecting, owing to the lamentations of women and children whoso husbands and fathers perished. Ip 1860 an explosion in the same mino caused ttie death of 145 men. On account of the hostile attitude of Chili, Fern and Bolivia are about to enter into a close confederation, with one flag and one Government. Gen. Kauffmann, the Russian commander, will go to Eastern Siberia with 14,000 troops, to drivo out the brigands and Chinese. Russia demands that Roumania shall expel all the Nihilists within its borders. China lias abandoned all idea of a war with Russia. Rochefort, the Communist, is again publishing a newsdaper in Paris ; of the first issue 198,000 were sold. A resolution declaring that tho erection of a statue to the late Prince Louis Napoleon in Westminster would be inconsistent with the national character of the edifice has been adopted in tho British House of Commons by a vote of 161 to 147. Dispatches from Constantinople convey the intelligence that the Sultan is greatly perplexed over the serious palace intrigues, nnd that lie signifies a willingness to abdicate or commit some desperate act —probably suicide, A Paris correspondent says the veteran Marshal MaeMahon is in a deplorable condition. mentally nnd physically. Ho is harassed by creditors, reproached by old friends, and sees life in such gloomy colors that he not long since seriously contemplated suicide. Two Liberal members of the British Parliament have been unseated for bribery and corruption. Most of the expelled French Jesuits, are taking up their residence in Spain. Several members of the order have left for the Philippine islands.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eut. Dr. Tanner completed the fourteenth day of liirt fast on the 12th of July. His weight wan 133 pounds, a loss of twenty-four and a half pounds in the fourteen days. His pulse and temperature showed him to be growing weaker, though outwardly he remained the same. At midnight, July 13-14, Dr. Tanner completed the fifteenth day of his long fast, lie appeared weaker, and waa evidently failing, though ho affected to be strong and in good spirits. Pulse, 98; temperature, 98 ; respiration, 18. New York infants are dying by the wholesale from the effects of the heat. A distressing accident occurred near East Itockaway, N. Y. As a gravel train with 800 laborers on board approached a large derrick which stood by the side of tho track, ono of the wire supports foil across the train, sweeping nearly every man from the oars. Twontysix were sovorely injured, six of them fatally. Dr. Tanner completed the eighteenth day of his fast as fresh as a daisy. The pulse, temperature and respiration indicated a healthful condition, and he showed a slight increase of strength. During tho day he drank seventy ounces of water, and an increase of one and throe-fourths pounds was noted in his weight. A dispatch from New York says that “ Scientists aro in despair. Tanner not only lives, but seems bettor than before. He sleeps quietly, reads the daily papers, naturally enjoys his daily rides, and appears in much better spirits than on preceding days.” Another destructive oil conflagration has occurred in tho Bradford (Pa.) district. In the inter-collegiate four-oared race at Lake George the Cornell crew were winners, defeating the Columbias and Pennsylvanias. Tho negro Chastine Cox, who murdered and robbed Mrs. Hull about if year ago, was executed at New York last week. Dr. Tanner entered upon the twentyilrst day of his f?st at New York in good condition. His pulse was recorded at 84, temperature 99, respiration 11, voice strong, eye clear and step firm and elastic. Wert.

The trial at Indianapolis of Mary Brown for the murder of her husband in February last terminated in a verdict of guilty, and fixing the death penalty. Tho jury were out forty-six hours. Wade, the paramour of Mrs. Brown, had previously bejen convicted and sentenced to death. A crazy tramp stabbed three railway employes at the depot in Byers, CoL, two of them fatally, and was then shot dead by a policeman. 8. 8. Rickley, President of a bank at Columbus, Ohio, was shot and fatally wounded by a German mechanio named Eichenberg, to whom he refused to pay an old debt The murderer then shot himself through the head and died almost instantly. Michigan has 1,828,191 acres under wheat this year, against 1,601,710 acres last year. The crop is an average one, and the yield is estimated at from 83,000,000 to 36,000,000 bushels. Dispatches to the Chicago Timex from various localities in the Northwest show that crops are generally in good condition Wheat is poor in some localities, but unusually fine in others, and the prospeot is that the yield will be fully an average one. Oats and corn promise well. The population of Chicago, according to the new census, is officially declared to be 503,501, an increase of move than 300,000 im ten years, A fight is reported to haye ocourred

on the Little Missouri river, in Montana Territory, between two companies of the Seventh cavalry, Capt. Ilsley commanding, and a body of Sioux, in which the former sustained a heavy loss. Capt. Payne, the Indian Territory squatter, and twenty-two of his followers have been arrested by United States troops. Near Hillsboro, Mo., while Andrew Wilson, a farmer, was driving along the road, accompanied by a yonng lady named Schultz, they were fired npon by some unknown person concealed in the brush. A ball passed through the Upper part of Miss Schultz’s chest, killing her, then penetrated Wilson’s head, inflicting a mortal wound. No clew to the murderer. Rickley, the Columbus (Ohio) Bank President, who was shot at by an irate creditor, is recovering, though he will lose the use of both eyes. Judge Stephen T. Logan, a former law partner of Abraham Lincoln, has just died at Springfield, 111., aged 81. A man named Donnegan shot a police officer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and was himself shot to death in the jail by a mob of masked men. A Mrs. Frye, of Keokuk, insane and locked up with her baby in the jail at Fort Madison, lowa, for safe keeping, killed the child by hanging it to the bed. The Marshal of Bucy rus, Ohio, knocked a man, whom he had arrested, on the head and placed him in a cell. Tbo next morning tho prisoner was dead. South. Col. Cash, who recently killed Col. Shannon in a duel, in South Carolina, is under arrest on a charge of murder. There has been a fatal case of yellow fever at New Orleans. Two murderers were recently lynched by masked men near Hernando, Miss. Thfir bodies were carvod and mutilated in a horrible manner. Population of Southern cities,.according to the new census returns: New Orleans, 215,230 ; Richmond, 63,243 ; Nashville, 43,453 ; Dallas, Tex., 33,466 ; Mobile, £9,000; little Rock, 15,000 ; Knoxville, Ten., 13,928 ; and Macon, Ga., 12,695. Mississippi has established land and water quarantines against New' Orleans. The health authorities of New Orleans say there is not a case of yellow fever in that city. While Miss Terry, of Sulphur Springs, Texas, was sleeping in bed, at night, she was attacked by a rabid polecat, winch fastened its fangs into her check, and could not be removed until its head was severed from its body. The lady will probably die from the effects of tlie poisonous bite. POLITICAL POINTS. The Democratic National Committee mot at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, on iiio 13th inst. William 11. Barnum, of Connecticut, was unanimously elected Chairman, and Frederick O. Prince, of Massachusetts, Secretary. Tho memljers of the committee, in company with the committee appointed by the Cincinnati Convention, then proceeded to Governor’s Island to officially notify Hancock and English of their nomination. Gen. Stockton was the spokesman ol the party, tho candidates replying briefly. The Democratic Congressional Committee also mot in Now York on tho 13th and effected a reorganization. The committee, as it now stands, consists of Senators Wallace; McDonald, and Whyte and Congressmen Eppa Hunton, H. G. Davis and J. C. S. Blackburn, together with August Belmont and Gen. W. B. Franklin. The committee will have headquarters at Washington, and will co-operate with the National Committee.

WASHINGTON VOTES. The President has appointed Orange Judd, of New York, of the American Agriculturist, to be a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners, vice Barstow, resigned. For twenty-five consecutive days the temperature at Washington varied between 81 and degrees—a longer continuous season of extreme hot weather than was ever before experienced in that city. The Postmaster General has decided to break up the practice of sending through the mails advertising cards of various sizes with 1cent stamps attached. After Oct. 1 no cards except the regulation postal cards will be transmitted at a less rate than 3 cents for each hall ounce. The Hon. J. A. Campbell, at one time Governor of Wyoming, and later Third Assistant Secretary of State, died at Washington tho other day. Judge Lawrence, of Ohio, has accepted the position of First Comptroller of the Treasury, and entered upon tho duties of the office. New Brunswick has lately been visited by destructive forest fires. A forthcoming railway manual will show that the gross earnings of all railroads from which reports have been received, covering nearly 84,000 miles, reached in 1879, the enormous sum of $529,000,000, being the largest earnings ever reported.