Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN nrxwm. Ex-Emptd« Eugenie has ailrived in „ Eagfand from her Booth African trip. Turkey, replying to the collective note of the powers, signified her wffllngness to execute the Montenegrin convention, but says it is impossible to surrender Janina, Larrissa and Metzovovo, and urges further negotiation* Gen. Burrows, commanding a brigade of British and Indian troops in Afghanistan, has boon defeated by the natives under Ayoob Khan, the pretender to the Ameership. Burrows had between 3,000 and 3,000 men? and the strength of the native force is estimated at 12,000. Tho British forces were completely annihilated, only a remnant escaping. England is dispatching reinforcements to Afghanistan. 'Heavy rains in the South of England have greatly damaged the grain crops. An earthquake in Smyrna destroyed many houses and killed several people. It is reported from Berlin that the German Government has declared its intention t ) have nothing more to do in reference to the Greoo-Tnrkish difficulty. Later advices from Afghanistan indicate that Burrows’ defeat by Ayoob Kahn, near Candaliar, was somewhat less disastrous than at first reported. The native reports are now to tho effect that Burrows’ force was lured into an ambuscade and suffered heavy loss, but effected a retreat, and later advices announce his arrival, with a large portion of his command, at Candahar. Fifteen hundred convicts at Civita Veccliia, Italy, having mutinied, it was found necessary to call on tho troops to suppress them. Many of the prisoners were killed and wounded.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Charles Barlow, of the mercantile agency of Dun, Barlow & Co., Now York, is dead. Dr. Tanner entered upon the thirtyfirst day of liis fast in prime condition, and confident of completing his tremendous task. He took his usual two-hours’ drive in the morning nnd filled his demijohn with well water. The scales showed that he had gained half a pound in weight in the twenty-four hours. His pulse was 8-1; temperature, 1)8.80 ; respiration, 14 ; weight, 130 pounds. Throe men descended a colliery near Pottsville, Pa., to inspect the ventilation of the mine, and were taken out dead, having been suffocated by black damp. A saving.) bank at Middleton, Ct., has been relieved of I*lo,ooo by daylight robbers. A change for the worse in Dr. Tanner’s condition was noted at the close of the thirtysecond day of his long fast. He was reported weaker Ilian at any lime since the boginning of his self-imposed task, and his eyes wore a dull and heavy look. During the day lie vomited an ounce and a half of mucous, tinged with bile, and was weak and helpless for nearly an hour afterward. Notwithstanding the symptoms of weakening, the doctor was confident that ho could hold out for (ho forty days. His pulse was recorded at 72 ; temperature, 08 8-5; respiration, 15 ; weight, 128}.f pounds, His strength was tested by the dynomiXer and found to be 80 kilometers on the right hand and 75 on the left. There was a thrcc-libur’s snow-storm on Mount Washington on the afternoon of July 29. Several planing mills anil an immense amount of lumber have been destroyed by (ire in the lumber district of Buffalo. Total loss, $225,000 ; insurance, $95,000. On the thirty-third day of his fast, Dr. Tanner was reported as greatly improved, the apparent symptoms of weakening exhibited on the previous day having partially disappeared. Ho walked twenty-five laps around tlio inclosuro in the hall—about two-thirds, of a mile—hi eighteen minutes. His gait was free and steady. A letter was received from Mary J. Frindahs, Milwaukee, Wis., offering the doctor “her baud and heart.” Tho letter greatly amused him Dr. Tanner began the thirty-fifth day of his fast iu a worse condition than he had exhibited at any time since the start. ausoa and vomiting were frequent, and the faster was so enfeebled that he was unable to dross himself. Pulse, 78 ; temperature, 98}-.j ; respiration, 15*We«t. Edward Sclirooder, a wronged husband, entered the ollico of I)r. Alfred Lefevre, at Oakland, Cal., and shot the latter dead. Tho Ute Indiana demand the privilege of viewing tho land to be assigned them in severalty before they will agree to surrender their present reservation. A colored Baptist camp-meeting at Danville, Ohio, was broken up by a mob of drunken roughs. In the fight which preceded the retreat of tho negroes fire-arms were used froely, and it is believed that there-was loss of life. Columbus, Ohio, has a population of 51,614. Nearly fifty million bushels of com have been received at .Chicago since the lai of January. A largo portion of Empire City, Oregon, has been destroyed by fire. The stock of grain in the Chicago elevators amounts to 4,653,544 bushels, against 6,775,098 bushels at this date in 1879. Tho present stock of wheat amounts to 2,463,502 bushels, nnd of corn to 1,859,960 bushels. . An Atchison (Kan.) woman has given birth to a child weighing one andthree-quarters jKnmds. Mother and child both roportod as doing well. The mint at San Francisco is overstocked with standard silver dollars, and the shipment of millions of them to the East is under consideration. A fire at Quincy, ID., destroyed half a dozen manufactories, and a number of dwellings. Loss estimated at $150,000. Three little girls of Mr. and Mrs. Fishels, living near Dean, Mo., who were left alono in the house, undertook to build a fire with coal oil. An explosion followed, and two of the children were fatally burned. Near Gibson Station, Indian Territory, a party of Creeks attacked two Clierokees, and killed one and wouuded the other. Two Creeks were hanged by Cherokees a few days previous, hence the reprisal. The wheat crop is now being harvested in Nebraska, and will be a third less than the average. In Minnesota a yield of from twenty to thirty bushels to the acr«| is anticipated. In Dakota Territory, the crop is larger and better than ever before. In Illinois and adjacent Stales the winter wheat has been gathereorin good condition, and the spring wheat is now being harvested. A man and woman supposed to be old man Bender and his daughter Kate, the notorious Kansas murderers, have been arrested at Fremont, Neb,

# ;; ' \ The jury in the case of 'the steamer Scawanahaka, recently burned in Long Island Sound, have returned a verdict exonerating the United States Steamboat Inspectors Jfrom all. blame, as they find that the boat was provided with all appurtenances required by law. They severely censure the crew fort|ieif want of discipline artd’want of .concert, y V , According to? the dispa£feß«B fftiitn Fremont, Neb., there is scarcely any doubt that the old man woman recently arrested there are members of the Bender family, on whose farm in Kansas the remains of Senator York and ten other bodies were discovered in 1873. The woman of the party says that she will confess all about tho murders, and insists that, although she is not a Bender, the old man is, and that she knows everything concerning the murders. A resident of Fremont, who lived near the Benders, .recognizes the o‘d man It appoars from the woman’s statement that the Benders fled from their place in 1873, when it became apparent that the relatives and friends of Senator York began to suspect them of having been instrumental in his taking-ofT. They have since lived among tho Indiana, imd have encountered such great hardships that they determined on returning East, ono eff the objects being to obtain some money hi 4 ,a#ajr an the Bender farm. The Bank of Colorado, at Leadvilie, has suspended, the cashier having carried off ttie money. Soute. A bark from Newcastle, England, lias arrived at Mobile with all on board except three persons stricken with yellow fever. „ , A young farmer living near Hingstoaj, N. C., has gone to prison thirty days for kissing another man’s wife. Memphis is enforcing the most stringent. quarantine relations against all points on the Lower Mississippi Seven men arrested for murderously assaulting a colored family at Jonesboro, Ga., were removed from that place to Atlanta for safe-keeping. A largo number of negroes gathered in tho place, and, as they were excited and turbulent beyond measure, further violence was apprehended. The white people were greatly alarmed, and at tlxcir request tho Governor of the State ordered a company of militia to Jonesboro. All is quiet again. . A North Carolina boy, G years of age, threw his infant brother into a well, where he was drowned.

POLITICAL POINTS. Tiie Democrats of West Virginia have nominated CoL J. B. Jackson, of Parkersburg, for Governor. The Ohio Greenback Convention, in session last week at Columbus, nominated the following St ite ticket: For Secretary of State, Charles A. Lloyd, of Seneca; for Supreme Judge, D. W. C. Louden, of Brown county ; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Charles Bowsall, of Columbiana ; Member of the Board of Public Works, Amos llobcrts, of Knox county ; Presidential Electors-at-large,' Harvey Kellogg, of Lucas, and L. T. Foster, of Mahoning. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The excess of American exports over imports for the year ending June 30 was $167,908,359. Gold is again beginning to flow from Europe to this country. Gen. Hancock, in addition to his present duties, has been assigned to the command of tho Department of the South, during tho temporary absence of Brig. Gen. Augur. Census returns : The complete census of Nebraska shows a population of 452,000. Oregon has a population of., 170j53.6, an increase of 93 per cent. since 1870. Actual i.ad estimated returns show that the population of New York State is over 5,000,000. Complete returns from Minnesota show a population in the State of 780,072, an increase of 77 per cent, iu ton years. Returns from nearly three-fourths of tho counties in Illinois indicato that tho ; opulation of the State is in excess of 3,100,000. The American schooner George Washington, bound from Philadelphia for the West Indies, was recently overhauled by a Spanish war vessel off tlio eastern coast of Cuba. Two Spanish officers and ten marines boarded the schooner, searched the hold, and compelled the Captain to exhibit bis papers. ’ The particulars of the outrage have been, placed before the State Department at Washington. Census returns : Estimates of the population of Kentucky, based on official returns from forty-two counties, place the number of people in tho Stato at 1,734,000,-an increased 413,000 since 1870. The population of Arizona Territory is 41,580. Tho population of South Bend, lud., is 13,492, being a gain of 6,296 s nee 1870. Wflliam H. Cushman, ex-President of tho defunct First National Bank, Georgetown, Col., indicted for embezzling upward of SIOO,000 of the funds of the bank, lias , surrendered to tho United States authorities at New York, and will return to Colorado. Another war vessel is to be dispatched to West Indian waters to investigate the Spanish outrage perpetrated on the American vessel George Washington. / j j f / Princess. Louise and Prince Leopold havo sailed from Quebec for England. Dispatches from various sections of Canada show that the crops Itharff will average well, and that the harvest will be early. The .Chicago Club has still a strong lead in tho contest for the national base-ball championship. The record is as follows : Chib. W'on. Lent. Chicago 41 9 Cleveland 28 ■- 10 rrovidence... 28 21 Worcester V. 24 24 Boston 23 27 Troy... 22 -25 Buffalo 17 33 Cincinnati v 11 345