Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

eobbign ns we Advices from Afghanistan report Gen, BolxatH mar.hing to the relief of Candahai with a force of 10,000 men. Gen. Burrows’ loss in the recent engagement is officially stated to have boon less than 1,000, of which 600 were native.!. It is feared in London that Capts. Carter anrl Cadenhcad, of the Belgian African exploring expedition, have been murdered in Central Africa. The report that a shipload of Mohammedan pilgrims bound for Jiddali, Arabia, had been lost at sea proves to be false. The vessel has arrived at Aden in safety. Harvest prospects in England qre said to he splendid. England has telegraphed a circular to all the powers, proposing a new joint note to Turkey, entirely rejecting the last suggestion of the Porto, and insisting upon tho fulfillment of the original mandate. Trouble is brewing between Roumania and Bulgaria, The latter power refuses to eedo a slice of territory to the former, and hence tho trouble. Should hostilities ensue, Russia will have a hand in. * A Home-Rule demonstration at Glasgow was attended by thirty thbusand Irishmen, gathered from all parts of Scotland. Crop reports from England, France and other parts of Europe indicate a limited yield of wheat, which will make importation from America very necessary. Tho Chinese Minister at Washington has given notioo that his Government has, by official decree, removed the ancient restrictions on commerce, and that the Celestials may hereafter trade with foreigners at will. A cable dispatch announces the death of the world-famous personages—Marshal Bazaine and Adelaide Neilson, the actress.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blast. Hon. John Bigler, of Pennsylvania, ox-Govornor anil ox-United States (Senator, is dead. Ho began life an a printer. A traveling salesman for a New York Jewelry house left hw room in a hotel at Utica, N. Y.. unlocked, and on returning found that his trunk had been relieved of §15,000 worth of diamonds. Afire among the shipping and in the lumber yards at Hunter’s Point, opposite New York city, destroyed §500,000 worth of property. The population of Massachusetts is 1,78.1,872, a gain of over 000,000 in ten years. The Captain, engineer and owners of the recently burned steamer Soawanhaks, together willi four Government inspectors of life boats, have been indicted for manslaughter by tbo Federal Grand Jure at X w York. Tanner’s remarkable digestive powers and rapid recuperation have caused as much wonderment as his unpreefttented fast. In' the seventy-eight liouflj fol-' lowing the conclusion of lfis fort* days’ abstinence from food ho gained in weigß nearly twenty pounds, or at the rato of founßumcos nil hour. During this period ho ate voraciously and at intervals of every hour or so, his diet consisting principally of beefsteak, potatoes, toast, milk, wine, watermelon and fruit. l)r. Work (one of bis attcndasA) says the fact that Tanner lias such a groat appetite and such remarkable digestive powers shows conclusively that ho was not reduced to the condition of inaction, even by forty days’abstmenco from food, and that ho could have gone on lasting several days longer. Burglars blew open a safe at Clarkviilo, N. J., and carried off $25,000 worth of railway securities belonging to Mr. T. E. Hunt. An accident to an excursion train near Atlantic City, N. J., resulted in tho killing of two persons and the serious injuring of some thirty others. The excursion train accident near Atlantic City turns out to have been a more serious affair than first reports indicated. Tho deaths already number fifteen at this writing, and others aro expected to die. The following description of the scene at the time of the collision is telegraphed from Atlantic City : *“Of the persons on the rear platform o the first train Borne jumped to tho ground and then rushed panic-stricken back into the cars. 'J he locomotive came .bounding on and crashed into the rear car, still standing upon the bridge, 'and with such force that tho engine fairly plowed a furrow half way into the car, and lifting the roof of tho cor over tho smoke-stack. The shock broke one of the cylinders of the boiler, and instantly scalding water was poured upon the affrighted and helpless occupants of the car. Ilain had been pouring down, and all tbo windows of the car were down, and, tlio steam filling it instantly, added to the horror of the occasion and suffering of the victims. From out of the concealing vapor came the shrieks of women, wails of children, aud yells of men. The people on the first train ran pellmell from the cars or jumped through the windows, and it was some time before they became sufficiently composed to make earnest efforts to rescue the injured and relievo their sufferings. Two freight trains collided on the Susquehanna division of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company’s railroad, near Cooperstown, N. Y. Twenty-five cars were demolished, two men killed, and several injured. A collision on the Pennsylvania railroad, near Freedom, Pa., resulted in serious injuries to many of the passengers. Alexander W. Rook, Esq., senior proprietor of tho Pittsburgh Dispatch, is dead. ’West. Three men were killed and several seriously injured by a threshing-machine explosion at Lakeland, Minn. The old couple, supposed to be the bloodthirsty Bender and his wife, lately arrested in Dodge comity, Neb., turn out to be gross impostors. When they arrived at tho scene of the Bender atrocities in Labette county, Kansas, they were found to bear no resemblance to the original Benders. They are tramps, and undoubtedly personated the Cherryvnle butchers with a view of obtaining a free railroad ride, in which they succeeded. Tho dreaded Spanish fever has broken out among Texas oattle in the vicinity of Moboriy, Mo. Col. Grierson is still pursuing and fighting Victoria’s band of savages in Arizona, and Now Mexico. On the lltli of August the thermometer stood 106 in the shade at Bismarck, on the Northern Pacific railroad. Advices from Portland, Ore., report considerable restlessness among the Indians in tbo whole upper country, thongh the season is so far advanced that no active hostilities are anticipated this year. The special census agent sent out from Washington to revise the oensus of St. Louis has completed his work, and the popula-

tion of the “Future Great” is found to be 333,577, about 30,000 more than in 1870. A letter to the Des Moines Register, from a respectable citizen of lowa—Mr. 8. A James, of Sigourney—gives tho information on the authority of an eye-witness, also a responsible man, that the notorious Bender family, four in number, were captured soon after the discovery of the murder of CoL York’s brother, and shot. He says that the four were stood up in a row facing nine riflemen, ajid were told their fate. That Kate was plucky to the last, and called upon the captors to “shoot and be ,” and that the four bodies were buried at the corner of the four counties of Labette, Wilson, Neosho and Montgomery. A correspondent of the Chicago Times at Oswego, Kan., who claims to have been in at the death of the Benders, tell substantially the same story. Charles Richmond, a Northern Pacific railroad conductor, shot and killed his wife, and then himself, at St. Paul. One man was killed and seven badly hurt by a railroad accident near Lafayette, Ind. A farmer of Pratt county, Minn., named Robert Sirnley, drove into a small lake with his wife and three boys to water his horses. The horses became frightened and overturned the wagon. Sirnley saved his wife, but the lads were drowned. The Union Pacific Railroad Company has contracted for a monument to the memory of Oliver and Oakes Amos, to bo located in Wyoming, at the highest point of tlio Rocky mountains, and to cost SBO,OOO. Col. Grierson, from Sulphur Springs, N. M., reports that Victoria has been driven into Mexico again, with a loss of many warriors and a considerable part of his animals and supplies. . The little village of Red Hill, Col., a station on the South Park read, had every house in it blown to atoms by the explosion of about 1,000 pounds of powder which was stored in the depot. Two men wore killed and two others badly injured. South. A series of heavy rain-storms in nil parts of North Carolina have seriously damaged tho grain and cotton crops. Tho condition of the cotton crop throughout the Southern States is unusually good, and an unprecedented yield is predicted. Florida will produce an immense crop of oranges this year. A number of prisoners in the jail at Larelo, Tex., broke out, a«d, making for the river, undertook to swim across. Tho Sheriff and the posse pursued, and, standing on tho bank, fired at the men in tho water. Two were killed. Indians attacked a mail coach between Forts Concho and Davis, in Northwestern Texas, killing two passengers and wounding ■ another. Tho whole region is said to be alive with hostile Bavages. Nearly complete returns from Arkansas show that it lias a population of about 811,000. Ellerson Hampton, colored, was hanged at Sumter, S. C., on the 13th inst., for the murder of a child. South Carolina papers estimate the population of the State at 953,000, a gain of 34 per cent, since 1870. A party named Charles Carver, residing in Woodstock, Va., lias began a fast of 100 days’ duration. Should he succeed in his experiment he will challenge Dr. Tanner to a competitive match.

WASHINGTON NOTES. It is stated from Washington that a United States vessel will bo kept in Spanish waters to boo that no outrage or indignity is offered to American merchant-vessels. ] luring the fiscal year ending June 30,1880, the net imports of gold to this country were *77,153,331. # POLITICAL POINTS. Tho Michigan Greenbackers have nominated David Woodman for Governor. The Georgia Democratic Convention balloted a week in a vain effort to effect a nomination for Governor, on account of the prevalence of the two-thirds rule. Gov. Colquitt received a majority vote in every ballot, but, owing to the bitterness of the feeling against him, he was unable to secure the requisite two-thirds. It was finally decided to leave tho matter to the people, the majority of the delegates recommending Gov. Colquitt. The remainder of tho State ticket and an electoral .ticket were nominated, and the convention adjourned. Gov. O. M. Roberta has been nominated for re-election by the Democrats of Texas. The Connecticut Republicans have nominated Mayor Bigelow, of Now Haven, for Governor. Judge Ezra B. Taylor, of Trumbull county, Ohio, has been nominated for Con“gress by the Republicans of Gen. Garfield’s district. The Liberal League will hold its National Convention in Chicago on Sept. 17, 18 and 19. A State Convention of the Democratic party of Michigan was held at Detroit on the 12tli inst.., at which candidates for all the State offices and for Presidential electors were placed in tho field. Following are the nominees: Governor, F. M. Holloway, Hillsdale ; Lieutenant Governor, E H. Thompson, Genesee; Treasurer, J. M. Aleston; Auditor, Gen. Richard Moore, Clinton ; Commissioner of the Land Office, James J. David, Wayne ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Z. Linesdale, Oakland ; member of tho State Board of Education, Albert Crane, Washtenaw. Electors—AtLarge, Archibald McDonnell, Bay; Peter White, Marquette; Districts, William Faxon, H. J. Beakes, Janies S. Upton, Germain H. Mason, Hiram B. Beck, Jerome Eddy, Wildman Mills, William R. Marsh, James Dempsey. The regular Democratic Convention of Tennessee, after a three days’ session, nominated Judge Wright for Governor. A convention of bolters, consisting of low-tax or debtrepudiating Democrats, have nominated Hon S. F. Wilson for Governor.

HCISOBLLANBOHS GLEANINGS. President Hayes left Washington, on the 10th, for Columbus, Ohio, tv here he participated in tho soldiers’ reunion. Seven hundred British immigrants passed through Montreal, the other day, en route to Manitoba. Mr. English, Democratic candidate for Vice President, threatens to sue all papers who- slander him during the canvass. He carefully scans the exchange list of the Indianapolis Sentinel each day for the basis of a libel suit Certain engineers at the capital predict that the Washington monument will never be completed as designed, owing to the insecure character of the foundation.

St. Jnlien and Maud S. for the present rank as King and Queen of the Turf. In a trot against time over the Rochester course, the other day, they fulfilled the expectations an predictions of their admirers. By a remarkable coincidence bothniade a mile in 2:11% —the fastest time, by a second, on record. Burned : A steam mill, a store, and twenty dwellings, -at Sherlock’s mills, N. Y., loss SBO,OOO ; a fur factory at Bushmck, near New York city, loss $70,000; the Otis Company's hosiery factory at Ware, Mass., loss $200,000. Another riot has occurred at Toronto between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Heveral people were injured, hut nobody was killed* A contract has been concluded with a great London syndicate for the completion of the Canada Pacific railroad. •The influx of gold from Europe to this country continues to increase.