Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

roßßiGrar raws. Heavy rains have caused disastrous flood* in Donegal, Ireland. A church at ComYnicnon has been carried away and a number of people have been drowned. The German harvest prospects are very gloomy indeed. In consequence of the universally-poo# grain crops, an agitation for the prohibition of the exportation of grain is likely to be inaugurated. A French Colonel who, in presenting a new flag to his regiment, expressed a hope that the flag would soon become the banner of tbo United States of Europe, has been suspended for one year. Two Englishmen, brothers, have offered to wager A'l,ooo that Dr. Tanner will not fee ablo to fast forty days and forty nights. The betters want to be the watcbqrs also. Pleuro-pneumonia is spreading in England. A company just organized in London will lay another Atlantic cablo from England to .the Azores and thence to America. An open rupture between China and Russia is imminent. The Chinese Ambassador at St. Petersburg has been informed by the Russian a ithoritios that they will consent to no further negotiations with him. The Celestial representative waits inslrucrions from his Government. A cable dispatch announces the death of Ole Bull, the famous violinist, aged 70 years. Crops in certain districts of Silesia, Posen, and East and West Prussia have been wholly destroyed by floods, and famine is apprehended. Many lo mis are submerged, and property to the value of millions of dollars has been mined. Pope Loo lias accepted the office of godfather to the expected heir to the Spanish throne. The national liberal party of Germany has split, the wing supporting Bismarck and his tariff scheme numbering only fifty-five.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Miss Lillie Matcer, aged 18, was walking -with a gentleman near Mount Joy, Pa. A spark from liis cigar net liroto her dress and the girl wan fatally burned. There was a severe frost in the interior counties of New York State on the night of the Kith inat. Tender vegetation was killed and the growing grain somewhat injured. The naked and terribly mutilated body of Mary < assidy, nged 10 years, was found in a brush-lit up in the woods, near Barnstal 10, Mass. The head was noirly severed from the 1 odv, and in the child’s side was a large butcherknife. The ground about boro evidence of the struggles of 1 lie little girl to froo herself from the villain who so fearfully assaulted and cruelly murdered her. At Now York, the other day, Robert Donald on, a Scotch athlete, jumped from High Bridge into Harlem river, a distance of llti feet, and then swam to a craft near L>y At Elizabeth, N. .T. , a carriage containing Mrs. Mahoney an l four members of her family attempted to cross a railway track in front of a locomotive. The borne became frightened and ran away. The carriage was demolished and the colored driver killed. Mrs. Mahoney had her back broken, one daughter was fatally injured, and the other occupants seriously hurt. Twenty-one persons have died from injuries received in the May’s Landing. (N. J.) railroad disaster "W est. Col. Fred Grant was arrested at Galesburg, 111., for hitting a tardy waiter with a hot roll. Mr. and Mrs. Kellolier, of Oakland, Cal., and Mrs. King, aneighbor, got drunk together and set the house on tiro. Thrco of tho Kelleher.i’ children were fatally burned and the two women were severely injured. Bill Rodifor, one of the most notorious end desperate burglars in the West, was killed at Indianapolis, a few nights ago, while in the act of burglarizing the residence of Dr. Walker. All tho prisoners in the county jail at Mt. Sterling, 111., have escaped. They were as sisted by jiersons on the outside;. Eureka, Nev., which was almost wiped out a year ago by tire, lias had another great conflagration, extending over the same area swept by the previous blaze. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. Many families are destitute. The Yaoger flouring mills and several adjacent buildings, at St. Louis, have been burned. Lo.-s estimated at $200,000. Heavy rains have fallen in the great wheat-growing section of tho Northwest, and some damage has been done to tho crop. About 30,000 people visited the Chicago Jockey Club Park to witness the prize tliill of the Knights Templar command erics. The Paper Commandery, of Indianapolis, took the first prizo, tho De Molai Commandery, of Louisvillcr, were given the second prize, and tho third prize was awarded to the Reed Coramandcry No. 6, of Dayton, Ohio. The weather was intolerably hot, and the accommodations at the park was wholly inadequate. Most of the spectators were compelled to stand for hours in tho broiling sun, and, although the dust was stilling, no water was to be had except for money. A cyclone devastated the country southwest. of Fargo, Dakota, a few nights since. One man was killed and tjiree injured. Sioux Indians are arriving at Fort Keogh in bands of scores and hundreds, and surrendering to the military authorities there, r>v whom they are treated as prisoners of war. Their arms and ponies, winch they are compelled to deliver up, are to be sold and the proceeds devoted to the purchase of supplies. The Indians will eventually bo turned over to the Interior Department and transported to some point west of the Missouri. Lewis Emmons, living nine miles north of Oshkosh, Wis., quarreled with his father-in-law, Mr. Huxley, over a business matter, and, going into the house, secured a revolver and sftot the old gentleman and himself dead. Monroe Robertson, one of the hardest criminals (hat ever stretched hemp, was hanged at Greenville, Ohio, on the ®Hh of August, for the murder of his brother-in-law. During tho war he belonged to a band of Missouri guer rillas, and boasted of having killed in cold blood seven negroes. Since the war he had killed three or four men. South. Gen. Bryan Grimes, an ex-Confederate soldier, has been assassinated in Pitt county, North Carolina. Southern papers announce the death of ex-Gov. Hcrscliel V. Johnson, who was a candidate, on the ticket with Stephen" A. Douglas, for Vice President in 1860. ]Juring q, circus parade at Winchester,

I Va., the keeper of tho hyenas was pounced upon and tom to pieces by his ferocious and treacherous pets. James A Sedden, who was Confederate Secretary of War, has just died at Rich- ‘ mond, Va. A mob at Sunnyside, Ga., seized a young man, charged with seducing a girl of 12 years, and cut hisJiead off.

WASHINGTON NOTES, During the seven months ending July 31, 1880, $151,411,463 worth of breadstufTs was exported from this country. The value of the breadstufTs exported during the corresponding period of 1879 was $109,331,153. POLITICAL POINTS, The Republicans of New Jersey have nominated Frederick A, Potts for Governor. Ex-Gov. James E. English has been nominated for Governor of Connecticut by tho Slate Democratic Convention. The New York Greenback State Convention, in session at Syracuse, nominated Thomas C. Armstrong forjudge of the Court <.f A peals and re-affirmed the Chicago platform, with the following addition: “Land and air, light and water, are free gifts of nature to all mankind, and every person is entitled to enough of each of thcsqto enable him to secure the necessary comforts of life; therefore, we protest against the further granting of large tracts of public lands by the Government to railroad corporations or individuals. We demand a tariff which shall protect American industry. Joshua N. Osgood has been nominated for Governor by the Prohibitionists of Maine. The Democrats of Colorado at their State Convention nominated John S. Hough, of Hillsdale county, for Governor, and R. 8. Morrison, of Clear Creek, for Congress.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Robert Wilkes, a wholesale jeweler, and liis son and daughter were drowned the other day nt Toronto, Canada. The lad, who wus in bathing, got beyond his depth and 'his father and sister jumped from a boat to save him, all going down together. The returns to tho Agricultural Bureau since the first of the month report the condition jf tho cotton crop of tho entire country 2 per cent, above what is considered favorable for a fu'l crop. Tho average for tobacco for the country is reported at 88 per cent. The freight sheds* with their contents, and six loaded cars on the Grand Trunk rail- , road have been burned at Richmond, Que. Loss, $75,000 ; insured. The Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar attracted an immense number •• of strangers to Chicago, and the festivities passed off with much eclat. More than a quarrel- of a million people witnessed tho grand parade of Knights. The streets through jvhicli the procession moved were packed, and thousands of faees were visible in tho windows and doors and oil the roofs of buildings. The day was excessively warm, and many of the Knights were prostrated by the heat. The column was seven miles in length, and contained a hundred bands of music and about fifteen thousand Sir Knights. Sixty thousand people attended the groat hall at the Exposition building. Frost is reported in several localities in Canada. Cadet Whittaker lias been given anunlimited furlough by the Secretary of War, for the purpose of conferring with counsel relative to the court-martial which it is expected ho will some time demand. A band of robbers recently captured $33,000 near the City of Mexico. The Grand Encampment of Knights Templar, at their meeting in Chicago, elected tho following officers to servo for the earning tbroo years : Sir Benjamin Dean, of Boston, Most Eminent Grand Master; Sir Robert E. Withers, of Alexandria, Va. ; Right Eminent Deputy Grand Master ; Sir Charles Roome, of New York, Very Eminent Grand Generalissimo ; Sir John P. 8. Gonin, of Lebanon, Pa., Very Eminent Grand Captain General; Sir Hugh McCurdy, of Corunna, Mieh., Very Eminent Grand Senior Warden ; Sir William La Rue Thomas, of Danville, Ky., Very. Eminent Grand Junior Warden ; Sir John W. Simons, of New York city, Very Eminent Grand Treasurer ; Sir Theodore S. Parvin, of lowa City, Very Eminent Grand Recorder. The next Triennial Conclave will be hold iu San Francisco, in 1883. Mr. Hickok offers to match St. Julien against any trotter or pacer in the world, mile heats, best three in five, for from $5,0G0 to $20,000 a race. Maud S. is looked upon as the only flyer likely to be put forward in response to this invitation.