Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AOBKION NEWS. A review of the conditio* of crops in England shows wheat to lx- below the average, barley alx>ve, oats and Ixians a little al>ove, and peas a little below. The yield of potatoes will be unusually heavy, Mr. Boyd, the Tipperary landlord recently fired upon in bin carriage, Kent a number of employes to the farm from which ho had evicted a widow for non-payment of rent, to gather the crop. Three hundred Land Leaguers drove them off, held the constables at bay, conducted the harvest themselves, and carried away the fruits and vegetables. -The Russian harvest is said to lie the worst since the famine of 1873. India dispatches report some sharp fighting at Ciindahar, in which the Itritisli claim to have worsted the Afghans. Iron-clad lints are to be erected in some distric's of Ireland for the protection of the constabulary. The huts will bo sheathed with boiler iron and pierced with loop-holes through which muskets may tie fired. A disastrous hurricane lately passed over Jamaica, West Indies. Thousands of people are houseless. Crops, fruit trees and farm produce generally have l>ocn destroyed. Colossal trees were uprooted and churches demolished. The barracks in the city wore destroyed. In consequence of the recent floods in West Prussia, Silesia, and Posen, it has become incumbent on tho Prussian Government to undertake measures for the relief of the inhabitants. It is stated definitely that Germany has abandoned the intention|Ti acquire and colonize the Samoan islands. A Berlin telegram says that the European powers have finally determined to make a naval demonstration against Turkey should the Government of that country rofuse to carry out the Berlin decrees. Roumanian politicians ate engaged ill heated disputatious on the alliance question. One faction favors making common cause with Austria and another leans toward Russia. Another party opposes all entangling alliances. According to a recent cable dispatch, should the European powers make a naval demonstration against Turkey, the fleet engaged in it. will consist of three ironclads each, belonging to England, France, Russia and Italy, two Austrian ironclads, and one German ironclad.