Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Destructive floods have occurred in parts of England, causing great damage to crops and other property. Rains have also seriously damaged the crops in the North of Scotland. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that Russia will immediately commence building a railway connecting the Caspian sea with Kizildevat. A Berlin dispatch says that the Russian General, Todleben has resigned the Governorship of Wilna. He is believed to be incapable of administrative service. A new Cabinet has been formed in France, with Jules Ferry as Premier. Three British men-of-war have been ordered to the Newfoundland fishing grounds, where an American vessel was recently attacked by natives. A dispatch from Havana says there is not one armed insurgent in the whole island of Cuba. The crop prospects in England are bad ; trade in stagnant, and labor cannot find a market; strikes are breaking out all over the country, and in the larger cities there is great Buffering among the laboring classes. Miss Florence Tilton, daughter of Theodore Tilton, has been married in London to Mr. Pelton, of Louisiana. A ferry steamer while crossing the river Garonne, in France, capsized, and six persons were drowned. A London dispatch says that serious disturbances are reported in Canton, China. Europeans have been threatened, and are in a state of alarm. The Catholic Mission has been attacked. The military has been called out, and several rioters killed and wounded. The policy of the new French Cabinet will be one of peace. Lord Mountmorris, a small landlord in Galway, Ireland, has been murdered, probably I.y his tenants, with whom he was on bad terms.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

East A horse distemper resembling the epizootic of 1872, but somewhat milder, has appeared at Boston, and is causing serious inconvenience. A family at Wilkesbarre, Pa., put aminic in a meal-barrel to destroy rats. Mrs. Carl, her sister, Mrs. Woodward, and a servant girl have died, and three other members of the family arc seriously ill. The freight depot of the Boston and Maine railroad, in Boston, has been burned. Loss estimated at $130,009. The centennial anniversary of the capture of Maj. Andre at Tarrytown, N. Y., ■was celebrated at that place on the 23d of September. Thirty thousand strangers were present. Ex-Gov. Tilden presided, Orlando B. Potter read an historical paper, and Chauncey M. Depew delivered an oration. Bristol, 11. 1., celebrated its 200th anniversary Sept. 21. with appropriate exercises. Two boys in Reading, Pa., quarreled* recently over a game of marbles ; one of them settled the dispute by killing the other with a stone. Pittsburgh is excited over the case of a nun who was removed from tiie House of the Good Shepherd to Dixmont Insane Asylum under suspicious circumstances. The Superintendent (if the asylum has had charge of her for three months, and says she is perfectly sane, and was when she was brought to the asylum. The doctors who certified to her insanity admit that their examination lasted only five minutes.

We«t. A tire at Green Bay, Wis., destroyed sixty dwellings in the be-t residence portion of Ihe city. The loss is estimated at $160,000. A terrible tragedy was recently enacted at the residence of Andrew Tiffany, near Janesville, Hillsdale county, Mich. Henry Lindley, a hired man in the employ of Tiffany, who is supposed to have conceived a passion for his employer’s second daughter, Alice, called on her and shot her, killing her instantly. Lindley then blew his own brains out, falling with the weapon under him. The only cause known to which the dreadful crime can be attributed is unrequited love. The murdered g'.rl was 18 years old. Jesse D. Grant, third son of the General, and Miss Lizzie Chapman, daughter of a wealthy merchant, were married at Han Francisco, on the 21st of September. Another combination has been formed bet ween American and Mexican troops on the southwestern border for the purpose of annihilating the Apache chief, Victoria. Reports from Indian Territory show that the Cheyennes have assumed a threatening attitude. Three hundred of them recently visited the agency and assaulted the Agent. A train on the Northwestern railway ran into a herd of sheep and killed twenty-eight of them, near Fort Atkinson, Wis. Fire in Cincinnati destroyed Marmet A Co.’s coal elevator and a portion of Lane A Bodley’s machine shop. The Supreme Court at Indiana has overruled the petition for a rehearing in the case involving the validity of the constitutional amendments. Judges, Riddle, Warren and Howk were against reopening the case, and Judges Niblack and Scott in favor. The State election will, thereforef be held in October. A serious col 1 ffl^|l w hutween a passenger and freight train oecui nW on the Vandalia railroad, near Terre Haute, bl which the engineer and fireman of the' parfsenger train lost their lives, and several otli/r train men were injured more or less scriotMy. The boiler in Loose & Sons’ fruit-dry-ing house, at Monroe, Mich., exploded with terrific violence, killing Henry O’Brien, engineer. Leonard Martin, cutter, and a boy named Chaberaux, and wounding more or less’ seriously nine others. The ladies of Doniphan county, Kan., bought all the booths on the fair ground, bidding much higher than the saloon-keepers, whose bar’l could not compare in size with that of their fair antagonists.

Clarence Gray, Republican candidate for District Attorney, recently shot and mortally wounded Theodore Glancy, editor of the Santa Barbara (Cal.) Press. It is estimated that the various railroads centering in Chicago will expend $6,000,000 in permanent • improvements there this year. » Three men were scalded fatally, and Iwo others painfully, by the explosion of the steam-pipe of the packeMHaggie Harper, on the Ohio river. ’ A. H. Latham, of Albany, and Miss Sarah J. Faris, of Bonneville, Ind., were maried by telegraph the other day, Rev. Mr. Parrett, of Portland, Ind., officiating. Douglass Williams, a nephew of the Governor of Indiana, was murdered, a few days ago, at Vincennes, Ind., by Ed Hogan, a railroad man. The murderer made his escape. Miss Sarah Vance, a patient in St. Vincent’s Insane Asylum, St Louis, aet fire to her clothing, and was fatally burned. Boutn. Five persons were drowned by the ainking of n stenmlMiat war Natelwz. Mi«». Peter Slack (colored) has been hanged at Lurnlx-rton, N. C., for the murder of Mam Townxend, also colored, tn January, 1*79.

POLITICAL POINT*.

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body takes cognizance of errors in them. The plurality amendment to the constitution is car ried by a large majority. • The Maine Greenback State Convention to nominate Presidential Electors met at Portland Sept. 21, with 465 delegates in attendance. 8. D. Hobson presented resolutions indorsing the action of the State Committee, recommending fusion with the Democrats. J. B. Chase, amid great excitement, protested. Elliott King moved to accept the report and the resolutions, and to name a joint electoral ticket. Chase made a motion to amend by nominating seven straight Greenbackers. This was received with applause and hisses. The speaker made an appeal for a fair hearing, and argued against fusion. The Rev. Alvan Strout, F. M. Plaisted and others advocated fusion, after which the previous question was carried, and a resolution to fuse adopted, although there was considerable opposition. The following ejectors were then chosen: At Large—Solon Chase and Samuel Watts. District Electors —John J. Turner, Benj. Bunker, Charles R. Whidden, Wm. A. Cromwell, and John P. Donworth. After adjournment of the convention the delegates opposed to a fusion, to the number of seventythree, headed by Solon Chase, got together and nominated a straight-out Greenback electoral ticket, as follows: Solon Chase, J. J. Turner, C. R. Whidden, J. F. Hilton, Thomas G. Burden. G. W. Wooster, E. B. Fry. The Greenbackers of Massachusetts held their State Convention at Worcester, Sept. 22, and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, Gen. Horace B. Sargeant; Lieutenant Governor, George Dutton; Secretary of State, Jonathan Arnold ; Treasurer, Wilbur F. Whitney ; Auditor, Charles T. Warner ; Attorney General, John M. Raymond ; Electors-at-Large, H. B. Rowley and Eugene J. Flaherty. Resolutions pi ohibiting the use of liquor and tobacco, indorsing Solon Chase’s bolt in Maine, and condemning Ben Butler for joining the Democratic party, were voted down. Ex-President Grant telegraphs Chairman Jewell that he cannot engage to attend any political meetings during the present campaign. The official canvass shows that the constitutional amendment repudiating a portion of the debt of Arkansas, recently submitted to the people of that State, has been defeated by about seven thousand majority. The total vote was 140,000.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

A table compiled by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shows that during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, there were manufactured in this country 90,355,270 gallons of spirits, against 71,892,621 for the preceding year, and there were consumed 61,116,523, against 51,892,714. Capt. William Hughes, of the Capitol police force, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for making an indecent assault upon a young girl in the President’s room a few weeks ago.

An Oil City man went fishing Saturday, and he came home with nothing but a little half-pound bass. “Is that all you caught?” asked his friends. “That's all,” replied the man. “How many bites did you have?” “None,” exclaimed the fisherman, and the whole crowd cried, “He’s found! he’s found! Here is the honest fisherman.” He’d have had .fifty invitations to drink in ten minutes if a small boy hadn’t broken through the crowd, and said: “See here mister, yer gave me a bogus nickel for that air fish.” And now that crowd has no faith in human nature. A recent observing tourist in Portugal says that he has never been in a Roman Catholic country where there are so few outward signs of religious feeling, or even of worship. It is rare to find a service of any kind being celebrated in the churches, which an* nearly always shut. A light is seldom burning before the altar, the few shrines and images by the road are neglected and often in ruins, and the monasteries have all been mipprea.M'd. “As the Amencwn,” un the lb v. David Swing, <<< Uhieago, “r» n < Iww and ont-»p«t and <tot-talk the nwt the «><Li, m> can be <tot-*we*r the ro»uiuH «4 humanity. Sitting Iwhind »*’• grntirwu far a day, * our glided *!•** then Nt Paul twwtoM <*Mragw, tfa *«wAa • by (hoi *«vtotoe | w >k «fwrt sitototntfc • MMI tofawrv MNSMiNto* fa Mfl ft WNI tMMMU • M*tb