Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1880 — REWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

REWS OF THE WEEK.

VOBXIOW KIWI Itolds-rs lately anxaiKßiiiaU'il tt»* «!► •4 the IfuMxun Conral at Van. a city m» Turkish Areaeui*. The Italian Government has just completed the most powerful war ateamer •■»••» built, of 11.000 tons burden, and covered "do m armor three feet thick. A dispatch from Afghanistan says that all the relatives and supporters of Yakoob Khan have assembled at Farrah. They intend to organize attacks on the British until Yakoob is proclaimed Ameer. The great Exposition at Melbourne, Australia, was formally opened on tire Ist of October. Herious riots growing out of the opposition of the Catholics to the new Belgian Education act have occurred near Bruges. Russian editors have been warned by (bn powers that be that they are a little too • •itspoken in their editorials. A London dispatch says that a reguIsr war has broken out in Basutoland, South \fi ”j. and t li<<'i |w Goo i ni.niit Lav* *-.«ll«<| ' l»H> ||||< in, ||. ,Tlk Bixiib,. minilx ling . Ixs n vij.mr. o.h attacking tin Ua|» 1 • •»» I al** Ila, who b»* f*nr «m-» I MMMM 'MMMAMMNM*

•rwMMt l-tetel W«4« A Afex-a, te» tori*** • tett*4 te-t**>* •» * •» m. Frond Imm wv*'W*4t tommf' l( R **•»■ «’•At* «• It»*l «Mh«b» t*b**v*4 tie ; * •t*g» *>-l> ra»Mmg Itewtw < "»ty. »*.. and Lunka Myrw*. Ark. *4 ««W terente Tie ■ Isit»» IJ, 11, l<*mle*l with cotton for New ¥*<te t*»A nre at tie Norfolk (Va.i wharf, ami was btirmd to tb* wat*v edge. According to the Richmond />L*/a«foA, the ofii*-ial wnsiis returns of Virginia give that State a population of 1,50’J,335. being an increase over the population nils'uof 2*1,172. or about 23 |sr cent. A liody of thirty armed men entered Dalton, Whitefield county, tia., the other night, and forcibly took possession of the projsrty seized by Bevenu*- Collector Clark for violations of the United States laws. Acting Commissioner Bogers has telegraphed Collector Clark to take immediate measures to identify the outlaws, and to call on th*- Cititcd States Marshal of th*- district !<-rns»i~t«iic*-. POLITICAL POINTS. ’f lu- New York Democratic State Conv.ntmn II * t nt Saratoga, Kept. 2M. ItufuV*. J’.-tlian iTßinaaaav) pn-«id>*l. John K* i,» m*d> a spreHi congratulating the party ** - tic «ats*n r«Mte*« Judge < hark-. 1 K«;»4k> was wuMaukted far <l**4 Jiegs-, <4 fix • M, ®M"-« RMWIWW. A f***<WlW«® **• adM**d *■"** ad l *>'<( ted in with rut terr *4

•tor farte**** mtdiiNi tiNte*Nfb*>*lt tb* ("luted «Wx*-«a». r>-*pw>r—i Io «**i«l dstogatea to take part «nltor pr*ww**«fcng*.. Tb*r farmers' alhaucew. «sash at* »*w <4 only iorel iutiu* i»-r. will or* * • in-* * m|h.. U»*iy. a’ th* -am* time. Good • ;**k"r- w*i! b» in att* islatas*-. For full parti -t;Ui*. writ* Jans - W. Wilson. Secretary <*.«** < • int? 18. ) Aliiam*-. iH-arl orn street. ‘ Im-ago, 111 It is reported that Jay Gould has captured a majority of the rtock of the Western t" mou Telegraph Company. Tint ek-venth annual convention of ' th*- North American Bee-keepers’ Society was 1 h* Id at Cincinnati last week. The annual addr* xs was delivered by the President, Thomas G. Newman, of Chicago. He suggested the adoption of uniform prices for honey, not too high so as to retard consumption, but high '■Hough to insure a fair profit to the producer. He said the honey crop th'S year was alxiut half the usual yield, owing to the bad weather affi-i-ting the yield of nectar. At the yearly meeting of the stockholder* of the Northern Pacific railroad, held in New York last week, Frederick Billings was elected Pr-sid* nt. A resolution was adopted requesting the Direct rs to provide at an early day for tin- construction, completion and equipment of th* n*ad, and for that purpose to line and employ all the resources of the company so far as rcsiuired. 1 h<* ronu-st for the liMe-lmllchampi-*u-bip v.l i'.ngbt to a ( H ,s* im the 3Utb of Ss •*«. n.Ur. «n<l KMiiib*] in the SH XX--MI <4 the- i Ctovags* <htl>. Ti c *4 tb*- gawww won I .« i-s- *s.U **»*w.i tlnrHig «- •* «W-Mtw -war a «ay MbH-**) *•• I***?'- l '“r. j