Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. There is great excitement in England •and Ireland over the impending prosecutions against the I,and League. A Dublin dispatch wnys that between Templcmore and Thnries signal fl ashes on tlie most-approved military system are carried on nightly, and answered by flashes from various points on the hills. There appears to be quite a system of communication by signals and flashes which is generally considered ominous of mischief; At a meeting of the Dublin Diocesan Synod a resolution was passed urging the Government to take measures to protect their Protestant countrymen. The Home-Rule Confederation of Great Britain and representatives of radical clubs of London have passed resolutions condemning the prosecution of Irish agitators. Spain promises to disband at an early •day 15,000 troops in Cuba. Great Britain and Ireland Lave been \ isited by a terrific gale, causing much damage <>u land and sea. Considerable loss of life is reported. Charles Harcourt, a noted English actor, bnH died from the effects of a fall t hrough the stage-trap of Drury Lane Theater. A railway collision in Belgium result* •<l in the death of seven persons and injuries to several others. The British Minister is advised of the murder, in South Africa, of a magistrate and two clerks, while witnessing a war danc •, and 4,000 more colonial troops have been called •»ut. A large and enthusiastic meeting of loyal Irishmen of the counties of Antrim and Down was held at Belfast the other day. Resolutions were adopted denouncing agitation and assassination. About 7,000 people attended the ’neeting. A life-boat capsized in the harbor of Wells, Norfolk, England. Eleven of the crew were drowned. The Socialists of Hamburg have resolved to evacuate the city and discontinue, their revolutionary printing enterprises. In consequence of the increased earnings of American roads, as shown by the return for several months past, American railroad securities have risen in the London money market, mid the tendency is toward higher prices. American securities of all kinds are engerly sought after by the moneyed men of England. Among the Nihilists soon to be brought to trial, in Russia, are those charged with the explosion on the Moscow railway and at the Winter Palace, those who attended the congress of assassins, and a man who is said to have given his large fortune to the Nihilist committee. The populace of Varna, Bulgaria, having assembled before the French Consulate, hooting and throwing mud at the French coat of arms, the French Ambassador has ordered a gunboat to proceed to that place.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ECast. A cheap lodging house was burned in New York city, and Joseph Connolly, a porter, and Jonathan White, a fanner, perished in the flames. The Ansonia watch and clock works in Brooklyn, N. Y., have been destroyed by Are. Hohh, SBOO,OOO. C. Risley A- Co., of No. 77 Wall street, New York, a firm which has bees engaged in Ihe coffee trade for thirty years, has made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. The liabilities of the firm are placed at SBOO,OOO and the assets at $400,000. Three of the Pennsylvanians who, some months since, chased a gentleman into the Ohio river and stomd him to death for stealing a hunch of grapes, have been sentenced to 6 cents fine and three months in jail. Kenwood Philp was arrested in New York, Oct. 27, on a charge of forging the Gar-(iekl-Morcy Chinese cheap-labor letter. Philp is one of the editors of Truth, a daily paper in which the letter was first printed. Philp, who was arrested in New York on a charge of forging the Garfi dd-Morey letter, was arraigned for trial on the 28th ult. Hart, one of the proprietors of Truth, appeared on the witness-stand, but refused to produce the letter. He was handed over to a Police Captain for contempt of court. At the afternoon session the original letter was shown, but the prosecution demanded the envelope, and an adjournment wao necessary to secure it. Col. A. F. Rockwell, of the United States army; James McDer i ott, of Brooklyn, journalist; exSheriff Dagget, of Brooklyn ; and Daniel F. Arnes, an expert, testified that they believed Hie Morey letter was in the handwriting of Philp. G. W. Hayward & Co., wholesale coffee and dried fruit dealers, of Buffalo, have made an assignment. The examination of Kenward Philp on a charge of concocting the Morey letter was resumed in New York on the 29th ult. The opening feature of the day was the surrender of the envelope by Hart, the publisher of Truth, to Judge Davis, when testimony by experts in handwriting was listened to. Albert Southworth and William E Hagan, experts, testified that the writing of the letter was similar to the acknowledged writing of Philp. Mr. Leet, a newspaper reporter, also testified that the letter was in Philp’s handwriting. A number of postoffice employes, including Mr. Pearson, Assistant Postmaster at New' York, testified that the postmarks on the envelope were not genuine. On tho third day of the trial of Kenward Philp, at New York, Postmaster Ainger, of Washington, and one of his stamping clerks testified that the postmark on the Morey letter did not come into use until Feb. 15 of this year, and therefore that the envelope could not have been mailed in January. The prosecution also presented three or four witnesses who claimed to be familiar w'ith Philp's handwriting, and who swore to their belief that he wrote the Morey letter. X To offset this testimony the defense introduced ten witnesses, all attaches of different newspapers with which Philp had been connected, and all of them were perfectly positive that the Morey letter and the address were not in Philp’s handwriting. The young man, James McDermott, one of the State’s witnes es, was given an exceedingly bad character by eight of these associates of Philp, who united in saying that they wouldn’t believe him under oath. West. Our Goblins ” is a musical extrava- • ganza which was first produced in Chicago by William Gill, the music being composed by a Chicago composer. Ike entertainment has been on its travels since then, and has now returned, and is this week leing played at McVicker s. In the meantime it has improved in dialogue, in music, and in its cast, which embraces such people as Anna Teresa Berger, the coiDet player, Miw IXauche Corelli, Mj. Will-

iam Gill, formerly of the Colville Folly Troupe, Miss Emma Carson, Mr. Francis Wilson, and Mr. William Forster. Since the opening of the current season they have proven themselves one of the strongest attractions in the country. Robert F. Johnston, of Detroit, for a quarter of a century editor of the Michigan Farmer, is dead. De Witt county, UH., has a female horse-thief, only 16 years of age, who has already acquired a reputation in her profession and suffered several terms of imprisonment. A horrible tragedy is reported from Wabashaw county, Minn. Robert Lowe shot his wife and infant child, mid then went into the bush about a mile from his residence and killed himself. The ball passed through Mrs. Lowe’s heart, killing her almost instantly. The child, 2 years old, was shot in the head, a little above the temple, and survived about an hom- and a half. The murderer shot himself jn the back of the head, at the base of the brain, and no doubt died immediately. Domestic trouble was the cause of the traged It will be remembered that a few weeks ago Dr. Talbott, a Missouri Greenback editor, was assassinated ata window of his residence. Thorough investigation of the crime has led to the arrest of his wife and two sons as the murderers. By the fall of a scaffold at the Cincinnati Public Library two painters were precipitated eighty feet to the ground, killing them instantly. Four railroad employes were killed by a collision between two passenger trains on the Panhandle road at Burgettstown, Ohio. The Chicago Tribune says a careful recapitulation of the ravages of the great storm of Oct. 16 on the lakes shows that upward oi $500,000 damage was done to vessels and cargoes, and that ninety-three persons perished. There were seventeen total wrecks, involving a loss of $153,900, and in all sixty-six vessels were damaged to a greater or less extent. A Republican meeting in St. Louis just before the election, in which Republican clubs participated largely, wound up in a desperate riot, in which a negro named Brown was killed and several other persons were seriously wounded. It required nearly the whole police force of the city to quell the cmeute. The Chinese issue led to a serious riot in Denver. A raid was made on the Celestials at noon on Sunday, the last day of October, many of their homes were torn down and one occupant killed with bricks. The police were powerless, and in an effort by the firemen to quell the rioters two of the former were badly wounded; One Chinaman was put in jail for safety, and the mob yelled: ‘'Lynch the leper ! ” At dark the rioters gutted Chinese houses at will, one Celestial having suffered the loss of his queue. Three hundred special policemen were sworn in and the fire department held in readiness to meet the torch of flip incendiary. Denver has a Chinese population of about 150, and no instances are mentioned where they undertook to defend themselves. The workingmen of Omaha had quite a commotion over a false report that the waterworks for that city were to be built by Chinese brought from the Pacific coast. The labor union ordered arms and ammunition and laid the city off in fighting distiicts to await the advent of the Celestials. The great storm of Oct. 16, 1880, will remain memorable in the annals of lake navigation because of its violence and the destruction of property on the lakes, more particularly on Lake Michigan, caused by it. The Chicago Tribune prints a resume of the damage inflicted on the lakes by the great blow, from which it appears that ninety-three lives were lost, fiftyfive vessels stranded, eleven dismasted or waterlogged, and seventeen totally wrecked. Dispatches from the West state that Capt. Hauggins has reached Fort Keogh with Rain-in-the-Face and 559 hostlies, who readily surrendered. Sitting Bull sent word to Gen. Miles that he was negotiating, through Maj. Walsh, with some Canadians to exhibit himself in Canada and the United States. It is authoritatively announced that in January next the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road will be completed to a junction with the Southern Pacific. The real-estate market at Chicago is reported in a condition of almost feverish activity. There is a remarkable demand for inside business property. F. R. Chadwick and E. M. Grant, both prominent in the business and social circles of Cleveland, have been arrested on the charge of illegally voting the, Republican ticket last month. South. Louisiana planters are said to have perfected arrangements for bringing Chinese laborers from Cuba, notwithstanding obstacles thrown in the way by the Chinese Consul in Havana. Matthew McKnight. of Belton, Tex., quarreled with James Derrick, of that place, and used his revolver. The bullet passed through Derrick’s neck, and then struck John W. Kemp under the right eye. Kemp died instantly, and Derrick’s wound is mortal. A strange and fatal accident occurred in a church in Rock Hill, N. C. The collection plate was being passed around. An earnest exhortation had been made for money to help the Christian cause. James Gooch, a young man in the congregation, did not have a cent, and, being moved by the minister’s appeal, he atempted to borrow 10 cents from a man next to him. The man refused. Gooch then took a pistol from his pocket and offered it as collateral. The man took the pledge, and, while examining the weapon, it went off, sending a ball through the brain of Gooch, killing him instantly. Peter Wright, a negro, has been hung at Liberty, Va., for the murder of Con Maupin, a white man. E. F. Bland, a colored member of the Virginia House of Delegates, sent a challenge to W. H. L. Combs, one of his own race, who declined it on the ground that he was a lawabiding citizen. The town es Bayou Sara, La., about 200 miles above New Orleans, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $300,000.’

WASHINGTON NOTES. The annual report of the Postoffice Department for the past fiscal year shows that the total cost of railroad transportation of mails for the twelve months was nearly $lO.500,000. The first statue for the national Lincoln monument, that of Chief Justice Chase, has been cast at Washington. A Washington telegram says there is some embarrassment relative to the capture of the Victoria band in Mexico. The indications from the information already received at the War Department are that the Mexican Government does not desire to retain these Indians, claiming that they belong to the United States, and certainly our Government does not wish to provide for them. The Treasury Department reports

that for the first nine months of 1880 our exports were $73,760,430 in excess of our imports, while for the same period of 1879 they were $161,498,336. A Washington dispatch says the War Department it somewhat embarrassed by the application of Sitting Bull to surrender, of which there is no doubt. The probability is that Gen. Terry' will be given discretion to arrange terms. The Postmaster General has partially completed his annual report, which shows receipts of $33,316,479.34 and expenses aggregating $36,101,820.38. There are 60,479 names >dhe roll of employes. Chief Brooks has reached Washington, after an interview with Doyle, the counterfeiter, at Chicago, and reports that counterfeit SI,OOO 6-per-cent. bonds, of the issue of 1861, have been hypothecated by Brockway and others, and are now in use as collateral for loans. The Treasury Department sends out a warning to dealers in Government securities.

POLITICAL POINTS. The total vote of Ohio for Secretary of State, at the October election, was 714,444, divided as follows : , Townsend, Rep 362,013 Lang, Dem 343,014. Lloyd, Greenbacker 6,702 Daan, Prohibitionist 2,715 Townsend’s pluralitylß,999 The vote for Judge of the Suprome Court foots up as follows : Mcllvaine, Rep 364,044 Follett, Dem 341,003 Ross, Prohibitionist 2,651 Lounon, Greenbacker 6,578 Mcllvaine’s plurality 23,041 In 1879 the total vote in Ohio was 669,170, including a Republican vote of 336,261, a Democratic vote of 319,132, Greenback 9,072, Prohibition 4,145.

There is a married couple in Milan County, Texas, who have a strange mixture of names, and are now about to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. On the 16th day of October, 1830, in Caldwell County, Ky., Drury Mitchuson Kevil married Lucretia Kevil Mitchuson and she became Lucretia Kevil Mitchuson Kevil. They were not at all related. He was born in 1779, in Kentucky, and named for the father of his future wife, and she was born in South Carolina in 1810, and named for the mother of her future husband, and they hava been mixed generally ever since. A recent visitor of Thomas Carlyle was disgusted at finding the venerable sage engaged in killing a rat with a poker.