Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Eugenie has sold for £IOO,OOO her ▼ill* at Biarritz, and it will be cut up into building lota. It is stated that the Porte is sending troops to the Greek frontier. The Greeks threaten to declare war if the Turks do not immediately withdraw. A London dispatch says the latest news from Cabul, received at Simla, is entirely satisfactory. It does not support the rumor prevalent last week of the murder of the Ameer and reign of anarchy. Earl Malmesberry, 74 years of age, has married Miss Hamilton, a lady of 24. Carlyle has again been forced to cease work on his autobiography. The British coasting steamer Elemore, with fifteen persons on board, was lost in the recent gale. Another South American revolution is announced. Ventimilia, the President of the Republic of Ecuador, has been deposed and his Government disbanded. Parnell and Dillon and thirteen other Land-Leaguers have been indicted in Dublin, and will lie tried in that city about Christmas. Hard times are being endured by the Hocialists of Germany. Eight'.' members of the organization have been expelled from Hamburg, and twenty families have been forced to leave Altona. Some time ago a band of about 200 robbers plundered the Brazilian town of Jaunaria, and got away with their booty. The hiding-place of the gang has just been discovered and broken up, about sixty of the marauders being killed. There are heavy operations in British consols, which are selling at par, the highest price sine ■ the Crimean war. A syndicate in Paris will make an advance of £4,000,C00 to Greece on security of its monastic mid state lands. By the breaking of a hoisting apparatus in a Belgian mine thirteen men were killed.. The German Government refuses to accede to the request of Count Von Arnim for a suspension of sentence and a trial for high treason. The English Channel Squadron has been ordered to Ireland. The Government evidently anticipate trouble in the Green isle. The Land-Leaguers, however, have issued an address in which they declare their agitation to bo thoroughly legal and peaceful, and that it will lie maintained in that way till their object is attained. Land League meetings arc being held in all parts of Ireland, at which speeches of defiance are indulged in by the orators. A band of 100 men, part of whom are armed, are traversing the country near Tralee, Ireland, forcing the tenants to swear to pay only a certain low rent. Among the Socialists expelled from Germany are Herr Hartmann, a member of the Reichstag from Hamburg, Herr Auer, a Haxon Deputy, and the whole editorial staff of the Socialist paper, thefr’eric/i/.s-Zei/miy. The Shah of Persia has appealed to the Czar for help in lighting the Kurds, which will be granted under limitation. The excitement in Ireland growing out of the Land League prosecutions is becoming intense. A Land League meeting at Athlone on Sunday, the 7th inst., was attended by 20,000 of the Irish peasantry, some of whom walked fifty miles to be present. Parnell bitterly condemned the billeting of police upon districts where semi-starvation prevails, and urged his countrymen to agitate unceasingly until they became the owners of the soil. Timothy O’Sullivan hurled among the people a copy of his indictment, and it was torn into fragments. A meeting in the County Cork was interrupted by an ex-leaguer, who, with an organized party, stormed the platform and denounced the agitation as a humbug. The dispatching of the channel licet to the Irish coast caused indescribal le excitemi nt in Dublin. The city of Tokio, in Japan, has been vi-itid by a de. triiclive.hurricane, 1,000 houses being demolished, and hundreds of fishermen drowned in the bay. There will, after all, be no war between Russia mid China, the latter nation being utterly unprepared for such business. Edwin Booth has made his first appearance before a London audience. “ Hamlet ” was the play. His acting excited great enthusiasm, and he was called before the curtain at the end of every act. Nearly all the Socialists expelled from Hamburg have betaken themselves to London. Lord Colin Campbell, M. P., son of the Duke of Argyll and brother to the Marquis of Lome, will soon marry an heiress, Miss Blood. The Basuto rebellion seems to be extending to all the South African tribes, and in order to cope with it the colonists are calling for large reinforcements. China is laying out a telegraph line from Pekin to Shanghai. The six days’ pedestrian contest for the Astley belt at London was won by Rowell, the English champion, who covered 566 miles. Doblcr, the American contestant, made only 450 miles.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. "El Mt. In the Philp trial at New York, on the Ist inst., the prosecution introduced the Postmaster of Lynn, Mass., who testified that no such person as H. L. Morey ever lived in Lynn, and that no such an organization as the Employers’ Union ever existed there. Hon. Abram 8. Hewitt, for the defense, testified that in his opinion the Morey letter was in Gen. Garfield’s handwriting. Philp then took the stand and swore that he did not write the letter. 8. L. Morey, of Lawrence, Mass., was introduced as a witness and testified to the existence of such a man as H. L. Morey, who, he said, was his uncle, and that he had lived at Lynn and other places in Massachusetts. The witness also swore that he had been offered SIOO not to come to New York and testify in the case. The examination was then adjourned to Thursday, Nov. 4. A terrible street-car accident is reported from New Brighton, near New York city. A car filled with sixty passengers—men. women and children—was hurled down a hill almost as fast as an express train and dashed into a heavy post. The car was frightfully demol-Twenty-five to thirty persons were mojo or Mwinjured, and the wounds of several may prove fatal. A stove factory at Quakertown, Pa., has been burned, the loss being $140,000. Long Island farmers are making large shipments, of Newtown pippins to England, where they realize $9 per barrel. The trial of Philp, charged with forg ing the Morey letter, was resumed at New York on tlio 4th inst., and Hart, the publialier of TrvOt, testified that the letter came to him

through the mail, and that Philp never saw it until it appeared in fac-sinnle. Hart had loubts at first about its genuineness, but after subjecting it to a microscopic examination and consulting with Chairman Barnum he concluded to publish it. Through the carelessness of a switchman a freight and a passenger train came into collision on the Lake Erie and Western railroad near Penn Horn creek, N. J. The engineer of the passenger train and the fireman of the freight train were killed. It is now deemed certain that within two years $12,000,000 will be expended on the Cape Cod canal. Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague has determined to bling action for divorce against her husband, ex-Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island. Willie, a 15-year-oIJ son of ex-Gov. Sprague, made an unsuccessful attempt, at Providence, R. L, to shoot Robert Thompson, hi;! mother’s trustee. John P. Gordon, of Quincy, Mass., was fatally shot in a midnight struggle with a housebreaker. The steamer Rhode Island struck Whale rock, and went ashore in Narragansett bay. She had 170 passengers on board, all of whom were saved. She was valued at $500,000. Wreckers pronounce her a total loss. West. Col. Miles telegraphs to military headquarters, at Chicago, from Fort Keogh that he had received a dispatch from W. E. Everest, the scout who was sent to Sitting Bull’s camp with proposals for the surrender of the hostiles. The. scout reports that Sitting Bull will not give a decisive answer until alter he hears from Maj. Walsh, of the British Mounted Police. Everest was kept a close prisoner by the Indians for two days, the hostilea being very independent and saucy. The Citizens’ National Bank has been opened in Cincinnati, with $1,000,000 capital. A German Count, who stole several saws at Fort Waytie, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. There are twenty-five murderers in the jail at San Francisco, awiting trial. . Tiie Grand J ury of San Francisco has indicted Sheriff Desmond, of that city, for felony in permitting prisoners to escape. The St. Paul Company will lay its Black Hills track to within twenty miles of the Missouri before closing operations this fall. A collision on the Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, near Minneapolis, killed three men and wrecked two locomotives. Mayor Kalloch, of San Francisco, has been arrested on an indictment which sprang from his employing laborers by the day on the new City Hall. The Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad has agreed to pay Rid Cloud and Spotted Tail sllO per mile for the right of way through the Sioux reservation, $4 per acre for stafon ground, and $5 per acre for a town site.

Elbridge J. Dawson, Assistant Postmaster at Leadville, and Edward A. Clark, cta'iup clerk, arc in jail for embezzling $6,000. Mr. J. B. Polk, who is favorably re membered in Chicago for lus representation oi Phipps in “The Banker’s Daughter,’’ is now starring at McVicker’s, in that city, in a piece written by Mr. George H. Jessop, entitled “A Gentleman from Nevada.” The central figure in the now play, sails under the name of Christopher Columbus Gall. “ A Gentleman from Nevada” is a comedy-drama, the first act of which transpires in a little way-station on the Pacific railroad iu Nevada. There a murder is committed. The subsequent acts occur in England, on the estate of a noble Lord of high degree, where Christopher discovers the perpetrator of the murder, becomes the lion of the aristocratic circle in which he finds himself, and marries a titled lady. The support is strong. South. A loss of SBO,OOO was incurred by the burning of ant>il-mill La. In an election row at Lexington, Miss., J. W. Ashcraft was killed, and T. J. Lockhart and C. M. Hall badly wounded. John W. Former, Jr., i\as shot dead by his brother Edward, on election day, near Cedar Rock, N. 0. They had been drinking, i and got to discussing the political situation, j one being a Democrat and the other a Republi- 1 can. The dead man fell with a knife clasped j in his hand. White Oak mountain, near Ozark, Ark., is reported in a state of volcanic eruption. • One of the most revolting tragedies on i record is reported from Loudon county, Va. I Merril l Nott, a small farmer, quarreled with I his wife. His sister-in-law took his wife’s ! part, which so enraged Nott that he went ■ into his barn, where lie obtained a | large knife, with which ho made a j sivage attack on the sister-in-law, in- ! Hiding wounds which he seemed to think ; were fatal. He then took down his gun, fired i its contents into the air, coolly reloaded it, and i placed it under his own chin, and fired. The ! shot blew away the lower part of his face, tea)'- ' ing away the tongue, but did not prove in- ' stantly fatal. While lying in a pool of blood, j he noticed that his sister-in-law began to show ■ signs of life, and, with demoniac purpose, he , dragged himself toward the prostrate body, ! lifted a large stone, and allowed it to fall on her head. He was about to repeat the fiendish act, when his wife came ou the scene. She wrenched the stone from him. and used it on his own head, quickly dispatching him. The sister-in-law died a few minutes after. Col. Lucien C. Gause, for six years Congressman from the First Arkansas district, is dead. The election in Tennessee had a marked effect on State bonds,' which have risen from S3O to $45. There was a heavy snow-storm in "arts of Texas ou the 6th inst. One man was found frozen to death near Fort Worth.

POLITICAL POINTS. Garfield carried Hancock’s native town in Montgomery county, Pa. Hancock carried Galena by 302 majority. Gen. Weaver’s county gave Hancock 4 majority. The total vote of Philadelphia for President was 172,861. It is considered almost settled that Gen. Joseph R. Hawley will be elected Senator from Connecticut instead of Senator Eaton. The increas ‘ of the Republican vote of New York city this year over 1876 is 23,165, while the increase in the Democratic vote is only 10,571, making a gain of 12,594 for the Republicans. A recent telegram from New Orleans says : “ Under a contract with the Republican Campaign Committee, Capt. Samboie’s company of the New Orleans Artillery, a veteran Southern organization, fired 100 guns to celebrate the election of Garfield and Arthur. Immediately after the salute a meeting of the company was held, at which Lieut. Rowler moved that Gen. Garfield be elected an honorary member, and notified of the fact. The motion was seconded by Sergt. Devcre, put by Cajrt. Sambole, and carried by acclaDaattqn.

The Senatorial race in Ohio promises to be an interesting one. Gov. Charles Foster, Judge Alphoiiso Taft and Stanley Matthews are the most prominent aspirants. Gen. Hancock, says a New York dispatch, has been so sadly overworked during the canvass that his friends are in some alarm at his condition. He is a .man of full habit, and has been so closely confined for some time, and so hard at work at his office and campaign duties, and taken so little recreation, and been suffering so much from repeated colds and chest and throat troubles, that he must rest now for some time. His most intimate friends are really anxious about lum. At a meeting of the Tammany Hull general committee, in New York, an address to the Democracy of the country was read, claiming Hancock’s defeat was due to fraud, intimidation and the use of enormous sums of mojjcj, by the Republicans. Mr. Van Wyck moved an amendment that Hancock’s defeat was due to the mismanagement and bickering of the Democratic leaders in Kings county and New York city. Thomas F. Grady, Col. Roberts, and others opposed the amendment, Henry Steinert advocated the amendment, and said people no longer wanted Boss Kelly, and he should resign. Some hot discussion was followed by rejection of the amendment and adoption of a resolution indorsing the leadership of Kelly. Five of the members of the Legislature elected in Tennessee are colored men. The candidates for United States Senator from Wisconsin to succeed Senator Cameron are the Hon. Philetus Sawyer, the Hon. E. W. Keyes, ex-Senator Howe, the Hon. Horace Rublee, and several dark horses. Gen. Ben Harrison, Hon. John C. New, Hon. Will Cumback, Congressman Orth and Judge Gresham are candidates for United States Senator in Indiana. Favorite sons are being put forward already for Cabinet positions. Pennsylvania has three to offer—Senator Don Cameron, the Hon. Galusha A. Grow and Mr. Quay. Nebraska will present Senator Hitchcock, Massachusetts Gov. J. J>. Long, and so on. The following is the vote of the four principal cities in 1876 and 1880 t J 876.” ~i 1880. Jlrp. | Dem. j Hip. Dem. New York 58,561 112,530] 81,726 123,102 Chicago 28,518 33,48!! 42.972 38,311 Brooklyn 37,307 54,333 49,472 57,777 Philadelphia 77.130] 62,100] I 911,794 76,067 Kansas has the banner Republican district, having elected John A. Anderson io Congress by about 20,030 majority.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The issue of silver dollars .for October exceeded the coinage by nearly $1,800,000. Nearly $20,000,000 in silver certificates is afloat. The Department of State is advised by telegrams from our Ministers to Chili and Peru that the conference between the two belligerent power.:, under the good offices of the United States, has closed without any result. Following is the public-debt statement issued ou the Ist inst. : Six per cent, bonds $ 217,699,550 Five per cents 469,651,050 Four and one-half i>cr cents 250,000,000 Four nor cents 738,368,600 Refunding certificates 979,200 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,690,698,400 Matured debt..... $ 5,615,665 Legal tenders 346,741,841 Certificates of deposit... 8,765,000 Fractional currency 7,181,861 Gold and silver certificates 34,268,460 Total without interest. 397,257,162 Total debt $2,093,571,227 Total interest 18,464,687 Cash in treasury 203,545,486 Debt less cash in treasury $1,908,490,427 Decrease during October 7,103,754 Decrease since June 30 33,681,867 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 3,000,826 Debt on which interest has ceased 5,615,665 Interest thereon 751,661 Gold and silver certificates 34,568,460 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 8,765,000 Cash balance available Nov. 1 150,843,873 Total $ 203,545,486 Available assets— Cash in treasury $ 203,545,486 Bonds Issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,292,470 Interest paid by United States 47,589,861 Interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid by transportation of mails 13,838,862 By cash payments of 5 per cent of net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 33,095,799 John Grant, who carries an honorable discharge from the army, called at the White House and demanded possession as the supreme ruler of the universe. Secretary Sherman offers 102.75 for 6’s of 1880. The total coinage of the mints for October was $3,978,835 in gold, and $2,279,000 in silver.