Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Nihilist trials resulted in sentences of exile for three of the accused, and imprisonment for the other four. The siege of the Premontre Abbey at Marseilles was a brief one, as the fathers neglected to guard the door at which friends wore admitted. A London uispatch says the excitement in Ireland centers in Ballinrobe, where troops are being concentrated to protect the laborers engaged in harvesting crops for an agent of Lord Erne, and where the excited peasantry are also flocking in largo bodies. The cable brings advices of the death of the Marquis of Alvaido, a Spanish statesman, and of Zanuis, a Greek, who was for several terms President of the National Council, as also William Mure, of the British Parliament, who served in the Kaffir and Crimean wars. Southern Austria had a shock of earthquake which killed several persons and injured buildings without number. Gambetta has been challenged to tight a duel by M. Baudry D’Assen, Legitimist Deputy, who was temporarily expelled on account of unparliamentary language. The British Postal Department desires to stop the practice of sending postal-cards around the world, the experiment having been tried frequently enough to decide the question of time. Kelly, the Australian bushrapger, who for so many years was a terror to the scattered settlements, has been hanged. A remarkably disorderly and disgrace ful scene was enacted in the French Chamber of Deputies the other day. It grew out of M. Baudry D’Asson’s refusal to leave the Chamber when ordered by Gambetta. He had been excluded from the Chambers, but sneaked back in defiance of that body. A file of soldiers was brought in. M. D’Asson sat at his seat with folded anus, surrounded by a body-guard of Royalists and Clericals. A hand-to-hand fight ensued. The Deputies resisted the troops, and refused to Allow M. d’Asson’s expulsion. At last Col. Rin, the commander of the soldiers, caught the bellicose Deputy round the body, a soldier took hold of iris head, two more caught him by the heels, and he was earned kicking and struggling out of the house to a lock-ijp in the palace. The incident caused intense excitement. An Irish land agent .has been shot dead in the County of Limerick. A cablegram from St. Petersburg states that all the Nihilists implicated in the plots against the Czar hftve been convicted—five receiving sentence of death, eleven of hard labor in the mines from life terms to fifty years, and three women penal servitude for fifteen years. • A letter-carrier of Paris had a parcel containing bank-notes representing 600,000 francs stolen from him in the Rue St. Viune. Persuasion having had no effect, Der- i visch Pasha has ordered the Albanian leaders to surrender Dulcigno, and threatens to use force to compel them should they refuse. The Albanian leaders ask for a month’s time ■ in which to consider the demand and their ac- ' tion th ieo i. The origin of the disorder in Bftllirobe, Ireland, that culminated in the sending thither of a detachment of Orange volunteers is thus explained in a recent cable dispatch: “The j tenants on the estate of Lord Erne became in- I censed at the harsh treatment of Cn.pt. Boy- I cott, the agent, and refused to pay rents to ■ him. A process-server who was sent round was i surrounded, together with his police escort, by \ a dangerous crowd, and was forced to fly for i his life. After three processes had been ■ served and decrees duly obtained against the I three persons who were served, a memorial 1 signed by all the tenants was presented to I.ord : Erne. It recited the griefs against Capt. Boy- i cott, and appealed to the old traditions of the Erne family for considerate landlordism. It intimated that, while the tenants were perfectly willing to pay their rents, they had come to the conclusion never again to work for or hold communication with his present agent. The answer was a firm refusal from Lord Erne to change his agent at their dictation. The tenants asserted their readiness to pay rents to any other perron whom his Lordship might appoint. Lord Erne ended the correspondence by a curt note stating that he had uo intention whatever of changing his agent, and if they would not pay their rents to Capt. Boycott they might take the consequence. The policy of isolation was then entered upon.” A Dublin dispatch of the 16th says ; A meeting was held at Kockanrose Village, near Walshtown, yesterday, for the purpose of formally “Boycotting” thirteen landlords, land agents, and others, residing in that neighborhood. Five thousand people were present. ! James Malloy, a tenant farmer, was President. ; The following resolution was adopted : “That we pledge ourselves to ‘Boycott’ those thirteen men, and all who act like them, and will endeavor to follow the example sot to the rest of Ireland by the brave men of Ballinrobe.” A dispatch from Ballinrobe says: “The general opinion is that it will be absolutely necessary for Boycott to leave the country, as he will have to be protected if he remain in Ireland." Gen. August von Goeben, of the German army, is dead. For resisting the enforcement of the religious decrees in Paris, M. Cochin was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, and two Viscounts and a Marquis to a fortnight each. The Orangemen of Portadown, Ireland, have posted notices calling on Protestants not to work for or communicate with Land-Leaguers or Home-Rulers. The fight in Ireland is beginning to assume the old religious phase. The Irish Bishops in Rome have written to Dublin expressing a desire to contribute toward the fund for Parnell’s defense.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. EDast. Sarah Bernhardt’s appearance on the New York stage was the signal for prolonged applause and showers of bouquets. Among her auditors were Clara Morris, Senator Blaine, and Gov. Cornell. The testimony in the case of Philp, charged with forging the Garfield-Morey letter, closed at New York on the 9th, when Gen. Pryor asked the discharge of the prisoner. Judge Davis said he would render a decision on Saturday, the 13th. George Bfisstthen catfsed the arrest of 8. 8. Morey and Robert Lindsey for perjury, and they were committed for examination. Lindsey testified that for ten years he had not slept twice in the same place. Col. E. L. Drake, who drilled the first /lil-well at Titusville, and who has for years received a pension from the State of Pennsylvania, is dead. oiiuu.n b. fiiorey, who was arrested. 111 Xev. York for perjury in the Philp trial, has a lull statement of the manner in which

he was induced to testify, declaring that he spent two nights before election in the rooms of the National Democratic Committee, from whom he received $l5O. Lindsay has confessed that he was coached by William M. Price, a Democratic elector in Maryland, and ■ that his testimony tliroughout was false. A fire at Petrolia, Pa., destroyed Blyrniller’s Hotel, the oflice of the United Pipe Line, Backus’ hardware store, Loomis’ meat market, and the Argyle Savings Bank, and several other buildings. Loss, $150,000. Solomon S. Morey and Frank Lindsey, alias O’Brien, were brought before the Grand Juiy of the New York Court of Sessions on the 11th int>t., .aftd made confession that they had perjured themselves in the hearing Of the Philp ease. Morey was held’as a State witness, and O’Brien was indicted for jx-rjury. A horrible' accident occurred, a few nights ago, at Bordell City, Pa. Several men employed in a saw-mill were sitting around a stove, in their boarding house, playing cards. The fire was low, and Joseph Heeps thought to revive it bj’ throwing a peach-can full of petroleum into the stove. The gas caught fire, and Heeps with an oath threw the can away. It fell into a bucket of crude oil, and instantly the structi ure was in Hames. The burning oil Hew over everything. The men ma.de a wild effort to es- ; cape, and five out of eight staggered out of j the building with their clothing on fire, and I were frightfully burned. Three men perished in the flames, and four others were fatally

burned. Heeps, the man who caused the disaster, escaped "without harm. The proposition of a New York paper to raise a Presidential pension fund is being briskly responded to in that city. Hon. Edwin D. . Morgan heads the list with *5.000, conditional that $250,000 i is subscribed before Jan. 1... John H. Starin ' places his name down for $2,500. OUpr subi scriptions are George Jones, $1,000; Anson G. ■ McCook, .*250 : Thomas L. James, $250, and A. J. Dittenhoefer, SIOO. jflfe 4 Two burglars entertuT the hotisfe o 5 ' * Thomas O'Brien, a Syracuse merchant, i.rid,: with a carpenter’s hammer, brained. Mr. and Mrs. O’Brien while they were sice in bed. O’Brien’s condition is' very precarious, and there is no hope of Mrs. O’Brien’s recovery.. . A littly -who went shopping in way with $20,000 in her offers onefourth of the roll to the tinder. Win. V. Gryv'-r, <if N. J., who is 50 years of age, six months ago married Jemima Chambers, aged 12. The other night he killed her while she was taking her effects to her Kenward Philp has been held for trial at New lork on charge of criminal libel, and remains at large on his bond of $5,000. Judge Noah Davis, in reviewing the ease, thought Hart.lhe publisher of the Truth, displayed reasonable caution before publishing the Morey letter, but the course of Hon.. Abram Hewitt he declared to be thoroughly rep- ' rchensible. The Judge regards the letter as i altogether a forgery. Mr. Hewitt, smarting ' under the reflections of Judge Davis, retorts that the letter was published, before he had ever seen Mr. Hart or the original, of which event Judge Davis must have been informed ; and that when a man becomes a Judge he ■ should cease to be a partisan. Hackensack, N. J., has been struck by a financial panic, and nearly all the banks have suspended. A wrestling-match between W. J. Farrell. of California, and John McMahon, of Vermont. for the championship of America and SI,OOO, took place at Pittsburgh, and result* d in a victory for McMahon, who succeeded in throwing Farrell twice out of threedimes. JVedt. The town of Batesville, Ohio, has been the scene of a most horrible tragedy. It seems that Frank M. Biedenbaugh, a wealthy young German, whtf three years ago married the daughter of a neighboring farmer, came ; home late at night intoxicated, and, entering the room where his wife, and child slept, assaulted them with an ax. His wife’s skull was crushed by a single blow, and then his son’s throat cut by the edge of the ax. He then went to a room where Mrs. Stephens, a visitor, and her child and servantgirl were sleeping, and killed Mrs. Stephens and child. The servant-girl, awakened, sprang toward the door, but was knocked senseless and left for dead. Upon recovering consciousness i she gave the alarm, and the neighbors came. ] It was not until morning that Was i found hidden in a tobacco-house, 'kith "his' ; throat cut, not fatally. Jealousy; insanitj’ and drunkenness are the theories advanced to ac- i count for the horrible crime. G. H. Day, a clothing manufacturer, j of Indianapolis, has made an assignment, with ■ liabilities of $45,000. Ailison, a scout scut to the camp of < Sitting Bull, in British territory, has returned I to Fort Buford. The savage chieftain has i about 000 warriors, who are nearly out of food and ammunition. He asks Gen. Terry to wait j until-Nov. 20 for the return of Maj. Walsh, who had offered mediation. The railroad war continues. The Wabash system, of roads last week reduced rates from St. Louis and Chicago to all Eastern points. The schedule adopted for hunted tickets is : Boston and New fork, $4.25 ; Philadelphia, $3.75 ; Washington, $3 ; Harrisburg and Buffalo, $3.25 ; Pittsburgh, $2.25. The rate between St. Louis and Chicago continued at $1 for tickets limited to twentv-four hours. A five-story building on Randolph street, Chicago, occupied by Dwight Bros. & Co., paper manufacturers, and Sammons, Clark & Co., furniture and picture-frame manufacturers, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, about SIOO,OOO. Six desperate characters broke jail at Las Vegas, New Mexico. A posse which pursued them killed two murderers and wounded another. Petroleum has been discovered at i Ponca, Neb., twenty-two miles west of Sioux ; CitV. The oil was found at 550 feet below the i surface. Two small children left alone by their ! mother in a house on Poplar street. Milwau- j kee, were burned to death. The Chicago Times is going to have ; its type set by machinery, several type-setting i machines for this purpose having been or- i dered from Brussels, Belgium. Mayor Kalloch having, in a recent ser- | mon, denounced the Grand Jury of San Fran- ’ cisco, and uttered bio qdy threat-', has cited him to appear fbr contoihpt. A railroad official at Cleveland says all the funds required for a now line from Buffalo to ChiMgf have beenrai|odjpid t£at wqrk will soop commence, f \ 1 j A St. Louis saloonkeeper, named Joseph P. Flannigan killed one man and mortally wounded another. South. The town of Keochie, La., has been demolished by a cyclone. One man was killed and ten persons injured. *

A Deputy Marshal in Florida arrested five citizens for violation of the election laws, but a body of masked men boarded the train at Madison and released them. The epizoot has reached Texas in its travels, and is proving more fatal to the horses than in the Western and Eastern States. , 1 One of the most revolting tragedies on record is reported from Loudon county, Va. : Merriß Nott, a small farmer, quarreled with his wife. His sister-in-law took his wife’s part, which so enraged Kott that he went | into his barn, where he obtained a arae knife, with which he made a silage attack our' the sister-in-law, in- ' flirting wound* which he seemed to think ! i were fatal. He then took down his gun, fired ; its contents into the air, coolly reloaded it,.and ! placed it under his own chin, and fired. The i ' shot blew away the loWef part of his face, tear- ! hig 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 i I dragged himself toward the prostrate body, i I lifted a large stone, and’ allowed it to fall on i ; her head. He was about to repeat the fiendish ' act, when his wife came on the scene. She | I wrenched the stone from him, and used it on I his own head, quickly dispatching.him.»’The ! •: sister-in 1 ! aw died a few minutes after. Col. Lucien C. Gause, for six years i Congressman from the First Arkansas district, j i is dead.

The election in Tennessee had a marked effect on State bonds, which have men ! from 830 to $45. ■ There was a heavy snow-storm in : ’'arts of Texas on the 6th inst. One man was found frozen to death near Fort Worth. Texas, upon unofficial returns, shows a population of 1,565,433. Hon. Fayette McMullen, a prominent I Virginia politician for the last thirty-five years, < was recently run over by tne cars ana Kiuea at Wyfhovilfe, Va. He was one,of the Beadjuster ’ candidates for Congress from that State at the recent election. He was once United States Senator from Virginia, and was also, a member of the Confederate Congress. Libby prison went to the auctionblpck in lljchniond. yesterday, under a deed of trust, -a tobacconist making the best bid, $6,725. Four of the five prisoners who were rescued from the United States Deputy Marshal at Madison Court House, Fla., have surrendered to the authorities. Yellow fever claimed two victims at Key West, last week, one being an Episcopal clergyman named Gilbert. An army surgeon reports ten cases at that point. Daniel C. Potter was executed at! Newport, Tenn., for the murder of Willis Me- 1 Mahon. The crowd around the gallows was j drunken and noisy. Warren Sheppard, a colored man, was : hanged for minder at Montgomery, Texas.

POLITICAL POINTS. With one county estimated, Garfield’s i .plurality in India na is 6,520. I Returns from all the counties in New j York, official and reported, give Garfield 21,536 | majority. Returns from all the couu ties of Oregon except two show that Garfield has a majority of 547. The full returns will increase the majority to 600. The result of the California election is so close that it is now probable that some of the Garfield and some of the Hancock electors will be elected. David S. Terry, one of the Democratic electors, has been so badly cut that he is certainly beaten. Terry is the man who shot Senator Broderick, of California, in a duel, a nd hence runs behind his ticket. Gov. Foster, in a frank, interview, declared that Garfield not attempt to curry favor with the South By t<;uderjng jj? any. Cabinet positions. The latest aspirants to the Indiana Senatorship are President Burgess, of Butler University, Gen. A. D. Streight, Congressman Tom Browne, Hon. John Ceburn, and J. M. Shackleford. Secretary Sherman announces himself a Candidate for United States Senator from Ohio. Returns from all of the 102 counties in Illinois show the following result for Prosideht’i SGfarfield and Arthur,.318,205 : Hancock 25,821’; Dow and otlferA (about), 500; Total ! vote, 621,980. Garfield over Hancock, 40,751 ; ; Garfield over all, 14,430. Secretary Sherman disclaims any un- ‘ derstanding with Gen. Garfield about the ; future, and declares that he would not be unwilling to retire to private life for the next four ■ years. All the Hancock electors in California, ' except Judge Terry, arc elected by majorities : of between 200 and 300. The Republicans have > a majority in tiie Legislature on joint ballot. ' Official returns from all but six towns , and six plantations of Maine, the returns from which will not materially change the result, . show that the vote for the Garfield electors in 1 the State is 74,005 ; for the Hancock-Weaver i electors, 64,832 ; for the straight Weaver-elect- j ors, 4,076. Gen. Garfield’s majority over the ■ combined opposition is 5,019. B. L. Claypool, of Connersville, is announced as a candidate to succeed Judge Me- ■ Donald in the United States Senate from In- ' diana. Tliis makes an even dozen Richmonds in the field, with the woods full of dark horses. The official vote of the November election in Ohio has been canvassed, and shows the following result: Garfield, 375,048 ; Hancock, 310,871 ; Weaver, 5,456; Dow, 2,616. Garfield’s plurality, 34,177; Garfield over all. 26,105. The official result of the Indiana elec- ■ tion gives Garfield a plurality of 6,540. Porter, : in October, received 6,952. Gen. Garfield having resigned his seat in the .House, Gqv, Foster, of Ohio, has or- , dered a special election oh Nov. 30 in the coun- ' ties composing the original Nineteenth Ohio district. The chief aspirants for the California i Senatorship are John F. Miller, of the Alaska Fur Company, A. A. Sargent, and Judge David Belden. Newton Booth is making no effort for a re-election. Congressman Conger, Gov. Bagley, Gov. Baldwin and James F. Joy are in the field : for the Senatorship from Michigan. Garfield’s majority over Hancock in Michigan is 53,504. His majoritv over all Is ! 33,544. At a meeting of the Democratic National- Conliniclee in New York, last wfeek, ah address was issued denying that they ever took any action in reference to the Morey letter, or even saw it until after its pubheation. A resolution,; was parsed, recommending that- in States' ! whA'e election frauds 'hlfve Ijfeen perpetrated the Democratic committees investigate with a view to exposure and punishment, but declaring that the National Committee cannot

! be charged with responsibility as to the duties of courts or of Congress. Official returns from the ninety-nine , counties in lowa show the following result: For Garfield, 183,954; for Hancock, 105,928: for ! Weaver, 33,590; scattering, 470. Tne total vote • cast was 323,832, an increase of 30,953 over the i vote of 1876. . The official vote of Pennsylvania gives Garfield a plurality of 37,276 and a majority of i 14,625.- The total vote is 874,783, against 758,993 !in 1876. Following is the vote for President: ■ Garfield, 444,704; Hancock, 407,428; Weaver, i 20,668; Dow, 1,939; Phelps, 44. The official vote of Alabama, with four counties to hear from, is : Hancock, 88,309; Garfield, 55,794; Weaver, 4,551. The counties to hear from will add about 2.000 to Hancock’s majority. Official vote of Maryland for Presidential electors: Hancock, 93,706; Garfield, 78,515. Tranquilimo Lana, Republican, has been elected. Delegate to Congress from NewMexico by 1,500 majority. Official returns of the late election from all the counties of Missouri show the foliowing result: Hancock, 208,589; Garfield, 153,587; Weaver, 35,135; Hancock’s plurality, 55,002; majority, 19,867. In 1876 Tilden received 202,687: Hayes, 144,398; Cooper, 3,498; Tilden’s plurality, 53,289; majority, 54,791. Total vote of the State, 397,311—an increase over that of 1876 of 53,272. M. E. Post, Democrat, has been elected Delegate to Congress from Wyoming Territory by 150 majority. WASHINGTON NOTES. Erasmus Cole has been appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, and J. B. Cassoday, of Janesville, sue- ; ceeds to the Associate Justiceship. A new town in Illinois, on the border of Kane and DeKalb counties, has been chns-| tened Garfield. Secretary Schurz has advised the rep- , resentative of a railway project, who wrote hnn I in regard to a right of way through Choctaw lands, that both legislation and treaty stipulations must precede action by the Interior Department Gen. Sherman is to be chief marshal cf the inaugural ball, which will be held in the National Museum Building.