Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Tiie manager of a Parisian sensational paper has been sentenced to pay a tine of 12,000 francs to M. Constans, a;id one of 6,000 francs to the Prefect of Toulouse, for having libeled these gentlemen. The sculling-match on the Thames, m which Banian vanquished Trickett with the utmost ease, caused the greatest excitement throughout the British empire. The betting was heavier than was ever before known, Toronto, parties winning over $300,000. Eight thousand rifles have been sent from Italy to Ireland, and Irishmen from the United States have been buying arms m Switzerland. John Bright, in a speech at BirmingJtiaui, denounced the Bish land laws, and attributed the state of affairs in Ireland t"> the rejection by the Lords of the Compensation for Disturbance bill. He declared force would avail nothing. The project for transfer of the ir.nd to tenants he styled “chimerical.” The remedy was in giving the tenants secure possession in. I protection against constant raising of rents. G-n. (’lris; r *t and the manager of La • ''iininunf. in 1 a s, have been sentenced to fine ml uncut for defending a criminal act. Another Joiun.'dis* is condemned to like punishment for insulting President Grevy. I hecapit.il of the Panama Canal Goiiil to >■•• • rganized at Paris, is 300,000,003 ; :si;<’ j , mil the estimated cost is 500,000,000 1 l ines. A special American-committee will be / rcii’ed in Ne v York. The differences in the British Cabinet mam the n le.diou of coercion in Ireland are no longer concealed. Bright and Chamberlain continue firm in their opposition to tin rigor<’iu modules which are warmly urged. The I. m l m Tiiinx says .< very day’s events tend to tin: success of the stand taken by Mr. Bright, mid adds significantly that it will soon -not be worth while to attempt to enforce the opposite view. Mr. I’arneli telegraphs that Boycott will require a guard of 7.000 troops for t hirteen days to enable him to harvest his crops. The cost to British tax-payers will be from ¥15,000 to $25,000 per day, making them pay at the rate of 25 cents a pound for bis ootntoes. The Catholics of Belfast held a great mass-meeting tQ express their sympathy with the Land Leaguers. A grout battle bus 'taken place at l'i i. ni di. Ihi Joss biing heavy on both aides. 'The Jvurdn w. re repulsed, but binned the village and m:u sacred 200 citizens. A British regiment at Halifax has reived ord( r.s to sail for Ireland. The burning of a sugar refinery at l.ti mi", France, wiped out 1,000,000 francs. Eighteen families of miners suffered ii 'i iti dming n snow-storm at Durham, En Germany is to establish a politico-eco-nomical council of seventy-five members. An anti-Land-League movement is >■• ported to lw spreading in the North of Ireland. Twenty seamen and seven passengers were losl on (he sfearuer Altai, which foundered oil th- Br.tish coast. An Irish “ care-taker,” in charge, of a Cann from which the tenant had been evicted, was shot near New Pallos, while on his way home. He i.i not dead, as first reported, but is m a precarious condition. A terrific fire -damp explosion occurred m a coal pit in :r Mons, Belgium. Twenty•ovtn men were in the, mine at the lime, all of ■vhom are l.'i'lieved to have Lean "killed. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that •'it large number of Nihilist placards have jus! appeared up,on the walls of S . l’et< rsburg. some of them in the most frequented parts of the city. They proclaim in flaming characters the heginuing of a fresh revolutionary movement, beside which tAI former agitations will be com ! lered puerile and insignificant. Ominous warning is given that the throne of Alexander wdl be vacant before the dawn of another year.'' The tenants throughout Ireland seem to have organized a universal strike against paying a higher rent for their farms than the Government valuation, and in some instances I hey refuse to pay even that. The combination against the payment of rents is extending into hitherto peaceful districts. Evictions are all blit impossible, and although there are quite a number of soldiers and constables in the country there are not enough io form body-guards for all the obnoxious landlords, agents, bailiffs, caretakers, etc. The agitation is being . pushed with vigor and determination, and the proceedings instituted by the Government against the leaders seem to have had only one effect—that of rendering the leaders more popular. The address of the Irish National Land League is a temperate, manly, wellconsidered, and well-written document. It declares that the aim of the League is to accomplish a reform in the infamous laud laws of Ireland through “reasonable, peaceful, and thoroughly legal means,” which will “offend in no degree against natural right, moral obligation, or intelligent human law.” Edwin Booth achieved a great triumph in London in his impersonation of the historical character of Richelieu. A Naples dispatch says the activity of Mount Vesuvius increases. Lava Hows abundantly on the side toward Naples. Liverpool reports the arrival of 16,769 head of American cattle from New York, Boston and Baltimore during the past three months. The number lost on the passage was 1,115 head. Several Kurdish villages have been destroyed by the Persians, and the Kurds have retreated fifty miles. ‘"hr Alexander Cockburn, Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench, and Field Marshal Sir Charles Yorke are dead, the former at the age of 78, the latter aged 90.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. A broker doing business iu Broad street, New York, has been robbed of $150,000 in bonds. Diphtheria prevails to an alarming extent in Brooklyn. Four men lost their lives and several others received serious injuries by a railway accident near Pittston, Pa. A lad at Elmira, N. Y., named Fred Palmer, has lost an eye through poison received from a horse afflicted with epizoot. A notable social event at Harrisburg, Pa., was the marriage of the eldest daughter of Senator Don Cameron to William H. Bradley, son of Justice Biadley, of the United States Supreme Court. Gen. Sherman and many other • dignitaries were present. Kenward Philp has been indicted by the New York Grand Jury for libel against Gen. Garfield,

The Reading road has been authorized by the courts to issue $34,000,000 in deferred income bonds. Salviui, the great Italian tragedian, has arrived at New York, and is under engagement for 100 nights m the principal cities. The Lotus Club, of New York, gave a brilliant reception in honor of Gen. Grant. Whitelaw Reid presided, and asked why the illustrious guest of the evening should not be made Captain General of the armies. The guest replied that he was entirely satisfied with his present position, and was not one of those who charged republics with ingratitude. The docks being constructed on the South Boston flats rank next in size to the Victoria docks at Liverpool. It is said that the Pennsylvania railroad has advanced the money for this great enterprise. West. A telegram from St. Teter, Minn., dated the 15th inst., says: “At a late hour tonight fire broke out in the insane asylum at this place, containing about 600 patients. The building, which was one of the finest edifices in the county devoted to the care of insane persons, was burned to the ground. At tins writing it is thought that from 150 to 200 of the inmates have perished in the flames.”

Sitting Bull, who some time ago evinced a disposition to surrender, now bids defiance to the United States Government, and says he will fight to the bitter end, that be will die rather than surrender, and his warriors seem to share his hostile sentiments, and dare Gen. Miles to attack them, threatening him with Custer’s fate if be does. The new enumeration of the inhabitants of St. Louis credits that city with a population of 310,360, or about 6,000 more than the June census. Another theater is to be built in Chi-, cago, to cost SBO,OOO. It will be located on Wi st Madison street. The last rail on the Wisconsin and Minnesota road has been laid, completing a new line from the Wisconsin Central to St. Paul. Hog cholera, of a violent type, prevails in several sections of Indiana. A vein of good coal, over four feet thick, has been struck at Ponca, Neb., 585 feet from the surface. Milwaukee has gotten up a list of 5,630 male citizens, who, it is claimed, were omitted in the census enumeration.

A construction train on the Dallas and Wichita road broke through a temporary bridge over Hickory creek. Thirteen workmen were w ounded, three of whom have since died. The annual report of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company shows an increase in net income over the previous year of $1,424,421. Five passengers were killed on the road during the year; thirty employes, and forty others. Ohio bad 2,996,657 acres in wheat this year, and the yield was 52,522,794 bushels, or an average of eighteen and three-fourths bushels per acre. Last year the number of acres in wheat in the Buckeye State was 2,318,260, and the yield was 41,952,120 bushels, or an average of only seventeen and seven-tenths bushels per acre. Five persons lost their lives in a shocking mriimi r at Cleveland, Onio. Daniel Bmr, a rolling-mill laborer, hade his wife good-night, cissed his 3-yc.ar-o!d daughter, and left home for bis work in the evening. Tim next morning ho returned to find the little one tlutic’, and Im v.i;’.-and infant child an I two worm n visitors on the floor in a comatose condition. But one of them, it is said, can recover. The horrid tragedy was caused by the escape of gases from a base-burner stove. While Corwin Call, a miner at Logan, Ohio, was emptying a quantity of blasting powder into a suck which his wife was holding, tin powder explod'd. Mrs. Call was I'timed to death, and Cail is n.it likelv io live. President-elect Garfield and his wife attended the funeral of their late niece, Mrs. Palmer, at Solon, Ohio, last week. Bev. James B. Corrington, famous a q tarter of a century ago as a co-laborer of Peter Cartwright, passed away at St. Louis the other day. Mary Gilbert, widow of the engineer killed in the memorable collision at Jackson. Mich., last year, has sued the Michigan Central road for SIO,OOO, and has been tendered $3,000 an a compromise. The new census of St. Louis is completed, and shows a population of 350,915. Tiie gain on the previous enumeration is 17,000. Three more unfortunates in the St. Peter asylum have died from the inhalation of -.moke, making thirteen fatalities. Ten others : ire reported as burned fatally, and eight are missing. The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce has taken possession of the commodious stone structure erecte d for its use by Alexander Mitchell, closing the ceremonies by a banquet of rare attractions. A nephew of John C. Calhoun, residing at Candalaria, Nev., has become insane from a wound received during the war. The St. Louis refining and smelting works have been destroyed by fire. Loss, $60,000 to $75,000 ; insurance, $48,700, The town of Jamison, Plum is county, Cal., consisting of forty buildings, including three stores and five hotels, has been totally destroyed by fire. James D. Williams, Governor of Indiana, died at Indianapolis on the 20th of November. His disease was inflammation of the bladder, with which he had been afflicted for a ! period of about fifteen years. Gov. Williams , was nearly 73 years of age, and had been an active politician since 1843. tie was elected for several successive terms to the lower house of the Indiana Legislature, and in 1858 was elected to the State Senate, elected to Congress in 1874, and Governor of Indiana in 1876. He was a homespun sort of man, and was very popular because of I ! i simple ways and sterling integrity. By his death Lieut Gov. Gray becomes Governor till the first Tuesday of January next, when he will be succeeded by Governor-elect Porter. Capt. Payne has ordered a general movement from the six chief rendezvous into Oklahoma, on Dec. 6. It is asserted along the border that he can easily muster 5,000 men. Lord, Stoutcuburg & Co.’s wholesale drug house, on Wabash avenue, Chicago, has been destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at $200,000. The people ol Kansas, at the recent election, adopted an amendment to the State constitution prohibiting the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors. One of the four buildings of the Adrian (Mich.) Methodist College has been burned. A companion structure was destroyed the same way in 1869. South. Clem Canana, a negro, has just died at Guilford, Va., at the age of 121 years. Another exodus of negroes from Alabama and Louisiana is setting in,

Texas has a cotton crop estimated at 1,250,000 bales, and valued at $60,000,000. Two-thirds of the buildings, including most of the residences of the town of New- ■ port, Ark., on the Iron Mountain railroad, have l been destroyed by fire, and about 200 families made homeless. The property loss is estimated : at $200,000. Great distress prevails among the parties burned oat. Three children at Wilmington, Del., were fatally p lisoned by eating raw sweet poj tatoes, the vines of which had been sprinkled i with Paris green. A special train conveying the Sixteenth infantry struck a broken rail near Corsicana, Tex., wounding twenty-five soldiers, several quite seriously. Something novel in the way oi a cause for suicide was develojied in North Carolina. where a young lady hanged herself through mortification at the defeat of her hither for the Legislature. An Arkansas man named Eord secreted himself in some bushes, near Texarkana, and killed Dr. Caldwell as he rode by. A horse trade bad previously made trouble between the assassin and his target. Four men were killed and four wounded by the explosion of a mill-boiler at Stevenson, Ala. _ A fast mail has been inaugurated between Washington and New Orleans. „ While a train was passing through the Baltimore tunnel at night, the passengers of a sleeping car were relieved by thieves of money and valuables to the amount of $7,000.

POLITICAL POINTS. George W. Jones, Independent, lias been elected to Congress from the Fifth district of Texas. Senator Joseph E. Brown, who was appointed some months ago by Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, to succeed Senator Gordon in the United States Senate, has been chosen his own successor by the Georgia Legislature. The full vote of Louisiana has been canvassed, and shows a majority for Hancock over Garfield of 32,709. Complete official returns from all the counties in Minnesota make Garfield’s majority 30,073. The official count in Rhode Island gives Garfield 18,195 ; Hancock, 10,778 ; Weaver, 226 ; Dow, 20. Complete official returns from California show majorities ranging from 87 to 143 for five Hancock electors, Judge Terry being defeated by Henry Edgerton, Republican, by 507 votes. An official canvass of votes in Connecticut shows Garfield’s plurality 2,656, majority over all 1,382. The vote of Kentucky, lacking one county, stands : Hancock, 147,446 , Garfield, 103,931; Weaver, 11,498: Dow, 257; Hancock over Garfield, 43,515 ; over all, 31,760. The official vote of New York city was ; For Hancock, 123,015 ; Garfield, 81,686 ; Weaver, 610; Dow, 26; total, 205,337. Outside of New York city the Garfield electors in th': State Lave 62,218 majority. Ofii -ial vote of Wisconsin : Garfield, Republican, 144,399; Hancock, Democrat, 114,053 : Weaver, Greenback, 7,782 ; Dow, Proliibitor, 07 : Phelps, Anti-Masonic. 91 ; Garfield over Hancock, 29,743; Garfield over all, 21.603. The vote of Massachusetts, as officially declared, was : For Garfield, 165,198; Hancock, 111,960 ; Weaver, 4,548 ; Dow. 682. The official vote of Oregon gives Garfield 763 majority. The official vote of the State of New York is as follows : Garfield, 555,5-14 : for Hancock, 534,611; for Weaver, 12,373; for Dow, 1,517; for Phelps (anti-Masonie), 75. Garfield’s plurality, 20,933. Garfield's majority over all, Q,968. The aggregate vote of New York, Pennsylvania. Ohio and Illinois—the four largest States in tiie Union—in 1876 and 1880 compare as follows : >'t(C<. IS7G. 1880. NewYi il, 1,U17 «:■;», 1,UJ4,12V sC.TSH) Penns-ylvimia 758.HG9 874 783 115,914 Ohio. 658,C4» 72R353 66i304 Illinois 581,493 621,922 67,429 Relatively the gain of Pennsylvania is most and that of New York least. Illinois gains slightly on Ohio, but the Buckeye State still keeps far ahead. lhe official vote of Mississippi for President is as follows : Hancock, 75,842 ; Garfield, 38,814 ; Weaver, 5,783 ; scattering, 670. Hancock over Garfield, 40,998.

WASHINGTON NOTES. In his forthcoming report, Commissioner of Infernal Revenue Raum will recommend the abolition of the stamp tax on matches. Tiie revenues from that source are now about $3.500,0;)0 yearly. According to the Treasury Departed nt estimates, the coin and bullion in the United St; t s on the. first day of November amounted, in goid, to $454,012,030 ; silver, $158,271,327. .-eretary Sherman declined offers of ,19 i‘ oi' the ii’s of 1889, his figures being 102.75. The 1 per ecuts are now held at 111.38. In his : iiiui-il report Secretary Schurz wiil leke strong •■.round in favor of the Northern P, ■■di ■ railway, a-id against legislation to cut off the i;-.ii.: 'f’rant. Gen. Miles has been appointed Chief of (he Signal Service. He entered the war as a Captain in the Twenty-second Massachusetts, and rose to be a Major General of volunteers. “ Babe ” Bedford and Edward Queenan, colored, were hanged in the jail at Washington last week for the murder of young Hirth, who was brutally killed and robbed m a remote part of that city in January last. Secretary Ramsey estimates the expenditures of the War Department for the next fiscal year at $43,627,055. The Eads jetties iu the Mississippi are pronounced a success. The Secretary asks authority to apply the earnings at the Leavenworth military prison to its maintenance.