Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1880 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREION NEWS. There seems to be little doubt that *tho Czar’s condition is rather precarious. Persons who are qualified to judge say that his death will occur in the near future. The Irish Bishops will stand by their people. They have communicated to the Pope that “ under certain circumstances,” the significance of which phrase cannot be misunderstood, they will be unable to free themselves from the necessity of supporting the Land League agitation. Russia is establishing an army corps on the Persian frontier, to keep an eye on the Kurds. Beaconsfiold’s publishers paid him £ 12,000 for the copyright of “Endymion,” which is purely a political novel. Berlin dispatches intimate that the authorities are in sympathy with the movement to restrict Jewish influence in political matters. Dervisch Pasha attacked Dulcigno on the 22d of November, but was received with a withering volley of musketry from the Albanians, and forced to retreat, and was obliged to camp in the open country. The Egyptian Government has issued orders to drive back tho Abyssinians by force. The King of Abyssinia decrees that all Mussulmans must be baptized or leave the country. War at an early date is deemed inevitable. Large quantities of arms and ammu nition are being received at Dublin and Cork from America. Fourteen men. one of whom was a British soldier, have been arrested at Cork for participating in a Fenian procession. It required a largo force of cavalry, infantry, policemen and Orangemen to escort fifty-seven sacks of Boycott's grain from his farm to tho railroad station. A landlord was fired at three times at Lough Boa while walking in his garden. Tho trials of tho indicted Land Leaguers havo been fixed for tho 17th of Docomber. Merchants and other citizens of Dublin declare they will not servo on the jury in these trials, for fear of injury to their. business or murder. Healy, Parnell’s privato secretary. has been elected to Parliament "from Wexford. At a mooting of tho British Cabinet it was decided that there was no necessity for coercive legislation for Ireland at present. An attempt was mado to assassinate Capt. John Mitchell, renting a largo farm in Roscommon, and a Protest, ant clergyman was nretl upon in 'llpperary. There havo boen sixty arrests by tho constabulary at Westport.

The steamer Ortigia came in collision with the French steamer Onclo Joseph near Hpezzin, Italy, on tho 24th of November. Tho Onclo Josoph was so much injured that she soon sank. Bho had 800 persons on board, only about fifty of whom were saved. The Ortigia reached Leghorn in a badly-damaged condition. Dervisch Pasha is in possession of Dulcigno, but did not get thereuntil after eight hours’ fighting with tho Albanians, during which both sides suffered very severe losses in killed and wounded. A dispatch from Teheran says tho heads of 300 Kurds have been exposed at Tabrecz. The recent negotiations between Chili and Peru havo been productive of no good result. Chili demanded the cession of a large amount of Peruvian territory, and Peru refused to accede to tho demand. Disorderly demonstrations against the Jews havo been made by the university students in Loipsic, Germany. A horrible war, attended by merciless buteborings, has broken out in New Calabar. An Austrian lias challenged Dr. Tanner to a forty-four-day fast, maintaining himself on beer. The British Parliament will meet on the 6tli of January. The first measure of importance to be introduced is an Irish Land bill. Another shipload of Socialists has left Hamburg for New York.

DOM ESTIC INTELLIGENCE. * Enst A statue of Alexander Hamilton, the earliest Secretary of tho Treasury, has been unveiled in Central Park, Now York, The donor is a son of the famous financier, and is nearly 90 years of age. A Philadelphia jury has convicted Dr. John Buchanan, the trafficker in bogus diplomas, of conspiracy to defraud tho Government to the amount of a $5,000 bail bond. There lias been another cremation at Dr. Lo Moyne’s furnace in Pennsylvania. The remains reduced to ashes were those of thejato Mrs. Lucia Noys, wife of a lawyer at Warren Pa. A train of freight cars jumped the track and tumbled over an embankment at Holland, N. Y., tailing among a gang of track laborers, .killing three and injuring several others. While Thomas Kelley and wife were returning home in Norwich, Ct., James Goode quarreled with Kolley, and the woman, in attempting to shield the husband, was fatally stabbed. Goode was mortally wounded. West. Lieut. Gov. Gray has been installed ns Governor of Indiana, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of tho late Gov. Williams. The funeral services of the latter were participated in at Indianapolis by a vast number of people, including many of the moat distinguished citizens of the State. The remains were removed to Wheatland, his old farm homo, for interment. The census returns show that Idaho is looking up as a stock-raising Territory. The cattle there are estimated at 450,000 head, beside 60,000 horses and an equal number of sheep. Two children at Napa, Cal., left locked in a house during the absence of their parents, were burned to death. The Chicago Public Produce Exchange has dosed its doors, with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. Charles E. Fisher, a Cincinnati ballot-box-stuffer, has been held in $2,600 to the Grand Jury. Four laborers were killed by the fall of an embankment on the Hastings and Dakota road, near Hopkins, Minn. Mrs. Fred Chateau and Mrs. Amanda Grogorie, while crossing the Mississippi rivar on tho ice from Dubuque to East Dubuque, missed their way and fell through an air-hole in the ice and were drowned. Prof. James A. Watson, who so ably filled the chair of astronomy in the University of Wisconsin, and formerly Director of the obsorvatory at Michigan University, died at Madison, last week, of illness contracted while making bis astronomical observations. Mrs. Anna Ooieman, the wife of a fanner living near Jonesboro, Ind., was literalJt to Didoes by $ vicious buu.

Alpheus S. Foote, of LaCrosse, Wis., former partner of “Brick” Pomeroy in the pubUcation and conduct of tne La Crosse democrat, has been sent to the Wisconsin penitentiary for five years for forcserv. Two men were killed and three dangerously wounded at New York, by falling through the Harlem railroad hndge. The first legal execution in Arizona took place Nov. 26 at Phconix, -where Demetrio Domingues, 17 years of age, was hanged for the murder of Mr. Thomas. Five Colorado miners, tramping over the Continental divide, were swept down in an immense snowslido, two being killed. Mr. Robinson, Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, was shot and dangerously wounded by a guard placed over a mine of which he was the principal owner, near Leadville. A man named Baasham has for some months lain in jail at Kansas City on suspicion of being one of the robbers of a train at Glendale, Mo., in October, 1879. At his trial, a few days ago, he pleaded guilty, giving the details of the crime and the names of six men who perpetrated it. On his confession, two men, named Tally and Rose, have been arrested at Independence, Mo., for a share in tho enterprise. George Moore, his son and another man were killed, and foui other men severely injured, by the explosion of a boiler at Charlotte, Mich. Several cases of trichina, caused by eating uncooked pork, have occurred in Chicago. The late Prof. Watson bequeaths all of his property, valued at $60,000, to the National Academy of Sciences. He leaves only $3,000 for tho support of his wife. Mrs. Mary Dillon, who was born in Limerick in 1769, has just died at Logansport, lud. South. A Louisville negro died of'lockjaw, caused by a wound in his heel from a nail in his shoe. The mistake of a cook at Kingston, Teun., who used arsenic for sodi,- has caused five deaths, and thirty more of a large party were dangerously ill at last accounts. Charles Brown, of Marble Mali, Va., and a young man clerking for him were found, murdered in bed in tho store, their bodies being horribly mutilated. Twelve hundred miles of the Southern Pacific railway have been completed, bringing its rails to tho Rio Menbros. Tho Texas Pacific, which will make a junction at El Paso, has been extendod 150 miles west of Fort Worth. Early in 1831 the new ronte will be open to tho P acific coast. Tho Comity Election Commissioners, the Chairman of tho Democratic County Committee, and the Chairman of the Democratic District Committee, were arrested last week at Vicksburg, Miss., by order of United States Judge Hill, for violation of tho national election laws. Hawley, who, hidden in ambusli, shot dead his neighbor Hayes, because of an ancient feud, aftor being married to his paramour in order to legitimize their offspring, and making the usual religious professions, was hanged at Salem, Va., Nov. 26. Gen. George B. Crittenden, of Kentucky, a prominent officer in the Confederate army during the civil war, is dead. An aged citizen of Laurinburg, N. 0., tied’ two little grandchildren close to the fireplace and went out to pick cotton. The clothing of the infants took fire, and they perished almost before his eyes.

POLITICAL POINTS. Nebraska’s official vote for President’: Garfield, 54,979; Hancock, 28,323; Garfield over Hancock, 2(1,456. The official canvass of the vote for Presidential electors in Michigan shows the following result, giving the highest vote cast for any one elector : Garfield, 185,195; Hancock, 131,301 ; Weaver, 34,895; Dow, 902; Anti-Secret-Society candidate, 322. Garfield’s plurality, 53,894 ; majority over all, 17,775. The vote cast in Indiana for President was canvassed at Indianap ilis on the 22d of November, by Gov. Gray, Secretary of State Sbanklin, and Auditor of State Manson. At the eleventh hour it was discovered that the Marshal appointed for the Eighth district had not put in an appearance, and that the vote of Montgomery county had not been cortified to. An examination of |the law left the board in doubt as to any discriminating powers, and so they concluded to return tho vote so far as it was certified to, and adjourn, with tho mental reservation that, when the vote of the Eighth district was properly certified it should be added. The vote as canvassed is as follows: Garfield, 212,146; Hancock, 208,375; Weaver, 10,623 —leaving Garfield a plurality of 3,771, instead of 6,400, as it should be, had the Eighth district been canvassed.

President Hayes has inspired the statement that he can not be a candidate for any position, and that he desires the return of John Sherman to the Senate. The Territorial delegates-elect to the Forty-seventh Congress have thus far been overlooked in tho count. They are as follows : Arizona, Granville H. Owry, Democrat; Dakota, Benjamin F. Pettigrew, Republican; Idaho, George Ainslie, Democrat; Montana, Martin Magiunis, Democrat; New Mexico, Tranquilino Luna, Republican ; Utah, George O. Caunon, Mormon ; Washington, Thomas 11. Brentz, Republican; Wyoming, M. E. Post, Democrat. The vote of New Jersey, as now officially declared, was : For Hancock, 122,565 ; Garfield, 120,555; Weaver, 2,617; Dow, 195; Hancock’s plurality, 2,010. The plurality of Ludlow, Democratic candidate for Governor, was 651. Through a stupid blunder on the part of the Republicans, one Hancock elector appears to have beeu chosen in Indiana. Tho name of B. S. Parker, the Republican nominee for the Sixth district, was omitted from the tickets in six counties, so his Democratic competitor, D. W. Chambers, comes out about 10.000 votes ahead. The Alabama Legislature has chosen James L. Pugh Senator from that State, to fill the vacancy occasioned by tho death of exGov. Houston. Secretary cSherman now charges that his defeat at Chicago was due to the opposition of Gov. Foster to the proposal of tho Blaine men to change their votes on the Monday before the nomination. President Hayes has succeeded in bringing about a good understanding between Garfield and Sherman, and the now executive has expressed a desire that the Secretary remain at liis post Offioial vote of lowa : Garfield, 183,904; Hancock, 105,854; Weaver, 32,327 Phelps, Anti-Masonic, 483; Dow, Prohibition’ 159. ’ The vote of Maine foots up: For Garfield, 74,039 ; Hancock, 65,171; Weaver, 4,480 ; Dow, 92; scattering, 127. Garfield’s majority over sll, 4,169 J over Babcock, B ,m,

The total electoral vote of Indiana will, after all, be cast for Garfield. The State officers are agreed that Bennett, the Republican candidate in the Eighth district, was elected, and will award a certificate to him accordingly.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The taxes paid the Government by the national banks for last year were $7,591,770. On the Ist day of November there were in the treasury standard silver dollars to the amount of $47,084,459. Fifty-eight national banks were organized during the past year ; five failed and twenty-one went into voluntary liquidation. The Commissioner of Pensions reports 550,802 names on the rolls, receiving an average of $lO3 per annum. His estimates lor the current year are $50,000,000. The reduction in interest on the public debt, effected during the past year, is shown by the report of the Treasurer of the United States to havo been $21,699,965. The receipts of th*e Government for customs dues, internal revenue, and public-land sales for the past year were $59,811,505 greater than for the twelve months preceding. The total expenditures were but $695,074 in excess of thosp for the year previous. A Wasliington newspaper is authority for tho statement that an effort will be made in Congress this winter to suspend the navigation laws for several years, in order that for-eign-built ships may be registered and sail under tho American flag. The plan is to make an experiment for a fixed time. The President has received from the Queen of England a present of a handsome desk made out of the timber of the British ship Resolute, lost in the Arctic seas, and rescued by the American expedition. The Indian Bureau last year cost the Government $8,147,989; the War Department $17,740,337. Gen. Walker, Superintendent of tho .Census, has ordered a second investigation of the South Carolina census. Neither the President, .Secretary Schurz nor Superintendent Walker believes the census to have been stuffed or fraudulent, but they are aware, from interviews with Northern members of Congress, that, unless there is the most thorough and searching investigation, it will be almost a hopeless task to try and make apportionments under the recent census. The clamor on tho subject came mainly from New England.

There is a pretty general feeling that a refunding bill will be passed during tho next session of Congress—one similar in tenor to the Wood Refunding hill introduced last session. Secretary Sherman agrees with Mr. Wood that tho rate of interest of the new bonds should be 3% per cent., but believes that the time of the bond should be shorter. The estimates for the executive departments of the public service for the next fiscal year aggregate $14,536,404.23. A delegation from the Independent Republican Association of New York waited on Gen. Garfield, in Washington, tlie other day, and presented him with an address of congratulation on his election, in which they dwelt on his utterances and previous attitude on civilservice reform and tho danger to the safety of the republic arising from the spoils system. Gen. Garfield in reply expressed a hope that all routine appointments should be mado according to some legal basis, and that even the President should be deprived of all power to remove faithful and capable employes during his term of office.