Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1880 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Tho speech of Chief Justice May, of tho Queen’s bench in Ireland, in which he refuged to grant a postponement of the Irish state trials, has caused great excitement among the Laml-Lcaguers, who profess to regard it as a plain intimation that the power of the court will bo used in the interest of the Crown during these trials. Numerous outrages are reported from Iroland. In attempting to execute a decree at Ballingilly, Bailiff Mulholland was shot dead by a man named Graham. In many small towns the Land Leagne has caused the letters L. ~L. to l>o painted over the doors of sympathizing shop-keepers. A leaguer at Portadown has been threatened with death unless he ceases addressing meetings. Nangle, the Ulster tenant, who fired at his landlord, has lieon sentenced to twenty years’ penal servitude. Capt. 11. W. Howgnto, of tho signal •ervico, has tendered liis resignation. Spain lias taken 50,000 shares in De Lesseps, Panama-canal enterprise. Healy, Mr. Purnell’s private secretary and a member of Parliament, has been indicted at Cork on a charge of intimidating Manning The British Admiralty has at last abolished tho cat-o’-mne-tails in tho navy, which, henceforth, is to be disciplined without flogging. Graham, who shot Bailiff Mulholland, near Cookstown, Ireland, has been committed for murder. An explosion of tire-damp in a Welsh colliery, near Cardiff, killed eighty-six of the miners. The shaft in which the explosion occurrcd is within half a mile of the Dinas colliery, in which there was a similar catastrophe two years since. Cremation has been legalized by the autho'i'itics of Home. De Lesseps’ Panama canal scheme meets with little or no support in England. The agitation of the laud cpiestion has extended to England. Two more regiments of British troops are to ho dispatched to Ireland. A Dublin dispatch says the Claremorris police patrol, near Irishtown, fired on a body of men whom they suspected were about to attack a house. One man, who was seriously wounded, was arrested. The loss of life by the recent explosion in a Welsh coal mine is now placed at 100. No less than 1,430 English farmers went into bankruptcy last year. News of the death of Madame Theirs, widow of the late President of the French republic and celebrated historian, is telegraphed from Palis.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. JtCast. The tirni of Arnold & Sons,' of Now York, which for some time has essayed to control the coffeo market of tho world, yesterday retired from the business, having first made r.n assignment. Liabilities, $750,000 to SBOO,OOO. Five men and a woman were killed by tho explosion of a boiler in a steam saw-mill at Wendell, Mass. The anthracite coal interest has agreed to mine but three days in each week this winter. 'There has been another heavy failure in tho New York coffee trade. Bowie, Dash A Co., one of the syndicate which essayed to control tho coffee trade of the world, has suspended, with liabilities of $1,400,000. By a fire in Ferris court, Philadelphia, Ann Higgins and John Lyons were burned to death. John Story, a New York warehouseman, has died from the bite of a fly.

Inspired by jealousy, a man named Wardman killed his lnislress, Minn Pinldiam, in Lawrence, Mass., and then fatally shot hitusolf. Four cases of fatal freezing are reported from New York. 'West- • Her & Co., wholesale liquor dealers, and G. 11. it J. d. Collins, wholosalo leather dealers, have boon burned out at Omaha. Total loss, $125,000 ; insurance, SOO,OOO. The extraordinary phenomenon of a child slowly petrifying whilo alive, which for some time has confounded the medical men of Cleveland and elsewhere, has been terminated l>y the death of the littlo one. Two thousand Oklahoma colonists, encamped at Arkansas City, Kan., formulated an address to President Ha>es, announcing their intention to settle upon the ceded lands of Indian Territory, and demanding that Gen. Pope ho forbidden to interfere with their plans. Capt. Payne and several of the colonists crossed the lino on the night of the Bth inst. Two men were killed and several othors wounded by the premature explosion of a blast in the Forman mine shaft at Virginia City, Nev. Mrs. Glassma, a German woman of Marquette, Greenlake couniy, Wis., in a fit of temporary insanity killed her babe by cutting its head nearly off, and then cutting her own throat, dying almost instantly. Advices from Dakota indicate that the . Sioux there are unwilling to accept as binding on them the agreement of tho Spotted Tail and Ked Cloud band to the Milwaukee and St. Paul road right of way through the great reservation. They claim that tho Rod Cloud and Spotted Tail band had no right to cede anything, and there is trouble in prospect, Dr. Earll, a Chicago practitioner and notorious abortionist, has been sentenced to five ’•ears in the penitentiary for criminal malpractice, ivoulilng in the death of a young and beautiful girl.

A horrible double murder was recently committed near Colona, Henry county, 111. The victims were Mr. Thomas Dilley, a wealthy farmer, and his wife. They were discovered by some neighbors one morning in one of the slooping-rooms of their house, their skulls broken, and their faces and heads horribly disfigured. Near the bodies was found an old spado-handle, 'stained with blood, with which the murders had evidently been committed. Robbery was the object of the authors of the horrid crime. A shocking accident occurred in Cincinnati, during the progress of a conflagration, by which five gallant firemen lost their lives. They had entered a burning building and were bravely worldng to subdue the flames, when they became surrounded by fire and wore suffocated. George Scott, a half-breed Indian and negro, was lynched at Brazil, Ind., by a party of masked men, who took him from the jail where ho was confined for outraging Mr*. Allison, wife of his employer. Joseph Jefferson, the greatest exponent of legitimate comedy in America, has been #Uowiu§ the younger theater goers—older ones

had no need to bo instructed to that effect—that he was not an actor of a single part, by Ids assumption of the role of Bob Acres, in Sheridan’s sterling comedy, “ The Rivals,” at McVicker’s Chicago Theater during the past week. The house was crowded nightly ; but, in deference to the popular demand, one week of the stand-by, “ Rip Van Winkle,” is to be given. Following Mr. Jefferson, a holiday entertainment by Hermann, the cunning prestidigitator, is underlined, while during the season Sara Bernhardt, Ada Cavendish, Lotta, Annie Pixley, Salvini, and other promised. Noutli. The three negroes who murdered Mrs. Kennedy, in Clarenden county, 8. C., were lynched at the soene of the tragedy. A party of revenue officers had a tight with moonshiners near Huntsville, Ala., resulting in the death of Deputy Marshal John B. Hardie, and the wounding of Deputy Collector Bone. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has ordered a relentless war to be waged against the illicit distillers in that section. The Railway Commissioners of Georgia liavo ordered the reduction of fares on firstclass roads to 3 cents per mile, and the roads will retaliate by an effort to abolish the board. A Nashville dispatch reports a tight near Cooksville, Putnam county, Tenn., be. tween the Welshes and Capi. James Davis, United Ktates Deputy Collector, and United States Commissioner G. W. Campbell, Davis was Idled and Campbell beaten nearly to death. Tilnmn Webster, a saloonkeeper, and William Stewart, a farmer, quarreled at California, Ky., about a woolen comforter, when Stewart went home, got his pistol, and, as he returned, Webster shot him through the head, killing him instantly. Webster escaped. Both men are married. Duping tho services at Zion Colored Church, near Pleasure Ridge, Ky., Matthew Miller and Sylvester Weathers, two brethren of the congregation, becamo involved outside the door in a AiffioultyTibout a female member. After a fist-fight, Weathers shot and fatally wounded Miller. The elegant residence of Charles O. Fisher, m Baltimore, took fire the other morning, and two colored servants sprang from a fifth-story window and were killed. WASHINGTON NOTES. Gen. William B. Hazon has been appointed Chief Signal Officer of the arm}-. This promotion advances Gen. McCook to tho Colonelcy of the Sixth infantry. Gen. Ord having been retired, Gen. Auger will tako the Department of Texas. It is reported that Gen. O. O. Howard will take command of the Military Academy and Gen. Schofield be sent to California. . Senator Blaine wants to reduce letter postage to 2 cents. The latest suggestion for a Cabinet office is Gen. Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, to be Secretary of the Interior. __ Hon. Richard W. Thompson has tendered his resignation as Secretary of the Navy. He says tho American branch of the Panama Canal Company, of which he has been made President, will be organized in January, and that the total subscriptions to the scheme are $120,000,000. Justice Strong, of the United States Supreme Court, has resigned. He lias accepted an offer of employment hereafter as counsel for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. Gen. Walker hopes to have the census tables of population completed by the 6th of January, when the question of apportionment n ill be taken up in Congress, but it is hardly probable that any legislation on the subject will be perfected. Gen. Sherman says that, if Gen. Grant must bo placed at the head of the army, he will himself retire next April, when lie will be 62 years of ago, and make room for Gen. Grant. Some legislation, however, would be necessary to give Grant Gen. Sherman's place, if Sherman should retire, as, by law, that office ! expires either by the death or resignation of I Gen. Sherman.

POLITICAL POINTS. Gov. Fisk, of Kentucky, who was Governor of the State at the outbreak of the war, and did much to aid in preventing the State from seceding, is mentioned as a proper person to represent the South in Gen. Garfield’s Cabinet. The Governor of Missouri has given Ford, Greonbacker, the certificate of election as member of Congress from the Ninth district. According to the official returns Ford’s majority is 2. Allen Campbell has been nominated and confirmed Comptroller of the city of Now York, in place of John Kelly, who retires to the shades of private life.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The second session of the Forty-sixth Congress assembled at the Capitol In Washington on Monday, Dec. 6. The Senate was called to order at high noon, and prayer was offered by Chaplain Bullock. James L. Pugh, of Alabama, and Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, were sworn in as Senators, and the credentials of Senator Edmunds, of Vermont (re-elected as his own successor), were read. A committee was appointed to notify the President that the Senate was ready for business. After a brief recess the Senate reassembled, the message was read, and an adjournment voted. The House was called to order by Speaker Randall at precisely 12 m. The roll-call showed 227 members present The customary committee to notify the President that the House was ready for business was appointed, after which there Was a call of the States for biffs and resolutions. Mr. Cox, of New York, offered a resolution calling upon the President to communicate to the House the new treaty with China. Mr. Hurd, of Ohio, offered a joint resolution declaring that a tariff for protection (so called) does not. m most cases, protect the interest it pretends to protect, that it does not increase the wages of workingmen, that it builds up one citizen at the expense of another, disturbs the primal law of trade which governs exchanges by supply and demand, and is highly detrimental to American commerce. Pending action on the latter resolution, the President's message was received and read. In the Senate, on the 7th inst., Mr. McDon< aid introduced a bill to authorize local taxation oi treasury notes, and Mr. Ingalls a resolution calling upon the President for information in regard to the hreatened invasion of Indian Territory. Mr. Jones, of Louisiana, presented the credentials of the Hon. Thomas C. Manning, the new contestant for Senator Kellogg’s seat, and they were read and filed. Ia the House, Mr. Beiford offered a resolution asking the Secretary of the Interior to state the authority for imprisoning at Fort Leavenworth Sub-Chief Douglas, of the Ute tribe, charged with complicity in the murder of Indian Agent Meeker. The Senate resolution relativ-. to counting the electoral voles was called up by Mr. Bickuell. After prolonged debate, the Speaker decided it a matter of privilege. The previous question was then called, aud the Republican members refused to vote, upon which Mr. Bicknell withdrew his demand for the previous question.

Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill in the Senate on Wednesday, the Bth inst., providing for the issue oi $10,000,000 of fractional currency of the denomination of 10, 25, and 50 cents. Mr. Teller presented a bill to provide certain regulations concerning the manner of conducting elections for Representatives in Congress, and to pnnisb violations thereof. A bill for the erection of a public building at Quincy, 111., was presented by Mr. Davis. Mr. Morgan presented a constitutional amendment giving Congress authority to make rules for opening the votes cf the Electoral Colleges, having them counted by the two houses, and declaring the result of the e’.ectiou. Mr. Randolph gave notico of a substitute for the bill for tho relief of Fitz John Porter, authorizing his reinstatement in the army at a rank no higher than Colonel, without pay for the period since his dismissal. A bill for this sale of the Fort Lamed military reservation was pasted. Mr. Paddock introduced a bill for a State Government for Dakota. In the House, Mr. McCook, of New York, introduced a joint resolution to place IT. S. Grant on llie retired list of the army, with the rank and pay of General. The day was mainly devoted to debate on the Bicknell resolution concerning the counting of the e.ectoral vote. Mr. Robeson offered a substitute providing that the two houses, in joint session, the Vice President presiding, ascertain and declare tho result of Presidential elections. ”

In the Senate, on the 9th inst., very little business was transacted, and that body adjourned to Monday. The civil-service portion of the President’s Message was referred to a special committee with instructions to report at an early day. On motion of Mr. Paddock, the bill providing for the sale of the remainder of the reservation of the confederated Otoe and Missouri tribes of Indians in Nebraska and ansas, and for other purposes, wai p assed. Mr. Pendleton introduced a joint resolution to obtain the privilege of opening a highway through British Columbia to Sitka and Fort Wnuige'l. Alaska. Iu tho House, the Fortification Appropriation bill was reported and leeonimitted. It appropriates $100,<X)0 for fortifications and $50,000 for torped -es. Mr. Kelley introduced a bill repealing tho tax on haul: cheeks’, friction matches, bank capital a id deposits. Mr. Aldrich, of Illinois, introduced a bill amending the law In relation to the tax on savings banks. Sir. McLane then led off in debate on the electoral-vote resolution, on which tho rest of tho day was spent. The Senate was not in session on Friday, Dec. 10. Iu the House of Representatives, Mr. Hubbell reported the Pension Appropriation biff. It provides $48,000,000 to pay army pensioners, $1,110,000 for tho pay of navy pensioners, $250,000 for exam ink ing Surgeons, and $25,000 for salaries, etc. Mr. Shelley reported a bill for Hues of mail steamers to Mexican and Central and South American ports. The Speaker presented a communication from M. Gambetta, President of the French Chamber of Deputies, in relation to the exchange of documents. Tho Hou o refused to consider the concurrent resolution on the electoral vote, and adjourned to Monday.