Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1880 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Five thousand additional troops are to be sent to Ireland at once. At a Bdtuh Cabinet Council it was decided to request of the Queen the sub pension of d«j habeas corpus in Ireland. Baron Dowse, presiding at the Connaught assizes at Galway, has been threatened with death should he convict any member of the Land League. The Progressists and Democrats of Germany have won a great victory in the elections, which is partly due to tho new Corn lawn. Japan is making strenuous efforts to r-conomi/.0, and, in pursuance of this policy, has ordered the sale to privato individuals of tho factories which were formerly established by tho Government to stimulate native industries.

The preparations for the marriage of Victoria Woodhull to a London banker were suddenly stopped on account of Htories from America assailing ber character, a d she threatens to bury both continents iiftibel suits. Ttuporta from Ireland indicate no improvement in the situation. Healy und Walsh, indicted Land Leaguers, wero acquitted at the Cork Assizes, and a great demonstration by Iheir friends in celebration of the event followed. John Power, charged with being one of the party who slit the ears of a bailiff occupying the house of an evicted tenant near Tralee, County Kerry, was also acquitted at the Cork Assizes, notwithstanding ho was identified by the prosecutor. Parnell, Davitt, and Dillon have received anonymous letters threatening them with death. The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland vs taking stops to provido for tho protection of loyal men in tho remote districts. William Pence Jones, an Englishman and largo landoWnor, residing near Lissilare, County Cork, it Undergoing Boycott’s oxperionce. Ho lias

'"teen threatened with doath, and he is now being prevented from shipping his cattle to England for sale. The relations between Russia and China arc assuming a pacific phase. Josiah Caldwell, the great railway •constructor of London, has failed, with liabilities of #2,500,000. Paris dispatches say the success of the Panama canal scheme is enormous. A land meeting at Portadown, Ireland, was attacked by Orangemen, who wrecked the platform and dispersed the crowd. The Earl of Innoskil'cn, Grand Master of the Orangemen, has appointed a vigilance committeo to protect property in Ireland. Jonos, the latest victim of “Boycotting,” is quietly procuring an imed force to protect his laborers. He intends, ns soon as possible, to convert liis farm nto an immense pasture, and leave Ireland. Tho Liverpool firm to whom his sheep wore consigned refuse thorn, owing to the threats of tho Land League. Boycott appealed to Gladstone for indemnity for bis losses in Ireland, which he thinks should bo made good by the British Government. Tho Premier fails to take that view of tho matter. Tile foot and mouth disease is said to be spreading rapidly- among cattle in Great Britain. Railway employes in Great Britain have begun a movement for a reduction of working horns. An effigy of Parnell was burned at I’ortadowu, Ireland, amid wild excitement of tho Orangemen. Most of the troops sent to Ireland are to bo scattered through the West, which is considered the center of danger. In consequence of the refusal of Gladstone to assist Boycott, tho English public will be appealed to for aid, Frank Buckland, the eminent English writer on natural history, is dead. Tho Duchchkh of Westminster, whose husband is the richest man in the world, lias also passed away. Two thousand persons met in Berlin and resolved to buy nothing from Jewish shops, and to return no Liberal to Parliament who will not vote to suppress their liberty.

' XJOMLiSTIC INTELLIGENCE. Enfiit W. Knapman, of Lawrence, Sfass., f hot and killed Miss Avia Hinkman and then omniitted suicide. Jealousy. . The washing-machine factory of F. F. Adams & Co., at Erie, Pa., has been burned. A falling wall killed a fireman named George Smith, and seriously injured four others. The loss is $150,000. Edison announces that lie is preparing a test for tho subdivision of electrio light, by which the city of New York can be lighted for $2,000,000. A lire at Olean, N. Y., burned six buildings, and a woman and two children perished Two young men lost their lives by a boiler explosion at Latrobe, Pa. A cargo of Italians, among whom small-pox was raging, arrived New York last week, Most of them are without money or r change of clothing. A thorough investigation will be made to learn whether they are criminals or pauper's exported under publio auspices. Joseph Brown & Bros., wholesale drygoods merchants, of New York, have failed, with liabilities of $92,000. Charles A. Burt, an Albany maltster, shot Kate Smith, and then killed himself. Albin H. Bailey, who for thirty-two years has been connected with the Boston Transcript, has passed from earth. A woman named Ellen Moriarty has just died in New York at the age of 111 years. L. M. Myerj of Augusta, Ga., was robbed of SIO,BOO in a sleeping-car between Kiiladc*;i .md Jersey City.

Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague’s bill for divorce has been filed in Washington county, R. 1., the grounds being adultery, extreme cruelty, and neglect to provide. It appears that the ex-Governor has surrounded Canonchet with armed guards, and the Sheriff refused to serve & writ of replevin for Mrs. Sprague’s effects. The case will be tried in February. Foreign gold coin and bars to the amount of $6,151,400 reached New York last week. The receipts of Sarah Bernhardt’s two weeks’ engagement in Boston were $50,000. West. Hi: am S. Holbrook, local agent of the At lerican Express Company at Dubuque, shot himself dead in his bed, the bullet also lulling his little daughter. The Oklahoma invaders have delegated Dr. Wilson, a leading spirit in the enterprise, to proceed to Washington and present their situation to the administration. The colonists are camped at Caldwell, Kan., where provis.ons for six months have been offered them. While a number of Indians were disputing with each other at the Lower Brule Agency as to tho terms on which they would permit the Milwaukee and Bt. Faul Company to

lay tracks through their territory, the pistol of Mr. Beveridge, the Agent, went off accidentally, and the ball inflicted fatal injuriaa on Medicine Bull, the Brule chief The population of Utah is shown by the recent census to be 143,907. A family named Hanseu, living in Chicago, have been stricken with trichinae, the result of eating uncooked ham. Near Napoleon, Lafayette county,Mo., Mrs. James Jones, wife of a well-to-do farmer, attempted to fill a lighted lamp with coal oil, and both can and lamp exploded, causing the almost-instant death of her two children—a babe of 6 months and a little girl 6 years old—and burning Mrs. Jones so terribly that she died in a few hours. The Omaha Indians have decided to sell 50,000 acres of their reservation in Northeastern Nebraska, and have asked permission to send ten head men and two interpreters to Washington to arrange terms. Two coaches of the Kansas City express train, on the Missouri Pacific road, were thrown from tho track, near Eureka, Mo., and about a dozen persons were injured more or less seriously.

Nobel Bennett, a cooper, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., has driven his blind daughter to tiie county poor-house, after vainly edeavoring to induce her to commit suicide. Mary and Ludolph Torney, of Milwaukee, have died from trichinae. The State Grange of Indiana demands that the Agricultural Bureau bo raised to a Cabinet portfolio, and tliftt a national railway law be enacted, to prohibit discrimination in freights. William Perdew, of Leon, lowa, drank poison in mistake for whisky, and died. Robbers ransacked the residence of Mrs. George Tod, at Youngstown, Ohio, carrying off diamonds and jewelry valued at #7,000. William and Charles Mullen, owners of a farm near Santa Rosa, Cal., were killed by Albert and Frederick Quackenbush. The trag" edy grew out of disputed land olaims. Mrs. Hinz and son, ot Beaver Dam, Wis., have died from trichinae, and two memlicrs of Mr. Millarck’s family are prostrate. A piece taken from the dead boy’s arm was alive with parasites. The Mormons are crowding into Idaho with their quadruple families. Gov. Neil urges that Congress make polygamous cohabitation an offense, and asks Territorial legislation against those who preach the doctrino of plural marriage. Two masked men entered the bedroom of I)r. J. If. Mott, of Independence, Mo., covered him with revolvers, and forced him to sit on the edge of his bed while they took watches and jewelry to the value of #9OO. They then fitted themselves out with his clothing, burning their discarded garments in the grate, and bade him good-night. John C. Calhoun, a nephew of the famous South Carolinian, having been for some time an inmate of the California Insane Asylum, was about to be discharged, when he was drowned in the river at Stockton. South. The official figures give Jones, Greenbacker, a majority of 233 over Shepard, Democrat, for Congress from the Fifth district of Texas. Jay Gould is negotiating for the purchase of the Iron Mountain railroad. The explosion of a boiler in Fable & Son’s soap and candle factory at Louisville, Ky., killed Phil Hemp, fatally injured Conrad Spark and Lizzie Ott, and severely injured Peter Bolenboch, the fireman. A contract for a tunnel through Lookout mountain will soon be let by the Alabama Great Southern railroad. Daniel Keith, a negro, was hanged at Rutherfordton, N. C., for the murder of Alice Ellis. Two children perished in a burning building at Petersburg, Va. A prisoner confined in jail at Charlottesville, Va., wrapped his bedclothes about his neck, saturated them with kerosene, set them on lire, and perished from inhaling the flame. Mrs. Burk, of Austin, Tex., has obtained judgment for $25,500 against the Texas Central railway for jewelry, pictures, etc., burned in a car on that road.

WASHINGTON NOTES, Edgar Stanton, of Illinois, lias been nomiuated by the President for Consul General at St. Petersburg. President Hayes has promised to place Fitz John Porter on the retired list should the bill pass authorizing such action. The President has nominated Judge William B. Woods, Of Alabama, to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, vice Strong, resigned. Woods is now United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, comprising Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. He was appointed from Alabama, but is a native of Ohio. Cadet Whittaker has applied to President Hayes for a trial by court martial. In his application Whittaker asseverates his innocence in the strongest terms, and asks oniy for a fair trial on the accusations against him. The animal report of Joseph Nimmo, Jr., Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, shows that the United Statos surpasses every other country m tho magnitude of its exports of breadstuffa and provisions. Gen. Schofield’s new military division will comprise Louisiana. Texas, Arkansas and Indian Territory. The President has assigned Brevet Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard to the Department of West Point; Brig. Gen. O. C. Augur to the Department of Texas: Brevet Brig. Gen. Henry J. Hunt to tho Department of the South ; Brevet Brig. Gen. R. 8. Mackenzie to a new department, comprising Arkansas, Louisiana, and Indian Territory ; Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield to the new military division of tho Gulf, and Brig. Gen. N. A. Miles to the department of the Columbia. President Hayes has requested Gens. Miles and Crook, Mr. William Stickney, of Washington, and Mr. Walter Allen, of Newton, Mass., to proceed to the Indian Territory to investigate the complaints made about the treatment of the Poncas, so that justice may be done to that tribe.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Louisville Courier-Journal publishes the official popular vote for President, derived from official sources. The footings ares Hancock, 4.453,198 ; Garfield, 4,400,249; Weaver, 307.993 ; Dow, 8,384 ; scattering, 9,579; total vote, 9,241,438. Garfield over Hancock, 6,751. John Kelly has issued an address to the Democracy of New York, in which he attempts to prove that, Tilden treacherously compos ed the defeat of Hancock. Senator Blaine is in favor of increasing the number of Supremo Judges to thirteen, and of appointing at least four Democrats. Gov. Foster lias been prevailed upon by friends to withdraw from the contest for the Ohio Seuatorsliip. This insures the election of Secretary Sherman to succeed Mr. Thurman.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The proposed restoration of Fitz-Johu Porter to the rolls of the army was tho occasion of au allday debate in the Sonate on Monday, Dec. 13. Mr. Edmunds made a vain attempt to limit the effect of the bill to one year. Mr. Carpenter held that Porter must be pardoned by the President. Nearly 100 bills and resolutions wero introduced in the House. A resolution by Mr. Crapo declares that the construction of tho Panama canal by foreign capital, through a charter from any European government, tannot 1« sanctioned by the United Slates. Mr. Meyers offered a resolution ending upon the Secretary of the Treasury for a detail d statement of the moneys paid U. S. Grant from 1801 to 1877. Mr. Calkins secured the passage of au expression of sympathy with the unhappy laboring classes of Ireland. Mr. McOoid presented a bill to regulate commerce by railroad, providing for a uniform rate of fare and freightage, and for a Congressional Committee of Inquiry and Enforcement. Mr. Deuster introduced a bill to terminate existing treaties between the United States and the North German Confederacy; Mr. Warner one providing for a commission of live Representatives, four Senators and five experts, to revise and readjust the tariff. Mr. Willis offered a bill to reduce the postage on letters aud letter-matter to 2 cents for each one-half ounce or fraction thereof; also, to reform the civil service of the Un ted States. The latter provides that all persons who have been In office four years shall relaiu their places during good behavior; that all future appointments be made from among those who make the best showing at competitive examinations; there shall lie no preferences for any class of citizens, but soldiers and sailors. The President will lie entitled to ten places in each department for such as he may choose. The credentials of Mr. Taylor, elected as the successor of Gen. Garfield, were presented. Objection was made to admitting him to a seat, the opposition claiming that, the State having been apportioned into new Congressional districts, the district was reconstructed, and waß not the same as that which Gen. Garfield represented. Mr. Taylor qualified, and tho credentials were referred to the Committee on Elections.

Senatort' Beck, Reman and Morrill were appointed on Tuesday, Doc. 14, a sub-committee to consider a bill which provides for the free purchase and register of foreign-built ships by American citizens. Mr. Williams introduced a bill providing for an appropriation of SI,WO. 000 to be used in preventing the dissemination or introduction of infectious or contagious diseases among domestic animals in the United States. Mr. Morrill offered a resolution virtually declaring that the existing telegraph lines interfered greatly with the business of the Postofßce Department, and inquiring whether the telegraphic service should in t be placed cielushely in tho hands of the Government. The bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter was passed, being amended to provide that within eighteen months the President may appoint him to a Colonelcy on the retired list, without pay so • the time intervening since his dismissal. In the 11. use, Mr. Morgan introduced a bill for the incorp nation of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. Among the incorporators appear the names of Gen. U. S. Grant, E. D. Morgan, H. J. Jewett, Solon Humphreys, William Dennison, Howard Potter and others. Tho bill proposes that the capital stock shall consist of not ices thau 500,000 nor more' than 1,000,000 shares of SIOO each. Mr. Bicknell announced that 1 _■ would let the electoral-count resolution go over the holiday adjournment. A. W. C. Now lain was appointed Postmaster of the House. An hour was spent in committee of the whole in hearing vark us propositions for refunding the bonds maturing next tear. Messrs. Kelley, Buckner, Gillette, and McMillan offered amendments. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was reported, calling for $1,100,435; as was the Military Academy Appropriation bill, which appropriates $322,135. Mr. Young introduced a bill t > encourage American seamen, and to provide a home for permanently disab'ed seamen. Among the appointments sent to the Senate were the followihg: James Monroe, of Michigan, to lie Marshal for. the Western district of Mi lugan : Ez ikiel ff. Turner, of Tennessee, t • Ist United Slates Jud e for the Western district of Tenures e: A’exander Hughes, of Dakota, to be Reoeiver of Public Moneys ut Yankton, D. T.

A bill was simultaneously introduced into the Senate and House, by Senator Hill and Mr. Belford, of Colorado, on Wednesday, Dec. 15, for the gradual retirement of all greenbacks less than $5. The bill to devote to public education a part of the proceeds of the sales of public lands was supported by Messrs. , Burnside and Morrill, and warmly advocated by Mr. Brown, of Georgia. Mr. Pendleton introduced u Civil Service Reform bill. It provides that admistion to the service be determined by competitive examination, and that promotion Ehall be governed by examination, efficiency, "and experience. Mr. Pendleton has also introduced a bill to protect Governmen temployes Ifrom political assessments, l he Senate unanimously confirmed the nominations of Gen. Haven ah Chief Signal Officer and of Gen. Miles as Brigadier General. The House passed the Senate bill granting a pension of SIOO per month to the widow of President Tyler. YVhile the House was in committee of the whole on the Fortification bill, which finally passed, Mr. Baker, of Indiana, called attention to the fact lhat a foreign man-of-war could reach the docks in New York without injury from our defenses. Mr. Gibson reported a bill appropriating $1,800,000 for tho improvement of the Mississippi river.

A bill authorizing the President tp enter the name of Gen. Ord on the retired list with his brevet rank of Major General was introduced in the Senate on the 16th Inst., by Mr. Maxey. The appearance of Gen. Grant caused a recess of ten minutes. Mr. Saunders presented a bill for the sale of part of the reservation of the Omaha Indians, in Nebraska, and Mr. Hoar a petition for woman suffrage in the Uerritoriss. Prolonged debate took place on the Educational bill, which went over. In tho House, Fernando Wood presented a concurrent resolution for a holiday recess of two weeks from the 22d, which was adopted. The pension appropriation was discussed in committee cf the whole, and subsequently passed. Nearly all the members of the House came to the Speaker’s desk and greeted Gen. Grant. Mr. Bland, of Missouri, introduced a bill to take from the treasury $100,000,000 in coin, and discharge that amount of interest-bearing debt at its maturity. The President nominated Theodore F. Singiser, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary of Idaho Territory and Edward P. Champlin, of Michigan, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Deadwood, D. T. Mr. Wallace introduced a bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy In the Senate on Friday, Dec. 17. The Senate refused to concur in the resolution passed by the House to adjourn from the 22d inst. to the sth prox. A motion to reconsider was-afterwards adopted. Mr. Blaine offered a resolution that the Judiciary Committee in quire into the expediency of increasing the number of Supreme Court Judges to thirteen. After prolonged debate on the Educational bill, Mr. Teller's amendment was adopted, providing that for ten years the proceeds of the Ales of public

The House of Representatives was ih session On Saturday; Dec. 18, an* paused the West Point Appropriation bill, giving $322,135. The Consular bill, appropriating $1,190,430, was discussed for hours in coninfiteee of the whole, until it was found that no quorum was present. lands shall be paid to the several States according to the proportion of persons over 10 years of age who cannot read or write. The measure was then passed by 41 to 6. The Senate passed the bill appropriating $250,000 to rebuild the Pensacola Custom House, recently destroyed by fire, and then adjourned to Monday. The House passed the Senate bill granting a pension to the widow of Gen. Heintzcffnan. Mr. Aldrich introduced a bill to give the city of Chicago title to the take front.