Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1881 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Hom/e-Rule members of the British Parliament have organized for the coining session’s work with Parnell as President and Juatiu McCarthy as Vice President. Resolutions were adopted pledging the members to abide by the decision of the majority on all important measures, and binding them to sit in opposition to any administration that should refuse the demands of the Irish people for legislative independence. An explosion of fire-damp occurred in a coal-pit at St. Etienne, France, while the miners were at work. A number of them were killed. j Gale, the English pedestrian, who un- t dertook to walk 2,500 miles in 1,000 hours, ; broke down alter having covered 2,233 miles. ! By the collapse of the roof of a crowd- I ed church in France several persons were I killed and fifty or more wounded. The state trials opened at Dublin ’ last week, a dense crowd being in attendance. 1 Chief Justice May refused to take part, and , Justice Fitzgerald took the chief scat. Eighteen ! of the twenty-four jurors called answered to : their names, from whom twelve were selected, eight being Catholics, three Protestants, and one a Quaker. ) The, remains 'of George El tot were buried at Highgate Cemetery, London. Among the, mourners were Profs. Tyndall, ■ Bedey, and Calvin. . By the full of a church in Sailligott, I France, during the Christmas service, seven i persons were killed and fifty injured. Official returns show that the foot and j mouth disease is seriously spreading among cattle in all the large counties of England. There arc 6,754 cases of the disease in Norfolk i and 2,376 in London. ■ According to the latest advices all the ! powers except England have assented to the ■ Greek arbitration scheme. Greece has prom- ! isod to make a definite statement as soon as the ■ proposal is officially submitted, and the Porte I is undecided. China has agreed to open the entire empire to Russian commerce. The British steamer Garnet was lost on the North sea, with a crew of seventeen. Spain has contracted with England for several war vessels, and is building several gunboats and fast ships at a cost of nearly $2,000,000. An immense anti-Jewish meeting has been held in Berlin. Several members of Parliament were present, and thousands of people were unable to gain admittance. The Vatican has sent peremptory orders to the Irish Episcopacy to abstain from language tending to create an impression that the Pope favors the operations of the Land League. The Irish militia regiments mil not be called out for drill this year. A big Turkish army is to be stationed on the Greek frontier. All persons imprisoned for debt in Scotland were released on New Year’s eve, under the new law. Severe fighting is expected between the Russians and Turcomans in Central Asia.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blast Rev. Dr. E. H. Chapin, the wellknown Uuivorsalist divine, has just died in New York. |, At Red Bank, N. J., two men in the snow-storm. Hon. John Rowe, formerly Surveyor General of Pennsylvania, has just died at Chambersburg. The Massachusetts Railroad Commissioners refuse to grant locations for elevated railroads in Boston. Three men were instantly killed by a boiler explosion in E. P. Dodge’s shoe factory, at Newburyport, Mass. James Knowles and George Owen were drowned in the canal at Holyoke, Mass., while drunk. A statue of Gen. Phil Kearney was unveiled at Military Park, New Jersey, last week. Gens. Grant, Sherman and McClellan were present. Jacob Gozel and his wife, who resided near Allentown, Pa., were murdered in their bed Christmas night. A bloody ax was found in the apartment where the bodies lay, indicating the instrument of the murder. Joseph Snyder, a boarder, was suspected of the crime, and he was seized and lynched by an infuriated mob. Hu confessed his crime. Ho courted the daughter of the Gozels, and, as they did not encourage him, he determined to remove them. Charles O’Conor has become a citizen of Nantucket, Mass., and is understood to be at work on a law treatise, which will be hia final professional effort The payments at the New York Clearing House for the year 1880 were not only larger than ever before, but larger than those of any other city in the world. They exceeded the entire amount received and expended by the Ui ited States Government from its first establb hment down to the present time. Dr. Smiley, of Plainfield, N. J., went out to a :sit a patient on Wednesday evening, and wa.- frozen to death almost in sight of his home. It is asserted at Albany, N. Y., that the costly State Capitol, which was built upon quicksand, is likely to slide into the Hudson river. Charles Becker and George Engells, said to be two of the most expert forgers in the world, have been arrested in New York. There were 3,044 failures in New York city during 1830, with aggregate liabilities of ♦IS, 391,682, *

The estimates agreed upon for the city Government of New York for the current year reach 429,854,322. The assignee of the bankrupt coffee Ann of B. 8. Arnold <fc Co., New York, report* its liabilities at 42,254,860, and its assets at 41,549,433. West. When the Ute Commissioners returned to Los Pino* from Denver, they found 1,400 savages waiting to receive their installment* of 427 each. Just after the silver was disbursed, a white man arrived with the body of Johnson, the Indian whe was killed by the freighter, Jackson, and for two. days the wildest demonstrations of rage trere made, when the Commissioner* fled to Denver, which they reached after a rough trip. A dispatch from Fort Buford says that Scout Allison has arrived there with Crow King, the leading soldier of Sitting Bull’s camp, and Crooper, a cousin of Sitting Bull, both noted chiefs, as delegates from Sitting Bull to hold a council with Maj. Brotherton, so is to make some definite settlement about the surrender. Allison left Bitting Bull at the mouth of Milk river with instructions not to leave there until he returned for him. Twenty of the richest liquor dealers in Detroit have been arrested for keeping their i saloons open oh Christmas. By an ordinance passed by the Common Council of Chicago, the manufacturers of substitutes for butter will be compelled to stamp upon each package the ingredients of the article. The Criminal Court of St. Louis has sentenced to the gallows'Thaddeus Baber, who killed his mistress and her mother, and James Banks, who shot his wile. Gov. Scott, who killed young Drury at Napoleon, Ohio, has been committed to prison to await trial, having been refused bail. The boiler of a shingle-mill at V estaburg, Mich., exploded with such force as to tear the structure to pieces, instantly killing Frank Filkins, the engineer, and Frank Ainsly, the night watch. The main part of the boiler was thrown forty-five rods, causing the death of C. Conkey and fatally injuring George Wilcox and M. Turk. < Loomis’paper-mill, at Piqua, umo, has been destroyed by the explosion of a boiler. Several members of the family of Nathan Rockwood, living near West Brooklyn, 111., have died from trichina eaten in raw ham. At New Albany, Ind., twin babes of William and Fannie Johnson were frozen to death. The father went away to obtain em- ! ployment, leaving his family without fuel. Detroit reports the erection of twelve i hundred buildings during the past year. The death-rate of Chicago for the past year has been 20 to every 1,000 inhabitants. There have l>een twenty-eigjit murders and fifty-seven suicides in St. Louis during the pant year. The Cincinnati district reports the, payment of 412,390,000 of internal revenue • thin year on whisky. j Eight emigrant cars were.wrecked by ! a collision on the Union Pacific road, near ! TioJgepole Station, Neb. Five passengers were ; injured. . I In a lire which destroyed a Norwegian j hotel at Madison, Wis., Mrs. B. M. Maier and ; her infant child perished. BouUu Three minors were killed by the cav- ■ ing in of a mine in Chesterfield county, Va. Three persons were killed and two seriously injured by a collision on the Air Line road, near Charlotte. N. C. Anthony Deiters, of Wheeling, W. Va., has just died at the age of 93. He was, in his younger days, a soldier in the French army, and took part in most of Napoleon’s great battles. He was one of the few survivors of the Old Guard of glorious memory. The Southern States have been experiencing an unusually severe spell of weather. Ln the Carolinas snow fell to the depth of fifteen inches. At Sherman, Texas,'the thermometer resristored sdegree.i below zero. Abe Rothschild has been acquitted of f the'charge of murder, for which he was tried ! in Jefferson, Texas. Henry Washington, a negro who had ( murdered H. H. Hill, near Jackson, Miss., was executed at the latter place in presence of 400 spectators.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Gen. Walker believes that thp census, when completed, will show the population of the United States to be 50,000,000. Commissioner LeDuc, of the Agricultural Bureau, has made arrangements for the establishment of a tea-farm in South Carolina. Some statistics prepared by the State Department show that the balance of trade with the world, for the year 1879, was in favor of the United States by $240,939,100. The President, says a Washington telegram, has found so much difficulty in finding a suitable person to act as Secretary ofc the Navy for two months that he has partially do cided to request Secretary Ramsey to perform the duties of both the Navy and War Departments until March 4, and, in order to comply with the technical language of the statute, will recommission him Secretary of the Navy every ten days. The value of the exports from this country during the month of November exceeded the value of the imports by $35,894,340. In November, 1879, the excess was only $28,836,794. The excess for the eleven months ending the 30th of November was $141,361,002, while the corresponding period of last year it was $230,279,987. A court-martial in the case of Cadet Whittaker has been ordered for Jan. 18, to be held at West Point Brig. Gen. Miles will preside. A. S. Logan, a lineal descendant of the famous Indian chief, has been appointed to a position in the Interior Department. Speaker Randall thinks there is every probability of a favorable report on the bill to place Grant on the retired list with the full pay of General. President Hayes has barred both ears against any further demands for the retirement of Gen. McDowell. The treasury receipts from customs during the month of December were $13,000,000, and from internal revenue during the same period $12,000,000. The Sioux delegation at Washington have advised Secretary Schurz that they intend to accept the terms offered by the St. Paul and Northwestern roads for rights of way through their reservations. Fifty-nine national banks were organized during the past year, with an aggregate authorized capital of $7,274,170. Eleven banka went into voluntary liquidation, having a capital of $1,046,000. Three banks failed during the year. Mr. Cobb, a member of the House Appropriation Committee, thinks that no provjswsjiwilJ boms4ein the Legislative bill for

Supervisors and Deputy Marshals of elections, there being no occasion to employ them during the year. The Superintendent of Census makes the following approximate statement of the population of States and Territories. It is be lieved to be very near the official figures. Alabama 1,262,344 Missouri 2,169,091 Alaska;’Montana.....;.. 39,157 Arizona 40,441 Nebraska 452,432 Arkansas 802,064 Nevada. 62,265 California. 864,686 New Hampshire 347,784 Colorado 194,649 New Jersey 1,130,892 Connecticut.... 622,683'New Mexico.... 118,430 Dakota. 134,502 New York 5,083,173 Delaware 146,654|N0rth Carolina. 1,400.000 D. of Columbia. 177,638i0hi0 3,197,794 nori da 26fi,56i>, Oregon 174,767 Georgia Pennsylvania... 4,282,738 Idaho 32,61T-Rhode Js’and... 276,528 Illinois 3,078,636 South Carolina., 995,706 Indiana 1,978,858 Tennessee 1,542,463 lowa 1,624,463 Texas 1,597,509 Kansas 985,335 Utah 143,907 Kentucky 1,648,599 Vermont 332,286 louisiana 940,263 Virginia 1,512,203 Maine 648,945 Washington.... 75,120 Maryland 935,139 West Virginia.. 618,193 Massachusetts.. 1,783,086 Wisconsinl,3ls,3B6 Michigan 1,634,096 Wyoming 20,788 Minnesota 780,807 Mississippi 1,131,899 T0ta150,152,559

POLITICAL POINTS. Secretary Ramsay haa announced his purpose to make a vigorous contest for Senator McMillan’s seat in the United States Senate from Minnesota. A call for a meeting of New York Democrats to reorganize the party in that city was reap mded to by a large attendance. Abram 8. Hewit, was the chief speaker, the audience rising to its feet when he said Tammany Hall is a thing of the past. It was resolved that the Chairman appoint a committee of fifty citizen* to reorganize the party. At a special Congressional election in New Hampshire, Ray, Republican, was elected to succeed the late E. W. Farr. Hon. R. 0. Parsons, of Cleveland, Ohio, late’y said to a newspaper correspondent: “ Foster will go into Garfield’s Cabinet. That can be set down as certain. Stanley Matthews will be put upon the Supreme bench, and Sherman will be elected United States Senator.” The correspondent says he spoke with the air of authority.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The census of the Dominion of Canada is to be taken on the 4th day of April. A newspaper of Quebec states that orders have been issued on the citadel to serve out fifty rounds of cartridges to each man, double the sentries, and pull iu the drawbridges. This is believed to have originated in the investigations of an Imperial Government spy into the strength of the Irish people in Canada. • The following statement snows tne population of'certain States and Territories, according to the United States census of ISBO. This statement is still subject to possible corrections by reason of the discovery of omissions or duplication of names iu the lists of inhabitants returned : A1abama..1,261,241 New Y0rk5,082,844 A rkausaa 802,564 North Carolina.. .1,44X1,009 Connecticut. 622,633 Oregon 174,767 Delaware 146,654 Rhode Inland.... 276,528 Florida 266,566 South Carolina... 995,766 Ge0rgia1,537,878 Tennesseel,s42,463 10wa1.624,4*1 Vermont 332,286 Kansas 995,335 Virginial,sl2.2u3 Kentuckyl,64B,s9B West A’irginia... 618,193 Louisiana. 940,263 Wisconsinl,3ls,3B6 Maine 648,945 Dlst Columbia.. 177,638 Massachusetts.. .1,783,086 Idaho 32,611 Mi550uri.2,169,091 Montana 39,157 Nebraska 452,432 Utah 143,907 Nevada 62,265 Washington 75,120 New Hampshire.. 347,78: Wyoming.. 20,788 New Jerseyl,l3o,B92 Binned: A block of stores at Mystic River, Ct., loss $50,000 ; the table factory of Brown & Bliss. New York, loss $100,000; the skin-dressing mill of Northrup Bros., Johnstown, N. Y., Ices $30,000 ; Adams’ foundry at Marshall. Mich., loss $20,000. The recent phenomenal cold wave : seems to have penetrated to every nook and j corner of the United States. It was exceptionally severe in the Southern States. The Arkansas river was frozen over solid from Fort Smith to its junction with the Mississippi, something unprecedented. At Petersburg, Va., the thermometer registered 16 degrees below zero, the lowest ever recorded. In Virginia, cattle and game perished by the hundred, and deer came from their retreats to the very doors of the farmers in seach of food. At Washington city itfwas 10 degrees below,-; and there was great suffering in consequence of the intense cold. In New Hampshire and Vermont the thermometer ranged from 25 to 30, and at Antrim, in Maine, the mercury fell to 38 below. Throughout New York the temperature varied from 15 and 18 below in the river valleys to 25 to 30 below in the elevated region. Quail and other wild game in the valley of the Ohio have been lulled in large numbers by the Arctic weather. There were about 1,030 disasters on the lakes during the past year. The loss of life is greater than for many years past, while the valuationof hull and cargo loss falls little short of $2,000,4)0, which is a largo increase over any former season. The greatest amount of losses occurred on ;Lake Michigan. Lake Huron follows next in order, while Lakes Erie and Ontario are proportionately the same. The Western Union Telegraph lines in British Columbia have been sold to the Dominion Government Burned: The summer residence of James R. Keene, at Newport, R. 1., loss SIOO,000 ; the stores of Levi & Co.. H, H. Hansell and Joseph Cohen, on Magazine street, New Orleans, loss $250,000 ; the Buford plow factory, at Rock Island, 111., loss $175,000 ; two hotels at Atlantic City, N. J., loss $40,000 ; a hotel and several buildings at McKeesport Pa., loss $25,000; a betel and a number of stores at Jackson, Mich., loss $75,000; Aaron Wolf’s crockery store, on Common street, New Orleans, loss $75,000 ; the Commercial Hotel, North Adams, Mass., loss $30,000 a Methodist church at Canton, Ohio, loss $45,000 ; the gpera house and Cosmos newspaper office, at St Charles, Mo., loss $30,000; the opera house at Kingston, N. Y.; the museum in Central Park, New York city, loss estimated at SIOO,OOO.