Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Crowds of students in Berlin celebrated New Year’s day by invading cases frequented by Jews, smashing the windows, and fobbing representatives of the unfortunate race. Dispatches from Lima, Peru, report a fight on the 4th of December in the bay. 'lhe Peruvian launch Urcos was attacked by three Chilian torpedo hnugjhes, and forced to seek shelter under the shore batteries. The Chilians were reinforced, and the engagement became general, After two hours’ righting the Chilian- re. rented for repairs. A fight occurred between the police and a party of armed men in tbe County rihgo, Ireland. Shots were exchanged, and one man was mortally wounded. In Dul-Ilii, two girls were injured by the explosion of a quantity of gunpowder, which had been placed a>j the window-sill of a private house. The Boers have entered Natal, and intend to oppose Sir George Colley's force on the Natal side of the Drackensburg. England has asked permission to march her troops through the Portuguese colony on Delagoa bay. It is officially reported that in the province of Surntoff, Russia, 75(1,000 peasants are starving, and in Samesa upward of 1,000,000 are in absolute want. The armories of the volunteers in the southern part of London are kept under slricguard through rumors of a contcmplateo Fenian raid. Dr. Schliemann has presented his collection of Trojan antiquities to the Emperoi of Germany, to be placed in the Berlin Museum. An effort is being made to induce the German Parliament to adopt custom war duties, whi.h it has hitherto refused to sanction. The deaths of Gen. Moriones, one of the ablest officers in the Spanish civil service, is reported by cable. It is believed at St. Petersburg that lhe Czar intends to confer equality of 4 civi rights on the Poles. A London dispatch announces the death of John Stunhouse, the chemist ; John T. Towson, the noted writer on navigation Baron Simon Von Oppenheim, the head of tin great London broking house of Oppenheim. 4 Bonn; and’ Dr. Frederick Jobson, the eminent Methodist di.ine. A military commissioner, who has been investigating affairs in Ireland, has made his report to the British Government. He apprehends ns organized rising, though such a catastrophe might have occurred had a doterarined leader taken the uecessaiy steps before the country was filled with troops. There is no occasion, in his opinion, to fear that the presence of additional troops will aggravate the disorders, and ho thinks the adoption of strict measures for toe repression of lawlessness will be followed by a peaceful solution of the difficulties, A mob near Claremorris, Ireland, dug « deep ditch to obstruct the passage of police, and threw stones at the officers. A bayonet charge was made, and four persons aro be-" tiered to have been fatally wounded. The funeral of Louis Blanqui, the Socialist, took place in Paris on' the 3rd inst. Thirty thousand people followed the remains to the cemetery, and large crowds lined the streets through which the cortege passed. The ship Indian Chief was wrecked near the entrance of the Thames river. Eighteen persons were drowned and eleven saved. Bonds of tlio Northern Pacific road, to the amount of $10,030,000, having beei put on the market in London, the subscriptions were found to quadruple the sum desired. The English steamer Harrelda and the Spanish steamer Leon collided off Cape Roca, and both sank. A party of survivors fron each vessel landed at Lisbon, but a large num ber were doubtless lost Tbe gun-makers of Dublin are doing an enormous business. Another of the men bayoneted by the police near Caremorris hat died. Thirteen members of the Muliirava branch of the Land League have been arrest ed for “Boycotting.” Largo quantities ot buckshot have been shipped twlreland fron. Loud n. The Pope has written a pontifical letter to the Arclibiohop of Dublin, expressirif. sympathy with the Irish Catholics, out urging them to strictly obey the laws. A care-taker has b< en brutally murdered near Parsonstown, County Louth. The Parliament of Great Britain met on the 6th inst The greater portion of the Queen’s speech was devoted to Irish affairs. - After referring to the prevalent distress and la wle.-sness, it recommends the further development of tho principles of the Irish Land act of ia7o, both as regards the relation of landlord and tenant, and with a view to effective efforts for giving to the people, by purchase, a proprietary interest in the sod. It al.-o annouiftKß that a bill will be submitted for the establishment of county government in Ireland upon representative principles. A dispatch from Borne says the Pope lias sent fresh instructions to the Irish Bishops looking toward the restoration of order. The Judge of Tokio, Japan, was assassinated in the street, on Dec. 17, by a man whose father had been condemned to death fifteen years ago. domestic intelligence. Hlswt. Two miners at Car bopdale, Pa., were taitautly killed by the fall of some coal in their mining chamber. Five members of the family of Samuel Krupp, of Montclair, N.J., died of diphtheria in one week. It was found that fetid gases permeated the sleeping apartments. Ne w lorK has had another fire horror. A tenement house in which eight families lived caught fire at midnight under the stairway, which formed the only means of ingress or egress. In a moment the whole flimsy structure was in flames, and there was no chance for the frightened inmates to escape save by jumping from the windows. Ten women and children were burned to death. Three children were saved by their brother, a boy of 15, who threw them from a third-story window to their mother, who stood in the yard below and caught them as they fell. The boy then jumped and was similarly caught. One oil woman, 80 years of age, jumped from a second-story window with her two grandchildren in her arms. Her leg was broken by the fall, but the children escaped uninjured. A young man gained access to the roof from an adjoining building, and broke lathe scuttle. A little girl who was carrying a baby reached her arm up to him, and he seized it, but the burned flesh parted from the bone, and she slid from his’ grasp back into the flames. Tho scene was appalling beyond description. The pews of the Plymouth (Beecher’s) Church, Brooklyn, were sold at auction, realizing $42,302.

A loss of $40,000 was incurred by the burning of the Phoenix pharmaceutical works, in Eighty-eighth street, New York. The residence of Elisha Sperry, in New Haven, was robbed of $45,000 in bonds, His nephew has been arrested on anapicion. The Dixon Crucible Company, of Jersey City, has suspended, the liabilities being about $1,000,000. Fowler, Crampton & Co., of New York, sngaged in the importation of chemicals, have made an assignment, their liabilities being $500,000. A fire at Lockport, N. Y.» destroyed the Hodge Opera House and the Gargling Oilbiulding, the loss being $150,000. In the latter structure there were lhe postoffice, internal revenue and telegraph offices. Gov. Porter, of Indiana, was married to Miss Stone, at the residence of the bride’s uncle, Mr. Walter 8. Gurnee, of New York. Only a few relatives witnessed tbe ceremony. By the explosion of a vat of varnish in tin brewery of Peter Dodger, in ew York, four men wore enveloped in slimes and scorched to a degree which leaves no hope for uieir recovery. By the explosion of a boiler in the Allentown (Pa.) rolling-mill, six mon were killed or fatally wounded, and five mon seriously hurt. A mail train on the Passumpsicroad was throw'n from the track, near Newport, Vt., by a broken rail. Mrs. Cushing, of Keene, N. IL, was killed, and twenty others more or less injured. The New York Steck Exchange has 1,100 members. A seat was sold the other day for $30,000. The county poor-house, near Dover, N. IL, caught tire about daylight on the morning of the 7th inst., and was totally consumed. There were 169 paupers in the building, thirteen of wdiom were suffocated or roasted alive. Those who escaped were clothed and sheltered by families residing in the vicinity. The building was an immense brick structure, and lhe pecuniary loss was $70,000, on which there 18 insurance to the amount of $25,000. ’I ho burning of a temporary factory belonging to tho Ansonii Watch and Clock Company, in Brooklyn, caused a loss of j-4(l, 0)0. The caso of Mrs. Sarah E. Howe and lira. Julia A. Gould, the managers of the Woman’s Bank, or Ladies’ Deposit, of Boston, .ns resulted in indictments against both parties. V Bernard McCune, of Philadelphia, vho d siiii-iit' J $200,000 in charities within the ..nir.t ten years, has ended bis days, leaving ;-30O,(‘0O more to forty beneficiaries. The Grand Jury of Washington county, Maine., has brought an indictment against Warren Lougntore, of Pembroke, for the murder of Freeman Wright. Longmore is only 9 years rid and Wright was but 8. vv e»!.. Maj. Ilges had a fight of an hour’s duration, on New Year’s day, with a hand of Uncapapa Eioux, when the latter displayed a dag of truce and formally surrendered. While engaged in dancing, at Addison, Mich., a Mrs. Canfield full to the floor, and her hand was so lacerated by her husband’s boot-heel that she died in twelve hours. E. W. Halford, of Indianapolis, has accepted the editorial management of tho Milwaukee Sentinel. Mrs. Harriet N. Cooper, a negress, who died at Cheltenham, Mo., was 115 years of age, weighed 400 pounds, and was the mother of twenty-five children. Gen. Charles B. Stuart, the eminent :ivil engineer, has just died at the Forest City House, Cleveland. The losses by fire in Chicago in 1880 aggregate $1,164,159. A passenger train on the Chicago, St. Paul and Omaha road, at a curve near Middle creek, Neb., crushed into a party of laborers engaged in enlarging a snow cut, killing six men and wounding one. Bowman & Bleyer, wholesale liquor (eaters in St. Louis, have made an assignment o Isador Bush. The firm owes $>130,000, and diows assets of nearly that amount Over 100 representative men of the It. Louis bar- have signed a petition urging the ippoinlment of Judge Cooley, of Michigan, to die United States Supreme bench. Two brothers named Heilman, at Iturgeon Bay, Wis., lost six children each by liphtheria. At Coal vale, Kan., the dress of Miss Davis caught fire from an open grate, and herself and her mother were burned to death. The Brown murder trial in Indiauapois has ended. Mrs. Brown was sentenced to the Female Reformatory for life. George B. Carpenter, manager of Central Music Hall, Chicago, is dead. A fire at Lancaster, Ohio, destroyed he drying department of the bent-wood works >f Messrs. Neil, Tippet & Killian. The loss ex•ceds $50,000, and 100 men are thrown out of work. Considerable damage was done on Saturday by the breaking up of the ice in the Ohio river at Cincinnati. Fifty empty coal barges were swept from their moorings and carried down the river from ten to twenty miles. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO to $150,000. Houtix. For the first time since its occupation by a civilized race, the ponds and creeks of Southwestern Texas afford good skating. Bishop Atkinson, of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, died at Wilmington last week A party of eight flatboatmen were found frozen to death on their craft, near Port Royal, 8. C. At Henrietta, Tex., the refusal of Mr. Rice to drink with Mr. Curtis brought about a shower of bullets. When the smoke had cleared away the latter gentleman was found dead on the floor of the saloon. Rice was taken for treatment to a doctor’s office, where an assassin finished his career by a shot through the window. Prince Hannibal, the son of an African King, was frozen to death in the recent storm at Warrenton, Va. He owned slaves before the war, and retained them after its close. His devotion to the South caused his imprisonment for some months in the Old Capitol at Washington. The insatiate Jay Gould has gobbled up the New Orleans and Texas railroad, running north from New Orleans to Donaldsonville, La. The cold weather has caused extreme suffering in Virginia. Several unfortunates living in the country have been frozen to death. In Loudon county a cabin was buriol under the snow, and an ol 1 lady and her grandson perished before assistance could reach them. WASHINGTON NOTUS. Gen. Lew Wallace, Governor of New Mexico, is in Washingion trying to secure a modificaticaa of the “posse ooraitatus”

clause in the Army bill so that he may call upon the troops to break up the bands of outlaws who infest the southern portion of the Territory. Col. Drael Vodges, of the First Artillery, has been retired at his own request He has served over forty yean. Following is the regular monthly public-debt statement issued on the Ist inst: Six per cent bonds* 202,266,550 Five per cents 469,651,050 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four ner cents , 738,42'),400 Refunding certificates 927,400 N avy pension fund.' 14,000,000 Total coin b0nd551,672,265,400 Matured debt.... .JTv-i..s 11,484,395 Legal tenders 846,741,761 Certificates of deposit... 7,005,000 Frictional currency (sl,5" 2,346 less amount estimated as lost or destroyed $8,375,934).... 7,147,530 Gold and silver certificates’ 52,211,010 I Total without interest 413,135,301 | Total debt 52,099,885,096 Total interest„.... 21,596,379 Cash in treasury 222,209,739 Debt less cash in trea5ury....51,899,181,735 Decrease during December.. .1 .....*... 5,699,430 Decrea-e since June 30, 1880 42,990,559 ' Current liabilities— Interest duo and unpaids 2,208,833 Debt on which interest has ceased 11,484,395 Interest thereon 856,885 Gold and silver certificates 52,241,010 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit.. 7.005,000 Cash balance available Jan. 1, 1881 118,503,615 Totals 222,299,739 Available assets— Cash in treasury■s 222,299,739 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstandings 64,623,312 Interest’accrued and not yet paid 1,938,705 Interest paid by United States 47,589,861 Interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid by transportation o< mails 14,052,447 By cash payments of 5 per cent of net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 32,882,214 Gen. Walker, of tho Census Bureau computes that in 1890 the United States wit! have a population of 64,467,000. ’ President Hayes has decided to retire six more army officers. It is understood that Surgeon Gen. Barnes and Judge Advocate Gen. Dunn are two -of the number. 4 Nathan Goff, Jr., of West Virginia, has been appointed Secretary of the Navy. He was Colonel of the Third Virginia regiment in the Union army, rising to tho rank of Brigadier General; was four years ago tho Republican nominee for Governor, and has for several years held the position of District Attorney for West Virginia. An important clause in one of the new treaties with China cedes to the United St; te the power to limit, at tbe will of the people, the kind, quantity and season of importation of Chinese labor. On tho other hand, the United States agrees to discountenance the opium trade. Superintendent Walker asks for an appropriation of $500,006 to complete the census work. The War Department has issued an order abolishing dress caps for officers and directing that hereafter helmets be worn, with trimmings to designate the different branches of tue service. Tho color for infantry will be wliite, cavalry yellow, artillery red, and signalservice orange. PObiHCAL POINTS. The Garfield-Morey Chinese letter conies to the light once more in the confession, on the part of the paper that published it to the world, that it is a forgery. The editors of Truth have addressed a letter to Gen. Garfield, in which they say: “ After a searching investigation, in which we have spared neither time, energy, por expense, we have traced the Morey letter to its origin, and ascertained that it is a forgery. This acknowledgment is due from the journal in which that letter first appeared. It is made voluntarily, and as an act of simple justice ; for, while we believed, as we did until a few weeks past, that you were the author of ths letter, no bribe could tempt nor threat intimidate us into m iking a contrary statement. But, having ascertained our error now, it is a gratification to us to give the same prominence to this acknowledgment that we gave to the forged letter itself, and thereby make all the amends in our power for the wrong of which Truth was the unconscious instrument. ’’ Secretary Evarts is reported to have said that Senator B aine will be Secretary of State in Gen. Garfield’s Cabinet. The other members, according to the same authority, arc; Secretary of the Treasury, James F. Wilson, of Iowa; Secretary of the Interior, D. O. Mills, of Oaliforpia; Secretary of War, Senator Don Cameron; Secretary of the Navy, a Southern (Republican; Attorney General, a New York Republican; Postmaster General, an Indiana Republican, Tbe Republican members of the California Legislature held a caucus, on the stb inst., and selected Gen. John F. Miller for the United States Benatorship, Newton Booth receiving five vote*. In organizing the Pennsylvania Senate, E. C. Coxe, Democrat, from Luzerne county, confessed his inability to take the ironclad oath, as he had used money in securing his election. After six informal ballots, the Michigan Republican Senatorial caucus, on the sth inst., nominated Omar D. Conger, who led John J. Bagley by only two votes. President Hayes has nominated Frank W. Palmer to be Postmaster at Chicago, and John B. Sikking at East Bt. Louis. Gen. Burnside is confident that Senator Don Cameron will be Secretary of War. A movement is on foot in California to secure that portfolio for Gen. MaDoweU. In California, Gen. John F. Miller lias been chosen to succeed Newton Booth in the United States Senate ;in Maine, Eugene Halo will succeed Senator Hamlin :in Nevada, James G. Fair will step into Senator Sharon’s shoes ; and hi Missouri, Senator Cockrell will be his own successor. Gov. Murray, of Utah, has issued a certificate of election as delegate in Congress to Alien G. Campbell, the Gentile candidate, on tho ground that J. Q. Cannon was irregularly naturalized. The latter received 18,568 votes ; the contestant 1,357. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. It is estimated that our production of gold in 1880 was $33,522,182, and of silver $40,005,364. Statistics from the clearing-houses show that for 1880 San Francisco was the only eity showing no increase in business. An expedition of engineers has sailed from Havre to direct operations on the Panama canal, and machinery, provisi ms and labor have bee n ordered forward from New York and New Orleans. Daniel F. Sullivan and Patrick Hayes were hanged in Moyamensing prison, Philadelphia, on Thursday, Jan. 6. Frank Lammens and Margaret Merihoffer were executed at Newark, N. J., for the murder of the woman’s husband. Arthur Murphy was hanged at Pendleton, Qrs., for the murder at F. D. French.

Litta, the prima donna, will wed Harry L. Cleveland, the tenor of the Slayton Concert Company. Captain Eads has returned from Vera Cm?. He has obtained from the Mexican Government a charter to build a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehauntepec, and a grant of 1,000,000 acres of land. The newest monopoly is a match syndicate, with a capital of $2,500,000, and headquarters at New Haven, CL Ten large factories have been consolidated, with the intention of controlling the American market. They pay the Government $3,500,000 per annum for stamps. One of the most distinguished jurists at Washington pronounces arbitrary and unconstitutional the action of tho Governor of Utah in issuing a certificate as Delegate to A. G. Campbell. The British ship Laputa was wrecked on a reef near the Tillamook rock lighthouse, near Astoria, Ore., on the night of Jan. 3. It b thought that the whole ship’s company was lost The Manitoba wave vented its rage on Northern Mexico last month. The cotton crop of Durango is thought to have been destroyed. A rival syndicate has been formed at Toronto to construct the Canada Pacific road on terms much more favorable to the Government than those negotiated in England. The Government party claims that the scheme has for its object the forced resignation of the Minis try. DOINGS ’IN CONGRESS. On the reassembling of Congress after the Hoiffay recess, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, the Vice President submitted to the Senate a letter from / Ibn.'‘Garfield declining tho Senatorship from Ohio. Vlr. Ingalls Introduced a bill to provide for the sa’e of a Pottawatomie reservation in Kansas, and Mr. Whyte a jo'nt resolution for the purchase of the <wo-d of George Washington from the heirs of leot-ge Lewis. Mr. Butler offered a resolution calling on Secretary .Schurz for such information as may lie in his pos-ession with regard to the inveetiaden of the alleged census frauds in South Caroiua. Tho motion was agreed to. Mr. Kernan ini’rod need , a bill which provides that the Sccreary of the Treasury shall hereafter cause Co be .c-diied only such an amount" of silver dollars as he may find necessary to meet the l(-maiid-<or them, lhe bill for the relief of Ben iolllday was taken up, but the Senate adjourned without action thereon. In the. House Mr. Springer ntroduced a bill for a new apportionment and for minority representation. Fernando Wood being ill, the Funding bul went over, an-l the louse went into committee of the whole n the army appropriation, which wa« passed. Mr. Warner, of Ohio, assailed the President for the retirement of Gen. Ord. Mr. Reafau explained the features of his substitute for the Inter-State Commerce bill, lhe President nomluated Madison M. Hurley Po»tmr.'-t»r at New Albany, lnd„ and Frank W. Palmer at Chicago. Mr. Eaton reported the Diplomatic Appro’ riaticn bill to the Senate on the morning of Thursday, Jan. 6. The Army Appropriation was read twice and referred. Mr. Vest introduced a bi.l to authorize the construction cf a bridge across the Missouri at Howell’s F< rry, Mo. A prolonged deIrato took place on tbe claim of Ben Holliday, t he Senate, in executive session, took up Gen. Guff a nomination as Secretary of tbe Navy, and immeiiatuly confirmed it without the u-iial reference to committee. The House went into committee of the Alible on the Fiuidit-g I ill. Mr. Kelley insisted up ,n temporary loans rather than an extension of tiie bonded debt. Mr Chittenden favored the repeal of all taxes on the capital or depo its of banks, vlr. Weaver urged the application ot the silver hoard to the extinguishment of bonds. Mr. Chittenden expressed the be.ief that aii.ess the bunks were re.ieved of tax ths 3-pcr-cent. bond scheme would fail. Mr. Fliillips gave notice of i substitute to issue 3-per-cent. treasury notes, redeemable after next year, in regular series. <Jn the opening of the Senate on Friday, Jani, the Vice President subniittet. » request from the Secretary of War that the item fcr recruitiing in the krmy Appropriation bill bo increased to $97,000Vlr. Jonas presented a memorial from W. J. Moore, f New Orleans, stating that William Pitt Kellogg retired his seat by bribery, and asking o bo allowed to testify that he was himc'f bribed. Mr. Burnside introduced a bill to ■uthorize tbe retirement of Brevet Maj. Gen. VVII- - A. Averill, with the rank and pay of Brigadier 3eucial. Tho Consular appropriation, caifiug for JI, 19) ,435, was taken up, and pro.onged debate oc-.-urred on the item of $1,500 for rent of prisons for American convicts in China, which finady got ihrough. The sum of f4,oi)() was appropriated for a C-.aisui General st Bucharest, and tbe bill pa.’sod. Mr. Ferry introduced a bill providing for the establishment of seven additional life-saving stations on Lalies Superior and Michigan, and twenty-eight adilitioiial stations on the Atlantic coast The Senate adjourned to Monday. In tho House, Mr. Springer offered a resolution calling on the Secretar., of State for the fullest information in regard to ihe Halifax award. Mr. Newberry charged that u-auduient testimony had been manufactured by lintrti agents and accepted by the commission, and he party in power in England would willingly reipeii the question. A bill was passed for the relief of Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin. Tbe Senate wag not in Ression on Saturday, lan. 8. The House spent nearly all day in committee of the. whole on tho Funding bill. Fernando Wood, for the Committee on Ways and Means, tiered an amendment to fix tho rate of interest at 3 [ier cent. Mr, Claflin thought it would be dangerous to put a bond of that rate on the maikct Mr. Warner suggested that tho interest be fixed at 2M percent. Mr. Keifer offered an amendment to pay not exceedijig 4 per cent., which was voted down. Mr. Frye said he had lately become convinced that it would be utterly impossible to float a 3-per-cent odnd running iees than thirty years. Mr. Randall cniarked that the outstanding bunds vibrated be•*een e’ ;1 and 3 3 j percent. Fernand > Wood gave Secretary Sherman as authority for a statement that a short certificate could be Coated at 3 per cent Mr. Mills ihouglit $100,000,600 could be saved by letting tue matured debt stand and pay it in five years. Mr. Hawley said that at the present market rates of bonds ■t thirty-year 3 per cent was worth 94 to 96. Mr. Cdnvene thought a 3-per-cent. bond was qiiivalent to 6 per cent -on private loans. Mr. Townshend called attention to the sale of Northern Pacific s's at a p-emium of over 2yr per cent Mr. Felton thought it would bo criminal to perpetuate tbe debt. Mr. Bayne offeied an amendment that the Secretary of the Treasury sell the new bonds at the lowest rate of interest practicable, whie'i was lost. Mr. Hurd declared •pecie resumption a delusion and a snare. Mr. Gllette thought it shameful that Mr. Newberry should admit having received instructions from a national bank. When the committee rose, to limit debate, an adjournment was effected. The Indian appropriate n was reported, which sets aside $4.526 866, of which amount $259,000 is for the transportation of supplies.