Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1881 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Another earthquake is reported at . f gram. Gortschakoff, the Russian Chancellor, I has decided to retire from public life. The Italian Irredentists are said to be secretly raising funds to bring about an invasion of Austrian Tyrol in the spring. Lima, the capital of Peru, surrendered unconditionally to the Chilians after the capture of CiiorUlos, Barraca and Miraflores. There was great daughter in the battles at those places. The coer&icn bills were introduced Un Pa/i&faent on Monday by Secretary Forster, who prefaced tht presentation by declaring that (the Land League is the supreme power in Irehand. The first measure asks power for the 'Viceroy, until September of the next year, to ar:rest persons reasonably suspected of treasona- - i ble offenses. , The British Government has received i information that the Fenians are preparing to : take advantage of the present agitation in Irei land. A raid upon the manufactories of arms : in Manchester is apprehended, and guards . have been strengthened accordingly. Large : numbers of police have been detailed to watch the various barracks aud public buildings in London also. The trial of the indicted Land Leaguers was brought to a termination at Dublin, Jan. 25. The case went to the jury at noon of that day, but in the evening they had failed to agree, and were discharged. The •Judge said that after tho exhibition in court he ■could expect there would be a free and iunaniK*iiis verdict. On leaving the court, Mr. IPamell was met by a torchlight procession beaded by bands of music. The result of the trial was received with rejoicing all over the tGreen Isle. A dark cloud envelops the cotton-mills of Russia. One of the largest factories in the world, located at St. Petersburg, and owned by ’Thornton, an English millionaire, discharged : 1,500 weavers at one order, and fears arc ex- : ; pressed tljat the works will soon be closed. Gen. Cluseret, of Paris, has been senr tented to two years’ imprisonment and a fine of 8,000 francs for defaming tho army and eulogizing a regicide. ■ That the British Government cannot prohibit the importation of oleomargarine was admitted in tho House of Commons by Mr. Chamberlain. Alfred ElmorejHhe historical painter, died in London, aged 65 years. The royal printing establishment at Florence, Italy,-has been totally destroyed by fire. The Russians captured Geok-Tepe on ; the 24ch of January, completely routing the i Tekke-Tureoman A boat used for harbor work at Cherbourg, France, foundered, aud the crew of ; •eighteen men perished. King John, of Abyssinia, has decided ; to send a mission to Egypt to thank the Khedive for receiving his envoys favorably. A Russian journal announces that at I the coming conference at Constantinople each j Ambassador will treat with the Porte sepa- ■ rate’y. Spain has been in communication with the chief Cabinets of Europe with a view of ’asserting her claims to be considered one of the European powers. In view of the prospective suspension of tho habeas corpus in some parts of Ireland, elaborate preparations are being made at Mountjoy prison for the reception of a large number of fresh inmates. The British authorities evidently be lieve there is real danger of a Fenian uprising, and the greatest precautions are being taken in consequence. All the armories and manufactories of arms are being strongly guarded. The Horse Armory and White Tower, containing the armory of the Tower of London, have been closed to the public. In the British House of Commons, Gladstone’s motion to give precedence to the Coercion bill was adopted, after an all-night session, by a vote of 251 yeas to 33 nays. A London dispatch' of the 27th ult. says : After the action of the Government today the people will have good reason to be alarmed. The Second battalion of the Eighteenth (or Royal) Irish Regiment of Foot, stationed ai Aidershot, and under the command of Lieut. Col. Gregorio, has been disarmed. Of course nothing caiOspluin such a step excepting the belief that the troops have become Imbued with Fenianism, and may join in the rebellion which is so soon to come upon us. The prediction is made by the London Times that the Bank of France will now fall back on tho silver standard, to stop the drain of gold. Skobeleff, the hero of the Turcoman campaign, has been promoted to General of Infantry, and decorated with tbe cross of St. George. England assures the Porte that she does not wish to obstruct negotiations on the Greek question, and that she will act in harmony with the other powers. A terrible fight occurred between the miners and police and soldiers at the Atherton colliery, in England. Several miners and policemen were injured. As condition precedent to peace, Chili demands the surrender of the allied fleet and the payment of $30,000,000 indemnity, with the right to work the guano deposits’until the cash is forked over. Placards have been posted in Londonderry and Cork urging the people not to rise, as the time has not come. The Land League denounces the documents as the work of its enemies. The authorities at Manchester, England, received information that an attempt was to be made to blow up the Salford gas works, and rumors reached the police that the water in the large reservoir would be poisoned. Precautions were taken to prevent the success of either plan. Great damage has been caused by floods in Spain.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Elast. Roelff von Baren, a Hollander, who has resided in New Haven, Ct., for six months in the most abject poverty, has just fallen heir to an enormous fortune by the death of his great granduncle, Heinrich Spier, of Rotterdam, who bequeaths him his property. The estate js estimated at about $40,000,000. Oscar Bice, at one time Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Louisiana, has been arrested at Boston on the charge of embezzling $15,000. Two thousand tons of top coal and rock fell in the Empire mines, near Wilkeebarre, Pa., burying two miners. Five children of a farmer named Boscomb, living near Malone, N. Y., were mysteriously burned to death while their mother was absent at a neighbor’s,

James O. Vandervoort, late Superintendent of the Poor of Ulster county, N. Y., is charged with wholesale plundering of public property. A boarding-house keeper in Charlton street, New York, named Catherine Crane, was fatally shot by a printer whom she had ejected, named William Lindrum. A savage bloodhound of grcat;eize ran about the West Side of New Jfork, biting a number of people. It was finally cornered in a lumber yard and killed by a policeman. The animal was supposed to be mad. If this was really tbe case the consequences are likely to prove serious, for many of the persons attacked were horribly mangled. Ex-Gov. Sprague lias filed in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Washington county, R. 1., a petition for divorce from his wife, Katherine Chase Sprague. He charges her with desertion, adultery, extravagance and other wickedness. The store Nos. 365 and 367 Broadway, New York, occupied by several dry-goods importers, was nearly destroyed by fire, the loss being SOOO,OOO. The President has nominated George il. Foster, a State Senator and a foe to Conkling, to succeed Stewart L. Woodford as District Attorney at New York. William F. Thornton is declared ineligible to the office of Judge of Sullivan county, N. Y., to which ho was elected. Mr. Thornton offered to -serve for $1,260 —the salary being $2,500. This pledge, made to the voting taxpayers before election, is held by the court to be a bribe. Hughes, the winner of the international walking match, in New York, made a fraction over 568 miles. This is the best pedestrian work ou record. Eight men were killed near Bradford, Pa., by the explosion of forty quarts of nitroglycerine. , The building occupied by the Downtown Club, of New York, was damaged to the extent of $35,000 by fire. The Sprague divorce case is set for trial at Kingstown, R. 1., on Feb. 21. West. A safe in the office of the Union Iron and Steel Company, on the corner of Ashland avenue and Thirty-second street, Chicago, was blown open by burglars, a few nights ago, and SIO,OOO in cash abstracted therefrom. Justus C. Ramsey, of St. Paul, a brother of the Secretary of War, was found dead in bed, having shot himself through the brain. For some weeks he had been depressed on account of disease of the heart. Five children of one family recently died of diphtheria at Chrisman Station, 111. Water taken from the well constantly used by the afflicted family was submitted to a chemist of Chicago for analysis, and found to be little better than sewage. No case has more clearly demonstrated the connection between filth and diphtheria. The fifteenth annual meeting of the Northwestern Dairymen’s Association will be held at Janesville, Wis., on the Bth, 9th and 10th oi' February. A cordial invitation is extended to all dairj men, butter and cheese manufacturers, dealers, manufacturers of dairy implements, aud all others interested in this great and growing industry, to be present ou this oc. casion. A route for the Dakota railroad baa been surveyed from Mandan, on the Northern Pacific, to Deadwood. Coal was found at various points. Toledo chronicles a seizure of Fenian stores, 8,000 cartridges having been found under a building in St. Clair street, formerly occupied by one of the army of liberation. Lieut. Archibald Gibson, of the Seventh Cavalry, son of a prominent lawyer of St. Louis, died of inflammation of the brain, caused by the bite of a spider. Small-pox has broken out in the lowa penitentiary at Fort Madison, and the foremen on contract work have fled, which will cause delay in filling contracts. Theodore Vatrim, a Frenchman living ’ on a farm near Assumption, 111., deliberately shot his wife dead, and made what will probably prove a fatal attempt on his own life. Mr. L. Z. Leiter has withdrawn from the firm of Field, Leiter <fc Co., of Chicago, to engage in extensive mining and real-estate operations. The business will be conducted hereafter under the name of Marshall Field & Co. A German woman at Dundee, 111., gave birth to five children at one time. Three persons lost their lives in a snow-storm, near the Monte Cristo mine, in Plumas county, Cat New Mexico advices report that fearful atrocities arc being committed by a band of Indians in tho region of San Jose. Among other excesses mentioned is the burning to death of four women and children. The Military Headquarters at Prescott, Arizona, have been burned. The annual report of the Illinois Central Railroad Company shows that the gross earnings for the year 1889 were $8,301,811, against $7,234,464 for 1879. A row of frame stores ou the Public Square at Wooster. Ohio, has been reduced to ashes, the insurance companies suffering to the extent of $25,000. A bill has been introduced in the Illinois Assembly providing that men convicted of beating their wives shall receive not less than five nor more than twenty-five lashes on the bare bat# with a rawhide. There have been sixty cases of smallpox among the Canadian immigrants in Union county, Dak., one-half of which have terminated fatally. The Legislature has authorized a rigid quarantine. The death of Ezra Elliott, one of the oldest merchants of Cincinnati, is reported. Miller Dewitt, a farmer of Angola, Ind., ditcl at the advanced age of 105. Gen. John Love, of Indianapolis, died in that city of heart disease. The flour-mill of W. Trow & Co., at Madison, Ind., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $125,000. The Talbott boys, convicted of the assassination of their father at Marysville, Mo., have been sentenced to die on the gallows on March 25., A double tragedy is reported from Piqua, Ohio, where a dentist named Harbough killed his wife and himself, blowing off the top of his head with a shot-gun. The Pacific coast, from British Columbia to tbe southeastern portion of California has been visited by the heaviest rain-storm that has been experienced since 1861. The Feather, Yuba and Upper Sacramento rivers, and. all their tributaries, overflowed their banks. Immense damage was done, the extent of which cannot be estimated. South. The wife of James Cummings, a colored man living near Cranston, N. 0., gave birth to four babies at one fell swoop. All are doing well,

Five inches of snow fell at Mobile, I doing considerable damage to trees. Snow fell ' at Augusta, Ga., for eight hours, and at WilI mington, N. C., there was good sleighing and snow-balling. The first and only grain elevator on the Atlantic coast has been opened for business at Port Royal, S. C. The unveiling of the Cowpens monument at Spartanburg, S. C., will take place on the 11th of May. The statue of Gen. Daniel Morgan will surmount the column. The Young Men’s Christian Association Building at West Point, Ga., and twelve stores have been burned. The car-shops of the Jacksonville road, at Tallahassee, Fla., have been burned to the ground, the loss footing up $35,000. Tom Buford, who killed Judge Elliott, of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, about a year ago, has been acquitted on the plea of insanity.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Senator Matt Carpenter is rapidly recovering from his recent attack of congestion of the lungs, which he jokingly charges to a temperance dinner which he attended at the White House. President Hayes has nominated Edward C. Bdlings, of Louisiana, to be United States Judge for tho Fifth circuit, in place of Judge Woods, appointed to the Supreme Bench. The United States Supreme Court has decided that the income tax is constitutional. Justice Swayne, of the Supreme Court, has finally resigned. The House Committee on Judiciary has decided that the Senate has a. constitutional light to originate bills making appropriations of public moneys. Secretary Sherman, in presenting his views to the Senate Committee on Finance, urged that the funding bonds bear 3% per cent, interest and become redeemable in from five to twenty years. He expressed the opinion that the certificates, redeemable in one year, can be floated at 3 per cent., but that a bond at that figure was not practicable. The House Committee on Commerce has voted to make an appropriation for Missisippi river improvements and for the reservoir system, but has left the amount to lie deternined after the other items of the River and Harbor bill shall have been fixed. The special Ponca commission appointed by tho President reports that the ream val from Dakota and Nebraska was without ■uflkient cause; that the Government had covenanted to protect their persons and property, and that those who have returned to Dakota are entirely self-sustaining, and desire a teacher and a minister. It is recommended that 160 acres of land be given each person, •.nd that the recipients be subject to the civil and criminal laws of the Territory in which the lands are selected. Commissioner Williamson, of the General Land Office, urges a re-survey of the public lands. Congress will be asked to make an appropriation for the purpose. Commodore Jeffers, at the request of President Hayes, will prepare a statement of tho probable expense of fitting out a vessel for the Arctic regions to search for the Jeannette. He thinks $100,009 would be required. The preparations tor the inauguration of Gen. Garfield are in a bad way. The committee cannot raise funds enough to carry out the original programme, and the plans have had to be modified. Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, is mentioned as the incoming Secretary of the Interior. POLITICAL POINTS. Johnson N. Camden has been elected Senator by the Legislature of West Virginia, the twenty Republicans voting for A. W. Campbell. 8. B. Maxey has been re-elected Senator from Texas, Throckmorton standing second on the ballot. The New Jersey Legislature elected William J. Sewell to the United States Senate. Washington gossip connects Senator Windom’s name with a Cabinet position under the new administration. Senator Allison, it is said, would not accept the treasury portfolio if it were tendered him—preferring to remain in the Senate. A bill is before the Senate of Minnesota declaring railways public highways, and prohibiting them from carrying on business other than that of transportation. The Ohio House of Representatives has adopted a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to report what legislation is necessary to prevent the consolidation of telegraph companies. The thirtieth ballot in the Tennessee Legislature resulted in the election of Howell C. Jackson as United States Senator. He is a State-credit Democrat and a member of the lower house ; and, on being lifted from his seat and escorted to the stand, pledged him,tlf to do all in his power to allay sectional agitation.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Mount Baker, in British Columbia, is in a state of active eruption. The officers of the Western Union Telegraph Company say that the consolidation will not be followed by an advance in rates, except in a few suburban points where the facilities are not adequate. During the last six months of the year 1880 131,000 more immigrants arrived in this country than during the corresponding six mouths of 1879. Halifax is happy over the first shipment of grain to Europe, it having been forwarded from the West by the Grand Trunk road. The racing fund in this country for the current year will closelj’ approximate $1,000,000. Prof. Rielly, chief of the Entomological Commission, predicts a great swarm of ocusts this summer, particularly in the Southern States and the southern portion of Hlinoiß. He says that the farmers of that section may expect to suffer much damage from their depredations. A fire in Main street, Buffalo, ruined the building and stock of the Howe Scale and Safe Lamp Company, doing damage of $50,000. The steamer Rochester lost 548 cattle on her passage from Boston to Liverpool. At Whitevale, Ontario, Mrs. Sheppard shot one son dead, killed another with a butch-er-knife, and then nearly put an end to her own life. It has been ascertained that Col. Potter, of the United States geological survey, who has been missing since October, was robbed and murdered by a party of three Greasers, one of whom is now under arrest at Albuquerque, New Mexico. An incendiary fire at Orangeville, Ont, destroyed a storehouse and 30,000 bushels of grain,

George Jones, of the New York Times, announces that the subscriptions to the Presidential fund have reached $225,000, which is likely to be given outright to Gen. Grant. It has been' discovered that Gould, Vanderbilt, John W. Mackey and Edwin D. Morgan each threw in $25,000. Dr. Blackbum, of Kentucky, confidently predicts that cholera will visit the country this summer. He says that it has already visited Chicago under the name of “cholerine.”

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Mr. Logan asked Unanimous consent of tho Senate, on the 24th, to take up the bill to place Gen. Grant upon the retired list of the army, but Mr. Vest, of Missouri, objected. Mr. Logan then moved to lay aside allpiior orders and consider this bill. After a somewhat protracted debate tbe motion was defeated—yeas, 25; nays, 28. Mr. Edmunds’ Geneva Award bill was reported adversely by the J udiciary Committee, and a substitute proposed similar in terms to that reported laid session. I he Indian Land bill came up, and it was agreed to extend its provisions to twenty-nine tribes on ceded lands in Indian Territory. In the House, Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, introduced a bill to retire Col. Thomas L. Crittenden, with the rank and pay of Brigadier General. Mr. Young, of Tennessee, proposed the appointment of a commission to examine and report on tbe adulteration of food. Mr. Gillette, of lowa, offered a bill for the construction of a double-track railroad from New York to Council Bluffs. Mr. Acklen, of Louisiana, introduced a bill revising tho Ist of duties on sugar. Several bilis were reported by committees, and placed on the calendar. Mr. Cox reported a substitute for the Apportionment bill, providing for 301 Represen .atives. The House then went into committee of the whole on the postoffice appropriation, which sets aside $4 >,760,437. In the United States Senate, David Davis reported favorably the Chicago Lake-front bill on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 25, and gave notice that on Friday he would ask its consideration. MrLogan called up the bill to retire Gen. Grant The vote thereon stood 25 yeas to 28 nays, Lamar and Davis voting with tho Republicans. A bill was passed to pay the additional expense of the tenth census. The Indian Land bill was debated at some length, decided objection being made to conferring citizenship on tbe red mon. David Davis introduced a bill to pension Justices of the Supreme Court who may become permanently disabled. The House, passed an appropriation of $30,000 for a monument in commemoration of the battle of Saratoga. Tho postofliee appropriation was taken up in committee of the whole, and amended to provide that safetyhaaters, saws and axes shall be carried in mall cars, and the Australian colonies shall be reimbursed in part for the cost of the British closed mails on the overland route. The bill then passed. The House of Representatives conruiTcii in the Senate amendments to the Military Academy Appropriation bill. A majority of the House Committee on Elections made a report favoring the unseating of Martin (Republican) as the member from tho First North Carolina district and of giving the eeat to Yeates (Democrat). A minority report was also presented. The joint bill for counting the electoral vote came up, when the Republicans forced an adjournment. A favorable report was made on tlvfi bill in reference to quartermaster stores furnished the forces of Gen. Lew Wallace during the Morgan raid in Indiana and Ohio to the Senate on Wednesday, Jan, 26. Mr. Ingalls introduced a resolution providing for the counting of the electoral vote in the Senate Chamber on Wednesday, Feb. 9, at noon. The reso'ution provides that •* two persons shall be appointed tellers, ou the part of the Senate, to make a list of votes for President and Vice President as they shall be declared; that the result shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall announce the State vote, which shall l>e entered on the journals, such entry to be a sufficient declaration thereof.”' The Senate spent consideraI ble time In discussing the bill providing for conferring land on the Indians in severalty. Hoar’s amendment to confer the right of citizenship on the Indians was rejected by a vote of 29 to 12. There was a long and acrimonious discussion between Pl'Uiib on one side and Hoar and Dawes on the other side as to how Massachusetts disposed of Its Indians about 200 years ago. The pensions appropriation was reported, and the Senate went into executive session, when the President nominated ex-Senator Stanley Matthews for the vacancy on the Supreme Bench caused by tho retirement of Justice Swayne. The nomination was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The House passed ab 11 granting Carr lake to the city Of Council B nils. The resolution looking toward the establishment of a telegraphic system Was favorably reported. By a strictly party Vote the Morgan electoral resolution was taken up, but the Republicans filibustered until an adjournment was effected. Mr. Dawes presented in tbe Senate, on the 27th ult., the petition of 50,000 citizens, praying for a full observance of the treaties made with the Indian tribes. Bills for public buildings at Quincyi II!., and Minneapolis were reported favorably. Mr. Beck spoke for an hour in advocacy of his resolution for free ships, to which Mr. Blaine replied that from the inception of the war Congress had done nothing to upho rt the navigation interests of the United Ststrp.. The Naval Appropriation bill, which Sets aside $14,720,787, was passed. Bills were also passed for the sale of a portion of the Leavenworth military reservation, to authorize the construction of a railway bridge across Niagara river, and to establish an assay office in St. Louis. The House indu ged in an excited debate on the North Caro'ina contested seat of Yeates vs. Martin, ami on a demand for the pi erions question the Republicans refused to vote, breaking the quorum. In the United States Senate, a bill was reported for tbe suppression of contagious diseases in domestic animals, on Friday, Jan. 28. The morning hour was filled by discussion on tbe Chicago Lake Front bill, Messrs. Davis and Edmunds being the chief contestants. Mr. Blaine introduced a bill to establish a United States Ocean Mail Service and revive foreign commerce by American steamships. In the debate on the Indian land b 1!, Mr. Morgan charged he ••ccretiry of the Interior with withholding information due to the Senate. Mr. Dawes introduced a bill to establish the rights of tlie Poncas and to settle ttieir affairs in accordance with the recommendation made by the recent Investigating Commission. Mr. Kernan introduced a bill to legalize the collection oi taxes on account of shares of national banks. Mr. Wallaco introduced a joint resolution, proposing a constitutional amendment, according to which the President and Vice President should be elected by direct vote of- the people of the various districts. Each State is to have as many districts as ft has members of Congress and Senators; each district to have one vote; the vote to be canvassed by a B ard of State Canvassers, consisting cf the Governor, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Secretary of State. The return is then to be made to the Speaker of the House, and to be conclusive proof of the result. The votes are to be counted by Congress in joint convention, and a plurality vote to elect. In the House, Mr. Speer gave notice that after two hours’ debate on Saturday on the contested seat of Yeates vs. Martin he would call the previous question. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary ms State for information in regard to the ftaltfax award. A lively debate took place on a bill to\ place Mark Walker, who bid been dismissed Xor drunkenness, on the retired list of the army' Mr. Magmnis charged that the findings of tho court-martial had reached the President in one of his spasms of reform. A bill for the relief of the widow of Capt. Page, of the navy, an officer who resigned at the outbreak of the war, caused a bitter political debate, participated in by Messrs. Conger, Cox, Bragg, Hooker, Hawley and Reed. No action was reached. In tho United States Senate, on Saturday, the 29th ult., Mr. Lamar presented the credentials of James Z. George, of Mississippi. Mr. Ingalls’ resolution for counting the vote in the Senate chamber was referred to the Committee on the Electoral Count. After considerable debate, the Chicago LakeFront bill was passed. The Indian Land bill came up, and was amended to provide for the education of fifty copper-colored lads at-the Agricultural College at Fort Collins, Co!., and to grant to each head of a family one section of land for grazing purposes. In the House, the day was monopolized by the North Carolina contested case of Yeates vs. Martin, the former being admitted Mr. De La Matyr presented a petition, with 2'2,000 signatures, asking that encroachments by wh.te settlers on Indian reservations be prevented.