Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. A Dublin dispatch says: Although terrorism has not diminished in the West and South of Ireland, there is. in other particulars, a decided change for the better in all parts of the country. The Government is fully alive to the plans of the Fenians, and is prepared to defeat them. The tenants of several estates heretofore refusing to pay rents are now paying. Seventeen persons perished by an explosion in the Whitfield colliery in Staffordshire, England. The Home-Rulers have decided to carry into the great towns of England and Scotland the agitation against coercion. The steamer Bohemian, from Boston for Liverpool, was wrecked in Dunlough bay, and thirty-two persons drowned. She had a cargo of bacon and cotton. Orders have been given to treat Davitt with possible indulgence. He is to be kept »part from otner convicts, and will not be subject to prison labor, though he must wear the prison garb. in consequence of a serious disagreement with King Alfonso in regard to refunding the debt, the members of the Spanish Ministry have tendered their resignations. Brennan, Secretary of the Irish Land League, is coming to America to collect money. Walsh, another Treasurer, is going to Australia for the same purpose. The steamer Bohemian, which was wrecked off the coast of Ireland, was valued at $500,000, and her cargo was worth half that amount. The Skuptschina of Servia has resolved to close all the monasteries. The British troops have again been defeated by the Boers, in South Africa. The Archbishop of Dublin has replied to the Pontifical letter concerning the Irish agitation, claiming that pernicious laws for centuries have reduced the people to the extreme of misery, and the abrogation of the cruel statutes is demanded ; that while deplorable acts and speeches have blackened a just cause, it must not be forgotten that the people have despaired of justice. The publication of the Russo-Afghan correspondence reveals the fact that a secret treaty was made by which Russia bound herself to perpetual friendship with Afghanistan, and undertook to assist the Ameer against foreign enemies. Two months later the Russian Foreign Minister wrote to the Afghan Foreign Minister, advising him to make peace openly with England, but in secret to prepare for war. A plan for inciting the Mohammedans in India to rebellion is also revealed. It is a significant fact that the dates of the documents are all subsequent to the date of the Berlin treaty, which professedly settled the differences between Eng'and and Russia. At a fair in Killkeely, Ireland, the people stoned the police, and at Ballyhanis the police charged a crowd with bayonets. The distress is so great among the Ural tribes in Russia that they are selling their male children for grain and leaving their girls to perish. Twelve of the Home Rule party are to proceed to Ireland and hold meetings after the passage of the Coercion act, thus inviting arrest. News is received of the capture of Lima by the Chilians on Jan. 15, after two desperate battles, in which the losses are said to have been 16,000 men. The Chinese quarter ol the city was burned by the Peruvians before the surrender. The Christians of Macedonia are leaving on account of ill-treatment Baroness Burdett-Coutts and William L. Ashmead Bartlett were married last week, in Christ Church, London. Mr. Bartlett will assume the name of Burdett-Coutts before his own A great lawsuit will result from the wedding. Should the decision be adverse to the Baroness, she will still have about $lO,000,000 left An Irish Land Leaguer named Habon has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for making a treasonable speech. Eleven out of thirteen Socialists on trial in Vienna, Austria, for high treason were acquitted. The remaining two were sentenced to imprisonment one for four years and the other for six months. Several regiments of all arms have been ordered to Natal to take the places of the men killed by the Boers. Parnell and six of his associates in the Land League held a council in Paris in regard to the funds of the organization. Garibaldi was chosen President of a universal-suffrage convention at Rome. A leading French journal agrees with Secretary Sherman that the present proportion of 15X to 1 between gold and silver should be abandoned. Bismarc x has declared in favor of a double standard.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

JECastTiie arched roof of the old New York Central depot at Buffalo gave way beneath an accumulation of snow, and fell, burying in its ruins a large number of cars and several human beings. Henry Walters, private secretary to Superintendent Tillinghast, of the New York Central road ; William Wells, clerk of Car Inspector Howe, of the Lake Shore road; Capt. Byrns and two others were crushed to death, and several other persons received serious injuries. The clearings in New York in January were the largest ever known in any month by nearly $400,000,000. A new banking institution, to be called the United States Bank, is expected to commence business in New York early in the spring. Among the Directors of the new bank are Gen. Grant, Logan 0. Murry, late President of the Kentucky National Bank, W. R. Travers and it. Victor Newcomb. At Rock Hill, on the North Pennsylvania railroad, during a dense tog, * passenger train crashed into a freight just entering upon a siding. Two men were instantly killed, four fatally injured, and four seriously. The button shop of the Scoville Manufacturing Company, in Waterbury, Ct., was destroyed by fire. -The loss is estimated at $200,000. President Hayes was the guest of the Baltimore Press Association at its annual banquet Charles Edward Forbes, Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in 1848, died in Northampton, aged 85. The venerable Judge Ezra Wilfcinson, of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is about to resign. The Canal-Boat Owners’ Association of New York has adopted a resolution urging upon the Legislature the abolition of all tolls upon west-bound freight

The Northampton bank robbers—Draper, Red Leary and Billy Conners—are constantly guarded by armed men. The bank will give the thieves SIOO,OOO for the return of the other securities. Gen. Herman Uhl, business manager of the New York Stoats Zeiiung, accidentally shot himself while cleaning a loaded revolver. He died within half an hour. Charles Colton, Treasurer of the Dollar Savings Bank at Hartford, Ct., whose death is announced, was the seventh in direct line from one of the pilgrims who came to Massachusetts bay in 1640. Peter Cooper’s 90th birthday received fitting celebration in New York. He sent a check for SIO,OOO to the trustees of the Cooper Institute. tank of the Standard Oil Company, at Bayonneport, N. J., exploded and took fire, several thousand barrels of naphtha being consumed. Wait. ’ Aunty Jackson, a negress, aged 112 years, has just died at Normal, 111. John Foerster, a 16-year-old boy, of Kossuth, WlB., committed suicide by hanging. A fire at Omro, Wis., destroyed onehalf of the business part of the town, including ten stores, a planing-mill, Thompson & Hayden’s carriage works and a large business block. The loss is not less than $260,000. J. C. Ferguson & Co.’s extensive pork-house, at Indianapolis, has been destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at $500,000 ; insurance, $385,000. A collision on the Ohio and Mississippi road, near Owaneco, 111., killed three laoorers and wounded several others. Sitting Bull is again located at his old camp at Woody Mountain, British Territory. The population of Indiana is classified thus : Total census, 1,978,362, of whom 1,010,676 are males and 967,686 females, and 39,268 colored, including 233 Indians and half-breeds, thirty-three Chinese, and four Japanese. Several Chicago grocers have been arrested and fined for selling bogus butter. A fleeing band of Apaches was thor>ughly whipped by a party of New Mexicans, vho killed eight and sent the remainder off in not baste for the frontier. Four men were swept into eternity by the explosion of fire-damp in Warner’s coalbank, Robbins Station, Ohio, and five other* were badly injuied. The details of a drunken tragedy come over the wires from New Mexico, where Julian Vigil chopped his wife and daughter into pieces, mortally wounded his son, and hanged himself to a rafter. • The interior of the “"Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, in Chicago, was destroyed by an incendiary fire. The loss was about $50,000. Six laborers were burned to death by an explosion in the Belmont mine, near Helena, M. T. Omaha is to have a grain elevator with a capacity of 600,000 bushels. The Union Pacific railway will subscribe $60,000 toward its construction and leading citizens have pledged $40,000. > ’ After an extended tour in “ furrin jarts,” the well-known comedians Baker and Ferron appear at McVicker’s Theater, in Chi sago, in a new comedy entitled the “ Emigrants.” It is said to be very amusing, and ias made a great hit abroad. The engagement of Sig. Tominas Salvini will »egin at McVicker’s Theater, on Feb. 11. The programme for the week will be as ollows: Monday, “Othello;” Wednesday, Hamlet; ” Thursday, “The Gladiator Saturday evening, “Othello.” On Tuesday and Friday evenings and Wednesday and Saturday natinees, the Boston Globe Theater company .vill perform, during the Salvini season, the atest London and New York success, “The Guv’nor.” South. The steamship Josephine, running between Havana and New Orleans, was wrecked near Ship island, the passengers and crew being rescued after floating in small boats for •even hours. The Southern Oil Works, in Memphis, •vere destroyed by fire. The loss was $125,000. A loss of $85,000 was incurred at Denion, Tex., by the burning of Kuhn’s grocery louse, Goodsell’s dry-goods establishment, a*d she Herald office. The Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad was sold at auction at Richmond, Va., mder a decree of the United States Circuit Jourt. Clarence H. Clark, of Philadelphia, be. :ame the.purchaser for himself and associates or $8,605,009. The intention is to use the •oad as a section of a grand trunk line from the leaboard to the West and Southwest Green Jackson, colored, was hanged at Marion, Crittenden county, Tenn. A land-slide at the tunnel near Ashville, N. C., was being removed by a force of twenty convicts, when a large mass of earth ell into the cut, burying the whole number. Four of the men were killed, several others sustained serious injuries, and some of them ire expected to die. The murder of F. H. Petterson, of Jfadison, Fla., by a negro named Savage, created intense excitement The assassin was lent to jail, and the Governor sent two militia companies to keep guard over him. A volcano has been discovered in the Allegheny mountains, in Fayette county, Va. Steam rises in considerable volume, and stone 3 hrown in were heard plunging down the abyss for several seconds.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The official census footings for the State of Pennsylvania are as follows : Males, 2,136,635; females, 2,146,151. Native, 3,695,253 ; foreign, 587,533. White, 4,197,106; colored, 85,680, including in the State 16 Chinese, 8 Japanese, 168 Indians and half-breeds, and 2 East Indians. Total, 4,282,786. The Senate Committee on Territories authorized Senator Saunders to report with a recommendation for its passage the bill for creating the Territory of Pembina, to consist of the northern half of Dakota. It is reported that Speaker Randall is firmly opposed to any greater rate of interest than 3 per cent in the refunding measure, and that in the conference committee appointed by him no compromise will be thought of.

POLITICAL POINTS.

A Washington telegram says : “It now seems impossible that the nomination of Mr. Matthews can be gotten out of the Judiciary Committee. Itis learned positively that Senator Edmunds opposes his confirmation. This leaves Mr. Matthews with but two friends on the committee. Senator Thurman told a Democratic member of the House that this was the most painful public duty he had ever performed, but the growing sway of railroad corporations warned him

that Mr. Matthew* should not be elevated to the Supreme bench, which is the last resort the people have against the grasping corporation*.”

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

The steamer California brought to San Francisco specimens of gold quartz from Alaska which assay $3,000 to the ton. The new Eldorado is eighty miles north of Sitka. One man was killed and six injured by the explosion of a drill boiler at the Welland canal, near Humbertstone, Ont. Of the 85,855 immigrants who landed in Canada last year, 47,270 proceeded to the United States. The extraordinary weather of the current season culminated on Saturday, the 12th last., in one of the most furious snow-storms ever known throughout the Western States, and in heavy rains, consequent floods, and extensive damage in the Eastern States. The rains in the East, following the partial thaw, swelled the rivers, and all the principal cities along the Potomac, the Pennsylvania rivers, and other streams, had their streets turned into temporary canals. The extraordinary sight was witnessed in Washington city of tow-boats employed in transferring passengers along Pennsylvania avenue Three spans of Long bridge was washed away. At Toledo, Ohio., the water in the streets was five feet high. Boats, barges and schooners were caught in the ice gorges, and many of them were sunk. Trains could not leave, as the tracks were flooded or strewed with debris, the bridges dangerous or swept away. Several freight cars lying on the tracks were submerged and their contents damaged. From Trenton, N. J., it is reported that the’ ice on its way down the Delaware river crushed everything in its track. Bridges on country roads and railroad bridges were swept away by thousands throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. An iron span 200 feet long and weighing 400 tons, belonging to the Pennsylvania railway bridge at Toledo, was thrown by the ice directly into tho channel of the Maumee river. Reports on Monday are as follows : “The flooded districts report a material improvement in condition. The streets of Washington are again passable. The Maumee has fallen nearly two feet at Toledo, but trains are forced to take a circuitous route. The Ohio river touches the curb at the foot of Main street in Cincinnati. Gen. Cyrus Bussey urges., that 10,000 men be set at work on the levees at New Orleans. Deadwood reports three feet of snow and a blinding storm. On the Burlington road in lowa the snow is as high as the car-tops.” The police of Montreal have traced out several mysterious burglaries by finding a grocer’s wagon at the door of a wholesale house at midnight. The grocery proved to be only a fence for the stolen •• goods, of which large quantities were recovered.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS.

The United States Senate took up the letter of the Secretary of the Interior in relation to census frauds in South Carolina, on the moaning of Monday. Feb. 7. Messrs. Butler, of South Carolina, and Conkling, of New York, got into a rather personal altercation over the matter. Replying to the language contained in a speech by Mr. Conkling, during the campaign, Mr. Butler spoke of its charges and insinuations as being as malignant in their purpose against the South as the heart that inspired their utterance, axd asserted that, although the evidence of the correctness of the census figures was conclusive and overwhelming of rhe author’s charge, he had not had the honesty to make amends for his dishonorable perversions. Mr. Conkling replied to Mr. Butler that he inferred that the latter had designed his as an assault upon him for something he had said in a speech last September. He thought that Mr. Butler had taken a long time to reply. As for the vaporings of that Senator he had no concern. Mr. Butler—The swaggering insolence of the Senator from New York has no concern for me. Mr. Conkling—The Senator is a person with whom I do not choose to bandy words or epithets here or elsewhere, least of all here. The subject was then dropped. In a debate on the District bill, Mr. Thurman declared that he would vote for licensing the sale of liquor. Senators Hamlin and Thurman were appointed tellers for the Senate in the electoral count meetiirg. C< nsideration of the Pension Appropriation bill occupied the remainder of the session. The House refused to suspend the rules and pass a resolution to appoint a commission to report a basis for a reciprocity treaty with the British provinces. The River and Harbor bill received a similar refusal. Bffls were introduced: By Mr. . Washburn, of Minnesota, providing that railroid companies can occupy such public lands as they may need for right of way of any proposed line by making entry at the Land Office and paying the Government price; by Mr. Robeson, compelling railroad companies to provide all passenger coaches with axes, fire-extinguishers, etc., and to punish with fines such companies as violate the law;: by Mr. Ford, for distribution of the public lands; by Mr. Turner, a joint resolution that Congress has no power under the constitution to impose a tariff except for the purpose of raising revenue; by Mr. Gillette, a resolution of sympathy for the Irish. The Senate bill passed relative to the non-forfeiture of vessels for breach of the Revenue laws. Messrs. House and Crowley were appointed tellers to make a list of the electoral votes on the part of the House. Mr. Bruce made an adverse report to the Senate on Tuesday, Feb. 8, on the Joint resolution to provide for the enforcement of the eight-hour law. The Pension bill came up in committee of the whole, and an amendment by Mt. Plumb was agreed to, appropriating $200,000 for fifty examiners. Mr. Blair introduced a resolution for a constitutional amendment to prohibit, after the year 1900, the manufacture, sale or exportation of liquors except for medical or mechanical purposes. The credentials of Ptilletus Sawyer, of Wisconsin, and Arthur P. Gorman, of Maryland, were presented. Senator Conkling Introduced a series of resolutions calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for detailed information as to the administration of the New York Custom House and the working of the civil-service rules there. The resolutions were adopted. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was reported to the House and referred to the committee of the whole. The east gallery was set apart for the use of the families and guests of Senators and members desiring to Ire present at the electoral count. The House went into committee on the Legislative bill, which was considered but not disposed of. Appropriate resolutions on the death of Congressman Farr, of New Hampshire, were adopted. Eulogies were delivered by Messrs. Briggs, Hall, Ray, Bland, Bowman, Sherwin and others. In accordance with the constitution, the electoral votes were opened on Wednesday, Feb. 9, in the Hall of the House, in the manner prescribed by the concurrent resolution adopted a few days ago. Vice President Wheeler and the Senate filed into the Hall of Representatives shortly after 12 o'clock, the former taking a seat beside the Speaker, and the litter being given chairs in the front row of desks. The tellers having taken their places, the Vice President opened the packagei containing the certificates of election and handed them to the tellers, who announced the vote. When the Georgia certificate was read, the Vice President said that, as the vote was cast on a day other than that fixed by act of Congress, the result would not be recorded until it should appear whether the counting or would affect the general result All tho certificates having been opened and read, Senator Thurman announced in the language of the, resolution that if the vote of Georgia be counted the result would be, James A. Garfield 214 votes, and Winfield S. Hancock 155 votes; but if the vote of Georgia be not counted the result would be, James A. Garfield 214 votes, and Winfield 8. Hancock 144 votes. In either case James A. Garfieid had received a majority of all the electoral votes. He made a similar statement regarding the vote for Vice President The Vice President then declared Garfield and Arthur elected for the four years beginning on the 4th of March, and the senate retired to its chamber. The House and Senate passed a resolution setting forth that no further declaration of tho result of the election was necessary. In 'he Senate, Mr. Wallace submitted a resolution calling on the President for information in regard to me naturalization by the United States of natives of Spain. Mr. Windom introduced a bill authorizing the Mexican National Railway Company to construct a bridge to the center of the Rio Grande. The Pension Appropriation bill was passed. On motion of Mr. Voorhees, the joint resolution granting condemned cannon to the Morton Monumental Association passed. The House passed the Legislative Appropriation bill. A bill was passed by the United States Senate on Thursday, Feb. 10, appropriating $200,000 to purchase ground and erect thereon a depository of Government records. Messrs. J'endleton, Anthony and Bayard were appointed a committee to make arrangements for the inauguration. Ml . Blair introduced a bill containing most of the provision* of the “ Sixty-Surgeon*” bill, which

waa excluded from the Pension appropriation bill on * point of order. Some minor matters having been disposed of, the Postal bill was taken up. An attempt was made to amend it by inserting an item of $1,000,000 to aid in the establishment of American lines of iron steamers. Mr. Voorhees presented a concurrent resolution of the Indiana Legislature for an appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the improvement of the Kankakee river. Some private pension bills passed. In the House. Mr. Reagan succeeded in having the River and Harbor bill taken up, and appealed for its passage without amendment, A long del ate upon the provisions of the bill took place, lasting the whole session; which was enlivened by a “ flare up” between Messrs. Reagan and Cox. in which some hard things were said by both. Mr. Cox finally expressed regret at his show of temper, and the cloud blew over. Mr. Murch offered a resolution, which was adopted, ordering investigation into the “Influence” reported to have been used upon members of Congress by the Washington Gaslight Company in regard to their contract for lighting the city and public building*. The House bill granting public land* in Dakota, Arizona, Montana and Wyoming Territorie* for university purposes wu passed by the Senate on Friday, Feb. 11. Mr. Hoar introduced a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to take into consideration the danger arising from the presence of large bodies of armed State militia at Eresidential inauguration*. In a personal statement Mr. Dawes declared that Secretary Schur* hid stood in the way of all redress to the Poncas. Mr. Conkling submitted a resolution of Inquiry as to the collection of toll* on the Kanawha river. Senator Wa’lace urged a return to th a district system of voting for President. A test vote on the Postoffiee Appropriation shows that the steamship subsidy of $1,000,000 will pass. The session of the House was devoted to private bills, among them being one to make Indianap .lis a pe rt of delivery. An ineffectual attempt was made to put through the Chicago lake-front measure. The Committee on Appropriations reported in favor of the appropriation for the Jeannette search expedition. The credentials of Senators-elect Flatt, of New York, and Bayard, of Delaware, were presented to the Senate, on Saturday, Feb. 12. Mr. Morgan, ou behalf of the committee having charge of the matter, stated that no proposition re ative to the election of Piesidents and Vice Presidonts.would be reported this session. Mr. Kernan reported favorably the joint resolution inviting foreign nations to take part lu the international exhibition. A bill was paseed for the protection of officers of the Untied States in the performance of their official duties. Resolutions fixing the hour of meeting hereafter at 11, and limiting debate on motion to take up a bill or resolution to fifteen minutes, and five minutes to each speaker, were adopted. Tho postal bill was taken up, and Mr. Hamlin’s amendment, appropriating $1,000,000 for ocean mail service, was ruled out Tho bill was discussed until the discovery was made that no quorum was present The House of Representatives, by an almost-unanl-mons vote, tabled the bill in aid of the Tehuantepec Ship railway. The bill regulating the imports of materials used in the construction or repair of vessels engaged in the foreign trade was slightly amended and passed. 1 he Senate bill amending the charter of the Freedmen’s Savings Bank passed. The River and Harbor bill was taken up, and three of its forty pages were disposed of.