Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. In the contest on the Thames for the Championship of England, the Sportsman cup, and £I,OOO, Hanlan defeated Laycock by four lengths. A joint-stock company has been formed in Brazil to run a line of steamers between Halifax and Rio de Janeiro, a subsidy of ♦50,000 having been granted at each end of the route. The Russian police have discovered a plot to blow open the arsenal at Kieff, and have made several arrests in connection with the conspiracy. The alarm which prevails in England receives fresh illustration daily. Sir William Vernon Harcourt announced in the House of Commons that James Stephens, the Fenian head-center, had arrived in Paris. It is rumored in Cork that the Fenians in America and the United Kingdom are sending men and money to the Boers. It is reported from Dublin that an attempt to ignite a large dynamite mine under the wall of the Beggar’s Bush Barracks was frustrated by a person passing by chance. The murder of a Christian by a Turk at Beyrout, Syria, has led to several encounters in the neighboring villages. In one of these affairs, ten persons were killed. Italy will participate in the International Monetary Conference to be held in Paris the 19th of April. A dispatch from London says it is proposed that that part of Transvaal to which . the Boers have a fair claim be declared independent, the remaining part to continue under British administration, and that a British Resident be appointed at the Boer capital. The Greek Chamber of Deputies passed the bill for the organization of the National Guard. Several French subjects in Algeria have been murdered by marauders from Tunis. The British Parliament is now over »ix weeks in session, and the principal business it has done is to pass the Irish Coercion act, which it did by a vote of 302 to 4-1. Ayoob Khan has declared war against Afghanistan, and has already occupied Malimund. The importation into France of salt pork, bacon and hams frpm the United States is prohibited. Germany has given its adherence to a plan for an international exhibition of electricity in Paris. The municipality of Marseilles, by a vote of 33 to 1, annulled the decision tq. grant a site for the erection of a statue to Thiers, on the ground that ho was an enemy to radical ideas. At a masked fete of the students ol the Academy of Painting, at Munich, Bavaria, the costumes of several caught lire. Four pupils were burned to death and eight seriously injured. News from South Africa is to the effect that the Boors made overtures for peace through the President of the Orange Free State, asking that the British evacuate the Transvaal and leave its future relations to bo settled by a commission. Gen. Colley agreed to the appointment of Commissioners on condition that hostilities were immediately suspended.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East F. A. McLain started from Bradford, Pa., for Aiken with 200 pounds of nitro-glycer-ine in a cutter. His horse evidently ran away, as after an explosion only pieces of flesh remained of the outfit. A committee of directors of the Permanent Exhibition at Philadelphia voted to sell the building, which was the main structure of the Centennial. The New Jersey oystermen report that the deep ice on the rivers and on the seashore has played havoc with many of the oyster-beds. In the Whittaker court martial, Dr. Alexander, Post Surgeon at West Point, expressed the belief that the negro cadet mutilated himself. The Maine State Senate has declared ’ against woman-suffrage. Jacob Schaefer defeated William Sexton, in New York, in the greatest billiard match ever seen in that city. The game was for *I,OOO, cushion caroms, 400 points up. The Palace Hotel of Buffalo, the most perfect structure of its kind in the United States, and perhaps in the world, was destroyed by fire a few days ago. It was erected three years ago by the Hon. R. V. Pierce, recently member of Congress from the Buffalo district, and cost *500,000. * Judge Charles E. Forbes, who died at Northampton, Mass., has left by will *220,000 to establish a public library. The Hungerford National Bank of Adams, N. Y., has gone into liquidation. William D. Howells will retire from the editorship of the Atlantic Monthly on the Ist of March, that he may be able to devote more attention to other literary work. He will be succeeded by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Wilcox Bros.’ chandlery store and warehouse, at Toledo, Ohio, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $60,000; insurance, $40,000. Gen. Hancock has consented to be present at the inaugural ceremonies in Washington. New York has a police force of 2,579 men, but only 1,709 men are available for night and 1,885 for day duty. Mrs. Ann McCarthy and Mrs. Eliza Martin, of Brooklyn, were fatally burned. The former fell and broke a kerosene lamp, which set fire to her clothing. Mrs. Martin went to her assistance, when her clothing likewise ignited. A mass of ice in the North river carried away nearly seventy-five feet of the piers in New York. The beet-sugar enterprise, at Franklin, Mass., is a failure, and many farmers in that region are heavy losers. The mills will be leased for a term of years for the interest, taxes and insurance upon them. West. At Robinson, O®l., Deputy Marshal Mcllhanny was fatally shot by persons in' ambush. An electric light company, with a capital of $500,000, has been organized in Detroit. It proposes to furnish heat and motive power. Judge Gardner, of the Superior Court of Chicago, decides that Mrs. Rappleye, an illegitimate daughter of the late John 8. Wallace, is entitled to one-third of the estate of deceased. The Illinois Senate, by a vote of 43 to 1, passed the bill imposing upon telegraph companies a tax of 2 per cent, on the gross re-

The house of Fred Lanyon, on the River Sioux, fifty miles from Sioux City, lowa., was destroyed by fire, and a 10-months-old baby perished in the flames. * Loran V. Kennedy, Postmaster at Fairview, Neb., was lodged in jail at Omaha, pn the charge of robbing registered letters. He has confessed his guilt A loss of $50,000 was incurred at Denver by the destruction of a number of buildings on Cliff street. Mrs. Irene Crandall and her child were found dead in the road near their home in Grant county, Minn. It is thought they were murdered by her husband. Twenty days were consumed in San Francisco in obtaining a jury to try Isaac Kalloch for the murder of Charles DeYoung. Hoxatlx. The Pope has appointed Vicar General Janssens, of Richmond, Bishop of Natchez. J. C. Neerez is to bo Bishop of San Antonio. A tornado sweeping through the pines of North Carolina crushed a rude hut occupied by turpentine makers, killing ten of them and seriously wounding three others. A loss of $50,000 was sustained at Charleston, 8. C., by the burning of two bag factories. The cotton warehouse occupied by Allen & Crawford, in Columbus, Ga., was burned. The loss is estimated at 670,000. A number of Swiss farmers of the better class have determined to settle on land in Eastern Kentucky. A number of the colonists have arrived. The bulk of them will come in April. ' Frank Twiggs, convicted of the murder of William Driscoll, in Burke county, Ga., last November, has been hung at Waynesboro. The wife of William Fowlkes has been found guilty of the murder of her husband and sentenced to be hanged, at Petersburg, Va. Frank Twiggs has been sentenced to death at Waynesboro, Ga. United States Deputy Marshal W. F. Gary, was killed in Ricking county, 8. C., by an illicit distiller named Kelly. A large eagle attacked a boy as he sat at Breakfast iu hii father’s house near Milton, N. C., dragged him out through the open window and tried to carry him off. The fight was a desperate one, and would have ended in the death of the boy had not the bird fatally injured itself by striking its neck upon a sharp stick which stood upright in the ground. The father was attracted to the scene by the boy’s cries, but, thinking the eagle was the devil, ran away as fast as his legs would cany him. The boy -was terribly mangled.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives chose John Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, to fill the Chairmanship made vacant by the death of Fernando Wood. The President nominated D. L. Bash, of Illinois, as Major and Paymaster of the Army. The Auditor of Railroad Accounts has sent a communication to the Secretary of the Interior, recommending that the Thurman act be so amended as to compel the Central Pacific railroad to pay into the sinking fund 50 per cent., instead of 25 per cent., of its net earnings. The President has withdrawn the nomination of George H. Forster for District Attorney of New York. It is denied that Senator Grover, of Oregon, is so seriously ill as to prevent his attendance at important sessions of the Senate. The Hon. Hiram Barber, member of the present Congress from Chicago, has been nominated by the President for Receiver of the Land Office at Mitchell, D. T.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Philadelphia municipal election has evidently resulted in a victory of several thousand for<the Citizens’ candidates, Samuel G. King (Democrat) being chosen Mayor and John Hunter (Republican) Receiver of Taxes. Pittsburgh chose for Mayor Robert W. Lyon, the only Democrat on the Citizens ticket, by a majority of 1,500, and elected the Republican candidates for Comptroller and Treasurer. In Allegheny City the Republican nominees -were triumphant. The Greenbackers of Michigan met in State Couvontion at Lansing and nominated Jobnß. Vhipman, of Coldwater, for Justice of the Supreme Court. An unsuccessful attempt was made to remove Moses W. Field from the State Central Committee. A resolution of sympathy with the serfs of Ireland was passed.* The Greenback Congressmen are said to be figuring to organize the next House of Representatives. According to their calculation, the Republicans lack one of a majority, and the Greenbackers propose to vote solidly for their own candidate until the Democrats join them in order to defeat the Republicans. The Bev. J. Hyatt Smith, who was elected to Congress from one of the Brooklyn districts as an Independent candidate, has written to a Republican Congressman to say that he will act with the Republicans in organizing the next House, and on political questions generally. A Civil-Service Association has been organized at Boston. Among the Vice Presidents are Charles Francis Adams, Jr., John M. Forbes, George William Bond, Senator Hoar, President Seelye of Amherst College, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Henry P. Kidder and Martin Brimmer. It will advocate that the work t>f the Government be conducted on business principles: that competent employes shall bo retained in office during good behavior; that office shall not be used to reward political •‘workers,” and the non-interference of Congressmen and Senators in the matter of patronage. Mr. Elliot F. Shephard has been nominated for United States Attorney of the Southern district of New York, in the place of Gen. Stewart L. Woodford. The Republican members of Congress held a caucus to consider the Apportionment bill, and it was developed that the majority favored 319 as the number. A resolution was offered that they insist on the adoption of this number, but it was not pressed to a vote.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Hon. Fernando Wood, of New York, expired the other night, at Hot Springe, Ark. He was born in Philadelphia, of Quaker parents. When but 28 years of age he was elected to Congress, in which he has served ten terms. In 1850 he retired from mercantile pursuits with a fortune, and in 1854 was elected Mayor of New York. He went to the Hot Springs last month, in an enfeebled condition. The ship Nonnanton was lost off the coast of Newfoundland recently, and Chief Mate MoCrtwby and hmiw Dooley were the

only members of the crew of eighteen who were saved. The exports from New York since the Ist of January, exclusive of specie, are valued at <51,000,000, against $42,000,000 worth during the corresponding period of last year, and $41,000,000 during the same period of 1879. Four desperate convicts escaped from the penitentiary at Kingston, Ont, the other night, after a hot fight with the guards. They obtained civilians' clothing at the prison tailorshop and walked across the St. Lawrence to Cape Vincent, N. Y., where two of the number were recaptured. President Gonzales, of Mexico, has made a grant of 1,500 leagues of land in Sonora to Samuel Bannan, formerly of California, on which to colonize 1,000 families, who are understood to be ready to move into the country from the Eastern and Western States. John Ennis, of Chicago, defeated Rudolph Goetz, of Milwaukee, in a 100-mile race on skates in New York. A race for 61,000 a side has been arranged. Seven thousand men are at work on one section of the railroad from the City of Mexico to Toluca. Seven American prisoners in jail at Paso del Norte, Mexico, shot their guard and made their escape. They were pursued, and a fight took place, in which three of the Americans were killed and two of the guards badly wounded. The other four Americans surrendered. The recently-discovered relics of Sir John Franklin have been offered to the British Government. Detroit seems to be going into the ship-building business. One hundred aud four" teen Glasgow ship-carpenters have come there, and will work in a shipyard. The stock of the Western Union Telegraph is to be watered to 680,000,000. The prospectus of the World’s Fair estimates that 2,500,000 visitors will be attracted to New York, and that they will spend sls each.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Numbers of petitions from temperance organizations in various States praying for a constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors were presented to the Senate, on Monday, the 14th inst. Mr. Saunders reported back the bill establishing the Territory of Pembina, and it was placed on the calendar. Mr. Booth reported with a favorable recommendation the resolutions authorizing the payment of prize money to the officers of the Farragut fleet. They were adopted. The postal bill was then taken up, and the steamship subsidy amendment further discussed, and finally laid on the table by a vote of 34 to 14. The bill was then reported to the Senate and passed. The refunding bill waa taken up and informally laid over. The cattle disease bill waa under consideration when the death of the Hon. Fernando Wood was announced, and the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Stephenson presented the resolutions of the Illinois Legislature relative to railroad discrimination and commerce between States. The Senate amendments to the joint resolution inviting France to join with the United States in celebrating the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown were concurred in. Mr. Hill reported back the resolutions declaring the policy of the United States in regard to the inter-oceanio canals. The House went into committee of the whole on the Senate bid to provide for funding the 8-per-cent. certificates of the District of Columbia, but took no action on the matter. Bills were introduced, fixing the first Monday in November as the time for the assembling of Congress, and to admit free articles intended for the International Exhibition of 1883. Resolutions respecting the death of the Hon. Fernando Wood were passed, and the House adjourned. On the opening of the Senate on the morning of Tuesday, Feb. 15, the Military Committee reported favorably the bill to place Thomas C. Crittenden upon the retired list of the army with the rank and pay of a Brigadier General. Mr. Hereford presented a resolution of the Legislature of West Virginia favoring a law for the regulation of Inter-State railway traffic. Mr. McDonald introduced a resolution relative to the equalization of taxation, which was laid over. The Cattle Disease bill, which was the regular order, was laid aside, and the Funding bill taken up. Mr. Bayard spoke in explanation of the amendments made by the Finance Committee. He advocated a 5-20 bond at 3j< per cent, interest, and opposed the clause making only the new bonds receivable as security for national-bank circulation. The principal debate was in reference to the rate of interest, and it continued without result until the adjournment. The Committee on Elections reported to the House upon the contestedelection case of McC »be versus Orth, from the Ninth Indiana district, confirming Orth’s title to the Beat. It was concurred in. The morning hour was occupied principally by a discussion on a point of order, which was left unsettled. Brief addresses were made on the acceptance of the statue of Jacob Collamer, of Vermont The House then went into committee of the whole on the River and Harbor bill. Several amendments were proposed and rejected, and finally, without action on the bill, the committee rose. As less than a quorum had voted on the last amendment, the Ser-geant-at-Arms was dispatched in search of absent members. Two or three hours passed in a vain attempt to secure a quorum or reach an agreement by which the session mi ,ht be dosed. Finally a recess was taken until morning. The Committee on Foreign Relations reported to the Senate, on Wednesday, Feb. 16, a resolution that the United States Government insists that its consent must be obtained as a condition precedent to the construction of a ship canal or any other work for the transportation of sea-going vessels across the Isthmus of Panama. The Fortifications bill was reported and placed on the calendar. It was resolved to hold night sessions hereafter for the consideration of measures on the calendar. Mr. McDonald, of Indiana, made a speech on the inequality of taxation. He condemned the present tariff system, and defended the freetrade p’ank of the Democratic platform adopted at Cincinnati. A prolonged debate on the Funding bill was next in order, in which Mr. Hereford, referring to the issue of silver certificates, said Secretary Sherman was neither a competent nor a trustworthy adviser. Mr. Allison thought the Secretary of the Treasury should not be restricted to sales at par. Mr. Bayard announced that he would press the measure to a vote next day. The House of Representatives devoted the entire day and night to the consideration of the River and Harbor bill. The opposition to the measure was led by Mr. Updegraff, of lowa, who criticised almost every Item as it was read. Innumerable amendments were offered, but nearly all were rejected. Those which were agreed to were, in most cases, merely explanatory of the manner in which certain appropriations contained in the bill should be expended. In the Federal Senate bills were favorably reported on Thursday, the 17th inst., for Government buildings at Terre Haute, Ind., and Columbus, Ohio. In the debate on the Funding bill, Mr. Logan favored a fixed rate of 3% per cent., and Mr. Cockrell expressed his belief that a 3-per-cent. bond could be floated at par. By a vote of 22 to 33 an amendment favoring 3# per cent, was lost. 'lt was voted that the bonds run from five to twenty years, and that public subscriptions be received. Mr. Kirkwood offered an amendment, which was adopted, providing that the general public be given an opportunity to sut scribe for the new bonds, for thirty days before any c< ntract should be mado with a syndicate. Mr. Voorhees introduced a resolution, wh ch was passed, calling on the Judiciary Comm.ttee to introduce a bill immediately to protect farmers and others from imposition at the hands of patentright swindlers and others of that ilk. The joint resolution was adopted authorizing the placing of books and ornaments in the possession of the Government relating io the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in the Memorial Hall of the national Lincoln Monument atWpringfield, 111. The House of Representatives adopted a resolution authorizing the payment of $3,300 to Frank Hurd, as counsel in the case of Hallett Kilbourne vs. J. G. Thompson, J. M. Glover and others. The River «nd Harbor bill was then taken up and passed by a vote of 163 to 94. The conference report on the Consular and Diplomatic bill was agreed to. The Apportionment bill ckme un. and. after a. short debate, was temporarily laid aside. Mr.' Cox had intended to move the previous question, but, at the request of the Republicans, who wished to consider the bill in caucus, he consented to let the debate run on until Saturday. The conference report on the Pension bill was adopted. A message from the President asking an immediate appropriation to provide for the proper representation of the United States at the international monetary conference was read and referred. $$ The Senate resumed consideration of the Funding bill on Friday, the 18th inst., and agreed to all the amendments adopted in committee of the whole. Mr. Bayard asked action on the Finance Committee amendments, and a vote on that striking out the Carlisle section resulted in ita retention. The amendment increasing the rate from 8 to 8# per wpt, wm voted down. The bill wm than read »

third time and passed by a vote of 43 to 20. The River and Harbor bill waa read * second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, after a vaih effort by Mr. Edmunds to have the committee instructed to reduce the aggregate appropriations to $7,000,000. The District bill appropriating $3,500,000 was passed. The Cattle Disease bill waa taken up and the committee’s amendments adopted, with no action. A bill passed for the construction of a fire-proof building at Columbus, Ohio, to cost $400,000. An attempt waa made in the House of Representatives to take up the Fitz John Porter bill, but it was defeated by a vote of 117 to 114, which disposes of it for this session. A resolution granting to the family of the late Congressman Farr the balance of salary which he would have" received as a member of. the Fortv-sixth Congress, and requesting tbe Forty-seventh Congress to. appropriate SO,OOO on the same plan, was adopted. The House then went into committee of the whole on the Agricultural bill, and Mr. Hurd made a speech in opposition to protection and in favor of a revision of the tariff. Judge Kelley replied, and was followed by Mr. Fulton. The bill was then read and some debate ensued, but the House adjourned without acting upon it. ' A bill was passed constituting Atlanta, Ga., a port of delivery. . In the United States Senate, on Saturday, Feb. 19, Mr. Saunders presented a resolution for the insertion in the River and Harbor bill of $1,138,000 for the improvement of the Mississippi river. The Cattle Diseases bill was taken up, and Mr. Ingalls denounced it as the worst he had ever read on any subject, while Mr. Maxey pronounced it the longest stride toward centralization he had ever seen. In tbe House, Mr. Carlisle reported a bill repealing all laws imposing taxes on bank deposits, checksand drafts, as well as on matches and medicinal preparations. In committee of the whole on the Agricultural Appropriation bill' it was voted that SBO,OOO be eet aside for the purchase and distribution of seeds. An early adjournment was effected in order that members might attend the funeral of Fernando Wood ~ -