Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1881 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The dreaded plague has made its appearance in Mesopotamia. The Ameer Abdur Rahman Khan is preparing to occupy Candahar when the British garrison ia wholly withdrawn, and Ayoob Khan’s adherents are preparing to resist, so that there are excellent prospects of lively times in Afghanistan during the spring and summer. It seems to be the settled policy of the Gladstone Ministry to let Abdur Bah-, man Khan and Ayoob Khan settle their own disputes. The French Government has resolved to recall its representative in Venezuela. The cause assigned for the action is the bad faith of (the Venezuelan Government to French creditors. The latest dispatches state that twenty 'vessels were lost on the Scottish coast during the recent storm and 200 persons drowned. Notwithstanding the reports to the contrary, it does not appear that the Irish Land-Leaguers are much scared at the passage of the Coercion act. Those agitators who were in Ireland before the measure became law have stood their ground, and others, like Dillon and Brennan, who were in England or France, are returning to the Green Isle. The first person arrested under the Coercion act was Joseph B. Walsh, of Castlefear, a merchant, who has been prominently identified with the Land League. He is a cousin of Michael Davitt. Upward of twenty others have been arrested in the country districts. Notwithstanding the efforts of the German Government, the emigration from Germany to ibis country is enormously on the increase. Whole villagosin Posen, Schleswig and Prussia proper are being depopulated, and the authorities are seriously alarmed. Queen Caroline, widow of King Christian VIII., of Denmark, is dead. The leaders of the Land League in Ireland are trying to prevent the celebration of iSt. Patrick’s day in order to prevent religious •discord. A loss of 7,000,000 francs has been incurred at Paris by the burning of the. drapery establishment on the Boulevard Haussman known as Le Printemps. No leas than twentysix persons were injured by the fire. An order has been given for the withdrawal of the British troops from Candahar. England is negotiating to secure a modification of the invitation to the international monetary conference in order that she may accept it without pledging herself to a fcvHßietallic standard. The appeal of Orton, the Tichbome claimant, having been dismissed by the House of Lords, there remains nothing for him but to complete his fourteen years in prison. Mohammed Jan, the noted Afghan leader, has boen murdered. In one of the Spanish provinces thirty persons have been arrested for making demon- ‘ Afexafrafir u.,*Czar of Russia, has at last met his death at the hands of Nihilist assassins, On Sunday afternoon, March 13, while riding with the Grand Duke Michael in a closed carriage, guarded by eight Cossacks, a bomb was thrown, which tore out the back part of the vehicle. The Czar and his brother sprung out, when a bystander drew a revolver, but was prevented from discharging it. At this instant a second bomb fell near the Czar, shattering both his legs. With a cry for help he fell, and was taken to the Winter Palace, where troops kept back the throng. The sacrament was administered to the sufferer, who survived his injuries but an hour. The two assassins stood on opposite sides of the roadway, disguised as peasants. One was so roughly handled that he has since died. The other gives the name of Roussakoff. The dead Emperor was bom in 1818, and was called to the throne while Russia was engaged in the Crimean war. The chief event of his reign was the emancipation of 23,000,000 serfs in 1891. Attempts upon his life were made by Karaksoflf, at Moscow ; by in Paris, during the international exposition; by a Nihilist, who fired at him in the streets of Bt. Petersburg ; by the explosion of a mine under the Winter Palace, and by means of an infernal machine beneath the railway track at Moscow. Alexander, the heir to the throne, was bom in 1845, and wedded the Princess Dagmar, of Denmark. The Grand Duke Alexis and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have left London for St. Petersburg Telegrams of condolence have been received from nearly all the leading countries, the United States being among the first to offer its tribute.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. The managers of the Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia adopted a resolution denying the report emanating from the British Consul in that city in regard to the death of hogs by cholera, and referring the matter to a committee for investigation. Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister at V> ashington, will be asked to correct the report. A German Socialist mass meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston, was attended by about 4,000 persons. John W. Pittock, one of the proprietors of the Pittsburgh Leader, is dead. Ivory Chamberlain, well known as an editorial writer on the New York Herald, died of pneumonia. A fire which broke out in the Belmont oil-works, at Philadelphia, caused a damage of SIOO,OOO. '*? James W. Whittaker, Chief Engineer of the United States Navy, died in Brooklyn, from erysipelas, resulting from vaccination. The creditors of Santa Anna, exPresident of Mexico, have obtained from the Surrogate of New York, in settlement of claims, $30,000 worth of diamonds. In the Whittaker court-martial7~at New York, the expert, Southworth, testified that the paper on which the note of warning was written had been written over with pencil and the writing as terward erased by rubber. The erased words were in the handwriting of Whittaker. Over $1,500,000 in gold reached New York from Europe within forty-eight hours. A great increase in mortality is reported from New York, where the deaths last week were 800. A large boiler which was being tested in the Phoenix boiler-works, in Buffalo, exploded with terrific force, leveling the establishment, killing six men and wounding seven. Mr. Patterson, one of the proprietors, was among the killed. Fragments of the boiler were thrown a distance of half a mile. On the Pan-Handle bridge at Pittsburgh a freight and a yard train collided, throwing three oars down fifty feet, Charles Carney,

the conductor, was killed, and Patrick Cullen, a brakeman, fatally injured. R. Harrison, brakeman, had both hands oat <M. Two more of the men injured in the boiler explosion at Buffalo have died, making eight victims. The extensive rattan-works at Wakefield, Mass., have been destroyed by fire, throwng 1,000 men out of employment. The loss is estimated at $600,000, and the insurance at 1334,000. West. A crazy man attempted to bum the insane asylum at Topeka, Kan., with its 130 inmates, but was unsuccessful. A bill was introduced in the Illinois House making it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment, to elope with any woman, married or single. The Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads were united at Deming, New Mexico* on the Bth of March. Ex-President Hayes arrived at his home in Fremont, Ohio, on the Bih inst., and was given a royal welcome by his old friends. He was met at the depot and escoited to his residence by a large procession. Not less than SIOO,OOO damage was caused by the flood in the Republican river in Nobraska. Nine bridges, two mills, and a factory were swept away. A dispatch from Walnut Grove, Redwood county, Minn., says that there is much suffering there on account of a scarcity of fuel, as the Winona and St. Peter road has been blocked lor two months. All out-buildings, hog-pens, railroad fences, etc., have been used up, and now many are trying to keep warm by burning straw and hay, which is poor consolation, as nono’tiave suitable stoves. A loss of $130,000 was incurred by an incendiary fire at Bosita, Col., which destroyed the business portion of the town. A conflagration in Kansas City destroyed a portion of a new block on Union avenue, between Mulberry and Santa Fe streets. The losers are Woodward, Faxon & Co., Oglebay & Co., Kelly, Mills & Co., and Leach, Olm _ stead & Hall The loss is estimated at $400,. 0.0. George W. Gridley, one of the pioneers of Butte county, Cal., is dead. He will be remembered as the man who, during the war, gave to the Sanitary Commission a sack of flour, which was sold and resold in all the principal cities in California and Nevada, and then sent East and again resold, realizing altogether over $50,000.

Thirty- one ladies of Palestine, Ohio, were arrested on a chargo of inciting riot and sending threatening letters to one Long, a saloonkeeper. It is charged that they belonged to a secret band of crusaders. Long receivod a notice to leave or die at the hands of a mob. ■Six of the ladies were discharged, and twentytwo gave bail. The crusaders claim to have sixteen indictments against Long for selling liquor to minors. nuftiHgtdn cfrkfheEter' “fir.* Ims lied with SIO,OOO left with him by the Quincy Coal Company for safe keeping. The Chicago and Northwestern railroad has secured the right of way through Bear Butte canyon, which is said to be the key to the Black Hilis. The only possible ingress to Deadwood is made through the canyon, and there is room for only one line of railway. Miss Fanny Davenport, who recently played in Detroit against Bernhardt, and drew larger houses than the French artiste, is this week at Haverly’s, in Chicago, where her success is pronounced. Miss Davenport is one of the most talented of all the modern school of “ emotional ” actresses, and her repertoire this week includes “Camilie,” “Pique,” “Lady of Lyons,” “Frou Frou.” “Louden Assurance," < Oliver Twist ” and “ Leah.” She is supported by her own company. A strike of miners at Lewis, Nev., ended in the murder of one non-union man and the wounding of two others. A Fort Assiniboine dispatch says that three soldiers of the Eighteenth infantry— Quinn, Kinney and McDonald —while attempting to cross the Marine river, were drowned by the upsetting-of their boat. South. A band of Indians has been committing depredations in Nolan county, Texas. For the murder of Miss Mattie Ishmael, at Jonesboro, Ark., four negroes were arrested, the first day’s testimony showing their guilt very clearly. At night the prisoners were placed in a church, under a strong guard, and a few hours later the villains were hanged to trees by tho citizens. United States Deputy Marshal Heflin with ten men made a raid into Letcter county Ky., in search of illicit distillers. The moonshiners, apprised of his approach, organizedand, taking a six-pounder brass cannon, left there by John Morgan during the war, masked it, and awaited the approach of the Marshal. When the Marshal and his party en. terod the pass, they fired the piece—charged with nails, scraps of iron, and the like—but overshot the ij|ark. The Marshal’s party, none of whom were hurt, dismounted, captured the piece, and drove the assailants across Perry county into Breathitt county. The Marshal and his assistants were pursuing the fugitives in Breathitt county at last accounts. The people of Mississippi City, Miss., took a negro named Ed Turner from jail and lynched him for an assault on a white woman.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Nathaniel Goff, ex-Secretary of the Navy, has been nominated by President Garfield for United States District Attorney of West Virginia, the position he held previous to liis accepting the Naval Secretaryship some weeks ago. It is said that Fred Douglass will not be reappointed Marshal of the District of Columbia, but that the place will be given to Mr. Henry, of Cleveland, the Adjutant of Gen. Garfield's old regiment. The Cabinet held a session on the Bth mst., which was devoted principally to the consideration of the request of the national banks for permission to substitute bonds for the legal U aders deposited by them for the retirement of their circulation. No action was taken, however, the question being regarded as of too much importance to be decided hastily. Gen. Grant was in Washington last week, and called upon President Garfield at the White House. Congressman Levi P. Morton was last week nominated for Minister to France by the President. The Senate promptly confirmed the nomination. Ex-Gov. Noyes, of Ohio, has been the Minister to France for the last four years. In a note to the British Legation, Secretary Blaine shows that the Consul at Philadelphia wm imposed upon by speculators as

to the hog cholera, and expresses the hope that prompt steps will be taken toward an authoritative denial of the falsehoods. William M. Evarts, Allien G. Thurman and Timothy O. Howe have been appointed Commissioners td the International Money Conference. Walter Blaine, of St. Paul, has been appointed private secretary to his father, the Secretary of State. Carl Schurz has been sued for $200,000 by Charles D. Gilmore, a Washington claim agent, for being disbarred from practice at the Interior Department. The Secretary of the Navy haa decided to purchase the whaling steamer Helen and Mary, now at San Francisco, to be used in the Jeannette search expedition. The price is SIO,OOO. The vessel is to be manned by volunteer officers of the United States navy.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Democrats of Michigan met in Convention at Lansing on the Bih inst., and nominated G. V. N. Lothrop, of Detroit, and Henry Frallick, of Qrand Rapids, for Regents of the University. Augustus C. Baldwin, of Detroit, was placed in nomination for Justice of the Supreme Court. William P. Frye was nominated by cclamation, at tho Republican Senatorial cauus at Augusta, Me., to succeed James G. Blaine, The Governor of lowa has appointed : J. W. McDitl to fill the seat in the United States Senate lately occupied by Hon. S. J. .urkwood. The rush for foreign appointments is ,aid to be greater than ever before at the open,ng of an administration, and it will take the President some little time to wade through the list of applications,- and still longer to make up his mind. Secretary Windom, in a brief interview with a Washington correspondent, said he had always been a protectionist, and was in favor of a proper, reasonable protective tariff. President Garfield repudiates certain free-trade sentiments attributed to him by the London Telegraph. He states that he wrote to the Secretary of the Cobden Club, last August, that he did not believe in its principles, but would be pleased to see a full discussion of the tariff question. Ex-Senator Angus Cameron, of Wis cousin, was nominated by the Republican Senatorial caucus at Madison, for successor to the late Senator Carpenter, on the forty-eighth ballot. The people of North Carolina will vote next August on the prohibition question. There are five Congressional vacancies to be filled—viz.: tho one caused by the death of Fernando Wood, and those created by the election of Messrs. Conger, Frye and Mitchel l to the United States Senate from Michigan Maine and Pennsylvania, and tho one 1 created iu New York by the appointment of_the Hon. Levi P. Mq^ — 4

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. • The Senate, March 7, was In session only i few minutes, and did nothing except swear in Gen. Mahone, of Virginia. It is claimed by the Democ rats that he will vote with them on the organization of the committees. At the session of the Senate on Tuesday, March 8, communications were laid before the Senate from ex-Senators Kirkwood and Blaine, announcing that they had forwarded to the Governor! of their respective States their resignations as mem. bers of the Senate. The President sent in the following nominations: Nathan Goff, Jr., to be United States Attorney for West Virginia ; Lewis Richmond, of Rhode Island, Consul General at Rome; United States Consuls—John L. Frisbie (Michigan), at Rhelms; P. M. Eder (Nevada), at Guagaquiel; Albert Rhodes (District of Columbia), at Rouen; Edward Backus (Illinois), at I’ara ; Emilio Courtaio, at La Union; John A. Haldeman (Kansas), at Bangkok; Abbot L. Doen, at Aleppo, India; John F. June (New Jersey), atNueva Lai-eda. On the assembling of the Senate on Wednesday, March 9, a telegram from the Governor of lowa was read, announcing the appointment of J. W. McDill to fill the unexpired term of Senator Kirkwood The following names were sent in by the President: William M. Evarts, of Nev. York, Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, and Timothy O. Howe, of Wisconsin, Commissioners from this Government to the International Monetary Conference ; L. P. Morton, of New York, Minister to France; Lot M. Morrill, United States Collector of Customs at Portland, Me.; David D. McCiung, Surveyor of Customs at Cincinnati ; John W. Green, Collector of Internal Re\ enue for the Second district of lowa ; Robert S. Taylor, of Indiana, member of the Mississippi River Improvement Commission. Postmasters—Conley E. Guilford, Wanston, Ohio; George Pfleger, South Bend, Ind.; James O. Raymond, Stevens Point, Wis. Immediately upon the assembling of the Senate on Thursday, March 10, a message from the President was received. Mr. Pendleton offered a resolution providing for the organization of the standing committees of the Senate. The resolution was read, subject to objection raised by Mr. Anthony. After reading the resolution Mr. Anthony moved that it be printed and lie on the table, the subject to be called up to-morrow. Agreed to. Mr.' Pendleton then offered a resolution providing for the organization of the select committees, which was disposed of in a similar manner. President Garfield sent in the nominations of Col. Clark E. Carr to succeed himself as Postmaster at Galesburg, and Sandford A. Hudson, of Wisconsin, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota. The session of the Senate on Friday, March 11, was an exciting one. The Democrats tried to press Mr. Pendleton’s resolution relative to the committess to a vote, but Mr. Conkiing made the point of order* that it could not be considered because it changed a rule of the Senate without notice having been given. The Vico President sustained this point, and an appeal was taken from his ruling. After debate at some length. Senators Conkiing, Sherman, Bayard, Garland, Ferry and others taking part, the point of order and the appeal were both withdrawn, and the matter went over to Monday. Mr. Edmunds made his appearance and took the oath. Senator David Davis said he had no intention of accepting honors from either party, but Intended to be independent. He would not accept the Chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee, although he would vrpte to appoint the committees. He moved the substitution of Mr. Garland. The President sent in the following nominations: Postmasters— George F. Dick, Bloomington. Ill.; Orlando H. Merwin, Evanston, Ill.; Almond B. Biford, Benton Harbor, Mich.; Lorenzo J. Worden, Lawrence, Kas.; Thomas Jt. Ball, Omaha, Neb.; Henry 0. Pearson, New York,