Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. It Is charged that Germany, while avowedly in favor of peace, hag been secretly working to bring about a war between Turkey and Greece. It is reported that the Turcomans surprised and captured Naru Kissar, the most advanced fort on the road to Merv, killing the entire Russian garrison. Gen. Skobeleff has officially declared the Tekke-Turcoman war at an end. The military cordon placed around Bt. Petersburg was found to be more irksome to loyal citizens than efficacious against Nihilists. and it has been withdrawn. The great anti-Jewish petition has keen sent to Bismarck. It consists of twentysix volumes, aggregating 14,000 sheets, with 255,000 signatures. The Rev. William Morley PunshoD, a celebrated Wesleyan preacher of England, is dead. The Rothschilds refuse to loan money to Italy for the resumption of specie payments while the difficulti s with France remain unsettled. A telegram from Alexandria announces that tke King of Abyssinia is dead and lias been succeeded by his ion Michael. The King fell in battle with the Assaimeiks. All the Nihilists condemned for complicity in the murder of the Czar of Russia, except the woman Helfmann, were hanged in the presence of an immense concourso of spectators. There was no disturbance. Roussakoff fainted at the la it moment.

Bismarck and tho Crown Prince both condemn the anti-Jewish agitation in Germany. * All efforts to induce tho Bey of Tunis to peacefully permit French troops to enter his domain have proved unavailing. Further news from Tripoli leaves little hope that the French Col. Flatters or any of his escort escaped massacre. No Russian lad between the ages of 10 and 18 years will be allowed to cmigrato without obtaining permission. Advices from Bagdad state that the ravages of the plague at that place are terrible. The disease assumes a very virulent form, and thousands of peoplo are dying, and villages that are the most infected with the poison are being burnt. A fierce dispute is raging in the English papers respecting Sir William Jenner’s refusal to meet Dr. Kidd because the latter is suspected of treating Lord Beaconsiicld homeopatkically. Dr. Kidd seems to have been ungraciously treated by the orthodox allopath, but bore himself well, and has the gratification of having pulled Lord Beaconsfield through the worst phases of his sickness.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Ex-Attorney General Devens has been re-appointed to the Supreme bench of Massachusetts. J. L. & L. F. Kuntz, the well-known lager-beer brewers of New York, have made an assignment to their father, their liabilities being $315,000. Jay Gould has bought Col. Tom. Scott’s interest in the Texas Pacific railroad. James O’Brien, better known as Bob Lindsay, pleaded guilty in a New York court to perjury in the famous Morey trial, aud was sentenced to State prison for eight yearß. In .a billiard contest at New York Schaefer scored 4,000 points while Slosson was making 2,780. The typhus fever lias made its appearance in New York. It is the most dreaded of all diseases by doctors, for it does not respect the profession. The Bankers’ and Merchants’ Telegraph Company, of New York, organized with a capital of $ 1,000,000, has begun the construction of a twelve-wire line between Boston and Washington. West. Mark Beaubien, doubtless the most noted of all tho pioneers of Chicago, who kept the first hotel and ran the earliest ferry across tho Chicago river, died at Kankakee, HL, a few days ago, aged 8L years. David McKee, another of the early pioneers of Chicago, has also passed away, at the age of 80. Sioux City dispatches of the 14th inst. represent that snow covers the prairies to the depth of one to threo feet, and fanners in that section cannot commence plowing for several weeks. An aid society has been formed to distribute relief in tho flooded districts, where the destitute number over 5,000. A Yankton dispatch of tho 15th states that twenty families residing at a bend in the Missouri river fifteen miles below Yankton were imprisoned by fields of heavy ice. A colony of 130 people, who had been surrounded by water at Mayville for two weeks, had been rescued. Two relief parties were endeavoring to reach Meckling, where fifty persons were imprisoned by fields of ice from five to twenty feet high. Probably 8,000 settlors have been rendered destitute on the Dakota bottoms. Charles Marmon, a Leadville stagedriver, entered the theater at Durango, CoL, and,'without provocation, killed one man and wounded another, both strangers to him. He was hanged by vigilantes. \ The annual report of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road shows grot s earnings of $8,556,975 and a net income of $4,213,770. The length of the road is 1,539 miles, and its funded debt 115,873,000. At a short-horn sale in Waukegan, IIL, one heifer brought $4,230, and another $2,250. The Chicago Times says : “ A thorough canvass of the uinter-wheat region has been made by a representative of the Times. It is evident that the damage done in Illinois and Indiana is much greater than in the other States, and has led to anticipations altogether too dismal. There is good reason to believe crop is very backward goes unquestioned, but the prolonged snow-storms have proven a bulwark of defense against nipping frosts.” Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, has issued an order closing all the Sunday theaters, that the yield of the country St large will be nearly as great as for the last two years, as the acreage has very greatly increased. That the Judge Mallory, of Milwaukee, has declared the Wisconsin Anti-Treating law in' operative and void, on the ground that the bill as enacted presupposes the existence of a law which, since the revision of the Wisconsin statutes, has not been in existence. Chicago papers chronicle the death of CoL BL W. Farrar, for many years business manager of the Evening Journal, of that city. “The Legion of Honor,” an adaptation from tho French, continues this week at McVicker’s Chicago Theater. It is a plaf of considerable strength and is'presented very satisfactorily. Following Miss Ward, will be produced the play of “One Hundred Wives,” written by CoL G. A. Pierce, of the Inter Ooean, m d Bunnjon, of the Chicago Tribuns,

which has been one of the greatest dramatic successes of the present season. South. A party of armed and masked men rode into Toledo, Ark., at daybreak, surrounded the Court House, broke into the Treasurer’s office, and stole about SIO,OOO. They then remounted and escaped. Deputy United States Marshal Seagreaves was recently assassinated and robbed An Macon county, Tenn. A negro woman was lynched at Mar-tin’s-Depot, 8. C., for attempted arson. A tornado near Hernando, Miss., demolished many houses, killed three persons and wounded eight others. A fearful hail-storm visited the town of Fayetteville, Ask.. inflicting damage to property estimated at $15,000. Half the peach crop in Middle and Southwestern Georgia has been killed by frost; the fig-trees are dead, and plums badly injured. The notorious James brothers are living near Andersonville, Ky. Heavy frosts have prevailed throughout Texas, and considerable damage has been done to the corn, cotton, fruit and vegetable crops. Mary A. Murray, an employe of the Baltimore Postofiice, sued Postmaster E. B. Tyler for $20,000 damages for an indecent assault upon her. The jury gave her $5,000. War has broken out between the American aud Mexican residents of El Paso, Texas. Six men have already been killed. A negro burglar at Butler, Ga., on being soutenced to ten years in the State prison, pun died out his eyes. Miss Jane Schell, of Frostburg, Md., “ has been jailed for strangling her two newlyborn children, whose corpses were found in a meadow.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Secretary Windom has issued a call for all the outstanding 6-per-ccnt. bonds which mature in July next, aggregating $195,690,400. Any holder of these securities can have them continued at the pleasure of the Government, at the rate of 8)4 per cent, interest, by forwarding them to the Treasury Department to be stamped, semi-annual interest payments to be made by check to the holder’s address. Th Government will pay no expense of transportation on bonds received, but will return such securities by prepaid registered mail. Mrs. Blaine, Mrs. Sherm'an, Mrs. Pendleton, Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Harlan and other ladies well known in Washington and throughout the country appeal to the people of the United States to contribute to a relief fund for the sufferers from the earthquake in Scio. Ex-Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, wai tendered the mission to Brazil, but he declime, it, the main ground being that a colored man would be coldly received there. A clerkship in the Interior Department at SI,BOO per year has been contemptuously refused by Private DalzelL A large number of reports have been received at the State Department from Consuls abroad relative to the interdiction of American pork. The war upon our products seems to be incited by jealousy of our increasing trade, aud not from fear of disease. The situation in Dakota was a theme of discussion at a Cabinet meeting last week. President Garfield called attention to the destitute condition of hundreds of homeless sufferers by floods, and expressed an earnest desire to have every needed relief extended with the least possible delay. It was decided to authorize the issuing of army rations for two weeks, and clothing and supplies. An arrangement was also made by which salt meat, which cannot be furnished at needed points in sufficient quantities by the War Department, be furnished through the Interior Department from the Indian supplies, to be replaced eventually by the War DepartmentSeveral of the new clerks appointed to $2,000 positions in the Pension Office have been found incompetent to perform the duties devolving upon the clerks of this class, and have been assigned to mailing- circulars with ladies drawing S6O a month. Secretary Windom is a bi-metallist in the fullest sense of the word, and it will bo his policy to get coin into circulation as rapidly as possible. With that end in view, it is understood that $5, $2 and $1 legal tenders will be withdrawn from circulation as fast as they come into the treasury, and if this be found to work no inconvenience the process will be extended to the $lO notes.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Pennsylvania House defeated a resolution approving the course of tho Prosi dent in the management of his administration and urging the speedy confirmation of al. worthy nominees to office. By advice of the President, Secretary Kirkwood has rescinded a large number of appointments to the Pension Bureau and ordered a competitive examination. There are 130 positions to be filled, and the candidates number 720. Senator David Davis has written a letter to John Martin, of Kansas, in which hi charges that both the Republican and Democratic Senators are not free agents, but are controlled by monopolies. He says there ought to be a reorganization of parties. The first step toward that reorganization, he thinks, should bo the disbandment of the Democratic party. He thinks the Republican party would then become disorganized and demoralized. John Kelly’s foes inside of Tammany Hall are making a desperate effort for his dethronement, and, it is said, the disaffection is really formidable. The President has been waited upon by two delegations of Virginia Republicans. The first urged him to recognize the Mahone element in that State, while the second represented that no coalition could possibly be formed ..between the Readjusters and the Republicans.

* DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The time-killing debate upon every subject was resumed iu the Senate on Monday, April 11. The lime of that day’s session was occupied by Call, of Florida, in defense of the Southern States, a statistical speech from Camden in defense of the credit of Weßt Virginia, a facetious speech by Beck on Don Cameron’s dominance In Pennsylvania politics, a retort by Cameron, and a bar. anguc by Vest relerring to pretty much everything. At the close of Vest’s speech the Senate adjourned No business of any kind was done. Senator Edmunds had returned from Florida, and occupied his seat in the Senate. He seemed to be in excellent health and spirits, and received the congratulations of his fellow-Senators of heth parties. In the Senate, on motion of Mr. a resolution was adopted on Tuesday morning, the 12th inst., requesting the President to communicate to the Senate any information in the possession of the Government touching the alleged arrest and imprisonment of Michael Boyton, who olaimsio be a citizen of the United States, by the Government ot Great Britain. The floodgates of talk were then opened, and a number of Senators spoke on any subject interesting to them, air. Beck making the principal speech. Senator Pendleton commenced a long argument, and held the floor at adjournment. The proceedings in tho United States Senate were var ied on Wednesday, April 13, by some sharp and angry passages between Dawes and Pendleton, and Dawes and Butler, and some excited donunciations of Eepnblicans by Senator Harris. The session closed with another personal altercation between Messrs. Hill and Mahonc, in which language purposely insulting passed between the Senators. The usual amount of talk was indulged in by the Senate on Thursday, the 14th inst., but no bust ness was attempted. When the session adjourned i' ( was to meet on Monday. The following nomina. tions were sent to the Senate: Postmasters—lsaac Brown, Columbus, Ind.; Edwin W. Phelps, Oak Park, Ill.; C. N. Clark, Ida, Grove, lowa. William Letcher, of Ohio, to be Register of the Land Office at Mitchell, D. T. Cortez Fessenden, of Michigan, to be Surveyor General of the United States District of Dakota.

Congressional Contests. Notices of contest have already been filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, n accordance with the law, in the following lases : Horatio Bisfcee, Republican, vs. Jesse J. Finley, Democrat, Second district of Florida. William M. Lowe, Greenback-Democrat, vs. Jo--epb W hue er, Eighteenth district of Alabama. It bert Smalls, Republican, vs. George D. Tillman, Democrat, Fifth district of South Carolina. J. hn T. Stoviii, Democrat, vs. George C. Cabell, Democrat, Fifth district of Virginia. Samuel Lee, Republican, vs. John S. Richards, Demcci at, First district of South Carolina. George M. Buchanan, Republican, vs. Van H. Manning, Democrat, Second district of Mississippi. J. C. Cook, Democrat, vs. Madison E. Cutts, Republican, Sixth district of lowa. A ex. Smith, Republican, vs. E. W. Robertson, Democrat, Sixth cUutrict of Louisiana. James G. Bmith, Republican, vs. James M. Sheley, Democrat, Fourth district of Alabama. Samuel J. Anderson, Democrat, vs. Thomas B. .teed, Republican, First district of Maine. In addition to the above, it is understood that the seats of the following Democratic Representatives will be contested : SI. P. O’Connor, Second district; D. Wyatt Aikens, Ihu d district, and John H. Evius, Fourth district of South Carolina. Thomas H. Herndon, First district; H. A. Herbert, Second district, and William C. Oates, Third district of Alabama. Henry L. Mu’drew, First district; Otto R. Singleton; Fourth district, aud Charles E. Hooker, Fifth district of Mississippi. J. FJoyd King, Fifth district of Louisiana, and R. G, Frost, Third district of Missouri.