Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1881 — VOLUMEv. [ARTICLE]

VOLUMEv.

A train on the Western Pacific road, when near Hayward’s, CaL, killed five children of a family named Nebas. A number of mining capitalists of San Francisco have left for the silver mountain reported to have been discovered in Alaska by sailors. Some specimens have assayed from $2,000 to SB,OOO per ton. The particulars of the escape of Billy Bonney, alias “Billy the Kid,” from the Lincoln county (New Mexico) jail read hko a chapter from one of Ned Buntline’r bloodcurdling narratives. Robert Olinger and J. W. Bell were the two guards. Olinger had gone to supper, and Bell was sitting on the floor when the “Kid” approached him, talking to him in a pleasant way. Being near enough, the “Kid,” who was heavily shackled and handcuffed, managed to jump at Bell, hitting bim with the handcuffs on the head, fracturing Bell’s skull, and laying him senseless on the ground. Then, snatching Boll’s revolver fyqm ins belt, he Shot him in the breast. Olinger, hearing tbe shot, thought something was up, and ran from the house, where he had been eating supper, about seventy-five yards from the jail, toward that structure. Just as h entered a small gate leading through tbe jail fence, the “Kid” shot him from upstairs with a double-barreled shotgun, heavily charged, filling his breast full of shot, killing him instantly. The Kid then got a hatchet* knocked off his shackles and handcuffs, made a man in the jail-yard saddle a horse for bim, took a Winchester rifle and four revolvers from the arms in the jail, and rode ouf. Subsequently he encountered a man named Matthews, who had testified against him in a recent trial, and killed him. He also murdered another man he met on the road against whom he bore a grudge. The young desperado is believed to have fled to Mexico.

The first vessel to pass through the straits of Mackinaw this season was the propeller Garden City, which arrived at Alpena from Chicago on the 4th of May. The indications of an outbreak among the Utes were sufficiently serious to cause the dispatch of six cavalry companies from the contiguous forts to White river. Eighty-four thousand immigrants arrived in Chicago last month, and were distributed in different directions. Hon. Ansel Briggs, the first Governor of lowa, died the other day at Omaha. There were 984 deaths in Chicago last month. Lieut. Bulles followed a band of In dian murderers across the Rio Grande and killed four braves and a squaw, capturing twenty horses. Gilbert Hubbard, senior member of the Chicago firm of Gilbert Hubbard & Co., is dead. Charles Hitchcock, an old and prominent member of the Chicago bar, has also passed away. South. Louis Redman, colored, was hanged at Hazlehurst, Miss., for the murder of his fath< r-in-law. Gen. John 8. Preston, a prominent citizen of South Carolina, aud Chief of the Rebel Conscription Bureau during the War of the Rebellion, is dead. A shocking murdej/is reported from the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory. A man named Arneta and a neighbor killed John Dry, a half-breed, to get possession of two gallons .of whisky he had. They shot him three times in the head, stabbed him ten times, and severed the head from the body. They then concealed the remains. A freight train on the Texas Pacific railway went through a bridge near Dallas. The engineer was killed, and the fireman, conductor and brakeman were injured. Another wreck on the same road caused the death of two men and the wounding of a third. • While some school children were playing under a small tree in the yard of N. F. Harner, eight miles east of Winona, Mass., lightning struck the tree and immediately killed Mamie and Willie Harner, aged 9 and 7 years, and Mary Hightman.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Attorney General MacVeagh has been instructed to obtain indictments against the members of the star-route ring, and more removals will take place in the contract division of the Postoffice .Department. During the month of April $8,893,000 worth of eagles and half-eagles were coined at the various United States mints. Only 2,300,000 silver dollars were coined during the same period. Only United States notes will hereafter be received by the Treasury Department as security for the reduction of national-bank circulation or the redemption of notes. The public-debt statement issued May 1 is as follows: Sir per cent, bonds* 196,378,600. Five per cents 456,022,950 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four per cents 738,622,700 Refunding certificates 725,100 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin b0nd551,655,749,350 Matured debts 5,704,865 Legal tenders 316,741,646 Certificates of deposit ... 8,295,000 # Fractional currency 7,115,046 Gold and silver certificates 56,642,740 Total without interest. 418,794,433 Total debt 52,080,218,648 Total interest 17,555,241 Cash in treasury 233,731,195 Debt less cash in trea5ury51,864,072,693 Decrease during April 9,690,900 Decrease since June 30, 1880. 78,099,701 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaids 2,710,792 Debt on which interest has ceased 5,704,865 Interest thereon., 730,740 Gold and silver certificates 56,642,740 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 8,295,000 Cash balance available May 1,1881 159,647,357 T0ta1......$ 233,731,195 Available assets— Cash in treasury.s 233,731,195 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstandings 64,623,512 Interest "accrued and not yet paid 1,292,470 Interest paid by United States. 49,528,5G6 interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid by transportation of mails 14,247,370 By cash payments of 5 per cent, of not •earnings. 655,798 Balance of interest paid by the United States 34,625,992 The Commissioners of the Freedmen’s, Bank have on hand over SIOO,OOO of unclaimed dividends. The October term of the Supreme Court has adjourned. The number of cases now remaining on the docket undisposed of is 837, an increase of forty-six since the close of the previous October term. A Washington correspondent of the Inter Ocean says that President Hayes discouraged the Republican Campaign Committee from applying to the star-route contractors for contributions. He said they were mixed up in a scandal, and the party could get along better without than with their money. The Republican caucus committee at Washington, headed byJSenator Dawes, waited upon President Garfield and suggested the

withdrawal of .Judge Robertson’s nomination, in the interest of harmony, to which the President replied, with some warmth, that no such proposition could be entertained. Senator telierman is opposing the confirmation of Sheldon for Governor of New Mexico. Sheldon was an Ohio delegate to the Chicago Convention opposed to Sherman’s nomination Representative Baker, of Indiana, is reported as saying that if the Western Representatives will only come to an agreement they can elect a Speaker from among themselves without doubt. Capt. Pai?l Boyton, who was in the Peruvian service and was captured by the Chilians, made his escape and has arrived safely in New York. Prof. Chandler, of New York, pronounces oleomargarine superior in all respects to the poorer grades of dairy butter. The promoters of the proposed railway tunnel under the St. Lawrence have •secured $3,500,000 in New York, and have gone to Quebec to have the Executive issue a proclamation to commence the work. A meeting of the National Committee of the National-Greenback parly has been called to meet at the Laclede Hotel, in St Louis, on the 7th of June. Grubbs, Republican, has been elected Mayor of Indianapolis by 515 majority. The Lafayette municipal election resulted in the success of McGinley, Democratic candidate for Mayor. The new Mayor elect of Hannibal, Mo., is a Democrat The Council is Republican.

DOINGS INJCONGRESS. Mr. Farley, of California, spoke for some time, on the opening of the Senate on Monday, May 2, called attention, to the large number of nominations awaiting action, and moved to go into executive session. The people of his State, of all political parties, were appealing to the Senate to consider important matters in which they were directly interested. Petitions were daily coming from California asking for consideration of the Chinese treaty. A debate ensued between Messrs. Dawes and Farley, the Chinese > uestion receiving considerable attention. Afterward a few remarks were made by Messrs. Beck and Salisbury, and the Senate adjourned. The Republican Caucus Committee, consisting of seven Senators, met and agreed on a report. They recommend that execute sessions be he'd immediately to transact business in the followin ' order: First, to refer to the appropriate committees all nominations now on the table; second, to take action on the various treaties awaiting ratification; third, to consider all uncontested nominations, that is, such as are not objected to-by any Republican Senator from the State to which the appointment belongs. When this programme is completed the contested nominations may be considered.

In the Senate, Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, made the first speech of the day on Tuesday, May 3, defending his State upon the debt question, and was followed by several other Senators upon the same subject. The Republicans were willing to adjourn early for the purpose of caucusing on the holding of executive sessions. In accordance with the decision of the Republican caucus, Mr. Dawes moved that the Senate go into executive session, on Wednesday, May 4, the motion being unanimously adopted. The following appointments were then unanimously confirmed: Robert Hitt, of Chicago, for Assistant Secretary of State; ex-Congressman Hiram Price, of lowa, for Commissioner of Indian Affairs; A. M. Jones for United States Marshal of the Northern (Chicago) district of Illinois; Sanford A. Hudson, of Wisconsin, Associate Justice of the Supremo Court of Dakota; Joseph O. Jones as Postmaster at Terre Haute, Ind.; W. H. Craig for Postmaster at Albany. N. Y. The other nominations were referred to the appropriate committees, and the Senate then began the consideration of the Chinese treaties. •Senator Hoar opposed the ratification of the treaty on the ground that it is opposed to the genius of our institutions and to the general doctrine of the “ brotherhood of man.” Senators Miller and Farley and the other Pacific coast Senators strongly urge lhe ratification of the treaty on the ground that it gives the United States Government full control over the immigration of the Celestials. The President nominated Elliot C. Jewitt,T)f Missouri, to be Assayer in charge of the Assay Office at St. Louis.

The Senate in executive session did a remarkably good day’s work, on Thursday, the sth inst. Both Chinese treaties were ratified by all but unanimous votes; also, an extradition treaty with the United States of Colombia, and treaties with Italy, Morocco and Japan. The Senate also confirmed eighty-four nominations, of which the following are the most important: William Walter Phelps, New Jersey, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria; Cortz Fessenden, of Rome, Mich., United States Surveyor General for Dakota ; Richard w. Montgomery, Receiver of Public Moneys for Bloomington, Neb.; Gelden M. Bronson, Postmaster for Menasha, Wis.; Lionel A. Sheldon, of Ohio, Governor of New Mexico Territory: Edward 5. Meyer, United States Attorney for the Northern district of Ohio; Henry Fink, United States Marshal for the Eastern district of Wisconsin; Thomas Wilson, of the District of Columbia, Consul at Ghent; John F. Jenne, of New Jersey, Consul at Nuevo Laredo; E. C. Jewett, United States Assayer at St. Louis. Surveyors of Customs —Joseph L. Gaston, of Chattanooga: John R. Leonard, of Indianapolis, Ind. Collector of Internal Revenue—Marcus Boggs, Eleventh district of Ohio. Registers of Land Offices—William Letcher, at Mitchell, Dakota; John P. Owens, at Taylor’s Falls, Minn.; Charles B. Tyler, at Tracy, Minn.; Thomas H. Cavanaugh, at Oberlin, Kan.; Christopher H. Smith, Worthington, Minn. Receivers of Public Moneys—John Lind, at Tracy, Minn.; Charles Tl. Chandler, at Oberlin, Kan. A message was received from the President withdrawing the following names, who are regarded as friends of Senator Conkling: Stewart L. Woodford, United States Attorney for the Southern district; Asa W. Tenney, United States Attorney for the Eastern district; Lewis F. Payne, United States Marshal for the Southern district; Clinton D. McDougall, United States Marshal for the Northern district; John Tyler, Collector of Customs for the District of Buffalo. President Garfield nominated George P. Pomeroy, of New Jersey, Secretary of the United States Legation at Paris; Mrs. Julia P. Woolfork, Postmistress of Jackson, Tenn.; William R. Durfee, Agent of Indians, La Pointe Agency, Wis.; Malachi Krebs, Indiana, Receiver of Public Moneys, Boise City, Idaho. In the Senate on the nJoming of Friday, May 6, Mr. Dawes made an attempt to secure action "on the resolution for the election of Senate officers, but the Democratic Senators resumed their tactics of alternating motions to go into executive session and to adjourn, until Dawes gave up the fight for the day, and, upon his motion, the Senate went into executive session. When the doors reopened the Senate adjourned;

Wonder if the wretched old bachelors who get together to growl over the way women are swindled by their dressmakers and milliners realize that shirts made to order for $2 apiece cost but sixty or eighty cents, and a $3 necktie really represents but seventy-five cents worth of labor and material. The bump of destructiveness— A ratiroad collision.