Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. A. & B. Schroder, merchants, of London, have failed for £500,000 because of the suspension of their Amsterdam house. Cardinal Manning’s order forbidding the use of Catholic club-rooms for Land-League meetings has a caused great dissatisfaction among the Irish in London. Prince Rudolph, of Austria, was married to the Princess Stephanie, of Belgium, with all the pomp and circumstance befitting such an occasion. The ceremony took place in the Church of St Augustine, in Vienna. Alexander Jonas, a German journalist of New York, was recently arrested in Dresden, Germany, on suspicion of being a Socialistic agent, and his private papers were retained for nine days. Ho has applied to Minister White Tor redress, and the matter has been referred to the foreign office at Berlin. The losses of the Jews by the recent riot inElizabcthgrad, Russia, are estimated at 54,000, 000 rubles. Mr. Forster and Lord-Lieutenant Cowper are vigorously enforcing the Coercion act and the Disarming act in Ireland.

St. Hilaire, Minister of Foreign Affair#, has issued a “yellow book’’ on (he ’Tunis-Algerian imbroglio, defining the French view of the matter. France is only doing in Africa what England has done in India. Lord Dundale’s bailiff was fatally shot from behind a hedge in Dakeen, Ireland. Five men were arrested in Dublin under the provisions of the Coercion act. An electric railway from Berlin to Lichterfield has been opened with great success. Emmett, the American actor, has broken his engagement in Liverpool, England, and has been placed in a lunatic asylum. The Bank of France haa hitherto issued no notes of less denomination than 100 francs, but has decided to put in circulation some of CO francs. The persecution of the Jews in Southern Russia continues. At Cherson, shops were pillaged; also at Jenewinka and other cities. The destruction of Jewish property at Kieff amounted to 30,000,000 roubles. Bismarck lately telegraphed the French Government: “I am happy to say there is a prospect of the further undisturbed continuance of peace.” A treaty has been concluded between France and Tunis which gives the former power the right to occupy certain important military positions. The financial system of Tunis will be regulated by the French. The Bey is guaranteed security of person and dynasty. The anti-Jewish riots in Southern Russia seem to have had the effect of utterly disorganizing society and business interests in isome localities. Railroad traffic has been practically suspended in some places, as the mob will not permit engineers to work on trains carrying Jewish refugees. The German delegates to the Monetary Conference ask the representatives of Italy, France, Holland and the United States to decide whether or not they will indorse the unlimited coinage of silver in the proportion of to 1. Gen. Lorie Melikoff, Commandant at St. Petersburg; Dabaza, Russian Finance Minister; Nicolai, Minister of Public Instruction, and Giers, Minister of Foreign Affairs, have tendered their resignations. Fifty-three persons broke jail at Kuba, in the Caucasus, seventeen of whom were killed by the troops.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ICaet. The Governor of New York has issued a proclamation forbidding lotteries. The Pennsylvania State Senate has passed a resolution which provides for tho transfer of the remains of William Penn from their present res ting-place in Buckinghamshire, England, to Philadelphia. The United States Grand Jury at New York has indicted fourteen Captains of European steamships for carrying an excess of passengers, contrary to law. Two indictments are against Capt Brandt and Capt Meyers, both of whom committed suicide a few weeks ago. A fishing party of four persons were drowned at Trembly Point, Staten Island sound, by the upsetting of a boat. The limited express on the Pennsylvania road made the ninety miles between Philadelphia and Jersey City in ninety-five minutes. Immigrants continue to arrive at New York at the rate of 3,000 or 4,000 a day. West. A coal-shaft in Osage county, Kan., caught fire from a furnace in the air shaft Twenty-two men were at work at the time, but fifteen of them were rescued. The remaining seven, with three others who had gone to their assistance, were taken out dead. Troops have been sent to the Ute Reservation to protect the Indians from invasion by whites. George C. Harding, editor of the Indianapolis Saturday Review, is dead. A correspondent which the Chicago Tribune dispatched to the flooded regions of the Upper Missouri river sends to that journal a graphic description of the ruin wrought by the high.water in Dakota. The bulk of the suffering from the flood, he reports, is confined to the territory between Yankton and Elk Point. In the river bottom, between these points, hundreds of once fertile farms are now covered with five feet of sand. In addition to their present mournful condition the unhappy dwellers in the inundated districts have to face the distressing prospect of wholesale malaria, resulting from the decomposition of thousands of dead animals, and of future want, because it has been necessary to eat up all the grain and vegetable seed saved for this year’s crops in order to save life. The situation of these people is one that cries aloud for immediate relief in the way of donations of money and articles of food.—The, Quartermaster at Yankton has issued nearly 50,000 rations to the sufferers by the flood. Capt. Clagne, who was sent by Gen. Terry on a tour of investigation, reports that the officers at Fort Bandall saved 700 persons from possible starvation. / Trees by hundreds of thousands in Southern Wisconsin were destroyed by ground miie during the snow blockade. Reports from eighteen in Kansas indicate that the wheat crop this year will be the biggest ever known. Rev. John McMullen, of Chicago, has been appointed by t) Pope Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of i. enport, and Bev. Kilian C. Flash, of Mil' ikee, has been made Bishop of the f LaCrosse.

The Missouri Pacific Railroad Company has leased the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad. 1 Eire in the. Missouri penitentiary destroyed $60,000 worth of property. Annie Myrtle, a young miss of Racine, died from the effects of skipping a rope over 100 times consecutively. In a battle with four thieves, near Sikeston, Mo., Deputy Sheriff Laforge and Albert Hunter were killed. One of the desperadoes was captured and bury?. The officers of the Northwestern Telegraph Company have signed a contract with the Western Union for a lease for ninety-nine years. South. Fifty negroes took from jail at Sparta, La., a colored lad who admitted having committed an outrage on a child, and killed him with shot-guns. Four negro laborers on the Alabama and Great Southern road were covered by a landslide and killed. In Dooley county, Ga., Joe Stovall was indulging in the pastime of beating his wife, when his brother Jeff interfered, whereupon Joe shot Jeff, inflicting mortal wounds. The ceremony of dedicating the tomb of the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia, and the unveiling of the statue of Stonewall Jackson, took place at Metairie Cemetery, in New Orleans. - Two men named Hart and Register fought a duel with knives in Snmter county, Ga., resulting in the death of both participants. Hart was disemboweled and died instantly, and Register died four hours after the affray. Lieut. Bullis, of the Twenty-fourth infantry, commanding a body of Seminole scouts, came upon the band of Indians who murdered the McLawrin family, in Texas. He attacked their camp near the Pecos river, killed four bucks and one squaw, and captured one boy, one squaw, and twenty-one animals. A picnic party near Talladega, Ala., had among its participants a child of 7 years, adorned with gold ornaments and a diamon 1 pin. On being missed, search was made, and she was discovered dead in the arms of a negro thief, who was about to throw her body over the falls. It took but a moment to hang the scoundrel to a tree, where his corpse was left to dangle in the wind. A ludicrous affair of honor is reported from the Carolinas, where two telegraph operators exchanged insults and challenges over the wires, and met half way between Columbia and Charlotte and fought out the fuss with lists. James W. Powell, of Owingsville, Ky., who suffered from a dreadful malady for more than a year, claims to have been restored to complete health by prayer.

Chairman Jewell invites Republicans through the country to suggest the best method for electing delegates to the next National Convention. The State Convention of the Green-back-Labor party, of lowa, has been called to meet at Marshalltown, on the Ist day of June. Secretary Blaine, says a Washington correspondent, admits that he threatened to resign should Robertson be withdrawn, and states that the Cabinet is now in unison with the President. WASHINGTON NOTES. A Washington dispatch says that “the evidence which is daily accumulating against the ring of fraudulent mail contractors, bidders, bondsmen, Postmasters and intermediaries is both direct, documentary and circumstantial. The prosecutions will be conducted in a dozan.States, and in nearly, if not all, the Territories. Besides this evidence for criminal prosecution the Postmaster General is empowered and in position to recover a very large amount of the money got from the treasury in the name of ‘ expedited* and increased mail service. On one route a contractor has already been fined $31,000, which will lead also tocriminal proceedings against a number of Government officers whose connection with the fraud is now clearly established.” The President h’ s withdrawn the nomination of W. A. M. Grier, the original Gai field man, to be Third Assistant Postmaster General. Grier declined the position. According to the census returns, the people of this country pay $26,250,100 annually for their daily newspapers. The Comptroller of the Currency has called for reports from the national banks showing their condition at the close of business Friday, the 6th. Postmaster General James has planned a saving of $75,000 per annum by discontinuing useless mail service on the Southern rivers, and is about to make still further reductions. A Washington dispatch says the extreme hot weather is beginning to tell on the Senators, and both sides are talking of an early adjournment. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a circular, embracing the 103 d call for continuance of 5-per-cent. bonds issued under acts of July 14,1870, and Jan. 20, 1871. Interest on these bonds at 5 per cent, will cease Aug. 12, 1881. The Postmaster General, warned by the perpetration of several frauds, has given orders that sample copies of new publications cannot bo mailed in large quantities until submitted to the department for its ruling.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. On the meeting of the Senate on Monday, the 9th ingt, Mr. Ransom called up the resolutions offered by him March 15, directing the Committee on Commerce to inquire into the condition of the Potomac river f ront of the city of Washington, the navigation of said river, and the effect of a bridge across the same with regard to navigation, floods and the health of the city, and to report at the next session what steps, if any, should be taken with reference thereto; Adopted. Mr. Kellogg offered a resolution calling on the Postmaster General, Secretaries of War, Navy, State and Treasury for the names of all clerks and other employes in their resi>ective departments, together with the date of their appointment, the State to which each is charged, and the persons on whose roi omnicndation each was appointed. On objection from Mr. Ferr,, .he resolution was laid over under the rules. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed Postmasters Henry Davis, of Bedford, Ind.; Benjamin W. Sholty, of Decatur, Ind.; George Z. Wood, of Mitchell, Ind., and Isaac T. Brown, of Colnmhuß, Ind. After a very short session a caucus of Republican Senators was held which remained in session about six hours. Senator Conkling instead of going into caucus, entered a com-mittee-room and remained there until the caucus sent a request that he would join in its deliberation. A proposal or suggestion to rule out Robertson’s case for action by agreeing to act only on nominations to fill existing vacancies was speedily discarded, as such a rule would include fully half the nominations made. However, a general discussion arose, participated in by Messrs. Biair, Hawley, Frye, Edmunds, Dawes, and, in fact, by nearly all the Senators present The discussion took a wide range, and embraced all the topics now of interest to the Republican party. Much of the time was consumed in debating the policy of continuing the fight for‘the' ejection of Gorham and Riddleberger. Some Senators opposed the polity of renewing the fight, and several v.ho are warm friends of the President declared that they would not again join in the fight for Gorham and Riddleberger; that new and more ac- < eptable nominations would have to be made to induce them to resume their former stand. Conkling made a speech of over an hour, stating his objections tor Robertson, admitting that Arthur and Platt carried his ultimatum to the President, and appealing to the Republicans to sustain him. Ho dwelt more particularly on what he called the “ Pre.-ident’s usurpation ar 1 invasir n of the Senate’s rights andprivi’eg.’c ”, and said: “If the Senate did not mainta.n ite rights, they would be taken from that body.” Edmunds and Dawes, it is understood, spoke, saying that, if the President attempted to usurp any functions of the Senate, they would resist, but their speeches were rather noncommittal, though some construe them as favorable to Conkling. The caucus adjourned finally without reaching any conclusion, to meet again next day. The Senate met at the usual hour on Tuesday, May 10, and at once went into executive session, and confirmed the following nominations: Gen. Longstreet, United States Marshal for Georgia; Absalom Blythe, United States Marshal for South Carolina; Samuel W. Milton, United States District Attorney for South Carolina; Philip H. Emerson, Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Utah; and Albert R. .Woodcock, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third district of Illinois. 'J he President nominated Judge Thomas A. McMorris, of Colorado, Commissioner to accept and ratify the agreement submitted by the Ute Indians of Colorado. Also, the following Postmasters: Jerome H. Fee, of Adrian, Mich., and Joseph C. Dickey, of Waterville, Kan. The Republican Senators were in caucus again for nearly six hours, and, contrary to expectation, reached no conclusion. No committee wa. appointed to-day to wait upon the President, nor was any time fixed for an adjourned caucus. Everything was le!t to future consideration, and the caucus adjourned subject to the call of the Chairman, Mr. Anthony. During the protracted session near.y every Senator spoke. No speech exceeded five minutes in length. , The burden of all the speeches was a great desire to avoid a split in the party, and a consideration of the various propositions was of compromise. The Senate went into executive session soon after the hour of convening on Wednesday, May 11, and confirmed the following nominations: Michael J. Kramer, now Minister to Denmark, for Minister to Switzerland; George P. Pomeroy, of New Jersey, to be Secretary of the United States Legation at Paris: Thomas A. M. Moris, of Colorado, to be a member of the Ute Commission, vice J. B. Bowman, resigned; George W. Atkinson, United States Marshal of West Virginia; John B. Stickney, District Attorney for Northern Florida; Charles M. Wilder, to be Postmaster at Columbia, S. C.; and A. Newton Kimball, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Jackson, Miss. The case of Stanley Matthews, nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court, then came up. Messrs. Bayard and Edmunds made strong speeches opposing the confirmation, saying that Matthews had not the necessary qualifications for the exalted position of Supreme Court Jucfge; that he was only a mere politician. Mr. Edgerton, the new Senator from Minnesota, also spoke against Matthews, claiming that he was not acquainted with the circuit to which he bad been nominated. Ho held that the nominee should come from among the lawyers of that circuit. Mr. Ingalls made the principal speech in favor of Matthews. Senator Sherman put a few questions to the opponents of Matthews in order to reply to points made against him.

On the morning of Thursday, May 12, Mr. McDill called up the resolution directing that hereafter there shall be contained in the official register of the United States information as to the Congressional district from which each Government employe is appointed. Mr. Brown offered an amendment providing that it should also contain information as to whether such employes are white or colored. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution directing the Committee on Privileges and Elections to inquire and report at the next session of Congress what measures are needful to secure the ascertainment and declaration of the result of the election of President and Vice President, Adopted. There was a sharp discussion before going into executive session over Kellogg’s resolution for information about clerical appointments in the several departments. Stanley Matthews’ confirmation took un the whole executive session. This was effected, by a vote of 24 to 23, notwithstanding the adverse report of the Judiciary Committee. Nothing was done in open seeaion by the Senate on Friday, May 13. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the nomination of Don A. Pardee for United States Circuit Judge of the Fifth Judicial District, and George K. Gilmer for Postmaster at Richmond, Va., and Jerome H. Fee at Adrian, Mich., J. C. Dickey at Marshall, Kan., and W. W. Lambert at Bracketsville, Texas; Malachi Klebs, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Boise City, Idaho, and Moses M. Bane, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Salt Lake City, Utah. Col. Heury, of Ohio, was nominated for Marshal for the District of Columbia, and Fred Douglass was nominated for Recorder of Deeds for the District, vice George A. Sheridan, resigned. No vote was taken by tho Republican caucus on the Robertson confirmation. Despite the secrecy of executive sessions, it has transpired that Senator Hale endeavored to induce the Republican Senators to support William E. Chandler, and that Mr. Edmunds declared with spirit that if Chandler were confirmed he would resign from the Judiciary Committee. He then proceeded to pronounce the nominee an unscrupulous lobbyist, who had been involved in nearly every job brought before Congress, and that his success would be an insult to the Attorney General, who would leave the Cabinet.

From the most remote ages the hat has been an emblem of liberty, and has embellished the coins of many nations. As a covering for the head it dates back to the time of ancient Greece. Eleven hundred years ago the quality and style of the hat worn bespoke the rank and taste of the wearer. It being the most conspicuous article of dress, and surmounting all the rest, it was natural that the beau monde should give to it special care and attention. That it still bears like significance is evident from the great demand for the Punlap hat<, which a discriminating public has accepted as the standard of the t>resent day. What utter nonsense to speak of stock reports! Every child knows the report does not come from the stock, but from the barrel.