Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. At the sitting of the Monetary Conference, in Paris, on Saturday, May 14, Senator de Normandie, a Trench delegate, urged the dangers of the present monetary system. He claimed to show, from the position of England since 1837, that gold monometallism did not afford a remedy. Unless wise measures are adopted, he said, a crisis would in the end violently force itself en the money markets. The stipulations of the Franco-Tunis treaty excite great indignation in Italy. Under the title of Earl of Oxford or Earl of Hawarden, Gladstone will, doubtless, accept a peerage and a seat in the House of Lords after the passage of the Land bill. The Swiss representatives abroad have been instructed to ascertain the views of the various states relative to the adoption of an international law regulating hours of labor in factories. Anti-Jewish disturbances have occarred at Warsaw. In consequence of the murder of a Christian at Odessa, the Jews of that city have been ordered to surrender then arms. A tube of dynamite, with fuse attached, was thrown into the doorway of the Central police station, at Liverpool, where it exploded. Many windows were broken, but nobody was hurt. Fresh outbreaks against the Jews have occurred at Smela and Odessa, Russia, where houses of Hebrews were wrecked. The populace of Tartoro are said to have iung a Jew into the flames of a burning house. The English newspapers are loudly indignant at the Franco-Tunisian treaty. They accuse France of perfidy, and intimate that, but for the lack of concert among other European powers, Italy would have declared war against her. Gen. Ignatieff, the successor of Gen. Meiikoff, has issued a circular to Governors *f provinces, in which he indicates the present evils of Russian social life and the measures proposed for their amelioration by the Czar’s Government. The first task will be the extirpation of rebellion. In the Monetary Conference, at Paris, on May 19, Hon. Timothy O. Howe, United States Commissioner, outlined the American position on the question of bimetallism. “The United States,’ - he said, “are not hereon behalf of mine-owners to bull the market for silver. Agriculture is our chief interest. Our annual cotton crop is worth seven times, our wheat crop twelve times, and corn crop eighteen times the average annual production of our silver mines. America is seeking for herself and the world a broad and stable money basis, upon which $30,000,000,000 of the world’s indebtedness can rest.” Most of the delegates who had already spoken replied to the arguments adduced by subsequent speeches against the views propounded by them. Mr. Evarts and sig. Doda recapitulated their arguments in fayor of bimetallism, and with their speeches the general discussion closed. Tho conference then decided to adjourn its sittings until tho 30tili of June. London Israelites are organizing with a view of protecting their persecuted coreligionists in Russia. Count Von Arnim, the German diplomatist who was sentenced, to five years’ penal servitude for betraying his country, died at Nico, prance. Great Britain declines to take part in the conference of the powers, suggested by Russia, for the purpose of taking joint action against Nihilism.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. T. J. B. Lincoln, of Boston, n broker Ln canned goods and nuts, has made a trona failure, his liabilities being estimated as high as $750,000. Four “star-route” speculators, J. R. Black, W. B. Cason, J. Frank and Henry Arbuckle, have been indicted by the Qrand Jury in the United States District Court of Philadelphia. Ex-Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, and an old-time friend, Dr. Greene, had a personal rencontre in the streets of Providence. • A bruised nose for one and a black eye for the other were the extent of the damages. Proceedings against Ken ward Philp, Charles A. Byrne, Louis T. Post and Joseph Hart, for libel in the Morey matter, have been ended by a nolle prosequi. W est. The army-worm is destroying all kinds of vegetation in Northern New York. Nearly 160,000 immigrants have landed at New York since the beginning of the year. Lieut. Uherry, of the Eighth cavalry, while pursuing some deserters ■jrho were robbing ranches near Niobrara, Neb., was deliberately shot dead by one of his own soldiers. Harriman ended his walk at the Exposition, in Chicago, with the best heel-and-toe record ever made, viz., 530 miles in six days. The cattle plague in Nebraska and Council Bluffs is decreasing. By the capsizing of a boat in the Licking reservoir at Newark, Ohio, Brice Stowe, Mrs. John Lasoh, and two children were drowned. Lawrence & Martin, wholesale and retail liquor dealers of Now York and Chicago, and manufacturers of Tolu, Rock and Rye, have failed for a large amount. .Lightning struck a barn at Norcross, Minn., and killed twenty-three horses. Alarming reports reach the frontier posts in regard to the. recklessness of the Navajo Indians. They secure liquor from the traders who follow in the wake of the railroad builders. They are stealing stock, claiming lauds not belonging to them, and threatening whites who settle outside their reservation. A company of infantry has been sent to the reservation from Fort Wingato. Chicago has an average death-rate of 25 in tho l,oop. That of Now York is 33.7. The highest in the United States is Memphis, 57.6 ; the lowest is Peoria, 7.1 Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, who ia now staying at tho home of her brother-in-law, N. W. Edwards, at Springfield, 111., is in a very delicate state of health, being confined to her bed nearly all the time. The door of the residence of Mrs. Bpartin, at Shelbyville, Ind., was battered down ~ with a fence-rail by two masked men, who easily terrified the old lady into giving them $3,000 which she had concealed. John Walruff, a brewer, of ’Lawrence, will try in the'Unlted States Supreme Court the constitutionality of the new Kansas Prohibition law. He has the financial backing of the National Brewers’ Association. A youth of 18, and two girls, aged 13 and 12 years, were drowned in Coon river, near Des Moines, lows, by ths upsetting of $ row*

Three fishing-boats were capsized at the mouth of the Columbia river, off the coast of Oregon, and all the occupants were drowned. Robert A. Baker, * banker of Fond du Lae, Wis., has made an assignment to C. H. Benton. The extent of his liabilities is ♦IOO,OOO. The City Treasurer kept <40,000. on deposit in the institution. The Rock Island road is said to be about Ui take revenge for the aggressions of its rivals by building a branch from some point near Des Moires northward through Minnesota and Dakota to a junction with the Northern Pacific. A horrible tragedy was enacted on a farm near Terre Haute, Ind. A well-to-do young farmer named McPheeters had been separated from his wife, whom he married in February, 1879. In the meantime the wife, who was living with her mother, Mrs. Blocksom, had given birth to a child. McPheeters called at the house to see it. He walked into the room in which were sitting his wife, her sister, Miss Belle Blocksom, and her mother. He was ordered out of the house, and said he would go as soon as he had seen his baby. His wife went to tho cradle to show him the child, little thinking of tho terrible fate in store for her, and, while in the act of taking the little thing up, McPheeters drew a revolver and fired. The ball entered the right eye of his wife, causing infant death. She fell into the cradle with the child in her arms and completely saturated it with her blood. The villain then turned upon Miss Bello, and, uttering an oath, fired at her. The ball entered the right temple and penetrated the brain, causing death in a half-hour after. To complete the tragedy, he then placed the revolver against his own head and killed himself.

One of the Stockton gang, called “ Tommy, the Kid,” was killed and thrown out of a hack by Eskridge, another member of the Land, while on a spree at Amargo, New Mexico. Three road-agents stopped a coach near Lake City, Col., shot a Rio Grande railway engineer, and carried off lhe treasure pouch and mail sacks. The manufacture of oleomargarine and other oleaginous substances for butter has been made illegal by tho Illinois Legislature, a fine of not less than $25 nor more than S2OO being the penalty. By the caving of tho roof of ’the Golden Terra mine at Deadwood, two men were instantly killed and eleven buried alive. Tho latter were rescued with slight injuries. South. A fire on College and Church streets, Nashville, Tenn., burned $500,000 worth of property. Capt. J. L. Kouns, a famous Southern steamboat man, died at New Orleans of heart disease. John Schmidt, of Richmond, Va., who was given twenty lashes for stealing bacon, kdled himself with laudanum because of the disgrace. From the South comes most cheering words of the prospect both of cotton and sugar crops. The season was late and discouraging, but the fine weather has brought everything forward rapidly.

WASHINGTON NOTES. L. A. Gobright, one of the oldest journalists in the United States, for thirty years the faithful agent of the Associated Press in Washington, is dead. Postmaster General James lias, by his investigation on the star-route mail service, saved the country during tho month* of March, April, and May the large sum of $412,034. At the beginning of May the total gold circulation in the United States amounted to $520,000,000, of which $264,000,000 was held as treasury aud national-bank reserve*, the balance being in actual circulation. Stanley Matthews has taken the oath of office and been assigned to the Sixth circuit. Gen. Badeau, at present Consiil General at London, having declined the appointment of Minister to Denmark, his nomination has been withdrawn from the Senate. Commissioner of Agriculture Le Due has resigned, and the President has appointed as his successor ex-Congressman George B. Loring, a practical Bay State farmer. In the executive session of tho Senate, when the nomination of the colored exSenator Bruce as Register of the Treasury came up, Senator Lamar took occasion to state that Mississippi was honored in the selection, and asked for a unanimous vote.

POLITICAL POINTS. A meeting of the Anti-Monopoly League was held at Cooper Institute, Now York, to protest against the confirmation of Stanley Matthews as Justice of the Supreme Court. L. E. Chittenden occupied the chair. Resolutions were adopted declaring Stanley Matthews to bo the Pacific railroad candidate, and denouncing his confirmation as proof of a purpose to pack tho Supreme Court with Judges who will reverse' its decision in the granger cases. The reporter of the Western Associated Press telegraphs from Washington under date of May 17 : “ The sensation created by the resignations of Messrs. Conkling and Platt is still talked of, but the exciting interest is over. The possibility of Conkling’s failure to bo re-elected is much discussed, and will undoubtedly be fought hard. Secretary Blaine has kept in constant communication with Senator Robertson, but of course the correspondence is a close secret A prominent Republican, who has held (high positions and taken an active part in campa is for years, said to-day he was going to Albtny to assist in defeating Conkling, and that if the Democrats would agree to vote for a Republican against Conkling he favored the antiConkling members of the Legislature unitifig with them. Tammany is bitterly opposed to Conkling since he and John Kelly split. Leading Democrats say that the Kellys will fight Conkling and carry New York city Democrats against him, in case the election should become a free fight, and that the country Democrats in the Legislature would certainly go against him. Conkling’s plan is to have the Senatorial candidates chosen by party caucus. It can be stated that the administrationis satisfied with tbo state of affairs, and does not believe the Republican party of New York will be weakened at all. Republican Senators express the same opinion, that the party in New York cannot be hart by the appointment of a good man to office. The frequent response of Republican Senators, when spoken to on the subject, is that the Republican party does not de* pend on any one man for success; that this claim has been set up before, but passed away without impairing the success of the party in the least Gen. Grant did write a letter to the President urging him to withdraw Robertson. The letter wu in•IW4 ts tatar /ones, ot Xrrta, who

livered it to the President. It is claimed by Conkling’s friends that Gen. Grant will .stand by him in all he does." The Republican General Committee of New York State held a meeting and passed resolutions unanimously indorsing the action of Senators Conkling and Piatt They also erdered a copy to be sent to President Garfield. The confirmation of Judge Robertson was celebrated by salvos of artillery at Albany, Utica, Rochester, and other places in the interior of New York. Judge Robertson was serenaded by the Republican General Committee of New York. He made a speech, in which he said he regarded his confirmation not as a personal triumph, but as a victory over one-man power and the right of individual liberty in political action.—A New York telegram says: “ A friend of ex-Senator Cbnkling states that he will immediately enter into the practice of law in this city, and will take no further steps in politics until he has made sufficient money to insure himself a comfortable living. It is further said the Senator will advise his friends to elect ex-Preeident Grant as his successor in the Senate.”—An Associated Press dispatch from Washington says : “ There is no longer any doubt that a strong fight will be made against Conkling and Platt, and will have the sympathy of the administration. This is justified on the ground that Conkling declared Monday that he would regard his re-eloction as a rebuke to the administration and a commission to make war against it to the end of Garfield’s term. The policy of the administration will be to elect straight Republican Senators who will be in entire harmony with the party on all questious. If this cannot be accomplished in tins Legislature, then the policy will be to prevent lhe election of Conkling and Platt, even if the Senatorial election has to be thrown over to the next Legislature.” An Albany dispatch says the antiConkling members of the New York Legislature profess to be willing to proceed at once to the election of Senators, but will have nothing to do with a caucus.—-Mr. Conkling said to a friend in Washington that $40,000 was the extent of his fortune ; .that he could make SIOO,OOO per annum in the practice of law, and would not turn his hand over for a re-election The Ohio Democrats will hold their convention for the nomination of State officers on tho 13th of July.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Gen. Burnside, from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on the morning of Monday, May 16, submitted a report recommending th« passage of Senator Morgan’s resolution referring to the Darien canal. The Vice President laid before the Senate the following communication: Washington, D. May 16,1881.—Sib: Will you please announce to the Senate that my resignation as Senator of- the United States from the State of New York has been forwarded to the Governor of the State. 1 have the honor to be, with groat respect, your obedient servant, Rosoob Conkling. To tho Hon. C. A. Arthur, Vice President. This communication was received with a great sensation, which was heightened when tbo Vice President laid the following before the Senate: . Senate Chambeb, May 16, 1881.— To the Hon. C. A. Arthur, Vice President—Sin: I have forwarded to the Governor of the. State of New York my resignation ae Senator of the United States for the State of New York. Will you please announce the fact to the Senate? With great respect, your obedient servant, T. C. Platt.

A hum of astonishment followed the reading of the communication, and Senator Hill, of Georgia, suggested, sotto voce, that this would be a good time to elect officers of the Senate. Mr. Dawes moved that the Senate go into executive session. Mr. Cockrell—“l thought you wanted to consider the other resolution.” Mr. Dawes—“l had no idea out that the Senator would like to go on with it. It is in accordance with the disposition he has shown from the beginning.” Mr. Hill—“ The Senator said the republic would be subverted if the resolution was not acted upon.” Mr. Dawes—“ But the Senator would never be convinced until he happened to have a majority.” Mr. Hill—“Oh, we won’t insist upon having it considered.” Mr. Dawes—“An accident is an eye-opener to the Senator.” Air. Hill turned around and suggested to Mr. Davis (Ill.) that there was nothing to prevent the Senate from adjourning this week sine die. The Senate then went into executive session, and confirmed r large number of nominations. A Republican caucus was held, at which the Republican Senators, with only four dissentient votes, decided to bring the Robertron nomination before the Senate for a«tion forthwith, and to procure an early adjournment sine die of the Senate. Mr. *Sftunderß, of Nebraska, introduced a series of resolutions in the Senate on Tuesday, May IT, in reference to the evasion by the Central Pacific road of the Sinking-Fund law of 1878, which provides that 25 per cent of the net earnings of the road be applied to paying off its indebtedness to the National Government, and calling on the Senate. Judiciary Committee to report at the next regularsession of the Senate what is necessary to protect the interest of the United States in- reference t& the Central Pacific and other roads. In executive session the Senate confirmed Fred Douglass as Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia. The ‘ Judiciary Committee reported in favor of the confirmation of Judge Robertson. The same committee reported in favor of the confirmation of Gen. Badeau as Minister to Denmark, and of Gen. Merritt as Consul General to London. The Senath Went into executive session soon after the hour of convening on Wednesday, May 11, and confirmed tho following nominations; Michael J. Kramer, now Minister to Denmark,. for Minister to Switzerland; George P. Pomeroy, of New Jersey, to be Secretary of tho United States Legation st Psrist Thomas A> M. Morris, of to to • Mate ts ft ?to *»*