Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Two more heavy shocks of earthquake have occurred at Scio, toppling over houses. Abdul Bey, ex-chief of the Albanian League, wag tried at Constantinople by court* martial and sentenced to death. The Governor General of Charkoff has i ssued a proclamation against the Jewish perMention, threatening to bring the military to punish the rioters. There was a desperate fight at Pallas, Ireland, between the peasants and the military. There are fears that the Commune is about to break forth all over Russia. English grain crops do not stand well for harvest. So says the Mark Lane .Expregt. Thirty-nine negroes have been sentenced to death for rebellion against the Government of the Danish West Indian island. The Russian Government are commencing to revenge the atrocities perpetrated •on the Jews. Over 1,200 persons have been ■arrested in the Kieff district. Irving, the famous English tragedian, Ihas received and declined an offer of SIOO,OOO •and expenses for a eeven-months’ tour in thig tenantry. The Italian Minister of Commerce states that, as the examining commission at Havre continues to report the presence of trichiniß in pork, the Government must continue in force the measures taken to protect the public health. A distinguished deputation of leading London Israelites called upon Earl Granville and Bir Charles Dilke with reference to the persecution of the Russian Jews. Earl Granville «r.id that foreign nations were sensitive of interference, and it was inexpedient, therefore, to make a'ay official representation.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kfust. R. M. Paisley, superintendent of the "Stewart coke works, at Uniontown, Pa., while carrying a sachel containing $6,000, was knocked senseless by three men, who took the money and drove off with his horse and wagon. Col. Thomas A. Scott* of the Pennsylvania railroad, died of paralysis at his home, near Darby, Pa. He was 57 years old. A train on the Boston and Albany road struck a light engine near Ghent, N. Y., soy which the engineer and fireman of the {passenger train were killed. Over-production and high wages have •caused the window-glass manufacturers ol IPittsburgh to resolve to close their works for ithe summer. Commodore Nutt, the dwarf, whoke real name was George W. MorrLon, d.ed o! Bright’s disease at New York. He was 37 years of age and forty-throe inches in height. Of late he has kept a restaurant. E. L. Godkin, of the Nation, and Carl Schurz have purchased the New York Evening Post. West. Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the ' Confederate States, was in Chicago the other day. He had visited it previously when it was * small French village. Three Justices of Scotland county, Mo., have been sentenced to jail for three months for contempt of an order of the Uniited States Circuit Court for Missouri. Three burglars opened the safe in the store of J. C. Hanson, at Center Junction, lowa, and carried away over $5,000 iu currency. The only liquor saloon at Lompoc, Cal., has been blown to atoms by a large bomb, as was its predecessor some time ago. The place was settled by a temperance colony. A terrible catastrophe occurred the other evening at St. Joe, Mo. In a cellar beneath a saloon, frequented by colored men, 100 barrels of Danforth’s fluid ignited; and wrecked the building, in which a large number of persons were assembled. The number of lives lost is estimated, at this writing, as high as twenty. Billy Leroy and a confederate calling himself Sam Potter were taken to Del Norte, Coh An hour after arrival the prisoners were lynched by citizens. The wheat crop of Indiana has been seriously damaged by the drought, the chinchbug and the Hessian fly. The report of the business of the Northwestern railway shows earnings of nearly $20,000,000, a gain of about 10 per cent, on last year. A collision on the Denver and Rio Grande road, near Granite, Co)., caused the death of one man, mortal injuries to four others, while four were seriously hurt. Four children of Andrew Lewis, living near Plain City, Ohio, set fire to a barn and perished in the flames. South. The explosion of a condemned boiler in the machine shops of Risk & Co., at Memphis, killed two men and wounded three others. Twenty-five or thirty men made a jail delivery at Morgtfriton, Fannin county, Ga., of prisoners held there for violations of the internal revenue laws. At the annual sale of yearlings at Preakness farm, near Lexington, Ky., eighteen colts averaged $947 per head, and twenty fillies S4OO each. Mo.-t of the purchases were made for James R. Keene. in a quarrel between Mrs. Garrett and her daughter, of Cochran, Ga., the latter seized a shot-gun and shot off the top of her mother’s head. The father then whipped the girl nearly to death. Jim Baker shot and killed Alexander Osborne and the two Ryuer brothers, and mortally wounded another man, name unknown, at Osborne’s ford, Scott county, Va.

WASHINGTON NOTES. One of the latest developments of the star-route frauds was a contract let to John Cross, afriend of Dorsey’s, to carry the mail between Ozark and Eureka Springs, Ark., eighty miles, six times a week, for $14,400, which was subsequently let for $4,800. The exposure of a treasury ring, which has been growing fat by a long series of systematic peculations, is the latest sensation at Washington. The ringsters. so far as unearthed, are Upton, the Assistant Secretary; Lamphere, the appointment clerk, and Pitney, the superintendent of the treasury building. The records show the purchase of . twenty thousand yards of carpet for the Treasury Department during the last fiscal year, although a deficit of 700 yards was discovered several months ago. A few local dealers have furnished such supplies at retail prices, there having been no advertisement for proposals. In taking an inventory of Pitney’s supplies, a barrel of bay nun and a lot of Lubin’s perfumes and soaps were found,

A Washington dispatch*of May 24 says: “ Secretary Windom’s policy in the matter of the continuance of the 5-per-cents is as complete a success aa it was with the C’a. At the close ei treasury Hours to-day the total amount of the $250,000 included in the call had been received. Secretary Windom congratulates himself that his views in opposition to the calling of a special session of Congress prevailed. He has accomplished all that Congress could have done, with much less friction." The President has made the following recess appointments : Consuls of the United States— Jesse H. Moore, of Illinois, at Callao; John M. Bailey, of New York, at Hamburg; Selah Merrill, of Massachusetts, at Jerusalem; George W. Rosevelt, of Pennsylvania, at Bordeaux. Collectors of Internal Revenue for Texas—William H. Sinclair, First district;. William Umbnerstock, Fourth district. Gen. Williamson has tendered his resignation as Commissioner of the General Land Office. He takes charge of the land bureau of the Atlantic and Pacific Railway Company. Atty. Gen. MacVeagh will soon commence criminal prosecutions against Dorsey and Brady, and bring civil suits to recover some of the money squandered. Secretary Hunt has decided to send the United States steamer Yantic, now in New -Yoik, to investigate the alleged unlawful seizure at Moridia, Mexico, of the American bark Acacia, of Boston, by the Mexican authorities. Secretary Windom permits the. announcement that he does not intend to allow an increase in the coinage of standard silver dollars.

POLITICAL POINTS. At a conference of the friends of Mr. Conkling, in New York city, it was decided that both Conkling and Platt should be vigorously urged upon the Legislature for re-election. It was agreed that neither of the resigned Senators should return without the other. The belief was confidently expressed that both of them could be returned.—A secret confer- < nee of prominent Democrats, with Spenket Randall at the need, was held in Washington, at which the political situation inNevYor was carefully considered. They decided to recommend Co the Democratic members of the New York Legislature not to enter into any coalition with either of the Republican factions that will enable them to fill vacancies occasioned by the resignation of Conkling and Platt.

The friends of William E. Chandler say, now tnat he has been defeated for the Solicitor Generalship by Democratic votes, he will use the fact among the New Hampshire stalwarts for election to the United States Senate, to succeed Mr. Rollins.

An Albany (N. Y.) telegram of May 23, says that city “has become the center of intense political activity. The sensation of the day was an editorial in the 'Conkling organ warning that gentleman not toplace himself in the way of being humiliated. Opinions differ widely as to the connection of Gov. Cornell with the pronunciamento, it being generally believed that he hopes to occupy one of the vacant seats in the Senate. Among the rumors which have gained credence is one that Gen. Grant will hurry northward from Galveston and take a hand in behalf of Conkling. Thirtytwo Republicans have signed a pledge not to go into caucus with the supporters of the Senators who abandoned their seats, or with Republicans not in sympathy with the administration. The leading administration candidates are Chauncey M. Depew and James Wadsworth.”

The friends of William E. Chandler (nays a Washington telegram) attribute his re’ jcction as Solicitor General to the indifference of the President and Secretary Blaine, neither of whom, they say, made any effort to get Democratic votes, but remained passive, while Attorney General MacVeagh was very active in his efforts to defeat the nomination. 'l'ho Pennsylvania Senators are said to be very wroth at the President for appointing a Surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia who was distasteful to them. The Republican State Convention to candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Supreme Judge and Superintendent of Public Instruction has been called to meet at Des Moines, Wednesday, June 29. Senators Conkling and Platt and Vice President Arthur arrived at Albany, N. Y., on the 24th of May, and were received with enthusiastic cheers by a large party of political friends who had assembled at the depot to give them welcome. At the hotel they were joined by Gov. Cornell, and in the evening a general levee was held. The room was constantly crowded, and Senator Conkling shook hands w f th everybody presenting himself, and to each saying a pleasant word. The Grant Club appeared in a body and presented an address to Mr. Conkling. The departure of Secretary Blaine for New York, on pretense of official business, caused several influential gentlemen to visit the President and enter a protest against the administration taking part in the Senatorial struggle at Albany. The chief magistrate appeared surprised to learn of the Secretary’s trip. In the New York Senate, Mr. Woodin opened the Senatorial campaign, May 26, by offering a remonstrance against returning Messrs. Conkling and Platt to the United States Senate, and made an extended speech in support of his action. Dining tire day Mr. Conkling sent notes to several Senators and Representatives asking for a private interview. A conference ' with forty-seven members had been arranged by Conkling, but was postponed because only half the number made their appearance. The friends ot the administration met and resolved not to go into caucus. A private telegram was received by a friend of Conkling from Gen. Grant, expressing the hope that the Legislature would re-elect the former. The local elections in Virginia resulted favorably to the straight or anti-Mahone Democrats. The Beadj usters have determined, it is said, to nominate Biddleberger for Governor, believing that he will receive the indorsement and support of the Republicans.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Mexican Congress has given the President of the Republic full power for eight months to contract with States or individuals for the construction of railways. Both houses of the Mexican Congress have approved of Eads’ contract for a ship railway across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. The number of people drowned by the sinking of the steamer Victoria, at London, Canada, is known to be over 200. A dispatch from London of the 26th ult. says the funeral of the victims lasted all day and all the preceding night. There were not hearses nor coffins enough to meet the emergency, and vehicles of all kinds were used to convey the dead to the cemeteries. The behavior of rough characters on board the ill-starred vessel is said to have had much to do with causing the disaster. The calamity is to be commemorated by a monument in a cemetery overlooking the scene of the disaster.

Gen. Grant sailed for home from the City of Mexico on the 27th ult., having secured everything he desired. Mr. Robert P. Porter, Chief of the Wealth, Debt and Taxation Department of the United States Census, states that the net debt of all the Cities and towns of the United States with a population of over 7,500 is $570,471,373. Contracts hate been made for the shipping of 30,000 bushels of spring wheat from St. Paul to Glasgow, via New Orleans, at 28 cents per busheL During the past ten years the annual production of buckwheat in the United States has increased about 2,000,000 bushelfl. Barley has increased 15,000,000 and rye 3,000,006 bushels in the flame period. While Eli Martin, Napoleon Martin, and Jam's Bouchard, of Port Kent, N. 8., were breaking a jam of logs on Fish river, they were carried over the falls and drowned.