Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Dervish Pasha, the Turkish Governor <of Albania, has entered Issek and suppressed the insurrection. He will send the Albanian leaders in chains to Constantinople. M. Seguin, correspondent of the Paris Telegram, was murdered by Arabs in Tunis, who were promptly court-martialed and shot In all the divisions which have occurred in the British Parliament regarding the Irish Land bill the Government have had a large majority supporting them. During the eviction riots in the islands off the Donegal coast, Ireland, the people destroyed the small boats belonging to her Majesty’s gunboat Goshawk, whereupon the gunboat opened fire upon the people. A land agent has been shot near Woodford. One policeman died and some soldiers are not expected to live—the result of the Clonmel riot. Field Marshal Tegethoff, brother of Admiral Tegethoff, the circumnavigator, committed suicide in Vienna. The chief participators in a demonstration at Marseilles on behalf of the woman Nihilist, Hessy Hellman, have been sentenced to fine and imprisonment Iroquois, Mr. Pierre Lorillard’s 3-year-old colt, won the famous English Derby stakes, at Epson Downs. This is the first time an Ameri .an horse ever won this, the national English race. On the race course were the Prince of Wales and his brothers, the Dukes of Edinburgh and Conuaught, with ladies of the royaj family, and some German potentates. Lorillard is said to have won $2,000,000 on the race The census recently taken in London ■hows a population of 3,814,571. Daniel Mac Sweeney, a Land-League President at Falconasb, Ireland, has been sent to Kilmainham jail. He claims to be an American citizen, and intends to appeal io the United States Government for protection. Among the weapons employed by the Irish patriots was a hive of bees, which was let loose on the constabulary as they rode forth to evict tenants. It appears that the revised New Testament cannot, according to Lord Chancellor Selborne's decision, bo read in the English Church until it is authorized by some sufficient authority. Buch authority either the Queen, who is the nominal head of the Anglican Church, or the Houses of Convocation.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. XCast. Edward Desendorf, a Brooklyn printer, killed his wife and then committed suicide. in the O’Leary international pedestrian contest at New York, Edward Vint, a Brooklyn shoemaker, captured the belt. He made 578 miles in six days, which exceeds all previous records. A train on the Pennsylvania railroad was wrecked by an open switch near Trenton, N. J. Two passengers were killed, and ten others seriously injured. Coal-mine agents held a meeting at Philadelphia, and, to prevent over-production, agreed to stop work in their mines six days in this and three days in next month. The tug Jake Brands blew up off Bandy Hook, N. J., and the engineer was blown overboard and drowned and his eon fatally injured. West. Capt. Paul Boyton left St. Paul on the 30ih ult. for Cairo, in a suit of inflated rubber, hoping to paddle the distance in sixteen days. He then proposes to float down the Missouri from Fort Benton to St. Louis. John E. Clapp, catcher and Captain of the Cleveland Base-Ball Club, was approached by J. 8. Woodruff, a clerk of Chicago, who attempted to corrupt him into giving away games. The catcher was incorruptible, and “ gave away ” Woodruff instead, and the young man was exposed in the Chicago papers. Mr. John Griscom, the New York faster, who went, to Chicago to fast forty-five, and perhaps fifty, days, began his task on Saturday, May 28, at noon, after partaking of a hearty meal with a number of professional men and others, among whom was Dr. Tanner. John L. Eaurich, an Indianapolis policeman, shot his wife in the right eye and right lung, put a bullet in the arm of her father, and wound up by killing himself.

A feud of long standing impelled Prof. Charles Stickney, of Denver, to kill M. T. Champeau. Mrs. H. 0. Devroe sprang between the men and wag unintentionally slain. Three masked robbers entered a store at Nortonville, Kan., drew revolvers, and forced those present to keep still while $1,200 was extracted from the safe. Anti-prohibitionists in Kansas have ingenious methods of evading the new liquor law, “Jug trains” are doing a good business. The friends of temperance believe that the law will eventually be entirely successful. South. A duel took place near Charleston, W. Va., between John P. and George Nunley, uhcle and nephew. George was shot in the mouth before he got ready to fire. The most careful estimates put the cotton crop of last year at 6,400,000 bales, or nearly a million and a half bales more than the splendid crop of 1879. The greatest crop over raised under slavery was that of 1860, which fell about 1,600,000 bales short of the yield of last year. Fred Douglass, as part of the decoration ceremonies, delivered an historical oration on John Brown at Harper’s Ferry, Va. Quite a number of Confederates and old Virginians gathered to hear him. Among the latter was R. M. T. Hunter, who was the State’s Attorney An attempt was made at Gainesville, Texas, to arrest John Thompson for carrying concealed weapons, when he turned upon his pursuers and killed Deputy Sheriffs Charles Meredith, L. Krilht and Samuel Meredith. At .Frederick, Md., a fine monument was unveiled, at Mt. Olive Cemetery, over the graves of the Confederate soldiers who fell at Antietam and other battles fought in that vicinity. U. 8. Grant has been elected President of the Texas Western Narrow-Gauge road, and active operations toward the Rio Grande will be at once commenced.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Judge Rayner, the Solicitor General of the Treasury, is declared to be in his dotage, and will probably be removed. In the case of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company vs. the United States the Court of Claims awarded the company damages amounting to $291,117. The suit was for money due for mail service, and the company . sued for $1,000,000. There were issued during the month of May $8,342,070 worth of national-hank notes, and there war* surrendered and de-

stroyed <1,745,919. The net increase of national-bank note circulation for the year ending May 30 has been <9,216,250. The circulation of the standard silver dollar from the treasury vaults has practically stopped altogether. During the fall and early winter there was quite a demand for this coin for the purpose of moving the crops. That demand stopped when the crop movement was over. Since the Ist of January last there has been no call for silver. All the dollars that have been coined since that date remain in the sreasury. Further than this, the silver in circulation has found its way back into the vaults. The amount outstanding has steadily decreased. Coinage at the rate of a little over <2,000,000 a month goes steadily on.

Coinage in May, $12,223,550, of which $2,300,000 were in silver dollars. President Garfield promises to attend the Atlanta Exposition in November. Col. William A. Cook has been commissioned Special Assistant Attorney General, and will have charge of the prosecution of the star-route ringsters. Facts developed by the investigation m!o the star-route frauds caused Secretary Windom to request the resignations of Sixth Auditor McGrew and his deputy, Lilley. By reducing and discontinuing a number of superfluous star-route and steamboat mail-service lines the country was saved last month the handsome sum of <445,547. "The resignation of First Assistant Postmaster General Tyner has been in the hands of the President for some weeks, but not accepted. Tyner is not now acting, and is said to be unwilling to do further duty in that place. The President has appointed William Gouverneur Morris, of New Jersey, Collector of Customs for the District of Alaska, and Augustus Brosins, of Pennsylvania, Agent at the Niobrara Agency, Neb. The following is the public-debt statement for May: Six per cent, bonds $ 196,378,600 Five per cents 4,39,841,350 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four ner cents 738,652,750 Refunding certificates • 694,850 Navy pension fund 14,000,(XX) Total interest-bearing debt $1,639,567,750 Matured debt $ 10,600,005 Legal tenders 346,741,646 Certificates of deposit... 10,860,0<X) Fractional currency 7,109,102 Gold and silver certificates 56,685,850 Total without interest. 421,396,598 Total debt $2,071,561,354 Total interest 17,853,705 Cash in treasury 236,496,088 Debt less cash in treasury $1,852,921,971 Decrease during May 11,150,721 Decrease since June 30, 1880 89,250,323 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 2,451,043 Debt on which interest has ceased 10,600,1'05 Interest thereon 737,292 Gold and silver certificates 56,685,850 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 10,865,000 Cash balance available June 1,1881.... 155,161,896 Total $ 236,496,088 Available assets— Cash in treasury .$ 236,496,088 Bonds issued to Pacific railway compan-> les, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,615,587 Interest paid by United States 99,528,566 interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid by transportation of mails By cash payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 34,617,028

POLITICAL POINTS. There is said to be considerable opposition in the Republican ranks of Ohio to the nomination of Gov. Foster. Speaker George A. Sharpe and three other members of the Republican Caucus Committee sent to each Republican member of' the New York Legislature a call for a caucus on the evening of May 30. Only thirty-one responded to the call. The friends of the administration gathered to the number of fiftyseven and held a conference. The Democratic members met in caucus and resolved to support Francis Kernan and John C. Jacobs for the Senatorial seats. The balloting for United States Senators to succeed Messrs. Conkling and Platt began in the New York Legislature on Tuesday the 31st ult. In the Senate Conkling received nine votes, against six for John C. Jacobs, six for W. A. Wheeler, five for 8. S. Rogers, three for Gov. Cornell and five scattering. Platt received eight votes in the Senate, against seven for Kernan, six for Wheeler and ten scattering. In the House, twenty-six votes were cast for Conkling, fortyseven for Jacobs (Democratic nominee), fifteen for Wheeler, six for Cornell, eight for Rogers and twenty-four scattering. Platt received twenty-one votes in the House, Kernan (Democratic nominee) forty-seven, Depew fourteen, Cornell twelve, while thirty-three votes were divided between a dozen other persons. The first vote for United States Senators, in joint convention of the New York Legislature, taken on the Ist inst, resulted in no manner materially different from what the preliminary vote of the preceding day indicated. Conkling and Platt received the same number of votes in the aggregate that they then had, and they came from the sama persons. Cornell’s vote was the same, and Depew forged ahead a little. The few minor changes were of no significance. Hayes has been interviewed on the Garfield-Conkling imbroglio. He says that Conkling is a monomaniac on the subject of his own importance in the world, and has made three attempts to destroy the Republican party. Conkling has sent a dispatch to Ma-> hone, in which he says: “ Your every effort for the true advancement of the South, and to make elections real and fair, has my whole heart, and deserves the co-operation of Republicans everywhere.” The New York Legislature balloted twice for Senators on the 2d inst. For the Conkling vacancy the first ballot resulted: Conkling, 34; Jacobs, 50 ; Wheeler, 19 ; Rogers, 11; Cornell, 21; scattering, 14. Second ballot: Conkling, 33 ; Wheeler, 17 ; Jacobs, 52 ; Bradley, 1; Rogers, 15; Cornell, 22 ; Fenton, 3. For the Platt vacancy the first ballot resulted : Platt, 28 ; Kernan, 53 ; Depew, 28 ; Cornell, 11 j scattering, 36. Second ballot: Platt, 28 ; Depew, 80; Kernan, 52; Cornell, 13. Others scattering. The lowa Greenbackers, in convention at Marshalltown, nominated Hon. D. Clark, of Wayne county, for Governor; Hon. James M. Holland, of Henry county/Wor Lieutenant Governor; AD. Dabney, of Madi son county, for Supreme Judge; and Mis. Mary E. Nash, of Des Moines, for Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The New York Legislature took one ballot for Senator on the 3d inst. Conkling received thirty-four votes for the short term and Cornell nineteen. For the long term Platt and Depew had thirty votes each. Henry Ward Beecher was honored with one vote. The Democratic vote was cast for Kernan and Jacobs.

The Virginia Readjuster Convention, after a lively session of three days at Richmond, nominated Mayor William E. Cameron, of Petersburg, for Governor, and ex-United States Senator John T. Lewis for Lieutenant Governor. During the war Cameron served as Adjutant General of Mahone’s brigade, and since the war has been a devoted political follower of his old army commander.