Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Jndge Robertson has taken the oath of office a* Collector of Customs at New York. At Troy, N. Y., William Gavin, suffering from delirium iremens, leaped headlong from a precipice t 25 feet above the Poesiinkli •creek, and, although badly cut and bruised, will recover. A man armed with a gun was stopped at the door of the Capitol, at Albany, because he declared himself to be Secretary of State. It was thought he had designs upon Gov. Cornell, hut the weapon proved to be unloaded. William R. Dickinson and Joel Vannrwiiiten, two Philadelphia lawyers, have been convicted of forging the will of Robert Whitakei, that SBOO,OOO worth of an estate might fall into their own hands. A collision of freight trains on the New Haven road at Rye, N. Y., killed Eli Lalin, a conductor, and mutilated Henry Hallock, a brakeman. ' Both engineers were injured. Eight cars were wrecked, the total damage to rolling-stock being $60,000. Maud S. failed to beat her record at Pittsburgh. She trotted the first heat in 2:12, the second heat (in which she broke) in find (lio third heat in 2:l2>£. These throe consecutive heats are the best trotted by any horse in the world. Vanderbilt watched the wonderful feat of his mare. Wert. Copper and silver-bearing ore has been discovered near Port Laramie, Wyo. Ter. Hurfaco assays vary from S6O to $l5O. A town is being built on the spot, and a big emigration ‘.■as set in from Cheyenne. A Kansas City paper prints a. startling and somewhat apocryphal bit of news regarding Prank James and the late robbery on the Rook Island railway. It is to the effect that at the time of tho robbery the wife and child of the noted bandit woro stopping at the St. James Hotel in Kansas City, and that he was at the samo place immediately preceding and following the affair. Qov. Crittenden, of Missouri, invited tho railway and express chieftains of the Southwest to meet him for a secret conference, which was held in a Bt. Louis hotel last week. As a result, the chief magistrate offers a reward of $50,000 for the arrest of the men who robbed the Rock Island train at Winston, Mo., $20,000 for the Janies boys, and $6,000 each for tho other five members of the party. The railway managers pledged themselves to pay the rewards 'upon satisfactory evidence . of the arrest of the scoundrels. A Chicago paper reports that a party of detectives and Deputy Sheriffs will ieave that city at an early date to capture tho Missouri outlaws, for the reward of $50,000 offered by the authorities and railroads. Jay Gould has purchased the St. Louis, JtTsoyville and Springfield railroa I, and will merge it in the Wabash combination. Hon. John J. Bagley, ex-Governor of Michigan, died at San Francisco, whither lie had gone for tho benefit of liis failing health. A hotel, drug store and telegraph office at Hamburg, lowa, valued at $45,000, were destroyed by tire. South. A tool-car on the Texas Pacific road jumped tho track near the sand hills. Of sixty men on hoard, three were killed and ten wounded. Five children of Thomas Killeen, of New Orleans, aged 1,3, 6, 8 and 10 years, respectively, were poisoned by a colored servant girl, who put rat poison in some soup. The gitl, when arrested, confessed tho crime, and said she put the poison in to make tho children thick, out of revenge, they having thrown rocks at her and called her a “nigger.” One of the children has died. Drought has ruined the cotton and corn in Middle and East Tennessee, Southern Kentucky and North Alabama. At a short-horn sale at Winchester, Ky., seventy-six animals brought $38,680, an average of $590 each. Montpelier, at Orange Court House, Va., the birthplace and home of Presideip Madison, was sold at auction tho other dav for $20,000. POLITICAL POINTS. The Pennsylvania Republicans will hold a State Convention. Sept. 8, to nominate a candidate fOr State Treasurer.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Commodore Saunders, long connected with the Agricultural Department and well known in connection with the National Grange, was recently sent to South Carolina by Commissioner Loring to investigate the experiments in tea culture of which Le Due had made such extensive advertisements. He reports the alleged tea farm a miserable sham and pretense, from which nothing can possibly be expected. Five of the White House employes are suffering from some form of malaria due to the condition of tho Potomac flats below Washington. Col. John C. Burch, Secretary of the United States Bonato, died at his residence in Washington. Ho was a Georgian by birth, graduated at Yale College in 1851, practiced law at Memphis, Teun., served in tho Confederate army, and edited the Nashville American. Secretary Windom calls upon the customs collectors at Boston and New York to make every effort to ascertain the identity of the consignor of tho infernal machines which found their way to Liverpool. FOREIGN NEWS. The proposed independent German cable t.o the United States will be laid from Enulen, Prussia. * The death is announced of Most Rev. Daniel McCarthy, Catholic Bishop of Kerry. At Yokohama, Japan, the Fourth of July was being celebrated by American residents when the news of the President’s assasination brought tho festivities to an abrupt ending. Dissensions have broken out among the Tunisians, and several tribes have sought assistance from tho French. It is stated that the sentence of death passed on Midhat Pasha has been commuted by tho Sultan to exile. Baron von Geyss, a bright young army oflicer, was shot dead in a duel at Berlin, and a student at Gottingen was mortally wounded in an affair of honor. In a duel between two Spanish officers at Gibraltar, a Captain was killed and a Lieutenant seriously wounded. The military establishments in Ireland will for some time ho maintained at their present strength. Capt. Boycott and wife have returned to their residence at Lougli Mask. . Gabs lias been captured by the French squadron, which landed a small force of sailors and occupied the town. In assaulting two adjacent villages seven sailors only were .wounded. Continual persecution of the Jews in Russia lifts caused the desertion of seventeen villages. C. C. Brulms, the eminent German astronomer, is dead. On the arrival of the steamer Alicnnti at Havana, the of the branch Spanish bank at Matanzis were captured with SBO,000 in their possession. Another Nihilist plot for the assassination of the Czar has been discovered at St. Petersburg. Ono of the conspirators who betrayed his accomplices was found murdered in the outskirts of tho city. Midliat Pasha and the others recently convicted of llio murder of Abdul Aziz, except Izzet Paslia. Seyd Pasha and the two actual assassins, have been sent from Constantinople to Arabia, where they will remain in exile for life or until they can escape. The customs officials at Cork and Queenstown have been warned to ho cautious in handling suspicious parcels. News comes from India to the effect that Ayoob Khan has defeated the Ameer Abdurrahman Khan. During tho engagement between the two armies a regiment of the ArnccrV deserted, and thereupon the balance of the anny ignominiouslv fled, leaving their guns and baggage behind. England must either reinstate the Ameer, or, by leaving him to his fate, lose the prestige she gained in that country at an enormous cost of lives and treasure. Tho Indian Government are greatly concerned .at the gravity of the situation.