Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

•DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kant. The failure is announced of the Norwich (Ct.) Pistol Company, with liabilities of ♦50,000 and assets of ♦20,000. One hundred men were thrown out of employment and * k>ss of $150,000 inflicted, by the burning at the piano factory of Pratt, Bead & Co.* »'c Deep Biver, Ct. Maud 8. and the Vanderbilt family were the particular attractions at the Buffalo races. Iq the face of a strong wind, the mad e one mile in 2:10%. A Persian rejoicing in the name of Mohammed Bagairali, who has been engaged In the' jewelry business in New York for the last six years, has made application for naturalization papers. He is the first Persian who has applied for naturalisation papers in this countr.v. Wert. A terrible explosion took place at the tlistillery of the Woolner Bros., Peoria, 111., by which eighteen persons were badly injured, nine of whom have since died and several more are not expected to live'. The distillery was binned on June 6, and the proprietors were engaged ia trying to save a tub of beer that was saved from the lire, and, through the defects o/f the machinery and the pipes, the stilltub 'exploded with fearful results. For the year ending June 30, 1881, 12,675 vessels entered the port of Chicago. ’The total receipts during the same period for imports was $2,700,707, and, with the addition from various sources, $2,739,030, making Chicago the sixth port in the United States. Two Mexicans and two miners have been murdered by. the Indians near Fort McCrea, Now Mexico, and a company of the Ninth cavalry is in pursuit of the butchers.

Peter Crowe, of Peoria, who confesses having made tho infernal machines shipped to Liverpool, was arrested on the order of Attorney General MacVeagh. Bail in SIO,OOO was (tendered, but was declined until an examinaition could be held in Chicago, The result of flax-seed threshings in Illinois, lowa, Missouri and Kansas has been rather disappointing to the flax-growers. In very few cases has there been an average yield. Four and seven bushels to the acre have been realized where ten and fourteen bushels were expected. Notwithstanding the largely-in-creased acreage the yield of this year throughout the country will not equal that of last year.

A San Francisco telegram reports the arrival in that city from Mexico of Ambrose Lomprax, of Natchitoches, La. Lomprax was with the party of surveyors that were attacked 3iy Apaches south of El Paso, State of Chihuailma, and thirteen killed. Ho says ho joined the party the day before the attack. The night before the massacre he lost a horse and a hired boy, and thought he saw Indian signs. Next day the party started on, and he lingered half a mile behind. When the party was among the ' Ilu •‘■Uiar began. Lomprax says itho party wero well maru bu , had no leader and did not know how to figut/ Indians. He tried to join the party, but was take,li prisoner by the Indians, and would have been killed hut his lost Mexican boy appeared ■and told the Indians he was wealthy and could bo ransomed. He was secured and could uot see tho tight. The surveyors fought desperately against tho Indians, who numbered forty-five or forty-six, of whom six were killed and nine wounded. All the whites were killed, six of them being dispatched while lying on the field wounded. Lomprax . says the Indians wore under command of Victoria, as he knew that chief very well by sight.

Sitting Bull wants to go to Washing (ton, but the Indian Commission have no use for Jhim there, and ho will therefore remain at Standing Rock Agency. It is announced that Jay Gould has purchased a large interest in the National stock-yards at East St, Louis, whose capital stock is $1,250,000. Intelligence has reached Denver from -Fort Craig that Apache Indians attacked the Mitchell party of ten Americans and twentybix Mexicans out from Chloride City on a trail in Rod canon. The fight lasted until dark. Three Indians were killed. Nine Mexicans and Americans were wounded and killed, with two missing. All their horses were taken by the Lilians. Bishop E. O. Haven, of the Methodist church, diod at Salem, Ore., aged 60 years. A fire broke out in a dance-house at Truckle, Nev., at an early hour in the morning and spread rapidly, destroying every business house in the place except three, and many residences. The total loss is estimated at h ; :is.'i,ooo. Only about one-third of the loss is tc< -vt rod by insurance.— A fire in the lower part of Deadwood, Dak., burned twenty-five buildings, involving a loss of SIOO,OOO. The Mescalero Apaches who left their reservation have orossed the Rio Grande near S n Jose. They killed two miners and a herder near San Marcial, and fired upon a party of thirty-six Mexicans and Americans who were in pursuit of them, Some California militia had a sham battle at Grass valley, and lost control of them selves in a bayonet charge, several officers and no less than twenty men being wounded by Vvayoneio and butts Of guns.

South. Perry county, Ark., has been placed under martial law by the Governor of the State. A perfect reign of terror exists. The Mississippi steamers Idle-wild and O ceola Belle burned at Memphis, Tenn. The Idlewild was worth $250,000, and insured for 116,000. Superintendent Davis, of the New Orleans Mint, reports to the Treasury Department that he will, during the movement of the cotton and sugar-eawe crops, put out from New Orleans $8,000,000 or $10,000,000 of biandard silver dollars. An extensive bed of bituminous coal has been discovered at a point twelve miles southwest of Marshall, Texas. The deposit lies but eight feet below the surface. The Commissioner of Agriculture has appointed a commission, consisting of Prof. Ililyard (colored), ex-Gov. Famaso of Nevada and T. C. Jones of Ohio, to visit the arid regions of tho West and - investigate whether they can cVcr be made to have any marketable Mr?. Dr.»W. H. Bird,- of Lonoke county, Ark., pve birth to a twelve-pound girl babe with it's rain on the outside of its cranium, which only by membrane. It is doing welU

WASHINGTON NOTES. Postmaster Gneral James has decided that clerk hire in jp.stoffices where the present rate is higher than fie sum authorized by law must he reduced. Tt dre are 150 offices to which Mr. James’ order v*U apply. Joseph E. Hayden Assistant District .Attorney at Waslingtou, puts forth a claim tfeat he saved ex-Presid*nt Hayes from assassi-

nation, on the morning of his inauguration, by turning over to the detectives a lunatic who had carefully laid his plans for the murder. Forty-three Postmasters at Presidential offices have thus far failed to rendei their quarterly reports iu time, and are liable to punishment of a pecuniary nature. Dr. Tachmyntis, a Greek “ crank ” at Washington, has been arrested by Government detectives on the charge of sending threatening letters to Attorney General MaoVeagh. During the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1881, the receipts from internal revenue in the United States were $135,229,902, and the receipts for the past five years were $602,310,187. The entire sum was paid into the treasury without any loss by defalcation or otherwise.

Following is the last official publicdebt statement, issued on the Ist inst.; Six per cent, bonds $ 378,055,150 Five per cents 439,708,050 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four tier cents 788,693,950 Refunding certificates 6,538,504 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,621,111,000 Matured debt 9,959,015 Legal tenders $ 3+6,741,501 Certificates of deposit... 10,740,000 Gold and silver certificate, 57,733,800 Fractional currency 7,098,615 Total without interest. 422,313,946 Total debt $2,053,083,961 Total interest 14,015,017 Gash in treasury 236,878,190 Debt less cash in treasury $1,8:10,520,788 Decrease during July 10,078,023 Current liabilities—- .... '.i uc and unpaid $ 2,844,431 ii I t on which interest has ceased 9,959,015 ntercsl thereon.. io!il and silver certificates ; 0(,/<w,huu nited States notes held for redemption i q certificates of deposit 10,740,000 tush balance available Aug. 1, 1881.... 154,827,274 Total $ 236,878,190 Available assets — ash in treasury... 7 236,878,190 ‘lends issued to Pacific railway compan- . ;es, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 u tCrest accrued and not yet paid ... 323,117 idcrest paid by United States. 51,467,272 Interest repaid by companies— Merest repaid by transportation oi ;> cash payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings 655,198 ‘.•dance of interest paid by tho United States ! 36.385,428 It is denied by the Washington Health icpartment that the Potomac flats are now i using sickness in the White House. Tho lug inner Commissioner rather blame* the bad Irainage of tho White House. The Washington authorities have denied to allow no more telegraph poles to be reeled in that city. Guiteau has placed in the hands of ■ho. District Attorney at Washington a petition •-questing to be released on bail. Commissioner Raum has issued a : atemeut. showing by collection districts the mount of internal revenue collected within the ast fiscal year. The collections in Illinois, Inhana. Minnesota, Ohio, lowa and Wisconsin vere as follows: ILLINOIS. 905,157.60 Fifth' '.V.,. .$11,425,131.77 Joe-usd 237,243.89 Seventh .... 67,884.77 Third 566,405.64 Eighth 1,407,226.90 ’Mirth 1,203.221.52 Thirteenth.. 962,409.34 INDIANA. I'irst 261,762.5715eventh .... 2,253,760.27 ■’mirth 3,390,731.14 Tenth 174,925.19 sixth 1,094,927.90|E1eventh .... 96,156.41 MINNESOTA. First 116,126.831 Second 349,013.51 OHIO. •’irst 12,538,346.581 Tenth 10,89,563.12 bird 1,806,871.17|E1eventh.... 1,398,287.92 ■'mirth 513,582.861 Fifteenth... 195,071.89 .ixtti 852,210.02 Eighteenth . 806,538.82 uiventh .... 594,593.31| lOWA. Jecond 167.240.00|F0urth 168,047.00 bird ...... 281,317,00|Fifth 216,081.00 WISCONSIN. ■‘irst 2,373,693,00|T1i1rd 229,859.00 econd 169,932.00 j Sixth 136,559.00 he total internal-revenue collections, from all ourecs, for the past fiscal year aggregated = 135,229,902.

Guiteau’s petition to be admitted to bail, says a Washington dispatch, is in some aspects one of the most remarkable documents hat has ever been drawn up for the consideraion of a court of justice. It is now in the posession of District Attorney Corkhili, in whom Guitcau has the most implicit confidence, and to whom ho intrusts all - his secrets, if a man ■vlio talks so freely and unreservedly can be ■aid to havo any secrets. Guiteau is undoubtedly becoming anxious to escape the penalty of his crime. It is apparent that he has had enough of imprisonment, and that he has made up his mind ho will seek to escape the penalty of the law by a plea of insanity. Mis petition to be admitted to bail is drawn in legal form, although there is much in it that no lawyer would care to insert, while there is much also that a cunning man, who is determined to feign insanity, or a man really insane, would make a part of his application. Should a lawyer be appointed to onduct Guiteau’s case, this application will unquestionably be used as evidence of insanity. Guiteau, in asking for release on bail, expresses great sorrow that the President has suffered so much and so long from the wound ho inflicted Me asks his release because he fears that confinement will make him insane. He repels with scorn the idea that he is now insane, or that he was insane when he conceived or committed the crime. He insists strongly that he is now sane, but he says.that he feels ‘‘the nimbus of insanity playing around his brain.” He t hen goes on to recite some facts that indicate that there is insanity in his father’s family. He announces that he proposes to make his own defense, with competent legal assistance. Guiteau wants his temporary release, not only that ho may escape impending insanity, but that he may take a trip to Europe, where he wishes to remain a month or two. .

FOREIGN NEWS. The Chief of Police of Rome has been dismissed for neglect of duty on the occasion of the riots over the remains of the Pope. Czar Alexander has entered Moscow, the ancient capital of Russia, safely, and was received with enthusiasm by the inhabitants. His first public act was to offer prayers at the Cathedral. Bismarck has received a threatening letter, and his organs ascribe it to the influence of the Radical press, and warn the Radical editors to beware of the consequences which will follow if a German Guiteau should *• turn up.’’ Thaßfrdical press insinuates that the threatening lei ter is “ a weak device of the enemy” for the purpose of exciting hostility to the Progressist or Radical party. An explosion in a mine at Lourches, France, killed ten persons and seriously injured twenty. ! The London Standard says there is an average crop in England ; the root crop is ba.d, but the potatoes good. Another plot to assassinate the Czar lias been discovered by the police of Moscow. This time a lady of high rank was to be the agent. She has escaped, but her accomplices have been arrested. In the British House of Commons, for persisting in raising the question of Irish po-

litical piisoners, in spite of the Speaker’s ruling, Parnell was “named” for offensive language, Gladstone moved his suspension for the remainder of the sitting; Parnell quitted the House, and the suspension was carried by 133 to 14. A committee has been formed in Faria under the direction of Gambetta few the purpose of furthering the Bepublican cause in the approaching general election. Prince Napoleon, writing to the Bonapartisl Electoral Committee, urges that a provision be inserted in the constitution providing for the election of the head of the nation by a popular vote. On behalf of the World’s Conference of the Young Men’s Christian Association, in session at London, Lord Shaftesbury sent a dispatch to Mrs, Garfield recording its gratitude to God for the preservation of the President’s life and its prayers for his recovery. Mrs. Garfield returned a suitable response through Secretary Blaine. Ayoob Khan entered Candahar on the 30th ult. His infantry and artillery occupy the citadel. Sheikh Mahomed was arrested in Constantinople for plotting against the French in Algeria, placed upon a man-of-war and sent to Franco for trial. > The Coercion act continues to be enforced against the Land-Leaguers in Ireland. But the League continues to be as aggressive as ever, and promises to furnish additional subjects for Mr. Forster’s attention. At a meeting of the central body the other day, on motion of Parnell, it was decided to hold a National Convention at Dublin on the 15th of September to decide “ the best means of obtaining Irish lands for Irishmen.”

Bradlaugh, the free-thinking M. P. for Northampton, made a strenuous but ineffectual effort to tako his seat in the British House of Commons in spite of the order to the contrary of tho Speaker. In his struggle to pass the police and officials his coat was tom, and he then went to Bow street to obtain a summons for the police, but it was not granted. In the House, John Bright, Henry Labouchere, Sir Wilfred Lawson, and other prominent Liberals made strong appeals for his admission, but were unsuccessful, a vote being passed indorsing the action of the Speaker. The French Government having invited the Americans to send officers to witness the autumn maneuvers, Secretary of War Lincoln has designated Gen. John M. Scofield, Lieut. Col. Bobert S. Lamotte and Capt. James Chester to represent the United States. Blight has destroyed thousands of acres of wheat in Eoumania, and the yield will not be over 50 per cent, of the average. The infanta Eulalia, sister of the King of Spain, is engaged to be married to an Austrian Archduke. It was a love-match, A Natal dispatch states that the American ship Calcutta, Capt. Smith, from Cebu, Philippine islands, of and from Boston, was wrecked on the coast of Africa. Only three men were saved. The anti-Jewish agitation has been revived in m&nv districts oi Prussia. Synagogues arfd the stores of HeDrews. umi, attacked by mobs in various places. In Pomerania many houses have been wrecked, and tho mobs had to be dispersed by the police.