Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eut. The suit brought by Gen. Butler to stop the sale of the Sprague estate has caused the closing of, all its factories. The temporary injunction forbids payments to operatives or expenditures for the preservation of property, thus throwing 10,000 men out of employment. Orville Grant, brother of Gen. Grant, died at Morris Plains, N. J. f a few days ago. He was 48 years old. Announcement is made of the death of Gen. Robert Patterson, who with the rank of Major General commanded a portiou of the Union forces at Bull Ituu, on the 21st of July, 1861, and who was much blamed for a disposition of his command that permitted rebel reinforcements to reach the battlefield and decide the day agaimt the Union army. At East Taunton, Mass., the large nail and wire, mills owned by the Old Colony Iron Company were burned. The loss is nearly $200,000, and several hundred men are throwu out 6f employment Speculative insurance caused the murder of Joseph Miller, an old man of Montgomery, Pa., by his son Samuel. The policies on his life aggregated $40,000. Gale, the pedestrian, finished at New York, last week, the greatest feat ever attempted in pcdestrianism. He walked 6,000 quarter miles in 6,000 consecutive periods of' ten minutes. After finishing his task he offered to wager SSOO to SI,OOO that he could walk 500 miles in six days in addition. The main Exposition building at Philadelphia has been sold for $97,000 to an ayent, • it is believed, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The building originally cost $1,600,000. Judge James D. Colt, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, was found dead in his office at Pittsfield recently, having committed suicide. He shot himself through the head with a pistol. The residence William Bowen, of Scituate, R. L, was burned, a few nights ago. Flames subsequently appeared in his barn, which led to the- discovery of an infernal machine operated by clock work. The doctor has been very active in securing the enforcement of the Liquor law. The Lauglilin nail-mills, near Wheeling, W. Va., valued at $60,000, have been swept away by lire. Maud S. at Rochester lowered her record to 2:1(% heating by a quarter of a second the time sho made at Pittsburgh a few weeks ago. A lamp in the hands of the janitor fired the organ in St Paul’s Episcopal Church, at Erie, Pa., and caused a damage of SIOO,OOO. Gen. Grant has bought a $95,000 house on East Sixty-sixth street, New York. \V est.

The woolen mill cf the McLean Manufacturing Company, at Janesville, Win., totally destroyed by tire, causing a loss of $50,000. A frightful explosion, resulting in the death of five persons, occurred in St. Clair county. 111. Laborers on the farm of Henry Young prepared to return to work after breakfast, and were approaching the steam threshing machine, when the boiler burst, scattering destruction in every direction. Five men wore killed outright, aud five others were so seriously injured that their lives are despaired of. The machine was shattered in a thousand pieces, and the wheat took fire, which spread to all the surrounding property. The stock-yard and all its contents were consumed in the flames. The mercury in St. Louis one day last •week rose to 105 in the shade, the highest point reached for forty-five years. The killing of Spotted Tail by Crow Dog was a cold-blooded assassination, and the latter will be tried for murder. Hon. O. H. Browning, ex-Congress_-man and Secretary of the Interior during the administration of President Johnson, died at Quincy, 111., last week. E. R. Williams & Brother, a grain commission house in Toledo, are charged with issuing fraudulent bills of lading to the amount of $60,000 or more. Their suspension is announced, and belh have fled. Gray, the person who shot and killed Theodore Glancy, editor of the Santa Barbaj-a (Cal.) Press, some time ago, escapes with twenty years’ imprisonment. Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas, the distinguished Methodist divine, is to be arraigned for heresy next month, at Chicago. He is charged with denying the truth of the doctriues of inspiration and atonement taught by the church, and teaching the doctrine of probation aftor death for those who die in sin, thereby antagonizing the doctrine of endless punishment for the wicked. The trial will exfile widespread interest. Late advices -from New Mexico report great alarm in that territory over atrocities perpetrated by renegade Indians. A party of sixty or more killed seven persons near Elrita. Another band of twelve fired into a camp of Atchison railway men near Rincon. South. From Darlington county, S. C., there comes an account of a terrible and extraordinary casuaiity from lightning. A grorp of twenty men were standing close to a house, when a stroke of lightning killed four and wounded ten of the number. The com and tobacco in Central Kentucky are being killed by beat and drought. Oats and hay have done well, but only half a trop of wheat, barlqy or rye is expected. The peach crop in Delaware is a total failure. A training-stable on a race-course near Lexington, Ky., was destroyed by fire. Out of sixteen horses preparing for the fall meeting, Bowen’s Carrie Hanson and Eagle’s gray colt Knox were burned to. doatb, and the others were greatly injured by dashing madly around the course. Deputy Marshal Marks, of Arkansas, pursued an Osage chief, named Little Buck, for five days, and killed him because he resisted arrest. Several negroes were killed near Lexington, Va., by a slide in a cut upon which they were at work on the Richmond and Allegheny railroad, Six of tfie negroes were oon..victs. The Kentucky Board of Agriculture reports that there has been no such shortage in crops in that State since 1854. Not more than half an average yield of wheat will be harvested. WASHINGTON NOTES. Second Assistant Postmaster General Elmer reports a net reduction in the star-ronte and steamboat mail service during July amounting to $314,664, and that the total amount of si- vings by reduction and discontinuances since M rch 4 is $1,881,442. Mr, Heap, the Cfrtrge d’Affair o*

the United States Legation at Constantinople, has informed the State Department at Washington that the order issued in the spring of this year against the importation of American meat is practically a dead letter. Gen. Dudley, Commissioner of Pensions, has issued an order forbidding the clerks reading newspapers during business hours. The Postoffice Department has a formal report from special agents that ninetenths of the mail-bags used in Canada belong to the United States. The febrile condition of the President for several days having suggested to the surgeons that the cause was the detention of pus in the cavity of the wound, they took advantage, on the morning of the Bth, ©f the patient’s improved condition to make another incision into the track of the bullet below the margin of the twelfth rib. This operation was successfully performed, the President having first been etherized. Although suffering some nausea from the anaesthetic, he soon regained his previous condition. The present incision, the physicians declare, can be left open and unobstructed as long as may be necessary, and the best results are confidently expected. The Treasury Department has received about $40,000,000 worth of bonds for continuation from English holders. The London agency will be c’osed at once. Secretary Blaine has been suffering from malaria and a tendency to chills. President Garfield performed his first official act since the shooting, on the 10th inst. He affixed his signature to a paper extraditing a criminal wanted by the Canadian authorities. Secretary Blaine has gone to Maine, where he will stay several weeks. During the last fiscal year there were 4,384 pilots examined by the Marine Hospital Service, of which number 118 were found colorblind. As soon as the President gets out of danger, Bays a Washington telegram, Dr. Bliss intends to publish a correct statement of the controversy that was made by Dr. Baxter just after the President was shot as to Baxter’s right to take charge of the case. Bliss' statement will be in substance that, in the first place, he was called to the President at the depot by a member of the Cabinet, Secretary Lincoln. He took charge of the case, and the next morning (Sunday) after the President was shot Bliss called the President’s attention to the necessity for some system about the treatment of the case. Meantime the President had reacted from the shock, and was capable of exercising judgment. Ho told Bliss that he wanted him to take entire charge and control of the case; that he felt complete confidence in him, and would surrender everything to him Bliss asked him who he wanted associated in the case, and the President replied that he would leavo that entirely to Bliss. Soon after Bliss saw Mrs. Garfield, and she ratified all the President had said, and requested Bliss to take charge of the case. A Washington telegram of tlie 11th inst says : “ To-day Prouideut fl-arfield wrote Lis first letter since the shooting. It was to bis mother at Mentor, and assured her of his confidence in recovery. Mrs. Garfield read to him considerably to-day, both from private letters and newspapers. The President is beginning to take much interest in public affairs.”

POLITICAL POINTS. One county in North Carolina, Heywood county, gave twenty-one majority for prohibition. Returns from seventy-three counties have already been received, and show a majority of 98,965 against prohibition. Gen. Chalmers, who represents the “ Shoestring district” of Mississippi in Congress, has taken a new departure. He announces himself a Greenbacker and the Greenback candidate for United States Senator from Mississippi, vice Lamar. The Alabama State Temperance Convention was in session at Montgomery two days. An executive committee for the State and each county was appointed. All attempts to mako the question a party one were voted down. The “Civil-Service Reform Association of the United States” met at Newport, R. 1., under the Presidency of George William Curtis, and adopted resolutions approving the Civil-Service Reform bill introduced into the United States Senate last session by Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, calling on members of Congress and Senators to aid in making the bill law; favoring competitive examination at various convenient points in the United States for those who might wish to be examined for positions in the civil service ; declaring it necessary that the Civil-Service Reform League of New York should be aided in its work by local organizations ; and declaring that the bill introduced in the House of Representatives last session by Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, provides practical and judicious measures for the remedy of the abuse known as political assessment; and urging uncompromising opposition to arbitrary removals from office, and the interference of members of Congress with the exercise of the appointing power.

The Republicans of Virginia met in State Convention at Lynchburg. The 1 ‘ Straights outs ” were in a minority, but their leaders, Congressmen Dezendorf and Jorgensen, and the Chairman of the State Central Committee played a sharp trick on the Coalitionists, shut them out from the convention hall, and admitted only those who would act under their instructions, Those who were shut out organized a convention of their own. A Committee of Conference was appointed. The Conference Committee failed to bring about peace. The Coalitionists, or Mahoneites, indorsed the regular Readjuster platform aud adjourned without making nominations. The “Straight-outs” nominated Gen. William C. Wickham for Governor, Samuel M. Yost, of Staunton, for Lieutenant Governor, and Judge Willoughby, of Alexandria, for Attorney General. All these gentlemen have declined, however, and it is probable that no other persons will be nominated in their places, in which case there will be a square, fair, stand-up fight between the Readjusters and the Democrats.

FOREIGN NEWS. Greenberg, a Nihilist of noble birth, has been arrested at Belgrade. Documents found on his person show designs on the lives of the Czar and Emperor William. For radical criticisms on the conduct of the Prince of Bulgaria and the exposure of disorder on board Russian men-ofjwar, the Golos, of St. Petersburg, has been suspended for six months. The striking laborers of the South of Ireland have triumphed. The farmers have been obliged to concede their demands. For the future the laborers will be paid 2 shillings (50 cents) per day during the harvest time, and will be given half an acre of ground and a house “rent free.” While leaving the port of Halifax, N. S., the steamer Cortes struck a rock and will be a total loss. A collision between two express trains occurred near Manchester, England, on the Yorkshire and Lancashire railroad. Many persons were fearfully injured, several fatally, and much property was destroyed. Ayoob Khan is in possession of Candahar, whence the Ameer’s Governor fled. The city received him with salvos of artillery and illuminations. John Dillon, M. P., has been released from prison in England. There are indications that there will be another famine in British India this year. The South African Republic has been formally proclaimed by the Boers, to whom the British have yielded the Transvaal. Systematic incendiarism directed against the Jews is the probable cause of the destruction of eighteen Russian villages by fire.

The British Goverment will, it is said, cease prosecutions under the Coercion act, and if, after the passage of the Land bill, there is a show of law r and order, the prisoners arrested under the act will be liberated. Anti-Jewish disturbances have also broken out again in West Prussia and Pomerania. The fortress at Puerto Plata, San Domingo, was destroyed by an explosion, and twenty-five lives were lost. British financiers are somewhat exercised over the commencement of withdrawals of gold from the Bank of England on American account. Italy has been drawing heavily of coin, with which to replace her paper money In tli« Edioon Department of tha Paris Electric Exposition a machine is exhibited, worked by four operators, which will send 1,200 words per minute. The drought in Swizerland has continued for nearly two months. The grass is burned, and in the mountain pastures beasts are perishing from heat. A commissioner of the London Times who has made a tour of the wheat districts of England estimates a yield of thirty bushels to the acre, and an increased crop of 3,000,000 quarters. The Cornell boat crew were defeated at Vienna. When half the course had been rowed over, and the Americans had a winning lead, one of their men sank exhausted and they relinquished the race. The prize, which was worth £250, was won by the Vienna crew.