Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENOE. Kant. A very rich vein of silver, two feet wide, lias been discovered at Moretown, Vt., on the top q( the mountain. Leo Hartmann, the noted Nihilist, appeared in the Superior Court in New York and renounced his allegiance to the Emperor of Russia, filing a declaration of his intention to become an American citizen. West. The fall-wheat crop of Illinois, according to the State Agricultural Department, shows a falling off of about 59 per cent, from the crop of last year, and is probably the worst in quality and quantity grown in the State for twenty years. The crop of this year will not dishearten the farmers of the State, however, and it is probable that & larger area will be sown this fall than ever before. The jailer at Kansas City made the discovery that Bill Ryan, the Glendale trainrobber, had a bunch of burglar’s saws in his cell, and had cut three sides of a large square in the iron floor. Indian-Agent Hunt reports the discovery of extensive silver mines near Fort Sill, in tho Indian Territory. Adventurous miners have already made their way to the scene of lhe discovery, much to the annoyance of the Indians. Secretary of the Interior Kirkwood lias ordered troops to the place to protect the rights of the red men.

The report of the massacre by Indians of Prof. Snow and party, of the Kansas University, was a canarc’ The Western Newspaper Union (readyprint) office, at .Omaha, has been burned. A fire at Oconto, Wis., destroyed Anson Eldred’s large sawmill and lumbering establishment. The loss is plr.ced at $70,000. A party of Americans encamped in Guadaloupe canon, 100 miles from Tombstone, Arizona, near the Mexican line, were attacked by Mexicans and five of the number KilledWilliam Laug. Dick Gray, Jim Crane, Charles Snow and Thomas Clinton. Two others were wounded. The trouble arose from a cattle raid across the Mexican line some months ago, and a counter raid by Mexicans recently. The Mexican raiders were overtaken and the cattle recaptured. The Mexicans who killed Lang and Gray’s party are supposed to be some of the defeated raiders. A party of 200 Arizonians lias organized to avenge tho recent murders, and great fears are entertained for tho Americans living on the Mexican side, as a war of retaliation is sure to follow. South.

On the Memphis and Charleston railroad, near Tuscumbia, Ala., three negroes went to sleep on the track, and a train killed two and severely injured the third. A prominent physician of Cincinnati reports twenty well-defined cases of typhoid fever among the 400 English colonists at Rugby, T'cnn. A corps of physicians and nurses has been dispatched to the afflicted settlement. Bad drinking-water was tho chief cause of tho epidemic. The Temperance bill, which was reported on favorably by a special committee of the Georgia Stato Senate, was rejected by that body by a vote of 20 to 19. The Senate of Georgia has passed a bill forbidding any person to encourage tho violation of the laws prohibiting polygamy or bigamy, under penalty of hard labor in the penitentiary from two ■to four years. The blow is aimed at the Mormon elders new laboring iu that State. Lieut. Flipper, a colored graduate of West Point, is in the guard-house at Fort Davis, Texas, charged with defrauding the Government of SI,OOO while acting as commissary of subsistence. WASHINGTON NOTES. Reports received at the Agricultural Department in Washington indicate that the spring-wheat crop of this year will bo fully equal to that of 1879, and only 7 per cent, inferior to that of last year. There will be a heavy falling off in the yield of Illinois and lowa, and a slight falling off in Minnesota, Nobraska and California, while in Wisconsin and the New England States there are good prospects of an increased yield. The tobacco crop is not quite so good as that of last year. The condition of the corn crop is not as promising as it was last month, and will not be nearly so good as it was a year ago. Tho best reports have been from Wisconsin and Nebraska, and tho « orst from South Carolina, Kansas, Louisiana and Tennessee. A Washington dispatch says that a council with a delegation of Dakota Indians took place at the Interior Department. The. object of the consultation was to secure for the Poncas under Standing Bear permanent homes in Dakota on their old reservation or as near it as possible. The Omahas declined to sell any more land, and said they would rather sell to white settlers than Indians. The Wiunebagoes gave a like answer, but White Thunder, spoaking on behalf of all the Sioux tribes, said tho land the Poncas wanted was only a small corner of their reservation, and they would give it to the Poncas and welcome them as a part of their nation, having all the rights and privileges of the Sioux people. Secretary Kirkwood asked how much the Sioux wanted as compensation. This seems to he the final conclusion of the long-drawn-out Ponca controversy. The total values of exports for the past seven months ended July 31, 1881, were $82,708,977, and during the same period of 1830, $82,286,046. The total values of provisions and tallow for the nine months ended July 3, 1880Vwere $95,899,277 ; for the nine mouths POLITICAL POINTS. The Republican State Central Committee of California recommend Marcus D. Boruck for Secretary of the United States Sen ate. The Republican State Convention of Minnesota has keen called to meet at St. Paul Sept. 28.

FOREIGN NEWS. 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 tho probablo 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 iH a show of law and order, the prisoners arreste 1 under the act will bo liberated. Anti-Jewish disturbances have also broken out again in West- Prussia and Pomerania. A dispatch from Geneva, Switzerland, says that Prof. Roone Picket, who has been giving his attention lately to marine architecture, announces a discovery which, if anticipations are realized, will effect a revolution in the art of shipbuilding. The discovery consists of a new methoctiof construction and such ah arrangement of keel as will diminish the resistance of the water to the lowest possible point. Vessels built in the fashion devised by Picket, instead of sinking their prows in the water as the speed increases, will rise out of the water the faster they go, in such a way that the only parts exposed to the friction of the water will be the sides of the hull an 3 the neighborhood of the wheel. In other words, ships thus constructed, instead of pushing their way through the water, will glide over it. It is claimed that steamers built after this design will attain a speed of from fifty to sixty kilometers aa hour. An old building, four stories high* situated in the most frequented part of the city of Vienna, suddenly fell. The greater part of the house was occupied by offices and fashionable shops. Twenty lives were lost and thirty persons seriously injured. Signor Merinetti, a distinguished member of tho Italian Alpine Club, was killed by an avalanche on Mount Rosa. The Orangemen of Liverpool and vicinity have enlisted 400 laborers to reap and harvest the crops in “boycotted” districts of Ireland. Seven hundred men paraded the streets of Stettin, Germany, uttering cries against the Jews. Forty arrests were made. Yellow fever rages in the French colony of Senegal, in the West of Africa. The International Law Conference, in session at Cologne, adopted by acclamation a resolution introduced by David Dudley Field, that in extradition treaties neither assassination nor attempts thereat as a means of affecting a change of Government or redress of grievances shall be deemed a political crime, and that the privilege of asylum be denied the perpetrator of such deed.