Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Bait. The works of the Union Stove Company at Everett, Mm, have been swept away by fire, causing a loss of 565,000. Water has become so scarce in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania that it has been sold at 25 cents per barrel. The out-put of coal has been greatly interfered with. While planting mines in the harbor of Newport, Lieuts. B. L. Edes and Lyman G. Spaulding were instantly killed by an accidental explosion. A fire at Beaver Falls, Pa., destroyed Wellon & Son’s flour mill and partially burned the cutlery works and the trestle of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie road. The loss will reach ♦140,000. At Shortsville, near Rochester, N. Y., a Are destroyed the Empire Drill Works, by ■which 100 men are thrown out of work. Loss, ♦IOO,OOO. Horace Montgomery and Kate Bartholomew, both of Washington, Lawrence county, N. Y., were drowned while making a foolhardy attempt to run the Rapids du Platte in a small boat. By the explosion of a machine used in loading cartridges in the Winchester arms factory, at New Haven, a small building was blown down. Two men were badly burned and •even others injured Gen. Grant has declined for the. present the reception tendered him by the people of Asbury Park, N. J., in consequence of the condition of President Garfield. He says that he would consider it unbecoming in him to participate in joyous festivals while the life of the President of the nation hangs by a thread. 4 Farmers in New York State are digging their potatoes to save the crop whicn i» being ruined by the drought. «* The Grangers of Mary land, Pennsylvania and Virginia gave a picnic at Williams’ <G -ovo, Pa. Fully 20,000 persons were present.

The peaceful Menominee Indians have been driven away from the agency, and Agent Stephens and his daughter are held as prisoners. Federal troops liavo boen ordered to the scene. The town of Sierravillo, Cal., has been almost totally obliterated by lire. The loss is estimated at 5300,000. While a party of farmers from Lockport, a village a few miles south of Terre Haute, Ind., were fishing in the Wahasli river about twenty mih s south of that city, four of them —Henry Berkard, Marshall Ferrill, Emery Laspie and James llud.sell —were drowned. The corner in August wheat obtained by Cincinnati parties in the Chicago market was successfully carried out. The manipulators of the corner are said to havo cleared ♦3.000,000. Thomas H. Lowcrre, a compositor, was shot during a light with James It. Duncan, a photographer, with whom he hoarded on Wabash avenue, Chicago. Duncan was arrested, hut claims that he only acted in selfdefense. There is a scandal connected with the affair. When the east-bound express on the Central Pacific road reached Colfax, Cal., two engines and one car were thrown from the track, the rails having been removed by highwaymen. A fireman and the express messenger, who sprang to the ground, were ordered to keep quiet, hut just at that moment the robbers became alarmed and rode off in a wagon, leaving a large invoice of masks, powder and tools. The Convent of St. Francis, situated about five miles from Manitowoc, Wis., was struck by lightning and entirely destroyed by flro. There were over eighty persons in tho building, several of whom were injured in their efforts to escape. The loss on the building and furniture was $65,000, with insurance of only ♦5,000. A lunatic named Neil ran a-muck in tho streets’ of Chicago, at the hour of midnight, shooting five men whom he encountered in his wild race, two of whom, it is feared, cannot recover. He was himself shot by a polioeman. A dispatch from Deadwood announces the discovery, thirty miles from that city, of a vein which runs $150,000 to the ton. Reports as to the yield of the Minnesota wheat crop, telegraphed to the Chicago journals, indicate that the average yield per acre this year is about 11.40 bushels, and that the aggregate yield of the whole State will be about 33,771,511 bushels. Th : s is 3,600,000 bushels less than the yield for the last year. Toe crop was best in the western counties of t he State and poorest in the southern counties.

BollttL By the burning of John C. Alexander's house at Carter’s Creek, Tenn., five colored children were cremated. Three colored children were cremated at Boonville, Miss., by the burning of a cabin. At Forest City, Ark., Tate Wallace invited S. D. Apperson, City Marshal, to take a cigar. While standing at the counter of a saloon Apperson drew a pistol and said, “I belii ve I’ll shoot you.” Tate, thinking he was jesting, replied, “Shoot away.” Apperson fin d, killing him instantly. A family of seven persons, living near K uffnnn. Texas, has been poisoned by eating cooked peaches containing arsenic, and there is little Lope for the recovery of any of the party. At Plano, Texas, fire swept away fif-ty-one buildings in two hours, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. The hurricane at Charleston caused a loss of $140,000. A son of Chancellor Lesebuc was swept from the sea-wall, and throe coded persons were drowned at Sullivan’s island. James Wolf, a wholesale merchant of L'ttle Rock, and his wife and child were enirhed to death in a steamboat accident at Savannah.

Ella St. Claire, formerly a variety tu tr* ss, in Mobile, married a negro, who was indicb d for miscegenation, whereupon she Bj r ng into the liver and ended her career. Ouo of tin mo&t destructive storms which ever visited the South Atlantic coast prevailed there. The loss of life and property is y<ay great. The wind blew'over Savannah, Ga., ai lie i-.ife of forty miles an hour, unroofing lrv.iMcs, sweeping the sea into houses along the wh»r es, mid playing havoc with shade and fm.l trees. All infirmary was wrecked, and the patients barely escaped. Many o 'h m were l-adly bruised. Sailing craft in Savannah bay suffered badly, and many perB' s <>u board perished. The loss of life among ti.» ci.loio l ,ieople on the rice plantations and along the river and bay is reported to have b en very great. All the people on one of the i i t.dx in the liv.'r perished. At Port lloyal, B ii ort and other points along the Sou'll C..rpd.iji eoabt hundreds of persons are believed to

have perished, and millions of dollars’ worth of property was washed away. Dispatches from Charleston, Savannah, and other points along the South Atlantic coast, indicate even a greater loss of life and property in the recent gale than had been previously reported. Each sailing craft coming to port brings news of death and disaster. The loss of life will be in the .neighborhood of 200. The property loss cannot be estimated. The ex-Confederates at Chattanooga and vicinity are preparing to give the Society of the Union Army of the Cumberland a cordia reception on the occasion of the litter’s annual reunion, which will occur in that city Sep. 21 and 22. A train near Atlanta, Ga., struck a crowbar on the snoulder of a track hand. In an instant his chin was gone from the lower lip down, and his teeth scattered in every direction. A telegram from Little Rock, Ark., says: “ The worst feeling imaginable still prevails at Center Point, Howard county, between blacks and whites. Several riots have already occurred, attended with loss of life. On Monday a well-to-do negro named Anderson Smith appeared in town, got intoxicated, and was roughly handled by two white men. Next day he returned with a squad of thirty or foity negroes, and this foico was met by a body of white men on the outskirts of the town. A regular battle occurred. The negroes were driven into a barn and, after several hours, retreated to the woods. Several were killed. Center Point is off from the telegraph line and particulars are meager. Colored people have repeatedly threatened to burn the town, which is guarded day and night.”

WASHINGTON NOTES. Consul Grinnell, at Bremen, reports to the Department of State that during the past six months 1,290,000 bushels of Indian corn were imported into Germany, and that its use is growing. The duty is 6 cents per 100 pounds. Paymaster General Cutter, of the United States navy, having reached the age of 62, retires from active service. Secretaiy Hunt will appoint some one to act in his place until the President is sufficiently recovered to determine on a successoisto Cutter's position. Following is the regular public-debt statement issued on the Ist inat. Six per cent bonds, extended $ 178,055,150 Five per cents, extended 400,531,950 Five per cent, bonds 21,304,900 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four ner cent.bonds...s 738,793,400 Refunding certificates . (144,900 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,003,342,800 Matured debt 14,198,655 Legal tenders $ 34G,741,076 Certificates of deposit... 9,625,000 Gold and silver certificates 62,979,330 Fractional currency 7,098,554 Total without interest. 420,443,865 Total debt $2,043,9-5,330 Total interest 12,853,028 Cash in treasury 240,498,788 Debt less cash in treasury $1,816,339,567 Decrease during August 14,1'1.221 ilriinwas ■lnoo Ji.i.oUD, IUBI OX, 0r.0.0X X Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 2,426,370 Debt on which interest has ceased 14,198, 05 Interest thereon 800,948 Gold and silver certificates 62,979,230 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 9,025,000 Cash balance available Aug. 1, 1881.... 150,463,575 Total .‘ $ .240,498,788 Available assets— Cush in treasury .$ 240,498,788 Ronds Issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 646,235 Interest paid by United States 51,467,272 Interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid by transportation of mails 14,441,719 By rash payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings 655,198 Hit lance of interest paid by the United States 36,370.353 Capt. Howgate left Washington two or three weeks ago, leaving his family without a dollar, and, as nothing has been heard from him, it is believed that he has fled tho country with his mistress. Samuel M. Lake, Chief of Division of the Inspection Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, has been removed, and John W. Green, late of the Treasury Department, appointed in his stead. There were coined at the United States mints during the month $11,565,500, of which $2,300,000 were standard dollars. The Weather Bureau reports that the past month was the hottest August since 1872. The rainfall was less than any August of the decade.

POLITICAL POINTS:. The New York Republican State Central Committee met in New York city, last week, and decided to call a State Convention for Oct. 5, at New York city. Vice President Arthur, the Chairman of the committee, ivas not present at the meeting. The total number of delegates to the convention will be 495, of which New York city will send seventy-nine. The Republican State Central ‘Committee of Nebraska has called a convention at Lincoln, for Oct. 5, with 441 delegates.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Queen’s speech on the prorogation of parliament expresses the hope that complete self-government in the Transvaal will contribute to the tranquillity of South Africa, and that the Irish Land bill may produce benefits commensurate with the care bestowed upon it. A meeting which was to have been held at Berne to protest against the expulsion of Prince Krapot Kine, the Nihilist, was forbidden by the police, who would not alio# the bill calling the meeting to be posted. • Tlios. Brennan, the principal Secret tary of the Irish Land League, who has already spent three months in jail, has been informed by the Government officials that he is to be kept there at least three months longer. The London Mark Lane Express says that the series of intermittent storms which culminated last Thursday in a general thunder-storm and very heavy rainfall brought “ruin and disaster to the English harvest.” Standing grain is “literally eaten up with mildew,” and “unthatched ricks have everywhere suffered.” There haH been a sharp advance in the price of all kinds of cereals and in the price of flour in the English markets, as might have been expected on account of the failure of the harvest. While a number of tenants on the estate of an Irish Baronet in Cork county were rejoicing over the marriage of their landlord, a disguised party of nearly a hundred men fired into them, Mounding ten of them, two rather seriously. Three fresh battalions of French troops have been ordered to North Africa. Great forest fires are reported in various parts of Algeria. It is believed that many of the natives have perished. A “memoir ” of the actual condition of Russia has been published by two prominent friends of the Czar. The memoir acknowledges the present sad condition of affairs, and advocates a popular administration of some kind. It is supposed to be published with a view of •bowing what the Czar might do if the Nihilists would give him a chance. John Givan, one of the Liberal members of Parliament for Monaghan county, has been appointed one of the Assistant Commissioners of the Irish Land Court. Givan is an attorney by profession, and has the confidence of the Ulster Presbyterian farmers, from whom he has sprung. His appointment is not by any means pleasant to the Irish landlords. The lowlands of Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire are completely submerged, and the crops on them are utterly destroyed. The rainfall in some localities is estimated at 150 tons per acre in eighteen hours. The report from other parts of England than those named are of an equally dismal and disheartening character. The steamship Teuton was wrecked near Cape Town, south coast of Africa. She had on board 227 passengers, of whom only twenty-seven were saved in two boats. A Bombay dispatch from Candaliar reports that the Ameer is rapidly advancing on Avoob Khan, who has only seven weak regiments to oppose his now powerful foe. The Welsh national festival, the Eisteddfod, was held at Merthyr Tydvil on the 31st nit. Resolutions of sympathy with Mrs. Garfield and with the American people, on account of the contiiiu d prostration of tho President, -were adm • '-,;h great unanimity.

LATER NEWS ITEMS. Forest fires in Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania have caused great havoc. The rubber works of Eugene H. Glapp, at South Hanover, Mass., valued at $75,000, have been burned. Ex-Congressman Hendrick B. Wright, of Pennsylvania, is dead. A strip of land in Nicollet county, Minn., four miles long and two wide, was visited by a hail-storm which beat the corn and grass into the ground. Nana’s band of Apaches are committing murderous depredations in Southern New Mexico. James B. Duncan, who killed Lowerre, the printer, in Chicago, has died from the effect of the injuries received in the fight. Cotton is dying of drought. Carefullycompiled reports from 166 counties show an average condition 27 per cent, worse than last year. Over thirty families in the neighborhood of Pembroke, Ont., have* been rendered homeless and destitute by bush fires. Bush fires continue to rage in the vicinity of Kingston. The air is filled with smoke, and river navigation is much interrupted in consequence, Gustave Richter, a celebrated artist and professor in the Berlin Academy of Art, is dead. The total number of lives lost in the wreck of the African steamer Teuton was fortyfour. At the annual meeting of the Property Defense Association, a sort of union of Irish landlords, held in Dublin, it was resolved to levy a tax of 1 percent, on the valuation of the properties of members in order to defray the expenses of fighting the Land League.

It is difficult to get the noise out of a boy. Of course you can get some noise out of him ; but you never can draw off his entire supply. Ten Fourth of Julys and three circus parades would leave him just as full as he was when he began.—New Haven Register. Emeralds, pure and beautiful, have been discovered in North Carolina. The cut stones set have sold for SIOO a karat, and are eagerly sought for by dealers. One gem, weighing two and a half karats, has been purchased by the British Museum,