Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Boot At Rockland, Me., Charles Smith, a laborer, shot and killed hi* wife, infant son and mother-in-law, and attempted to kill Mrs. Metcalf, on old lady living in the house, but she, with two children, escaped. Cause, Jealousy of his wife. Footpads stopped the carriage of Myron Press near Crampton village, N. H., fired several shots and cut his coat with a dagger, but he escaped by whipping his horse. The highwaymen are believed to be those who perpetrated the outrage on the Glen House stage, who have since been steadily pursued by officers. Erie freight trains collided near Elmira, N. Y., by which Engineer Fuller and Brakemen Barrett and Pomeroy were instantly killed, and Conductor Jones and Brakeman Dunham mortally injured. In regard to the complaints of the public as to the telegraphic delays, Gen. Eckert pleads the transmission of two million bul- . letins of the President’s condition, the prostration of lines by forest fires, and an increase of fifl per cent, in commercial messages. West. Advices from Arizona to Sept. 19 state that Gen. Carr had left Fort Apache on a scout of fifteen days in the Cibicu valley. He took 200 men, fifty Indian scouts and twenty packers, all rationed for the full term. Gov. Gosper had placed 600 muskets in the hands of regularly-organized minute-men. The cowboys of Cochise county were gathering in force near San Bernardino ranch, declaring ~ their intention to raid the frontier of Mexico. The Mexican Consul at Tucson had sent word to the Mexican forces along the border to be prepared. The schooner Van Valkenburgh foundered off Whitefish bay, Lake Michigan, and all on board except one seaman were lost. Ten men employed in cutting trees and clearing the track of a new railroad line near Multwora fall), Columbia river, in Oregon, got into a small boat to cross the river. The boat swamped and five of the occupants were drowned. Their names were not ascertained. Boutb. Simon Silverman, a merchant at Indian Bay, Tenn., was robbed in the highway of a o A tcry ticket which had drawn 4*15,000. I rom Douglasville, Ga. f a small town twenty miles from Atlanta, come details of a most thrilling fight between a party of young men, during which• William Nottingham was killed by receiving two loads of buckshot in his aide, and two others—Cook and Mitchell—mortally injured. The Southern journals are unanimous in their expressions of profound sorrow at the death of President Garfield. They look on his untimely demise not in the light of a loss to their section so much as in the light of a national calamity. Gen. Peyton Wise, Democrat, and L. L. Lewis, Readjuster, fought a bloodless duel near Warrentou, Va. The rolling-mill at Atlanta, Ga., the only one in that State, which was taken there from Chicago by Lewis Scofield, at a cost of #BOO,OOO, has been destroyed by fire.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Sergt. Mason has addressed an appeal to the public, in which he admits that, in shooting at Guiteau, he did wrong—not because of the injury he intended to inflict on Guiteau, but because he had offended the law of the land. He is yet of opinion that Guiteau ought to haye been killed—in fact, that all assassins aud would-be assassins of the chief ruler of a nation ought to bo killed, and suggests a rather curious way of dispatching them. They shonld, he thinks, be put into a ditch ten feet deep, and all persons who hate assassins should be permitted to throw mud on them, and when the ditch is filled the place over the assassin's body should be covered with brimstone, that no grass might grow thereon. He thinks that it is rather degrading to United States soldiers to place them to guard the life of the worthless scoundrel Guiteau. The District Attorney at Washington holds that Guiteau need not be taken to New Jersey for trial, while his assistant has reached a conclusion directly the reverse. The Assistant Solicitor of the Treasury declares that the assassin can legally be tried and executed in the District of Columbia. In a letter to George 0. Gorham regarding the threats to lynch Guiteau, Gen. Sherman asks every soldier and citizen to remember that we profess to be the most loyal nation on earth to the sacred promises of the law. He admits, however, that shooting or hanging is too good for the assassin. The Warden of the Washington jail visited Guiteau the morning following the death of his victim. The assassin’s first question wa»: “ How is the President ? ’’ Upon being informed that he was dead, the miserable wretch instantly sank down upon his bed and appeared very much agitated. After remaining in this position for a few minutes, he arose and paced the floor, muttering something to himself, as if praying. He then inquired what time he had died, and, after being informed, said he was glad the President had at last been relieved from his sufferings, as he would not have committed the deed if he had known that he was to suffer as he did. Mrs. Garfield, upon the arrival at Washington of the train bearing the remains of her lamented husband, expressed a strong desire not to see the White House again, and she did not visit it while in Washington, but remained at the residence of Attorney General MacVeagh. Since she entered the White House she has passed many days of sorrow, anxiety and sickness, and her objection to going there again is quite natural. A Washington dispatch says that Gui r teau so dreads the vengeance of the people that he has become ill, and the jail physician has put him on sick diet Every time he sees a guard, he inquires if there is any indication of an attack on his cell.

• POUTICAI POINTS. The Supreme Court , r of Minnesota having pronounced the old railroad bonds for $5,000,000 a valid claim against the State, Gov. Pillsbury has decided to convene the Legislature in extra session Oct 10, to mature plans to adjust the debt on the basis of 50 cents on the dollar, in accordance with the proposition of the bondholders. In the special election held in the Second (Lewiston) Congressional district of Maine, to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Mr. Frye to the United States Senate, ex-Gov. Dingley was elected by a large majority. President Arthur took the oath of office before Judge Brady, in New York, at an< early hour on the morning of Tuesday, Sept 2°> Xhe Republican Convention oi Wi*

consin met at Madison and nominated Gen. J. M. Busk for Governor, S. 8. Fifield for Lieutenant Governor, J. Timme for Secretary of State and E. C. McFetridge for Treasurer. In the Massachusetts Republican Convention, all the present State officials were nominated for re-election.

FOREIGN NEWS. At the Methodist Ecumenical, in London, a resolution condemning the opium traffic, with an addendum calling on the Government to deliver the country from the guilt of supporting it, was passed. Upon a suggestion for a missionary conference to ohviate the rivalry and confusion between different Methodist bodies in the work of conversion, Mr. Reid, of America, said he had only been able to find one case of collision of this kind, and it should not go forth to the world that there were dissensions. The Queen of England telegraphed her condolence to Mrs. Garfield in these words: “ Words cannot express the deep sympathy I feel with you. May God support and comfort you, as He alone can. The Queen, Balmoral.” Tho most intense sorrow at the death of President Garfield is expressed by the press throughout all the civilized countries of the world. The Methodist Ecumenical Council closed its session at London with the adoption of ai. address to all the Methodists, which was ret,d by Bishop Peck and signed by the representatives of every Wesleyan body, recommending the views favored at tho various sittings ; calling upon all to co-operate in the work of Christ; to maintain the traditional M* thodist moans for promotion of earnestness, and declaring that a call should go forth for a great spiritual awakening. The meeting of the next Council in America in 18t(7 was authorized. The death of President Garfield wss the occasion of tho most remarkable demonstrations of sympathy ever witnessed in Europe. In England the Queen ordered tho court to go into mourning for a week, a thing unprecedented, and bells were tolled in all tho cities and towns throughout tho island, banks and exchanges were closed, and buildings draped in mourning. In Germany, France, Russia, Austria, Italy, Spain and Belgium, tho newspapers published long obituaries and sympathetic articles on the death of the President, and nearly all civihzed rulers in the world sent warm messages of condolence to the bereaved widow. A dispatch from the City of Mexico says "there is profound sorrow among all classes at the death of President Garfield. Flags wero at half-mast on public buildings. Congress adjourned out of respect to the giief of the sister republic.’’ Ellis Lever, of Manchester, Enland, has suggested to the American Consul, of that city, the establishment of an international college, to be called “The Garfield University,” as a memorial to the late President Gaijield, and offers to contribute £I,OOO toward its erection.