Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. XC**t« The messenger of a Wall street house lost on the pavement a package of bonds valued at SIBO,OOO. The tanning and currying establishment of F. L. White, at Woburn, Mass., was destroyed by fire at a loss of <150,000. The Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon died at Mew Haven, Ct., of heart disease, aged 79 years. He was born in Detroit, Mich., Feb. 19, 1802. At Biddeford, Me., a young man named Moore shot his affianced, Miss Belle Cushman, dead, and then shot himself. The business of New York for the year, as exhibited by the returns of the clear-ing-house, reach the unprecedented total of $49,400,000,000. West* Mayor Carlton, of Port Huron, reports that in the burned district of Michigan winter wheat looks very finely, but for lack of fences is being badly trampled by cattle. The shanties are of green lumber, sixteen by twenty feet Families have a reasonable quantity of bedding and a full supply of clothing. The provisions on hand will last until the middle of January. Sickness is on the increase. Many clergymen have been efficient in attending to the temporal wants of the sufferers. Food for stock will last through January. There is no seed for spring sowing. At least <200,000 is deemed necessary for winter maintenance. Dr. Patterson, a well-known physician ■of St. Paul, Minn., shot and killed himself between the graves of his children. Knowles, Cloyes & Co., wholesale grocers of Chicago, have failed for <325,000 or more, in consequence of a clog in country collections. Their assets are placed at $450,000. Tiiey claim to have done a business of $2,000,rOOO during the year. A fire at Durand, Wis., destroyed -twenty-one buildings, the loss being estimated ■ at $25,000. Dan P. Eells, of Cleveland, announces that the bonds recently stolen from him are again in his possession. It is rumored that he .paid $30,000 for the recovery of his securities. At a meeting of leading citizens of Bismarck, resolutions were adopted favoring a division of Dakota, the southern half to enter the Union as a State. South. Edmund C. Hoffeld, foreman of a plow factory at Louisville, killed his wife as she lay asleep by cutting open the large veins in her arms. Peter Herring and two sons, in crossing the river at look Na 8, Charlestown, W. Ya., were swept over and drowned. Helenwood, a Tennessee mining town, ’ waa the scene of a fanuly row, in which six men were shot, three of whom are dead. Details of a fearful atrocity are received from Ashland, Kv. Two daughters, aged t 4 and 17 respectively, and a son of J. W. Gibbons were left at home at night while their father and mother went out to pay a visit, when the house was entered by unknown fiends, who first outraged the girls, killed their brother as he attempted to give the alarm, clove the skulls of all three with a hatchet, saturated their clothing with oil, and then set the bouse on fire, burning it to the ground. There is ns clew to the perpetrators of the awful crime, but it is to be hoped that the offer of a reward of SI,OOO will lead to their detection. A San Antonio (Texas) dispatch states “that the result of the Flipper court-martial, re■cently held there, will be dismissal from the army. A London firm has purchased from the State of Mississippi 1,300,000 acres of land, mostly located in the Yazoo delta, which will be colonized and cultivated. Mrs. M. T. Coppege was killed at New Orleans while playing with her 4-year-old son. The mother was giving the child instructions in the use of a toy pistol. The child aimed and fired, and the bullet entered rhe woman’s brain. A terrible tragedy occurred at Bellfont, Ala., a small station on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, forty-four miles from Chattanooga, resulting in the fatal shooting of W. D. Martin, his son John and C. M. Fennel. They were the only merchants in the place, and the difficulty originated through jealousy. They used pistols. Joel Johnston, a well-known citizen of Baldwin county, Ala., was shot from behind a tree by a negro as he was returning home. He “was stunned by the shot and fell from his horse, whereupon the assassin shot him twice. Though mortally wounded, Johnson managed 1o crawl to his house and told his brother of the assault. The brother -started out, and in an encounter with the murderer was fatally shot. The murderer also rec jived mortal wounds.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Secretary Kirkwood has issued to the heirs of the famous Paul Jones, Captain in the American navy during the War of Independence, twenty-seven pieces of bounty-land scrip. Postmasters complain that there has been a loss of revenue under the present system of partial prepayment of postage on firstclass matter, and are agitating for the abolition of the practice. Secretary Folger refused to have the department clerks paid for December at Christinas, contrary to the usual custom. He found an express prohibition in the Revised Statutes. Last week there was important progress in the Guiteau trial. It has been abundantly shown by gentlemen of the highest qualifications that, while Guiteau is a man of irregular mind, and possibly so deranged tha* it would have been wise to have secluded bin from society, he still knows the nature and consequences Of homicide, and is responsible for his acts before the laws. By his own confession he is sane now. The public has settled down to the belief that conviction on the charge of murder in the first degree is only a mit ter of time, and interest in the case has visibly decreased. A Christmas manifesto issued by Guiteau, the assassin, is very characteristic of hit bombastic conceit and blasphemy. He pretends to have done his work as Christ and Paul did, to be as patriotic as Washington and Grant, and patronizes “the Deity” to the extent of being “ well satisfied with the Deity’i conduct of this case thus far.” President Arthur wants the salary of his Private Secretary raised to $4,500, and will then add $1,500 from his own pocket. S. P. Rounds, of Chicago, has received assurances direct from the President th«)t ho will be appointed Public Printer. J Col. Corkhill received an express package from Kansas containing a gag for Guiteau’s mouth, mad# from a corn-cob, Scoville /pund

in his mail a miniature gibbet, with Guiteau suspended upon it A letter was received at the DeadLetter Office addressed to “ Mr. Santa Claus, Behind the Moon, Heaven county, Clouds,” and asking for a variety of toys. It came from an lowa postoffice.

POUTICAIL POINTS. A report comes from Washington, said to be based on the authority of a gentleman who has had an interview with the President to the effect that the names of ex-Benator Sargent, of California, and William E. Chand! r, of New Hampshire, have been fully derided upon for the positions, respectively, Of Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of the Navy, The only hitch in this programme that is likely to occur, it is said, is the intense repugnance of Gen. Grant to Chandler, whom he looks upon as the leader of the forces which prevented bis nomination at Chicago, and to whose appointment as a member of the Cabinet he is bitterly opposed. It is said that in diplomatic correspondence shortly to be published there is a certain dispatch sent to our Minister to China (Angell) w hich will probably create some unfavorable comment on ex Secretary Blaine. This dispatch has reference to certain of the differences between China and Japan, in which Gen. Grant had a hand. Mr. Blaine, in his dispatch to Angell, said that Grant was at the time merely a private citizen, traveling for his own pleasure and in his private capacity, and with no more power to represent the Government than any other private ci( izen. Tarble, a Republican, was elected Mayor of Pensacola, Fla., by a majority of 272.

FOREIGN NEWS. The people of San Domingo are greatly exercised over the news that a United States man-of-war will survey Samana bay. A revolution has broken out at Santiago. A revolution was raging in Hayti at last advices The President, Gen, Salomon, met the rebels at St. Marc, defeated them with a loss of 150 killed on both side.i, and then left for reinforcements. Mias Reynolds, a Lady Land Leaguer, who was charged with aiding and abetting a criminal conspiracy to prevent the payment of rent, was ordered by the local justices at Castleton, Limerick, to give bail to keep the peace for six months or to go to jail for one month. She preferred to go to jail. By a collision in Queenstown harbor between a steamer and a bark the latter was sunk and nine of her crow were drowned. Owing to the influence cf an Arab rebel chief, three of the largest tribes in Southern Tunis still hold out against the French. A plot was discovered for assassinating the Czar in Karavanian street, which it was expected he would traverse while he was proceeding from the palace to the Michael Ridingschool on the occasion of the recent fete of St. George. It ia said that nothing could have saved the life of the Czar had he taken the route he was expected to pursue. A ghastly panic horror occurred in the city of Warsaw, in Poland, on Christmas day. While high mass was being celebrated in the Church of the Holy Cross a thief was caught picking pockets, and, in order to make his escape, the wretch cried “ Fire !’’ In the terrible panic that ensued many persons were crushed and mangled, and thirty have died of their injuries. The thief being a Jew’, intense indignation was excited against that race in the neighborhood of the church, and a number of Jewish houses and shops were attacked and gutted by an excited mob, and it became necessary to call out the military to suppress the riot The Dublin Privy Council have determined to make the possession of firearms illegal in that city. The Emperor of Austria will erect, at his own cost, a memorial chapel on the site of the Ring Theater, at Vienna. The Irish suspects imprisoned in Kilmainham jail are hereafter to be furnished one substantial meal each day from the sustentation fund of £9,000. So as to prevent the interference of foreign nations on behalf of the Holy Father the Italian Government are considering the question of giving him more independence. A dispatch from Paris to the New York Herald says that the locality of the wreck of the Jeannette iz 500 miles from the delta of the River Lena, and that from the delta to Yakoutsk is 1,000 miles of desolate country. The emigration from Germany to America during the coining year bids fair to be on an unprecedentedly-large scale. Already 14,000 passage tickets on steamers leaving Bremen have been secured, and an equally-large number haye been secured for vessels leaving Hamburg. Defalcations amounting to millions of rubles have been discovered in th# Custom

House at Taganrog, Russia, and all the officials have been arrested. In reply to an address by English Liberals, Secretary Forster says the state of Ireland will not justify the release of the imprisoned Land Leaguers.