Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1882 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. XCast. A collision between two freight trains on the Pennsylvania road, at Christiana, Pa. killed three persona and destroyed $200,000 worth of property. The deaths are announced at Philadelphia of Lieut. Col. W. B. Price, Sixth United States Cavalry, and Col. H. 8. McComb, the well-known railway builder. Special precautions were taken to guard President Arthur against the attacks of “cranks" or evil-disposed persons during the time ho spent at his house in Lexington avenue. A special policeman constantly watched the house. J. Winslow Jones & Co., corn and lobster packers in Maine and Canada, have suspended payment, with liabilities of $182,000. West. Advices from Postmasters in all sections of the country, received at the Postoffice Department in Washington, show an alarming increase of small-pox in the Northwest. The disease is spreading rapidly, and several postoflicos have been ordered closed in consequenoe. Four cow-boys attempted to raid the town of Trinidad, Col. They fired upon Marshal Kroger, who shot down one, named Brown, and captured another. George 8. Reed, of San Francisco, who became deranged by too close attention io business, killed his mother-in-law, Sarah A. Smith, fatally wounded his young daughter, an'd then took his own life. John H. Russell, who murdered John T. Smarr, a few weeks ago, at Kansas City, died in jail from the effects of morphine, provided by some visitor. Edward F. Ryan, Michael Ryan and Bichard Adkins, employed in a tunnel near Silverton, Col., were buried 100 feet deep in a snow-slide. W. E. Graham, who murdered and cremated Philip Eglery at Venango, Kan., was hanged by a mob in front of the Court House door at Ellsworth. At Louisiana, Mo., John M. Shaw, one of Bill Anderson’s guerrillas, was shot dead by his brother in a quarrel over the division of their father’s property. The full bench of the Supreme Court of Kansas, in passing upon an agreed case, has made a decision whicli will invalidate nearly all the laws passed by the Legislature of that State in 1877 and 1879. The ground of the decision was that the act was passed with the aid of the votes of four members who were not legally elected. Among the laws thus made void is the prohibition constitutional amendment. Small-pox of an violent typo is prevailing to an alarming extent in the city and suburbs of St. Louis. South. Eson Bolin, a carpenter residing at Bogers, Ark., was shot dead in bed by his wife. She claimed that ho had killed two men, was a horse-thief,|and had twice threatened her life. A negro who confessed to the murder of two clerks, while sleeping in a country store, was lynched by a mob at Southampton, Va. The perpetrators of the recent terrible tragedy at Ashland, Ky., have been arrested, and they have made a full confession. Their names are William Neal, Eilis Craft and (ieorgc Ellis, all white. The strangest part of the" story is that all three of the men were present at the burning of the house, which they had set on fire to conceal their crime; that one of them drove the hearse at the funeral of the three victims, and another acted as pallbearer. A frightful tragedy was lately enacted near Minden, La. Bobert Lewis, son of the late Judge Langdon Lewis, and brother of Will 8. Lewis, shot Mrs. Will 8. Lewis and her Bister, Mrs. Thompson, both severely, and then killed himself. The cause of the tragedy is ■ unknown. Three brothers named McDonald, confined in jail at Graham, Texas, for the murder of one Martin, made a break for freedom, which resulted in a very extensive and sensational tragedy. They killed one jailer and took another one with them as a hostage, but were pursued by a, body of 200 citizens, and in the fight that followed all three of the McDonalds were left dead on the field, and several citizens were wounded. Eleven Chinese laborers working on the track of the Southern Pacific railroad, near El Paso, Texas, were massacred, it is said, by the Apaches, but it is hinted that white laborers bad a hand in it. Tho murderers of the Gibbons family, of Ashland, Ky., were to have been arraigned for examination at Catlettsburg. As nearly 2,000 citizens had assembled, Judge Brown had tho prisoners' placed on board the steamer Mountain Boy for transfer to Maysville. On learning of this action, a mob captured the steamer Mountain Girl and started in pursuit, which was abandoned near Portsmouth, and the prisoners were safely lodged in jail at Maysville.

POLITICAL POINTS. The prediction is entered that in conridering the question of reapportionment the [louse wfil agree upon 819 or 838 members.

The Hampton element of the South Carolina Democracy has selected CoL Theodore G. Barifcr for Governor and CoL John Haskell for Attorney GeneraL

WASHINGTON NOTES. President Arthur is known to have expressed himself very decidedly on the Mormon question, and it is claimed that he will do all in his power to remove this blot from the fame of the republic during his administration. Grant's change of front in the case cf Fitz John Porter causes great surprise at Washington, where the former once declared at a dinner-table that Porter should have been shot The following is the public debt statement for December: Six per cent. bonds, extendeds 149,082,900 Five per cents, extended 401,503,930 Four and one-half per cent, bonds 2.W,OOOJXM) Four nor cent bonds 738,772,551 Iti funding certificates 575.250 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt51,551,534,6'10 Matured debt 11,528,205 Legal tenderss 346,740,930 • Certtflcatea of deposit ... 9,590,000 Gold and silver certificates 73,803,850 Fractional currency 2,075,920 Total without interest. 437,270,212 Total debt 52,003,333,078 Total interest 15,536,619 Cash in treasury 253,377,980 Debt less cash In trea5ury51,765,491,717 Decrease during December. 12,793,623 Decrease since Jn:io 30, 1881 75,107,0'94 Current liabilities— Interest duo and unpaids 1,311,845 I>ebt on which lulereat has ceased 11,528,265 Interest thereon 714,985 Gold and silver certificates 73,863,350 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 9,590,000 Cash balance available Jan. 3 156,369,531 Totals 253,377,080 Available assets— Cash in treasurys 253,377,980 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding| 64,623.512 Interest accrued and not j * paid 1,935,705 Interest paid by United State# 51,467,272 Interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid Dy transportation of mails By cash payments of o per cent, ot not 14,707,836 earnings 655,198 Balance of Interest paid by the United States 36,104,186 Postmaster General James, in closing his connection with the department, exprcssocs the belief that it will bo self-sustaining this year. During his term of office a net reduction of $1,439,163 wt.s made in the star service. Chloe Ann Violet, of Washington, died tho other day, having fasted forty-three days under the supposed direction of the Almighty.

FOREIGN NEWS. One coasting steamer and two steamers engaged in the Mediterranean trade are finally given up as lost during the November gales. Tho lot's of life is 110. The Khedive of Egypt has forwarded S4OO to tho fund for the erection of a Garfield hospital at Washington, and promises to send SI,OOO more. A big financial smash-up is announced from St. Petersburg. The Grand Society of Bail ways is declared to be insolvent, and, in addition, is charged with having misappropriated 25,000,000 rubles of Government money. An imperial court of inquiry will look into the matter. Twelve Jews were killed and sixtythree wounded in the recent riots at Warsaw. Mormonism is not popular in London. Two missionaries of that faith were mobbed while attempting to hold a meeting in the suburbs of tho great city, and were forced to seek refugo at police headquarters. At last the Land Leaguers of Dublin have carried their point. Immediately after tho installation of the new Lord Mayor the corporation, by a vote of 29 to 23, conferred the freedom of the city upon Parnell and Dillon. The death is announced of William Harrison Ainsworth, an English novelist whoso works were widely read in the circulating libraries of America and England. He was born in Lancashire in 1805. Irish constabulary seized at Kilrush a box containing twenty rifles and bayonets and 500 rounds of ammunition. A strong agitation is going on throughout Russia in favor of levying a heavy export duty on grain. The Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen, France, has published a letter in which he advises the Italian nation to choose another capital, and leave Bome to the Holy Father.