Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1882 — HEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Kwt.’ Edwin W. Stoughton, ex-Minister to Russia, died in New York of Bright’s disease. John Pierpont, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont, died at Vergennes, aged 76 years. The great sugar refinery of the Hon. Theodore A Havemeyer, located in Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire. The loss is stated at •1,500,000, and the insurance at about •900,000. The walls of Rannie & Sears’ buildtog, at Syracuse, which was recently burned, toppled over upon Tracy’s restaurant, killing three persons and injuring nine. The miners in the anthracite coal region are insisting on an advance in wages, and the operators propose to defeat the movement by restricting mining to three days each week up to the 15th of April, West. The reported massacre of a party of Chinese laborers by Apaches on the line of the Southern Pacific railroad in Arizona proves to have been a hoax. It is said the Chinameq employed in grading the railroad are always in sufficient numbers to repel an attack either by Indians or whites. A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, says that American Consul Willard, of Guaymas, Mexico, has received a dispatch from Hermosillo giving an account of a raid by Apaches in the district near Orava, between Bronzes and Trinidad. A. M. Maynard and some sixteen others were among the killed and wounded. The house of Joseph Posey was burned near Knife Falls, Minn., and Posey and two of his children perished in the flames. The lumbermen of the Upper Mississippi report themselves able to secure threefourths as many logs as in previous seasons. One of the party of seven Indians who murdered L. D. Perkins and wife in Washington Territory was hanged at Yakima. Three have been executed and three others were shot while resisting arrest South. The Exposition building at Atlanta was sold for •200,000, and will be metamorphosed into a cotton factory. Peter Mankins, who had been a Democrat and a Baptist for 111 years and a fraction, closed his career in Washington county, Ark., last week. In consideration of a grant of 3,000,000 acres of land, a Rock Island firm has con-' tracted to erect a capitol for the State of TexasThe building is to be 366 feet high, 566 long and 285 in depth, the seventh highest building in the world, and the second in the United States. J. T. Lloyd, famous as a New York map publisher, has been arrested at Nashville, Tenn., and is now in jail under a true bill for obtaining money fraudulently.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The National Board of Health receives word of the continuous spread of the small-pox. It is proposed tbat all Postmasters and Government employes be vaccinated. The addresses of all proprietors of bovine-vu-us farms are asked for. The star-route sureties were before the Police Court at Washington, aud gave bail, excepting Barringer, Hoyt and Donohoe, who were committed to jail in default of bonds. Boone was released on $15,000 bail, and the others on $2,000 each. The war against* polygamy will be waged with great energy in Congress this winter. The Government printers are endeavoring to inaugurate a movement to secure an increase of pay. The House Committee on Appropriations has authorized Chairman Hiscock to report an item of $540,000 to cover the deficiency in the census funds.

POLITICAL POINTS. It is stated that George H. Pendleton is formally in the field as the civil-service-reform candidate for 1884. The movement to curtail the power of the Speaker is growing to strength. Republican members of the House, who are dissatisfied with the organization of the committees, now recognize Orth as their leader. Mr. Orth will introduce a resolution transferring the power of committee appointments to the House. Prominent Southern Republicans are bringing strong pressure to bear upon the President to have Secretary Hunt, of the Navy, retained in that position. In the Republican caucus of the lowa Legislature, on the 10th tost., James F. Wilson was nominated United States Senator for the long term, and J. W. McDill for the Kirkwood vacancy. The Committee on Ways and Menna

fn the national House of Representatives have decided to refer all tariff measures to a subcommittee, to be appointed by Chairman Kelley. The House Committee on Commerce has decided to hear no delegation except through members of Congress. One exception is made to case of the Mississippi Commission. ’ A delegation of Louisiana Republicans called on the President last week, to ask the appointment of Pinchback, the colored exGovernor, to the Collectorship of New Orleans. A Washington dispatch says there is excellent reason to predict that the President will make no more Cabinet nominations this winter. The delay is expected to prove fatal to the aspirations of ex-Benator Sargent The Republican bolters of Pennsylvania held a conference at Philadelphia and resolved to nominate an anti-Cameron State ticket on May 24. Secretary Folger has called in $20,000,000 in extended bonds, on which interest will cease March 13. FOREIGN NEWS. In consequence of a recent warning, the tomb of Napoleon at Chiseihurst will be connected with the priest’s house by an electric wire. The Khedive of Egypt has been notified that England and France, which placed Rim on the throne, are determined to maintain his authority against any attempts to create disorder. Intelligence from Accra confirms the report from Cape Coast Castle, in November last, of the massacre of 200 young girls by order of the King of Ashantee. The girls were purposely captured for massacre in raids on the neighboring tribes. A St. Petersburg dispatch states that Admiral Saulkowsky, who sailed in the Russian man-of-war Chasseur in search of the Jeannette, has informed his Government that he had been in company with the Rodgers, search vessel, which he left Aug. to Irkutsk, and that the Rodgers bad sailed for Herald island, having heard that one of the Jeannette’s boats (containing corpses) had been cast ashore there. A Berlin paper which designated the Emperor's rescript as a coup d’etat has been seized by the police. A Belfast dispatch: The largest steel sailing ship afloat, registering 2,220 tons, has just been launched for Ismay, Imrie & Co., managers of the White Star line. It is named the “ Garfield,” and will be employed in the Australia and California trades. An earthquake in the district of Kanchow, Chim, caused the loss of 250 fives. Parnell and Dillon have written to the Town Clerk of Dublin thanking the corporation for the “ freedom ” conferred by them. The Czar has ordered a reduction of twelve million rubles per year in the payments to be made by peasants on lands which they received at the time of . their emancipation. The Emergency Committee dispatched a messenger by mail train from Dublin with a bag of writs to be delivered at police stations in Westmeath, Galway, Roscommon and Mayo. While the train was traveling at a rapid speed a gang attacked the messenger in the railway carriage, seized the bag, and destroyed the writs. The census of Paris gives the population as 2,225,900, against 1,948,800 in 1876. The Sultan has commissioned a numoer of German officers to reorganize his force of gendarmes. Germany has demanded of Holland facilities for the navigation of the Rhine and the protection of German fisheries. In Ireland large forces of the military arc employed to protect Sheriff’s sales and writ servers. The dead bodies of a process server and his nephew were found chained together in Lough Mask.