Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. XCmU Mr*- Abraham Lincoln is an inmate of a Turkish and electrio bath establishment in New York. Dr. Bayre finds that she suffers from chronic inflammation of the spinal cord and disease of the kidneys, and that cataract has appeared in both For passing a resolution over the veto of the Mayor after an injunction had been granted by the Circuit Courts fifteen Aidermen of Brooklyn were fined $250 each and sent to jail for terms of from ten to thirty days. Brakeman Melius, who is charged with criminal carelessness in the New York Central disaster, admits that he can neither read no r write. He has been on the road for over a quarter century. Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, dropped dead on the sidewalk at Worcester, from a stroke of apoplexy. The Grand Jury at New Haven reported a true bill for murder in the first degree against Walter E. Malley, James Malley and Blanche Douglass, for killing Jennie E. Cramer, Aug. 5. ■Gov. Cornell made the Spuyten Duyvil disaster the subject of a special message to the Legislature of New York. He pronounces the occurrence an absolutely inexcusable one, and recommends that trains be required to carry appliances for breaking into wrecked cars and extinguishing fires. Katie Manton, a Philadelphia girl of 14 years, died in that city of delirium tremens, after indescribable, suffering. She became a drunkard before her 12th year had been passed, and drank the vile liquor of the slums with all the abandon of an old toper. West Gen. Carr, the gallant officer who was reported to have been massacred with his entire command by Indians at Fort Apache last summer, but whose bravery and ability found a way out of the perilous situation and averted a sickening horror like that of the Custer butchery, is under arrest at Fort Grant, by order of Gen. Wilcox, commanding the Department of Arizona, for trial by court-martial. • The Illinois Supreme Court, in a case against the Board of Education of Quincy, decides that colored children have the right to attend the public schools and receive the benefit of the school fund the same as white children. George Scoville, counsel for Guiteau, the assassin, has begun a suit for hbel against the Chicago Herald, edited by Postmaster Palmer. At Wilmington, Ohio, a child died of what was supposed to be chicken-pox. After the funeral, which was largely attended, fifty cases of virulent small-pox were developed. The six-story building of the American O.i k-Leather Company, at Cincinnati, was swept away by ilames. The structure, grounds and appliances, which were among the best in the Union, cost SBOO,OOO, and business had but recently commenced. The damage is estimated at $175,000. The breaking of a wheel on a passenger train ou the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul railroad caused the smoking and the ladies’ cars to be thrown from the track and down an embankment twenty feet high. The accident occurred three miles from New Albin, Alamakee county, lowa. Twenty-three persona; in all were injured, for the most part not seriously, one child was killed, and three people so badly hurt as to have little chance of recovery. It is stated in a dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, that Gen. Carr was placed under arrest by order of the President. The cause is not definitely ascertained, but it is currently reported on good authority that it was on account of certain facts brought out at the recent trial of the Indian scouts. At Mankato, Minn., the opera house was swept away by fire. Insured for $13,000, which will not nearly cover the loss. H. B. Lockwood, of Chicago, dealer in tea and tobacco, has made an assignment to cover debts of SIOO,OOO. Meyer Bros., wholesale notion dealers of Chicago, were levied upon by their creditors. Liabilities, $175,000$ about equaled by their assets. Fire broke out in Metropolitan and Court House blocks, at Abilene, Kan., and raged furiously for hours. The loss is placed at $85,000, beside a large portion of the public records. In a suit brought by the State of Illinois against the Alton road and the ferry and bridge companies of St. Louis, to break up the pooling arrangements, Judge Zane, of Springfield, decided that the contracts between the companies are contrary to public policy and ordered an injunction against all parties. Judge Dnimmond decided in the United States Circuit Court of Chicago (iti the case of Rawles vs. The Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw railroad, the plaintiff having been iujured while alighting from a train), that a passenger has no claim for damages who attempts to alight from a car until it has actually stopped. South. Caroline Richings-Bernard, the wellknown cantatrice, died at her home in Richmond, Va., of small-pox, after an illness of thirteen days. Two days before she was stricken down, a lady friend told her of the spread of small-pox all over the country, and begged her to be vaccinated, but she declined, as she had no fears of having the disease. The superstitious recall some singular coincidences connected with her illness and death. A few days before she was attacked she celebrated the thirteenth anniversary of her wedding, and at the dinner table on that occasion thirteen people were seated. The superstition which makes the number thirteen an omen of disaster was commented upon at the time and laughed at ft is remarkable that the unfortunate lady died after a sickness of thirteen days, and on the 13th of the month. Mrs. Richings-Bernard was bom in England 49 years ago, and came to this country vhen 1 year old. Hon. Joseph J. Stewart, one of Maryland’s most prominent citizens, is dead: Gregory Sternoni, an Italian merchant of Petersburg, Va., was convicted of receiving stolen tobacco, and sentenced to receive twenty stripes at the public whippingpost

WASHINGTON NOTES. Depredations upon Government tim-ber-lands in the West have increased to such an extent that the Secretary of the Interior has addressed a communication to the Attorney General urging him to use all means in his power to arrest and punish the offenders. Secretary Bhint has cabled Lieut. Danenhauer and Chief Engineer Melville, of the Jeannette, at Irkutsk, to remain on the ground till the remainder of the expedition is found, and to help in the search by every means in their power. It is reported that ex-Attorney General Taft, of Ohio, is to be made Minist r to Berlin, the post last filled by Andrew D. White, of Cornell. The total values of exports of domestic breadstuffs for the twelve months ended Dec. 31, 1881, were $224,118,500. The Oneida Community in New York is like’y to receive attention when the Mormon question is discussed in Congress. Both aro likely to receive a lively turning over. The National Board of Trade was in session at Washington. They urged upon Congress the passage of Reagan’s Inter-State Commerce bill, the suspension of compulsory silver coinage, and the organization of a special tribunal to secure uniformity in and publicity of railway contracts and transactions.

POLITICAL POINTS. State and Congressional Greenback tickets will be put in the field in South Carolina next fall. The Republicans believe it will give them the State. Senator Lamar was elected by both houses of the Mississippi Legislature to be his own successor as United States Senator from Mississippi. In the lowa Legislature, James F. Wilson was chosen Senator for the long term, and Judge McDill for the Kirkwood vacancy, J. A. Emerson, a colored man, appeared before the Treasury Investigating Committee at Washington and testified that while employed m the Treasury Department, in 1880, he was granted two months’ leave of absence and sent South by Secretary Sherman, with instructions to work up delegations in his interest for the Presidency; that Federal patronage was to be used for support wherever available, and was tendered to Powel Clayton in Arkansas. Emerson found the South supporting Grant, and he therefore went to the Chicago Convention as a Grant delegate, for which he was discharged on his return to Washington. In reply to a question by Senator Allison, Emerson said there . must have been 100 treasury employes in the convention Leading stalwarts of New York avow their intention to nom nate ex-Senator Conkling foi Governor next fall.

FOREIGN NEWS. Nathan Davis, the famous English traveler and writer, is dead. So intensely cold has been the weather on the Sahara frontier of Algeria that hundreds of soldiers and camels perished. The President and Secretary and two members of the committee of the Drumcollagher branch of the Ladies’ League have been committed to Limerick prison in default for holding illegal meetings since the Ist of January. The leading church officials of Great Britain are maturing a plan to relieve or remove the homeless Jewish families of Russia. A prominent Israelite of London offers £IO,OOO to start the movement. Bismarck does not relish the reception given to the Emperor’s rescript in England, and there are indications of trouble between him and the Crown Prince. Having considered the cases of the Irish suspects who are members of Parliament the British Cabinet has decided that the leaders of tho Land League have no claim to exceptional treatment. The rising in the Balkan peninsula commenced in Herzegovina aud is extending to the border district. The insurgents overpowered the military posts near Newesinje and released the prisoners. Small encounters are reported near Ragusa, with several killed on each side. The Austro-Hungarian delegations will be asked to vote 4,000,000 florins for precautionary measures. There are fears of a revolution in Egypt. The Anchor line steamship works, at Glasgow, were destroyed by fire. The Italian Minister of War is considering a measure for increasing the army. Vienna dispatches report the insurrection gradually spreading in Southern Herzegovina. The movement is attributed to foreign agitators. The Nihilists who attempted the life of Gen. Tcherevine at St. Petersburg have been sentenced to twenty years in the mines of Siberia. The first appeal from a reduction of rent by the Land Commissioners at Belfast was thrown out by the Court of Appeal, and the tenant gets a material allowance. News of a conspiracy in Nepaul against the British residents has reached London. The plot was discovered at the last moment. Eighty notables were arrested, and twenty-one military officers summarily executed. News has been received of the destruction by fire of the Circus Kremsier at Bucharest The flames spread so rapidly it was with utmost difljoylty any pen QU _jn the

establishment could escape, and when the fire was under control the discovery was made that many men and horses had been burned.