Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMA ; \ JDant. In Syracuse, N. Y., William Tedre visited a bagnio and shot two inmates, one fatally, and then killed himself. Aunt Judy Powell, colored, died in Pittsburgh at the alleged age of 113 ycMrs. She remembered leading events of the Revolutionary war, and saw (Sen. - Washington list ' after the Yorktown surrender. The citizens of Greenwood, Steuben county, New York, resisted the sale of property to pay interest on railroad bonds, and Gov. Cornell declared the township in a state of insurrection, and warned the people to -desist from unlawful acts. - Boston has made a contract for lighting part of the city by electric-lamps. John E. McDonough, the actor, died of starvation in Philadelphia, cancer in his throat making him unable to take nourishment The Coroner of New York demanded bail in the sum of $5,000 from Orlando B. Potter, owner cf the old World building, pend* ing his indictment for maintaining a mantrap, and refusing to make it safe after being warned. Enos Sylvester, of Providence, R. L, had an “inspiration” which told him to offer up his 6-year-old boy as a burnt-offering t 6 the Lord. Neighbors interfered in time to prevent the consummation of the sacrifice, and Sylvester will go to. the asylum. Joseph E. Sheffield, who died in New Haven last week, went to Chicago in 1850 and caused the building of the, railroad to Rock Island. He has given for educational purposes no less than $600,000, one of his good works being the scientific school attached to Yale College. He leaves to a widow and six children an estate valued at $2,000,000. Went. Three outlaws in New Mexico have for some time been robbing and wounding travelers at a point 136 miles west of Albuquerque, known as Crane’s. A Deputy Sheriff led a party of citizens to the cabin of the jobbers, and a bloody encounter followed. The villains were shot dead, but one of the attacking party was killed and two others so seriously wounded that they were sent to. Port Wingate,, by special train for surgical treatment. Only one store was spared from < conflagration at Robinson, Kan., tfie loss being estimated at $75,000. Four quarts of strawberries from Florida arrived in Chicago, and found purchasers at $2 per quart. In Chicago a confidence operator named Thomas Ward, who had a heavy beard and mustache wheu arrested, succeeded in pulling out the latter, hilir by hair, and would have made way with every trace of his whiskers had his hands not been ironed behind his back. South. William Mcßae, who ranked high among Southern railway managers, died at Augusta, Ga. An opinion of the Supreme Court of Tennessee declares invalid and unconstitutional the act of April, 1881, to compromise thebonded indebtedness of that State at par and 8-per-cent interest, the coupons receivable for taxes. A number of cotton brokers of New Orleans, who had been operating, in futures, have gone to the wall. * > ■ Robert Ayres, a retired merchant of Louisville, who died the other fiay, was one of the four men in jdfferaoU coUntv who voted for Abraham Lincoln for President in 1860. The Legislature of Virginia has. passed a aw by which commonwealth attorneys'may equire seconds in a duel to testify, whieh service shall exempt them from prosecution. A gang of workmen were sent into the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel at Baltimore to repair the track. They had proceeded but a few yards when they heard the distant rumbling of an approaching train. Hardly had they caught the sound of the one train approaching when the glare of a locomotive headlight was seen in the opposite' direction. The next instant the two trains came thundering along. Terror-stricken and confused, the unfortunate men jumped from one track to the other only to step into the yawning jaws of death. Several of them had the presence of mind to crouch up against the walls of the tuuncl, a couple of feet outside the track, and thus made their escape, but five of their companions were struck by the locomotives, buried forward on the tracks and their bodies then torn and mutilated by, the wheels of the cars. Two of the poor fellows had their heads sev ered from their bodies, and legs and arms were scattered for fifty yards along the tracks. The Riddleburger bill for the readjustment of Virginia’s debt has received the sanction of the Governor, and is now’a law. Bishop W. M. Wightman, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, died at Charleston. The oyster war has again broken out on the Lower Rappahannock, in Virginia. A fire in Louisyille, J£y., originating in the candy factory of William Ehrrijfm A Co., destroyed stock valued at $75,000, damaged W. H, McKnight's carpet stock $15,000.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Mr. A M. Soteido, who was" shot in the melee at the National Republican office, Washington, died after lingering fpr Iwo days. Clarence Barton, the editor of the- Republican, who was attacked by the Sbteldo Jj? fibers, is improving and will get well. Tbp |« apt facts regarding the afftfir do not Beehito be fully ascertained, and win probably not be developed until the trial of the younger Soteido, who is in jaiL ~ ■ Army circles are reportedexcited and annoyed over the ktteiApt tfrTOT&rt&en. Rucker, who has attained his 72d year, iutp the position from which Gen. Meigs was forced to retire on the ground that he had parsed the Rubicon of 62. The Postmaster General hasiiddressed a letter to the? Postmasters jQiroughput tUo country, asking them to respond to the appeal of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, and solicit contributions for a monument to Garfield at Washington. Fitz John Porter had a Jong interview with President Arthur the <ghy,.dayr and invited him to as careful a pemeg 'of the records as Geh. Grant made before declaring his belief in Porter’s innocence. The treasury; has fed to the resignation, of a clerk in tlie Lighthouse Board, and Skeen, foreman of the laborers in the Treasury Department* and the removal of Hatch, the Storekeeper. Mr. Allison, Chairman, of the Senate Committee on Appropriations/hA**a letter from the President of tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in which (respouAlhK to inquiry on the subject) he says; “Our.fjJtJUl panyhaduot then, nor have they now, any

intention to make a claim for compensation for the courtesies extended to the late President . apd his family or to the Government We felt ,itto be not only a duty, but a pleasure, to do what we could to insure the comfort and aid in restoring the health of President Garfield.” The Coroner’s jury find that Soteldo came to his death by a shot from bis brother’s pistoL The Preeideut-haa quashed the charges made by Gen. Wilcox against Gen. Carr, who has accordingly been released from arrt«t. 1 A band of colored jubilee singers were denied admission to every hotel in Washington. The President gave a state dinner last week to the members of the corps diplomatique and their wives.

POLITICAL POINTS. In response to an invitation for a conference of members of the House opposed to the Tariff Commission bill and to the extension of national-bank charters about forty Congressmen, principally Southern Democrats and Greenbackers, assembled one evening last week, Judge Reagan presiding. Resolutions were adopted looking to the presentation of bills in opposition to the pending measures which have been reported from the Ways and Means and Banking and Currency Committees on these subjects. The long dead-lock in the New York Legislature was broken by the Tammany Democrats and Republicans combining against the Tilden Democrats. A resolution was introduced in the Virginia Legislature requesting Senator Matone to go to Washington and mind his own business, leaving the State legislators to attend to State matters. The Legislative Assembly of Utah has adopted a concurrent resolution appealing to Congress to reflect seriously before passing either of the anti-polygamy bills, and asking tbe appointment of a Congressional committee of inquiry to visit the Territory. The demand for office at Washington is more eager than ever before.

FOREIGN NEWS. The explosions in the Rhondda valley mine in Wales caused the loss of six lives. Marquis de Jocas who introduced American vinos into France, had invested 600,000 francs in shares of the Union Generale, and its loss drove him to suicide. The massacre of a Jewish family of three persons is the latest Russian atrocity. Mr. Lloyd, temporary Magistrate of County Clare, and brother of . Mr. Clifford Lloyd, Special Magistrate for the counties of Clare and Limerick, was fired at from behind a wall near Bodyke. He escaped unhurt, but a policeman with him was severely wounded. Several arrests have been made of persons suspected. It is reported that the coronation of the Czar has been postponed until September. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has adopted the system of scrutin de liste which was proposed by the Government Five baronies of the County Roscommon and twelve in the County Waterford have been proclaimed by the Irish executive. The Pope has issued a letter to the Bishops instructing them to incite the people to uphold his temporal independence. Austria will enact a new and high protective tariff against all nations which do not favor her equally with the most favored. The Prussian Commission has adopted the bill depriving the state of the power to administer church affairs in vacant Catholic parishes. The Egyptian Ministry have decided npon the total abolition of slavery. Kader Pasha has been appointed Governor of the Soudan, and will take measures to suppress the slave trade in that province.