Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Eut> Two infernal machines, rddressed to William H. Vanderbilt and Cjnu W. Field, were mailed at a branch postoffice in New York. One of them took fire in a mail pouch; the other was opened after being soaked in water for half a day. They consisted of two pasteboard boxes, each inclosing a tin canister containing half a pound of powder and a glass bulb which would be broken upon the opening of the boxes, precipitating into the powder an explosive compound. The senders were evidently Communists. A similar machine was taken to police headquarters by Mr. J. A. Davenport, residing in EaHt Nineteenth street Superintendent Walling lives but a few doors distant, and, as the box was marked “ W.” and left on a door-mat, it is thought that the attempt was directed against the police chieftain. Prof. Doremus made a thorough examination of the boxes and found that each canister contained one pound of gun cotton, and that the liquid in the bulb was sulphuric acid. A committee of the Garfield Club of New York sent to Washington a petition for the pardon of Sergeant Mason, containing 175,000 signatures. The will of the late Sarah Burr, of Now York, bequeathing $3,400,000 to charities, is to be contested. Near the grave of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the cemetery at Concord now rest the ashes of the third and last of America’s greatest literary lights—the mortal remains of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which were interred with a simple solemnity and lack of ostentation peculiarly befitting the occasion. At the house the services were conducted by the Rev. W. H. Furness; at the Unitarian Church Judgo E. Rock wood Hoar and the Rev. James Freeman Clarke delivered addresses ; and at the grave tho burial service was read by the Rev. Dr. Haskins, an Episcopalian clergyman. There were present Oliver Wendell Holmes, George William Curtis, Gen. N. P. Banks, President Eliot, and many others of eminence in the higher walks of life. The intentions of the late Henry W. Longfellow regarding the disposition of his estate will be to a considerable extent frustrated by the decision ot the Probate Court to the effect that the erasures which occur are to be considered no part of the will, and that the interlineations are of no effect. This view is based upon the principle that the man who makes a will can ODly alter it by a codicil. Prof. Doremus, of New York, finds that the gun-cotton sent to W. H. Vanderbilt and Cyrus W. Field was the toughest kind and of foreign manufacture. A negro at a Pittsburgh boarding house put poison in the bread. Nine persons were poisoned, of whom one or two may not survive.

Gen. Grant and W. H. Vanderbilt officiated as time-keepers for Frank Work, at the Gentlemen’s Driving Park in New York, where Edward and Dick Bwiveller, hitched to a road-wagon, made a half-mile in 1:09% and a mile in 2:23% Went. A negro named Frank Fisher brutally outraged a young girl, for which he was arrested and jailed at Gabon, Ohio. The locomotives whistled and the fire-bells rang, when over two thousand people rushed to the jail and broke it open. Tho negroes joined in the mob, and one of them broke open the oelL Fisher was dragged out and taken to the bedside of his victim, Barbara Rettig, who recognized him. A crowd of four thousand then took him to the scene of the crime, gave him time to pray, and hanged him. He declared his innocence to the last.

One hundred sacks of new wheat from Arkansas, the first received this year, sold on the call board at Bt. Louis at $4.50 per bushel. Three cattle-thieves were killed on the Uto reservation, by Sheriff Bowman, of Gunnison county, Colorado, and Deputy Sheriff Brink, of Utah, and their posse. In a fight with another gang a few hours afterward both Sheriffs lost their lives. Denver took a holiday and laid the corner-stone of the National Exposition building, in which ceremony several thousand persons participated. The Secretary of the Ohio Board of Agriculture reports a damage of 10 per cent to the wheat of southern Ohio by frost The report of the Chicag®, Milwaukee and St. Paul road for 1881 shows gross earnings of $17,025,461 and expenses of $10,317,931. It owns 4,217 miles of track, and has bonds and stock outstanding in excess of $114,000,000. A farmer’s wagon drove up to the gates of the lowa penitentiary, the other day, with Polk Wells and Charles Cook, under strong guard. They were found in a bam five miles away by John Stenger and son, and were soon forced to surrender at the muzzle of a shotgun. A reward of $250 was paid to the Stengel's. The prison birds have been indicted for the murder of John Elder, the guard. The annual meeting of the Michigan Central Railroad Company was held at Detroit. Tho not eamiDgs for the yoar were $2,068,390. 37, as against $3,212,623.95 for 1880. Dynamite was exploded in the saloon of Con Sweeney, at Cedarville, Ohio, throwing the entire family out of bed and blowing out one end of the building. An attempt was made to blow up Coldwell’s drugstore, but the charge failed to explode. The of trouble in Wyoming Territory by the Snake and Bannock Indians are considered by the Washington authorities as much more serious than the Arizona troubles. The Snakes and Bannocks are about 2,000 strong, and very shrewd, hard fighters. Chicago Inter Ocean : All reports about the fruit crop being seriously damaged by the late frosts in Central Illinois are gammon. The prospects for a large crop were never better. Two-thirds of the peach crop and other small fruits were destroyed by the recent frosts in the Michigan fruit belt.

South. The casualties by the steamboat explosion on the Wateree river, in South Carolina, foot up eleven killed or fatally injured. A whole family, consisting of four grown sisters, was exterminated by the accident An attache of a weekly journal in New Orleans was called to account by the son of Attorney General Egan for an abusive article. Bhots were exchanged in St Bernard parish, without effect. Hon. Horace Maynard dropped dead of heart disease at Knoxville, Tenn. He was born in Massachusetts,.but went to Tennessee after graduating at Amherst He was eight times elected to Congress, and served as Minister to Turkey and Postmaster General. Daring the war he was exiled from bis home, and suffered great loss of property. WASHINGTON NOTES. Attorney General Brewster has given

decision that, where mail contractors fail to trips by reason of floods or any cause, tho price of the trip most be deducted from the pay. The popular subscriptions for Betty and the baby reached $3,000, and Mrs. Mason has returned to her home in Virginia. Ths verdict of SIOO,OOO awarded to HaUett Rilbourne against Borgeant-at-Arms Thompson has been set-aside by Judge McArthur, on the ground of excessive da - ages. Following is a statement of the ■' üblio debt at the close of business April 31. Extended 6’s $ 89,193,160 Extended s’s 401,605,900 Four and ono-nai: per oent. bond* 250,000,000 Four per cents 738,854,800 Befunding certificates 493.000 Navy pension fund -. K,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt $1,494,044,859 Matured debt 3 13,714,845 Legal tenders 846,740,826 Certificates of deposit... 11,115,000 Gold and silver certificates 72.853,480 Fractional currency 7,057,807 Total without interest. 437,767,113 Total debt $1,915,526,809 Total Interest.• ..... 11,h98,070 Cash in treasury 245,574,58) Debt less cash In treasury... ~... ..$1,711,851,5 ; 8 Decrease during April 14.415.823 Decrease since June 30, 1881 128,748,2 3 Current liabilities— Interest duo and unpaid 9 2,244,926 Debt on which interest has ceased 13,714,815 Interest thereon 614,478 Gold and silver certificates 72,853,480 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 11,115,000 Cash balance available May 1, 145,031.850 Total 245,574,580 Available assets— Cash in treasury $ 245,574,680 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding : $ 64,623.513 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,292,470 Interest paid by United States. 63,405,977 Interest repaid by companies— Bv transportation service 15,090,048 By casn payments of 5 per cent, ol net earnings 655,198.00 Balance of Interest paid by tho United States 37,654,729 Secretary Folger has issued a call for the remaining 6 per cents of 1881, amounting to $11,200. At the Cabinet council, the other day, it was decided that the President should issue a proclamation to the Arizona cow-boys to disperse, and use the troops to enforce the order. The following is the statement of the Comptroller of Currency showing the amounts of national-bank notes and legal-tender notes outstanding at the dates of the passage of the acts of Juno 20, 1874, Jan. 14, 1875, and May 31, 1878, together with the amounts outstanding added and the increase or decrease: NATIONAL-HANK NOTES. Amount out-t lifting .Tune 20, 1874 $349,894,182 Amount outstanding Jan. 14, 1875 351,861,450 Amount cutstaufling May 31,1878....... 322,555,965 Amount out-lauding at date (circulation of national gold bunks not included, $997,979) 3G0,182,320 Decrease during the last month 521,648 Increiuesince May I,IBSI \.. 8,660,978 L' GAL-1 ENDEn NOT SB. Amount outstanding June 20, 1874 $382,000,000 Amount outstanding Jan. 14, 1875 382,000,000 Amount retired under act of Jail. 14, 1875, to May 31, 1878 35,318,984 Aniom t outstanding on and since May Amount on deposit with the Treasurer of the United States to redeem notes of insolvent and liquidating banks and retiring from circulation under act of June 20, 1874 32,930,054 Increase in deposit during the last month 2,966,818 Decrease in deposit since May 1, 1881.... 3,025,022

POLITICAL POINTS. The Georgia Republicans, in State Convention at Macon, resolved to support the Independent movement. At the city election in St. Paul, in almost every instance, the best men won, regardless of party lines. It was voted to issue $200,000 in bonds for a new bridge and $250,000 for a public building. The Independent Republican leaders of Pennsylvania have issued a call for a State Convention on May 24, to name a complete ticket Another statement in regard to the Morey letter comes from New York. Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, who was charged with conniving at the forgery, has, it is said, partially succeeded in clearing np the mystery. It appears that the ringleader in the conspiracy was H. H. Hadley, a prominent officer of the Haneoek Republican Club of New York, and organization that embraced within its membership a number of Republican politicians who foolishly jumped into the Democratic ranks at a time

when they imagined that Hancock would be elected. Hadley hfcgjold the story of his connection with the forgery. While the details of the statement are suppressed, it is known that Hadley and his assoaiates palmed off the letter as an original document upon the Democratic National Committee.

FOREIGN NEWS. A Vienna paper reports fresh outrages on the Jews in E&msiense, Podolsk and Walkowisch, in Russia. It says that, in spite of orders from St. Petersburg for the prompt punishment of the persecutors, several notorious offenders have been released from custody. Previous to his execution Dr. Lamson confessed his mime and acknowledged the justice of his sentence. It its announced that the English Cabinet has decided to take steps to release all suspects except those personally concerned in outrages. Gladstone in effect confesses that he has “ exhausted the resources of civilization” in vain efforts to force the Irish “to behave themselves ” and pay up the famine rent arrearages. He has thrown 700 of the LandLeague leaders into prison on suspicion of hostility to the Irish land system; but this has not pacified the 5,000,000 still oat of jail. On the contrary, it has exasperated them still more. Gladstone is about to drop the coercion busi ness as a failure and try conciliation. He concludes that he can catch more Irish wasps with molasses than with vinegar. The American Consul at Dublin vis - ited Brophy in Naas jail, and tendered him £4O to leave the country. The snspect replied that he would accept only an unconditional release. In the British House of Commons the President of tho Board of Trade stated that the Government would stop work on the Channel tunnel until further action had been taken by Parliament.

Mr. Gladstone’s announcement of the release of Parnell, Dillon and O’Kelly, of the abandonment of tho Coercion act, and of the introduction of measures remedying the administration of justice in Ireland has brought joy to the Land Leaguers and consternation to the ranks of the Tory landlords and the Liberal opponents of any such concessions to the Home Rulers. The statement in Parliament of these important measures of policy was accompanied by information of the resignation of Forster, as Chief Secretary of Ireland. The news of the release of the Land Leaguers was quickly transmitted through Ireland, and soon fires were blazing on Wicklow hills. There were spontaneous rejoicings everywhere. At Limerick many people danced with joy, shouting, “Forster is gone; God save Ireland.” Bands paraded at Waterford. Illuminations were general. Five suspects were unconditionally released from Naas jail. African dispatches report a battle between natives of New Calabar and followers of Oko Jumbo, in which 2,000 persons were slaughtered. France is at war with Anam, and has bombarded and taken the city of Hanoy. The Polish Jews want to emigrate to Palestine. The exodus of Jews from all parts of Russia has commenced, bringing about great eonfusion in the foreign com trade, which was almost exclusively in their hands. Lieut. Danenhower was received by the Emperor and Empress at St. Petersburg Subsequently he visited Alexis, the Minister of Marine, and Gen. Ignatieff. The andience with Alexis lasted three-quarters of an hour. The Grand Duke begged to be remembered to all his friends in America. Secretary Forster explained to the House of Commons that he resigned because he could not agree to the unconditional release of the suspects. The Coercion act, he said, had broken np the Land League or put it under petticoats, but he feared the work would be undone by opening the prison doors. Parnell, if let alone, would have become the uncrowned King of Ireland. Lord Frederick Cavendish, the successor of Forster as Chief Secretary for Ireland, is a Whig and the son of a Ducal landlord who owns 193,000 acres. The choice is extremely distasteful to the Irish. In the House of Commons, on the 4th inst., Harcourt, Home Secretary, announced that the Government had determined to release Michael Davitt from prison. Replying to a question by Mr. Joseph Cowen, the Home Secretary said Michael Davitt had been released for the same reasons as those for which the « suspects ” had been released. No conditions were attached to his release except those attached to his previous liberation. Lient. Danenhower thinks that Lieut. De Long’s party all perished, and that Chipp's boat never got to land.