Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Xaat. The Assembly of New York has passed a bill wiping away all restrictions imposed upon sayings banks in baying securities. The engineers of the Hudson fiver tunnel have made a success in boring from the New York side. The work is expected to cost ♦5,000,000, and to require five years yet The Longfellow Memorial Association, of Boston, have issued a circular asking for contributions of $ 1 each for the purpose of permanently preserving the residence of the poet and erecting an enduring memorial to his fame on the grounds of his residence. Jame3.Vick, the famous seedsman, of Rochester, who was a playmate of Charles Pickens and set type beside Horace Greeley, died a few days ago of pneumonia. The steamship Rio Grande, with a valuable cargo of cotton, arrived at Delaware breakwater on fire. Loss, $370,000. The Assembly of New York has passed a bill permitting call loans to be made at any rate on which borrower and lender ean agree.

West A tornado swept away the little town of Mill Spring, in the Indian Territory. Only one bouse was left standing. Three persons wero killed and seven injured more or less severely. Ferris, of San Francisco, who claims to have been recognized by three persons in that city as Sir Roger Tichborne, is making preparations to visit England. At Minneapolis, Minn., a student named Paine, who was out “on a lark,” was pursued by one of the professors. Paine having aimed a revolver at his pursuer, the latter promptly returned the compliment by shooting Paine in the leg. Dave Sharp, a gambler, was arrested at Caldwell, Kan., for opening the grave of George Woods and taking from the corpse a diamond pin valued at $250. Isaac Gardner and his three daughters were drowned while attempting to ford the Tuscarawas river at Newcomerstown, Ohio. Gardner drove his wagon into the water against the protests of a number of his neighbors. A report has reached Little Rock, Ark., from the Cherokee Nation that Capt. Payne and his company of Oklahoma invaders had been captured by the United Btates authorities. The cattle round-ups in Wyoming are progressing rapidly, and an immense nnmber of beeves will soon be thrown upon the market. When twelve miles out of Sandusky, Ohio, and . engaged in a' race with the Jay Cooke, (he American Eagle exploded her boiler, killing the fireman, F. Bittle, and two deckhands, and fatally injuring Engineer Johnson. Six passengers wero badly scalded.

South. Ex-Gov. Csulwallader O. Washburn died at Eureka Springs, Ark., of paralysis and Bright’s disease, aged 65 years. His brother, Hon. E. B. Washburne, of Chicago, was with him in bis last hours. Mr. Washburn was one of four brothers, two of whom have been Governors of different States, and four of whom have represented four different States in Congress—lsrael Washburn, Jr., from Maine; Elihn 8., from Illinois ; Cadwallader C„ from Wisconsin, and William D., from Minnesota. A tornado of frightful violence swept over a section of Montgomery, Ark. It occupied only three minutes in its work of destruction. So terrific waß its power that nothing was left undamaged in its path. Eight persons were killed outright, and many hundred seriously wounded. Many hundred head of live stock were killed, and not a house or barn left standing. The large and extensive farm of P. McKinney was totally ruined. Loss, $30,000. There were over fifty biiildings, including the saw-mill and gin, all of which were destroyed. The family of Mr, Gil), consisting, all told, of five persons, were all dangerously injured. Samuel Quattlebaum’s family was also dangerously injured. It is estimated that over 100 families were rendered homeless and without the necessaries of life, The people of North Georgia enjoyed the rare phenomenon of a snow-storm on the 15th of May. The Tennessee Senate has passed the bill te fund the State debt at 60 cents and from 3 to 6 per cent, interest The Conference of the Methodist Church South, at Nashville, elected the following Bishops : Dr. C. Granberry, a proffcsaor in Vanderbilt University, but a delegate from the Virginia Conference ; Dr. Alticus G. Haygood, of Georgia ; the Rev. R. K. Hargrove, -of Tennessee ; Dr. Linns Parker, of New Orleans, and Rev. Alpheus W. Williams, of Baltimore. The State Auditor of Arkansas, who is now serving his third term, is found" to be a defaulter in the amount of about $35,000. The Court House, at Franklin, Ky., was destroyed by an incendiary fire, with nearly all the records of Simpson county.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Commissioner of the General Land Office, McFarland, has issued a circular letter inviting all holders of certificates of deposit to forward the same to the General Land Office that their genuineness may be attested. This is done because of the number of fraudulent certificates now on the market. The Senate select Committee on Woman Suffrage, by a vote of 3 to 2, agreed to recommend for adoption Senator Lapham’s joint resolution proposing the following amendment to the constitution: “ Article XVL Section 1. The right of citizens of- the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States of by any State on account of sex. Seo. 2. Congress shall have power by appropriate legislation to enforce the provisions of this article.” The vote was: Yeas—Lapham, Blair and Jackson—3 ; nays—George and Fair—2 ; absent, Anthony and Ferry.

Mr. Teller, the new Secretary of the Interior, has decided upon a policy which, if enforced, it is claimed, will do much to prevent Indian troubles. He has determined upon disarming all bands of roaming Indians found off their reservations with arms, and the military will be instructed to disarm such bands. Persons familiar with the Indian service attribute most of the trouble which arises to the fact that the Indians can obtain arms, and that the regulations of the Government in that respeot are often disregarded. Butlers can always be found who furnish the Indians with weapons. Mr. Teller’s coarse relating to the Indians, says a Washington dispatch, is meeting with general approval, and it is believed that life in the Indian country will be rendered more nearly safe under his course than ever before. A Washington Associated Press dispatch says: ** The events transpiring in the Star-route oases this morning cause a good

deal of comment here, and they are looked upon as very unfoitunate for the Government, to say the leash That numbers of Government officials should have been scouring the country everywhere for Dorsey, and then come into court and say he couldn’t be found, and that he should «then immediately present himself and demand trial, turns the Government methods into ridicule. It is remarked here that every step in the case thus far has been a comparative failure, and many fear the result will be very unsatisfactory.” The House Committee on Judiciary has almost unanimously resolved to report adversely on that section of Cobb’s bill forfeiting the laud grant of the Northern Pacific, as bnt 600 miles remain to be completed, and the enterprise was hampered by the collapse of Jay Cooke. J. R. Shipherd was before the Peruvian Investigating Committee at Washington, on the 17th inst, but positively declined to furnish documents showing what he did to enforce the claim of the company. Shipherd addressed to Chairman Williams a letter protests ing against the liberty accorded to Mr. Blaine in the, investigation. He states that he is prepared to supply all the evidence called for, including a letter from the President of the United States, and waits to know if ho is to be heard.

“ How does the Secretary of the Navy stand on the question of sending further expedition to the North pole ?” a Washington correspondent asked of an official in the Navy Department the other day. “He is dead against it,” was the reply, “ and, to use his own words, it would be as foolish as to adopt Mark Twain’s idea of sending out an expedition to find hell.” There is but one man in Congress who favors any more North-pole horrors, and he is not as strong that way as he was several days ago, especially since all tlio newspapers have declared it to be a crazy scheme. The fact that President Arthur attended the running races in Washington last week caused some persons to look back at the records. From those it is learned that President Arthur is the first President since Buchanan to attend horse-races. Gen. Grant, though very fond of horses, did not attend races during his Presidency. Buchanan, Pierce, Tyler and Van Burcn were very fond of horse-races, and attended all the great races in Virginia and Maryland during their terms of office.

POLITICAL POINTS.^ James G. Blaine has given to a New England Senator positive assurances that he will not be a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives. Gen. Chalmers, who was ousted from the Congressional seat now occcupied by John R. Lynch, has takon the field as an independent candidate for Congress in the Second Mississippi district. Van H. Manning, Democrat, now represents this district in the House. He received at the last olection 15,255 votes, against 9,996 for Buchanan, Republican, and 8,585 for Harris, Greenbacker. Buchanan is contesting the seat It is said that Blaine is supporting Senator Mitchell in his revolt against the stalwarts in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Greenback State Convention, held at Harrisburg May 18, made the following nominations : Govornor, Thomas A. Armstrong: Lieutenant Governor, F. V. Powderly ; Supreme Judge, J. Adam Coke; Congressman-at-Largo, Robert K. Tomlinson. Aug. 2 has been fixed by the Indiana Democrats as tho date for their State Convention.

FOREIGN NEWS. Mr. Jennings, in his cable dispatch to the New York World, says: “ Once again the Government is at sea about Ireland. Only tea days ago it had been decided that coercion should be abandoned fully and forever, and Mr. Forster resigned his Chief Secretaryship in consequence of the decision arrived at by his chief and colleagues. Now there has been introdneed- a .bill which is opposed to every principle of liberty, and infinitely surpasses in its severity all former coercive measures. The alliance of the Liberals with

the Pamcllites, scarcely a fortnight old, has come to a sudden end. Tho tragedy in Phoenix Park has shown the Government, as it was probably intended to show the Government, that, although Mr. Parnell and other men regarded as ‘ leaders’ may come to terms, they can only speak for themselves, and the movement for complete separation will go on unchecked.” A Dublin dispatch says : The Government has issued a special proclamation, offering a reward of £SOO for information leading to the arrest of any one harboring the assassins of Cavendish and Burke or assisting in their escape. Persons harboring the assassins are liable to be sentenced to penal servitude for life. Information must be given within three months. It is believed the assassins are still in Dnblin, the car having been traced back to the city. The President and committee of the Chamber of Notables went to the Khedive’s palace in Cairo, Egypt, to intercede in behalf of the Ministers. The Khedive replied that he had nothing to say to rebels. At the Mansion Honse in London, a canister was found suspended to a railing by a brass hook, connected with which was a lighted fuse, which a policeman extinguished. The bor. was full of gunpowder. The police of Dublin have issued descriptions of four of the men engaged in the murder of Cavendish and Burke, one of whom has a hollow bridge on his nose. It is thought that at least twelve men were connected with the tragedy. Fifty Turkish soldiers were drowned by the beaching Of a transport in the Bosphorus. Gladstone introduced the Arrears bill in the House of Commons on the 15th inst He explained that the bill was limited to tenancies up to £3O, Griffith’s valuation. The bill will be administered by tho Land Commission, which will be assisted by the County Court Judge, boforo whom tho tenant will be obliged to provo inability to pay the arrears. Either the landlord or the tenant may apply to the commission. The bill only deals with two years’ arrears, and requires the tenant to pay one year's arrears from November, 1880, to November, 1881. When that is paid the whole remaining arrears will be canceled. The Gov-, eminent will contribute tho remaining rent from the residue of the Irish church surplus fund, the estimated amount of which is £l,600,000. There is no reason to believe that the claims on the Government’s contribution will exceed £2,000,000. The remaining £500,000, therefore, would be made up from the consolidated fund.

In the British House of Lords Granville stated that tho Government’s policy in regard to Egypt was tho maintenance of the sovereignty of the Sultan and liberty for the Christian population. They were in accord with the French Government, which disclaimed any intention to arrogate any preponderating influence. It was announced that tho French and Euglish squadrons had gone to Suda, on their way to Alexandria, and that tho Turkish Admiralty had been ordered to prepare twelvo ironclads and several transports for sea in connection with tho crisis in Eg'pt. The city of Cork has offered a reward of 125,000 for tho arreßt of the Dublin assassins. O’Rourke, the partner of Land League Treasurer Egan, has been released. A sister of Under Secretary Burke, residing in Dublin, has lieen granted a pension of £4OO yearly. Three persons identified with the management of the Ring Theater in Vienna, which was the scene of an awful holocaust on tho night of Dec. 8, 1881, have been convicted of contributory negligence. The Director of tho theater was sentenced to four months’ simple arrest, and two others to four and eight months’ imprisonment respectively, with the added penalty that they shall fast one day in each month. In the British House of Commons, Chamberlain", President of the Board of Trade, stated that when released from prison Parnell was absolutely ignorant of the plans of the Government on arrears of rent and other questions. O’Shea explained that at his own instance he had corresponded with Parnell and various members of the Government, and had reported to Secretary Forster the result of interviews with the suspects. The Garfield House is the name of a home for working girls on the Brighton road, near London, which has been established through charitable contributions and named in honor of the dead President The home was formally opened by Minister Lowell, with au attendance of many distinguished persons. The survivors of the ill-fated Jeannette Arctic expedition reached England May 17. The burning of the village of Marcilly, France, rendered 650 persons homeless. A cable from Dublin says: The evic - tions of tenants for non- payment of rent have been resumed in many parts of Ireland. The sadness and astonishment following the assassinations of the Irish Secretaries had the effect of stopping for a time the work of agitation. Taking advantage of the situation, the process-servers again prepared to oust tenants in arrears, and the work of evicting them is going on. While the National organization are yet in dread of making any overt opposition, the measures of repression proposed in Parliament are creating a revulsion of feeling throughout the country. There was a desire and hope that the murderers might be bronght to justice, but the growing feeling is that Parliament is determined to believe, no matter what happens, that there are no good traits or tender feelings in Irishmen means to push oppression and coercion to extremities.