Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A breeze of excitement was created in the Presbyterian General Assembly at Springfield, 111., touching'the answer to be sent to the friendly and conciliatory greeting from the Southern Church. Dr. Dickinson presented a minority report of the Committee on Correspondence (he was the only signer), declaring the Assembly should not stultify itself by retracting the Union principles adopted by the Northern Church at the outbreak of and after the Southern rebellion : but the feeling prevailed among a majority of the members that the olive branch of peace sent from the South should be accepted, and a greeting fraternal and peaceful in tenor was dispatched to the Southern Assembly. The May Festival in Chicago was a big success. The gross receipts were $57,000. Hon. Russell Errett, Congressman from Pittsburgh, in attempting to alight from a coach at the entrance of the House of Representatives, was thrown head first against the granito steps under the archway, cutting his cheeks and breaking his nose. Senator Don Cameron declares that there will be no compromise or fusion with the Independents in the Keystone State. The will of Ralph Waldo Emerson makes no public gifts. James Eiliott Cabot is appointed literary executor. Albert Young, who wrote a letter threatening the life of Queen Victoria, has been sentenced to ten x cars’ pen.il servitude. The representatives of England and France in Egypt were summoned to the palace at Cairo and informed of the rejectio n of their ultimatum and the resignation of the Ministry. In the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone stated that it was impossible to give a pledge that force will not be employed in Egypt, but he saw no reason to fear a resort to arms. A warm debate arose in Parliament touching the evictions on Lord Cloncurry’s estate in Ireland. Two hundred and fifteen families were turned out; and the question was whether they should be allowed to build huts for shelter or go to the poor-house. On Dillon pledging himself that no violence would result if permission to build cabins was granted, Trevellyan, Secretary for Ireland, gave consent to the project, but said intimidation would be sternly repressed.