Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Ext A flea serpent, 800 feet long, wm recently seen near Nahant. It had a head like a horee. The New York Central road haa advanced the wages of switchmen, porters, etc., from $2.50 to f 5 per month. W. R. Garrison, the New York millionaire, who was injured in the railroad accident near Long Branch, has since died.* A tornado at Coalville, Pa., blew down about twenty houses, killed two people and wounded seventeen more. Ichabod Godwin, the first war Governor of New Hampshire, died at Portsmouth at the age of 88. Joseph Rogers, a Pittsburgh molder, inspired by jealousy, shot his wife in the breast and iired a bullet into his temple. Waafc. Bmail-pox has been ravaging Indian Territory, thirty deaths having occurred at Muscogee alone. In Cincinnati, Jaoob Wagner killed his wife with a revolver and mortally wounded himself. A constable and posse at Linkville, Ore., in endeavoring to capture two horsetbieves, killed one and mortally wounded the other. Many buildings were demolished and several persons injured by a tornado in Crawford and Cherokee counties, Kansas. Editor Cowles, of Cleveland, has entered snit against the Catholic Bishop Gilmour for malicious libel. Gilmour, it is alleged, charged Cowles with religious persecution of his (Cowles’) daughter, and the journalist thinks he has been injured $25,000 worth. Charles Colvig, chief of scouts at the San Carlos Agency, and four Indians were ambushed by a small band of renegades, Colvig and three men being killed. J. H. Plant, a wholesale clothing merchant of St. Louis, against whose stock several attachments had been filed, drowned himkelf in a slough. The incorporators of the Garfield Monument Association held a meeting at Cleveland and solected a board of trustees, who organized by elocting Gov. Foster President, and ex-President Hayos and Gov. Cornell Vice Presidents. The contributions so far approach ♦120,000. South. Edward Fulsom, a half-breed Indian, •was hanged aj Fort Smith, Ark., for a double murder committed in August last. John Bridges, was executed at Cadiz, Trigg county, Ky. Three colored men, named Turner, had been for several days visiting the village of Brooksvllle, Fla., and indulging in threats against some citizens, causing much bad feeling. This culminated, a few days ago, in a row in the Court House, started by one of the Turners entering tbo building just as the afternoon session of the court was being called, with an open knife in his hand. In the fight that followed the three Turners were killed and several other negroes participating wounded. Several whites were wounded, but not mortally. Gov. Blackburn was confirmed in an Episcopal church in Louisville, in the presence of a large and fashionable assemblage. He was snatched from the path of sin by the mountain evangelist. At Camden, S. C., Capt. Haile shot dead L. W. R. Blair, a prominent Greenbacker. The latter dubbed Haile a liar, aud refused to retract. It has been discovered that great frauds upon the Government by Texas United States Marshals have been perpetrated, and a large number of them will be arrested. The body of Kilgour, who murdered Gardner and shot Marshal Bryant at Belmont, Ky., was found in the woods, terribly mutilated by hogs and buzzards. POLITICAL POINT*. The Texas Greenbackers met in convention and indorsed Congressman G. Wash Jones for Governor. The platform indorses the platform adopted at Chicago in 1880, with the modification of a bond clause, whioh says no bonds shall be refunded, but should be paid at maturity with any lawful money on hand. The loiva State Register prints returns on the election for the prohibition amendment from all the counties in the State. In the ninety-nine counties the amendment has aggregate majorities of 50,824, and the aggregate majorities against it are 21,717, giving it a net majority of 29,107. The Democrats of North Carolina nominated Risden L Bennett for Congressman-at-Large and Thomas Ruffin for Supreme Court Judge. The Connecticut Greenbaokers nominated A. P. Tanner for Governor and H. O. Baker for Lieutenant Governor. Ex-Senator Powell Clayton presided over the Arkansas Republican Convention, at Little Rock. A full ticket for State officers was placed in the field, headed by CoL W. D. Slack for Governor, The Greenbackers, Independents and Republicans of Alabama have coalesced and resolved to support the same candidates. J. L. Sheffield heads the ticket for Governor.

WASHINGTON NOTES.' It is said that John W. Guitean’s last interview with the President was rather stormy. JohD, finding the President firm, denounoed him for refusing clemenoy to the man who made him President, whereupon Arthur ordered him from the room. The anniversary of the assassination was commemorated at Washington by laying the corner-stone of the Garfield Memorial Church, on the site of the famous small frame chapel on Vermont avenue. Charles ±L Hartlee, a colored crank, warns the Washington police of a plot to assassinate President Arthur, Conkling and Grant, The body of Guiteau has been transferred to the Army Medical Museum in Washington, which is located in the building occupied as Ford’s Theater at the time President

Lincoln was shot by Wilkes Booth. The skeleton will be prepared and placed on exhibition at the museum. During the past fiscal year 46,632 agriculture patents were issued from the General Land Office. The body of Guiteau was buried in the northeast corridor of the jail at Washington. Under *the law, the disposition of the bodies o9riminalß who are executed rests with the discretion of the Warden. In the case of Guiteau, his sister, Mrs. Scovilla, was without means, and could not have undertaken his burial expenses even if permitted to do so. The only other relative who has appeared on the scene, his brother, John W. Guiteau, was unwilling to assume the risk of taking charge of the remains, believing he would be powerless to prevent “ body-snatchers ” from stealing them. Therefore, Gen. Crocker resolved to bury the assassin’s body within the walls of the jail, where it would be fc«yond reach alike of vengeance or speculation. The brick floor was removed, and a grave seven feet deep was dug The coffin was borne from the chapel upon the shoulders of six jail prisoners, and, without any service or ceremony whatever, was lowered into this grave and barred from sight. The coffin was closed and no one has since been permitted to see the remains. Mrs. Scoville, accompanied by Miss Chavalliere, arrived at the jail shortly before the burial took place, and importuned the Warden to be allowed to see the remains and witness the buriaL Gen. Crocker, however, remained firm in his determination not to accede to her request. Arriving at the grave, the little procession halted. Warden Crocker looked inquiringly, first toward Dr. Hicks and then to John W. Guiteau. K All right,” said the latter, with the same imperturbable composure he had exhibited all through the ordeal of the three days, and the coffin was at once lowered to its place. After the earth had been replaced and the top of tho grave leveled off, John W. Guiteau stepped forward and placed at its head a crown of white immortelles. Not a word was spoken, not a tear shed. An outcast from human sympathy when living, Guiteau had found an unwept sepulture in an unmarked grave. Following is the regular monthly statement of the public debt, issued on the Ist inst.: Extended B’s $ 58,957,160 Extended 5> 401,503,900 Four aud one-nai: per cent, bonds 250,000,000 Four per cents, 738,884,300 Refunding certificates 465,050 Navy pension fund 11,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt $1,463,810,400 Matured debt $ 16,260,805 Legal tenders 846,740,711 Certificates of deposit... 13,320,000 Goid aud silver certificates 71,133,830 Fractional currency 7,047,247 Total without interest. 438,241,788 Total debt $1,918,311,994 Cash in treasury 1243,289,509 Debt less cash in treasury $1,688,914,460 Decrease during June.. 12,560,698 Decrease since June 30, 1881 151,684,351 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 1,435,158 Debt on whicn interest has ceased...... 16,260,805 Interest thereon .- 635,251 Gold and. silver certificates 71,133,830 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 13,320,000 Cash balance available July 1, 1882.... 140,604.474 Total 4 243,281),519 Available assets— Cash in treasury $ 243,289,619 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding f 84,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,938,705 Interest paid by United States "63,405,977 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service 15,220,693 By casn payments of 5 per cent, ot net . earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by tbe United States . 87,530,085 Additional items to the corrupt practices of the star-routers have been discovered, and immediate steps have been taken to reconvene the Grand Jury and obtain another set of indictments. FOREIGN NEWS. Wholesale suspensions of Irish members were made in the House of Commons during discussion of the Repression biM. Some members were included in the Parliamentary evictions who were not present when the alleged obstruction was committed and who had not spoken on the amendments. Parnell claims the Ministry conspired to force the bill through committee at that sitting. Thera are said to be in Dublin 580 Irish-Americans without visible occupation. The Egyptian authorities are confining in the arsenal at Alexandria all natives who insult or molest Europeans. All but four of the Irish members of the House of Commons withdrew in consequence of the adoption of a motion offered by Gladstone declaring urgency for the Repression bill. A London dispatch says that England, when satisfied of the necessity of armed intervention in Egypt, will call out the militia reserve, comprising 50,000 trained men. It is rumored that Alexandria will be bombarded on the commencement of hostilities. The British gunboats Dee and Don have sailed from Portsmouth for the Mediterranean, and a battery has been ordered ready for Malta. At the Papal Consistory in Rome, Pope Leo, in his allocution, said the Italian Government was guilty of bad faith with the Vatican, and the position of the church was growing daily worse. A Dublin journal is authority for the statement that the Government intends to employ bloodhounds to track assassins. The Irish Bishops and Archbishops are determined to discountenance the Ladies’ Land League. A note to the priests has been prepared on the subject The Egyptians ceased work on the forti fi cations at Alexandria at the demand of the British Admiral Seymour, who threatened to bombard the city if the work continued. The French Cabinet decided to instruct Admiral Conrad to remain a passive spectator of the bombardment unless forced by some hostile act to take part Sir Hubert MacPherson will have command of the troops sent from India to Egypt