Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. But. A whale caught fire on a railway dock in Boston, and the fire department was called out to save the skeleton. He had been mounted for exhibition, and the loss is stated at #9,500. There was serious rioting at Jersey City arising out of the freight-handlers’ strike. Italian workmen were assaulted by the strikers, and retaliated with pistol shots, killing one person and wounding several. One Italian, in fleeing from the strikers, was drowned. The safe of the Bank Italo-Americano in New York was broken open and robbed of #6,600. •While workmen on the North Shore road were blasting near Milton, N. Y., a premature explcsion killed three Italians and seriously injured eight others. Wist A gambles named Madden, who died «t I.eadvillo the other day, had the largest brain ever taken from ’ a human skull in this country. It weighed ounces, nearly nine ounces more than Daniel Webster’s brain. A party of Germans made an attempt to batter down tlio doers of tho jail at Las Yegas, in ordor to lynch H. C. Brown for the murder of Frank Meyer. The Sheriff gave them ample warning, and then ordered the guards to open with Winchester rifles. When the smoko cleared away, four men lay on tho ground badly wounAd, two of whom will die. A party of 100 Indians captured every horse belonging to a band of citizens who left Globe City, Arizona, to protect settlers in the Salt river country, and the rangers walked borne. For the fourth time in the past eight years the mill of East & Lewis, at Lima, Ohio, has been burned, the losses aggregating 180,000. The charges of infidelity and skepticism often repeated against tho Michigan University are answered by tho fact that more than 80 per cent, of tho students, 61 per cent, of the faculty and 84 per cent, of the teachers and assistants are professing Christians. South. Mont Robbins, whose father, ex-Con-gressman William Robbins, was assaulted by L. Mott, at Statesville, N. C., on account of a bitter political speech, went to Iredell county, where Mott lived, and killed Mott for the attack on his father. F. L. Jones, a photographer of Louisville*, Miss., who has already murdered four men, killed a toy namesake in cold blood. Editors Gaines and Sears, of Louisville, indulged in a street fight over a journalistic quarrel. Several shots wore fired, but no serious damage was inflicted. A storekeeper, a block away from tho disturbance, was more soveiely injured by a stray bullet than either of the belligerents. Philip Haison was hanged at Clinton, N. C., for the murder of Henry Sellers. A mob of white and black men overpowered the jailer at Henderson, Ky., took out a negro named Wm. -Ritter, and hanged him to a tree on tho outskirts, for the rape and minder of a colored girl. WASHINGTON NOTES. Secretary Folger has made a report of the celebrated Doyle bond case. In addit on to his own special report in the matter, lie has given out for general publication the opinion of the experts on which ho has baßed his decision. The opinion of the experts is very elaborate, and goes into tho matter of tho various differences between the counterfeits and Government bonds with tlio greatest detail. Secretary Folger has arrived at the conclusion that the plates submitted to him by Mr. Felker are counterfeits, and are not in any way transfers from genuine work. He says, however, that he does not question tho good faith of Mr. Felker In suWnitting them. He has no doubt that Mr. Felker believes that they were transfers from genuino work ; hut, from his investigations of the entire subject through a number of disinterested experts working separately, he has arrived at the conclusion that they are counterfeits, and that, therefore, Mr. Doyle has not submitted anything which entitles him to any consideration at the hands of the Treasury Department. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a call for $16,000,000 6-per-cent bonds continued at 3% per cent, from July, 1881. The principal and accrued interest will be paid the 18th of September next, and interest will cease that day. Following is a description of the bonds: SSO, Nos. 801 to 900, both inclusive ; SIOO, Nos. 6,501 to 6,500, both inclusive ; SSOO, Nos. 3,601 to 4,159, both inclusive ; SI,COO, Nos. 19,001 to 21,000, both inclusive; $5,000, Nos. 6,401 to 6,900, both inclusive; SIO,OOO, Nos. 12,501 to 14,650, both inclusive. The people of Washington have a new dread of imprisonment in the jail, as a story is in circulation that Guiteau’s ghost walks the corridors after midnight. Two artesian wells will be sunk in Colorado _by Commissioner Loring, as an experiment toward reclaiming the desert sections by Irrigation. In the returns up to July 1, received by the Department of Agriculture at Washington from all the States and Territories' of the United States, aiv.exceptionally fifte sho'wiug is made as to all the leading cereals except corn. Illinois, the State. of largest acreage, stands lowest of all in the condition of corn, and the general average of the whole country is 85, against 90 in July last year. A medium yield for the yphole . country, which would be 1,7(j6,000,060 -bushels, is now virtually out of the question, and about the best that can be hoped for is that the yield will aggregate 1,200,000,000 bushels. It may fall short of that amount with unfavorable weather duriDg tho next eight or ten weeks. As regards winter and spring wheat, oats, rye and barley, the returns are remarkably favorable. The average for winter wheat stands at 104, against 83 a year ago, and all promise an unusually large yield. A Washington dispatch announces that the bouquet which Mrs. Scoville endeavored to carry to Guiteau has been found to contain enough arsenic to end the lives of a dozen murderers. Drs. Somers and Hartigan, who acted with Dr. Lairib in the Guiteau autopsy, have made their report, which differs from the Lamb report in many particulars. They criticise Dr, Lamb’s mode of procedure at the autopsy and take issue with him as to the state of the brain, which they find to have been in an average healthy condition, nothing abnormal being visible. . i The Secretary of the Treasury Ltjp issued notice of the readinesß of the department to change 3% and 5-per-cent, into 3-per-cent. registered bonds, nnder the new law. By an order issued from the War De - partment the Military Department of West Point will be discontinued Aug. 20, 1882., The General of the Army, under the War Departing wifi hsre supervision of the Military

Academy. Col. Wesley Merrill, of the Filth Cavalry, is appointed Superintendent, and will relieve Gen. O. O. Howard Sept 1. Gen. Howard is assigned to the command of the Department of the Platte, relieving Gen. George Crook, who is assigned to the command of the Department of Arizona. POLITICAL POINTS. State organizations among the de partment employes, a Washington dispatch states, are responding to Hubbeli’s circular not only with money, but by resolutions condemning those employes who won’t help the party. At a convention at Nashville of the State Credit Damocrats of Tennessee, J. H. Fassell was placed in nomination for Governor. The Republican (Cameron) State Central Committee of Pennsylvania met at Philadelphia to restore harmony in the party. The candidates for State offices were invited into the hall, and presented a letter placing their claims in the hands of the committee. It was then resolved to send the Independents four propositions from which a choice can be made—viz., that both tickets be submitted to a vote of the party at the primaries; that the party at tho primaries select a ticket by popular vote; that a new convention be held on the fourth Wednesday in August These propositions wero all rejected by the Independents, on the ground that the acceptance of either offer would amount to a virtual surrender of all the principles for which they are contending and a reaffirmation of all the abuses of which they complain. The candidates on the Independent Republican ticket addressed a letter to the Cameron nominees, saying that some of the propositions made would produce harmony in the party, a,nd urging the withdrawal of both tickets, all the candidates to pledge themselves not to accept another nomination, a new convention to be held under the rules of the recent conference.

FOREIGN NEWS. In view of the fact that the Egyptians were discovered mounting heavy guns near the entrance to Alexandria harbor, the British Admiral Seymour charged the authorities with a breach of faith, and on Sunday, July 9, demanded the surrender of the defenses within twelve hours, on penalty of bombardment of tho city twenty-four hours aftor the receipt of the notice. The Ministry declared they would resist. Arabi Paslia refused to obey the Sultan’s mandate to proceed to Constantinople. The members of the Consulates were taken on board ships in the harbor. Hablot Knight Browne, better known as “Phiz,” the illustrator of Dickens’ works, is dead. Thirty persons were injured in a railway collision at Cork, twelve of whom are not expected to survive. War between Great Britain and Egypt began on Tuesday, the 11th of July. The Egyptians having refused to obey the mandate of the British Admiral Seymour to cease work on the fortifications of Alexandria, he issued the order for the bombardment of the city, and precisely at 7 o’clock in the morning the fleet opened fire. The British Cabinet highly disapproves of the action of the Canadian Government iu resolving for home rule for Ireland. The Treasurer of the Irish Land League received from March to June £19,740. Most of the subscriptions were from America. Egypt can raise an army of 120,000 fighting men to repel invasion. The Repression bill has passed through both houses of tho British Parliament. At the funeral of Gen. SkobelefF, at Moscow, a crowd of 100,000 persons filled the streets. The Grand Dukes Nicholas and Alexis arrived from St. Petersburg and were cheered by the people. The remains were escorted to Riazan for interment The bombardment of Alexandria was distinctly heard at Malta, a distance of 800 miles, by connecting a telephone with tho submarine telegraphic cable. By the explosion of gas in a burning house in Paris twenty persons were killed, forty injured and twelve residences destroyed. A Dublin cablegram states that thirteen counties will be proclaimed under the Repression act