Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. TT! ant. The Secretary of the Treasury called for the resignation of Superintendent Davis, of the New Orleans mint, for inefficiency. Dr. A P. King and wife, of London, Ohio, were dfowned in Cbautanqna lako by the capsizing of a saillxjat in a squall. John L. Sullivan, of Boston, and Tug Wilson, England’s crack pugilist, had a bout wilh boxing gloves in the Madison Square Garden, New York, Wilson having made the voyage expressly to try conclusions with the American champion. After four rounds, during which Sullivan knocked bis man down twenty seven times, the Englishman’s remarkable capacity for enduring “ punishment ” enabled him to stand up, and he was declared w inner os the w ager of SI,OOO. The fight wa viewed by a multitude of 16,000 people. More than forty boys have died in the vicinity of Boston since the Fourth of July, of lockjaw, caused from wounds by the toy pistol A number of the striking employes of the Pittsburgh iron mills have accepted situations from a Colorado firm at an advance on the scale demanded bV the Amalgamated Association. Miss Fanny Parnell, a sister of the Irish loader, died suddenly at Bordentown, N. J,, from paralysis of the heart. She had been managing her grandfather’s farm. Wart. Mrs. Lincoln, the widow of Abraham Lincoln, died In Springfield, 111, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ninian Edwards, on Sunday evening, July 16. Mrs. Lincoln, as is well known, has been for a long time in very poor health, but recently she had grown rapidly worse, and on Saturday, the 15th, she suffered a paralytic stroke, from which she never rallied, but lay in a comatoso state until sho died. She was 64 years old. Secretary of War Lincoln is her only surviving child. ' Alfred H. Pease, the pianist, dropped dead on the street in St. Louis after a dobauch lasting over six weeks. lie was engaged to accompany Nilsson on her American tour this fall Blaine’s coal and iron syndicate, representing $75,000,000 es capital, has purchased tho Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo road. Eeports of yellow fever in the South are being put in circulation by unscrupulous speculators. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln was buried at Springfield, 111. Hor remains were put m the crypt of the Lincoln monument by tho side of her husband. Tho funeral services were simple and impressive. It was the special desire of Mrs. Lincoln that no sermon should be preached over her. The preacher was content, therefore, to say much of hor family and little of herself. John Springer, aged 108 years, died at Marietta, Ohio, and Georgo Imhoff passed away at Richmond, Ind., at tho age of 107 years. A band of White Mountain Apaches attacked a train about forty miles from San Carlos, killed one driver and ran off fifty head of cattle. Buutt^ Life in Texas: In Orange county John Goodwin killed W. Windham’s dog. Windham followod Goodwin and his brother-in-law, Moran, with a shot-gun. Ho shot and killed both, but was himsolf woundod and died in an hour. Near Whitesboro two farmers, Johnson and Ichor, quarreled. Ichor was fatally cut and Johnson killed. A boy on tho farm who interfered was badly cut. Fifteen Jives were lost by the sinking of tho steamer John Wilson in tho Atcliafalaya river, in Louisiana. WASHINGTON NOTES. Swaim, tho Judge Advocate General, in a report to tho Secretary of War on tho petition for tho release of Sergeant Mason, holds that the proceedings of the court martial wero irreguiar and illegal. The annual report of tho breadstuffs for the year shows a serious falling off in exports, tho fi<?ures for 1881 being 1*265,000,000, against ■'{■l7o,ooo,ooo for the year ending June a’). 1882. Mrs. Scoville has filed notice with the Probate Conrt of Washington that sho will Cavil for the bones of Guitcau, the assassin. POLITICAL POINTS. Mrs. Polly Mcßride has been chosen as ono of tho delegates to the Illinois Greenback Stato Convention from Feoria county. The negotiations looking to a compromise between the Camoron and Independent Be publicans of Pennsylvania have resulted fa failure. At a meeting in Philadelphia of the Cameron Executive Committee it was decided lo reject the proposition of the Independent for tho withdrawal of both tickets and the pledge of all the candidates not to accept a nomination from tho new convention. The Greenbaekers of New York held a convention, lasting two days, at Albany. Ephenetus Howe was nominated for Governor and James Allen for Lieutenant Governor. The platform reaffirms the ground taken at the Chicago Convention in 1880; denounces the contract system of prison labor as an outrage on civilization ; demands that all land owned by individuals or corporations in excess of what is required for their personal use or for the transaction of their business should be taxed so as to render its ownership valueless; pronounces in favor of civil-service refprm, and protests against monopoly of money, transportation, land and labor. The Texas Democratic Convention nominated John Ireland for Governor. Gov. Roberts, who has already served two terms, forbade his name being placed before the convention. Gen. Newton M. Curtis, a special agent of the Treasury Department in the New York Custom House, was oonvicted recently of receiving money paid to him as assessments by Federal employes to be used for political purposes. His counsel moved before the United States Circuit Court, in which the oonviction was had, for an arrest of judgment and a new trial. The court decided last week that tho law prohibiting political assessments was constitutional. On the other points raised tho court was also adverse to the accused, and the motion for a stay and for a new trial was therefore denied. Aloxandor H. Stephens was nominated for Governor by the Georgia Democracy, who, in their platform, entered a protest against armed raids by internal-revenue officers. The Ohio Democratic State Convention was presided over by the Hon. George H. Pendleton. The Hon. John W. Oakley was nominated for Supreme Judge, and J. W. Newman, of Portsmouth, for Secretary of State. John G. Thompson was defeated for member of the State Central Committee, but was Chairmau chosen of the Executive Committee.

FOREIGN NEWS. John Bright could not approve of the bombardment of Alexandria, and as a consequence resigned his post as a member of the British Cabinet A district Governor in Austria, while recruiting with an escort of twenty-five soldiers, was surprised by an insnrgont chieftain, who massacred the entire party. Heavy and almost incessant rains are threatening to destroy the grain and potato crops of Ireland, which, until recently, gave flattering promise of great plenty. England and Scotland are likewise troubled of late by too much rain. The corpse of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarries, which was some months ago stolen from the family vault in Abbottshire, was found, a few days ago, in the grounds of the estate. A servant has been arrested for connection with the theft. The city of Smyrna, in Asia Minor, has been devastated by a fire that raged seven hours. Smyrna is the most famous commercial city of the Levant, and has a population of 150,000. It is wretchedly built of wood, and is exceedingly filthy and noisomo. The Russian Col. Philipolon, charged with lcnioncy to Nihilist prisoners under liis charge, has been degraded and exiled to Siberia. Crops in the northwestern section of Ireland are in a deplorable condition. LATER NEWS ITEMS. The advisory trunk-line commission, comprising Messrs. Thurman, Washburno and Cooley, report that no evidence has been offered that existing differential rates are unjust, or that they operate to tho prejudice of any of the seaboard cities, and the commission can not advise their being disturbed until they operate inequitably or force trado in an unnatural direction. Tho rccomendatioii is made that tho roads should keep and submit to each other accurate statistics in regard to their business, and that no seaboard city should bo subjected to unfair charges or arbitraty regula" tions. Four mills and four factories at Fairfield, Mo., valued at SIOO,OOO, were reduced to ashes. John F. Walsh was executed in the jail at Brooklyn for tho murder of Barbara Groenthal. The knot slipped around to the back of Ins neck and he died from strangulation. Officer Reynolds, of New York, saved the lives of three women and eight children in a blazing tenement in Washington street, where they wero cut off, by holding onto a window and catching them as they dropped. Bradlaugh and three others connected with tho publication of tho Free Thinker, of London, committed for trial for publishing blasphemous libels. Destructive floods are reported in Bohemia. Many p3ople were drowned. A planing mill and a railway supply store, on Cass avenue, St. Louis, wero burned, causing a loss of $125,000. Tho crops in Bohemia have been nearly dostroyed by rains, ..and no less than forty-ioven lives have been lost in the storms.