Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. EmU Runnymede, the famous racer for whom Dwyer Brothers last year paid #5,000, broke down hopelessly at Saratoga. Francis C. Potts, a member of a leading publishing firm in Philadelphia, killed himself with a revolver daring the absence of his family at a country resort There is talk that Attorney General Brewster is to leave the Cabinet and to be appointed to some other position. A yacht is being constructed at Bristol, B. L, for a gentleman of Port Huron, on condition of making 100 miles in five hours or no pay. Her estimated cost is #50,000. John C. Hamilton, a son of Alexander Hamilton, died at Long Branch in his 91st year. An ex-Alderman of Brooklyn, named James Danna, i* to fight Tag Wilton in Louisiana or Mississippi for #2,500 a side and the championship of the world. Aaron O. Burr, an adopted son of Aaron Burr, died in New York. He was a sou of Count de Lisle, and was born in Paris in 180& Wsst Nebraska reports an unprecedented yield of grains of all kinds. Minnesota and Dakota continue their favorable reports. Official statistics for Minnesota show a largo increase of acreage in oats, barley and corn as compared with 1881; and, while the wheat acreage has been decreased, the improved condition of the crop promises an increaso of over 8,000,000 bushels. The Secretary of the Ohio Board of Agriculture estimates this year’s wheat yield in the State at 39,282,000 bushels, and corn at 66,500,000 bushels. At Fresno, Cal., fifty business houses, including hotels, banks, etc., were consumed by the flames. The loss is estimated at $200,GCOI

By a collision on the Little Miami road, near Foster’s Crossing, Ohio, two engines were wrecked and two freight cars thrown into ibo river. E. H. McCalob, Judge Advocate General of Louisiana, was one of the five persons injured. Every polygamist in Utah is now living openly with only one wife, having stowed away the rest against the advent of the commission. The wheat yield of Indiana is immense this year. A farmer in Lawrence county harvested 1,012 bushels from thirty-six acres, one grain having thrown out ninety-six well-headed-stalks. A large party of Indians attacked a wagon train near Clifton, Arizona, killing two men. The teamsters, seven in number, stood off the Indians for two hours and mojtally wounded one Indian. In the face of a heavy fire they rushed out and dragged the wonnded Indian into camp, and when the fight was over scalped him and roasted him alive. The new city directory of Minneapolis contains 28,928 namos. Sooth. The mangled bodies of six negroes were found on the Mobile and Ohio railroad near DeSota, Miss. It is supposed they were robbed and murdered and the remains placed on the track. Three masked men robbed a stage near ;Ihrevoport, La., taking thirteen registered packages from the mail pouches and relieving four passengers of their money. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Treasury Department has decided that fho hill to extend the charters of national banks will entitle the holders of new 3 per cent, bonds to perpetuate the original numbers. The President has referred a supplemental petition bearing 49,000 signatures from the Garfield Club of New York city, asking the pardon of Sergeant Mason, to the Secretary of War, together with several other and similar petitions. Commissioner Baum reports the entire collections of internal-revenue taxei for the past fiscal year—#l46,s2o,273—has been accounted f or and turned into the treasury. Gen. Walker, says a Washington telegram, is receiving pretty sharp criticisms for having projected so extensive a plan for the census, one which involves such a large deficiency appropriation. Senators vory plainly say that it was neve* the intention of Congress to enter upon such a comprehensive census plan. POLITICAL POINTS. Attornoy General Brewster has rendered an Opinion on the issue raised between George W. Curtis and Representative Hubbell, the President of the Republican Congressional Committee, on the subject of political assessments, in which ho holds that a member of Congress is not an officer of the United States, so that a gift to him for campaign purposes does not fall within the statute regulating political assessments. The opinion was laid before a recent Cabinet meeting. The Attorney General has also given an opinion to the Secretary of the Treasury that the request of transportation companies to be allowed to take some sixty thousand Chinese laborers through this country from Cuba to China oan not be granted under the law as it now stands. At a Cabinet meeting in Washington, the other day, the opinion of Attorney General Brewster on the subject of political assessments was the chief topic of discussion. The opinion, was accompanied by a letter from Secretary Folger, expressing his views. The subject was generally discussed. The President expressed his views freely and fully. They were, in substance, that no person in any one of the executive departments declining to contribute shall on that account be subject to discharge or critcism, and no attempt to injure him on this ground will be countenanced or tolorated. The Independent Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania rejected the suggestions toward harmony made by the Cameron organization.

FOREIGN NEWS. John Dillon, M. P., in an address at Mallow, said if Parnell had sixty firm supporters in Parliament they could render inoperative the Repression bill, as for every person arrested under its provisions they would waste two days’ time in discussing it in the House. George P. Marsh, American Minister at Rome, died suddenly at Yalambrosa, in Italy. Parnell and other Irish members of Parliament are organizing a movement- in Ireland to counteract the projects of the Land Corporation. The O’Flaherty brothers, arrested in Ireland on suspicion of connection with the assassination of Cavendish and Burke, have been released. One is a railway engineer from Chicago. Fourteen persons were killed in a fight on a railway near Vienna between peasants and laborers. A small box which was sent from Granada for Senor Sagasta, the Spanish Prime Minister, on being opened was found to contain "itro-glycerine. Several persons have bcon arrested «n suspicion. A detective of the Irish constabulary has been sent to Venezuela to receive O’Brien, who confessed complicity in the murder of Lord Cavendish. Judge Fitzgerald, a Baron of the Irish Exchequer, has resigned because of objection to the duties imposed on him by the Repression bilL A cable dispatch states that the Most Rev. Patrick A. Feehan, Archbishop of Chicago, will bo elected Cardinal at the next Consistory. Six business houses were destroyed by fire at Exeter, England, involving a loss of #250,000.