Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Kavt. Now England suffers from a wholesale paiclung of Ine earth and shriveling of the •crop'7 The industries in which water power is *cinp fiy. J are somewhat crippled. A crank who bears a marvelous re* sctnblance lo Guitcan •appeared in a public pin k at Erie, Pa., announced himself as the Me.H ull,’and harangued the rabble in denunc.at.on of church Christianity. Jesse Hoyt, one of the be-.t-known New York merchants, died at his residence, in that city, where he was born in 1815. Mr. Iloyt was prominently indeutitled with the elevator sy-tem of Chicago and Milwaukee) l av.ng built the first railroad elevator in the latter city. lie had large property interests in Michigan and Wisconsin. At the time of liis death lie was President of the Flint and Pere Maiqu tte R.ilro-d Company, and an offijer in many business corporations an 1 associations. He leaves an estate valued at $10,000,000. The bi-centennial of the landing of William Penn will be celebrated at Philadelphia in October, and extensive preparations are in I rogross to that end. Bangor, Me., was visited by a tornado accompanied by thunder and rain. Several buildings were wrecked, and trees and sheds blown down. The Sprague mansion at Oanonchet was sold at auction the other day for $62,Z50 to Frank D. Moulton, of New York. William Sprague had torn down the bridge leading to the place, and patrolled the avenuo with a rifle. The auctioneer stood on the wreck of the bridge to complete the sale. The Philadelphia Lager Beer Brewers’ Association Lave voted to pay SI,OOO to any person who shall detect the presence of poisonous or deleterious matter in the beer brewed by anv member of the association. West. A recent telegram from Des Moines, lowa, says: “ There is talk among the Prohibitionists of endeavoring to close up the saloons by injunct ion proceedings. This process was discussed in the State temperance gathering, but the temperance lawyers would not sanction it with their advice. On the contrary, they advised against it It is not improbable that th s process will be resorted to, however, as there is no prospect of an extra session for the purpose of providing laws for the en r orcoment of the amendment The leaders seem to feel that something must be done to make a show of closing the 4,000 saloons of the State. Incendiaries attempted to burn Mankato, Kan. Several buildings were destroyed, and the loss is placed at $50,000. Chetopa, Kan., was the scene of a destructive fire, consuming several business buildings and inflicting a loss estimated at SBO,OOO. “Little Thunder,” the orator"of the Chippewa Indians, and one of the two survivors of the Custer massacre, died in Mercy Hospital, in Chicago. Ho was about 65 years of age. Richard Leibst, a brakeman of St. Joseph, Mo., got drunk and wanted to shoot au unoffending person named Olaker. Leibst’s brother interfered and was fatally shot in the abdomen. The drunken man then shot at Olaker, tho bullet breaking his teeth and jaw, cutting otit his tongue and lodging near the opening at the wind-pipe. Over 15,000 people were present at the demonstration of the Irish Nationalists at Ogden’s Grove, near Chicago, on Ihe 15th inst. Addresses were made by James ReJpath, Rev. Geo. C. Betts, of St. Louis, Judge Moran, of Chicago, and others. Immense enthmiasm was manifested. It has been decided to invite exConfederate soldiors to participate in the soldiers’ reunion to bo held at Milwaukee in September. An English syndicate has purchased 110,000 acres of land in Southern Minnesota, owned by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul .Company, at $4.50 per acre. It is the intention to establish colonies of Englishmen on the lands. The same company sold James Thompson, a banker of Davenport, lowa, 40,000 acres in Rock county, Minn., the price being a fraotion less than $5 per acre. Mr. Boyson, of Milwaukee, the Danish Consul, has completed arrangements for purchasing 55,000 acres from the same company in Faribault And Martin counties, Minn., upon which a number of Danish families will settle. Official information received at Omaha shows that an outbreak of the Sioux Indians at Fine Ridge Agency is liable to occur, and a general war with the Northern Indians is possible. Dr. McGillicuddy, Agent of the Red Cloud Indians, has been notified that unless he iB removed by October they will rise. The same statement is made by them to the military commanders, who have notified the army headquarters at Omaha. About 7,500 Indians are engaged in the trouble, and in their neighborhood about 11,000 more. It is estimated that 4, COO warriors can be summoned for the outbreak. Red Cloud is thought to be actuating the Indians in their demand for the removal of Dr. McGillicuddy. •Six smugglers, with forty pack mules, encamped at Bowie, Arizona, were drowned by a cloud-burst. At Socorro, eighty miles south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Juan Eiverad, a gambler, was taken from jail by a mob and lvnqhed, for outraging the person of a 12-year-old girl. Heavy yields of spring wheat to the acre are reported from the threshing-machines in the great grain fields of Dakota. A farmer near Aberdeen threshed 650 bushels from seventeen and one-half acreß, an average of thirty-seven bushels to the acre of No. 1 wheat weighing sixty-one pounds to the bushel. South. The first of the Texas com crop reached St. Louis tbe other day. In point of time the arrival is unprecedented. Dr. George R. Dennis, formerly United States Senator from M&ryl and, died at his home in Somerset county, Md. On election day in Pike county, Ky., a bloody affray occurred between the McCoy and Hatfijld families, in wliion one of the Hatfields was shot and cut so that he died. His friends banded together, caught three of the McCoys, tied them to trees and shot them dead. More bloodshed is expected, as the families are numerous and vindictive. Tho Governor of Texas has proclaimed a quarantine against all Mexican ports on account of the prevalence of yellow fever. In Putnam county, Ga., Mr. and Mrs. Carter went to churoh and locked the children in the hpuae, which took fire and three children burned to death. The first bale of this year’s cotton crop was received at Mobile on the 15th of August. Benjamin H. Hill, United States Senator from Georgia, died at Atlanta on tbe

morning of Aug. 16, aged 59 years. About 2 o’clock a. m. he was discovered to be sinking, and by 6:15 he was dead. Four hours before his death he made a sign for a hypodermic injection of morphine. He appeared to be awake and conscious several times, but could not speak. At 6:15 he was apparently awake, when he closed his eyes gently, and died without a tremor. The National Board of Health do not think that the yellow fever now prevalent in the Rio Grande region is epidemic, or likely to be. POLITICAL POINTS. The Washington (D. O.) Sunday Gazette, in an article attacking the prosecution in the star-route cases, and more particularly exAttomey General MeVeagh and ex-Postmaster General James, publishes a letter over the signature of ex-Senator 8. W. Dorsey to President Garfield, in which it professes to find the animus of the star-route prosecution. The letter was written soon after Garfield’s election, with the idea that he was about to consult with CoL George Bliss as to the New York representation in the Cabinet. It advised the General to have no intercourse with such men of comparatively small renown, and not to ignore Conkling and Arthur and their following in order “to make ;>eace with Curtis, Wayne MacVeagh and others of that class,” The letter says : “We now have a great, well organized, active and aggressive army. If you want to muster out that army in order to pick up sneaks, bummers and deserters in tho rear go ahead, and I predict you will land iu a surrendered camp. I am tired of this blathering talk about MacVeagh to go into the Cabinet from Pennsylvania, and James from New York. Such detestable rot should be smoked out at once, and you ought to do it in some public way, as I have repeatedly urged upon you.” John Kelly, of New "York, has written, and the Tammany organ has published, a manifes’o declaring, in effect, that the Tammanyites will never enter the regularly-called Democratic primaries. At a convention of the liquor dealers of Indiana, held at Terre Haute, resolutions were adopted pledging support to the Democratic State ticket The New York anti-monopolists will nominate" a ticket in advance of the Republicans and Domocrats, in order to give either of them a chance to take it up all or in part. CoL Frederick A. Conkling is mentioned for Governor. Public Printer Rounds has appointed Cadet Taylor, of the Wenona (III.) Index, Chief Clerk of the Government Printing Office. Senator has addressed a letter to the people of Massachusetts, defending his vote for the River and Harbor bilL

WASHINGTON NOTES. The State Department lias received information from Minister Lowell of the release of Meany, arrested iu Ireland under the Repression act. The gigantic oak tree at Mount Vernon, known as Washington's oak, has been destroyed by lightning. The Treasury Department has decided customs officers may detain reprints of American copyrighted books and notify the owners of the copyrights to the end tho latter may take such measures for forfeiture of the books as the circumstances may warrant. Maj. Ben: Perley Poore has been selected by the joint committee on printing to compile the analytical catalogue of Government publications from the foundation of tho Government to the prosent time, authorized by the' recent session of Congress. An official at the Treasury Department estimates the receipts from all sources for the current fiscal year at $450,000,000. FOREIGN NEWS. The Irish constabulary arrested five out of a company of fifty men found drilling near Dungarvan. The committee in- charge of the Limerick races declined to accept from Clifford Lloyd a cup valued at £SO. The challenge of the Hillsdale crew has at last been acceptod by the Thames Rowing Club, owing to the satisfactory answer of the Yale Boat Club. Meantime the American oarsmen had gone across the channel, and a mouth will be required to bring about a contest. The English troops in Egypt are to be supplied with blue spectacles, to resist the disease known as ophthalmia. The National Industrial Exposition of Ireland opened at Dublin in the presence of 100,000 peoplo, with impressive ceremoniea. The best of order prevailed. The procession of trades was three miles long. The O’Connell statue was unveiled by Lord Mayor Dawson, iu the presence of Parnell, Dillon, Davitt and Gray, and a great crowd. Lord Mayor Dawson, in accepting it for the Irish people, said their struggle was not over, and their efforts would still be obstructed. They must endeavor to forget the melancholy past and look for glory in the future, in the hope that Ireland, once a province, would again become a nation. Parnell spoke a few words in which he expressed hope for the future prosperity of Ireland. The exhibition is pronounced a decided success. Prof. William Stanley Jevons, the distinguished philosopher and professor of political economy, was drowned while bathing at Boxhill, England. He was 47 years old. The public statement that the Prince of Wales needs to go to a German spring for medical treatment has made a sensation in London. The Bonapartists had a meeting at Paris, at which resolutions were passed favoring the placing of Prince Victor Napoleon upon the throne of France. De Cassagnac said tbe Imperialists were ready for power, and meant to take it. E. Dwyer Grey, proprietor of the Freeman's Journal, member of Parliament, and High Sheriff of the city of Dublin, for publishing a letter accusing the jnry who convicted Francis Hines of murder of being drunk on the night previous to the rendering of their verdict, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, and to pay a fine of £SOO. There is great indignation and excitement over the event. The freedom of the city of Dublin was presented to Parnell and Dillon, amid great enthusiawß. ?MrnsU ref wed to the oouylotiou

of Grey, and said it was clear that liberty of speech no longer existed in Ireland. He ad vised tbe higher classes, while they yet bad time, to join in endeavoring to bring about a better state of affairs. The people could no longer tolerate tneir present degradation. Dillon quoted statistics showing that Ireland had been economically injured by the union. The coronation of the Czar is announced to take place Oct. 1, at Moscow. Gen. Ducrot, a French officer of prominence in the Franco Prussian war, and latterly in command of the Eighth Army Corps, is dead. The troubles in Corea, between the foreign and anti-foreign parties, culminated in an insurrection and the assassination of the King and Queen by the anti-foreign party. Japanese men-of-war have been dispatched to the scene of the insurrection. A meeting, at which the Lord Mayor presided, was hold at the Mansion House, Dublin, for the purpose of procuring subscriptions for evicted tenants. E. Dwyer Grey sent a letter from the prison inclosing £29, which was received with shouts condemnatory of the Judge who sentenced Grey., LATER NEWS ITEMS. A man named Joyce, his wife, mother and daughter, near Cougin county, Galway, Ireland, were fired at and killed by a party of men. Two boys were wounded. The supposition is that Joyce was suspected of having given information relative to the murder of the bailiffs of Lord Ardiloun. Both houses of the British Parliament adjourned to the 24th of October. Continuous inclement weather in Iceland has retarded vegetation so seriously that the people have been compelled to kill stock which they could not support, and a famine is imminent. Measles is also spreading throughout the island. , Seventy-five Chilians were recently attacked by 2,000 Peruvians, and, refusing to surrender, ail perished. Consul George Gifford, at La Rochelle, France, reports to the Department of State that impure and unhealthy brandy is now the only kind shipped from France to tho United States. Six Italian railroad laborers, while intoxicated, went out in a skiff on the Youghiogheny river, near Shaner’s Station, Pa., when the boat capsized, and three of the occupants were drowned.