Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. George Huntington, his wife anti four children were drowned at Amesbury, Mass., by the capsizing of a small boat Anthony Comstock raided the poolloons in Long Island City, captured property valued at $15,000 and made three arrests. At each place visited he was compelled to force an entrance. At the autumn meeting of the New York and Brooklyn Association of Congregational Churches, held in the former city, II m y Ward Beecher, who had been assigned to open the discussion of the subject of “H; iritual Barbarism,” made it the occasion of announcing his withdrawal from mem-ber-hip in the association. He delivered an elaborate exposition of his beliefs respecting the doctrine of the Bible and of Christianity, and assigned as a reason for withdrawing from-the association that as a Christian gentleman he could not afford to lay on anybody the responsibility of his views. President Arthur was enthusiastically rec c ted at Boston. A battery thundered its welcome, and he was escorted to his hotel by brigades of the State militia. At his reception, at faneuil Hall, he addressed a large multitude. The party went from Boston to Marshfield, where they participated in the 100th birthday of Daniel Webster. George D. Rice, cashier of the Dime Savings Bank, at Lebanon, Pa., brought home from Philadelphia, in a sachel, $30,000 in currency, and laid it aside to eat supper with his family. About 8 o’clock in the evening he left for the bank, to place the money in the safe. When he had walked a few yards he was assaulted by two men, who felled him with a billy. He clung to the sachel and shouted for help, but was clubbed until senseless, and his treasure taken away. The 100th anniversary of the birth of Daniel Webster was celebrated with peculiarly interesting exercises at Marshfield, Mass. President Arthur and Secretaries Lincoln and Chandler, Senators Hoar and Dawes, Gov. Long, Mayor Green and other notables were present, the President making several speeches in response to the attentions bestowed upon him. The city of Buffalo is flooded with spurious silver dollars, and it is believed a gang of counterfeiters have their workshops hi the vicinity.

West. Charles P. Johnson, formerly Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, will defend Frank James in any prosecution brought by the State. The registration of voters in Utah covers 34,000 names, four out of nine being women and three out of four Mormons. Near Deckerville, Micli., a farmer named Davidson quarreled with and shot his wife dead, and then fatally wounded his two eons. The murderer then escaped. An entire block of business houses in East Front street, El Paso, 111., was consumed by lire. 'Lie loss is estimated at $100,0(H), with but small insurance. The people of Lincoln county, Mo., have rebelled against an order of court levying a tax of 1 per cent, to pay a judgment for S3OO,(XX) on railroad bonds, and declare that they will resist the collection in every manner known to the law. A fall of rock in the Republican Iron Mine, at Republic, Mich., instantly killed four workmen and seriously injured another. Seventeen members of a gang of counterfeiters were gobbled by the United Btates Marshal at Tipton, Ind., after mountains of evidence had been secured by detectives. The laborers on the Northern Pacific demanded an increase of wages, and the men were very turbulent and threatened Superintendent of Construction Hallet with hanging. All the Chinamen were driven off. Ha let demanded the protection of the military. The garrison at Salt Lake is to be increased by four companies of the Sixth infantry, but officers in the War Department deny any fears of trouble with the Mormons. Sixty-one head of polled Angus and Galloway cattle were sold at the Kansas City fair-grounds, bringing $36,730. The Angus cows averaged $748 and the Galloway cows $407. South. The Rev. J. L. Denton, State Superintendent of Instruction of Arkansas, suicided at Fayetteville, while mentally deranged, by throwing himself from the balcony of a residence. George D. Wise, candidate for Congress in Virginia, challenged his opponent, J. Ambler Smith. The latter accepted and named shot-guns at forty paces. Wise thereupon came to the conclusion that dueling was barbarous, and there was no fight. Congressman W. M. Lowe, of Ala- . bama, died at Huntsville in that State. The Star block at Terrell, Tex., containing a bank and several stores, was destroyed by fire, the loss aggregating $75,000. Diphtheria is committing great outrages in Pittsylvania county, Va Twenty pupils in one school district died, and there is not a family but mourns the loss of a little one.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A sudden demand for fractional currency has sprung up, and the Treasurer of the United States is kept busy shoveling out half-dollars, quarters and dimes. The demand is said to grow out of the increasing prosperity of the South. The colored people are said to like silver money, and planters, manufacturers and storekeepers are constantly clamoring through the banks for fresh supplies. There will be no difficulty in supplying any possible demand in this direction. Dr. Bliss, Garfield’s physician, says he will get the full amount of his bill, s3sv--000, and that he will never be a well man again. Eighty days spent at Garfield’s bedside have, he claims, broken down his constitution and wrecked his health. William F. Salter and Wiimot H. Ward have been arrested in Washington on a charge of being engaged in a conspiracy to steal bonds and plates from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and attempting to bribe employes of the bureau to assist them in their plans. It is alleged that the object of the woukl-be thieves was not to counterfeit bonds, but to damage Col. Irish, chief of the bureau, and secure bis removal from office. Attorney General Brewster is vigorously pushing the inquiry into the attempted bribery of jurors in the star-route cases. The Treasury Department is unable to supply the demand for gold certificates, and it is proposed to change the form so that countersigning will not be necessary. Dressed beef from Chicago has made a revolution in prices at Washington, the decreased cost to consumers being onetliird. The Dead Letter Office has been receiving hundreds of misdirected letters which are sent out by insurance companies to all parts of ific country. A package has been received at the Treasury Department containing $‘.150,000 in Government bonds bequeathed by Joseph L. Lewis, a miser, of Hoboken, N/ Y., to extinguish the public debt. POLITICAL POINTS. A Little Rock dispatch says that returns of the vote in Arkansas at the September election on the liquor question have been received by the Secretary of State from ail but one small county, as follows: For license, 78,889; against license, 45,041. Only twelve counties out of seventy-four voted against license. Howard Carroll, a well-known journalist, was the unanimous choice of tho State Republican Committee of New York for Con-gressman-at-Large. The Democratic State Central Convention of Minnesota unanimously indorsed the P.ejiublican nomination of James Gilftllan for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The platform opposes the submission of an amendment to the constitution lessening the rights of the people, and demands a chance to soli in the highest and buy in the lowest market in the world. FOREIGN NEWS. The Cairo correspondent of the Cologne Gazette declares that Egyptian wounded were murdered by the British in the trenches at Tel-el-Kebir long after all resistance ceased. A letter from a noncommissioned officer says orders were given to spare none of the enemy, and to bayonet every one of them, as they would shoot soldiers treacherously if the latter passed them. A native convicted of committing terrible atrocities during the massacres of June 11 was executed at Alexandria. The military tribunal in session at Balta, Russia, trying the cases of anti-Jewish rioters, have condemned one leader to two years’ imprisonment and five others from sixteen to eighteen months. M. Duruax, French Minister of Public Instruction, in a speech at Nancy, advocated teaching the children republican politics, that they should be instructed what the Government lost at Alsace and Loigaino, and enlightened as to the character of the old monarchies. Sultan Pasha, President of the Egyptian Chamber of Notables, thinks Turk sh intervention in the affairs of the •ountry would cause anarchy. He thinks the cost of tho joint control was extravagant, and admits the mass of the people are unfit for representative government. The North Staffordshire coal-mine owners have granted then miners a 10 per cent, advance in wages. The indictment against the Egyptian leaders contains three counts: Instigating the Alexandria massacre, directing the burning of the city and abusing a iiag of truce. When the rebel prisoners were delivered to tho Egyptian authorities the English insisted that they be allowed legal assistance. The Egyptians contend that this condition does nob bind them to permit the engagement of foreign counsel. The question will be referred to the Foreign Office. A dispatch from Signapore, India, says that Explorer Witti, in the service ot the British Borneo Company, has been murdered by the head-hunters. ’1 ho Dyak custom of collecting human heads, it has been thought, had died out. Lorillard’s Touch-me-not won the Bedford Stakes for 2-year-olds at Newmarket. Father Sheehy, recently imprisoned as a “suspect” in Ireland, has been presented by his parishioners ■with a testimonial valued at £2,500. The Earl of Shrewsbury’s mansion, Ingestrc Hall, near Stafford, Eng’and, was de troyed by fire. Loss about $2,500,000. Mr. Courtney, a member of the British Parliament, assumes to define the policy of the Government by stating that Egypt is to be detached from the Sultan and her people left to stew in their own juice. The bodies of Lady Hanliam and Mrs. Hanham, who died in 1877 and 1870, respectively, have just been cremated in England—the first which have taken place in that country. According to United Ireland, Parnell will present to the Irish conference a prudent but firm policy for abolition of rackrents, pending gxe attainment of a peasant

proprietary. The same journal ridicules the reports of dissensions among the Irish leadera