Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Kant. The engagement of Gen. Beauregard and Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt is mentioned in print in New York. , A new oil well yielding 1,000 barrels per day having been struck in Forest county, Pehn., the bottom dropped out of the market at Bradford and Pittsburgh, and almost a panic followed. The price fell cents. W. H. Vanderbilt appeared before the New York Senate Committee on Grain Corners to state that the system of dealing in futures has a bad effect As for himself, he said, he never bought a share of stock to speculate and never sold one short The ice gave way on a dam near Philadelphia where a large number of children were skating and four were drowned. Went. Snow has fallen to the depth of five feet in the region of the Straits of Mackinaw. W. F. “Blakeney, inventor of the turbine water-wheel, died at Dayton, Ohio. 'The County Bank, at Kinsley, Kan., tyas robbed of $12;000. Soslah A. Noonan, for many years a leading politician and journalist of Wisconsin, died, in the insane asylum at Wauwatosa Patrick Slattery, aged 22, shot his step-mother dead at their home near Mount Pleasant, lowa, and then put a bullet through his own brain. A note left by the suicide states the tragedy was caused by whisky. Whije depositions were being taken before a notary in St. Louis in the suit of Mrs. Slayback against CoL Cockerill, an affray took place between the attorneys, in which John M Glover seized Frank Bowman by the throat and sent him to the floor. The corner stone of the new Chicago Chamber of Commerce, which is to cost #1,500,000, and to be completed in a year and a half, was laid the other day with imposing ceremonies. A Cleveland jeweler was robbed at midday of SIO,OOO worth of diamonds by a stranger who called ostensibly to get a watch repaired. There is an epidemic of disappearances in Chicago. Within less than a month a dozen cases of mysterious disappearance of girls and young women have been reported to the police of that city. In Milwaukee a number of similar cases were rejiorted. South. A robbery of $(>0,000, by frauds, has been discovered in the office of the Tax Collector at Louisville. It is thought the total defalcations will reach $200,000. Capt. Ed Cox, who killed Col. Robert A Alston in Georgia four years ago, has been pardoned by Gov. Stephens. A serious riot occurred at Opelika, Ala, between the factions supporting the rival City Councils, in which nine white men and a negro were shot down. The Legislature has passed an act vacating the charter of the city and authorizing the Governor to appoint a local government Robert S. Crampton,Cashier and Paymaster of the Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad, has absconded, leaving defalcations which will exceed SIO,OOO. The iron and steel bridge over the Mexican Pacific railroad extension near San Antonio, Texas, collapsed, and seven men were killed. The Princess Louise and her husband will remain in the Southern States until February. A syndicate of British capitalists has purchased 100,000 acres of cotton land in Chicot county. Ark., and will go into the cultivation of the fleecy staple upon an extensive scale.

WASHINGTON NOTES. In his annual report the Commissionenof Pensions recommends the remodeling of the Bounty-land laws, and the granting of pensions according to disability rather than rank. At present there are 117 grades of pensioners. The Commissioner regrets the faot that no enumeration of the pension population was made in the last census’ bit an approximation shows that out of 2,(1-60,391 soldiers enlisted in the war of the rebellion, only 26 per cent have applied for pensions. The United States Commissioner of Railroads reports that at the end of June ]nst the Union Pacific Company owed the Government $63,620,570, and that the Central Pacific was indebted to the amount of $52,140,813. The ‘House Committee on Education has decided to report favorably a bill appropriating $10,OCX),000 annually, for five years, to aid the public schools A committee of citizens of Washington held an interview in the jail with a pair of convicted thieves, who related the circumstances of many robberies, including that of ex-Minister Christiancy’s diamonds, and stated the amounts paid the detectives for protection. It appears that the entire detective force of the District has received weekly dividends from the monte and bunko men. It is rumored that Internal Revenue Commissioner Raum will shortly resign. Fitz John Porter has a strong and influential lobby at work in his behalf. Senator Hoar thinks the Lowell Bankrupty bill will go through Congress. Postmaster General Howe has made arrangements for the manufacture of 2-cent stamps on an extensive scale. The House Judiciary Committee has adopted the Supreme Court bill framed by Senator David Davis, by 9 to 3.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Sir Hugh Allan, the great Canadian shipbuilder and vessel-owner, died suddenly in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was bom in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1810, and emigrated to Canada at the age of 16. The Mexican Go ernment has appointed Romero and Zamacona Commissioners to meet Grant and Tfescott in Washington to negotiate a treaty of commerce. ' Senator. Maxey says that only frontier protection, reciprocity and railways are needed to bring about cordial relations and a profitable trade. The steel-rail mills at South Ch’cago, operated by the North Chicago Rolling Mills Company, shut down the other day. It is alleged that this course was forced upon the company by the low price at which the Pj-< duct is now quoted. The Delaware rolling nftJl, at Phillipsburg, N. J., started up, after a ejispension of one month. The Ibven-ide rolling mill, at Newcastle Del., stopped on .account cf the dullness of aade. AH navy pensioners residing in the

agency districts of Chicago, Columbus, Des Moines, Detroit, Indianapolis, Louisville, Milwaukee and Topeka will hereafter be paid at Chicago. • The fierce rate war between the Northwestern, Rock Island, Omaha and St Paul, and Milwaukee and St Paul roads has been brought to a close to the satisfaction of all interested in these lines. The Western Union Telegraph Company has declared a quarterly dividend of per cent The Triton cotton-mills, of New Castle, Del, resumed operations, the workmen having submitted to a reduction of wages. For the twenty-fifth time, John W. Garrett has been elected President of the Baltimore and Ohio road. The male students in the Kingston, (Ont.) Medical College threaten to quit the institution unless the female students are expelled. The death of two centenarians is announced—Maria Appley, at Morristown, N. J., one of the thirteen girls who represented the States in George Washington’s funeral procession, aged 105 years; and Sarah Wood, at Buford, Ga, aged 121. The extensive cabin* t shops of the Remington Sewing Machine Company at Ilion, N. Y.; the depot and works of the Manhattan Beach Railroad Company at Bay Ridge, N. Y., with a large number of engines and passenger coaches; two hotels at Winnipeg; and a number of houses at Hickman, Ky., were dstroyed by fire, with great loss On orders from a London banking house, Baltimore brokers are buying Confederate coupon bonds of the face value of $1,000,000, for which they pay $8.50 to $9.75 per SI,OOO.

POLITICAL POINTS. It is reported that Congressman Manning, of Mississippi, who ran against Chalmers, refuses to access certificate of election from the Governor of that State, as he believes he was not fairly elected. The Governor, however, still refuses to give a certificate to Chalmers, and says he will order a new election in case Manning persists in refusing the certificate. Albert Palmer, Democrat, was elected Mayor of Boston by 2,000 majority over Samuel A Green. Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, has announced himself us a candidate for the Speakersliip, and claims a majority of the delegation from his State. He says he is bound to defeat Randall, and professes not to know that Mr. Carlisle is a candidate.

FOREIGN NEWS. England is soon to bring from Egypt four battalions of troops and ship more marines to Ireland for police duty. The Prefect has ordered the police to expel all Jews residing with the municipal boundaries of St Petersburg without official permission. The Senate has decided that all Jews are incapable of holding landed property in Russia Parnell, through the Land Court, desires to dispose of his County Wicklow property. . William Galignani, of Paris, the last of the well-known family, and Sir Joseph Napier, of England, are dead. Gen. Lew Wallace, Minister to Turkey, has lately been to Jerusalem, and visited the Khedive at Cairo. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland commuted the sentence of death passed upon five participants in the murder of the Joyce family. London was visited the other daybyone of the dense fogs for which it is so uncomfortably famous, the result being that all traffic was stopped and numberless accidents occurred. A portion of the War Department Building at Madrid was consumed, twenty persons receiving severe injuries. A man who is suspected of having been the companion of the murderer of Detective Cox was the first to be arrested at Dublin under the curfew clause • of the Repression act. A Connaught (Ireland) farmer named Kilmartin has been sentenced to penal servitude for life for assaulting a bailiff. In Dublin, Patrick Higgins has been found guilty of the murder of the two Huddys and was sentenced to be hanged next month. Spain has offered to release the Cuban refugees under a pledge that they will consent to perpetual exile from all Spanish territories. The Sultan of Turkey has ordered a carriage which is to be bullet and grenade proof. Failures in the tin-plate trade in England and Wales, with liabilities aggregating $2,000,000, are reported. The metal trade at Birmingham and Sheffield is excited over the discovery of a process for the cheap production of aluminum. Earl Derby, who has just accepted the position of Secretary of State for India, in a speech delivered at Manchester rejected entirely the idea of an English protectorate for Egypt, and said England would remain no longer in Egypt than was absolutely necessary to restore order. English influence must preponderate, but it was not necessary to exercise such influence in an offensive spirit, nor to exclude a free and friendly consultation with France. By the flooding of a mine at Cheswick, Victoria, twenty-two persons were drowned. Mr. Gladstone has resigned his Premiership of Great Britain, and the Right Hon. Hugh C. E. Childers has been gazetted as his successor. Hampton Court, a palace fifteen miles from London, took fire on the 14th. Two rooms above the picture gallery were burned, the damage by fire and water being £30,000. Two men named Brady and Hanlon were arrested by the Dublin detectives for complicity in the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under-Secretary Burke in the Phoenix Park. In a speech at Manchester, Lord Derby asserted that a few million pounds would be profitably expended in expediting emigration from Ireland He was greatly opposed to the Home-rule issue, and said the Government should refuse to listen to the claims of the Irish Nationalists.

When you see a patent-medicine puff credited to the “News,” you know right awav which paper it means, and where it is published, because there are only 157 pape s in this country bearing that name.— Norristown Herald. In Mi sachusetts smoking at the polls is prohibited by law.