Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1882 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. "Elast. Mr. Stewart, Secretary of the Brooklyn Board of Education, is nowhere to be found, and i a defaulter to the amount of $250,000. The Sunday code was practically a dead letter in New York last Sabbath, the usual avocations on the Sabbath being plied with immunity. Even alleged sacred concerts were given at many public resorts. s The New York Senate Committee on Grain Corners called before it Henry Ward Beecher, who expressed his conviction that the gomblingcarrled on by merchants is far less injurious to public morals than the effect produced by church fairs and religious lotteries. As to stock speculation, he got a liberal education by buying Panama railroad at S4OO and selling at SIOO. The press-house of Laflin & Rand’s powder manufactory at Mountain View, N. J.. blew uu causing the death of three men. James R. Keene, a speculator of twenty years’ experience, testified before the New York Senate committee that he never knew a corner in any production to work injuriously to the public. Ha thought the bucket-shop system should be crushed out by legislation, but legitimate speculation was of the greatest benefit to the people of the country. A steel-rail maker states that Pennsylvania mills have sold Vanderbilt 40,000 tons at 838.

A runaway couple from Oneida county, N. Y., named Thomas Doyle and Katie A. Morgan, were found to have been suffocated by gas in their room in a hotel in Rochester. Henry James, Sr., the philosopher and metaphysician, an associate of Greeley, Emerson and Thoreau on this side of the Atlantic, and of Carlyle, Mill and Tennyson on the other, died in Boston. Earthquakes are generally supposed to be luxuries within the reach only of dwelleM in tropical climes, but the people of Concord, Dover and other towns in New Hampshire were the other evening treated to a genuine shock, which lasted some eight or ten seconds and was accompanied by a rumbling noise. Lewis Thompson, a mulatto, 81 years of age, the first man ever committed to Sing Sing prison, has been sent back for six months for stealing a door-mat in New York. Over forty years of his life have been passed behind grated windows. The City Bank of Rochester, N. Y., has closed its doora Its President, Charles E. Upton, got on the wrong side of the oil market and sunk $350,000 of the bank’s money in trying to get even. Several small savings institutions in Kochester deposited with the City Bank, and many poor people will suffer by its failure. W est. Lieut. Col. George W. Schofield, of the regular army, a brother of Gen. John M. Schofield, committed suicide at Fort Apache Kansas reports an increased acreage in winter wheat, with the crop in tine condition. Judge Clinton Briggs, of Omaha, was killed by falling, as is supposed, from the platform of an eastward-bound express train, near Afton, lowa Sparks from a locomotive at Kansas City started a conflagration which swallowed up the Missouri Pacific freight-house, the Ft ate Line elevator and nine freight-cars, causing a loss of SBO,OOO. Hon. Godlove S. Orth died at Lafayette, Ind., of blood poisoning superinduced by cancer. He is the sixth member of the present Congress who has passed away. Mr. Orth was 65 years of age. For the year ended June 30 the railroads in Wisconsin earned $18,765,4’28, an increase of $3,300,000 over I-SSI. During the above-named period 100 persons were killed by accidents, and 371 were injured. The farm-house of John Clark, in Linn county, Kan., was burned and three small children perished in the flames. Clark had removed two children,and while he was searching for a third the other two wandered back in the house and all were consumed.

South. • The cotton report for December shows a large percentage of increase in some States of the cotton belt, and approximates the crop at 6,700,000 bales of 460 pounds each. Southern matrimonial associations to the number of 240 have been placed on the black list of the Postoffice Department Flames broke out iu a restaurant at Newport, Ark., and spread until sixty business buildings were destroyed The loss is estimated at $250,000. James Lyons, an octogenarian of Richmond, Va, who was a member of the Confederate Congress, died the other day. At Hazel Dell, Texas, two brothers named Fraley, charged with stealing cotton, were swung up to the limb of a tree. The medical students and their assistants recently caught while robbing graves near Richmond, Va., were sentenced to six months’ imrisonment each. It is believed that the cotton crop will be fully 7,000,000 bales, and labor is so scarce along the Mississippi that much of the staple will be w'asted A Mrs. Pigeon (supposed [to be Mrs. Labouchere), who was married in England, entered suit for divorce at Richmond, Va In a hail-storm near Huntsville,. Ala., Dean's milling-house was blown down, killing Albert Driden and four negro women who had sought shelter. Three or four others were slightly wounded

WASHINGTON NOTES. A bill for $3,100 for the funeral expenses of Ben Hill was presented to the

Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, who sent it back for a fair pruning. The United States Supreme Court has rendered a decision in the political assessment case of Gen. N. M. Curtis. The constitutionality of the law under which Gen.. Curtis was convicted is affirmed, and the petition for a writ of habeas corpus denied. The House Pension Committee has agreed to report a bill giving $8 per month to soldiers engaged for thirty days in the Mexican, Blackhawk or Florida wars, or to their Widows, Jeff Davis alone to be excepted from the provisions of the measure. The Finance Committee of the Senate does not expect to be ready to report the. Tariff bill before jhe middle of January. The Senate Committee on Railroads has agreed to make a favorable report on the bill authorizing the Southern Pacific and other railroads to consolidate into a continuous line from ocean to ocean.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Propositions to wipe away internalrevenue taxes on tobacco have almost paralyzed that great interest Southern Congressmen are especially clamorous for some settlement of the issue. The Clearing House statistics show that Chicago is still hugging Philadelphia closely in the amount of financial transactions. The coast of Newfoundland has just been visited by the worst storm of fifty years. The blow lasted twenty-four hours, wrecked numbers of vessels, and caused the loss of some thirty or forty human lives. Fifteen vessels were wrecked at Twillingate alone, and some fifteenpeople were drowned. The sailors whose ships were fortunate enough to ride out of the storm describe the sight as the most fearful they ever looked upon at sea r l’he descendants of William Blackmore, who settled on this side of the Atlantic in Colony times, claim heirship to the ground upon which stands the United States Capitol Building, the White House, Treasury, Navy and other Government buildings, and hundreds of fine dwellings and business houses, as well as thousands,of acres of land in Georgetown, I). Maryland, and. Washington county. Pa The principal claimants live in Pittsburgh, and the papers have been drawn up for the institution of an ejectment suit All the city officials of Ahuucaltar, Mexico, were abducted by' brigands, and are now held for ransom. Trenor W. Park, the original proprietor of the Emma mine, in Utah, and President of the Panama railroad, died ou a steamer bound for Aspinwall. A fire at Pembroke, Ont., consumed the Copeland Hotel and au adjoining Mock. Three persons were burned to death, and property to the amount of 8100,000 was destroyed. Yee Ot, who made a fortune in the laundry business at Allegheny City, has returned to China to marry his cousin. The matter has caused a vast amount of talk. Secretary Folger was appealed to, and decided that under the last law the bride cannot be brought here. A large meeting of iron manufacturers was held at Pittsburgh, at which the condition of the trade was reported to be fairly good and the prospects for next season unclouded. The convention unanimously indorsed the Tariff Commission’s report, and urged the present Congress to make it a law.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Democrats of the Seventeenth Ohio district have .nominated Ross J. Alexander to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Updegraff. Gov. Porter, of Indiana, has called a special election for Jan. 9 in the Ninth Congressional district, to choose a successor to Hon. Godlove 8. Orth. Gen. Curtis was discharged from custody at New York upon payment of a fine of SI,OOO inflicted for collecting political assessments.

FOREIGN NEWS. At a banquet given in Cork to Par- j nell, O’Connor and Sexton, a stranger pro- I posed the health of the Queen of the Belgians, and drew a revolver on the officer who seized him. During the last eleven months the exports of France increased ' 147,000,000 francs and the imports 106,000,000 francs over the corresponding period of 1881. - The changes in the British Cabinet have been completed Earl Derby becomes Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Kimberley Secretary for India, the Marquis of Hartington Secretary of War, and Mr. Childers Chancellor of the Exchequer. A fire causing the death of nine persons occurred in the town of Le Puy, France. The Rev. Francis Close, Dean of Carlisle, and one of the dignitaries of the English Church, is dead An unknown vessel was wrecked on the coast of Kincardineshire, Scotland, and all hands perished Eight hundred houses in Canton, China, were destroyed by a conflagration on Nov. 7 and 8. Many firemen and others were burned to death. Nearly 3,000 persons' in Carrick, Donegal county, Ireland, are in danger of starvation. Indian meal is the only article of food to be had Mr. Parnell, in a speech at Cork, expressed the opinion that there had been already saved upward of £3,(XX),IKK) in arrears of rent, and further announced his intention of opposing any proposition to encourage the Irish to emigrate to America unless they were given a bonus which would enable them to land on this side of the water with enough funds to keep them from becoming a burden upon the communitv. At Loughrea, Ireland, a number of aborers paraded the streets, asserted they were starving and demanded food or work. The Catholic Bishop distributed some money among them. According to advic s from Berlin the greatest uneasiness prevails in financial circles there, the cause being the strained relations between Ger>>”>nv and Russia arising out of the gathering of Russian soldiers on the Galician frontier. • Bismarck has recently caused to be published a number of articles insisting that the Austro-German alliance is for purely defensive purposes, and the warlike movement of the Russians is considered as a practical protest against thia Upward of twenty women were killed by the explosion of a cartridge factory near Paris. The Czar has deferred until autumn the tour he intended to take next spring. Joseph Reichardt, a Vienna leather

merchant, has failed, with iM 4000, liabilities. In the election for Spanish Crnncils General the Government was everywhere successful Mr. Bontoux, late President of the Union Generale Bank of Paris, and M. Feder, the manager, have been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 franca Forty young farmers were arrested for connection with a proclaimed meeting at Ballymena in Antrim. Bail w r as refused. Michael Davitt attributes the death of the Land League to the commission of outrages and murder, which excite the English mind and prejudice it against land reformation in Ireland. Michael Flynn, upon being convicted at Dublin of murder, thanked the Judge when he had pronounced sentence of death, asserted his willingness to meet his Creator, and bade all goofl-day. Overdank, the Austrian bomb manufacturer, was hanged at Trieste.