Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Prof. Dodge, the Statistician of the National Agricultural Department, is of the opinion that the corn crop will probably be as great as that of 1882. The damage to the corn in lowa by the early frosts has, according to trustworthy railway reports, been much overestimated —A Southern cotton expert estimates the yield of that staple for 1883 at not ab0ve5,250,000 balea The crop has been seriously damaged by drought and by the pestiferous cotton worm.—lt is found by reports received at the Agricultural Department in Washington from the tobaccogrowing districts that the tobacco crop in the New England States, New Yook, Penns.vlvania and Wisconsin has greatly suffered from the recent frosts. At the best, not three-fourths of the crop in the States mentioned will be harvested Pool Commissioner Albert Fink appeared as a witness before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor. He believes the pooling system necessary to the existence of any railway service whatever. The growth of this necessity he instanced by stating that when he began as Pool Commissioner he represented but five roads, all running east and west Two associations similar to the one which he controls now exist in the West, covering territory not occupied by the Eastern pool Pooling on a grand scale began in 1875 in the South. But for the water routes. Mr. Fink admitted, it would go very hard with the people, as the pinch which shippers now get at the close of navigation would be an all-destroying grip but that the dread of something after springtime puzzles the magnates’ will The gospel according to Fink is, that when competition between individuals becomes ruinous it stops itself; but when corporations get into such a fight it cannot be stopped by the mere ruin of the properties involved Competition must bS eliminated in order to make the business of transportation possible. Mr. Pink pronounced the scheme of Governmental purchase and control of the railroads the wildest folly imaginable. To a question as to whether the people could not be relieved of their causes of complaint, Mr. Fink grimly responded that so long as the people were charged anything at all they would remain obdurate. Dispatches from Marshall, Texas, state that the white farmers in the vicinity of Longview are terribly excited over a raid believed to be contemplated by the negroes. Planters were guarding their families in ginhouses, and arms were being secured for every white man. The Secretary of the Navy has placed the steamship Despatch at the disposal of the Corean Embassy. Junius Brutus Booth, the actor and theatrical manager, died at his home in Manchester, Mass. Dr. Stintzing, a professor in the University of Bonn, met his death while attempting to climb the Alps. The Cape Government has demanded of Cetawayo and his followers a surrender in ten days, or troops will be sent to bring him in. Alleging that the French language has been used in Alsace-Lorraine to agitate restoration to France, Gen. Manteuffel has ordered that only the German tongue shall be used by the judicial and municipal authorities after this year. There was a mass-meeting of the Irish National League at Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland, at which over 50,CC0 persons were present Thomas Power O’Connor, member of Parliament for Galway, delivered a stirring speech in favor of home rule for Ireland. The meeting adopted resolutions declaring that the Irish National League will never cease its efforts until a native Irish Parliament is established. The steam-barge Oakland, lumber laden, from Bay City for Erie, foundered off Conneaut, and four of the crew were lost