Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The funeral of Minister Hunt was held in Washington last week. Chief Justice Waite, Admiral Porter, and ex-Secretary Blaine officiated as pall-bearers. Prospects for the wheat crop in England are good, but trade is slow. Nubar Pasha has withdrawn his resignation of the Presidency of the Egyptian Ministry until the English Government gives a decision in regard to the relative powers of the Egyptian Ministers and English officials. Crow-King, the Sioux chief, died at the Standing Rock Agency last week. He was the first of the hostiles to surrender after the Custer massacre. Judd? Crouch and Dan Holcomb, the alleged murderers of the Crouch family, were admitted to bail at Jackson, Mich., in the sum of $20,000 each. The people did not receive the decision with favor. The Executive Committee of the Gould and Wabash systems has ordered a reduction of 10 per cent, in all salaries of SIOO per month and over. The Canadians express alarm over the magnitude of the emigration to the United States. A party of 325 left one parish, last week, 200 of them to remain permanently. City of Mexico (April *8) telegram: "All the stores in this country are closed today, even including the liquor saloons. A deep feeling of anxiety prevails. There may be a riot, but hardly a revolution, for the merchants have only refused to pay the stamp tax.”

The municipal election in Cincinnati was one of the most quiet held for years, and resulted in the election of the Democratic ticket by about 2,000 majority, in a very light vote. The Republicans elected their municipal ticket in Cleveland by about 2,000 majority. The Columbus and Toledo elections were carried by the Republicans, while Steubenville and Newark were captured by the Democrats. At Muskegon, Mich., the Demo-cratic-Workingmen’s ticket was triumphant. The Democrats also carried Jackson, Ypsilanti, Niles, Port Huron, Hillsdale, Charlotte, Adrian, and Benton Harbor, while the Republicans were successful at St. Joseph, Big Rapids, Battle Creek, East Saginaw, Saginaw City, Howland, and Kalamazoo. At Lansing, the capital of Milligan, the Republicans elected the Mayor, while the Democrats elected the Clerk and Treasurer, and gained four Aidermen. The Democrats carried the day at the municipial elections In Keokuk and Dubuque, lowa. A well-informed politician who holds office under the present administration writes to a friend in Chicago from the Western Re. serve of Ohio that Blaine and Lincoln are the choice of nine-tenths of the Republicans of that region. Logan is preferred to Arthur.

The Senate took up the education bill for the final struggle on the 7th inst., Mr. Voorhees making the closing speech in its favor. Amendments by Mr. Hoar were agreed to, that the amount to be distributed shall be $7,000,000 the first year, $10,000,000 the second, and 15,000,000 the third, then diminishing s2,ooo,ooi)yearly, and that all children have an equal opportunity for education. An amendment bv Mr. Sherman was carried, that the money shall be used only for common schools not sectarian in character. The bill was then passed. The House of Representatives passed a joint resolution giving court reports and sets of the Revised Statutes to the Cincinnati Law Library. Resolutions were offered calling for information regarding the threatened confiscation of the American College in Italy, and authorizing the President to fill the vacancy in the International Prison Commission. Bills were introduced to incorporate the Cherokee and Arkansas River and the Montana and Idaho Railroad Companies. On suspension of the rules, a resolution was adopted making bills for the erection of public buildings a continuing special order for April A motion by Mr. Converse to suspend the rules and pass the bill restoring the duty of 1869 on wool was debated for half an hour by Messrs. McKinley, Morrison, Hurd, and Converse, and was defeated by 119 to 126. A resolution declaring it unwise to reduce the tax on whisky was adm’ed bv 179 to 33. It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty.— Nevins.