Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In his message to the Aidermen, Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, states the big bridge does not pay. Public schools in New York City cost $4,000,000 last year. The number of pupils taught*was 271,000. Thomas A. Doyle has entered upon h's seventeenth year as Mayor of Providence, R. I. He reports the municipal debt at $10,090,000, and complains that city property is overvalued $46,000,000 by the General Assembly. Special telegraph reports from various parts of Illinois and Indiana say that the wheat crop is a large one and in good condition. A train on the Indiana, Bloomington and Western Road was thrown into a ditch near Lilly, 111. Twelve persons in the smok-ing-car were bruised or cut. Omaha dispatch: News has been received here, which is believed to be reliable, that the bodies of fourteen men were found, from a point twenty-nine miles west of Valentine to Gordon City, seventy miles west of there, in Northwestern Nebraska. The bodies were found along and near a new railroad grade. The dead men were victims of the recent blizzard, and are supposed to be settlers who were on their way in for supplies from claims they have been locating near the line of a new road to be built next’

season. There was an ice-jam in Grand River, fifteen miles below Grand Rapids, Mich., and the country was flooded for miles, causing a pecuniary loss of not less than $50,000. Hun. dreds of families along the Wabash and White Rivers in Indiana were driven from their homes by the floods. A Congressional committee, headed by Wm. M. Springer, commenced at Cincinnati on the sth inst., an investigation into th i acts of Marshal Wright in the October election. The accused was the first witness, and testified that he appointed thirteen hundred deputes, all of whom were Republicans, and armed with bulldog revolvers, six hundred of those weapons being sent him from New York, he supposed by the Republican National Committee.

Congress reassembled after the holiday recess on Monday, the Sth inst, and both houses began work in earnest. In the Senate a bill was offered by Mr. Beck to create a revenue commission, comprising the Secretary of the Treasury, three Senators, and five members of the House of Representatives, to report necessary changes in the tariff and internal revenue laws. A resolution was introduced and referred exiending the thanks of Congress to the officers and crews of the Greely relief expedition. A communication was received from the Secretary of War, to the •effect that the Government can purchase the Portage Lake Canal, clear of liens, for $350,000. Mr. Maxey presented amendments to the law for leasing Indian lands, providing for the submission of such leases to the Secretary of the Interior., A bill was passed to pay P A. Montgomery, of Memphis. $3,000 for property taken from him and used by the Government during the war. Some discussion concerning the interstate commerce bill followed. In the House of Representatives Mr. Herbert introduced a preamble and resolution calling upon the President to give his reasons for appointing Messrs, hasson and Sanfotd as delegates to the African conference at Berlin. Representative Collins offered a motion to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution making the Senate bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy laws a special order for Jan. 22. Mr. Henderson, of lowa, thought that the passage of the Lowell bill might save the country from disaster. Petitions in support of the bill were presented from the business men of St. Louis, New York, and Baltimore. Mr. Willis opposed the measure, saying that its passage would create 5,000 new offices, and would open the door to fraud. Mr. Collins defended the bill against the attack of .Mr. Willis. His motion to suspend the rules and appoint a day for its consideration was, however, lost. Mr. Keifer moved to suspend the rules' and take up the Mexican pension bill. There was an animated discussion, at the conclusion of which the motion was rejected. Mr. Hiscock moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill abolishing the internal revenue tax on tobacco and liquors distilled from fruit. This motion was lost. Mr. Cox, of New York, offered a bill authorizing the use of the Bartholdi Statue as a lighthouse, and another creating the' office of Assistant Chief Signal Officer, to be accompanied with the rank and pay of ColoneL This position, it is understood, is intended for Lieut, Greely. A bill was introduced by Mr. Tucker increasing the number of Judges of the United States Courts; another by Mr. English providing for the issue of one, two and five dollar silver certificates; and another by Mr. Breckenridge creating a River and Harbor Department.