Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1885 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

William H. Vanderbilt recently paid a New York banking firm $9,000,000 for sufficient West Shore bonds to control the road. 6ne hundred thousand cattle are ready to take the trail north from Southwest Texas if the quarantine laws of other States will permit their passage. • During the season ended March 1, 385,435 hogs were packed at Cincinnati, against 365,451 the preceding season. W. R. Lemon, a student in a medical college at St. Louis, killed himself because he failed to pass the final examination. Gen. Francis Darr and other Californians have tendered Gen. Grant and his family, as a loan, a large bearing vineyard in the State, which would be conducted by a skilled viticulturist, with a residence and necessary outbuildings. All the expenses of the General and his party to the Pacific coast would be paid, the Central Pacific Road guaranteeing to send special cars to New York for their conveyance Westward. Albert D. Gihon, son of a medical director in the navy, was cowhided in Washington by W. A. L. Gresham, son of Judge Walter Q. Gresham. The latter was arrested. An order has been issued by the President of the United States throwing open to settlement the lauds included in the old Winnebago and Sioux or Crow Creek Reservations in Dakota, with the exception of certain specified tracts. It is rumored that war is imminent between England and Russia. Negotiations between the two powers regarding the Afghan frontier have reached a delicate stage. Russia has made such sweeping demands that England cannot accept anything approaching them. It is said that the British will occupy Kabool as soon as possible, and the Ameer of Afghanistan has teen ordered to have the road cleared from Herat to Peshawar to facilitate the march of the troops. A medical inspection of every regiment in the British army is now in progress, and the Devonshire Regiment and Seaforth Highlanders have teen oi dered to India. Queen Victoria has taken a hand in the Anglo-Rus-sian complication, and has conveyed an intimation to her Cabinet that any Minister who opposes a vigorous maintenance of her imperial rights will soon find himself without a portfolio. The Cabinet is fully aroused to the gravity of the situation, ana recognizes the fact that England’s protectorate in Afghanistan is seriously menace!. Some sharp messages are said to have been exchanged between London and St. Petersburg. A recent sortie by the British garrison at Kassala, which has been defending the town for a year against the Mahdi, resulted disastrously, twenty-eight officers of the garrison and 630 privates being killed.

The Senate, in considering the sundry civil appropriation bill, on the 2d inst.. Inserted an item of $2,790 to reimburse R. B. 1 ayes for the expenses of a political commission sent to Louisiana in 1877 to pave the way for the recognition of Nicholls as Governor. The committee amendment reducing from #160,000 to $75,000 the amount to be paid for the Foit Brown Reservation was non-concurred in, and th' larger amount was retained. Mr. Aldrich offered a joint resolution requesting the President to open negotiations with foreign Powers with a view to securing an agieement to the free coinage of silver with full legal-tender power. In the House of Representatives the naval bill was reported with the Senate amendments, some of which were agreed to and otheis nonconcurred in. New conterrees were accordingly appointed. Mr. Mills moved to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution to the effect that inasmuch as the Inaugural Committee had declined to give Representatives in Congress their proper place the House would refuse to take any part in the ceremony March 4. The motion was defeated by a vote ot 55 yeas to 188 nays. At a meeting of the House Expenditures Committee Representative Springer’s report of the result of the investigation of the conduct of United States Marshal Lot Wright at the Ohio October election was agreed to by a party vote sto 4. The report was to the effect that Democratic voters had been intimidated at the polls. A minority report was rendered condemning the action of the committee and declaring that no evidence had been presented during the investigation whtch in any manner warranted the conclusions embodied in the report.