Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1885 — LATER NEWS IETMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS IETMS.

Four children who were recently bitten by rabid dogs* in Newark, N. J., have been placed in the residence of M. Pasteur, in Paris, who expresses confidence that he can cure them. The funds required for the voyage were contributed by citizens of New York. Tho French gunboat Chamois, bound for Tonquin, foundered off Toulon. Parnell informs his colleagues that he will oppose all schemes affecting Ireland which do not allow the Irish to control their own police. Emperor William and Queen Christina sent telegrams to Pope Leo expressing their thanks for his equitable decision in regard to the Caroline Islands.

The names of United States Grand Jurors just discharged at Salt Lake City have been published by the Mormon papers so that they may be boycotted. Chicago elevators contain 14,404,843 bushels of wheat, 1,073,483 bushels of corn, 109,548 bushels of oats, 300,315 bushels of ryo, and 221,080 bushels of barley; total, 10,109,299 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 14,008,543 bushels a year ago. The Indians in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have been badly duped by a swindler who traded fraudulent Indian Territory land scrip for good Dominion $5 bills. Fire at Tarrentum, Pennsylvania, caused a loss of $60,000, with insurance of $30,000. The Merrill chemical works at Cincinnati were damaged SIO,OOO, and Brunot & Laurent's dry goods establishment at Quebec was gutted, resulting in a loss of about SBO,OOO.

The feature of the Senate proceedings on tho 21st of December was the carefully prepared attack of Senator Bock upon the financial policy of the Administration. Mr. Beck believes that the word "coin’’ used in section 3694 of the Revised Statutes means silver as well as gold coin, and he therefore introduced a resolution instructing the Finance Committee to inquire whether the coin paid for customs duties under the section lus been set apart for the payment of the interest on United States bonds and to the payment of one per centum of the entire debt of the United States inode in each year as a sinking fund, and if this had not heartofore been done to report a Dill for the enforcement of the law. The Kentucky Senator spoke for an hour upon this resolution, and in the course of his remarks charged that the Secretary of the Treasury hiul deliberately violated this provision; that he was administering the Treasury in the special interest of national banks, and that ho was, also, in tho same interest discriminating against silver. Tho Senator declared, with groat earnestness of manner, that ho would enforce fine and imprisonment upon any officer who would thus violate the law. Beck was so vehement in manner and so blunt in language that upon the conclusion of his remarks the Senators on both sides were too much surprised to make any response. Mr. Morrill said that the speech practically charged the Secretary of the Treasury with being a thief, and the President of the United States with being in collusion with him; and that, as no Democratic Senator seemed ready to defend the administration against the terrible arraignment, lie moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executivo business, which motion was adopted. In the House of Representatives, under a call of the States, a perfect Hood of bills rained upon the Speaker’s desk. More than I,OOJ were introduced, and the call was suspended when Maine was reached. Inclosed in tho list are the following: For the relief of Fitz John Porter, to suspend the coinage of the silver dollar, to pay Government employes wages witheld in violation of the eighthour law, to limit the disposal of the public lands, to establish a postal telegraph, for the unrestricted coinage of the silver dollar, for the construction of the Hennepin Canal, to establish a Sub-Treasury at Louisville, to enable the people of Dakota to form a constitution, and to create the Territory of pklahoma. Ten measures affecting railway land grants were also introduced. Both houses adiouraed until Jan. 5. The President sont the following new nominations of Postmasters to the Senate on the 21st: At Fairmount, W. Va , Newton S. Barnes; Jackson, Tenn.,R. R. Dashiel; Peoria, 111., John Warner; Mt. Pleasant, Mich., Fred A. Stebbins; Evansville, Wis., James V. N. Bonn; Nevada, Mo., Wm. R. Crockett; Oxford, Pa., Samuel H. Smith ; Weatherford, Tex., N. B. Johnson; Wauseon, Ohio, George Haumesler; Canton, Ohio, William Archival; Delaware, Ohio, David A. Starke; Ottawa, 111., William Osman ; Batavia, 111., Willis S. Grimes ; Amboy, 111., George E. Young ; Mason City, 111., William A. Mehan; Maywood, 111., Samuel S. Kemp; Mount Carroll, 111., William P. Baird; Mount Morris, 111., Henry Sharer; Effingham, 111., Charles Kelly; Macomb, 111., Thomas Philpot; Hyde Park, 111., Edwin S. Hawley; Vaudalia, 111., Sidney B. Stout; Shelbyville, Ky., Joseph N. Bell; Howell, Mich., Isaac W. Bush; Niles, Mien., William J. Edwards; Stanton, Mich., Patrick H. McGarry; Denison, lowa, O. Bi Keith; Oskaloosa, lowa, William T. Smith; Hampton, lowa, Oscar B. Harnmon; Little Rock, Ark., Thomas W. Newton.