Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The London Timex says editorially : The riots in Belfast have almost risen to the height of civil war. If the Conservative Ministers show weakness in dealing with the situation it will be all over with the Government in Ireland. While the Tinusx is convinced that tnero are faults on both sides, it places the larger share of the responsibility on the Protestant musses. The home office at London has received information that a number of dynamiters have left the United States for Paris, with the view of entering England stealthily aud doing vast damage. The Burlington and Northern Road announces its purpose to put on limited trains next October, to run from Chicago to St Paul in twelve hours. The excitement over the Cutting affair is iutense in El Paso, Tex. The people there seem spoiling for a fight, aud the appearance of a few United States soldiers on the way to Fort Bliss was magnified into many carloads. Eight hundred Mexican soldiers have reached Paso del Norte. Gov. Maceyra, it is said, has ordered the Paso del Norte authorities to decapitate Cutting in case of au attack from Texas. A New York dispatch states that at the army posts in aud around New York considerable activity is displayed. Ten guncarriages for field batteries were shipped to Tan Antonio, Texas. A Washington dispatch credits Secretary Bayard with saying that no ultimatum has been sent to Mexico. The First Assistant Secretary of State says that no serious trouble is at all likely to arise between this country and Mexico. He says: “Neither country wants any trouble. When this is the case it is generally d.fficuit to get up a broil.” Secretary Bayard was interviewed at Baltimore with the following result: He saw no reason why a satisfactory adjustment of the Cutting difficulty should not be reached. The Mexican minister has assured him that such was the desire of the Mexican Government. Tne Secretary seems to tliink that much of the difficulty has been created by persons seeking to embarrass the administration, and that Mexico’s altitude has been strengthened by tlxe efforts of Mr. Blaine’s friends to show that he (Mr. Bayard has been too hasty and exacting in the matter. Secretary Bayard considers tne principle involved one of the gravest importance, witn which Cutting s merits or demerits have nothing to do. He says tho case is too clear ior equivocation, aud he has no idea of retreating from the position taken by tho State Department when it demanded Cutting’s release two weeks ago. Under the treaty of ISIS both countries are bound to exhaust all possible means of effecting a settlement. He said the rumored resignation of Minister Jackson l;a l no significance. He says he has received no intimation of Mr. ' Jackson s res gnation, although it Is quite possible that he may wish to come home. Secretary Bayard says that the Arresures case is also in process of settlement. It is thought that tho murderer will be hanged by the Mexican Government. In both the fisheries aid Mexican affairs the State Department has acted with great promptness and vigor, and Mr. Bayard makes no concealment of his determination to insist upon full satisfaction in the Cutting affair ; not so much for Cutting’s sake as because it involves the question whether American citizens in Mexico are to be protected in their rights. The following table, which gives the average rainfall in inches during .May, June, and July for the last nine years, and the rainfall for the same months of this year, is significant as showing the stern reality of the drouth that has affected the West and Northwest. A single glance at the startling figures will be suftici nt to convinces the most skeptical of the natural effect of the drouth iu a large shortage of the corn crop: Aver. May, for 11 June, - years. July, 'BO. Bismarck 9.52 5.10 Cairo 12.51 8.31 Chicago..... .... 11.94 3.40 Davenport 13.53 4.60 Des Moines 9.04 5.30 Dodge City 9.65 8.00 Huron 7.38 5.10 Indianapolis 15.67 11.03 Keokuk 14.82 8.0 i La Cross 3 13.00 4.61 Leavenworth 15.23 9.40 North Platte 9.8-5 4.10 Omaha.... 10.70 6.23 St. Paul 11.96 5.80 Springfield... 15.26 8.40 Yankton 14.18 7.23 200.30 104.51 12.52 6.53