Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Edna Dean Proctor, the authoress, has commenced suit for libel against Moulton qu account of his reference to her in his fecent reply to the statement of Mr. Beecher. She assesses her damages at sieopoo. The annual convention of the Diocese of Illinois cm the 16th, at Chicago, elected Rev. George F. Seymour, Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the General Seminary of New York, to be Bishop of the diocese, to succeed the late Bishop Whitehouse. The Arkansas State Republican Convention assembled at Little Rock on the -16th, but adjourned without making nominations. An address to the people of Arkansas was adopted, and also resolutions denouncing the Constitution recently framed, and declaring that the Constitutional Convention was a conspiracy of White League, Ku-Klux and leaders of the late rebels to overthrow the reconstructed Government; that all the troubles in the South were but an attempt to revive the lost cause. Thirty-five delegates were appointed to the Chattanooga Convention of Southern Republicans which meets on the 13th of October. The following Congressional nominations were made on the 16th: Republican—R. H. Whiting, Ninth Illinois District; E. H. "Roberts, Twenty-second Naw.York, renominated; Henry S. Magopn, Third Wisconsin. Democratic — W’R. Morrison, Seventeenth Illinois, renominated; J. J. Robinson, Second Michigan; Allen Potter, Fourth Michi" gait Reform—David C. Fulton, Seventh Wisconsin.

Col. Villette, the Aid-de-Camp of Marshal Bazaine, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for aidins: his chief jto escape from St. Marguerite. A dispatch from Madrid of the 17th reports that the National troops had recently been successful in several engagements with the Carlists. On the 17th the cashier of the Wellsboro (Pa.) bank and his family were gagged and bound by five robbers, who forced him to open the safe, from which they stole $50,000. The Democracy of New York met in State Convention at Syracuse on the 17th, and placed in nomination the following i ticket: S. J. Tilden for Governor; William Dorsheimer for Lieutenant-Governor; Adin Thayer for Canal Commissioner; Geo. W.‘ Wagner for Inspector of State Prison*; Theodore Miller for of the Court of Appeals. The resolutions demand : Gold and silver and no currency inconvertible with coin; steady steps toward specie payment; honest payment of the public debt in coin; revenue reforiri; federal taxation for revenue only; no Government partnership with protected monopolies; home rule and no centralization r/equal and exact justice to all men; nogag laws, uniform excise, but no sumptuary laws; no’third term, etc, The following Congressional nominations were made on the 17th: Republican—John K. Green, First Ohio District; Job E. Stevenson, Second Ohio; W. H. Rogers, First Arkansas; John M. Clayton, Second Arkansas; W. J. Hynes, Third Arkansas; Chas. H. Lander, Fourth Arkansas. Independent —J. F. Farnsworth, Fourth Illinois; Bagby, Tenth Illinois. Democratic— Alexander Campbell, Seventh Illinois (the Independent nominee); M. D. Wilbur, Fifth Michigan; W. J. O’Brien, Third Maryland, renominated; Thomas Swann, Fourth Maryland, renominated; C. BL Morgan, Sixth Missouri; A. H. Buckner, Thirteenth Missouri, renominated ; Bagby, Tenth (the Independent nominee). > According to a Memphis special of the

17th the Grand Jury of Gibson County, Tenn., have found indictments against forjy of the persons said to have been engaged in the recent Trenton massacre. M. M. Hann, the lowa member of the National Democratic Committee, has issued an address to lowa Democrats advising them to support the entire AntiMonopoly ticket at the coming election. At the Tennessee State Republican Convention held at Chattanooga on the 16th Horace Maynard was nominated for Governor by acclamation. The resolutions adopted favor public schools and the improvement of Southern rivers; a State Constitutional Convention; the Civil-Rights bill, etc., etc. * According to late Constantinople dispatches a serious famine prevails in Angora. On the evening of the 17th two stages running between Malvern and Hot Springs, Ark.; were overhauled by footpads, who robbed the passengers of several gold watches and $2,000 in money; The Sheriff of the county immediately summoned a posse, which started in pursuit, and at last accounts there was good prospect .that the robbers would be overtaken and captured. Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, on the 18th sent a message to President Grant protesting against the arrest of citizens of Tennessee by United States officers, upon the charge of .being concerned in . the Trenton massacre. He says the duty of punishing offenders belongs to the State, and demands that all prisoners shall be turned over to the local tribunals for trial and punishment. Three men who participated in the Custer Black Hills expedition telegraphed from Bismark, D. T., on the 15th that Prof. Winchell did not know what he was talking about when he said that there was no gold in the Black Hills. They declare they found, diggings that would pay ten dollars per day per man. The State authorities, on further examination, have decided that the Milwaukee & Prairie du Chien Railroad

does come Within the provisions of the Wisconsin Potter law, and the AttorneyGeneral is about to apply to the Supreme Court for an injunction against tnht road also. Reports made to the Department of Agriculture indicate that the quantity of this year’s crop of wheat will fully equal that of last year. The acreage is 7 per cent, more and the average 2 per cent, less. The President replied to the message of Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, on the 19th, saying that he was glad to know that the State authorities were disposed th repress and punish lawless acts, but the Constitution made it his duty to enforce the acts of Congress, and Congress had passed laws giving the United States concurrent jurisdiction in such cases. He would give the Governor a more definite answer when the report of the United States District Attorney had been received. One of the buildings of the Granite Mills at Fall River, Mass., was burned on the morning of the 19th, the fire breaking out after the operatives in the mill had commenced work. Many of the operatives lost their lives either by suffocation or jumping from the windows, and many others were injured. The loss by fire is over $300,000. Further particulars are given elsewhere. The Democratic State Central Committee of Tennessee have issued an address condemning all acts of violence, whether committed by whites orblacks. The address condemns in unmeasured terms the Civil-Rights bill. On the 19th Senator Brownlow addressed a letter to Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, thanking him for the energetic steps he had taken to preserve peace and punish assassins. Denmark has recently demanded of Germany an explanation in regard to the late expulsion of Danish subjects from Schleswig-Holstein. A London dispatch of the 21st says that Dockeray, the American ex-Consul recently sentenced to death in Cuba, had reached Santander, Spain, where he was closely imprisoned and badly treated. The persons indicted for conspiracy and safe-burglary at Washington will be tried on the 21st of October. The United States Marshal on the 21st served upon Moulton the proper process in the libel suit of Edna Dean Proctor.

On the 21st W. A. Burleigh was nominated for Delegate to -Congress by the Democrats and Anti-Monopolists of Dakota. The Fusion police force of New Orleans was replaced on the 20th by regular Kellogg police. The McEnery parish officials at Franklin, La., who had recently taken possession of the offices,, surrendered them to Kellogg Government on the morning of the 21st. A St. Petersburg telegram of the 22d says that the Emperor had consented to grant to the Mennonites exemption from military duty except as hospital attendants, in the hope that thus the extensive emigration of this sect might be prevented. The efforts of Germany to secure the key to the Baltic through the absorption of Denmark would be vigorously opposed by the Russian Government. The delegates from the United States to the International Postal Congress reached Berne, Switzerland, on the 22d. The Treasury Department paid to the representatives of the British Government, on the 21st, $1,928,818, being the award made by the American and British Mixed Claims Commission. In accordance with an executive order issued by the President on the 22d, the civil-service rules have been extended over New York and Boston. The incomplete official returns of the recent Maine election indicate that Dingley’s majority is about 11,000. The steamship companies plying between New York and Europe on the 22d reduced the price of steerage tickets to fifteen dollars. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America will meet in Chicago on the 7th of October. The recent reports of political outrages in Alabama were contradicted on the 22d, on the strength of a dispatch from U. S. -Commissioner Jones, of Marengo County. The following Congressional nominations were made on the 22d: Liberal — Third Wisconsin District, C. F. Thompson. Democratic Sixth Wisconsin, Gabe Bouck; Ninth Missouri, David Rea. Prohibition—Fifth Michigan, J. A. McKay. Republican—Twelfth Ohio, David Taylor. Democratic and Liberal —Sixth Michigan, George H. Durand.