Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The New York Temperance men met in State Convention at Utica on the 28d, and, aftei adopting resolutions favoring prohibition, appointed a committee to conduct the fall campaign and then adjourned. At the New York State Republican Convention held at Utica on the 28d the present State officers were renominated by acclamation. The platform adopted demands obedience to the laws and the full protection of every citizen in the enjoyment of his rights against the assaults of Ku-Klnx, assassins and revolutionists ;" declares that an armed attempt to subvert the recognized Government of a State is revolution, and revolution must be suppressed and the supremacy of the law maintained at every cost; that the public faith must be preserved inviolate and the public debt be paid in coin; opposes any inflation of paper currency and favors a speedy return to specie payments; approves of the administrations of President Grant and Gov. Dix. On the 23d the Minnesota Democratic and Liberal State Convention met at St Paul, and nominated Wescott Wilkin for Chief-Justice and William Lochren for Associate-Justice. The resolutions adopted denounce the carpet-bag rule at the South as being largely productive of the present disastrous condition of the Southern States, and demand a just and impartial policy toward the people of the South; favor a return to specie payments as soon as the public interest will allow, and a tariff for revenue only; advocate home rule and no centralization; declare that chartered corporations by the State are always supervisable by the State in the interests of the people. The Republicans of Missouri met in V State Convention at Jefferson City on the 23d, and after adopting a platform adjourned without making nominations. The resolutions adopted reiterate faith in the principles of the Republican party; condemn all political organization* founded upon race or nationality as detrimental to good government; indorse the candidates of the Reform party in the State, and declare it the part no less of prudence than patriotism to adjourn without nominating Republican candidates.

The Congressional nominations on the 23d were as follows: Republican— Eighth Wisconsin District. A. S. McDill, renominated. Democratic —Twentieth Ohio, Henry B. Payne; First Arkansas, Li> O. thmse- Second Arkansas, .F. Slemons. Reform Fourth Wisconsin, Samuel Rindskopf. Independent Twelfth Indiana, R. S. Taylor. r The white and colored people of Terre Bonne Parish, La., have united upon a parish ticket to be supported at the ensuing election, on which both classes have equal representation. Parisian newspapers of the 24th assert that Prussian agents had been engaged in tampering with Arabian tribes on the Algerian frontier. The report of the intended absorption of Denmark by Germany is emphatically denied in Bismarck’s organ. The boundary dispute between Switzerland and Italy has been decided in favor of the latter power by the arbitrator. Members of the Austrian polar expedition declare that explorations in the direction of the north pole can never result satisfactorily and that the open polar sea is a snare and a delusion. According to Washington dispatches of the 24th information recently received by the authorities confirms the opinion of Prof. Winchell as to the entire absence" of gold in the Black Hills. The Congressional nominations on the 24th were as follows: Democratic — Third Kentucky District, C. W. Milliken, renominated. Republican—Seventeenth Illinois, John J. Rinaker. Independent Reform —Sixth Illinois, J. H. Elliott. Liberal —Third Minnesota, E. Wilson. People’s Ticket—Seventh Missouri, Jas. H. Lay. Democratic-Liberal—Seventh Michigan, Enos M. Goodrich. Reform — Fifth Wisconsin, S. D. Burchard. Independent—Twelfth Missouri, B. S. Lipscomb.

In consequence of a collision of passenger trains on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, at Smithton, W. Va., on the 24th, one of the mail clerks, named Bradford, was burned to death and the entire mail consumed. Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, telegraphed to the Attorney-General on the 23d that the Kellogg parish officers were being generally reinstated, and that the country and city were quiet. A southern-bound train on the Selma, Rome & Dalton Railroad, on the morning of the 24th, went through the bridge on Waxatchin Creek, falling sixty feet. The train was a total wreck. The engineer, fireman and several passengers were killed, and nearly all the remaining passengers were wounded. Among the killed is William Boyd, ex-Judge of the Supreme Court of Alabama. The Prince of Wales has lately been appointed Grand Master of the English Freemasons. The Czar of Russia recently sent a cordial and sympathetic letter to Don Carlos. On the 25th Austria gave a public reception to the members of the * recentlyreturned Polar expedition. Gen. Emory, in reply to a letter of inquiry addressed to him by Marshal Packard, of New Orleans, declares that neither the Marshal nor anyone else had used or attempted to use United States troops for political purposes in Louisiana. The President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, in a press dispatch of the 25th, denies the charge that, during the recent troubles in New Orleans,

the Fusionists had exercised a censorshop over telegraphic dispatches. At a meeting of the State Central Committee of the People’s party of Lohisiana, held at Jfew Orleans on the evening of the 25th, it was decided te participate in the coming November election with spirit and vigor. , A. R. Debait has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Tenth Missouri District. The following placed-in nomination on the 25th by the Nevada Republican State Convention. Governor, J. C. Hazelett; Lieutenant-Governor, Bowman; Congressman,Wm. Woodbum; Supreme Judges, Beatty for the long term and Wardon Earle for the short term; J. D. Miner for Secretary of State; L. J. Hogle for State Treasurer. The platform adopted indorses the last Republican Congress; declares that the recent outrages in the South were perpetrated by men determined to establish there a white man’s Government; disapproves of the election of a President for a third term; favors the revision of the treaty with China and the restriction of Chinese immigration; opposes subsidies or grants to railroads or other corporations; asks Congress to pass laws regulating railroad fares and freights; favors a return to specie payment. The river Segre, in Spain, recently overflowed its banks, causing great loss of life and the destruction of a great number of buildings. Antiguia, Guatemala, was recently destroyed by an earthquake. On the 27th a violent typhoon passed over Hong Kong, China, destroying several vessels, a great number of dwellings and over 1,000 lives. The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered the selling of $2,500,000 gold

during October. Washington dispatches of the 27th say that the Porto Rico annexation project was and is seriously entertained by Bismarck. Russia, it is said, will ally herself with the United States to prevent Germany from gaining a foothold there. The Secretary of the National Grange says the Grangers’ National Bank is not indorsed by the National Grange, nor by the Executive Committee. Bishop Lee, of lowa, died at Davenport on the 26th from a gangrened hand, the result of an accident occurring several weeks before. On the 26th Mrs. Alphonsine Herbert, of New Iberia, La., waj killed by the explosion of a can of coal oil while filling a lighted lantp. ' - The citizens of New Orleans having in their possession arms belonging to the State of Louisiana have been requested by McEnery and Penn to deliver them to the United States authorities. Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, applied to the President on the 26th for troops to aid in suppressing disorders in Edgefield County. The President directed a reply to the effect that a company of troops was already stationed there, which, it was expected and believed, would afford all adequate protection. An Augusta (Ga.) dispatch of the 26th says the troubles in Edgefield were over, the Captain of the colored militia company having delivered up his arms to the United States troops and the negroes having returned to their homes. Austria projects another expedition to the Arctic regions to determine whether the land recently discovered in high latitudes, and named Franz Joseph’s Land, is an island or a continent.

Mr. Henry C. Bowen, of the New York Independent, has recently published a letter, in which he emphatically denies that he is the originator of the great scandal, as charged in a recent letter over the signature of Miss Catherine®. Beecher. Townsend & Co., bankers of New Haven, Conn., have failed for $3,000,000. Two criminal indictments have been found by the Kings County (N. Y.) Grand Jury against Francis D. Moulton for libeling Miss Edna Dean Proctor. Bail was fixed at $20,000 in each case. According to a census just completed by the State authorities, the population of Minnesota is 552,000, and the taxable property is valued at $217,000,000 —an average of about $393 per capita. A National Convention to consider the question of removing the capital from Washington to the valley of the Missisippi will be held at Louisville, Ky., on the 21st of October. The Burlington & Missouri River and Union Pacific Railroads have each given $5,000 to the Nebraska Relief and Aid Society for the relief of the farmers whose crops have been destroyed by grasshoppers. According to Madrid dispatches of the 29th ult. there had been continuous fighting with the Carlists in the Province of Navarre during the preceding four days, resulting in their decisive defeat. All the European Governments except France have directed their delegates to the Postal Congress, at Berne, to sign the convention, provided it meets the views of the delegates from the United States.

Williamson, Griffith & Co., sugar re finers, and James Bishop & Co., importers of india-rubber, of New York city, failed for large amounts on the 29th ult. The New York Liberals, recently in convention at Albany, declared it unadvisable to make nominations for State officers. Two trains collided on the Utica & Chenango Valley Railroad on the 29th, and the mail agent, the fireman and a lady passenger were killed. The mails were burned. An international rifle match between Irish and American teams came off at Creedmoor, N. Y., on the 26th, the latter winning by three points,

A compromise between the Republican and Conservative Committees at New Orleans has been effected, by which it is agreed that the registration shall be committed .to an Advisory Board composed of two Democrats, two Republicans and a Republican umpire. The earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad for the third week in September according to the New York Tribune , show a decrease of 47 per cent, compared with the corresponding period last year. The Northwestern also, it says, shows a still greater decrease in its earnings for the same period. The Nevada Democracy met in State Convention on the 29th and placed in nomination the following ticket: Governor, L. R. Bradley; Lieutenant-Gov-ernor, Jewett Adams; Congressman, A. C. Ellis. The platform opposes massed capital, subsidies and a third term; condemns the back-salary grab; opposes Chinese immigration; favors laws for regulating fares and freights the Eight-Hour law; arraigns ’the Administration for its abuse of pawer; demands the repeal of the bullion tax and condemns the acts of violence recently perpetrated in the South. The following Congressional nominations were made on the 29th ult.: Republican—Fifth Ohio District, Reynolds M. Little. Democratic—First Missouri, Edward C. Kehr; Second do, Erastus Wells, renominated; Third do, William H. Stone, renominated. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has vacated so much of the recent order of the court as exempted the Prairie du Chien Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad from the operations of the Potter law. The National Grange will meet at Charleston, S. C., on the 18th of November.