Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

There was a terrible gale on the coast of England on the night of the 30th, which caused great destruction of life and property. The 4tnti-Tammany Democrats of New York have nominated Oswald Ottendorfer for Mayor and P. H." Jones for Register. J.. G. Abbott has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Fourth Massachusetts District, and Henry Alexander by the Republicans of the Eleventh. C. W. Chapin is the Democratic candidate in the Eleventh District." Large numbers Of men, according to a Montgomery (Ada.) dispatch of the 20th, had been summoned to appear before the United States Court in Huntevilleeirly in November. « * The Delegate to Congress from Utah, George Q. Cannon, has been indicted at Balt Lake for polygamous practices, and held for trial in the sum of $5,000.

Mackin & Co., bankers, of Newark, N. J., recently failed for $700,000. The Protestant Episcopal General Convention, in session at New York, has refused to confirm the election of Prof. Seymour as Bishop of Illinois. Gaorge B. Chamberlain has been appointed Chief of the Southern branch of the Secret Service Department. The steamer Brooklyn, of the Northern Transportation Line, exploded her boilers near Detroit on the 22d. Five passengers and eight of the crew were killed, and four passengers and seven of the crew wounded. The explosion tore her apart and she sank instantly. A convention was held at Atlanta, Ga., on the 22d to complete arrangements for direct trade between the South and Europe by means of a line of steamers between Savannah and Liverpool. It was largely attended by officers of Southern and Western railways. According to a Shreveport (La.) telegram of the 22d, papers were being prepared for the arrest of sixty-nine merchants who had pledged themselves not to retain in their employ persons who would support the Radical party in the pending election contest. Much feeling was caused by the announcement of this purpose on the part of the Federal authorities, and the pledge was again put in circulation and received nearly 200 additional signatures. Planters in the country were also signing similar pledges. Leading attorneys had expressed the opinion that the signing of suck a pledge is not a violation of the Enforcement act.

The London Times of the 23d says that President Serrano had. distributed $5,000,000 among Carlist chiefs to induce them to terminate the war. A campaign was about to be undertaken in the provinces of Cuenca and Valencia. The capture of Nena Sahib, the instigator of the great Sepoy rebellion, is announced from the British Indian Office. Henry Clews & Co., NeW York bankers, have made an assignment for tb® benefit of their creditors. Commodore Inman, of the navy, died at Philadelphia on the 23d. The full returns of the recent Ohio State election show that 238,406 votes were cast for William Bell, Democrat, for Secretary of State; 221,204 votes for Allen T. Wikoff, Republican, and 7,815 for John R. Buchtel, Prohibitionist, for the same position. The news from the Plains is to the effect that the Indians who were on the war-path are returning, discouraged, to the agencies. The following are the officers of the Missouri State Grange, elected in Kansas City on the 22d: T. R. Allen, Master; John M. Oldham, Overseer; W. Jackson, Lecturer; W. Cochrane, Steward; Dr. T. B. Turnbaugh, Assistant Steward; G. T. Bray ton, Chaplain; C. T. Quiesberry, Treasurer; A. M. Coffee, Secretary; A. J. McCraynor, Gatekeeper. A New Orleans telegram of the 23d says immense registration frauds had recently been discovered, and the matter was being investigated. The Presbyterian Synod of Illinois has decided that the Presbytery of Chicago had no right to expunge the name of Prof. Swing from the church-roll while charges were pending. The appeal of Prof. Patton was sustained and the Professor found guilty of preaching anti-Presbyterian doctrines, and his name erased from the roll of membership.

A.Galeatta correspondent of the London Timet telegraphs that it is estimated that 2,000 lives were lost in the district of Midnapore by the recent cyclone. Brazil declines to enter into mutual trade with Canada. The city of Tifiis, Russia, was nearly destroyed by fire on the 24th. Lord Derby recently informed the Spanish Ambassador that the indefinite continuance of the war in Spain showed a lack of patriotism and energy, and if the Spanish navy was vigilant the landing of arms for the Carlists would be impossible. The Count de Chambord has.been invited by the Legitimists to return to France. According to a recent Washington dispatch intimate friends of the President had said -that he had indulged in no utterances which would indicate that he had any aspirations for a. third term. It had been decided to remove the Postmasters at Galveston and Houston, Texas. On the evening of the 24th, at Cameron,

Mo., while the passengers and trainmen of the eastern-bound express train on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ra3> road were at supper, six robbers boartfed the train, two of whom mounted the en-* gine and ran the cars two miles north, where they made an attempt to open the express company’s safe. Failing in this they abandoned the train. A baggageman ran it back to Cameron. The California Grangers' Executive Committee have concluded to ship wheat to England on their. own account, Morgan’s Sons, their former agents, having tailed. The official returns of the recent Indiana State election, so far as they apply to State officers, are as follows: Secretary of State —Curry, Rep., 164,955; Neff, Dem., 183,953; Bowles, Ind., 15,755; Stout, Ind., 2,981. Auditor—Wildman, Rep., 165,263; Henderson, Dem., 181,322; Prescott, Ind., 19,053. Treasurer—Glover, Rep., 164,971; Shaw, Dem., 181,380; Bennett, Ind., 19,025. Attorney-General —Denny, Rep., 166,153; Buskirk, Dem., 178,859; Beele, Ind., 18,584. Superintendent of Public Instruction—Bloss, Rep., 164,952; Smart, Dem., 180,986; Graham, Ind., 18,844. Judge of the Supreme Court—Osborne, Rep., 165,716; Broole, Dem. and Ind., 198,080. The Emperor of Germany has recently written a reply to the protest of the Pope against the persecution of German Bishops, in which he says that his Government has done all in its power to live in peace with Rome, but that it is bound to protect the State against the conspiracies of the clergy. A Madrid telegram of the 26th announces that .another body of Carlists had offered to surrender provided they could be amnestied.

The application to advance the Wisconsin raxlrdad cases for the sake of a speedy determination of the questions involved has been denied by the Supreme Court. They will therefore have to go over until March next. There is trouble with the journeymen coopers of New York. On the 26th they quit work in a body because their employers insisted that they should abandon their trade society. In a recent address Gov. Dix, of New York, announced himself as opposed to the third-term project. George Reynolds, of Salt Lake City, has been indicted under the act of Congress for polygamy, and held to bail to answer in the sum of $2,500. The Missouri State Grange has offered to lend money, without interest, to persons desirous of establishing an agricultural implement factory at Booneville. Lizzie Goff, of St. Louis, nine years old, kindled a fire with kerosene oil recently. Death followed in six hours.

The Conservative State Central Committee of Louisiana have protested to Gen. Emory against the course of Mty. Merrill, of the U. 8. Cavalry, who lately, at Shreveport, made an affidavit for the arrest of a large number of the citizens of the State for violation of the Enforce, ment act. They claimed that the offense was one strictly cognizable by the civil courts and appertaining in no manner to the military service.. They characterize his actions as being “ unmilitary and intimidating, and in conflict with the spirit of our institutions.” The man Kuhlmann who some months ago attempted to shoot Prince Bismarck makes insanity his defense. According to the London Daily News of the 27th Russia, England and Austria had notified the Sublime Porte that they proposed to make commercial treaties with the Turkish principalities without reference to the home Government. Large reinforcements sailed for Cuba on the 27th. On the 27th the resolutions adopted at the recent Baltimore session of the Executive Committee of the National Union League were presented to the President and Secretaries Bristow and Jewell. Late telegrams from Omaha say that the people in Southwestern Nebraska are starving. It is said that 10,000 people in the State will need aid to carry them through the winter. According to special dispatches to the Louisville Courier Joumal of a late date a band of masked men on the 24th visited various places in Shelby County and whipped and threatened black men and those who employed them. A girl sixteen years old, named Barrington, was shot. Great excitement prevailed throughout that section of Kentucky, and it was thought the Governor would take immediate steps to capture and bring to justice the perpetrators of these outrages. The population of Chicago, according to a recent school census, is 395,226.