Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Count von Arnim was held to bail in 100,000 thalers on the 28t]i. A Berlin dispatch of that date states that he woald not be allowed to expatriate himself. On the 28th the cotton mills at Oyer, England, were burned to the ground. Ten of the work-people perished. A Spanish gun-boat recently fired into a French merchantman off Santander. According to an editorial in a Washington newspaper the President had recently said that he regarded the agitation of the third-term question as solely tlje work of certain sensational newspapers, and that he did not think it comported with the dignity of the President of the United States to respond to sueh clamors, ' A canon against ritualistic practices was adopted by the Episcopal General Convention,, at its late session in New York, by a vote of 72 to 5. The Democrats carried toe B&ltknere municipal election on the 28th," the,majority being aboat,lo,ooo. The First National Bank of Utah, located at Salt Lake City suspended on the 28th. Early resumption was expected. Laird, the builder of the Confederate steamer Alabama, died in London on the 29th after a protracted illness. Dockray, the American who was arrested as a spy in Cuba, has been sentenced t 6 a penal colony in Africa for ten years. He hopes to secure the intervention of the United States Government. The President has designated Thursday, Nov. 26, as a day of National Thanksgiving. R.*W. Burke, a New York petroleum refiner, suspended on the 29th. Gov. Leslie, of Kentucky, has offered a reward of $3,000 for the capture of the masked rufljans who recently committed the outrages in Shelby County. The report that Oliver Dalrymple, the great Minnesota wheat-grower, had failed is pronounced untrue by that gentleman. In New Orleans, on the afternoon of the 29th, as Gov.. Kellogg was riding in his carriage with Judge Atocha, Maj. E. A. Burke, of the Naturalization Committee ot* the Conservatives, stopped him, and yhile engaged in conversation drew a whip and attempted to strike the Governor, when the latter fired a pistol at Burke, who retaliated in kind, firing three or four shots. Neither party was wounded. On the night of the 28th the town of Greencastle, Ind., was visited by a destructive fire, 'thirty buildings were destroyed, causing a toss of $358,500, on which there was an insurance of $122,900. The fire is believed to have had an incendiary origin.

According to an Indianapolis dispatch of the 29th extensive forest fires were raging along the lines of railroad centering in that city. Like fires were reported as raging in many portions of Ohio. Kuhlmann, the some time ago attempted the assassination of Bismarck, was on the 30th found guilty and sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment. Cardinal Cullen and the Catholic Bishops of Ireland have recently issued letters to the Irish clergy, in which they denounce Prof. Tyndall’s late address at Belfast as a revival of paganism. The Governor of Syria has been ordered to suppress all Protestant schools in his province. The Milford (N. H.) Savings Bank has suspended. The boiler in Isaac Roder’s saw-mill at Lancaster, Ind., exploded on the 29th, killing two of the proprietor’s sons, Timothy and William, and severely and probably fatally injuring another son. A man by the name of George Beddle was also badly injured. Yellow fever prevails at Charleston, S. C.

The recent gale was fruitful of disaster to the lake marine. According to Madrid dispatches of Ist Don Carlos had been visited at Tolosa by influential Carlists, and advised to abaddon the war.’ ' f « / Secretary Bristow has directed $2,000,-' 000 in gold to be sold in New York during November. Ex-Gov. Throop, of York, died on the Ist. « The base- ball season closed on. the ill* t ult., leaving the Boston Red Stockings still holding the championship pennant. Count von Arnim’s private secretary during the time he waq German to Paris was arrested in St. Louis lately, at the instance of the German 'Gothrnment He left for Europe on the Ist, . taking with him the letters taken from the archives of the Embassy. A Detroit Coroner’s jury have found the Captain and Second Engineer of the propeller Brooklyn primarily responsible for the recent explosion. They find that the safety-valve had been tampered with and that the boat was racing with the Cuba. A late London dispatch announces the finding and splicing of-the direct cable:; The laying had been recommenced. Cuban delegates, according to a late Madrid dispatch, had recently visited the Carlist headquarters to secure the exchange of prisoners with a view of sending them to Cuba to quell the insurrection. The Madrid Government was willing to consent to the arrangement, but Don Carlos had demurred, unless the prisoners were willing to go.

The following statement of the public debt for the month of October appeared, on the Ist of November: •* Six per cent, bond* $1,182,183,250 Vive per cent, bonds 538,528,200, - j Total coin bonds $1,720,706,450 Lawful money debt 14,678,000 Matured debt. 20,748,960 Legal-tender notes 382,075,267 Certificate* as deposit., , 4 52X85,000 i iJS.B Interest .*.. 37,115*70 Total daW. Y.JX!ZXI3BzSU Cash in Treasury— Coin $90,089,241 Currency 16^386,770 tpbeial deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law ... 88,325,000 Total In Treasury $158,011,021 Debt less cash in Treasury $2,138,061,701 Decrease during October 681,431 Bonds issued to the Pacific Bailway Companies, interest payable In lawful money, principal outstanding $64,623,512 Interest,anraaed and not^al.paid — 1,288370 Interest paid by the United States.. 24,325,396 Interest repaid by the transportation ' of mails, etc....*..™ » 5,497,258 of interest-paid by Qnlted 1^836,143 According to the Associated Press dispatches Of the 2d the efitotion in Louisiana had resulted in substantiaLConservative gains. New Orleans had been carried for the Conservatives by from 10,000 to 15,000’majority, and they claimed to have secured four Congressmen.. It was conceded that the vote-in the State would be very close. Reports from the Various parishes Were Tery meager, but enough returns had been received to indicate that about 20 per cent, of the colored vote had Ibeen cast for the Conservative candidates. Gov. Allen, of Ohio, has named Thursday, Nov. 26, as a day of Thanksgiving. Under the provisions of the Enforcement act Diggs, County Solicitor, and Morgan, Tax-Collector, both Republic cans, were arrested at Seijna, 'Ala., on 'the 2d, upon the Charge of conspiring to, intimidate colored men from voting the Independent ticket. They were held to bail to answer to the District Copf'tt j According to a St. Louis dispatch of the 3d a band of vigilant# h%<L hupg, a couple of horfie-thieve# atMAMentown, Mo., on the preceding night.. A mob had gathered with the avowed intention of burning the town.