Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

According to a London dispatch of the* 4th the French Government bad ordered all Spaniards to be expelled from the frontier towpa to prevent them from participating m the Carlist attack upon 1 Irun, which had already began. The Washington Democrats celebrated the late victories on the night of the 4th with bonfires, processions and illuminations. Senator Thurman was serenaded and delivered a congratulatory address. The war claims of Indiana against the General* Government, amounting to $3,000,000, hare, been settled and paid. According to a Berlin telegram of the sth the relations between Spain and Russia had become cordial, and it was probable that Russia would speedily recognize the Republic. The troops under Jovellar recently defeated the Carlists at Albocear with considerable loss. Eight battalions of troops have been sent to reinforce Irun. According to a London telegram of the Sth it had been decided to hold a great international Catholic Congress in London, with the object of maintaining the doctrine of papal infallibility, reasserting thfe Pope’s right to tempbral as well as spiritual power, and declaring it to be the bounden duty of all Christians to return to the allegiance of Rome. It is stated that this proposed Congress Is the result of direct instructions from the Vatican. The Episcopal General Convention adjourned on the 3d. The next session will be held at Boston in 1877. Late dispatches from the Nebraska grasshopper district represent that there is great' suffering, and that relief must be freely given or hundreds w*ill starve before winter is half over. On the morning of the sth a passenger train due at Grand Rapids, Mich., about nine o’clock was wrecked near Moline, and one man killed and thirty more or less injured. The accident was caused by the breaking of an axle under the tender, which threw the rear passenger coach and sleeper off the track and turned them over on their sides. An election riot occurred at Eufaula, Ala., on the 3d, originating, it is said, in the attempt of a negro to whip another negro for voting the Democratic ticket. The assailant drew a pistol, and the result was three negroes were killed and four mortally, seven seriously and eight slightly wounded. Five or six hundred shots were fired. According to a Hendays dispatch of the 6th the Carlists had begun to throw petroleum shells into Irun. The Democracy of New York held immense congratulatory meetings on the evening of the sth to rejoice over the late Democratic victories. Among the speakers were Senator Thurman and Governor-elect Tilden. The official returns show that the Republican majority in lowa, at the October election, was about 39,000. On the 6th the Committee of Seventy of New Orleans issued an invitation calling upon “ the people of Louisiana to meet at their respective places of worship on Thursday, Nov. 19, to return thanks to Almighty God for their deliverance from political bondage.” Mrs. Rawlins, the widow of Gen. Rawlins, formerly Secretary of War, died at San Francisco on the 6th. O. C. Parmley’s livery stable at Peoria, 111., was burned on the 6th, and with it 100 valuable horses. According to a late Rome dispatch the Pope had been taken with a sudden and serious illness. A late arrival from Japan brings the intelligence that Corea had offered to send to Japan the heads of all those who had insulted the Japanese Government. Prominent merchants of Memphis, Tenn., were, on the 7th, arrested upon the charge of violating the Enforcement act by discharging colored employes for refusing to vote the Democratic ticket in August last. They were bound over to the Circuit Court in the sum of $2,000 each. The Eastern and foreign insurance companies which withdrew their agencies from Chicago some weeks ago are returning and resuming business. Two girls aged fifteen and thirteen respectively, and one boy aged ten, were stolen from John Martin, of Fort Wayne, Ind., about the Ist of October, and have not since been heard from. No reason for the abductions is known. Great excitement existed in Northern Louisiana on the Bth, caused by the alleged arrest by Lieut. Hodgson and Marshal Selye, of parties without process of law. The Lieutenant and Marshal had been subsequently fined SIOO each for disobeying a writ of habeas corpus ajid sentenced to ten days’ imprisonment In the parish jail at Vienna. D. M. Jewett, United States Commissioner, had been held to bail in the sum of SI,OOO to answer to the charge of kidnaping. The Conservative Committee of Seventy, according to a New Orleans dispatch of the Bth, had telegraphed to President Grant asking that the military forces be withdrawn from the State. According to a New York dispatch of the Bth there were 193 deaths from diphtheria in that city during the two weeks preceding. A scientific investigation was likely to be made into the causes of the prevalence of the disease. Two persons were killed and three in.: jured in London on the 9th, in the erowd that witnessed the Lord Mayor’s procession. The Prince Imperial is said to have been betrothed to the Russian Grand Duchess Marie.

According to the report of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General the Government loses in revenue every year over $1,000,000 through the use of washed postage stamps. William Cullen Bryant was presented with a memorial vase costing $5,000 on the occasion of his reaching his eightieth birthday, which occurred 61 the, 3d. iieut.-Gen, Bh?ridan returned from the 'lndian country oDtthe Bth. According to the Chicago Journal of that date the Indians had been pretty thoroughly subdued and he anticipated no further trouble from them. A statement appears in the St. Louis papers of the 10th, signed by Prof. A. B._ Smith, in which it is stated that there are fully 40,000 people in Kansas and Nebraska who are either now or will shortly be in absolute want of the- necessaries of life. The Archbishop of Tours died on the 9th. The first attempt of the Prussian Government to compel congregations to select their oWn priests was made recently at Landsberg, and proved a total failure, only eleven persons voting. An effort was making, at last accounts, to secure the deposition of the Biehop of Paderborn for contumacy. The Turkish Government has arrested thirty of the leaders in the recent massacre of Christians in Podgoritza. The total of enlisted men in the army is 26,441. A mail from Cologne, France, was recently received in New York, which was started from the former city Oct. 15, 1872. The Eastern manufacturers of fancy cassimeres have agreed to reduce production 25 per cent. Massachusetts’ vote: Gaston, Dem., 95,901; Talbot, Rep., 89,243; Andrews, Labor Reform, 131. In the recent election for Congressman in the Second Vermont District, Dennison, Ind., had a majority of 2,634 over both opposing candidates. Two hundred men have recently been discharged from the Brooklyn NavyYard. Gold medals were presented to Cheney, Graves, Hillman and Day, the Milißiver heroes, on the 10th. On the 4th Big Horn, a noted Cheyenne chief, with his warriors, women, children and ponies, unconditionally sur-. rendered to Col. Hall, at the Cheyenne Agency. —■ The majority for Gen. Hurlbut, in the Fourth Illinois District, is 1,128. Harrison, Dem., in the Second, has seven majority. Gen. Orton, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, has complained to the War Department that his telegraph lines in Louisiana have been cut by United States troops and demands the reason therefor. The matter has "been referred to Gen. Emory for report. In Terre Bonne Parish, La., on the Bth> a negro Sheriff who was elected on the compromise ticket was attacked by seven other negroes. Simms ran from the party three squares, and, being pursued, turned upon them and fired, killing one and wounding another. Simms immediately surrendered himself, and was sent to jail.