Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

TMmmm A Doyte, Qiu ItsyMiSiin candidate, was re-elected Mayor of Providence, R. T n on the 11th. The city Council is largely Republican and anti prohibition. The International Typographical Union has called for funds to complete the Greeley monument. The Baltimore & Ohio and the Grand Trunk Railroads have decided not to join the Eastern combination to raise the rate of freights from the West to the seaboard. - - ‘ The Arkansas Legislature met On the 10th under the new Constitution. Gov. Baxter delivered his message on the succeeding day, congratulating the people on regaining control of their own affairs, and trusting that the victory will be used wisely and well; that no proscription will be indulged in toward any class. He referred with pride to the new Constitution, and urged many reforms. He said the State had no idea of repudiating any of her just debts, and recommended some provision looking toward a funding of the outstanding indebtedness. The Commissary-General has notified Gen. Ord that the Government supplies are barely sufficient for the subsistence of the army; therefore no rations could be issued to the sufferers from the grasshoppers in Nebraska. According to Utah dispatches of the 11th serious snow-storms prevailed in the mining regions. Ex-Benator Pomeroy’s trial for bribery has been postponed until April next. John W. Head, Member of Congresselect from the Fourth District of Tennessee, died on the 9th. Count von Armim was re-arrested at Berlin on the 12th.

A violept snow-storm visited the'south of England on the litii. The weather had suddenly become unusually cold. The New Hampshire State Democratic Convention will be held on tht sth of January. - The nomination of J. J. Hoyt to be Collector of Internal Revenue at Chicago was withdrawn on the 12th, and Philip Wadsworth appointed. The Secretary of the Treasury has decided to consider an account in favor of Nebraska for 5 per cent, of the value of public lands lying within her limits, included within the reservations made by treaties with Indians. This decision will control the pending claims from several other States. A New York dispatch of the 12th says that at least 10,000 men and women are out of employment in New York city. The latest returns from Minnesota, received on the morning of the 12th, give the Republicans a majority of three on joint ballot. Gov. Garland and the other State officers of Arkansas were inaugurated on the 12th. On the 6th, in a battle with the Cheyennes, on McClellan Creek, the United States forces lost one killed and four wounded and the Indians fifteen killed.

A New Orleans dispatch of the 12th says Gov. Kellogg had requested the Election Returning Board, which met on that day, to allow the Opposition party to be represented. The Democratic State Committee had appointed a committee of three to be present during the sittings of the Board and witness the canvass and completion of the returns. A false report of the death of the Queen caused great excitement in London on the 13th. A Hendaye dispatch of the 13th reports the Carlists in good position at Andoain and ready to fight again. An express train on the Great Western Railway of Canada was boarded at Port Credit, on the night of the 13th, by a band of five masked men, who quietly gagged and bound the baggageman and express messenger, and robbed the express safe of between $40,000 and $50,000. The Postmaster-General has protested that he has no intention of recommending an increase in the Ate of postage. The State Department has received information confinfiing .the report that Spain had paid her indemnity to England growing out of the Virginius affair. The trial of the Tilton-Beecher civil suit. has been postponed until the first Monday in December.

Late returns from the Eighth Wisconsin District indicate the election of McDill by a small majority. " Hon. C. B. Farwell has been given the certificate of election as Member of Congress from the Third Illinois District. His official majority is placed at 186. According to the appendix of Treasurer Spinner’s report the receipts for the last fiscal year were $761,799,530.88, and the expenditures $742,247,173.35. The balance in the Treasury at the close of the year was $150,731,533.63. The receipts of the Postofflce Department for the same period were $11,990,816.38, and the expenditures $11,560,216. A Washington telegram of the 15th says there was in the Treasury $lO,414,000, the proceeds arising from the seizures of cotton and other captured and abandoned property. The Grand Jury of the Criminal Court of Cook County, Hl., have found an indictment against Wilbur F. Storey, editor of the Chicago for a malicious libel against Mr. N. K. Fairbank, of Chicago, whom the Times charged with having abstracted money from the relief fund. Daniel O’Mara and Patrick Irving were hanged at Montrose, Pa., on the 12th, for the murder of O’Mara’s mother

and sister, and Wm. E. Udderzook at Westchester, Pa., for the murder of Goss, Ms partner tea conspiracy to defraud insurance companies. On the 14th a delegation of the Illinois mine-owners represented to the Governor that a general strike of miners was imminent throughout the State, and that in some sections where a strike prevailed an attempt had been made' to fire the mines. On the 14th Gov. Garland, of Arkansas, issued a warrant for the arrest of * Lieut.-Gov.” Smith and his Secretary of State, on the charge of treason.

The remains of a German named Schilling were discovered a few days ago in the furnace of a Cincinnati tannery. A day or two subsequently the young son of Andreas Egner confessed that his father, one Rufer and himself murdered the poor man By pounding him on the head with an oaken stick and punching him with pitchforks. To hide the evidence of what they had deme they (brew the body into the engine furnace. All were arrested, and the boy and Rufer confessed their share in the deed. On the 14th Mrs. Rufer became insane and tried to murder her little child. Egner, the elder, sturdily denies his complicity, and says both the others are crazy. The Government of Saxony has forbidden the practice of cremation, according to a Dresden dispatch of the 16th.

According to St. Petersburg telegrams of the 12th a socialistic conspiracy had been discovered at Moscow, and an unsuccessful attempt made to murder the Czar. Numerous arrests had been made. Von Arnim’s trial has been set for the Ist of December. Meantime, in consequence of his feeble condition, he is to remain under police surveillance at his own house.

Ralph Waldo Emerson has been defeated in the content for the Rectorship of the University of Glasgow by Disraeli, by a vote of 500 to 700. A Hendaye dispatch of the 16th says the Carlists were again besieging Irun. Religious riots have broken out in Poland because of the disinclination of the people to submit to the authority of the priests appointed by the Government. Several of the leaders have been arrested. At the recent election in New York Tilden received a majority of 54,937 uotes for Governor over Dix. The American Express Company’s safe was robbed at Cincinnati on the 15th of $50,000. A man named Black was arrested.

J. D. White (Rep.) appears to have been elected from the Ninth Kentucky District by a majority of 500 votes. The Supervisor of Registration and the Court-Clerk of St. James’ Parish, La.-, were arrested and held to bail in the sum of SI,OOO each on the 16th upon the charge of altering the returns of the recent election. A New Orleans dispatch of the same date nays the United States troops would be removed from the StateHouse on the following day. The Alabama House of Representatives was organized on the 16th by the election of Anderson (Dem.) as Speaker. On the 16th the North Carolina Legislature was organized by the election of Col. R. F. Armfield as President of the Senate and John L. Robinson as Speaker of the House. The House stands 84 Democrats, 84 Republicans and 2 Independents. The Senate, 38 Democrats and 12 Republicans. On the 16th, according to an Associated Press dispatch, perfect quiet prevailed in Arkansas. Gov. Garland has sent a communication to the Legislature, recounting what he had done in regard to the Smith proclamation, and* asking that the law be amended so that he could offer a larger reward than $206 for the arrest of Smith and Wheeler.

The British Government, a London dispatch of the 17th says, had decided, at the instance of the Geographical Society, to fit out another Polar expedition. A report was current on the morning of the 18th in London that Gen. Laserna, the Spanish Republican commander, had died on the preceding day. The Arkansas imbroglio "was discussed by the Cabinet on the 17th. The President stated that he should not interfere except to keep the peace until he was better informed as to the merits of the case. Judge Poland, of the House Investigating Committee, was telegraphed for. The roof Pittston (Pa.) coal mine fell in on the 17th, killing several of the miners. A steam tug exploded her boilers at the Government works, near New York, on the 17th. Five of the crew were killed and the Captain fatally injured. The steamboat Empire sank at the JjTew Orleans levee on the 17th in consequence of being too heavily laden. It was reported that from thirty to forty lives were lost.