Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

A deputation from fifty-two chambers of commerce waited upon Lord Derby on the 25th to protest against the pro- . posed reciprocity treaty between Canada and the United States. On the 25th the rhinoceros at the London Zoological Gardens fatally gored two of his keepers. A fire recently occurred at Cronstadt, Russia, which burned over fifteen squares of ground and consumed the residence* of about 15,000 persons. The latest reports from Iran represei& the Car lists as within 600 yards of th\ . fortifications. * The General Grand Chapter of 'Royal Arch Masons, recently in session at Nashville, Tenn., elected and installed the following officers: John Frizzell, of Tennessee, Deputy General Grand High Priest; R. F. Bower Low, of Louisiana, Grand King; John McClelland, of Massachusetts, Grand Treasurer; C. G. Fox, of New York, General Grand Secretary; Henry Bostwick, General Grand Royal ’ Arch Captain. Were was a convention of leading members of the Independent party in Indiana at Indianapolis on the 25th, at which a declaration of principles was adopted—favoring a new political organization and advocating the withdrawal from circulation of all National and State bank notes and the issuing of paper money by the Government directly to the people, such money to be a legal tender for public and private debts, including duties on imports. A National Executive Committee was appointed. At its recent session the Indiana State Grange adopted a resolution “ that the State Grange, in council assembled, has no sympathy with any past, present, or future attempt that may be made by any political party or political aspirant to absorb a little reflected warmth, decency, or Support by persistently calling and publishing their meetings at the same time and place of ours, and that a decent respect for our Order requires that such attempts be suitably rebuked by publishing this resolution.” Wesley Underwood, a convicted murderer, hung himself in the Palmyra (Mo.) fail on the night of the 24th. He was to have been hung on the 27th. A recent decision of the Indiana Supreme Court declares that colored children are not entitled to public school benefits, on the ground that at the time of the adoption of the State Constitution colored people were not citizens. In the opinion of the court the Fourteenth Amendment, subsequently adopted, does not supersede this provision of the State Constitution.

The recent publication of the pretended account of the escape of the wild beasts at Central Park and the filling and maiming of a great number of persons has been the caupe of the death of Henry A. Martin, of Plainfield, N. J. He read the account in the New York Herald, became terribly excited over the perusal of the horrible details, was taken sick, and shortly after died. The New York Graphic of a late date mentions that the New York Central and Lake Shore Railroads have decided to extend a double track from Albany to Chicago, to be used for freight purposes. The tracks between New York and Albany are already completed. A weak shock of an earthquake was felt in Newburyport, Mass., on the night of the 24th. The vibration was from west to east. Vice-President Wilson is said v to have so much improved in health lately as to justify the expectation that he will preside over the deliberations of the Senate during the coming session. The safe-burglary case, which has been on trial at Washington for some time past, was concluded on the 27th by a verdict of not guilty as to Williams, and a report of inability to agree as to Harrington and Whitely. The United States Supreme Court has recently decided that the Indians, in their tribal relations, have no property rights in fee, and that the timber and mineral on the reservations are a part of the realty and cannot Jbe sold or leased. The ’longshoremen of New York struck on the 27th..

A bad condition of affairs is reported in various parts of the Pennsylvania coal region. Biots and personal outrages are said to be of almost daily occurrence. The body of the infant child ot Mrs. Goss, of Freemansburg, Pa., which was reported to have been stolen on the night of the 26th from the crib by its mother’s bedside, was found in the river at that place on the 27th. Mrs. Goss has been arrested for drowning the little creature. At a recent session of the Western Bureau of Railway Commissioners in Indianapolis it was decided to advance the rates on all kinds of freight from Western points to the seaboard five cents per hundred pounds. The new Michigan Constitution was defeated by 84,762 votes. Woman suffrage failed by a majority of 96,877. Kidder, the Republican candidate for Delegate to Congress from Dakota, had a majority of 2,408. A New Orleans dispatch of the 27th announces the arrest of nineteen citizens of Lafourche Parish upon warrants charging them with violating the Enforcement act. The Indiana State Grange at its recent session appropriated SI,OOO to aid the Nebraska grasshopper sufferers, and recommended the subordinate Granges to contribute additional sums. The balance in the treasury was stated to be $14,800.57. The recently-elected Clerk ts the Ken-

tucky Court of Appeals has been declared ineligible by the Returning Board because he had once been concerned in a duel. He has taken the case to the Cohrt of Appeals on the ground that the Board had no authority to inquire into question elegibility, their duty being simply to certify the result* Reinforcements sailed for Cuba on the 28th. 4 'V/fT *fl r s t Disraeli was very ill tm'tfie 28th, and unaWe to attend to business. » *T#|s A letter from Archbishop Manning was read in all the churches of his diojpese on the 29th, in which he says those who decline to accept the doctrine of papal infallibility cease to be Catholics. The Postmaster-General’s report for the year ending June 80, 1874, shows the following condition of affairs in his department: Revenues, 24,596,5(18; expenditures, 32,126,414; estimated expenditures for the year ending June 80, 1875, $36,964,984; total estimated revenue, $29,148,156—leaving a deficiency to be appropriated out of the general treasury of sfjfls,B7B.

Secretary Bristow has ordered the sale of $2,000,000 gold in New York during the month of December. Elias Williams and George Smith, of Hamilton County, N. Y., recently quarreled. In tbecourse of the fight Williams threw Smith over a wooden saw-horse and sawed off his head, severing it entirely from the body. Williams soon afterward cut his own throat. A Mrs. Janesch.of New York, has been arrested on the charge of having deliberately placed her little child on a hot stove and holding her there until she Was fatally burned. James Russell Lowell has been offered the Russian mission. He declined it.

During a riot at Shoustown, Pa., on the 29th, four Italian miners were killed and several more seriously injured. Hardin’s (Dem.) majority for Governor of Missouri is 37,462. The vote on the Constitutional Convention, with three counties to hear from, gives 1,108 majority for a convention. The King of the Sandwich Islands reached San Francisco on the 28th, en route for Washington. A Berlin dispatch of the Ist announces the sentence of the editor of the Vaterland to ten months’ imprisonment for stating in his newspaper that Kuhlmann’s attempt on the life of Bismarck was a sham plot conceived and engineered by the police. A Madrid special of the 30th ult. announces that Gen. Saballs and other prominent Carlists had abandoned the cause of Don Carlos.

Mayor Havemeyer, of New York, died on tbe 80th of apoplexy. On the 30th Judge Barrett, of New York, granted a writ of habeas corpus returnable in the Supreme Court on the 2d to inquire into the jurisdiction of the court that sentenced Wm. M. Tweed to imprisonment. A National Temperance Convention will be held at some point in the West during the coming year. The location, and time are not yet determined. The boy, thought by some to be Charlie Ross, in the family of F. W. Peyton, of Barboursville, W. Va., escaped from a neighboring poor-house. Later accounts from Tusctfmbia, Ala., say the loss of life by the recent tornado" in that vicinity was sixty, apd that more than an equal number were wounded. The value of property destroyed exceeded $500,000. Four hundred people are houseless, and there is great destitution. In a dispatch sent to his counsel at Washington on the 30th ult. Gov. Gar land, of Arkansas, says: “I am not concentrating troops to defy the President or Congress, as has been charged; nor for any other purpose. ,1 am not concentrating troops at all, there being peace and quiet throughout the State.” Wm. O. Key, cousin of the author of the “ Star Spangled Banner,” recently committed suicide at Baltimore. Walter Strain recently arrived at Des Moines, lowa, from the Black Hills, where he has been prospecting since August. He declares that there is not a shadow of truth in toe statements made as to the discoveries of gold in that country. Two of his comrades were shot by the Indians, of whom the hills are full.

M. Buffet was re-elected President of the French National Assembly on the Ist by an almost unanimous vote, the Left declining to vote. The British Government has annexed Grigua Land to Cape Colony. The Carlists on the Ist laid siege to Berga. The Postoffice Department have prepared instructions regulating the prepayment of postage on newspapers under the law which goes into effect Jan. 1, 1875. Instead of placing stamps on separate periodicals or papers, or on the packages containing them, according to weight, the forms already printed show a current account with publishers, and after the printed matter is weighed the requisite amount of stamps is posted in the form of a receipt given to the publisher or hia agent at the time of mailing, the credit and receipt having a corresponding number. The New Hampshire State Republican Convention will be held at Concord on the 12th of January, 1875. The National Board of Underwriters have decided to resume the business of insurance in Chicago. The newly-elected city officials of New Orleans were inaugurated op. the 30th. The Ohio Legislature met at Cohun-

bus on the Ist. From the message of Gov. Allen the foUowingitems of general interest are gained: The total local indedtedness of the State is $21,886,007.36; reimbursable debts, $7,988,205.80; total, $39,874,212.66. The irreduceable debt is fi,f2&,i9uß6. The aggregate debts in OHo, State, local and trust fund, $38,997,264.52. The taxes levied in 1878, collectable in 1874, aggregate $26,474,459. The taxes levied in 1874, collectable in Is7J>, aggregate $27,614,729. The taxable , valuation in Ohio, «& shown by the grinds duplicate Of 1874, is: Real estate in cities, towns an 4 villages, $354,849,197; real estate not in cities," towns and villages, $897,408,587; personal property, $528,121,588. Total, $1,580,379,324, which .is an increase over the grand duplicate of 1873 of $13,104,865.

The statement of the condition of the public debt Dec. 1 is as follows: Six per cent, bonds • $1467.274,700 Five per cent, bonds ; M*,6SS,BOO Total coin bonds $1,719,799.900 Lawful money debt , 14,678,000 Matured debt........ 1g,#6,0«0 Legal-tender notes..:.. 382,075,267 Certificates of deposit .*:.4#,1*0,009 Fractional eurreney ■ 47,885,698 Coin certificates. 28,045,400 Interest 38451,111 Total debt $2,285,8tU,4f1fi , Cash in Treasury— ■ : s ßj»otoi Special deposits held for the reTotal in Treasury $146,863,073 Debt less cash in Treasury ......... $2,138^938,334 Decrease daring November 128,427 Decrease since Jane 30, 1874....*.. 4,149,907 Bends issued to the Pacific Bailway Companies, interest payable In lawful money, principal outstanding. $64,623,51* Interest accrued and not yet paid... 1,615,587 Interest paid by the United States.. 24,325,396 Interest repaid by the transportation -of mails, etc 5,510,044: Balance of interest paid by United States 7." .*.. 18,815,852 The American Cheap Transportation Convention met at Richmond, Va., on the Ist, seventy-five delegates being present and Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts, presiding. A report on transportation was read by F. B. Tburber, of New York, id which he argued" in favor of trans-continental railroads in preference to canals. Committees were appointed.