Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The Turcoman difficulties in Khiva have been settled. The King of the Sandwich Islands left Washington on the 23d for New York. The Holmeses, of Philadelphia, still continue their “seances” and protest their innocence of any complicity with the “ Katie King” frauds. Their sittings are still attended by earnest and undoubting believers. The father of Charlie Ross has offered a reward of $5,000 for the return ol his child. A New Orleans dispatch of the 23d says the Returning Board had given the Republicans 47 and the Conservatives 46 members of the House. The Conservative committee withdrew from the Board because of its alleged arbitrary ruling, and entered a protest against the action of the Board in rejecting the returns of certain precincts and thus securing the return of Republican in place of Democratic candidates. The Board announce the election of four Conservative and two Republican Congressmen. The Conservative sub-committee certify to the election of four Conservative and two Republican Congressmen; the election of Moncure, State Treasurer, by 4,851 majority, and the election of seventy-one Conservatives and thirty-seven Republicans to the Legislature. A train on the Great Western Railway, England, ran- off the track near Woodstock, on the 24th. Thirty persons were killed and wounded. At an explosion in the Bignall Hill col liery, England, on the 24th, twenty miners were killed. The British ship Basilisk, just returned from a four years’ cruise, reports the discovery of a large group of islands near New Guinea. The Secretary of the Interior has written a letter to the War Department asking that the most effective measures may be adopted toward all persons encroaching upon the Black Hiils reservation. James Walker, D. D., formerly President of Howard College, died recently at his residence in Cambridge, Mass. The meeting of 'Railway Commissioners for the Northwestern States has been postponed until Jan. 26, 1875. Madrid dispatches of the 27th report food as very scarce in the town of Pampalona, and all known Carlists had been expelled from the place. The Carlists had offered to restore the German brig Gustav upon payment of the customs duties alleged to be due. The Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia, the hero of the diamond scandal, has been ajudged to be insane. The emigrant ship Cospatrick was burned on the 17th off the Cape of Good Hope. It is estimated that 465 persons perished. Over 400 men and women were recently discharged from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving in consequence of a large part of the work having been transferred to New York. Mrs. Herman Bauer, her infant child, servant girl and a Mr. Beckerdt were frightfully burned in St. Louis on the 26th by the explosion of a spirit lamp. In an affray in New Orleans on the 26th between ex-Gov. Warmoth and D. C. Byerly, of the New Orleans Bulletin, the former stabbed the latter and inflicted wounds which shortly proved fatal. The difficulty grew out of a newspaper discussion on political affairs. Personal charges of an offensive character were made, and the editor of the Bulletin, Jewett, challenged Warmouth to a duel, which the latter accepted. The next day the fracas occurred, Byerly making the attack, with the result above stated.

The Election Returning Board of New Orleans report the following result for State Treasurer: Dubuclet, 69,544; Moncure, 68,586; majority for Dubuclet (Rep.), 958. The five constitutional amendments recommended by Kellogg and adopted by his Legislature are all carried, according to the count of both parties. The Postmaster-General has issued a circular enjoining upon Postmasters throughout the country the necessity of curtailing expenses in view of the anticipated deficiency for the current fiscal year. Gerrit Smith died in New York on the 28th from an attack of apoplexv and paralysis. He was seventy-seven years old. During a dense fog which prevailed in the vicinity of New York on the evening of the 28th several collisions occurred between ferry-boats and vessels. Several persons were killed and injured. One of Irwin’s checks for $115,000 has been traced to Postmaster King, es the House of Representatives, who drew it in May last. G. W. L. Smith, who was kidnaped in Massac County, 111., and taken to Tennessee some months ago, has been released. Ihe receipts of the Minnesota State Treasury during 1874 have been $1,112,812 52, and the expenditures $1,148,059.96. Balance in the Treasury $183,151.94, against $218,398.85, last year. In a dispatch sent from New Orleans on the 25th McEnery says: “The wrong just perpetrated by the Returning Board against the people of Louisiana.is a more crowning infamy than the action of the Lynch Returning Board.” He further says that resistance to the national authority is not meditated. According to a Washington special of the 28th the President had removed Gen. Emory and put Gen. Terry in his place. Gen. Sheridan had been ordered to pro-

ceed to New Orleans, with authority to take command in case such an emergency arose as in his judgment would make it proper for him to do so.