Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The new Revenue bill reported to Congress on the 10th fixes the tax on distilled liquors at one dollar a gallon, and the tax on imported and domestic gin, brandy, ram, etc., at $250 per gallon. Ex Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, has been nominated Governor of Wyoming Territory. The uncertainty in respect to Arkansas affairs at Washington has caused a depresstftg effect upon business at Little Kock. There was considerable excitement therein the TOth, the disturbing causes being the report of the Arkansas Investigating Committee and the subsequent message ot the President. At the recent session of the National Grange >t Charleston, 8. C., thirty-four States and three Territories were represented. Twenty-three German Catholic Bifoops have protested in behalf of the entire Episcopate against the interference in the Papal election, indicated in Bismarck’! recent confidential circular. Civil wrfr is said to be imminent in China.

The colored Methodist Episcopal Bishops have appointed Monday, March 1, as a day of fasting and prayer. They have also issued an address to the American people pleading for their race the enjoyment of every civil and political right. *„ : ~ • The proposition of the Conservatives for a compromise of the Louisiana difficulties haa been rejected by the Congressional Committee. The proposal was to the effect that the election '0f7872 should not be included in the adjustment; tire election of the Treasurer and members of the Legislature !h 1674 to be submittedy and the House organized. on the basis ©f the-committee’s award; the Kel-. 1 ogg Government not to be disturbed so long ap it is sustained by the Presidept, and the Senators returned by the arbitration to be seated.

C. W. Jones (Dem ) has been elected United States Senator by the Florida Legislature. Mr. Jones was supported by the Democrats and Independent Republicans. Anaerdenhas been- issued by the Spanish Cabinet to .raise, by 000 mqp for the army: Of these, 13,000 are to be sent to Cuba. It is now said that the Empress oi China did not commit suicide, as previously reported. The Commissidnet of the General Land office has declined to allow the Union Pacific Railroad Company to exchange agricultural for mineral lands. ' ? The President has orderedan enumeration of the* grasshopper sufferers, with a view of carrying out the provisions of the act of Feb. 10,1875, for their relief. Th| _ Executive Committee of* the National Grange has been increased by the of New Hampshire, &nd J. T. Jones, of Arkansas. It now consists of five members. A reperVof the committee on the address of Master Adanis, indorsing his recommendattott that Subordinate Granges be fostered by the National Grange and that manufactures in the South be encouraged, was adopted by the National range on the 12th. A Little Rock (Ark.) Grand Jury reon the 12th that they were not able, after-diligent questioning, to find a single instance in which any man had been deprived of his right to vote or any other right, but, on the contrary; unusual quiet prevailed. Mr. Hooper, Member of Congress from Fourth Massachusetts District, died at Washington on the 13th, of pneumonia. Tite Massachusetts Supreme Court have the exceptions in the case of Jesse H. Pomeroy, the boy-mur-derer, and ordered judgment on the verdict Tgygyy 'W - VV. a• t • A ;»ew freight tariff has been adopted by the Eastern Railway companies, and following is the tariff agreed upon from Chicago: To Philadelphia and BSgjWufffd—First-class, $1.35; second, $1.00; third, 75 cents; fourth, 85 cents; grain, 35 cents; flour, 70 cents ; bulk meats, 40 cents. New York —First-class, $1.49; second, $1.10; third, 85 cents; fourth, 40'cents; grain, 40 cents; flour, 80 cents; bulk- meats, 45 cents.' The Western lines have adopted the following tariff on freight east of Chicago, consigned to points west of the Mississippi River: From St. Louis, Louisiana, Hannibal,.Quincy, Burlington and Davenport to Kansas City, Omaha, Council Bluffs and other pointe on the Missouri River— First-olass, 72 cents; second, 49; third 38; fourth; 20;' special, 24; class A, SSO; class B; $45. ' . .. The National. Grange has adopted resolutions in favor of the Centennial Exposition’mid the Texas Pacific Railroad; the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi and the repeal of all laws taxing tobacco. • The Legislature of West Virginia have resolved to remove the capital of the State to Wheeling. *' A Ministerial crisis prevails in France in consenfuence of the opposition of the Assembly to sotne of the pet constitutional measures desired by the Government, and President MacMahon finds some difficulty in inducing any one of the prominent statesmen to undertake the formfctianof > new. -Cabinet until these questions be fully determined. ■ A Singapore telegram of a recent date reports that a serious revolt had broken out among the Chinese prisoners copfined there, which was not quelled until sixty-seven persons had been shot.’

Great Britain has recognized King Alphonso. - z * * The Archbishop of Dublin, in a recent pastoral fetter, condemns the mission of the Chicago revivatwtar-Moody and Sankey, in England, who, hesayu, salvation by foolish sensationalism, without requiring repentance.” The recent general order of the Secretary of War in relation to furnishing aid to the grasshopper sufferers is to be carried out with the utmost dispatch. The Pacific Mail Directors have approved the order of. Manager Hatch |nstituting suits against the parties Who received Subsidy money. ' A bill has lately passed the Kansas legislature to loan $95,000 for six years to destitute counties, without interest. M. L. Dunlap, the agricultural and writer, died at Champaign, 111., recently, agedrsixty years' *> l | The British steamer George Balters recently foundered at sea and all on board* ’Were lost. John Mitchel has been returned to the British Parliament from Tipperary, Ireland, and Dr. Kenealy, the counsel for the Tichborne claimant, from Stoke-on-Trent.

At the Connecticut State Democratic Convention, held at Hartford on the 16th; the present State officers were unanimously renominated. The resolutions favor hard tttoeyt e ft(er|l Executive interference in the States of Louisiana and Arkansas and the increase of Federal taxation'at a time when the industry of the country is so greatly depressed. The house of D. B- Mellott, of McConnellsburg, Pa., was burned en the 16. h, and in it three of his children. _ ;irj The Missouri State Woman’s Suffrage Association held - a largely-attended meeting in St Louis bn the evening of the 16th. | The National Grange adjourned on the 16th, after instructing the Executive Committee to arrange for holding the next session at Chicago. Among other resolutions, adopted was one indorsing and recommending the construction by the National Government of a system of wafer-ways so that unrestricted channels of trade shall be opened and not only brought the entire length of the Mississippi, but connecting that river pith the Atlantic Ocean by way of the lakes by the Ohio, Kanawha and James and by the Tennessee and -Savannah Rivers,. .