Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1875 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

FBOJI WASHINGTON. Fbesidknt Grant has assigned Dr. Linderman, the Director of the Mint, to make the examination ordered hy Congress as to what point in the Western States and Mississippi Valley possesses the best advantages for a mint. The investigation will be made dur ing the coming summer. A Washington telegram of the 24th announces that the Spanish Government had paid 145,000 of the SBO,OOO agreed upon on account of the Virginias affair. Thb Postmaster-General has issued an order canceling all awards of contracts heretofore made, in favor of the parties whose names are contained in the proposals fraudulently imposed upon the department by the complicity of clerks at the last regular letting, and directing the contracts to be immediately awarded to the respective bidders whose proposals are next lowest in amount to the proposals thus rejected. Secretary Drlano has announced that in accordance with the advice of friends in various parte of the country, and in accordance with his own Juagment of his duty to himself and to the Republican party, he has indefinitely postponed hl* Intended resignation.’

THE EAST. Tub Centennial Board of Finance cautions the public against counterfeit medals in commemoration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. A series of medals with appropriate devices, emblems and inscriptions have been prepared, which are the only ones officially issued relating to the great events of 1876. These are of four kinds-*-small gilt at one dollar; large bronze at two dollars; coin silver at three dollars; large gilt at five dollars; or all inclosed in one case at eleven dollars. They are now being sold by the Centennial Board of Finance and it* agents. John Kelley has been elected Sachem of Tammany by a vote of 357 to 5 for Comptroller Andrew H. Green. A terrible tragedy is reported from New York. James Lafferty, of Rockville, Allegany County, killed his grandmother and robbed her house; subsequently he shot Miss Van Nay, who had refused to marry him, her moth or and then killed himself. Thb New York Union League Club-House was partially destroyed by fire on the morning of the 25th. Dani bl O’Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, recently walked 116 miles in twenty-three hours and eight minutes, in New York city, beating the best time on record. Thb cross-examination of Mr. Partridge, in the Beecher suit, was concluded on the 26th, and Elizabeth La Pierre Palmer, a professed spiritual medium, testified to having seen demonstrations of affection and intimacy between Mr. Tilton and Mrs. Woodhull and to have overheard" conversations between them relative to the publication of the Golden Age and Mrs. Woodhull’s paper as organs of Spiritualism. Before the publication of the Woodhull scandal witness says she heard the proof-sheets of that document read to Mr. Tilton by Mrs. W.; also heard Mr. Tilton say, before the publication of the scandal, that the story about Mr. Beecher and his (Tilton’s) wife was not true. Lawyer Tracy, of the defense, was called to the stand, but his testimony was deferred till the 27th.

THE WEST. The Chicago Inter-Ocean of April 32 published reports from various sections of the country, showing that the wheat crop in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Tennessee would be less than an average, while in Southern Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota a large crop was promised. Cotton and tobacco in Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia had been injured by frost, and in those States,’as well as in Ohio, Indiana and Missouri, the fruit crop would be substantially a failure. The fruit regions of Southern Ulinols and Michigan had also suffered. Oats and clover had been damaged in some sections. The libel suit of Miss Early, of Rockford, Hl., against Mr. Storey, of the Chicago Times was concluded on the 21st by a verdict of <25,000 damages. The suit was brought because of the publication of an article in the Times alleging scandalous conduct on the part of the plaintiff. The publication of the article was admitted, and no attempt was made to justify it, the defense being that there was no malice in it, and that a subsequent retraction was made. At an election recently held in Chicago a majority of the votes polled were in favor of reorganizing the city government under the provisions of the General Incorporation act of 1872. Minority representation was defeated by a large majority. The Citizens’ Association will contest the election on the ground of fraudulent voting. Arthur B. Barrett, the recently-elected Mayor of St Louis, died on the 24th after a brief illness. .

THE SOUTH. The Louisiana Legislature adjourned sine die on the24th. In the Senate the resolution suspending Auditor Clinton from office was postponed to 1876. A collision occurred on the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad, in Maryland, on the 26th between two passenger trains, and the two engines and four cars were completely demolished and nine persons were seriously injured and several others slightly hurt Memorial Day was observed at Augusta, Ga., on the 26th with unusually imposing cer emonies, the corner-stone of the Confederate monument being laid, after which the Ladies’ Memorial Association decorated with flowers the graves of the Confederate and Federal dead in Augusta Cemetery. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. A St. Petersburg (Russia) correspondent of the. London Daily News says on the morning of the 21st that a plot had been discovered in Khiva for the massacre of all the Russians in the Khanate. The Roman Catholic Bishops of Great Britain have written letters of sympathy to the Bishops of Germany and Switzerland, now claiming to suffer persecution at the hands of their respective Governments. A banquet is to be given to the American rifle team on its arrival at Dublin, and the Lord Mayor of London has signified his intention to go in state, and at the end of the international contest to give the American riflemen a dinner in London.