Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Mbs. Tilton’s letter to Judge Neilson was made public on the 4th. In it she declares her innocence and claims to have been for five years past the victim of cruel circumstances. She says she would like to tell her whole story truthfully and acknowledge the frequent falsehoods C rung from her through compulsion. She assumes the responsibility of this request, and claims it was made without the slightest knowledge of friend or counsel of either side. Judge Neilson returned this letter to Mrs. Tilton with a note saying that he must decline to introduce it in the proceedings. A Paris correspondent of the London Times, in a dispatch published on the Sth, declares that uneasiness prevails in well-informed circles in France, and that a war between that power and Germany , is deemed probable. According to a London dispatch of the Sth over 8,000 persons had been converted in that city through the labors of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. The Russian authorities have forbidden the importation into Finland or Russian territory of American potatoes. On the Sth Stephen P. Andrews testitifiod that William Orton, Whitelaw Reid, Benjamin F. Butler and others were in the habit of visiting Mrs. Woodhull’s residence while witness was living there in the summer of 1870. Witness often saw Mr. Tilton and Mrs. W. together, but never observed any undue familiarity between them. Witness testified that he was in one sense the author of the scandal article, although Mrs. W. composed the original, witness preparing it for publication; so far as he knew Mr. Tilton was entirely ignorant of the article, and was surprised when it appeared. Mrs. Martha A. Bradshaw contradicted a portion of Bessie Turner’s testimony, and Mr. John Wood, a printer, testified that the Woodhull scandal was put in type the last week in October. Henry C. Bowen testified that he knew the contents of Mr. Tilton’s note which he took to Mr. Beecher (and which witness says was delivered at the residence of Mr. Freeland), but that Mr. Beecher did notask him if he did; Mr. Beecher did not recommend witness to discharge Mr. Tilton from the Independent, but witness told him (Mr. Beecher) that he had canceled Mr. T.’s appointment as editor. Witness said there was no connection between the tripartite agreement and the payment to Mr. Tilton of the $7,000; witness was always willing to- arbitrate with Mr. T., and did not know that Mr. Beecher had anything to do with such arbitration; the arbitration was concluded on the 3d of April, 1872, and the tripartite covenant was executed on the 7th. The Connecticut Legislature organized on the sth by the election of the Democratic caucus nominees. - Gov. Bagley, ot, Michigan, has appointed Julia 8. Sutherland Commission er of Deeds for Michigan at Salt Lake City. According to a St. Louis dispatch of the sth Indian depredations in Western Kansas were apprehended. Government troops had been ordered to protect the settlers. The appearance of the cholera in the city of Baroda, India, was announced on the Bth. According to a Washington dispatch of the 6th Minister Cushing, in Madrid, had received from the Spanish Government the balance due on the Virginius indemnity, thus anticipating the payment several months. On the 6th Mr. Bowen in his cross-ex-amination adhered to his evidence given on the direct examination. An employe at Dehnonico’s testified that there was no restaurant on the upper floor at the time Woodleigh swore he saw Mrs. Woodhull and Tilton lunching there. Telegrams from Pottsville and Wilkesbanre, Pa., of the 6th state that the outrages by striking miners were on the increase, and there was no prospect of the strike ending for some time. The managers ot some of the mines had concluded to abandon the works by withdrawing the pumps. The Ohio State •'Democratic Convention occurs at Columbus on the 17th of June.

Judge Morrieses, of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas, ~ in a late charge to the Grand Jury, reviewed the Civil-Rights law, and expressed the opinion that all persons have legal rights to equal privileges in hotels, public conveyances and other institution? of a public nature, while they do. not thereby acquire. any social rights. He instructed the Grand Jury to find a true bill against any person violating its provisions. In his late tour through some of the Southern States Vice-President Wilson was entertained by several prominent ex-Confederates, among them ex-Vice-President John C. Breckinridge. President Grant has signed the commission of J. M. G. Parker as Postmaster of New Orleans. Ben Hill has been elected to Congress from the. Ninth Georgia District to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Garnett McMillan. The Bishop of Breslau has been expelled from Germany for violation oi the Ecclesiastical laws. The Prussian police nave lately received notices of plots against Bismarck and Minister Falk. A special staff has been formed for their protection. An American Methodist Church at Quickarg, in China, was lately destroyed by a Chinese mob. The Comptroller of the Currency has called upon the National Banks to make

a report to him of their condition at the close of business on the Ist inst. A national convention of bankers will assemble at Saratoga Springs, July 20. Owing to the absence of Messrs. Beach and Shearman, of the counsel, the Beecher trial adjourned on the 7th to the 10th. ' - . , William E. Sturtevant, who some months ago murdered three persons, was hanged at Plymouth, Mass., on the 7th. The trial of Sam Bowles, editor of the Springfield (Mass.) BgwWiean, for libeling Mr. Phelps, of Massachusetts, a prominent railroad President, by styling him “robber” Phelps, has been concluded and SIOO damages awarded. The claim was for $200,000. The father of Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan died at his residence in Somerset, Ohio, on the 6th. A bold attempt to rob an express car on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad was made on ihe morning of the 7th. A discharged railroad conductor by ttie name of Binkley boarded the eastern-bound express at Lima, Ohio, and effected an entrance into the Adams Express car by sawing out the panels of the door. He wore a mask, and on entering the car fired two shots at Geo. H. Price, the express messenger, wounding him slightly. Price shot the would-be murderer and robber through the head, Killing him instantly. Ex-State Treasurer Rankin, of lowa, on trial at Des Moines on the charge of embezzlement, has been acquitted. Another cyclone visited Middle Georgia on the Ist, causing the killing of fifty persons, the wounding of many more, the destruction of a great quantity of live stock and numerous dwellings. The ravages of the cyclone were confined mainly tiTHarris, Talbot, Henry and Calhoun Counties.

Vice-President Wilson was brilliantly entertained at Nashville, Tenn., on the 7th, at the residence of Gen. E. W. Cole. The Kentucky Democratic State Convention completed its nominations on the 7th. The full ticket is composed as follows:’ For Governor, James B. McCreery; Lieutenant-Governor, John C. Underwood; Attorney-General, Thomas E. Moss; Auditor, D. Howard Smith; Treasurer, J. W. Tate. On the night of the 7th the Eagle line steamer Schiller, which sailed from New York on the 28th ult. for Hamburg, was totally wrecked on an outlying ledge of the Scilly Islands, about thirty miles from Land’s End, England. The ship was one-half mile out of its course, an error solely attributable to the prevalence of a dense fog. Of the 379 persons on board, 311 are known to have perished. Several prominent German citizens of Chicago, Milwaukee, Davenport (Iowa), and other Western and Southern cities were lost. On the Bth the Italian Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 519 to 149, approved the ecclesiastical policy of the Government. A resolution was adopted on the Bth by the Belgian Chambers approving the recent correspondence with Germany. The bill for the suppression of religious orders in Germany has been read a second time without amendment, and the bill giving the old Catholics a share of the Catholic Church property passed —the latter by 202 to 75. The provincial authorities have been instructed to treat the giving of money to priests who have been subjected to legal penalties as a punishable offense. A Washington dispatch of the 9th says that the work on the new CustomHouse building in Chicago will have to be entirely overhauled and the building reconstructed from the foundation, entailing an additional cost of $1,000,000 and postponing the completion of the structure a year. The Postmaster-General recently issued an order carrying into effect the treaty for the formation of a general postal union concluded at Berne Oct. 9 last. The Grand Jury of the District of Columbia has declined to find an indictment against Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun, for libeling ex-Gov. Shepherd. An attempt was made by miners on the night of the 7th to burn the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge above Locust Gap. A new trial in the case of Early vs. Storey, of the Chicago Times, has been denied, the plaintiff consenting to accept $15,000 in lieu of the $25,000 awarded by the jury. The defense appealed to the Supreme Court. In another libel suit against Mr. Storey for stigmatizing a Chicago lawyer as a “ shyster” the jury returned a verdict of SSOO. John Bender, the Kansas murderer, lately imprisoned at Florence, Arizona, has again escaped. . T . >• Captive Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Kiowa Indians from the Cheyenne Agency arrived at Fort Leavenworth on the Bth, and were placed in the guard-house.