Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

A majoreex of the members of the CommittedWrThirty in the French Assembly resigned on the 19th because a measure advocated by them was rejected. According to a San Sebastian dispatch of the 19th the small-pox had broken out in the Carlist camps, ana was raging violently. The Sioux Indian delegation visited President Grant on the 19th. The argument in the Tilton-Beecher suit began on the 19th, Judge Porter making the opening address in behalf of the defense. He was severe in his denunciations of Messrs. Tilton and Moulton. On the 19th, at Chicago, several criminal prosecutions against persons implicated in the whisky frauds were tried before United States Commissioner Hoyne. Two gaugers were held to bail in the sum of $5,000 each, and two rectifiers were each held in the sum of SIO,OOO. Mrs. Lincoln, widew of President Lincoln, has been adjudged insane by a jury in the Cook County Court at Chicago, and was, on the 20th, removed to a private asylum at Batavia, 111. The funeral of ex-Vice-President John C. Breckinridge occurred at Lexington, Ky., on the 19th. An immense throng participated in the ceremonies. A telegram from Hendaye, Spain, of the 20th says the Carlists, after two days’ heavy fighting, had occupied Usurbil and Ario.

The town of Osceola, Pa., was almost destroyed by fire on the 20th, all the public buildings except the Catholic and Methodist Churches being burned, to 1 gether with about 209 dwellings. Twelve hundred people are rendered homeless. Loss in Osceola $2,000,000. The Illinois Humane Society at its recent annual meeting appointed a committee to prepare an appeal for the organization of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, which has issued an address to the humane men and women of the Northwest, calling on them for concert of action in this direction. The committee state that the Illinois ’ Humane Society (whose headquarters are at 275 East Madison street Chicago, Albert W. Landon, Secretary) will be glad to forward to applicants such publications as may aid in the for mation of State or local societies. The Wisconsin Republican State Convention will meet at Madison on Wednesday, July 7, for the nomination of candidates for State officers. Hon. Jesse D. Bright, ex-United States Senator from Indiana, died at his residence in Baltimore, Md., on the 20th, aged sixty-three years.

The attempt to remove the archives of West Virginia from Charleston, W. Va., to Wheeling, the new capital of the State, was thwarted on the 20th by the enforcement of the injunction issued by Judge Smith. Gov. Jacobs decided not to remove the public property, holding the court responsible for its safe-keep-ing, the State officers deciding in the meantime to make their headquarters at Wheeling. The centennial of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was celebrated at Charlotte, N. C., on the 20th. Many distinguished gentlemen were present and delivered addresses. According to a Dublin dispatch of the 21st Judge Keogh had decided that the late John Mitchel was disqualified from holding a seat in Parliament on the ground that he was a felon and an alien. A Rome (Italy) dispatch of the 21st says the Government had ordered the removal of &11 Bishops whose appoint ments had not the royal indorsement. Assistant-Secretary Cowan and Commissioner Smith held a council with the Sioux Indian delegation in Washington on the 21st. - Red Cloud and Spotted Tail expressed a wish to change hotels, as they were stopping at a temperance house, which did not suit them. The Postmaster-General has ordered the reletting of the mail contracts in which frauds were discovered. The Chicago Tribune of the 22d says its “reports from the sections in the Northwest so terribly desolated last year by grasshoppers are generally of a more encouraging character than any which have been received heretofore.”

Cardinal McCloskey was presented on the 21st with a $20,000 diamond cross by the young lady pupils of St. Vincent’s Institute, New York city. The United States Centennial Commission met in Philadelphia on the 21st, and elected as President, Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut, and six VicePresidents. John L. Campbell was elected Secretary, and John L. Shoemaker Counselor and Commissioner. An Executive Committee was also sleeted. News from Osceola, Pa., on the 21st was to the effect that fires were still prevailing in the woods in that neighborhood. Relief was greatly needed. Houtzdale, a town of about 900 inhabitants, six miles from Osceola, was reported entirely destroyed and the woods in that neighborhood on fire. A State Temperance Mass Convention of women met at St. Louis on the 20th. The State Constitutional Convention, in session at Jefferson City, was requested to incorporate a clause in the new Constitution giving the ballot to women. A Berlin dispatch of the 22d says the Belgian tribunal at Liege had dismissed the charges against Duchesne for plotting for the assassination of Prince Bismarck. It was thought in Berlin that the finding would not be regarded by

Germany as a final settlement of the matter. ..jL •• A religious procession which was passing through the streets of Brussels on the 23d was broken up by a mob. Several of the Sioux Indians left the hotel assigned them by the authorities in Washington, on the 23d, and went to the Washington House. It was thought in Washington that the proposed negotiations with the Indian delegates would fail. The New York Legislature adjourned tine die on the 23d. According to a Tyrone (Pa.) dispatch of the 23d the destruction and desolation caused by the fire at Osceola and in the neighboring forests were very much greater than before reported. Ninetenths of the town were burned. Daniel O’Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, on the 23d finished the unprecedented feat of walking 500 miles in 153 hours, 2 minutes and 50 seconds. In the course of the Welk he accomplished 50 miles in nine consecutive hours, 200 miles in less than fifty hours, and made a mile in seven minutes and twentyeight seconds, the shortest time on record. Sutervi sob of Internal Revencsb McDonald, of St. Louis, was removed on the 22d and Ferdinand Myers appointed as his successor. A disease resembling cerebro-spinal meningitis has broken out among the horses in St. Louis, and proves fatal in many cases.