Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

A London telegram of the 9th says Gen. Baballs had defeated the Alphonsists at Blanes, after two days* fighting, capturing their guns, stores, and 140 prisoners. A severe storm passed over Paris on the 9th, causing great damage. There 'were many accidents, and traffic was wholly suspended in the streets. The damage done in Paris alone is estimated at 11,000,000 francs. The Sultan of Zanzibar reached London on a visit to Queen Victoria on the 9th. The President has appointed Gov. Axtell, of Utah Territory, to be Governor of New Mexico, vice Giddings, deceased, and Geo. W. Emery Governor of Utah, mice Axtell. According to a Washington dispatch of the 9th the Interior Department did not regard the late visit of the Indians to Washington as a failure. The department did not expect to effect a treaty relating to the Black Hills with the Indians while in Washington. The object was to discuss the subject with them and prepare them for some arrangement after a return of the expedition which had been sent out to determine whether there is gold there or not. A Wllkesbabre (Pa.) dispatch of the Sth says there was no prospect of the miners of the Wyoming region resuming work. Mr. Evarts finished his eight-days’ argument for the defense in the Tilton Beecher trial on the Bth, and Mr. Beach began his plea in behalf of the prosecution on the 9th. The New Hampshire Legislature, on the Vth, elected Person O. Cheney (Rep.) Governor and Charles H. Powers (Rep.) Railroad Commissioner. The International Typographical Convention, lately in session in Boston, has selected Philadelphia as the place, and July 1,1876, as the time, for holding the next annual convention.

The Minnesota Republican State Convention is to be held on the 28th of July Gov. Davis is not a candidate for renomination. The editor of the Galveston (Tex.) News having been cited by Judge Morrill, of the United States District Court, to answer for certain comments upon the Judge’s decision in a case of violation of the Civil-Rights law, the Judge dismissed the case on the 9th on the ground that there was no intent to obstruct justice, and that publishers have liberty to apply any epithet to the J udge of the court without being in contempt for so doing. Rev. J. 8. Shipman, of Kentucky, has been elected Episcopal Bishop of Northern Wisconsin. The Ohio Supreme Court has decided that the property of benevolent societies, including the Masonic and similar organizations, heretofore exempt, is subject to taxation. Gen. Sheridan has announced that all parties who contemplate entering the Big Horn country will be prevented from doing so by the military authorities. On the 27th of May the steamer Vicks, burg left Quebec for Liverpool. On the Ist of June, in latitude 46:34 north, longitude 47:58 west, she was crushed by heavy ice and went down, carrying with her not less than forty souls, including the Captain. i mortality in the Fiji Islands from measles is said to be frightful. A box containing a quantity of Protest ant books consigned to an American resident of Spain was lately confiscated at one of the Spanish Custom-Houses, and the attention of Minister Cushing has been called to the act. The Prince Bishop of Breslau has been sentenced to a fine of 2,000 marks or 133 days’ imprisohment for illegally excommunicating a priest.

The delegates to the National Christian Association lately in session at Pittsburgh adopted anti-secret society resolutions. Hon. J. B. Walker, of Illinois, was nominated for President and Donald Kirkpatrick, of New York, for Vice-President of the United States. Gov. Cheney, of New Hampshire, was inaugurated on the 10th. A convention of the productive and other industrial classes has been called to meet at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 18th of August. On the 10th the Chicago papers announced that the Illinois Central and the Chicago, Altqp & St. Louis Railroads had decided to pool thjir earnings between competing points. Prof. Jenney, of the exploring expedition to the Black Hills region, on the 9th telegraphed to Washington that the formations in the vicinity of the Black Hills were of a recent geological age and not auriferous. The Maryland Democratic State Convention has been called to meet in Baltimore on the 21st of July, to nominate State officers. The Indiana State Temperance Convention recently held at Indianapolis adopted a platform of resolutions recognizing the temperance work as the work of God; recommending that drinking habits be made a disqualification in the election or appointment to offices of trust and profit; agreeing not to vote for anyone known to use liquor as a beverage ; arguing that it is the duty of the Government to protect the people from' the traffic and denying the right to license dram-shops, etc., etc. Bismarck has prohibited the circulation of the Cathoiic Gaeette, of Baltimore, Joy two yean in Germany,

A rawroad accident occurred near Bath, England, on the 11th. Several persons were killed and many seriously injured. The Agricultural Department at Washington has statistics carefully collected by responsible persons in the following States, giving the number of live hogs in Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky and Wisconsin on the Ist of January last at 14,212,800. It was estimated that returns from other States would make the hog crop for the year over 18,000,000. . A Washington telegram of the 11th says the headquarters of the National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry would shortly be removed to Louisville, Ky. The members of the dry goods house of H. B. Claflin & Co., New York, have recently been indicted for dealing in smuggled silk goods, knowing them to be such, and have given bail in the sum of $20,000 each. The following officers were elected by the International Typographical Union at its late session in Boston: President, Walter H. Bell, of Philadelphia; First Vice-President, James Harper, of Montreal ; Second Vice-President, C. F. Sheldfti, of Kansas City; Secretary and Treasurer, Wm. A. Hutchinson, of Chicago; Corresponding Secretary, W. 8. Pride, of Wilmington, Del. The California Republican State Convention met at San Francisco on the 11th and nominated Hon. T. G. Phelps for Governor, Joseph M. Cavis for Lieu-tenant-Governor, O. H. Hallett for Secretary of State, Wm. Beckman for Treasurer. The Administration of President Grant was indorsed, and his third-term letter declared to be explicit as to the third-term agitation. The Chicago Timet of the 11th states that the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and the engineers appointed to examine the walls of the new CustomHouse building in that city had condemned the entire structure and advised its demolition.

Details were given in a late Panama dispatch of a fearful earthquake which occurred in New Granada on the 18th ult Large portions of the cities of Ban Cayetana, Gramalata, Arboleda, Cucuta and Ban Cristobel were destroyed, and several thousand persons were reported killed. A late libel suit against the Pittsburgh Daily Post, brought by W. D. Moore, formerly Chairman of the Democratic County Committee, has terminated in a verdict for the plaintiff for SIO,OOO damages. The Post had denounced Moore as an Impostor, etc. A gang of cattle-thieves was overtaken by a company of State troops near Brownsville, Tex., on the 18th, and their whole number were killed. One of the soldiers was fatally shot. The safe of the United States man-of-war Cumberland, which was run into and sunk in Hampton Roads by the Confederate ram Virginia, in 1862, has recently been recovered by a diver. The safe contained between $60,000 and SIOO,OOO in gold, and was found in seventy-eight feet of water.