Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Wk. M. Tweed reached New York city on the 23d, and was held to bail in the sum of $3,000 lo answer an indictment found against him in 1873, and of SI,OOO on the Grand Jury indictment of May last. He was afterward taken in custody on a civil suit and conveyed to Ludlow Street Jail, to remain until bail in the sum of $3,000,000 is furnished. According to a Wilkesbarre (Pa.) telegram of the 22d a final settlement of the coal-mining troubles had been reached and all the collieries in that region would start on the 23d. The Indian Bureau in Washington, on the 23d, received a dispatch from Prof. Jenney, of the Black Hills expedition, dated near Harney’s Peak, June 17. He says: “I have discovered gold in small quantities on the north bend of Castle Creek in terraces or bars of quartz gravel. Gold is found from Castle Creek southwardly to French Creek, at this point, and the deposits are almost wholly in Dakota. The region has not been fully explored, but the yield of gold thus far has been quite small, and reports of the richness of the gravel bars are greatly exaggerated. The prospect at present is not such as to warrant extended explorations in mining.” The New York State Prohibitionists met at Syracuse on the 23d and nominated: For Secretary of State, G. D. Dusenbery; Comptroller, Anson A. Hopkins; Treasurer, Stephen B. Ayers; State Engineer and Surveyor, George A. Dudley; Canal Commissioner, Ira D. Bell; State Prison' Inspector, John B. Gibb; Attorney-Gen-eral, Ed. T. Marsh. Strong prohibition resolutions were adopted. Mr. Beach finished his argument for the plaintiff in the l ilton-Beecher trial on the 23d, after which he presented to the court affidavits concerning additional evidence which he desired admitted, and asked for a reopening of the case to that end. The Judge took the matter under advisement. In accordance with a decision rendered by Judge Blodgett that alleged illicit distillers must surrender their boAhgtt? the Government officials, theJjaliflllctates Marshal on the 23d took jffiHNnQQof all books belonging to the estaolllfßnents recently seized in Chicago. The California Independent State Convention, held at Sacramento on the 23d, adopted a platform mainly devoted to the transportation question. A full State ticket was nominated, headed by Gen. Bidwell for Governor and the acting Governor (Pacheco) for Lieutenant-Governor. A dangerous counterfeit five-dollar note on the First National Bank of Canton, 111., is reported from Washington. It is similar to the counterfeit fives on the f Traders’ National Bank of Chicago. It was reported in London on the 24th that the Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise intend making a tour of the United States.

Count von Abnim has finally been found guilty of abstracting public documents from the archives of the Paris Legation and sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment. The report of the commission to examine into the condition of the Chicago Cus-tom-House was published on the 24th, and is substantially that the foundations are unsafe and the stone of a poor quality. Secretary Bristow has decided to stop work on the building until the meeting of Congress. At the opening of his court on the morning of the 24th Judge Neilson announced that he should deny the application for reopening the Tilton-Beecher case, and the papers were filed with the Clerk of the court. The Judge then delivered his charge to the jury, and at one o’clock they retired for deliberation. The lowa Opposition State Convention assembled at Des Moines on the 24th and nominated Hon. Shephard Leffler for Governor; Capt. E. B. Woodward for Lieutenant-Governor; W. J. Knight for Judge of the Supreme Court; A. R. Wright for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The platform declares against a third term and favors a reduction' of* the President’s salary and the resumption of specie payment as soon as the same can be done without injury to the business interests of the country, and in the meantime favors a sufficient supply of national currency for business purposes, and opposes the present National Banking law. A motion that the party organization be known as Democratic was tabled. A severe wind and rain storm on the night of the 23d destroyed fifty houses and three miles of sidewalk and fences inJDecorah, lowa. Dispatches from France, dated June 25, represent that the loss of life by the flood in the Garonne had been appalling. Over 800 houses had fallen in Toulouse, and it was reported that over 1,000 persons had perished. In the St. Cyprien quarter 213 corpses had already been recovered. At Tremouillet five houses only remained standing out of 400. In the district of Foix two villages had been submerged and many dead bodies had been found. A letter was received in New York on the 25th giving an account of the great earthquake at Circuta, South America, on the 18th of May. The first shock killed in a single instant 8,000 people out of a population of 10,000. Garcia, who stole Murillo’s famous picture from the Seville Cathedral, and who was kidnaped in Cuba and subsequently sent to Spain, is reported to have been shot at Madrid without trial. The Carlist fortress of Misavet, on the river Ebra, is officially reported to have surrendered. A Berlin dispatch of the 25th says Count von Amim would appeal from the

late decision of the Kammergericht in his case. Prof. Donaldson and three members of the press made a balloon ascension from Toronto on the 28d and were picked up the next day by a vessel five miles off Point Peter, on Lake Ontario. The New Hampshire House of Representatives on the 25th passed resolutions censuring the Governor and the Council in the Senatorial matter, by a vote of 174 to 166. Mortimer Thompson, better known as Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. 8., died in New York city on the 25th. There were three executions for murder iu New England on the 25th. At Dedham, Mass., James H. Costley was hanged for the murder of Julia Hawkes, and at Thomaston, Me., Louis Wagner and-John True Gordon swung from the same scaffold. Gordon was insensible when hung, having stabbed himself in the breast with intent to commit suicide. At Plymouth Church prayer-meeting on the evening pf the 25th Mr. Beecher, referring to the scandal trial, said he should continue to act as pastor of Plymouth Church no matter what the verdict of the jury might be, because he felt that bis congregation would still have faith in and stand by him. The jury had not agreed upon a verdict up to the morning of the 26th. Three vinegar factories were seized fn Cincinnati on the 25th for illicit distillation of whisky.

A dispatch from Omaha, signed by United States Senators Hitchcock and Paddock, was published on the 26th, declaring the reports of grasshopper ravages in Nebraska greatly exaggerated. They had done but little damage, and only in isolated cases. The crops promised well. Judge O. B. McFadden, Delegate to Congress from Washington Territory, died on the 25th. The damage by inundation in the Garo«»ersgion was estimated on the 28th at £15,000,000. The lowest estimate 01 deaths in the flooded districts was 2,000. Inundations have recently occurred in Bohemia, Moravia, Corinthia, Tyrol iyjd Beriat, with considerable loss Of life and immense destruction of property. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Indians havesigned an agreement to relinquish theii hunting privileges in Nebraska for $25,000 in horses, cows, wagons, etc. Mrs. Tilton has made an affidavit in which she denies the statements made in the affidavits of the alleged new .witnesses upon whose evidence a reopening of the Beecher case was asked for. She also solemnly declares that she is innocent of all the offenses charged against her in connection with Mr. Beecher, except that under the influence of her husband she had made charges against Mr. Beecher which both she and her husband knew to be false. A tornado passed over Detroit on the evening of the 27th. Its path was about 500 feet wide, and thirty houses were destroyed. Four persons were killed and many others injured.