Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Count Hoyoßfreszknstein has been appointed to succeed Baron Senborn, late Austrian Minister to the United States. The United States Treasury Department ■was reorganized on the 30th ult., under the Kellogg bill. The general force of the Treasury will by this bill be reduced to the extent of 384 employes, saving, it is claimed, $500,000. The commission to count the funds in the Treasurer’s office at Washington commenced the work on the night of the 30th ult. According to a Washington dispatch of the 30th ult. Secretary Delano had not abandoned his desire to retire from the Cabinet. Pemberton, who recently killed Mrs. Bingham in Boston, has been tried and sentenced to be hung. The lowa Republican State Convention met at Des Moines on the 30th nit, and nominated: For Governor, ex-Gov. Samuel J. Kirkwood; 'Trfeuteoant-Governor, .J. G. Newbold; Supreme Judge, Austin Adams; State Superintendent, A. Abernethy. The platform adopted favors the gradual resumption of specie payment; a tariff for revenue so to encourage home industry; opposes a third term, and demands that all railway and other corporations shall be held in just subjection to the law-making pbwer, etc. The California "Democratic State Convention met at San Francisco on the 30th ult. and nominated William Irwin for Governor. Resolutions were adoptedcondemning the Republican party and Administration; favoring a tariff for revenue only, and a currency convertible into gold and silver at the will of the holder; declaring it the right and duty of the Legislature to regulate corporations, etc. • At Lima, Ohio, on the 30th ult., Mrs. John Courtney was fatally burned while kindling a fire with coal oil. Decosta, Raalte & Co., and Kilburn, Kerhard & Co., of London, failed on the Ist, with aggregate liabilities of $4,950,000. The Bureau of Statistics reports the imports into the United for eleven months, ending May 31, to have been $490,444,228, and the exports $490,174,599, afalling off of imports this year of $56,104,289, and of exports of $167,680,031. Indianapolis (Ind.) dispatches of the Ist say that Robert Dale Owen had become deranged on the subject of Spiritualism.

The following is the statement of the public debt for June: Six per cent, bonds $1,100,865,550 Five per cent, bonds 607,132,750 Total coin bonds $1,707.998,500 L&wfal money debt $14,678,000 Matured debt 11,425,880 notes 375,841,687 Certificates of deposit 58,415,000 Fractional currency 42,129,424 Coin certificates 21,796,300 Interest 38,647,556 Total debt $2,270,932,087 Cash in Treasury— • Coin $79,854,410 Currency 3,973,931 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law 58,415,000 Total in Treasury $142,243,361 Debt less cash in Treasury $2,128,688,726 Decrease during June 1,431,249 -Decrease since June 30,1874 H,399,514 Bonds issued to the Pacific Bailway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 1,938,705 Interest paid by the United States.. 26,264,1ttt Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc 6,184,311 Balance of interest paid by United States 20,129,791 The Inter-State Educational Convention met at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 30th ult., a large delegation of teachers being present from Southern and Western States. A permanent association was formed, and it was resolved to meet next June in Memphis. Lady Franklin was reported as slowly improving on the 2d, with a prospect of ultimate recovery. A report received in London on the 2d that the Alphonsist Gen. Loma had been worsted by the Carlists, and had lost 1,200 men. A Madrid dispatch of the 2d says that Gen. Jovjellar, the Alphonsist leader, had defeated the united bands of Dorregaray, Cucala and Vellelain.

Several dismissals have taken place since the Ist inst. in the United States Treasury Department. Treasurer New has issued an order forbidding the clerks in his department leaving their desks during office hours. Albert Brown, a colored man, was hanged at Towanda, Pa., on the Ist for the horrible murder, in August last, of a little five-year-old girl named Cora Greenleaf. The jury in the Tilton-Beecher case wrote to Judge Neilson on the morning of the 2d that it was impossible for them to agree. They were called into court, and announced that they had not agreed upon a verdict, and found it impossibleto do so. The Judge then asked if the application to take further testimony had in any way clouded their vision or occupied their thoughts, directly or indirectly. Foreman Carpenter responded that they had not had it in their thoughts at all. The Judge expressed his gratification and discharged the jury. Mrs. Beecher shook hands with each juryman as he passed out. ' It was authoritatively announced that they stood on the final ballot nine to three in favor of acquittal* One juror stated that at one time they stood eleven to one in favor of Mr. Beecher ; again nine to three, and still later seven to five; and another juror says at one tim e the jury stood divided six to six. It is rumored that the plaintiff’s counsel will move for a new trial. The California State Temperance and Reform Convention, recently in session in San Francisco, nominated a full State

ticket, headed by W. E. Lovett for Goveraor. The Democratic candidate for Lieuten-ant-Governor of California is James A Johnson. The village of Meridian, Jefferson County, Neb., was recently almost entirely destroyed by a tornado, and Alexandria, a small town in the same county, was also badly damaged.