Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1875 — THE SEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE SEWS.

The consumption of postal cards for the present fiscal year it is estimated will be 136,000,000. Two of the Japanese Commissioners to represent the interests of that country at the Centennial Exposition have arrived in Washington. <* The great University boat-race at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 14th was won by the Cornell University crew, Ithaca, N. Y., Columbia coming in second; Harvard, third; Dartmouth, fourth; Wesleyan, fifth; Yale, sixth. Thirteen colleges participated, Bowdoin coming in tenth. The distance was three miles ; time of winners, 16:53 minutes. This is the second victory this year for Cornell, their Freshman crew having won the race the day previous. About 750 Mormons, en route for Utah from Europe, arrived in New York on the 14th. Between 500 and 600 of them are adults, including a large number of young women. The feat of walking 300 miles in ninetyeight hours and fifteen minutes was recently accomplished at Schenectady, N. Y., by W. H. Craft. Baltimobe is excited over the marriage in that city of a scion of English nobility —a possible candidate for the British throne—to a colored woman. The bridegroom is a direct descendant of the Plantagenet family of England. The President has ordered that, until the result of the labor of the Commissioners to treat with the Indians is known, all parties of citizens who attempt to go to the Black Hills country, on the present Indian reservation, be prevented from going, and that those who are now there be forcibly expelled.

Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the evangelists, leave England for the United States on the 4th of August. According to London dispatches of the 15th heavy rains had lately occurred in various parts of England and Wales. Rivers had overflowed their banks, drowning several persons and much live stock, and entirely destroying a factory and several dwellings. Lambert Brothers & Scott, of London, coal merchants, failed on the 15th with $1,000,000 liabilities. An insurrection has broken out near Bhamo, in Burmah. A St. Petersburg letter to the London Standard says the Russian city of Morschansk was recently destroyed. Over 200 lives were lost and more than 2,000 were seriously burned. It was thought that over 1,000 buildings had been destroyed, valued at 5,000,000 roubles. The July returns to the Department of Agriculture show an improvement of the crops during June in all the cotton States except Texas. The Suffrage Committee in the Connecticut Legislature reported on the 15th in favor of allowing women to vote in Presidential elections. *

The National Division of the Sons of Temperance, at Providence, R. 1., on the 15th, rejected the proposition to authorize colored divisions. The Kings County (N. Y.) Grand Jury have indicted Joseph Loeder and John J. Price for peijury. A Beaver (Utah) dispatch of the 14th says John D. Lee had decided to turn State’s evidence, and would be a witness for the prosecution, and make a full statement of all he knows of the Mountain Meadow massacre. The trial had been set for the 19th. The amount of coin and bullion in the Bank of England is greater than ever before. The provinces of Valencia and Castellon were free from Carlist troops. The insurrection is confined to the mountains of Navarre and the Basque and Catalonian provinces. The first sample of new wheat was exhibited on ’Change in New York city on the:ft>th.

The Roman Catholic clergymen of Lawrence, Mass., hare recently issued a card condemning the late riot in that city, and expressing a hope that the ringleaders may be suitably punished. Loeder, indicted for perjury in connection with the Tilton-Beecher case, was arraigned in the Brooklyn court on the 16th, and pleaded “ not guilty.” JMce was not arraigned. The United States Grand Jury in St. Louis on the 15th and 16th found nearly thirty indictments of persons connected with the so-called whisky-ring. Prof. Donaxdson, the aeronaut attached to Barnum’s Hippodrome, made his second trip from Chicago on the 15th accompanied by Mr. Newton S. Grim wood, a reporter of the Chicago Journal. " 'the balloon took a northeasterly course, sailing over the lake in the direction of Muskegon, Mich. About seven o’clock in the evening it was seen by a schooner about thirty miles northeast of Chicago, at which time it was skimming the surface of the lake. The schooner followed after it until it was observed to rise suddenly into the air, when the chase was abandoned. A very severe gale sprang up about midnight, and, as no further tidings had been received in Chicago up to the morning ol the 17th, grave apprehensions were felt for the safety of the aeronauts. It was the opinion of experts that the balloon could not have reached the Michigan shore before the storm burst upon it, and that the aeronauts perished in the lake. It is said that the balloon was a rotten, patched-up affair. The German Government has ordered that declaration of submission by Catholic clergymen to the new laws shall be kept

strictly secret, to secure thou from Ultramontane penecstion. Lady Fbaxxlin. widow of Sir John Franklin, t|»fe Arctic explorer, died in London on fSe nfght of the 18th. About 12,000 persons assembled in Hyde Park, London, on die night of the 18th and adopted resolutions protesting against the grant of £150,000 to the Prince of Wales for his journey to India. A Bah Sebastian dispatch of the 18th says the Carlists had begun the bombardment of Puigcerda. The Typographical Union of Washington has, by a vote of 146 to 46, decided not to comply with the demand of employing printers for a reduction of rates for composition. Euhbuke, one of Brigham Young’s wives, died on the 17th. The wife of Hemy Peden, of Indianapolis, Jnd., used kerosene oil to kindle a fire on the 17th, and was fatally burned. Information was received at Washington on the 18th that the St. Louis United States District Court Grand Jury had indicted Chief Clerk Avery, of the Treasury Department, for complicity with St. Louis distillers in whisky frauds. Geo. N. Jackson, the cashier of Collector of Internal Revenue Buckner, of the Louisville (Ky.) District, recently poisoned himself. Since his death he has been discovered to be in default in his cash to the extent of about $75,000. No tidings from Messrs. Donaldson and Grimwood, the aeronauts, had been received in Chicago up to the morning of the 19th. A vessel Captain reported having seen something floating in the water which had the appearance of being a lifepreserver and a basket, and another Cap. tain thinks he saw the body of a man in the lake off Grand Haven. The report that Donaldson’s balloon was a rotten and poor affair is indignantly denied by the persons to whom it belonged.