Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Pomeboy, the Massachusetts boy mur derer, has retracted his former confession, and denies his guilt. With regard to death Of Katie Curran, he says he made a false confession that his mother and brother, who had been arrested for the murder and whom he knew to be innocent, might escape. The substance of John D. Lee’s confession concerning the Mountain Meadows massacre is that the deed was done under orders from the leaders of the Mormon Church; that he took the news of the massacre to Brigham Young, who deplored the transaction and said it would bring disaster on the Mormon people. Thirteen miners and four wagons were captured forty-five miles north of Fort Laramie, en route to the Black Hills, on the 16th, and paroled. On the 20th the Mississippi jetties had been run out 3,000 feet, and were progress ing at the rate of 200 feet daily. Four hundred men are employed. A petition has been filed in a Cincinnati court for the impeachment of MayerJohnson. Among the charges made against him is one that he endeavored to control the labors of the police contrary to the law when he was a candidate for reelection. Alexander and William Callie, o the firm which recently suspended, were arrested in London on the 21st, upon the charge of obtaining several million dollars under false pretenses. They were held to bail in the sum of $40,000 each. Maj. Fulton, of the American rifle team, won the American cup at Wimbledon on the 21st. Heavy rains and' inundations occurred at Leicester, Greenfield, Forest of Dean, Godmanchester and elsewhere in England on the 21st. Crops were destroyed over a large section of the country. According to a Madrid dispatch of the 21st over 4,000 Carlists had been captured since July 1. The Carlists deny that Gen. Dorregaray had been forced to take refuge in France.

Herr Sigi and Baron Lee, Ultramontane leaders, have been sentenced tu ‘ ten months’ imprisonment by a German dotirf for treasonable speeches and writings. The Connecticut lower house on the 21st voted —102 to 82 —to postpone the bill giving woman the right to vote in a Presidential election indefinitely. A Boston dispatch of the 21st says that Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer, had been surprised in a cunning and desperate attempt to cut his way out of Charles Street Jail. His arrangements were made for escape on the evening of that day. The Democratic campaign in Ohio was opened at Gallipolis on the 21st, Geo.* H Pendleton and Gov. Allen being the principal speakers. ? . The Nebraska Republican State Convention will meet at Kearney on the 15th of September. In the British House of Commons on the 22d a notable scene occurred. Mr. Disraeli had given notice that thqGpyernment had abandoned the Merchant-Snipping billfor the session, when Mr. Pliinsoll, the humanitarian, arose in his seat and with violent gestures and insulting speech declared that such a course would be the destruction ot thousands of human lives. Being called to order he repeated his remarks, and declared that certain members engaged in the shipping interests were villains. He was ordered from the House and retired shaking his fists at the Government benches. According to Washington dispatches of the 22d, at a Cabinet meeting held the day before the subject of Dist.-Atty. Fisher’s official conduct was under discussion, and the conclusion was reached that he be requested to resign after he had been allowed eufficient time to complete the business then pending in his office. The charges against the Interior Department were fully discussed, the President expressing his confidence in Secretary Delano’s capacity, integrity and faithfulness as an officer, and assuring the Cabinet that he would not allow the attacks on Delano to injure him the least in his opinion until the charges of his dishonesty should be fully proven.

At the Bankers’ Convention recently held at Saratoga, N. Y., resolutions were adopted—favoring immediate specie resumption ; calling for a repeal of the war tax on banks; urging the issue of coupon bonds in exchange.for registered bonds; demanding the abolishment of the twocent stamp tax-on checks and vouchers; favoring a permanent organization of national bankers; opposing the Usury law. The Maryland Democratic State Convention met at Baltimore on the 22d and nominated John Lee Carroll for Governor. The resolutions oppose a high protective tariff; protest against any increase of the circulating currency; demand that Congress shall provide for the speedy resumption of specie payments. The Democrats of the First Mississippi District have, by acclamation, renominated L. Q. C. Lamar for Congress. The confession of John D. Jtee, ofMountain Meadows massacre notoriety, not being satisfactory to the Prosecuting Attorney, he was, on the 21st, placed,bn trial under the old and three new indict,-! ments, A jury was impaneled next day, composed of eight Mormons and four Gentiles. The constitution adopted by the Pres-; byterian Council was published in London on the morning of the 23d. The name, given the new union is the “ Alliance of,, the Reformed Church Throughout the' World.” All churches are included which hold to the Presbyterian belief and creed. Sir Francis Bond Head, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, died on the 23d,

goods at the Philadelphia, Centennial. Eight t of Eartth,-Denbigh and-Whittlesey, to glanfl; Were flooded o»fhas2Bd, agd 3)000 paStMge. ’ ■ • Judge Fisher. Attorney of the District of Columbia, resigned on the 23d. A tank in Close & Son’s paper mill, at lowa City, exploded on the evening of the 22d, and destroyed more than half df the mill, killing six men, four of whom were blown a distance of over 500 feet.' , The names of the killed are: Chiba, Gilmore, Smaler, Tienea, Bechtel and Binton At Beaver, Utah, on the 23d, Philip K. Smith, Mormon, testified in the Mountain Meadows massacre case. His story , was substantially the same as Lee’s suppressed and rejected confession. He implicates Lee, Dame, Higbee and other Mormons, and accuses them of 'taking an active part, with himself, in the perpetration of ffie outrages and murders. The crime was committed at the instigation of leading Mormons, and. Brigham Young cautioned them not to talk about it among themselves. The property of the slaughtered emigrants was appropriated, by the Mormons. Indians were associated with them in the maesacre*

Donaldson and Grim wood, the missing aeronauts, had not been heard TfOpi.iftp td the morning of the 24th, and no traces of them or of the balloon had been found in the Jake. Reports have been recently circulated that gold had been discovered near Decatur, 111. A special to the Chicago Journal of the 23d kays that gold has been found in paying quantities; • and one man ’ had refused $2,000 an acre forthis farm of eighty acres. Caillaux, Minister of Public Works, estimates the total damage done to property by the inundation in the South of France at $15,000,000. The Spanish Government has decided to contract a>loan of $7,000,000 toifcdaiß;.. nify the owners of emancipated jn Porto Rico. A London dispatch of . the 24th said Don Carlos had written a letter to King Alpltotjao, reproaching him fort allowing die civil war*l» be conducted, with such excessive rigor, and counseling moderation on the side of the on pain of reprisals by the Carlists. The., Carlist losses during the three weeks ending July 25 Were estimated at 4,000 men in killed, wounded and missing. A lock-out commenced in several cot-ton-mills in England, on the 24th. .. z , Several thousand sailors and workingmen attended a ifiCeting held at Birkenhead, England, on the 25th, to indorse Plimsoll’s course in ParH!ri‘nerft.‘‘ Resolu-* lions expressyigsympatbywitli ing support to him adopted- t - The report of the DcMJjljneqinpf Agriculture for JjiJy f shows ffie condition or spijfigafifl winter Wbeat together aft about 82 per .cent, of an average, Winter Whbat, including California,. average ajid ‘ spring wheat »3d .Spring wheat States 4m the Northeast and Northwest are general-; ty |n higher Of the winter, wheat area the South A’fiyijo States are generally above the average, but in the Middle condition is. very low, New York ranging down to 45. West of the Alleghenies the. Prospect is better, the State averages being betwegqTJ in Ohio and 95 in lowa. rgports winter wheat at 76 and spring ’wheat at 75. ' J

The Postoffice Department has sent to the Department of Justice the names of thirty-nine mail contractors who are’to be prosecuted for failure to perform service after their bids were accepted. The contracts were relet and the difference between the amount paid and tfie bids, for the thirty-nine routes, was $417,087, which is the amount of damages claimed. It was announced by the New York Tribune of the 26th that Postmaster-Gen. Jewell had set the new route along the shores of the lakes for the fast mail to the West, expected to begin to run by the Ist of October. It will make- the distance from New York to Chicago in not more than twenty-six hours, and it is hoped to reduce the.time to twenty-four, a gain of twelve hours over the present mail and express train. . In Boston, recently, Hugh Donahue walked 1,100 miles in 1,100 consecutive hours. He was in good condition at the close. « ...y t Mary Frames, at Indianapolis, on the 23d, used kerosene oil to light a fire. She was fatally burned: - ; :