Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

VjLjT. Webb, the English champion, succeeded in swimmingacrfisd the English Channel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, on the 2&tb, without float or life-savinjr apparatus. According to an Alexandria (Egypt) dispatch of the 25th, the Khedive had sent a large forte to the Abyssinian fron tier with instructions to exact full satis faction for recent trespasses upon Egyptian territory. . ... The average condition of spring wheat, Adg. 1, in all the States producing it except California, as reported by the Agricultural Department, was 87.6 per cent. The extremes are 99 in Wisconsin a»d Minnesota, and 60 in Nebraska. In corn the highestaversges reported are: Kansas, 110; Tennessee, 114; Missouri, 112; Mississippi, 111; Nebraska, 105; Illinois, 99; Ohio, 91; lowa, 87; Wisconsin, 89; Indiana and Minnesota, 89. The average condition of oats was 91. Potatoes promised an extraordinary yield, the average being 104. The receipts of the New York canals this-year up to Aug. 15 were $704,247, a decrease of $706,850 as compared with last year. In a recent swimming-match at Philadelphia between Coyle, the American, and Johnson, the English champion, the latter won the prize. . <3 On the 25th the National Greenback Convention met at Detroit, about 1,000 persons being in attendance. Thomas J. Durant, of Washington, D. C., was made President. Addresses were delivered by Judge Kelley; James Buchanan, of Indiana ; and Messrs. Daniels, Mahony and Allis. Resolutions were adopted favoring the Kelley currency plan, and opposing the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1879 as being impracticable and impossible of execution, and disastrous to the business of the country, and demanding its repeal. A cATiT, has been issued for the fourth session of the National Agricultural College, to be held at Cincinnati on Sept. 22, 23 and 24. The congress is said to be in no sense a sectional or partisan organization, its object being the discussion of questions in which the agricultural class in all sections of the country are interested, with a view to securing the best permanent prosperity. The approaching session will mainly be devoted to addresses and discussions on political economy in its. special relations to agriculture—the production and distribution of agricultural products; education, organization, co-opera-tion, transportation, finance and taxation as affecting agricultural prosperity. Agricultural and Horticultural Societies, State, District and County Agricultural Colleges, Granges and Farmers’ Clubs and other agricultural associations are invited to be represented by delegates.

A London dispatch of the 26th says 500 Turkish soldiers had recently been captured by the Herzegovinian insurgents. A Belgrade dispatch of the same date says the feeling in Servia had become so strong in favor of the insurgents that the Government would be unable to prevent trouble with Turkey. On the 26th the failure of Sterling, Ahrens & Co., of Baltimore, said to be the largest sugar-importing house in the United States, was announced. Their liabilities reach about $2,500,000. The Republican State Convention of Mississippi, on the 26th, nominated Geo. M. Buchanan for State Treasurer. The Republican State Central Committee of Minnesota on the 25th accepted the declination of Charles A. Gilman as candidate for Railroad Commissioner, and selected in his seat ex-Gov. Wm. R. Marshall. The Bank of California closed its doors in San Francisco on the 26th. It had paid out during the day about $1,400,000 in gold. The President stated that the bank would be able to meet all obligations, but business would not be resumed. The excitement in San Francisco over this failure was intense. A run was made on the National Gold Bank and Trust Company, but it continued paying up to the close of business hours. A dispatch from Macon, Miss., to the Vicksburg Herald of the 26th reports a riot at New Hope Church, in which eight negroes were killed and several wounded. A Perpignan (Spain) dispatch of the 27th announces the surrender of the Carlist citadel Seo de Urgel to the Alphonsists. The British Foreign Office was advised on the 27th by the Minister in China of probable complications with the Chinese Government arising out of the Burmese difficulty. Tripoli has apologized to the United States Consul for the insult offered to him and his wife. New York and Chicago bankers on the 27th were unanimous in the opinion that the.panic in California would have no appreciable effect upon business interests East or in the Northwest, but that it would be very disastrous to business throughout California and adjoining States. At the fifth annual convention of the lowa State Woman Suffrage Association, recently held at Oskaloosa, James Calla* nan was chosen President for the ensuing year; Mrs. M. C. Callanan, Corresponding Secretary; L. B. Read, Recording Secretary; C. Pitman, Treasurer, and Mrs. J. C. McKinney, State Agent The platform declares that women are citizens and entitled to suffrage; makes the perfection of human government, through woman suffrage, the paramount issue of all true Americans; calls for the co-operation of women in legislation, to enact laws to protect women against the brutal assaults of men; deplarei that the co-operation of men and'

women is the law of nature, of civiUza■fton, and essential toa happy homf?, fi ro;; fined society, a Christian church andareaid- tbe-Cnntnnnjsl until emwmb mhAyb equal,consideration, men in the Exposition,-, r, y iV «i Rf?B W panic in aumented on the 27th by the sudden death, by drowning, of Mr. oj the Ban-For ‘ Who W6ht seabathing opinion prevailed that he committed suicide, and it was reported previous to going into the water he had taken a dose of poison to make his death certain. The bank’s failure was occasioned by illegitimate banking and outside speculations. Owihg to hpavy runs the National Gold Bank and Trust Company and the Merchants’ Exchange Bank, of San Francisid, were forced to close their doors on the 27th, but if was thoUghVthey would resume on the 30th, heavy transfers of gold having been made by the Treasury Department at Washington. The steamer Manitoba collided with the propeller Comet on the evening of the 26th;above White Fish Point, Lake Superior, and the latter vessel sank. Ten lives were lost. A London dispatch of the 28th ult. says a majority of the jury of inquest upon the bodies of those drowned when the Queen’s yacht ran into the Mistletoe had recommended that the officers .of the royal yacht be prosecuted for manslaughter. The foot and mouth disease was spread, ing among the cattle in Cumberland and Aberdeenshire. • The representatives of the foreign powers assembled in Mostar on the 28th to attempt to effect the pacification of the rebellious Turkish provinces. Over 3,000 Thrkish Croats had crossed the Danpbe into Austrian territory. • Military preparations were goin£ bn steadily In Servia. A Belgrade dispatch of the 28th says the inhabitants of Novarosch had revolted and burned the chief town of the province. According to a Ragusa dispatch of the 29th an insurrection had broken out in Albania. One thousand Servian volunteers had entered Herzegovina to aid the insurgents. The insurgents had rejected the advice of European powers and demanded the independence of Bosnia. A Madrid telegram of the 29th ult. says the Ministerial Council had decided to send 12,000 troops to Cuba by Sept. 29 and 10,000 more in October. A dispatch to the London Times of the morning <of the 30th ult. says a force of Russians had taken the field against Khojend. The rebellion had extended to the southern districts.

A girl named Jessie Yorick, of Pittsburgh, attempted to start a fire a few morfiings ago by pouring coal-oil from a can upon smoldering coals. The usual explosion followed, and the. girl was burned to death. The building was also entirely destroyed. The business portion of the town of Reynoldsville, Pa., was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 29th ult. Loss over SIOO,OOO. The business of the Postoffice in New York city was removed to the new building on the 29th. *“** r A statement made on the 29th was in substance that the liabilities of the Bank of California were $14,000,000, with assets at less than $6,000,000. Another statement was to the effect that creditors of the bank would eventually realize eighty cents bn the dollar. Confidence was being rapidly restored in business circles in San Francisco on the 30th-ult. On the 29th flags were at half-mast In San Francisco on account of the death of Mr. Ralston, and expressions of regret, and sympathy for the deceased were freely made. The theory of his suicide was strongly, disproved by later developments, the statements of his attending physicians seeming to show that his death resulted from apoplexy.

According to a Berlin dispatch of the 30th ult. Bosnia was full of rebellion. The Herzegovinian insurgents had established a national government A London telegram «f the 30th ult says advices had just been received from the British Polar expedition. The Alert and Discovery had sailed for Upernavikon the 17th of July. All well. The Secretary of the Treasury has decided that pine timber, known as “squared” or “sided,” is subject to duty at the rate of 1 per cent, per cubic loot, and not 20 per cent, ad valorem, as heretofore. The publishing-houses of Lee & Shepard, of Boston, and Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, of New Yosk, have failed. The liabilities of both houses are estimated at $1,000,000. At Philadelphia, on the 30th ult., the trial of Westervelt, charged with being an accessory to the abduction of Charlie Ross, was commenced. The funeral of Mr. Ralston, at San Francisco on the 30th, was largely attended, at least 20,000 people being present. The trial of the negroes charged with insurrection in Georgia commenced at Augusta on the 30th ult. The yellow-fever had disappeared from Barrancas, Fla., and the city was pronounced perfectly healthy on the 30th ult. * ; / An examination of the books and assets of the National Gold Bank and Trust Company of Ban ,' Francisco, made by ■ Dr. Linderman, Director of the U. S. Mint, now in that city, was satisfactory, And a dispatch of the 80th ult. states that the bank would be left free by the Government to manage its own affairs. San Francisco dispatches of tbe 80th say the more the affairs of fee Bank

of California were investigated the worse, $1,500,000 were gone. The depositors wmnld nmlwhly lna» nothing hpcanae nf the individual liability of the stockholders. Trust Company remained closed on the