Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

A Raguba dispatch of the Ist says the Turks had compelled the insurgents to leave Trebigne aad retire to the mounts ains. A Berlin telegram of the Ist saysthe Bishop of Paderborn had been outlawed by Ministerial order because he left the city to which he was restricted without leave. Geo. A Smith, Second President of the Mormon Church, and Brigham Young’s chief adviser and counselor, died at Salt Lake City on die morning of the Ist, aged fifty-eight years. He leaves five wives and a large number of children. He will be succeeded by'George Q. Cannon, e-Del gate to Congress, he being next in age and position. The public debt statement, published Sept. 1, is as follows: Six per cent, bond* $1,086,865,550 Five per cent. bond*, .......... 623,0*4,750 Total coin bond* $1,706,888,**) Lawful money debt 14,578JXX) Matured debt....... Certificate* of deposit 04,780,000 Fractional currency 41,137,018 Coin certificate* 17,618,500 Interest 86,910,783 Total debt $8,266,308,426 Cash In Treasury— Coin „ $71,117,272 Currency.......... ’ 4,602,365 Special deposit* held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law 64,780,000 Total in Treasury $140,499,637 Debt less cash in Trea5ury.......... $2,135,806,789 Decrease during August 1,585,049 Decrease since June 30 2,879,936 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding T7T-. $64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 646,235 Interest paid by the United States.. 28,202,807 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc 6,304,047 Balance of interest paid by United States 21,894,760

The Secretary of the Treasury has called in for redemption $13,000,000 of 5-20 bonds of 1864, $8,000,000 of which are on account of the sinking fond, interest on which will cease Dec. 1, 1875. Gen. Gershom Mott has been appointed State Treasurer of New Jersey, in place of Sooy, charged with being a defaulter. The fourth annual session of the Louisville (Ky.) Exposition commenced on the evening of the Ist. Four children of a Mr. Mier, of Ascension Parish, La., were poisoned by French worm-lozenges on the Ist, and died in a few hours. A Belgrade telegram of the 2d says a party of Turks had invaded Servia and assassinated several villagers. A London telegram of the 2d says the news from Herzegovina was conflicting, hut that its general tenor was unfavorable to the insurgents, who had been recently unsuccessful in several engagements. The British iron-clad Vanguard collided with the Iron Duke in the British Channel on the 2d and sunk. An attempt was made on the 2d to inter in the Catholic cemetery at Montreal the remains of Guibord, a member of the Canadian Institute, whose burial in consecrated ground had been forbidden by ecclesiastical, but alter considerable litiga-tion-directed by the civil, authorities. A mob of 2,000 persons drove off the hearse and its attendants. The defaulting State Treasurer of New Jersey was examined on the 2d and committed to jail in default of $75,000 hail. The New. York Herald of the 2d publishes an interview irith Mrs. Mosher, in which she declares her conviction that Charlie Ross was living. The trial of Westervelt was in progress at Philadelphia, where there was great excitement over the statement of Mrs. Mosher. ‘ Martha Williams, a colored servantgirl at Pleasant Hill, Mo., endeavored to hasten dinner on the 2d by pouring kerosene on the kitchen fire. She was fatally burned.

The Planters’ National Bank of Louisville, Ky., was robbed on the night of ffie Ist of sllo,ooo* The teller, Louis Rhem, stated that three men had taken him from his house during the night, compelled him'to go to the bank and produce the keys to the safe, which they robbed. The bank officers discredited his story, and said they believed he was the thief. After repeated declarations of his innocence he at last confessed that hie had committed the robbery before midnight and buried the proceeds under his house. The stolen property was recovered and Rhem was imprisoned. A St. Louis dispatch of the Ist states that the investigation of the charges against Indiah-Agent Gibson, at Osage Agency, Kan., had been concluded, and that the Commissioners had adjourned to Lawrence to examine certain documents and make up their report It is said the evidence against him was very damaging. San Francisco dispatches of the 2d in. dicated that the Democrats had carried the State by a large plurality, and had probably secured all of the four Congressmen. They would also have a plurality, if not a majority, in both houses of the Legislature. The Merchants’ Exchange Bank of San Francisco resumed business on the 2d. The statement was made that funds would be subscribed to place the Bank of California in a condition to pay all demands and put it on a sound basis. According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 3d Nevisigne, the focus of the Herzegovinian insurrection, had been destroyed. The strike of the operatives in the Dun dee (Scotland) mills ended on the 3d by the acceptance of 5 per cent reduction in wages. Gen. Katjpman has arrived at Khokand, the center of the rebellion against Russia in Central Asia,

Goldsmith Maid trotted a mile in 2:l4}£ ht Hartford, Conn., on the 3d. Six murderers were hanged on the same gallows at Fort Smith, Ark., on the 3d. The crimes for Which they were executed were of a very fiendish character and their guilt had been fully established. The Coroner’s jury impaneled to inquire into the cause of the death of W. C. Ralston, the deceased bank President at San Francisco, returned a verdict on the 3d of accidental death by drowning. The financial outlook in San Francisco was improving on the 3d, and general business had resumed its usual channels. The trial of Corday Harris, the colored man accused of attempting to incite an insurrection amongthe negroes in Georgia, terminated on the evening of the 2d with a verdict of not guilty. Berlin dispatches of the 4th state that the Sclavonic papers had announced that the leaders of the insurgents had agreed to issue a manifesto demanding the independence of Bosnia and. Herzgovina under a Christian Prince, to he chosen from one of the European dynasties. Servia had undertaken to restrain her subjects from participating in the rebellion. Sexer Pasha, in a telegraphic dispatch of the same day, says that the trouble was nearly ended, and that the imperial troops had been able to traverse the country without resistance. On the sth an insur-. rectionary movement was reported in the neighborhood of Gradatschatz, in Bosnia. Sexer Pasha had been authorized to propose a limited form of autonomy for Herzegovina.

According to a London dispatch of the sth the strike at Oldham had ended, the terms of the operators having been accepted. H. T. Helmbold, the well-known advertising druggist, was discharged from the Pennsylvania Insane Asylum on the 4th, on a writ of habeas corpus. William Dagle, alias Prof. Ariel, made an ascension in a liot-air balloon at Jackson, Mich., on the 4th. While descending, and when within fifteen or twenty feet from the ground, the professor jumped from the basket into the river and started to swim ashore, but sank to the bottom and was drowned. The Grand Jury of Washington County, Ga., by whom the alleged negro insurrection had been investigated, presented a report on the 4th recommending the discharge of the remaining prisoners. The recommendation was complied with. A duel was fought near Rockford, 111., on the 4th, between Mjy.John N. Edwards, of the St. Louis Times , and Col.- E. S. Foster, of the Bt. Louis Journal. The difficulty grew out of a newspaper quarrel over the Jeff. Davis affair in connection with the Winnebago County Agricultural Society. The distance selected was twenty paces. The shooting was bloodless and the parties and tlieir friends left the field and returned to St. Louis.

According to a recent issue of the San Francisco Bulletin Mi 1 . Mills, former President of the Bank of California, is authority for the statement that the late President Ralston was a defaulter to the bank in the sum of between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. It was also stated that Mr. Ralston had raised money upon an overissue of bank stock for liis own personal benefit A Shanghai special of the 6th says the difficulty between England and China had been adjusted satisfactorily. Madrid dispatches of the 6th say that numbers of Carlists in all parts of Catalonia, Navarre and the Biscayan provinces had given in their submissions to the Government of King Alphonso and asked for amnesty. In the trial of Westervelt at Philadelphia, on the 6th, Gil Mosher identified twenty-three letters received by Mr. Ross as having been Written by his brother, the deceased burglar. In an interview with a Philadelphia Time\ reporter Mrs. Mosher is reported as having stated that her husband had partly confessed to her that, he was one of the abductors of Charlie Ross, and afterward denied it. She asserted that she did not know where the child was, but that he must be living. She did not think Westervelt had. anything to do with the abduction.

A San Francisco dispatch received by the New York Herald on the 6th states that Mr. Ralston’s private property, assigned to Mr. Sharon, would exceed his liabilities by about $2,000,000, and that the indebtedness charged against Mr. Ralston was not personal, but had grown out of aid which the bank had openly given in the way of loans to industries throughout the State. This statement' was contradicted by a later dispatch on the 6th. The Postoffice Department has ordered the mail service on steamers plying between Louisville and Cincinnati to be discontinued after Sept. 15. What is known as the “ Star” service has been arranged for routes between those twocities, whereby, it is said, the Government saves SIOO,000 per annum. Brtant, the Democratic candidate, is. elected Mayor of San Francisco by a small majority. A Radical meeting at Clinton, Miss., on the 4th, was attended by about 1,200 people, fifty of whom were whites. At the accompanying barbecue a deadly fracas occurred between whites and negroes. The following account is given by the Associated Press; Some words passed between a negro and a white man regarding whisky-drinking on the grounds, and the white man insisted on taking a drink, when the negro dashed the whisky out of his hands. Friends of both parties rushed up, pistols were drawn and firing began. 'Hiree white men were killed and six wounded. Charles Nicholson, a prominent merchant of Clinton, was killod in his

own yard. About forty negroes were killed and qiany wounded. A Clinton dispatch of the 6th says , the whites held the town and the negroes had scattered in all directions. All was quiet at ten p. m. Official announcement was made on the 6th that there were no cases of yellowfever in New Orleans. The Alabama Constitutional Convention met at Montgomery on the 6th. Gen. L. P. Walker was chosen President by acclamation, Republicans and Democrats all voting for him. At Fond du Lac, Wis., on the 6th, Mrs. James Shambaen attempted to light a fire by the aid of kerosene. She was horribly and fatally burned. The Ohio State Fair opened at Columbus on the 6th, under favorable auspices.