Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Belgrade dispatches of the 29th ult. say that the Turks had crossed the Servian frontier despite the protest of Servia. A Ragdba special of the 29th ult says the HerzegOTinian insurgents had refused to treat with the Porte directly in any case, but insisted that a commission delegated by the great powers should make and guarantee a treaty. A London telegram of the 29th ult. says the latest returns of the cattle plague showed that in East Sussex there were 5,292 beasts affected; in Gloucester 12,000; iu Warwickshire 8,000; in Cumberland 7,500, and in Westmoreland 400. Yorkshire also showed a large increase. A railway train was thrown from the track near Sorel, Canada, on the evening of the 28th ult., and ten persons were killed and twenty-five wounded. The August and September report of the Agricultural Department gives the condition of wheat harvested for all the States as 79 per cent., which is poorer than for several years. The oat crop is superior in quantity and quality. The barley average for the country is 85. Potatoes are 10 per cent, above the average. The wool crop is full average weight in nearly all the States. Tobacco is 10 per cent, below an average. The acreage of hops is largely increased. ' The Massachusetts Republican State Convention met at Worcester on the 29th ult. Vice-President Wilson presided. A. H. Rice was nominated on the third ballot for Governor. The rest of the ticket is as follows: Lieutenant-Governor, Horatio G. Knight; State Treasurer, Charles Endicott; Auditor, Julius L. Clark; Attorney-General, Charles R. Train; Secretary of State, Henry B. Pierce. The resolutions favor a speedy return to specie payments and declare against inflation; oppose thfe Presidential third term; eulogize the President and expresse an earnest desire that the people of the South may enjoy universal free education and security of personal rights under local self-gov-ernment without the necessity of any interference from abroad.

The Board of Education ot Chicago recently abolished the reading of the Scriptures and repeating the Lord’s Prayer in the public schools of that city. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee met at Des Moines, lowa, on the 29th ult All the officers of the society were re-elected. President Grant was present and read quite a lengthy speech. Other speeches were also delivered. Philadelphia was fixed upon as the place of meeting next year. According to a Madrid dispatch of the 30th ult. the Carlists had been forced to raise the siege of San Sebastian. The Anglo-American Tel egraph Company have raised their tariff to SI.OO in gold per word, in consequence of the accident to the direct cable. A dividend of 20 per cent, on all audited claims against the Washington Freedman’s Bank will be paid Nov. 1. Two children of John McCormick and wife, of Newark, N. J., were recently burned to death by the explosion of kerosene while kindling a fire in the kitchen stove. A large number of the operatives at Fall River, Mass., resumed work on the 30th ult. Quiet prevailed and no further serious trouble was anticipated. Rev. Dr. George B. Porteus, late pastor of All-Souls’ Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., was drowned in Long Island Sound on the 28th ult. by the capsizing of a boat The stock on the farm of the President, near St. Louis, was sold at auction on the 30th ult., and brought exceedingly low prices. A new counterfeit ten-dollar bill on the National Bank of Cincinnati has made its appearance in Chicago. It was pronounced by experts to be almost perfect, except that the lower left-hand comer of the back of the note is much blurred.

A telegram from the Red Cloud Agen cy was received on the 30th ult., which stated that the commissioners had abandoned all hope of consummating a treaty, but had submitted a last proposition to the Indians, offering $400,000 per annum for the right to mine, raise stock and cultivate the soil in the Black Hills country; or to purchase the country for $6,000,000, in fifteen equal andfial installments; also offering to purchase the Big Horn country in Wyoming for $50,000 annually for ten years—sso,ooo in addition to be distributed in presents among the Indians. According to Austrian official telegrams of the Ist an engagement had been fought at Kiek on the day preceding, which resulted in the defeat of three Turkish battalions. Servia had summoned all her subjects abroad to return within three weeks and join thclandwehr. A Copenhagen telegram of the Ist says sanguinary riots had occurred at Stockholm, Sweden, between the militia and the police. The origin of the trouble was not stated. A Berlin special of the Ist says the Bishop of Breslau had notified the Ecclesiastical Court that he w%p determined not to obey its summons to attend for trial. The Comptroller of the Currency on the Ist reported that eighty-three National Banks had been organized since Jan. 14, 1875, with a capital of $9,284,000, to which circulation has been issued amounting to $3,023,730. The total amount of additional circulation issued since the passage of the act is $10,218,000, of which $234,000 had been issued to Ohio, $381,000 to Indiana, SIOO,OOO to Illinois, and $121,000 to lowa. The legal-tender notes deposited for the purpose of retiring circulation from the passage of the act

of Jane 20,1334, to Oct 1,1875, amounted to $25,042,749. The National Bank circulation outstanding on the Ist was #347,868,742. The following statement of the public debt was published Oct. 1: Six per cent. b0nd*........ ~.r $1,07tt,649,’00 Five per cent, bond* 632,782,750 Total coin bond* $1,703,481,850 Lawful money debt 14,000,000 Matured debt ... 20,018,950 Legal-tender notes ... 374,010,966 Certificates of deposit 60,600,000 Fractional currency 40,783,575 Coin certificate*. 11,645,200 Interest 30,304,364 Total debt ... $2,256,749,895 Cash in TreasuryCoin $67,833,316 Currency, 4,790,352 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law . 60,660,000 Total in Treasury $133,283,668 Debt less cash in Treasury $2,122,466,227 Decrease during September........ 3,342,562 Decrease since June 30 H. 298,499 Bonds issued to tbe Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $64*23,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 969,352 Interest paid by the United States. 28,202,807 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc 6,396,524 Balance of interest paid by United States 21,806,283 Ned O’Baldwin, the “ Irish Giant,” was fatally shot in a saloon row at New York city a few days ago. The mother o? Mabel Young, the victim of the belfry murder at Boston, has become insane and has been placed in an asylum in that city. A Rangoon special of the 2d says China and Burmah had formed an alliance, of. fensive and defensive, to oppose the demands of Great Britain. Belgrade dispatches of the 3d say the insurgents had been defeated in an engagement in the northern part of Bosnia. The Turks had burned the town of Mischkovac. According to a San Sebastian telegram of the 3d the Carlists had on the preceding day thrown 150 hot shot into that city. A railroad train between Saragossa and Barcelona had been stopped by outlaws and all the passengers robbed. Among them were seventeen officers and seamen of the United States war steamer Franklin. A 150-carat diamond has recently been found in the South African diamond fields. The negotiations with theSionx Indians for the Black Hills country have entirely failed, and the commissioners have abandoned the field. A Cheyenne dispatch of the 2d says the bands of Indians who had assembled at the Red Cloud Agency were sullen and ugly. The Bank of California resumed operations on the 2d. The deposits exceeded the withdrawals by $750,000. The. announcement was made that $7,930,000 had been subscribed to meet the indebtedness aud liabilities of the bank and continue its business.

The Third Avenue Savings Bank of New York city suspended a few days ago, owing depositors $1,340,000. The failure is said to be a bad one. According to a recent luling of the Postoffice Department, anything whatever, except the address, printed or written upon the side of a postal-card intended for the address renders such card unmailable unless prepaid at the letter rate — three cents. If by inadvertence it reaches its destination without such prepayment it is chargeable with double the letter rates. The Secretary of the Treasury has called in for redemption 5-20 bonds of the issue of June 30, 1864, to the amount of $2,500,000, and of registered bonds to the same amount. Interest on said bonds will cease Jan. 1,1876. A Washington dispatch of the 3d says it was generally conceded that the new mint would be located at Chicago. The President and family reached Salt Lake, Utah, on the afternoon of the 3d. They were called upon by Brigham Young.