Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

An immense meeting was held at Gias* gow, Scotland, oifthe sth to protest against Vaticanism. According to a Vienna telegram of the sth the taxes remitted by Turkey since tfce beginning of the insurrection had amounted to over $80,000,000. The National Banks have been called upon for a report showing their condition at the close of business on the Ist of October. The United States Treasurer at New York has been directed to sell $4,000,000 in gold the present month. A special dispatch from Bagneres de Luchon of the 6th says the inhabitants of Arran Valley had inaugurated a general rising against the Carlists on account of the exactions of the soldiery. True bills were found by the Grand Jury of the District of Columbia on the the 6th against Benjamin B. Halleck, William H. Ottman and T. W. Brown for being concerned in the $47,000 robbery of the United States Treasury. The New York Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the lower court which denied the motion to vacate the order of arrest m the $6,000,000 suit against William M. Tweed and ordering $3,000,000 bail. The Labor-Reformers of Massachusetts met at Worcester on the 6th and nominated Wendell Phillips for Governor; Wm. M. Bartlett, Lieutenant-Governor; Israel W. Andrews, Secretary of State; S. B. Coffin, State Treasurer; John F. Fitzgerald, State Auditor, andH. B. McLaughlin, Attorney-General. The platform favors a reduction in the hours of labor and a system of factory inspection; condemns the course of the Fall River manufacturers ; favors greenback currency and the retirement of National Bank currency. A Prohibition meeting was held in Boston on the 6th and John J. Baker was nominated as a candidate for Governor. No other nominations were made. At the late election in Connecticut amendments to the Constitution were adopted changing the time of the State election from the spring to the fall of the year and making the Governor’s term of office two years. A great many horses in Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and other Western localities were suffering from symptoms of the epizootic on the 7th, and the disease seemed to be spreading. Serious trouble occurred at Friar’s Point, Miss., on the sth and 6th. It ap pears that at a Conservative convention on the night of the 2d Senator Alcorn severely criticised the official conduct of Brown (colored), Sheriff of the county, and the next day Brown used severe language in reply, whereupon Alcorn threat ened to shoot him. On the sth the women and children were sent from Friar’s Point, and the place was attacked by a force of 500 negroes, who were repulsed by white forces under Gen. Chalmers. In the skirmish eight negroes and one white man were wounded. D. O. Mills was elected President of the Bank of California under the new organization on the 6th.

A heavy sugar-refining firm in Glasgow, Scotland, failed for a large amount on the 7th. It was stated that several other establishments were involved. The British Admiralty on the 7th suspended the circular of July 31, directing the surrender of fugitive slaves found on British vessels. The “Garden House,” belonging to Henry Allers Hankey, located near Westminster, England, valued with its contents at over |2,500,000, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 7th. The Ecclesiastical Court has deposed the Bishop of Berlin. • According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 7th, the Sublime Porte had decreed that during five years from Jan. 1, 1876, the interest on and the redemption of the public debt will be paid onehalf in cash and the other half in 5 per cent bonds.

The United States Supreme Court decided on the 4th in the appealed St Louis Minor case that the recent amendments to the Constitution confer no right of suffrage upon anyone, and that the Constitutions and laws of those States which confine that right to men alone are not thereby void. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America was in session in Cincinnati on the 6th and 7th. Rev. Patrick Byrne was chosen President and James W. O’Brien Secretary for the ensuing year. According to a Columbus (Ohio) dispatch of the 7th the hog disease was playing sad havoc in that section. Six thousand hogs had already died in Franklin County so far this month. President Grant and party returned to Denver on the 7th from Southern Colorado. Friar’s Point dispatches of the 7th state that Gen. Chalmers was driving the colored forces under Pease (colored) and was determined to capture him if possible. Senator Alcorn on the 7th telegraphed to Atty .-Gen. Pierrepont that there was no question of politics in these disturbances. He stated that his name had been most ridiculously associated in the matter. According to a special dispatch pub lished in the London Standard of the 9th the Servian Legislature had met on the preceding day and voted down the motion for war by 62 to 21 votes. The St. Audley and the Bristol (Canadian propellers) were burned to the water’s edge at Hamilton, Out., on the night of the 7th.' George W. Pemberton, the murderer of Mrs. Bingham, at East Boston, in

March last, was hanged at Boston on the Bth. A New York dispatch of the Bth says that Messrs. Moody and Sankey will gin their revival on the 31st of the present month in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Rink. John Biney, President of the Miners’ National Union, and Parks, a prominent and active member of the same association, were recently tried at Clearfield, Pa., on the charge of riot and conspiAcy. The former was acquitted and the latter convicted and sentenced to hard labor for one year and fined one dollar and costs. A Memphis telegram of the Bth says the Friar’s Point war was considered at an end. A Helena dispatch of the same date states that Sheriff Brown was at that place and had said he would not return to Friar’s Point because the negroes there threatened to kill him. Chalmers was still trying to effect his capture. The American Board of Foreign Missions, which met in Chicago on the sth, adjourned on the Bth. The officers elected for the ensuing year are: President, Rev. Mark Hopkins; Vice-President, Hon. Wm. E. Dodge; Corresponding Secretaries, Rev. Selah B. Treat and. Nathaniel G. Clark; Recording Secretary, Rev. John O> Means; Treasurer, Langdon S. Ward; Auditors, Hon. Thomas H. Russell, Hon. Avery Plumer and Elbridge Terry. A Brussels dispatch of the 9th says diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Holland had been interrupted. A London dispatch of the 9th says the cholera had broken out in the province of Mysore, India. Dr. Forbes, Lord Bishop of Brechin, in Scotland, died on the 9th. Senator Pease and U. 8. Atty. Wells, of Mississippi, with the Attorney-General of that State called on Atty .-Gen. Pierrepont, in Washington, on the 9th, and advised him that if there were no interference by the General Government in Mississippi the result- would be the redemption of the State from the difficulties now existing. Westervelt, who was convicted of being implicated in the abduction of Charlie Ross, has been sentenced to seven years’ solitary confinement in the Penitentiary. The members of the bankrupt firm of Duncan, Sherman & do., of New York city, were arrested on the Bth, on a charge of fraud. They were released on bail of $5,000 each. Mr. Duncan has withdrawn his offer to pay his creditors 33 per cent, in notes. Another suit has been begun against Wm. M. Tweed to recover the sum of $983,640, said to have been paid pn warrants fraudulently certified by him. John Ryan, of Boston, died on the 9th from injuries received in a prize-fight the day before with Michael Carney. A man named Pemberton, under arrest for horse-stealing, was lynched at Forest City, 111., on the morning of the 9th. The Chicago Journal of the 9th says that information from various parts of the West indicated that although the com in some localities had been damaged by flood or frost, yet the aggregate crop would be “literally stupendous.” Advices from the South also indicated that the cotton crop would be better than the average.