Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Rice (Rep.) wu elected Governor oi Massachusetts on the 2d by a majority of about 5.000 nTW flggfrm (DemJ. Crano (Rep.) was elected to Congress in tbs Pint District Carboll (Dem.) is elected Governor of Maryland by about 15,000 majority. Legislature Democratic. Tmt election in Chicago and Cook County on the 2d was a very exciting one and resulted in the choice of L. C. Hack (Rep.) ss County Treasurer over A. C. Hesing (Opp.) by between 8,000 and 4,000 majority. Local and personal matters entered largely into the canvass, and a third and independent (Dem.) candidate was in the field and received over 7,000 votes. The Republicans did not claim their victory as a partisan one. About 55,000 votes were polled in the city of Chicago alone —the largest vote ever cast. According to a special telegram from Berlin of the 3d the Northern powers had requested Austria to transmit a proposition to the SubHme Porte, embodying the guarantees to insure the performance of the Sultan’s promise of reform to the insurgents in bis vassal States. It was believed in Berlin and Vienna that Turkey would be unable to suppress the rebellion, and that armed Austrian intervention would take place in the spring. A Berlin dispatch of the 3d announces the destruction by fire of the arsenal at Realsberg, Prussia. Over 40,000 rifles had been burned. Loss about $5,000,000. J. J. Ronaldson & Sons, London West India merchants, failed on the 8d for $350,000.

United States Minister Schenck has recently written a letter to the London Timet exposing and denouncing the systematic sale «f fictitious American university diplomas. An official d ispatch published in Madrid on the 3d says that the last of ihe Carlists in the province of Catalonia; numbering six officers and 680 men, had surrendered, and that the province had been entirely pacificated. The El Cronista of the 3d stated that Gen. Saballs, having returned to Spain, had been arrested by Don Carlos and would, together with Gen. Dorregaray, be court-martialed because of his failure to prevent the late disasters in CataloniaA. P. Gaylord, of Saginaw City, Mich., has been appointed Assistant AttorneyGeneral for the Interior Department The Secretary of the Treasury has addressed a circular to Collectors of Customs stating that no further importations of neat-cattle or hides will be allowed for the present from England, in consequence of the prevalence of the foot and mouth disease in that country. The annual report of the PostmasterGeneral, just completed, shows that during the past year 8,640,797 letters were received at the Dead-Letter Office in Washington, of which number 210,377 were foreign. These dead letters contained $3,546,993.44 in money, drafts, etc.—all of which except about $375,000 was returned to the senders. The returns received on the morning of the 4th from the Pennsy] /ania election indicated that Hartranft (Rep.) for Governor had received about 17,000 majority.

The new Legislature of New Jersey is composed as follows: Senate —Republicans, 12; Democrats, 9. House—Republicans, 37; Democrats, 23. The Tammany ticket was defeated at the late election in New York city. Recorder Hackett was successful by over 5,000 majority, and Morrissey was elected State Senator by about 2,000 majority. The news received up to the morning of the 4th rendered it probable that the Democratic State ticket had been elected. The Albany Evening Journal of the 4th put the Democratic majority in the State at between 8,000 and 9,000. The Legislature is Republican—Senate by 12 and House by 16 majority. A duel with pistols was fought in New York city on the 2d between two Polish Jews named Joseph Goldman and Moses Piskall, who were partners in business. Goldman was killed and Piskall mortally wounded. A xtre at Sherman, Tex., on the Ist burned sixty-five business places, the postofflee, every printing office in the town, and rendered some thirty families homeless. Loss estimated at $300,000. A shock of earthquake was felt at Atlanta and other places in Georgia on the night of the 2d. The Arkansas General Assembly convened on the 2d. A man named Jackson, of Jefferson County, HI., while getting out of bed the other morning before daylight, accidentally stepped upon the body of his daughter, who was sleeping cm the floor, crushing in her chest and killing her instantly She was fifteen years old, and her father weighs over 200 pounds. The official canvass of the recent election in lowa completed on the 3d, gives Kirkwood 31,745 majority for Governor. A Jackson (Miss.) dispatch of the 8d says the Democrats had carried that State, electing their entire ticket in nearly every county. They had about thirty majority in the House and six or eight in the Senate. The Democrats had also elected the entire Congressional delegation with the possible exception of the Sixth District The State was peaceful. A Berlin telegram of the 4th says Prussia had requested Austria o prevent Bishop Foerster from exercising any episcopal functions touching the Prussian portion of his diocese while residing in Austria, i The French Assembly reassembled on the Ob, !

Secretary Robeson is a candidate before the New Jersey Legislature for United States Senator. V|jr V A St. Paul telegram of the 4th says PiHsbuiy(Rep.) few Governor of Minnesota had about 12,000 majority. E&ender (Rep.) Cor Tfreseurer ran behind hrl ticket, but was' probably elected. Legislature Republican. • » ' DavtC Robinson, living Comity, Ind., on the night of the 8d shot two of his children with a revolver and then cut their throats from ear to ear. His wife and one son escaped by running. His dead body was- found the next morning fourteen miles south of Kokomo. It was supposed he jumped or tell from a freight train on which he was making his escape. , - v . Duke D’ Pasquier was on the sth elected President of the French Assembly. A Madrid telegram of the sth says the Government had received a note from the Vatican insisting upon the execution of the concordat with the Holy See; refusing to recognize the royal placet; attributing the civil war to religions toleration, and demanding that the Bishop of Urgel be fried by ecclesiastical judges and not by an ordinary tribunal. By the decision of the umpire of the American and Spanish Claims Commission for the settlement of clKiihs of citizens of the United States against Spain Joaquin G. Deangerica is awarded $748,180, with interest. * r i

At a business meeting of Brooklyn Plymouth Church on the evening of the 4th the names of Deacon West and Mrs. Frank D. Moulton were dropped from the roll of membership on the ground of continued absence. Mrs. Moulton was accompanied by her counsel, Roger A. Pryor, who read a protest signed by Mrs. M., in which she reiterated the charges against Mr. Beecher, which she said she knew to be true by confessions made to her by Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tiltpn. It was reported in Brooklyn on the sth that the New York and Brooklyn Association of Congregational Ministers had appointed, a committee of its members to examine into the charges against Mr. Beecher and report whether he ought to be retained in membership. The United States Grand Jury in Chicago on the sth found a large number of indictments against persons alleged to be guilty of violations of the Revenue laws. Returns received by the Albany Argus of the sth give Bigelow (Dem.) for Secretary of State of New York 16;798 majority. It thought there was a prospect of a further increase. Three of the counts in the indictment against H. B. Claflin&Co., of New York, for complicity in silk-smuggling frauds have been sustained by United States Judge Benedict. The Atchison (Kan.) Daily Champion of the sth has returns from 89 of the 103 Representative districts in Kansas, showing the election of fifty-eight regular Republicans, eight Independent Republicans, eleven Democrats and twelve elected on People’s and Reform tickets. The State Senatorial vacancy had been filled by the election of a Republican, and the Republicans had elected two of the three District Judges. A St. Louis special of the 4th says the Grand Jury in the United States Court at St. Louis had indicted Wm. McKee, one of the proprietors of the Qlobe-Democrat, and Constantine Maguire, late Revenue Collector, for conspiracy to defraud the Government of its revenue in connection with the whisky tax.

On the 6th the London stock market was greatly depressed in consequence of the report that Austria had garrisoned the frontier forts and was preparing to take a hand in the Turkish troubles. It was reported on the 7th that 30,000 Servian militia had assembled on the frontier and that that Government had sent an agent to Paris and London to negotiate a loan. The Serapis, with the Prince of Wales on board, reached Bombay on the 7th. The Republicans in Washington on the evening of the 6th fired 100 guns over the victories gained by them at the elections on the 2d. The President was serenaded, and briefly responded. There were issued by the Postoffice Department during the month of October 21,138,000 postal cards, being 5,000,000 more than during any previous month. John A. Raymond has been appointed Postmaster at Vicksburg, Miss.,-in place of Henry R. Pease, suspended under the Tenure-of-Offlce act. The claim of the State of Nebraska for $53,938, being 5 per cent, on the value of the estimated quantity of Indian reservations in that State, has been disallowed by the Treasury Department. The following-named gentlemen compose the committee appointed by the Congregational Association of Ministers to investigate the charges against Mr. Beecher: Rev. Wm. Taylor, New York ; Rev. Dr. William Ives* Budington, Brooklyn; Rev. Profs. Parsons and Martin, of the New York Theological Seminary, and Rev. Charles H. Everest, of Brooklyn. Plymouth Church has referred to a committee the charge made by Mrs. Moulton against Mr. Beecher. A great multitude of people attended the Moody and Sankey services, at the Brooklyn Rink, on the 7th. Some 3,000 people were unable to gain admission. The Congressmen elected on the 2d are: First Massachusetts District, Wm. W. Crapo (Rep.); First Mississippi, Louis Q. C. Lamar (Dem.), re-elected; Second, G. Wiley Welles (Rep.); Third, H. D. Money (Dem.); Fodrth, O. R. Singleton (Dem.); Fifth, C. E. Hooker (Dem.>;' Sixth, Roderick Seal (Dem.); Thirty-third New York,

Nebon 1. Norton (Rep.); Oregon, Henry I Warren (Rep.). ■ The election retains in Colorado show that the Territorial Legislature will be composed as follows: Coiincil—RepubliDemocrats,#. House—RepubliAccording to a Milwaukee dispatch of the 7th Ludington’s (Rep.) majority for Goverttor of Wisconsin would be about 1,000. Kuehn (Dem.), for State Treasurer, was probably elected. The Republicans had a majority of seven in the State Senate and one in the Assembly.