Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The French Minister of Finance has reported to the committee of the Assembly that the revenue of France since the commencement of the fiscal year has been $22,000,000 in excess of the estimates. According to a London dispatch of the 10th the war in Malacca had assumed a religious aspect. Bevebal important failures at the East were announced on the 10th. Among them were the firm of James Wickham & Son, commission merchants of New York city, and F. Geedowaky, an extensive manufacturer cl furniture at Boston. A bbvere earthquake-sheck occurred in portions of Missouri and Kansas on the morning of the 10th. At Independence, Mo., several brick buildings were considerably injured, and citizens were aroused from sound slumber, thinking their houses were falling. The shock felt at Topeka and elsewhere in Kansas was also severe. Another survivor of the crew of the steamer Pacific, named Neal O’Haley, was picked up on the morning of the Bth, thirty miles inside the Straits of Fuca. He was floating on a raft, from which Capt. Howell had been washed off and drowned. He says the Pacific was struck bY'tf' vtssel under -full sail. Two boats got away from the wreck. Five dead bodies had been recovered up to the Bth. A singular accident occurred at the Detroit Pullman car works on the afternoon of the 10th. A large air-tube, six feet square, extends from the basement to the roof to carry up the dust of the plan-ing-machine to the cupola. While twelve or fifteen men were sweeping dust from the cupola down the tube to be carried away, the fine particles took fire from smoldering embers near the foot of the flue and exploded with a burst of flame, which burned several of the men fearfully, some of them dangerously. Heavy storms prevailed in France and England during the week preceding the 11th, and vast tracts of country were threatened by the rising floods. According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 11th the Sublime Porte had ordered the districts of Trebigno, Biletz and Piva to be detached from. Herzegovina and organized as a separate department under an Armenian Greek Governor.

Vice-PresidekT' Wilson was taken violently ill after a warm bath at the Capitol in. Washington on the morning of the 10th. His physician reported him as much improved in health on the 11th, and thought he would speedily recover. The New York State Senate will contain Republicans and 11 Democrats; House, 68 Republicans and 60 Democrats. Forged tickets purporting to have been issued by the Illinois Central Railroad at Chicago were offered for sale to a ticketagent in New York city on the 10th. Tua New Hampshire Prohibitionists met in State Convention at Concord on the 10th and nominated A. J. Kendall for Governor. Thomas A. Doyle (Rep.) has been reelected Mayor of Providence, R. 1., for the tenth time. The Minnesota Legislature will be composed as follows: Senate —Republicans, 24; Opposition, 17. House —Republicans, 65; Opposition, 41. A Milwaukee dispatch of the lltb gives Ludington’s (Rep.) majority for Governor of Wisconsin at 900. The balance of the Democratic State ticket was thought to have been elected by majorities ranging from 150 to 300 except Kuehn for Treasurer, who would have from 2,500 to 3,000. The Chicago papers of the 11th state that arrangements for pooling all earnings had been entered into by the Lake Shore,* the Michigan Central and the Fort Wayne Railroads. All the other trunk lines to the West have consented to it, and would act in concert with the new combination in respect to rates. The cotton-mills at Glasgow, Scotland, belonging to Robertson & Co. and Young & Co. were totally destroyed by fire on the 11th. Loss estimated at $1,500,000. Over 1,200 persons were thrown out of employment.

A terrible explosion of fire-damp occurred in a Belgian colliery on the 10th. Up to the 12th forty-two dead bodies had been recovered. It was feared a large number were still in the pit and probably killed. The annual report of the PaymasterGeneral of the Army shows that there was disbursed to the army during the last year $12,272,102.38, and to the Military Academy $302,236.04. The number of desertions during the year was 2,521, against 4,606 the previous year. Thereenlistments aggregated 1,986, against 699 the previous year. In his annual report the Commissioner of Internal Revenue says the British public paid under their excise laws during the year ending March 31,1875, taxes in gold amounting to $183,962,756, against $110,545,145 paid in currency by the people of this country during the fiscal year endedkJune 30, 1875. The Commissioner of the General Land-Office recommends that all the timber lands owned by the Government be opened to purchasers at a minimum valuation. He recommends the adoption oi the plan of public sales heretofore practiced, but now abandoned, and thinks the Pre-emption laws should be repealed, and the homestead system be nmde' the only method of acquiring title to agricultural lands. The number of acres disposed of during the last year w8*7,070,271, being 2,460,601 less than the previous year. Of this amount 2,356,057 acres were homestead entries and

3,107jM8 were certified to railreads; 145,061 acres were disposed of at eash sales The cash receipts during the year were gi,784,00i. -j FRibAT, the 12th; was of fasting nd prayer by the clergymen and churches of Brooklyn, in accordance with the request es Mr; Moody. Revival services were held in the rink. According to what is said to be the official returns of the Pennsylvania election Hartranft’s plurality over Pershing is 11,945. The Prohibition vote was nearly 10,000. ‘ The vessel which collided with the steamer Pacific proves to have been the bark Orpheus, which was afterward wrecked on the rocks, her crew escaping. No more survivors of the Pacific disaster had been found up to the 12th. A boat belonging to the steamer Waco was found on the 12th, out in the gulf, bottom up; it had not been scorched. None of those on board the vessel at the time of its destruction had been found up to the 12th, and all hope that any had survived the disaster was abandoned. A New York telegram of the 12th says the “Waco had on board 800 cases of petroleum, which she had no right to carry, and her owners would be prosecuted. Col. Joyce, late Internal Revenue Agent at St. Louis, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the Government, asked leave on the 12th to withdraw his motion for a new trial and demanded that sentence be passed in his case. C. J. Moeller, an ex-Gauger at Milwaukee, was found guilty on the 12th of making false returns to the Government.

A London telegram of the 13th says the cholera in India had interfered to some extent with the arrangements of the Prince of Wales. On the 13th a tidal wave ten feet high swept up Parrot River, Somersetshire, England, breaking the lock-gates at Bridgewater, sinking one vessel and more or less injuring twenty others. Disastrous floods were reported throughout England and Ireland on the 14th. Cardinal McCloskey left Queenstown for New York on the 14th. A Cattaro dispatch of the 14th says eight Turkish battalions under Server Pasha had been surrounded near Gatschkoby 3,000 Herzegovinians, and at last accounts a desperate battle was being fought. The ship Calcutta, from Quebec for Liverpool, was lately wrecked at Grosse Isle. Twenty-two of the crew and a lady passenger were drowned. Only the Captain, three men and a boy were saved. The annual-report of the Commissioner of Education shows an increase of 164,000 school children during the year. There are enrolled in the public schools 8,000,000 pupils; average daily attendance, 4Ji 500,000; estimated population between six and sixteen years of age, 10,536,674; number of teachers employed, 241,800; total income public schools, $82,158,905; total expenditures, $74,974,988; value of school buildings, $165,758,447.

Hiram Leffingwell has been appointed United States Marshal for the District of Missouri, and T. C. Woodward, of lowa, Examiner-in-Chief of the Patent Offiice. On the 13th Mrs. Moulton wrote to Mr. Shearman, Clerk of Plymouth Church, asking the church to join with her in calling a Council of Churches, before which Plymouth Church should give its reasons for the action taken in dropping her name from its roll of membership, and she should state her reasons for absenting herself from the services of the church. In case of refusal on the part of the church to comply with this request within four weeks, she gave notice that she herself should call for such a council. On the 13th Col. Joyce was sentenced to imprisonment in the Penitentiary for a term of three and a half years and to pay a fine of S3OO. Before sentence was passed he addressed the court in his own behalf, declaring himself the victim of self-convicted perjurers and thieves. It is said Joyce’s object in demanding a sentence was to avoid being called upon to answer other indictments pending at St. Louis; also that he was prompted by a desire to protect others .from the effect of any testimony he might otherwise have been required to give.

Nicholas Thomas, of Chicago, is said to have perfected a new motor similar in a general way to the so-called Keely invention, but differing in application and effect. The body of Capt. Wolfe, a Galveston pilot on board the City of Waco, has been found near where the steamer went down. The Amoskeag Mills, of Manchester, N. H., have given notice of a reduction of from 5 to 15 per cent, in the wages of operatives after Dec. 1. According to a New York dispatch of the 12th Judge Moore, of Brooklyn, had decided to order a commission to take the testimony of Mr. and Mrst Joseph Richards in the Loader perjury case. ***•• The official canvass of the vote of Maryland gives Carroll, Democratic candidate for Governor, 12,821 majority. The Democrats have a majority of twelve in the Senate and thirty in the House.