Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Joseph H alp hen, a Parisian diamond merchant, failed on the 16th, with liabilities estimated at $3,000,000. ' * _ GcnoßOßD’s remains were quietly buried in the Catholic cemetery at Montreal cn the morning of the 16th. The coffin was imbedded in cement and was placed upon that of his deceased wife. . ThE Vice-President was not as well on the 16th as on the previous day. Hia physician reported him as resting comfortably in the evening, and excluded all visitors lrom his room. The New York. Court of Appeals on the 16th dismissed the appeals in both of the Tweed cases. Reduction of bail aud bill of particulars were, by this decision, refused. The majority of Pillsbnry (Rep.) lor Governor of Minnesota is officially stated to be 11,899. Pfaender,'for State Treasurer, had 8,919 majority. Eighteen Mormons, residenta'of Franklin, Idaho, have been indicted for polygamy. Earthquake shocks were felt at San Francisco and at various Southern California and Arizona on the night of the 15th. A Hendaye telegram of the 17th states that Don Carlos had lately written to King Alphonzo offering to agree to a truce should the Cuban difficulties cause war between Spain and the United States. A Berlin dispatch of the 17th says the Crown Ikince of Germany had not proposed to visit the United States during the centennial year. A late Washington dispatch states that Secretary Bristow had contracted with the syndicate for the whole of the remainder of the $500,000,000 5 per cents. The Secretary would take no action in regard to selling the 4 and 4% per cents, until Congress meets. Cokhissioner Smith has resigned his charge of the Indian Bureau, and George Jerome, ex-Collector of Customs at Detroit, has been appointed as his successor.

The commission appointed to negotiate with the Sioux Nation for the Black Hills region have forwarded their report to the Secretary of the Interior. The failure of the negotiations was caused by the preposterous demands oi the Indians. Considerable excitement existed in Washington on the 17th over rumors ot serious complications with Spain. Orders were issued for the sailing of three ironclads, bat subsequently revoked, the latest news being that the impending troubles had been satisfactorily adjusted. The American Woman Suffrage Association met in New York on the evening of the 17th. JBishop Gilbert Haven presided and made the opening address. THE Committee of the Union League of America, recently in session at New York, have called a meeting of that body for Dec. 8, in Philadelphia. The official returns of the election in Wisconsin give the following results: For Governor, Ludington has a majority of 801; for Lieutenant-Governor, Parker’s majority is 1,011; Secretary of State, Doyle’s majority is 621; Treasurer, Kuehn’s majority is 2,804; Attorney-Gen-eral, Sloan’s majority is 1,811. There were 600 scattering votes, mainly cast for Prohibition candidates. The monument to Edgar Allan Poe, at Baltimore, was unveiled on the 17th, with imposing ceremonies. The National Grange met in Lonisville, Ky., on the 17th with full delegations from nearly all the States and Territories.

The second annual convention of the National Women’s Temperance Union met in Cincinnati on the' 17th. Two hundred delegates, representing nineteen States, were in the convention. According to a special Berlin telegram of the 18th the Prussian Government had decided to bring before the Ecclesiastical Court the Bishop of Treves and the Archbishop of Cologne, with a view to their deposition. A Rangoon telegram of -the 18th says a conspiracy to seize the arsenal and burn Rangoon had just been discovered. A great many Burmese had been arrested. A Madrid dispatch of the 18th says an order had been issued forbidding the acceptance of communications from Don Carlos,except the announcement of his unconditional surrender. A Washington dispatch of the 18th says the Spanish Minister had been advised from Madrid that his Government has conceded the demands recently made by the United States Government concerning Americans captured in Cuba and tried by court-martial. The $3,000 stolen from the Treasury Department since Mr. New became Treasurer have been paid by Mr. New himself out of his private resources. It is stated that he has not assessed the employes to make the amount good. In his annual report the PostmasterGeneral states that the cost of inland mail transportation for the last fiscal year was $15,353,369, an increase of 8,776 miles in the length of routes as compared with 1874, but a decrease of $48,688 in the cost of the service.

Among the failures announced in New York on the 17th was that of “Bricic” Pomeroy, proprietor of the Democrat of that city. His liabilities were estimated at $140,000, with no assets. The hbel suit of Henry C. Bowen against the Brooklyn Eagle for SIOO,OOO came up in the Brooklyn City Court on the 17th and was put over for the term. At Salt Lake City, on the 18th, Judge White rendered a decision releasing JJrigha® Young from imprisonment on *

writ of habeas corpus, and directed the Marshal to pay the expenses of the process, amounting to $484. The Marshal had also received notice of suit for lalse imprisonment. On the 18th, at Pine House, Ga.,fc train of empty freight cars ran into a passenger train on flie Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad, the engine telescoping the ladies’ pasringur-car, and throwing it and the smoking-car from the track. A boy, one year old, was steamed to death and several other persons were more or less seriously injured. A touNG Swedish girl named Caroline Klang, of Indianapolis, Ind., was fatally burned on the morning of the 18th by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp. Two rectifiers doing business at Milwaukee, Wis., were found guilty of whisky revenue frauds on the 18th. Great excitement was caused in St. Louis on the 18th by the developments made in the trial of ex-Supervisor McDonald for conspiracy to defraud the Government revenues in whisky transactions. The testimony against tbe accused was strong and tended to implicate prominent parties not previously suspected. A Montgomery (Ala,) special bf the 18th says the majority for the hew Constitution of that State would not be less than 50,000. A Denver (Col.) dispatch of the 18th announces the arrest of the last of the seven men who murdered the four Italians in that city a few weeks ago. . The number of German exhibitors applying for space at the Philadelphia Centenial is 1,140. Cardinal Pietro diSilvestri died in Rome on the 19th.

According to London dispatches of the 19th the Ministry had telegraphed to the Prince of Wales advising his immediate return from India, in consequence of the unsatisfactory attitude of the native Princes. It was stated in Washington On the 19th that the repair and preparation of Government vessels had no more reference to Spanish affairs than to those of any other country. Orders had been given to hurry along the completion and equipment of the new sloops-of-war lying in the Delaware, and to get a number of monitors ready for service. The Attorney-General of the United States recently expressed the opinion that Ann Eliza violated the United States statute when she married Brigham Young, and consequently had no legal claim against him for alimony. Official returns from all the countiea in New York show a majority for Bigelow (Dem.), for Secretary of State, of 14,812. The Temperance candidate received 9,882 votes. The total vote was 765,574.

Mr. Moody delivered his farewell discourse in Brooklyn on the evening of the 19th to a crowded audience. The services in Brooklyn will be continued under the auspices of the local clergy. Messrs. Moody and Sankey left for Philadelphia on the 20th to begin their labors in that city. Con Megrue, one of the leading witnesses in the McDonald case at St. Louis, swore, on the 19th, that something like $400,000 a year was collected and distributed among the members of the “ ring” for four years, and that one of them received $50,000. Megrue also published a card on the 19th saying that neither Gen. Babcock, Orville Grant, Col. Casey, Commissioner Donglass, Col. Holt, Col. Luckey nor any other officials or citizens of Washington, except William O. Avery, had to his knowledge been connected in any way with the “ring.” - The Indianapolis Sun of the 20th publishes an appeal to Congress, signed by over 3,000 voters of that city, demanding the repeal of the Resumption act; the retirement of all National Bank notes and the substitution therefor of Government legal-tenders, and the refunding of the national bonded debt into bonds bearing, say, 3.65 per cent, per annum, interconvertible with national legal-tender paper money at the pleasure of the holders. A mass-meeting was also called to be held in Indianapolis on the Ist of December to emphasize these demands. A Galveston (Tex.) dispatch of the 19th says a raiding band of Mexicans had crossed the river from the American side the day before with a large herd of stolen cattle. A demand had been made upon the Mexican authorities for the return of the plunder and the arrest of the robbers, which had been unheeded, and Col. McNally, of the Texas State militia, had crossed the Rio Grande and attacked the reinforced raiders. He had killed four of them, and at last accounts was still in the enemy’s country. The United States troops were concentrating at Brownsville, but would not cross.

There was reported to be three and a half feet of snow at Evanston, Wy. T., on the 19th and more falling. . On llie afternoon of the 19th Prof. Martine’s dancing hall in West Chicago was destroyed by fire. The burning of the supports caused the roof to give way and eight firemen were precipitated into the burning mass. All were recovered more or less burned and otherwise injured- - some of them fatally, if was thought.