Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

According to a London telegram of the 23d the Cariist official organ claims that Don Carlos had saved Cuba and the honor of Spain, his late offer of a trace to Alphonzo having induced the Government of the United States to modify its demands. Madrid telegrams of a late date say that several Republican sympathizers had been arrested in that city, and more had left their homes to avoid a Hirefate. Revolutionary and Republican documents were being privately circulated. « « Alexahdrk Colin, the oelebrated French primer, died at Paris on the 28d. A Berlin dispatch of the 23d says advices had been received from Herzegovina that the insurgents had captured an important fort with all its garrison, commanding Lubel. Several important positions had also been occupied by them in the vicinity of Hava. (Central Asia) dispatch of the 23d says that the Kiptsehaks had rebelled and invested the citadel and Russian camp. The Russians resisted successfully for three days, when the Kiptschjdts retreated, leaving 3,800 dead on the field. The death of Vice-President Wilson makes Senator Thomas W. Ferry, of Michigan, President pro tempore of the Senate, ex-officio Vice-President of the United States. A Washington special of the 23d says orders had l>een issued at the Navy De. partment for fitting np five mbre irohclads, making a total of twelve iron-clads which, within the previous three weeks, had been made ready for active service, and embracing nearly all the available iron-clads on the list.

At the recent session in Cincinnati of the Woman’s National Temperance Convention resolutions were adopted recommending Gospel temperance prayer-meet-ings, cheap lunch and lodging houses, free reading-rooms and temperance clubs; urging American women to train their children to hate intoxicatingliquors; expressing gratitude to God that thfc corruptions of the whisky ring had been exposed, and commending the Postmaster-Gen-eral for removing from his department all assistants addicted to alcoholic beverages. Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer was re-elected President of the society. Among other matters it was voted to try to keep the sale of liquor out of the Centennial grounds next year, Mrs. Wittenmyer saying that it would cost at least $50,000 to do it, for that amount had been paid already by a brewer for the exclusive right to sell beer inside the inclosurc.

The official returns of the Oregon election give Lane (Dem.) for Congress a majority of 267. The South Carolina Legislature met in annual session at Columbia on the 23d. The trial of William O. Avery, late Chief Clerk of the Internal Revenue Bureau, at Washington, was begun at St. Louis on the 23d. He is charged with conspiring with McDonald, Joyce, etc., to defraud the Government. The election of officers for the National Grange, on the 23d, resulted as follows: Master, John T. Jones, of Arkansas; Overseer, J. J. Woodman, of Michigan; Lecturer, A. B. Sinedley, of Iowa; Steward, A. J. Vaughn, of Mississippi; Assistant Steward, Mortimer Whitehead, of New Jersey; Chaplain, S. H. Ellis, of Ohio; Treasurer, P. M. McDowell; Secretary, O. H. Kelley, of Kentucky; Gatekeeper, O. Dinwiddie, of Indiana; Ceres, Mrs. J. T. Jones, of Arkansas; Pomona, Mrs. Goddard, of Connecticut; Flora, Mrs. Adams, of Minnesota; Assistant Steward, Miss Gartie Hall, of Louisville. A disastrous gale prevailed off the coast of Fifeshire, England,' on the 24th. Several fishing vessels were lost and about thirty seamen perished. Cardinal Rauscher died on the 23d at Vienna. The Mercantile Bank of Leeds, England, suspended on the 24th. Liabili. ties, $350,000. The London Times of the 26th says the British Government had lately bought of the Khedive of Egypt £1,000,000 worth of Suez Canal shares. The Paris newspaper Le Pays was seized on the 25th for publishing M. de Cassagnac’s speech to the Bonapartists at Bellville. A Madrid telegram of the 25th announces the capture of San Cristobal with all the Carlist positions in the vicinity of Pampeluna.

Tbs American residents and visitors in Berlin: appropriately celebrated Thanksr giving Day,. Rev. Dr. Thompson preach, ing the sermon. At the close of the services resolutions wetfc adopted expressing sorrov at the death of Vice-President Wilson and directing that a telegram of condolence be sent to the United States. The Chief of the Ordnance Bureau, United States Army, in his annual report calls for an increase to the annual appropriation for arming and equipping the militia. The following is the aggregate strength of the militia of the Uhited States: Organized, 84,724; unorganized, a,701,977. The Indians in the United States aggregate of whom 10,000 are put down as “civilized/’ 185,000 as “semicivilized,;Bl,ooo as “ barbarous.” This does net include the Alaska Indians. A coal-oil lamp exploded in the bedroom of Mrs, Charlotte Chew, of Camden, N. J., on the morning of the 25th. Miss Laura Chew jumped out of bed, w|iep her night clothes caught fire and she opened a window (bn the second floor of the building) and either jumped or fell to the

grojind and was so terribly injuredthatshe died ina few minutes. The -cjfothes of the mother also took fhre, and she waa. so dreadfully burned that sheexpired during the day, Mid William Chew, he% sen, was severely burned. - William B. AsTcpt, eldest son of the late John Jacob Aster, died in New York city on the 24th, leaving a fortune og nearly $80,000,000. Five children survive him—-threesons and two daughters. Deceased was eighty years old. ' ' Mr. Murray, editor ofilie South Bend lad Jr printeraSS sub-ecffto£ Mhis eoipidy' and discharged her and afterward inserted an article in his 'paper offensive *to her. She subsequently assaulted him on the 1 street with a cowhide, which he attempted to take from her, and in the scuffle which ensued she was thrown to the ground. Justice William Palmer took sides with the girl and Murray also assailed him editorially, and Mr. Palmer on the 22d shot Murray, the ball taking effect in his lungs, inflicting a severe and dangerous wound.

The Indiana Republican State Central Committee have called a State Convention to meet at Indianapolis on the B2d of February, to nominate a State ticket, including ' candidates for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, etc., and to select delegates to the next National Republican Convention and nominate fifteen candidates for Presidential Electors to be chosen at the general election In November next. The State election will occur on the second Tuesday in October. A committee appointed by the National Grange to arrange a marriage ceremonial have reported adversely and toe organiza- ‘ tion has sustained their report. In toe case of Leopold Wirth and Robert Kiewert, on trial at Milwaukee for conspiracy to defraud the revenue, the ’jury on toe 25th rendered a verdict acquitting the former and disagreeing as to the latter, standing, it is said, eight for conviction to four for acquittal.

On the 26th the Public Prosecutor at Berlin applied to the upper house of the German Parliament to indict Count von Araim for treason because of his alleged authorship of the pamphlet which reoeafcly appeared attacking Count Bismarck and the existing condition of things in Germany. " c - , At a business meeting of Plymouth Church, held on the evening of the 26th, an answer to Mrs. Moulton’s demand for an investigation was read, in which it was denied that her accusations against Mr. Beecher were a good defense for her past conduct, per proposition for a mutual council was accepted nevertheless. A New York dispatch of the 26th announces the suspension of the Manufacturers and Builders’ Bank, of that city. A run was also inaugurated on the People’s Savings Bank, but the officers dlosed the doors of the institution and took advantage of the sixty-days’ notice which they Me authorized to require of depositors. There was a slight run oh the Security Savings Bank also.

The Southern Pacific tioh was recently held in St, Louis, and delegates were in attendance from twentyseven States and Territories,. Resolutions were adopted favoring a Southern transcontinental railway from the Mississippi, via El Paso, and setting forth the reasons why such a road should be constructed ; recommending the buildipg erf extensions of and connctions with the Texas & Pacific Road from the most eligible points to New Orleans, Memphis and Vicksburg; that the construction of such a line and branches . can be best secured by , the extension of Government fid to snob line and branches in the form of a guarantee of interest, pot principal, on a limited amount of 5 jjer cent. constructiQn hopds, payable in fifty years, so that the entire liability assumed shall not in any went exceed $2,000 per mile per annum. Provision was made by the convention address in this behalf to the people of the United States and to the President and Congress. ’k’HE Indiana Suprejne, Court has lately decided, in the case of an attorney who brought suit to recover for services in procuring a divorce, thafA promisemadebya married woman Jo pay, when she shall be ditorced, for services rendered her by an attorney during her coverture is void, and a promise made after she is divorced to pay the same is invalid for want of consideration.

Hon. John Turner, a well-known attorney and editor of the Mauston (Wis.) Star, attempted suicide by shooting, at the Vilas House, in Madison, on the 26th. Last fall Mr. Turner defended a Mrs. Ingersol upon the charge of murdering her husband and secured her acquittal. On die 26th she preferred the charge of forgery against him in the settlement of an insurance claim. At last accounts Mr. Turner was very low, and it was thought he would not recover. A Paris telegram of the 27th says that hard times prevail in that city. Worth, the man milliner, was reported to have lost very heavily by the pressure «ud to have become financially embarrassed, mainly, it was said, through the failure of his prominent American customers. King Alphonso’s eighteenth birthday was celebrated at Madrid on the 28th nit. A, report prevailed that the King would soon take the field against the Carlists. A Berlin dispatch of the 28th ult, says Montenegro and Servia had cohtluded an offensive and defensive alliance in favor of Herzegovina and againßt Turkey. A Berlin telegram <sf the 29th ult. says a report prevailed that a charge of treason had been preferred against Count von Arnim.

•Washington dispatches of toe 27th state that the negotiations between Spain and toe United States were proceeding favorably, and toe relations between the two countries might be regarded as exThe Ohief Clerk, and about a dozen other pfeogataent clerks of toe Interior Department at Washington were removed or transferred on the 27th by Secretary Chandler. In his annual report Lieut.-Gep. Sheridanrecommends toat toe cart and treatment of the Indians be confided to the War Department, and that tody 'be subjected to the same , laws and penalties as civilized people, instead of being left amenable td norlaws. He alto favors compulsory education, and advises the settlement of the Black Hills question. Ex-Gov. English, of Connecticut, has been appointed to fill toe vacancy in toe United States Senate caused by the death of Senator Feny. The Moody and Sankey meetings in Philadelphia were very largely attended on toe 28th. The Interest in the work continued unabated. ■ Mr, Beecher was subpoenaed on toe 27th as a witness in toe libel suit of Mr. Bowen against the Brooklyn Union. <r THE ofiicial majority tor toe# new Constitution in Missouri is 76,238. The Constitution went into effect Nov, 30. ; The Cherokee National Council on toe 27th canvassed toe votes past at the , late election, and declared Rev. Charles Thompson elected Principal Chief over Ross by a majority 6f eleven. The Ross men, have a majority in both houses of the Council. Secretary Bristow on the 27t0 sent a telegram to the United States District-At-torney at St. Lotus emphatically denying toe rumor that he wap interested in a dis-tillery-house at Louisville, Ky., and stating that he did not desirfe toe matter to rest upon bis denial, but requested that “ every person whose name has been or can be given you as having knowledge of such alleged facts shall be brought before toe Grand Jury and subjected to the most rigid examination.” The Secretary adds: “I beg to repeat toe request heretofore communicated to you, that these frauds on toe Government, Bhril be probed to toe vfery bottom; toat every ramification -qsf foe ji|g4bldW*ffate lowed in. every part from beginning to end, and that no ope haying connection with or guilty knowledge oUts operations shall be permitted to escape. So far as this department is concerned, I ask that every allegation against any officer of it, from its head to its humblest employe, be thoroughly investigated and vigorously prosecuted, if any grounds exists thereior. I have read this to'the President, whorepeats his injunction: * Let no guilty man escape.’ ”