Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 14th the Austrian Ambassador bad again asked the Grand Vizier of Turkey to suspend hostilities and open negotiations with the insurgents. ; < On the 14th announcement was made of the failure of John Hopkins, leather* dealer, of New York city. The following summary of the report of the Attorney-General was sent to Congress on the 14th: He urges that DistrictAttorneys be paid by salaries only, to be graded according to place; that the Disr trict of Columbia be no exception to the law; recommends giving the appointment of Assistant District-Attorneys to the Attorney-General; a uniform mode of selecting jurors for United States Courts; that a law be passed forbidding the payment of DeputyMarshals by certificates, and the advance of any money to Marshals whose accounts are unadjusted at the Treasury over six months. In the case of Brigham Young he asks further legislation. The labors of the Supreme Court and Court of Claims are referred to, and the suggestion made that such legislation be had as will enable the latter court, aided by the Attorney-Gen-eral, to increase the safeguards against improper testimony by devising a different mode of taking it, and to force old cases to early trial or require them to be dismissed without power of restoration. To these ends he proposes, after consultation with the court, to draft a bill and , submit it to the present Congress. Thr London War Office received a dispatch on the 15th announcing the defeat of the Malays in a recent encounter neat Penang. Sixty ot the enemy were killed and a large number wounded. A special from St. Paul de Loanda announces that Capt. Cameron’s exploring expedition had reached there on the 19th of November, having traversed the African continent from Ujiji. The expedition had been pronounced a success. There are now 100 Granges in Massa, chusetts, an increase of thirty-five during - the past year. The number of members is 4,000. At the municipal election in Boston on the 14th Mayor Cobb—the “ Citizens’ ” candidate—was re-elected by a majority of between 2,000 and 3,000 over H. J. Boardman. Rev. John Henry Hobart Brown, Bishop-elect oi the Fond du Lac (Wis.) Diocese, was consecrated at Cohoes, N. Y., on the 15th. The National Cheap Transportation Convention met m Chicago on the 15th. A large delegation was present. An order was received in Chicago on the 15th dissolving the Court of Inquiry in the case of Gen. Babcock.

A Bbussels telegram of the 16th says a frightful explosion had occurred on that day in the coal mine at Framiers, near Mons. The bodies of 110 miners had already been recovered. ' George S. Bangs resigned the position of General Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service on the 15th. The following Congressmen voted against the anti-third-term resolution recently adopted in the United States House of Representatives: Bradley, Denison, Haralson, Hoge, Hubbell, Hyman, Lynch, MacDougall, Nash, Page, Plaisted, Pratt, Smalls, "Wallace (8. 0.1 Walls, Wells (Miss.), White, Whiting—lß. Those favoring the resolution numbered 232. In the United States Circuit Court at Covington, Ky., on the 15th, J. M. Schintker, F. R. Rineskamp, F. Macke and Bteimiede, rectifiers, pleaded guilty of violations of the Revenue laws. On the 15th the Democratic caucus of the Virginia Legislature nominated Johij W. Johnston for re-election to the United States Senate, and on the 16th the Legislature elected him. The United States Court at Indianapolis, on the 15th, in the case of DeputyCollector Hill, charged with conspiring to defraud the Government, rendered a verdict of guilty. Thomassen, the man who was arrested upon the charge of causing the late dynamite explosion on the Bremer Haven docks, died from his repeated self-in-flicted injuries on the morning of the 16th. Before his death he said his real name was William King Thompson, and that he was a native of the city of Brooklyn, N. Y. During the late war he followed the fortunes of the Confederacy, and commanded a noted blockade-runner. He had resided in Germany since the war ended, and had sought to repair his shattered fortunes by securing insurance upon supposititious merchandise shipped by ocean steamers. To secure the benefit of this he had constructed an infernal machine, operated by clock-work, so arranged that at the end of a week the explosive material would bestruck with a thirty, pound hammer, when vessel and cargo would be sent to the bottom in mid-ocean. The careless handling of the package on the dock had precipitated and anticipated the catastrophe. A Bremen dispatch of the 17th says it had been ascertained that one of these machines had been placed on board the steamer Baller, which took the place of the disabled Mosel and left Bremer Haven on the 16th for Southampton and New York. The confession of Thompson indicated to the authorities the names of his confederates and they had been arrested. On the 17th the total number of killed and wounded by the explosion was estimated at 200. ▲ London dispatch of the morning of the 18th says Peru had made default in the payment of the interest of her public debt. , An excursion, composed of’about 500 poople from Washington, including the President and several at the Cabinet offl-

cers, the members of the Supreme Court and a majority from both houses of Congress, reached Philadelphia on the evening of the 17th, for the purpose of inspecting the Centennial buildings and grounds. The official report of the Secretary erf the Michigan State states that the membership of the Order in the State, as near as could be determined froih reports received, was, on the 30th of September, 34,275; number of subordinate Granges, 611. The river steamer U. 8. Pike, laden with cotton, sugar and molasses, and lying at a wharf in New Orleans, was burned on the night of the 16th. Several persons on the boat were badly injured. A number of missing deck-hands are believed to have jumped overboard and drowned. The National Cheap Transportation Convention at its late session in Chicago elected as officers for the ensuing year: John F. Henry, of New York, President; a Vice-President from each State and Territory; F. B. Thurber, of New York, Treasurer; Frank Gilbert, of Chicago, Secretary; H. A. Stolenworks, of Selma, Ala., Assistant Secretary. The Executive Committee is composed as follows: John ‘F. Henry, President; F. B. Thurber, Treasurer; James Utley, Vice-President; Frank Gilbert, Secretary, and H. A. Stolenworks, Assistant Secretary. Henry Hollenschied, sixty-five years old, was hanged at Herman, Mo., on the 17th for the murder of his son-in-law, Christian Alband, last June. Alexander P. Tutton, the Supervisor of Internal Revenue who was assigned to St. Louis in McDonald’s place, has writen a letter to the President in which he says the order transferring the Supervisors of Internal Revenue in January last was suspended at his own instance, and not at the request of Gen. Babcock. A Ragusa dispatch of the 18th says that at a recent conference of the united Christian representatives of. Bosnia it was unanimously resolved to continue the war with Turkey until every Turk had been expelled from the country. An agent had been designated to visit the various capitals and request of the powers belligerent recognition of Herzegovina. A Rome (Italy) telegram of the 18th says 600 persons in that Kingdom had applied for space at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. About 1,000 mechanics and laboring men at Montreal, Canada, who had been recently thrown out Of employment by the advent of cold weather made a public demonstration on the 17th, demanding work or bread. There was considerable rioting, and the police were called upon and several arresto made. Four of the rioters were, on the 18th, sentenced to four months’ imprisonment at hard labor. A strong force of police remained on guard at last accounts. Arrangements had been made to give the poor laborers employment. Three meetings were held by Moody and Sankey in Philadelphia on the 19th. At the women’s meeting in the afternoon a large number rose for prayer, and subsequently entered the inquiry-room. Several distinguished persons attended the evening services, among them being President and Mrs. Grant. The trial of Thomas W. Piper, the' Boston sexton, tor the murder of Mabel Young, has resulted in a disagreement of the jury, who are reported to have stood nine for conviction and three for acquittal. Thr banking-house of Greene & Cranston, Providence, R. 1., suspended on the 18th, in consequence of the failure of the Providence Tool Company. Their assets were stated to be $800,000; liabilities $675,000. It was claimed that the embarrassments of the Tool Company were only temporary. The New York Graphic of a late date promulgates the theory that Boss Tweed is not a voluntary fugitive, but that he has been abducted and killed by men whom he could implicate in the plundering of the city treasury, and who are interested in getting him out of the way because of his alleged threats to make damaging revelations regarding them.

On the occasion of the late hanging of three colored men in New York city the rope was carelessly adjusted around the neck of one of them, and just as the weight descended the knot slipped and the victim was left writhing between heaven and earth. He made violent efforts to relieve himself and cried aloud for help. The knot again shifted and he finally died by strangulation. At a business meeting of Plymouth Church, of Brooklyn, held on the evening of the 17th Deacon West’s letter was filed. In Mrs. Moulton’s case a letter missive was proposed for an advisory council of churches to be held on the 11th of January to determine certain questions of rule and discipline. Pending the motion for its adoption Mr. Shearman moved, a slight amendment, and Mr. Beecher said if that would open up the whole investigation of 1874 he was for it, and the motion to adopt prevailed. At the conclusion of some subsequent remarks Mr. Beecher said: “If such an advisory council should say another investigation is necessary, I would say, ‘Do it. Do it.’ If they should say not, I certainly should not object.” Mr. Shearman resigned the office of Clerk of the church organization, and Mr. Thomas J. Tilney was chosen as his successor. Henry W. Longfellow has declined to act as Centennial poet and John G. Whittier will probably be selected in his stead. On the morning of the 18th the United States Express Company’s car on the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railroad train, while en route for St. Louis, was en-I tered, between Ferguson and Jennings’ !

Station, by two or three masked men, who threw the messenger, Charles Kinkaid, into a large packing-box which they emptied for the purpose, and robbed the safe of between SIO,OOO and $20,000 in mwiey and valuables. D. A. Ross & Co., large lumber manufacturers and dealers of Detroit, Mich., have lately failed. Their liabilities are placed at SBOO,OOO and assets at $400,000.