Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1876 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Hebr Renner, a German newspaper correspondent, has been arrested and maltreated by Turkish troops in Bosnia, and the German Government has been asked to interfere. The royal palace at Barcelona was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 26th. A Bt. Petersburg dispatch of a recent date says the disorders in Northern Khokand would soon be made the Occasion by Russia forihe annexation of the remainder of the country. President Grant has signed the bill extending the time Of duration of the Alabama Claims Commissioners to the 22d of July next. A Washington dispatch of the 26th ■anya the Mexican Secretary of Foreign .Affairs had stated, in reply to a request of Minister-Foster for permission for regular •United States troops to follow raiders across the border, that the Mexican " Executive was without authority to grant such request except by consent of Congress. Mr. Foster replied that the acknowledgment hy the Mexican Government of its Inability to retrain its own citizens would be the strongest possible argument to all advocates of the acquisition of territory in Mexico. Mr. Foster said further that the citizens of Texas must be protected, and if Mexico did not prevent faittSrs fWm crossing the border the United States would. Eight lawyers of Franklin, La., recently handed to Judge- Mentz, of the St. Mary’s Parish Court,'a dooument requesting him to resign because of his alleged manifest incompetency and the Interested motives which generally influenced his decisions. The Judge replied that he had tried to perform his duty faithfully and impartially, and that, inasmuch as the signers of the paper did not vote for him, he should continue to administer the functions of his office until his constituents (meaning the colored people) called upon him to resign. The members of the bar threatened to appeal to the next Legislature to secure his impeachment.

At Cincinnati, the other night, Mrs. Lawrence dropped a coal-oil lamp. The lire caught in the carpet and her clothes, and in an instant she was wrapped in flames and fearfully and probably fatally burned. Her husband and daughter made efforts to save her and were themselves badly burned. The thermometer indicated eighty degrees above zero at Memphis, Tenn., on the 25th. While Christmas festivities were being celebrated in a school-house in the little village of Hillikon, canton of Aargon, Switzerland, the floor of the structure gave way and all were precipitated into the cellar. Eighty persons were killed and Ally more or less injured. In consequence of the vigorous bombardment of the position by the Carlists, the commander at Hernani gave notice to the national authorities on the 27th that he shoufd be compelled to abandon the post unless reinforcements were promptly forwarded. The reported death of Gen. Kodas had been confirmed by a Madrid special of the 27th. A desperate battle was fought between the Turks and Herzegovinians on the 23d, near N itehitza, which lasted during the entire day, and in which the Turks claim to have been victorious? The fighting was desperate on both sides and the losses severe. The Pacific Mills, at Lawrence, Mass., employing 5,200 operatives, have given notice pfa reduction of from 10 to 15 per cent, in wages, to take effect Jan. 1, owing to the depression in the price of printcloths. At a business meeting oi Brooklyn Plymonth Church held on the evening of the 27th resolutions were adopted acceding to the demand of Mrs. Moulton for a mutual council to advise the church and. Mrs. Moulton upon the questions submitted fey her in her memorandum of Dec. 25, whether the reasons of the church for dropping her from its membership as it did were valid and sufficient, and as to the validity and sufficiency of her .reasons for abstaining so long from the services and sacraments of the church.

The Hudson River sugar refinery, at Hastings, N. Y., was burned on the 26th, and 150 ffita were thrown oat of employment. The ninety-eighth anniversary of the battle of Trenton, which occurred Dec. 26, 1777, was’ celebrated at Trenton, N. J., on the 27fh, in a mock engagement between troops representing the Federal and British armies. Mrs. Holdson, living at Merom, Ind., while attempting to set a l«mp*on a mantel, the other evening, dropped and broke it. The coal-oil was scattered over her clothes, which took fire and burned her so badly that She died shortly afterward. . ' ' A Springfield (Ill.) special telegram of the 27th says Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, who' bad been residing in that city since her sojourn at Batavia, was greatly improved in health and spirits. Ex-Senator Wm. A. Richardson died of paralysis at Quincy, HI., on the morning of the 27th, after an illness of ten days. Geo. M, Shingle, proprietor of the City Mills, at Wyandotte, Kan., failed on the 2f7th. Liabilities from $50,000 to $70,000; assets not over. $12,000. H. Isbell and J. Bennett, two leading boot and shoe dealers at Kalamazoo, Mich , also fatted on the 27th. Isbell's liabilities are $32090; assets from $15,000 to SIB,OOO. Bennett’s not stated. Advices were received in Madrid on the 26th, giving the details of a terrible

hurricane which passed over the Philippine Islands on the 30th of November. Two hundred and fifty lives were lost, many cattle perished and crops were ruined. A London dispatch of the 38th gays serious disturbances had occurred at Baanßfoot, County Armagh, Ireland, in consequence of the marriage of a Protestant girl to a Roman Catholic. Several Protestants had attacked the house where the marriage occurred, and during the fight which followed a number were killed and several badly wounded. A Paris special of the 28th says the Orleans Princes had decided not to take seats in thfi, Senate or Chamber of Deputies. Theodore M. Va lb, Assistant Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, will succeed Superintendent Bangs in February next. On the evening of the 28th Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was served with a summons and complaint in a suit for “malicious prosecution,’* instituted by Francis D. Moulton. Moulton claims $50,000 damages. Fifteen States have taken a census o population in 1875, thetotal increase since 1870 being a little over 2,000,000. A like average progress throughout the United States would show an aggregate increase in five years of upward of 5,000,000, or a total population of 44,000,000. A New York telegram of the 28th states that Judge Donohue had forfeited the recognizances on seven indictments against the fugitive Tweed. Among the suspensions announced on the 28th were those of Jas. A. Smith and G. N. & J. A. Smith, woolen manufacturers, operating live mills in Massachusetts. Liabilities variously reported at from $300,000 to $600,000; assets unknown.

A numerously-attended public meeting was held in Charleston, 8. C., on the evening ot the 28th, to sustain the action of Gov. Chamberlain in refusing commissions as Judges to Whipperand Moses. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the Legislature for electing them, protesting against their elevation to the bench and declaring an unalterable purpose never to allow them to occupy the position. The Alabama Legislature met on the 28th. The Governor’s message is devoted entirely to State affairs. E. L. Paterson, Republican member of the Louisiana Legislature from Natchitoches, was shot and instantly killed on the 26 th by Cosgrove, editor of the Vindicator. A Vienna dispatch of the 29th says: “ The Secretary of State of the United States has transmitted to every European Government a circular asking for an expression of opinion regarding American intervention in Cuba.” The dispatch further says that all the Governments had replied satisfactorily, England being willing to indorse intervention at once, and other nations declaring a willingness to support intervention, but hesitating to take the initiative. A Madrid telegram of the 29th says arrangements had been perfected for the return of ex-Queen Isabella to Spain. The Alphonsists had concentrated 80,000 men in Navarre and Alava. Two hundred American Residents attended a meeting in Berlin on the evening of the 29th to protest against the declaration of the German press that the Thomas-Mosel explosion affair was the direct fruit of American civilization. A large number of Germans present cordially concurred in the resolutions. In the French Assembly on the 29th the Press bill introduced by the Government was adopted by nearly a unanimous vote. The proposal to raise the state of siege throughout the counfry was rejected—339 to 377.

The British Admiralty has recently issued another circular in regard to fugitive slaves. It declares that fugitive slaves asking admission to a British man-of-war, when in the territorial waters of r foreign State, must be received only when their lives are endangered, and once received must not be surrendered at the demand of any power. • A Labor Convention met at Tyrone, Pa., on the 29th and appointed a National Committee of thirty-seven to issue a call for a convention of representatives of labor and industry from all parts of the country, to be hdW in Pittsburgh next April. The work of consolidating the revenue collection districts throughout the country has been completed, and the number is reduced from 209 to 163. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the retirement of $644/550 legaltender notes on account of National Bank circulation issued during December. This leaves the outstanding legal-tenders $37,182,722. The amount of additional National Bank notes issued since Nov. 1 is $1,701,280, and the total amount issued since the passage of the act is $12,715,975. The amount of Iqgal-tender notes deposited by National Banks for the purpose of retiring the circulation, since Nov. 1, is $2,987,206.

In the case of the $176,000 illegally collected as income' tax on dividends of Illinois Central Railroad .stock held by non-resident aliens, Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont has decided that the money should be returned to the company and not to the stockholders., > „ A San Diego (Cal.) dispatch received in San Francisco on the 29th says almost the entire Mexican population in the vicinity of Campo were implicated in the recent raid. Tuscon news received on the same day reports a fight between the State and revolutionary forces, twenty-five miles south of the- line, in which the former were defeated, with ten killed and a number wounded and taken prisoners. The I

revolutionists were said to be marching on Hermossillo. Several additional whisky distilleries and rectifying establishments in Chicago were seized by Government officers on the 29th. / A New York dispatch of the 29th announces the death, at the house of his grand-daughter, near Richmond, Staten Island, of Father Boehm, the oldest preacher of the Methodist Church in this country, and probably the oldest clergyman in the world He was Over 100 years old. Thh residence of Mrs. Rachel Gordon, ten miles west of Rising Sun, Ind., was burned on Christmas night, and Mrs. Gand her three children, aged eight, ten and twelve years, perished in the flames. It is supposed that they were robbed, murdered and the bouse set on fire to conceal the crime. d The rote for cable dispatches other than commercial intelligence over the AngloAmerican line has been reduced to twentyfive cents (gold) per word. The National Rifle Association of Great Britain has accepted the invitation of the New York team to participate in the match for small-bores during the Centennial. Sir Henry Halford -has been appointed Captain of the English team. All the German papers except the National Zeitung have withdrawn their offensive comments upon American character. , i/j Washington dispatches of the 30th ult. say the Secretary of the Treasury would not receive checks and drafts in payment of debts due to the Government. Joseph Bork, the City Treasurer of Buffalo, N. Y., is alleged to be a defaulter to the extent of $350,00(1 or more. A dispatch of the 30th ult. days he had fled to Canada.

A call has been issued for a State Convention of the Independent party of Illinois to meet at Decatur Feb. 10, ‘to nominate candidates for State officers and to select forty-two delegates to the National Independent Convention called to meet in Indianapolis May 17, 1876. The Spencer Investigating Committee reported to the Alabama State Sen. c n the 30th uR. that frand and bribery were used by Mr. Spencer to secure his re-elec-tion to the United States Senate. Other charges of official corruption and misconduct were made against him. The report was ordered printed, with the evidence, and the committee given time to prepare a memorial to the United States Senate protesting against Mr. Spencer’s further occupancy of the seat in that body. Collector Shaughnessy, of Mississippi, having reported to Commissioner Pratt that Deputy-Collector Redmond had been prevented by armed bands from discharging his duties, and that the Mayor of Summit, Pike County, had notified him to leave, as he could not protect him, President Grant sent an order on the 29th pit, to the Secretary of War to furnish the necessary protection. A special dispatch from Summit to the Vicksburg Herald, of the 30th says there had been no armed band of men at Summit at any time. On Christmas several young men from Amite County, on a drunken spree, talked a good deal about Redmond, intending to annoy and frighten him. Redmond had a personal difficulty with one of the men and he telegraphed fur troops. The dispatch says the citizens of Summit were able and willing to protect Redmond in the discharge of his duties.

Late investigations in England by German detectives had revealed the fact, according to a London dispatch of the 31st ult., that Thomas, the dynamite fiend, once attempted to obtain insurance on a box which he said contained $30,000 in gold, and which he wished from New York to Liverpool. Inspection was insisted upon, but he refused to open the box, and the company declined to insure. The suspicion had also been raised that he was privy to the loss of the steamer City of Boston in January, 1870. Ilis accomplices were believed to be yet living in Liverpool, and to have possession of his appliances. The French Assembly was prorogued on the 31st ult. until March 8,1870. A Posen telegram ot the 31st ult. announces the arrest and imprisonment of the Bishop of Posen, who was lately convicted of violating the Ecclesiastical laws and condemned to six months’ imprisonment. The sale in Germany of fraudnlent American medical diplomas has been interdicted by the Government. N The British steamer Dante ou the 31st collided m St. George’s Channel with the steamer Gronsaver, sinking her and causing the drowning of twenty-three persons. A decree has been, issued-convoking the Spanish Cortes to consider Cuban affairs. A Washington dispatch of the'3lst ult. says the President Imdgjifother places to all the disabled vU^iioo/ aoMiers i§. moved front |>osi M** *W > Mouse be Representatives. At a meetingßepublicans held In Washington on the 30th ult. the general sentiment expressed by those present was that President Grant should be nominated for a third term. ’ V : The centennial year was ushered in amid tbe-*trijsHkg of tad Brfti£°6t Washington and many other locahtfotßAD va* te srssps' s*- 5 *- Benedict Bros.’ jewelry store, udder the Grand Central Hotel,-in New York city, was robbed a few nights ago of $25,000 worth of jewelry and diamonds. The persons m charge of the store were chloroformed by the robbers. Mr. Shearman, on behalf of Plymouth Church, and J. M. Van Cott, for Mrs. Moulton, at a conference on the morning

of the 31st ult. agreed that ten churches and five ministers should be called on each side to form the mutual council to decide on the questions submitted by Mrs. Moulton in hex-recent letter. .The mutual council will convene cm Tuesday, the 18th instant. Among the ocean steamers arriving at New York cm the 2d was the Salier, on board of which it was at one time reported there had been placed one of Thomas’ dynamite Internal machines. A severe wind-storm did considerable damage to njuperty in Chicago on the night of the Ist. A Tucson dispatch received in San Francisco on the 31st ult. says three com* panies of United States cavalry lately made a forced march to San Rafael, but returned on finding that all armed bodies bad passed into Sonera. It was reported that Pesquiera’s troops, while in Arizona,, behaved badly, taking stock and grain without payment. Anthony C. Hesing, H. B. Miller and Jacob Kehm were arrested in Chicago, on the 31st alt., on warrants charging them with complicity in whisky frauds. Hesing and Rehm were held in bail of $50,000 each; Miller’s bail was fixed at $lO,000. A warrant was also issued for the arrest of Wm. Minty, a Deputy Collector of the Revenue Department, but up to the morning of the 3d, he hatl not been found. The Illinois Distillery, one of the largest in the country, whs alsoseizqd on the 31st.