Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1876 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

According to the London Twa# of the 19th the British Cabinet had decided to any proposition Austria might make after its presentation. J A proposed banquet to Gambetta, by his Republican friends at Marseilles, was forbidden by the French military com mander on the 18lh. The failure of a large silk-house, with over $1,009,000 liabilities, was announced from Lyons, France, on the 18th.

A Berlin dispatch of the 18th says that Thomassen, the dynamite, fiend, was charged, in 1866, with scuttling a ship on board of which be had goods insured in England for £24,000. A Washington dispatch of the 17th says the Texas Border Committee had appointed a sub-committee to examine the information in the War Department on the subject of raids from Mexico, etc. The committee would not visit Texas, but would send for persons and papers. The United States Court has recently decided that a State cannot compel a peddler to pay license for selling articles produced in other States, on the ground* that it is a tax upon the goods themselves, a discrimination against the products of other States, and is in conflict with that clause of the Federal Constitution which declares that Congress shall ’have the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States. Gov. Hartranyt was reinaugurated Governor of Pennsylvania on the 18th. A party of Indiana editors, numbering over 200, on a visit to the Centennial grounds in Philadelphia, on the 17th, resolved in efiect that the 'Exhibition should receive the encouragement of Congress to the extent of the $1,600,000 appropriation asked for, but that the Government should disclaim all liability for the expenses incident to the enterprise other than for the amount specified in such appropriation. At a meeting of greenback currency men at Madison, Wis., on the 18th, a State Central Committee was appointed, consisting of one member from the State-at-large and one from each Congressional district. A committee was appointed to draw up a declaration of principles. The ballot in the Kentucky Legislature on the 18th for United States Senator resulted in the choice of James B. Beck, who received 106 votes to 15 for Wadsworth (Republican), and five scattering. He will take his seat on the 4th of March, 1877.

In the Mississippi Legislature on the 18th L. Q. C. Lamar received 110 votes fbr United States from the 4th of March, 1877, the Republican members voting blank. It is said . that at a private caucus of the Republicans it was decided not to participate in the election of Senator on the ground that the late election was carried by fraud and violence. Gov. Kirkwood was elected United States Senator on the 18th by the lowa Legislature. The vote stood: Senate — Kirkwood, 40; Leffler, 9. House—Kirkwood, 68; Leffler, 28. His term in the Senate will begin March 4, 1877. Miss Dona Herndon, residing near Springfield, lII.', on the 18th spilled some burning-fluid from a lamp in her hand and became enveloped in flame, and was horribly and fatally burned. On the same day, at Delphos, Ohio, George Sheeter threw a lot of coal-oil into a stove to hurry up the fire, and was seriously burned. A'telegram of the 19th announces the defeat of six Turkish battalions between Ragusa and Trebigne by the insurgents under Gen. Peko. '1 he Turkish loss was 300 killed and wounded, and the insurgent loss much less. A Roms (Italy) special of the 19th says the Italian Government had closed the Catholic seminary at Como because it refused to admit the Government Inspectors. This was considered the moat pronounced act yet taken by the Government in its dealings with the Roman hierarchy, and important results were thought likely to follow, Several important failures occurred in EnglaWßfa the 19th. A Madrid telegram of the 19th announces that Gen. Tristany, the noted Carlist leader, had given his unreserved submissionto Alphonso. -

In a late letter Treasurer New states that 50 per cent, of the legal-tender notes and fractional currency sent to the departmeotin Washington for redemption are fit for circulation, and he reiterates the decision stated in a previous circular that in no case will the Government pay the charges upon such notes or currency when the same are fit for circulation or when the same are sent in. disregard of the regulations, but the expenses of such redemptions will be deducted from the returns made therefor. In his letter to Senator Gordon, asking for the removal of his political disabilities, Gen. Beauregard says he makes the application that he may be qualified to serve as a member of the Louisiana Levee Board of Commissioners. The town of Apollo, on the West Pennsylvania Railroad, was almost entirely destroyed by Art on the night of the 18th. Loss between $40,000 and $50,000. The Alabama Legislature on the 19th adopted a memorial to the United States Senate to inquire into the right of George E. Spencer to a seat in that body. The Supreme Court of Michigan has decided that the Sunday Liquor law acted at the last session of the Legislature is constitutional. According to a Vienna special of the 90th Idubobntoht bad resigned the leader, of $9 Htraegonniag Qa

account of the concentration of Turkish troops on the Montenegrin frontier the Prince of Montenegro had called a couacil of Senators and military officcra, which resolved that ifsuch concentration result ed in Montenegro on that side it should be considered a eatut belli, and the Prince should summon all Montenegrins able to bear arms and march into Herzegovina to aid the insurgents. ■ A dispatch of the 20th says the “ real obstruction to Pinchback's admission to the Senate at present is the question whether there is a de jure Government in Louisiana.” ' . At a Republican caucus of the Maine Legislature on the 20th delegates were chosen kF the National Republican Convention and a resolution unanimously adopted favoring Hon. James G. Blaine for President of the United States.

The Plymouth Church advisory council has been called for Feb. 8. The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention will be held at Lancaster on the 22d ot March. The Moody and Sankey meetings in Philadelphia have been closed. Mr. Moody is reported as having said that he regarded the revival in that city as the most successful he had ever conducted. The number of meetings and Bible readings held during eight weeks was 248. The total of attendance upon the services is estimated at 900,000, and the expenses were about $30,000- At the closing meeting, held on the evening of the 19th, over 12,000 people were present, and as many more were turned away for lack of room. A collection of over SIOO,OOO was taken up to aid the completion of a new building for the Y. M. C. A. One lady, whose son had been converted, sent as a thankoffering a diamond ring, for which a gentleman gave SI,OOO.

On the night of the 19th a mob attacked the office of the Neat and Preet, of Cimarron, New Mexico, and threw the press, type, and other fixtures into the river. Eight persons, members of a prominent boarding-house in Columbus, Ohio, •were taken seriously ill on the 20th, caused by eating pork. Other persons in the city had been affected in a similar manner, and from a like cause. The Illinois Fanners’ Association, for three days previous m session at Bloomington, adjourned on the 20th. Resolutions were adopted demanding the withdrawal ofthe National Bank circulation and the issue of greenbacks direct from the Treasury, to be a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except the principal ahd interest on the public debFcontracted to be paid in gold, anti interchangeable for registered borids bearing a rate of interest, to be paid in geld or legal tenders, at the option of the holders, not exceeding 3 per cent., said bonds being redeemable at the pleasure of the Government in from ten to fifty years; and declaring that the transportation of the country should be under the direct supervision and control of the .public authorities ot the nation, State, county, township or city, according to the inter-State or local character.

R. B. Oakley, proprietor of the -Corporative Credit Bank, of London, was arrested on the 21st on charges of fraud, false pretenses and conspiracy to swindle depositors. He was examined before the Lord Mayor and committed without hail. Victor Hugo issued an address to the Senatorial delegates for Paris and France on the 21st, in which he asks them to found a democracy which shall “end foreign war by arbitration, civil war by amnesty, and distress by education.” Geobge H. Jacobs was hung at Joliet, 111., on the 24st for the murder of his wife on the 26th of last May. Marshall Crain, the hired assassin of one of the parties to the Williamson County vendetta, was also hanged on the same day; at Marion, 111. The Wisconsin Republican State Central Committee have called a State Convention to meet at Madison on the 22d ot February, to select delegates to the National Convention and to nominate a State Electoral ticket.

A suspension of all mining of anthracite coal in the Pennsylvania mines has been decided upon from Feb. 7 to March 11, inclusive. The Ohio Republican State Convention will be held at Columbus on the 29th of March. On the 22d a collision occurred on the Great Northern Railway in England which resulted in the death of thirteen persons and caused serious injury to many others. The accident took place in the midst of a blinding snow-storm. Among those killed" was the son of Dion Boucicault, the wellknown playwright. Mother Stewart, well known in connection with the Ohio crusade, made her first appearance before a London audience on the evening of the 23d. Ragusa telegrams of the 22d report continued fighting between the Turks and the insurgents in which the latter generally had the advantage. Trebigne was threatened With famine. A report prevailed in Constantinople on the 22d that the Porte had accepted Count Andrassey’s. proposal for the pacification of the disturbed provinces.

A Berlin telegram of the 23d says a German squadron, consisting of three iron-clads and one tender, would visit Philadelphia during the Centennial. An Austrian army of observation numbering 50,000 is reported to have been ordered to the Dalmatian frontier to await emergencies. A Madrid telegram of the 23d announces that the Ministry had secured a large majority in the new Cortes. The opposition numbered seventy. The Russian Imperial Academy has recently elected Prof. Newcomb, of the Jtyval Observatory Washington, Prof,

i (wOtilu, »• lots Prof. Whitoey, of New Haven, as correYork on the 22d from Havana a force led by Henry Reeves, 2,500 strong, had invaded Bagua County and destroyed sugar estates, some of which were valued at $2,000,000 each. Sagna La Chica, where there were warehouses containing 1,600 hogsheads of Muscovado sugar, had been burned and all the sugar consumed. The estate Cayocspino was in the hands of the rebels and of course destroyed. The correspondence between Secretary Fish and Minister Cushing and other foreign Ministers ot the United States were transmitted to the House of Representatives on the 21st. This chiefly consists of a rescript of the note to Mr. Cushing, the tone of which does not materially differ from that part of the President’s message relating to Cuban affairs. Nothing was given of the replies received from European Governments to the advisory circular forwarded by Secretary Fish, and no allusion made to any correspondence with the Spanish Government direct since Nov. 5,1875. The latest counterfeit circular shows that there are in circulation spurious bills on the First National Bank of Indianapolis, the First National Bank of New Albany and the first National and Richmond National of Richmond. Jordan, Clark & Co., one of the leading wholesale clothing firins in Boston have suspended, owing to the falsification of their books by their confidential bookkeeper, Frank Sanford, who has absconded.

The wife of Sir Hugh McKenzie, of Canada, lately eloped from Montreal with John H. Biydges, taking with her her four children. The parties were arrested in New York and subsequently discharged. A brother of the lady and a Canadian officer endeavored to have her return with them to her husband, but she positively refused, and the etoping couple departed together. The New York Sunday Mercury of the 23d says that a body of representative Uongregationalists was about to be organized tor an investigation of the Beecher scandal, and an inquiry as to the fitness of Mr. Beecher to remain a Congregational minister. The originators of the movement are said to be the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon, of New Haven; the Rev. Dr. L. C. Bartlett, of the Chicago Congregational Seminary, and the Rev. Dr. Henry M. Dexter, of Boston. A man named Edward Williams, who, with a Mrs, Meling had been arrested for the murder of the latter’s husband, was taken from the jail on the night of the 22d, at Barboursville, West Va., and hanged by a mob. He acknowledged the crime. Mrs. Meling was also threatened with a similar fate, but was finally spared. She said she had repeatedly attempted to poison her husband, and accused herself of being the cause of the murder by Williams, but beeged most pitiftilly for her life. A freight train on the Cincinnati & Marietta Railroad went through an iron bridge over Spring Grove avenue in Cincinnati, on the afternoon of the 22d, killing three men, wounding two and totally wrecking the bridge, locomotive and eleven freight cars.