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17
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December
Year
1875
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Tuiu.1. workiuon un the Expcaition Building, at riiiladülphiii, wero killed the other day by falling a diatance of eighty fect. 'J'uerk ia ïuuuh excitement at Mahoney City, Pa., over a horrible triplo murder committed there last week. A party oí maeked men, at 2 o'cloek iu the inorniug, enterad the house of Oharlea O'Donnell, acizing and binding him, and carrying him back of tlio house, whero ho was nhot dead. Aman namod McAlliutor waa ajeo taken from bis houue and ehot. A eister of McAJUster was aluo rourdtred. No reason if given by the teople in the ueighborhood for the bloody deod Rev. John H. Vincont, the CorreBpondiug Secretary-of tlie Hmday-Sohool Union, and of lbo Tract Sociaty of the Methodist EpiacOpal Cliurch, pnbliahos a enrd in the New York papera diuavowing, in bohalf of the Society, any interest iu Bishop Haveu'ö third-term uentimenta An order hiiíi been received at Fall lüvor. Mass., from Manchester, EDgland, for 25.000 piecea of priuting cloth. Wm. Delaneywas haugod at New Vork, on Dec. 10. for the murder of Oapt. Lawronce, of the Bteainer Joseph E. Pottn. in Augiist Jast. Hpkiiï, the confidential clerk of a tirin engaged iu making bitters "ín New York, lias " swecteued " hiu employera to the extent of MÜ.OOO. Manv peoplo ín New York adhere to the belief that Bobs Tvreed is secreted iu the city. The failuro of Kreelaml, Harding .tLoomis, exteneive wholewile clothing dealore of Boston, i roported. The habilities are estimated at $750,000. THK WEST. Thtke ia no longor any donbt that Geu. Babcock. the priTato Secrctary of President Graat, has been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury at St. Louis for complicity in the whisky fraude. The indictment charges him with conspiring with Joyce, McDonald, Avevy and others to defraud the Treaaury of the United States, j The President, it is Htatod from Washington, believes him innocent... .Miss .May Howard, the well-known emotioual aetregs, is playing a remarkably succestful engagement at McVicker's Theater, Chicago. Misa How&rd is a Western wornan, native and to the mauner born ; and. although youug in yeUTB, nho is rauked by Chicago critici equal ki dramatic power, particularly iu the delineation of tlio omotiona! drtima, to any contemperar}1 actress. 8he is. bcsido, the moat attractive wonian. both in forin and ïoature, on the American stage. In view of the fact that Oen. Babcock has been indicted by the St. Louis Grand Jury, the Military Court of Inquiry whioh met at Chicago last week to investígate the charges against him decidod to poötpone its investigatlon until either tle trial by tUo Civil Court at iit Louis shall havo been had, or the War Departn(ent nhall iustiuct the military trial to pvoceed .... Minnesota is to have a State Inebriato Asjlum. and the liquor-sellers will havo to foot the bill, the Suprenie Court having reeently sustained tbc contitutionality of the law impoeing a tax for thi purpoae. Bubeack and Reynolds, two of the indicted Milwaukeo whisky ring, h&vo been convicted. Various portions of Nebraska experienced a decided shock of earthquake on the momiug of the list. . . .Hirani B. Snyder, a witness in the the Indianapolis whisky ring trials, tostified, the other day, that in Ï874 he "had a contract with John Bingharo, who assured him that the ring was perf ectly saflp ; that Babcock, the PrcBideüt's private sêcretary, was iu with them, and so long as the present Administration contiriued they would be protected, hut when a change is made, theii look tip and stand ironi uuder." Taftsohoouer OoraeKus B. Windiate, with a cargo of grain and a crew of ten men, saüed from Mlwaukee for Buffalo on the 24th of Novomber, since which time uothing has been heard of her. Thero is scarcely a doubt that the vessel and all on board have gone to the bottom of Lako Michigan. . . . An undergiouud distillory for the manufacture of crooked whisky has been discovered near Pueblo. Colorado.!.. A stupendous land swindle has just been unerthed in Southaastorn Missouri, the particular of whieh we ünd in the 8t. Louis Times. It appear.-i thatdeeds tolands in North ArkanwaH anl Southeasteru Missouri have been forged for some years past, and agencies for this work were establiBhed in Ciueinnati, Pittsburgh. Philadelphia. New York. and Manchester, England. It is estimatod that deeds to over 12,000.000 acres of land have been forged and diaposec? of. the valuation being $25,000,000 or $30,000.000. The land operated upon is ownsd by non-residontB, and as the records were mostly destroyed' during the civil war. the ring had every facility to carry out the enormous swindlo, and the deeds liave been sold all over the United Htates and Bngland. The Grand Jury of Shanuon County, Slo., has indicted Dr. Tilomas K. Herman, David D. Bingham, and James L. Lawton, for complicity. La-irton seenis to be the exeoutive man, and oporatcd cxtensively ia England. (. " THE SOOTU. Mouk trouble Ijetweeu whites and blacks in Mississippi. A body of whites, uuder Eev. Ball, a Baptist clergymau, attaoked and disersed a forcé of 200 blacte, killing soven of them. The affair happencd iu Isaaquena conuty, 35 miles from Vicksburg. The offensc of th negroes, according to the dispatahos, was the offering of protoction to some of their felJows who had been aprested and eacaped from Jai!. Cabeful estimates place the cotton erop of the South at over 4,000,000 bales .... Ad vices from the Texas border report üo improvement in the condition of affaire on the Rio Grande. There is general lawlenaneea and discontent all along the frontier. On the lower Kio Grande the feeling between Americau and Mexicans ie ntensoly bitter. WASHINGTON. The bilí, introductd in Ihe Seríate by Mr. Morton, in regard to the counting of the votes for President and President, is a copy of the bill on the samo subject whieh was prepared by the Privileges and Klections Committee and reported to the Heuate last February. The appointmentu of Messrs. Chandier, New, I'ierrepont, and J. Q. Fmith as Commissioner of Indian Affaïra have been cenfirmed by the I tenate without refcrence to eommittees. The President made a very singular error iu his annual . message- oue whicl is oreating much iufavoi-alle_cuiument among the legal fraternity. Jle eaye in his message, that CongrCHs should devise some bettermethod of verifying claims agaiust the Government than at preBent exist through the Conrt of Claims, especially tliose claims growing out of the Lite War, and that a very large percentage of the amounts paHsed and paid are either wholly fraudulent or are far in excees of the real lossee sustained. The President then continúes and refers to the awards made and claims pending for losses alleged to havo been sustained on sma!l farms. The blunder made by the President ie this, that the subject-matter f whieh he treats is outsido of tue jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and the points whieh he makes have no appheatiou to Üiai Court, whieh has nothine whatever to do witb the class of cases alluded tS. .. . . luero is a goed deal of indiKnation among Itepubhcan Senators and Kepreseutatives at exSenator ■Hendereon's attack on tho Adminiatration, iu hia ppeech in the Avei-y trial at Ht Louis, an satiHfüftion is f pit at Iiis dismissal. Samuel Glsver, of Kt Louis, succeeds Mr. Henderson as Assiatanf District Attorney. PratsiDEMT Geant, it is annonnced, will shortly eend to Congress -a supplemental message on the subject of the Cuban questiou. The President is said to be oppoged to tho recosnitibn either of Cuban independenco or beUigerency, and to take the grouud that aniiexation is not to be thought of. Uo is beJievedto farorthe establishment of a semiuidepenpent colonial Government, similar to that of Canada, for Cuba, and the remainder of Bpain'B West ludia possessions . . . . roe omcials at the Postoffloe Department have spent much study and labor on the questiou of the rates oL postago, and have made calcnlations whrcbr show just wlicre tlie Iors to the (rovernmeut occurs. They tind that the loss ou secoud-clais matter, whieh conwHte of uewspaperH, magazine, and periódica], is f(i,993 - 0.W.01, and tho loss per pomid in abouf. 12' ', . oeuts, boiDg at thO rata of iV, cpnts for cach luecoof mail matter, whicu includos books pumphlets, engravings : and tho loss oii ell miscellaneous matter is 4,113,915.53, or about J centa a pound. Dr. bMUu Director, of the Mint, has decided that, if t is desired to etttablish another Mint soiely to coin silver. Indianapolis ia the best locaüoii, butif to ooiu both gold and silver, St. Louis has the beat facilities of any Westl erncity 'Ihere wjll be a Hvely quabbfe over ,T v 1Scutl"n o?."1.6 .fï mlú' m tJWeago wants ltbad. and will iight hard for it....Jo)m D. Young, an ex-M. ü. from Kéntuekv, has been appointed a niesseuger of' the Houw. f) K KHA L. . HiiVtBiL of the leadiug coal miuing companies iu the authracite regiouoof Pomisylvni'ia ham detniunod npou total or partial suspensión of some of then for the winter, others for four weeks, wbilo in a few iustances oi,orl;on will be reduced hut not - whoily The reason assigned for luis pourae, liich m thiow out of omploymeut 'Jii.Oüu uiiueis, is that tho demand for coal has tullen lar sliort of the production, and that tUo mtoket is gorgod in cotiBoquecce. Tue Agrioukiiral Report for November and December says tUat the November returns indikte that the corn erop of 1675 was one of the largeat eer grown in thi country, probably cqualing the very largo cropn of 1870 aiicl 1872. lt is at least one-foiirth greater than tbe erop of 1872, and about one-third larger than tho erop o( 1869. Every aeetion of tbo Union reportB somo increase. The poluto erop ia extraordinary iu bolh product and quality. A (ihastly and horrible relie of the daya of the Inquisition haa beon bronght to light in Lima, Peru. Foor or livo thonsand akoletous were fouud in a solid masa by workmen engaged in ropairinR a hospital. The bodies had apparently been thrown, in comraou apparel- niany retnains of whioh aro Htill undecavedinto' au opening, between two walls, and the elosiug of the gap hes loft tho frightful secret undisoovered for probably two huudred years. Tuu General Slinut'es of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the United Mtates show, for the iÏHeal year jnst closed, as follows : ïotal value of eluueh property iu tho TJuited Wtates, $81,034,262 ; benevolent eollectiona for tho year, ï'875,lü3 ; munber of traveling preachers, 18,923 local proaehers, 12,881 ; total memberahip. including probaüonere and clergy, 1,604,368, Ex-Skmator Jamks W. Nye, cf' Nevada, who has been for aomo months an inmate of a privato iuBime asylnm noar New York city, haa so far rocovered hia ment il facultiea as to bo roturned to the caro of his relativo. 1'OI.ITICAt.. Tuk uervices of ex-Senator Hendersoii, m aatiatant proaecutiug oftieer in the whisky cases at St. Ijouia. have beeu diapenaed with on account of dierespectful language toward the Fresident iu one of his addrefiaeH to the jury.... The l'reaident has appointed A. 1'. Averill, of Missiaaippi, Minister to Belgium, oud E. S. To bey voatmaster at iíoston. Tur. llo:i. Mark Bangs, of Lacon, 111., bas been appointed to succeed Mr. Ward, as United Btatea District-Attorney for Üie Northern District of Illinois It ia stated that only three Democratie Souators voted for the confirmation of chandler as Secretary of the Interior. Samuel T. Glovkb havüig declined to take charge of the whisky ring prosecutions at St. Lotus, Hon. James O. Brodhead, a prominent Democrat of that city, has accepted the position .... A Washington dispatch aya that since the Eepublican employés of the House have been compalled to surrendor their places to Democrats, tho Democratie clerks in tne Dopartments Will be compolled to vacate their places to inake room for tho diacharged employés of the Houae There will bo a nioetiug of the Republican National Committee in Washington on the 13th of uext nionth, when a day will be fixed for the ausembling of the National Conventiou. Judge Bibney, of Bay City, Mich., has been appointed Minister to the Hague The Clerk of tho Honso of Representatives, at Washington, hatj a)pointed hia unelo, Green Adama, of Kentucky, Chief Clerk, in place of Clinton Lloyd. Adams was a member of the Tüirtysixth Cougi-ea, and afterward Sixth Anditor of the Treasury The message wnioh the President will shortly aeud to Congress on Southern affaire will relate for tho greater part to the late troubles in Mississippi and the mode of conducting tho elections in that State, the information having been gathered by persons deeiguated for that purpose The St. Louis Wesllirhe Post (Cari Bchurz's paper) nominates Henderson for President. I'OKEIBN. The London Times of Dec. 9, in a leading editorial on President Grant'a mesaage, saya : " If Spain cannot suppress tho Cuban rebels, if the islaud must te half ruüied while she holds it, if she wili not put aii end to that institution which is the main Bource of disturbance, it would be hard to expect the United Statea to let the work of devastation proceed tincbecked merely out of regard tothe nomüialsoyereignty of Spain. Spain is on trial. The limits of her power to restore order will be the limits of her rights." A Bombay telegram states that the Princo of Wales, who is now at Colombo, Ceylon, on his homeward route, while rcturning from an elephant-shooting excursión, met with an accident which cauaed some alarm, but fortunately without serious result. The Priuce's carriage was upset, and its royal occupant precipitated underneath. He was taken out unhurt Gen. Saballs, a Carhst ofticer, has been nentenced by a court martial to four years' imprisonment. Thore were 114 passengere on the ill-fated steamship Deutechlaud, fifty-sixof whom were aaved and fifty-eight are misaing, as also are a portion of the vessel's crew The three Northern powers of Europe have agreed upon the reforma to be iustituted in the Turkish provinces. They contémplate perfect equality between Christian3 and Turks. A siNGULAB and frightfully deatructive accident is reported by (able from Bremen, Germany. Tho steamship Mosel was on the point of aailing for America, when au explosión occurred on the crowded wharf, killiug and wounding a largo number of people. Por somo time the atunned and bewildereá people were nnable to form any idea of the exact nature, or even of the locality of the disaster. It waa aoon ascertained, howèver, that the immediate agent iu the calamity was a package of dynamite, thft moat powerful known explosive, wlúch a passenger had placed in his baggage. Sixty-Oig5t persons were killed and 35 wounded. .... The weajher in Spain is deacribed as unusually aevei-e, and sovoral Carlist soldiera have been frozeu to death. Tbo total Caiiist forces in the field are estimated at 52,000 men, with 105 guna .... The Havana papera are very bombasticju their comments on Grant's message. The Voce le Cuba relieves itself thua : " Gen. Grant's language aeems to have been chosen to wound the usceptibilitiea of the Spaniarda. He seems to like playing with fire. He does not know tlie temperament of the Spaniards any more than Napoleon did." The Diario, at the conclusión of two columns and a half of criticiam, aaya : "We believe Gen. Grant has disguated tiie insurgente, and haa wonnded Kpanish pride in his unfounded assertions." It is annomiced that the Sultan of Turkey wiil make an extraordinarj' levy of 100,000 men in the spring for the suppression of the insurrection in Herzegovina. Egypt will sénd him in addition 22,000, and Tunis 8,000.

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