Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-04-06
Summary Of Last Weeks News.

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The steamer Hermann was wreck
ed Feb. Is, on an unknown reef inside
the port Of Yokohama, Japan. She had
400 passengers on board, of whom
270 were lost.
There has commenced new revo-
lutionary movement in Japan.
The Hon. Edward Bates died at
st. Louis, March 25th, aged 76 years.
He was attorney general under pres
ident Lincoln, resigning his position
in 1854 He was offered the position
of secretary of war under Fillmore,
which he did not accept. He was a
sound and practical man-one Of Mis-
souri's best.
Three steamers-the Henry Atkins,
Carrie K. Kauntz and G. B. Allen
were burned at their wharves at st.
Louis, March 29th, and two others
were badly damaged. The total loss
amount to about 100000.
A Mr.. Blackstone of Philadelphia,
chopped bis wife and two children in
pieces with an AK, on the 29th of
March, and then made way with him
self by jumping into the Delaware
river.
A raid has been made on the money
circulation Of the states of Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island and Connecticut
"a bill having passed the senate on
the evening Of March 30th, taking
thirty millions from the banks in those
states and distributing it among the
western states, that body thinking to
better equalize the money in that
way. 1t has not passed the house yet,
but probably will. The New Eng
land men are wroth at the measure,
and the western members are cores
pondingly jubilant. We guess it is
right.
The middle Of the Spanish revolu-
ton is about to eliminate in the choice
Of the Duke of Montpensier as the
new Spanish king. He is relative
cousin, we think, of Louis Philippe,
the last king of France and who fed
from the throne to make way for the
present Napoleon. The Dukes wife
is a sister of Isabella, the deposed
queen of Spain. So the new reigning
family is essentially Bourbon. The
choice of the Spanish people will not
be palatable in any degree to the
French Sphinx.
Jane Bowe, an inmate of the insane
hospital at Hartford, Conn, was muir
dered in shocking manner by anoth-
er inmate Of the asylum, March 29th.
Size was beaten to death with an iron
castor taken from the bedstcad, and
had $50 gashes on her person.
Hon. James Harper, the senior
member Of the celebrated firm of
Harper & Brothers, died in New York
Sunday, March 29th. His death was
caused by being thrown from his car
riage on the previous Thursday. His
age was "a. He was mayor of New
York in 1914.
Bishop Simpson writes of Texas.
which he has recently visited:
"In all parts of the state, even in
the great commercial centres, where
there is perfect security, there exists
a species of social ostracism. This is
not exercised against all northern
men, but against such as they call rad.
icals. fla business man from the North
denounces the United States govern
ment, abuses the Freedmen's Bureau
and curses the negro, there is little
objection to receiving him into gooC
society but if he expresses anti-slave
ry views, if he seeks by personal eff
forts to educate or elevate the negro
or, which is the greatest sin of all, if
he should join the Methodist Episco
pal church, he and his family are
made to feel that they are shut out
from society"