The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-12-18
FOREIGN.

The steamer la Plata, from Gravesend,
England. for the Rio Grande del sud, char
tered by the Siemens Brothers, 10 repair the
telegraph cable. foundered OF Ushant on the
2sth Of November. Sixty persons were
drowned. Fourteen survivors were rescuedby
the Gareloch. of Glasgow from boat in which
they had been floating twenty-three hours,
and were transferred 10 the steamer Antenor.
which arrived in port on the ID. The loss Of
the steamer is attributed TO the shifting Of the
heavy graphing apparatus OF two
hundred and fifty miles OF telegraph cable on
board. Fifty had been paid out. which had to
be abandoned. Unayailing attempts were
msde 10 save the vessel by lighterin,. The
captain. surgeon. three other officers. engi-
neer, seven stewards and cooks, eleven stok-
ors. fourteen seamen. and the whole OF the
cable staff, numbering sixteen, and including
Mr.. Ricketts,. chief electrician, were drowned.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies has
unanimously passed resolution In favor Of
granting an annuity to Garibaldi.
Cable dispatches report that Frederick A.
Dockray, the American prisoner, has been
pardoned by the Spanish Government.
A dispatch from Bahia. Brazil, 81, says
news has been received there of the conclu-
sion Of peace between the Argentine Govern
ment and General Mitre, who, with his Off
Gers and soldiers, have been granted amnesty.
IL is reported that a serious revolution has
broken out in the Republic OF Uruguay.
A London telegram Of the 4th SAYS that
ship, supposed to be the Pontiac, from sun
derland for Bombay, has been burned at sea
and twenty-siN Of her crew persisted.
The Spanish coasting steamer Tomas
Brooks. from Santiago de Cuba for Gusnta-
namo. on the 81, struck on the Morillo. near
Guantanamo. and sunk Immediately. About
thirty lives were lost.
The trial of Count Won Amin began at
Berlin on the 9th. The Judge announced
that the trial would ~ public, except as to
the reading Of certain documents relative to
the ecclesiastical policy of the Government.
The Indictment accuses the Count Of derelic-
ton in his official duty, and says that when
Prince Hohenlohe succeeded to the embassy al
Paris. he found after strict search that a large
number Of documents were missing from the
archives. These documents the indictment
divides into three categories: /. Those
which Count Won Arnim confesses having
distracted and afterwards restored. ?.
Those which the Count acknowledged having
taken, but which. regarding as his pri-
waite property. he refuses to restore. 3.
Those which he Processes to have no knowl-
edge Of The indictment proceeds to prove
the official character Of all the documents.
After the reading OF the indictment. the pri-
soner was examined and declared he was not
guilty. AFTER which the examination OF wit
nesse- was begun.
Telegrams were received at Greenwich OBJ
servatory. from India, on the evening of the
9th, announcing that the observations of the
transit Of Venus had been successful. over
one hundred photographs were taken. Oh
servatiOns were also taken at Cairo and suez.
The Photographic observations at Thebe-
were perfectly successful. AT Shanghai the
weather was overcast and the sun obscured
The French Assembly has passed a resolu-
ton formally unseating Deputies Rand and
Melville Bloncourt. who have been con-
demned to death IN continuation for parti-
cipatiOn IN the Commune.