Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 21, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 June 1872 — Page 2

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NEWS SUMMARY. The EL During a floral concert in Her ry Werd Beecher's church. New York, o i the 14th inat., M iu Margaret Richardton was fatally burned by the exploaion of a ker ,ene lamp. Thirty persons were poisoned at a Now York boarding houae, on the 14lh inat., by eating custard. One hts die, and othera are in a dangeroua condition. Bainbridge Wadleigh (Republican iiNcw Hampshire' new United States Senator, Tic James W. Patteraon. By the falling of a new tmoke-atack in proceaa of erection, at Weit Conshocken, Pa., on the 14th insu, six peraona were killed outright, and eight wounded. F ur caaea of sun-stroke in Kew York on the 14ih inst. An attempt waa made to burn the Cuban headquarter, in Kew York, on the M-.h inat. The steamship Rhein, which arrived at Kew York on the 14th inat., had on board the Oermsn Imperial Band, Herr 8trauae, Mme. Peecha Leutner (en route for the Jubilee ;, and the wife and daughter of Horace Greeley. Kew York and Brooklyn, and their suburb, were Tiaited by a fierce hurricane on

the evening of the 14th inat., doing considerable damage to property. Many peraona were injured, and in Brooklyn three were killed outright. The citisena of Eaat Kew York have been annoyed by incendiaries to auch an extent that they formed a vigilance committee, and propose to deal summarily with these dangerous fire-bugs. La Grave, the swindling Kew York mtrchant, carried away some $300,000. Detectives announce that he has fled to Europe. The Kew York Orangemen have determined to parade on July 12, fully armed for any emergency.

The water in White Lake, Sullivan county' K. Y., near Port Jarvis, has receded several feet the past few days, and ia still rapidly inking. The lake is on the mountain top1 and has probably found a subterranean outlet. By the explosion of a locomative near Hornellsville, K. Y., on June 15, two persons were killed and ene wounded. Tax International Peace Jubilee, which opened at Boston on Monday, June 17, may be set down as a success. The telegraph informs us that the audience was immense and enthusiastic, and the chorus, though gigantic,

proved perfectly manageable. The notorious bank robber, Dutch Heinrich, sx inmate of Sing Sing, has become a raving maniac. Rev. O. B. Frothmgham, of Kew York, has been fulminating from his pulpit against the striking laborers. There is much tribulation in Pittsburgh, produced by the announcement of a fatal case of undoubted Asiatic cholera. Tom Thumb has aailed for Europe. It ia announced that Thomas has salted down $600,000. A director of the St. Petersburg (Russia; Prison Commission was in Pittsburgh, the other day, picking up prison sutist.es. Gen. Sickles is said to be the ceming Erie President. The small-pox has broken out in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., and the students are scampering for home. The sugar refiners of Kew York hsve struck, snd the refineries sre idle.

The employing manufacturers of w a. s

lorx nave resolved to resist the eight-hour movement to the bitter end. Since June 1, 142,051 em igrants have arrived at Kew York an increase of 49,195 over the aame period last year. The trial of Stokes, the slayer of James Fisk, Jr., opened in Kew York, on June 19. The venerable Peter Cooper, of Kew York, has given the shirt-cutters $1,000 to aid them in their strike. At the recent Convention of Railway Manag of the Kew York Central, Erie, and Pennsylvania Central railroad lines, an agreement was made to sell hereafter no more passenger tickets for political meetings or State fairs at reduced rates. Joseph Jefferson's condition, it seems, is not so bad aa was at first supposed. The great artist is said to be daily improving, and there ia every reason to hope that his TMlfkl will 1. . ... .

w " t wmpieveij restored wunin a very short period. Among the gentlemen spoken of for President of Erie are Gen. Geo. B. McClellao ; T. B. Blackstone, of the Chicago and Alton road: and James F. Joy, of the Michigan Central. It is the impression that Gen. McClellsn will be the successful man.

The Jumel will Kew York courts.

The Senate of Kew York, sitting ss a court of impeachment, is engaged in trying Judge McCunn. Gov. Hoffman, of Kew York, vetoed 82 bills during the paat session of the Legislatur. John W. Avery is to be hung at Hackenaack, V. Y., for the murder of Jacob W. Erb. On Juste 19, over the Mystic Park racecourse, Beaton, the celebrated trotting mare, Goldsmith Maid, made the fastest tin e on record over a mile track J lCj. The Went. R. C. Gordon, a wealthy citisen of St. Louis, while spreading a tarpaulin over a

case is agaiu up in the

eek, sIIbmsI snd fell, ruptu'ine a blood

vessel, aud died in half as hour. Bennett Pieters, a 'ermer weslthv citiien

j of Chicago, snd the inventor and proprietor i of the once famous Red Jacket Bitte-, haa

juet er listed as a private o!dir in the regular army. By tho explosion of the raft-boat D. A. McDonald, on the Mississippi river, piosite MeGregor, Iowa, June 16, about thirty persons were killed, end a greet msny wounded. The murderer ol Hon. SharotrTyndale, of Spnu. field. 111., haa at laat been discovered in the person of James Kennedy, an Illinois

Penitentiary convict. Gov. Palmer bas just pardoned the culprit out of prison, in order that he may be put on trial for the deed. The credit of unearthing the author of this foul snd mysterious murder is said to belong t Mr. Charles T. Askins, a St. Clair county, 111., farmer, who, obtaining a faint clue, pursued it for months, in the ace of the most discouraging obstacles even after the professional detectives had abandoned the scent until he has succeeded in establishing a chain of testimony which, it is claimed, cannot but result in the conviction of the man Kennedy. A Mrs. Logsn, residing nesr Rockford,

111., last week, in it fit of despondency , supericduced by domestic troubles, threw her babe into the river, and then jumped in herself, both being drowned. In boring an artesian well, st Jacksonville, II!., on the 15thinst.,a vein of water was struck, which burst up with such tremendous force as to drive off the workmen. At last accounts the auger was still in the

i weli. and the water spouting up thrrueh a

four-inch pipe to the height of fifty feet. Reports as to the state of the winter wheat sown in five of the prominent Northwestern States indicate the failure of the crop. In many instances the crop has been plowed in, being useless but as manure, and in the remaining cases the yield has scarcely been one-third or one-halt" of that of last year. Studebaker Brothers' extensive wagon manufactory, at South Bend, Ind., was burned Monday, June 17. Two adjoining

dwelling-houses were slso consumed. Loss, $50,000.

Four persons were killed and twenty injured by the wrecking of a construction train near Paxton, 111., June 17. At Cincinnati, a few days since, Rev. J. J. Thompson, past or of Christie M. E. Chspel, had his head split open with a hatchet in the hands of Thomas Bond. Cause Thompson kissed Bond's sweetheart. P. T. Barnum is on a temperance lecturing tour out west. The grest humbugger lec

tured the Clevelsnders on June 17. A correspondent, writing from Fort Benton on June 9, says the Sioux Indians are all on the war path, and the wood choppers and traders have left the country, not one remaining between Fort Buford and Camp Cook, s distance of several hundred miles.

A dispatch from Fort Sully says th Indians sre getting extremely troublesome and it is the opinion of men who have been among tbem many years that open war is sure to ensue this season. Articles of consolidation were entered into at Indianapolis, on June 17, by and between the Kew York and Western railway, a company organised to build a railroad, or railroads, with one or more tracks, within the States of Indiana, Io a, Illinois, and Ohio, party of the first part, and the Continental Railway Corpany, a corporation created by the laws of Pennsylvania. The capital stock of the company is named at $100,000,000. The object is to make a trunk line from Kew York to Council Bluffs, connecting by branch or laterals with other cities. Chandler st Pomeroy, of Chicago, who have been running a big " corner" in oats,

Kew have come to grief. The corner collapsed

on Tuesday, June 18, and C. k P. are out some $300,000. Immediately after their failure oats rece led from 42 cents to 32 cents per bushel. The Apsches in Arizona are again on the war path, notwithstanding the late peace palaver. Myron Bush, a wealthy farmer of Antwerp, Ohio, ahuflled off his mortal coil, the other day, by hanging himself with a logchain. Temporsry insanity did it. Eldorado and Augusta, two rival Kansas towns, are engaged in a fierce county-seat war. The Augustisns, the other dsy, armed and equipped, msrehed over to Eldorado with the f vowed intention of seisins; the county records. But the Eldoradians were up in arn.s, and the va'iant Augustian army beat an inglorious retreat without securing

th coveted plunder. They threaten to renew the attack, and lively times are looked tm Norman B. Judd, ex-member of Congress,

hss been sppointed Collector of the Port of Chicago. The National Division of the Sons of Temperance commenced its twenty-eighth annual session in Chicago on June 19. A membership of 92,341 wss reported, being a decrease of 4,023 for the year. 8ix cases of sunstroke in Chicsgo on Jan 19. A comet the tail of which is described by the telegraph as " a wavy, !uminoua and rose-colored vapor" was seen by the San Franciscans on the night of June 18. It moved rapidly, and soon disappeared Near Des Moines, lows, on June 20, s young msn named Allen was fatally sunstruck while plowing in th field.

Nesr Golden City, Col., last week, Mrs. Graham and her child were drowned in Cedar creek, by the upsetting of a buggy. A Manist, Mich., whisky mob of some 154 parsons last week made an attack on the house of Dr. Ruggles, sn ardent temperance reformer, and, but for the protection

Soma Buffalonians found a set of burglars'

tools somewhere in the vicinity of the custom-house, on June .'. and think they have frustrated a n-hetu to rob the Government depository. The South. Over 100,000 people attended the great nienic of the National Sseugerfest, at the St. Louis Fair Grounds, on the 16th inst. A mad-dog raged through the streets of Louisville, Ky., on the night of June 15, snspping right and left, and creating the utmost consternation. Over twenty persons wsrs bitten before the rabid animal waa killed some of them being shockingly lacerated.

Judge Flippen, of Memphis, sentenced three murderers to death on Juno 16. The receipts from the Saengerfeet concerts, at St. Louis, rsached $55,000. The receipts for beer sold in the vicinity of the hsll were probably greatly in excess of this figure, as it is announced that one man alone, who employed 42 bar-keepers, sold one million glasses, or $50,000 worth. The Agricultural Department reports an increase in the cotton area in every Southern State. An approximate statement of receipts and

expenditures of the National Saengerfeat at St. Louis is as follows i Subscription to the building, $53,000 ; receipts from concerts, picnic, etc., $42,000; total, $96,000. Expended on building, $52,000 ; music, $1 1,000; entertainment of singers, $15,000 ; incidental, $4,000; total, $82,000. Advices from the northern frontier of Texas represent that the Indians, variously estimated at from 4,000 to 10,000, had made an incursion into that State, and were overrunning Young, Jack, Denton and Parker

counties. The settlers were filled with consternation and alarm, and were fleeing in every direction. The Indians declare their

I intention of marching to Huntsville, to lib- , erste the chiefs Saboula and Big Tree, confined in the penitentiary there. Eerything I indicates that a big Indian war is at hand. ' A Washington telegram announces that the I Secretary of the Interior has under advisement a proposition submitted to President ( Grat t by a delegation of Texans ior the con-

Foreign.

Advices from Bagdad state that the British mail steamship Cashmere was boarded by pirates at Bassorab. The bucoaoeers killed and wounded a number of persona n board, aud carried off 43,040 rufeea. A new Spanish Cabinet haa been formed, with Zorilla at iU head. The Protestant Synod, in session st Paris, hss just psssed through an animated discussion regarding the divinity of the Scriptures, which has resulted in a schism of the Church. The negotiations lor the gradual evacuation of France by the Germans, as the installment of the indemnity are paid, are proceeding sstisfsetorily.

Marguerite DixbUuc haa been sentenced

in Londou, to be hanged, for the murder of

her mistress.

Miss Rye hss opened a home for deserted -. r IAu i - t . .

Kina ai x ecanam, jcngisna, irom wnicb a certain number will be sent regularly to

Canada.

The tribunal for the arbitration of the

Alabama claims met in Geneva, Switser

land, on Saturday, June 15. All the members were present, consisting of Count Sclopi", representing the King of Italy, Preaident of the court ; Charles Francis

Adams, on the part of the United States;

Alexander Cockburn, representing Great Britain; Jacob Staempfli, representative of

the Swiss Government ; and Baron D'ltajuba,

representing the Emperor of Brasil.

Gen. Sherman and Lieut Fred. Grant are

in Paris

In England the weather is fair, and favor

able to crops.

The new Spanish Cabinet promise a vigor

ous prosecution of the war in Cuba.

Fifty-five persons were killed, and a large

number wounded, by the explosion of the

boilers of a Spanish steamer in the port of

Ma'seilles, on June 16.

A Paris correspondent writes of Marshal Basaine, in prison at Versailles, that, with

me exception of a Tew relatives and intimate personal friends, nearly everybody holds

aloof from the unfortunate Marshal. e , a .. . .

oeveuiy-iive. communists nave been so far sentenced to death, 212 to hard labor for

k. Biscay

tptain Gen-

Ast re Ay rr,,0Md poor Hin.

w bio j lawaro.

1 rev inn UbwA Vt

theirWmies and

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cilistion of these tribes depredating on the 1 - , ' .,' , . , . , . . , ... lesser gradea of punishment; 2,112 have

been acquitted.

newiy-maa. wall or an addition to his res- afforded by s strong squad of police, would idence, to protect it from the storm, lsst j probably bsve deslt roughly with him.

Texas frontier which is, in substsnce, thst the Government release one of the two chiefs Ssboula and Big Tree now confined

in the Texas Penitentiary for life, and send him among the tribes to negotiate terms of pesce the Government to retain the other chief as a hostage. This plan was proposed by the Indians themselves, and it is probable it will bo adopted. An eight-hour league has been formed in St. Louis. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad is finished, snd trai s sre running to McAlister, 108 miles north of Shermsn, and the grading and masonry are completed thirty miles further. Gamblers snd desperadoes, who had followed and given so much trouble to the railroad men, have been effectually driven away by the military. A convention in the interest of nsrrow-

gauge railroads convened ia St. Louis on June 19, and was largely attended. The Captain of a steamer has been fined by a Baltimore court for refusing first-class sccommodstions to a colored passenger. The bodies of 718 Confederate toldiers, disinterred at Gettysburg, recently, were reinterred at Holly wood Cemetery, Richmond, Va., on June 20, amid most impressive and solemn funeral ceremonies. Logan If. Roots, United States Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas, has been suspended from office for alleged malfeasance. Washington.

The War Department has ordered all available troops to the plains, to look after the hostile Indian tribes. The small-pox is on the increase in Washington. The United States snd Japan are negoiating a new commericisl treaty.

The internal receipts for the fiscal year up to June 15 were over $25,004,000. The President and nearly all she Cabinet officers attended the Boston Jubilee. The internal revenue officials ssy that the increase of the whisky tax in the last three years over the previous three years will foot up nearly $00,000,000. The following it -m of interest to tobacconists is telegraphed from Washington : On and after July 1, 1872, every person who sells, or offers for sale, manufactured tobacco, sauff, or cigars, except manufacturers of those articles who sell only their own products at the place of production, will be required to pay a special tax at the rate of $5 per annum, without regard to the amount of

his annual sales. The exemption of persons

whose annual sales do nt exceed $100 is repealed by the new law.

The President returned to the capital on June 19, and in the afternoon was in consultation with his Cabinet Ministers. A telegram announces thst " the Indisn situation was discussed, and much solicitude expressed concerning the unhappy condition of affairs on the frontiers, the peace policy being reluctantly regarded as a failure, and much anxiety being felt as to the necessity existing for the inauguration of vigorous measures for the suppression of the Indian outrages which are alarmingly treq uent." Advices from the cspital state thst the man Bratton, charged with murder in North Carolina, who was recently abducted from Canada, is to be returned back there. Acting Secretary of the Treasury Richardson is preparing a book giving a full history of the Treasury Department, and of

all laws relating to finance and the public debt. The Postoffioe Department is examining designs for the postal csrds under the recently-enacted Isw.

Rev. Norman McLeod, leader of the Scot

tish Church, is dead.

The extensive cottoa mills in the town of

I Wrrriagton, in Lancashire, have been

burned ; loss, 104,000.

The bill depriving the members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) of the rights of

citizenship has passed its second reading in

the German Parliament yeas, 183; nays,

191.

the Spanish Provinces of Tar,

and il ids.

Va.maseda has resigned th eralship of Cuba.

A licttr i the for the ills which a

A nahes arrive

mi vics frosj M

lutionary Generals

have offered to surrender treat for peace.

A band of Mexican brigands, on June is mad a raid into the suburbs ef hlatainoras' murdered two persons, ami -robbed many more. A woman named Phrbe Campbell was bar ced June 20, in Montreal, Canada, for

IM murder or her husband. 6he met bar lUath calmly, evincing no emotion. Advices from the West Indies state that the German fleet bombarded Port-au Prince lor .evernl hours, and boarded and captured the llaytien fleet, all on account of the refusal of the Haytiena to pay an alleged indemnity of $15,000. The Hay ti Government squared up, aud Um German fleet withdrew. The cable steamer Dacia hss not been heard of since May 25, and it is feared she is lost. The negotiations for the payment of the German indemnity by the Presch and the withdrawal of the German troops are completed. The first payment of ene milliard francs is to be made Feb. 15, 187; the second, a smaller amount, before the close of '73; and the third, another milliard, during '74. The Departments of Marne and Haute Marne are to be evacuated as soon as 500,000,000 francs have been paid, and tbe

present force of the army of occupation will

be reduced by one-third afte the payment

of each milliard to Germany. The French

Government is already negotiating for bills of exchange to the anionnt of 50000,000

francs.

The French ttovsrament has just paid to

Switzerland an additional sum of 2,000,000 francs towards the payment tor expenses in

curred in maintaining Gen. kVurbaki's army while Interned in Switzerland. The remainder of the debt due 2,200,004 frar.es

will be paid shortly.

B-ueroft k Sharpe's livery ftables were

burred at Montreal, June 20. Thirty-Sve

horses Were consumed.

Loss, $100,000.

Current Item. Old-fashioned Fourth of .luiv

celt

The twenty-sixth anniversary of the ascension of the Pope to the Pontificsl chair was celebrated with great pomp at Rome, on

. Monday, June 17. A delegation of 1,000, representing all the nations of the earth, ! paid their respects to his holiness at the Vatican. I .1 new and hitherto unknown epidemic is said to have broken out in some of the Brazilian towns. It is terribly fatal, and thousands have been carried off by it. Yellow fever and small-pox are raging at Montevideo. Prof. Agassis's scientific expedition was at Callao. May 24, and proceeded thence to Panama. The Emperor of China is to be married on the 18th of October. The miners' strike in Westphalia is spreading. The workmen in ovsr 42 mines have ceased work. Zorilla is Spain's latest Premier. Advices from Yokohama state that the intention of the American Government to

demand the opening of the great tea dis

tricts of Japan to American commerce meets with cordial favor from all parties. The

American Charge's visit to the district has respited most satisfactorily, the officials

everywhere receiving him in a moat cordial manner. The people everywhere were elated at the prospect of their country being opened to foreign intercourse, and are preparing to

welcome the united States.

The Dominion militia are in camp 0,000

strong at Windsor.

Capt. Bowen, commander of the filibuster

steamer Virginius, disgusted with the management of the Cuban agent and the cow

ardice of his creole crew, ha resigned his

command and returned home.

Several London dealers in Erie stock

have failed, on account of the decline iu the

price of shares.

The cable announces thst " the state of

Spain is alarming," that Serrano has fled to England and Sagasts to France, and that

the Radicals arc arming to meet the threatened uprising of the revolutionary Republicans. The bill proscribing Jesuits has psssed the German Parliament. By a collision on the Orleans (France) railway, on June 19, several persons were killed and thirty injured. A London telegram announces thst a lockout was begun by the builders of that city, on June 19, by which 20,000 journeymen are thrown out of employment. The cable wafts s rumor across the waters that Miss Nellie Grant is engaged to a Scottish Lord. The Pope protests vehemently sgaiast the spproaching anforsement of the law suppressing convents ia Italy. He cannot submit to such usurpations, and a conflict between the Holy See and the Italian Government seems inevitable. A town on the Japanese Island of Sekishu haa been destroyed oy an earthquake ; 500

people perished.

Two steamers colMded one being sunknear Shanghai, May 4, causing the loss of

sixty lives, nearly all Chinese. The Carlists are sgsin on the wsr path in

brut ions have been arranged for all over Iowa.

The Sacramento mon thinks the total

woul clip of California for 172 will be between 26, 00,000 and 28.000,000 pounoj, 4 .

Fort Wavvk, Ind., hna leT snloons. Mrs. Grjffitii, who whiuned her ten-

daughter to death, has been indicted, in Montgomery county, Iowa, lor murder in the first degree.

Three Boston panor the Journal.

Traveler iked Transcript have leen re

duced to 3 cents each.

W HEU NO. W. Vfc, hits voted ,500.

0o0 in aid of Lhfl Wheeling and Lake Erie

railroad, anU 4VÜ0.ÜÜÜ lor a union rail-

wav bndifp across the Ohio.

The wifj of MoGuinnejs. editor of

the Albuquerque (N. M. ) Revictc. was

good ennugh to set the tvi-e, do the

press work, L-et out her husband's oaper

in ?ood Ittps). and have a. liaby, during

tier worser Halt s recent lllnes.'. There

is a "woman-woman for voti.

Kverv Prime Minist. t in Europe has

at pome ir1od of his HfV rtridden the goat on which A. F. and A. M.'s

ride uj to the 33d degree.

Accordivo to Archdeacon Fuller, of

Toronto, it costs the peon! of fnina

4ix .000,00 I a year to suiiort their re

ligious institutions, and they waste no money in missionary enterprises to con vert he heathens of America. There are now in this country- three permanently established schools for teaching the deaf and dumb articulation. There is also a private school of that kind in Columbus. Howard (ilyndon, who is enthusiastic in this useful work, says: ''Trained teachers will daod be the great want in very locality where the teaching of speech to the deaf and the daaf dumb is encouraged. ä Csir1ftD,Mlnl'lleVAc irrrspondent of the Springfield Rfpublican, write to that paper that the Tribune begun in 1M1 on a capital of $1,000 borrowed money; in 1850 it yiWed a profit of $00,000, and of late, years its profits have exceeded $lrtO,0U0. TiiEREare in the United States 63,000 church edifice,. affcrtUng . aqomhiolation for twenty one millions and a half

of worsliippera. t

Di rixo 1870, Philadelphia produced

$10,000.000 worth of oarpet, $6,500,000 of print, $3,000,000 of silks, and other fabrics to the value of over $40,000,(100.

Db. Lanaiian, of Methodist Book

Concern feme, used to be a hofjnaker's apprentice on the extern shore of

Maryland, at Cambridge, lie worked

his way up in the Baltimore Confer

ence, and took the religious business shoot, that is, he could sell books and count collection money as well as preach.

A French pastor gives the following

picture of his wife's style of , housekeeping: A toft boiled mm Aide a

meal for the elders of the party, and in

it each child dipped its niece of oread by turns. In summer the one egg in

Common WAS ratdaiutd kw hrrv.

which the mother ruhhed over enrh per

son's slice of bread ; and a tolerahTe respecable effect was produced b the slight rose-tint spread over the snrface. This proceeding waa all the more ingenious as it provided the resource of dr, bread, to be inflicted as a punishment when needed.