Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 22, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 July 1872 — Page 2

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NEWS SUMMARY.

The East.

Mayor Gaston, of Boston, bu vetoed the order passed by the City Couucil for opening the public library on Mutidar . The Japanepe (Government are having livetwenty bonds and greenback currency engraved by the New York Bank Note Company, under the direction of Clews A Co. Monthly

shipments are now going forward to Japan About 10,000.006 have already been sent. It may be authoritatively stated, savs a New York telegram, that there is absolutely no foundation for the report that Miss Nellie Graut haa become engaged to a Scottish Lord. Tau! E. Lowe, son of ex-Qov. Lowe, of Man lard, has been bailed in fSO.000, at New York, to answer for shooting Wm. Devine. The New York Krprt-Kt says a grand national reunion of the Greeley editors is .to be held at Baltimore on July 9. Robert Kirk wood, a prominent citizen of Pittsburgh, was shot dead on bis own porch, while surrounded by his family, on June 21, by a man named Flanders, because he refused to fulrill a marriage engagement with the assassin's i-ter. In Philadelphia, last week, a young man named George Welsh shot and instantly killed his mother, while sitting at the supper table. He is supposed to be insane. The Stillwater woolen mills, near Providence, R. I., were burned June 23. Loss, 350,000. Lizzie Garrabrandt's death sentence has , been commuted to imprisonment for life by be New Jersey Court of Pardons.

Two persons were killed and several injured by the explosion of a steam lighter at New London. Ct.. June 21. Rev. E. L. W. Jones, a wealthy Pittsburgh clergyman, goes to the workhouse for three years for swindling a widow lady. Three boys, aged 8, 12 and 13 years, respectively, were drowned at Albany, N.Y.. June 23. while bathing in the Hudson. A clever swindler named Price has been swindling Jersey farmers by selling them lots in Communipaw that did not belong to him. He realized 75.000. Stephen Camberling, one of New York's oldest lawyers, died in that citv June 25. axed 80.

The usury law, which has stood upon New Hampshire's statutes 200 years, has just been repealed, and the rate of interest tixed at t! per ceut. Chauncey Johnson, of New York city, said to be the champion sneak-thief of the country, has just received a ten years' sentence in Sing Sing. After exhausting a panel of 750 citizens a jury vras finally obtained in the Stokes case, at

New York, on June 26, and the trial proceeded with. Three thousand yards of smuggled lace, nicely sealed in milk cans, was seized on the steamer Russia, at New York, the other day. In a three-mile single scull-boat race at Worcester, Mass., June 26, Ellis Ward made the best time on record 21:38. The widow of the late James Fisk, Jr. , was followed and booted at by a New York mob, the other day, under the impression that she was Josephine Mansfield. The New York straw goods house of Baldwin. Rice I Co. has failed for 1,000,000. Harvard College has conferred the degree of LL.D on President Grant. David Murphy was sentenced, at New York, the other day, to be hanged in August. Within three hours after sentence had been pro nounced. the Supreme Court, in session in an adjoiLing room, granted the oulpnt a new trial. The convicts eome 1.200 in number in the Albany (N. Y.) Penitentiarv threatened a serious revolt on June 27. For a time they refused to obey orders, tut the military having been ordered in. the fractious culprits concluded to resume work. The West. By the explosion of a boiler within the walls of the Ohio Penitentiary, at Columbus, on

June 21. about fifty convicts were more or less injured eome half a dozen, it is feared, fatally. Henry Ryan, aged 19, was drowned in the river at Dubuque. Iowa, on June 20th, while bathing. James Keagh, an old man of 80 years, bung

himself in Sangamon county, III., last week. The schooner Jamaica, bound from Milwaukee to Oswego, capsized and sunk in Lake Huron, on June 20. The crew, with the exception of the cook, a woman, were saved. At Big Rapids, Mich., on June 20. Wm. McGregor was caught in the machinery of a mill and torn to pieces. N. B. Latta, a notorious counterfeiter, has been convicted at Madison, Wis. A San Francisco dispatch of June 21 says "Dr. Z. Rogers, recently of Chicago, appeared last night at the Woman's Huffrage Convention, half his face shaved, the other half having beard and whiskers. He announed that he did it in recognition of man being half wo

man and half man. He wu lmutiul war.

to the insane asylum." An explosion occurred during the progress of a tire in a liquor store in Chicago, on June 21. killing two patrolmen, and seriously injuring two others. A young man named Irin a step-son of Hon. George H. Williams, Attorney General of the United States has been arrested at Chicago for a 3.000 diamond robbery, committed in Baltimore, some time ago. Mrs. Gardner, a bride of six weeks, committed suicide at Milwaukee, by taking strychnine, on June 21 . Perry Liston, a young farmer living near Blaomingtou, III., committed suicide last week, by shooting himself three times through the body. A ' corner" in wheat, which a Chicago man named Harding had been running, collapsed last week. Harding mourns the loss of abont 1 200.000.

ihre persona two physicians and

tient -ware poiaoiied last week, in Wheatland., by the blunder of a druggist. The Supreme Court of Indiana has just decided that insanity is not a sufneieut cause for divorce. Mary McCoukey, aged 17 was killed at Oshkosh, Wis., by beiug struck with a piece of the clipper of a shingle factory. At Pleasant Hill, 111. , hist week. James Hay killed Pat. McGuin, by smiting lum with a beer-glass. The wholesale dry goods store of Ooll A Frank, in Milwaukee, was struck by lightning on the night of June 24, anil entirely consumed by tire. Loss, $125,000 ( insured for 50.000. A Mrs. Loom is advertised herself to deliver a lecture against female suffrage, in Piatt's Hall, San Francisco, on June 25. When she

mounted the rostrum she waa interrupted, hissed and jeered by the leading female suffragists. Hon. David Meeker demanded that the disgraceful conduct cease, or that the women be compelled to leave the ball, for which Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens, editress of ibe Pioneer, the suffragist organ, drew a pistol on him

in the hall, demanding an apology from him,

but was compelled to put it in her pocket by

the bystanders.

Milwaukee was visited bv a tei ritie thunder

storm on the night of June 25. which fairly shook the city to its foundations. A large

number of houses were struck by lightning.

Iu the town of Greenfield a flock of twelve

sheep, lying under a tree, were killed bystroke of lightning.

The railroad engineers between Astoria and

Cornelius, Oregon, recently found marks on the rocks, leading to the discovery of a box containing 57,000 in old Spanish coin and a

quantity of jewelry. At Spnngtield. HI., on June 26, W. F. Storey

of the Chicago June, in attempting to step on the tram for Chicago, mule a misstep and fell, twisting his right leg under him in such

a manner as to fracture it just above the

ankle.

Mr. Hammond, of Elgin. 111., lost 50.000

young trout during a terrible thunder-storm last week. It is thought they ware struck by lightning. The famous French Garde Republicaine band visits Chicago aud the West. The excursion train, consisting of eight crowded passenger coaches, returning to Chicago from the Liberal Republican and Demo cratic State Conventions at Springfield, DU., on the night of June 26, narrowlv escaped being wrecked, six miles north of the latter city. Some diabol'cal wretches had placed ten heavy-

railroad tics across the track. Fortunately the engineer descried the obstruction in time to avert an accident that must have resulted in an appalling destruction of life. The South. Greensboro. N. C, had a 50,000 fire on June 24. Christiana Thorp, aged 22, while riding on

tue dtimmv cars, at Baltimore, June 23, had

her clothing ignited by a spark from the engine, and the unfortunate woman was burned to a crisp. A fire at Lexington, Mo., June 21. destroyed six business houses in the center of the town. Loss, 70,000 John L. Thomas, who came from Ireland fifteen years ago, and began as a day laborer, is bow the Potter Palmer of If, Louis, having in course of construction twenty-nine buildings, with future plans even more extensive. Dan Smith, Early Eason and John White are to be hung at Memphis on Aug. 2. Washington. It is announced that the law providing for the introduction of the one-cent postal cards cannot go into effect for some time, as arrangements for printing the same have not yet been completed.

The Treaty of Washington has been so often reported io.it, and so often claimed as saved, that reports either way have lately received but little credence. The latest official advices from Geneva indicate that the Treaty will not only be saved, but that arbitration will proceed. The reported invasion of the northern frontier of Texas by large bodies of Indians is discredited by the Indian Bureau. The Trade Mark Convention between the United States and the Austro-Hungarian Em-

pirj has been proclaimed by the President, and will take effect from July 22. and continue in force ten years. Washington news is to the effect that all controversy on the subject of the Alabama claims has ceased, and that farther proceedings before

the arbitrators will go on smoothly to the end. Oen. Howard's delegation of Arizona scalpsnatchers called on the Commissioner of Indian Affairs the other day, on a pretended mission of peace. The State Department has been notified that the American schooner James Bliss has been captured by a Canadian cutter for alleged violation of the Dominion laws, and taken into port with the Dominion flag hoisted over the Stars and Stripes, the American flag being union down. Commissioners Branot and Cree left Washington June 24 for an extended tour among the Indian tribes of the West, with a view of averting, if possible, the threatened Indian

Marguerite Dixblauc, who was sentenced to

death, in London, for the murder of her mistress, has been ropneved. The Mexicau insurgents seem determined to make good their success in the vicmitv of Monterey. The latest advices are that they are streugbteuing the fortifications aud concentrating all tbeir forces there. This contradicts the report sent through Government channels, a few days ago, that Trevino had proffered to treat for peace. The Cobden Clttb, of London, have issued invitations to the various powers throughout the world to send representatives to an International Free Trade Congress, to be held in the Euglish metropolis next year. Gen. Sherman was " doing" Switzerland at

last accounts.

rue first accounts of the. Gorman bombard

ment of Port-au-Pnuee were greatly exag

gerated. Only two shots, it seems, were fired.

The Duke of Montpensier is out in a mani

feeto asserting the right of Don Alphonso, son

of ex-Queen Isabella, to the Spanish throne

Mail accounts from England give the par

ticulars of an attempt mado on the night of J une 10 to blow up the statue of the Prince

Consort, in Merrion Square, Dublin. The explosion is described as tremendous, shaking

tue whole square. The monum nt was, how

ever, but slightly injured. A simultaneous attempt was made To blow up the statue of the

Earl of Carlisle, in Pho?uix Park, Dublin, which

aiso proved abortive only the legs of the

statue being injured. A Madrid dispatch states that our Govern

meuthas waived the question of claiming Dr.

Houari to be an American citizen, and bases its action upon the ground of friendly intercession

in the Doctor's behalf, for an amnesty to be

granted by the Spanish Government. Paris letters report that Bismarck's ulti

matum was necessarily accepted by France, and, iu accordance therewith, the French army is to be cut down to 375,000 men, and the

National Guard bound over to keep the peace.

The last news from Mexico represents that the Juarists, 8,000 strong, were matching on Matamoras. and that a decisive conflict was

imminent. A party of Canadian militia, in camp at Windsor, made a raid on Mr. Edwin Bennett's

garden the other day. Mr. B. blazed awav at

the depredators with a double-barreled shot

gun, and senously wounded Corporal Isles. The volunteers were highly incensed, and came near mobbing Bennett.

The London papers report a terrific hurri

cane and waterspout at Rustchuk, in Bulgaria,

which destroyed 500 houses, and sank two gun

boats, killing and injuring several persons.

A Washington dispatch states that Spanish

war vessels havo been instructed to seize and

sink the American steamers Virginia and Edgar Stewart, wherever found outside of

neutral ports

The great strike of the London carpenters

and joiners still continued at hut accounts. It

is said over 20,000 of them are idle, and thev

have been joined bv the masons and brick

layers. The men demand 51 hours instead of 53i hours per week, aud one shilling per day additional. The London Time says that the strike will result in England losing her present advantages in industrial productions. It is said negotiations have been concluded for the complete evacuation of France by the German forces. Three hundred and thirty Mormon converts sailed from Liverpool for New York on June 26.

Personal. Harlan is now financially in three newspapers, all

is fond of going to the

a pa-

Foreign.

France is on the eve of a serious political crisis. There has been an open rupture between Thiers and the party of the Bight, in the Assembly, and several members of the

Ministry, of the same way of tblr king, have tendered tbeir resignations, but, at t ue earnest solicitation of the President, have consented to remain in the Cabinet temporarily. The Deputies of the Bight have been in secret conference with the Duke D' Anmale. The Left are quiescent, apparently waiting to seize upon any advantage that may present itself. It is reported that the filibuster steamer Fannie has successfully landed her cargo of men and munitions on the Island of Cuba.

It is said that the Spani ih Ministry have declared in favor of the separation of Church and State in Spain . Elic Frederic Forv, Marshal of France, died June 20, aged H years.

Senator interested

dailies. Red Cloud circus.

The still-born daughter ef the NovaScotia giantess was 28 inches long, and weighed 18 pounds.

John B. Goigh is the most popular lecturer in the field. 1 Eigen iE suffers from a painful inflammation of the facial glands. The Pope is 81. Sumner is engaged in literary labors at Washington. Gov. Brown low is on his legs again. Wesley Smith, a Syracuse collegian, has a double voice. The effect of his singing is said to be wonderful. An Arkansas man had the invitations to his tin wedding printed on square sheets of the metal, which were duly inclosed in envelopes. Professor Alexander MacWhorter has an elaborate article in the July Gal

axy, contending that the Cardiff Giant is a genuine Phoenician work of the highest antiquarian interest. He is supported in his views by good scientific authority, absurd as it may seem. The oldest living Methodist minister

is rtev. lienry Hoehm, who is ninetytwo years old. He has been seventyone years in the itinerant ministry, but now resides on Staten Island, most tenderly cared for by affectionate kindred. He was present at the recent General Conference.

The wife of Gratz Brown is a handsome and winning lady, mother of seven children, of wham six are living, the oldest not being over 14 years of age. Of tlitse children five are girls. It is related of the Governor that he married for love, when Mrs. Brown was a country maiden, and that he first saw her swinging on a gate in frontof a country farm

house, as he and two or three other members of the Missouri Legislature were strolling out of town after one of its sessions. Pcre Water. The English papers give us sn instance of the deadly effects of a want of pure water. Previously to 1865, the city of Bombay, in Hindostan. was annually visited with cholera, and lost each year several thousand inhabitants. Since 1865, a supply of pure water luts been furnished, and there has been no cane of cholera. In the city of Calcutta, exactly the same experience has been had.

A CHAPTER OF HO It KOKS. Tcrrlblt Arrldrsl Ike lirand Trunk Hnllrod, wklek Twtalr-tkres lianas Hrlnsn Merl as Asonlxln lva!h Krlk(Ml CallUlon ss Ike Pliiaburah, V.hIsaissj Halilaasrr R Ureas-Pearfal K a plosion Is New Ysrk. THE QRAND TI.l'HI HORB0I. A terrible accident occurred on the Grand Trims railway, near Belleville, Canada, on June ii, by which some twenty-three human beings met an agonizing death. The details of the calamity are of the most shockiug and heartrending description. The accident resulted from the locomotive jumping the track. The baggage-car remaining on the track, telescoped the smoking aud second-class cars, leaving them on top of the engine, exposed to the escaping steam. The ill-fated passengers

were connneu in rneu t amine prison lor some time, breathing vapors of death, and suffering all the agonies of immersion in a boiling cauldron of superheated steam. The uninjured passengers finally came to the rescue, and, with axes, crowbars, etc., effected openings and dragged the poor creatures from their frightful cage. Fivo peisons were found dead. The wounded were dragged out and carried to the road-side, where thev lay for hours in the most fearful agoLy. '- The "sight," remarks a correspondent, " was one baffling description. The terrible cries of the sufferers rent the ears of the lookers-on, who made every possible effort to giant their requests for water; and their condition, under the influence of their terrible injuries, was fearful to witness, while the prayers and cries of premonition of approaching dissolution were here and there heard." Sixty-tive men and women were fearfully scalded and otherwise injured, six of whom died on the spot. Many of the wounded were disfigured beyond recognition. At last accounts twenty-three had died, and others were dying. The medical men say that not more than six or seven out of the sixty-five injured persons will live. The sufferings and appewanco of the wounded are described as frightful. FRJOHTFrX COLLISION ON THE PnTRBrBOH, WASHINGTON AND 11 ALTIMOHK RAILROAD. A fearful collision occurred June M on the

Pittsburgh, Washington and Baltimore railroad, near Connellsville, Pa., resulting in the death of Henry Paxion, Conductor Robt. Lockhart, and Mail Agent J. Blackburn, and the serious injury of eight passengers, and slight injury to about nine others. A freight train bound east, endeavoring to reach Connellsville before the arrival of the mail train, and thus get on to a new switch, missed its calculation, and at the point mentioned, where there is a very abrupt curve, bot b engines came together with a crash that shock the earth in the vicinity like the shook of an earthquake. Both

trains were wrecked, freight particularly so, and many of the passengers were injured to

such an extent that they cannot survive.

FATAL EXPLOSION IN NEW YORE. While the firemen were encased in extin

guishing a conflagration in a drug store, in

Uberty street, New iork. on June B. some

carboys of vitriol, which the firemen were removing.explided with frightful effect, injuring

some twentv-hvo tiremeu some of them

fatallv. The wounded were carefully attend

to. and taken in ambulances to the l'ark Hos

pital. The effects of the explosion were terrible, the contents of the store being scattered in every direction . One man was driven

from the interior of the store throuuk a door

into the street. The whole end of the first door-room was blown out. and the fixtures.

bottles, etc., were driven about with the force of powder projectiles.

Correal Items. Tue seventeen year locust are to an M?ar again. 1RT weather in Cuba has increased the sugar crop S per cent. Viw Haven has offered Connecticut 1,000,000 for a new State House. S ASHJoouiRb is the name of acli-rae of Kansas politicians. Whisky distilled front sawdust is the lastest Washington enterprise. Utah has a bismuth mine, the only one in the United States. The dividends pavable in Boston in uno amount to $2,2o3,495. Mowing machines have been introduced into Northern Mexico. The Boston water-works have paid exjienaea for the first time this year. Chicago is to have a million dollar depot and a three million dollar hotel. Two tons of boys' marbles lately arrived at New York from Germany. "Fehinary" is the latest for female seminary. A penknife was found in the heart of tree lately felled in New Haven.

A iti.i NDKKi.vi; 'Hibuque printer alludes to an attomey-at jaw. A Danbury, Ct., man hasn't slept out of town for thirty years. One hundred and ninety thousand quarts of strawberries arrived in Jersey City one day last week. 1 ron-framed vessels are becoming popular on the lakes. Sheep-shearing festival are bucolic Michigan amusements. First-rate fishing in Ausanauquotausongomongotongo Lake, Me. Minnesota farmers are turning their attention to the peanut crop. Uxe-hali' the slate pencils used in the world are made in Vermont. Seventy eight acres in the heart of Evansville, Ind., are in litigation. The av erage cost of building a mile of road is $44,225 in this country.

Encounter With a Shark.

A recent number of the Honolulu Gazette gives the following account of the narrow escape of a native Sandwich Islander from being devoured by a shark i " We learn from Kawaibae that about two weeks since a native Kahoio was attacked by a shark while on his way from the shore to the fishing ground in the bay. The old man was going out in

a small canoe, which, by his weight, was depressed in the water so that his legs were but a few inches above the surface. He had just passed beyond the reef and was paddling along unaware of any danger, when a large and hungry shark made a break for him. The jaws of the ravenous fish closed upon the

man's thigh and the canoe, making a hideous wound in the former, some eleven inche long, and tearing the flesh from the bone nearly half the circumference of the thigh, leaving it banging down in shreds as the teeth oYew away, and leaving in the wood of the latter three or four teeth, broken off'. The man was nearly dragged out of his canoe, and at the same time was

almost swamped by the onset of the fish, which, disappointed of its prey, immediately disappeared. The old man, though bleeding profusely from his several wounds, was able to get his canoe back to shore, thankful for escaping with his life, and on landing received from Mr. Chillingworth and his native neighbors whatever help they were abie to bestaw. From Mr. Chillingworth we hear that the wound is doing well, and that the old man is in a fair way of recovering. The teeth that remained in the canoe were two inches across the line where broken, thus indicating a shark of unusual size as well as strength. The accident has caused the natives of Kawaibae to regard the placid waters of their bay as somewhat more unsafe then they have heretofore been con-

country,

It if singular that the price of gas in Washington is to be reduced immediately after tho adjournment of Congress. It is thought that the wheat crop of Northern and Central Texas will reach 1,000,000 bushels, three times the amount ever before raisedin one season. The New York World announces that colored table-cloths and napkins are superceding white in many of the up town restaurants of that citv. as co'ored

waiters already have done. " Willard's Hotel at Washington has beeq leased at the rate of 1 &, h h the first year, $20.000 the second, $25.0'nj the third, and $.'0.000 the fourth year and thereafter. Among some curiosities from Florida, Gov. Crosby, of Belfast, has a grasshopper that measures five inches in length from head to the end of the hind legs, and with a body as big as a sparrow. They have a novel style of gymnastics in a certain woolen mill in Pittsfield, Mass. Some weeks ago a young man made a descent through the elevator opening from the third story to the basement, landing safely on his feet. He went about his work as usua'. The other day a younger lad performed the same feat, falling into a basket of filling. He was a "little stiff next morning.

The fiatlinr Guns. The Galling guns at West Point are curious looking implements of warfare, but more curious still is the manner of their working. An odd-appearing bending band of steel is brought from the ammunition chest and held immediately over and in contact with the slit in the upper part of the gun. This segment contains twenty cartridges, and as the crank of the ' coffee-mill'' is turned they descend in due sequence inte the chambers, where they explode. From the many mouths of the gun shoot forth uninterrupted numbers of piercingly bright flashes of flame, sur

rounded by enwrapping veils of blue smoke, and from the lower side comes a steady stream of empty cartridge shells. When one segment is exhausted it is replaced by another, and there is really no limit to the capicity of the gun so long as the crank is kept turning. An officer informs me that they can fire 420 shots a minute ! and, furthermore, that the prevalent impression concerning their delicacy and liability to get out of order is untrue ; that they are easily managed ; simply constructed and good for much service. Correspondence of the Povghkeepsie Eagle.

Fainitl Sispinsi Hanging.

TnE Corpses of the Great. The embalming of Mazzini a body recalls the singular fate which has attended the remains of so many distinguished men. In fact, an extremely interesting volume might be made of the posthumous adventures of the bodies of those whose memory the world has sought to keep alive. There is but little doubt that the tombs in the Pantheon at Paris, which are shown to contain the

Voltaire and Rousseau, are, in fact, empty, having been rifled during one of the periods of conservative reaction in France. Milton's head, is said to be in possession of a private collector in London. So is Cromwell's. Jeremy Bentham's body, by his direction, was stuffed, and, dressed in his usual suit of clothes, with his hat on, his stick in his hand, and seated in his chair, is now preserved in a glass case. A tew ars

ago there was sold at auction in Lofxton what was said to be the head of Conlu cius, the Chinese sage. Charles Mari .mV, the Chautauqua county (X. Y.) murderer, will be hung on the 2d of August.

A New Attraction for Niagara. Among the sensations they propose to open the summer season with nt Xiag

ara Falls is a grand buffalo hunt. The fashionable city people who spend the season at the falls desire to get a glimpse of Far Western prairie sports 5 therefore that Buffalo chase was conceived. They sent out to Nebraska for the live buffaloes, which they propose to convey to Niagara Falls in cars, and then have a party of Pawnee Indians, in aboriginal costume, hunt the buffaloes down. A dispatch was received here yesterday, stating that seven buffaloes had been captured south of North Platte, a distance of about fifty miles. Six of the

seven died, Saving been exhausted in the operation of being run down. If those city sports want to see a genuine and exciting buffalo chase, they had better come out to Nebraska md join in one en the prairie, in all its excitement and reality. Omaha Tribune, dime lit The religious statistics of Germany are as follows 1 Evangelicals, 24.921.IXio Horann Catholics, 14,565,000; Greek Ca' holies, 2.900; other Christian denomination?. 114,000; Jews, 499,000 ; lnknown, ü,0O0.