Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 34, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 September 1872 — Page 2

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SEWS SUMMARY. The East. There have been a number of heavy failures :j New York and Baltimore, within a few days, aggregating between three and four million of dollar. The suspended firms were principally engaged hi the sugar, coffee and tea trades. A. T. Stewart, the dry good king, is prominently mentioned in connection with tho Mayoralty of New York. The effort of tho producers, in PennsvlTania, to decrease the production of oil, has proven a probable failure, all interest having been generally lost in the matter. Joseph Jefferson, the comedian, in a note says : My eyes are completely cured, but I deem it prudent to retire from the eta e until next season." Pittsburgh was enlivened, a few ntghia since, I y s desperate political riot, between a Greeley ward club and a Urant club (colored), who happened to meet while parading the street!?. Over a hundred shots wcto tired, and brickbats and other missiles fell like hail for several miuutes. A number of persons were seriously injured, but none fatally. Gen. Sherman, accompanied by his son. arrived at New York front Europe the other day, and proceeded at once to Washington. Matt. Morgan, the artist, was the victim of a rather unpleasant mistake, at New York, a few nights ago. While calling upon a friend in Nassau street, at a lata hour, the famous caricaturist was arrested by a policeman, who mistook him for a burglar, taken to tho etationhoufe and locked up. An iron church, worth 5150,000. was recently shipped from New York to Ancon, Feru. A large number of medical and other scientific gentlemen met in New York, the other day, and organized a society to be known as the American Public Health Association. Stephen Smith, of New York, was elected President. A man has just been pardoned out of the Maine Penitentiary after serving twenty-five years, having been sentenced for life. Another installment of 600 Mormon recruits arrived at New York from Europe, the other day all single men and women. Gen. Sherman has been interviewed by the irrepressible leporter. He expressed the opinion that the French Republic would survive Thiers, whom he regards as an earnest patriot, and that the Republic will attain a high degee of prosperity under bis adminis tration. 1 he General has a high opinion of I the efficiency of the Prussian array, and thinks United Germany is destined long to exert a controlling influence in Europe. He hints, j hmneror, at tUa poiVii!ity of its falling to pieces on .he withdrawal of. the single hand by which the combination is held together an event which may happen at any moment. James I. Johnston, Superintendent of the Stamp Department of tho Sub-Treasury at New York, is a defaulter to the amouut of nearly $200.000, and has fiel the eountrv. Charles O'Conor positively declines to al'ow the use of his name in connection with the Mayoralty of New York city. Tne West. The man Kennedy, who was some time ago purdoLed out of the Illinois Penitentiary and rearrested on suspicion of being the murderer of Hon. Sharon Pvndale. at Springfield, has been discharged from custody, the Grand Jiuy failing to elicit any evidence implicating him in the crime. The Utah exploring expedition, under Lieut. Wheeler, is not Laving the most peaceful time of it. The military escort has had several fights with the Ute Indians, in one of which nine savages bit the dust, and many weie impeded in their locomotion. Desert City, in Central Utah, a town containing 140 bonces, was found deserted by tho party, the inhabitants having fled for safety, The late Rev. Samuel J. Browne, of Cincinnati, whose shooting of a buy in his orchard jme weeks ago created such an excitement in that ciU, bequeaths in his will $150,000 for the establishment of a university to bear his name, and also the land "hereon to erect the university building, and an additional sum for the endowment of professorships. W'm. Sweigart, the murderer of Kane Higgins, near Chicago, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. The value of all the property in Illinois, as fixed by the Board of Equal. zation, is 510.OO0,000. CJnincy, III., has been agitated by the mysterious disappearance of two young girls. Forty-two Chinese children, from 7 to 20 years old, recently left San Francisco for New Haven, Ct., to be educated. The steamer S. 8. Merrill has been burned on the Mississippi, at Warsaw, 111. No lives lost. Two new national banks have been authorised to commence business in Chicago. The Mormon papers are much excited over the disclosures concerning tue Mountain Meadows massacre. A convict ;n the Illinois Penitentiary, at Johet, recently committed suicide by drown ing himself in the canal. The Month. The State Auditor of Louisiana was recently aent to prison for contempt of court. The ice supply of New Oilcans is nearly exhausted, and the city is threatened with an ice famine. Hon. Richard H. Rousseau, a prominent member of the Louisville bar, and brother of the lato Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau, is dead. A terrible state of excitement exists in Washington county, Ky., caused bv the attacki of a body of disguised men upon the laborers of the Cumberland and Ohio railroad. The contractors and laborers have been notified to leave the county. Tho citizens claim that tho road is not being constructed in accordance With the agreement when they voted a sub

scription. Hence their opposition to the prosecution of the work. party of masked men recently went to the residence of Henry Miller (colored), at Christiana, Rutherford county. Tenn., before daylight, and on his attempting to escape, shot him dead. The last rail has been laid on the South and North Alabama railroad. This road, forming an extension of tho Louisville and Nashville railroad to Montgomery, Ala., is a link in the most direct line from Louisville to the Gulf of Mexico at Pensacola and Mobile. Tho feud betweeu the rival factions of the Creek Nation threatens to culminate in open war and bloodshed. Both parties are under arms, and an early coUisiou is apprehended. Washington. The Bureau of Education has been collecting some almshouse statist L-s, from which it appear that the average cost of keeping paupers is $112 per annum, and that on an average they are kept ten and a half years. In some of tho States it costs $800 per annum to keep paupers. Although (says a Washington telegiam) it is thought at the Indian Bureau that there is no danger of an Indian war, official advices, in which the President shares, show that senous hostilities are probable at a very early day along tho whole Indian line. Another delegation of savages, representing the Kiowas, Comanchcs, Arapahoes. Cheyenues and Wichitas, and numbering some forty warnors, will soon start from the Indian Territory for Washington, under escort of Indian gent Tatem. According to the last monthly report of the Department of Agriculture, the cotton crop of 1872 promises a small increase over the yield of last ye r. Postmaster-General Creswell, in his forthcoming report, will mge upon Congress the adoption of the postal telegraph system. It is rumored that trouble is brewing between the United States and Mexico, growing out of the Rio Grande outrages, and it is said if the latter Government does not soouevn.ee a disposition to act in better faith an open nipt ure will take place. The International Revenue Bureau will shortly issue a notice thai after Oct. 1 all taxes imposed by stamps are abolished, except the tax of two cents on bank checks and drafts. Stamps will no longer bo needed on mortgages, notes, etc. Foreign. Frof. Tyndall, the celebratod naturalist, will visit the United States this fall. Twenty-five workmen recently lost their lives in a Belgian coal pit, by the accidental flooding of the mine.

Rochefort, the exiled Communist, is reported to be in a dying condition at the Island of New Caledonia, the French penal colony. , It is said that the Emperors, in their recent conference at Berlin, agreed to requsst the Pope to break from the Jesuits, they promie-ii.-r to intercede with Italy in behalf of the foreign religiouB corporations t iiou. King Amadeus, in his speech from the throne at the opening of the Spanish Cortes, announced that his Government had not yet settled its differences with the Holy See. Promise is made that reforms will be introduced in Cuba when the rebellion shall have been suppressed. The reported death of Gen. Albrccht. of the Austrian army, is contradicted. Edmund About, the popular French author, i has been arrested at Strasbourg by tho Germans. It is said that Edmund's pen has wrought the mischief. King Amadeus has again announced his dotermination to put down the insurrection in ! Cuba. The Journal de la Marine states that on the Mh of August a special train passed the sta- i tiou of Chalvt.e, carrying 500 million francs, the payment of which is to insure the prompt evacuation of the Departments of La Marne and the Haute Marne. The train was drawn by two locomotives, and was composed of 25 wagons laden with 32 millions of thaler. It is reported from London that the Czar of Russia will demand the abrogation of the 1 Treaty of Paris, for the purpose of co-operating with Austria and Prussia. Per contra, it is reported at Brussels that the Czar will do no such thing. President Thiers visited the United States frigate Shenandoah, at Trouville, recently, and complimented her commander on the excellent condition of his ship and the fine discipline of the crew. It being announced in Birmingham, England, that Prince Arthur would visit that city shortlv, the Republican Club, located there, protests against the defraying of the expenses of the reception out of the public moneys, claiming that this practice is not in accordance with the spirit of the age. Agents of the Cuban Junta are in London arranging for a $20.000,000 loan for the purchase of army supplies. The arrest of Edmund About, the Freneh author, by the German authorities, creates considerable excitement throughout France, and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs has asked an explanation of the matter from the Prussian Government. The London Internationalists have adopted a platform favoring universal suffrage by ballot for Legislative and Ministerial offices; compulsory and gratuitous common school education ; the disbandment of standing armies, and the abolition of indirect taxes. German emigrants are again threatened by the Imperial Government, which is about to establish a strict surveillance to pravent persons owing military servico from leaving tho country. Thus far the aoliun of the authori ties has had little effect upon the tide of emigration. The English Tory press vehemently denounce the decision of the Geneva Arbitrators. Tho Princess Beatrice, tho fifth and only unmarried daughter of Queen Victoria, ih betrothed to the Marquis of Stafford. The Princess is 10 and the Marquis 22. Tho sentences of seven of the ten Communists condemned to death for the assassination of hostages have been commuted to imprisonment.

In his opening address to the Austrian

Reu-hsratb, the l'iesiden, referring to the Imperial convocation at Be.iiu, said the understanding there arrived at was a certain guarantee of tho peace of Europe lor some years to come Tho Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs has resigned, iu consequence of a disagreement with Bismarck. A dispatch to the New York Ihrald from Bombay sayB letters have been received from Dr. Livingstone, dated July 1, 172. He was still at I'l.yauyeuibe, was well, and waiting Ibe arrival of Stanley second expedition. The work of executing Communists still goes bravely on iu France three more of them, condemned for muideiiug hostages, having just been shot on tho bloody field of Saftary. Cholera is raging with great violence in Persia. Iu Bokhara the people are dying at the rate of 1.000 a day. Edmund About, who has incurred the displeasure of the Gorman military authorities of Strasbourg, is to be tried by court-martial. Sen. tor Sunnier has arrived in London, much improved in health. The British Tory journals continue their onslaughts on the Geneva arbitrators. Thomas Hughes, M. P. (" Tom Brown, of Rugby"), recently attempted to address his constituents at Fionie, England, but his political opponents interrupted tho speaker to such an extent that tho meeting broke up in disorder and the polico cleared the hall. Acts of incendiarism have become so frequent in the English agricultural districts that the farmers are organizing vigilance committees for their protection. A formidable Cailist uprising is threatened in Spain. There has been another railroad disaster near Barcelona, Spain, killing and wounding many passengers. Nearly 1,000 Communists, sentenced to transportation, lately embarked at Brest for New Caledonia. The failure of the American firm of John Fox A Co., of London, is announced, with liabilities amounting to $2,500,000. Charles XV. . King of Sweden and Norway, is dead, aged 40. His son. Prince Oscar, succeeds him. Miss Rye has shipped another installment of fifty children from Liverpool to Canada, where homes have been secured for them. The Gorman authorities have consented to allow the wife ef Edmund About to visit him in bis dungeon, but no one else is permitted to converse with the imprisoned author Magnanimous Germany ! The three Communists L'Olive, Deechamps and De Aiville executed at Sartory, France, last week, met their fate bravely. Their last words were : " Vive la Repubhque ! Down with traitonj ! " , The fienera Arbitration. Genfva. Sept. 13. The gentlemen of the Conn of Artitration returned to Geneva today. They express themselves highly gratified at their reception at Berne and Iuterlaclien. The dinner given in their honcr by the Swiss Government last niidit was attended bv the President of the Republic, members of the Federal Council, and the entire diplomuic oouy or Herne, n tne speeches ex lunged ou i no occasion, tnere was a marked tone of satisfaction at tho happy conclusion of the work of the Arbitration and the achievement of a result which the speakers said is bound to have much powerful influence for good, not only on the two countries more intimately concerned, but on all civilized nations. Geneva, Sept. 14. The decision of tho Alabama Claims Arbitration Tribunal in the awarding of settlement in the case between Great Britain and the United States, was delivered to-day. The decision, which is quite lengthy, concludes) as follows : In accordance with the spirit and letter of the Treatv of Washington, it is preferable to adopt a form of adjudication of a sum in gross rather than refer the subject of compensation for further discussion and deliberation to the Board of Assessors provided iu Article 10 of the Treaty of Washington, the Tribunal of Arbitration, using the authority conferred on its members by Article 7 of the Treaty, by a majority of four voices, awards to the United States or America the sum of $15,500,000 in gold, as the indemnity to be paid by Great Britain to the use of the Amencan Government, for the satisfaction of all claims referred to the co isideration of the Arbitrating Tribunal, conformably to the provisions contained in Article 7 of the Treaty, nd in accordance with the terms of Article 11 of the Treaty. The Tribunal declares that all claims which have been referred to it for adjudication arc hereby fully, perfectly, and finally settled. The Court furthermore declares that each and evety one of said claims, whether the same mayor may not havebeeu presented to the notice or laid before tin Tribunal, shall henceforth be considered and treated as settled and barred. In testimony whereof, tho present decision and award has been made in duplicate and signed by the Arbitrators who have given absent thereto, the whole being w exact conformity with the provisions of the Treaty of Washington. Made and concluded at the Hotel de Ville, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 14, A. D. 1472. ( u ahm s Francis Adams, Count Sexons, JACOR STAEMPyLf, Baron DTtajuba. The principal of the award turns out to be but lit, 200, 000, the rest beiug added for interest at six per cent., which makes the total $15,500,000. Geneva, Sept. 16. The opinion of Sir Alexander C'ockburn, the British Arbitrator, dissenting from the decision of the other members of the Alabama Claims Arbitration Tribunal, has not yot I wen published. Count Sclopis. Jacob Stempfii, and Charles Francis AdamH are tho threo Arbitrators who voted to allow damages in tho case of the Klient udoah. LoNixw, Soot. 10. The London journals rejoice over the conclusion of the Alabama claims controversy, and express hopes that the foundation has been laid for a permanent, good understanding between the two nations. New York, Kept. 16. It is said on Hie authonty of a representative of the British Government, now iu Washington, who is fully posted on the whole question, that as long ago as 1W!5, Lord Eussull would have been glad to cancel all the legitimate claims against England for more than the amount awarded by the Tribunal, provided that he could have gamed, as has now been gained and accomplished for a sum loss in dollars, but richer in principle to Oml Britain, the establishment of a now principle) of international law. The award includes tho interest which reduces the actual amount of damages to rl2 -000,000. mh ---as No Lapland wife "'as ever known to elope.

An Apparition That Was Killed.

The public of Vienna have been much troubled by a story of an up pari lion which has lately occupied the newspapers of lb Austrian cai ital. A sentry, posted bv night in Ilm lobbies of the 1 itj erial Palace, observed, to his dismay, a fem do figure, envelop d in the long folds of a capacious cloak, emerge from the Chambers of the late Archduchess Sophia. The alarmed sol dier at om e saved himself liom intercourse with the gl.oslby llight, and told his story to his superior of ticer. Without putting faith i'i his narrative, the Mur.-hal ot the Court established a watch, and caused the lobbi a communicating with tho rooms of the late mother of the Emperor to be occupied by the Palace guards. Next night the mysterious vision was again- seen by several persons, but vanished almost instantly. Another night the phantom showed itself to a second sentry, who fainted with tenor. Some day later a new sentry Baw the specter approach, but, more bold than his companions, maintained his tang raid, and aimed a blow at it with his bayonet. The specter thereupon took to Hight, but, pursued by the soldier, fell wounded by a bayonet thrust in the back. The guards and attendants hastened to the spot on hearing the cries of the wounded ghost, and found a beardless youth, who was recognized as a priest. The strangest part of this business is that the Court baa done its utmost to hush the matter up, and the soldier whose bayonet led to the discovery of the mystery has been relieved from his sentry dutieaand sent, as was said, t join a distant garrison. The Tagblatt, however, says he has been put in prison, and is now in solitary confinement. The clerical papers deny that the ghost was a priest, but, on the other hau l, it is alleged that he was one of the young chaplains attached to the palace and a tool of the Jesuits. Charles O'Conor Declines the Bourbon Nomination. Mr. O'Conar has written a letter, in which he positively declines the nomination for the Presidency tendered him by the Louisville Convention. lie says : " Whatever I might do in respect to any other office, I could neither accept a nomination or become a candidate for the successorship to Washington. Like many others which my taste and judgment have concurred in adopting, 1 know that these ideas are unfashionable. Every voice that has reached my ear concurs in asserting as Gospel truth tiiat ttie Electors cannot vote for any one but the nominee of a convent on who has accepted its nomination. So be it. 1 do not iretend to subvert estiblished usages, but self-respect and modesty unite in forbidding me to play, in these days of political degeneracy, the part of chief postulant in any such drama. Some censure will no doubt attach to this opinion itself, and still more to the utterance of it. I have long withheld it, and, if possible, i would now avoid expressing it. Many a man, the latcbet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose, has subscribed to a platform and stood as a candidate. Perhaps, however, it was in times less corrupt. 1 do not suggest or believe ihatanyof them did anything which, in their day and under attendant circumstances, was unbecoming. I know also that you, my fellow-citizens, and your highly-respected convention, has prefyibed to me no tests, but in con fortuity with usage.- not now to be parted from, you request me to accept a nomination and become a candidate. As 1 have said from the beginning, i must say, I cannot." An Aged Carp. The Journal des Dcbats relates the story of a marvel in the way of a fish. It is of a carp that has ju,t died at Chantilly, France, at the extraordinary age of three hundred and seventy-five years 1 If this be true, the carp was sporting in his native element when the Moors were being driven out of Grenada by the Spaniards, and was born some five years after Columbas first put his foot on American soil. Glass was not yet in use, and printing was not invented. It was twelve years old when Henry VIII. ascended the throne, and had survived ten decades before Martin Luther was heard of. This extraordinary fish belonged to a wealthy merchant of Chantilly, who bought it about a year ago for 1,300 franc. It was born on the estate of the Count de Cosse, in 1497, under the reign of Francis I., and has during its long life belonged to thirty two different masters. It had naturally become quite an object of history, went by the name of Gabrielle, and measured twenty inches in length. There is no knowing how much longer this creature might have lived, as it did not die a natural death, but was killed in mortal combal with an enormous pike. Its owner's little son was present at the fatal battle, but eceing in it only something to amuse him, he neither interfered nor called the domestics to separate the combatants. Lteblg on Apples. Justice Liebig, the great chemist, thinks that the importance of apples as food has not been sufficiently estimated or under stood. He ays: 'Besides contributing a large proportion of sugar, mucilage, and other nutritious compounds in the form of food, they contain such a fine combination of vegetable acids, ex trac ive substances, and aromatic principles, as to act powerfully in the capacity of refrigerants, tonics, and antiseptics; and when freely used at the -eason of ripeness, by rural laborers and others, probably maintain and strengthen the power of productive labor."

Current Items.

Indiana owes 3, 937, 2K I. Til colored voters of the eountrv number 900.000. The Elgin (III.) Watch Company makes 1,000 watches a day. Tub proposed tunnel under the Mississippi at Memphis is to cost 5,000,000. Kansas Citv is to have a grand union depot, which will cost half a million of dollars. An Alabama lady has worked a silk quilt for the State Fair with 20,(XKJ pieces in it. The photographs of Isabella Brusli, the American prima donna, sell for $4 each in Itayl. Minnesota will have not leas than 20,000,000 bushels of surplus wheatUo put in the market. Works on theology grow fewer and fewer every year ; works on science increase in geometrical ratio. Detroit chewing and smoking tobacco was manufactured in the last three months to the extent of 1,369,875 pounds, paying $291,771 tax to the Government. A sensible enactment of the last Mis souri Legislature provides that the doors of all publio buildings shall open outwardly from the hall, and be hung on double hinges. Girls are gradually working their way into all the collegiate institutions of this country and England. The Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia has elected a woman to full fellowship. In Iowa women hold offices sh notaries public, four are county superintendents of public schools, and one is State Librarian. Though not allowpd to vote, the Iowa women can be voted for, and be legally competitors with the other sex for an elective office. St. Louis is still uneasy at the pros iiects of becoming an inland city. The Mississippi still demonstrates toward Illinois, threatening to cut a channel around Bloody Island. The river banks, as high as the mouth of the Missouri, are in a state of serious dilapidation. The amount of logs cut in the State of Michigan last winter was 2.515,000,ÜO0 feet, or I84,')83,000cu jic feet, board measure. Of this amount 1,866000000 feet were put afloat in the log, and 3 500,000 carried by rail. The lumber is mostly pine, and is valued at from 25,000 OOO to $45,000,000. It is estimated that twenty thousand innocents are now on their way from California to the diamond diggings in Arizona. It won't be long until lueafl twenty thousand ragged, hungry, foot sore, and savage will be found wearily trudging the back trail, in a fit of humor for hanging the man who first set afloat the diamond stories. The Reputed Diamond Fields. A former resident of Arizona, who is thoroughly familiar with the so-called diamond regions, asserts that Arizona diamonds are nothing more than pecu ii'arly brilliant quartz cryst .Is. Of these he has repeatedly collected large quantities, for the amusement of the littbones of his acquaintances, among whom he has lavished incalculable wealth, provided quartz crystals and diamonds are synonymous. Even were the extravagant stories of the mineral wealth of Arizona to be literally tiue, it would be madness for any one to attempt to reach the diamond region except in company with an armed and abundantly provisioned aravan. The country is completely barren, and swarms with hostile savages. It any mat wishes to risk his health and wa-te his time in digging for diamonds, South Af rica can be reached by aim much .mora easily than Arizona, and in South Africa it icertaio thnt diamonds have been found, however few and far between such luckydiscoveries may have been. A Remarkable Story. A singular story is told of an appletree planted over the grave of Roger Williams, this tree had pushed downward one of its main roots in a sloping direction, and in a nearly "straight course, toward the precise spot that in' been occupied by the skull f Hoger Williams. There, by making a turn conforming with its circumference, the root followed the direction of the backbone unto the hips, and thence divided into two branches, each one following a leg-bone to the heel, where the"y both turned upward to the extremities of the toes of the skeleton. One of the roots formed a slight crook at the part occupied by the kneejoint, thus producing an increased resemblance to the outlines of a skeleton of Roger Williame, as if, indeed, molded thereto by the powers of vegetable life. This singularly-formed root has been carefully preserved, as constituting a vrv impressive exemplification of the rOOdein which the contents of the gmve have been entirely absorbed. Providence Herald. Ranger from Wet Clothes. Few persons understand fully fhc reason why wet clothes exert such a chilling influence, it is simply this: Water, when it evaporates, caniesot! an enormous amount of heat, in what i called the latent form. One pound ot vater in vapor contains as much heat as nine, or ten pounds of liquid water, and all this heat must, of course, be tiken from the body. If our clothes an moistened with three pounds of water, that is, it, by wetting, they are rendered three pounds heavier, these three fiounds will, in drying, o-irry ofl'as much leat as would raise three gallons of icecold water to the boiling point. No wonder that damp clothes chill us. Handicraft,