Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 18, Number 46, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 November 1876 — Page 7

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DO A HE, Publiihar. JASI'KK. INDIANA. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Personal anal I. Iltr.tr)', Mrs. Harriet Preseott SpolTord is described by a paragrapher as h " hirgeniinded little person, with beautiful eyes, a sweet voice, awl most refined ami womanly manners." William lilack, the English novelist, was particularly struck with the newspaper humor of this country, ami learned bv heart numerous witticisms of tho Detroit Free ir. The will of (he late Judge Hcllows df St. Albans, Vt., leaves SI 00,000 in (iitverniiieiit bonds to establish a col. lege in that city. Ho also leaves his residence there, as a site for the college. Miss Ada Sweet, who runs the Chicago 1 'elision Ollicc, is desciibed as true to her niime. Sho is never sour to those having otlicial business with her, and ihecin j!y'S have never heard a bitter remark from her lips. The testimonial fund for tho widow (f Haywood, tho cashier who lost his life in the raid on the Noithfield dank recently, has reaehed tho sum of l:t,0775, of which tins bank whose vaults lie defended with h life contributeil .", I,H)Philip Itoiirke Marion, nnc of the minor joets of England, and son of the dramatist Wcstland Marston is "JO years old and lias been blind since babyhood, vet he excels in description of nature, .lis sister acti as his amanuensis, and he has already published two volumes (f delicately imaginative and beautiful verse. He is tall and flight, ami his large bnwn eyes, though sightless, are very expressive. .lohn Morley says: "The best thin that I can think of as happening ton young man is this: That he should have been educated at a day school in hi own town; that he should have opportunities also of following also the higher education in his own town, and th:tt, at th' earliest convenient time, he should be taught to earn his own living ; and I never yet knew a man who was not th worse for university props und bribes." "Ouida," the novelist, has written to the London 7ijn disclaiming re--)oi)il.ility for the " original " dm ma, KtheiVi Kevi ngc, founded on her novel f " Sirathmoro." She protests against this travesty as the grossest and most injurious form of pbtgi.u ism ; states that she intends to M-nire such redress as she can under the present imperfect copyright laws, ami adds: " I have at all timer, refused permission to dramatize my works, considering as I do that in the present state of the English stage a novel must be alike caricatured in its characters and vulgarized in its incidents by any theatrical representation of it." A correspondent of the Chicago Tnliutu says that Joaquin Miller's conversation is full of fiery grace," and gives the following, which is rather funny than fiery: " Conway," said Mr. Miller, what a fellow he is for a story! He told that story of my going about in England in a red shirt and my trowers tucked into my boots. ou've all heard it, I dare say. There wasn't the slightest foundation for it. I never had any such costume with mc in England. I left a.l that kind of thing at the mines. I dined with Conway at a dinner party one day, and I asked him where he got such a story. He said that he picked it up somewhere, hut, if I would like to have him, he'd retract it. (), no,' I told him; it wasn't worth while, but I hated to have people disappointed. As long as they expected to w.-t me in thnt style, I was sorry to disappoint them.' " Srhool antl Church. The Methodist Episcopal Missionary debt is about $200,000. The Chicago Ad cane is warmly advocating iho right of woman to speak in church. Tin tp are ten students from North America in the I'niversity of Leipsic. The Boston Methodist ministers voted, 4o to Si, "that we hereby disapprove of tho policy of holding campmeetings on the Sabbath." The freshman classes at various eolleges stand as follows : Harvard, 216 : Cornell, 1(H); Vale, 150 ; Amherst, K5 ; Williams, C;t; Dartmouth, CO; Oberlin, 2; Trinity, .V); Hamilton, 30; Tufts, '26. Concord, N. II., has a population t lf.,(KK), of whom ll.ooo are said to J regular attendants at church and unday-school. There jire probably but few other places in the I'nited States where such a state of things prevails. The Kev. Ada fV Howl lma limn "'leeted by tho Presbyterian Universal!t Convention to preach the sermon at next meeting in 1X77. Mrs. Howies is described as "an eloquent preacher, devoted pastor, and an exemplary 'f and mother." A young Chinaman has been ad mitted to t he collegiate institute at Napa. Cal., without opposition from the "indents, who treat him as well as if he s of their own race. He has parted ith his queue, and dresses "alio sauio Pelican man." riiero are 121 theological semina rs in the Cmted Mutes : tho Congrega"malisti have 7. the P nwln ti't i'in j 1st jhe .Methodists 11, tho Baptists tho youuiun ttml I niversalists 2 each, "'' Episcopalians 17. flu 1 nt li..r ma li t!'' Koinau Catholics is, and other deO'uuinativni 17.

Dr. A. P. I'cahody, of Massachusetts, Hays that tho school system of a hundred years ago had great faults and even great monstrosities, and yet it did more toward tho proper education of citizens than do our present schools. Ho asks if there is not much time wasted in learning unimportant dates and names ia history and geography, and if

it might not he as well to banish all formal instruction in grammar. There is a talk of uniting tho four bodies of colored Methodists, viz. : tho African Methodist Kpiscopal Church, Zion Methodist Kpiscopal Church, tho Colored Methodist Kpiscopal Church, and tho British Methodist Kpiscopal. One thing stands in tho way of union: . l ft mere aro seventeen colored jsisuops in America, and some of them, in case of union, must bo reduced to tho ranks. Tho colored brethren can not stand that, and so some of the papers despair of its being accomplished. Mliti ami Imlutlrjr A Zurich printer has started a printing-otlico in which tho compositors are all women a great innovation in Switzerland. Four hundred thousand pounds of mustard seed were harvested during the summer in the Salinas Vallc, California, where Chinese farmers make the cultivation of mustard their sole pursuit. The outlook for cheap tea is good. This plant was only introduced into India 40 years airo, and already 2,oou acres are covered with it on the slopes of tho Neilgherry hills. The yield of the current year has been over 18,000,000 pounds; value, 10,(M0,000. It is estimated that the demand for cotton in Europe next y ear will exceed the supply. This circumstance assures fair prices to tho cotton growers, and is one of the signs which indicate the return of better times for all industries. Ilichard Ives, of San Francisco, has contracted with the Vulcan Iron Works for 4,ooo tons of iron plates to tie converted into pipes for conducting water from the Sierra Nevada to San Francisco, a distance of 120 miles. The contract will amount to about 2,00o,MS). - The rise in whalebone has made the West field (Mass.) whip manufaeturerers quickly feel the disaster to the Antic whaling fleet. Jb fore a like disaster occurred about two years ago, whalebone was selling for SI. 25 per pound, but it immediately doubled in prici-, and s.ico that time whips have sold at but little over the cost of making. Some Alabama cotton growers are try ing the experiment of sending ungirnied cotton to England. The cotton is first sun-dried, then pressed into bales as in the case of lint cotton, bagged and bound, and thus sent to market, seed and all. The object is to get the Knglish market for the seed and waste, as well as the clean cotton. Experiments have been conducted in Paris with reference to a method of autumn planting of potatoes, by which new may bo dug in .January. The sets are planted in August on :i thin layer of sslt, which appears to be the special secret in the process, and tho potatoes are earthed in Septemlier, the ground being cleared of weeds in October. The result is a crop of seven or eight fullsized tubers to each root in January. The ship Kra, rcsently sent to the Arctic regions by Philadelphia parties for a cargo of mica, also brought back ipccini' ns of graphite which is equal to that obtained from Ceylon and second only to the SiU-riau. This latter contains '.)( per cent, of carbon jnd 4 per cent, of iron, is used for the finest artists' pencils, and is worth $100 a ton. 'I he graphite found in the I'nited States is of an inferior quality. Ilapa ml Mlihi. Will Heilman fell 00 feet from a pecan tree, near Little Kock, Ark., and was instantly kilhd. Herman SballVr, a resident of Florence Township, near Sandusky, (., shot himself accidentally w hile climb ing over a lencc witn his gun. It was thought ho could not recover. .John Miller, a resident of the town of Scott, near (Irccu Hay, Wis., accidentally shot himself while out hunting. Tho charge went through his windpipe and jaw and lodged in his left eye, producing probably fatal injuries. At Leavenworth, Kan., a young man named Mathew Fit gibbons, aged 15 years, was accidentally' shot and instantly killed by tho. discharge of his gun. He was getting out of a wagon, drawing his gun after him, when tho piece was discharged. The shot entered his left breast, passiug thro'lgh the heart and lung. Ho lived but a few minutes. Two boy s, aged 12 and 14 years, sons of Mr. Theo. Jacks, who lives at White Church, Wyandotte County, Kan., while riding a horse, were thrown from its back. Tho eldest boy's head struck a tree and he was instantly killed, while tho other sustained injuries from which he can not recover. Frederick Wortman, a German tanner, while attempting to adjust a leather band to a lly-wheel in Iouis Kreeger s tannery at bmisville, Ky., was caught up by tho baud in some unknown way and whirled around at tho rate of Co revolutions a minute. His I. I a n .... an pans or nis body were mashed to a jeljy and cut into a hundred small pieces. Geo. W. Koran, art estimable citizen of Leavenworth, Kan., committed suicide on the night of the 5th. Ho wa-i under tho iuiluenoe. of delirium I

tremens and possessed with the idea that some ono was endeavoring,to murder him. He went to tho station-hou.su and surrendered himself and deliverexl over a derringer and his pocket hook and was locked in a cell. Shortly afterwards he shot himself through the head with another pistol. J. 1$. Laidant, a Frenchman, and his son Joe, living near McCook, Dak., visited a saloon at that place, becanio partially intoxicated, and engaged in playing cards, the son beating his father und winning two calves, which the old man had bet on tho game. Ho became infuriated at the loss, and, maddened by drinK, dabbed his son in the left breast with a dirk, the blade passing; about an inch below tho heart, causing" a dangerous though possibly not fatal wound. At Zionsville, Iioon County, Ind., a party of burglars forced an entrance into the house of Mr. l'itzner, who, being aroused, went outside the door armed with a shotgun, and, encountering ono of the burglars, who had been left on watch, shot him. He was found in the morning near the barn dead, his comrades having taken his watch and other property from his possession. A photograph of tho dead burglar was recognized as that of Charley Drown, a burglar who made his home in Indianapolis. Korrlgn .ol.

The Ki:hteenth Arrondissement, tho most beautiful quarter in l'aris, U inhabited by ono hundred Cnrsuses. The Kothschilds family, and all of the wealthiest financiers, representing a re markably lariro part of the weal'.Ii of France, have dwellings in this vicinity. A Turk, residing for the past eight months in l'aris with a seraglio of eight ladies, has been arrested. lie at lirst lived very privately, and his domestic arrangements were not interfered w ith, but the ladies finally formed acquaintance with others and created a scandal in the neighborhood. When Lord Duflerin went to a ball at Key kj ivik, he knew no Icelandic, and so hazarded to the your ladies some little complimentary observations in Latin. Dutheadds: " I can not say that I found tbat language lends itself readily to the gallantries of the ballroom." The Crown l'rinee of Germany has recently distinguished himself in the world of letters by a well written little narrative of his trip to Egypt to attend the opening of the Suez ('anal. The book is entitled "My Journey to the Land of the East in l'il," ami only forty copies have been printed and distributed among those persons who wi-ro the Crown Prince's traveling companions on the occasion. (Mil and I'.ikIi. Muttons on the feminine dress are smaller this winter. The old ones, worn a jear or two ago, make good quoits though some of them are too heavy to pitch over 10 yards. "What is heaven's best gift to man?" asked a young lady on Sunday night, smiling sweetly on a pleasantlooking clerk. "A horse," replied the young man, w ith great prudence. In consequence of the alarming war news from Europe received here yesterday, real imported Havanacigars in this city suddenly advanced from three to two for live cents. Ilnu-k-tye. Somebody remarks that young ladies look upon a boy as a nuisance until he is past the age of 1C, when he generally doubles up in value each year, until, like a meerschaum pipe, he is priceless. Christmss morning they stood before tho altar, and the music of the marriage-bells was sweeter to theiu than the music of the spheres. Christmas morning four years later, a baldheaded man jumped out of bed, half distracted, and wanted to know why his wife was suc h an infernal fool as to put a Christmas horn in that boy's stroking. UrvoUyn Argus. Professor Cleland, of (lalway, has issued a new work entitled "A Dictionary for the Dissection of the Human Body." Such a work supplies a longfelt want and must have a large sale. There is nothing more provoking and discouraging than to undertake to carve a human body, and, being unable to strike the joints, be compelled to twist a leg oil in a most painfully unscientific manner! The book will bo handy to have in the house. Sorristown Herald. They had a performance of " llonio and Juliet" at a Western rural theater last week, says the New York Commer ctaf,and when Juliet appeared on the balcony with a black eye, and Komeo came bounding in arrayed in an Ulster overcoat and a beaver hat, it was too much, and the audience, consisting of three newspaper men, fourteen farmers, and a woman with a baby, indignantly arose and demanded its money back. Henry Islop Mclvar, a native of Edinburgh, is a leader in the Servian army, llo has fought on four continents in twenty years, and almot always on the side of the smallest numbers. He gained a medal in the Indian mutiny, fought under (Jaribaldi ia DC'., under lx-o in 1H6T, for the Mexicans after the rebellion, with a little Indian skirmishing in Texas. Ho was in the Cretan rebellion, served in (.recce against the brigands, was in the patri ot army in Cuba for a while. and then nan a cavairy commann in i.gypi. lie fought in Franco under Faidherbe against tho Germans, turned up in Paris as a Communist, went to Herze i. - i i i . . . . t . govina as correspondent of a Imdon paper, ami is now a le;lcr of Seviau irregulars.

Close residential Election. Should the successful candidate owe his triumph to his having received the favors of a small State or two, he would not stand alone in the list of our consulares, for more than one man has been inado President of the I'nited States by a meager majority cast either in tho electoral colleges, or at the polls, or at both places. Our first contested Presidential election, in 17'JO 'J7, was decided so closely that tho change of two electoral votes would have placed Thomas Jefferson, instead of John Adams, at tho head of the Nation, as Washington's immediate successor.

j Mr. Adams had 71 votes, and Mr. Jefjfcrson 6H. One of Mr. Adams's votes I came from Virginia, and another from North Carolina; and had those two voles been given for Mr. JclTersoH, he i would have had 70 votes and Mr. Adams i C'J and the Virginian would have been elected by am majority. One of the electoral votes for Mr. Adams, chosen in Maryland, was obtained by only four majority; and had it been secured for Mr. Jelie.rson, he would have had 0'J votes and Mr. Adams 70, and the latter would have been elected by one majority. There were 13S electoral votes at that time, r about 17 less than one-half the present number; so that, should the successful candidate on the 7th of November, 1H7), receive eirht majority of the Electoral : College, he would be elected about as I O . f-l .1 I . a ... i e" .warns was eieeiea i-urtity U'eM x' Considering who an.U hat John Alanis eight majority in l7i wuuiit oe noiiung to ue asuameu oi on the part of either of our candidates and nothing to he proud of, it must be added. Mr. Jefferson defeated President Adams in MM Mil, vhen he had 7.5 electoral votes and the President C. or a majority of eight equal to about 20 majority in 1H7G-77. In 112-1:1, it change of 20 votes in the colleges would have prevented the re-election of President Madison, who received 12 electoral votes, while DeW'itt Clinton got 'J. In 1k:-5i;..i7. ir. V:u: liurcn would have failed of an election had there been a change in 2:J electoral votes, as he had but 22 over the number necessary to a choice and Pennsylvania, havimr .to such votes, gave him but a small popular majority. A change of .5.hmi, in that State's popular vote would have defeated him in the colleges, by sending ?' Whig Electors to the Pennsylvania college. As it was, Col. Johnson, the Democratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency, w as defeated in the colleges, In cause Virginia would not support him, her 23 votes 1-ting given fr William Smith, of Alabama. Col. Johnson was chosen by the Senate, the only instance of the kind known in our history. Great as were the popular majority and the electoral majority given ior wen. Harrison in 110-41, he would have been defeated in the colleges had it been possible to cnango some tight or nine thousand votes in the four States of New York, Pennsylvania, Maine and New Jersey. Those States ca.-t M electoral votes, which, added to the 00 such votes that Mr. Van Ituren received, would have iiven him just the number necessary to a choice, and yet there would have been h popular majority of more than loo,000 against him. The four States named gave a popular vote of almost 'M (nk.1, though their united majorities for (Jen. Harrison did not much exceed 10,uK New York giving him rather more than l.,(KX New Jersey about Maine 410 and Pennsylvania It was very close work, and there would have been great trouble had the Democratic vote been so increased as to defeat (Jen. Harrison in the colleges, after the people had so decidedly indicated their preference for him at the polls. Some men feared that there would 'ie a pronunciamit nto. At the election of 1st 4-45, Mr. Polk was chosen to the Presidency through the aid of the New York electors, who were :; in number; and as Mr. l'olk had 170 votes, and the number necessary to a choice was 13 the whole number of electors being 275 he would have had 134 votes, had New York decided against him. Mr. Clay had 105 votes; aud, had he receivea New York's vote, he would have been chosen by HI votes, or by a majority of only fivt votes. The Democratic popular majority in New York waa small about 5,UW, we think ; so that a small change there would have substituted Mr. Clay for Mr. Polk as President, and thus have changed the whole current of our political history for the last thirty-two years. In 11-'.) the change of ly electoral votes would have given tho Presidency to Gen. Cass, as ( Jen . Taylor's vote was 163 and that of (Jen. Cass 127; and some of tho Taylor votes were got by small majorities. Tho elections since lH-'. do not require particular mention. llolon TravtlUr. One Waj of Curving a Turkey, There is nothing a young married man likes letter than to go to a dinner at the bouse of a friend and to be asked to carve the turkey. He never carved a turkey in his life, and with an old maid on one side of him, watching him closely, anil on the other side a fair girl for whom ho ha a tenderness, ho feels embarrassed when he begins. First ho pushes the knife down toward ono of the thigh-joints. Ho can't find the joint, and he plunges the knifo around in search of it until ho makes mince meat out of the wlilo quarter of the fowl. jThci ho sharjHMis his knife aud tackles it agiin. At hvst, wiiilo making a terrific dig, ho hits tho joint suddenly, and the. leg llies into the maiden lady 's lap, while her dress-front is covere 1 with a shower of sUilling. Then he goes for the other leg, and when tno young Udy tells hiiu ho looks warm, tho

weather seems to him suddenly to be come 400 degree warmer. This leg re finally pulls ToObe with his fingers. He lays it on the edge of the plate, and while he is hacking at the winir he

gradually pushes the leg over on the clean table-cloth, and when he picks it , up it slips from his hand into the gravyuisn, ana spiasnes the e,ravy around lor six square yards. Just as he has made up his mind that the turkey has no joints to its wings, the host asks him if he thinks the Indians can really be civilized ? The girl next to him laughs, and he says he will explain his views upon tho subject after dinner. Then he sops his brow with his handkerchief and presses the turkey so hard with the fork that it slides off the dish and upsets a goblet of water on tho girl next to him. Nearly frantic, he gouges away again at the wings, gets thenoff in a niutilattd condition, and digs into the breast. Defore he can cut any off, the host asks him why he don't help out tho turkey. Itewildercd, he puts both legs on a plate and hands them to tho maiden lady, and then helps the younger girl to a plateful of stulling, and while taking her plate in return knocks over the gravy-dish. Then l.e sits down with the calmness of despair and fans himself with a napkin, while the servant-girl clears up and takes the turkey to the other end of the table. He doesn't discuss the Indian question that day. Ho goes home right after dinner and spends the night trying to decide whether t commit s'.:iciic or to take lessons in carving. I'iiladclj hia UulUtin. Dflring After Wealth. It only takes five minutes. You step into the cage, and the hand that guides the Titan at the surface touches the rein of the black monster, and you are plunging into the gloom. In a moment the lights of earth go out; by the glare of lanterns you know you are passing dripping timbers; the sounds from above grow fainter and ceac; the vapors rise from around you as from a caldron; you hcitr now and then a rumble in the depths, as though the dark spirits below were complaining that their tr asures were being thus taken away; you listen, expecting to hear the muttering gnomes which guard the sacred treasures; there conies a dance of the cage under your feet ; you know the hand above has touched the burdenbearer, and then the cage stops and you are more than a quarter of a mile beh w the busy city which you just a few minutes before left ; from trie dustyhighway you have stepped into the world's grandest treasure-house; you- hare passed from the temperate to the tropical zone in a moment you are in a bonanza. It takes but a little space to complete the transition; it takes but a moment to describe it; but the change is wonderful, and to one of a thoughtful mind the wonder increases with each returning visit. It is no little thing to work a mine lf5'J0 feet below the surface. True, there are broad avenues there; broad timbers which, like Atlas, seem competent to support a world upon their broad backs ; there are engineers at work and cars running; but every glimpse of a man there reveals the exertion necessary to keep this conflict with the spirits which guard tin buried treasure below. The men are stripped to the waist, those brawny deivers, with perspiration bursting from every pore and their bodies shuing as it is said the Spanish victims shone in the sunlightwhen stretched upon the top of Teocola, ere the Aztec priests tore out their hearts for a sacrifice. Those white breast have another significance. On the surface servile ra:-es may take from the laoorer his bread; down in that gloom there is no fear of c uupetition. The palefaces the e hold swav. There the Caucasian race is indispensable, for what is needed among gnomes is a steady brain, a quick, strong hand, a ruling intelligence. Those strongholds are not stormed until grappled with by the world's ruling races. It liniks pleasant down there in tho mimic streets and under the lantern's glare, but before those streets were opened there was in the stilling air a work perform ed which can nut be calculated. Picks were swung, drills were struck, powder was burned, men fainted and fell in their places; but the work went on. So it will proceed in the future, until probably after another sixteen years they will be worked 3.0oo feet below the surface as unconcerned as they now delve at the present levels. We pass through a long drift, and suddenly we tiud where the attacking column is driving iuto the ore. The sight is magniGcent, but for those in the Kst who fancy that silver-mining is a light thing to accomplish one visit here would dispel the illusion. A glimpse at the work, a glanjo at the machinery, a few thoughts of the study required to make a successful battle against the rock, the danger and gnomes, would suddenly reveal to them how it is that a firstclass miner has to be a first-class man, and how, after he completes his education below ground, he can seize upon the ordinary avocation of life as a student after compassing algebra is never more troubled by a problem in arithmetic. Hut we are on tho cage once more, the bell up above signals that there is precious freight on board, and in five minutes more we are oat of the depths, tho blesied sunlight comes to us again, the simmer strikes us with a chill, we are out of the depths, and h ive, done the bonanza. ' wider ( Col.) Cvuri-.r. An epitith on Savannah begms: lily!" a negro bsby at "Sweet, blighted