Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 18, Number 48, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 December 1876 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DCMNE, Tubliiher JASFKK. INDIANA ITEMS OF INTEREST. I'rraioial and l.l(rary. Greeley's monument, In Greenwood, will 1)0 unveiled curly in DA emher. Mr. G. W. .lonts, a eleaf mute, recently cnaited ,Shilock before an us. semblage f 'leaf mutes at St. Ann's Church i" Now York. Mint. Essipoil', tho Russian pianiM, wlii has just reached New York, is L'.' years of age, and described an pretty m l j'ltilc. llerreal name is Lcchetky. Mr. Emerson onco said to the Uev. pr. Wentworth: " I never regarded id) -elf as a poet; I am road only by the patient sufferance of the public and the over estimating kindness of friends." -Col. Walter 11. Taylor, of Norfolk, Va., who viit the Adjutant-General of (ii n. Kobert E. Icc, has been appointed orator s.1 the next animal reunion of the veterans of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Walt Whitman satisfies the :mporttinate utitograph-hunte'rs by informing ihciu that his photograph, with signature attai lied, can be obtained on sending ?1 to the Matron of the Orphans' Home at Camden, N. d. The proceeds an entirely for the benefit of the orphans. Edwin I loot h ended his engageniciit at tlte CaliforniaThcater onOcto-h-r I'M. lie afterward acted four nights in Sacramento. His season of eight weeks in San Francisco was brilliat.tly successful and largely remunerative. 1 he theater cleared upward of .'.", H.)0, and the actor must have cleared much more. The death is announced at Lucca of Mr. Charles I. Hemans, a hoii of Mrs. Ilenians, the poutcss. Mr. Hemans left KnIand in early life, and after residing in varions parts of the continent, finally nettled in Italy, and latterly in Koine. It was here that his chief studies were made in history and archeology. Mr. J. Hammond Trumbull, of Hartford, Conn., the famous scholar in the Indian languages, has in press a volume on the old " Illue Laws " of Connecticut. There has boon for a long time a dispute among Connnctic ut historians whether the Illue Laws" were genuine statutes or were a mock code written as a satire on the manners and costumes of the people of that State. Timothy Dwight, father of I'resident Dwight of Yale College, is G feet 4 inches high. His wife, who was the daughter of Jonathan Edwards, was so Mi) all that he soinetiiues carried her around on his open palui, held out at arm's length. On one occasion ho seizd a cart drawn by a yoke of oxen, and stopped it. Ho was ono of the giants of those days. Hi l ami liiductrr. Drying eggs is a new industry in I'issan, on the Danube. Large quantities of silver arc being shipped from Sin Francisco to Hong Kong. It is said that a wire1 netting spread on the roof of a building is a better protection against lightning than upright rods. During .September and October Norfork received llH.Uf bale- of cotton, an increase of 4'..k) ovci the corresponding months last year. A large New F.ngland establishment has just received a contract for the man-' ufacturc of t'loo.noo ho's for the Kussian army. What with contracts for guns in the I'nited State, knapsacks in Swetlen, and other war materials in other places, the Car makes things lively. A vessel sailed from Montreal the other day, laden w ith Canadian manufactures, mostly of wood and iron, and including furniture, farm implements, sterna engines, ami many other articles of utility, which have already found a market in Australia. The shipment is understood to be the pioneer of an extensive trade for which arrangements have already been made. The codfish caught off the shore of Newfoundland are split, washed, and laid on spruce boughs to dry. After the sun and air have bleached them white, they are assorted into merchantable," for the best markets, "Madeira," for sale as second quality, and "dun," or broken iish, for homo consumption. The fish exported to hot countries are Kecked by screw power in cases. Very large quantities are sent to countries as remote as (J recce, Spain, and l'ortugal. An immense amount of the costly products f Asia now reach the Cnited Mates and Furope via thy Pacific railways. On the loth, for instance, a Council Mulls paper notes the passageof 17 cars of tea; on tho next day it reports 41) cars of tea and two of silk, and so the. daily record goes on. The trade ff two hemispheres was turned from tho route it had taken for centuries by the opening of the transcontinental railroad. A great number of processes for imitating butter havo been patented, but tho product, was in most instances apt soon to get rancid, or too unlike the genuine article to sell readily. A now and better mode is said te have been devised. Fat is thoroughly pressed, forced through a line sieve, melted, and allowed to settle. Tho clear oil is then drained ofV, cooled, and churned with sour milk, nnnatto, and bicarbonate of soda, thus acquiring a flavor and odor

of butter. It is, lastly, worked ami packed in tin) usual way. 'i'ho substance really possesses all the qualities of butter, and is wholesome; but 11 druwhuck 'for the manufacturer is that

it hi to costs about as much. Mrliool ami (hutch. The friends of the movement to have Cod recogni.ed in the I'nited States Constitution will hold a convention in Steubenville, ()., Nov. 15. There are now 47 Young Women's Christian Associations in this country, which are formed on the plan of the Young Men's Christian Associations. Tho Presbyterian Church South has over fifty missionaries (male and female) laboring in Ituly,Crcccc, China, Ilra.il, the great Indiau Territory and elsewhere. ' From the recent census of Chicago, j taken by the Hoard of Kducation, il j appears that there are 15G private schools in that city, with 27,G.'57 pupils j and G.r3 teachers. i Father Dabury, aMethoelist preach-1 or at Kichland, Mich., 8.r years old, j carries on a farm during tho week ami preaches on alternate Sundays at two I churches G and 1'J miles respectively j from his home.ridingtoand from wttet-1 ing, every Sunday. The First llaptist Church of Pitts-! ton, Pa., is o old that on tho 21st of I December it will celebrate its ono hun-1 dredth anniversary. A grand reunion is announced, w hich, it is promised, j will comprise all former pastors, officers and members. The Virginia Conferer.ce of the M i' r . , . I- I li 1 1 ro ti s. .it h nn'tnmwiti v attiirni'it.1 the results of the meeting between the ' ( 'oiitnt,jsiiners "f th1 Moth'dist Fj'ijcopal Church North anl Fnise-opal Church South, held at Cape May last August, and say that they regard the action of the committe-e as an authoritative and final settlement of the question in issue, and binding upwn all ministers and members of the two Churches. The ld Haptist Theological Seminary at Greenville, S. C, has for a good many years had a tough time in maintaining its existence. It now sees a chance for life in moving to Ixniisville. An endowment fund ef 500,000 is to be raised for it, on condition that it will move. Of this amount .100,000 is to come from the llaptists of Kentucky, ..'00,000 of which has already been subscribed. The move is to le made as early as possible in 1H7. Meantime the in.titution will slowly elrag its way along at Greenville, in the aecustome'd style, longing for the day of its deliverance, and the entrance on its new life. laps ami MUhapa. A barrel of vinegar fell upon John Shelton, at .lanesville, Wis., crushing nim to death instantly. Paul Jordan, aged 1( years, son of Julius S. Jordan, residing in the suburbs of Memphis, was killed while hunting, by the accidental discharge of his gun. J. ). Lawton, aged 20, an employee of the ma'.t works at Fremont, Ohio, accidentally shot and killed himself with a revolver, while? hooting rats in the basement of the factory. Mrs. Trimuu'll's terrible mode of suicide, in Sterling, Ky., was to saturate her clothing with kerosene and set tire to it. She was leligiously insane, and bedieved that the flame s would waft, her to heaven without burning her. Gcorire Cocke rill was crushed to d :th at Whitewate r, Wis., by a piano falling upon him while he was loading it into a wagon. The horse started, throwing turn tlown, anu tho piano struck him squarely in the face', breakng every bone in the lower part of it. In Statesville, N. C, a few days ago, Miss Lelia Armtield, daughter of Lieut. -Gov. Armfield, a young lady about l'J years ef ago, was accidentally shot by her brother. He was trying te extract a cartridge from a pistol, and t Informer exploded. The ball struck heT in the forehead just above the left eye, entering the brain. Mr. Fannie Miller, ngeel about .'10 years, living 1 miles southwest of Iowa City, had been ill with consumption for many years. The ethor night she compl tinotl tha. she could not sleep, and told her little daughter, who was keeping with her, that if she had her husband's razer to put under her pillow she could sleep. The razor was given her about 10 oYlock. The girl woke up during the night, and found she was wet with her mother's bloexl. Her mother had cut her throat and bled to death. A few days since, at Frederickburg, Iowa, Jehn King and Andrew Goldsberry, two young lads, went to a blacksmith-simp to play. They found an old musket, which was taken by Andrew, while John tenik a crowbar, U have a sham fight. To make sure the

gun was not loadeel, several caps were j j,cr month to the credit of his dog and snapped under the hammer, and as it i nu,it.t pot hat incase of his sudden death did not discharge, they were satisfied it I they would have something to live upwas safe. Uut, unfortunately, when j The ethT lay the dog dieel and their play bogan, at the first pull ef the ! h,ft the mule full heir to the estate, trigger the gun was discharged, and it I The animal's relatives on tho father's i a I i t li ! . . . . .

contents eme reu me snouioeranu mngs oi .joiin, Killing mm almost insianuy. tVrlgn !Voa. A statue to Von Moltke has be-on erected in Pure hi iu, Mecklenburg, his na ivo place. It .s neiw reported in a certain cir I'll. I . .! cle in Fngland that Arthur Orton has been found alive in Australia, and that ! a survivor eif the Holla has also been found. This may lead to more Tichborno litigation. (n,t lt.lf, .r.l INm M 1 f,il.l 1w constituents in Fngland the ether day ! that one sailor only in each of Fngland's j i!5,000 vessels was an Fnglishman, andi

that the foreign crews in the next war would navigate tho ships to their own ports. The fuccn, during a recent Sunday drive near H ilinoral Castle, saw some reapers at work. the weather had been wet for a longtime previous urnl signified her opinion" that it was a worn of necessity running counter to the sermons of the neighboring kirk, of which, by the way, sbo is tho ecclesiastical head. The oldest member of tho English royal family, tho Princess Caroline, hereditary Princess of Denmark, completes, on Oct. i's, her eighty-third year, i bis venerable lady is the granddaughter of the. unfortunate? Queen Caroline Matilda, sister to George III., and married to tho King of Denmark, Christian VII., but subsequently divorced. The Queen was exiled to the town of Cello, in Hanover, where she died very young. The military force of Fngland, militia, yeomanry, and volunteers included, is reckoned at 470.7M), of which 1'J1,h:M are; regular troops. Tho navy numbers Co.ooo num. Germany has l,G87,0JO troops of all arms and classes, with a naval force ef 1. '1,000. Tho Austrian army, including all reserves.numbers 800,000 men, with about 14,600 in tho navy. Italy hal 75U,Ui0 men in the army, and 10,000 sailors; Greece, 40,00 land forces; Turkey can muster :i 10,000 fighting men ; Koumania, 5,0o0, Servia, 117,0u0; and Montenegro, j:i,0io. The late visit of Sir Salar .Jung, wealthy Hindoo Prince, to Europe cost over -:5.ro,(XHt, including the expenses

ef nis suite of lilty-three pers J f . . rsons. Much .. v UuA,ftr. nn.. 'mt,iliv , f h,.tpi received a rich gift, ami all employees ef railroad trains or trteaiu boats were likewise favorel. The captain of the steamer which brought the nalwb from India received for his wife a costly dress ami jew els which would have been worn with pride by an Oriental princess ; the ollicers re-e-eived rings and watches enriched with diamonds, and all the sailor?, firemen, and cooks each a gold coin. A Indon correspondent who recently visited the Fmpress Kugenie describes her as the model of an elegant, well dressed woman, and little more, her tall slip of a son standing by her side, loeiking, perhaps, more like her brother than her son, for misfortunes and reveries have certainly not aged her handsome fae-e. If I must state my impression, it must V-e that I was reminded of tho consummate grace and studied perfections of some of the stars of the Tt . ' Frane-ais, rather than any ideal i-'e.ir.e of fallen greatness. He'r life at C selhurst is quiet and simple. The Queen and the Princess of Wales pay her occasional visits, and French Imperialists when in Iondon make pilgrimages with violets in their buttonholes to Chiclhurt, and the grave of Naioleon 111. Odd mm I'.Mill. Toe rabtiit is timid, but no cook can make it quail. It v tho nair.e of what flowering plant did Hero greet her lover w hen he first swam the Hellespont? ()! Leander." Man," says Adam Smith, "is an animal that makes bargains. No othe r animal eloe-s this no elog exchanges bores with another." All hair-pins look alike to men, but let a w if e go 'X on a visit and co:ne home and find a hair-pin near the gate, and she e-an't w ait a minute to grow red in the fac1. When a woman comes to the dour and calls after her husband, " Heu-HF-F," finishing the last syllable in capita' letters, yem may know that she is not in a capital huurbr. A person by the name of llnino Tzchuck is Secretary ef State of Nevada. It is one ef those names that encourages inebriety, as none of his friends can pronounce it correctly unless they are drunk. The Centennial hotel clerk the same fellow who put you up in reom .r,'J04 on that hot night in August, )ou know is around now looking for a job, and will take almost any thing short ef a red-hot stove er a billiard-table. How wonderful is tho instinct of love, that even enables tho ena:iored yemth, from his remote eyrie in a thirdstory back window, to identify his enslaver's raiment lapping the free air of heaven on a neighboring clethos-line. The happiest moments in a woman's life are when she is making her wedding garments; the saddest, when her husbanel comes heme late at night, and yells to her from the front steps to throw him out some keyholes, assorteel sizes. A sheep-herder near Marysville, Cal.. has for some time iast been dei.sitinir in the bank the sum of 5.(xj i sj,i0 m,w b,.gin to prove up their con- '- sanguinitv. Ilmrk-t tf . I nn Ended hj a Fatal Itnllot. L. W. Neathe'rlin was going to his ranch on the Cibolo in Atascusa County, and W. II. Slaughter and several ther. hove in sight and began to play Indian, just for fun. He took them for Indians, ami halted and tied his team, and taking ambuscade awaited the npp roach to within Spencer rille range. The bravest warrior dashed ahor.el ef his fellows, and Neatherlin elrew a bead on him nml shot him through. (j'aiinton V(wa.

(0 I.OKA DO II0KK0K. The lrral ld of M Mtllran .-ln-MurilrrliiK a Man, if aud lauiclilr lu KM Itluuil A Ohastly kifHt. From the Itcovrr Tribune. Huerfano County has been the scene of a inoht brutal ti gedyt Inch occurre d Lst Wednesday evening, three miles iroiu La Vt ta, in which John llrovvu, a ranchman, and his wife were murdered iu cold blood, and a married daughter.

Mrs. Kice, received injuries which will irobubly result fatally. An unknown Mexican was the ntrpetratejr of the iletd, ami c-ry little light has yet been ; thrown up,n thefaflair. A son of .Mr. Drown maiies a statement to the c fleet that he, in company with Mr. W. II. Cribble, were out hunting cattle, when on returning hemic they were warned of danger by the cries ef his sister, Mrs-. Kice. Mr. Cribble, who was in advance, rushed tejwarl the house, and, w hen within thirty paws of it, di.se-overed Mrs. Kice lying in the acctjui'i. As Mr. Gribble rushed forward and raised the woman up, a Mexican near by jumped from his horse, savimr in broken hn?lisb. "I)ainn von. leave here." and tired two shots from i his revolver, which, fortunatelv. took I no (.-fleet. Proceeding toward Mrs. Kice, he administered two blows of his revolver on her head, and some kicks on her boty. iter iirother appeann upon the scene, and ('ailing to Mr. ( :til.Uf to run tut ). !inu. fur t h mn '

caused tho Mexican to mount his hTjrse i The other party wa.s a slender, b!ueand ri.lo oil". ; e yed girl of 1J. Her clothes were slightAfter removing his sister to the j ly countrified, but her face was inullihoue, she, iu her few moments of con- gont, and her voice low and sweet, sciousness, te stified to the following ac- j There was a homesick look about her count of the terrible tragedy : She said that I never like to see on any face, that this Meiesn, ei.sk i"" broken Fn- 1 (Special I v a yeune, fair ono. I walked glish, req"1-' A to s'tay over night, and ' ever t lier and sat by her side, and asked her father to go un and give his found her very interesting. Would you

horse some hay lie immediately went ! with him tej the corral, where he tilled him, and returning, attacked her mother witn the butt of his revolver, striking her to the floor, and hit her one blow on the head, after which she made her escape, followed by him, when, through faintness, she fe!l shri king in the ditch, out of which Mr.Giibb'e was endeavoring to raise her, when the Mexican again struck her with his re-i

volver, and she was insensible. her father's friend. General Smith, A corresjKndent of the Pueblo CAu'- f under whose care she waa now going l iin, who visited the scene, reports it as j to Ohio for a four-years' struggle with most revolting. "On arm ing at the ' the home-sickness and strangeness of log house ef tke victims," says he, " a 1 the world, ami the tough school-books, se ene of ghastly horror presented itself in one of our colleges. Talk of herowhich beggars all description. On the I ines; I will venture not one of you travfloor lay the murdered remains of the 1 eled girls would undertake such a feat aged woman, wife? and mothe r, her gray 1 as that? Six days alone in a stagehair matted and clotted with blood, and j coach. Your delicate nerves w-jld be gore coreriDg her face. Appearances i all unstrung, unless there happened to

indicated that she had Wen beaten to death with tho butt end of a revolver, the several incisions in her head prov-1 ing that fact. It was evident that the I i!d lady was preparing &uptfr w hen she I was so brutally aid savage ly attacked, and her struL''les were annarent freru

the bleKxl-marks em the wall, and her ' very like wht I supposed th o W fall toward tho adobe fireplace, into ! f c,une I have seen pictures cf them, which she-. In her death struggle, fell 1 an 1 father has explained to me every with her hand, w hich is burned almost 1 separate part e.f the engine, so I could to a charred eri.p. j w-11 you every section, an i expHin its "The next e.i.jcct which attracted :t-1 Use and connection with the whole, and tentk n wa the iltughte-r, Mrs. Venie 1 it was tb most exciting moment of my K co, who now lie in a very precarious life when I saw the great steam rnoncondition. Dr. W ashington, who had -ter rome puling up to me to-iay!" ecu summoned, "was bathing her j What tnink you ef this, young ladies? wounds an ! using ererv nmedy in his ! Could one e-f you tell any thing about power to relieve her snlle-rings. At an engine', ofV-n as ou have seen

o'clock at iiL'ht the bo.!vof Mr. Krown was taken from the erral and was A I'laee-d alon that ed his wife. heart-rending scene here took place, as the son g ive way at the sight of his poor murdeTid eld father, whose fracture el skull had evidence f premeditated murder. The old gentleman is over sixty years of ago, while hiswif.) was a!outtifiy-t.ve. Their daughter, Mrs. Kice', whose 'life is despair d of, is twrntv-fivei ears ef arc. handsome in features and robust in form. Her bus - band is unfortunately in the San .luan . - . - . . country with a jewel of freight, ami a baby of three er four months eld is now dependent for sustenance on the goodness of her brother's wife." The citiens ed Huerfano County are greatly (erciseel over the oveurrence, and eh-clare that the three-fedd murder Mhall by avenged. At List accounU the murderer had not Wen identified. Senators and Njmphs. Yesterday in the Art Gallery a gentleman looking at a picture hung high over the entrance read aloud the title, "Centaur Carrying oil a Nymph." A lady who had jut passed it turned hastily and looked again; then touched Ler companion and said in low tones: "Oh, Mary Emma! that is a Senator carrying off a nymph!" Yhv. dear aunt! A Senator carry ing off a nymph! Do they really elo such things? and she closed her eyes in herror. "Hush sh-h! often!" Oh, my dear, yes"Well, but Aunt lora, it can't be true ; the nymphs, you know why don't thev make a fuss er pomething, aunt? I never culd be carried off without " "No matter what you think, Mary Emma." said the aunt, shortly. " I was in Wii.shinuTten for two months once, and Malviiiia Carson was there for half a year, and such things as I saw," shaking her head wisely. Yem ought to hear Malvinia talk!" and she shuddered. Mary Emma reganlcd the picture meditatively a few moments longer, then, "Aunt," she said, "aunt, dear, I think do yem know I think I'd like to know a Se uator." Oh! you dreadful girl! that Isheu!d live to hear you say such a thing as I that! Have you forgotten your catej chism, Mary Fnitn.i?" i No, aunt; but I am perplexed, you

i know, stiid tho nymph do4-s she forget 1 heriuteeliisiu, or is the Senator's memury poor? Carried right ofT; dear me. Aunt Dora, I eion't understand it at all! Is it bcause the Senator is so very ; overfill and thenjmj h so very weak?" "Mary Krnma," wjleuinly, it' i Loth! Now h warned, rash girl!" 'Aunt," ir.noeently, 'did you ever know a Senator?" Dear me, Mary Fmma, tee how you havo caught y our parnsol in my lace there's another thread broken! I think we have U-en he re long enough.

us go to the bakery and get some collee" And they went, i looking perplexed Mary Emma still and puzzled, and 'Aunt Dora virtuously detiant. , Jt ff hii IaUit. A Youns Mr!' First View of the World, Tiring of the monotony ef this x-Jew (writes a lady corre-oondent of the Ioui.svillo CAirur-Juurr.ai)t I addressed myself to the two lady passengers who were my companioas in the sleet r. There were only five uisengers ir our car, and the .h'ly nearest O-iorgetown, me was a teacher from Coloradei, tn ruU to the Centennial, she was going for rest, she said ; she was so run down she could not sle'e p at niirht. She was of middle age, had a stern countenance, and had forgotten. if she ever knew how. to look n.ea-ant. believe, you young peop.e, who, at 10, have exhausted the pleasure eif travel, and find the world Vi;,that this young girl was now taking her first journey? She had never before been .'0 miles from home, but the brave little thing had bid her father and mother pood-bye at their rancho-house gate near Santa Fe, New Mexico, and had entered the stage and traveled alone six days and night without resting, and at 1 envcr was met by be a young gentleman with ytu. She was now taking her tirst railroad ride, y-t she sat as composed and graceful as though it was her fiftieth. She told me he r story in a fran, childlike way, but there was no brut'jufnc or awkwardness in ber manner. "The cars look i them? I confess I could not, and I sat jur.e iurat i'i"jn:ei vv ine siae ei i a 1 . t m tfiis learned novice in the wrld. I have hal several governesses from the Fist, but they got married soon, each of them, so I wn often without a teacher for a long time1, and at lat it was decided 1 should go Fast to schesil. I was feeling a little blue just now, when I got to thinking how far I I w as from home, and I do dread so the first eluy at frchool. 1 am so glad you 1 came to talk with mc Can you tell me j hew to act when I get there, and what : . 1 1 i r . i . . i it thev will do first? At school, I mean. So I tolel her all my experiences of collego hfe, ard especially all the cheerful, funny things about a boardingschool, and, of course, she would find out her dual, her school-girl artinity, I wh ? would not have & thought that was not shared with her, and I asked her to ' write me how she got along, and de ft .Tibe her dearest friend to me when she met her, as she surely would. So she is gting to write me for advice, and tell me all her experiences, and take me for a sort of worldly god-mother, t whom a letter will come much quicker than to Santa Fe, and I have taken to ray heart a blue-eyd protege, who is as enld a bundle of humanity as I ever met. She says her father livivs in an ad$t house one story high, with a porch all around it. The floors arc only mud, but thev have velvet carpets laid evcr the hard dirt floors, she has a very roexi ; and piano, and plenty of books, and often girls came ut from Santa Fe to spend weeks with her, and she has a b'ark Mexican lony nameei Ogarita, and parrota nad lots of strange pet. When we were crossing a river on a tine raiiroaei bridge, the impulsive girl caught my hand, exclaiming: There is a steamboat; the first one I ever saw." Sure enough, a small steamer was rounding a sand-bar, and bearing down upon us. She watched it as long a.s tho smoke could be seen. So all along she was spying semiethtng new, asking me questions which often I could not answer, telling me things I did not know, ami at e-ne moment surprising ma by her 1 ignorance, anel the next moment sorI prising me by her deep thought ami . knowleefge'of intricate se ience. A won- ; elerful little wejuian she is, and twice a.s charming to mo, as a rough diamond. than she will bo when polished ami ; s moot heel by school training and put in the regulation gold-setting of society.