Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 1, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 January 1877 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER

0, DOAXK, ruslUhsr. - - - INDIANA JASPEU, ITEMS OF INTEREST. I'rmuiiHl mihI I.lt entry, A movement is making to procure the appointment of tho widow of (ion, Custer lis Postmistress at her homo in Monroe, Mich. Mr, Curl lo said to Professor Huxley recently: "You Darwinians are spending your lives in trying to prove that niou are descended from apes ; ami it needs moro than ovir civilization to prevent thom from being ogres." j Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Bret Ifstrto have, through their j publishers, tho American Publishing Ooinpauy, of Hartford, Ct., entered : Buita against porsons in Canada for infringement of copyright. Mrs. Coleman, the daughter of Senator Crittenden, of Kentucky, and the translator of the interminable Muhlbach novels, is a tall, majestic porson, strikingly like her distinguished father in feature. She lives in Washington. A German critic of Mr. Hawthorne's recent Saxon studios, speaking of the women, says: "I have my doubts whether a studior class of women exists in the world, from tho stout old countess to the hare-legged peasants." What a contrast to the French and American angelic but dyspeptic consumers of bon hons. Peleg Spraguo, formerly lo. many years Representative and Senator in Congress from Maine, anil subsequently Judge of tho United States District Court of Massachusetts, now lives in Boston, and is totally blind. Ho is the last survivor of tho memorable Senate of 1830, among whose mombers were Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Benton, Wright, Hayno, Grundy, Marcy, Ewing, King, Cm ton, Tazewell and Tyler. Speaking1 of the bore3 and impositions indicted upon the literary community, I am reminded of an incident in Longfellow' experience which is not generally known. Ho received a letter requesting kirn to compose an acrostic, tho first letters of which should spell " My sweet girl." The applicant added, " Writo as if it wore some beautiful girl with whom you were in lovo just as if it were for yourself." At the foot of the letter were these words, " Send bill." How gratified tho poet must havu been with such a testimony to his talent from an utter stranger. NcttBsl und Ctauretk. Thoro aru in St. Louis 26 kindergartens, with an average attendance of 60 pupils each. Tho Cherokee Baptist women havo formed a missionary association, pioug imr themselves to givo a dollar each yearly. At Roanoke Collogo, in Virginia we have the novelty of nine Choetaws entering, with a view of taking the full course. Professor Harrington, of tho Ann Arbor Unlversltv. Michigan, it is ru mored, has received an oiler of $4,000 a year to teach in tho imperial palace inUhina. JLA new American chapel is to be built in Geneva, Switzerland, in order te accommodato the crowds who can not find room in tho present one. It will cost $20,000, and bo finished next July. Thrco colored brethren havo been ordained as Lutheran ministers in North Carolina and one colored brother from tho African Methodist Church, Bishop John M. Brown, goes as a missionary to liayti. Tho Now York World prints a list of the principal bequests to the educational institutions of the higher class in tho United States during the last half-year. Tho total is something over $800,000. The Reformed Episcopal Church has 60 settled pastors. Some of these are in charge of several small eongro cations. There are four congregations in Chicago, five in Philadelphia, throe in Baltimore, and live in jew xoric ana Brooklyn. In the hall, in Boston, where the Rev. W. H. II. Murray preaches, the seats are sold for single Sundays at a price proportionate to the yearly rentals fifty ctnte being charged for the beet situations. Tickets, including reserved seats, aro sold in advance at one of the music stores in the city. NcleMce ad Industry. Detroit puts up 600,000 fish annu ally lor tue southern market. A. Massachusetts firm has had an order for 270,000 barrels of pickled fish from Germany. C. G. Atkins, of Grand Lake, Mo., will busy himself this winter hatching out 000,000 ash eggs. Tho cotton factory at Wesson, Miss., employs a force of 600 persons produces 8,000 yards of cloth per A California farmer has recently disposed of his wheat crop lor $U0H, 000, realizing a profit thereon of $200, 000. San Francisco consumes 00,000,000 oysters per annum. One-third of this vast total are transportud all tho way irom isaitiuioro. Tho United States Stamped-cnvel-opo company at Hartford now employs 176 hands, and turns out some 700,000 envelopes a day. Fifteen thousand salmon havo been placed in the headwaters of the Talla

hatchie River, Miss., and Pearl River is also to bo stocked in the same way. A Now Jersey capitalist has purchased 36,000 acres in Scott County, Tenn., and will lay out a new town on the Jlnoof the Cincinnati Southern railrond. Notwithstanding the extent of cart

ridge minpfiu'turo from American copper abroad, tho manufacture in the United States is the largest in the world, and at tho present very active, turning out 2,000,000 per day. A machinist of Cleveland, Q., named Charles Langsohmit, has invented a freezing machine in which no chemicals aro used, tho principle on which it is constructed being that air when compressed gives oil its heat more readily. Air is accordingly condensed to one-tenth of its original bulk, und, in this condition, is passed through small pipes surrounded by running water, which absorbs and carries off tho heat. Tho air is then passed into the freezing tank, allowed to expand aud foand to bo of a temperature of 20 degrees below zero. Hnpa and Mlahnii. -Alphoso Stacy, ono of tho editors Of tho Tecumseh (Mich.) Herald, jump ed from a moving train.thootherniht, Mill, HiriKlUg HgHlIIHl 11 WHlCT-lHnK, WaS thrown under the cars aud run over. He lived but a few hours. Christian Hanson, a well-to-do farmer, living near Northwood, Iowa, was a lew davs ago burned to death m his barn, which iiad taken fire, and from which ho was trying to rescue some of his stock. Henry Edwards, a vard-man con nected with tho kittle Miami Railroad, while attempting to uncouple some cars at Columbus, O., slipped and fell, und two freight cars and an engine passed over his body, cutting it in two. -On Thanksgiving evening Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Pierce, of Delaware Town ship, Sac County, Iowa, started to at tend a party, 'ino night was cold, and they were well wrapped in robos and blankets, upon their arrival at the arty, it was discovered that their little jabo a bright boy about threo months old was dead, smothered. Mrs. Nellio Hendricks, residing no ir Sacramento, McLean County, Ky., carefully and neatly attired her" person mm wniKcu oui io upmig near uiu house into which she plunged head foremost. Tho spring was inclosed in a hollow log, commonly called a "gum," with an inner dianietor of about two feet, about five feet deep, with a depth of four feet of water. The unfortunato womau was found dead in the gum, hor feet protruding above it, and her bon net and shawl hanging near by on the limb of a tree. No causo is assigned for tho deed. Foreign IVete. The infant daughter of the Duko and Duchess of Edinburgh has received the name of Victoria. All-Hallows Church in Bread Street, just out of Cheapsido, London, is to bo destroyed to make room for business. It is over 800 years old, and John Milton was christened in it. When an English Prince is born, a member of the Government, generally the Homo Sccrctarv. is reouired to bo present. Tho Duchess of Edinburgh's recent accouchement took place at Mal ta, and the Uovernor ol that possession stood in place of tho Secretary. Duriutr their short stav in Constan tinople the Emperor and Empress of Brazil received Hundreds of petmonsfor aid, written in a great variety of lan guages and dialects, On leaving they distributed 100 lire among some of the petitioners, and sent f-vil) to a chariU' bio institution. Tho retiring Lord Mayor of Lon don recently gave a banquet to 300 members of tlio dramatic profession, and told them that he regarded the English drama the most perfect in the world m variety of representation, in eluding Shakespeare, melodrama, old aud new comedy, burlesque and farce. Lucy Hooper tells how the proud French Baroness do la X has just been sentenced to imprisonment two yoars for stealing finery for her two daughters. The daughters have en tered a convent, and the young man who was to have married one of them has become a gloomy bachelor, neglect ful of ins clothes and extremely misan thropical. In the German Parliament a mo tion on the part of the opposition that prisoners arraigned for high treason, as in Count Arntm' case, should be tried by jury instead of the Imperial Court, was rejected by a large majority, also tho proposal that in the Polish provinces tho l'ohsh language, as woll as German, should bo admitted in the law courts. Odd Md Kuril. Companions in arms Twins. Doesn't a man contract a dobt when ho pays part of it. Never tell what a success you are Let some ono else do it, A mau who drinks lightly is now culled "a Durham," bocausu ho is of tho "short-horn" breed. Christmas "greens" Men who give their wives 26 with which to buy their husbands $2.60 Christinas pros cuts. u Look a-har." remarked a Gran ger to tho waiturof a Malu-Streetlunch room last week, " vour ooflee is 0. K. your hash is about correct, but ain't your eggs a lootlo too ripeP" A man swearing tho peace agains three of his sons tuns concludes his af fidavit: "And. this deponent further

saith that the only one of his children who showed him any real filial affection was his youngest son Larry, for he never struck lMm when he was down." The worst case yet la that of a youn New York gentleman wko visited New Jersey. He retired at midnight, after seven " hot apples," and he was found at 6 the next morning standing against the wall trying to pull tho mantel-piece up round his neck: and complainiug that " the clothes" were not tucked ia.

Popular Mistakes aheat War. "A popular impression has gained currency that General Hooker succeeded hi surprising General Lee at tho battle of Chaucellorsville, in his crossing of the river Rappaliannock. Genoral lee said to me (luring the ten days I staid with him in 1867 : ' 1 was much surprised to see your history of that i battle favor such an idea. It was no secret move of General Hooker's. As he was situated, it was impossible to toll whether ho menaced I rodericksburg or my communications. I had to wait till he showed his hand, as he did in crossing tho river, to mako proper preparations to oppose him. Indeed, real surprisos in war .are much lees common than is usually supposed.'" With the above incident, in his lec ture, "Reminiscences of a War Correspondent," delivered before tho lJrooklyn Teachers' Association frriday afternoon, Professor William Swinton, an ox-war correspondent, illustrated low necessary it is for historians to carefully study both sldos. " The com mon misconceptions ol what battles really are, are sometimes very ludicrous," said the lecturer. "An artist once asked me to criticise his picture of General Sheridan as he appeared directy alter his famous ride, uenoralbheridan was made to appear like a very Mars, whom he does not much roscmle. Ho has more of a Punch and Judy elemont in his character. In the picture ho sat on a colos sal eharger, was dressed in faultless garb, had epaulettes and a typical military hat with white plume, and nour ished in his band the traditional brand.' His soldiers wero in the form of a beau tiful phalanx. I felt like turning three or four somersaults round the studio, but contented myself with telling the artist that his picture would moro truly represent the original if Sheridan were painted with a crumpled army cap, with spatters of mud instead of spangles on his clothes, and his men in two small lingular linos behind trees, stumps aud rocks." "A respected New York City editor, now deceased," continued the lecturer, "visited tho front with a stove-pipe hat. The hat became tho immediate subject for fun and cunning Como out of that,' one soldier says. Another, 4 1 know you're in it, becauso I see your legs danding down.' Still another : 1 Boys, he's one of thom fel lows that goes up North and writes cords about us bein' eager for the fray.' in ono of General lirant's most impor tant interviews with General Sheridan the conversation ran much like this : Aro you ready, Phil ?' Yes.' Well, go ins' bcoros of important interviews between generals were no moro mag niloquentthau this." New York World. - n (JrazUg FlaiM la the Mesa. Every ono has noticed tho dark spots which mottle tho surface ol the fun moon. Those long ago used to bo considered seas, aud in the geography of the lunar orb went under such names as the bea of Tranquility, tho Sea of Nectar, the Sea of Serenity, the Sea of Ruins, and the Occam of Tempests. They are still designated seas by astronomers, for convenience sake, but aro known to be nothintr but vast mains hemmed in. in some cases, by lofty rugged mouutains. When examined, through the telescope some of those plains exhibit a greenish tint, strongly marked, but here and there difficult to catch except under favorable conditions. This verdant hue has excited speculation. If the moon has no atmosphere and no water it may arise from the color of the ground, but certainly can not indicate vegetation. If, however, the moon has an atmosphere the case is entirely altered, and recent studies of the state of the lunar surface have excited grave doubts as to its being nothing but an airless, waterloss, unalterable desert, a changeless mass of dead matter. An American scientific ootemporary proceeds boldly from doubt to certainty. "The moon," it observes, "is now known to havo an atmosphere of considerable volume And density, to present abundant evidence of physical aotivity and change, and to have in all probability water enough to make life easily possible on its surface. The moon is dying, but not dead. Being so much smaller than tho earth it has run its courso more rapidly, but it is still a good way off from that goal of ultimate deadness to which so many astronomers havo theoretically assigned it. There ia not tho slightest adequtate evidence, Kelson says, of the popular viow of want of life, and its truth would bo admitted by no astronomer who had devoted sufllcient attention to solenography to enable him to thoroughly realize the probable present condition of tho moon." If such is the case, the green-tinted plains may be nothing bat vast grassy regions covered with llocks and herds. Tho " mau in tho moon " may have abundant pasturage for his cattlo, aud many a shopberd-boy may be there seated on the ground, piping as though he should novor grow old. It is a pity we can only speculate. Reality is true romance, and if we know all that goes on in tho moon, astronomers would probably shut up thfclr books and break

Hew a FaskleaaMe WeeMlng Came te be Peatae". The Church of the Messiah, on Ninth and Olive Streets, opened wide its doors Thursday evening aud a throng of fashionable people gathered within. There was tho ruUe and murmur betokening animated femininity, and a look of expectancy on every face, indicative of a

pleasing event soon to be. Half a glance I was enough to inform the initiated it drawn ail these people into the house of worship on an unusual evening. The time for the ceremony came and passed, and patience gave out entirely. At was a prospective weuumg uia nan , last tho word passed down the aisle that iub wcuuuig whs on kior uie present, and those who had come tripping in smiling and expectant went away with their wonder-stricken faces, expressing, louder than words, the universal inter rogative, "What does it mean?" Dr. C. D. Owens and Miss Julia Wilgus were to have been married Thurslayovemng at the (Jhurch of the Mes siah, aud the preparations had progressed to a stage which made the con summation of the ceremony but a matter of a short ride, a march up tho long aisle, and a few solemn words at tho altar. Dr. Owens is a young physician who came here from South Carolina, a few yoars ago, and has moved in good society, being considered an honorable and spirited gentlemen. Miss Wilgus is a lady belonging to an old and high ly respectable family, having connec tions with some ot the wealthiest peolo in tho city. She is an heiress, havng boon left a snug property of $80,000, or theroaboute, by her uncle, who was a painter and lived in bt. Louis a great many years. Tho marriage has been in prospect for some time, but it is said that well meaning friends of Miss Wilgus inter fered somewhat and endeavorod to dissuade her from her intended nuptials. Failing in this it was suggested that a contract should be entered into by which the bridegroom should make certain pledges respecting the property of the lady. Dr. Owens, so tho story runs, treated tho matter delicately, and intimated that he was willing and wished to pursue a perfectly honorable courso. Tho preparations for the marriage went on up to a late hour Thursday. The contract was prepared by a lawyer, and previous to the time set for tho ceremony it was presented to Dr.Owens to sign. The course pursued seemed to that gentleman to savor rather strongly of tho practical, and in the course of the conversation the impression wa3 conveyed that the marriage would bo conditional upon the signing of the contract. Dr. Owens looked upon this as an affront, and plainly intimated that ho considered such requirement an imputation upon his honor ; it was putting him in thejight of a man whose word could not be taken, even by the one whoso eonfi dence and trust should bo implicit. At the residence of Miss Wilgus and her mother, on Fourteenth and Pino Streets, the bridesmaids assembled, and every thing was ready for the departure for the church. Only tho bridegroom tarried. An attorney was sent in search of him and found him seated in his office, coolly smoking a cigar. He quietly reiterated his position, declining to sign the contract under such circumstances, although at the same time declaring his willingness and intention to leave tho lady perfectly free as regarded her property. The messenger returned. In tho distracting conference that followed, time slipped away, lhe young lady was in the nanus oi tier friends, and they acted tor nor. w oru was sent to the church of an unavoidable postponement, the bridal veil and orange blossoms were put aside and the bridesmaids went home. Not the least awkward feature was the really grand collection of wedding gifts which had been sent, in unusual prolusion anu costliness, by the friends of the young couple. Society's conclusion is brief but comprehensive: "it is very un fortunate; what are they going to do about it?" Si. Louis Ttmes. 1 Were te Fareats. Not long ago a teacher in one of our Eublio schools was convicted of having ad in his possession certain vile pamphlets and pictures, which he used for the demoralization of his pupils. The man's sentence was a heavy one, but there was probably no father or mother in New York who would not willingly have doubled it, to be sure that their children were safo from the corrupting influence of such a monster. We wish Ui warn them, as we havo warned them before, that thoro Is just as corrupting an inilucnce daily set before children who pass through the streets on thoir way to school, which parents appear strangely to ignore. We mean the thish newspapers and cheap novels which aro offered for sale to half-grown boys and girls by their venders, or thrust gratuitously into their hands as they pass, with the corlainty that they will buy tho succeeding numbers. Very few girls and fewer boys, unless they havo been forewarned, can resist the tempting dramatic pictures of kneeling women with streaming hair, bravos armed to the teeth, etc., etc. The opening chapters seem harmless enough, and the boy or girl, reared most probably in a rcfiuod and Chris tian home, plunges unchecked into this onai of kitchen literature. Those papers and magazines to which we advert would not strictly fall under the prohibition against obscene puuli cations, and so they manage to escape the law: but the views of life they present are those taken from the grog-

i ii i . . pubh oations which the law prohibits accept the concealed poison in these without suspicion. When we read (as in our v changes of last week) of murderers of lourteen years old, of burglars of nine, of delicately reared girls in the first bloom of innocent vouth lesvinv their homes k ad coming to this city in the mad desirt for adventure, to be rescued on the yery verge of ra n. we can trace the motive oaase in every ease to these publications, or their dramatization on the boards of vario.y theater. In even the best class of juvenile literature belonging to the present day there is too much of fever and unrest. The child's brain, crammed and forced at school, is still further heated by tales of wild adventure or fantastic improbability, Robinson Crusoe and the Parents' Assistant are voted dull by our boys; even Scott's magic wand moves too slowly to enchant them. But if our beet juvenile literature be thus open to criticism, what is to be said of this the worst and lowest deep? We speak this warning advisedly to parents. It would be well if they would pay closer attention not only' to the books which are bought for them to study at school, but to those which they buy themselves to study outside. New York Tribune. Bales ef Table Etiquette. 1. Do not keep others waiting for you either at the beginning or close of the meal. 2. Do not sip soup from the tip but from the side of tho spoon. ;5. lie carol ui not to drop or spill any thing on tho table-cloth. 4. Keep your plate clean; do not heap ail sorts of food on at once. 5. In passing your plate to be reheaped, retain the knife and fork. 6. When asked for a dish do not shove but hand it. 7. When drinking do not look around. 8. Instruct the servant to hand the cup at tho left sido, so that it may be received by tho right hand. 0. Do not drink your tea or coffee without first removing the spoon from the cup to the saucer. 10. Use tho knife for cutting only; never put it to tho lips or mouth. 11. Break your bread into small pieces and rest them on your plate while spreading. 12. Do not oat too fast; besides giving one tho appoarance of greed it is not healthy. 13. If you find any thing unpleasant in your food put it asido as quietly as possible, without drawing the attention f others to it. 14. Do not open the lips or make any unnecessary noise in chewing. 16. Do not touch the hoad. 16. Do not rest the elbows on the table. 17. Be thoughtful of and attentive to tho wants of those about you. 18. Converse on pleasant subjects with those sitting sear you. 19. Do not say any thing not intended for all present to hear. 20. Leave yeur plate with ttiekiiuo and fork laying parallel, the handles pointing to tho right. 21. Never leave the table oetorc otuers without asking the lady or gentle man who presides to excuse you. Washington Chronicle. The Distance te the Saa. Light, which travels with amazing velocity, required eight minates to reach the earth. Sound would require fourteen vears to travel from the sun to the earth, so that if we saw aa explosion at its surface it would be fourteen years before we could hear it But if we could place a rod of iron from the earth to the sun and then strike it with hammer on one end the sound would reach the opposite end in about eleven months. But perhaps the most singular illustration of the sun's distance was drawn from the human economy. Seasation took a certain time to travel to the nerve centers, and if we oould imagine a human infant with an arm long enough to reach the sun it would take 160 years for the sensation to reach him after burning his fingers; ia other words, he would be dead several years before the sensation of burning could reach him. The sun's distance was so inconceivable that it was only by mak ing such comparisons that we could form any idea of it at all. fester Young's Lecture. The New York Tribune has recent ly published some statistics of tho cost of worship in that city. In one fash ionable church an assessment f b per cent, yearly is laid upon owners of pews, who paid for them ratos ranging from $JWK) to $6,000 annually, and those who only rent pews aro additionally taxed at tho rate of 13 per cent, on their valuation. This makes the annual rental of the highest pew $780, aud the lowest $a'J. in one church, where tue clergy and music cost $19,000, the income from tho pew-rents is $46,000 an nually, which sum is paid by o u persons who composo the entire congregation. Bishop Potter said miwntly the poor had but a small chance to hear the Gospel preached in the grander temples of worship. George Whalen, a gymnast, while performing at the Theater Comiqiu, in Cleveland, the other night, mis,ed his hold on a suspended bar, and fell to the stage with terrific forcu, injuring his spine so severely that iw ean not recover. Whalen is kaown as one of the Norman Brothers.

gop mtu gainoung neti ; 14 r yry tunwphwe is crime. A boy wko woald be s imply disgusted by the oiwn vie in