Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 4, Jasper, Dubois County, 26 January 1877 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER

C. DOAJCI, frnMIflwr. - - - INDIANA JASPER. ITEMS OMNTEREST. I'crtaHnl Mtl Literary. Robert J. Burdette, the "funny mhb" of the Burlington (lows) Ihit'kcy, has made a successful debut as a lecturer. On the 8th of January last, Mr. George Knnpp of the St. Louis llrjmb-, Item celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his connection with that journal. Matthew Arnold ia a man of striking appearance an inch or two over six feet in height, broad-shouldered, large-boned and large-jointed. His bead is fine, his eyes large and gray In color, and his thick side whiskers and his hair arc dark brown. There is, in fact, little of the pare Saxon about htm ; his physique is ratber.that of the AngloNorman. Dr. T. W. Parsons the poet and translator of Dante, is one of tho few liternr) men of this country who are not forced to write constantly for bread and butter. He inherited a handsome fortune from his father, but gave up his profession some years ago. Ho is a very shy man and is rarely seen in society. There is a story about Miss Broughton, author of "Joan," which, whether it be trso or not, might so easily have been true that it is worth telling. It is thatshe had her first novel clandestinely published and handed it to her father (a dissenting minister, we believe), asking him casually what he thought of it, and that after looking it over he prohibited her from reading such books on the ground that she was not old enough to be uninfluenced by their morbid character. Jennie June says that Joaquin Miller called on her on election da, and was in "one of his most gorgeous moods." We believe her, for she also says: "He described his dream of a hoese (something like a Fiji Islander's), the fire in the middle of the floor, so that the occupants can sit all around it, and the one dish kept always in readiness for the porter-house steak, which the new Robinson Crusoe is to carry in his pocket, broil on a pair of tongs,1tnd thss live a gloriously free life without the aid of women or servants." Mr. Eyarts said in his address at the unveiling ot the statue of Daniel Webster: "l should say of Mr. Webster that if there were one single trait conspicuous in him and pre-eminent as compared with others which have made for themselves great names in history, it would be the abundant charity of his nature. He never assumed for himself in private intercourse or in public speech any superiority. He never tolerated in his presence, and he never practiced, cither evil speech or evil surmise." The music of " When this cruel war is over" was first written for a son; beginning "Darling, meet me hi the greenwood," but not published, and the author, Henry Tucker, brought it from its hiding place in 1861, and in connection with his friend, Charles Carroll Sawyer, wrote the afterward popular song. Tucker, who now lives in Brooklyn, cleared $1,000 from the song, the first few months, and thinks he would have netted $20,000 if his rights had been rcsiected, but it was reprinted i:i England, sent to the Confederacy, and thence found its way over the whole country. Science hh1 Inilttitry. Many men in the Wisconsin pineries are content to work for their board only the winter season. A wooden shoe factory is an enterprise lately undertaken at Hustisford, t)odge County, Wis. N'ew York City eats 70,000,000 of eggs per year and several millions more are consumed in morning drinks. Luseiou, bananas, for sale in the streets of New York, are ripened by machinery in Greenwich Street. It is reported that a new glass company, composed of foreign capitalists, will shortly build glass works in JetVersonville, Ind. A beverage made from tho leaf of the coffee shrub, instead of from tho berry, has lately been introduced into Australia, and is said to be superior to ordinary coffee. Between 17,000 and 18,000 alligator skins are tanned yearly in the United States, which are consumed by boot and shoe manufacturers, and many uro exported to London and Hamburg. A method of removing the bark from trees, when the sap is not flowing, by treating the wood with superheated steam, has secured for its inventor, M. Nomaison, iv prise offered by the Agricultural Society of France. The California fruit crop, the past year, has been unusually large. Fruit driers, canning factories and Eastern shiuments have kept pace, however, with the increased productions, and the crop of 1870, valued at from $6,000,000 to 9fi,OO0,OOO, has been disposed of at lair prices. Krfcoel ntttt Chnrnh. The first Sunday in Lent will be February 18. Miss Eliza Onus has leen graHted the Joseph Hume scholarship for proIciescy in jurisprudence In the London University College, It amounts to 20 year for three years.

Bishop Brown, of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is shortly to sail for Haytl, in order to establish a mission in that island. The West Texas Conference of the M. K. Church has been divided, the new district to embrace the English-speaking whites, to be called the Austin Oonlerenee. Bishop Herzog, of the Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland, has, since his consecration last fall, confirmed nearly 1,600 pet sons. The Grand Council of Geneva has acknowledged him as Catholic Bishop." The Bev. Mr. Hansom, the missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in Brazil, will settle in Bio Janeiro in January. The Presbyterian mission he states to le. in a prosperous condition in all the Empire. It numbers 800 converts. " llev. Drs. Wm. M. Taylor, It. S. Storrs, W. I. Muddington, H. M. Scudder, It. Palmer, Geo. H. Hepworth, David B. Coe, A. H. Clapp, Benj. N. Martin, Wm. H. Ward and several other clergymen of New York and Brooklyn have unitod to form, a new local Congregational association. Most of them Have withdrawn from the old association in consequence of its in

dorsement of Beecher. T. W. Higginson believes that enough Greek does stick to college boys to make the study worth the while. In many cases students have been able to aetuallj- read a passage in Greek six weeks after graduating, and there are several well-authenticated instances in which the capacity has taken a chronic form and adhered, to the sufferer through life. This is Mr. Higginson's experience. Prof. Sanborn Tenney, of Williams, has decided to lead a natural history expedition to the Bocky Mountain? during the next summer vacation. His party is to be composed of 15 members, principally from the Lyceum of Natural History, and all will'be required to prepare themselves for the expedition by careful preliminary work. Prof. Tennoy hopes to work up some important scientific points, while the other objects of the trip will be to enrich the museum of tho college and instruct those who accompany him. It will be known as "The Williams College Expedition." llnii MHtt MIihai. Mrs. Wm. Kay, of Anderson, Ind., was burned to death by the upsetting of a kerosene can while filling a lamp near the stove. Mrs. Charles McCarty, of Monticello, Iowa, was fatally burned while seated near a stove peeling apples, by a spark catching on the back of her dress. Albert Koeser, formerly barkeeper at the Republican House in Milwaukee, Wis,, shot himself through the head because he lost his situation. Walter Lewis, aged 12, of Bah way, N. J died in a dentist's chair after having had a tooth extracted. Ether was administered, but not enough, it is said, to render him unconscious. Mrs. Kochucke, of Omaha, playfully pointed a cocked revolver at Otto Decker, supposing it to bo unloaded. The weapon went off, discharging the only cartridge it contained into Decker's body. The wound was, fortunately, only a slight one. At Biddeford, Me., the other day, a man was shaking a jug of yeast, when it burst suddenly aud with such violerce that his right baud was torn in several pieces bytfie fragments of the jug. While drawing a pail of waterfront an uncurbed well, Jacob Sandier, of the town of Wauwatosa, Wis., slipped in head first and was drowned. The well was shallow, and the feet of the drowned man projected over the surface A five-year-old daughter of Judson Kerr, residing near Alba, Iowa, was burned to death a few days ago. It is supposed that, during the temporary absence of her mother, she attempted to stir the fire with a hot poker, from which her dress caught fire, as when discovered her clothes were all in flames. Michael Mulroy.a New York quarryman, undertook to thaw out some irozen cartridges of giant-powder. He sat down by tho stove, holding the cartridges close to it, when suddenly six two-pound cartridges exploded, completely demolishing the rear of the building. George Kallor, 4 years old, was instantly killed, and Mrs. Kallor and infant very seriously injured. Mulroy was badly burned. A horrible accident occurred recently on Mrs. Sherrod's plantation, eight and a half miles southeast of Marshall, Texas. A negro man named Bill Harris and his wife went off to visit a neighbor, and locked up their five children in the house., Tho oldest child was about, seven years old. When they returned they found that tho house had been burned down, and the children in it. Nothing but their charred bonc!s remained. FnrrtgH A'ete. Tho Swedish University of Upsalawill celebrate its four hundredth anniversary next yoar. Jane Goldsmith, grand-niece of Oliver, has just died in the Home for the Aged in Halifax, N. S. In Germany the usual pay to women engaged in manufacture is from 1 25 to $2 per week. Some receive as high as W, Quite an extensive business is done by Belgians smuggling tobacco across the border into France by means of trained dogs, who are intelligent and swllt-footed, and know precisely the

safe routes, and where to take the tobacco that is lied about them. A Yokohama paper announces the circuit of the world by means of correspondence in seventy-eight days, two days less than the time consumed by Jules Verne's hero. A letter dispatched via America to England was answered after a delay of three or four days, and tho reply sent to Japan via the Suez route, reaching its destination in less than 80 days. Lord Dsrbj' having refused to receive a deputation from the Anti-Slavery Society on the subject of the Turkish slave trade, the society will present addresses to the Emperors of Germany, Austria aud ltussia, to the King of Italy, and to the French President, requesting them to instruct their representatives te bring the matter before the Conference now sitting in Constantinople. Thomas Guthrie once related an incident which gives a striking idea of the overcrowded condition of the clerical profession in England some years ago. He visited Mr. Nisbet, the well known London publisher, and saw a

private carriage leaving the door from j which a largo bundle was given out. On passing this bundle, which lay in his foot, saying, " You'll not guess what that is? That contains cast-off clothing for the families of poor clergy men of tho Church of England. I receive and distribute a large quantity of them every year, ana they are moat thankfully received." Tho chapel known as St. Peter's ad Vincula within the precincts of the the adjoining hill were generally interred, but as they were buried in plain deal coffins without plates, it is somewhat difficult to identify the remains. Fortunately, however, the present Secretaryto the British Office of Works has given much study to tho Tower records, and has been able to identify some of the dead, whosa names are of., great historic interest. Lying far down I the nave was a coffin containing tho j which are probably tho remains of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, be headed byorder of Henry VIII. inlSll. Near the altar in a common elm-tree j chest, made to put arrows in, were the remains of another woman, young and f delicately made, which are without I doubt those of AnneBolcyn; and not! far from her were all that is left of Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, tho ' father of Lady Jane Grey. The chapel English architecture, dating at least as f arbsck as the reign of Edward II. Oilili hhiI Knits. Laziness is not always evenly distributed over a follow. You may have known a great many lazy people, but did you ever know any body who didn't use his mouth enough? Chicago Journal. Nine sewing machines and 50 ladies were in simultaneous operation at a Mount Upton, N. Y., sewing party the other day. They used up 48 skeins of thread, IK) yards of calico, and every reputation in tho village. They tell of a Burlington elder, a very explicit and conscientious maU, always given to explain himself very clearly, who began his prayer last Thursday night, "Paradoxical as it may appear to Thee, O I)rd." Hawkeye. " Pa," asked a boy, "what is meant by Paradise?" "Paradise, my son," replied Mr. Stanton, gloomily, "Paradise is the latter part of next summer, when your mother goes on a visit to your grandfather." Doiton Qhbe. Whittier thinks $50 a year Is enough for a woman to spend on dress. And when a married man reads this statement ho goes homo and tells his wife that Whittier is tho greatest poet who has lived since Homer. Norwich Itulttlin. A young woman recently answered an advertisement for a dining-room girl, and the lady of the house seemed pleased with her. But before engaging her there were some questions to ask. " Suppose," said tho lady "Now only suppose, understand that you were carrying a piece of steak from the kitchen and by accident should let it slip from tho plate to tho floor, what would you do in such a easeP" Tho girl looked the lady squarely in tho eye lor a moment before asking, " Is it a private family, or are there boarders?" " Boarders," answered the lady. " Pick it up and put it back on tho plate." firmly replied the girl. She was engaged. Cincinnati Saturday Xight. In his book entitled " Itambles in Galloway," Mr. Harper brings out tho following good story concerning tho Itov. Nathaniel McKie, minister of Balmaghlo. Mr. McKie had a habit of addressing personal remarks to his auditors m the course of his scripture readings. Beginning one day in Exodus, ho said: "And the lord said unto Moses snock that door; I'm thinking if yo had to sit beside the dooryersclf, ye wadna be sae ready leaving it open. It was just beside that Ycdam Tamson, the bellman, got his death o' cauld; and I'm sure, honest man, de didna let it stay mucklo open. And the Lord said unto Moses I see a man anoalh that laft wl' his hat on. I'm sure ye're clear o' the soogh o tho door. Keep aft' ycr bannat, Tammas; and if yer bare now be cauld, ye maun just get a grey worsted wig tike mysel; they're no sae dear; plenty o' them at Bob Gillespie's for tenpence." Of course, after this internolation he sibsettientlv read the Instructions in strict accord ance with the text.

Tower of London is now being restored, j In this chapel the State prisoners who died in the Tower or were beheaded on ,

AttAXEMNOX'S TOMB. Wander! H'hksh Inspire!! the Divine IWI r Hmer-Tlic Yeaael Hatrtmett 1m the Hemic Age, UlvcM wa lrlc Ik the rcelM Uamea. Dr.Hcnry Schliemann continues to inform the London Tim of the progress of his discoveries at Mycelial. Under date of the 28th ultimo he writes: I continue the description of the jewels, etc., found with the five bodies in the fourth tomb. Among the most interestingobjects of this sepulcher I

reckon the magnificently ornamented : goiuen uuttons. xweive are in iorm oi a cross, and one of them is two and onefifth inches large and three inches long; three are somewhat smaller, and the remaining eight are of a still less size. Of splendidly ornamented round gold buttons were found in all 216, two of which are two inches in diameter, seven are of the size of a 5-franc piece, and 207 are still smaller. All these buttons, the lower part of which consists of a bone button in form of our shirt buttons, must have served on the clothes of the deceased, whereas all which show below only a flat piece of bone or wood have evidently served to decorate the sheaths of swords, lances, etc., to which they had been soldered with tin or otherwise fastened. There were in all found in this tomb twenty-five two-edged bronze swords, sixteen of which are in a perfect state of conservation; four of them had handles plated with gold and richly ornamented. There were also found with the swords five large handle-buttons, four of which are of alabaster and one of wood ; all of them aio ornamented with golden nails. Further, two golden shoulder-belts, which were worn on the shoulders across the breast ; both are four feet long and two and three-fifth inches broad. There were further found two large golden girdle-bets ornamented with circles and flowers ; one of them i3 composed of two pieces. There was also found part of a similar belt and a child's golden girdle-belt, only one foot and four inches long and two and onefifth, inches broad. Further, a splendidly ornamented large golden handle, probably of a scepter. It terminates in a dragon's head, whose scales seem to have been imitated by square pieces of rockorystal.which are inlaid like mosaic. This is an object of marvelous beauty, of which Homer would have said, " A wonder to look upon." There were also found seven large and one small diadems one of tho former is ornamented with goldon leaves. All of them show splendid ornaments of circles and spiral lines. Further, four golden ernaments of the greaves, ulmost m form of a bracelet; one comb of bone in a large handlo or casing of gold, of the usual form as ladies wear it; one enormous, most magnifieently ornamented, massive golden bracelet, weighing 300 grammes. In the center of the ornamentation of this bracelet is soldered a separate piece of gold, representing tho sun with his rays. The size of this bracelet is so enormous that the person who has worn it must have had gigantic arms, it aiay nave been worn on the legs. Quite in opposition to the sine of the bracelet are two massive golden seal rings, the opening of whicti is so small that they would only fit a child of ten years. I, therefore, suppose that they ma) have been used as scab only. One of the seals represents two warriors on a two-wheeled chariot vith two horses, Which seem to run at full gallop ; one of the warriors is holding a bow in the hand and has just shot at a stag. The stag is wounded, and in anguish turns his head. The other seal ring represents a warrior who has just vanquished his three eno mics and is in the act of giving with his uplifted sword a last blow to one of them wounded and kneeling before him on one knee; the latter tries to part the blow with his uplifted hands and with a lance, which he holds in hisright,and seems to throw at his opponent. Another seems to be mortally wounded, for he lies on the ground leaning on both his hands. Tho third, who alone of all the four warriors has a helmet with a crest on his head', is flying utider tho cover of an enormous shield which reaches from his neck to his heels ; but still he turns his head toward his victorious enemy, and is in the act of throwing a lance at him. The anatomy of all the men is so well observed, their posture Is so faithful to nature, and every thing is executed with so much art that, when I brought to light these rings, I involuntarily exclaimed : " The author of the 1 Iliad ' and tho Odyssey ' can only have been born and educated in a civilization which could produce such wonders. Only a poet who had masterpieces of art like these continually before his eyes could compose those divine poems." At tho head of one of the bodies was found a large and heavy golden helmet, uub lb imu ucen iiiuuu crusueu, ami uau become nearly fiat under tho ponderous weight which pressed upon'it. In its present state it is difficult to describe it. On its forepart the openings for the eyes and mouth, as also a protuberance, or namented with small stars, are distinct ly visible, as also on the top of the hel met, tne tube lor the crost. The back part is beautifully ornamented with an imitation of the hair. The face of the same body was covered with one of the golden masks mentioned in my last letter, and its breast and sides by a one foot eight-inch loug, and one-foot broad, thick plate of iroid. which was no doubt intended to represent the coat of mall. There were further found 100 leaves of gold, cither of circular or vt utirsn-jirta mini, wun luipresseu ornamentation, consisting either or spiral lines or of circles. Further, three verv heave srnliUn hrt.rlni. of wbioh the one is fire and one-fourth,

the other five, and the third four isohes long. The last is crowned with a ram, the two others with aa ornament in shape of a helmet, and the heads of all the three breast-pins are perforated, probably to put in a flower. There were further found two masterly ornamented objects of massive gold in the form of crosses; also a large golden vase weighing 1 1 kilogrammes ; it has two handles, large foot, and ornamented with three upper and two lower parallel lines, between whieh is a row of fourteen stars ; further, a large golden vase with one handle and an orna

ment representing several beautiful flowers; another goldon vase with two handles; further, a splendid little golden chooW, a wine-can, with an ornamentation ofspiral lines. Further, six golden drinklng-cups, one of which is a drinklng-cnp with two handles, on each of which is a pigeon, each of the two handles being joined to the foot by two separate golden blades. This goblet reminds us of Nestor's goblet, which was also ornamented with pigeons (see Iliad XL, G5J2, 635). One of the other goblets is ornamented with parallel timings. There were further found two small golden vessels ; also eight silver vases, three of which are admirably conserved; one of the other five has its bottom and the mouth of bronze; below its bottom were found 100 of tho aforesaid buttons. I further found in the tomb thirteen large bronze vessels. This kind of vessel was held in high esteem in the heroic age, and we see them continually mentioned by Homer as prizes in the games. I suppose that to each hero were given in the grave the goblets and other objects which were dear to him in his life-time, having been wou by him in the games, or having been given to him by his host as a pledge of hospitality and friendship. There was also) found a large quantity of small perforated amber balls of necklaces and a bronze or copper font with three teeth, which had probably served on the funeral pyres. There were further found '36 arrowheads of obsidian. Nothing could give a better idea of the great antiquity of these tombs than these stone arrowheads, for the " Iliad " to know only arrow-heads of bronze (e. a. "Iliad," XIII., 650 and 0G2). Probably there had also been deposited bows and quivers in the tombs, but they would have been of wood and would have rotted away. To my greatest regret, among the thousands of gold ornaments there is not even a single sign resembling writing, and it therefore appears certain that the sepulchers belong to an epoch which preceded the introduction of the Phoenician alphabet. Had the latter been known, theMycenan goldsmiths, whose continuil efforts appear to have been directed to the invention of a new ornamentation, would have been, very ambitious to show the novelty of the alphabet. A second proof of the immense antiquity of these tombs is the entire absence of any vestige of either iron or glass, or of a pottery made on the potter's wheel. But the hand-made pottery had reached a high degree of perfection, such as has never been at tained here in later time by the pottery made on the wheel. The Slery el One ef Shelby's Xes, In the year 1805, just after the break ing up ot the Confederate armies, a young soldier, a member of Joe Shelby's command, accompanied by his father, arrived id uoraicana. The old gentleman had with him a large sum of money in gold. After providing liberally for his boy, who was then on hi3 way to Mexico, the old gentleman, whose name wasBently Irvinjr, sadly and sorrowfully journeyed back to his home in Missouri. The son remained abroad until a short timo since, when, upon the receipt of lettef and his father's last will and testament, together with the announcement of his death, he returned to the home of his father. It seems the old gentleman had inclosed a brief description of the spot on Rich land .Creek, in this county, where he hau taken the precaution to hide his treasures for the benefit of his absent boy. After a mournful visit to the des olated homestead in Missouri the young mau came on here, ana soon found the treasure a pot of gold amounting to nearly $8,000, exactly in the spot described in his father's directions. Young Irving took the north-bound train, aud is now, we trust, safe in his old Missouri home. Coriiaana Texas)

imtcx, A New Tribe ef iHrfiass Discerered. A new tribo of aboriginal Indians has been 'discovered near the headwaters of the Brazos, who have been so quiet that even their existence has heretofore been unknown to the Government or any of tho whites. They have never asked for ponies or blankets. Their tribe is called the " Plato," and they number about 500. They have been living with the Comanches, and have behaved likolittlo men. Very recently, however, they have notified Col. Hatch that they desire to go to Wescalaro Agency, at Fort Stanton. They represent that they are very poor, and that if they are transferred it will be necessary to furnish them two or three week's rations of beef and a military escort. They are to be transferred and fed. Dmver Nrm. i Somebody has discovered a bonanza of a cod-fishing ground north of Cape Harrison oil the coast of Labrador. It is 260 miles long, swarming with cod so numerous as to make bait 7 unnecessary, and of finer quality than ever Ukonln their usual haunts.