Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 6, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 February 1877 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DQaXS, rwbUther. - - INDIANA ITEMS OFJNTERKST. Perianal Literary George Eliot (Mrs. Lewes) is within two summers of being 00 years of age. John Lathrop Motley is iu Paris looking up historical authorities and literary materials. There died, in Aiiddiemiry, vc, a A granddaughter of John Kan lolph, of Hoanoke, Mrs. Tyree, has taken up the pen, and has written a book called Housekeeping in Old Virginia.1' Gen. J. K. B. Stuart, it is said, was exceedingly fond of song and of that exeroise which Mr. Dick Swiveller sportively terms "the mazy," and even when a Lieutenant-Goneral he was often seen riding at the head of his column with a soldier by his side, picking the advonturos of the "Arkansas Traveller" out of an old-fashioned banjo. Capt. Tames II. Eads, who is about to receive an installment of $600,000 for his opening of the mouth of the Mississippi, is in his fifty-seventh year, and a native of Lawrenceburg, Ind. At a very early age he evinced a strong taste for machinery, and at 11 constructed without any instruction a miniature ongino that worked perfectly with steam. He has struggled upward to the possession of a large private fortune, excellent health and thoroughly American taste, passing such grades as apple peddler, clerk, Mississippi wrecker, proprietor of the first glass blowing establishment in the West, and builder of twenty-seven iron-clad gun and mortar boats. A correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal ran across Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Sierras, in New York City, and, accompanying him to his den, there interviewed him. "Yes," said Miller, noticing that I was looking intently at the portrait of a beautiful, spirituelle woman, hanging just over his table, upou which were a thousand odds and onds of proof and manuscript, "Yes, 'Biz,' that's her you don't know her? Very few do, my boy. It's my One Fair Woman.1 "She's there every minute in the day and night, forever looking down into my eyes, whether they are weary or glad. She can't help it." I afterward learned that the 'One Pair Woman,' about whom there has been so much said and so little known, is Miss Antoinette Polk, niece of President Polk, and that Miller met her at Koine. KIfmcc and Industry Elk County, Pa., uses 40,000 cords of hemlock bark annually, and turns out 300,000 sides of sole leather. Large quantities of marble for building purposes are being shipped to San Francisco from Knoxville. San Francisco has shipped several cargoes of whoat to Australia and New Zealand thh season. Australia has heretofore been a very considerable grain exporter. The pine-apple is cultivated extensively in the Kast Indies, where the leaves are converted into a kind uf wadding, used for upholstering pur poses instead of hair, and into a sort of uaunel, of which substantial shirt and coats are made. T ho Germantown Telegraph recommends that farmers sell their produce when ready for market, as a general thing, rather than wait for highor prices m tau uiiuic, hm iu suriiiKse on corn and other grains is equal to 20 per cent., and 23 per cent, on potatoes. Of thu sugar crop the New Orleans limes says: i.he prospect is, from present indications, remarkablv fine. not only for a good yield, but for a good quaniy, goon price and economy m talcing off the crop. The yield of molasses will not be so great, but the quality will ho better than usual. The total shipments of petroleum from the Pennsylvania oil regions during 1876 amounted to 10,000,000 barrels. In January the price was $ 1.47 per barrel; in March it had reached $2; iu August it averaced :t..r5. Crude oil is new soiling at $3.60 per barrel at me wens, ami relinetl oil at $12,60 per barrel at the seaboard, netting the refiner a profit of fKJ per barrel. The fisheries are a source of great wealth to Ndw England. The whale business has filled the coffers of New lledford, Gloucester and Nowhuryport have grown rich by the produce of the sea. During the present season not u man .u.wumen nave boon engaged in New England fisheries. The .catoh of mackerel is poorer than that of 1874. Since October 1, cod-fishing has proved nearly a latmro, ami the returns are smaller than they were last year. Kcheel and entire. The kindergarten system has been introduned in the Government schools lor girls in China. The names at 1.12 vnuar worn on have been entered as students of the faculty of Medicine at tSt. Petersburg. -Professor Swing's society, in Chicago, naid him &7.U0O ami nald .S.(W) or the theater last year, and gave 1,000 seats, ami nasjRa.uw left as a nestegg for a building fund. .Of the 60,000 Chinese in San FranCisco, about 760 attend the evening uHHiiun scuoois. inree hundred nave

fw days ago, a cabinet-maker named Nahuiu Parker, in whose shop Stephen A. Douglas served an apprenticeship.

joined ohurches. Seven hundred are

member ef Christian societies and are studying Christian doctrines. Nearly 1,000 regularly attend Sunday-school, Mrs. Gen. Sherman is at present engaged in a movement to colleot mon ey in this country to be presented to the Pope on the fiftieth anniversary of hie entrance to the priesthood. The first Presbyterian Church or ganised inOregon was in 1846, with a handful of members. Now they have many churches, .numbering: 2.C13 mem bers, 1,188 of whom are Indians. The four members who composed the first church are still living and still mem bers of the original church. The United Presbyterians are tak ing great care to preserve the Centennial historical discourses delivered by the pastors last year. Each discourse is the reoord of a local church from the time of its origin. The histories of all the congregations in each Presbytery will be bound together, with a history of the Presbytery added, and deposited with the secretary of the Historical bo ciety. President itobinson, of Drown uni versity, says that we caa better afford to have a wooden head over a college than we can oyer a primary school. "Men," he adds, "go to college and utterly break dewn because their early education was not properly attended to, and it seems to me that the one rand error in our education is the n ;aken idea about elementary training. Make the studies interesting to the pupils. There Is a certain amount of good to be obtained from object teaching, but there has also been a great deal of non sense getting about in relation to it. We should not depend too much on object toaching, for the reason that all knowledge is not obtained by percep tion, and a large proportion of our ideas arc abstract ideas, which must be communicated by the teacher in another way." lis mad Mtehatia. A young man at Lockport. Pa., fa tally snot himself, the other night, while dreaming he was fighting burglars. R. P. Mills, aged 21 years, a stu dent at Tabot College. Council Bluffs, Iowa, committed suicide by hanging himself, unrequited love is supposed to have been the cause of the act. The wife of Judge Maynard, of Minnesota, who was visiting with her son-in-law in the village of Hillsdale, Mich., was burned to death by her clothing having accidentally caught lire from a stove. Tames Smith, of Cascade, Dubuque County, Iowa, while in the act of taking down a shot-gun from a rack where it was hanging, accidentally discharged it, the load taking effect in his wife's shoulder, who was sitting near by, in dieting a dangerous wound. Allen Poe and family, living at Koundhead, Portage County, O., went to church, leaving a daughter, aged iy, in charge of the house. By some accident, her clothes caught fire, and it is supposed she jumped into bed to extin guiah the flames. The bed was entire' ly consumed and the fire was getting under strong headway, when she was discovered, and it was extinguished. Miss Poe was found lying on the fioor, burned to a crisp. She was subject to tits. Ferclcn IVetea. The Prince of Wales received nearly a half million dollars in presents while in India, and yet he keeps owing .i .. i v.: r i liiuou Btiv uijii uiiia in iunuuu The King of Sweden and Don Al phonso are the only sovereigns in En rope who are of French descent Nearly all the others are of German origin. Mine. Offenbach detests music Mme. Verdi never goee to the opera: Mine. Gounod is a devout member of the church, and thinks her husband did very wrong to compoee any thing for tue stage. A married woman in Home, whose name is only hinted at by the initials G. L.. has oime forward and claimed part of the property of tho late Cardi nal Antonclli on the ground of being a relative oi iao aeao prelate. It is said that the railway officials in England are annoyed at the bad ex ample of the Marquis of Waterford in riding third-class. They tried to break him of the habit by giving a sweep a seat beside him, but lie simply bought a. unib-ciaeti ikikbv ior uie sweep, ana reiurnea ro ins former seat. It ie said that Earl Dudley, of Eng land, who is CO vottrs old, has offered to bet 2,000 to $25 that the son of Napoleon HI. will bo officially proclaimed Emperor of France during the Jvarl s lifetime, and that the odds were at once accepted by the Prince of Wales and by three other persons. When King Theodore, of Abvs sinia, committed suicide, the English officers found and brought away a little boy, tho son and heir of the dead King. The lad has been educated in England; in fact, the Queen has in a manner adopted him. Tho Prince of Abyssinia is now at uugby, visits tho royal house hold during his holidays, and is studi ous, but not smart. There is very fine whistling in the Temple Church on Sundays, says the London World. A legal gentleman, known for his tuneful pipe all over England, "obligesV regularly, by way of accompaniment to the ohoir. The effect is said to be very sweet and pleasing. It would bo a good thing to give some formal sanction to this practice in the next revision of the Prayer-book. "Then shall be said, or sung, or whistled," etc

Why the Cewprtailee wh Pi pared,

I WaitiKten Letter to Mm Kew York la order ta aimreelate properly the num propod for Minn the rreeldentiai ow lieatloa. It is well to bear in mind a few Mllent faets touching the general situation. The Senate amumed by its ewn power to abolish the Twenty-woond Joint Kttle, wbleh originated in that body In im, and under which three successive stations for President had been counted and declared. It wm maintained by Speaker Kamiall and ethers op that Hide of the House that the rule still exists aad could net be revoked without the concurrent) of that body. No new form of croeoedinK could be adopted without the co-operation of the Senate, where the majority was held tightly in hand by a few leaden. Mr, Morton refused to preee his bill of last year, and every possible obstacle was opposed to an agree ment ror a rair anu peeoeame count. .Meantime, the conspiracy which was organized immediately after Ilayee's defeat, had gamed headway aad assumed large proportions. It was backed by the whole power of the Administration, and troops were gathered in Washington to support rrauu ny roree. It was oDealv announced that if the two houses failed to agree upon a plan for count ing tne vote, me rreeiuem pro tempore oi the Senate would assume that function, and, upon the papers presented, declare Hayes President on the 14th of February. In the face of that usurpation the House would retire, hold there was no election, and proceed to elect Til den. Grant was prepared In this contingency, and perhaps before it f reached, to bring in the troops to uphold Kerry's decision, and to arrest mem bers of the House who would refuse sub mission to that outrage. As a result of these extreme and irreconcilable schemes, there was the probability of two persons claiming to be President on the 4th of March, when each would be sworn In, and of a revolution such as is now progressne" In Mexico, te be precipitated by blood shed at the capital. It may be said that the extremists would pause when the pinch eame, and refuse to take the linal leap. The answer Is that their preparations were made In detail, and still exist, lieyonu a few memorial h, meetings, and speeches, no organized opposition confronted this conspiracy, and Congress was rapidly drifting to the day for counting the votes, without the least agreement, or even pian ior sewing me difficulties. Under these circumstances the commit tees came together, aad finally adopted the compromise, which has been for some day's before the country. To those who fully believe that Tilden was fairly elected on the 7th of November, and that a combination was then formed to uerrauu tne people oi the rruits or ineir victory, any concession seems hard and unjust. There are many Republicans, not connected with the conspiracy at Washington, who think Hayes was chosen, because they have been deluded into the belief that the Tilden majorities in several States were obtained by "intimidation and violence." The extreme men of both sides, at the first blush, opposed the commission, and it is known that neither Mr. Tilden nor Mr. Hayes favored it. Indeed, that knowledge was one of the obstacles to be overcome. The fact that Mr. Hewitt was a member of the committee has no significance in this regard. He acted for himself, and not in any representative capacity. Mr. Morton's refusal to sign the report is a strong recommendation in its favor. Tills project is not perfect, and is open to various objections, but, taken as a whole, it is perhaps the beet that could be obtained, and has the ereat merit of insuring peace. Two chief grounds of exception have been taken m Congress against the bill. First, that it is unconstitutional, by delegating power conferred alone on Congress; and, secondly, because the clause relating to tes timony is not as clear and broad as it might ue. The bill expressly reserves to Congress the power which is claimed, though the Judgment of the commission is of course a a ft ft ft morally binding, and win nanny ue uis nuted. A commission on the sliver nucs tion, composed in part of experts, has been sitting for months, upon the authority of Congress. Two Senators from Colorado occupy seats, without objection, merely by the proclamation of the President, and without the approval of the State Constitution by congress, wnicn atone nasiae power to admit new States. Other instances might be cited, though these exceptions would not lustifvan Infringement of the Constitution now. But they shut the mouths of some of the present objectors. V hile there is a positive feeling in the public mind against mixing the Supreme Court in politics, there are questions involved in this controversy which may be vital to the decision, and which are no more political that the decisions upon the Reconstruction acts in 1S75. In fact the votes of Louisiana and Florida may be said to turn upon the legality or tho existence in one case, aad their acts In both, of the Return ing Boards. It is contended that no law exists ,ln Louisiana by which the Returning rioaru nas tne rignt to esavass uo election of Electors, and that if tHre is. It has been flagrantly violated by disregarding the plainest provisions, in order to make fraud easy and successful. The political classification of the Judges designated on the Commlisioa is nardiyrair. With a single exception, the whole present Court was appointed as Republican. Some of them were originally Democrats, and others were Whigs; but, except Judge uinaru, an were regarded as good itepuulioans. A life appointment and the habits of Judicial thought have doubtless produced cnanges, and the recent decisions may oe regarded as a great departure from partisan loyauy. No doubt is entertained that the five Judges of this commission will treat the law and the facts as they would deal with any other great case, and with a scrupulous desire to be entirely impartial. They have nothing to train. The evns of the country will be upon them, and no act will paes without scrutiny. The friends oi uotn can,' dldates will do wall, therefore, to reject every unworthy suspicion of their conduct, which wouiu impairing nnai juagmeni. What One f Tart's Maranak Did for the Came f Hayes and Wheeler. Washington, Jan. 24. United States Marshal Pitkin, of New Orleans, waa before Morrison's committee, in secret session, yesterday. He testified that he had nomine to do with the election except in aa official capacity, but finally admitted that he summoned a great many witnesses after the election to testify, and paid them out of what is called the court fund. He also testified that he had appointed m Deputy Marshals In the cityef New Orleans, and paidtnemoutoiamnd ror which ne maue a requisition upon the Department of Justice. He admitted that he sent a dispatch to the Chicago Inter' Ocean on a rumor that he had heard to the effect that a ballot box in Madison Parish had been Uken out of the coart bv the Democrats anil destroyed altheueh the rumor had not the slightest foHndatlo. He also admitted that he sent a dispatch te the New York lleraki to the effect that he did net believe there were 300 colored men in Louisiana who were Democrats. The dlspatohes Which appeared in the Intr- Octan and the

JItrald were produced by the ehaliman, and identified by the witness as being the ones he had sent.

Marshal Pitkin said that he believed a good many witnesses who were swora la the Custom-house, and wiado affidavits to be used by the Returning Hoard and the Sherman committee, were procured by his deputy marshals to further the Kenuhllean cause, and some of theee were probably paid ior so swearing, lie was required uy the chairman to furnish the committee with a list of the witneeeea brought to New Or leans by process served by him through hie deputies, which he reluctantly consented to do. He was asked to give his reason for declaring three or four days after the election that the State had Kone 8.000 Republi can, when it is known that it takes at least 10 days to bear from all the parishes. lie was not able to give a satisfactory replv,and endeavored to icive several very equivocal reasons for making such a statement. i Beverly Nash, Mayes fleeter in Setk CarelHM. The netrro Haves elector. Beverly Nah. of South Carolina, who testified before a Congressional committee that he was offered a bribe by Col. Chllds, of Columbia, to oast nis vote ior niaen, was iormeny a nave or the late W. C. Preston, and afterward a bootblack la a Columblahotel. He has been one of the most prominent political leaders of his race, has served as a State Senator during most, if not the whole, of the time since reooBstruetien, and, of course, has been mixed up in tne aisrepuuoie iraneactions bv which the course of lesrislatloa in South Carolina has chiefly been distinguished of late years. He is a fluent speaker, aad has a faculty of using funny stories and aaeeaotes in sis speecnes m a way w carry his dusky auditors by storm. Like the naoet of his white confederates, he has been grow ing ricn ati the people ior wnom ne aas ueen leKislatiasr have been sinking Into poverty, and any statements that he may have made in relation to saving reriised a onoe snouiu be received with caution. Col. Childs, whom he accuses of "having temp-ted him. possesses, on the contrary, a high character for Integrity, and as he has made oath that Nash's charges are laise, it win prooaniy require something more than the unsupported assertions of the latter to make any body believe his story. iVew York Sun, Lament f the Later Logan. (I anneal to any white man te say if he ever entered Logan's cabin hungry and he gave him not advice; if ever he came wellbacked and he gave him not office? Dur ing tne course or tne iasi long anu uiooay debate on the compromise bill Logan remained idle in his'cabin a candidate for reelection. Such was my love for some kinds of white men that my countrymen pointed as they passed and said, 'Logan is the friend of Morton.' I had ever thought to have staid for you in the Great Council but for the lnluriesof mv enemies. Their tom ahawks drank the blood of my friends in the balloting. This caned upon me ior re venge. I have sought it. 1 have killed some of my party. I have glutted my ven geance, isut wnai remains io loganr Where the eagle feathers in his scalp-lock r where the scalps at his girdle!1 Silent is his whoop In the Groat Council-chamber at Washington. Who Is there to mourn for Logan? Not one I" St. Louis Jlepubtican. Fewer ef Sympathy. Wednesday night at the Union Depot a coffin lay on a baggage truck waiting to oe put on to Lake bnore train no. o, when it should go out. It was directed to Mrs. , Parma, Jackson County, Mich, It contained the remains of the son of a woman who, in one short year, had lost evorv near relative sue r as sessed on earth husband, daughter and two sons. 1 his was her last son, who had just died in Cincinnati. She had been summoned to his side when he was suddenly taken ill, and had arrived just one hour after he breathed his last, calling vainly in the agonies of death for his mother. At times the realization of her terrible grief and loneliness would weigh down on her with such unbearable force that she would almost grow wild with anguish She paeed the floor of the depot impa tiently, and finally walked out and stood over the coffin, wringing her hands and moaning with grief. Another woman saw her and carao to her side. They wero utter strangers, but sorrow made them sisters. "Do not give way to your grief so completely" said tne stramro lady to tho poer woman. "How can 1 help it?" said she almost fiercely. " it is well enough for you to say so, but what do von know about sufforinc? This was all I had." "Ah, my near woman, !I said the stranger, taking her by the hand, " I know what sorrow is. Last week I buried all had on earth." Almost instantly the poor woman stopped her weepin?, grasped her com fortcr's hand eagerly, and waucea away from the coffin with her into the wait ing-room. , "iwill learn to bear it," said she: " but I did not believe that in this wide world there was one human being Galled to suffering like mine." Toledo Dem ocrat. A Tenh Hawaiian. Tho Honolulu Gaulle says : One of the Hawaiian sailors on the whale-ship Rainbow, a boatsteerer, who had just returned from a cruise to the Arctic, met with a remarkable accident during his absence. One day while out in his boat after a whale, the gun in the hands of one of the orew, who was to shoot the whale as soon, as harpooned, was accidentally discharged, and the bomblance with which it was loaded struck him on the back of the neck, just gracing the spinal column, passing between the carotid artery and the trachea, and making its exit through the middle of the inferior maxillary bone, which was badly fractured. Strange to say, this roueh treatment did not prove fatal but the wounds rapidly healed, and the man is now wholly recovered. Ilk name is Kalauku, alias Harry Smith. " Remember whom you are talking to, sir," said an indignant parent to a facetious boy. "1 am your fattier." Well, who's to blame for that?" said the young impertinenoe, " 'tais't me."

TtMi Ntary mf Tw Kf tatfs-WllH a A.

A Fortune Going Begging. The Story of Two Brothers - William A. Kinnilly's Will - Has the Kinnilly Clan Perished. (From the New York Herald.) Nearly fifty years ago two brothers. William and Edward Kinnilly, ran away from their home in Amberstburg, Lower Canada, to seek their fortunes, after the approved fashion of the story books, somewhere in the world. They were the children of an Irish sergeant in the Sixty-eighth regiment of foot British army, and had aocompanied their father to the various stations whither his regiment was sent from the time of his enlistment as a private at Castlebar, Ireland, in 1817, till he was ordered from Amberstburg to Quebec, in 1828. Some years before his enlistment he had married at Tipperary, Ireland, a young Irish girl named Mary Finn, and his wife, the mother of these two boys, had gone along with her husband wherever his regiment was ordered, making the best, as such women, do, of the inevitable hardships incident to their wandering life. She seems to have cared for the children kindly enough till the time of the regiment's removal to Quebec, when, probably thinking that the boys were old enough to shift for themselves, the parents marched away with the old Sixty-eighth, without even taking the trouble to bid a last adieu to the boys they left behind them. A kind priest, Father Fluett, took upon himself the charge of the deserted lads, and they remained with him, and were well fed and clothed and taught, till, becoming weary of the monotonous life of the quiet Canadian town, they ran away, as has been said. At that time, in 1830, they were well grown youths of nineteen and seventeen, respectively, and they had quite well defined ideas of what paths in life were best suited to their tastes. They parted from each other near the border line between Canada and the United States, one going to the South and the other to the West. The elder brother, William A. Kinnilly, came to this city, and, beginning at the foot of the ladder, rose by his industry to a position of affluence, dying a respected merchant in 1868. The younger, Edward Kinnilly, or Kinneally, as he was accustomed to spell his name, went to Ann Arbor, Mich., it is thought, and, obtaining a homestead grant, settled down; on his land as an independent farmer. No correspondence was kept up between the brothers, and the elder, on his death, eight years ago, did not know even whether his brother Edward was still living. WILLIAM KINNILLY'S WILL. William Kinnilly was never married, and in default of direct heirs, made a will leaving the bulk of his property in trust for the establishment of an orphans' home in this city. Twelve orphan girls were to be selected by the trustees of this proposed institution from among the deserving poor of the city, care being taken that they should be of more than average promise and intelligence, and that their early training should have been received from honest parents. These girls were to receive a careful and thorough education, and though the testator was himself a devout Catholic, it was expressly willed that the religious training should be non-sectarian. In addition to this charitable endowment, it was further willed that any surplus accruing should be devoted to the support and education of six destitute boys, who might be taken from among the poor of the city, or from those strangers who had come to it as he (the testator) had come forty years before. The remainder of his property was willed away in various Bequests, of which the largest, $20,000, was left to his brother Edward, or to his heirs in case his brother was not then living. The provisions of the; will were carefully carried out by the executors, and the legatees received their bequests, with the important exceptions of the Orphans' Home and the missing brother Edward. The trust eetablishng the Orphans' Home was adjudged void by a decision of the State Supreme Court, rendered in December, 1870, and the portion of the estate set apart for the purpose of its eatablishmeat reverted to the heirs of William Kinnilly, and, in case of the non-appearance of claimants, to the people of the State of New York. The mission brother, Edward, was widely advertised for and his heirs called upon to send in their names aad addresses to the executors, but no response has ever been made. Advertisements have also been inserted in Irish papers for the benefit of those akin to Jokn and Mary Kinnilly, the parents of the testator; but, singularly enough, among all the folks of Tipperary no nephews or nieces, or cousin of the family have as yet sprung up. Here, then, is a large fortune going begging, and nobodv who thinks himself or herself entitled to a slice. The Kinnilly clan should be speedily mustered in if it is desired to prevent the property falling irrevocably into the unappreciative hands of the people of the State of New York, in whose charge it remains at present.

hands of the people of the State of New York, in whose charge it remains at present. --Adonis : Miss Jones, do you think Brown so awfully ugly? Mies J,: Ugly? No.indeedt Why, we all think him extremely nice loeking! Adonis: Well, I was talking to htm on the stair just now, and a lady passed, aad I heard her say, "That's the ugliest man I ever saw!" and there was nobody there "but him and met ' Norway has a population of about 2,000,000, aad an area of 5,800 geor graph I oel mike. '., .ir

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