Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 8, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 February 1877 — Page 3

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ITEMS OF INTEREST. renewal m4 Literary. -Samuel W. Small, the "Old Si" of Atlanta, Gh,, ha voluntarily suspended his papers, the Herald and Tdefrm, and reinsured the Vonutitutit with bis Ethiopian wit." ' Gen. A. J. Pleaaonton, originator an4 strenuoua advocate of the theory that blue glaas, interposed between tho sun and any thing that grows, has a wonderfully stinwlaUng effect, says that he has just had a new proof that ho is rigkt. He fell from hie carriage in Philadelphia, where he lives, and severely injured kis shoulder and side.

Physicians gave him no relief; but he.(,ut nowit ia t0 be cjroty onlarged, was cured by taking sun bathi under and lbe maicingof engines, boilers .iron

blue glass Miss Gail Hamilton says gayly thnt I her experience with free passes hasj been of the most short, slender, and spasmodic kind, but so far a it has cxtended it lias been one of unalloyed dolight. "It has always seemed a waste," she says candidly, to pay money for going from place to place, because you want all your money to spend when you get there. I have never yet refused a railroad pairs, and, Heaven helping me, I never willl" I saw at breakfast yesterday (writes "Gath"), Phojbe Cozzens, a slender, composed, fine girl, just rising the marriageable time of life, with exceedingly , rich eyebrows. By much eloquence her chin is getting a little pointed. She is at the Female Suffrage Convention, and yet is said to teach a Sabbathschool. On the whole, the only suffragist of that kind I ever saw presentable enough to tie to. Lovely woman with the ballot in her bands is a spectacle to delight the heart. But an old woman voting with a stealthy presumption against her husband, or because she hasn't one, calls forth the reprobation of the gods. Indianapolis has a "grievance" against Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, and her Polite Society" lecture wasn't well received tr.ere. The Journal says it is a case of "physician, heal thyself." Some years ago a lady of Indianapolis met Mrs. Howe in Washington, and was introduced to her. Simply recognizing her, Mrs. H. turned rudely away, and petulantly remarked to her escort, in French . Will we never have done with these people?" It didn't ocour to Mrs. 11. that a Western woman could possibly understand French. But she did, and immediately came to the conclusion that polite society is not always polite. Seheal and Chwreh. The Reformed Episcopalians arc about to form a Synod of New York. The city of Indianapolis has 50 churches, of which number the Methodists claim 20. The cost per pupil of the Detroit schools has been, during the past year, $17.70. The University of Berlin has this soason 2,490 students the largest number of its existence. A calculation has keen, made of the average contribution per member in the leading denominations of this country for foreign missions. The Methodists give 43 cents a member, tho Presbyterians a little more, the Baptists a little less, the Episcopalians 38 cents. A committee of distinguished Romans has been formed to make preparations to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the elevation ef His Holiness Pope Pius IX. to the dignity of tke episcopate, which event occurred on the i? 1st of May, 1827. A deputation will be sent to Home from every country with presents and offerings. The Catholic Church is making a special effort in the South. Ten new Catholic schools for colored youth have lately been opened iu Georgia, 15 in Alabama, 15 in Mississippi, and 25 in Louisiana. They offer board and tuition to colored young men and women, and to the poor whites, for $100 a year. State School Commissioner Smart, of Ohio, has issued a call for the meeting of the National Teachers1 Association at Washington, March 1st, 2d and 3d. The following subjects have been arranged for consideration : Organization of an educational museum and the provisions, plans and means for its operation; further considcrtion of plans for the publication connected with and growing out of the Centennial; proportion of popnlar educational facilities in the South ; proposed reduction of salaries; relation of the high school to tho public sbhool. Science anil lHlHtry. In a largo Iron manufactory in West cm Pennsylvania all the heat for smelling is made by gas, which is brought in pipes from a natural well 19 miles away. Capt. C. V. Gardiner, of Deadwood, 1). T., has completed arrangement wnereoy smelting wotKsoi the most ap t Rti. n the rji ' proven Kind will m established in th lilack Hills this summer ; capital 000. The latest uso to which paper is put is that of a protector of ships' bottoms. Experiments show that when a cement of water-proof paper is employed, it is the l)st and cheapest material kr protecting iron. The English manufacturers are beginning to use the American watchmaking machinery. At Birmingham the factory of the English Watch Com-

paaygiree employment to 900 hanc'e maklag watuhes by machinery after the Weemam and Elgin original. As an hidlcajtion of the hard times !n Germany may b noted the fact Utat the 32 largest iron and steel maatofaafeir ing companies in(tHe country met with a net loss on last year' business ef $1,796,, (KK) exclusive of internet and tho depreciation in th value of property, At a recent meeting ef tke Manchester Chamber of 'Comment, the President feteted that exoorts of Afenckester goods to - the United States, whiuk ioMHierly xft'erdiHl an excellent

market, were now .nil, and that there J m considerable trade in Manchester in cotton iabrios manufactured, in America. Celersdo hopes soon to become independent bf the Kast in tke matter of maaNfaetufed iron. There has been a foundry fersoiue time at Denver occu pies in turning out mining machinery, bridges and agricultural implements added to its products. Haps mnA Mlht.. Bad luck attended Robert I lay den, nf Pulaski. Kv. In1 one week his house was burned, his wife eloped, and, final ly, lie got unuer an overuanging rocx just in time to be crashed to death by it fall. Charles Kruck, aged JG, while standing with three companions on a bridge in Toledo, O,, the other day, suddenly sprang over the railing, striking upon his head, on the ice below, causing instant death. Thd whole party were somewhat intoxicated. No cause is assigned for tho singular suicide. A horrible accident occurred a few days ago in Plymouth, Cerro Gordo County.Iowa. Mrs. elson Page, ayoung married woman, wept to her husband's mill to call him to supper, when her dress caught in an upright shaft, making 160 revolutions per minute, and her brains were dashed out before her horrified husband could shut down the mill. Harry T. Bennott, a young man from Philadelphia, was on a visit to his friend, B. II. Clark, a clerk in the Taunton silverware establishment, Washington, D. C. They had been conversing for some time, when Bennett walked over to the water-stand and took up a glass which was standing there, partially full, as ho supposed of water, and drank the contents. His friend Clark, when too late, remembered that the liquid was a deadly poison, a solution of nitrate of silver and cyanide of potassium. The unfortunate man walked to a neighboring drug store, where antidotes were adniitistered, but they were unavailing-. Upon being removed to the hospital, he died in awful agony in two hour from the time the draught was taken. Foreign TVetes. Tho King of Holland has paid a very great compliment to the French actress, Sarah Bernhardt. He has presented her with a grand medal of honor, accompanied by a letter in his own handwriting, both being handed to her by the Dutch Minister to urance. Since the first of January a comfany of French players has been plnyn g in Berlin, for the first time during the War. The critics are unanimous in the opinion that only the French can play a really good comedy. The Berliuers are attending tke performance in large numbers. All but three of the Russian students who, on St. Nicholas Day, during tho service in the Cathedral of Kazan, made demonstrations and unfurled the red Hag bearing tho inscription, " Union and Liberty," "have been sentenced to penal servitude or transportation. Within the memory of tho oldest inhabitant, Paris has not had so mild a winter as it is now enjoying. Thus far there has been no really cold weather, and throughout January the temperature has been so high that flies and June bugs have made their nppearance, and the trees show signs of budding. Two or three such winters were noted during the last century. The Pall Mall G turtle says the results of the German elections are deeply discouraging to the supporters of tke Empire. Bismarck will still be able to command a majority by skillful maneuvering, but his successors may be unable to control tke Social forces, which have acquired such dangerous intensity. The results of the lections introduce an clement of immense peril into European politics. "Tnev can not but intensify BUmaiok's desire to see Russia dragged into an Oriental war, and in any uilliculty between Germany and France they will not make him desirous to find a peaceful solution. A good story is told of a well known broker, who, ou his way home from tho club the other evening, managed to occupy cous derable more thnu two-think of the sidewalk. In this predicament lie was met oy two seedy individuals, who first relieved him of his watch, and men tumtueu mm over m tne snow, I ie hvjTt there shouting for help, two ' er individuals camu along and inquii I "What's the matter?" "Why," ' then tumbled him over iu the snow. As othquired : said the broker, " here I've hie been robbed of myhie watch." 'Didn't th?y take your money5?"" askud the strangers. "Don't know," said the, broker, feeling in his breast-pocket for his wallet. "No, here 'tis hie monoy's all right." "Well, we'll take that, then," said the strangers, as they seised the wallet and disappeared around the first corner. Uommtreial Advmittr.

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An Awful OrftkMUm Whtoh AVHlMh KwHtirtii mn tas Way tm Cfclt. rraat OffMiMak' Meek e Awrlea. r Beekies -'tke M eon certs' I' had .agreed, to oondoot, there was a preaiee Ho Mile. Airneefor some of her peJouu&ncew m jiianriCK. xnuuiui ,u mj pledge, I took the orchestra -leader's bow in the theater where she was singin gin New York, and I belayed I had fulfilled my promise. , But when I got through the Philadelphia concerts, she told me she was" off ior Chicago, and begged me to play conductor lor her Once more at I don't name the oily, but it was on the route to Chicago, : -whither 1 intended going, and I consented. I got there one morning, and j the evening bill was "JLal Jolle Parfumeuse." I went to the theater for rehearsal, took my desk, bravely lifted, my bow, and they began. I knew the piece by heart, and what was my surprise to hear, instead of the familiar strains, some strange medley that had seareely an air of acquaintance with my operetta. Finally I made out the imlifit, but the orchestration was entirely new." One of the natives had thought lit to rewrite it. My first impulse was to leave the rehearsal and, throw up the engagement. But Mdlle: Aimee implored me not, telling' me that I was "billed," that the publio would be an-" gry if I did not appear, that the performance would be impossible, and so I gave ia. I took np my baton and started again. What au. orchestra that was! Little, but very bad. Of 25 musicians perhaps eight were very good, six fair, and the rest wretched. To be roady for any mishap, I begged a second violin to take a drum and I would give him some instructions in an undertone. Much good it did. There was no big drum in the orchestra, let alone in the orchestration. That was so pitiable a rehearsal that I renewed my attempts to get away. Useless. I had to Iwy and see my work executed. I'll do it," I said, come what may. God have mercy on my soul!" Oh, what a performance that was! Only one who heard it might describe it. My two clarinets went "quack! quack!" straight through always excepting where they should have done so. In the Blind Men's March," of the first act, I bad put in some false notes for the amusing effect. But my two clarinets they stopped dead and counted time. The genius who rewrote my music wrote this bit for the quartet only. Now, at the rehearsal, 1 had begged the clarinetists to play something, no matter what, in these interspaces, knowing as I did that the false cotes would come naturally. But I reckoned without my host, for the ruffians would not go out of their text. "Tnere is nothing written" was what they said. "But, gentlemen," said I, "the quacking' you do when there are no rests isk't written either. and yet you put your whole heart into it." Nay, it was impossible to argue them down, ho much for the clarinets. As for the hautboyman, ho was an improvise r who played now and then when he felt like it. The flute snorted when she could. The bassoon was asleep half the time. The violoncello and the contre-basso, placed behind me, wont out ol bounds and furnished an illegitimate bass. As I marked time with my right hand, I hit. first the con-tre-basso's bow, then tke violoncellist's. I sowed false notes broadcast. Tke first violin an excellent one was al together too hot, and brought the tern perature of the hall up to 40 degrees (uentigRUiui. uomouua mm, no was always mopping his forehead. "My friend," said I, in a stilled voiee, " if you desert m6 wo are lost." He laid down his handkerchief re signedlv and took up his fiddle. But the tide of oacophonv rose and rose thousand false notes happily, the first act was ending By Jupiter it was a euccsss a success dxHthoHstasme : I thought I was dreaming. But all was nothing compared to the second act. You see I had always in my mind my orchestration, and I turned to the left to the little flute which, according to rav text, should plav a little reniree. Not much the drum was in there and it answered me! My two clarinets, mierhtv ouackers. had to nlav. accord ing to mv version, an air In thirds. The other fellow had handed over the air for the iddlestothecornet-a-piston, who played false, and to the bassoon who was asleep all the time. Painfully we struggled to tke close, I in a sweat, saying to myself we should never get through. 1 be duo between nose and Bavolet wont every which way, but it went on. The finale takes in the duo. As that ends in C 1 had naturally made for the entvfee of Clorinde, who begins in B major modulations for C sharp, F sharp and E. The bass became A sharp. My little harmonic march had been orchestrated by the groat musician of , for the two mighty clarinets, the hautboy that didn't play and the bassoon. Hang that bassoon ! He slumbered more profoundly than ever. I gesticulated at his neighbor who woke htm up. Would I Had let him slcop. The beast, instead of sounding A sharp attacked an,E sharp with all the vigor of his lungs. Five botes too high! The unhappy actress who was slaving Oloriiuie naturally followed up there too, but the orchestra, which did noLgo mto details, kept on five ton lower. such Imagme the discord. I twisted on mv seat, sweating great drojw, and gestiu tuainig despairingly to oioridt aud my musicians. Just then a .heavenly in - sulfation came to mv stricken soul; . 1 made an emphatic and despairing ign to my drummer. He understood me,

and relied a roll. Ah, the heaven Hr

rell, fit to break glaec a roll SO bars long, which lasted to the ead ol tke duo, and drowned Ged knows how many false notes. Very likely the au dience didn't understand, .why the iMiuaie oi me nignc. ui a ziooniy sowmu. the drum sounded with all M force and'persistency. Possibly they(diob vereu in mai a mar oi, ui 4 composer 'a, Senms. indeed, it was , one, ana recited us. I can't "think; wfthcmt shud dering, of the cacophonous nm-laias which this roll so' sob&lygwllowed up." After this extraordinary performance I awaited, naturally, a deluge of hos tile criticism in tho newspapers. But no, there wa nothing bdt eulogy for my masterly power as a leader of orchestra! Kali Werth $1,&0,0 an Inek. An enthusiastic ettixeu declared yes terday that an inch of rain in tkis State was worth, a million dollars, lie certainly did not make an overestimate in tliM instance. -The; agricultural products of this State were worth last year not less than (970,000.000. With no mqre.ram than has .fallen this year up to the 10th of Jaauajift oaly the.-, fruit crop would have 'watured. Grapes would have done 'tolerably well, but the cereal crops would have been a failure. X ill cro ui ivhl iinjur. ui ittui, iu ctuitition to what has fallen in the.last two days, will be svfteient to mature most of these crepe. Now that the rain has come, it brings a promise oi more, it has put heart into the whole community. They will shape all their operations for a dry season one with just enough moisture to bring forward the cror s where the tillage is good. After the middle of January, and in a dry season, we can not expect more than four or five inches of rain at the most. If this is well distributed we shall get fair crops over a considerable area. Except on irrigated lands wheat and other cereals will be a failure in the San Joaquin Valley. Irrigating canals will be pushed by private enterprise, and those who can turn water on their lands this year will probably find their account in high prices for pasture, hay UIU iaiu. xutke wiuub juujnjwv wwi more, than twelve inches of rain will fall in any ol the. coast counties or in most of the interior valleys. It is reasonably certain that it will be relatively a dry season. The present rains will revive the pastures, which by frost and drought had been nearly ruined. The grain crops will be brought forward. In many instances grain sown late had not been sprouted ; in others it had germinated and died. Some fields will have to be sown again. But in most cases the rain will bring out enough dormant seed to make a good start. It is quite within bounds to say that every inch of rain which falls after this date will be worth a million of dollars to the State; and every foot of snow on the mountains will be worth nearly or as much more to the miners. San Francisco Chronicle. The Tengbeet GrasskeaeerYarn ef All. A disgusted granger who eame u yesterday from Sumner County, Kas., thus described ma experiments wua "hoppers:" "Are the hoppers hatching out? Well, I should rather think tkeyare! Why, down where I come from tke ground is all alive with 'em. Don't I think the late frosts will kill 'em? .No, X don't, and I'll tell jo why. To Udl the truth, I don't think any thing, 'oept bilin' or burning, wUl kill 'em. To illustrate: Last week I went out, into my plowed field, and dug up a spade full of earth where I knew the eggs were thick. I brought tho earthTlnto the house and put it in a box behind the stove to see how much warm weather was reouired to hatch them out. In two days the box was alive with 'em. Having heard that cold weather would kill them, I took the box of live " hoppers" out of doors and spread them on a board and left them out over night. Next morning I carried in the board, which was carried with white hoar frost every thing, as well as the grasshoppers, was covered with ice. I felt sure they were dead. But to fnrtKer'satisfy myself I placed the board beneath the sieve to thaw out, and I'll be darned if theur little hoppers weren't all alive and skipping about inside of two hours' time. Then I thought I would try the effect of water on the little pests. I had heard that rain had a very unhealthy effect on 'em. So I put a lot into a wash-tub of water and put trio board on top to keep them under water. Next morning I seen them all floating on top, back down wards, like a lot of dead tishes. 1 felt sure I had killed 'cm this time, but to make sure of it. I fished out a lot of the little corpses and put them on a hoard in the warm sun to dry. I know you won't believe me, but, a suro as hoppers is hoppers, I fcecn them little varmints get dry, and as they warmed up in tho sun thoy turned over and got on their feet and conimonced to hop and skip about like nothing had happened. That's why I rented out my place and am On my way to my father's place in Pennsylvania." Ivimkis City Times The world-renowned cast steel manufactory, conducted by Alfred lvrupp, iiyea employment) to io:ow men, more than 10,000 of whom are 1 immediately umoloved id the manufac ture of axles, wheels, tires and crossings for railways, rails and snniirs for railways aud mines, shafts for teatners,

machinery, boiler plate,, rolls, spring- answer was, " Weil, take t'" ot mm ' steel, tool-steel, guns, gun-oaiTiHgesyourself,' 'jng Town then hirfd'iUiiAti 1 and ttroicctilca. At the mines and to take care of him. but in a few" days

blasts furnaces 6,000 additional work . men find ccitstaut employment.

WOtiBERFtil. START tf TUB IHUtP. A a W aaavaaai afcae. at a flaVa MAalBAaa JKBaah4MLjajB M M m wwwmnmmw nvet leeeweTew wewwe"WB wtwm Nwallewa a 9prm What. Captain Drewar, of the bark Pauline, of London, who has just arrived at Cork from a long Tvoyafe, favors the public with the following account of an oeeaa naarrel : Bark Paulina, July 8, 1876, latitude 5 3 eg. Itt.jnin, nrth, .longitude 35 deg. west, Cape San. Roque, northeast coast of Brazil, distance 20 miles, at 11 a. m., the weather fine and olear, wind and sea moderate, observed some black spots on the water, aad a whitish pillar some 30 feet high above them. At the first sight I took all to be breakers, as the sea wag splashing up fountain-like about them, and the pillar a pinnacle rock, bleached with the sun, but the pillar fell with a splash and a similar one rose. They rose and fell alternately in quiok saecession, and good glaeees showed me it was a monster sea-serpent coiled twice around a large sperm whale. The head and tail parts, each about 90 feet long, were acting as levers, twisting itself and its vkHim round with great velocity. They sank, out of sight everv two minutes, coming to the surface still revolving ; and the struggles of the whale and two other whales that were near, frantic with excitement, made the sea in their vicinity like a boiling caldron; and a loud, confused noise was distinctly heard. This strange occurrence lasted some fifteen minutes, and finished with the tail portion of the'whale being elevated straight in the air, then waving backward and forward,, and lashing the water furiously in the last death struggle, when the whole body disappeared from view, going down head foremost to the bottom, where no doubt it was gorged at the serpent's leisure ; and that mon

ster of monsters may have been many mouths in a state of coma, digesting the huge mnuthfal. Then two of the largest sperm whales that I have ever seen moved slewly thence toward the vessel, their bodies more than usually elevated out of the1 water, and not spouting or making the least noise, but seeming quite paralyzed with fear; indeed, a eoTd shiver ran through my own frame on beholding the last agonizing struggle of the poor whale that had seemed as helpless in the coils of the vicious monster as a bird in the talons of a hawk. Allowing for two coils round the whale, I think the serpent was about 100 or 170 feet long, and 7 or 8 feet in girth. It was in color much like a conger eel; and the head, from the mouth being always open, appeared the largest part of its body. It is ourious that the whale, that lives on the small est food of any fish in the ocean, shoald itself be but a meal for another monster; for I think it as feasible that the serpent swallowed the whale as that the boa-constrictor can consume a whole bullock. t I wrote thus far, little thinking I would ever see the serpent again; out at 7 a. m., July 13, in the same latitude and some eighty miles east of San Roque, I was astonished to see the same or a similar monster. It was throwing its head and about forty feet of its body in a horizontal position out of the water as it paseed onward by the stern of our vessel. I began musing why we were so much favored with such a strange visitor, and concluded that the band of white paint, two .feet wide above the copper, might have looked like a fellow-serpent to it, and no doubt attracted its .attention. It was put on to keep the. vessel's side clear and free' from barnacles, which it does remarkably well; "and if the agitators about the deep load-line gain their wish, it would be both useful and practical to mark, ihenveseel thus, in place of disfiguring it with plague spots that would be constantly rubbed off. If the shipowners, with two competent surveyors, so decided, much misery, uncertainty, aad perpetual lawsuits would be avoided. While thus thinking, I was startled by the cry of " L'hero it is again 1" and a short distance to leeward, elevated some sixty feet in. the air, was the great leviathau, grimly looking toward the vessel. As 1 'was nob sure it was only oar freeboard it was viewing, we had all oar read)", and were' fully determined, should the brute embrace 'Ihe Paulinei 'lo chop awav for its backbone with alH'our might: and .the wretch might have found for once in its life that it had caught a Tartar. This statement kr striutly true, and the occurrence was witnessed by my ofileers, half the crew, aud myself ; and we are ready at hy time to testify on oath that it Is so, and that we are not in the least mistaken. A Serrewfnl Stery. An instance of inhumanity is reported from Hartland, Wis. An old man, M j ears old, by the name (it Abel, gave all of his property to his st- p-son, on condition that he would b l;cn care of as long as he lived. ThiK u Inter the old man was put into an oh sh-uny and an old stove given him, ti.e step-son furnishing him with a ucuitj supply of food from his coufortaba h um elosu by. Tho neighbor., fuu in o'jt how the old man was treated, called the attention of the Chairman of tub Town I Board to the case, who vislte tno shanty and found the old man m & pliable condition. The only cevei 111:4 ho had . wa an old feather-Wedf wtm'h only ! reached to his knftea, and during the severe cold weather his ftt ind lr.h and were mertifykig. TMriuhntan son was told that In had irH n take I better care of the old man, but his enly - ' tho old man died. Stop are hoingtaken

to have the lugrate punished.

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