Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 18, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 May 1877 — Page 7

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0, DOJXI, Publisher. jasit.R. INDIANA. ITEMS OFJNTEREST. lVtKIIHHl HHtl Literary, It Is said Hint President Hayes is h good bass singer. James Cordon Bennett U amusing hinwlf In Algiers. Gladctono dhlacv for tluj has accepted tho eanroetorshlp of Glasgow University. Vietr Hugo looks halo Mini strong, and attributes Ids health to his love of cold water and open windows. Kate King, the materialization humbug, I'" gone on to tlio stngo, in a nhiy tailed. "Katie King, or Spiritualism Exposed." Tho granddaughter (f Daniel Webster, Mrs,' dames Oddcs Day, is writing Iter reminiscences of his early homo life at Marsh Held, Mrs. Muloek-Orntk's husband is 2.1 . vearsi vou nirer man sue. one is now a rk'li woman, having made of money from her books. u great deal John O'Connor Tower, tho Irish agitator and liberal member for the County of .Mayo, Ireland, intends to resign his eat in Parliament and settle in America. The most expensive paper in Pari.is the Art, widen costs J?2l a year in gold; the cheapest is the JSonnc I'chhc, a religious weekly, which costs only 1L cents a year. Tlie oldest journal in tho city is the Journal General tics AJichcx, winch is now in its 247th vear. Stonewall Jackson's courtesy was us remarkable as his courage, llis wife says: " He never passed a huh' on the street, whether stranger or not, "without raising his hat. One thing I remember of him: he never looked into u room that he happened to pass when the door was open not even mv own." a paiupiiiri, eniiucu " j w.aneo ai 1 the Future," and said to have been writ- j ten by an Austrian Archduke, has ereat- i ed much comment in Austrian military circles, Tho author considers that a war between Austria and Russia will be inevitable in case of hostilities opening between the latter and Turkey. He coincides with the remark Of (Jen. Feyedeff, that it will not be at Constantinople, but at Vienna, that tho Oriental question will be solved. So completely had Lady Scott, the jrreat novelet's "daughter-in-law, who died a few .Weeks ago', ceased to be remembered, that her name was omitted from a very careful work" Pod's Peersire, Baronetage, and Knightage." Stteft'fsfnlas he was In authorship, and in many other ways, it was the fate of N'Ott, as of so many others, to fail in tho utv point w ueh lie really had most at tv eenturvui Kngland who has a rcpreHtmtatife to-day in the male line. Selfiipo hihI I ml in try. In 1875 California produced over even million gallons of wine. A ves-el N loading at Port Royal for Holland. It will carry 4fl0,000 feet of bunlH-r, and will bo the llrst shipment thence to that country. -At the Southern ice factories beautiful wreaths of Rowers are artificially frozen into the center of blocks of ice of any desired size. The Permanent Exhibition at Philatelphi.i is an assured success. Even ot of spare has been applied for, and half as much again could have been disposed of. , Heforo the war the States of Misnppiand Alabama were tho largest 'ottoti.producing regions of tho South, imt neither one ever exceeded tho 0,50,1100 oale. l)i oduced by Texas last year. A IhmI of yellowish-colored paint, lovering an area of at len-t two acres, and having a thickness (f four feet, has I'H-n discovered near Cullman, Ala. The I'Uint is found to bo superior to ochre, a it can be worked without adding white lead, and can not bo surpassed for water tolors. There are now in operation in New Hiunpshiro 1,000 miles of railroad, lueu cost .?;ifl,OO0,000, and their net I'rohts are 91,000,000, or about threO Iff cent. Tho value of the roads now 110,000,000, and a large proportion of "vm do not pay one per cent, on their fot. A Canadian firm are ondeiivorinr o gut a,, order tilled in CharbKton . a., for 2,000,000 feet of sawed liunt uhiX fnp ,((;k -mi- tho tU'lland Canal. The ordor wnssent s,mth on account of the great dhnonIH,,f ' omo of tho niucesTtliOro being ?" VOllclently largo for tho pu l'se in Canada, Trials have been made in Rome of 1 1 .A,lion ,"f lilrit of calcium as n ibstituto for water in laying dust in Ireots, ami the results are said to have won highly satisfactory. Tho dampfan conmiuideatcd to the road remtdiis 't'n whole week. The road remains wmp without being muddy, tiraaonting J hard Surface, on which neither the ml nor the passing of pedestrinns or 'wi-sos has any effect? v.TTr,liJ l!Vbory """tiy in Georgia, Zih Carolina anil other Soutluu-n awtiM Is aliout t open, and the local l'pers are showing what a Immikiizh is

heart tb.. fonndim' of aVamliv it , I , f w u-rnH, aim wlio never returneu to , """""pr " " ; n iw "e I ittleiohn " hi tlaii'diter's (W ljuk hirncd Mormon, liecomo Rroth-' n"ent. list's) son. had the same fate. . Scott is Axtell, nnd is now playing the part ( -It is proposed in Franw to sui.tdy to-dav reinvented at Ablwtsfonl hv hu f H Mon,,OM 'h,ux t,,e Hairtift, crying , .1h1m of gun cotton as jmrt of the cMVMlry Vr .. .t'JA.. ..V. - . . V"s aloiid in the wilderness of New Mexico equipment, to be carried in a sort of

Maxw7n-Ho M.-S")tt This hlv U iZ mA "'"Injrthe nathsstmight for aMor- waist belt, and used, if necessary, foi child of Mr. LK'kiiart's daughter. There 1,1011 exoms 10 lhat Tr"tr j t ,., destruction of railways, stockades, is scarcely : liiiiii-y..l.ritvV.f ti... ut t Miss Oil ley, a vounsr Western ladviut.

The litcontainluir oniy anoiii 2,wu mnainianm, lias snippod during three years over 8,000,000 pounds of dried blaeklMsrrles, for which nearly half a million dollar was received. This was equal to over 9,000 lwlea of cotton at 10 cents a pound, and is a resource certainly not to lie despised. Mr, Robert Rankin, of Southern Illinois, hits, for a long time, been a fruit grower and fanner, and during the past sixteen years his sale of prolucts have footed up aw follows: Wheat, $U),W.i,71; cattle, t4,!W8.8fi; horses, 10. If) ; hogs, flH.OWMM; apples, .1,00o,i2 ; peaches, 10,08.5.4 7; grapes, 2,400,06; or, in round numbers: Craln, $11,018.-. 10; fnilt, 2.1,138.4. The amount of laud devoted to grain was 2 to acres, and only 2.'1 acres to fruit. The average Tlio average proceed per acre he gives for apples, 138.07; grapw,.oUo; poaches, 70.77 ; gram, ifiu.on. Ross Winans, oniriiieor, inventor and millionaire, who has just died at Baltimore, was a remarkable character. Perhaps his most notable invention was the "camel back engine,1' used to take trains across the heavy irradea of the Alj leghanies, lie was invited J10 years ago to hinld luusia's railroads, but declined, sending his sons, wlio planned and executed the Russian railroad system. He went abroad because of his Southern sympathies during the war, ami since his return had written several books. Tho mechanical genius of the family has developed itself in n score of inventions, more or less important. The chemical properties of buttorinn, properly prepared from ox-suet, are almost identical with those of ordinary

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butter, the only difference) being a few been looking, and was fatally injured, tier cent, of volatile fatty acids forming ; In falling ho .struck an iron gas lamp buttyrine in the true butter. Fully 00 f fixture, unon which he was "impaletl, per cent, of both butter and buttcrine , tho sharp iron passing through Ids ab-consi.-ts of the more liuuid fats common domen and appearing at his back, to both. The butter, in fact, is practi-' A little girl 0 years old, daughter of cally tho annual fat passed by the cow Mr. Feidler, of Collinwood Village, through the udder in the milk from Ohio, was literally roasted to death.

wnicn it whs inaiiuiaeturca; while hut-; u iiiH! i iiiimn ii imi uiu uncr part oi tailored in other parts of the system of the animal, jiotii lais and wholesome, are equally cleanly .Srlmol and Church. Telegraphy has been introdiu'ed into the school for the blind, at Nashville, as a study. Mrs. Haskell lias given such hearty satisfaction as State Librarian of the Legislature of Tennessee that she has been re-elected without opposition. There has been considerable progress among the Raptists in England during tho last 10 years. Since 18i7, 200 new ehurches have been formed, K'14 chapels and other meeting-houses have been occupied, while the net increase in the membership of tho churches bus iHien 50,727. Mr. Axtidl, who was scut to Coniri'.i.u il' tli Ilnniiuiiiiiif.if I 'ulifiii-iiiu f.iH who has leen a missiouan' teacher in India, has returned and is pursuing a ! course of htudv In the .Medical College i tor oinen under .Mrs, Dr. LoZiers tlircction. I lie i ree Will Haptist Church j I ...II. 1 . . .1 I 1 t jucwiiicii iir wun a scuoiarsui) uciiTiy- j 11 I I i i:v itn nm mi m i , ! 4 tsttm .k4 ti.kH t..l., I " I he A nidy Cove Church," in Virginia, has a funny name, but its li-' nancial history suggests a good example, j Pastor Rrowihas just preached n sermon, in which ho made the statement I that for the JN) years of his pastorate the people had never been a day bdiiml nor u dollar short in meeting their obligations to him. Many churches with far more pretentious mimes are unable to j show such a clean record. ioung .x-nwemiuerger, wno committcd suicide at Cornell University the j oiner day, was another victim of the pernicious college prize-system. He was pusneil OeVOIHl lllS Capacity until he !

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could neither study nor remember what wife. He modestly defines himself as J was later than usual, and his mother inlio had learned. C onsnous of his failing sin " article of luxury," who has 20,000 J tpiired what kept him out so late, powers, and apimlletl at the prospect of francs and a lino business, and wishes f "As chairman of that committee I ask insanity or idiocy, he blew out his brains , to marry a lady from 20 to 2o years of ) that further time be granted to make my

and thus terminated what might othernu iiuun it iiiiiiiitiii citruer. The rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church iii St. Louis gives " political readings" on Sunday afternoons, interspersed with selections by the choir. Rryant's " Thanatopsis" and Willis' " Leper" have both een delivered from this gontlonmn'.s pulpit. Severe criticism bus been indulged in by some people who object to this sort of'innovntion, but Rector Horkeley thinks Ids course is not, half w objectionable as that of the clergymen who intone tho sen-ices, and who have a troop of surplieod boys to do rite singing and chanting. It is proper to add that, I)r, Berkeley is one of the finest elocutionists in Missouri. The British Sanitary Jtccord objects to tho long hours of school study, the numerous subjects taught and thcTslight attention given to thalaws of physiology and hygiene in the physical training of pupils. It, advises n more careful attention to tho relations existing between n pupil's physical well-licingand his mental activity, and says : There is a serious danger of permanently injuring the health of pupils unnaturally crammed, and a closer examination of the physical condition of a pupil should bo faroftener taken tis a guide to tho amount of timo spent in study than is now done. Hup HHrf MUhaftM. Charles McLaughlin had an arm torn out by falling underneath moving

train of oar at Indianapolis, and will die. Paul Morphy,t)ia famous cites player, w again reportttd to 1ms in a New Orleans asylum, hoMlily in wont. J. K. Price, of Chicago, coumdUod suicide at the Walnut Street House, CineiniiHtl, by shooting himself in the left temple. .A loading citizen of Van Wert, Ohio, O. Knapp, committed femicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. Henry Johnston, a colored man, shot his wife in the shoulder with a shotgun at Lockland, Ohio, When arreted lie tried to kill himself by tabbing himself in tho neck with a pen-knife. Daniel Volhner, a prominent drusr-

t fit of Fort Wayne, Ind., was found in ",0 cellar in 1 uoniht uiu uunitr iinucr ins wore in an uncouion, from the effocUj of mor phine, and, despite all efforts to resusci tate nun, lie died. The negroes of Blossom Hill, Va., suspecting that Ilany Martin, missing for two years, had been foully dealt with, took his wife from her cabin and, placing her neck in a noose, swung her up to h tree, and she confessed thokilling, her son assisting under threats. James Abbott and wife, while visiting, were called homo by the announcement that their daughter, aged 18, was dying. Returning, they found their daughter dead. Airs. Abbott was so affected she fell to the floor a corpse. John B. Young, aged .r8, of Cincinnati, while visiting the law oflico of Richard L. II. Finch, on tho third floor j of 202 Rroadway, New York, fell from ! tho front window, out of which he had While going home from school through tho woods where some brush was burnning, one of her companion pl.-ivfully pushed her into the flames. Her screams attracted tho attention of some carpenters who were at work near by. Illlt liiifiiri' M rriiilil Ik, nunnul tlm lower portion of her body was bnrnel to a crisp, tehe uieu in great agony, Lorcnz lireigmann, a German residing in West Davenport, attempted suicide about five weeks ago by taking strychnine xnd other means but by ; timely aid and good care he was saved, : but was in a weak Condition, and has j had medical attendance ever since. He i sent his wife to the grocery, and, while I she was gone, went into the cellar, took l a rope and hanged himself, holding his i feet off the ground to accomplish the ; act. The man was prolmbly insane, lbs w:ts in comfortable circumstances. The newest device at Parisian fancy lndls is to dress the head xlonc in charactor, whereby the world is edified with tlie spectacle of iikmIih-vmI nrSm.ikd i,i oress coats ami pumps talking with ll.l... ! i.. " .... .. r . T I iuiun ui iroj in n uusii costumo fresh from a f t . ai ljcrue, ftwiicrianu, tuoiv-was a i: row on tho recent anniversary of the outbreak of the Coiiiinuue in France, The. police interfered, and took away the red llag which had been hoisted, Tho crowd resided, and wounds were inflicted in tho struggle, Fred Archer, the leading jockey on the English turf, is only IS, but during tlie racing season of 1875 he rode no less than 0f7 times, and won 217 races a feat never licforo accomplished by any norsemun on tne tun. Jiis vear s n,ceipts, in fees, retainers and iresents jwere about .44,000 ' A commission agent, 0 years of ayo. adviH!HMt in a Pri nmuir tnv age, who Is intelligent and honorable. The French try to make out that the Londoners are fools. A correspondent of the Paris Figaro, lately strolling aliout London, notieed a large crowd hurrying into a wooden booth. Having paid his shilling, he entered also, and found tho great attraction to consist of a sailor sitting quietly smoking and drinking lieer. Over his head was tlie following inscription: "This is the only sailor in the Arctic expedition who 'succeeded in perspiring at the Xorth Pole. It takes an Asiatic to pay a compliment. Lew Fo Yhali, one of the Chinese iVuibassiidors build for her a theater of ivorv as wide an London." This Lew Fo Vhan is a gorgeous Chinese fop, with a pigtail of wonderful length and glossiness. Irately, in a London Police Court, a daughter gave a mother in charge for pawning her dress. The mother, it. proved on investigation, had wrecked the happiness of the whole family by her drunkenness. Her husband hail remonstrated, but in vain. The daughter worked hard to get a living, and matters at length eanid to such a pass that she was comjiclled most reluetanliy to take this painful step. The Magistrate commended her for so doing.

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now recogiiiwsl m a high authority on mntters of lomctle hxgimw, my that 62 deg. l ahreuheit hi (be j-Wht iWnw of teiniHsrature for health, and that those engagiMt in literary or artistic work can not lMslbly l) too carful oh thU tuAnt. If tlieirlalior lm prolonirel orwivere, the mnijwimiuu may im auowwi to ma up to 66 d(., or even 70 deg. Tlie same rule applies (oall slentitn' perwrns ami children studying. Our rooms liere are apt to be at least 10 degree too In for jiuauuy jiersons. OdllH HHtl KHtllt, bray-sing air the song A mule. of the Rrothers-in-law the liar A8oeia tions. When man is called by his friends "brilliant but erratic," it means that he will get drunk occasionally. " At a little social gatltering" is the way Tennessee jmpers start off their account of a stabbing or shooting affray. J lie cheapest things m the market at present are sprained ankles. EastUtn rcc I'rCM. Oh, they are always low. HcynoWs JkraUl. W hy is it that when a woman falls uown stairs she screams out at ever" bum), while a man holds his breath he gets to the bottom? About the oldest little game of draw wo know of was played when Joshua razed Jericho, and the fellows of the city wished they hadn't stayed .Iaah- " Six feet in his boots," said Mrs. Partington; "what will tho iinporauee of this world come to, I wonder? Why, they might just as well tell me that the man had six heads in his hat." A country girl wrote to her lover: "ow, Gcorre, don't vou fale to be at the sinjrmsr-school to-niirlit." Cieonre wrote back that "hi the bright lexicon of youth Webster's Unabridged there's no such word as fale." " Now, my loy," said the examiner, " if I had a mince pic, and should give two-twelfths of it to John, twotwelfths to Isaac, two-twelfths to Henry, and should take half the pie myself, what would be left? Sneak out loud, so ! that ull i-ti lw.ur " "The plate!" shouted the boy. Among tlie replies to an advertisement of a music committee for "a candidate as organist, music teacher, etc.," was the following: "Gentlemen, I noticed your advertisement for an organist and music teacher, either lady or gentleman. Having been lioth for several years, I offer you my sen-ices." One single paragraph in JTerlxirt Spencer's essay on '" Primitive Marriages," in the Popular Science Monthly, contains the words "endogomy," "exogamy," "polygamy," " monogamy," "polyandn" Molvgi,n" and "airnation.'VJhuik of a man lieiii" caught out alone with that essay in some oountrv town, and no unabridged within forty miles. dictionary I'hoy have a bank in Deadwood. I he paving teller wears a red shirt, and sits with his boots upon tho counter, and the president, when he isn't cutting off in coupon wun n oowie Kiiue, amuses himself with draw-poker with a director or two m the back room, using the bank's funds in the pool. Miss Kate Claxton was in luck at St. Louis. She had irono to fdoen in tho i nt li.ifn TTiit.tl ami v'uj ...... I l... a cry of lire. A dispatch savs: "Slip . . . . . . . . . ping into the scantiest of garments (does . mai incau asiocKing.-i sue inrcwup one oi ui; imui)v.-, ciu. io-. wnai in mo name of "-oodncvt did Miss Clavtnn lmv.. for supper that she could Ijogin to un- ! ravel in this sort of way? Had she swallowed a wing of the building? Chicago Tribune. EtII CemmMHicatieas Cermpt Xaaacrs. Oeed A few da-s ago a ten-year-old son of one of our citizens happened to 1-e in tlie Court House during a session of the City Council. He listened attentively and appeared very much impressed with Hl,o nmiwl!niM. Wlion lio trnt . liniiiA it report," was the reply. The old lady looked at him rather strangely and asked him if he had got the thread she sent him out to buy. " I move that further time be granted to make my report," was tho surly re-lb'-"Will you have your supper now, Johnny? l'm afraid'there is something the matter with the boy?" remarked the anxious mother. " L move the supper Ihj laid on the table," observed the youth. "Where is the change from th thread?'' was the next question. i:firi-iul tn tlm fiii'iiiiw. intiimittr. journed to the back-yard, where the old it viiiiiu v iiiiniii iiiniwi ... i support of the motion, something like this, "I don't (whack) care where ( wnaekj you've Ihich, you young scoundrel (whack), yon sinelf of "tobacco smoke (whack, whack) and lieer (whack), and have lost all respect (whack) toward your (whack) liest friends. I'll teach you (whack) to meddle in polities," etc, Johnny says ho Is not the kind of a Iwy the old man needs about the place, and he Is going to join the rangers for a living as isooti as he Is able to ride. 5t Antonk JIcraM.

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The SlMrtMit m Jteeenl. In Ai(fit, nm, Hitw a few dlihtful days 9mtt with tltir diUfuUhe4T relatives, C'Rpt. Lewi relates that the following conversation took vm at the brekft-table the morninf ftxwl for their departure. Wahiiigtoa wa, as all th worll knows, a man of few words, and while he tpiietly jwrtook of his frugal meal Uh conversation flowwl cheerfully on Wtwen the other members of the family present. Suddenly his nephew turned laughing to him and said : " Cncle, what do you think I dreanml last night?" The General replied he could not guess, and aked to be told. Captain Lewis, continuing to laugh merrily, replied: " Why, I dreaiiMjd you gave me youi farm on Deep Run." "Humph!" ejaculated his uncle. " Vou had lietter have dreamed I gave you Mount Vernon." Xo more was said on the subject, and Captain Lewis had quite forgotten his unmeaning dream as he placed his wife in tlie carriage, and bade his uncle and aunt good-bye. Washington followed him to the carriage, and handed him a folded paper, saying as he did so: "You can look at that when you reach home." Captain Lewis received the paper in astonishment, but could make no reply, as the carriage now rolled swiftly away. Jh might have felt in duty bound to suffer the pangs of curiosity until he reached home, but Ids wife had no such conscientious scruples; Ae had not been forbidden to open it, and so she soon succeeded in gaining possession of the mysterious paper, and liefore Mount Vernon was lost in the distance she discovered the fact that they had left that modest dwelling much richer than they were when they entered it. Whether Washington had intended to bestow the Deep Run farm in his will upon this nephew, and only hastened the time of the gift, or whether, with the quiet humor in which ho rarely indulged, ho thus proved the

dream of which he had been told a prac tical reality, was never known. The deed is said to be the shortest on record, and is as follows: I do bv these uresents trlvo. anil (It Twd of Conveyance should not have heen mailo before) hereby obltee my heirs. Executant. and Administrators to fulfill, all the Lands which I hold oh Deep Run, or Its lirstielie1h the County of Fauquier, unto my Nephew Robert Lewis ami to his heirs or slffii? forever. Given under my head and seal tkhlth day ef AHprut, 1790. GO. W'ASHIXOTO.V. (SKALl Scribncrtor May. A Street Car Mystery. There were five passengers on a Woodward Avenue car going north yesterday four women and a man. The man was long-lKxlied and his eyes had a squint, but yet no one suspected him of lieiagafieud. It so happened that one of tlie women sneezeu, anutlie man suudenh on tn lietwti " bland to the Th womc glanc false "W quired half w "I ute all "V can all of com to me she ma auothc cushion 'An one in strap and as other "I w claim it?" Detroit Free Prtu. A Child a Hestage for a Thief. Little Harry Walton, aged 8 years, has had an adventure during the past two days that kept his mother in a state of anxiety until 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, lie left his home, Xo. 12t South Second Street, at 12 o'clock on Wednesday. On his way to school ho met a woman at the corner of Second and MarkctStreets, who asked him to go with her on an enraud, at the same time giving him money. Child-like, he consented. She took him to Lehigh Avenue, quieting his alarm with purchases of cakes and confectionery. They entered a shoe store, where the woman purchased two jmirs of shoes. She told the proprietor she would go after the money, leaving the boy as security. Of cottresho did not return, and the shoo man was forced to take the Imy to the Eleventh District Station House, where he was kept until 4 o'clock yesterday. Meanwhile his mother, who is a widow with five oliildren,was almost distracted. She had made innuirios at the Central, but could obtain no fidinsrs of him. it iiiir I'lilllil in, I Mill in, llllllliTti iwsS i,r Hocident she dtseovercd his wjMjn.ats, The ladv co omplains of her treatment at the station house, tne officers charging her with lieing unconcerned alnrnf tlie child, when tlie fault lav with them hi not sending word to the Central. PkiltttMpkia Time. Strawberry Sahui. Pick, wash, drain and toss crisp, tender lettuce leaves, shred them up fine in the salad IkwI, and pour over them some strawberry juke, and ssrve at once.

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