Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 22, Jasper, Dubois County, 1 June 1877 — Page 3

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JASl'KIt, - - - INDIANA. ITEMS OF INTEREST. 1'eriH'HHl ami l.ltrirjr. Keriian Caballero, the Spanish Mm. Wilson, bettor known as Auma.I, Kvaus, has an elegant house nonr Mltih, and It Im said who will write . bo wore lawka. AItnlrl Sonimes practices law at Mobile. Ho is slim, with stooping jjtwUlersf, and his thin Imir fulls ovor the sharp m,os of l,,H tlW0' Mrs. Hullo Boyd Hammond is living 5n llaltimorc, and giving dramatic roadjtUW. file uwnvluu uuiiijj tuij graceful " tho stage. Tlio Chicago Inlcr-Ocean has employed Mr. Jesse H. Grant as its special "respondent in Europe. Ho will accompany his father on his grand tour. It is reported that ox-Gov. AVarBKith is shortly to ho innrried in Newark, N. '. and that after traveling with IiIk wife ii Europe ho will return to political work in Louisiana, -fiounml, tho composer, is 69 years old, and a man of an absorbed and quiet Manner. Tlio melancholy of his nature Mid to be the consequence of his theolopcal studies, for he was destined for the Church. Hov. .John Adams, Viear of Stockcnt, Berkshire, England, and well known in his own country as the historian of Cornish Saints, as an archnjolofit, and as a geological writer, was Sraongtho-io who perished at the Southern Hotel fire at St. JLouis. A snlcription has been opened in France for the erection of a statue to George Sand. Tlio committee, under U I'fo-ddunoy of Victor Hugo, contains the names of almost all tho literary celebrities of tho day, including George Eliot, The coomittoo have asked permission tn place the statue in the Square St. Michael, near the Luxembourg, A part of the speech of Webster in rtply to llayne, written out by Webster's own hand, has been added to tho collections of the Hoston Public Library. This is hound with Mr. Gales's shorthand notes of the speech, and with the original copy of these notes written out in part by Mr. Gales and his wife, and revised by Weltor. Col. Thomas W. Knox, the veteran traveler and writer, has started on his second vnvago round the world, lie goes ovcrfaud to San Francisco, and tlienee to Japan, China, Siain, Java, Ceylon, India and Egypt, returning via the I'aris exhibition in 187b, whence he Trill return in the autumn to New York, There are several claimants to the ownership of thewm rcptoMCof "Save Holm,1' the opular but unknown novelist, one of the latest being a young lady of Wayne County, Ph., Miss Alma Cafder, a clergyman's daughter. Tlie host informed critics maintain that Mrs. Helen Hunt Carpeuter, tho poutess, is the author of the books in question, notwithstanding she has seemingly made an explicit denial of the report. Srlinr ami Industry. -It costs iM 1-2 cents per mile to run a locomotive-. A Ni'W .lonim firm lias tfu, 1IW1 - 000 ill experiments lo find out how to dye plush for silk hats. The best that can ho produced in A morion turns brown under the hot iron. Honco tho ingh price of silk hate. Sheathing shhw with pnperfastenod en With ccniiMit. u lu.Sno- ii-w.il lllOUth. Kmclmul A una V.iiulatit u.lwt invented the t)ncow. ninimu tiivt . weed will not grow on, or barnacles" adhere to the paper, Iqulquo. in Peru- rmmrtitd diMtrnv. d by an eart hquake, was headquarters for the trade in nitrate of soda. Tim annual export of nitrato of soda from iquiquB reach nearly 4,000,000 cwt. -Prominent European capitalist nave been negotiating for some time, and, at last successfully, with tho Land Joiiiiinskners of Florida for $8,000,wO worth of orange lands. They inA ! lmn lnt0 tho Stto 2m or 'iU0U imrdy fanners from England, Germany, Franco, and Italy. i no refrigerator car's used in shlpI'jng frwh Iieef to the Atlantic Coast "aU llitnnrtn tjim ri,i,S,.. ...til. nit lofulH. It is now proposed to hmd uienj wit), salt-water Ash, ovsters, etc. rn-Ml Shad. ltmiurliL thn. sm1i1 hi O.lu. Jinnatt Ijwl week at 10 cento a pound. i "-gftor enr business is H-thlng "tt will soon bo working both ways. --The arms and ammunition factoring " tonnedieut, including tho Bridgem metallic cartri.lge factory, and tlio iown linitliorD' factory at Watorbury, aro mnn ng night and day to (ill orders both Kussia and Turkey. Tho inohiwtcr Arms Company of Now "aven hl the cartridges. Colt's faetoP Hartford is said to have renuy received a forgo ordur from Uns'"for navy revolvers. , French machinist haa discovered .lir kcli" hJs turning tools cons uiitly wetted with petroleum he was "f 'o to cut metals and alloys with thorn, a hotigh when the tools wore uod withi i the tolguawcre turned and ( 1 1 J. i!10 ,1-'-ost steel can bo turn- ? 1,10 lno,s ' tlntd wet with a n wf )yw l,!UUs nf I'otndoum with "Uo Part of turpentine. r.r?UV?ral Southern Senators nud HepSS ,ttJlv6- -tUnU1,liaVo had under

mitt(al to the nextotwion, forinorwwdHg tho facilitioa for manufacturing cotton goods in tint South by admitting, irwt of duly, foreign machinery for making cotton. Such Importation are-for actual use only by the importers, and are not to bo ottorod for sale. If such r bill Is I, it is stated that tlw machinery of two English companies will Ihj transferred to Columbia, S. C, and cotton footorios established at loading point of all the colton-growing States. Gov. Hampton, Senators Lamar and Gordon and others favor the scheme. MehtMil hhi! ChHr.h. The Swedenborgiana are making eilbrta to complete the endowment of their University at Urbana, O. The Emprosa Dowager of Japan has contributed 10,000 toward founding a school for young nobles in Tokio. An Industrial Collage for Negroes is to be established in luchmond, Va., the intention being to teach trades of various kinds. IHshop Marvin, of tho Southern Methodist Episcopal Church, is in the Holy Land, having visited China and Japan. Ho returns to America shortly. Here is a specimen of English composition, spoken by the President of a school board in Cincinnati, when returning thanks for his election: "I would have preferred that this honor had fell onto u different member of this Hoard." A Swedish Lutheran College at St. Voter, Minn., has just closed its first vear with a satisfactory examination; it lias been attended during a part or the whole of the year by 47 young men and four young, women, from 14 counties. An American law-sludont named Foster has just achieved the laurel of LL. I), at Berlin University, astonishing and delighting 'a large aiidhmce of learned (Jerinans by the succasa with which he passed his examination and the brilliancy of his disortation. The Kev. Dr. Lovick Pierce, tho patriarch of the Southern Methodist Church, issued an address to his denomination on his iWd birthday. On that occasion he held a family reunion, 40 being present. He has in all 72 descendants. One of his sons is a Hishop who is well advanced in years. Livingstone Hall, so called after the great African explorer, is the name of a new building about to be erected at Nashville, Tenn., in connection with Fisk University. It is to bo built from funds secured bysulwription in England by tho leaders of the Jubilee Singers, and will be an elegant addition to this popular university for the education of the colored people of the South. Fears are expressed that the Presbyterian and other Protectant missionaries may be greatly disturbed by the military movements In Eastern Turkey. Er.eruni is one of the stations of the American Hoard, which has other stations at Narpoot, Sivas, Marsovan, and Hroosa. Should tho war bo protracted it may Ihj necessary for tho missionaries at so'me point to retire for a time to safer places. "The Society of the Love of Jesus" is tho namo of anew religions guild in London. Excepting tho vicar, all are females between 1( and U0 years old. No member is permitted to read any lKMk which has not been submitted to tho viear or the lady warden; dress must 1m simple, modest, and not extravagant ; no improper places of amusement are to be visited, and no church attended which Is not in communion with the Church of England. D. Conrad, an old resident of Saunders County, Neb., was kilhid by lightning while herding cattle. Andrew Whiteinan of Rochester, N. J., 12 years old, was accidentally shot and instantly killed by a pistol in the hands of a playmate. Cyrus" Brown's 4-year-old daughter fatally shot herself at Epsom, NY II., while playing with a revolver. At Minneapolis, Minn., Clarence Bunker, son of II. E. Bunker, in sliding down the banisters of tlio Nicollet House, fell three stories, breaking his thigh and crushing his skull. Some recent suicides; At Cleveland, ()., Solomon Willnor, on account of continued ill health. At Sandusky, O., Charles Zulusky, a machinist, aged 4b. At Madison, Wis., Mrs. John Kurt ros. At Battle Creek, Mich., Eugene Morgan; and at Muskegor, Mich., Thos. Davis. A young man named Mack Fitcli, of Ohio Townsliip, Bartholomew County, Ind., was killed by the kick of a mule. Desiring to pull off one of tho shoes on the mule, Fitch raised one of tho hind legs of tho animal for that purpose. Just as tho foot was raised tho mule jumped forward, disengaging it from the young man's hold, and "immediately kicked, one foot striking Fitch just behind the ear, breaking his neck, and killing him instantly. Ho was but 18 years of ago. i. Foreign Note. The Emperor of. Germany must have been fairly Worn out. on his 80th birthday, for ho received 1,888 congratulatory telegrams and nearly ;i,000 congratulatory letters on that day. -Courtbef, the French painter, has consented to pav a fine of $ G0,000 for his share in tho destruction of tho Veildome Column. Tho Court takes tho lino id annual instalment of f 20,000. Tho youngest son of Kdhctn I'asha has for some tlino been pursuing his atudies in tho houso and under the card f tj Protestant clergyman at Berlin, Ho will be allowed to complete his course of studies after the German system in tho Prussian capital.

An iiunuhlbdutfl iuhm, by Moxart, ha boon discovered. It is claimed to In autograph, and wax composed about the ywtr 1777, for fho Convent of the Holy Cross, at Augsburg, Tbare is mA to be no doubt of it authenticity. The Domino Delia" and the u Inearnatiw" arv said to be aHcially fina. Home can hoaat, at the present time, one of tho finest tenors over known, in the person of a Franciscan monk, Father Giovanni. Impresari! have repeatedly besought him to leave the cloister for the stsgc, but he turns a deaf ear. When he sang at tho EnMter fete the churches were crammed to suffocation. He is a fine, robust man of .18. Dom Pedro shocked the social sense of the Berliners by being out when tho Kaiser called on Iiiiu at his hotel by appointment. Ho appeared afterward, and apologized by saying ho had been delayed by a conversation with Hclmholz. Imperial rcereneo for intellect seems not to be appreciated in Berlin. A Parisian manufacturer lias received an order from Turkey for a large number of white shirts upon which extracts from tiie Koran are to be printed in sky bluo letters. Upon h number of white woolen undershirts is to bostamp. ed the signature of Mohammed. Tho articles are intended for distribution to Turkish soldiers when unon especially dangerous duty, to stimulate their courage under the impression that they are talismans. Petosi, tho nationalist poet of Hungary, is yet alive, according to tho latest news, although he has long been thought dead. It will be remembered that all the world Himnosed that the irallant

! young man fell mortally wounded in oauie wiiu ino luissians at uiu ngni near Fojoregyhaza, July ill, 1849. Report, however, nays that ho yet lives as a Kussian prisoner in .Siberia. Count Andrassy, his old time friend, is making overy endeavor to discover tho truth or falsehood of the minor. OtTrift hhiI KmiIh. Tho Colossus of Khodes the tramp. A black-mailer A colored postmaster. Prof. Proctor says tho earth is gr&Wing larger. "VVo are glad to hear it, for real estate has shrunk fearfully in the past three yeans. ' Some husbands are only accompaniments for their wives, while others again bear about the same aviation to tlicir wives that tho bellows boys do to the organists. - When a woman makes up her mind that a hen shall not set, and the hen makes up her mind that she will, the irresisliblo meets the immovable, and ever law of nature is broken or perverted. A young man applied at a newspaper oflicc the other o&y for a situation. ' Have you ever had any experience as an editor?" inquired the newspaper man. 14 Well, no, not exactly," replied the ambitious aspirant, cautiously. But I've been cowhided a number of times, have been married quite a while, have worn borrowed clotlies for three years, and never had a cent of money, so I thought I might work in." He was engaged. It is not yet known where she lives this year, but don't let us worry ; she will surely appear in the newspapers within tho next three months. Wo allude to that farmer's daughter of 17, who plows 20 acres of ground, cuts 16 acres of grain with a reaper and mower, thrashes all the wheat, cultivates one acre of eabb-iges, milks 20 cows ever' morning before breakfast, and does nearly "all the housework, while her father lies abort with the inflammatory rheumatism all summer. The Patch FassleH fer Washing. Every Saturday morning tho Dutch women wash their houses on the outside, scrubbing them from pavement to chimney. Any point that is too high for broom or ladder they reach by a forcing pump. Out of nearly every window may be seen a womanstretching herself half-way out, perhaps with a brush and cloth, reaching after some fancied dirt-spot, or dashing a pail of water at it. It is understood at this time that the town is given up to cleaning, and the passers-by on the pavement below have no right to complain if they get a shower of ,water and suds over their heads. The spiders have been driven entirely out of Holland, or left in disgust ; and I do not think I ever saw a tly anywhere in tho country. No swallows are allowed to dirty up their houses or stables, and, strange to say, one ."joes no birds about whatever, except tho omnipresent storks, which are allowed, by special favor, to build their nests in the chimney-tops, owing to tho particular veneration which tho" Dutch have for this bird, likely because it. is a water-fowl, or rather, a water and landfowl; or, like the Dutch themselves, an amphibious swamp-animal. As you go through a Dutch town the most common sight is tlio women hashing in the canals. On both sides, from one end of tho street to the other, they maybe seen at all times Of the day, washing every tldng from a babys stocking to a tablecloth; and, when they have nothing else to wash, they wash outthelr broolna and brushes andtub and themselves. Sometimes tho whole canal has the appearance of flowing with, soap-suds. Tht Dutch have learned the art of washing, ami every thing connected wllli it,, so well that other countries oft en send their linen there to bo washed and bleached, especially the largo manufactories. Tho meadows outside of a Dutch town are fairly white with washed articles stretched over them, AfttJ&JteimUortf.

Delaware's Inhnhhkc f tMiek Crop.

The time when srioiw danger is anticimtcd to the peach crop umjm the Delaware and Maryland Peninsula has passed, and tho growers are ready to acknowledge that" the prospect at the present moment for an over-abundant yield is appalling. The wildest dream of the most sanguine peach enthusiast of ten years ago is likely to bo more than realized this year. Making the figures of 1878 the basis of calculation, it aniwMnithat tlm Kliinimdit 1 this vear will be lajtween 8,000,0j) and ' 10,000,000 baskets. In that year the railroad company estimated that they would ship 21,000,000, and the total yield was 8,000,000. It must be borne in mind that the water facilities to NewYork, Philadelphia and Baltimore are great, and that the railroad company's estimate only includes the amount of freight expected to be carried by them. But these eight or ten millions will not be the entire yield, for the numerous canning establishments all over the peninsula, and the home consumption, together with the drying establishments, wfli use up somotfiing near 2,000,000 baskets, so that it is probable the total estimate of tho yield from the present outlook will bo 11,000,000 iMtskets of i fruit, which would aflord during the j season a peek of peaches for every man, woman and child in the country, j Until two years ago New ork had always neon tne grand uisirimumg point, where tho bulk of the crop was shipped, and thence, through commission men, reshipped to interior points and to New England. A partially successful attempt was then made to avoid this, ami bring the interior and New England cities in direct communication witli the grower, and a considerable quantity of fruit was shipped west to Cincinnati, Chicago, Indianapolis, etc. The object of the Convention which has just been called is to further perfect this system and altogether break up the redistribution of fruit from New York. It is understood that the Baltimore and Ohio ltailroad will be prepared this season to make such complete arrangements that the fruit can be shipped to St. Louis even, in time to save it from decay, and to this end the fastest engines ami finest trucks on the road will lT.. -.1 1 ... .!..!! ...1 .!. i ami faster time made by the peach trains than is now made on that road by their passenger coaches. Direct communication has already been made with Boston without breaking bulk at Now York, and it is even proposed to send the fruit up in Canada and Maine direct from the orchards. But should all these arrange ments be completed the elfeet upon the j price of peaches in New York would not i t .ir 1 ... .1... ,i,i........M. They ma depend upon cheap and excellent fruit in any event. Another attempt is to be made during the season to ship fruit to Europe by means of refrigerators, an experiment which failed in 1878 only leoause the steamship failed to carry sufficient ice. More caro will Imj taken this year, and it is confidently predicted that it will meet with success ; and if it should, a groat problem for peach-growers will be solved. New York Tribune. i The Americaa Inventor. The British Trade JaurmU says: The ingenuity of tho American inventor is a curiosity in itself. Having exhausted the credulity of the o-wtomors for wooden nutmegs, and the ligneous ham having prood a failure, the Now Englander has lately been devoting his sharp intellect to inventions nearly as profitable and rather more reputable, A few years ago soft felt hats were extensively worn in tho United States. They were very pleasant, but had the ono fault of getting limp ami slouchingly unsightly in the brim. It struck a keen New Yorker that a bit of galvanized wire run around the brim would not only obviate this, lait give tho heaver the desired cock at will. No sooner thought of than done, and no sooner done than patented. Luckily a patent does not cost quite so much m tho United States as here, and the lucky inventor is said to have netted a fortune. Now we hear that the genius who first brought out wooden toothpicks lias made $60,000 by his little manufacture. At first, if tho universal traveler's tale be true, a fork, or the all-useful bowio knife, served this purpose, But, as the country advanced in luxury, the demand for a weapon more civilized ami a little lighter became universal. Found the demand, tho man who was to satisfy it soon appeared. At first the toothpicks were made of hard, fibrous wood. But this, we n-e told by New York journals, did not serve. The hickory toothpicks lasted too long. Latter-, ly'he has been making them of soft pine wood, and with a great increase to his gains, for it now takes four sound picks to get the broken end of one out from between the teeth. This almost equals the genius who, finding no sale for Ins cargo of shoo pegs in Philadelphia, " whittled the other end, and sold them for oats in Now Orleans." At least so wo read in an American newspaper, and all the world knows how jealously they cling to tho truth. . , IhhIrh Court tag Time. Tho Indian courting season will open in about ten days so We are- informed by Captain Sam, an Indian high tn the councils of tho Piuto nation. The Indians will then break up their camps near fho towns and take to tlw hills, where they will remain encamped until after the spring fandango, This courting season which is the best nsme wo can find for it is the principal holiday of the Indians, and while it lasts no money or persuasion will induce an Indian, male or fenwle, to perform labor. AtiMH mvcuic,

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A TtoMfratfil Undertaker.

We noticed on the atreet on yesterday our old friend Charley Brown, the great mining expert and principal owner of the IIikImjii mine. Every one knows Charles as one of th mot polfttt and affable of undertakers living. Sonnt years ago lie presided at a mournful oecassionln Virginia City, brought about by the shooting of a gentleman who kept a .saloon. He was a popular man, and was buried by the fire department. Several companies were in advance, with bauds of music and a large concourse of people. Tho officiating clergyman was a comparative stranger, acting for th time for ono of the resident clergy. When every thing was in readiness, and tho services about to commence, tlie thoughtful Charles quietly approached and' softly remarked; "Parson. I reckon you are a stranger up here."" "Somewhat," replied the clergyman. 44 Thought so," said he; 44 Look kind o' strange like. You didn't know the doceased 44 No." 44 Well," added the accommodating Charley, 44 I thought nobody but me would Ihj likely to help you out, so I thought I'd tell you. lie was shot innocent, he was. 1 le was just apourin'outa glass o' whisky, free, you know, and that miserable skunk just up and draw'd and shoUiim dead, and there he is. He wouldn't a harmed nobody, he wouldn't. Why, that man had a menagerie in tho corner of bis saloon, wlierchc kept tamo animals and fed 'em with his own hands every day. Dogs and rats and cats and mice and little pigs and lizards and horn-toads and a monkey, and every darned kind of varmint-like that eats each other. And he let the little boJi and, girls in to see 'em for notion'. He was kind to animals and. little children Put it in. It will please the boys. You hear me? I mean to have this thing go" through clean." Tlie parson -put it in" and it did "please the boys." At the proper time the procession was formed with a carriage at the head, thon a band of music, a fire cempaiiy. then the hearse, and so on. When tlie clergyman came out he said, "Mr. Mrown, I tfiink there is some mistake about arrangements. My carriage should not be at the head of tho procession, but immediately preceding the hearse " The prince ftf undertakers 'ga'o him one severe look, and said firmly; "Parson, what do you know alnnit a way-up funeral? You ride 'head, you're ha principal man in the outfit except tho corpse." The parson took his seat, and as the sequel proved he was the principal man, for at the first blast from the leading baud his team started, and ran violently, reaching the cemetery a full half hour in advance of the procession. Charley met the clergyman some years after, and in speaking of the circumstance said "Yon remember that, do you? Well, don't you see, I can always make things pleasant and agreeable in them affairs by just giving the parson a word when he needs it." Ansttn (ATcu.) Jlevcilk.Affection in Bird Life. The fidelity and affect innate intimacy" of married bird-life apjwars most conspicuously in pairs of the groslieak family and in small parrots. Here k mrfect harmony of will and deed. The two sweethearts appear unwilling to leave ono another's company for a moment all their life; they do 'every thing together eating and drinking, bathing, and dressing of feathers, sleeping and waking. Various degrees of affection and harmony are discernible on close observation. Among the small grosbeaks, pairs of which sit together, the intimate relation is never disturbed; even over tho feeding-cup there is no quarreling. They stand highest in this respect among birds. Love tokens are exchanged by pressing of beaks together, a veritable Kissing, accompanied by loving gestures. They are also more sociable, and even at nesting time more peaceable, than other birds. In the case of other grosbeaks, when tlie male bird sits by the female in the nest, there are various demonstrations of affection, but also slight occasional disputes, especial-. ly alsnit feeding time. Next in order Come the small parrots, which also appear almost inseparable. Tho male bird feeds ltis companion with seeds from the crop. This gtajs on quite regularly during tlie hatoliing, and until the voung are somewhat grown, During all this time the hen bird, which broods alone, never leaves the nest but for h few minutes, and tho cock shows such affectionate care that tho whole day he seems to do nothing but take f(d and give it again. " et even this loving union is marred from time to time, even during the hatching time, with quarrels that even come to blows. Again, tlie male bird of a pair of chaflinclies only occasionally sits on eggs or young, but he watches the nest very carefully, singing to his mate the while, accompanies the hen in flight, and helps her in feeding the young. Chambers's Jourmtl. Dr. Louis, of New Orleans, who is something of a wag, called on a Baptist minister, and propounded a few puzzling questions. 44 Why is it," said he, 41 that you are not able to do the miracles that the apostles did? They were protected against all poisons and all kinds of perils. How fs it that you are not protected In the same way?" Tho colored brother responded promptly, 44 Don't know about that. Doctor; I a'pcetl is. I've t'ken a mighty sight of strong medicine from you, Doctor, and is alive yet ." I,, i Field Marshal Wrftngel celebrated tho ninety-third anniversary of his birthday on the Uith of April, and received visits of congratulation from the German Kmporor, the Crown Prince, d a number of other meailms of the family.

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