Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 20, Number 33, Jasper, Dubois County, 30 August 1878 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER. C. K)AKE, rbllikr. JASPER. INDIANA. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Perianal rhA Llterai-jr. Mr. J, W. McDonald has nearly completed the statue of Gon. Custer for West Point. Thu attitude chosen is that of the soldier at bay, surrounded by In ilians. Mr. Ruskin never advertises any of kid works and never sends any copies oui ior . u maun is mm many who want his works have difliculty in finding mem. Among the other journals of that noiyglot city, New l ork, is one in the Catalan dialect, called La Llumanera. Ita as reached its third volume, though it teems odd that so limited a tongue should furnish patrons for it. Among the attractions of the Paris Exjunction is noted a microscopic edition of Dante, bound in red velvet with silver clasp, and small enough to be worn as a "charm on thowatchguard,'' sent by an Italian publisher. The artistic sensation of Paris is an artist named Andre Gauthier.whb draws sightly large audiences to see him paint a landscape in five minutes, a portrait in sir, and two different pictures simultaneously, one with each hand. Mr. Bryant's first collection of poems did not till his youthful pocket. A gentleman who not long ago purchased for $5 a copy of this first edition, now very rare, took the book to the venerable poet.asking that ho should write his autograph therein. Mr. Bryant complied, saying "Five dollars is more than I received on that whole edition." Mr. James Whistler, the American painter, so long resident in London, is a Marylander, and still in his English life preserves some of his American taMes. It is said of him, in regard to his pleasant Sunday breakfasts, that "the most courteous and vivacious of men, he is only a dogmatist on one subject he insists on his guests eating buckwheat cakes." Although Victor Hugo is now 70, be is as hale as over, in the full vigor of nis mental and bonny energies. As it is well known, the poet is an earlv riser. and his habits are of the most sober and well regulate! description. He has just oeen revisiting as a tourist, in the full enjoyment of his glory, as the patriarch and father of the trench Republic, the hjtle channel island Guernsey, whore he spent the long, busy years of his ex ile. Rev. Geergo Gilfillan, a Scottish clergyman, whose biographical sketches of English and Scotch poets and other literary works have obtained a large circulation in tms country, died recently He was bora in 1813, in Perthshire, Scotland, and was a most inde fatigable and agreeable writer. He contributed very largely to the periodical press, and devoted the latter years of his life to the preparation of a series of owgrapincai .sketches oi ttio English poets. Sclesee and Industry. A cow giving 4,000 pounds of milk w a year exhausts the soil of 28 to 30 pounds pf mineral matter. There is no egg of a bird known which is not good food, or which could not be oaten by a hungry man. Signor Cozzi, of Verona, claims to hare discovered a powder removing all explosive power from petroleum. An egg weighing li ounces consists of 120 grains ot carbon, and 171 grains of nitrogen, or 15.25 per cent, of carbon and two per cent, of nitrogen. Nearly one-half of the industrial class of the United States is engaged in agricultural pursuits ; hence any moveBrant tending to benefit farmers must of necessity be a national blessing. According to a Paris journal, the locks displayed in tho American Department at thu Exhibition are incomparably finer and more perfect in every way than any thing of the kind evor before seen in Europo, at any rato in Franse. The earbonato territory in the rogion south of Pike's Peak, over the Ar- .. ui ui riKu s j uhk, over mo Arkansas River, is lengthening out. Somo re proving rd CorbonaUw and liitrli.trrailn nhlnriiln ores are brought to light evory day. fhere are crowds of peoplo in the region yet it is hard to get the right kind of men to work for good wages. The town of Tula, or Niello, in missia, has for centuries been tho seat of the manufacture of articles of great wuty in what was known as Tula ail. ver an alloy the composition of which J until lately not been well underOod. It h now stated that this conw of nine parts of silver, one of copper, and one of bismuth. Saturated with lthur, this produces that beautiful wo i shade erroneously considered to be Meol blue. Schel nad otwrett. TTTh fount'A'-ton 'or a $500,000 Jesuit College in San Fraaolsoo has ..b8nn' 11 w b, in every roJPi an institution with all the retirements for modern eduoatlon. 7-lirotker Kimball worked from 101 the morning until midnight in a Province (It. L) CongregatFonal church, secured pledges of f 12,000 toward lw payment of the debt. CrJl0ur 8tJ8nts, having passed very satisfactory examination io-med-

we morougiuy workou mines are taming out rich beyond calculation, tho ?re proving a thick chloride. Excellont

surgsry at Madras, India,

have been granted certificates j,to praoFor several months the Louisville (Ky.) School trustees have been fight ing over ine adoption or some geogIMUIJ M uil! BlKimarU IOV IB SCllM)l8. At a recent meeting of the urn vtvr Board it was publicly stated that different members had been approached with bribes of $75 and $200 to vote for this or that book. Rev. Mr. Maokonochie, incumbent of St. Albans, Holbron, London, having been suspended from his clerical funo tions for three years by sentence of Lord Penzance, Dean of Arches, for con tempt of Court in refusing to obey a decroe prohibiting his ritualistic practices, has appealed his case from the Court of Arches to thu High Court of Justice. Tho largest church organizotion in Atlanta, Ga., is tho First Baptist Church (colored), the Kev. F. Guar es oastor. with a membership of 1,450. One of the white churches has 500 members, anoth er about 100, aud so down. Fifteen out of the 40 churches are Baptist. The colored Baptists of Georgia havo bought the land and aro about to establish a college of a high grade in Atlanta. Mr. Sankev has accented an invita tion to go to England, and will sail in tho latter part of September. It is expected that he will remain thore for some months, holding services of song. On his return he will join Moody, who will meanwhilo spend tho time as Quiet ly as ho can in Baltimore, giving himself principally to study, but occasionally holding servicos in tho churches of that city. A missionary Conference is to be held in New York during tho second week of October, under the direction of special Committee of the Board of Managers of tho Doinostic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant hpiscopal Church. The Committee suggests that tho local clergy and laity arrange for the holding of meetings Boston, Philadelphia. Baltimore, a in and omer places during tho same month. The actual gain in church membership in Illinois for tho past year has becu 98G among tho 22,714. members of 240 churches. The average membership in each church is 95 and the aver . . ... - age increase G. The contribution for benevolent purposes averages $2.37 a member for the year. The Targost salary is nominally $7,000. The smallest in a self-sustaining" church for full service is $tf50. Hnpt nnil MUhaps. A 2-year-old daughter of Florian Schmitt, of Evansville, Ind., was fatally scalded by a boiler of hot water falling upon her while her mother was washing. A young man, named J. E. Ellison, shot off Jesse Steads's lug near Winchester, Ind., with a revolver. He did not know it was loaded. Bert E. Mclntyro, of Neilsvillo, Wis., was seriously injured by tho explosion, of a can of dynamite which ho was carrying to the river for the purpose of killing fish. A young child of Mr. John McCabo, of Shclbyville, Ind., was accidentally dropped from the wagon in which tho family were riding; tho wheels passed over it, causing fatal injurios. A young son of Hcndrick Haol, near Pclla, Iowa, fell into an unused well. His father went to his roscue and was bringing him up, aided by a windlass turned by his wife, when the ropo broke and both went to tho bottom. Tho mother gave tho alarm and tho boy was drawn up insensiblo, but finally rosuscitated. Tho father was dead. Two sons of Mr. A. B. Garnett, of Madisonville, Ky., one Sunday recently, after a hearty dinner, ran about a mile to a pond in an open field, wentin bath ing, anu remained m tho water all tho afternoon, their hoads being exposed to tho intense heat of tho sun. Both died a few days afterward from tho effect of -1 f ... I..... . meir lmpruueut exposure. Daniel C. Lord, of Moodus. Conn.. was fatally poisoned whilo applying a well known fertilizer to a field, and died after a few days. Two of his sons who were working with him were seriously affected by the poison, the symptoms exhibited in each case being a swelling ot lace anu limbs and srcneral numbnoss of tho body. A third son. who was working in tho same field, but did not come in contact with tho fertilizer, was notailected. John Cook, of Allecan. 0.. had a tame fox which developed a passion for chickens, and ho thereforo determined to kill it if he cauirht it in its thievimr operations. So one morning before daylight Cook went out with his gun and secreted himsolf in the bushes, waiting for the predatory animal to make his appearance, unfortunately Cook's son had also got up for the same purpose, and seeing a movement in the bushes which he naturally s imposed to bo caused by the fox, he fired at tho unseen object. The whole charge of his gun took effect in the side of his father, who died in about two hours. roreltm Netet. Amons the Communists who are proclaimed as coming within the recent amnesty is M. Reclus, the eminent geographer, who was exiled for complicity in tho outbreak of 1871. He may now return to France. The 200 addresses sent to the German Emperor on his escape, together with thousand of telegrams, are Tbeing exhibited at the old Palace at Berlin. Most of the former are bound in blue (the Emperor's favorite color) velvet. The names of several London pub. lie houses havd been changed to " The Ueaconsfield," as has also that of Alex-

andra Musio Hall in South Losdon.

ihe latter circumstance is not exactly t complimentary to the Princess of Wales." Since the attempted assassination of Emperor "William by Dr. Nobllng w w iimq sww www im?U0 iUl liiauilllJE. ' the Emneror. Of this numberfiSL have been convicted, including 31 women. The aggregate of sentences of imprisonment were 811 years; five of the accused committed suicide before trial. Upou the death of his Queen rumors wore set ailoat throughout Spain that King Alfonso intended to abdicate the throne. His Majesty was greatly offended thereat, and ordered his Prime Minister to deny them publicly, and, if possible, bring tho original rumor-monger to severe punishmont. King Humbert's likeness will apj pear on 20 franc gold and 5 franc silver pieces, for the first time during the pres ent month; their circulation, however, is to be limited, as tho royal treasumis over-burdened with paper money, and has no definite intention of rosuming specie payments. Prince Bismarck's mot on tho Congross of Berlin : "Italy and Franco are growling because they get nothing, and behaving very much like two persons invited out of politeness to spend the evening, who would claim a share in the winnings at tho whist-table without having played a card or betted a penny." Od(k and End. The peoplo who never make enny mistakes nor blunders have all tho necossnrys ov life, but miss the luxurys. Joah Billings. ' How greedy you are!" said one little girl to another who had taken the host apple in tho dish; "I was going to tako that myself." A doctor went out for a day's hunt ing, and, on coming home, complained that ho hadn't killed any thing. "That's because you didn't attend to your legitimate business," said his wife. If there is ono person who is more false and hollow than she who says, Tou must come and seo mo again," it is she who replios, Thank you, I shall be pleased to." Danbury News. 1 he next invention Edison is to attempt is a machine that will keep a woman's eyes closed during prayer time in church when a friend in the pew in front has on a new frock. Kingiton JFrccman. Tho barber is an independent chap, and, likoall strapping big fellows, can always hold his hone Alia California. Great fellow, though, for gitting into scrapes. Vhiladtlphia Bulletin. Two lawyers, whilo bathing at Santa Cruz tho other day, wore chased out of the water by a shark. This is the most flagrant case of want of profes sional courtosyon record. San Francisco Post. A littlo daily paper about six inches long has been startod at Union, Broome County. The publishors announco a design to continue if thoy get sulliciont 'encouragement." Bless your souls, boys, you can got encouragement by the acie, but where do you expect to get your cxsh?Elmira (N. Y.) Advertiser. i A Terrible Lessen. In the telegrams from Sacramento the other day an accident to a boy was narrateda boy of fourteen, who had clambered to tho top of a freight car and was swept off by the limb of a tree, fracturing both logs. Amputation of the left log was necessary, and an attempt was made to save tho right leg, but the poor littlo fellow succumbed to tho shock and died yesterday. He was not a poor boy, who could not find work, and was thereforo obliged to catch a ride as best he ruight for a few miles ; on the contrary, heleft a home of plenty, under that terriblo fascination to run away" which is inherent in tho human family, aud which attacks nearly every boy who has access to sensational storios and thrilling romances. In that fascination for adventure he loft his father's house in this city and traveled anvwhere until his fever for adventure had abated, and tucn tie i and met

he tried to got back to his home, to th,e ticer with impuniTint, with tin anrtt tlnnf .i.ti ...J ty; papers wiuch oner a temptation to

his death. This should be accepted as I tiii- iiivtvv.iuvuti tv tiiiJii u a. List li a warning by boys who find themselves attacked by a desire to leave their homes in tmost of adventure. Accidents aro plentiful enough under tho most careful management; do not increase tho risk by setting out in the world beforo you havo the consent of your parents. Alia California. The Ferce ef Habit. Ho had been in the habitof standinpon the curbstone, in front of the church, after service, and waiting for his girl. As ho prided himself greatly upon his politeness in publio placos, ho invariably, oven nfter their betrothal, stepped up to her, and, dolling his hat, requested permission to see her home. Hie first time that they went to church together after thoy were married, they worounablo to secure seats togother. Thi?, however, did not worry him. He secured a scat for his wife, and at once sought his old quarters by the stove, and among some of his old cronies. After service was over, he absent mintledly walked out with the boys, took his old stand on the curbstone. With flashing eyes and glowing cheeks o.utcame his wife. She would have passed him in indignant and scornful silence had he not stepped up to her as of yore, and raising his hat, said: "Miss L.., may I have the pleasure of walking with you P" Ho had the pleasure of knowing that he was xery much married, when she exclaimed! "You idiotic fool, put on your hat and come along!"- -Exchange.

Wfcftt Oar Daaghterg XmuI.

The following is from a oiroular issu ed by the Western Society for the Sup preestonoi vice Readers of newspapers have noticed the increase in the reported oases of the 11 m ueiuaing oi green, or romantic, or adventurous girls from respectable homes ana anoctionate parents, and from the ways of sexual virtue, by some of the great variety of wiles which have come in with modern facilities. In many cases whore respectable ' parents suddenly awake to the distressing fact that a daughter lias been deluded and has disappeared, or is left on their bunds blighted and a crushing shame, or has secretly married some fancy scamp, or some tramp who goes around marrying in una mty, wiuy aim iuai me lueaus uy wnicn mis was starteu was by clandes tine correspondence in answer to seduc tivo advertisements. In other cases thev suddenly awake to the fact that daughters whom they think they have brought up iu purity, anu nave Kept irom me contact of vice, have developed full fa miliarity with it, and havo knowingly plunged into it. And the public roporta aro constantly tolling of new ways oy wnicn uaugnters oi rospectabie lam ilies are drawn into bad courses. Reason tells that tho increase of these domestic calamities in modern times k noi wiinout cause, iiuman nature is no worse: parental affection and train ing are as effectual ; moral and religious influences are as potent; thereforo the modern increase of those instances must have a special cause which has arisen in modern timos. There are adages aoouc tne corruption oi evil communi cations, and about vice losing its hide ous mien by familiarity, and about handling pitch without defilement, wnicn are accepted as wise, but aro lit tic heeded. Or that familiar contact is admitted in one shape which in another wouitt no revolting. Respectable parents would think it utterly abandoned toexpose their daughters to contact by sight and sound with the lascivious vice that is daily exposed in our police courts and police arrests. And if their daugh ters snouiu snow a aosiro to witness those exhibitions of depravity in the court, they would think them depraved. Yet they think it no harm to brine into tho family the newspaper reports of all this, and to give preference to those that riot in all the indecent details, and make them sensational by expansion and fancy. Suppose they try to define the differ ence in tho'ellect on tho minds of these girls, from seeing and hearing these things, and from reading about them. suppose tuey taKo into the question the circumstance that seeing and hoarinsr would havo vice in its naturally hideous mien, while reading has it tricked out wiui sensational attractions. Ur suppose they consider none of these things, and take it simply on tho ground of laminanty witn lascivious vice. Are tho mothers careful protectors of their daughters who seek out the papers wnicn revoi most in the vice of the community and serve it uo in most ex panded, sensational and attractive form, and set them tho examplo of reading it, aim uu u " newsy t" uan me iemaies of tho family be expecteU to havo any taste for wholesome literature who are fed daily with this sensationalism of vice? Can they remain undeliled who continually dabble in this social pitch? The women of the town are not more familiar with the town's vices than they. When, now and then, a daugh ter urops into tne aoyss, is there no responsibility in those who have made them familiar with the way? Iho most careless parents would try to Keep tneir gins trora the approaches oi tne Known anu professional seducer. And if ho were to send his letters clan destinely to them they would think it cause for very positivo measures to guard thcai and punish him. But there aro many who think nothing of brinsrinir into their families newsnannr wntaining tho broadcast invitations of the seducer; papers which givo to every man anu ooy an instrumontaiitv bv Pnea ""o anu green boys to enter inw uus wor an every green or ripe girl a means of entering into intrigues with strange mon, unbe known to her friends. If we hoar with growing frequency of daughters of such parents vicumizeu tnrougn tms agency of seduction and intrigue, is it without adequate cause? Andean we rationally suppose that tho cases thus made public are a tithe of the whole in which girls 1. i ..... i . t nave oeen uepravea oy tms means ana havo escaped publicity? Somebody is responsible for this. Does not the mother who enjoys the reading of this stuff corrupt her family nd open to them tho broad road? Can tho father who brings this vims home to his wife and daughter be thought to havo any nice sensibilities as to their purity ? Those women of weak minds and morals weakly throw the responsibility on tho newspaper publisher. But he publishes sensational lasciviousness because t hey want it. They seek a cover for their impure enjoyment by charging the responsibility on him. But the readers are primarily responsible. They create the demand; the publisher only supplies it. And one of the conspicuous signs of the social tendencies is that women who call themselves respectable, and are mothers in charge of daughters, enjoy a daily dose of sensational reports of the lascivious offenses,! the sins of a large city, and a daily budget of all the illicit indulgences of the sexual passion all over the land; that they require this dally food, gloat over it, lose all taste for other reading, saturate their natures with it, and expose their daughters to all its corruption.

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IrrfeatlM by ArteeUa Wells. A mile and a half from Tipton, la Tulare County, California, is an artesian well. .7. It. Seupham, Assistant Engiaer of the Central Paoifio Railroad Company, who has recently returned to the city from that seotion of the country, makes a report concerning the supply of artesian water, which he regards as a very important matter in connection with the development of the land, and believes that a treat reservoir undarliaa the whole valley. He says he closely examined the earth brought to the surface, ascertained the temperature of the water, and measured the capacity of the stream, and is convinced that oonious streams of water flow beneath the plain, jjuiju io luiiDs in wiuiu. ia ounng, mountain debris was pierced foradenth of 280 feet, and a good supply of water was not reached until a stratum of sand stone from four to six foot thick, lying upon a bed of quicksand, had been passed through. The lirst fiow was at the rate of eight gallons a minute from the seven-inch pipe ono foot above the surface. Then a five-inch nine was sunk thirty feet deeper, which pierced a stra tum of blue clay, containing four separate layers of sand, each of which contributed a supply of water. The lower one gave out a considerable volumo of water. It was decided to stop sinking at this sten to secure tho water alrwulv discovered. The well at last accounts was delivering 8G.0OO gallons a day out of a five-inch pipe, four feet above the surface of the plain, and the supply is constantly increasing instead of diminishing. Tho water, according to the statement of Mr. Seupham. is very pure and shows its identity with glacier lakes. Tl 1 1 H . . . . i it uftvs iwas umn six grains oi sona matter to the gallon. The solid substanco is chloride of sodium, which corrosnonds almost exactlv with thu waters of Lake Tahoe. The well has the ca pacity for irrigating 100 acres, and its cost is from $700 to 1.000. It is believ ed that water can be obtained by sinking wells to tho depth of 300 or 400 feet in any part of the Tulare Plains, and in the opinion of Mr. Seupham these wells might bo placed on evory quartor section of ground withoutthe supply being materially effected, or thev raieht be sunk even closer together without decreasing tho flow. The temperature of the water Is 72 deg., and the soil on the surface needs nothing but water to render it fertile. A few years since 200.000 eucalyptus trees were planted in this locality ny the uentrai l'acitic Compa ny, and ib per cent, of them aro now in a thriving state. In five years the trees will be big enough forties and telegraph poles, and worth $150,000 to the company. The mountain debris referred to is supposed to be the ruins of extinct glaciers, which eroded the Sierras to their present shape. Geologically speaking, this debris was carried at a very recent period from the mountain slopes and summits and deposited in the valley, and it is Scupham's idea that the main portion of the Sierras was at one time more than 20,000 feet high, and the loftiest peaks were at least 5,000 feet higher. From the aerial currents from the west, heavily charged with moisture from the ocean, immense volumes of rain wore condensed and precipitated on the mountain slopes toward the ocean, which, flowing to the plains, caused a great lake, which is now extinct. San Francisco Chronicle. A Paris Firemen's ExhiWUe. Have seen grand firemen's parade. Sixty-seven companies. Procession. All on Sunday. Average, fifteen men to a company. Three buglers, and sometimes a arum. Machine runs to the sound of bugles. Resembles bath tub on a hand cart. No bigger. Brakes on either end. bight men man the brakes. It's simply a pump on a wheelbarrow. In operation, pump lifted from cart and set on the ground. Firemen have regular manual exercise. Saw the sixty-seven companies drill in front of supposed burning building, three stories mgn. two companies at a time. Word of command given by one general officer. First operation is to tip up the hand-cart. Pump next taken off and set on the ground. Axes, short-hooked ladder and coils of rope, which cart also carries, laid convenient for use. Lad ders raised to second storv. Firemon ascend and enter. Hose and pipe haul ed up by rope. Whereat they pump. I'umping at this trial a mere form. No water used. Exhibition terminated at second story. How these garden hose get water to the third or fourth stery is to me a mystery. rompeurs" wear several pounds of brass on their heads. short jackets, baggy trousers and very rviuw uib imviijir sunury lrua rings. Some indulge in embryo ceat tails. Officers wear epaulettes. Drill after the fashion of artillery. "Pompeurs" stand in place, two on either side of cart. Each has his special function. Remainder in ranks look on. Singular sight, however, for a New York fireman to see sixty-seven pumps on hand-carts pass for a firemen's parade. Next to see them tip up the carts and take the engine off. Lastly to see the company run to a fire with three ' pompeurs " throwing away their wind on the bugles instead of the brakes. However, there is not so much to burn in Paris as in New York. Walls and partitions here of solid stone eighteen inches thick. New York man would have an extra store in space occupied by walls in one Parisian house. Cor. N T. Graphic. Joseph Ears), of Francisville, Ind., had his eyes shot out by a companion while the two wore Mimin r woodcock. t - Good bo ,whsii ured, yield about 4 J percei.t. o amnion,