Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 21, Number 40, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 October 1879 — Page 1

Jasper

Weekly Courier. VOL. 2t. JASPER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1879. NO. 40.

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H. C. HOBBS, Eclectic Physician JASPER, INDIANA,

TKSW.RS til nriifelml ervlee t tke citizen of ItohoU CouHV, awl nope to merit a .liare of

""oPKICJKs-outli ef 1'til.Hc fSquare: toI.Iphcc HttnloH Hotel. Ame.X. ,3w. J E.jJrCUI.t.0tTflH, "OJWAR A. TKIITET, Iiiip;to, Isn. JAwra, " .HcCDLMMJOn&TOirPBT attorneys at Law. ;HhI Ktrtto mA Collect Ins Aieeiit, JASPER, INDIANA. OrPTtnT(ilii Civil prrtloe only.

OFFICC:-ln Schuhmachers block, Honh Main street. ' l"7x; ciJeiviktt doane

Uttorneij at JLaw.

Kr tke Jafir Cuurier. EDUCATIONAL. COLUMN.

CONDUCTED BY A. X. SWKENKY.

Brain Culture. During the past few weeks is driving

through the rural districts, our attention has been culled to the farmer as he followed the plow, turning the eod: some

plowing for wheat and more that the ground would be fallow for the Spring. It strikes us that we may draw an analo

gy between the plowerand tiller of the

Koi . and the mower ana uuer ui uie

mind.

liv this time, we suppose, the schools

have begun throughout our county, and

the work of sowing the seed of education

in the soil of the Intellect, Deo adjuvante, will be, we hope, judiciously, carefully

and sedulously pursued. What plowing, digging, and harrowing am to land;

thinking, roHecting Hiul examining are

to the mind, iriand bo icn uncuiiiv8iei for anv IciiL'lh of time, it soon becomes

overgrown with briers, bramble-bushes

and weeds. Thus, likewise, it Is with the soil of the mind, if neglected and uncultivHted the weeds of ignorance usurp the bowers of mental beauty, and folly uiihtidlod gambol? through the dark

caverns of an intellect predestined originally for some high and noble calling. Learning is to ttic mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things that before were shrovded in darkness. !

Youth is tho time when, ami tliei

school-room one of the places where the soil of the mind la to ho fertilized.

Youth is a season of which our youths

arc, fatallv, too ptodigial. And, if it i spent in foolish, idle and frivolous disd

patlons ami llceutioua pleasures, oiu age, unbidden bv nature, but forced by ex

cess, Intrudes on the footsteps of youth : and hence, youth In youth becomes old

i in: Lei

Tar tfc infant Cmthr,

Up.Salt River they xlide oh tke

htenmer "Defeat.

IICNTiXiJBUm;, Sept.,4th, 1879.

rtfrl.fs heieerat.

Wood is selling for ene dollar and fifty

peats per cqrd in Pster&burg.

I-rank Potty U the boss rrambler

At a meeting hold in Caw towHshipkmeng tire crenctisU ef Petersburg.

on the 30th of Sept. 187, for the pur

pose ofelcctiHga school teacher, 8 ap plications were made and of course '

candidates were defeated and compelled

to travel upoalt river on the same steam

or.

The steamer has for her captain and

commander .lames Brooner, an old and

experienced officer who has been making

regular trips up this river for many vears, sometime a dozen a year, so taking into aocaunt his un equaled experi

ence lie is without doubt the ablest and

best captain that runs that line, and

from being a pleasant one, for Mr.

1 here will be more acres of wheat

pown ia Pike county this season than last.

Gov. William refnsed o eirn the invi

tation to Haves to visit the .Ui rir.

The sturdy old Governor does not rewea-

miwt jmyes as rresKient or thia repuwtc.

There arc fewer new cauea than tutunl

for the coming term of coHrt. but there

being several tedious ones continued

rrom last terra it will reqnire about the full time to clear the docket.

Prof. Wisdom start to-morrow fnr

Midway, where he will take charge of

there is nothing to hinder the voyagehhe high school. We. congratulate the

trustees on securing the sendees of Prof.

Brooner is always in good spirits, hav4W., as he is a mosf excellent instructor.

ing long sin:e brushed the picture of a1 hundred defeats from his brow. There ia nothing to fear on the passage as the

captain many voyages up me stream

travelers,

the name of the republican paper

ipon to be started at Ireland. Dubois

jcotinty, will be "The Ireland Arams."

iatns to land the vessel, and while iVvm L Vi 7? nunuren vessel continue in port the captain ac-fce!!lon 1 Jno mu of the Io'a

compained by the pilot will go ashore"" r.u,lur w, to cob tract to Keep and seek for other passengers who re nrc almost readv forthe journey. As the cap- Prof. McSwane sends us the following

tain ami pnotare men oi exiraoruiiiaryj""-i.ii iMnnj-.iifniie: inflitpnpe snd wonderful wisracitv it i Mr. George II. Start, one of the di-

thought by the time tlie vessels arrivesitors of the First National Bank of

at trie last pon inai me crew win amoniu - mr. j nmuuruy ior ineaiiemrni

to at least 70 swls. While the captain.that 3ir. Ufrvey has enough monev dc-

Hiid pilot are gaihering the Uereateo rroiu

every nook and earner, the rst ot tne

JASPKK, INU.

mii .tr.. tn ttiA Pattrla of

.(.troll- IhIikIhm) mrlfcl to liiiR

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ONte In the "Ciirlfr" wiwkk. niwni.r

A. TRAYLOR. W. . HUNTER.

HUNTER

JASI'KK, I.VIUAN'A, iriU. practice In ike CmrU of Pslel B'I Uli; V lnscuotlc. Prtkalr MtmtUw glwn to cul- ' IHjromc? Btl ,1,ur K1 if 1 st Chorlen' Hotel. ii. S. LAGLaE, tittomey at Law, JASPER. IUDIAIf A. WII.I, jircticee In H tli furH of Pulol nml ad iMne cnuHtlc. ColleeUont uJ ntite bufliits Mud kjurUlit.v. OFKICT.:-Month ll f 1'h11I fiinr. Nv lith, '-H-ly.

The most regular arrival in Peters

burg i? Mr. Xenian Haskins. who drives

line man route oetween this place and

Tapper. Mr. Haekins uses a verv com-

lias uiihuiwi nun in huiimu uc iuu vi rirtahiD fn- i r

.1 , 1 r !... . ti, """ "C LtUHIUIUUlllUH v

so that foundering or gelling wrecked

will 1x3 imposible. Tlie trip is to occu-j

nv8 mouths and at every port the cap

tain will have the pilot, IThomas Will-!

Per tke Jemr Crtr, A Carefully Cemnliwl Llat Of Writers With Tk4r Xem-ae-nlumea.

Xoa-de-plume, Ouida, Mark Twain, Gail Hamilton, Ei.uek Pkbky, George Klloit, Peter Parlev,

Timothy Titcomb,

Xame. Lonisa de la Rame. Samuel L. Clemens. Mary Abigail Dodge. Kkmpx Brotherm. Marian Evans. S. G. Goodrich.

J. G. Hollaad.

Fannv Fer

Sarah Payeon.

Willis Parton, Andrew M. Swekney.

Petroleum V. Naaby. David Rosa Locke.

Josh Billings, Henry W. Shaw.

Urace .reenwood, fcarah Lippincott. Olw II annex, George L. Parr.

Porte Crayon, David Hunter Sti other.

Donald Grant Mitidiell. Jno. Wolcott. William J. IvExr. William Tavlor Adann.

Charlotte Bronte, Uurrer Bell.

Artemus Ward, Charles Farrar Browne. George Sand, Amautine L. A. Dudevant. Kara KAru, - Who? Boz. - - Charles Dickens.

Knickerbocker. Washington Adams.

Waverly, - - "Walter Sott.

Robert Sculey. 4

Ik 3Iarvel,

Peter Pindar, Sower

Oliver Optic,

C.D1IH,

BRUNO BOETTNER, ATT0UNBT AT LAW, And Notary Public, Jaspeb, Inpiak,

'ILL pmUcr In 1l the Ceatti of mbt ad Ymy ciitte.. ImlliB. Jen 9, 1H74,

rrtty

J. V, DILl.O.N.

C. It. DILLON.

XMllon & Dillon, j ATT0MBY8 AT im OrriGR ever Ju. Ttexlct't Saddler Shop.; JA8PIK, IHDIAHA. ' iriLLprtcllec Ib the Csarte at PalioU unJ nrfjojn. VY ln rountlr. Spt. aatti, IH7S-r. CAatniNcox. i. maxkdon. Cox Sc In,xeclon, 1'KOPRIF.TORS OK THE 8T. ANTLIONY FLOUR MILLS.

of Oil. mill. We thoroughly over

X lutiled tiJ reHtted It with new holts nl ' Jiuw jirirert to offer e. mperlor nr.nl of Hour to the jtahtlc. Arrangement luve heen mvle to lUrer Hour and hlpttifT In Jiinpr on HtturiUyuf ech week, ami e Ounrntec aHtUfnclien lit all cae,. CltSTOH OKINDINU MONK BVKKV WAV,

ul Itmr exchangeil, If delrel. fer RecMl nheat. fepL 12, 1H79-8W.

HEW BLACKSMITH 8HOr

and worn. The faster we drive, fioniioi' wo tnriiiinntc our iotiriicy.

us retain and improve youth while it is onis to retain and improve. Enjoy It

while we can in every reasonable way, but remember, whenever we overstep Iho nrnnnr lininidc. wo are taking the

lirst steps in accumulating a debt which

we must inevitably pay witn neavy m tercet at some future time.

The inculcation of ideas like the above, might not bo found unimportant to some oi'oiip iunior tPHclirrs. iu the manipula

tion of those small plants placed in their WMrdiMie tlipir schools.

Why are the feet turned out Instead of

it: i Give two reasons. How mav light produce darkness?

i ow mav kouiii nrouuee biiuiiuc;

AVhv does the stove or a chimney

Biuunu n nun nil; 1111: ninoi What is tho tlill'ereiico between a solar and sidereal day ? Whv are the Trade Winds socalled? Who are the Antocci and Pcrioeci? OKAPI.VO COUNTRY SCHOOLS. In our neighboring county of Martin, an attempt is being made this year to grade the country school?, and the Board of Education adopted a plan. The following is the plan, and the Superintendent savs iu introducing it: "U'edo'not claim perfection for this

course of study, yet ir the teachers of the county will cnderivor to follow its dictations as closely as they tlnd them practicable, the avstciu and uniformity which

will soon bo brought about iu tho schools ...til I... 1 ( 1. 1.. I A ... l,..u -''

Will UU Ui. lIlUNIUllllUltS UVIICIH V" IIIVJIH. FIRST OXAPE. Alphabet, Oral and Written Spelling, Reading through the lirst reader, countingand written ntimbcrs to 100, simple leaeous iu addition to tens. SECOND GRADE.

Reading through tho second reader oral and written spelling. MtfGuflcy'a

Speller to 801 h page, addition and subtraction continued. Multiplication and

division to combinations of ten, counting

and writing Roman and Arabic numbers

to 1,000.

THIRD ORADE.

Beading through third reader, Mc-

Guirey's speller to 100th page, writing exercises on paper, multiplication and

division continued, language and lessons

in llcrvey'a first hook, oral and simple written exercises In compound nnnibcrs, geography, oral lessons in local geog

raphy, map drawing inriutiing ist. inc

school district, 2d. Thcacction and its divisions, 3d. The township and county.

FOURTH OJADE.

Reading through fc rth reader, spell

ing through McGufToy s speller in Electic Copv book No. 3. or

alent, arithmetic (Kay's Third Book) to

simple proportion. Primary geography (Eclectic) begun and finished, language lessons (Harvey's Second Rook) to 81st page. FIFTH CHAPE.

crew will be engaged iu carrying eat the

cauuiira orders to the letter, so that on

hi return every thing auout tne vcsei

will uein readiness for her onward pro

gress. ('HOtHIII

cd from her anchorage and begin to re-

posited In that one bank to comnlpfp. iron

and all, thirty miles of the E., W & W.

R-11. This doesn't look much like failure.

Uartia CMMr XeraM

yrt i . . .

Immediately oh the return or thel rmxnas oeea veiy raui.on Lost river and pilot the vessel will be loos-or ,Xe-

uanco vnaney ana nis vardstick are

plow the foaming waters. Next in or- not making Ohio Republicans gloriously

iiie taoies winij'i'

dcr will be the repast.

bespread in the broad

cabin and a Rev. Walton, of the Reformed Metho-

Vfti lUat ami aa the WjmiV!.? comT" Xnt canr.et st.ed

Slow. "will proceed to Ifc. W !HAHd hJ!& ,teep , heir hand, 'ia their filffi

that purpose her strength will demo j&'rwhe wZ&H&H"" ' slratc. After this work the dishes must j, m,,not ....

.... I mnuv limn imuiiiai nrni nun

KerHi

Main Street, epposlle Uit PeM OKU

Jasper, Inpiana,

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mlth

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,e," Vu" U."""JLV. iV 1- Pleat Loogootee went off

ViB"". . Vr ri?r r.i ,T!.llwl mewmy. Three couples John T.

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III lias InmiL. Km.'I. T sw;..

ihc wash maid assisted by the cook and.j - Hll Vr jT. ' n'JZ'J her servant will iron the cloM ing, whlle2.A. an d M i M arv Aim the f ngimer 1 1 dh Kemp J kIH kfpp i h heridan. will, their attendanlrenire3 engine repaired and steam uf, . - ;to St John's church, where they were the "fireman ami roustaboHt" 11 I' Al-,.,...,. Tli , mnf

Icnl. These two gentlemen will git

or burst the boilers. nArty took dinner at Mr. Svlvester :rR TLlrt?Zl 0f the most Hbstatlal farofinus c from the hps ofthe captain ' ' CrsofI.-rrto-.rnship,in Davies county, regale the cw. . while JluU aad M! jr!a arft both the

' w V -1 Vr. 'u'Zr.Zr ?"WWnn of Smith. Thegnests were

Vii"JT." -IV-i i.t:-J.i.Tw:rriP"nifraWe. and at 4 o'clock the dinner

providing nu wic tuc uvi? v WBf Still Koit -e OH rllM01 WOr1 three couples retnmer; fo town hth3d toactaS cl ap aln. land took supper at Mr. Dan Driscol's.

cd before and St can be nothing short otf ftJTm KSh tfcS J . rl AA.Iaitn 1t?lit in tha n.aunmn inr lV.l "SinGS JV. Ilhil, Which W88 par-

v "'TJI : "I:l;"u ticipateu iHby upwards of three hundred

people.

cry one is occapyinga post exactly snit-j

od to their nature. A rierd.

The Evening Star publishes an in

terview with Senator Rruce, chairman

of the senate committee to investigate Urn Freedman'a liank. The senator is

We had the pleasure last week of meet

ing, besides others, our old comrade,

iCapt. John J. Alles, of Dubois county,

- k m v w in.i v r m . a

",a -a E-,-5.,. iK. ?-imrl. . kP7 commsnuen to. i, a-n ma. capu

wa the on eB,!e

sr. ii i. .n tnie comraue.

to keep a padlock on his month ; but, he! "on. Tho. R. Cobb, our distingnlshcd said, when we do make our report then-,pnrecii!atlve 'B Congref attended the win 1m sunlinr revelations which l,Hennion at Ort 'an If.st week, and was

cannot speak of now. I find our ex- warmly grcctt - vy his hosts of friends perls havo .been balancing books, and from all parts of the county. During just when they reach the point which hi service in the balls of Congress, Mr. ought to lead to some important devel- Cobb has made a reputation of which

onments thev find three tr four pages orm he d the voters of the iecond

lx a candidate for re-election to the position he ha so acceptably filled, and the Democrats of the District can not do better than to again give him their sup

port

tho ledger are torn out. 1 want to in

duco congress to bnv the frccdmanV

Imnk building and tho property up to.

the corner of fcixlh street. If sucn a

sale could be effected, I will guarantee an additional dividend of 20 per cent.

will be paid to the bank's creditors will. p -the 30 per cent already paid, and the 20 ft . rtf percent additional, which I anticipate, 5!L.f

-H i i ur'tbe bank will pay, the payments wil ag- . 1 ,il .gregale 50 per cent, and that is all I think i.lPAl will ever be paid. Wnatl think ought

The Republicans in Ohio have intro

duced the shot-gun policy into the cam

paign in that btate, and like tho way it works remarkably well. At Kenton, oa the 24th iust A. J. Davidson, a colored.

Democrat from Athens couutv, while

making a speech was Interrupted by "amob of colored people, who had erganized in a corn-field near by, armed with corn-cutters, stones, clubs, etc., came down on the meeting with a sweep, and

yelling that 'no damned Democratic Big

ger could make a speech around there.'

Dr. Oootllove, Democratic candidate for

rfenator from this district, backed by others, stepped before the mob, and with.

drawn revolver, said he would shoot tha

firstman who again interrupted tha meetmg. The crowd thereupon quieted

down semewhat, and, the s haking proceeded amid mutterins -.nd olack feowla

from the mobites. A: :he close of the meeting the crowd again made for the speaker, and he vnnld have fared badly at their hands but for t"3 assistance of Dr. Goodlove and party, who. with revolvers, eeconrted the speaker to a rar-

ciageand thence to a pNce of safety." A

special to the Cincinnati Enquirer, from

which we take the account, adds that

" the Republican central committee claim to be much pleased over this dastardlv

act of mob violence, saying it shows that

the old patriotic war spirit is again coming upon the people." Nothing wore than thia Ohio bulldozing can be found in Southern campaigns. Indianapolis

Sentinel.

The English queen, iu an exortation to

Ejlish iadiea on the importance of a

knowledge of housekeeping, speaks of Americans, saying: ''So one can denythat, as a rule, they are 'pleasant to tha eyes,' and certainly do not usually sin in

the wav of neglecting their personal

adornment or In taking their full share

in the pleasures and dan I messes of this life; yet, whn the necessity arises, we have "the w,--ant of those who have traveled and lived in America for believing that they can hold their own as useful members of the househelders ef which they are also the ornaments." Trustee for tke Blind Appointed. The governor yesterday commissioned Daniel Mowrsr as trustee of the Blind Asylum, to fit the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Ristlne. Mr. Mowrer is of Marion, Ind., and was the former trustee appointed by Governor Hendricks to fill a vacancy. Ha cr.rae within one vote of getting the caueiu nomination before the last Legislature. Indianapolis Sentinel. The two-cent postal card is coming.

and will soon be in general circulation. It has two stamps, one at each end, and spaces for two messages. The sender who desires information valuable to himself occupies one of the spaces, and the return correspondent the other. One

stamp cancelled at the offce from which, it is originally sent, and the other at the return ofice.

movers leave Marion

township for Texas next Monday.

The Cumberland congregation have

paid. What 1 think oughif oncindeol to employ a minister for their

to be done by congress is to buy theunrcn. building and discharge the three com- If another war shonld ever arise in this missioners who have for years been country we are In favor of letting the

drawing a salary of $S,000 per year.

WM. GASSER,

i r II IU Mil,)

Pa nrl in tr ftfiU rnnrlm tlirrmcrh 11 111 TO

iu""a "" iv"i - w - t a a . vna.n wijpvaui? wi viewed, spelling selected words from 'grandmother, who told yon just nowLhiroh f thI.

L ' ' .,... nnt In .nmn down these steis!'l ' " 1"

hlltndnpeneJaMev hep for all kind on'""rit f-S"l'"J ' " s '"im. rlLT fell us ot to nanaithwork. hu lenn aejsiRWBp with theeit. nrlthmetit! completed, geography (r.elcc-1 Grandma niu w ten n not ie, pia.

iuv tittvir anu mu. i

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itena 01 imiioi renniT. ami mm well enawn .too xt rnmnlnlotl I .niiWtiHiro. IPCt-flllS B e OUI dHB iu

!.!Lh'L SP Histniv: wouldn't jump

.liBirHorMihoeififtandirMiBEof waKt)i r ba.Rro,..,,,, Physiology. Practical GrRUimar.and I shouldn t

"Edward," said Mr. R., what do I

hear; that yon have disobeyed yoni

jump down these steps!1

down those steps, boys,'

think she would, an eld

pondhotders da the fighting.

Suit has been brought to set aide that

bart of A Hat Becky dimming' will

which bequeaths 1790 te the CHmberhmd

Buddha says: "A wicked man who

hepreaehea a virtroos eae is like a man

who leeks an and spite at heaven ; the

pit tie soils not heaven, but came back

A western man of the law, after de

veloping considerable eloquence and

perspi..tion in hehairot a prisoner, perorated "r,y saying: " Gentlemen, after what I hhve stated to you, Is this man guilty?" Can he be guilty? Is he guilty?" Greatly to his disgust, th. foreman of the jJry, after a copious cxpecr toratlcn, replied: ''You jnst wait a little, oiC hose, aad we'll tell you." A bald-headed pro res or. reproving a youth for the exercise of his liMs, said 'We fight with our heads at this college." The young mn rcfieclcd a moment and then replied. "Ah I I ice ; and. , j -it . .. ai'

Ti tiraniBtiT attrmten to. - lUrlv likr her I ' .Vt85,etf3th.3.U4,ly, Wm. OASSER. '(Ilat'VCy 5). ia(l I1KC ucr4

aan acnict ri own person.

yOU Bunco an join

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