Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 26, Number 18, Jasper, Dubois County, 7 March 1884 — Page 2

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A MWVUI ACCtMCXT. , Ootxv.. Ttb-, SS. A very remarkable railroad scchtsnt occurred Mar Georgetown, Col., on Satafday. The Dearet-boand passenger train on the Colorado Central tetlroad ww compk-ioly btowa from the track by the wind. The train, consisting of ths engine, begaEe-caY and two coaches, left the depot at iJeorgetowa at a time when a pretty jpxnl gale was Mowing, with thirteen passengers on board. At a pujat . tl . .k... -I.- 1 I. a nuar mil ui tut." v uj wc iin imu ht creased almost to a hiuTkaane. The train men were fearful of the accident and slowed the train. Ahead was a high 1 grade, and ft was resolved not to ran it tilt the wind had ceased. The train was running very alow when the accident occurred. Several tunes the can toppled when the gusts came more violently, but righted again, and when the larch came the passengers were more or less prepared for It. The passenger coaches were the nrst to go. They turned over twice. The baggage-car alighted hot tom-apwani, and the engine was on It side. The embankment was only Are feet high. Of the thirteen passengers six were injured, bat none fatally. Miss Mary Burke, of Blackhawk, was the worst hart. She had her hands and face badly horned by coals from the overturned stoves. Engineer Wartxhelmer had his nose broken. John Wilson, of Denver, suffered a broken hip. Mania Scbenck, chin and nose cut. Mrs. Kittenburg of KZverplume, two-inch gash on her head. Benj. Wlshart, sprained ana. The pas scngers who escaped walked hack to Georgetown, and a conveyance was sent lor the wounded. Two years ago a similar accident happened at the sane point In the road. The theory advanced thus far is that where the accident occurred there are .two high mountains, one considerably higher than the other, that the wind blowing from the top of the smaller one would strike the other and create a sort of whirlwind, which 4s claimed was what blew the train from the track. Constslsjtable other damage la reported by the TEXAS BOfJXW. ay me WAMmarrox. D. C Feb.. S. In a communication to the President and by him transmitted to Congress, the Secretary of the Interior submits aa elaborate history of the controversy over the boundary between the United States and Texas. The Secretary, la concluding his review of the dispute, makes the following statement and recommeadatkms : "The question of the disputed1 boundary has never been determined between the United Atata Ml the Mate of Texas. The lat ter Male desires a speedy adjosonent of the mnctloa, andbt view of the settlement of the territory la controversy, and of elates made to the tracts of land lying therein and la view of the civil jurisdiction whkh prevails or ought w prevail therein, it is important that sach boundary line should be Anally fixed and determined, i am of the opinion that the 100th meridian of west longitude hat been correctly surveyed, marked and established, and that a survey of the meridian win be unnecessary. The to be determined, is which fork of said Red Biver was intended under the treaties and joint resolution before recited to mark and designate the boundary line between Texas and the United States. I submit that this does not ntctsinrlly depend upon the relative slat or formation of the forks. I am of the opinioa that It Is necessary that a Joint comanaaloa on the part of the United States sad Texas should be formed to definitely such boundary line, i that the proper steps be taken for that purpose. I suggest, however, whether eummsnt data of aa authentic character de not already exist to enable the commission to determine the without farther surveys ht the SAB CALAMTT. Im( ay the TJantntBe1 ( n iMeeee mt JenTauiu, Wish, Pbul. XL are occurred yestertlat ; la the wooden buildtua occupied by J. 3. Barns' dgarstore, and destro)ed. she Union Hotel block, occupied by the Union Hotel. Union Hall Theatre, WsWvon A Cnrtlav drag store, Jacksoa SavUgs iBank, H. H. Cam and C. X. XlUott, groeertes; X. H. Bckler, saloon. The Monk, owned by I. B. Ribbard nad costing UMOO, burned together with tre travne kedtdmns, occupied by WlOmaa Aaltmftu, hosts and shoes; Jobs Bath, jeweler; Charles Aulbe, barber shop and resident; i- J. Surna, cigar store; Rntsoa Brw, confectioners; Barret A Daly, tinsmiths, aadJK. W. Wehjer, salooa. The loss vy ire and water will exceed 17,Q00, partially Insured. Several Uvea are reported lost. One body, that of Charles Cornell, a erlpaiad soldier, has been recovered, lour ethers are injured so that they will die. They am John Price and Mra. - Beaks, waiters, Qrrnea, of Clay land, attempted to Jump mm uunmwj wmww. airucK mm telespAph wtreaand was whirled around ta sec&va way as to strike on his head and sesjaldera sat the snsmeemt, and was of aahuunanoVmM scsjpweendta jmtplag froms'beJcoB In front at the heest. His Injuries are JsOtJetei.

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Early Pawn of The gradual encroechntent of power whioh the f ederal system seem to permit, sad which, under the skUlfulmanIpulationof the Republican leaders, has grown to proportiiws which seem to endanger the liberties r e country, m a lit study for the patriotic heart, ana one that can not be u welt upon nor contemplated too often. It U the great questurn of the time whether, in the strife for political power, the principles of free government are not being trampled under foot and sport made of the dearest posssssiott the patriot can enjoy. Amid the conflict and excitement of the period there is great danger that the landmark of liberty may be lost, and the people awake from their lethargy and indifference to hud themselves fettered by chains which their own neglect has fastened upon them. The history of at! human government shows that the masses harts become enslaved through the) ambition and cupidity of public leaders, and who will say what would have been the destiny of Kngland had not the ambition of I root well overleaped itelf and opened a way for the return of monarchy in the person of Charles the Second. All the wisdom and the patriotism of that period went down in the misguided seal and unworthy ambition of that aspiring fanatic until the fabric of popular liberty which the patriots had reared was baptised with the best blood of Britain, It is from the ambitious strifes of the leaders that the people have always received their yokes and burdens, and the history of the past few years in this country' proves that nothing but the utmost vigilance upon the pat t of the people can protect them, even in this favored land, from being made the servant of ambition and the slaves of designing politicians Every step this Nation has taken during the past twenty years has been in the direction of centralization and away from the principles and practices of the early days of the Republic. Under the specious cries of progress and advancement the people have been deluded into surrendering one right after another until the States are shorn of all their E roper powers, and the individual hi ft almost powerless to protect himself against the assumption of Government. Away back in the early period of this country's history this possibility was discussed axd feared, for it appears in Elliott's Debates that Alexander Hamilton undertook to disabuse the minds of the framers of the Constitution of the fears which were then felt" by exclaiming: "Will the people suffer Congress to strip them of their privileges till the solemn prerogatives of the States are reduced to a shadow and a name?" and then, as if repelling such a thought, answered: "The idea is shocking to common sense;' and yet this is precisely what the followers of this great advocatoof Federalism are preaching and practicing to-day, and the idea whkh Hamilton thought was to cotmaou sensebas been for aloft as the true priaeiple of National policy. That the people wore tealons of their rights and regarded aome rule, the sovereignty of the masses as eontradistiuguished from the designs of aspiring politicians, above all other considerattoa,' is abundantly proven by the acts of the colonies long before the Constitution was formed. Even then the claims of the people to manage their domestic affairs was strenuously insisted upon. Previous to 1965 the colony of Virginia received a charter ifrbieh provided that no orders of the court in London were to be binding on the colony unless ratified by the As sembly.'' In 1632 a charter was grant ed to Maryland which gave the- people the power of legislation without any interference from the mother ' country. In the charter to Pennsylvania in 1681 the principle of the right of local selfgovernment by the people was fully recognized. In the "controversy between Mamachnsetts and Hew Hampshire, which was settled in England in 1679, and a Gorarmnent organized 1n New iiatnpsnire. it was provided "that no act, imposition, law or ordinance should be imposed upon the people of. the province, but such as should be made by the Assembly and approved by the President of the Coune l." On page 61 of Alexander H. Stephens' History of the United Stntes it is stated that ' there was a confederation formed between four of the colonies, in which it was provided that each colony was to be perfectly free in its management of its own internal affairs, while external matters were intrusted to commissioners to be selected by each colony. " Here we have the jealous regard of the people for their righto and liberties distinctly slated nod admitted while yet the Nation was in embryo, and before the Idea of a Federal Ctorerament was thought of. This desire to have local self-government renratoed with the colonists, and it was against the fears felt by the patriots of the time that Hamilton used all his matchless powen of statesmanship to reasKureand encourage those who doubted the wisdom nad expediency of sunrendering those rights for the general purposes of government Notwithstanding the efforts of Hamilton eSeL mwMt CbPSsuss)wnfn the people were afraid so faU in with their views, and it appears in the second volume of Elliott's Dehatea, that Mr. Hodman, white the adoption of the Osnstitution was trader consideration in Maasachusetts, expressed his Jean that the General Government would encroach upon the sovereignty of the Stales, to which Itr. Sedgwick replied and said: "If ht Wwved that tie adoptioat of the proposed Cohfattntion would interfere with the State Lejrielatures be would be, the last to vwte for H," nd it sppeaM last nil! m sua at but ifani areweiuuv nm. rnsn' wee mrana nsuwuf

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lr nowen until the whole American people mtw iwim wt Hw uuwMvw. It will we seen from these extracts that the spirit of pular Uhsrty sad the right of local atif-gevernsneat was insisted upon from the foundation of the Government, and that the prophetic eye of the statesmen of tin period looked into the future and questioned the wisdom of nets that might rob them of i Ms priceless boon. Could they have seen the rapid strides this spirit of Federalism ha made in our time, and noted the ease with which men now trample upon all popular rights and privileges, their patriotic hearts would have burned within them, and we should have upon record words of warning and utterances which might be of service in these degenerate days The departure front the purer principles of government in the scramble for place and power, and the rise of parties with whom the end justifies the means, but makes the duty of the patriot more clear and imperative. The Jeffersonian standard of honesty and fitness need to be taught anew in the choice of public servants, and place hunters nad spoilsmen sent to the rear, with the wicked doctrine of centralization of which such low estimates of public dwty form a part.Jmertco MeguUcr, f Investigate ! Investigate ! Congress has now been in session two months. We are told that the Appropriation bills are approaching completion. The Committee of Way and Means is supposed to be enraged in perfecting some tax reform. Mr. Sherman has measured off two or three yards of bloody-shirt preamble, and the Senate has appointed a committee to investigate an 'election row in Copiah County, Miss., and a fight between negroes and white men at a ost-town in Virginia. But as vet we have heard of no proposition in the Democratic House to investigate the assault of the Republican party on the very life of republican Government. The Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice, of which Mr. Springer is Chairman, has in the pursuance of it duties found it necessary to inquire into the Star-route prosecutions. It. is met at the threshold by the pretense that any information supplied by the Department to the Committee would "defeat the ends of iustice," as prosecutions are still pending. The people know that the prosecutions already undertaken have been barefaced frauds designed to facilitate the escape of the defendants and used as a means I- I " " of still further plundering the Government under the cloak of legal fern to assistant counsel. They know that Garlie Id commenced and Arthur continued the protection of Doner, the agent who had done the practical work in purchasing their election, and of Brady, the Star-route official who had squatted the bribery fund out of the pockets of the dishonest contractors on the strength of Garfield's begging letter. Hence the people are fully aware that aa Administration in league with the Star-route thieves and a beneficiary of its frauds can have no honest intention to prooecute any Star-route suits to a succVssfal issue. let It is evident that the whole power of the President, of his .Cabinet nad of a convenient District Court is to be used to embarrass and defeat the inquiries of Mr. Springer's committee. This makes it all the more necessary lor Congress to start Investigationc without nay further delay into abuses and outrages which concern not a Mis sissippi county or a Virginia post town. but the people of the whole United States. It has been admitted by the exSecretary of the Republican National Committee that in the election of 18M0 the State of Indiana was carried for the Republicans by bribery and corruption. It baa been admitted by Republicans that a corruption fund of S4U0.U0O was raised in New York City, which was carried to Iad'ana and used to 'induce men to change their opinions and their votes.'' Investigate! It has been charged that the present United States MmJster to France bought his appointment with the share he contributed to that fund and his efforts ht securing other subscriptions. Investigate! It has been charged that two prominent speculators mterested in suits before the Supreme Court of the United States involving millions of dollars, paid flUO.000 toward Garfield's election expenses in consideratiott of hia pledge to make appointments to that court acceptable to mem, and that a Judge friendly to them was actually apKinted in conformity with the bargain, vestigate! Investigate it, because, If true and capable of proof. It shews that the rerv foundation of the Ooverwment, the High Court which is the final arbiter of the onstitathm, is tainted and unworthy of the pubim confidence. Surely It is more important to ascertain if the Prmndent holds his ottos by fraud and if seats on the Bench of the United Slates Supreme Court are sold for money than it Is to inquire who Is responsible for an alleged election out rage in Copiah County, Miss. Surely, tne peopie are more interested in inquir ing whether the diplomatic office of the Government are made the reward for money supplied to corrupt the ballot box. whether the officers of justice are bribed to let public robbers go free and whether our Federal Courts, marshalships and eommissiotterahtns are fined with thieves, than it Is to ascertain whether negroes or white men were drank when they oomtneaced the Danville fightA', T. reraf. uaVsttaVtaaata) 0msal 'sVk 'sajrntt mpLjiyp yjmu. avi swaujinaBka AihiLuak ".ANLgE JaJK Jafwoil arwRRK awSlarmrmws IsfPsn Jamape

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A CONTRAST. ittuer. aadoa,srrr MmtueDmssarjr. M The ear w dauaaWU rates and H ratosl la full perfect measure, But keen diMippouitaieat And utei and yaws!" MIelttintae:! , , WU. no urn eumtiiaialns. The sutwhlae I mmtum! " trie MtttMi Mw Jus. I'll nvr tn wklnias. Nor think of tetania. Uut tta4 the BeartfUttshuM TtMtaaa no euoyOh. dear, and on. deary ! ( Hex Minute Dumirenry. w How tireftome tlieae Immknis, Do har4 and m hmgl 1 neve can do them. Hor even aee through them, It's no iiw to try them , They alway go wron-:" " Tbe leMon perplexla Are eertslnty vtotins, lint tbru I will ik) litem!" Cries brave Maasts Joy. Tbere no u in tKhlnv I'll lust kwp on trytns; Ana eoniur, tr evnry I'ow vrl employ J" Ota. dear. iiH oh, deary! Cries Minnie Uuiidreary, M That troubUome baby. . To wntrh and to lend I rd rat nor be rloinf. or manitts or sUbmi. And bavin some fun. ' With agar, merry rrleas,H M On, yea, dearest mother: My sweet tfttie iMrutaee lytaaiy wlU ears fori" Crteweet Nastie Jfi "AKawtuffc tts soaw tteuahv The tun wUt be doutMe. Tans, ever complaining, f wiany or ratamg. Poor Mlswle aadssver something to annoy; White Joruus and nerry. LiKht-bearted and eheery, a rount or r pure snnsame f hJaJnsae sse (yWsmw JMs A. B. irwsa. Honrs iou That is the way Dora wrote ft. She put the loner, queer word at the head of a page in 'her ncount-hok. Hlggledynlggledy represt-ntel the odd pennies ana hve-cnt pieces and dimes that found their way out of Dora's little hand, and found their way into the till at the confectioner's and the pastry cook's. And how hard it is, indeed, for pennies to stay in little hands! They so long to get out, and so do the little silver dimes sad the big quarters. Now Dora was a dear fat little dimpled dumpling. You couldn't help loving her the moment you saw her, and yon are supposed not to be a bit of her relation. Of course, her cousins and aunts and uncles and big brothers and sisters were ready to eat her up. And it was: " Here. Dodo, is a penny for you, or: " Here. Dodo, is a dlme;f' and sometimes it was a quarter, or even a silver dollar somewhere near as large a Fi as the moonOnce in awhile it was a dear little VaMimttinir amid nljuM v'aIIamt aa ,nn. thin. Dora had a tender heart, and she was ever so sorry for poor people, especially poor children near her own age. She knew that there were hungry children and ragged children, and children with de, pinched faces, and even little dee, with no pretty red roses in their cheek. Tm going to save 'most every bit of

my money," she said to her mother. ' " cm w u marsw -w prone day near New Year's. "I'm going day, There was more bali-playing than

to save it for poor children. Yta going to buy some shoes for Betsy Ann Baker's little Tom. Why, only think, I saw his toes sticking out in the snow when he came here with hii basket for cold bits: and they were awful red. Then I'm going to buy a new red flan nel dress for M; Mrs. O'llaher.y Wddr just as bare as little Tom's Her knees are toes. Sho wear" an old light calico dress, and it's all torn and horrible. a .ma "And there's Mike Conroy; he hasn't any thing but a crown to his bat, and can't go to Sunday -school; and Jim Conroy bant any stockings. lie told me so when 1 asked him why he didn't keep 'em pulled up. lis had nothing but old feet, made out of flannel rags. Ol, ilasr tKnrai t an tmtfh tA Ktiv'' ' Bnt yon have erer so much money' said Dora's epa. "You are the riche.H little girl I know.'' .ii whok pocket-book roll, said Dora. ;;If only Hlggledypiggledy don't get f81? wm,a "Who is he? asked papa, A .g iant that gets money from little psopte,' said mamma. - He sot some of the missionary money last week,4' said Dora, blushing. "He mnst be an idol,'1 said papa. "I will give you two little accountbooks, and yen nhall put the idol's name at the head of one, and devote the other to poor people at home, and m lands that we call heathen. M "Good," mid Dora, clapping her tiny white bands. "Yon shall mo that old Higgledy won't get much. 1 nope so, sam papa, taxing up his evening paper. But as f told you a few minutes ago, little children find it hard, to keep money. The candy-stores are so rerv tempting! Candy men ought to hide their pretty confectionery, and not ptttyt ht the window where afl the children can see it. And then the red apples and oranges tad TssmittM they taste so good! And it is so aloe for a little girl gfct Dorm to treat her little friends. At the end of a week papa took on the aoootttttoojts nnd looked at Dom'i Uwhi etnoknsl Ihynrng and pwtfad hn

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oranges, tea , ejm et af,, OiWCttUt maskaana.xhHBL fWt7F,wJulPw Under Charity, which was written in the second sjxHWBt-uook, be reads Uavs aw aid shwt whh hole la ealnt Ileub-y Ann Ha4r Tom. To the heataon, mvwn eents. Papa took his pencil and wrote nadet the last entn ; "It is plain that my little Dodo lotas the Idol best.,, When Dora read what he father a4 written; sho was anhnmed. She taanlfad to lie venr, rerv. rsry t-aiafaL and nstnt hH W illggliMi)pigHy get suoh m ndvantagti again. -ifra, ML i. JmHc, m raM, 'JOItlpOtMH, "Eiglit times thr!' said Willie m . fmuatletttly. Oh. What fa) th matter with me? Can't J, gat fliM rigbtr 'Come on Willlet shouted the how at the window; um can't waltj iMtth your lesson afterward. H O, yea,' sold Wtttio, Afterwadir TJmowalUbtHitbtm; be has cheated me many, a time, and I have no fal&ftki hint. Mine times four are tMrty-fix.H MBother nine times four! ft in time we were of, and we shall hare 1m fo without von.1 1 shottki like to bother fald WUtte; it is mring me bother enough. Bow much is It, snyhowf" , H)os hundred and seventy-nine. Kew come on this minute, or we shall fe without 'you.' m "Look here, Harry Jones. fald Willie, looking op a minute from his work; -this is the last art ample in ear lesson. Tre got at! the others, and 1 knew I shan't haw any more time for arithmetic, and I don t mean to stir from ibis corner till X cat this bothering old fellow right. Pre gone over him three times now, and H won I come; if I have to do It threohnndred timei I mean to hare it. So t there!1 ! 'Itottwr take the old exampK nay- . how?" aaid Usury, in his enwsest tons. H ome on boys: we can't lose ail thafmt 'waiting till midnight for hint; mm) away every boy mm. " .N ine times four are Uifrty-fowr, said Willie, patiently; and though, of eourea, it was not right, and never whl ha, ha workeil awar just as rtoadily; and when he found that he was wrong, again, hi said, talking to himself: "Now, look here' You think you are going to beat me, don't you? well, you were never more mistaken in yoar life, ddy name is Persevere Wilson. Father said 1 had earned that name, and thai I snottld have it af long as I de: erred R; and I hope you tlon t think I am going to lose my name and my place in tie oTaes juat to please you.' Then he began again, slowly, paUefc ly, each figure carefully studied, and at last the example "proved Itself," andWillie, with a soft hurrah and a few I VaWtt. STOt UD from his comer. The ! last sHIimmsr of t wilisrh t was Jadlnsr. X , use to talk of ball playing now; inn was ; over for that evening. I don't care,-' said Willie, as he went up to bed; "it will be more fun forme than for the others when the roll of - ample la railed to-morrow. ! Sure enough! " Mauler Willie. " said Prof. Beunet, looking up over his speotaeles, you are the only inember ef perseverance by the rest of the of am. J fesr." lmng Jieapt r. A Few; Wares to Yenag Xen, Ambition is a rerv good thing to hart, it -i-i 1 x. rti t . j,k ni-o in nnM doses; If too , . ,mk uu - .-, - taas , x .uii u - , SVSSV.va HIHJU vv;' HI HU SB npon diflicult thins: to define: cruelty, esfAmnets and fane pride nre its nrst eotismt Ambition, in ill-balanced nattwes. makes them crhel; the nossemor wRt step to the prize over the aniraring bodies of his competitors physicany apeaking, in by-gone ages; fhmtlvely, in this nlaeteenth century-witnout a . don is not greater titan it Is, and with oat comuasaion for those who ham j fallen hi the strugifles. Crf atlfwmne there are mnnr kinds; the sommou, evsry-dar, won t give-up-my-seat kind Df selnshnMs, and tne okindtna I rendering of fmsJl' favor mexpeetatian i of a return at usurythis is I'm pure, double - distilled. botUed and-iwrked-quaim ot regret, except that the goer-with-sstotmor k'md. Of fab pride there la only one kud bnt that is the meanest kind msmttfactured. False pride wtyl tell a young man to steal rather than to beg; to lie concerning his prospects rather than tail hit ftiettda he has been unwise and is tat straits. Tlie young man who arriratni ' a city without any friend, registers at the beet hotel, and has his mail front home addressed there, taking Ms board j oat of his prmpects for getting work, win oe very itrteiy to get nimseii into the papers as a hotel beat, and ho obliged to have his letter addressed to the Tall. The young man who starta out la life with the Idea that in a few years he will own the whole earth and a fen acres df the next field, maj ham to come round at the last minute and. beg for so much at a seat on thn fence. "Make haste slowly' is a wtso proverb; its wisdom is proved by the tost of experience. Home was nee built In a day, nor erea a great many towns of issseir importance m bhnorrv The only thing thai ever was built ht a day is a ytmawntan afronh Mai in ( mha& ef awiis6nillf:

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