The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1871-03-31

a max mill Is TO be started at Warsaw
Tell City has an. $500 fire engine.
y . 'll'c Evansville cigar makers are on ,
strike.
The Pike County Agricultural Socict,
alrcady.n''mbc's 200 members.
There are six inmates in the PIKE
County Poor Asylum.
The people of vinccnncs are orcani.
zing reading room society.
There are thirteen dry goods and GRO.
Gerry houses in Petersburg.
Wheat is selling at 81 so per bushc]
in Princeton.
\ Nathan murderer" has turned ~,
in Upton county.
Thirteen pounds is The standard n cirht
for very new children at South Bend.
The debt Of Huntington county is 10
be funded.
The Pension Agent at INDIANAPOLIS
has paid out $175UOO since The .4th of
March.
The prospects Of tho wheat crop in
FOUNTAIN county were never better. SO
says the oldest inlabiiant.
A man and his wifi, bcastly d,unk
were arrested in an alley al Iatavettc on
edncsttay night. A sad sight.
While River continues in good boat
ing order and steamboats, arc doing a
good business.
It is estimated that. 40rOO saw logs
were run out Of Patoka Riyertluring the
late rise.
I. a new Democratic paper is soon 10 he
started at OtwclI. Pike county, TO be
called the Otwcll Weekly Times.
Agrcat deal OF tobacco remains unsold
in Pike county Farmers want higher
prices thansbuycrsarc willing to give.
a great deal Of sickness prevails in
Logan township, Pike county,a both
amoiig grown people mud children.
An Evansville ficnd attempted tOout-
rage the person Of q five year old girl.
and he has not been hung. 49,
The Davis county Democrat reports
the stock Of tho County Agricultural
and Mechanical association being ru,,i,l-
~ absorbed. s--' -,
a few days agoa little son of Hiram
Mctiowan.s Of Peters burg. IL N into 4 kct- I
lie of boiling water, and was scaldcdto
ueath. fSxEE ~Sf s1<A
The Louisville Commercial, New AL I
bany Ledger. and l'rinccto, fDcmoc,nt
have joined and arc cndcavorin~ 10 ir-
feat tue Ohio Valley Railroad project,
The Indiana Conference SUNDAY
school Convention meets in yinccnnes.
Tuesday. May Seth. r. &. OKanc and
other celebrities SIC expected.
The Princeton Clarion SAYS the wheat
hcids 0f Gibson county are looking very
beautiful, and promise a'bountifnl har- ,
vest.
Fifty thousand two hundred and three ,
Is the population of indianapolis now.
and tic Marsllals have Just commenced ,
on Reconsideration graveyards. Z
John ). ,Icnmings. Esq. Of (irccncastle.
has donated 5000 c, rs an endowment,
fund for the Presidency of the Indiana
Female College. ,T
\ druggist at CarpentcrsviIle. Putnam
rounty. says that tho rats have become =
20 numerous about his store that he fears c
'hey Will supercedc him in business. Q
The Republican population of Parkc $
Io,!nty was recently Increased by the adj
'iti"n OF seven col0rcd families. Thcx !;
rame, from North Carolina. ~ !
The Evansville tobacco market boasts :
,1'' lis receipts up TO the present time :
his season are over three times larger !,
nan They were Ut Tie same time last :
YEAR. !
Two young men named Duke. Of Ey- y
lnsvillc. were drowned at the mouth of K
irecn River, last week. BY falling over r
'oard from raft, during The prevalence
Il astOrm. =;
A.respcctablc citizen Of Eugene com NJ
nmted suicide by hanging himself with
log Chain, on Yhurslay hist. Pccuni- .
~ troHbles are said 10 have bccn The
a''se.
indianapolis having exhausted lis
upply ofIiyirg beings 10 swellits popu.
alton, is digging sup. the boncs OF i'm. til
ialls 70 increase the census Of Poguc
sun stnctrorolis. At 2
Ayoumg lady named lydia iIaybcr St
cr,a nativc Of Erie, Pennsy lvamia. re- 20
'alngat Limo, Lagrange. county, COM y
''ittcd suicide by drowning on SUNDAY on
venins last. &c. 4 20
An old ecntlcnan in uIfSaklin TOXIN :,
hip, Grant couwtyyseY,orts tiySf hc tiac. in
Il la1ye bear -tyaekNcross1r cornficld Sc
eccutIySend tho citizens or Mat section
re greatly excited over thc, mnttsr.
- little difficulty. between Dotbins, q \
'utciicr, and Williams, a barber, at No
,lesvillc, Hamilton county, resulted in
nc iattess ]aaving a portion ri his fhce
iaved off with . cleaycr.
\ little child Of Mr.. Charles Alcxan. -
CT, residing la Evansville, was scaldcd =,
death on Friday last, by pulling cup n,
! milk from the table, the scalding con- y,
:nts running into its bosom. sc
Among the late applicants for d. L
orce IN Tcrrc Hautc 10 the wife Of :.
,,n,aunccy Miller, = we'll kho wn citizen. >