The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-10-25

~ 'oiutSu t"'~Ns 49, |
stating that at the law department OF Howard
University, there have been men graduated
Who from their own lips, declare that their
education extended to the ability to read III
the Fourth School Reader.
Attorney General Williams emphaticaly |
denies that he intends to retire from the
Cabinet after the Presidential election.
The Rio Grande Commission represent that
the truth Of the disorders ON the Texan
frontier has not rs yet been half told. and that
Mexico is in every instance the sggressor.
| An officer OF high standing ut Annapolis
| says that the story OF tho matreatment Of
and injustice to the colored cadet midship-
man Conyers il wholly false. Several naval
| officers who recently arrived in Washington
from Annapolis declare that they know noth-'
whatever Of the reported disorders.
Foreign.
| Two more Communists have been sentenced
| to death at Paris.
| The Abolition Society Of Madrid continue
the agitation of the slavery question. They
| have just sent to the Cortes petition for
| the manumssion of slaves in Cuba and Porto
Rico.
A Republican revolt of alarming proportions
| has broken out in the Spanish province of
| Corunna.
| The news of the death of Mr.. Seward was
received in England with great surprise, no
intimaton of his illness having reached there.
The daily papers Of London contain elaborate
biographies of the distinguished statesman.
The Ne,cs says: Although Mr.. Seward was
| unpopular here, by reason of his rather percmp;
| tory bearing he leaves behind him great ex-
ample of vigor, energy and success"
Another religious row is threatened in Lis
burn, Ireland, and an additional military force
has been sent there.
1t is reported that Theirs has requested
Victor Emanuel to recall the Italian Minister
to France. because he is Bonapartist.
Prince Napoleon has been banished from
France.
The election for President of the Republic
of Mexico occurred on Saturday. Oct. II.
There being no opposition to the present in
cumbent. Lerio de Tejeda, the election passed
of quietly.
The London papers give the particulars of
the arrest of woman in West Auckland on
charge Of wholesale poisoning. This modern
Borgia is accused Of having caused the death
by poisoning, in the course Of her career, of
no less than nineteen persons, including three
husbands.
The railway between Yokohama and Yeddo,
Japan, has been formally thrown open to the
public by the Mikado.
Prince Frederick Henry Albert, the third
and youngest brother of the Emperor William
Of Prussia, died recently in Berlin. at the age
OF 60 years.
The Internationals are preparing for great
demonstration in Hyde Park, London. on the
30th of November.
The German army Of occupation are evacu-
ating the Department of the Upper Marine. in
France.
1t is authoritatively announced that the
Pope will remain in Rome.
Under the new tax levy in Cuba. tax of
s24 is imposed upon each slave in the island,
which will produce revenue of s7,00000O.
Quite sensation has been created in Paris
by the discovery that two thousand bombs
had been sent to the city with some revolu-
tionary design. The bombs, or grenades, are
similar to those that Orsini threw from
house-top at the Emperor Napoleon in 1858,
and the suspicion is that they are to be used
for like purpose, with Theirs substituted for
Napoleon.
The Republicans of the Department of the
Gironde, in France, have adopted the "Amer-
lean system" of nominating candidates, and
recently held a convention to name candi-
date for the National Assembly. This is the
first instance of the kind in Europe.
A passenger train of ten cars on the East
ern railway ran off the track near Chelmsford.
England, precipitated the coaches down a
high embankment and dashed them to pieces.
Three or four passengers we're killed, and
about twenty seriously injured.
The exodus from Alsace and Lorraine is
without parallel in modern times. Whole
districts are already depopulated. OF the
6,000 inhabitants of Otserman, an Alsatian
town, at the time of the surrender at Sedvn, |
only three persons remain. At Metz the |
able-bodied population is so reduced that |
only seventeen men subject to military duty |
remain, aud that whole seventeen are said to |
be unfit for service. Eighteen thousand |
people left the city in the last two weeks of
September. SO deep seated is the hatred of
German rule, and so determined are the peo-
pie to escape it, that In instances almost in
Vulnerable they have abandoned their homes
and, with what personal effects that could be
swung on their shoulders on walking-stick,
have set out on foot to quit the annexed
territory. The movement seems on the in
crease, and unless checked will leave both
provinces dcsolatc, to be populated and re-
stored to prosperity, If at all, by the Germans
themselves.
Paris Communist has surrendered him