The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-05-31
Current Items.


Current Items.
Mosr of the sailors who struck work
ut Southampton, England, have re.
turned to work.
A FEARFUL hail. storm occurred in Salt
Lake City, Tuesday afternoon, doing
great damage to the fruit blossoms.
The directory census of Grand Rapids.
Mich, completed, gives the city l9,9l3|
inhabitants.
TIE new directory census of Kansas
City, Mo-, gives the population of the
city at 4O,l5l.
The TARIFF on luxuries at Paducah, Ky.,
is very moderate. The quotations for
wife-beating are $40.
The sum of $25O,OOO was realized last
year by the sponge gatherers on the
lower gulf coast of Florida.
DURING the past IL months, Hudson|
county, New Jersey, has paid $1,000 for|
post norton examinations of suicides.
Mr.. BRACE, of Pennington, Illinois,
has invented and is about patenting al
machine to drive hens out Of garden.
CHEROKEE county, Alabama, has al
bearded negress. Her whiskers are
about three inches long, and quite
gray.
j. WIscHENDoRF accidentally fell from|
train on the Jackson railroad, near
Amite, La, on Saturday night, and was|
instantly killed.
In the United States, during period
Of twelve years, 262 persons were killed.
by lightning, and 43O more or less in.
jured.
UNDER the new license laws Of South
Carolina, clergymen must take out al
license before they are permitted to|
preach.
DEFINITE arrangements have been|
made for developing the valuable beds
of slate near the head-waters of Huron|
bay, in Houghton county, Mich.
An alligator eighteen feet in length
and weighing eight hundred pounds,
was recently killed near the mouth of
the Ocklawaha river, Florida.
THE French Internationals of New
York have repudiated Woodruff and
the action of the Apollo Hall national
convention"
IT is stated that thirteen children
were horn on board the steamer Scandi
navian on her recent voyage from Liver
pool to Quebec.
MRs. MATILDA JONES, an elderly fe|
male, has appeared in an English polcd
court and pleaded that she was "chemi
Called from sewer" not drunk. Fivd
shillings and costs.
The man Wright, who was shot n|
Detroit last week in brothel by itd
keeper, Elizabeth Gardner, died Thurs
day. The woman is In Jail, and will be-
tried for murder.
Mrs. WILLIAM c. RHODES, Of Platts1
burg, n. Y, caught brook trout ir|
Cleazy lake, on the 9Th inst, which
weighed % pounds. This is the largest
trout on record.
WV. Nixon, agent for mining conf
pany, had a quarrelwith miner named
Harlow, at Little Cottonwood, Utah, on
Monday, which resulted in Nixon shoot
ing Harlow through the heart.
JEREMIAH COLLINS, who killed his Wifi
with hoe in st. Louis, has been rel
spited until the 18th of July by Cow
Brown. lie repudiates Executive Glenn
ency and is anxious to be hung.
The last expedition to Cocos Island
in search Of treasure, supposed to have
been buried there by pirates, has failed
and fourteen persons from the expe1
dition have returned to San Francisco.
The heirs of Robert Harper, of Albany
N. Y, have been compelled by a court
of law TO refund $765, being principal
and interest Of a bet of 5000 which thd
deceased won on the Presidential elect
ton Of 1868.
Ar noon Tuesday the engine and
twelve cars of an empty coal-train ran
off the track of the Erie railroad al
Wallis Gait junction, five miles FROM
Newburg. The conductor and fire.
man we're slightly injured.
SOMEBODY at Albany selected another
mans yard as a suitable place fora dead
cat. The man thought his next neigh
Dor was responsible, and the conse1
quence is that Grimalkin travels across
the fence about seven times day.
AMONG the recent arrivals at the Eng|
lish colony near DEBORAH, in Winneshie1
county, Iowa, are four baronets' sons
One of these is son Of Sir Cecil Beadoni
who has himself visited DEBORAH. AM
other is Mr.. Halliday, son of the General
who distinguished himself in the Indian
mutiny. These gentlemen come as peri
manent residents.
l C3nup,lor Cv.Snndch4n