The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-16


follow.
The payments made from the Treasury, b.
warrants, during July, we're as follows: Civi
: and miscellaneous, $7,Sl1. $50; war, 90, 500,
! sh9; navy, S2,7ls, 400; Interior pensions an,
Indians, S2,5Os.sOO. Total. sl6,04O. 1888
Treasurer Spinner, during an attack OF YER
, tigo, the other day, fell from his chair and GU
his head severely.
Commodores John L. Worden and Georg,
. +. Emmons are to be promoted to the rank Of
Rear Admiral.
Clinton II. winsiow, son OF Admiral Wins
low, of the navy, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head, at San Fran
cisco, on the 7th OF August.
The saw mill OF John McGraw. OF Ports.
mouth, Mich, the largest and most complete
in the country, was totally destroyed by fire
ON the 18th Of August, together with 1000, OOO
feet OF lumber. Loss, $500, 900; insured for
sl75,OOO.
wm Hewitt, one Of Cleveland's wealthiest
and best citizens, died last week, OF Bright
disease of the kidneys.
Foreign.
Seventeen thousand emigrants sailed from
Liverpool for America during July
The Paris Temps doubts the genuineness of
the Livingstone letters sent by Stanley to the
Herald. Itquotes the opinion Of the German
geographer Kiepert, who discovers various
geographical blunders in the letters. He
thinks part of the narrative was invented bv
Stanley and hence the whole is valueless, and
hints that it is possible Stanley never saw DIR.
Livingstone.
One OF the leading members of the Interna-
tional Society in Europe predicts its dissolu-
ton at the next general congress, to be held
at the Hague in September.
Thanksgiving services for the great success
OF the new French loan were held in the
churches throughout France on Sunday. the
4th Of August.
Dr. Houard has put in q claim against
Spain for damages occasioned by his imprison-
ment The claim will come before the Span
ish-Amercan Commission, now sitting at
Washington City.
Late advices from South America report
that the Indians, in large numbers. are lnyad-
ing and ravaging the Argentine provinces
west Of the Platte. Settlements have been
plundered, houses burned, and in some cases
women and children perished in the flames. |
At one place party of English residents de- |
Tended themselves six hours against horde |
OF savages. until the house they held was |
burned under them. This invasion, il is said.
will postpone, if not prevent altogether tho
threatened war between the Argentine con-
federation and Brazil
A dispatch from Suez reports that 1000
Egyptians have invaded Abyssinia with view
to conquest, and that the Abyssnians we're
to meet the invaders.
The southern provinces of France have been
visited BY heavy freshets, causing great de-
struction Of property.
London correspondent telegraphs as fol-
lows on the 9Th inst. According to an inter-
view between Stanley and the correspondent
Of the London Telegraph, DR. Livingstone for
warded quite = number of letters to England.
considerable controversy is likely to arse as
% the manner in which DR.. Kirk, British Con-
Jul at Zanzibar, has acted. This apparent
sck of enterprise and sympathy on the part
II DR.. Kirk was the subject of conversation
between Livingstone and Stanley. The latter
'scribed it to apathy, but DR.. Livingstone
aid: "No, it is jealousy" "How can that
'e'' asked Stanley. Livingstone answered
: You do not know the circumstances of this
expedition of which l have charge. AT my
equest it was offered by DR.. Murchison to DR..
Kirk. He refused it," Here an extra ordinary
act alleged by Mr. Stanley may be mentioned.
n the course of nine months, eleven pack
ges Of letters sent by Dr. Hosmer through
ir. Webb, the American Consul at Zanzibar,
cached Stanley at Ujiji. Stanley gave DR..
livingstone the solemn promise that he would
oliver with his own hand, or place in the {
london Postoffice, his diary of five years of !
is last expedition, which he has sent to his 4
aughter, and the letters to Lord Granville. q
0 the Geographical Society, and his private !
riends.
Next to the expulsion Of the Jesuits. the Q
nbject most discussed in Germany Just now 9
the necessity Of reducing the flow of emf
ration to the United States. The vast in !,
1ease Of emigration this year seems to have
wakened the Government to the realization y
its loss, and the cue 10 given to the semi n
ficial and conservative press to raise the cry "
alarm, which they are doing with . vim. I
he Berlin newspapers are filed with doleful I
counts from various districts where villages ~
I've been almost depopulated by the s'Ameri- h,
N fever" and, as remedy, they demand the HI
wing of an emigration tax of SO thalers on .
cry adult cmigrant leaving the country. to
During q storm on the English coast, on the til
Ia inst, six fishing vessels were capsized. to
d all on board pershed. ..
During the Parliamentary elections in Que co
c. Canada, on the 9Th inst, serious riot WI
Cured between the English and French y"