The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-03-01

had ~ipsG She weapon Of Bowie.
Twelve jurymen did instantly
Acouit and set Lycurgus ffee.
Current Items.
TIE great project of Kilbourne City,
Wis, dam across the wisconsin river,
is about 10 be accomplished.
KANKAKEE, ILL.,, has . pupil in one of
her public schools who is IS years old.
The infant is said to be wonderfully pre-.
cocious.
A LAFAYETTE, Ind. Juvenile isdeposit.
ing his spare savings in bank in that
city to the credit of his little wife that
is to be.
ATLANTA, Ga, is hcwling for a new
Jail, the old one being 30 full that the
prisoners legs are sticking out of the
windows.
TIE printers of Richmond, Va, are
making great preparations for the an.
nual meeting Of the international Typo
graphical Union.
An undertaker's Office in indianapolis
recently bore this cheerful inscription
on the front door, "Gone for dead
hanback, soon."
MRs. PATRICK Comfy, of Columbus,
O.. aged IS years, lately fell down stairs
bunting blood vessel in the brain. and
died in three hours.
WALKER RoDxAx, well.to-do farmer
Of Salem, H., died on Thursday last
after brief illness. His wife died of
grief on the following day.
ToEY SNYDER and his wife, the parties
to the child marriage which created
such sensation in Pittsburgh two years
since, are serving terms in the Work.
house.
A MAN at Waupun, Wis, who had
Just been divorced from his wife, was
married there on the 9th ult. to the
daughter of his divorced wife by
former husband.
A PIECE of land at the corner Of Broad
and Wall streets, New York, measuring
72l square feet, or less than one-third
of an ordinary city lot, has been sold
for $3.50, 900 in gold. This is at the rate
of about Sl4 ,0OO, 900 per acre.
A YOUNG girl was practicing the Bat.
tie of Prague" on piano in Brooklyn
on Saturday last. After she had played
for two hours a burglar shot at her
the window, but, to the grief Of
the neighborhood, missed her.
A DOG at Iowa Falls chased rabbit
into log recently, and then got stuck
in the hole himself The dog, being
fast in the log, tasted for sixteen days,
and has now given up the rabbit bust
ness permanently.
MRs. AMELIA JOHNSON, who shot her
husband dead, at Southbury,
Conn.,, on the 2lst ult., has been &C.
quilted, on the ground that the deed
was done in self.defense. The evidence
proved conclusively that johnson was
dangerous man, and had on previous
occasions brutally beaten his wife.
WALL street has in four years invested
twenty -four millions Of dollars in
gold mines. Here is speci-
men of the result: Consolidated Greg.
Dry worth in 1858 $50 q share, sells for
30 cents; Black Hawk, once worth
300, sells for 50cents; Smith 4 Parma.
lee, once worth SIS, sells for Is cents.
PHILADELPHIA has . banker who, in
,redible a. it would seem, writes aworse
hand than DR.. Greeley. Having been
good deal by . certain insur-
lnce agent, the banker sent him note
warning him not to come again. The
gent presented the note at the bank.
md was unhesitatingly paid 5000, the
it for check.
A PrrrsrrELD feminine Sunday school
eacher recently, while engaged in the
of her duties, lost her
Bible and didn'tknow where to fndit.
When she got home the book of books
ms found wsgging along on the hustle
'ehind her, where it had been placed
y a member of her class who had not
he fear of God before his eyes.
TIE occasional explosions Of coal.oil
amps from the attempts to extinguish
hem by blowing down the chimney
i've value to the following suggestion:
live sharp, but rather prolonged puff,
{ right angles with the top Of the
The draft thus produced
lraws the fame away from the wick,
nd the lamp goes out.
A MRs. Warts, wife of Justice Watts,
wing near Fort Smith, Ark, discovered
trespasser in the barnyard in theshape
{ q full.grown black bear, who was
naking it lively for a pet hog. She
ook her husbands fowling.piece, went
ear enough to be sure Of her aim, and
both barrels. The fusillade
'as effectual. The carcases' Of the beast
'hen dressed weighed 287 pounds.