The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-12-20
Currcnt Items.

Nurrcnt liens.
ST. PAUL estim ates her sizs at sOoa,
TnE 81 gold pieces are to be win
drawn from circulation.
CHICAGO will give 5000 for tho h..,
plan OF a new court house.
TnE new Episcopal cathedral in N.,,
York city will cost $1,000 900.
For the last 40 murders comm;,,a,
in New York city, only two men hay,.
been hung.
FERMENTATION Of cider may he Ares,
at any stage by putting in hax.seed -,
the rate Of halt u pint to apint Der
barrel. f'
THE Baptist churches of Illinois have
a total membership of very nearly "a.
OOO. They are divided into S46 churches
and 40 associations.
A BANK of excellent meerschaum claw
has been discovered IN Southern C.It.
fornia, and workmen are to be import.j
from Europe to manufacture it into
pipes.
An en.erprising Washington news.
dealer, in the absence of laws acauns,
obscene literature, has republished the
libelous paper Of Woodruff L. Claim
in pamphlet form.
THE valuation of property in Iowa
for taxation in 1869, was $4,000. 600: in
1870 it was $4,000 600, showing an in.
crease Of 25 per cent. in twelve months.
1t has no public debt.
Ten American locomotives have AZ.
ready been forwarded to fill orders from
Russia, and the Baldwin factory has
just received a contract for nine more
to be put on a railway in Finland.
"THE History of the Devil" a little
volume, seventy years old. was recently
sold at Washington, D.. c., bringing a
good price. 1t is said that there was
quite a competition among buyers osee
who would become possessed Of the
deviL.
THERE is now in course Of construction
in Washington City a eve Of nine feet
interior diameter, through which a six
mule team can be easily driven. Seven
hundred bricks and two barrels OF &c.
ment are required for each foot OF al.
vance made.
JUDGE MILLER, of the United States
District Court for the Eastern Distric, OF
Wisconsin, has decided that a bankrup.
cannot sell his homestead and claim MS
store as a residence by moving into il,
and orders that the store and lot be de-
livered to the bankrupt's creditors.
The Nashville (Tenn.) Union says
"The lady members OF the First Baptist
Church in this city have csreed that
they will dispense with all finery on
Sunday-wearing no jewels but consist
ency, and hereafter appear at church in
plain calico dresses"
THE Union: Pacific railroad is having
constructed at its shops in Omaha a
monster snov.plow, which when COM
pleted will be the largest in the world.
The trucks were cast especially for it,
and are very heavy and strong. The
platform IN the trucks is - feet long.
and 10 feet and 6 inches wide, composed
of solid oak timbers Sxl6 inches, held
together by large iron bolts running
crosswise. This solid bed is fastened 10
the transom beams by 40 bolts. 20 over
each truck. The monster will weigh
so tons, and will be operated by three
of the heaviest engines on the road. The
cost will be over $1,000.
A MOST extraordinary female invalid is
reported to be at Denver, COL, to which
place she went from Chicago, for her
The peculiarly of the case OF
Mrs. Clara Faircloth for such is her
name) is, that she has not slept fifteen
hours in nearly seven weeks. She moves
the city like an invalid, at times
has spasms, and continually begs for
morphine. There is, Of course. diseased
action of the brain. There is also a
great crowd Of consumptives thronging
Denver, some of whom die and son
DO not.