The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-06-07

| ucnaI ASricultural Association and Nations
Agricultural Congress commenced thei
joint session at ST. Louis on the 9th ult
over 500 delegates were present.
Ar ST. Louis, on the night of the 18th ult
three negroes got into q fight at disreputa
BILE dance house. resulting in the killing o
one and the serious wounding Of two others
......The Southern portion Of Louisiana VA
visited by asevere tornado on the 9th ult.
doing much damage to the growing crops
and destroying considerable property....A
terrible tornado passed over Morgan county
No., last week, playing havoc with barns
orchards, fences, ETC., besides involving q
sad loss of lite. Jacob Blosser and child
were killed, and some twenty persons more
or less injured. The wind was accompanied
by one Of the most terrific and destructive
rsin-storms ever witnessed in that region.
Hos. JoHS GILL SsoRrER, q prominent pol
itician and former Governor of Alabama,
died in Evfala, Ala, on the 2sth ult. Thos.
J. Hill, young lowyer Of Forest City, Ark,
was shot and instantly killed BY VIM.
Schan, deputy marshal, who was attempt
ing to arrest him, on the Goth ult On the
18th ult., John Branham, living in Owen
county, KY. split his wife's head open with
an axe, killing her instantly. The murderer
10 in jail.
Miss ELIzABsrH II. PATTERSON, of Louis
Vile, Ky. has instituted suit against the pro-
prietors of the United States Hotel, in that
city, for $4,000 for alleged Islander. The
porter Of the hotel told the proprietors he
saw men going into Miss Patterson's room
at unreasonable hours, and thew refused TO
allow her to remain in the house. She was
also discharged from . lucrative position on
account of these damaging reports.
......Accounts Of the freshet few
days ago; in Southwest Missouri, cay that
whole farms were completely washed awav.
leaving nothing bat rock and gravel. Live
stock Of all kinds were drowned in large
umbers, and hundreds of yards of the At
lantic and Pacific railroad track were
swept from its bed int adjacent fields. A
wall Of water 1--WE feet high rolled down
spring River Valley, leaving only devasta-
lion and ruin behind.......J Branham,
who murdered his wife at Owenton, XIV.
BY splitting her head open with an axe, was
AIKEN from the Gwen county Jail by q mob, |
IN the night Of the goth ult, and hung to |
he limb Of tree.
Washington.
THE United States Agricultural Society
las been organized at the capital. VIM. G.
'eckwith, of Michigan, was elected Presi-
ent, with one Vice President from each
tate 1.-THE President has nomin ated Gen.
robert II. Milroy, of Indiana, to be Super-
ntendent of Indian Affairs for Washing ton
'erritory.
TEE Sioux Indian delegation, headed BY
led Cloud, held q council with Secretary of
be Interior Delano, on the 9th ult.
peeches were made by the chiefs, in which
desire for peace was freely expressed.
ecretary Delsno responded in q brief talk,
18th which the dusky braves were highly
leased. On the 2sth the chiefs held a
ow-wow with President Grant, =. By order
the President, the several departments
ere closed on the 30th ult, to allow the
nployes to participate in the ceremony of
ecorating the graves of Union sold ers in
e various cemeteries around Washington.
Born Houses of Congress have agreed to
iJourn on June 3......rhe Department of
istice will soon issue an order abandoning /,
suits against those who have filed pub
office contrary to the Fourteeeth Amend !
emit TO the Constitution, and whose politi- :
disabilities have just been removed by |.
". The largest number of such cases is in
.nnessee.
THE Spanish Minister has notified Secreta-
Fish that Dr. Howard will in very few :
rs be released, and his property restored
.....Advices from Washington repre- =
ut that the protocol issued by the Senate
so arranged as to be a declara- | 4
OF principle, instead Of q mere surrender c
the demand for consequential a damages, ! q
that there is probability, in conse- d
ence OF diseatis Is tion on the part of D
eat Britain, that the whole subject NAV q
Ain be made the occasion for further diplo- o
tic correspondence. c,
Foreign. 8
PERrEH, Boon and Ba udin, three radical :
were executed on the 2sth -
t. at Satory, France-... Marshal Sierra
Of Spain, grants full pardon to all in
gents who Voluntarily surrender to the 81
lhorities....-..M Marshal Serrano having de- CO
ned to form a new ministry, King sc
,adeus has called upon Admiral Topete, OF
o has consented to perform the duty, he
act as Minister Of War adj interim. The to
= government will be composed of ez
ionists. of
VIRLIAx RUSSELL, eighth Duke of Bed. Z:
a, and nephew of Earl Russell, died at eli
ndon on the 9th ult., aged 64...... Baron Gu
lings Bulwer, brother Of Lord Lytton, &c
a on the 26th ult., at London .. :. Miss %
lie Grant was the guest of President and e
dame Theirs, in Paris, on the 9th ult. 90
). Heavy destructive rains have prevailed r.
the vicinity Of Prague recently. The -
se volume of water has inundated the ny ny
rounding country. Several villages and -
win crops have been swept away, and a r,
nber Of lives have been lost. French -
ers announce the death, in the Goth year 70
his age, Of NJ. Theodore Cogniard, the r. r.
l-known dramatist. "
HE Archduchess Sophia, mother of the aft
peror Francis Joseph of Austria, died at de
Jenna on the 18th ult..... The Paris