The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-03-29


A COMMITTEE Of citizens Of New Albany,
Ind, waited on the officers of the Ohio Falls
Car Company on Thursday, and made them
q tender Of $50 900 in cash 10 locate their
works in that city......The grocery store OF
Devoe x White, at Ripley, Ohio, was de-
stroyed by fire on Thursday morningj also,
King a Leggett's hardware store adjoining.
Loss 100000 insurance $500.
Tho South.
J. G. BrsHorv, keeper Of saloon in the
eastern part of Louisville, shot himself on
Sunday night with . shotgun, placing the
muxzle in his mouth and touching the trig-
ger with q cane. The cause is supposed TO
be temporary insanity, from heart disease.
.....John 8. Washington, for thirty-fve
years marine reporter OF the New Orleans
Picayune, is dead.
On. GosHoRN, Postmaster at Dyersburg,
Tenn, has absconded with nearly $4,000 in
Govern ment funds. Sam Russell, son Of
the proprietor of the hotel at Paris, Tenn,
accidentally shot himself on Saturday while
hunting, causing death in few hours.
THE warehouse of C. Norman, of Shelby
willie, Tenn, was entered on Wednesday
night by burglars. Michael Murphy, a
clerk, sleeping in the store, was stabbed to
death. The safe was subsequently blown
open and robbed of $500, and the house
burned. Murphy's body was found in the
ruins, burned almost to cinder.. 1.-THE
steamer Charmer struck Q rock while de-
scending tho falls at Louisville on Thursday
morning and sunk Loss $1,000; no in
surance ...... Tho large distillery of George II.
Dearer, at Campbellville, KY, was destroyed
by fire on Monday morning. Loss $4,000;
insured for $4,000.
L. GALLES, of Meade county, Kentucky,
was killed on Tuesday by falling tree,
which blew down on him while at work in
his clearing. Gen. David L. Stanton, Col
lector Of the Fifth Maryland District, has
been arrested and deposed from his position,
charged with being a defaulter in q sum
ranging from $4,000 to $4,000.
GEORGE scHwAB, aged IS, died while sitting
in chair in a saloon at Louisville on
Wednesday. Old age and restitution is sup
posed to be the cause.
Wellington.
THE President on Tuesday signed the act
of Congress authorizing the survey and
marking Of boundary between the territory
of the United States and the possessions of
Great Britain, from Lake of the Woods TO
the summit Of the Rocky Mountains.
Foreign.
TIE Archbishop of Cologne has formally ex::
communicated Profs. H tigers, X noodt, Teggen,
and Rush ,ol the University of Bonn, for their
rejection of the dogma of Papal infallibility.
.....It is reported that the Swiss engineers
Naaf, Riggenbach and Zschokke are about
to construct q railroad to the summit Of
Mount Vesuvius, similar 10 that at Mount
Washington.
A PENSION Of $1,000 has been granted to
Lady Mayo, and 900 has beer settled on
her children by the British Government......
The assassin Of the Earl of Mayo has been
executed at Calcutta. He made confession
and declared that the death of the Viceroy
was not the result of q conspiracy, as he
alone designed and carried out the murder.
He also said that he intended to kill Gen.
Stewart, who accompanied the Earl of Mayo
on his tour Of inspection to Fort Blain, and
was only prevented from fully executing his
purpose by the promptness of his arrest
after attacking the Viceroy.
AvIExxA dispatch of Tuesday says: The
workingmen in the mines Of the Rothchilds,
at Wittnawitz, in Moravia, enraged at the
non-payment Of their wages, attacked the
Offices of the superintendent. Gaining en-
trance, they burst open the safe and appro-
prated the contents. They then demolished
the building. The soldiers were called out
and fred on the rioters. Four were killed,
ffty wounded, and one hundred arrested.
Order has been restored, but the mines are
guarded by the military.
A SERIOUS confagration occurred at Dus-
seldorf, Germany, on Wednesday. Among
other buildings, the famous Academy Of Art
was burned, and many Of the most valuable
paintings were destroyed......A Russian I'm
perial decree reopens 6ebastopol as a COM
mercial and military harbor, with the forti-
6cations restored.
TIE London Morning Post of March 8,
reminds advisers of President Grant that
though the borders of Canada are defense
less, 90 are these Of the United States, and
the annexatio Of Canada would cost the
United States q long and bloody war, and
after that the Canadians and late Southern
rebels would combine against the Union.
| Canada, il says, could at shorter notice, put
| in motion greater number of troops than
| the United States, while ct the frst signal o!
war the English feet would cross the Attain
| tic and blockade the American ports, while
| the Union possesses no vessels TO raise the
blockade or return the compliment by seal
| ing up English ports....lt has been proved
that Marshal Bassine dined with Prince
| Frederick Charles Of Prussia shortly before
the capitulation of Nets.
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