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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-12

some weeks with him. Livingstone seems to
be engaged with undated vigor in enriching
tho science Of geography, and declares his
purpose to remain for two years longer in the
Wild and inhospitable region which no 10
exploring.
Prof. Agassiz and party left Callao on the
Let Of juno for tho North.
Central American advices state that the
Government Of Guatemala has ordered the
confiscation Of all the property Of the Jesuits
in Nicaragua. and has also ordered the expul-
zion Of the Jesuits from the territory.
The woman Claricot and the man PHILIPPE,
the Commune murdersrs, have been sentenced
to execution at Paris.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-12
Current Items.

STATISTICS show that not ope morn
In hundred marries the man sha
loves. que
AMERICAN cheese is in universal uso
throughout England.
A YOUNG Fort Wayne bummer's %.
pac'ty is thirteen glasses of beer in tan
minutes. ~"
THERE are $40 newspapers published
in Iowa.
THERE are but three farms in Mass,
chusetts of over 1000 acres.
A cULrIvAToR in West Jersey has sew.
enty-five acres in blackberries.
Texas boasts of a wo-year-old bsbv
that weighs eighty-fve pounds.
They call an Indiana Judge sold
Necessity" because he knows no law.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, has husband and
wife aged respectively seventeen and
fourteen years.
A LITTLE dog was the cause of three
jury trials, forty witnesses swearing
and $3.50 costs, in Trempeleau, Wis,
last week.
BISMARCK and Motley were school.
mates for years; Motley taught him
English. while he taught Motley Ger
man.
The First Presby terrain Church in
Elizabeth, N. j., has lad regular ser.
vices, without intermitting a single Sun.
day, for the last two hundred and seven
years.
NEVER mind the obituary, judge
said Montana culprit when the Court
became pathetic in pronouncing the
sentence; "let's fix the time for the
funeral"
IT is said that during the month of
May last no less than $4,000 bison were
killed south of the Kansas Pacific rail.
road for their hides alone.
OWING to the non payment of the bill
by the State officials of South Carolina.
the gas was shuto from the State House
in Columbia the other night.
FRIED mice we're once considered a
specific for smallpox, and it was be.
lieved in respect to whooping-cough
that if you asked person riding on a
piebald horse what to do for it, his re.
commentator would be successful if
attended to.
JONATHAN SADLER, of Allegan county,
Mich, has been engaged in killing 20.
tato bugs on his vines, and in crushing
one OF them the juice struck him on
the finger. upon which was sore. The
finger Immediately commenced swell.
ing, and communicated to his arm and
thence to the body, causing death in a
few hours.
The contract for plastering the Grand
Pacific Hotel of Chicago has been let at
100000.
The city of Chicago has a river and
lake frontage OF nearly sixty miles, and
there is, on an average, us persons
drowned in these waters during each
year.
Nor less than 100000 head of beef
cattle were driven from tho mesouit
grass ranges of Western Texas; besides,
more than $3,00O,000 worth of hides
were exported from one port alone.
Misunderstanding the last twelve
The aggregate internationa commerce
Of the world, at the present time, is
estimated at $9,237 100000 in value.
Or this amount Great Britain is able to
within a fraction OF $3,0OO,OOO..
OOO-or nearly one-third of the worlds
The unprecedented number of pas.
sengers on all the steamships from this
port to Europe. since the travelling sea-
son has set in, justifies to some extent
The use of the word "hegira," SO fire..
luently applied in such cases but, con.
'idering the immense majority of fe.
males that figure on the passenger lists,
t seems clear that "shegira" would be
more appropriate term.-New York
World.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-12

VARIATIONS AT VEsUvIus.-The topop.
raphy of Vesuvius is reported to be
completely changed since the eruption.
A correspondent writing from Naples
says: 1t is as though an earthquake
had altered everythin Hills have ap.
peared where but few days ago stones
stood for visitors to rest upon. Precipices
have been formed which almost prevent
further advance. All il altered; the
very shape of the noun tain has lost it's
we'll known outlines, and the view is
appalling"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-12

Another bow Robert Dole--the 999th this
season-was drowned at Milwaukee. last
week, while bathing. John Brennan. at
Toledo, Ohio, met his death in a similar
manner. July
The new Illinois liquor law, which went into
effect July l. Is crossing the utmost conster-
nation among the saloon-keepers in the rural
towns. Thousands Of them are unable to
give the required bonds, and are thus forced
to close their doors. There is wailing and
gnashing Of teeth among the topers. In some
towns even the brewers have closed up.
Chicago buried 26S Of her citizens during
the week ending July 2, being IN increase Of
"A over tho week previous.
The labor agitation has reached the lumber
districts Of Michigan, and the employees in the
Saginaw Valley mills have struck for a reduc-
ton of time to ten hours. Several mills have
been closed in consequence.
The South.
Numerous arrests are being made through
out South Carolina Of parties charged with
violation Of the Enforcement act.
Two men Holzenbake and Lloyd were
hung at Oglethorpe, Ga, June %, for the muir
der of Col. George W. Fish.
The dwelling Of Mr.. Querburn, near Pine
Bluff. Ark, was burned last week. Mr.. @. and
his daughter were both burned to death.
A report comes from Texas that Gen. Nc
Kenzie, Lieut.. Smith, and eight men were sur
prised by sixty Indians and killed. recently
between Fort Belknap and Jacksboro, Texas.
Tha ,,,rt 10 al 1,x,x No ~
ment at Washington.
Three boys were killed in New Orleans, June
80, by stroke of lightning.
Near Brownsville, Tenn. July l. BENZ. H.
wray and John A. Wilson, .brothers-in-law,
quarreled at the breakfast-table, when Wray
drew pistol and shot Wilson, killing him in
stantly. He then shot himself. INJECTING a
fatal wound. Both were wealthy planters.
Washington.
The War Department has issued an order dis
Abandoned Lands.
During performance at the Metropolitan
Theater, on the night of June 30, Charles
Brown, a play actor, discharged musket
loaded, as he supposed, simply with powder,
but in which the IRON ramrod had been care
lessly left. The rod entered the head of
Keegan. another actor inhicting dangerous
wound.
The War Department will shortly appoint
board to investigate the cause of the late
Wholesale assertions from the army.
The following is the public debt statement for
lime.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-12

WINNIE REAx, the artistic manipulation
or congressman and the Indifferent
handler Of marble, has in press little
book OF sketches, poems, etc.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-12

The number Of beer stamps issued by the
Internal Revenue Bureau during the fiscal
year ending June 80, was 1856, 900, an in
crease of 100000 over the issue of the year
previous. This indicates large increase in
the manufacture of beer for the same period.
Adjutant-General Townsend has received
dispatch from San Antonio, Texas, stating
there is not word of truth in the reported
murder by Indians Of Lieut. Kinze and
party.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-12

FOIeISus
Advices from Mexico state that the revolu.
tionists had captured Saltillo and were moving
on Camargo.
A Havana letter states that the official paper
Is furious over the escape of the steamer
Edgar Stuart, and holds the United States &C.
countabie for landing of arms for the Crban,.
Two cargoes Of slaves were recently landed
on the Island of Cuba. one of which was for
the Colonel of the Spanish volunteers.
Members of the Right in the French Ma
tional Assembly, failing to induce President
Theirs to abandon the several radical legisla-
tive schemes proposed by him, have resolved
upon active opposition to the Government. It
is proposed, in the event Of Theirs designing
to make Marshal Mcmahon his successor.
The resignation Of Capt. Gen. valmaseda.
of Cuba, has been accepted by the Spanish
Government.
English news is to the effect that the Vicar
Of Frome. Of the English Church, having de-
clared that the doctrine Of the real presence
In the Eucharist is true, the subject was
brought before the Privy Council. which sus-
tanned the Vicar in his position. Trouble is
PIeUctou from TINS decision.
Spanish Republicans have resolved to on.
pose every form Of monarc govern
ment, and to abstain from voting at all
elections whilo a monarchy exists in the
The fiiibustering expedition which recently
sailed from New York for Cuba ia the steamer
Fannie has come to grief. News is received
hat the vessel ran ashore on the coast of tho
STAND, and was burned to prevent her falling
INTO the hands Of the Spaniards /; il is further
stated that sixteen men Of the expedition
have been captured and shot.
The conflicting reports that have reached
he domain Of civilization from time to time
Turing the past three or four years, respecting
he fate Of DR.. Livingstone, arc now finally
yet at rest by advces of a very positive and
luthentic character. Letters have reached
london from Stanley, the head Of tho expedi- |
ion sent out by the New York Herald. to |
earch after the missing explorer, which prove
'eyond doubt that Stanley found and passed
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-12

CoSrRABAND of war--The pipe of peace.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

Mr.. Taliaferro introduced bill declaring the
Rapidan river. from It's junction with the Rob
ertson river to Il point known as Wills and
HanSborough's ford, lawful fence.
House bill in relation TO pilots, being OH its
cnerosSmcnt and third rcaling, elected dis
c,ssion bet Sccn the delegations Of Richmond
and Norfolk, and the BILL as it calne from the
committee, ordered to be engrosSed
Several leaves Of absence We're granted to
day--hut it is to be hoped that this uuneces..
saIy, as is the case too often, waste OF time and
the public money. is not to be induigcd in 10
the extent that ii has been carried.
The Grand Lodge of Knights OF Pythia> is
in session tonight The report Of the Grand
Chancellor exhibits the Order in a most Hour
iShing and prosperous condition, embracing
twenty five lodges with membership 0f5 200.
At ii CAUCUS Of the Conservative members OF
the Legislature tonight, K. +. Walker was
nominated for Superintendent Of Public Print
Ing.
DR.. VIM b. Ball Of Chesterfield county, one
Of the State Fish Commissioners and Il physician
of high standing. died TO day ut r!se f.zchaiIer
Hotel y.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11
Letter from I.1I7ssOun Co.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
LEEsBURG, Va. Ian. S-Iou have already
noticed the death of Mr.. Janney. The mem
hers Of the bar, who have SO long known his
ability and his worth, have testified their APP,
probation of his merits BY appropriate resolu-
tons, and can say no more than that he was
the last surviving intimate acquaintance and
warm personal friend Of a revcred father, who
died almost thirty -onc years ago. and who: IN
the notes accompanying his will, bore his testi-
monv to the uprghtness aud sincerity Of bis
excellent friend, John Janney. All the
present lawyers were mere youths at the time
aud have grown up under the eye Of their de-
ceased friend and honored associate, whose
body, this day, was committed to the keeping
of the grave in our cemetery. 1t would be in-
appropriate to minele news items with this sad
announcement, and |, therefore, postpone them
to another OCCASION. ALIQ.lS.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The sum ofS5, $50 hasbeen subscribed for the
erection of suitable memorial at the Virginia
Military Institute in honor Of Lieut-Gen. T:
j. jackson, who for nearly fourteen years, held
the chair of Natural and Experimental Phi
losophy and Artillery Tactics in the institution,
and whose brilliant career and heroic death du-
ring the late war, has made his ma me famous.
Mr.. Jesse Pepper, an aged and highly es-
teemed citizen of Pulaski county died at his
residence at Peppers Ferry. on the 18th instant,
in the seth year of his age. The deceased was
born in house erected As fort for protection
against the Indians.
Richmond. Va. shipped ninety thousand
barrels Of -four to Brazil last year.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

The Washington Star says IL was motto.
ed by somewhat close observer at the execu,
tive mansion yesterday that Of all the throug Of
ladies who called to pay their respects to Mrs.
Grant, about the only one not dressed in silk,
satin, or velvet, of all three combined, was
Mrs Thornton, wife or Sir Edward Thornton,
the British Minister who wore dress Of dark
soft rm-looking material, suitable for winter
wear" Without the pleasure of knowing Mrs.
Thornton, We remark, after reading this, that
We have high respect for her, and unhesita.
tingly pronounce her most sensible lady.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11
ALEXANDRIA,, A.
THURSDAY, JANUARY IL

A deputation of colored men, (among them
q committee of colored members of the Virginia
LEGISLATURE waited upon the President yester-
day in relation to Mr.. Summers supplementary
civil rights bill. The President in reply to
their representations remarked that he had
no doubt the colored people We're denied
some rights and privileges they had clear
claim to. His impression was that the recent
amendments to the Constitution conferred upon
them all the privileges Of citizenship, and he
thought the courts would accord them all the
legal rights withheld With regard to amend
ing the Amnesty bill by the addition of the
Supplementary Civil Rights bill, the President
considered that such action would jeopardize
the passage of an Amnesty law, while from ms
knowledge of Mr.. Summers bill he believed it
could pass on its merits, asa separate measure.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

The bill introduced in the House on Monday
by Mr. Kerr, of Indiana, to give Alright of APP
peal in habeas corpus cases from final judg-
ments of Circuit Courts of the U. S. to the Su,
preme Court of the Z. S. is intended to reen
act the law which, on March 81, 1868, was re,
pealed in order to keep the McCardle and like
cases out of the Supreme Court, and for the
further purpose of preventing these laws from
being tested or condemned by the Supreme
Court Now, no appeal lies to the Supreme
Court in any case involving personal liberty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

Senator Carl Schurz, in his personal expla-
nation in the Senate, few days ago, complete
ly indicated himself from the accusations made
against him by the New York Times, and show
ed that his course, in the matters referred to by
the Times, had been misrepresented. He re-
butted every charge Mr. Schurz is now the
special object of denunciation by the Radical
presses and leaders. But they cannot injure
him by such attacks as are made-and which
he so easily and promptly repels. His indie
pendent position and his refusal to succumb to
the power of party, elevate him in the opinion
of the public.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

Affairs in New Orleans continue i'll q most
disturbed condition Two different verdicts
have been rendered by the coroner's inquest
in the case of the killing of Wheyland. An
armed police parades the streets; the business
of the city is suspended; great loss is inflicted
on its commercial interests; the stores are idle,
and the newspapers ask for proclamation of
martial law by the President.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

In approving the sentence of punishment
passed upon Commander Semmes for cruel
treatment and excessive punishment of the
men under him, Secretary Robson takes ad-
vantage of the opportunity to read officers of
the navy general lesson upon their duty to
refrain from going beyond the authority which
the law gives them over their crews, and warns
them that any infraction will meet with no
mercy at the Department.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

The probability is that the Radical National
Nominating Convention will be held in Phila-
delphia. And this puts US in mind that Mr..
Dlsturvell, member of the New York ASCOT
alton for the Advancement of Science and Art.
delivered lecture before the Board Of Trade
in Philadelphia yesterday, in which he sug-
gested that Phladelp should be selected as
the semi-capital of the nation without disturb
ing it's location in Washington, so far as public
buildings are concerned He proposes that
new capital buildings be erected in Philadel-
phia in proper location contiguous to the
street cars, then construct national railroad
to extend from New York to Philadelphia, and
from Philadelphia to Baltimore and Washing
ton, thus afording direct and speedy transit
between the four great cities Of the Union.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11
lCOMMEN fCATE.D.

Coal on LAMPS Permit me to enquire
whether the pressed glass, of which the coal
oil lamps is made, is Of such a texture, as to
permit the operation of endosmosi> or cxosno.
SIS TO take place between the coal oil contained
in the lamp, and the fluids contained in the
surrounding atmosphere, ia person who daily
observes these lamps cntertains this opinion, a>
| am informed. and if so, has the evaporation
that eusues anything to do with the production
Of electric effects that tend to explosion when
tLe lamp is blown ont by the breath, as is stat
ed by the newspapers. fLos.
VIRGINIA. 9th JAN, 1872.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

Mr.. Cameron offered j resolution in the Sen
ate, yesterday. for the admission of six Japa-
nese youths to the West Point Military Acad-
envy, on which there arose considerable discus
sion, and it was laid over for final action.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

The New York Evening Post moralizes thus
LAS long as society is disposed to applaud
smartness, though it be shown at the expense
of probity; as long as public journalism treats
depravity and chicane, not as serious moral
wrongs, but as matters for fun as long as the
spirit of party covers up dishonesty, defends
frauds, winks at corruption and worships sac
cexs; as long as the community refuses to mark
every departure from the strictest integrity
with brand of disgrace; as long as our young
men are allowed to believe that vice. because
i, is for the moment successful. is the less
mean, base and despicable-we shall continue
to have our Tweeds and Fisks.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

William Pinkney Whyte yesterday took the
oath of office and became Governor Of Mary
land There was no demonstration of any kind,
and the entire inauguration ceremonies occu-
pied less than ten minutes Gov. Whyte 5
inaugural address was model of brevity and
good taste.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

The Cincinnati Times says that if a war with
Spain should come, it would not be the bag
atelle that many of our exuberant journals are
disposed to think it. Spain has a powerful
navy, the fourth in Europe However this
may be, if "a war should arise, the L. S. Navy,
we are confident. would come off conquerer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

Some Of the evidence given in the investiga-
ton into alleged abuses in the New York Gus
tom House is very damaging to those in author
ity in that branch of the public service. The
Custom House appears to be run very much as
political machine. and many Of the officers
are ''teathcrng their nests, as sinecurists.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

The enlargement of the Louisville and Port
land Canal around the falls at Louisville ap-
proaches completion, and then will come up be-
fore Congress- the subject of the removal Of all
tolls and the free navigation Of the Ohio,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

There is an article in Blackwood's Magazine
by ylr. Story, relative to the noted picture
pal nted by Guido which for more than two
Centuries has been regarded by the world as
the portrait OF Beatrice Cenci Mr.. Story be-
heves that this renowned picture is not por-
trait of Beatrice, and he tortiticS himse! rath
er Srrpnulv
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

Yesterday in the House Of Representatives,
Mr.. Townsend introduced resolution for the
construction of twenty iron-cad vessels for the
navy, which was referred to the Committee on
Naval Affairs Mr. Clark, Of Texas, was all
mitted to his contested seat
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

In the Senate, yesterday, Mr. Carpenter in
troduced resolution declaring against the
transfer of the patronage of the Government
from the President and the heads of Depart
ments to Board of Schoolmasters sitting in
Washington, as he phrased it. Mr. Carpen-
ter objects to the political delusion of Civil
Service Reform" as being unconstitutional!
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

STATE RIGHTS The present frame Of our
government depends upon the prevalence OF
certain political ideas among the people it will
be changed if ever. not by revolution. but by
the decay of these ideas aud their substitution
hy Others. The danger, therefore, of national
interference in State affairs, consists in tamil-
iarzng the people with a disregard and con-
tempt Tor local government and not in the sue
cess Of the particular measures which the adj
minstration may be pursuing. We are not
among those who are tormented with phan-
toms of American Cr<ariSm: but if the un-
warrantable entertainments Of the national
government are PERSISTED in, and are tamely
submitted to by the States, there is fear that
the American Constitution may suffer disas-
trous change for it should never be forgotten
that the cause of our liberty in peace and power
in war, the secret Of that machinery which sits
so lightly on the nation, and yet in the strain OF
great emergencies. brings every 1nuscl lie INTO
work, i>-the nation supreme in national con-
Germs: the States supreme in State concerns
" }. E'ucutug Past.
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The Washington Chronicle and the Wash
iugton Star throw doubts upon the truth Of
the despatch from Nork York city, Of a sub
scription of $500, 0O0,or any subscription at ALL
in that CITY to the proposed z. i 2. K K.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

In Limerick, Ireland. yesterday, a demon
stration was made of what is called Home
Rule There were professions, dinners. etc.
aud 'thc national anthem was insuted.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

The jury in the case of Mrs. Pollard against
Lyon, for SANDER, tried in the Circuit Court
in Washington, yesterday, found verdict
for the plaintiff, with $4,000 damages. A
new trial has been applied for.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11
CfE.E.HEk9I.Ik.

ALEXANDRIA M.>EKET, Jan It'll" market
for W heat is active but prices are unchanged ;
offerings Of - bushels whit" and 40 Of red, " th
sales of the former II lG5 for prime. and OF the
latter at lGs and 10 for prime. and IL and 10
for choice Corn is steady; offerings of 40
bushels mixed and AS Of yellow, with SAILS Of
the former ut "a, t.; ana ii. and of tn" latter AT
Is and 81. Offerings Of 81 bushels Rye and -
of Oats: no sales reported
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-01-11

TIE following gentlemen have been elected
Directors Of the Washington and Georgetown
Railroad Sylvanus S. Riker, Henry Hart,
NIaltby g. Lane Allen Mitchell, William Orue,
Gilbert anderwerken, Richard Sutton.