The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-04-05

fell and instantly expired. She was fright
ened to death.
Two young men named George Barber and
Michael McGarry got into dispute about a
dog, at Middlsbury, o., on Thursday MORN
ing, when Barber shot and instantly killed
McGsrry.
Tho South.
The Baltimore Gazette has been sold TO
VIM. II. Welsh, late proprietor of the Phila-
delpha Age. and Henry Taylor and VIM. II.
Carpenter, Of Baltimore......A dispatch from
Wilmington, N. c., gives a rumor that the
Lowery gang have shot the captured
Herald correspondent......Slo Slough, the wife
murderer, committed suicide in jail at
Richmond, KY, Monday, by hanging him
self TO the top bar of the door Of his cell,
with q rope made from a towel and two
pocket handkerchief.
TIE building and stock of the Washington
Leather Manufacturing Company, at Hagers-
stown, Nd, by fire on Sunday morning.
Loss $4,000; insurance $50, 0O0.. The
Bourbon House and three stores at Paris,
Ky, were burned on Monday. Loss $40 900
insurance 5000.
JOSEPH w. JOHNSON, a brakeman on
freight train on the Nashville and Chatta-
nooga railroad, fell from the train on Tues
day, near Nashville, and was instantly
killed.
The Kentucky Legislature on Wednesday
passed resolution providing for the sale of
the Portland Canal to the United States......
A number of South Carolina delegates to
the Philadelphia Convention are about to
go to Washington t. demand the re-
moval Of several Government officers, in
GLIDING the Collector and Postmaster of
Charleston.
Warrington.
THE amount paid to unsuccessful contest
ants of seats for the last Congress was
$113, 000......A naval board Of inquiry, Of
which Commodore w. E. Leroy is President,
has been ordered to inquire into the case OF
Captain Egbert Thompson, who is charged
with endangering the safety Of the Canaan
daigua by towing her through heavy ice and
injuring her sheathing.
The Supreme Court has denied writ of
mandamus TO compel the Secretary of the
Treasury to pay the Kentucky war claims.
1.-THE House Special Committee to investi-
gate the charges of irregularities la the
Navy Department met on Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Voorhees, declined serving on the com.
mittee on account of business engagements.
Mr.. Bartlett, counsel for Dana, asked that
Admiral Porter be summoned. It was so
ordered. Adjourned. .... Tho committee APP
pointed to examine the accounts of the
United States Treasury has reported that
the business of the Treasury has been we'll
conducted, and that the losses in the aggre-
gate are very insignificant, as compared with
the transactions Of the Office. The SEN
ate, in executive session on Monday, con-
firmed the nomination of Gov. Francis
Thomas, of Maryland, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru.
Foreign.
THE famous race for the Liverpool grand
national steeple-chase handicap, which was
run on Friday over the Aintree course, near
Liverpool, excited great interest, and was
won by the chest nut mare Cause.-The, the
geldings Scarrington and Dispatch being
respectively second and third. During the
race the chestnut mare Primrose fell and
was instantly killed.....Gen. Brownlow, in
command of a detachment Of the Looshai
expedition, tclegraphs on the 18th inst.
=" All the southern Howlongs, and fifteen
chiefs, have submitted, and many captives
have been released. Twenty villages were
destroyed, and our task is accomplished"
THERE is terrible suffering in the vicinity
of Tientsin, China, in the flooded district.
Many are dying of starvation daily....A
duel was fought near Paris on Saturday be-
tween Rogat, Of the Pays newspaper, and
Richardet, Of the Corsaire. The latter was
wounded in the chest...... The Prince and
Princess of Wales are at Rome.
MARSHAL BAzAISE has received permission
to publish pamphlet justifying his cenduct
at Metz......M. Jules Favre, in his testimony
before a committee of the French Assembly
on Tuesday, broadly intimated that Minister
Washburne and some American officers
aided the Prussian spies during the late
war.
TIE Pope on Tuesday gave long audi
ence to the Prince and Princess Of Wales.
He desired their Royal Highnesses to con-
vey TO the Queen of England his thanks for
her constant evidences Of sympathy, and
praised the people of Great Britain for their
piety.
An explosion occurred in coal mine at
Anterior, near Balton, England, on Thurs
day afternoon, by which 20 men were
killed outright. Eleven men were rescued,
but they are fsarfully burned, and nearly ali
will probably die...... European mail advices
state that the town of Shamaka, in the eau
casus, was almost entirely destroyed by q
recent earthquake. The number Of persons
killed was 1877, and the destruction of
property very large. A considerable por-
ton Of the country was converted into
desert, and the inhabitants are reduced to
great misery by the destruction of their
crops.... The bark Nmrod was burnt off
Bermuda on tho 10th ult. OF seventeen
persons on board, only ten were saved. The
vessel was loaded with naphtha and kero-
sene, and an explosion from some unknown
cause took place in the hold, behind the
main hatch. It is believed that the Cap
tain, wife, and daughter, young girl,
were in the cabin at the time Of the explo-