The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-02-23
Current Items.

"TnE Pigs Ear Oil Com pauy" Is the
romantic style adopted by company
In Western Virginia. Itdepends on the
capacity of the well whether they will
make silk purse out Of il or not.
On Wednesday last, in Pekin, ILL.,. a
woman named Clara Kirk committed
suicide by taking strychnine. She is
supposed to have been goaded to the
act by the prosecutions Of one Kennedy,
her divorced husband.
Ar Louisville, on Thursday, in the
City Court, a negro lawyer appeared for
u colored client, and examined witness
of the same hue-an event hitherto un-
known in the annals of Kentucky
jurisprudence. y. Sc
In Dade county, Ga, recently, Mr..
John D. Ashers was msrried to Miss
Kate Ashers. The proper thing for the
paragraphers TO say in this connection
is Ashers to Ashers.
A BosroN man has preserved all the
parodies upon the poem Of "The
Heather Chinee' that he found in the
papers, and has AZ Of the All Shine
productions.
A SURVEY of the country between
Lake Michigan and the Mississippi has
demonstrated that the highest land be-
tween the two is the spot on which the
State Normal School at Whitewater,
Wis, is located.
MRS. G. M. PUrNAx, Of Washington,
takes advantage of the lucrative posi-.
ton Of W.D Davis, as Indian Agent,
and sues him for 5000 for breach of
promise.
A HEARr-BRoKEN maiden Of Syracuse
did not apply to the law for balm for
her lacerated affections, but, watching
her opportunity, gave her tickle lover q
good, sound thrashing.
Mn. JOHN McPHILLIPs, a blacksmith
Of Montgomery, Miss, committed sui
eide last week by placing the stock of
loaded gun in his fire, taking the muz-
zle in his mouth, and blowing the hre
with the bellows till the gun went oil.
New JERSEY has population as large
as that of New York city, but hangs
her murderers. The consequence is that
last year only six men were killed in
New Jersey as against one hundred and
forty six killed in New York.
The Messssla (Mcntana) Pioneer, for
Dee. 9, was printed on . half sheet Of
wrspping paper. The edition consumed
all that was left in town, and the editor
announced that the Sext issue would
be printed on gunny bags, unless it
stopped snowinG-
WM THOMPSON. formerly an Adjutant
under General Jackson and once the
wealtEiest banke, in New Orleans, was
found recently in Broadway, New
York, in q smalJ Office, sick and half
starved, and taken to the hospital by
the police.
HowAap, the Rochester negro who
was 80 s,mmarily dealt withifor tgutally
ravishins little girl, was recenAly in
terviewed in Jail by Rochester re-
porter. He still protests that he is
innocent and says Ae entered the plea
of guilty to avoid being lynched He
says he has no desire TO regain his free
dom, inasmuch as he would again un-
doubtedly be seized by the mob.
AN Ohio man has had a. dose OF
mother.ir.law that should commend
him to the commiseration Of sym.
pathizing world. He has been married
| IS years, and has had his mother in.law
as boarder during the whole time.
Although she is now los years old, there
seems to be no prospect Of his immediate
relief.
| The Pa2e Wal Comi~ says Mn. Isaac
Jenkins az that county, "on Tuesday
last had three live girl babies, one
weighing only four pounds, the other
two weighing six pounds eaah and
stranger still, one of them has. Dix toes
on each f,ot. All thee, together with
the mother, are doing as web - could
be expected.
THE Hon. George Bancroft United
States Minister at Berlin, has forwarded
TO Harvard College the first instalment
of a permanent fund which he proposes
to establish, the income Of which is to
defray the expenses of q travelling fell
lowship. The incumbent theseof is to
be selected from eaah graduating class,
and is 10 travel in foreign countries,
under Instructions from the college, for
the term of one yesr.
A BMrAL murder was committed at
Saltwater, MINI, on Friday evening.
A Quarrel occuryed between Henry
Lachgell and Frank johnson, the latter
striking the former with = slung shot,
cracking his skull, from the effects of
which he died On Saturday. johnson
left for the piDeries on Saturday, bat
was. arrested and brought back to Still
water.
Darkness and SMALLPOX.