The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-06-28

Advices from Bagdad state that the Brit
ish mail steamship Cashmere was boarded
BY pirates Mt Bassorsh. The buccsneers
killed and wounded number Of persons on
board, and carried of ~, 900 rufees.
A new Spanish Cabinet has been formed,
with Gorilla at its head.
The Protestant Synod, in session at Paris,
has just passed through an animated dis
cussion regarding the divinity of the Scrip
lures, which has resulted in q schism of the
Church.
The negotiations for the gradual evacua-
ton Of France by the German 40 the in
stallments of the indemnity are paid, are
proceeding satisfactorily.
Marguerite Dixblsnc has been sentenced,
In London, to be han ged, for the murder of
her mistress.
Miss Rye has opened home for deserted
girls At Peckhan,, England, from which
certain number will be sent regularly to
Canada.
The tribunal for the arbitration of the
Alabama claims met in Geneva, Switzer-
land, on Saturday, June Is. All the men,
bers were present, consisting Of Cosnt
Sclopic, representing the King Of Italy,
President Of the court Charles Francis
Adams, on the part of the United States
Alexander Cockburn, representing Great
Britain; Jacob staempAi, representative Of
the Swiss Government I; and Baron D'Itajuba,
representing the Emperor OF Brasil.
Gen. Sherman and Lieut. Fred. Grant are
in Paris.
In England the weather 10 fair, and favor
able to crops.
The now Spanish Cabinet promise vigor-
Gus prosecution Of the war in Cuba.
Fifty-6ve persons were killed, and large
number wounded, by the explosion Of the
boilers Of Spanish steamer in the port of
Ma-seilles, on June Is.
Paris correspondent writes of Marshal
Basaine, in prison at Versailles, that, with
the exception of a few relatives and intimate
personal friends, nearly everybody helds
aloof from the unfortunate Marshal.
Seventy-fve Communists have been so
far sentenced to death, 2l2 to hard labor for
life, 1874 to transportation, and 1852 to
lesser grades Of punish ment; 2,l12 have |
been acquitted.
Rev. Norman Mcleod, leader Of the Scot |
fish Church, is dead.
The extensive cotton mills in the town of |
Warrington, in Lancashire, have been |
burned loss, fl0e, 1000.
The bill depriving the members of the So
;iety of Jesus (Jesuits) of the rights Of
has passed its second reading in
he German Parliament-yeas, 1888; nays,
lel.
The twenty-sixth anniversary of the as
'ension of the Pope to the Ponti6cal chair
vas celebrated with great pomp at Rene, on
Monday, June IL. A delegation Of 1000,
all the nations of the earth,
'aid their respects to his holiness at the
A new and hitherto unknown epidemic is
aid to have broken out in some of the Bra
ilian towns. 1t 10 terribly fatal, and thou
ands have been carried off by il.
Yellow fever and smallpox are raging at
dontevideo.
Prof. Agassiz's scientific expedition was at
'allao. May "a, and proceeded thence to
'anama.
The Emperor Of China is to be married
n the 10th Of October.
The miners strike in westphalia is spread
ng. The workmen in over AZ mines have
eased work.
Gorilla is SPANS latest Premier.
Advices from Yokohama state that the
,tention Of the American Government to :
emand the opening of the great tea dis
'icts of Japan to American commerce meets
18th cordial favor from all parties. The
merican Charges visit to the district has
ssrlted most satisfactorily, the officials
receiving him in a most cordial !
tanner. The people everywhere we're clated
the prospect OF their country being opened
} foreign intercourse, and are preparing to
elcome the United States.
The Dominion militia are in camp-6,O00
rong-at Windsor.
Capt. Bowen, commander of the flibuster
Gamer virginius, disguised with the man.
cement of the Cuban agent and the cow
dice Of his creole crew, has resigned his
mmand and returned home.
Several London dealers in Erie stock !
i've failed, on account of the decline in the =
ice of shares.
The cable announces that "the state of
balm is alarming" that serrano has fed to /.
ngland and Sagasta to France, and that :;
e Radicals are srming to meet the threat !
ed uprising of the revolutionary Republi-
M.
The bill prescribing Jesuits has passed the = =
.rman Parliament. =.
BY collision on the Orleans (France)
ilway, on June 10, several persons were