The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-12-13

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sseps in the matter, he viii form another
Syndicate in order to ges nd Of the balance a.
4 and A. per cent
FOREIGN.
Theirs and his friends have won . needed
victory IN the French National Assembly By
a majority Of "a in . vote Of soA, they have
carried the resolution to refer to . committee
Of 80 the drafting Of . Law establishing nifais-
teuAl responsibility. In the debate which
preceded this vote President Their spoke for
an hour and . hall, acknowledging b su-
prsmacy of the Assembly, and his own indi-
vidual preference for . constitutional mon
archy, but asserting that the only salvation
OF France lay in the maintenance OF the
Republic. which must be made conservative.
Oue farthirs is the amount Of damages
awarded TO Hepvorth Dixon by his suit for
damages against the Pail Nall Gazefte.
The latest advices from Paris represent the
situation ss exceedingly grave. All the
Minister'S have rendered their designations,
but Theirs accepted only that Of Lafranc,
Minister Of the interior.
The Emperor of Germany has executed his
threat to reconstruct the Upper House OF the
Die, IN such . manner As to ensure the pas
sage OF the country reform bill by creating
new peers to tbs number of twenty-five.
Josie Mansfield, now living in Paris. lost
$500 by the failure Of Bowles Brothers,
We are ADVISED from Paris that the deter
mination Of Theirs not to resign has had .
quoting influence on the country. and that
everything Is now tranquil.
The storm which ravAged the coast of
Northern Europe last month II said to have
been the most severe in the last two hundred
years.
London was frightened but 8 short time
& bya formidable strike among its police
men. Nov comes the news that it has been
plunged into darkness by the striking Of sew
eral thousand stokers employed by the gas
companies. The dispatch states that all the
thsa,er= were closed, and andes we're re-
gsriei IS Injuries. that the inhabitants were
filed With CONSERVATION and dread, and that
the irritation AGAINST the stokers was very
great.
Paris Is again coIvulsed By = vote Of the
Assembly, and Freedmen are evidently get
ting ready to go down into the streets and
throu up barbados The army is under
MeNAhon, and he considers himself under the
Assembly, not under Thiers- Msanvhile. the
German army watches. and Napoleon, at
Chiselhurst. waits.
Another destructive inundation Of the River
Pc. in Italy. 10 reported
The Italian Government recently ordered
the closing Of the four English schools in
Rome. On the pre;ext that they had fai,-i to
comply with The prescribed sanitary rsgula-
siors.
Political.
Judge Nerriman. late Democratic candidate
for Governor OF North Carolina, has been
elected United States Senator from that State
In place of Poole
Senator Spencer has been reelected { o the
Senate from Alabama
II il announced from Washington that. in
the event that Mr.. Fish retires from the
State Department. the President has deter
mined to offer the portfolio to Mr.. Charles
Francis Adane-
Ward Hunt. the newly appointed Supreme
Judge. il . prominent lawyer Of Utica, n. Y.
where he vas born in 1910, and where his
whole life has been spent
Southern Republicans are urging Senator
Pool. Of North Carolina, for Q Cabinet posi-
tion.
The revision Of the Senate committees, -
agreed upon by the Republican caucus the
a.r paYr1az tka anti ,.S--e.~
on several Of the important
from two to one. The Liberal
are almost wholly ignored in the
new composition. Mr. Schurz being retained
the Foreign Relations Committee only
the courtesy Of Senator Casseriy. who
declined in order that the Democrats might
nominate him as her representative. Fenton
3 removed from the Finance. and Bayard. |
remains Mr.. TrumbuIl is re- |
moved entirely from the head Of the Judiciary. !
he has served for twelve years, and put !
II the tail Of the Eetrenchment Committee.
Chairman determined upon are: Judi
ri,ry. Ednunds; Finance, sherman; Elec-
lions, Morton; Foreign Relations, Cameron;
Wilson; District Of Columbia. Pat
serson: Public B~ui.dings and Grounds, Nor
ull- % Vermont; Patents- Ferry Commerce.
Chandler; Claims Howe; Indian Affairs, Har-
an; Pensions. Pratt; Contingent Expenses,
Carpenter; Public Lands. Pomeroy; Pacific
Railroads. Stewart; Disabilities. Foreman
Mines and Mining. Hamlin Revision Of Laws,
Territories, Nye; Enrolled. Bills. |
/; Levees Of the Mississippi, kellogg;
Naval Affairs. Cragin. Senator Logan is