The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-03-22
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Current Items.

Current Items.
A SALOON KEEPER az Ionia, Mich, has
been called on for 500 for the family
of drunkard.
THE sunken steamer Kyle, near Cairo.
ILL.,, was raised at noon on Tuesday, and
left for st. Louis on Wednesday morn.
ing.
CHEYENNE is happy over the purchase
of several pianos and parlor organs, in
dicating the purpose of residents to re-
main another season.
Miss ANNA C. BRACKET, principal of
the Normal school at st. Louis, is paid
a salary of 81, 500 per year-the largest
paid to any female teacher in this
country.
The Maine Central Railroad Company
paid last year TO persons on account OF
injuries received liz the accidents at
Freeport, Farmingdale, and Bangor,
$4,000.
SAN Francisco has nondescript ami
NAL which is the genuine offspring of a
mule. 1t resembles q horse much more
than it does a mule, and is covered with
short curly wool.
JAMES BURcHALL, of East Toledo, O.,
while deranged through the effects OF
fever, arose about midnight on Monday
last, and wandered, almost naked, to a
farm. house eight miles distant.
A MERIpEN, Conn.,, lad, few days
ago, was brought before court for tru-
ancy and other boyish misbehavior, and
when asked the reason for his conduct,
replied, "l've got stepmother."
ELLEN CARL, young woman Of Madi-
son, Ind, has been brooding over the
.'dark days" prophecy made by the
pious nun several hundred years ago,
until she has gone hopelessly insane.
The culture of the orange is becoming
quite common in California. The beauty
of the tree is regarded as sufficient CON-
pensation by those who own fields and
frontyards, even if no fruit is produced.
RUSSIA has placed an embargo on the
marrying OF children, and hereafter the
male and female youths Of that domain
must wait until they arrive at the ma
ture ages of Is and IA before setting sail
on the matrimonial voyage.
BENZ. EDWARDS, hackman, convicted
of murder in the second degree for
shooting L. Levy, in difficulty con-
corning woman at Petaluma, has been
sentenced to twenty years in the Cali
fornia State Prison.
The body of Clement McCausland,
Deputy United States Marshal, was
found on Tuesday afternoon eighteen
miles from Frog Point, d. T., he having
persisted in the recent storm while in
pursuit of escaped prisoners. McCaus.
lands home is in Lowell, Mass.
The Jo,rnaIef applied Chemistry recon-
mends the use of small quantity of
carbolic acid in paste for laying paper
hangings and in whitewash. 1t will
.1eutralize the disagrceable odor conse.
qIent upon the decomposition of the
paste, and also repel cockroaches and
other Insects.
SAVANNAH has in her City Hall Park
two nondescript fowl. As to one of
them, opinion is divided-some con-
Vending that it is wild goose, while
others assert that it is brant. The
other is a badly mixed bird, with the
head of a turkey, the body of hen, and
the voice OF guinea.
A TEACHER in an Illinois school dis
trict received the following excuse one
day from an indignant patron "miss
brown want you strictly understand
that you liant boss of my Children if
you keep maria for ben late you Will
have trubl you need not think Wee are
Slavs becas wee hant Wee live inn free
land adoo."
ANDREW ALLISON, farmer of Scot
land, McDonough county, ILL.,, lately
committed suicide by cutting his throat
with razor. He was So years old, un.
married, and had accumulated property
to the amount Of 100000 through the
most abject penuriousness. He com
mitted suicide because he had been
beaten in lawsuit which involved some
of his property.