The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-06
NEWS SUMMARY.


ing to over half million dollars.
Apleasure barge on the Connecticut river
was recently struck by lightning and two per-
sons hIled
The Executive Committee Of the Boston
Jubilee set forth their liabilities At 100000,
and receipts at EAT, 900 leaving . deficit of
e2laooo- II is proposed. As . means OF meet
ing this deficit, to give q monster concert and
ball, with 10000 Is tickets, six Of which,
drawn BY lot. viii draw the Coliseum.
The most determined and desperate case Of
self-murier on record was that Of Thos. Fl.
Dunger, an English lace importer, at New
York. las. week, while labcring under an at
tack Of dslirium trerens. His first attempt
was with large needle. A few hours after
ward he went to . drug store, in a state Of
de=habille, seized bottle Of poison. and at
tempted TO swallow il. Three hours later he
made An Intellectual attempt on his life by
srabbing himself in the breast with q carving
knife. and shortly after this he drove . cooks
knife into his side to the depth Of four inches.
The desperate man was then taken to Belvue
Hospital. and about o'clock on the same
evening he jumped from fourth story win
dow Of thai building. and by the fall both
legs were driven into his abdomen, producing
instant death.
OF the forty members Of the Irish band
winch visited the great Boston Jubilee, only
eight returned home. all the others having
obtained employment in New York and Bos-
ton
Prof Peters, of the Litchfeld Observatory
(Hamilton College. IN T.. announces the
discovery of another new planet-the l2ith
of the group Of asteroids-which he describes
as bright. shining as . star Of the tenth
magnitude
Hon A. G. Curtin. our Minister to Rus
sia, has arrived At his home in Pennsyl-
vaniA
The bonded warehouse Of Charles Zust was
burned IN New YORK, the other day. entailing
loss Of $500
Hon. L j. Ingersou, Minister to Russia un-
der President Polk, died at New Haven, Ct,
last week, aged "a.
Another bloody tragedy. growing out Of the
Pkiladelphi. volunteer fire company troubles.
has been enacted in that city. James Dough
erry and James Kane, members respectively
Of the old rival Moyanensing and Hope Com
panies. got into an alteration about some
question connected with the organizations,
which terminated in Kane disemboweling the
unfortunate Dougherty with q bowie-knife.
Both we're hard characters.
The Water Commissioners of Albany, " Y.
have been impeached, and are to be tried upon
the charge of having negiigently and willfulIy
permitted the source of the city's water sup
-<r-- go 49, h. Il -
cassie-yards. hog-pens and private dwellings,.
The effects Of the Staten Island Ferry Com
pzny. Of New York. were sold at auction. last
week. to George Law. for ESQ.,. 900. The IL
fafed steamer westneli brought $1,000.
Victoria woodhulI and Tennie c. Clafiin ap-
peared in the New York Bankruptcy Court,
the other day. and deposed that they did not
own dcIlar's worth Of property.
A New York policeman was recently arrested
IN the act Of committing burglary. while
patrcling his beat, and confessed to seventeen
brglariez within few months.
-Four persons we're killed at Tacony, Pa.
last seek, b. locomotive, while attempting
% cross the railroad trs ck in q CT ..iaye
At Philadelphia, few days ago. a bridge
gave way beneath An oil train Of % cars, and
shortly after coal train Of IS cars came along
and was precipitAsed into the chasm. The
whole macs then caught fire and was entirely
consumed involving loss Of s250,O 200. For
tunately no lives were lost.
The Federal Court ct Providence, r. l., has
adjudged the Cuban privateer Pioneer for.
feited to the United States, and issued a war
rant Of sale.
The United States war frgate Yantic. which
left New York for the East India squadron
last week, las instructions to touch at Zanzi-
bar, and take steps to suppress the slave
trade in that section.
Hon. Henry wilson was knocked down by q |
runaway team. at Portland, Me-, the other |
day. but escaped with few slight bruises.
The New York sum prints fac similes Of |
the letters Of Stanley to Noe. and Of Living
stone to Bennett. and they are wonderfully |
alike.
The Mayor Of Yeddo, Japan, sailed from |
New York. last week. for home. He intends /
introducing the municipal machinery Of New |
York INTO his metropolis.
New York il sgitated by three singular and |
mysterious disappearances-in each case the |
missing persons being married ladies' Of great
personal attraction, highly connected, and de-
voted to their families and husbands.
Helen Josephine Nansfield's furniture was
sold at auction in New York. the other dav and \
attracted large crowd The furniture and
trinkets, which originally cost go 900, realized
only $1,000.
The New York Herald vehemently denies
the inpuiaticns Of fraud cas-. upon Stanley's
discovery of Livingstone, and gives the evil
dence Of former correspondents Of the great
sxr,Inrer Ehn tes-fSr 70 their heiiaf Il, A.