The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-05-24
Current Items.


Current Items.
THERE is silver cannon at Gibraltar
weighing 225 pounds.
The Missouri river is rapidly wearing
away the Kansas shore at Wathena.
CONGRESSMAN PLArr, of Virginia, is
going to run sassafras.mill in Peters.
burg.
An Indiana matron is doing as well
as could be expected T" at the age of y.
It's girl.
The State Historical Society of Min.
nesota is collecting the biographies and
"reminiscences OF early residents.
CAPTAIN LANGwoRruY, Chairman of the
Wisconsin Relief Committee for the
burned district, calls for donations of
seed potatoes.
Russia. Austria, Italy, France, Spain,
and the United States, six of the eight
foremost nations in the world, have a
legal-tender paper money.
LAST week, at an uptown funeral in
New York, three of the pail. bearers,
while carrying the coffin from the house
to the hearse, were robbed Of their
watches.
MARYLAND Jews are obliged to leave
that State in order to marry, as mar.
riages are not valid there unless per.
for ned by "minister Of the Gospel"
RETURNS of the Massachusetts, Bureau
of Labor Statistics show that the cash
value of farms in that State has de.
creased nearly $1,000, OOOwithin the past
ten years.
THOMAS NJ. TYING, son of the celebrated
New York divine, has lately married
Mrs. Emma Louisa Moffett, the au.
thoress, of Columbus, Ga.
Tox OCoSNoR, an unassuming Irish
man, is said TO be the largest cattle
owner in Texas. He does not know ex.
actly how many he has, but the total
will not vary much from 10000.
Missouri farmer attempted to
smoke out a rabbit, and burned up half
a mile of fence and over hundred
apple trees. He caught the rabbit.
A BosroN printer has invented, and
the Boston and Maine railroad is to
make trial of, an entirely new signal
for insuring safety upon railroads.
Dora, the seventeen year-old daugh.
ter of j. 7. Woodwork, rich farmer
living near Hillsdale, Mich, eloped with
a barber the other night, and the two
were married before the father overlook
them.
CANADIAN papers say that the emigra-
ton of French Canadians to the United
States from the townships is assuming
larger proportions than ever.
A COLLECTION of 275 specimens of post
age stamps was lately sold in London,
realizing f252 lis. Cd. A five-cent Con.
federate stamp, unused, and very
scarce, brought IS, and two-cent Mem.
phis stamp the same price.
THOMAS BUCHANAN READ, the poet
painter, is dangerously i'll with pleuro-
at the Astor House, New
York.
PIsroLIcIDE and laudanumation are
he latest sorts of obituary coined by the
zenlai paragraphers.
A JOLLY and reckless young fellow
named Tomlin-now in the spring.time
# his 10th year-eloped from Greenup,
KY, on the Goth ult., with the wife OF
Shelton Keeton and $50 in money.
GAsrrrTERs who carry an open lamp
INTO room filed with gas to look for
he leak usually find it. One tried it in
New York, last Friday, and confirms the
general rule. Damage 1920, mostly
o the plateglass front.
The Savings Banks of the United
states contain deposits Of 81 900, 100000
mainly the surplus earnings of mechan.
cs and laboring men. Or this amount
'ver $4,000 900 are deposited in the
'avings Banks of Massachusetts,, $780,.
OO, 900 in the rest of New England, and
learly $500, 900, 600 in New York.