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

TOM house, on juno 20, and think they have
frustrated a scheme to rob the Government
depository.
The South.
Over 100, 900 people attended the great
pienic Of the National Saengerfest, at the
st. Louis Fair Grounds. on :he 10th inst.
A mad-dog ragged through the streets OF
Louisville, KY, on the nigh, Of June Is,
snapping right and len. and creating the
utmost CONSERVATION. Over twenty per-
sons were bitten before the rabid animal
was killed-soms of them being shockingly
lacerated.
Judge Flippcr, Of Memphis, sentenced
three murderers to death ON juno Is.
The receipts from the saengerfest con-
certs. ct ST. Louis, reached $4,000. The re-
ceipts for beer sold in the vicinity Of the
hall were probably greatly in excess of this
figure, a. it is announced that one man
alone, Who employed ~ bar-keepers, sold
one million glasses, or $4,000 worth.
The Agricultural Department reports an
increase in the cotton area in every South
| ern State.
An approximate statement Of receipts and
expenditures of the National Saengerfest At
St. Louis is as follows Subscription to the
building, $4,000 receipts from concerts,
picnic, etc., $4,000; total, $4,000. Elk.
pended on building, So, 900 music, 81 900;
entertainment Of singers, 81, 900; incidental,
$4,000; total, $685.
Advices from the northern frontier of
Texas represent that the Indians, variously
estimated at from 1000 to 10000, had made
an incursion into that State, and were over
running Young, Jack, Denton and Parker
counties. The settlers were filed with con-
sternation and alarm, and were fleeing in
every direction. The Indians declare their
intention of marching to Huntsville, to lib
crate the chiefs Saboula and Big Tree, con-
6ned in the penitentiary there. Everything
indicates that big Indian war is at hand.
A Washington telegram announces that the
Secretary Of the Interior has under advise
ment proposition submitted to President
Grant by delegation of Texans for the con-
Citation of these tribes depredating on the
Texas frontier-whch is, in substance, that
chiefs-Ssboula and Big Tree-now confined |
in the Texas Penitentiary for life, and send |
him among the tribes to negotiate terms OF |
peace-the Government to retain the other
chief as a hostage. This plan was proposed |
by the Indians themselves, and it is prob
able il will be adopted.
An eight-hour league has been formed in
st. Louis.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad
is finished, and trai, are running to Meal
lister, l0S miles north Of Sherman, and the
grading and masonry are completed thirty
who had followed and given SO much trouble
TO the railroad men, have been effectually
driven away by the military.
A convention in the interest of narrow
gauge railroads convened in St. Louis on
June 10, and was largely attended.
The Captain of a steamer has been fined
by Baltimore court for refusing irst-class
to colored passenger.
The bodies of us Confederate soldiers,
lisinterred at Gettysburg, recently, were re-
Inferred at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond,
Va, on June 20, amid most impressive and
solemn funeral ceremonies.
Logan II. Roots, United States Marshal
or the Western District of Arkansas, has
been suspended from Office for alleged NAL.
Washington.
The War Department has ordered all avail
bile troops to the plains, to look after the
hostile Indian tribes.
The smallpox is on the increase in WASH
ngton.
The United States and Japan are negoiat-
ne new commercial treaty. I
The internal receipts for the fiscal year up .
o June Is were over 81, zoe 900. I
The President and nearly all she Cabinet ,
Ulcers attended the Boston Jubilee.
The internal revenue officials say that the 9
Increase Of the whisky tax in the last three
ears over the previous three years will foot 9
p nearly $4,000, 900. .
The following item Of interest to tobacco q
lists is telegraphed from Washington: On c
nd after July l, 1872, every person who
ellis, or offers for sale, manufactured tobac-
0, snuff, or cigars, except manufacturers of P
hose articles who sell only their own pro-
ucts at the place Of production, will be re- s
uired to pay special tax at the rate of S. I
er annum, without regard to the amount Of q
is annual sales. The exemption of persons .
hose annual sales do net exceed 500 is re- G
ealed by the new law.
The President returned to the capital on G
nne 10, and in the afternoon was in con-
lltation with his Cabinet Ministers. A r,