The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-03-29

Aueu " the suout winter OF the ne2rt.
Current Items.
MExPnIs has organized a cotton ex-
change.
A NUMBER of leading citizens Of Fort
Wayne, Ind, are organizing party for
a European tour.
SIMON AVER, of New Haven, lunched
on his wife's cheek, which has moved
the press to call him E" a nipping and an
eager Aver"
The Sultan of Turkey is a bad fnan.
cier, and owes to tradesmen in Con
stantinople, it is said, the sum of
$3.50, 100000.
NJ. L. SULLIvANr, the man who owns
the majority of Ford county. ILL.,, fin.
ished husking his crop of $50. 900 bush.
els of corp on the 10Th ult.
YOKOHAMA, Japan, is to be lighted
with gas. The company is of native
formation, and the works are to be sup
piled from Glasgow, Scotland.
A GENERAL impression prevails at the
West that very serious floods are
likely 10 visit the line Of the Union
Pacific railroad when the warm weather
approaches.
A YOUNG physician in Sedalia, Mo-,
who had waited patiently three years
for a call, at last found the following
cheerful order on his slate: :" Doctor,
come to Jesus"
A NEW and ingenious advertising
dodge is to print an advertisement upon
a strip of paper like telegraphc dis
patch, and inclose it in an envelope of
the telegraphic pattern.
THEY have new way of sin king wells
Atcheson Wells, while wading in the
river, stepped into quicksand and
vanished from sight in second.
A YOUNG lady Of Lewiston, Me-, who
wants to be a lawyer, and with the law
yers stand, is hunting for an attorney
who will take her into his office, and
put her through course Of study.
A PECULIAR case of domestic infelicity
has occurred at Covington, KY, where
Volney Hutsell has instituted a suit
against F. S. Watkins, his father-in-law,
for $4,000 damages, alleging that Wat
kins induced his daughter TO abandon
her husband.
The Speaker of the Lower House of
the Mississippi Legislature is a colored
man named Lynch, only q years old.
He was born in louisiana, but is well
educated and possessed of excellent
natural abilities. He IL n thorough par
and skillful debater.
The Chicago Tribune Of the Sth inst.
has the following marriage notice
Liberty, Maine, on the 18th
inst, Rufus Colby, aged 35, TO his
aged S.. The bride is a
widow of about two years, and the
bridegroo q. widower Of about ten
A MICHIGAN newspaper Office has a
curious visitor in the shape of tom
cat, which finds its way outside of the
skylight every cold morning a. soon as
the stove begins to warm the glass, and
then gravely slides down, repeating the
exercise for some time, with as much
as little boy coasting.
A PENNSYLVANIA editor returns thanks
for serenade, and says: I'm many
localities this might be thin way of
ones appreciation of favor
Of this kind but here, where the wells
are nearly all dry, and the town is sur
by prohibitory law two miles
wide, nothing better can be rendered
AT Grass Lake, Mich, early on the
of the 9th, John Hammond
arose from his led in the house of Will
liam Loker, his brother.in-law, and
passed outside for few moments.
Loker heard noise, attributed it to
burglars, and prepared to shoot the
When Hammondre entered,
Loker called out, and, not receiving an
immediate reply, shot Hammond dead.