The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-06-21

sis 10 bs brought into closer 70.
atoms with the Administration" ...... And
,ow comes the announcement that our Gov.
srnment has made no imperative demand
IN Spain for the release Of DR.. Houard, -
vas stated .. day or two ago. but that HE re-
ease 10 dsi ~ expected ...:.:: The report OF the
House Co mmittes on Pacific Railroads shows
The affair." Of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Comps, ~ 70 be in . sound and clear condi.
ton. There will b in operation at the END |
Of th year SIT miles Of the main line. In |
addi dion to the portion already completed, |
the 70 10 now under contract ,oSl miles. |
Or sdinR 10 progressing in Dakota and Wash
IL. gton Territories. The company has plat
led and prepared for market SIS, 500 acres
Of il lands in Minnesota and Washington
Territory. II 10 the policy Of the company
to cell its lands cheap to actual settlers.
TuE Secretary OF tho Interior has appoint
cd . commission, consisting of Gen. B. r.
Cowan, John L. Delano and ]. W. Wham,
to visit the hostile Indian tribes demons
trating against the Union Pacific railroad.
...... The War Department 10 reinforcing al!
Southern forts with the latest improved
ordnance, while the Navy Department is
accumulating large supplies ct all the ma
val stations on the. Southern and Gulf coasts.
So says Washington telegram.
Foreign.
TIE announcement that the Grenadier
Guards Band, Of London, had been inter-
dicted from attending the Boston Jubilee
was premature. The full band sailed for
America ON the It'll inst......It is ofhcially
announced in Paris that the total damage
sustained by the city of Paris, at the hands
of the Commune, will reach five hundred
r. The nav ta1aOranh
cable between England and the Continent
was opened on June 7...... Bismarck is going
to the Isle of Wight TO recruit his health.
LIEUT.. SYDNEY II. DICKENS, Of the British
navy-6fth son Of the late Charles Dickens
died at Malta, May 2....Gen. Sherman
has had most cordial reception in Russia.
1.-The great strike Of carpenters In Berlin
still continues, neither the bosses nor work
men showing any signs of yielding. There
| IL scarcely street which has not more or
less skeleton buildings in various stages OF
erection, while there is not an unoccupied
room in tho city, which is overrun with
thousands of people who have not whereon
| TO Law their heads. Great numbers of peo-
pie in good circumstances apply nightly at
the police stations for lodgings, while hun
dreds of respectable families camp out
nightly in the public parks. In Austria,
too, the utmost discs intent prevails among
the workingmen. In Vienna this feeling
approaches a revolutionary character, and
serious outbreaks are threatened......A Bonn
bay dispatch Of June 9 transmits the follow.
ing glad tidings: GA steamer has arrived
from Zanzibar with news which puts the
safety of DR.. Livingstone beyond q doubt
Couriers had reached Zanzibar from the in
terror with positive intelligence that Liv-
ingstone had arrived at Unyamembe. Stan
lev, the New York Herald explorer, had left
that place with letters from the great ex-
plorer and was near the coast" Late Mex.
lean advices confirm the reports of disas'
ters to the Government troops at Monterey
and elsewhere......Th great race at Paris
on the 9th, for the " Prize of Paris, wal
won easily by Cremorne, the winner Of th'
English Derby; Barbillon second, and Reins
third ......The inundation of the river Pc hai
rendered over 10000 persons homeless in thu
province of Ferrera alone.
ApvIcEs from London state that Minister
sickles has presented formal and peremp
tory demand upon the Spanish Governmen
for the immediate release Of DR.. Houard
.....It appears that the disaster to the Ju
artist forces at Monterey was even greater
than at FIRST reported. Gen. Cordellas ant
staff and twenty men were all that escaped
out of force Of 4,O0O......The Carlists ars
again looming up in Spain, judging from
this significant cable telegram from Madrid
"The insurrection is still alarming, bat
news having been received from Tara
eona." ... The international boat-race be
tween the Atalanta (American) and tn
Cambridge (English) crews came off on tn
10th inst, on the river Thames, and resulte,
in an easy victory for the Britishers, VIII
came in twenty len gths ahead.
49, T.. Ca n
seconded by the Italian Government, ma
proposed conference Of the Europea
powers to consider the course to be adopte
in view Of the barbarous persecution OF tn
( Jews in Roumania, and the propriety of ex
erting direct pressure on the Roumania
Government to compel preventive VI easure
Prince GortschakoF, OF Russia, as we'll as th
Prussian Government, apprehend that tn
course proposed by England would excit
agitation on the Eastern question, an
therefore decline to enter into such cor
. ference. Gortschakof suggests joint not
to the Roumanian Government, asking il
. intentions and the guarantees it can afior
, for the protection of the Jews. Should th
reply to this be unsatisfactory, he woul
suggest q settlement on the basis OF n
r treaty of 1s5s......The amendment to II
d French Army bill, reducing the term OF Sc
. vice from Eve years to four, has been n
jected in the Assembly by an overwheln
ing vote. This, taken in conjunction viii
Q Theirs recent bellicose speeches, does n
a augur favorably for the peace Of Europ
49,. The Ballot bill has passed to its secon
reading in the British House of Lords, ar
y its fnal passage is regarded as certain.
Advices from South America announce II
end o; the Venezuelan rebellion.
CANADA has abolished the duty on tea al
: coffee-except when it 10 imported from Il
United states......A bill will shortly be j
troduced in the German Parliment expe
u ing all Jesuits from Germsny.....Kais
d William 10 ready to deliver his decision
% the San Juan boundary question as soon
70 requested ..... Under the treaty giving G.
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