The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-02-16

passed the House memorial TO
Congress- TO admit Canadian lumber free.
.....A colored cook named Charles Moore, re-
Gently employed at the Commercial House
in Gardner, III, elop,d on Tuesday with
white girl named Susan Bridlestine.
TIE celebrated old Methodist divine, Rev.
Peter Cartwright, was stricken down with
on Monday last, 1T his home in
Pleasant Plains, ssngsmon county. H.. and
ing physicians say his Death may occur at |
any moment. This venerable man 10 81
years old, and has been in the ministry 6S |
Years ..... The Coroner's jury sitting on the |
bodies OF the persons killed by the Railroad |
accident near Alton on Wed nesday, returned |
Q verdict that death was caused by the |
criminal negligence Of Frederick Baker,
conductor of the freight train, % the princi- |
pal, and Patrick Halpin, engineer, a. access
sorry ...... Quite . shock Of earthquake was
felt at Caiyo, ILL.,, on Wednesday morning
about five o'clock....Jess Zimmerman, the
aged wife murderer, Of Rockford, ILL.,, has
been sentenced BY the Court TO life imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary. 1t will be re-
membe that he killed his wife with .
scratch-swl, several months ago.
The South.
NEAR Fayetteville, Ark, on Monday, two
Young men named Jones and Burkam got
into dispute, which resulted in the killing
Of the former by the latter. Burkam was
arrested, and in attempting TO escape was
shot and killed by the officers. .....James
Slough and his wife, old and respected citi-
zens Of Richmond, KY, became involved in
quarrel on Thursday, during which the
husband plunged clasp-knife into the
breast and abdomen Of his wife fifteen or
twenty times. She only lived long enout b
TO tell who was her murderer. .....6amuel
White (colored) was hanged at Charleston on
Friday for the murder Of Fidea, last sum-
mer, while his accomplish, negro named
Baldwin, had his sentence commuted by
Gov. Scott to imprisonment for life when un-
der the gallows..... Alexis and party arrived
at Memphis on Friday.
On Friday a crowd Of twenty-five masked
men went to the jail in Richmond, KY,
where Slough, who murdered his wife on
THURSDAY, was confined, and overpowering
the sheriff took the keys of the jail and pro-
ceeded to Stoughs cell, marched him out
short distance and hung him to tree. The
mob then quietly dispersed.
A NEGRO named Nose Moore shot and
killed Zach Goldman, a blacksmith, four
miles from Paris, KY, at noon on Saturday.
...... The fastest time ever made over q
Southern railroad was accomplished on the
3Ist ult. on the New Orleans, Mobile and
Texas road, from New Orleans TO Mobile, the
occasion being the transportation Of Col.
Thomas A. Scott, the Pennsylvania railroad
king, and party. The distance is lao Is
miles, and the running time was hours and
| 81 minutes. Twenty miles Of the distance
l. v~~sr h<H1v M
Henry Atkinson, q planter living neal
Grenada, was found on last Friday, neal
Horn Lake, Miss, concealed in the woods
with a bullet hole in his head. No doubt
he was murdered by two men whom he had
employed to assist in driving stock, - hii
pockets were rifed ......The Supreme Cour
Of Louisiana has decided in the case of Sau
vinet, the negro Civil Sheriff Of the parish
of Orleans, who was refused drink in I
public saloon on account Of his color, tina
he is entitled TO recover 81 900 damages.
TIE Georgia National Bank at Columbu
was attached on Monday for refusing to pa.
$4,000 deposited by Governor Bullock q
State funds. .....It 10 reported that larg
portion Of Helena, Ark, was destroyed b.
are on Monday, but, owing TO the TELEGRAPH
lines being prostrated BY q storm, nothin
definite 10 known.
B.vols the Congressional Invsstigstin
Committee at New Orleans on Thursday
Captain 6innott and Captain Scott tsstifie
very clearly to bribsriss in the Legislature
the latter having delivered money TO Camp
bell, Carr, and other members - consider
alton for votes and influence. 6innot
swors 70 having been connected with Co
lsctor Casey and Herwig, his chief Deputy
in the handling Of large corruption funs
Casey and Herwig had in their custod
$lsy 800, undsrstood 10 b for the purchase {
eighteen Senators.
Il WasAisgtea.
TIE special House Committee to sxsmin
the Treasury accounts have discovered
surplus Of o. eoo, 900 which they have thu
far been unable TO account for...... One Of th
female clerks in the Postcface Depsrtmez
We married last week and there have sine
been nearly one hundred applications Il
the Vacancy. There arc more than 500 n
plications Of other ladies' on hand for th
hrst vacancy.
Tns President transmitted 70 the Ssna'
on Wednesday information furnished BY th
Secretary Of State in response TO a resolutio
Of INQUIRY regarding the retention in Ven,
.uela Of the American steamers Hero, Dut
ley Buck, Nutrias, and San Fernando, ii
property Of the Venezuelan Steam Tram
portaticn Company, An American corpor'
ton. II appears that these vessels wei
ssissd last fail; the first By the Venezuela
Government troops, and the other three
the revolutionists. Acting Secretary Of Sta
: Davis wrote Minister Pile on the I'D
. September, demanding the immediate rest
tuition Of the vessels Hero and Dudley Buc
! and, upon learning Of the seizure Of Il
other two, made q similar demand
further restitution. In reply, the Venezu
Ian Minister Of Foreign Affairs wrote to M
, Pile in November, disavowing the acts, ~
! promising, upon proof, to make the niece
sary rsparation.