The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-06

Of yellow fever IN that city during the present
season.
Mrs. Amelia Wheat, OF Baltimore, aged rs,
was foully and mysteriously murdered in her
bed, few nights ago.
q. w. Martin, who was confined in the
Ripley county. Tenn. Jail for the murder Of
his wife, was recently taken ont by mob aud
shot to death. his body being riddled by twelve
charges of buckshot.
An ARRAY at st. Louis, the other day, be-
tween three negroes, resulted in two Of them
receiving . bullet through the head, from
which they cannot recover.
Advices from North Carolina represent that
much lawlessness and violence prevail IN and
around Salisbury. growing out Of the intensity
of political feeling, and many deadly encoun-
tiers are expected.
Reports Of the cotton crop in Arkansas,
Tennessee and Mississippi are very unfavor-
able. The drought is causing the cotton to
rust and shed. and in some sections it is
thought the crop will prove an entire failure.
There is much suffering in Southwestern
Texas on account Of the drought. Thousands
of cattle are said to be dying on the prairies
for want of water.
| The destruction Of cotton by the worms in
Alabama is almost complete, and fears are en-
tertained Of universal bankruptcy among the
planters. In some sections the plants have
been thoroughly stripped of their foliage, and
left as bare as after heavy frost.
The testimony of Capt. Richard King, the
largest cattle raiser in Texas, before the Bor.
der Commission at Brownsville, strengthens
that heretofore obtained, proving the Mexican
officials guilty Of gross neglect Of duty and Of
completely in the outrages committed on that
tempts on his life compel him to n,aint ain an
armed force for the protection Of his life.
Washington.
And now comes the announcement that the
postal card system is not to 60 into effect at
present. The Acknowledgement has decided
that the Postmaster General has no authority
under the new postal code to contract for
postal cards, Congress having failed to make
any appropriation for that purpose.
Thus far, 5000 claims, averaging $4,000
each, have been presented to the Southern
Claims Commission, Of which number $50
claims, involving $1,000, 900, have been re-
ported upon. $50 of them being rejected.
Nearly three million letters we're sent to the
dead letter Office last year. They contained
30, 000 in cash, and more tnan s3,0OO.000 in
drafts, checks, etc. On an average, every
letter that goes to the dead letter office con-
tains one dollar.
The original manuscript of the Declaration
Of Independence, on file in the Patent Office,
is fast fading out, the signatures having be-
come almost effaced. washington's commits
sion as commander-in-chief of the colonial
forces is also in the sere and yellow leaf, the
writing being almost illegible.
The proprietor OF rum mill in Washington
has beer fined 800 and eprived of his license
for refusing to sell liquor to negro.
Secretary Fish, who is now preparing recent
Geneva correspondence for presentation at
the next Cabinet meeting, says the awards
made in favor of the United States are not so
large as he had reason to expect; still. he is
gratifed with the results of the action Of the
Geneva Board.
lOA kho paldoh Va DdNiu SOliinc,
William Zeal. Amos Owen. and VIM. Scrugy,
Ku-Klux convicts in the Albany Penitentiary.
have boon signed by the President.
The Interior Department recently cold at
auction all the unclaimed models in its possess
sion, application for patents for which had
been refused to the unlucky inventors. The
models we're arranged in lots, and sold all the
way from IS to Sl25 per lot.
1t is now announced that President Grant
has reconsidered his determination to issue
pardons to certain parties confined in the
Albany Penitentiary as Ku-Klux, until more
thorough examination can be had in their
cases.
Foreign.
Over quarter Of a million dollars worth
Of property was destroyed by the Belfast Ire
land) rioters.
The last news from the South African dia-
mond fields is Of . very favorable character.
The precious stones continue to ''pan out"
without any apparent diminution in the yield.
Alexis, at last accounts, had arrived at Cape
town, South Africa, en- route for the East
Indies.
The Lancet, the well-known British medical
journal, speaks in high praise Of the hygienic
arrangements Of the American fleet recently
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