The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-05-10
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AT Chiffon, Wis. on the 18th. = RI
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COLUMBIA, s. c., is to build an opera
house and city hall at an expense OF
/ DIR. A. p. MILLER has sold a three
elghths interest in the Toledo Blade 70,
$4,000. "
A LEAD ore smelling establishment ~
building in the town of Paris, Grant
county, Mo.
A DOCTOR at Sterling, ILL.,, has had In
pay patient$l ATS for malpractice in
setting broken wrist.
A CITIZEN of Albany, rece ntly de.
ceased, left $40, 900 to be used in trans.
lating the Bible into Japanese.
THERE are seventeen pneumatic tube
lines in operation in London varying in
length from $50 yards to 90 yards.
AN American firm is to build mallea-
BILE iron works at Oshawa, Ont, on a
large scale-the town giving site and
a liberal bonus.
A coLoRED miner at Dubuque, Iowa
fell distance of forty We feet down a
coal shaft, on the 18th, but suffered no
serious injury.
A SOAP mine has been discovered ut
Puebla, New Mexico, which satisfac,
torily accounts for the lie which the
press has promulgated.
Two women passed through Terre
Haute, Ind, on Monday evening last,
on foot, who were walking from Jeffer-
son City, Mo-, to Washington.
SENATOR THURMAN has rented bis
house in Columbus, Ohio, sold his fur.
niture, and will reside in Washington
during the remainder of his term.
The Marseilles quilt factory at Rock
Island, ILL.,, has got fairly under way,
and has just turned out its first counter
panes. 1t is intended to manufacture
$50 quilts per day.
MRS. ARTHENAY, a wealthy Massachu-
sets lady, raised by hand fine trotting
colt, now two years old, for which she
was offered last week, by q Boston
gentleman, $1,000. The offer was de
clined.
OVER forty trees have been struck by
lightning on Timber Ridge, two miles
south of Fairfield, Va, in the last ten
years. 1t is said that lightning has
struck in this locality in every storm for
a century.
A CARGO Of twenty-five old cannon
cast for the Southern Confederacy at
but never used, have been
landed at Bridgeport, Conn.,, whence
they are to be taken to Ansonia to be
broken up.
AN English gentleman has purchased
land at Palatka, Florida, on which he
is erecting paper mill, in which paper
will be manufactured from Palmetto
wood, on which the notes of the Banl
Of England are to be printed.
GEORGE c. MAHAN, of Memphis, in
company with Mr.. Emerson, has just
invented steam canalboat, the model
Of which cost $4,000. They are candi.
dates for a 100000 prize offered by
New York State for boat of that kind.
The tunnel under the Niagara river
1t Buffalo to supply the city with water
has been completed for 700 feet, and an
of 800 feet has been ordered.
The pier will be located In the rapids.
The entire work is to be finished by
Jan. /.
JAMES GORDON BENNErr's income from
his real estate and newspaper is $225,OOO
per year, and that of his son $4,000.
The advertising receipts from the paper
'ange from $500 to $1,000 per day, ao-
,ording to the changes in the business
eason Of the year.
MORRIS PowERs, a young man lately
Employed in the pineries on the Poke
anna river, Mimi. went on the 7th
INST. to visit some wigwams near the
amp. While there he was attacked by
wo squaws, who beat his brains out.
he body was then cut to pieces and
brown into lake about four miles dis
ant. The lumbermen in that section
ave banded themselves together and
wear they will kill all the Indians they
leet on the Pokegama river at sight,