The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-04-25
FoREIGN Gossip

fohElGN Gossip.
The coal trade of London, which has
alb out 100000 people, il controlled Nv
ahout twenty men,. y
Tnn English AdmiraIty has ordered i,
supply Of songs for sailors NTH y
view Of their adoption in the novo,
training-ships.
The gold coinage Of the German I'm
pire had attained, on the LIST ultimo
the large sum Of $l44, sl3,O75. This
increase IL due to the gold received n
payment of the French indemnity.
The high price Of iron is embarrass.
ing British ship-builders. Findino
they could not safely take contracts
one firm, the most extensive on thelTov
recently discharged 100 of their work.
men.
THOUSANDS of Cinnamon. we reod
are employed at railroad building in
Costa RIGA, and have contracted 10
work for eight years for the liberal sum
OF "a per month, three suits of clothes
per annum, and free passage home. If
they do fair amount OF work, their
employers cannot very well complain of
these terms.
A REPORT recently presented to the
English Parliament gives the daily aver.
age pay of mechanics ms follows: Ans.
tria, 81 Belgium, 60 cents France
Sl.lO; Denmark, GO cents; Italy. 40
cents Netherlands, 70 cents Norway
60 cents; Sicily, 30 cents Portugal. 40
cents; Prussia, 75 cents; Russia. 75
cents; Sweden, 60 cents Switzerland
GO cents. ~
The will of Napoleon III. has been
proved in England. His personal prop
erty is sworn at under S12D, 600, and this
he leaves to the Empress without re-
serve. To the Prince Imperial there is
only one bequest, We are told-the i'm
perial crown. If this be true, we have
here certain violation Of the idec Ma.
poteonfenne, according to which any
Bonaparte may govern who is called by
the voice of the people,. And the En-
peror's will is in this respect an import
ant manifesto to the Imperialists.
A DUEL was recently fought in Paris
between two women living in the Boule-
ward de Courcelles. The cause of dis
pute was rivalry for the affections of a
man named Juglin, and the two women
agreed to decide their dispute by means
OF duel with knives. The frightful
conflict was waged in a private house,
and the result was one woman mortally
and the other dangerously wounded.
The cause of this dreadful contest, the
man Juglin, has been arrested.
A MOST extraordinary woman was pas
senger on horse car in Cleveland
March 4, 1873. She had with her a
pet poodle, and she had something else
with her, as We shall see presently. The
conductor stated to her in
the mildest manner that dogs were not
permitted to ride in that car, and that
hers must be put out. The damsel
arose, drew a revolver from
Ter pocket, and said, "Unless you drive
IN without molesting my dog I'll make
Tou eat this stray There was
Gene. Ladies left the car. But the
woman with the pistol didn't. And the
log didn't.
The postal car difficulty between the
'ostmaster-General and the railroads,
hat had threatened to withdraw these
airs from the roads, has been satisfac-
orily arranged for the present. The
abroad companies had every desire to
make an Issue with the Government
mt the decided stand taken by the press
the country, and the certainty that
heir interests would have probably