The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-07

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THE Senate Of Maine, by . majority Of ono
in a vote of twenty-nine, have decided tina,
cider, il not Of the intoxicating sort, may bt
sold and drunk within the State. Three new
indictments have been found against - Boss '
Tweed.
FATHER Ton BURKE, the eloquent Dominican
preacher, sailed from New York for Europe the
other day. Over 5000 people assembled at the
pier to bid him farewell. A life insurance
company exclusively feminine is about to be
organized in New York
IT is said James Fisk's estate is bankrupt.
The Edwin Forrest estate has been APP
praised at ss20,O0o.
The Democrats Of the Second Congressional
District Of Connecticut have nominated ex-
Gov. James E. English for Congress. 1t is
rumored that Alden b. Stockwell, President Of
the Pacific Mail Company, and for several
years one of the heaviest and boldest operators
on the New York Stock Exchange, has failed
to meet his contracts, and that his failure is
inevitable.
THE WEST
IT is charged that the liquor dealers of In
diana raised $3.50, OO0 to be spent on the Legis-
lature to defeat the stringent Temperance law
which was passed last week. One Senator was
offered $1,000 to absent himself from the vote
The Senate has ordered the facts to be investi-
gated. The first cotton mill ever established
in the Northwest has just been opened in
Jonesville, Mich. The occasion was celebrated
by ball and banquet, which was attended by
coo persons. The company has capital Of
Aud to- al in, t1,. 60
ofbrown sheetings.
LETTERS from the north shore Of Lake SUI
perior tell of the discovery Of great tim
bearing region in the vicinity of Otter Head.
midway between Sault Ste. Marie river and
Thunder bay.
The new Temperance law enacted by the
Indiana Legislature is but step removed from
absolute prohibition. One of it's provisions
is, that any person desiring permit to sell |
intoxicating liquors must present petition |
signed bya majority of the legal voters of |
the town in which he lives, or Of the ward in |
which he resides, in case of a city organiza-
ton.
The Modoc Indians Of Oregon are out of |
provisions ond clothes, are tired of hostilities. |
and have intimated desire to treat for peace. |
=. Samuel C. West, Of Geneva, H., who has |
just been sentenced to q life term of imprison-
ment for murder, is IS years old.
j. b. MCCORMICK, q member Of the cele-
brated reaper manufacturing firm. died at
Dayton, Ohio. recently. aged So. /. :. A singular
accident happened at q coal mine near Des
Moines, Iowa, last week. A miners drill. four
feet long and an inch in diameter, fell from
the mouth Of the shaft, and struck Benjamin
Couch, 12s feet below, in the back at the right
of the spine, just above the hips, and passing
through his body came out near the rec
tum. The drill made terrible wound, but it
was withdrawn by fellow-workman at COUGHS
request. Medical aid was summoned at once,
and the sufferer will probably recover
Six women have Just received their diplomas
Is graduates Of the woman's Hospital Medi-
cal College, of Chicago. "A new line of ten
propellers is to be engaged this year
in the lake traffic between Montreal and Chi
,ago. {. The lower house of the Kansas Legis-
ature resolves that Pomeroy is unworthy the
confidence and respect of the people of the
State. George L. wedgewood, the rascally !
school superintendent of La Sale county, H.,
was arrested at Quincy, the other day. Raj {
fertv, the Chicago murderer, who has been ]
twice tried and sentenced to death, has OBJ |
tanned supersedeas and will probably be I
granted new trial. - The troops in Arizona {
have had two more encounters with the dusky
Apaches. in which twenty-five Of the latter
we're sent to their "happy hunting grounds"
Only ono soldier was killed.
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THE Memphians celebrated Mardi Gras in
grand style. The steamer Glasgow was re-
GENTLY sunk in Red river. Loss, $4,000.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS has been elected to
Congress from the Eighth District Of Georgia
without opposition. Members Of the Legis-
ature Of South Carolina, and other citizens Of
that State, have signed . memorial to the ,
United States Senate charging Senator Patter-
son with bribery, and petitioning that he be
refused his seat.
G. W. LOWELL, Postmaster at New Orleans. ,
g . defaulter to the extent Of about &c, 900. ,
BE was arrested and bailed in 10000.
WASHINGTON
Hon. RICHARD YATES has been commissioned
ls Government Director of the Union Pacific
abroad. IT is said the President has finally
,ome to the conclusion to risk the experiment 4
,f removing the troops from the Southern {
States. Joseph B. Stewart, the contumacious 4
Credit Mobilier witness, still remains in durance
vile.. The report Of the Centennial Commits {
non was presented in the Senate the other day. I
It states that the subscriptions in Pennsylva- ]
mia alone will amount to about $1,000, OOO
This start would insure the success of the Ex-
position, and would Justify an appeal to other ,
portions Of the country. /. The Judiciary Com
mittee have determined to present articles of
impeachment against United States Judge 1
Delahay, of Kansas, whose case they began to ]
examine year ago.