The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-07-25
GENERAL PARAGRAPHS.


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Mrs. Bromley and her two sons, of
Indianapolis, Ind, died at Pueblo, Cal,
last week, from IN overdose of opium.
An old chap at Oil City, Pa. likely
10 die, has burned up $1,000 that there
may be no quarreling over his will.
"A man in Charleston, ). c., was re-
Gently convicted Of branding his stepson,
child. with a hot iron.
An Iowa teacher. residing four miles
from her school-house, rides 10 her duties
every morning on An OK.
A devoted young wife at Auburn,
Me-. tried 10 poison herself r, Gently. be-
cause her husband rebuked her for going
TO 4 fair.
a Kansas lady, aged sixty five, made
her fourteenth contribution 10 the census
sfew days ago.
Mr.. George Patten, aged ~seventy-six,
took Miss Maria Thompson, aged seventy,
As his blushing bride in Oakham County,
Mich. last week.
The systematic murderers of Polk
county. Iowa. have killed nine men in
two wears. each time shooting the victim
in the left breast with a shotgun.
a Minnesota paper asserts that a
kerosene lamp. so set that the rays of the
sun passed through il and came to a focus
on q window curtain, set the curtain on
fire.
a petticoated woman who was ar
rested AZ Wintersct. Iowa. on suspicion
that she was one Uf the Bender women,
proved 10 be arrayed in garments of the
wrong gender.
In Meriden. Conn. last week, John c.
Adams. aged seventy-six, and his wife,
aged seventy. after fifly-two years of mar
RED life, Cied at the same hour.
a Knoxville. Tenn, baby. less than
two years old. recently threw an ale bottle
az is nurses head with such force and ac-
curacy OF aim as 10 fracture her skull,
causing a fatal result.
Joseph Lunday, of Fulton county,
H.. one warm day last week drank
two rumblers Of ice-water. and departed
within the hour TO another and perhaps a
cooler world.
"A Baptist clergyman out West under
took 20 baptize his wife al an u~nseasona-
BILE hour. He kept her head under water
too long. and now he has to be hung up to
dry in consequence.
I'm digging a well i'm White Plains.
Nevada. recently, a stream of water OF
boiling heat was reached at n depth of
eighty-two feet. This il probably the first
artificial well Of boiling water ever made.
Henry Geist was sententious enough.
He said Better end without trouble
than trouble without end. | am tired OF
life and prefer to live no longer The
suicide was only twenty-one. a litho-
grapher, destitute, and without work.
In the hills Of New Hampshire there
Is In one Of the wayside taverns well
known q artists a woman Of such amaz-
ing strength she can lift a half-barrel OF
cider 70 her mouth and drink from the
bung-hole.
"A Milwaukee servant girl. whose lover
insisted upon an early day for the we'd
ding. had gathered together eighteen
towels. fifty napkins. twenty sheets, three
quilts, seven dresses. and several other
articles when arrested.
Citizens of indianapolis beat their
wives with pokers, and style IL domestic
discipline. III somebody would fill them
with lead, and call il a joke, the point
might not be apparent. but the fact could
not fail 10 be commended.
A man in Worcester. Mass, who has
been before the courts liz times for drunk
enness. sni has paid SLIP i'm fines, has
lately signed the pledge. hoping to save
money and TO avoid many unpleasant ex-
periences.
This time from Woodstock. Ont.
comes the periodical tale Of the toad found
imbeded in the heart of a tree, where il
must have lain for c~enturies-the latest
Illustration Of how toadyism will flourish
IN monarchical countries.
Il TeutOn on the east side, whose con-
srIgTma toll him that 10 haI uvaotaH zoo
much time and money i'm dissipation. has
reformed, and taken the pledge not to
drink more than forty glasses Of lager
beer per day for a twelvemonth to come.
The patent churn Is the latest item
creator yet produced by the boundless
West. A little girl NJ Clinton, Wis, was
recently caught in the gearing of one OF
these Implements. and ere she could be
rescued looked as il she had been spanked
with a curry-comb.
Sue Blair, of FOND du Lac, Wiscon-
SIN. played her lover a game of chess the
other day TO decide whether the wedding
day should be fixed for this year or the
next. sue desired more time but lost the
game. and aus face the parson before the
coming January.
The following notice Is said to have
been recently found posted in the vesti-
Dule OF a church in Scotland "The per-
son who stole Songs of the Sanctuary
nom pew No. - should improve the OPP
portanity Of singing them here. as he
VIII have no occasion to sing them here
An anonymous check for 5000 Is
reported 70 have been dropped into the
contribution box Of a Norwich, Conn,
,hurch. This is truly noble generosity I;
olI unless the local papers have made a
ttlning mistake, we d~on'texactly see hew
tHe money is 70 be obtained.
a waiter, named Tom worrcll, was
discharged from an Omaha hotel. and be-
Ioaned his fortune until ne was made the
Tsclpient Of $4,000, let by an uncle.
ne has since determined not to 90 back
INTO the waiting business. That's the