The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-17


die The Postmaster-Gencral hes decided
that families, firms. or companies cannot COM
bine to rent postoilice boxes concertly, but
that the box rent must be collected for each
firm, family or company enjoying such facil-
ties The internal revenue receipts for tho
last quarter Of 1872 were $40. S30,025
AwAsnISoroS dispatch says: The Presi-
dent has directed the Secretary OF State to
prepare Immediately an executive order in ef-
feet prohibiting persons holding United States
commissions from occupying office under State
authority. 1t is stated that Secretary Bout
well adheres to his former opinion that Con-
gress last year made too large reduction III
taxation. and that he experts further Increases
Of the public debt hereafter. j.. The President
authorizes a contradiction of the statement
relative to the proposed retirement OF Secreta-
~ Fish and the appointment Of slr. Evarts as
his successor President Grant has pardoned
two more Ku-Klux ont Of the Albany Peniten-
tiary. "A Washington correspondent says
well-informed members of both houses Of
Congress express the opinion that there is no
hope for the passage Of the Postal Telegraph
| bill this session.
| The House Commerce Committee are brsily
engaged in perfecting Sheliabarger's bill for
the revival Of American commerce. The
House Committee on Public Lands have agreed
to Ketchums bill prohibiting the sale of pub
lie lands within the limits of any railroad grant
at less than $3.50 per acre. A bill has been
introduced into the House. providing for the
issue of s25 600 900 of National Bank notes in
i Al. tlor xaI harafafn.a
These notes are to be distributed to banks i'll
States and Territories which failed TO receive
their due proportion of currency under previous
apportionments. The Finance Committee OF
the Senate has been instructed to report
whether Secretary Boutwell, has the right TO
issue legal-tender notes i'll place of the forty
five millions of bank notes cancelled by the
act of 1866.
FOREIGN
! THE British Government declines to aid the
ROYAL Geographical Society in sending out an
Arctic expedition. Greece has consented to
submit the question Of the Laurium mines to
arbitration The new census Of France shows
the population to be S. lO1, 92l. decrease of
500. 935 since 1866 The commercial treaty
between France and Great Britain has been
finally concluded The irrepressible Carlists
are growing more troublesome i'll Spain -.
The city of Bogota. in South America, has re-
Gently suffered disastrous inundation, caused
by the overflow of two small rivers.
RANDOLPH STEWART. ninth Earl Of Galloway.
died in London recently. aged ~. The coast
Of England has been visited by another violent
tempest Kaiser William has conferred the
order Of the Black Eagle upon Bismarck. 1t
is stated that an understanding has been m
rived at between England and Russia with re-
gard 70 the war against khiva. the Car assur-
ing the English Government that he has no
warlike designs on Afghanistan.
JOHN +. PAwsoN & Co.. of London. dealers
in Manchester goods. have failed for SIS. 0OO.-
900. 1t is feared other failures will follow.
President MoRRALEs, of Bolivia, was shot
dead by his nephew, ON the 9th inst, OH &C.
count. apparently. Of political differences A
successor was at once elected by the Bolivian
Congress- Several Internationalists, with Or
SIM bombs in their possession. have been ar
rested in Paris The French Assembly has
ordered the prosecution of Deputy for acting
as second in 4 duel.
WHILE Sir Charles Dixie was addressing
meeting in Derby, England. few nights ago.
a mob attempted to dispense the meeting. The
! adherents Of Dixie resisted. and severe strug-
gle ensued. in which several persons were in
jured and many windows broken, the fighting
lasting over an hour. Great excitement pre-
vailed. Order was at length restored, and the
meeting brought to q close. large crowd
arrived with sticks and bludgeons. and escorted
the speaker and his wife to their hotel. A
dispatch from Chselhurst. England, Of Jan.
9. says: The announcement that the ex-
Emperor Napoleon is worse creates much
alarm among the adherents of the family. His
suYerings are acute, but his strength and en-
durance great 1t is said that NJ. Riviere
will soon present his final report Of the pre-
liminary investigation in the case Of Marshal
Bazaine to the French Assembly. The conclu-
sions arrived at by the investigating committee
are decidedly unfavorable to the Marshal. His
trial has. for political reasons. been postponed
until the German troops have completely evac-
uated French territory. The Vienna Post
contradicts the report that the Austrian Gov
eminent is about to dispense with the services
of Count Won Beust The pioneer Protestant
Church Of Rome has just been consecrated in
that city. Seven American clergymen took
part in the ceremonies.
GENERAL
HAVING compelled Jay Gould to disgorge
$4,000, 900 Of its stolen property. the Erie
Railroad Directory have now tackled Commo-
dore Vanderbilt, who, it is claimed, owes the
company "a, SOC, 900. The last rail on the
northern division Of the Cairo and Fulton
railroad. connecting st. Louis with Little Rock,
Ark. was laid Jan. 8. The southern division,
extending to the Red river and making connec-
Gulf of Mexico, will be completed during the
year 1879. p. L. Barnum was robbed OF
thousand dollar diamond pin on the cars be-
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