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

unaccountably left his home; an act not
~consonant with his usual habits.
"A lady died In Charleston, a few days
ago, whose husband, son, brother, and
uncle have all been Governor OF South
Carolina.
DR.. Holmes being asked by a young
physician what sign 10 put on mis- door,
replied, The smallest fevers gratefully
r~eceivei.'
-" Mark Twain I" is travelling with the
Shah Of Persia, doing all in his power TO
soften the in-Clemens-y Of uncongenial
climates for his highness.
A book entitled :. Lectures to Mar
ried Men" is published in England. The
lectures are something more interesting
than the Caudle kind.
Lucy Stone Is out with a letter men
tioning manv instances TO show that the
late Chief Justice Chase was in favor Of
woman suffrage.
"A Miss Breath was recently married
TO a man named Bussing. Ii is presumed
that when she received her Busting he
held his Breath.
-Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minister to
this country, having resigned, his aiplo-
matte services will for the present be held
in allegiance.
w. s. Robinson, late Warrington
of the Springfield Republican, succeeds
Mr.. Ballou as editor-in-chief OF the Boston
Globe.
Kate and Maria Doherty, OF Spring.
field. Mass, are in active training for the
feminine boat-race TO come of on the Har-
lem river this month.
Mexico offers a prize of 81, 900 for the
best-i.e. e., most acknowledgements of
the late President Juarez. Where is the
Rev. j. ;. A. Ii. g. AbbottY
Caleb Gushing says he spent seven
teen hours a day in severe intellectual la
Dor for twenty-five Years and felt all the
better for it. He does not do so now,
however, as he has begun to feel his age.
Ida Lewis, the aquatic heroine, has
separated from her husband. VIM. Lewis.
because he is a shiftless, lazy fellow, and
won't support her. She still remains at
the lighthouse.
The critics generally declare Bret
Harte's last verses a failure, and some OF
them advise him TO send his debilitated
intellect TO toa %hydropathic establishment
for recuperation.
WIN. w. Story, the poet-soulptor. is
very unpopular with our Rome-visiting
countrymen. because he refuses to be
bored by them when they have only i'm
pertinent curiosity to crafty.
"A Chicago paper mentions that White
law Reid went TO Cincinnati for the pur-
pose Of disposing Of his interest in the
Gdzstte, of that city. amounting. il is UNI
derstood, TO some $4,000.
-Ex-Governor Wise, of Virginia, is a
remarkable man. He has lived out one
generation and tired out another, and he
is now fresh and ready for a new scene.
as a racer after a good rubbing and a peck
of oats.
When Susan b. Anthony was asked
BY Judge Hunt If she "had anything to
say" she proceeded TO say SO much that
she had TO be choked off in the midst of
her speech.
General Beauregard is reported 20 be
growing old very fast. His health is quite
infirm. too. owing TO the severe taxing of
his physical and nervous system during
the war.
&C. III. Snow, formerly proprietor of
the Washington National htsiiigencer.
has just married Miss Mamie l.. Stake
the coolest victim of martyrdom at the
stake yet known.
Ex-Governor Hoffman. of New York.
always presents a John Il. appearance.
But, if he were TO neglect his personal
apparel for about half the time. he would
present a demijohn-ty appearance.
1t Is said that. since Commodore Mutt
was married to Minnie Warren, Mutt is
continually compelled TO shell out under
the threat of a Minnie bawl.
Col. Geo. Butler, formerly Consul
General at Alexandria, has been appoint
ed an officer i'm Don Carlos army. An
exchange says that Col. Butler is also a
secret correspondent of the Herald.
George was at one time the dramatic
editor of the Herald, and is a pungent
writer.
John Tabor, of the editorial corps of
the New Orleans Republican, died last
week of a chronic complaint. He had
lived an adventurous life, and among his
adventures was a personal alteration re
sulting i'm his killing the father of the no
torious Josephine Mansfield.