The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-14


Cabinet than the retirement OF Secretary Bou,
well. :. Senator sumner Ii still quite feeble
His physician visits him twice day, and IN
jects morphine into his arm to enable him I
sleep. Three large trunks full Of document
are part Of the baggage brought to Washing
ton by the members OF the McEnery Returning
Board, summoned there to testify in the cas-
Of the contrasting Senators from Louisiana. :.
The House has passed the bill relieving JOIN
II. Regain, Of Texas (ex-Confederste Post
master-GeneraD. Of his political disabilities
-. .Postmaster-Genera Creswcll has decide.
to revoke his double-postage order, provides
tho Attorney General will sustain him.
THE bill just passed Congress abolishing tn,
franking privilege makes clean sweep OF the
not even allowed any stamps, ~ in England
for official correspondence.
The House Commerce Committee has agreed
to the bill relieving goods imported in French
bottoms Of differential duties. While the bill
restoring pensions to the soldiers Of the war OF
1912 who resided in the rebellious States dur
ing the late civil war was being considered in
made brief but earnest speech in advocacy of
the measure He said those old veterans
should have their dues, even il during the re-
bellion they were led by circumstances to
sympsthize with treason, and ended by hoping
that the time was near when the New Orleans
Of 1912 would be remembered and the New Or
leans of 1862 forgotten. He was loudly ap-
v,lo 1aI hx-t
bers, who gathered around him, and the
Speaker made no attempt to suppress the
demonstration. i. The friends Of the Hubbard
Postal Telegraph scheme claim to have secured
q sufficient number of votes in the Senate to
pass the bill whenever they can get it up.
Even il So it is said that the bill has no chance
in the House.
FOREIGN
SPAIN has sent q fresh reinforcement Of
l 900 soldiers to Cuba. 1t is rumored that
James Gordon Bennett, Of the New York
Herald, is about to establish great London
daily ON the American plan. The latest
European dates assert that the most formid-
able opponent of President Theirs is neither
Gambetta nor Louis Blanc, but NJ. Jules Du-
faure. Buckingham Palace has been placed
1t the disposal of the Shah of Persia for his
residence during his visit to England. In
The Spanish Cortes, the committee on the abo-
ition Of slavery in Porto Rico has declared in
favor Of granting the owners an average in
iemnity Of S250 per slave. Minister BAN
'roft has returned to Berlin.
Much uneasiness exists in London in conse-
luence of the English note to Russia regard
ng the disputed boundary question in Central
Asia, and a war between England and Russia
5 regarded a. among the probabilities :.
sugenie is about to bid adieu to Chiselhurst.
:. The Count de Chambord has the support |
( seven Orleans Princes for his claim to be |
he rightful King Of France. 1t is reported |
hat the Spanish steamship Murillo was the
essel that ran down the Northfeet. in the
.nglish Channel, and that che. too, went
own, with all on board. Louis Napoleon is
tated to have been very devout the last two
r three years Of his life. and to have attended
lass every Sabbath and holy day with scru-
ulous care. Before his death he made
and received dissolution. :.
he London papers say that from the post
lortem examination in the case of Napoleon,
lat while death was the result Of sudden
lock from the operation twice undergone.
aded to the severe suffering which followed
n each occasion, and all acting upon consti-
ltional state already desperate, it was not due
} any miscarriage Of the operation itself.
he disease Of the kidneys was pronounced to
. Of such nature, and 10 advanced that it
ould in any case have shortly . determined
Ital result, Death followed within 20 min
les from the time the Emperor was seized
it'll the fatal symptoms, he having been I'M
'nscious throughout. and. Of course. also in
nsible to pain, and spared from the pangs Of
sath.
An unknown British vessel has been wrecked :
Ear Bordeaux. and all on board lost =. The
ew York Herafs correspondent has been in
rviewing NJ. Gambetta. The French states
an says that the Republican cause never
oked brighter in France. The two branches
the French Bourbons have united their
rces, in order to present but one candidate
r the throne Of France in care the monarchy
restored.
Rev. ADAM SEDowIcK, the distinguished En-
ish geologist, is dead, aged 85.. The cable
sures us, for the 999th time, that the Carlist
surrection in Spain is completely crushed. =.
ne italian Government has seized sixteen Y
nvents i'll Rome. The yellow fever is raging !
Rio Janeiro.
A RUMoR comes by the cable that the differ :
ces between Great Britain and Russia on the !
livan question are increasing, and that the :
'vernments Of France Austria, Italy, Turkey, /,
,nmark and Sweden have determined to sup
TT the British Government in its position.
ng Lunalilo has been unanimously elected
ng of Hawaii by popular vote. The
chborne claimant has entered into recog-
lance in f2,00O to answer to the Court of .
leen's Bench on A charge of contAmpt for =