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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21

NEW LINE OF STocK RAsNo.-It is q
question whether bear breeding in Yer
mont may not become n large and prof.
liable business. The State pays o
bounty of SIS on every bear killed, and
there is no exception as to private ami
mails. Here is the experience of Rut-
land man on q single bear transaction I:
He sold the hide for e25, the meat for
$50, the bounty was SIS, and the grease
brought the proceeds mp to 800. And
this was a private bear, raised by tho
enterpTising yeoman.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21

A LEGISLATURE HoAxKD.-A repre-
hensible hoax was played on the Legis-
latlre of New Jersey the other day. It
having been reported that the Hon. T.
J. Kelley, the member from Camden
county, had died from quick consump-
tion, speeches highly eulogistic Of the
deceased were made; both Houses
passed resolutions of coincidence, and
adjourned ont of respect to his memory,
and committee was appointed to es-
cort the remains of the defunct legisla-
tor to Linn Greek. The committee. in
endeavoring to fulfill its duty, discoy-
cred Mr.. Kelley at his clearinghouse
in the act Of taking very substantial
dinner, and concluded to dispense with
any funeral ceremonies. A search was
made for the author of the false report.
who was finally discovered in the person
of a small boy, who, it is safe to say,
will never figure as the juvenile hero of
a Sunday-school book.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21
TIE FIRST AMERICAN NEWSPAPER

The story of the first American news.
paper, brief as was its life, is full OF
curious interest. Seventy years after
the landing of the Pilgrims ON Plymouth
Rock, and $50 years after the invention
of printing, a newspaper was issued in
Boston 1t lived one day, and only one
copy is known to have been preserved.
That copy was discovered by the his
torian of Salem, the Rev. J. b. Felt, in
the Colonial State-Paper Office, in Lon
don, while engaged in researches relating
to the history of his own city. This
pioneer of American journalism was
published by Benjamin Harris, at the
London Coffee House, Boston, and was
printed for him by Richard Pierce, on
Thursday, the 25th of September, 1890,
nearly two centuries after the discovery
of the New World by Columbus. The
paper was printed on three pages of a
folded sheet, leaving one page blank,
with two columns to a page, and each
page about ii inches by in size Har-
ris proposed to issue his paper once a
month, or oftner if there should be
glut of occurrences. His first and, as
it turned out, his only number, contained
several columns of home and foreign
gos ip, without word of editorial CON-
ment. Unfortunately for the success Of
his undertaking, he printed one or two
items of local and military news which
set the official bnsybodies in a ferment
of indignation. The Legislative authori-
ties solemnly determined that the paper
came out contrary to law, and that it
reflections of very high
nature" To prevent Mr.. Harris from
issuing second number, they forbade
s. anything in print without license first
obtained from those authorized by the
Government to grant the same" In
his way the first American newspaper
,ame to grief and, but for the acct
iental preservation of a single copy in
London, its very name would have passed
nto oblivion.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21

The report of the Judiciary Committe,
Of the House Of Representatives, con
structs broad causeway for the escape o.
the disgraced vice-President from thu
punishment he deserves. The substance
4 the report is, that. inasmuch as Mr.
Col:ax sacceptanceo of Oakes Ames' brides
E2sprorto hiselectiona as Vice President
D. Is entitled to go scot-free. Even il
,ne principle were conceded that pub
Aeo.ficer II not Improbable for infamous
crimes committed before the beginning
Of his term Of office, the question would
stu remain whether Mr.. Colfax's eyre
Tons lying and perjury, which are 81
s--T recent date. do not subject him 10
ilpeachment Does the Judiciary Com
niifee mean TO be understood that per-
layls nota high crime and
1ad therefore not an improbable offense?
Ms acceptance of the bride from Cakes
Anes was, indeed, previous to his cleo
Ton as Vice-President but the perjury
Dy which he attempted to screen that
olme Is not two months old. The Ju-
d'ciary Committee have virtually de-
e1ed that perjury is not an Improbable
The strange report of this committee
.lsnnes an allusion To the bias of its
P.ominent members. Its chairman, Mr..
bingham, Is one of the incriminated
MEMBERS Of the House, who deserves ex-
paislon If Mr.. Colfax deserves impeach-
lent He was 80 sensible of the scandal
= report from him exempting Colfax,
ulAt he waived his right. and the pre
para'Ion of the report was devoived
apon Butler. But not even Bingham
as more disqualified than Butler for
laxing an impartial report. Butler is.
40 speak, the retained counselo Of Cakes
ames- Ii Is well understood that he il
= oe Ames' chief defender against the
augmentation of the Poland commit
- ior his expulsion. Nov, rs Colfax
Ana Ames are in the same boat, il il too
"Ient that man who has undertaken
|" Gear Ames is unfit to pronounce .
~ rndid Judgment on the case of Collar.
We accordingly find that, in his report.
cutier has adroitly contrived TO exempt
op.iax from impeachment ON grounds
.nich equally exempt Ames from the
!, sseaaity Of expulsion- The arguement il.
~ uAs public officer can be aeposed only
~ crimes committed after the COM
ncement Of his term II hence fol-
that If Colfax cannot be impeached
IT accepting bribe before he became
PRESIDENT, Cakes Ames cannot be
PEELED for offering brides before his
siection to Congress. Gen. But
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21
AMERICAN ExrRAvAGAxcx-The div

AMERICAN ExTRAvAGAxcK- dry
goods fever keeps raging, and is becom-
ing more intense among the American
people. We noticed some time ago the
extraordinary apprehension the spring
trade, and supposed that they would
soon fall of. But it appears now dry
goods are pouring into the port and
market at the rate of five millions Of
dollars week. 1t seems that our peo-
pie spend all their surplus earnings in
dry goods. As a nation We buy more
than our produce exports pay for. Evil
IDENTITY the Americans are the most ex-
travagant people in the world--Nev
York Sun.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21

why should the mere date of its commits
sion protect him from the penalty
The grJund of.perpetual exclusion from
Office for previous crime, is not techni
cal, but moral. The object is to secure
purity and integrity in positions of pub.
lie trust. And if, as the Constitution
declares, crimo may perpetually dis
qualify, it is a strange doctrine indeed
that the date of its commission NAV
operate rs bar to the penalty. Ac-
cording to Gen. Buffers theory, if it
should come to light that Vice Presi-
dent had committed sodomy or high
way robbery previous to his election,
Impeachment w0uld have no hold on
him, and the Government could not re-
heve itself from the disgrace of having
such an officer. Such doctrine is as
revolving to sound morals as it is con-
trary to the Constitution, which does
not limit impeachment to crimes COM
mitted previous to the beginning of q
term OF Office, and expressly recognizes
the abiding, ineffaceable dispqualifca-
ton Of guilt by putting no limit to the
duration Of punishment. Nothing can
be clearer than that, in the purview of
the Constitution, it is the crime, and
not the mere date of it, which renders a
man unfit to hold Offices of honor and
trust. Even if this point could be con-
sidered as doubtful, it is the province of
the Senate, and not of a committee of
the House to whom it was not referred,
to decide it.-NeW York World.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21
MEASURING SHADOWS.

Carefully conducted experiments SHOW
that a man of ordinary stature, which on
an average is not far from five feet eight
and one-half inches, mt the distance of
32S yards appears inst one-third his
height. At further distance Of 437
yards, one-fonrth; and at 546 yards, one
fifth.
This law may he made use of by those
curious of studying branches of sciences
not generally cultivated, in measuring
distant objects. 1t is far less difficult,
after little practice, than the common
method. Some persons possess rare
faculty of determining the height of a
structure, as tower, lofty spire, a dis
tant tree, either on a plain or an eleva-
ton. Their accuracy is quite as re-
markable, in that respect, as instantane-
Gus answers to complicated questions in
arithmetic, for which the famous Zera
Colburn was widely celebrated.
Some fifty years ago man by the
name Of Wheat astonished the best sur
veyors and trigonometrical gentlemen of
the time by giving at sight the exact
length Of a perpendicular pole, tree, or
other things, as proposed. By varying
his position, going toward or receding,
seemed to be instantaneously taken into
account in announcing decision. This
was the representation.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21

The Figaro publishes curious para
graph, to the effect that at meeting in
London M. Felix Pyat, alias the " nm
clean iconoclast," proposed that the son
of Napoleon III. should be assassinated
by an italian, but that Carl Marx pro-
tested vehemently against the sugges-
ton.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21

CALIFORNIA CHEsTSUTs. The CdiJor-
mia horticultural notices chestnuts from
italian seed measuring three inches in
circumference, raised in Sonoma City,
and adds: "Mr. Henry Ginina planted a
chestnut orchard from their seeds seven
years ago, which has fiourished finely,
and is now bearing literally Of fruit Of
the general size and character above de-
scribed. Doubtless chestnut trees would
do equally well in most other of the val
ley lands Of the State, and their cultiva-
ton is at least worthy trial"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21

ATennessee correspondent of the Ad-
rocatc writes In 1858, / sowed field
of sixty acres in wheat, and plowed it in
with turning plows; the yield was eight
or ten bushels per acre. In sowing,
some grains of the wheat fell on an old
kiln, among the brick-bats and burnt
earth, which produced from thirty to
eighty-two heads to the stool the one
that had eighty-two heads averaged for
ty grains to the head, which made 8, go
grains from one grain. 1 mention this
20 show the effects of burnt earth as n
fertilizer, which is cheaper and more
available to most of our farmers than
any of our commercial fertilizers.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21

A GENTLEMAN going to Texas asked .
friend for letter of introduction. The
friend opened q drawer, took out large
and handsome spring bladed dagger
knife and six-chambered revolver and
gave them to him.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21
AGRICULTURAL.
Water for H0rses.

A writer in the 1gricuiturist says
"This summer my horses got badly run
down. We fed them Literally, but they
did not eat well. They had no appetite,
no digestion, and no strength and spirit.
They came home Mt noon and night
tagged out, and their nights rest did not
refresh them. / sawed barrel in two
and placed the ends ON the platform of
the pump. These are for watering the
horses. Into one of them we put a
pailful of corn meal and mixed il with
the water. The horses ut first did not
like it, and would only drink little
when very thirsty. After they had
drank what they would, they were.
allowed pure water. In a few days,
however, they drank the corn-meal soup
with relish, and in less than a week a
decided change for the better was visi-
BILE in the appearance of the horses. We
do not let them eat the meal, but merely
let them drink the milky water. i have
no doubt it is as good for them as a
plate of good soup is for tired and
hungry man before dinner. 1t seems to
stimulate the appetite and aid diges-
ton"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21

The new French electoral Law fixes
% years for the minimum age Of Elec-
tors. and 10 years for minimum age of
Deputies.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21


They have in Ohio woman's club,
at which they discuss at their week
ly meetings such questions as the fol-
lowing
l. The making and baking of different
varieties of bread.
2. Cake, in all its varieties.
3. House cleaning, j. e., how to clean
house with the least confusion, the least
destruction to property, and the greatest
expedition.
4. Can practical housekeeping be re
duced to perfect system?
5. How should COWS be fed and
watered, and how should milk be taken
care of to make the best quality Of but
ter?
6. What is the best method Of can
ming fruit?
Z. The baking Of pastry and baking
of pies.
8. How to make and keep pickles
both sour and sweet.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21
saw Dust for Mulch.

Where partially decayed straw cannot
be easily obtained, the next best mate
rial for mulching is saw dust. Aside
from the fact that it does not decay as
straw-which thereby becomes a fer
tilizer-it is just as good and in yards
where the scattering straw, blown from
the mulching, is an annoyance, it is
much betteI 1t should be spread quite
thin about the trunk of the tree, say for
three or four inches, for it's the roots,
and thereby the tree, that we seek to
benefit while, if it be heaped about the
trunk, it would tend to produce fun
gus growth which would greatly injure
the tree.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21

Keeping Leather Harness Piiable.
II is well known that leather articles,
kept in stables, soon become brittle in
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21
To Pickle Onions.

A housekeeper gives the following
Scald one gallon of small onions in salt
and water of the strength to bear an egg.
Only just let them boil, strain them of
and peel them after they are scalded ;
place them in a jar and cover them with
the best cold vinegar. The next day
pour the vinegar off, add two ounces of
bruised ginger, one ounce of white pep
per, two ounces of flour of mustard seed,
half an ounce chillies boil them twenty
minutes, turn all together boiling hot to
the onions, let them remain ten days,
turn the vinegar ont again, boil as be-
fore, turn them hot on the onions again.
They will be ready for use as soon as
quite cool.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21
Cultivation OF the Plum Tree by Seed
llmgs.

A German pomologist gives certain
cures fin regard to the cultivation of
plum trees, by which he shows that
seedlings obtained by planting approved
varieties are much more hardy, and re-
sist cold and the injurious agencies Of
insects much better than cuttings or
graftings. This is supposed to depend
much more upon the equable nature of
the roots and their more perfect pene-
tration into the soil to such depth that
they are less exposed to the action of
the frost and other injurious agencies.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21

from Office, and disqualification to hold
and enjoy any office Of honor, trust or
profit under the United States" The
scope and spirit of impeachment iuris-
diction is very clearly exhibited in the
clause which we have printed IN italics,
which bears so closely ON the limitation
of punishment by the date of the crime.
The trainers of the Constitution thought
the public interest might require that an
officer who had committed an impeach-
able offense should forever be excluded
from holding any Office. This proves,
most conclusively, that, in their opinion,
an impeachable crime taints the whole
subsequent life Of the perpetrators, and
may operate rs perpetual DISQUALIFIED
ton Nov, what is the essence of this
disqualification? Not the date Of the
crime, but the crime itself. As the faint
and it's consequences do not cease with
the termination Of the Office, 30 they do
not begin with its commencement. It is
the crime which disqualifies and the
penalty ordained by the Constitution
establishes the principle that il ought
not to be condOned by any lapse of time.
1t is the purpose Of Gen. Buffers report
to prove that lapse of time does condone
an impeachable offense. 1t holds that
an infamous crime committed by Mr..
Colfax IN 1868 does not render him liable
10 Impeachment, whereas If il had been
committedsubsequenttothe4thof March
1863, he would not be exempt. But if
. crime, once committed, may disqualify
MN rom forever holding Office again,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-21

startling Revelations Concerning TIE
Angel oG sessh Mod -More EvtAsnee ~
his l;atlt In the Nesbiss Matter.
lvfom the Chicago Timenl
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-01
BROOKLYN PLUNDERED.

The excitement over the arrest of
Rodman still continues in Brooklyn
without abatement. Already 10 the mir
well freighted with rumors of deficien.
cies in other departments of the city
and it is asserted, not without author
ity, that damaging facts have already
appeared which will astonish the citi-
zens of Brooklyn more than did the de-
falcation of Rodman. The persistent
endeavors to prevent the arrest of Rod
man give color to these reports. Why
was the arrest delayed, is frequently
asked, if there is nothing in these So
called extravagant rumors ? The only
excuse offered by these officials for not
moving earlier in the matter was de-
sire to secure the city against loss,
which might have resulted if summary
Justice had been enforced.
Comptroller Schroeder offered this as
reason why he refrained from comply
ing with the demands of justice. When
appealed to he shifted the responsibility
upon Mr.. Sprague, or on the official re-
sponsibility of Assistant-Attorney Gull
len. This gentleman, when asked why
he delayed taking the initiatory steps in
the matter, remarked with an air of in.
difference that he was prevented from
doing so for the reason that Rodman
had made serious charges against
Sprague, and had threatened to make
revelations unpleasant to the officials.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-01

The demand for ready made sermons
has become so great in England that
they are to be had nearly Autographed
for the small price of two shillings per
dozen.
The New Hampshire Agricultural So
ciety offer the following list of pre-
miums for the baby show, in connection
with their annual exhibition at Man
chester For the finest baby under six
months old. fine gold necklace for
the finest baby between the ages Of
twelve and twenty months old, gold
cup; for the most beautiful twins, a
pair OF gold mugs for the child with
the reddest hair, regardless of temper, a
ten dollar gold piece.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-01
N Ews ITEMS.

An Ohio schoolma'a am has killed one
hundred and fourteen snakes on he,
way to and from school this summer.
A widower in Manistee, Mich, who
has forty eight children living, has Just
married his fourth wife.
Beavers are said to be again appear,
ing on some of the Canadian rivers,
where they have been extinct for fifty
years.
Bishop Randall of Wyoming terri
tory, while on recent Episcopal tour
through his diocese, narrowly escaped
being scalped by the Sioux.
The Atlantic county fair will take
place, Sep. 80 and so.
The Passaic county Jail now contains
fifty-five prisoners.
An agricultural exhibition will be
given in Woodstown, September 10 and
IL.
The Cumberland county fair will take
place at Bridgeton, Septt mber II and
IS.
The Warren county Fair viii begin
September 80, at Belvidere and end o.
tober 3.
The autumn term OF the public schools
in Paterson will begin to day.
The library OF the late Sir Frederick
Madden, recently sold in London, con-
tanned among other curiosities a collec-
ton ~, 500 single half penny songs and
ballads, such as in former times were
,,,..<. obo,,k &l,a .&Yaa@o hxy AI,e .ofo.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-01
THE BRITISH IRoN TRADE.

The London Times has an editorial
on the iron question, the burden OF
which is that one of the finest markets
England ever possessed (the trade in
iron) is gradually closing to her. Hel
disasters in this direction are not yet
ended. The United States are compel
ing successfully for the control of the
iron traffic with Canada, South America,
and the West Indies. They have con.
tested under immense natural disadvan.
tages, but they have vanquished Eng.
land in spite OF these. She cannot af-
ford to be idle, and sleep away her time,
and waste her money while competing
with thrifty, active, and intelligent ma
tons. The Times thinks much of the
blame for the state of things it de-
scribes should fall upon strikers and
trades unions.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-01
A DISCARDED LOVERS CRIME.

HARDING, Pa, Aug. 31.-This morn
ing between nine and ten o'clock, in the
vicinity of Kissinger's Bridge on the
Schuylkill river, in the city limits, a
terrible and mysterious tragedy was
enacted by which two persons were
drowned and third narrowly escaped
death. Their names are Charles Har-
mony, Mrs. Mary Herbert, and Daniel
Hoffman. Harmony and the young
woman arrived at the hotel near the
bridge last night and remained until
this morning. They were not register
ed as man and wife.
They remained together last evening
for some time, and several of the
boarders say that hot words passed be-
tween them before they separated for
the night. This morning they appear
ed as if nothing had happened and
about nine o'clock Harmony asked the
woman to take boat ride with him.
On going out of the hotel they saw sit
ting on the piazza young man employ
ed on the Berks County Railroad, named
Daniel Hoffman. Harmony asked him
to accompany them and he consented.
AS they sailed down the river. Har-
mony having the oars, it was noticed
that they were in the current leading
over the falls. Hoffman demonstrated
and the woman piteously begged Har-
mony to turn the boat arouni. Har-
mony however continued pulling with
vigorous strokes and by one determined
effort sent the boat over the falls, the
three occupants falling among the rocks
about twenty feet below. Hoffman
jumped and tremendously escaped being
crushed among the boulders. He swan
ashore and then went to Police Head
quarters and gave information of the af
fair to Chief of Police Cullen. Sergeant
Lutz and squad of patrolmen went to
the river and after dredging found the
body of the woman. The body OF Har-
mony it is thought is still down among
the rocks.
Hoffman's story agrees with the facts
MS above given. Harmony gave q COM
rade good by last evening, and remark
ed as he did SO that it oil depended up
on one thing whether he would ever see
him again in this world. 1t is now
thought he meant that he had intended
TO ask the woman to elope with him,
and in case she refused resort to some
means to take both of their lives. Hoff-
man is the only witness in the case,
and he declares that all were sober, and
that it was the cool and premediated
work of Harmony. The two persons
drowned came from Lebanon, Pa, and
the survivor lives in this city.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-01

A N ORDISANCE to order and cause Cherry
IN street, from Orchard street nolther.y to the
city line. to be regulated and graded.
BE it ordained by the Mayor snd City Council OF
the city of Elizabeth
lection 1. That Cherry street, from Orchard
street nor,hery to the city line, be regulated and
graded.
Section 2. That the whole amount of the costs,
damages and exper sas incnri ed in the prosecu.
ton and completion of said improvement shall be
duly assessed according to the provisions of the
act entitled An act to reyise and amend The char
ter of the city of Elizabeth" approved March 4th.
1903.
Section 8. Said improvement shall be made and
completed under the supervision and direction OF
the street Commissioner. and according to tn.
provisions OF the city charter and ordinances.
OWN