The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-07-04
Personal and Literary.

--Lucca mas been divorced.
High ofiicials-Mounted police.
"A warm General-Burnside.
Discarded material-Tweed.
A very finny diplomat-Fish.
One who trusts in Providence
Sprague.
A family Jewell is about 70 be pre-
sented to the Car of Russia.
Brigham Young has spent 100000
to promote polygamic legislation.
MIR. Moncure ID. Conway is preparing
Autographed works on religious litera-
ture.
Governor Walker, of Virginia, is TO
assume an editorial chair as soon as mis-
term of office expires.
White Feather. an Indian Chief and a
graduate Of medicine and divinity Is lee
turing in Kentucky.
Stephen Philbrick, Of Tamworth, n.
H., died recently at the remarkable age of
l02 years, one month and twenty days.
-Miss Linda Gilbert has become liner
Of the cloud Of crime with silver, by found
ing libraries for the prisons.
Bishop Kip, of California. has held
his office for twenty years, and the do
cese owes him S2l 900 arrears of salary.
There Is no danger that Parepa-Rosa
will ever be shipwrecked on the ocean, for
she is always sale on the high C's.
Mrs. Berlah Hunt, OF Randolph, Mass,
died. aged one hundred and four years.
She retained her memory to the last.
MIR. Hiram Powers is compelled to
abandon his artistic labors by chronic,
and, it is feared, incurable bronchial alice
ton.
Mr.. X. w. Emerson denies any con-
sanguinity with his lady namesake who
claims the authorship of Bctsey and
are out"
Eugene Schuyler, Secretary of Lega-
ton at st. Petersburg. will act as Minister
until the arrival of Governor Jewell In
August.
Henry Ward Beecher has been adj
vised by his physician to spend the sum
mer at Colorado. He is a victim of an
nual hay fever.
The charge that Horace Greeley used
to sleep in church is unfounded. He
merely assumed that appearance to feel
loss-ofeyes!
On st. Louis garroter recently ar
rested were found manuscript arguments
to show that the Bible made contradictory
statements.
Captain Jack, in an interregnum Of
his melancholy fit, has confessed to Hooka
Jim that he is the real author of "Betsey
and are out"
Anna Dickinson will visit Florence
soon, and it is limited that when she re-
turns she will bring with her an Anna
mated bust.
Mrs. Mary Wardsworth. M. D., a
female physician who emigrated from
New Hampshire to Turkey, was recently
married to Russian sAgeon named
Basin.
Thomas Jefferson's family carriage,
imported from Europe by him. has been
sent to shop in Stanton from Char
lottesville, where it Is owned, to be re-
paired.
William Cullen Bryant's health,
which has been so robust. is failing some
what. He feels that he is no longer young,
which is not singular, as he Is within a
year of eighty.
"A Boston letter-writer says that Gen.
N. II. Banks is making arrangements to
90 to South America To engage In certain
railway enterprises, which promise to be
very profitable.
Lord Brougham, in his old age, was
lnucn Tlulcuieu anu ihlilpoOHtu III tnttol-
umns of PoicA; whereupon he remarked,
"those Psneh people never get my face,
and are obliged to put up with my plaid
trousers.~
The editor of the San Francisco
Chronicle, after stating that he has mo
desire TO engage in personal contro-
versy," proceeds TO characterize the edi-
tor Of rival newspaper as "a drunken
and cowardly idiot, who disgraces journal
ISM"
General X. 4. Colstone, formerly i'm
the Confederate army, has arrived at
Cairo, Egypt, to assume the duties of a
professor in the polytechnic school there.
He will also hold the rank Of colonel I'm
the Egyptian army. General Colstone
was for two years with Stonewall Jack
son In the faculty Of the Virginia Military
Institute.