The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-31

80. IOetuaetcT ~ Moblic, ~
defaulter to the amount Of go, OOo.. AT Littl
Rock, Ark. the other day. Henry smith kille
, Jackson Pike, at . negro dance-house, by stall
bing him with q bowic-knifc. On the san,
day Enoch Jackson was Knocked ON the hea
with dray-pin and killed by his wife. A
we're colored.
, GEN. GORDON has been elected United State
, Senator from Georgia. The vote stood
Gordon, ll2; Alexander II. Stephens, sc es
II. Stephens has been nominated to Congress
in Georgia, and accepted. The Governor vii
order the election soon.
WASHINGTON.
A WASHINGTON dispatch states that Con
gressmen consider the SANTANA Bay schem,
impracticable, and the Haytien Minister thinks
the American purchasers will find that the,
have made q bad speculation, being fit fol
nothing but q naval station. The House
Committee ON Patents have decided adversel,
to the revival Of the Melier strawpaper patent
THE bill for the prepayment Of AL printed
matter and the reduction Of letter postage to
two cents will in all probability be passed by
Congress-. The Postoffice Committee unani-
mously favor it, and the Postmaster General
also urges its passage. :. The House Commit
tee ON Elections has decided unanimously that
Mr.. Black, Democrat, is entitled to the seat
from Florida, and that Walls (coored). who
has thus far held the seat and drawn pay
during nearly the whole Congress, must
leave il.
The House Postofice Committee has unani-
mously resolved that Postmast er-General Cres-
wells decision that letters mailed with All in
sufficient stampage should be charged double
rates is illegal. Cows. warmoth. McEnery.
and number of other prominent Lonisianians.
have been summoned tn Washington to give
their Testimony in regard to the election mud
die in that State
IT is said the President will shortly issue a
number of additional ku-Kiux pardons.
The House Banking and Currency Committee
have decided to report a bill relieving national
banks from the operations Of the local usury
laws. The Commissioner of Internal Rev.
enue has decided that imitation wines Of home
manufacture are exempt from taxation.
The Senate has voted. two to one, to abolish
the frankling privilege after July l. The fol-
lowing is the votes Ieds-Alcon. Anthony.
Foreman, Casserly. Chandler, Cole, Conkling.
Cragin, Ferry (Ct.). Ferry (NIich.), Flanagan.
Hamlin, Harlan. Hitchcock, Howe, johnson.
Kelly. Lewis Pratt Ramsey, Sawyer Schurz
Scott, Sherman, West, Wilson, Window and
Wright--33 Nays--Ames. Bayard. Buckingham.
Carpenter, Corbet, Edmunds. Frelnghuysen. |
Gilbert, Hill Machen, Norwood. Pool Robert |
son, Spencer, Stevenson. and Tipton-l6. :.
The Sloop bill has passed the Senate, with an
raising the number of vessels to
en- as it stood originally. Colorado. through
her delegate, is still vigorously knocking at the
loors Of Congress for admission to the Union.
1.-The President has signed the bill incorporat-
ng the LOOMS Aerial Telegraph Company.
The Senate has refused to increase the sal
~ Of Congressman to $4,000 year. Sec
etary Boutwell, has sold the remaining $500.
OK, 900 of the per cent. bonds to Syndicate
4 American and foreign bankers on substan-
ally the same terms as to the preceding Syndi-
ate... The House Of Representatives has d.
ected the Poland Credit Mobilier Committee
, inquire what members Of Congress have
cen Interested in the Dubuque and Sioux CITY
abroad, and in the Central Pacific railroad.
Ach Of which received subsidies from the I
government. 1t is rumored that vice-Presi- I
ent Colfax will bring suit against Cakes Ames .
Dr. perjury. The House Committee on Ap-
roprations has agreed to allow nearly s. OOO.-
~ for the continuation of the Court House
nd Postofice work in New York. $4,000, 600 ]
II that at Chicago and 81. 900. 600 for that at
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e capital, much improved in health.
FOREIGN.
SAMUEL X. GRAVES, member of Parliament
r Liverpool, is dead. +. The Turkish Govern
ent has sued the London Times for libel in
lblishng an article containing untrue state
ents with reference to Turkish finances.
ght Hon. Edward Bulwer Lytton. the we'll
own English author, died in London. on OF
n. Is, aged 81. m
MEssRs. OSsLow and Whaley, members of m
British Parliament, have been fined g1OO st
ch Tor publicly accusing Sir John Duke Cole VI
ge OF conspiring to deprive the Tichborne III
INFANT of his rights. .Baptiste wrothesley to
cl, the wel-known English theologian. il co
I'd. a.,
t is said the English people are almost st
animous for Cuban independence. The RAJ
rids Exhibition at Vienna will open in Nav. of
American Commission is very active in an
uring space and providing accommodations tic
exhibitors from the United States. !. 1t is tn
eved that the Legitimists and Orleanists in an
nee is thorough and complete Three off
e Communists have just been butchered on col
bloody plain Of Satory The court-mar- thu
sitting at Algiers has condemned to death ha,
1t OF the perpetrators Of the Palestro msssa- In
and sentenced thirty-seven others to vari- de,
terms of Imprisonment. piv
HE smallpox is raging with unprecedented da,
ence In Chill The last words NJ Decar,,, | -.