The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-08-21

districts the yield OF wheat + fair, oats and
barley good, and corn and potatoes promise
excellently.
Parties who arrived nom somerville this
morning state that Alhrt Rceves, the Re
publican candidate for Sheriff. who was hot
by Burton. died Last nigh. His brother Paul
was a y ing this morning. Judge =. q. Reeve,
another brother, who was shot AT the same
time, and Oscar Burton, will both recover.
livery thing was quiet there. and the Chieka-
saw Guard. from this city, have returned.
Information from Fort Laramie. via omahs,
10th. says the Sioux Indians report that the
Arapahoes and Cheyennes are getting ready
for war Many Sioux viii go with them
should this be true. The military are very
active, but their movements are kept as quiet
as possible, that the Indians may not he in
formed thereof through renegade whites and
halfbreeds.
Bishop whisehouse ofthe Episcopal Church
died at his residence in Chicago On the 10th,
sfter brief Illness He was seyenty-one
years of age.
A dispatch from Atchison, Kansas. 10th.
says: The grasshoppers are now within
eight miles Of this city, andsre travelling east
ward very rapidly. They have literally de-
voured everything in Northern and South
western Kansas and Nebraska. The damage
inflicted on vegetation is far greater than in
1856. The corn crop through all this region
is totally destroyed
Two of the boilers at the 81. Johns Coal
and Salt Works. near Du Quoin, ILL.,, ex-
ploded on the 18th, killing Alexander Han
son, the chief engineer, and John Taylor, an
employee. and injuring six or eight other per-
sons, some seriously.
Aprize-fght for the lightweight champion
ship took place between Billy Edwards and
Sam Collyer on NH Creek the boundary line
between the States ofPehnsylvsnia and West
Virginia. on the 18th. Ten rounds were
fought, when dispute ensued between the
friends of the combatants, and the ring was
broken up Both parties claimed the stakes.
Aserious collision between the whites and
blacks occurred at Austin, Miss, on the
10th. growing out Of the following facts rs
stated i'm dispatch: Some three weeks ago
a DIR. Smith was attacked i'm the streets OF
Austin by negro, and drawing pistol fired
at the negro. but missed him and killed lit
tie negro girl standing by, which exaspersted
the negroes to such an extent that they col
lected mob and took DIR. Smith to the woods
TO hang him. which they would have done
but for the entreaties of Mayor woodson and
the doctors wife. Since that time he has
been q voluntary inmate Of the jail to pre-
vent being mobbed, until the It'll. when some
friends came and took him to fernando, on
learning which the negroes collected in large
numbers and notified the Mayor that unless
DIR. Smith was brought back and put in Jail
they would burn the town. The latest dis
patch. on the 18th. stated that considerable
lighting had already taken place. and that
both sides were being reinforced. The whites
had bsrricaded the town, and had sent TO
Memphis asking for arms and ammunition.
1t was sisted that some eight or ten negroes
had been killed.
A call has been issued for a straight-out
Democratic Convention in the State OF Illi-
nois, to be held at Springfield on the 25th.
Tine call is signed by Joseph Ledlie, Chair
man, and j. o. Pallon. Secretary Of the Dem
ocratic State Central Committee of 1872.
General Pope telegraphed TO Lieutenant
General sherman on the 18th that the Indi-
ans who have been marsuding in Southwest
ern Kansas. have gone TO the borders Of the
Llano Estados Min-ios country, which l.
filled with game. anu that they will have
abundance of ammunition. The three COZ
umns Of troops now operating will converge
in the section named.
The Indiana Independent Convention met
K..lta r.lsL -.
Of filling vacancies on the State ticket nomi-
mated on June IL. caused by the declension Of
Ebenezer Henderson, nominated for Secre-
tary Of State, and james Mitchell, as Attor-
ney-General. The completed ticket is a. fol-
lows: For Secretary Of State. $. Bowles. Of
Fountain county; Auditor, ID. j. Prescott, OF
Posey county; Acknowledgement, VIM. A.
Peele, Of Wayne county; superintendent OF
Public Instruction, Andrew III. Graham, Of
Bartholomew county.
General w. Il. Anderson. of jefferson
county, has been nominated for Representa-
tive in Congress by the Farmers Convention
Of the Nineteenth Illinois District.
The Rev. James z. Dimmitt. OF Pike coun-
ty, presiding elder In the NJ. f. Church. has
been nominated for Congress by the Inde-
pendent Reform Convention Of the Eleventh
Illinois district.
The negroes engaged in the attack upon
Austin, Miss, after being repulsed on the
llth, disappeared from the vicinity, and the
report being current that they were commit
ting outrsges upon the women and children
Of the surrounding plantations. the white
men nearly all left the town for the purpose
of protecting their families. The negroes
then returned and took possession ofthe town.
and after committing many depredstions upon
property. they voluntarily retired the same
night. On the following morning force Of
some 800 men landed at shoe Fly. five miles
below Austin, and marched into the town