The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-06-05

punishment.
Recent dispatches from Brownsville, Texas,
report very unsettled condition Of affairs
along the border. There Is said 10 be no pro-
lection for property between the Neuces and
Rio Grande, land most of the ranches have
been deserted. Large numbers of cattle have
been stolen and taken across the border, and
citizens have been fired upon from the Mexi-
can side. The Federal officers have been So
I licited TO send aid, and the citizens were or
ganizing in self-defense.
The National Conference of Dunkers
met at Girard, ILL.,, on the 2fth. Some two
thousand delegates were in attendance.
The Arkansas House, by a vote of AZ 10 3,
has passed resolution requesting Senators
Clayton and Dorsey TO resign, for conspiring
with Others to overthrow the State Govern
ment.
I DR.. Mccall. a prominent physician Of Mos
cow. Union county, ILL.,, was shot dead i'm his
/ yard, on the morning of the 22d. by an I'M
known assassin.
4 The great iron bridge across the Mississippi
/ at ST. Louis was opened for foot passengers
on the 23d. IL will be some weeks yet be-
fore it is ready for the passage Of railway
trains.
The town of Independence, Iowa, suffered
from a severe confagration on the 18th.
over forty business places were destroyed,
and the loss is paced at about $500. 200.
Three men are supposed TO have lost their
lives in a bdrning building.
Deputy U. 5. Marshal w. ID. Hidreth was
shot near IIillsboro, Coffee county, Tenn, on
the I'D. by man named Thomas Jefferson
Saunders. for whom Hildreth had a c0pids
from the Federal Court, against whom (Saun-
ders) true bill had been found by the grand
ury of that tribunal for being one of a party
to an alleged Ku-Klux outrage in Coffee
county. Saunders had not been arrested.
The following dispatch signed by Louis A.
Witt, Mayor of New Orleans and Treasurer
of the relief fund, was teegraphed TO the
Mayors of all the principal cities throughout
the United States on the Goth:
BY request of the relief committees and prin-
cipal citizens. again call on American cities in
behalf of 5000 victims of the great food for
such aid your prosperity may permit, or your
philanthropy may prompt you 10 grant. Lostrl-
buttons in cash ana provisions in thirty-hye days
have been less than SlSO,WJ The demand for
relief Will continue great and urgent for many
weeks. Daily rations have been distributed 10
about q, coo; 100 furnished by the Government.
Nothing but large increase OF resources tor
lief can prevent the horrors OF famine and great
loss OF life We need million dollars more.
Details viii be sent by mail.
The Sioux City journal publishes informa-
ton received from the Upper Missouri. that
General Custar is preparing large force at
Fort Abraham Lincoln 10 move into the Black
Hills about the LIST Of June. This force is to
consist of ten full companies of cavalry, with
full battery of Calling guns. In anticipa-
ton of such movement on the part of the
military force of the Government, an expedi-
ton, composed of men accustomed TO frontier
life, has been quietly organizing for the past
month, and will leave for the Black Hills re-
gion at the same time as the Government ex-
petition. The Black Hills are supposed to be
rich in gold and silver, but it is all SUPPOSE
ton and tradition, as no one but Indians have
ever explored them.
An important suit has been commenced In
the Fifth District Court Of California by the
Crown Point Savage, Gould and Curry,
Hale and Norcross, Cholar, Polosia. Imperial,
Overman and Yellow jacket Mining Com
panies against Sutro ct al. and the Sutro
Tunnel Company, to cancel the agreements
between them in regard to the building Of the
sutro Tunnel and the payment of a stipulated
royalty, and to relieve plaintiffs from the bur
den Of paying said royalty. The ground Of
action is the alleged total failure of defend
ants to perform any part Of their agreements,
or do any act for which royalty was to be
paid.
The Arkansas House has passed bill
granting amnesty to all parties connected
with the late rebellion, except those holding
positions in the legislative, executive and ju-
dical departments who used their positions
to forward the rebellion m The President
is thanked in a Joint resolution for sustaining
Gov. Baxter, as is also Senator Wiltshire for
his stand in Baxter's behalf A number
of State and county officers have been i'm
peached for actively countenancing the late
insurrection.
The extensive machine shops of the ST.
Louis and Southeastern Railroad, at Mount
Vernon, ILL.,, were totally destroyed by fire
on the evening Of the 9th. The loss 10 the
company is estimated at 900. 900, on which
there was no insurance. Nearly four hun
dred mechanics and laborers were employed
in and about the shops.
A dispatch from General Stanley, dated
Fort sully, May 22d, received at Fort Lincoln
on the 27th, says tina; four hundred Sioux had
left there, to be joined by more at the Grand
River Agency and Cheyenne. They will try
to intercept Custar's expedition when il
starts. A hot time is expected
FOREIGN.
News has been received of the drowning
recently Of three American students at I.au-