The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-09-18
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The Empress of Austria is said 10 be
the handsomest princess and one of the
handsomest women I'm Europe.
The editor OF the Louisville Courier
journal Is "A son Of genius. Harrington Ga
sette. But Watterson IN. y. Telegram.
Thomas A. Morris. eighty years old,
senior Bishop of the Methodist Church,
recently died nj his residence in Spring
field, Ohio.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson resides in
Charlotte, n. G.. She is quite young, be-
tween twenty. five and thirty, of medium
height and quite pretty.
james W. Marshall, who first discov-
cred gold in California on the 10Th of Jan
uary, 1878. is in receipt Of an allowance
of 500 per month from the State.
The editor of the Arizona Miner Is
foreman Of a hand engine. Justice of the
Peace, Register of Deeds, City Clerk and
the best Indian fighter in the country.
The Washington Chronicle says that
il anybody is in Paris representing her
self 10 be- Mrs. Lincoln, she is an impos-
tor. The distinguished lady has not been
abroad for years.
Lord Dunmore. the last royal Cover
nor of Virginia. had daughter born in
he named In honor of the colony, Virginia
and who l. still living in England at the
advanced age Of 80 or 100.
Miss Alexandrine D'Egorof, Rus
sian lady, from Wizuby, Novgorod, is in
Ann Arbor, Mich, and preparing TO enter
the medical department of the Univer-
sty. Miss D'Egoroff has already studied
at st. Petersburg and Paris, and contem-
plates taking full medical course at this
place.
M. Theirs, before starting for the Pv-
renees. il reported to have said " | have
only gained single thing by the Presiden-
cy Of the Republic--a bronchitis. which
has not since left me. But that bronchitis
enabled me To resist the entreaties of those
who for two months have been pressing
me to speak. | foresaw everything that
has happened, and should have been pow
erless TO prevent II"
1t is not generally known, but it is a
fact, though none of his biographers have
mentioned IL, that Charles Sumner. at an
early period of his life, embraced the doe
trines of Fourierism. He met Fourier
while In Europe, was charmed and con-
vertcd by him, and gave in various cities
and towns an able lyceum lecture on Fou-
rier and his system. That system, how
ever, soon lost its hold on Summers mind.
-LoioeN Times.
The Philadelphia Mint has east
bronze medal in honor of Agassiz. Ii is |
alittle over one and three-quarter inches |
In diameter. having on it, diverse side |
finely executed likeness of the great sci /
enlist, with his name attached, aud upon /
the reverse side the motto. Terra Ma |
reque Ductor Indagatione Natura' (iead- |
er ia the close inresftgufion of nature on
land and sea), around "A wreath of laurels.
within which are the dates of his birth and /
death, Students lamp, burning, inverted
torches, and crossed branches of cypress.
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