The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-26
Foreign Notes.

Foreign Notes.
according To the report of the Cana
dian Premier over $4,000 Americans set
tied in Canada during the past year. This
will accelerate annexation.
An English company has chartered a
steamship, and has an agent in the vicin-
ity of Corpus Christi, Texas, purchasing
horses for shipment 10 England.
An old stone fence was recently un-
earthed. near Rome, which was found 10
be almost entirely composed of fragments
of sculpture, broken busts, vases, etc.
Report says that the King Of Siam has
invited the English astronomers TO Bang
kok 10 witness the total eclipse of the IA
which occurs in April.
The thrifty French are putting their
hands into their old stockings again.
Subscriptions have poured in for the Paris
municipal loan, until they amount toforty-
two times the sum required.
king Alfonso's allowance has been
fixed at 2s,0O0, 900 rcals-that is So, SOC, 900
which will, no doubt, prove a real COM
fort To him, N ought 10 procure him
food, lodging and clothes of a superior
kind.
"A society formed at Halle, Germany,
iOI lttOiIlB VIII DlIu> III WllltT HAS lNtU-
ty-two stations IN the neighborhood of the
town, where, during the severe weather,
many hundreds of birds received three
meals a day.
The sapphire ring thrown out of the
window at Richmond. by Lady Scroop TO
Robert Cary, and used as a token of Eliza
beth's death to James w., now forms the
center of a diamond star in possession Of
the Countess of Cork and Orrery.
A decree issued by the Governor of
Panama requests that the owners ofhotels
and other public clearinghouse shall
end into the Governors office "A list daily
of all persons lodging in their respective
establishments. giving the name of each
person, where they come from, where they
are going, and their domicile.
The Lord Mayor of London has re-
ceived a letter from Lord Northbrook,
conveying the thanks Of the British As
ISOLATION in India for what the mother
country has done in alleviating the Ben
gal famine. Lord Northbrook said il was
impossible to estimate the moral effects of
these exertions on the people OF India.
Haps and Mishaps.
Mrs. Sarah L. Easton committed
suicide ~ Virginia City, Montana, the 9TH
er day, by a revolver shot through the
breast. Probable cause, domestic trouble.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, a few days
since. John keogh, a well-digge-, was
caught in a well which caved in and
buried forty feet deep. His body was dug
out, after incessant labor for nearly twenty
hours, but OF course life was extinct.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, recently. Mrs.
William Thomas, a colored woman, went
away from the house for q few moments.
leaving her two small children alone. In
her absence their clothing took fire, and
on her return she found the boy, who was
three years of age. burned to death, and
the younger terribly, though not fatally,
burned.
w. w. Blaine, ~ years old, employed
by the Lake Shore Road at Toledo, Ohio,
a telegraph operator. committed suicide a
few days ago by taking an overdose of
morphine. Some months AGO Blaine fell
on the track, and a train passed over him.
cutting of one foot and his left arm. He
recovered after a tedious illness. and was
given employment by the company, but
his mutilaiion preyed upon his mind until
it drove him 10 suicide.
John Munhall and Con. sullivan were
returning from a visit to a physician. a few
nights ago. and when near the railroad
crossing at Mills Station, on the Pittsburg,
Washington and Baltimore Railroad. their
horses became frightened at a passing en-
CINE, and the wagon was precipitated over
an embankment, crushing TO death the sick
man (Sullivan), and very seriously iniur-
ing Munhall, whose recovery was pro-
nouncod impossible.
The Missouiian, published at Missou-
Ii. Montana, In its issue of February IL,
gives the particulars OF a painful accident
at Frenchtown Mills, in that territory, by
which Mr.. Selim lie Beau, a former resi-
dent Of 81. Louis, lost his life. Mr.. lie
Beau was~the owner of the mill. which
had been idle on account of the cold
weather. On Tuesday morning, the 10th,
having secured the water wheel, the pro-
prietor began cutting the ice away from il
with a view Of libcrating ii. When he had
proceeded for some time. and had cut the
Ice away from one side, the fastening gave
way, and the weight Of ice on the other
side caused the wheel to revolve, and Mr..