The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-06-18

Hamilton; Supreme Judge, Geo. W. Nell
waine; Auditor, james Williams, OF Frank
lin; Acknowledgement, John Little, ofGreen;
Treasurer, j. Minor Milliken. OF Butler.
The resolutions indorse the administration
OF President Grant, bat declare against
third term.
rhe Mississippi Press Association met at
kosciusko on the I'd.
Aterrible wind and rain storm passed over
a portion OF Indiana and Kentucky on the
night OF the lst, causing great damage to rail-
roads and other property. A train ON the
Bellefonta:ne Railroad was wrecked near
Fortyille, and the engineer, Alonzo Rose,
and the fireman, Edward Bowen, were in
stantly killed.
Deputy-C Collector II. q. feathers was shot
and killed by an Illicit distiller. at Hunts
Vile, Ala. on the 3D.
At Houma. Terrebonne Parish. La, ON
the Sd, difficulty occurred between Parish
Judge Sherburn and his predecessor in Office,
Belden, i'm which the latter was shot and
mertally wounded by the former.
The National Temperance Convention, n
luton calling upon Congress To prohibit the
manufacture OF alcoholic liquors in the Dis
trict Of Columbia and the Territories, and
also to prohibit their importation from for
eign countries; TO require total abstinence on
the part of officers and subordinsfes in the
civil and military service. and TO initiate and
adopt for ratification BY the several States of
the Union constitutional amendment which
shall make the traffic in alcoholic beverages
illegal throughout our national domain.
Gen. sheridan was married to Miss Irene
Rucker, daughter of Major d. III. Rucker, in
Chicago on the 3D..
d. p. Cloyd, one Of the editors OF the OAR
danelle (Ark.) Independent, shot and killed
Hon. Il. ". Tishard, prominent lawyer
and ex-member of the Arkansas Legislature.
on the Sd. The affray was the result Of some
publication in the Independent, rejecting on
Wishard.
A hundred bags Of new wheat were re-
ccived ut Memphis from North Mississippi
on the 4th. The crop in that section is re-
ported a unusually good.
A civil-rights case, on trial At Galveston,
Texas, has resulted in a verdict Of guilty,
laton of the law. The defendant in the case
was Henry Greenwall, manager Of the Ire
mont Opera-house, and the offense was, re-
fusing admission to the parque;te of the
house to two colored women.
sheriff Crosby (colored), of yicksburg
Miss, was shot by one OF his deputies. q
white man named Gilmer, ON the It'll. The
ARRAY took place in a drinking-saloon in
Vicksburg II was thought the wound
would prove fatal.
I DIR. III. Schroeder, swealthy banker of Ma
quokets. Iowa. blew out his brains on the 9th
inst. He leaves wife and seven children
No cause is assigned for the deed.
The President has directed that all lands
/ living contiguous 10 the Mississippi River
within IL miles OF it, mouth. be reserved FOL
military purposes under the act OF authoriz
ing Capt. Eads to construct jetties for deep
ening the channel.
A dispatch from Lookout, Wyoming, say,
that on Saturday, the 5th, q band OF Arapa
hoe Indians made a descent on Harper,
ranch, Is miles south OF that place, and ran
of 1870 head Of horses.
/ A most horrible outrage by negro, upon
young lady named Miss Jackson, occurred
near Oderton, Md, on the 9Th. The scoundre
was captured, and several attempts made q
lynch him, but he was finally lodged in jai
by the officers.
Judge Nelson, Of the u nited States District
Court, in session al Winona. MINI, has rem
dered an opinion affirming the constitution
atty of the supplementary Civil-rights bill
Alex. Ramsey, Sheriff OF Ellis County
Kas, and Deputy United States Marshal
was killed at Stockton, few miles south o.
Fort Hayes, on the eth. lie was attempting
TO arrest two horse thieves whom he discov
cred selling stolen ponies, when one of tbs
parties shot him in the abdomen, and he die,
in about an hour afterwards. After being
wounded Ramsey succeeded i'm killing thu
man who shot him. The other one escaped
Gen. Pope telegraphs to Gen. Sherman
that the Quahada band Of the Comanche
came into Fort sill on the 81 inst, and sur
rendered $50 warriors, 800 women an'
children aud 400 ponies.
jefferson LAWS has accepted the Presi
dency Of the Texas Mechanical sind Agricnl
turil College al Bryan, at salary Of a, 90
per annum.
FOREIGN.
Duke D'Audifret-Pasquier has been elect
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