The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-01-22


passing the enabling act. He doubts, how
ever, that such an election could be fairly
held without the general use Of troops, and
thinks that under emocratic rule there
would lie absolutely no protection for the
negroes, and that a white man would not dare
TO be a Republican.
The thermometer showed Is degrees below
zero At Fort Laramie on the 9Th.
The Nebraska Legislature met and organ
lied on the It'll. The Governors message
states that the population of the thirty-sixth
State has doubled In the last two years.
Estimated population now, 100000; total
debt OF the State. SiO2 ,954; delinquent taxes
due the State, over = half million dollars;
total valuation for taxable purposes, Ss0,00o,-
900; while the value OF taxable property ex-
empted from taxation is estimated at $780,
100000.
The Missouri Legislature me; on the 9th,
and organized on the eth, when the Govern
or's message was read.
The Illinois Legislature met on the 9th, and
the House organized on the It'll. The organ
ization Of the Senate was delayed by quite a
lengthy contest for the office Of President, TO
which Senator Glenn (Dem.) was finally
elected on the -Stn DaliOt.
The Indiana Legislature met and organized
on the eth. The Republicans and Indepen-
dent in the Senate compromised on a diyi-
sion OF the offices. In the House, Hon. David
Turner. Democrat. Of Marion, was elected
Speaker by a strict party vote OF six majority,
over the Republican and Independent nomi-
nees.
General Sheridan, in dispatches OF the eth
and sth. reiterates his former statements in
regard to the condition Of affairs in Louisiana,
and said he would soon forward TO the Wal
Department more particular reports Of the
actual condition of affairs.
A lengthy memorial and protest. signed by
l.. A. Wilt, Speaker, and p. J. Trezevant,
Clerk, together with the sixty-two other Con-
sentative members of the louisiana House,
has been presented to Congress.
General sheridan transmitted to the Score
tary Of War, ON the 9th, an extended report of
the proceedings CONNECTED With the assembling
Of the Louisiana Legislature on the 4th. He
SAYS that he was not in command of the milf
tary department until . o'clock on the even
ing Of the 4th, but that he fully indorses and
Is willing to be held responsible for the acts
of the military a. conservators of the public
peace upon that day.
Saturday, January :, was the coolest day
Of the season. and probably the coolest for
several years, in most sections Of the country.
Reports from variou places give the number
of degrees below zero, as follows: Cleveland,
Is; Chicago. y; Peoria, -; Louisville, -;
Rock Island, 30; -. Joseph, 90; Cheyenne,
81.
The Western Hotel At Sacramento, Cal,
burned on the night Of the 9th. Three or
more men persisted in the flames.
Lieutenant J. III. Winters, who was sent
out from Cheyenne with a company OF troops
to survey aud measure the route thence to
the Red Cloud Agency, reported from Fort
Laramie on the 18th that he had been driven
in there by the severity of the weather, after
getting as far as the old Red Cloud Agency.
The snow was deep and drilled badly, the
thermometer ranging from 20 10 40 degrees
below zero in the daytime. Apprehensions
were felt for the command under Captain
Henry, who len Fort Laramie a few days
previously TO drive the miners out Of the
Black Hills.
A mass meeting TO protest against the
recent action Of the Federal authorities in ref
erence To Louisiana affairs wa, held in 81.
Louis ON the 18th.
There was a revolt in the Nebraska Peni-
Tertiary, near Lincoln, on the 18th. A mum
Der OF the prisoners made \ simultaneous
rush upon aud overpowered the guards,
shooting one and wounding him severely.
The Warden was absent Mt the time, and his
wife was seized and confined in an upper
room. The ~convicts then had full control Of
the prison. but, strange to say, none Of them
attempted to get away, probably from fear Of
being frozen by exposure should they attempt
it. As soon a. possible a posse Of armed men
were collected. who surrounded the prison,
and finally induced the inmates, who had
stoutly barricaded the place meanwhile, to
surrender themselves TO the authorities. up
on promise Of being leniently dealt with.
1t was reported from Denver on the i2th
that a serious snow blockade existed on the
Kansas Pacific X abroad, aud tat no through
trains had arrived there since the previous
Thursday. The trains were s~now-bound at
Wallace and Deer Trail, and all the cuts were
said to be full of snow. The severity OF the
weather had caused great suffering in the
grasshopper region, and many cases OF death
by freezing were reported. A man, wife and
two SINAI children, while driving In a wagon
west OF Hutchinson, on the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad, on the sth, were froz-
en- to death. Many hunters and cattle men
have had their limbs frozen, requiring ampu-
tation.
Four men and three teams Were drowned
in crossing the Missouri River at Omaha, ON
the 18th.
A big snow-slide occurred a few days since
in Big Cottonwood, Utah, carrying on one
house and killing four men. Other less fatal
accidents Of the kind were also reported from
other localities.