The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-01-08
Foreign Notes

American apples are reported TO be
selling in England at prices no dearcr than
the native fruit.
The Empress of Prussia wore In Paris
crimson velvet cloak lined with rare Rus
sian sable, and worth twenty thousand
dollars.
The Norwegian young woman is not
permitted 10 receive attentions from the
Norwegian young man until she is thor
oughly acquainted with the mysteries of
bread making and can knit stockings. As
a rather natural result. the Norwegian fair
ones are all accomplished bakers and skill
ful knitters at an early agc-even before
they learn 10 read and write.
Lord Bute's gamekeepcr i'm the Leck-
with Woods. near Coganpill, in Wales.
was very much astonished the other day
10 find in one of the rabbit traps an ami
mai which is we'll known to be exclusively
an inhabiiant of North America, from
Canada down TO Mexico. The animal in
question was fine specimen of a raccoon.
and 1t had been trapped by its right fore
paw.
The National Agricultural Laborers'
Union have renewed their agitation i'm The
West OF England. A meeting az Crew
kerne, Dee ], was attended by 1000 per
sous. Mr. {. Il. Girdlestone, nephew Of
Canon Girdestone. presided. and among
the letters read was one from Mr. Fawce.t.
who congratulated the laborers on tne
way in which they were carrying on the
movement. and assured them that IL they
pcrsevered success would be sure TO GRO vn
their efforts. Resolutions were passed
declaring that the present uncertain tenure
OF land prevented farmers from carrying
out their responsible duties, and ope ated
against the full cultivation of the land
asking for the Acknowledgement of the
agricultural laborers. and pledging the
laborers tn stand by the union as the O Nv
means of lettering their position. A VIC
lent scene took place at the close OF the
meeting Mr.. Girdlestonea and Mr. Mitchell
had made the George Hotel their head
quarters. and after the meetinga crowd
burst into the coffee room and assaulted
and insulted them. particularly Mr.. GirClle-
stone. other gentlemen who were in the
room, being mistaken for unionists, came
in for "A share of the abuse.
News comes from the canton Of Tcs.
sin. in switzerland. OF savage act on the
part Of the Chaplain OF Meride. in the dis
trict of MendriSio. The brother OF the
chaplain had given some signs of mental
alteration, which led the latter to presume
that his brother bad some designs upon his
lite. Under this pretext he was shut up
IN miserable room with but a small open
Ing in ii strongly guarded BY bars of iron.
through which his meals were handed.
One day lattcrly the sister of the victim.
who was in the habit OF taking his meal,
10 the window. observed that the last
ration had not been Withdrawn. aud she
su pccted he was dead. In entering the
den. which had not been opened for long
time, GactanO Roncati. such was ms name,
was found at the foot of a bed of rotten
straw, In contact with the bare earth. in a
dy ing state. His beard was long ana un-
tended. his body was covered with bristies
rather than hair. and his thin locks spread
over his shoulders like those of ztnqaro.
The place looked more like stable than
any Thing else; its state is not III for de-
scription, but some idea may be formed of
II from the fact that for ten years this miser-
able being had been locked up In the den
with no other company than the spiders,
which had woven their webs from roof TO
lloor. The cure was called to give the last
consolation of religion to the poor or a.
urc. but when he arrived this victim of
brother : barbarity had been released from
his suflerings.