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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-07-14

warnings TO colliery managers Of pro-
bable falls OF the barometer, the fact
being now we'll established that the
chance of explosions of tirc-damp is
seriously increased when the atmos-
pheric pressure is lessened.
-Dr. Poggioli advocates the use Of
electricity as an energetic sedatiye agent,
not only in nervous affections but also
in acute inllammations. In "a paper
contributed To the Tribune .Ncdicdic he
describes, among other cases, one of in
Illumination Of the globe of the eye,
which resisted antiphlogistic and emol-
lient treatment, and yielded quickly to
the influence Of electricity.
The wellknown plant, sparthianthus
junceus, has been lately utilized, in
Southern Europe, i'm the manufacture
OF textile fabrics. Its fibre is sad 10 be
capable OF indefinite subdivision, and
hence suitable for the finest cloths; it
retains heat, and may, therefore, sup
ply the place of wool; it is good alb
sorbent, and takes the most delicate
dyes with the same facility as do animal
textile materials; it successfully resists
the action Of acids aud of salt water,
without undergoing any change or los
ing its tenacity, rs has beer satisfac-
torily proved by its immersion for a
whole month in diluted sulphuric acid /;
its strength is also found TO be one-third
greater than that of hemp, and il is l3
per cent. lighter-so that, with ID per
cent less of raw material a rope may
be obtained, the relative strength of
which, compared with one OF hemp, is
as of three To two.
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WASHINGTON.

The President has nominated Albert Wy
man for Treasurer Of the United states, vice
John g. New, resigned; and VIM. p. Tit
comb, Of Massachusetts,. Assistant Register
~ the Treasury.
The President has requested Secretary
Cameron to assume temporarily the duties
o. Secretary Of the Treasury.
M III. : Yaryan. Chief o. the Special
Agency Division Of the Internal Revenue
Department. has been dismissed by the
President.
There was deadlock in the Treasury De-
Psrtmeut Al WEshingt on the 1T. caused
by the fac; that the law makes no provision
for the appointment fera longer period than
ten days Of an Ad interim officer. The ten
days since Mr.. Brist0w vacated the Office 81
secretary q the Treasury expired on the lst,
and during that time Mr.. COnant, Assistant
Secretary, was acting Secretary: the appoint
menf therefore Of Mr.. Cameron 20 Ill the
Ocice for longer period was found to b
unauthorized. There being no Treasured
or Assistant Treasurer. both Of these officer.
having resigned and their successors not
having yet qualified, there was no one in
the Department authorized TO pay out
money. The difficulty was finally solved by
the President amending his acceptance OF
the resignation Of Treasurer New, 30 that
the resignation i not accepted until after
the appointment and qualification Of hi
successor.
The public debt statement published July
! gives the total debt, principal and interest,
81 -, ~, 80, o67, less SIl9, 46g, 716 cash in
Treasury, showing a reduction for the
month OF June Of ,, Ss1 ,377, and for ths
year 81 SO 2i9 ISL. There was cash in the
Treasury, s73, s2j ,Jsi coin, SI3. OO4, 14I cur
rency, and So, $40, GO in special deposits
held for the redemption Of certificates Of
deposit.
The new Postal bill, a. agreed upon by
the Committee Of Conference, provides that
al third-elass matter. except unsealed cir.
cular-. shall be tran shifted at the rate Of
one cent for every two ounces or fractional
part thereof, aLi one cent for each additional
two ounces.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Harriet Martineau, the English au-
thoress, is dead.
lieutenant Cameron. the African
explorer, didn't see q newspaper in
three years.
The Spanish Republican orator
Emilio CASTELAR, is expected 10 visit the
Centennial Exhibition this summer.
The Rev. Henry Ward Bcechor has
been engaged by Boston lecture bu-
reau to lecture eighty nights during the
coming season for $4,000.
-Pierrepont Edwards, British Consul
AT New York, is match for Edwards
Pierrepont, American Minister at st.
James, so far rs names are concerned
Mrs. Louise Pomeroy, wife Of
"Brick" Pomeroy, recently played Juliet
at Trenton, n. j. 1t is said that she
contemplates regularly entering upon
the dramatic profession.
DIR. w. III. Russell, the correspond
ent Of the London Times, is writing, for
publication in book-form, an account Of
the Prince of Wales's tour in India, and
of his visit to the Courts of Athens,
Cairo, Madrid, Lisbon, etc. Sidney
Hall, the special artist who accom-
panied the Prince, will illustrate DIR.
kussell's work.
Miss Dickinson closed her dramatic
tour OF New England at Portland, Me,
on Saturday evening. She will spend
the summer in studying and reconstruct
ing her play, "a Crown of TAorns, y
preparatory to her appearance in New
York next season. She has also in
prospect several new plays, and designs
making a tour Of the States, beginning
early in the autumn.
~" Gail Hamilton is not, as one
might imagine, dried-up specimen of
the genus old maid 90 be sure she
must be crowding fast toward the half
way post), but her appearance is that
of Jolly, plump and bouncing blonde
Of the Lydia Thompson makeup. As
every body must know, Calls" real
name is Abigail Dodge, and her home
is at Hamilton, Mass, though she is at
present sojourning in the National Cap
ital, writing letters and cracking jokes
upon widower Congressman.
DIR. Mary Putnam jacob, the dis
tinguished physician of New York, says
Jennie June, is a small, brown-haired,
gTay-eyed woman, active in movement,
but quiet and reserved in manner, and
with nothing in her appearance to indi-
cate the singular strength and yigor of
her intellect and character. She has
conquered, with wonderful patience,
perseverance and courage, the obstacles
to thorough medical scholarship, and
has won place acknowledged equal by
the highest representatives of medical
skill and science in the country. Sur
geon-G General Hammond remarked of a
thesis of DR.. Putnam jacob upon the
blood, that not three men in New York
could have written it,
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There was one mustang, a vicious,
white brute, named Santa Anna, who
Occasioned much trouble. He would do
every thing save stand still. II was no
use 10 blind him, for every time be heard
another mustang coming down the home
stretch, he would plunge madly about,
pulling the grooms all over the track.
As the Mexican came down TO mount
him near the wire, at one attempt he
reared and striking out caught the lariat
between his legs like dog, sent the
groom up against the fence and ran of
up the track. At the next attempt he
reared 50 high that he fell over upon
his back. At the third attempt Peralto
jumped for him, and putting his left
foot into the stirrup, seized the lariat
No sooner did the brute feel the weight
of the rider than he made plunge and
then reared, but before he was level
again Peralto had swung into his seat
and went to work with the spurs. The
mustang backed several times and made
for the fence, but finding il useless and
his rider firmly seated, he made of
down the stretch like shot. II was a
superb exhibition Of horsemanship, and
was greeted with continued applause
Boston Advertiser.
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lamp explosion at Ogdensburg, n. Y.
The mother and one daughter died
by the upsetting of teaketilc San
OF hot water at Angre Village, Mice
frankie, aSyear-old daughter w M
Galligsn, was scalded 10 death.
Luther III. Foster, Of Huntingdon
Mich, discovered "A robber i'm his hons
the other night, and in an attemp, IA
capture him MIR. Foster was killed
"A dog ran into garden in Water.
ford, n. T., after being poisoned with
arsenic, and saliva from its mouth f'eW
ON some lettuce. An entire family WIS
made almost fatally sick by eating the
leaves.
MIR. James II. White, Of Clay Com.
", KY, met with n very serious aoci.
dent, the other day, by being mistaken
for a turkey gobbler. He got himself
up so rs TO appear rs nearly ns possible
like n turkey, and went into the knobs
TO call up one. young man who han.
pened TO be passing near him mistook
the mimic FOR an old turkey gobbler
and opened fire upon him with pistol.
shooting him through both hands. ar
White, misunderstanding the purpose
for which he was shot, endeayored 10
make his escape, when additional pistol
shots were fired before the young n,sn
perceived his mistake.
during recent thunder storm the
dwelling Of Ira Soper, in Flint, Mich,
was struck by lightning. The light
ming first struck an evergreen near the
house, whence itran along the ground
looking like a huge ball of fire, 10
brass conductor, which it followed 10
the top OF the house, where it LETT the
conductor and went crashing through
the roof. The ball thenpassed through
into the sitting-room, striking
machine at which Mrs. Soper was Al
work, clipping of corner of the ma
chine table and knocking Mrs. Soper to
the floor. From here it glanced ID the
top Of table across the room, ON which
was a box containing needles and other
metals, which it knocked into thou
sand fragments 1t then passed through
the floor into the ground. The entire
family were shocked, Mrs. Soper, il g
feared, fatally.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-07-14

The Fort MoGltrie Centennial was cele-
braied on the 18th by a parade In Charles
ton, :. e., and speeches In For, Moutrie
by GOV. Chamberlain and Gen. kershaw.
Gen. Crook = expedition has been brought
20 s;andstill by the detection % the CROW
and Snake scouts. without scouts nothing
can be done, and an effort j. being made TO
secure the services Of some hAlf-breed sioux.
Meanwhile the expedition is in camp on
Powder River, having retraeed IT, steps
from Rosebud Greek, and there Il viii re-
main for three or four weeks before again
taking the field. Gen. sheridan has order
ed Gen. Carr, commanding the fifth Cav
airy, now at Fort Laramie, 20 take the
field Al once with eight companies OF his
regiment. lie is directed 10 20 north
on the Black Hills route until he strikes the
Powder River trail, where the good and bad
Sioux cross back and forth from and TO the
agencies. Striking this trail, Gen. Carr will
follow il rapidly in the direction Of Powder
River, 10 cooperate with Gen. Crooks
forces.
At Hartman Lake, near fernando, Miss,
on the sath, Willie Morgan, son OF State
Senator Bright Morgan, and Victor Monroe,
son Of a prominent citizen Of fernando,
were drowned while attempting 20 save the
life Of a companion. Two other young men
narrowly escaped the same fate before the
youth for whom Morgan and Monroe lost
their lives was rescued.
A call has been issued by a number Of
Arkansas Republicans for Republican
state Convention, 10 be held at Little Rock,
on the 2-th Of July, for the purpose OF nom
mating State ticket. This movement is
an independent one, the recent Republican
State Convention having declared il mex
pedient TO put a ticket in the field this year.
FlOyd Pearce. colored, confined Ia the
Lancaster. Ky, Jail, on 4 charge OF muir
dering white man, was fOrcibly taken from
the Jail By A mob on the night OF the 18th
and hanged 10 a tree.
A mass meeting was held az Terre Haute,
Ind, on the 1st, 10 repudiate the action Of
both National Conventions on the currency
question.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
on the lst inst. passed into the hands Of
the Union Trust Company OF New rorK, as
mortgage in trust. VIM. Bond is the Gen
eral Agent fos the company, and the vari-
Gus heads OF departments continue without
change.
On the Isl Colorado voted upon the adop-
ton OF State Constitution. II was ratified
by an overwhelming majority, and Colorado
will take her place in the Electoral College
this year, the youngest sister OF the Is
States
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Pennsylvania produced 36,347,615
of the 5O,5O7,lT5 tons of coal mined in
the United States last year.
Two hundred and fifty women will
be graduated as telegraph operators
this year from Cooper Institute, New
York
The "Poste Atmospherique,n for
the dispatch Of messages between Paris
and Versailles, is completed IL Is 13s
miles in length. Each tube is l3 feet
long, "a inches in diameter, two-fiths Of
an inch thick. They are laid s feet un-
der ground, on flooring Of wood, and
are pitched within and without.
M. Leyerrier proposes TO the French
Government 10 establish q system Of
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-07-14

Hon. Horace Fairbanks j. the Republican
candidate Tor Governor Of View Hampshire.
The eight-ozred four-mile race between
the Yale ana Harvard crews on the Connec-
ticut River. On the 9th. resulted in an easy
victory for the Yale men.
The centennial anniversary Of our national
independence was celebrated throughout
the length and breadth of the land in a
manner and with an enthusiasm betting the
great occasion. In Philadelphia the formal
exercises were begun on the lst. and con-
tinued through the ID and 8ih with undated
enthusiasm.
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An Indianapolis dispatch Of the 10Th says:
Gov. Hendricks having positive
y declined 70 be candidate
for President, in repeated
kilograms 20 his friends last night, win not
consider the subject q the acceptance OF the
nomination made to-day until the return OF
the Indiana elsgAtion from the Convention.
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uaps aud Nishnps.l

"A little son Of John butcher, Of
Bloomington, H., was killed by eating
potash.
Mrs. Henry Krout, of indianapolis,
was fatally burned from Kerosene
lamp, which exploded in her hand.
Mrs. Larry McCarty and -four chill
dren were badly burned by 3 l.crosene
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A QUARREL interrupted a game Of
poker in Carson, New, and while the
players We're thus occupied bystanders
stole the 500 that was on the table.
One Of the thieves was afterward
caught, and a threat to lynch him in
duced return Of his part Of the plum
der.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-01-19
T H E S U N
DAILY AND WEEKLY FOR 1870.

DAlLn AND WEEKLY FOR 1876.
The approach of the Presidential cleo
ton gives unusual importance to the
events and Developments of 1876. We
shall cndeavor 10 describe them fully,
faithfully, aud fearlessly.
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circulation Of over eighty thousand
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known to the public. We shalt not ONLY en-
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OLD NEW YORK.

Elegantly illustrated articles on Old New
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-01-19

The Amnesty bill was finally dis.
posed of on Friday last, aud the Dem.
ocrats, who raised the issue and went
into the fight sure Of victory, feel rath-
er queer at their defeat and the posi-
tion in which they are placed. AS the
case stands now, the Democrats who
made loud their protestatiOns of their
desire for amnesty, are shown really
and specially to have had in mind the
case of Davis, and without him they
cared nothing for amnesty at all. They
denied this at first, but the results
show that their denisls were conspicu-
ously devoid of truth. The victory
achieved by Blaine is really victory
over the old spirit of the rebellion.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-01-19

In the lower House a motion was
made to suspend the rules of Congress,
on Monday, for the purpose of offering
resolution, declaring it unwise and
inexpediont, at this time, that a spe.
cific and arbitrary period should be
prescribed by law at which the legal
tender notes of the United States
should be paid in coin, by the Secre
tary of the Treasury, and that there
fore the act entitled can act TO pro.
vide for the resumption of specie pay.
ment," approved January, 14th, 1875,
ought to be repealed, and instructing
the Committee on Banking and Cur
rency at as early period as practical
BILE to report to the House q bill for
that purpose. The rules were not sus.
pended; yeas 112, nays 1853. Jenks,
of this district voted in the affirma-
tive.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-01-19
PENNSYLVANIA CEN
TRIAL RAILROAD

ON AND AFTER III p. II. Sunday May
" j, 1870, Trains arrive at and leave the
Union Depot, corner of Washinton and
Liberty street, as follows;
ARRIVE.
Mail Train, 1.30 a m; Fast Line, 1919 a
m Well 5 accommodation No. /, $40 m .
Brinton accommodation No l, 7.50 m;
Wallis accommodation No 2, s.55a m Gin
cinnati express go a m; Johnstown ac-
commodation 1850 a m; Braddock's ac-
commodation No l, 700 p m; Pittsburgh
express l.30 p m; Pacific express 80 p IN I;
Wallis accommodation No 3, 2.35 p m /;
Homewood accommodation No ], 9.55 p m;
Wallis accommodation No 4, $50 p M !;
Brinton accommodation Ne 2, Ito p M
Way Passenger 1920 p m.
DEPART.
Southern express $50 M; Pacific ex-
press 2.40 a IN I; Wallis accommodation No
/, $50 a m; Mail Train $40 a m Brinton's S
accommodation 1920 m; Braddocks s ac-
commOdation No l, $40 p m; Cincinnati
express 1875 p m; Wallis accommodation
y 2, ll.5l m; Johnstown accommo odation
4.05 p IN; Homewood accommodation No
1, $50 p m; Philadelphia express $50 p m;
Wall accommodation No 3,3.O5 p m; Wallis
accommodation No 4, sos p m Fast Line
7.40 p m; Wallis Nos, 11.00 p m.
The Church Trains leave Wallis Station
every Sunday at 0.05 a. m, reaching Pitts
burgh at 1905 a. m. Returning leave Pitts
burgh at l2.50p. M, and arrive at Wallis
Station at 2.l p. IN.
Cincinnati express leaves daily. South
ern express daily except Monday. All 9TH
er Trains daily, except Sunday.
For further information aply to
w. II. BECKWITH, Agent.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will not assume any Risk for Baggage ex-
cept for Wearing Apparel, and limit their
responsibility TO One Hundred Dollar val~
ne. All baggage exceeding that a cunt
in value will be at the risk of the yner,
unless taken by special contract.
.. A. j. CASSA9
General Superintendent. Altoona Pa.
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The New York Times speaking o

The New York Times speaking Of
the Congressman from this District,
says: "HoD. Geo. A. jerks, chair.
man Of the committee on Pensions, is
one of the young members of the
Democratic side who is destined to
make his mark during the present
session. The position to which he has
been appointed is one requiring great
er amount of ability than is generally
conceded to first.term member. The
confidence of the Speaker in this case
is we'll placed. Mr.. jerks enjoys the
reputation of being the leading law
yer in his section of the State, is an
energetic pains.taking gentleman, and
will in all respects meet the require
ments fully of the responsible com.
mittee of which he is the able head"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-01-19

The story in Chicago to explain
Mr.. Morrison's deficiency as speak
er, that he was shot through the lungs
in one of the battles in Tennessee, is a
sheer fabrication, and is denied by his
express authority. He was slightly
wounded, but in part of the body
least likely to affect his power Of
speech, and he never sufferd disability
from that cause after few days.-M
Y. San.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-01-19

The aspirants in the Democratic
party for the Presidency are coming
to the front and presenting their best
side to a discriminating public.
Kerr presents himself as the only
true olive branch yet held out by the
Democracy to those engaged in the
late unpleasant controversy between
the sections. Thurman was lost in
the Ohio campaign and has not yei
been found. Allen-surnamed the
venerable-has been laid on the shelf
Hendricks has been oyershadowed by
Tilden of New York, and the last
named aspirant comes from a State
that has furnished too many defeated
candidates durding the past fifteer
years. Keer may be considered al
present "a trife ahead in the race.