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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31
How to Discover Altered Writings.

A discovery is announced by a French
chemist to which recent events
give special interest Its
value lies in its application to the dis
covery of alterations in writings thatare
suspected with having been tempered
with. The coloring matter Of ordinary
ink consists chiefly Of combination of
fannie acid with oxide of iron. NJ
Colbert has discovered that however
skillfully any writing may have been
erased, sufficient traces Of the iron oxide
always remain TO appear in "a photo
graphic image, though they may be to-
tally invisible TO the eye on the original
paper. He presented As an illustration
a bond drawn for los francs, which had
been altered to 5000 francs and so ne
gotiated. The original paper bore no
suspicious appearance, and the closest
ocular inspection failed 10 detect any
trace of the figures that had been erased
But on photograph of the same paper
the figures 1O5 were plainly discernible,
mingled with and partly obscured by the
later figures substituted for them The
light reflected from the surface once
stained by ink, though indistnguishable
by the eve. affects the Photographic ma
terials differently from that rejected
from the paper where the ink has not
touched it. 1t is believed that a photo
graph viii always settle the question
whether a suspected paper has been
altered by erasure.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

INDIANA

Bret Hartc's tales and poems have
appeared in Russia in two translations
Mile. DE la Rame, better known as
"Ouida," has been married TO Ru'-
sian gentleman.
Mrs. Belknap had engaged for the
season cottage ncarthe Pequot House,
New London, CT. The engagement
will probably be Cancelled.
Mr.. James Parton's petition to the
Massachusetts, Legislature for "A special
act 10 legalize his marriage has been re-
ported adversely by the committee
which had it in charge.
AT the Washington's birthday ball
in Richmond Miss Elizabeth Byrd Mich
olas represented Lady Sarah Fairfax,
and in her pocket carried two letters
from General Washington to that lady.
Mrs. Holloway, who was during
President .Johnson's term member Of
his family AT the White House, is now
on the editorial staff of the Brooklyn
Eagle, aud is bright and accomplished
journalist.
-Gratiot Washburne, the newly APP
pointed United States Secretary of Lee
cation at ST. Petersburg, whose recent
visit TO this country as the agent Of a
circus company caused much comment,
has, it is said, been forced to resign by
his father, the United States Minister 10
France.
"A Washington correspondent Ct the
New York World remarks that he never
saw more matter-of-fact, serious per-
4 q. q. . II Tho
hero of Duluth is "a very commonplace,
oldish-looking man, who wears plain
clothes, uses plain language, and draws
as little public attention to himself as
possible.
--Win.am Stevens Robinson, well
known under the NOM dc plume of
Warrington, as "A newspaper CORE
spondent, died few days since ut Mall
den, Mass. His letters have long been
widely known and admired throughout
the United States, and his death leaves
a blank in journalism which can not
well be filled.
Like most of the great artistes of
the world, Charlotte Cushman's success
came from the humblest beginnings.
Very early in life she directed the choir
Of what was formerly known as the
"Cockerel Church, in Boston. This
was at the time when Ralph Waldo
Emerson, then young man and un-
known, was colleague of the Rev. DR..
Ware, this having been his only pastoral
charge. II was little thought then that
the modest young preacher and the I'M
known young singer in the choir, at a
salary Of probably three dollars per
week. would become SO famous all over
the world.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31
A Preacher. Awakening from sleep,
Makes A Fatal Leap.

Yesterday morning at III As O'Clock,
as the passenger train on the Kansas
Pacific Road was starting from Bis
marck, about three-quarters of q mile
east of Lawrence, Mr.. Ridgeway, the
Roadmaster, saw n man step of the
train and fall under the cars. The
train was at once stopped, and upon
going back the body of man was
found lying in shapeless mass upon
the track. He had evidently, in his at
tempt to Jump clear Of the train from
one of the central cars, fallen back
ward and under the remaining ones, the
wheels Of which passed over his head
and one OF his shoulders, crushing and
mangling him in a most horrible man
ner. The remains we're conveyed to
Lawrence, aud were at once recogniz-
ed. The unfortunate man was the Rev
Mr.. Clark of Armstrong, Kansas, who
was at the time Of the accident on his
way to Lawrence, TO attend the NJ. r.
Conference. Ii il supposed that he had
been sleeping, and when awakened by
the stoppage and starting Of the train
at Bismarck thought he had arrived at
his destination, and jumped, not on the
platform at Lawrence, but into the cold
embrace Of death. --Lcdrenporth Tunes.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31

One reason why the Turks don't
fight better is because they have TO stop
so often and hitch up their bag trousers.
They are to have suspenders.
A strange old bibliopole died in VII
emma short time ago. He conducted
an eating-house, waiting personally up
on his customers, and yet he collected a
library of 81, 900 volumes, many of them
editions of rare value.
Queen Victoria has informed Lord
Dufierin that she will assist in the pro-
jected Improvement in Quebec by pre-
senting the city with $4,000 for the
construction of one ofthe proposed city
gates. the one for which it is used TO be
called the Kent gate.
Liverpool isthc most dcnsely popu-
lated town in Great Britain, having 80. |
inhabitants To an acre; Glasgow comes
next, with S3.l then follow Manchester
with S3.l, Edinburg with 50.5, Noting
ham with 46.2 and London with 45.7.
The Times Of India tells of some ST.
amese noblemcn who, AZ an entertain
ment given them by European mer-
chant AZ Bangkok, were SO herriiied at
the gyratians of Highland fling and
an Irish jig that were danced, that they
fled from the house, believing that the
foreigners had gone mad.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31
school and Church.


Miss Margaret living reads SER
mons Sundays to the congregation at
Montyile, Mass, which is without a
pastY.
The Rev. DR.. Hall is opposed to
having separate church services for
children, but he thinks that every SER
mon should have u certain regard TO
their capacities and needs.
The proposition that the place of a
female teacher marrying shall, tpso
facto, become vacant, was adopted as
one of the rules of the Brooklyn Board
OF Education, the other day.
The Catholic Synod of Berne,
Switzerland, has unanimously resolved
to abolish the celibacy of priests, the
obligatory oral confession, and the
wearing Of the pricstly gown.
The Unitarian Church at Brook
field. Mass, has decided unanimously
TO substitute water for wine at the COM
munion, and TO abolish the deaconate,
creating instead a "pastoral council. "
The Rev. DR.. Richard S. Storrs
has resigned the Presidency of the
American Congregational Union, and
his dictatorship Of the Home Missionary
Society. The cause of this action is the
Interpretation of Congregational policy
by the recent Advisory Council held in
Brooklyn.
"A camp-meeting is to be held at
Bennett, Neb., by the National Holiness
Association, commencing June 20. Ben
nett Is II miles southeast Of Lincoln,
upon the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
The railroad company has agreed not
to run Sunday trains to the camp
ground.
The pastors Of the churches IN Cam.
den, Oneida County, \. y, have united
in card to the public, urging them Ia
discontinue Sunday funerals. They OBJ
iect to them for four reasons: That
they overtax ministers; mar or dis
place the regular church services. break
in upon the Bible schools, and secu'
larizc the Sabbath.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31
Science and Industry.

A man in Northampton County,
Pa, has contracted to ship $4,000
school states to Japan.
st. Louis is To have the largest
Bessemer steel works in the world,
which will give employment to over
1900 men.
Tho bois dare of Texas il pro-
nounced the most durable wood in the
world Ii neither shrinks nor swells
from exposure To heat, wet, or cold.
A postmaster at Sunbury, Pa, has
invented an ingenious postal labor-sav-
ing machine, which receives letters rs
they are " dropped by the senders and
affixes the proper stamp.
"A piece of scroll ivory veneering,
60 feet long aud 10 inches wide, CON
tanning nearly 80 square feet of surface,
was sawed from an elephants tusk the
other day at Deep River, Conn.
The Directors of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad have
decided To change that road from q
broad to a narrow gauge. The work
will cost about u 100000.
The Erie Directors have decided to
lay hUOlntN TAU ltph ~ DuilalOs
81 miles, and this is probably only a
precursor to the change of gauge over
the whole road.
The lead miners of Illinois, Wis
consin, and Iowa propose TO unite in
procuring for the Centennial EXPOSE
ton large and varied collection of
specimens Of ore, To represent the
whole lead district of GO miles in dame
ter, or an area of 800 square miles, stu
ated in ten prosperous counties of three
adjacent States.
"A very ingenious method Of manu-
featuring screws is described in an Ed
inburgh journal, IS having been re-
Gently and successfully introduced. BY
this plan the screw, instead of being
made, as ordinarily, by cutting away
the iron of the bolt to leave the thread
is formed by rolling the screw on tho
bolt blank while hot, a process by which,
IL il claimed, a great economy of time
and labor is effected. Recent expert
mcnts have also shown, il is said, that
the tensile strength and the holding
power, in both hard and soft wood. of
rolled screws are considerably greater
than those of cut ones.
An exchange gives rs a reason why
paint peels from buildings that nearly
all the oil now sold as pure linseed il
largely made up of porgy oil. The ma.
ture of this fish-oil is entirely diiiercn,
from that made from seed, and il does
not dry nearly SO readily. Paint a sur.
face with lead and porgy oil, and in a
few hours you can pass the hand lightly
over 1t with impunity. but press the fin.
ger on 1t and push slightly, and you will
lind, even after it has been on several
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31

lures Of the Government were Sill So, s4s.
and the interest ON the public debt was
SOB, 0,3. 535-total, xz7f, 623. 800 We are
paying for war expenses twenfy-feur mil
lions more than In 1850, with absolutely
nothing 20 show for II except military usurp-
alton In the South and dilatory movements
on the Western plains. The navy costs
Desrly ten millions more than II used "a, and
(relatiyely) more worthless ssvy " n never
launched. The Indian Bureau costs five
millions more than II did In 1900, or even in
1866 and this with a constant decrease OF the
Western Indian population. -....J- Is. 5.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31
Democratic Congressional Committee.

WASHINGTON, March l9.-The Congress
ional Democratic Committee announces that
il l. now fully organized for the Preslden-
tial campaign, and requests Demecraic or
ganizafions in All the States and Territories
10 send in the names of regular committees
Immediately. Application for documents,
speeches and other political matter. and all
communication relating to business OF the
committee. should he addressed 70 the Sec
retary nj 1874 r Street, Washington CITY.
Editors who NAV send their newspaper 70
the committee will be furnished with sll the
documents published by them.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31

AT Dunleith, Iowa, the other day,
two little girls, daughters Of j. Daugei-
mier and Mr.. Haselburt. employees IN
the railway depot, went down 70 see
their fathers, and being shortly missed
search was instituted when their me-
less bodies were found on sand-oar
below the town. They had wandered
10 the river and probably getting on To
a passing cake Of ice were carried away
and drowned.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31

days, that the paint has not "set," but
the outer skin can be easily removed,
leaving that next the wood as soft near
ly as when first put on. The way To
prevent the paint from peeling off Is TO
let each coat-and particularly the first
remain from ten days to several weeks
before applying another coat
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31

The Chicago Post thinks that wom-
en- have more meatal work 10 perform
than men. II must wear the brain to
put border on a lamp-mat
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31

hundred and tioenfy millions erery year.
Contracts for supplies In all departments OF
the public service, which count up by tens
Of millions, are manipulated by these rings,
each Of which has it, speciality, and all com
bine against the Treasury. IL Is now com
monty reported that ring nearest the Pres
idenf, composed of his most intimate per-
sonal friends, like Horace X. Porter, Bah
cock, Boss shepherd, Rufus Ingalls, and
others, has made hundreds of thousands Of
dollars by farming out Offices which Grant
was induced 10 give 10 the payees.
Such are specimen fruits Of Grantism.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31

Bclknap's downfall-,he first throb OF the
earthquake which l. 10 upset the fabric OF
Grantism--may set citizens resiecting upon a
hundred indications Of wrong doing under
Grants Administration. rumors and asser-
tions Of which have passed by their ears un-
needed like whiting winds. III the Demo-
cratic House Of Representatives sticks
sternly TO its policy OF investigation II will
discover under every stone u turns a con-
gregation of ugly grubs. twill lind the Navy
Department eaten through by barnscles,
and IL certainly ought, among other things,
to insist upon a deep investigation of Robe
sons alleged loan " million 81 the people,
money TO Jay Cooke a 60. with no security
but lot Of old iron. IL ought To hunt out
the records of the Attorney office,
especially since Williams took charge there,
and in the departments OF the Treasury and
the Interior II may usvail sinks of fraud and
iniquity. There Il no room whatever "a
doubt that all departments OF the Federal
Government are infested with just such guilt
as every friend OF General Belknap Il tor.
tured TO hear he has confessed.
The cost of all this TO the people Of the
whole country has been fearful. For, be Il
remembered, the people have 10 pay every
dollar which goes into the pockets ~ dis
honest officials and which Is directed by dis
honest legislators into the hands OF monepo-
lists. Last year the net ordinary expendi-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-22
[From the Philadelphia Press
All About the Concessions.

The Committee on Concessions of the Board
of Finance, upon whom has devolved the re-
sponsibility of collecting the revenues of the
Exhibition from all sources other than that of
admission fees, are now engaged in computing
the totals of receipts from concession contracts,
royalties on beer and soda, and percentages on
sales and business within the grounds. The
figures prepared by the chairman of the COM
mittee, Mr.. J. Price Wetherill, show total of
receipts of over S49000O, to which will be add
ed some $1,000 yet to be received from the
steam railway company and the photographer,
the former paying ten per cent. on gross re-
ceipts, and the latter ten per cent. on all bust
ness over certain amount. The total of mon
eys realized upon concession contracts up to
the Opening day was within one hundred dol
lars of $4,000 and upon licenses and permits
issued since that time, based upon percentages
and royalties on beer and soda, $500, 0,01075.
The grand total of receipts from all sources
from May 10Th to November 10th may be stated
approximately as follows: From admission
fees, So S13,1 40; from concessions, $500 600;
from percentages and royalties, S205, ,O10. 10;
grand total, 81 30S, 1852. The payments of
the Narrow-Gauge Steam Railway foot up
about $4,000, aud upon the concession con.
tIdCtS duVuuto WCIO paul 90 loiio"cs Odta-
logue Company, 100000; Rolling-chair Com
pany 1925 chairs at $40 per chair), $4,000;
soda-water fountains, $4,000; six restaurants
(at $4,000 each) $4,000; cigar stands, S18,-
900; Public Comfort Restaurant, etc, $500;
Photograph Company, $1,000; Gnidebook
Company, $1,000; Dairymen's Association,
So 900; tobacco manufacturing exhibit in Ma
chinery Hall, SO, 900 vienna Bakery. So 900 Pop
corn manufacturer. $4,000; Glass Works, ,S3, 900;
Whitman's Confectionery, $4,000; Centennial
Bank, $1,000; Globe Hotel, 10000; California
Wine Booth IN Agricultural Hall, $4,000. The
four Cafes in the Main Building paid each
So, 900; the three in Machinery Hall total of
81, 800 and the two in Agricultur, Hall to-
gether $780, Farley & Co., of the safe-de-
posit vaults in the Main Building, paid $1,000,
and Hazelhurst & Young, for the cut-fower
concession, $4,000; the American Fusee Com
pany $1,000. In addition to the foregoing, the
management received fifty per cent. of the re
ceipts OF the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company-on cable service twenty per cent,
and on messenger service by the American Dis
trict Telegraph Company ten per cent The
Committee on Concessions consist of Messrs. j.
Price Wetherhill, chairman; N Parker Short
ridge, Henry Windsor, and Hon Thomas 81.
Dudley with Mr.. Edward Ii. Pyle as secretary.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-22
Magazine Notices.

The atlantic Monthly for December conta ins
a fine Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876, by
James Russell Lowell, which occupies several
pages. The number begins, however, with two
pleasant chapters of II. James Jr.'s seriab
The American. A group of Mr.. Aldrch's
poems in his most graceful style, are placed
under the collective title, Interludes. Mr.,
Charles Hale contributes a careful paper on
Municipal Indebtedness, in which he expresses
hopeful views of local finance in the United
States, giving some valuable figures. Mark
Twain's The Canvasser's Tale, very odd
little story, comes next, and then we have a
charming bit of description faom "H. H. of
A Colorado Road Daniel Deronda: A Con-
versations is the title of brilliant discussion OF
George Eliot by H. James, Jr. j. W. De
Forrest writes very entertainngly Of England
and Scotland in Crumbs of Travel, and is fol
lowed by Mrs. Fanny Kemble with Old Wo-
mans Gossip. Several sonnets by Maurice
Thompson, a Western poet, intervene. The
historian Francis Pafkman gives a vigorous
account of Sir William Phipps's Attack on
Quebec, and fifth chapter on characteristics
of the International Fair Is the last prose
article. Edgar Fawcett and Helen Barron
Bostwick appear as the authors of graceful
poems; and Recent Literature discusses Brown
ing, the new poem, Deirdre, and other books
Art and Music close the table of contents
The annual prospectus of LittePS Living Agt
is interesting reading. The publication is
justly one of the most popular of American
periodicals. Its selections are choice ant
| varied, and it presents its readers with thu
cream of the magazines. For a reasonable
annual subscription price it offers more thar
| 5000 pages of reading.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-22
From the Hartford Courant.
What the Newspapers Did in the Cam.
noiUh

Few people realize what the newspapers do
for the world, and as it is the duty of an hone st
journal to give the news with utter impartiali-
ty, we are now compelled to set natural modes
ty aside in the cause of truth, and by few fig
ures make plain the immense obligation to lhe
"press' under which the public are resting.
There are 6952 weekles, 135 semi-weeklies, 80
tri-weekies, and 7S2 dailies in the United
States. During the eighteen weeks preceding
the election these papers printed on the avey-
age certainly not less than 300 lines in each is
sue bearing upon politics. They also put the
"ticket' in the most cospicuous place on the
best advertising page. At the rate the Tilden
bureau offered for puffs printed as reading
matter that is one dollar a line-the contri-
button of the weeklies was $37 ,540, 800; of the
semi and tri-weekles 81, Ass, 800 each; and of
the daies $25, 1885, 800; total. S65, 793, 600. That
is what the 5000 editors have given for the good
of their country in the past eighteen weeks,
and it is perhaps now no longer a wonder that
editors are poor. If every man who voted ou
Tuesday had given as much as each editors
gift averaged, the country would have received
S66 OO0 900 and we could have paid off the ma
tonal debt thlrty-three times, or if preferred,
aould have paid it off once and had 6oC00,OO0
left
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-11-22
From the Indianapolis Journal
The Bulld0zer and BulIdozing.

In the heat OF the crisis tho public has over
looked an important addition to the English
language which comes from the South. We
mean the word Bulldozer Words are the
outgrowth of necessity. Events and crcum
stances make them just as great crises produce
great men. Balldozer fills long felt want.
1t is a perfect description of the average South
ern Democrat, and bulldozing describes to q
nicely the process by which Southern states
are carried for Democracy and reform. The
term bulldozer brings before us a long-haired,
lantern-jawed, bilious looking fellow, des-
peradO in appearance and ruttian In manner
he served in the rebel army and has the swing
of an old campaigner about him. He wears
broad brim slouch hat, gray clothes, pantaloons
stuffed in boots and a leather telt around his
waist. One or two revolyers protrude conspie-
uously from his belt or pockets, and perhaps
shotgun completes his outfit. He chews
great deal of tobacco, drinks whiskey when he
can get it, swears with every other word, talks
big about "the South" and damns the Yam
KEGS and niggers for running the country. He
never works, but always has a little change to
bet on game of cards-borrowed from some
boon companion or stolen from the person Of
murdered negro
Just how he lives nobody but the bulldozer
himself knows, and he wouldn't like to tell.
He can just read enough to spell ont the inf1am-
matory articles in the Democratic county paper,
and has contempt for education that makes
him extremely jealous in raiding negro school,
houses. But there is one thing which he does
understand and that is the art Of buldozing.
He can make a pound of powder go great
ways in this business Given a certain ma
jority to overcome or a certain vote to poll, and
the bulldozer knows just how to do IL. He
knows Just about how many men will have to
be killed, in what parts of the parish, how
many bullets wasted and how many blanx car
tridges fired; how many midnight raids organ
lied and how many expeditions by daylight;
how many families decimated and how rsany
driven out. This is bulldozing. and the bull
dozer understands the whole art and science of
it, As the practice is the outsrowth of South
ern Democracy SO the word itself is the out
growth Of the practice. 1t is the only positive
addition to American literature ever received
from that quarter.