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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-06-23

AVE three foreign railway contracts on my
hAnds. " hich make u impossible Tor me ~ save
without xrcat ps~'unlary loss, or would s,adIy
voluntarily come home. aud 20 testify. can
uaks ayl Ia this effect and mail II u desired
f~ignedl JOSIAH CALDWELL.
The President has nominated Writ sykes
Consul nj Cardiff.
The House Committee on Indian Affairs
has authorized Representative Page 10 re-
port. with recommendation Of its passage,
toint resolution declaring the Black Hills
open TO exploration and settlement. The
resolution also declares that the true intent
and meaning OF the treaty OF April -, 1858,
j. that white men are not excluded from
travelling over or settling upon any portion
OF Wyoming Territory not included within
the bound4ries Of the permanent Sioux re-
seryation, established by the second article
OF that treaty. There l. aproyiso declaring
this act shall not be construed to Affect the
right OF Indians 10 hunt buffalo in the Black
Hills country.
A suit has been commenced against Jacob
Thompson, Secretary OF the Interior under
Buchanan, for the recovery of si,ooo,cD,
principal and interest Of bonds taken from
the Department, and also for >l,0oo, 600 re-
ceiyes by him from the Confederate States.
which il is alleged reverted TO and became
the property OF the United States. >ecre-
tary Chandler is understood TO be the insti-
gator Of the suit on the part Of the Govern
ment. Mr.. Thompson says that Republic
can committee OF the House has fully inves-
tigated the first charge and acquitted him OF
all blame; and that a 10 the latter, he has
full and final receipt from the Confederate
Government for all moneys that passed
through his hands.
Ex-Spesker Blaine was prostrated with a
severe sunstroke on sunday, the 18th. In
company with his family he had walked
from his house 10 church, and when Just At
the church door he placed his hand upon his
head and complained OF severe pain and
dizziness. He was assisted into the yesti-
bule OF the church and soon
after taken to his home, where
he lay entirely unconscious for five hours,
when he gradually recovered conscious
ness. and at midnight was reported sleep
ing quietly and naturally. Mr.. Blaine :
family physician says that the attack is one
OF cerebral depression. Produced primarily
by great mental strain. and secondarily by
the action OF the excessive heat.
A further reduction in both freight and
passenger rates was made by the East and
West through lines on the 18th. The fight
between the rival lines promises TO be long
and bitter.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-06-23

A very serious conflict OF authority has
arisen between the United States Cenien-
NAL Commissioners and the Centennial
Board Of Finance, which ii T. thought will
eliminate in an appeal TO the courts.
The number ofyisitors al the Centennial
Exhibition for the first month. ending June
10, was / 900. 900 and a few over.
The women-s International Temperance
Convention assembled at Philadelphia on
the 18TH
senator Anthony Of Rhode Island has been
again e-elected.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-06-23
FOREIGN.

All the Fenian prisoners confined in West
ern Australia have, IL is rumored, escaped
in the American whale-ship Catalpa.
Bismarck has prohibited for two years the
circulation in Germany OF the Nord-
Gmerikd, the weekly edition of the Phila-
delphia VolksblGu.
Don Carlos is said to be in the City Of
Mexico.
A six weeks armistice has been agreed
upon between the Turks and the Insurgents.
George sand, the well known French au-
thoress, died on the sth.
A very destructive fire occurred at King
ston, Ont, on the 18th. Loss about $3.50, :
0o0
Jefferson Davis arrived in Liverpool on
the 18th, in the steamship Memphis from
New Orleans.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-06-23
A Family Poisoned by Corn.meal Sea-
soned with Arsenic.

Mrs. Artie Vermillicn, who resides at
No. 1904 Upper First Street, and her
son and a servant, were accidentally
poisoned yesterday by the introduction
Of arsenic into some corn-bread. Three
saucers had been placed on the shelves
Of the pantry, containing arsenic in
corn-meal, for the purpose Of killing
mice, and it was supposed that the cook f.,
thinking they contained only corn-meal,
emptied one of the saucers into the
meal-box or can, as only two of the
saucers we're afterwards found on the
shelf. Corn-bread was then made and
served for dinner out of the box, and
the persons mentioned above ate OF it.
The result of it was that all were made
extremely i'll, and DR.. George Walker
was called in to attend them. Mrs.
vermiliion was seriously affected by it,
and Is at present lying extremely i'll.
The others recovered very soon under
proper attention.--EUdnsUiHe lind. }
Journal.
Two brothers, named Weber, aged
respectively IA and IL years, were
drowned near Ypsilanti, Mich, while
bathing, and at Columbus, o., two
other boys, named Walter Theall and
Anset Phinsey, aged respectively III and
u, were also drowned under similar
circumstances.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-06-23

Emanuel Pryor, living near Free
dom, Ind, received probably fatal
wound in the breast by the accidental
discharge of his own gun.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-06-23

the conqueror OF Constantinople. On
the 9th Of April, 1883, Mahomet COM
menced the siege with an army of $780,
600 men and 400 vessels of all sizes. IL
was during this celebrated siege that
monster guns were first used by the
Turks, and Greek fire, an incendiary
compound, was applied for the pur-
poses of the defense. After n
series of terrible combats, in which
fanaticism and despair lent an almost
miraculous power to the arms
Of the contending forces, the city was
captured on the Goth of May. The
Greek Emperor fell fighting TO the last,
and his unfortunate capital was aban-
doned TO all the horrors of pillage and
slaughter. So great was the desolation
caused by this terrible event that even
the heart of Mahomet relented, and he
endeavored to repeople the city by re-
calling the fugitive Greeks and accord
ing them many privileges, such as the
free exercise Of their religion, as an in
duce ment to return. With CONSTANT
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-09-13
SERvIA.

A forty page pamphlet, lately publish
ed in Paris, gives the Servian situation
in a nutshell. The author says: The
Servians ethnologically speaking, COM
prisel 5 200, 900 souls, under which gen.
eric names comprises the people who
inhabit Servia, Bosnia, Herzegovina,
Montenegro, the district of Ragusa, the
mouth of the Cattaro, Dalmatia, Istria,
Turkish Croatia, Sclavonia, the tracks
between the Thesis and the Danube, the
district bordered by the Danube near
Buda, and lastly the Bannant. All
these people, according to our author,
speak the same language, and, with the
exception of 800 Bosnians converted to
Mohammedanism, and of the Servians
of Ragusa, Cattaro, Dalmatia, and Istria,
who are Roman Catholics, all the other
1000, 900 belong to the Greek Church.
The 100000 claimed as Servians by
race are divided IN about equal proper
tions between Turkey and Austria.
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me they were recalled to Ctah some
years since by the Prophet Brigham,
leaving their fields and improvements,
or selling them for what they could
get. During their stay they worked
the salt mines to some extent, and sup
piled the country for long distances with
what was needed. Since that time the
mines have been worked at intervals by
different parties. The different OPEN
ings made are in the face of the noun
tain bluffs which run down from the
north and south ranges of mountains
both on the east and west sides of the
river. The first one visited by me was
about six miles up the Virgin river from
stones Ferry. and about one-half of a
mile to the east. The second one is
seven miles up the river, and one-fourth
OF a mile east. The surface of this and
the other salt bluffs and mountains is
covered with dark orange colored clay
and earth, in which are strewn large
quantities of impure mica. The clay
and earth is some two feet deep, and
underneath this is from two to four feet
of impure sedimentary granite, and then
at a depth of from three to six feet from
the surface, the. salt is found in a solid
and compact form. 1t is mined by blast
ing in the same manner as granite or
other stone would be. Five miles fur
ther up, or twelve miles from the ferry,
is another opening of similar charac-
ter to the two first. The salt from the
three mines mentioned is of dark gray
color, somewhat resembling granite, and
is 90 per cent. pure. Small veins from
two to six inches wide, of pure crystal
lized salt, are met with every few feet
in these formations. At point twenty
one miles from the ferry. is a larger
mountain than the others, and this is
all pure, clear and transparent.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-09-13
SALT MOUNTAINS Of NEVADA.
Blocks Of Salt as Transparent as Glass
A Salt Well Seventy-Five Feet
In Diameter.

A correspondent Of the San Francisco
Alta, writing from Prescott, Arizona,
gives the following description of the
wonderful salt formation on the Vir-
ginia river in Nevada:
ssStone's Ferry is about $50 miles
above the mouth Of the Colorado, hav-
ing an altitude of 1880 feet above tide
water. The river at this point is 800
feet wide, and has generally swift-run-
ming current of from four to six miles
an hour. Virginia river, which rises
in the mountains of Nevada over 100
miles to the north, enters the Colorado
a short mile above Stones Ferry. At
low water it is a swift-running stream
of over fifty feet in width, with an aver
age depth Of about one foot. The salt
formations are, in fact, mountains of
salt, and extend for thirty miles or more
up the Virgin river and the Muddy,
one of its branches, 1t was discovered
some twelve or fifteen years since by
the Mormons, who built up several very
fiourishing colonies in the valleys Of
the Virginia and Muddy, put out fine
orchards and vineyards, and brought
large tracts Of land under successful
cultivation. For reasons unknown to
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-09-13
POLITICAL NOTES.

R. B. H. stands for Republicans
Best Hold.
John Cochrane has had his hair cut
on the bias.
Twenty-one of the 3S states elect gov
ernors this fall.
Dan Voorhees, thinks that he would
just as soon have enough hard money as
plenty of greenbacks.
The potato bug rolls over ON its back
after hearty meal, and feels much
happier than 5. j. Tilden.
A New York woman artist is making
bust of Tilden. American people can
bust him without her help.
Big snake stories are increasing all
over the country. 1t is always so dur
ing heated democratic campaigns.
Aleck Stephens has risen from his
sick-bed, shaken the wrinkles out of his
jaw-bone, and will make a speech for
Tilden.
This canvass doesn't begin to equal in
enthusiasm the 'shard cider'' campaign,
chiefly because the whisky is so much
harder than the cider.
A Democratic club in Iowa
has resolved ssto maintain its organiza-
tion till Tilden and Hendricks are elect
ed" Poor fellows! can they put it in
their will that their sons must take up
the burdenp
Sam Cary says Hayes would carry
New York by 10000 majority. The
Democrat he told it to shook out his
ears from under his duster and held
them rigidly fixed in space, like a per-
son who had heard startling intelli-
gence.
They had private reading on Dodge
street the other night, and gentleman
read to party of ladies the paragraph,
ssThey have discovered that Tilden is
the father of the credit mobilier." One
of the ladies innocently exclaimed,
"Why, I thought he was bachelor"
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19-Our Authorized Advertising Agents for
TIE LEADER are, in New York, S. NJ. Petten-
jill d Co, 81 Park Row, Geo. p. Rowell q Co.,
4 Park Row; St. Louis, Rowell & Chesman
advertising and Publishing Agency; Chicago,
l. H. Chandler, l2f South Clark street, Phila-
lelphia, y. w Aver q Son, 1888 sansom street,
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-09-13
Republican Territorial Convention.

HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN,
TERRITORIAL CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
Laramie City, August 25, 1876.
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TKRMs OF sUBsCRIPTIONf
(IN ADvAEcE.)
Rates of Advertising.

Rates of Advertising.
No Advertisement inserted for less than my
cents.
ments 10 cents per line Nonparie1 each in
sertion o insertions eight cents per line; 80
insertions, cents per line.
Local Notices, per line, bourgeois, each in
per line.
WEEKLY LEADER, all transient advertise
ments Is cents per line, first insertion; one
month % cents per line; six months, 10 cents
per line; one year cents per line.
Cheyenne, Jan. LIST, 1876.
II. CLAICHE. Proprietor.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-09-13

HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN,
TERRITORIAL CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
Laramie City, August 25, 1876.
A Republican Territorial Convention
will be held at Rawlins, in Carbon
county, on the 18th of September, 1876,
at two O'Clock p. m. of said day to nom-
mate candidate for delegate to the
XLVth Congress, and to transact such
other business as may properly come
before the convention.
The several counties of the Territory
will be entitled to the following repre-
sentation in said convention:
Laramie County, ..... 10 delegates.
Albany 6 .....S g
Carbon :" ..7 g
Sweetwater g ....7 I"
Uinta I" ....S s
By order of the Committee:
STEPHEN w. DowNEY,
Chairman.
The Morning herald., 1876-12-30
PHILADELPHIA MARK ETS
stock Market.
Philadelphia Trade Report.

Rh1l0O0lpn12 xf0O0 AoPOFt'
FRIDAY, December 20.
The unfavorable weather to-day has cur
taile business in aIl departments.
Cotton is quiet but steA dy at l2Mc for Mid
ding Upland, and 1870 for New Orleans:
Flaxseel is scarce and wanted by the
crush, rs at | 5Oal 81.
Cloverseed is firm at Hal5c.
Timothy is held at 81 85al 10.
Coffee is held firmly and meets q steady
demand. Sales of $40 bags of Rio at l4alSc'
and some MaraeaibO, q l8al9.
Sugar is nom n ated and at 9Aal0c for fair
and good refining. Sixty-five hhds Deme-
rara sold III l9c.
with cut loaf, PIC; crushed at l2c.;
granulated and powdered at l25sc and A at
Molasses-Prices are entirely nominal for
Cuba. New Orleans may be quoted at 57a
81 for prime and choice.
Flour-The Flour market is less active
Sales of 1000 barrels, including Minnesota
Extra Family at $6 90; do do good at x6 T
do. do, choice at 9 45a8 so; do. do. fancy at
8 rs; Pennsylvania do. DO. fair at $6 IN;
do d. good Cd at 81 2S &C. s sS choice at S'a
Rye Flour is held at "a SOC.
Corn Meal nothing doing.
The receipts and offerings of Wheat are
light and yrime Red and Amber Is held
with firmness. sales Of 3ooo ba;' embracing
AMBER a, 81 4s; Pen sylvania do. choice at
81 IS: and Southern do, at 49,;
Corn. under light receipts and active de-
mand is held firmly at the late advance
Sales of 1900 bushels, embracing Pennsyl-
vania Red priu g atl 39a' 43: amber 46al A
high mixed at 5Sa59c. and do. new mixed,
damp, at 45a5O ,.Sail is wanted at 58a59 G..
Oats are in demand at full figures. Sales
of S 1000 bushels, including Western white
fair and prime ut 3Sa4N; Iowa, cnoice at 81
a45%c, and black. mixed and unsound at 30
Whiskey is doll and freely offered At 81 Il
for Western iron bound barrels. lou barrels
sold at this figure.
The Morning herald., 1876-12-30
MA11N SONG.
nv BAYAHD TAYLOR.

1,.t tho dearest dream depart
That risat to love revealed,
Some eager spirit In my heart
Ny sleeping ey. unsealed.
Vet still twas love that led me here
And bids my feet delay,
Arise, and light the daws. my dear!
Look forth and bring the day.
Az out of dark ness yonder star
Ofwhitest ray Is born,
As birds and blossoms feel afar
The coming Of the morn,
80 thou hast dawn'd, and now art near,
To brighten and to stay;
NV being dies in thine, my dear
As daybreak dies in day.
Set to music in January Atlantic.
The Morning herald., 1876-12-30
BOOTS d SHOES.
.HEAP.SHOE STORE.

Having fitted up my shoe st ore, No. Gil
East Sixth street, and laid in q larger stock
people Of the eastern portion of the city
with all kinds OF boots and shoes for ladies
gentlemen and children, at prices far be-
low those heretofore charged. Elegant
work made to order and mendlng promptly
attended to, -
mar14ly "" JAMES KANE.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-04-21

SECRETARY TAFT doesn't know
much about war. aud when he told
the President that there was too much
stealing going on, and he Was going to
put stop to this ''riiing' Of cannon.
Grant only laughed. And Tan Is In
favor Of sconomisins by abolishing the
Indian Bureau altogether. lie says a
cheap pine chest Is good enough for
the Indians. .--[Norristowu Herald
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-04-21
EDTr0RgAL t0B1ESf.

THERE is q strange inconsistency in
the Fish Bill" Section 3. says that
the u.e Of gigs is forbidden. under the
penalty OF Ave dollars for . violation
of the law. and the taking or catching
6sh from under rock, Is likewise for
bidden. and punishable. In the 9th
section Of the Bill. we are informed
that the use Of the gig for catching
fish, Is permitted. and also catching
them by hand. except in spawning
time The man. or men, who fran
ed the bill. must have been "fuddled." I"
Il will be interesting u read the two
sections. which We append:
SEC o That any psrs piaelnE OF using In any
u the waters u this state any hsh-,rsp. srt-net.
dip net, h.h-rack, seine. hush o. brush drag. or
other such contr' vance. o. gis. spear. ispre. or
other such csntrivanee. shall catch taks hsh
fr,.sa sdsf rock shall 10 ssiisy efs aisde~saso~.
ssA. On eonvietisa thereof hsfsrs ssy Justice u
the r-ses shall b. ansA not esesedias avs deiisrs
sn' ~ "a n, 80, - s,..s-.,,s. .ss, !. se.s..s
., hard i.Aas In jail eth. s.say 'ss s.: le.ssh Of
.' 40 not ,s.. % %. s 70 = -. N. 80 80
..,A J-..'.. = u. r..s. .A.n !. :, ..,s.. y !.
'':s 70 -" = !. ssr '.:s' s'-:
al. i"I ~" .",:o.,"s c''..';o. o.'''"' ''@' III"
src . r,., ,, .,.. ,.,,.,,.. .x ,,.,,,,,,. .,
any Of tn. provision. Of ,hi. SC, .A. b. paid ia,o
70. treasury Of "a. county "a 's,sa ..ia noe. ~,
no, .~ Construed to pr,,.a, any p-r.a from using
,ro'-lias' and &c to catch or i''i a'A or "'H''"'
SEC. . Tnl. sc, shall tab. .s+c, from 1t. passage;
ss, tn. provision. Of ,Ai' sc, shall no, apply TO A'
.r an n.s.s..,. r,s,, nor to lake. ia IL. Ohio and
Mississippi river bottoms nor shall 1t prevent any
TO" ms| ,, s. s,a's.s % a." rn., % % NJ, % mn, ~ y
-, at es vi,hia one half rils Of any tries,ary o
the .s,' os'' ., nc, o,%''r'..a '',s"
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The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-04-21

A LITTLE negro and a big alligator
down in Georgia have been rehearsing
the drama Of Jonah and the whale.
Some little alligstors were playing
near . creek. when = large negro
crawled up the bank and swallowed
one Of them. No. IL was . large alli'
gator that crswled up the bank and
swallowed one Of the little negroes.
The next day the alligator was caught
and cut open, and the little negro was
taken out alive. and not worse hurt
than scared. This story is told the
Cuthbert Messenger by lawyer. and
therefore ought to he true; but We
shall feel little doubtful about Il un
Ill that lawyer points out the creek
Che alligator crawlei out Of, VI produ'
ees lock of the little negro's WOOL
fCourier Journal.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-04-21
STATE NEWS.

CATrLE DrOught IRON 10 y cents
at Lexington Court, and mules sold
from 500 to $50.
THE Observer and Reporter had a
six column circus "ad." last week, and
Nield Is just as happy.
The Shelby Sentinel, has an account
Of the burning Of Baptist Church
on Elk Creek, caused by defective
fue.
BALDWIN 4 TABBs Plow Factory at
Msysville. was destroyed by FIRE last
week. Loss between t35, 900 and $40,
600.
FnoN November 1874, to March
%, 1876, q Robertson county SOW had
A pigs, and raised 3s ou, Of the num-
Der.
The Nelson county Record, has got
things mixed. Ditzler and Sweeney,
are debating no religious question at
Danville, that we know Of.
The peach crop in Robinson coun-
ty. promises to be larger than .or
years past. The late cold weather did
little or no injury to the blossoms.
STEVENS. charged with the murder
Of South. at Frankfort, was denied
bail. His trial does not come of till
the September term of the Criminal
Court.
/, The store Of Jno. Hamack, at
Dover, KY, was entered on the night
OF the 18th. and six hundred dollars
taken from the safe. No arrests have
been made.
ArIexington, on Court day, shares
oi Farmers and Traders Bank stock,
sold for s95 so; Northern Bank at
$3.50. and First National Bank at
siss 2S per share.
Col. LovErr, Chief Engineer Of the
c. S. X. r., has just purshased a
farm Of las acres, the former proper
ty Of W. S. Rankin. for sl0l 25 per
acre. II lies eight miles from Cow
ington
A STORM swept over Louisville. on
Thursday night, 18th inst, demolish-
ing several wooden buildings in the
suburbs. Two persons were killed.
and eight others received injuries. The
loss Of property is estimated at s20.-
900.
We learn from the Observer and Re-
porter, that the father Of the young
man who was so roughly handled at
Center College. short time since, was
in Harrodsburg last week, and em-
ployed counsel to see what the law
thinks OF such acts of violence.
The belief buuzard of which we
smoke in last issue has we learn. been
killed, and a silver bell with an
English engraving of ancient date
captured; the bell collar was fastened
with [. silver buckle We hone the
hell will be forwarded To the Cepteu.
nial. where il will attract much inter
est.--lMoun'ain Echo.
i Josrpu FRrpAy a resident of Fal-
month. sufEeriuy with a slight attack
of pneumonia. isft the house at which
he was confined. at 2 o'clock. ON Fri.
dav night. in hi. right clothes, and
h.. not since been heard from II l.
,upposed that he committed suicide,
though diligent search. and dragging
the river, failed 10 give trace OF him.
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