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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-02-04

The Empress Augusta Of Germany,
has sent Mrs. Dorrien Smith gold and
jewelcd bracelet, and two ladies of PEN
zance brooches, in recognition OF their
kindness 10 the passengers and crew Of
he German steamship Schiller, which
was wrecked at the Sicily Islands last
year.
A party under the charge of the
Hon. Russell Quincy met with "A mel
ancholy accident in Egypt, On the 3Oth
Of December. They were ascending
the Nile in dehabieth, which was sud-
denly capsized by a squall, and three of
the ladies accompanying Mr.. Quincy,
with number of the crew, were drown
ed This is a most unusual disaster to
the usually placid and poetic current Of
life on the Nile.
Queen Victoria is going to Coburg,
and rumor has il that match is TO be
arranged between her youngest and
only unmarried daughter. the fair
Princess Beatrice, and some eligible
German Prince. Beatrice is in her
nineteenth year, and it is about time
she were settled in life. We suppose
there are plenty of cheap young Princes,
kinsmen of her father, who would not
object to being added to the long list Of
England's pensioners.
According to a London correspond
ent, one Of the Rothschilds, Bettina,
daughter of Baron Alphonse, is going
to marry her cousin, Baron Leopold.
Her mother was one of the English
Rothschilds, and has brought her up in
English fashions. Last winter she made
quite a sensation in the London balls
by her grace and esprit. The Duchess
of Edinburgh is particularly partial to
her, and Mr.. Disraeli has paid her a
very high compliment, by calling her
''the most Spirituelle lady in England. "
Richard Banner Oakley, proprietor
of the Cooperative Credit Bank, in
London, was recently arraigned before
the Lord Mayor on charges of fraud,
false pretense and conspiracy. The
prosecuting counsel said the bank had
received 100000 from the public in the
shape Of deposits. An execution was
put into the bank, when it was found
there was only lis lid on hand and no
money TO pay clerks. On the same day
a lady paid in goo, which was used to
pay out the execution and wages of
clerks. The prisoner was remanded,
the Lord Mayor refusing to take bail.
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school aud Church.

The Rev AlphonSe Dupont, for
merly a Roman Catholic priest, has
taken orders al Syracuse in the Episco-
pal Church.
1t is stated that Father Hyacinthe
is about to make this country his future
home, and will become pastor of a
church in Boston.
With 1880 pupils in the public
schools of New Orleans, the eXpendi-
ture during the past year has been
SiOi, 22O, an average of S20.73 per
scholar-about the same as in New York
City.
During 1875. SIG, 900 was spent on
the schools in Springfield, Mass, the
average per pupil being 5000. In II
years the city has expended over half a
million dollars in new school-houses.
Among the three amendments to
the State Constitution adopted by the
Minnesota Legislature is one authoriz-
ing the Legislature to confer upon wo-
men the right to vote at elections for
school officers and 10 declare them eli
gible to hold public school offices.
The communists nj Wallingford.
Conn, are about to start a university in
which will be taught printing. book
binding, stcreotyping, electrotyping,
engraving, hygiene, commercial trans
actions, agriculture, woodworking. ma
chine business, domestic industry, jour
nalism, etc.
In letter to the Elmira On. y }
Gd.cuc, the Rev. Thomas X. Bcecher
lt.f st.. 4 alr.a.l Ia
accepted by so many Christians through
out the world rs "A season of devotion,
be recognized and observed as such by
those denominations which have hith-
crto failed To do SO.
The Indiana State Normal School
has had total attendance during the
past year Of 49,. According to the re-
port of the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction of Indiana, there are
in that State COZ, $50 children of the
school age. The sum appropriated TO
the schools for the coming year is sSi9,-
l04 sS.
President Clark, of the Massachu-
sets Agricultural College, having been
urged by the japanese Government to
supcrintcnd the founding of similar
institution in that country, the trustees
of the college have granted him year 5
leave OF absence IN order to do so.
Ample capital will be furnished, and he
is authorized to engage his assistants,
and in every way to conduct the under
taking after his own methods. A
special japanese Minister has been in
this country eflecting the arrangement.
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ITEMS or INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Jefferson Davis has been defeated
in suit brought at Nicksburg, Miss,
for the recovery of $4,000 from his
brothers estate.
-Larkin g. Mead's statue of Ethan
Allen, which is in the possession Of the
State of Vermont, will probably be ex-
hibited at the Centennial Exhibition.
-Longfellow's poem. "The Hanging
of the Crane was suggested by a visit,
ten or dozen years ago, 10 the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. T. Is. Aldrich, who
were then newly married.
"A number Of personal friends Of
the late Francis L. Blair have ordered
of j. Wilson Mcdonald, of New York,
a colossal bust of him, which will be
placed in one Of the public parks of st.
Louis.
The whole senior class of Yale Col
legc, 100 in number, including the pro
fessors, few nights since went to New
York City by a special train to witness
the performance of julius Caesar at
Booths Theater.
The Rev. j. l.. NJ. Curry, a clergy
man of Richmond, Va, who is now
travelling in Egypt, writes home that
the khediye has promoted General Lor-
ing, an ex-Confederate officer, To the
command of the Egyptian troops along
the whole northern coast Of that country.
james Parton is described as mid
dle-sized, lean, and specialized gentle
man, with pleasant, brown-bearded
face; hair ilattened on the top and sides
of his head; a suit of black broad-cloth
that does not fit him; the evidence of a
little bad taste in shape of watch
chain, dangling across his low-cut vest.
An autograph seeker from Corn
ing, n. r., recently presented his album
to Secretary of State Bigelow AT Albany,
who returned it with the following
Stanza
My young friend, it makes me laugh.
That you should want my autograph,
Why you want II, VINO can guess,
For what can Ice more valuelcsss
But here Il r., IN not say no.
Truly yours. joins BIGELow.
Don Piatt married two daughters Of
the old man Kirby, 81 Cincinnati, whose
gold and reputation are now in such
great jeopardy. The second wife is
still living, and is known 10 be an anna
BILE, cultivated woman; the first, when
in Europe with her husband, wrote a
very interesting book entitled "Belle
Smith Abroad, I" which she dedicated to
her father. The parent, by the way,
seems 10 have been good deal Of a
reprobate. in quiet way, rivaling the
lamenied Singer for his amours and his
lavish generosity to his lady friends.
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IIaps aud yIishaps.

AT Springfield, o., the other day, a
man named GlOofelter had his head cut
of by circular saw.
In Swinton. Va, a boy II years of
age, while feeding sheep, was hit in the
stomach by an old ram and killed.
II. c. Kibbe, defaulting secretary
Of several San Francisco mining COM
panies, committed suicide on the 20th
by shooting himself through the head
His accounts showed a deficit of some
$4,000.
AT New Orleans. on the 2Oth, Mrs
\. Caller, aged -, was burned. to
death. Her clothing caught fire from a
CRATE. A child. four years old, was also
burned to death on the same day. Its
clothing was fired by a playmate
Louis Hall, Virginia City barber,
had $40 and mania for gambling. He
spent twenty-five cents for arsenic, and
bet the rest of the money at faro. He
lost the wager, swallowed the poison and
died.
w. c. Perry, 60 years of age, a
plasterer by trade, and in comfortable
circumstances, while laboring under
temporary alteration of mind, commit
ted suicide ut Jacksonville, Ind, on
the 2lst.
John Aunais, while hunting i'm the
woods Of Gratiot county, Mich, was in
stantly killed by his gun going off acct
dentally, caused by dog jumping up
and striking the trigger.
John Ii. Shields, son of Col. II.
Shields, for many years proprietor Of
the Richmond (Va.) Wig, was killed
recently on the Atlantic, Mississippi and
Ohio Railroad, while attempting TO
Jump from a train. lie was % years
of age, and had been married but two
months.
john X. IIemackor, German, COM
mitted suicide at Anna, Ohio, on the
18th. Hc had been married but six
months to the daughter of l.. Finkle-
bone, merchant His wife died the
previous week. and this is the supposed
cause Of his suicide. lie left letter re-
questing his friends To lay him beside
his wife.
About O'Clock, on the morning of
the DIST. two men came to the door of
III VII VI aNANHs mug dltNNtN hAiiis
and said they wanted him To see pa
ticnt. lie opened the door, and as he
did SO, they shot him in both legs,
breaking one and terribly managing the
other. He is in critical condition.
Nothing is known Of the ruilians or the
cause of the dastardly deed.
Eight persons, residents of apromi-
nent clearinghouse in Columbus, o.,
were lately taken suddenly and serious
ly i'll, and at first it was thought they
had been poisoned by a malicious SER
want of the house; but prominent
physician has decided that their strange
illness was caused by eating diseased
pork. Other persons in the city have
recently been seriously i'll, their symp-
toms being similar to those suffering
from poisons, and these, too, have been
traced TO eating fresh pork.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-02-04

A bill has been presented in the
Legislature of Virginia making an an-
nual appropriation of $4,000 to the
University of Virginia, on condition that
il will educate all students from that
State in the academical department free
of charge.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-02-04

Victor Hugo has issued an address
TO the Senatorial Delegations for Paris
and France, i'm which he asks them to
found Democracy which shall end
foreign wars by arbitration, civil wars
by amnesty, and distress by education.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-02-04
Foreign Notes.

The Prince of Wales, while at Cal
cutta, received an ambassador whose
middle name was Shade Mengyee Maha
Seythoo Keen Woon Mengyee. He en-
couraged the Prince to address him fa-
military by this playful Scotch diminu-
tive.
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Science andIndustry.

The keel of the new tug-boat which
was recently laid in San Francisco, was
composed of one stick of timber liO feet
long.
Six hundred dollars worth Of moss
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-05
February Publications.
Scribner's.

John f. Miner gives second installment,
in the February Scribner, Of his New York
in the Revolution" The paper is handsome
ly illustrated, and full OF lively anecdotes.
One of tn. best is that which tells how Mrs.
Murray and her daughter, by a bit of Quaker
strategy" enabled Patnam to escape from
II owe when the British captured New York
in l116 the said strategy consisting in Turing
Howe and his generals aside from duty and
vigilance with their fascinating smiles and
seductive hospitality. But the story is al
ready IN all the newspapers Another anec'
dote is how William ". narrowly escaped
CAPTURE IN New York IN 1882, rs follows
The Prince was a young and reckless mid
shipman, given 10 Irritation, and TO the Inc.
bra,ion which found vent IN wrenching OF
door knobs; and II probably never occurred
TO him that in his person the "rebels'' would
find "A hostage worth having. The project
ORIGINATED with Colonel Matthias Ogden OF
the Jersey line, and the intention was to sur
prisc the Prince and his commissioned guard
/ ian. Admiral Disby, at their quarters In the
city mansion of Gerardus Beekman on Han
over square. Two officers anu thirty
men were TO AID Colonel Ogden in his enter
prise. Embracing on rainy night IN whale
boats. they were to land in New York neal
the Beekman mansion. force the doors OF iht
house. capture the Admiral and Prince, and
convey them to their boats. The plan was
. approved by Washington, but IL does not ap
pear that any decided attempt was made 't
Z. carry il out In some manner, the apprehen
: sions of the British leaders were excited for
II the safety of the Prince, and every precau
q, ton was taken against surprise. Had l
= not been tor the warning, the boldness OF thu
plan appears likely to have insured lis sue
q cess.
y "rhc Halls Bust OF Milton" by Clarence
.e Cook, Is an article which will peculiarly N
p tercst admirers Of the great poet; and Bed
|. and Tables, Stoves and Caudeslicks,' by IN
al same writer, wiR interest housekceperi
There Is an excellent article on the Univcrs
- ty of Michigan, by which many readers wi
doubtless be surprised To learn that in con
,Iparatively new, wild, fourth. class state of II
- west there is an educational institution ihi
). even now compares iayorably with Yale
Harvard, and threatens in It's rapid strides
lpass both. Especial Inleres, attaches 10 Il
lac experiment which here has obtained iis On
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-05
chronological journal.

The February number of this excellent
publication is worthy of the highest common
datlon from moral and intellectual points OF
view. Its natter scientific, Geographic,
and observation-disclosures the stamp Of ju.
dicious selection adapting it to the compre-
hension of numeous constituency. It's sto
RIGS and sketches are particularly admirable
Among the subjects treated IN the number
are Secreta y Brlstow; Rev. 5. II. Plat, a
NJ; The Human Soul-its Origin, Nature
and Functions; Responsibility in Percentage
\ Bad Beginning-Chapters |. and H.; To
hey Riddle (Wineman), the Heroine OF the
Modoc War; PeaCcunaKer Grange, Holiday
Musings; Educational Progress Backward
Agricultural Hints; Miscellany, etc. 30 cents
for the number-for the year, So. 5. X
Wolfe & Co. New York.
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Tho IIousckeeper.

Housekeeping is contessedly vast, com
plicatcd. difficult employment. Few occu
pa,ions require more intelligence, patience
and persistence; yet hardly any pursuit in
life can obtain from printed handkooks OF
aids SO little efficient help. The publication
under notice is intended to supply want
to be an aid to housekeepers-to teach them
how to do their work cheaply and economi
cailv, vet well, and how to avoid vast
amount of hard, weari'ome labor and worry
in so doing. 1t has been published year
and proved such success that il enters upon
second year enlarged and improved. 81
wear. Winga,e & Co., 90 Duane street, New
York
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-05
Locke's National Monthly.

The February number of this publication
is probably the best yet issued. Among the
new series of articles begun in the present
number is one of biographical sketches OF
prominent American men and women; a Sc
ries of very Instructive papers on Words, -
by well-known clergyman of Toledo, o.;
and another of pioneer "reminiscences of
Northwestern OHIO, by writer of wide repu.
tation. The remaining portions of the maya
zine are well filled with stories, sketches, po-
ems, etc, and us whole It will compare with
any dollar magazine now published.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-05
Science of Health.

Following are the leading contents of the
February number;
Studies in Family Life; Intemperance and
its Causes; Living to Eat and Eating to Live
Gluttony; Nature of the Pulse; The Eyes
and Spectacles; Why the Teeth Decay; 1t is
So, but Why? The Apple and its Uses in
Food. The Recipe Department is well filled.
So too, is the Department appropriated 20
matters Agricultural. Altogether most adj
mirablc number. SO year. 5. r. Wells &
Co, y. Y.
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Ballou's Monthly Magazine.

The contents of the Februrry number arc
as follows:
Scenes on and near the Thames; Miss An
derson's Right Hand; Memory's Harp; a
Lucky Mistake; My Metamorphose; The
Maid of Stenay; A Night Brush with the Sc
poys; Miss Chicks Fortune; A Pretty Young
Lady; The Fairy IN the Smoke; Trifes
Light as Air; Jennie's Pocket; Shadow on
The Snow; Through the Suez Canal; How
went to Richmond: or, the Fate of one OF
Stoneman's Raiders; Seventy Miles an Hour
One Rose; Margaret Gairloch's Beauty; The
First Crusade; Climbing the Leaning Tower
of Pisa; That Taylor Boy: The Haunted
House; Ruthven's Puzzle Page; Curious
Matters My Experience at Church; The
Housokeeper; Our announcement for 1876
Dreams of Humorous Pictures
Themes & Talbot, % Hawley St, Boston.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-05

The Penn Monthly The pride and boast
of Philadelphia, hcingo TIA; city what the
Atlantic is to Boston oBhckwoud To Edtn
hurgh the rccyptacle'f its choicest native
efforts In literature. Ic February number
oprss, as usual, with sTief but pointed and
iudlcious commentator the events of the
preceding month. History Of "Gudrun the
Trustv" Is It's first form article, and gives an
exceedingly intelliren interesting and cri'i
cal analysis Of that .mous German epic
which, ike the Nibehgen Lied runs back
for ,is aullorshlp To & times 20 which "th'
memory OF man runnO MOTTO The contrary.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-05
Musical Echo.

Hempsted's Hustcat E'cho comes to us from
Milwaukee, candidate Tor support from stu
dents and lovers of music. Besides large
amount of reading matter, it publishes 5
pages each month of music, of the full sheet
music size. Monthly, 81 year.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-05

This lavOu,g II the youngest readers pre-
seuts an unusually bright number for Febiu
airy. Nearly every page has picture, and
none could be finer. Following are the lead
ing contents:
The Fast Mail TRAM, When? Lucy's Er
rand; Waiting ior Dinner; Ola Breniiord
I'm Pay You for That; OF Course; Little
Beethoven; The Rescued Robin; The Black
berry Bush. Drawing Lesson; The Penny
Lost and Found: The Wise Old Hare; kulh
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-05
and Jane A Fish Tale Fisherman's Return
A Good Word for the Goose; Bessie's Kitten ;
The Winter Rose. JOHN l., Shorey, Boston.


Among the macy agricultural Journals that
claim the support of the Western Farmer
the above, published by Duncan Il Nall
Louisville, Is the most slightly on our table
and is edited with consummatc ability
Though primarily adapted to the meridian
of Kentucky and Tennessee, the Illinois far
mer will find in ii great deal Of very useful
matter adapted to tins climate. 1t is pub
lishcd weekly, at 50 year, each number con
tanning 30 large pages
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-02-05
Little's Living Age,

The number of the week ending Jan. 29tll
contains
4 Prussian Campaign In Holland from
the EdaJvrgh Rsrier: .etthandcd Elsa,
Black,rood: CorncIlle, anC The Literary So.
ciety of his Age. by the author of Mira.
beau" T9apl, Bar: y New Paper making
Material, Cidmbu's Jo,raoi: How 10 breathe
Properly, Public He1lh. The Monasteries
and the Poor Laws. The WgEh: Cheese Fac.
tories in America, &c, together with the usu.
al poetry and miscellany. The present is a
favorable time to subs sTibe, beginning with
the new volume. For illly.iwo numbers OF
sixtytour large pages each, lor more than
5000 pages year. the subscription price (SS)
is low. l.!tlell 4 Gay, Boston.
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st. Nicholas.

The February st. Nicholas comes with lis
usual freight of stories, sketches, poems, ana
pictures. The frontisplecc S striking pic
turc illustrating the opening story OF the
number, "Thc BLACK Doug as The boy
p-ioru,ts,, come nav.. "nd we are glad to
recognize their interesting faces IN numerous
mixtures. Other stories are Two Goats, The
Shower of Gold, Sally Watsons Ride, All for
Biiou, &c. AS for practical articles, "Tobog-
cans and their Use" will electrity the boys,
who will appreciate and soon begin to prac-
tice the new method Of costing described
therein; while the description of the "ChneSe
New Year" and the directions for acting
Ballads" and for making md stocking an
."Aouarium,' will be read with interest by
all alike. OF course no february number
would neglect 50 importania matter as Val
entines, and we have them n various phases
tine ways of observing th day-specimen
yalent,nes-and how valctines are made.
Under this last head one wi0 saw valentine
made says:
1t was no fairy's haniwOrk. 1t went
through the hands OF grimyooklng workmen
and dowdylooking girls; t made familiar
acquaintance with sand-paIcr and glue-poIs,
and steel stamps and inky resses, and paint
brushes anu all sorts OF unpleasant things,
before it reached your hans.
To be sure, dreamy alist may have de
signed it, but lithograpEr, with inky nm
gers, printed the picture )art; die-cutter,
with sleeves rolled up, Iade pattern IN
steel of the lace.work on tt edge; and din
gy.looking pressman, viii a paper hat on
stamped the pattern arund the picture
Another hard handed wOzmen rubbed the
lack of the stamped lac with sand.paper
till il came in holes and loked like lace, and
no, merely like stamped PIPER, and row OF
girls at u common long telc-talkIng about
their own narrow lives. ie hard times, anG
so forth-put on the ctors with stencils,
rummed on the hearts an darts and cupids
and flowers and mirrors nd doors anG cur.
tains, and stuck in the sa0et powder and tied
mn the bows, and sewed n the fGinges, and
n tucked. in the Handkerchief or other gift, and
otherwise finished the ting exactly like the
pattern before them.
You see, the sentimentabout valentine
4 doesn't begin vet To these workmen 1t
1 is merely their daily wOrsand TO them means
only bread.and butter an home. Ii Is not
until Tom, Dick, or Har takes it from the
stationer, and writes you name on II, mat II
acquires in some wayne sentiment that
makes il such nice thiC 10 get.
The hideouS abominaon called II "comic
valentine which is nelly a cruel or low
. minded insult to the rccWer, is beneath the
notice of any gentlemanyhethcr he's hve or
!, fifty wears old, and I'm ire no 81 Nicholas
boy cares 20 know how lis made
} There is another instment of Jon Of Ice
land" and there is poey by Lucy Larcon,
Mrs. a. Phillips, MarDayton and others,
with Jackin-thc. Pulpc Very Little Folks,
z Letter Box &c. &c