The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-03

| "A TWO houf> >ltctus
Information has been received al the stock.
yards in Kansas City that the drive Of TeXa'
cattle 10 Kansas the coming season will b,
! larger than for the past two years. Twenty.
one firms have signiied their intention 81
driving herds ranging in number from q. 90
20 2.0OO. 4 careful estimate places the tota
drive AZ so, 600. The drive hast year was
about 10, 900.
The Texas state election was held on the
18th. and the present State officers, all
Democrats. were undoubtedly reelected.
The new Constitution was also adopted.
The south Carolina House, by unani-
nous vote. has adopted resolutions 81 i'm
parchment against Judge Montgomery
Moses.
The Georgia House Of Representatives,
on the 18th. unanimously passed resolu-
tioR. declaring that, in the opinion OF that
body, the ''equal political rights Of All citi-
zcns OF thi. State, regardless Of race or pre-
ViOus condition, are permanently fixed and
secured by the Constitution II the United
states, which is recognized by this body as
the supreme law OF the land; and that no
abridgmcn, Of or interference with these
sired i'm any action OF the General Assembly
or by the people whom we represent; and
that any and all legislation in contrasention
thereof, either by the Legislature or by
convention of the people. would he nun and
yoid.r
AT Holly springs, Miss, on the morning
Of the 10th. the body Of Marcus Lewis, a
well known merchant, was found in his
store horribly mutilated and bloody Az ~
ing near. \ negro named Miles Washing
ton, who was arrested on suspicion. adj
mitted that be was present at the murder,
but the deed was done by an Irishman named
Kennedy, who had fled.
on the night Of the 18th a destructive
wind storm passed through Washington
County, Indiana, unroofing siX barns, and
entirely demolishine seven dwellings, be-
sides numerous outbuildings. The wife
and two children OF Thomas Nicholson,
farmer, received severe injuries by the over
turning 81 their house. joel Denny lost
nearly a thousand fruit trees. Some Of the
farmers suffered great loss in live stock.
The money value Of the property destroyed
is said 20 be very large.
Mlr~l-~tfpi uA~ hfNtTtu ire
impeachment Of both Lieut.. -Goy. Davis and
Superintendent Of Education Cardoza. on
~ seven votes were east against the impeach-
ment Of Davis, and four against that Of Car
doza.
According to an Omaha dispatch Of the
Isth, the Sioux, ArapahOes and Cheyennes
are putting themselves in fighting trim. and
may be expected TO strike the frontier set
Elements in the course Of few weeks.
Hon. A. J. Mowry resumed his seat in
the Kansas Legislature, after having given
a bond to the amount Of Sll,5OO 10 answer
in court the charges against him. He asserts
hi entire innocence and says he had nothing
10 do with those fraudulent bonds. further
than TO draw the money on them for others.
IL j. said that his constituents are satisfied
Of his innocence. The House. however. by
a vote Of Go to 81, ordered his expulsion
from that body.
The Teutonia Life Insurance Company Of
Chicago has passed into the hands Of a re-
ceiyer.
The Vance bin, which repeats the sever
est features OF the Potter Railroad law.
passed the Wisconsin Assembly by vote Of
SO to 80.
The Kansas City Times special Black Hills
writes from Cheyenne that
1900 gold-huniers are at that place. and $50
arriving daily. The largest number and the
best equipped come from California. AT
least one hundred men leave Cheyenne each
day for the Black Hills, q distance Of three
hundred miles over the snowy plains north
ward. All agree that gold exists there, but
in very limited quantities.
The City Mills and elevator at Champaign.
H., together with 10, 900 bushels Of wheat.
were burned on the morning of the 18th.
Loss about $4,000; insurance, $3J, 900.
They were probably set on fire.
The Kern Valley Bank at Bakersfield,
CAL, was entered by burglars on the even
ing Of the 18th. while the Cashier was look
ing at his accounts. They knocked him
down, chloroformed him. and robbed the
bank Of 81 900, Of which 81, 900 belonged
to the County Treasury. The Cashier was
found insensible on a table the next morn
ing.
Antonio Cattalano, aged 40, Dominica
Danina, aged -, and Bostiano Lombardo,
aged 81, were hanged at ST. Louis on the
18th, for the murder OF Francisco Palermo
on the 18Th Of March last. The assassins, a.
also their victim, were sicilians.
X. u. Rufiin. colorcd member Of the vir-
gfnia House OF Delegates from Dinwiddie
County, has been expelled from that body
for abstracting money from the pay-book Of
the scrgeant-at-Arms. The money belong
ed TO another colored member, and was in
the pay book. in care Of RufIln.
Three families. named Howry, Drillard,
and westfall, residingln Greenfield Town
ship, Warren County, Iowa. have had
long standing dispute about the location OF
various roads, fences, etc, in their neigh
borhood. The dispute finally eliminated
in personal encounter, on Saturday night.