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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-12-07

goes 70 church she wears -buttoned
kids and ten-buttoncd pocket-book.
The firm but gentle hornet has shut
up bis summer-cottage and gone into
retirement for the winter. His last
words were, wake me up when the
first picnic starts out next spring.
because the young man wears a
summer-suit and straw-i.at all through
November, and then has the same raj
ments dyed black for December, il no
sign that he Is poor or improvident.
He may be rich and eccentric.
When Thanksgiving Day comes this
year, if our gratitude was one-tenth a.
large rs our harvest, Providence would
be overwhelmed with "A shock of aston.
ishment that it hasn't experienced since
ungrateful men and abundant haryests
were instituted.
The old, old story. A man went
into store on West Hill last night and
picked up a gun. OF course, he didn't
know il was loaded. II went of. SO
did the man. And the man who owns.
or rather owned the gun, would give $50
70 know where they went.
"A Philadelphia poctess sings ~
would not weep because the roses die. :"
No, indeedy. That's nothing to cry for
But when blackjack wood is worth
$3.50 a cord, and the winter promises to
last five months, then you want TO lift
up your voice and howl till they can
hear you in Nevada.
"A Burlington man has invented a
device for assisting the victim who Is se-
lected to carve the Thanksgiving turkey.
Two strong iron clamps, set in the ta-
bic, reach up through holes in the plat
ter and grasp the turkey 50 firmly that
the man can tear il to tatters in the
usual way, without sliding it off into
somebody's lap.
--Bayard Taylor wanted his girl to
meet him g at MONDAY, sweetheart, in
the billowy fields Of grain" Now that
man would run the risk OF sun-stroke
and trample down an acre and half of
good wheat and get his shoes full Of
prickly wheat-beards, for little unsat-
isfactory hugging, when the girl would
a great deal rather meet him ia the ice
cream saloon, where the only bill-owe-y
thing in sight would be the man behind
the counter.
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According 10 awritcr in the KansG,
FarD,sr, the culture Of the silk-worn
can be made very profitable in Kansas
Machinery i being made in New
Orleans 10 be used ia manufacturing
hats from the fiber Of palmetto leaves al
Orange Park, Fla.
1t j. estimated that 5000, 900 cans
Of tomatoes, corn, etc, grown and
packed in Hartford County, Maryland,
will be shipped this season.
Six hundred men are employed in
the granite quarries Of Hurricane Island,
Maine, preparing stone for the St.LouiS
Post-onice and Custom-house.
England has become so fond of
American apples that il IL estimated
that she can certainly take an average
Of from 1900 10 1000 barrels per
week for the whole market-year of nine
months.
The decrease in the sales Of high
priced gloves i due To the fact that
American manufacturers have brought
their gloves TO the excellence "a foreign
makes, at prices low enough 10 place
them within the reach Of ALL
The enterprise Of shipping fresh
beef from Boston TO Europe. which Mt
one time promised 80 well that refrigcl :
ator-rooms were put into several Gu
nardcrs, has failed, because the beef
did not arrive in good order. Except
for that, regular business at fair profit
was sure.
The pianos and organs used in the
public schools Of Boston, us well .as
those Of many families, are tuned by
blind pupils from the Perkins Institute,
who arc found to he capable Of peculiar
skill IN that occupation. Their lack az
sight makes them more dependent on
hearing, and the latter SENSE thereby
gains in delicacy.
The competition between the Amer
lean manufacturers Of -~'d watch cases
has been SO sharp that THESE articles are
sold forthc bare value Of the gold and
the cost of manufacture. The only
profit y in the spring that throws the
lace Of the watch open 'fhisiS weighed
with the case, and the makers get its
value in gold.
MIR. Nj. l.. Bambergcr, wholesale
.wine-dcale + Of Berlin, has lately pub
nshed the component parts Of the va
nous brands OF German, French and
spanish wines on sale In Germany. All
We're analysed and found 10 contain del
e'erious matter. But few we're made
rom grapes, and two were found en-
nreiy destitute Of any natural product.
An Englishman in India has invent
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Mr.. Charles Darwin has been mad,
. Doctor of Civil Laws by Cambridg,
University.
-Longfcllow's daughter, Edith, |,
shortly To he married 10 X. IL. Dana 3D.
the clever and handsome son Of X. III
Dana, Jr., Of Boston.
Mrs. Brooks, the artist in butter
has been molding companion piece q
her Dreaming iolanthe,n and calls |,
"The Coming Man.
-Gencral Howard has undertaken d
write for the Chicago ddrancc series
Of articles describing his march in pur.
suit Of the Ncz Pcrccs.
Richard Henry Dana, the Oldest liv.
ing writer in America. attained his goth
years on Nov. 16. His sight is keen,
his health is good, and his mind il as
clear as ever
Miss Collins, daughter of the late
Mortimer Collins, is about to issue her
first novel. II Is 10 be entitled "An In
nocent Sinner The interest Il of d
psychological nature.
Louis A. Cooley gracefully takes
leave Of the readers Of Godcv's Ladu's
Book in the last number Of the magazine.
He has been connected with il since lis
establishment, AZ years ago.
a London publishing house has
published a book entitled - General
Grant, His Life and Times;n depending
on the interest OF Cen Grants recep-
tons for the sale, but the speculation is
reported as not doing well.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, the tai
ented editor Of 81. Nich0ids, is quite i'll.
She suffered from typhoid fever in the
summer. and has not recovered from
is effects. Her physician has ordered
her % stop work for year, and she
Will probably 90 to Europe.
Col. VIM. Il. Johnston has about
completed the biography Of his father,
Albert Sidney Johnston. At present he
i temporarily filling Randolph fuckers
chair in the Law Department Of Wash
ington and Lee University.
The New York Lotus Club gave
Mr.. Farjeon, the English novelist, re-
ception and dinner, and in returning
thanks he said "Not only in oratory
Is the American superior to the English.
You beat us in oysters, in corn bread,
in sweet potatoes, in canvas-back ducks,
and. venture to say, in kind feelings
and hospitality
The December number Of the Al
lanffc contains the following verse from
Longfcllow 70 Tennyson
Poet come To touchmy lance wit IA thine:
Not Hsn knight; who on the listed field
OF tourney touched his adversary shield
IN token Of Defiance bur an sign
81 homage To the mastery VI hich a. thine
Ia English song; nor viii l keep conceale,i
And Noicclcss a. rlyulct frost congealc..,
Mn admiration for thy verse divine.
Not 1T the bowling dcryishes OF song,
Who craze the brain with their aclirious
dance
Art thou, % sweet historian OF the heart
Therefore a. thee the laurel leaves belong.
To thee our love and our allegiance.
For thy allegiance 10th. poets art
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'"''''rt ""t AnuAsns
Bob Ingersoll lectured al Utica, N.
r., last week, and on Sunday II clergy
men IN that city devoted their sermons
10 him.
The Council Of the British EyangcIi-
cal Alliance has appointed the week be-
ginning the 9Th Of January next as the
Week Of Prayer.
The main building Of Purdue Uni
versity, the State Agricultural College,
at Lafayette, Ind, just completed, was
formally dedicated on the 2lst.
The average length Of the pastorate
in the United Presbyterian Church is
eight years. There are now 500 unem-
ployed ministers and large number Of
vacant churches.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South, within the State Of Mississippi,
has about 10000 communicates, more
than 200 itinerant preachers, and about
the same number Of local.
"A Methodist church in Knoxville,
Tenn, bears the remarkable name Of
Z The Parson Brownlow Church, Its
friends have lately been raising money
for its somewhat exhausted treasury.
The religious societies have had
very good receipts the past year, not
withstanding the dullness Of business.
Fifty-cnc Bible, missionary and educa-
tional societies report aggregate re-
ceipts Of Ss,Ol2, 1870.
The Dunkards in Pennsylvania have
recently been numbered, and are found
to be about 1900. There are in all the
United States about 200. They wear
curious clothes, and are very exclusive.
a French delegate to the Pan-Prcs-
bytcrian Council said: ~ come here
TO Scotland and find you convulsed over
the question whether you shall sing
hymns or not. In France we are alb
sorbed with the question whether there
Is God or not
Baby-schools flourish in Pittsfield,
Mass, being combination Of the kim
dergarten and the old-fashioned system
Of instruction. The strictkindergarten
have not been kept up, but many Of the
German ideas have been kept, and the
little ones are given short hours, fire.
quent rests, and a variety Of occupations.
The Wisconsin Baptists want to
adopt the Methodist circuit system,
which is particularly applicable 70
churches in sparsely settled neighbour
hoods, too poor TO support settled
ministry. Among many Of the Baptist
churches of that State, the question is
between furnishing this sort Of service
and closing the mccting-houscs alto
gether.
Bishop Harris Of the Methodist
Church gives his opinion, based on close
observation in his round-the-world jour
ney, that in foreign mission-ficlds the
missionaries are much less exclusive and
denominations than at home. He says
that all who i've in the same neighbor-
hood throw their efforts together, re-
CARELESS of sect, and having but one end
in view.
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Foegell grasped by the muzzle. In
some way the trigger caught, The piece
WIS discharged, and Foegell was in
stantly killed, the charge entering his
heart.-C. II. Saycrs, young man Of
Ncennh, Wis, was killed by the acct
dental discharge Of his own gun while
hunting near Shawano.
Suicidal: Harry Russell, son Of a
well known banker Of GAINESVILLE, o.,
shot himself; cause not known. Philip
Lcibcr, a farmer in good circumstan-
ces residing near Monrocvillc, o., shot
himself; no cause assigned. Mrs. LAT
ferty, widow, hanged herself on a tree
near her residence 1t Princetown, o. !;
her second attempt. Michael M.
Landcsburg, aged 90, hanged himself in
his house about Is miles south Of War
saw, Ind; partially deranged. Samuel
jackson, Of Connersville, Ind, and
Leyison Patterson, "a farmer residing near
Jacksonville, Ind, each made an I'M
successful attempt TO take his life--the
former with razor and the latter by a
pistol. Mary Koch, beautiful girl,
whose parents reside at Dixon, Iowa,
drowned herself in the river at DaveI-
port, where she had been employed
She was seduced and deserted by
scoundrel named Bartels. --Thos. Bran
non, lawer, Of Missouri Valley
Junction, Iowa, shot himself on
account Of domestic troubles and over
indulgence in whisky The body Of
young woman was discovered by tramp
in barrel in an unoccupicd house at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, the throat cut
from ear to ear. 1t is supposed that she
got into the barrel and cut her own
throat with razor, which was found
near the barrel. A letter found on her
person would indicate that her name
was Anna 9. Dole, and that she came
from st. Joseph, Mo.--A young scrv
ant-girl named Clara Stanley killed her
self with strychnine near Davenport,
Iowa; disappointment in love the sup
posed cause.--Francis Frost, young
man aged 81 years, who had been stop
ping al Eaton. Madison County, N. r.,
fell in love with little 15-year-old girl,
Miss Lucy Morey, and because she re-
fused to marry him committed suicide
by taking laudanum.--An exceedingly
novel suicide is reported from Balti-
more. John Leonard, aged 20, walked
to the Patapsco River, hung his hat on a
bush, and waded into three feet Of water.
He then deliberately held his head under
water until he drowned.
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ed q solar battery consisting OF zoo small
mirrors, 50 arranged that they focused
the suns rays upon small copper boil
or, and generated steam ia il in 20 min
utes. He contends that he could BY the
same means generate heat enough To
drive the largest spinning-mill in Bonn
bay.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-12-07

EoEtiku NOstss
Herr Won Herbeck, director of
music at the Austrian Court, died re-
Gently at Vienna.
The French correspondents say that
MacMahon i beginning TO look very old
and worried.
The widow of the late Duke Galliera,
Of Genoa, is employing part Of her inn
mcnse wealth in building two magniii-
cent hospitals for that city Her hus-
band, before his death, gave S4,0O0,tO0
toward rcmodeling the port, and this
work l. now rapidly progressing.
In Germany editors are painfully
supervised by the authorities. During
the last year 266 press-prosecutions have
been brought by the Government, of
which 1l9 were for "libels" upon dis
tinguished individuals, the Others for
violations Of the press-laws and criticism
Of the Emperor.
Henry Fitzalan Howard, Fifteenth
Duke Of Norfolk, and Lady Flora Hast
ings, daughter of the Countess Of Lou
don and cousin Of Lord Butte, were mar
ried At Brompton, near London, on the
2lst, three Catholic Bishops officiating.
The wedding was conducted in a style Of
great magniiicence, and the bridal gifts
were fit for royalty itself.
Feminine independence appears to
flourish in Great Britain. Miss Marjori-
banks, who is shortly to be married TO
the Earl Of Aberdeen, made no less than
three long speeches in reply TO public
Populations presenting addresses Of con-
graduation upon the approaching event,
and this notwithstanding her future hus-
band was present to respond if she had
preferred him to do so.
The Pope comes Of long-lived
race. His two brothers were nonagena-
rians, one dying at the age Of IS and the
other At the age of &c. During the last
20 years of their lives their death was
expected at any moment. Ii may be the
same with the Pope. His doctors assert
that should he enduae the early cold of
winter toward Christmas, like his
brothers. he may live 10 years. He is
now in his seth year.
Queen Victoria celebrated Hallow-
cen at Balmoral with quaint, old fash
Toned ceremonies. A brilliant process
sion Of torch-bearcrs marched through
the grounds in the still, dark night, pre-
coded BY the Queens pipers, playing
Justify. After them came the Princess
Of Wales and her little daughters and
the Princess Beatrice, each carrying
flaming torch aloft After marching
round the castle several times the Prin-
cesse1 Alexandria and Beatrice lighted
with their torches the huge bonfire
erected on the green, and with the rest
Of the gay company, danced the torch
light dance ronnd the blazing pile,
while the kindly Queen looked on.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-12-07

BIRps'-NEsrPrpDING.--Peel and core
a. many apples as will stand in dish,
ana FIJI the holes with sugar. Make
custard Of quart Of milk, 4 eggs, and
| pound OF sugar. Pour II over the ap..
pies, CRATE nutmeg over the top, and
bake one hour.
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IBy Burlington Hawkeyc Burdcttc.l
"A good fat country for the tramps
70 cmigratc 70, the island of Feed We.
Times are 20 good out in Iowa this
fall that you can hardly tell tramp
from a savings bank director.
" What is dollarp" asks the
Graphic. It's just the same as graft
tude something Of which we owe more
than we have.
IF this Gilman business keeps on, 1t
won't be long before nobody but COM
mon people will be left outside Of the
penitcntiary.
There is woman on North Hill so
fashionable and 50 stingy that when she
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-12-07

"A school Of Japanese mobiles was
formally inaugurated October II in To-
lsio by the Emperor ard Empress, who
presented, seyerally, 1900 gems or dol
lars. This institution j. founded BY
families Of cx-Daimios and kuges, old
nobility Of the imperial capital and
courts 81 provinces, for the education
chiefly, though not exclusively, Of the
higher classes. Ii Il largely endowed
and now in full working order.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-06-23

MAN HUNG. - A few days ago man
 named Manuel Sanchez was hung for horse
 stealing, at the Lerdo Colony. Last year when Foncerada was cutting wild hemp and employing a large nnmDer of men down there, he used to send this Sanchez up here as a" trusty," to carry down money for paying off the hands, 5000 and S15OC at q time in silver coin He also used t. send him into Sonora and lower California to buy cattle. In the light of late events it is presumable that he used to steal the latter. When the colony broke up he went to Sonora; returned few months ago, stole skiff and went back to Lerdo; there he stole two horses and went to Sonora. For revolutionary tendencies he was put in jail there, but escaping went into Lower California via Yuma. There he stole four mules and took them to Lerdo, where he was Overhauled by the owner and an officer with requisition. To save trouble and expense they just hung him. He was a big stout fellow, weighing over 200 pounds, and we'll able to have made an honest living
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-06-23
TIE railroad was interviewed on Thu

TIE railroad was interviewed on Thurs. dAy by our special reporter. Arriving at Colorado Station he glanced at the freight, but struck nothing new except 9 heavy cast iron shoes for wagon wheels, marked Kimble Bros, Mohave Co. The only place they need such things up that way is at the McCrackin mine for hauling ore down the mountain. Looks as if they think ore hauling win'continue for some time. He passed If empty box cars, which had brought in sheep that morning. The fra grance of their late cargo prevailed the air and recalled to our reporters mind tender memories of his sheep herding antecedents. Farther on were two cars loaded with the remains of those lately burned. No one can form an idea of how much iron is in 8 freight car, until it is burned up and the iron piled together. Farther down the track big tank was being filled by a steam pump which kept four inch stream constantly flowing into it. No one was anywhere around the pump except two Yuma Indians-the reporter took them to be the assistant "Injun-eers." The brush has been burned of along the river and for long distance down the track. Walking on, he passed well about ten feet deep and curbed with three-inch sawed lumber
 In a country where lumber is scarce, and where collins are made out of potato
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-06-23

ROUGH ON CASTLE DoME-The price of lead is reported to have dropped within a few weeks in New York from 61 to cents per pound. At these rates the Pacific Coast can ship no lead to that market. The
 smelting works at Melrose have shut down until the market recovers. They were the principal buyers of Castle Dome ores. These ores have always commanded a ready sale from their fitness for making refined lead for the manufacture of white lead paint. Most lead ores contain more or less bismuth, which is eliminated with great difficulty from the refined lead. Even one ounce of bismuth to the ton gives & bluish tint to the paint. Castle Dome ores contain no trace of bismUtb, and from it Whittier, Fuller < Co.,, of San Francisco, have been making a superior article of paint, as white as the driven snow. The demand on this coast for white lead alone Is enough to consume the entire product of Castle Dome. Present prices are rough on the miners, but they must soon rally
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-06-23

FIRST SHIPMENT BY RAIL.-In Col Bar ney's office hangs framed bill of ladine of the first through shipment by rail from here to San Francisco. It was shipment of ten tons high grade Silver King ore shipped hence by wagon to railroad ter. minus March 31st. The first through ship. ment by rail from Los Angeles to Yuma dates April 2d, and is represented in the frame by the proper document. Beside it is placed Expense Bill No. 1, dated April 19tE of the first shipment from San Fran cisco to the Colorado by rail. This was a lot of machinery for the Silver King mine. This mine thus gave the railroad its first through business into and out of Arizona. Speed the omen!
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-06-23
and if the boys can hold their ores few wees all will yet be we'll.

OUR GRADEs.-Madison avenue, between Judge Alexander's and the Court House is exactly On the grade of the railroad and is g feet higher than Main street between Barney's and the school-house. Lot 1 in Block 4, which lies at the river-bank and is where the first works of the Yuma Water Co. will be erected, is 39 feet higher than Madison Avenue near the Court House. The grade of Main street is being made by the railroad company uniform from the Catholic Church down to the new steamer freight sheds on the bank of the river. The corner of Third street and Madison Avenue, where the new depots are to be, is 1910 feet from the river
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-06-23

OVER 5000 SHEEP have been brought out here lately over the $. F. R. R. by Gen Banning, and most of them are still along the river below town. The rates made by the railroad Company for bringing stock are special and private, but are understood to greatly favor the shipper. Earnings losses were very light. lie lost one out 0 the first shipment of over 125O head; only seven died out of the next 2OOO. The deaths were due to over crowding the ear loads One of the old barges has been provided with strong, high rail all around her deck. She will hold about 14O0 head of sheep and is the best boat for crossing stock we ever saw. In crossing these sheep Capts. Polhamus and Overman took much interest and care; the transfer was made quickly and safely. Earnings inter- tion is to let the sheep move along gra- dually to the eastward, up the Gila.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-06-23

THE R. K. engineers were locating new line on Thursday along Madison avenue, near the court house. The new line is about 25 feet west of the former one, and does not turn so abruptly into the block between Third and Fourth streets. There has been some hitch about securing title to that block for depot grounds and this looks as if the railroad company were returning to their original intention of erecting their depots out beyond the slaughter house. All the worse for property holders in the northern part of the town.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-06-23

SAFES, to be of any service in this coun try, have to be constructed in manner cal culated to meet the peculiarities of the eli mate. The large Halls safe in the Recor der's office has warped and swelled 50, that the inner doors can not Dc closed a: all The great Hilton ts Mcfarland safe belong. ing to the Southern Pacific Railroad Cc. at Colorado Station every now and again swells so, that the agent has to get two or three men to help him open it. McNeale & Urban seem to have hit things just right in putting up safes for use in Arizona Every one of their safes here works to a charm and gives good satisfaction.