The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-10-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

Marshall County, for Lieutenant Governor
MISCELLANEOUS.
President Vanderbilt, OF the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railroad, has issued
a general order TO officers and employees,
notifying them that an advance Of per cent.
upon the compensation Of all employees OF
the company affected by the july reduction
OF 10 per cent, and whose pay amounts 70
less than 5000 per annum, will be made on
and after November 1, 1877.
The steamer Magnolia, from Savannah TO
New York, Sept. 27th, foundered of Cape
Hatteras, during heavy gale on the 3oth.
The passengers and crew left the vessel in
boats when il became evident she was going
down, and they were picked up by pilot
boat and landed at Lewes, Del. They saved
nothing except what was on their backs.
The vessel was loaded with cotton and
miscellaneous cargo and was insured.
II l. estimated that 10000 bales OF the
deficiency Of the cotton crop OF the season
Of 1861 was the result Of the oyerfiows In
the lower Mississippi and tributaries in the
spring and summer OF 1876 OF this $1,000
bales are apportioned 10 the lower Missis-
sippi, $1,000 bales TO the Arkansas. and $500
bales to the Wichita. The money value Of
the crop lost by high water is estimated at
$S,S55,000.
A severe storm passed over large por-
ton Of the country on the 4th and 5th. Com
ing from the Gulf Of Mexico on the morning
Of the 4th, it passed up along the Atlantic
coast, causing great damage in is course.
The fatal accident on the Pickering valley
Railroad, In Pennsylvania, is one Of the dis
asters caused by the storm; q train on the
Bevidere Division Of the New Jer-
sey Railroad was wrecked in
stream, and three persons drowned:
train on the Wilmington and Northern
Railroad was ditched near Coatesville, Del,
and the engineer killed and the fireman
badly scalded. The storm on Delaware Bay
was the most severe that has been known
for years, and 10vessels foundered at their
moorings in Lewes harbor, while outside
many larger craft Jared badly. Great dam.
age was also caused in the city OF Brooklyn
and other places. The storm seems TO have
extended westward 10 the lakes, causing
disaster 70 numerous small vessels.
The steamship Constitution, from Victoria
TO San Francisco, was discovered 10 be on
fire in her coal when about 10 miles Of port,
on the 9Th. She had on board large num-
Der OF passengers. Steam tugs went 10 her
assistance A. soon as her predicamenf be-
came known, and she was towed into port
and grounded on Mission Flat, where she
was -cuttled and filed with water. The
passengers were landed In safety.
II was reported on the 9th that the Next
can population OF III Paso County, Texas,
had risen en- masse and seized all the civil
authorities, who were placed in Jail under
strong guard. There are only about %
Americans in the county, and they were
powerless to protect the officers. The
trouble originated on account OF Judge
Towards having debarred the people from
taking salt from the salt lakes without a
permit. Gov. Hubbard tclegraphcd 70 Gen.
ord for assistance to rcinstatc the deposed
officers.
Gen. Miles, in an official dispatch dated
Oct. 3. from camp near the Bear-Paw
Mountains, says that his command struck
the camp 81 the hostile Nez Perccs on the
3Oth ut., capturing the larger portion o.
their herd, about 600 head Of horses, mules
and ponies. severe engagement
ensucd, In which two officers and u
men were killed, and four officers and about
40 men wounded. The names OF the officers
killed are Capt. owen Hale and second
Lieut.. Jos. w. Biddle, seventh Cavalry; the
wounded officers are Capts. Miles Maylon
and r. ;. Godfrey, Seventh Cavalry, and
FirSt Licuienants q. w. Baird and Henry
Romeyn, Fifth Infantry. The Indians
lost II killed, including Looking glass,
Joscph'- brother and three other chiefs, and
40 wounded. Gen. Miles reports that Joseph
gave him his solemn pledge 20 surrender,
but instead Of doing 30, he had taken 10 the
rayines with the remnant OF his forces,
where u was impossible for the soldiers 10
dislodge them without great loss 81 life.
Their camp was closely invested, and IL was
thought they would be compelled to SUR
render unless they received reinforccments
from Sitting-Bull, with whom Joseph was
said To be In communication. Gen. sturgis. /
who was IN the immediate vicinity Of Miles,
Il y thought must have joined him not long
after the fight.
Hon. Robert smalls (colorcd), Member Of
Congress from South Carolina, was arrested /
AZ Columbia on the 9Th, upon charge Of ac-
cepting brides while a member OF the State
Legislature. Ex-Trcasurer Cardozo d also
under arrest and IN Jail charged with mall
In Office; and senator Patterson
was arrested In Washington on the 9th, upon
! requisition Of Gov. Hampton, but dis
charged on habcas corpus.