The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-04-05

The United States sloop-sf-war Wyoming,
which sailed from New York on the 10th
with goods for the Paris Exhibition. wher
800 miles out sprang a leak and was forced
TO reiurn for repairs.
by an explosion OF q steam pipe on board
the Hudson River steamer Magenta, Just be.
low Sing Sing, on the 23d, four men were in
stantly killed and several others severed,
scalded.
The aerophone Is the latest wonderful de.
velopment Of Eiison's Tphonograrh. The
vibrating diaphragm, instead 81 registering
sounds on = cylinder or t~in-foil, as in the
phonograph proper, l. 50 arranged as Il
open and shut valves IN a steam whistle, and
Mr.. Edison says that before long he shall
have the thing so nearly perfected that one
OF his machines will utter words distinctly
enough 70 be heard miles away.
Al Cicero, Onondago County, n. u, on
the 23d, Mrs. Lucy L. Day, an old woman,
aged 80, was murdered by her daughter, a
married woman aged as. She stabbed her
At a dinner-tahle with a knife. The quarrel
was the result OF an old feud.
Patrick Hester, Patrick Tully and Peter
McHugh, three notorious members OF the
Mollie Mcguire organization, were hanged
at bloomsbury, Pa, on the 18th, for the
murder Of Alexander w. Rea, a %colliery boss,
In 1865.
A severe snow-storm occurred along the
Atlantic coast on the oath. extending from
Canada a. far south as Baltimore. In Maine
and Vermont - inches Of snow fell.
A shocking murder was discovered at
Andover, Mass, on the oath, the victim be-
ing Miss Mary Ann Jones, = weak and Grip
Piled maiden lady, and the murderer
Mrs. Phube Atkinson, an elder sister Of the
murdered woman, with whom The latter
lived. The inhuman sister beat her victim
about the head and body with a
bottle, and with q heavy umbrella
stick until the unfortunate woman fell in
sensible upon the floor. There She was al
lowed 10 lie for two days, bruised, bleeding
and helpless: and when il was apparent that
she was dying, the murdcress suddenly left
town. The sisters owned a little property
in common, and Il i supposed that that was
the cause Of the murder.
a lire Al Philadelphia. on the night II the
24th, destroyed the business houses Nos.
100 to 1872 North Fourth Street, and 4 NUM-
Der OF buildings on Cherry, North Third and
North Second streets. The total loss i e.
timated at Il, 100000.
Judge Blatchfori. Of the United States
District Cour At New York. has given a de-
cision in the suit Of the United States against
ex-Gov. Samuel J. Tilden, to recover some
$4,000 income tax, alleged to be due the
Government by defendant. The question al
issue was whether the United states was
bound by the faction 81 it. agent, the As
SCISSOR, in liking the amount OF taxable in
come Of defendant, who failed to make any
return himself, but paid the tax as
sessed, together with the ) per cent.
penalty attached. The Court holds, virtu-
ally, that the Government was not bound by
the action Of the United states Assessor a.
its agent, and that Mr.. TiIden was required
tomake, himself, the return OF his Income.
which be had not done. The ease i now 10
proceed to trial by jury on the question of
the amount Of income Of Mr.. Tilden during
the years In which he made no return him
self. II il said that Mr.. Tilden will appeal
the case to the United States supreme Court.
Dexter McCreary and Fortune Bush, col
ored, were hanged At BarnweIl Court house.
;. c., on the ed. for the murder OF stephen
Enicks, his wife and two children. After
killing the parents, the murderers ii red the
dwelling and the children burned to death