The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-09-27
CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

Gen. James Longstreet has been appoint
ed Revenue Agent for the district OF 6eor-
gia and Florida
The War Department has prepared along
argument in favor OF the transfer Of the In
dian Bureau to the War Department. Sec
rotary schurz, on behalf Of the Interior De-
partment. 4 having prepared an argument
against the transfer. These arguments are
70 be submitted TO the Congressional Com
mission which Il to meet in St. Louis on the |
18Th Of this month.
+. L. Gordon, formerly State Treasurer |
Of South Carolina, has been appointed TO
q 800 clerkship in the Treasury Department
1t Washington.
On the l4th Secretary sherman rescinded
IN order previously issued BY him for the
exchange By the Government repositories
Of standard silver dollars for greenbacks,
which order was to have taken effect on the
10th Of September. The reason for reyok-
ing this order by the Secretary il UNDER
stood 70 be Difference on his part to the opin-
ION Of many others, that, by the terms Of the
Resumption act, the Department had no
right to exchange coin for greenbacks prior
TO the date when the Resumption act takes
enects January LIST next.
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
For the "a hours ending at noon on the
18th there were 14s new cases OF yellow
fever and 50 deaths at New Orleans; . new
cases and deaths At Holly Springs; , new
cases and deaths at Greenyille, Tenn. ~
cases at Grand Junction, Tenn; 81 new
cases At Canton, Miss; is deaths at yicks-
burg, and 30 deaths at Memphis.
At New Orleans, on the 10th, there we're
% deaths from yellow fever and los new
cases reported; At Memphis, III deaths and
l36 new cases with many not reported; II
Holly Springs, 8 deaths and II new cases; At
Grenada, 8 deaths and new cases; at Cam
ton, death and 20 new cases; ut Baton
Rouge, no deaths, but 81 new cases The
epidemic was generally believed to have
reached its eliminating point and TO be
slowly on the decline.
A summary Of yellow fever reports re-
ceived on the 18th shows that during the
preceding "a hours there were 22S new cases
and g deaths At New Orleans, 10l deaths At
Memphis, q new cases ard deaths at Ba-
ton Rouge, 20 new cases and II deaths 1t
Canton, Mss, new cases and 4 deaths
1t Grenada. Miss, ID new cases and 2 deaths
IT Holly Springs, and 90 new cases and -
deaths at yicksburg.
Twenty eight cases Of yellow fever, IL Of
which were fatal. had occurred in the vicini-
~ Of Gailipolis, o., up to the 18th. The
disease was communicated from the steam
er John ID. Porter.
Among recent deaths by yellow fever are
Fathers McManus and vitello At yicksburg;
Drs. Woolfolk, of Paducah, KY, at Grenada;
VIM. Willis, superintendent Southern Ex-
press Company, John q. Lonsdale, Jr-,
Treasurer Citizens Relief Committee, X.
w. Blow. publisher Western Methodist, and
DIR. McGregor, Of Upton County, Tenn, 1t
Memphis.
Cardinal McCloskey and the Catholic
Bishops generally throughout the country
have ordered collections to be taken In the
churches for sufferers by the yellow fever
plague. The New York Chamber OF Com
merce has issued an appeal to the people OF
the whole country to add to or double what
they have already given for the same cause,
and recommends that depots for provisions
and other supplies be established in the
principal cities.
DR.. +. NJ. Wright, Of Chattanooga, has
been nominated for Governor BY the Repul,-
lican State Committee Of Tennessee, place
Of Emerson Etheridge, declined.
A terrible tragedy il reported near Auro-
n, Hill County, Texas. Two young men,
Eli Ramsdale and lack. Hays, returning
home from a revival in the village. began
quarreling about young lady loved by both.
From words they proceeded TO blows, aud
then. drawing knives, q desperate fight en-
sued. They cut and stabbed each other till
both fell PROSTATE ana bleeding In the road,
where they were found by a neighbor soon
after. Hayes died two hours afterwards,
and Ramsdale was dying Al last accounts.
Alexander Austin, well known business
man Of San Francisco and ex Collector or
Taxes, shot and killed himself on the 18th.
There Is shortage Of some 100000 In his
accounts.
"A report reached Bismarck, on The 18th.
that Gen. Miles and an excursion party on
ladies and gentlemen had been surrounded
by the Bannocks in Yellowstone Park and .
number Of the party killed.
Reliable information concerning Gen.
Miles's recent fight with the Bannorks was
received on the 18th. The encounter took
place on Soda Butte Greek onthe 4sh Gen.
miles had ?. men Of the Fifth Infsntry and
- friendly Grows. The Bannocks were sur
prised At daybreak. and after a two hours
fight In which Captain Andrew s. Bennett,
Fifth Infantry, was killed, and one soldier
MORALLY wounded, the hostiles were over
powered and "a prisoners captured. The
Bannocks lost 10 killed In the fight. The
ladies Of Gen. Miles's party had been sent
TO Fort Ellis for safety previous to the bat
tie.
Showing for past 90 hours, with no pros
poet Of clearing thermometer - degrees
WAS the news from East Cariboo Nine.