The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-11-08

Official returns from all but four counties
In lows give an estimated majority Of $500
for Hull, Republican, for Secretary Of State.
Gen. Ord has been In consultation with the
Mexican General Trevino ~ 70 the best
means OF stopping cattle stealing raids into
Texas from the Mexican sids~
Pierre Provost, the suspected murderer
OF the vacelet family near Tincennes, Ind,
hanged hinsclf in his cell on the night %
the 2.th, probably through fear ~ being
lynched-
The STATE Normal School building AZ En-
poria, Esnsas, was destroyed by fire. iogeth
er with is entire contents, on the morning
OF the 2dth. The firc Il supposed 70 have
originated In large pile of coal stored In
theceilar,a and broke out with so great inten-
sity that In short time the entire building
was in flames. The walls only remain stand
ing, and they are 80 badly weakened a. to
be useless. The building cost So 900, and
was not insured. The school will be con-
tinued in such ether quarters as can be Sc
cured in the village.
shooting ARRAY occurred at Paque-
mine, La, ON the 2oth, between Charles A.
Brule and state Senator Geo. Ii. waites.
The former received a flesh wound In the
arm, the latter a serious wound in the side.
Cause, politics.
The official returns OF the Indiana election
show total Democratic vote Of l9i,401;
Republican vote, 1S0,s55; Greenback vote,
39,44s; Democratic plurality, 1886.
The reports Of engineers in charge Of river
improvements in the West contain the fol-
lowing recommendation for appropriations
for the next fiscal year: Mississippi River
New Orleans harbor, S200,00O; vicksburg
harbor, $4,000; removing snags from the
Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers,
5000; Memphis harbor, II 700; for com
pleting the improvements between the
mouths OF the Illinois and Ohio rivers, $780,
600: below ST. Paul, $4,000: widening and
deepening channel from Des Moines rapids
to the mouth of the Illinois River, 500, 900:
widening and deepening channel from St.
Paul to Des Moines River, $3.50, 900; Improve
ment above the Falls Of st. Anthony, S50,-
600; to constructa lock-dam at Meeker Is
land, Mimi, S92s ,l2l- Des Mones Rapids,
Sl22,065; Rock Island rapids, $4,000.
Missouri Riyer-Improvements At Fort
Leayenworth, $4,000; at Atchison, $4,000;
Mt St. Joseph, $4,000; Nebraska City and
Eastport, Iowa, $4,000; Omaha and Council
Bluffs, $4,000; Sioux City, $3.50; above
tine mouth OF the Yellowstone, $4,000.
Cumberland Riyer-AbQve Chattanooga,
$4,000; below Chattanooga, $4,000; below
Nashville, $4,000; from Nashville to the
Kentucky line, $4,000; from the Kentucky
line to Smiths Shoals, $1,000; at Smiths
Shoals, $4,000. Miscellaneous-Red River
Of the North, $4,000; Red River, Louisiana,
$4,000; Improvement Of its mouth, S150. 900:
Illinois River, $4,000; Galena River and
Harbor, $4,000.
Ex-Gov. Geo. w. Smith, known as an act
i've participant in the free-State struggle in
Kansas, died at Lawrence ON the 2sth, aged
70 years.
There were 10 deaths from yellow fever at
New Orleans on the roth, al Memphis, and
none ut vicksburg.
On the 10th the Memphis Beard OF Health
officially declared that refugees from that
city might safely return home, provided
their premises had been thoroughly yenti-
lated and fumigsted.