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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-08-16

The Marquis Of Lorne, who has Just
been made Governor General of Canada.
Is the eldest son and heir Of the Duke Of
Argyll, and was married in 1871 to
Princess Louise, the fourth daughter OF
Queen Victoria, that being the first
instance Of the marriage Of subject to
the daughter Of reigning sovereign.
The Marquis has been in public life for
10 years past, for, in 1868, when he was
only %, he was returned to Parliament
as member from Argyllshire. When bis
father, in 1868, went into Office under
the Gladstone Administration rs Score
tary OF State for India, the son acted as
his private secretary. Lord Walter
Campbell, who made somewhat pro-
tracted stay in New York several years
ago and was well known in society, Is
younger brother of the Marquis OF
Lorne. The Duke Of Argyll, whose
titles descend to his eldest son, is the
most powerful Of the Scottish noblemen.
lie is hereditary Master Of the Queens
Household in Scotland, Chancellor Of
the University Of St. Andrews, Trus-
tee Of the British Museum and hereditary
Sheriff and Lord-Lieutenant Of ARGYLL
shire. His political service has been
long and active, and he has also writ
ten an elaborate book entitled . The
Reign Of Law" His son is also an
author, and published several years ago
Q volume Of poems.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-08-16

I'd Xix. 70 be an Esquimaux
And live on cakes " ice.
Ia mix up cocktails all the day
30 nanghty-but so nice
50 Losis Journal
There's land that Is hotter than this,
where never collar will stand:
where you only can bubble and hiss
., go 70 that beautiful land.
t>lng) In the sweat by and by, etc.
-CrGphic.
cucumbers. icicles,
Icices, cucnmbers,
FROST and snow, mountain tops, oil cloth and
Icebergs and polar bears,
Hurricanes, cold thunders.
Nth.nottoms, ice wagons, take us all in.
Courier Joayrdi.
When all the afr Is hot as blazes,
=, W hen preparation damps the brow,
hen ne'cr gentle zephyr raises
The blosSomy spray That tips the bow:
men earth knows no sweet rain TO lave her
Mnen nerce above appears 20 linger Sol
Our nrn set faith in Robert Ingersoll.
Puck.
backward. roll backward. 0 Time on your
Give u 4 chilly snap, shut on the heat:
Nortn wind come back from the Boreal
let loose your stir, bracing breeze once
more,
List 70 ~, pity US, don't You undo us.
Keep back thar hot wave post marked "st.
Now. while the Grangers nice sfckle's In
sight,
Give vs. an icicIe sparkling and bright
Ger our thermometer your cold vigils keen.
TEMPER the heat, Tempus. temper the heat
-dibany Journal
There Is happy land.
Far, far away
Free ice on every hand
No bills 20 pay.
On, how the natives glow,
Driving reindeer 20 and fro
rice and through the snow.
Three times day.
They never do get hot,
Far, far away
No thermometers they've got
No fans have they.
No linen coats they wear
While they chase the polar bear
And the walrus from mis- lair,
Etcetern.
st. Louis Journal
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-08-16
French Business Women.

The editor OF the Baltimore american
writes from Paris: In examining the
French department a great many Of
the depositors appear before the iury
accompanied BY their wives, who take
an active part in describing the mode
81 manufacture Of the goods, and ex-
patlate most volubly on their superiority
and the uses for which they are intended.
IN many cases il Is evident that the wife
= the master-mind Of the establishment.
and knows more about the business
than the husband II is well known
TACT that there are few really prosperous
business men in Paris who do not owe a
great deal Of their success TO their wives.
Indeed, there are very few establishments
N farls,. wholesale or retail, in which
women do not occupy most Of the inn
portant positions of trust and response
Dllity. In many Of the largest and
most successful establishments the wife
Is the principal business manager
american merchants who come here
annually 70 buy goods state that thew
transact most of their business with the
wives Of the merchants, who are GEN
orally on duty in the wholesale houses
during business hours. When purchas-
ing goods nearly all important questions
are answered BY the female clerks or
saleswomen, the male clerks being
mostly engaged in the handling ~
goods, leaving all the brainwork for the
women. In many cases the wife Is
called upon to make agreements or
answer questions when the husband Il
present, indicating that she was the
brains Of the establishment. There can
DC no doubt that the average French
woman Is superior to the average
frenchman in business tact and enter
prise, as she Is also superior to him in
physical development and address.
when passing the small stores nj night
the wife Is seen at the desk, pen ia hand.
keeping books, and thousands of the
smaller stores of Paris are kent bv
women. They undoubtedly have great
business capacity, energy, and enter
prise, and take more than their full
share IN supplying the means for the
Of the household. A
frenchman remarked in our hearing the |
other day that he believed there are a |
many women In Paris who support their
husbands ~ there are husbands who
support their wives.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-08-16

The rear teats Of "A COW produce
milk richer in cream than the forwar,
ones.
a Connecticut pillow factory is max
ing 1900 plows 70 fiji. an order fron
South America.
The ice factory in Knoxville is turn
ing out seven tons per day at one cen
per pound
The aggregate value Of the petro
leum exported from this country wa.
St2,OVO,vOO. In 1861 il was 81 ,O0O, 900
A cotton-mill with 10000 spindle.
and employing 200 hands will begin
operations in Vancluse, S. O., in Octo.
Der.
An Indiana farmer advises planting
Few hills Of broom-corn, as experience
has taught him that for tying shocks OF
binding fodder this is very much pref
cradle TO twine or rye straw.
A North Carolina inventor, William
A. Weant, Of Davie County, has con-
structed a switch which gives the engi-
neer Of train power to close it without
stopping, II il has been left open before
him.
Wisconsin's offer of $40, 200 for a
successful steam road-wagon has pro-
duced one which has hauled wagon
weighing 5000 pounds over the POI
miles from Fort Howard TO Madison in
80 hours, or over six miles an hour.
Miss Bertha Olsen is superintend
emit Of Silk Society," in Rockville.
Kane County, Utah. The society owns
lot, has planted 10000 mulberry cut
tings, besides large quantity of seed,
has built silk-house, and has raised
plenty Of eggs from five dozen imported
silk-worms.
Wood peeling-that Is, stripping
the bark off oak and larch-is business
m Scotland. Between May and July
some 1900 men, women and children.
chiefly Irish, have been employed at this
The wages, which in the fast 10 years
have been more than doubled. range
from 80 cents to ~ for men to rs to 80
cents 70 children, but large importation
rom abroad have diminished the price
Of bark 2Oto - per cent.
The cultivation Of the opium poppy
which has hitherto been exclusively con-
lined to the East, bids fair TO become
thoroughly established and remuncra-
tive in Eastern Africa. Seeds Of the
best kinds have been imported from
Alalwa into Mozambique, where $4,000
acres Of uncultivated State land have
been granted to . company with capt.
al Of $500. 900 for the purpose Of cult
FatIng and trading in opium.
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The honey-bee is the emblem OF order
and industry. The queen Is the mother
OF the whole hive, and her eggs become
males, females and workers, or neuters,
which last make the combs and cells,
and collect the honey. The queen pro-
duces some thousands CT workers, and
then males, which the workers kill at
the end of summer. The workers at
tend the queen with anxious respect. II
she die, they raise new one by various
arts from working worm. Two queens
can not live In the same hive. and one Is
destroyed. The females or workers
have sting, but the males or drones
noncs In proportionate size the queen
bee Is eight and one-half, the male seven
and the workers six. A queen will lay
200 eggs daily for fifty or sixty days,
and the eggs are hatched in three DAYS.
The workers are five days in the worm
state, and in twenty days they become
bees. The males are six or seven
days in the worm state, and twenty
four daysin becoming perfect bees. "A
queen - five days in the worm state, and
in sixteen days Is perfect. When eggs
are converted into queens the old queen
destroys them, or II there are two young
queens they fight until one has killed the
other. One author asserts that single
queen has produced 100000 bees in
season. Every thing depends on the
workers; they collect the honey, make
wax and build the combs; they supply
the worms with food and protect the
entrance Of the hive, separate business
being performed BY CLASSES. There are
about 5000 cells in a comb Of foot
square. Their first purpose is as nurser-
les for the young, and they are then
cleaned and filled with honey. Five
thousand bees weigh pound. Twenty
or thirty pounds Of honey are generally
got from a hive; sometimes eighty or
100 pounds, and even more. "A swarm
OF bees contains from 10000 to 10000 in
q natural state and from $4,000 to 49,
900 in a hive. All the. experiments on
bees prove that love for their queen and
her progeny Is the sole stimulus to their
persevering industry. Their joy, grief
and other passions are distinguished in
the tone u their humming, which to
them are articulate sounds.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-08-16

Pour successive speakers at the
Pan-Anglican Conference the other day
were: their lordships Of York, Eng
land; Of Bombay, India; Of Saskatche-
wan, North America, and Of Bloemfon-
tein, South Africa.
The Bishop Of Manchester says that
some Of the English clergy are 50 poor
mat they do not taste meat more than
once or twice week, and are glad to
toners.
Mrs. Patterson, wife Of the Rev.
Dr. Patterson, Of the Highland Uniyer-
salist Church in Boston, will not 20 to
Europe with her husband this summer,
put will supply his pulpit while he is
absent. She Is said 10 be a line Off
hand preacher.
DR.. Payne, now President OF Ohio
wesleyan University, formerly pegged
shoes for his living in Providence, X. I.
ne y one Of the most popular ministers
10 the Methodist Church, and has been
pastor Of several Of the most fashiona-
bic churches.
The best Of our American colleges
uear no comparison in the strength Of
neir faculties with the German univer-
slties. The University of Leipsic, for
sne present year, has acorps Of 123 pro-
lrssors, 40 tutors, and So assistants.
ms university has $500 students.
In Great Britain there is an ordain-
y minister for every 673 Of the inhabit-
ants; In this country about 700 is the
lumber that falls to each preacher.
1n,na would require more than 10000
oluaiDed missionaries 10 stock il in the
.alne proportion. DIR. Duff estimated
~, .ha' y iully supply India would require
,nc entire ministry Of Scotland, and
many plous laymen beside.
Chicago claims a population Of half
S;mlllicn, and her Bishop Cheney, in
discussing church failures TO reach the
w Uses, declared that only $4,000 were
- worshipcrs in Chicago sanctua-
.ss HE Bishop recommended large
NV NJ. cheap places Of worship, that poor
NJ. ~ M would not soil and that would
a N. ,eavc - strong contrast between the
n''..u and the sunday homes Of the
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-08-16

At Holly Springs, Miss, during I
recent storm, James Briggs, aged Is
and Louise Malice, aged IA, were struck
by lightning.
AT Hagerstown, Nd, at a pigeon.
shooting match, Samuel Donahue, aged
~, was shot dead accidentally by VIM.
Cokenour.
AT Thornton, Ind, Tom Casey. aged
~, while carelessly handling revolver,
shot himself in the abdomen, fatally.
AT Lanaconing, Md, Mary Pritch-
ard. aged ~, was killed; Robert Dick,
aged ~, probably fatally injured, and
Abram Lynch. severely bruised, by the
breaking OF a swing.
An express train, running ut full
speed. ran into covered wagon AT Mil
lersburg, Pa, demolishing il complete
W. OF the five occupants one, Martin
Weaver, was killed, and the others were
all severely injured.
AT New Orleans family Of four
were poisoned by using oxalic acid by
mistake for sugar in cooking. G.. w.
Milthac died. the others ii was thought
would recover.
Ida Moudy, daughter Of DIR. A.
Moudy, living near Greencastle, Ind,
took three grains Of morphine, through
mistake, for quinine. She was not ex-
pected TO recover.
A 5-year-old son Of Isaac Ruth, OF
New Albany, Ind, died from eating a
dog-button which had been left in the
front yard by the police.
Warren Cooper, brother TO the
Postmaster Of Winterset, Madison
County, Iowa, was killed by lightning
while stacking hay. His companion,
Mr.. Hildebrand, was severely stunned,
two horses were killed, and the stack
set on fire.
At Staunton, Va, Johnnie Harris,
aged l6, while employed in feeding
slaves 70 the equalizing saw in Young's
saw-mill, fell against II, and, In flash,
was sawed through from his right hip
to above the breast bone. He lived one
hour and Is minutes.
Near Paris, Ky, j. William Bed
ford accidentally shot and instantly kill
ed an s-year old colorcd boy, while
out driving turkeys. Bedford was car
rying gun and leading his horse, and
the hammers Of the gun caught in the
bride. causing the discharge Of both
barrels
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-08-16

Three hundred delegates from for
eign countries attended the Literary
Congress in Paris.
DIR. j. q. Holland lives on pine
clad promontory at Thousand Island
Park, on the 81. Lawrence River.
-Mayne Reid, some years since a
popular writer Of novels and stories for
youth and resident Of New York. i
now engaged in the more lucrative oc-
cupation Of sheep-raising in England.
Mr.. Robert 4. S. Lowell, brother Of
James Russell Lowell, and himself a
poet and author Of no small powers.
proposes TO break silence Of nearly 20
years duration by the publication Of
novel and poem.
Col. Higginson describes Turge-
neiff as having the most distinguished
appearance Of any literary man he has
ever seen. To say that he has Long
fellows face upon Summers figure gives
rough impression Of him.
"A copy Of the Mentz Bible, printed
by Gutenberg In l455---being the first
book ever printed---was sold at auction
in Paris last June for $4,000. II is
printed on yellum, but is not quite per-
feet, several portions having been re-
stored in facsimile.
"A recent visitor to Westminster Alb
hey noticed two bouquets Of handsome
flowers upon Dickens's grave, and be-
side them q more affecting tribute to the
dead novelist---a little posy of dog
daisies and wild hyacinths, slightly
faded, as If il had been brought. from 4
distant country lane in a hot, ungloyed
hand.
Rev. w. III. Milburn, the blind
preacher, has returned to this country
after an absence Of two years in Eng
land, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. In
the course Of his travels he delivered 600
lectures and sermons. Mr.. Milburn in
tends to lecture the coming season on
what he saw in England and Scotland.
In letter to the Rev III. Seymour
Of Northampton. Mass, the late William
Cullen Bryant wrote: sin two calendar
months from the time Of beginning with
the powers d the Greek alphabet had
read every book in the New Testament. =
Such rapidly in Greek was ahead IL
that recorded By Macaulay and John
Stuart Mill in regard 10 themselves.
The Hon. w. +. Gladstone, Of Homeric
fame also, does not touch it,
The lecture business is in the main
managed by two c0ncerns-one in New
York and one in Boston. The latter
makes contracts for concerts and operas
As well. The manager says that only
the most attractive lecturers are now
much in demand, and that dramatic
readers find more favor than formerly.
Last year Beecher travelled $4,000 miles
and lectured i39 times. He has already
arranged dates for next season. Wen
dell Phillips spoke l2O times, and, next
70 Beecher and Cough, made more
money than any other lecturer. Mrs
Mary A. Livermorc received $4,000,
and i travelling in Europe 10 recuper-
ate. Helen Potter, with readings and
limitations, also did we'll. Burdette, the
Burlington Hasckeye humorist, lectured
ll3 times. james II. Fields, Gen.
Banks, and Robert Collyer had all the
calls that they could respond to. The
odore Tilton had his own agent, and l.
said u have cleared $4,000.
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A Boston minister OF the sensation
a. order takes steamboat load Of peo-
pie down the harbor Of a Sunday to an
island, and there breaches sermon to
them, All for round-trip price.
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1t Is stated as fact that the mum.
Der Of impecunious Americans in Paris
i very large, and that the bankers have
been solicited 10 make advances on Jew.
cls and personal effects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-02-18
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CALVER, On the 9th February, 1873, LOUIE,
infant son Of Thomas and Ada Calver, aged mos.
and days. -L {
DoNoHoE. On Monday morning, February
18Th. 1873, MARY Z. DoNoHoE, the beloved
daughter of Mrs. M. DonOhoe, in the twenty first
veal of her age,
'Tis nature, not fear that excites our regret
Wherever we roam, with the same emulation,
The virtues of Mary we nee can forget.
Her funeral will take place on "Wednesday. 20th
instant, from the residence of her mother, No.
1910, corner of Twenty-third and l. sts., requiem
mass from st. Stephens Church, at o. clock a. m.
Friends are respectfully invited TO attend. q
EDMONSTON. Suddenly, at 9 p.m.. Sunday,
February IL, 1873. Miss MARY ANN EDMoNsToN,
in the seventy fourth year of her age.
The funeral will take pace from the residence OF
her brother, Charles EdmOnston, 1927 III st. NV.
az 2:3O O'Clock p. IN, on "Wednesday, February
20th. %
MILLER. On Sunday night, February II, 1878,
ar 3 O'Clock, CHRISTIAN MILLER, aged siKIy-nye
gears.
Friends and relatives are requested 70 attend his
funeral al 8 o'clock Wednesday morning from his
late residence, 18th street, between PennsylyaRia
avenue and street southeast. Ct
SARGENT. Entered into rest on the 18th of
February, 1878, RosINA, widow of the Hon. Ma
Funeral from St. Marks Church, on the 18th, &C
10 o'clock am.
wROE. At wosdburn, Fairfax county, Va,
February 10Th, 1878, at five minutes past nine p.
m, Mrs. ELIZABETH WROE, wife Of the late
Richard Wroe, in the eighty -eighth year Of her
age and a resident Of Washington for hfty-foar
years.
to attend her funeral at the residence OF her son
Everett w roe. AIS New York avenue northwest
81 o. clock D. m. Tuesday. February 18TH.
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1878 PENSs AhAt1A 1878


TO THE NORTH, WEST, AND SOUTHWEST.
Double Track. Steel Rats,
Splendid Scenery. Magnificent Equipment.
February 4th. 1878.
TRAINS LEAVE wAsHINGTON, from Depot,
corner Of Sixth and streets, as follows:
with Parior Car to Pittsburg and Sleeping Csrs
from Pittsburg 70 Cincinnati, st. Louis and
Chicago; 7:4ep m. daily. with Palace Car to
For Canasdaigua, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara
Fails and the north, at 40 p. m: daily, except
s hdcs E IN ana ws
kins. At 10: 10 a m, m daily, except Sunday
Express Of Pullman Cars, $40 =. m. daily. sS-
ssPt saRSSsy, with Sleeping ss5s nom Wsshins;
beats Of BIo9kiyn Annex, aTordins direct
rage and Journey across lew YORK city:
For se sbd a. SsS $50 ssSsspf su asy
Limited Express, $50 a. IN. daily, except sun
Administration for Baltimore, 1855, $50 .. m.
For Gfsgk Gns s SIS sIssp. S snS D.
For Annapolis $50 .. m. and 40 p. m. daily. e1.
cept Sunday.
ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG
Wa5HI Sc M RAf hhtRaGxAAbSDRlA AND
For Alexandria, 8, =, 3, s:1O, 10, IL q. m, l. g.
40, 3, q, . p. IN. On Sunday at 8:10 .. N. and
For the south, via Richmond, s:4s .. m. daily;
$40 p. N. daily, except Sunday.
Trains eave AIe1andria for " ashington, g, =,
$40, BIO 10. IL a. m; 1, 8, 40, 8, 6:1O, and
pm. On Sunday al $40 and 10 q m. and o m,
Tickets, Information, sleeping and parior car &C.
commodattons can be procured at the Ofces, north.
east corner Of Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue: northeast of Sixth street and PENN
sylvania avenue, and n the depot, where orders
be left for the checking Of baggage to destin2.
ton from hotels and residences.
l.. p. FARMER, General Passenger Agent.
FRANK THOMSON, General Manager. nov10
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A HUGE DISH OF SCANDAL COOKING.-0ne
OF the clevereSt OF the score or more of female
writer's here has been busily at work for some
time past in collecting materials concerning
the morality of our u eat men, as new argu-
ment in favor OF giving women the right TO
vote and to hold office. She proposes TO unveil
the domestic life of Washington, to unearth
the confession of Hamilton, TO revive the
stories told by the federaliStS about Jefferson,
to give some forgotten chapters of the earlier
and the later life of Jackson, TO give circua-
tien again to IngersOlPS stories about Web
Ster, 10 publish JohnSOn'S outrageous deport-
setts by a narrative which the public there
have lOnged, yet dreaded, to hear. The pri-
vacy of the illustriOuS dead is to be inquiSi-
lively invaded to ascertain whether in their
lives they cOnfOrmed to the ten command
ments OF course. these scandalous chronicles
will alternate between piquant truth and gross
bel-l"Pertey'S" Washington Letter to BOS-
ton Journal.
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The European Situation.
THE NEWS MORE PACIFIC

IHE NEW MORE
The news from ConStantinople has suddenly
become quite pacific. Mr.. Layard, the British
ambassador had long interview with the
Sultan and explained the English policy The
fleet has been withdrawn from Princess Islands
to Mudanla. forty miles south of CONSTANT
nOple, in order to facilitate negotiations To
prevent the entry of the Russians. Namyd
Pasha was to have visited the Russian head
quarters to dsSuade the Grand Duke from
advancing. but the order has been revoked
1t is expected that the treaty of peace will
soon be signed
THE PEACE CONGRESS.
1t is reported that Russia has represented to
England that the United States, as a great
maritime power, should participate in the con
greSS. England has not objected, but suggests
that Greece should also take part. Russia
suggests to the Porte the desirabiity of re-
moving the Mussu!man population from Bull
land in case of hoStilitieS. Two French iron
clads have gone to the entrance of the Oar
danelleS.
THE GREEKS STILL THIRsrISG FOR MosLEM
GORE.
Platano, in ThesSaly, besieged by the insur-
gents, has been captured, and a Turkish de-
tachment repulsed. The Greeks have again
crossed the boundary to aid the insurgents.
HOstilitieS are breaking out i'm all directions
on the Island of Crete; they are Selling the
DOCK houses and strongholds under the flag
Of union with Greece. The Turkish troops
are gathering in force and battle is impend-
ing.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
A special dispatch from London reports that
in consequence of representations made by
Austria and backed by Germany the Car of
Russia has abandoned the intention of Occu-
plying, ConstantinOple. The British Govern
ment has received no official notice of an ad-
vance.
An awful atrOcity is reported by the London
ifnles' correspondent at Pera. The CircaS-
slams when retreating before the Russians are
said to have suffOcated with sulphur 800 wO-
men and children who had taken refuge in a
cave.
A report from Berlin says that the English
Admiral has been directed to seize the Turkish
fleet If necessary to prevent its surrender to
Russia.