The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-06-14

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A fine peach crop all over the
South.
A ledge Of the finest kind Of jet
used for jewelry, worth 100000 ton.
has just been located and Is being
worked in California canyon.
South Carolina supplies nearly half
the rice produced in this country.
Georgia is next, or nearly seven million
pounds ahead Of Louisiana. Nearly all
our rice comes from these three States.
--Austrians smoke more and more.
In 1870 the whole amount paid for to-
bacco was 100000 fiorins, against
5S,OO0,0O0 last year. Increased taxa
ton has had no effect in diminishing the
consumption.
London cement is produced by
boiling piece of cheese three times in
water 10 evaporate. Take the paste
thus left and thoroughly incorporate
with dry quicklime. II will mend glass,
wood or china very eflectually.
DIR. Muirhead, young English
man, has succeeded In applying the
duplex system Of telegraphy TO the
ocean cables, and the direct United
States Cable Company have been work.
ing IL for some weeks past. The super
intendent of the Gable Company says il
works perfectly and has doubled the ca
pacity Of the cable.
Some Of the cottons sent from Eng
land TO China Of late years have had
fully 80 per cent. of dishonest weight
ing mingled in their manufacture,
which has come out at the first wash
ing. The Chinese are now importing
English machinery with q view Of man
ufacturing for themselves, and a few
years may see considerable diminu-
ton Of their imports, both from Eng
land and the United States.
The mining and manufacturing of
the phosphate rock in South Carolina
has become one of the leading and most
important interests Of the State. From
small beginnings. the shipment and
manufacture had risen in nine years TO
the large amount of 199,0S6 tons in
1617-76, Of which liz. 965 were shipped
to foreign ports, "a 1856 tons coastwise,
and 1865 tons were consumed by home
manufacturers.
While in the Vatican Plus TX. saw
a change in every throne in Europe,
save the English.
The Shah Of Persia has taken vii
la at Vienna, and will settle down there
for some months.
M. Basilewski, the Russian, who
died recently in Paris, was the owner
Of immense mines in Siberia, and was
worth over 100000, 900 francs.
&C. w. Smalley writes that the hotel
keepers at Paris have raised prices rs
per cent, and are "plundering" their
guests with extravagant charges
An exceedingly improbable London
rumor declares that only with great diff
ficulty has the Queen been persuaded
from bringing the Duke Of Edinburg to
a court-martial for entertaining Russian
officers on board his ship.
The Count de Paris lately visited
the studios Of Monduit, Gaget and
Gauthicr, who are preparing the colos-
part taken by France In winning The in
dependence Of the United States. He
left handsome subscription.
English Catholics are reported to be
very DESTROYS that Pope Leo should adopt
Jerusalem as his permanent home, in
which case they would buy him territory
enough for suitable principality and
render him Independent.
--viscountess Kingsland, the English
noblewoman, who has been barely keep
ing herself from starvation by needle
work, Is TO have hereafter an income OF
$500, from the fund Of S2,gi0 collected
and invested for her benefit.
Marrying Princess has its disad-
vantages as well as its delights The
Princess Louise, wherever she goes,
takes precedence of her legal superior,
the Marquis Of Lorne, and is always
mentioned first in Court circulars and
all records of high life.
A German paper gives the follow
ing simple test for watered milk: "A
well polished knitting-needle is dipped
into q deep vessel of milk, and immedi-
ately Withdrawn In an upright position.
II the sample Is pure, some Of the fluid
will hang TO the needle; but, il water
has been added to the milk, even in
small proportions, the fluid will not ad-
here 70 the needle
Haps and Mishaps.
AT Ada, o., a young son Of Joseph |
Riddles was fatally burned while play
ing with matches.
A little son of Stephen Robinson,
of Flint, Mich, was scalded to death by \
falling into a tub Of hot water.