The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-03-07

New Oricaur, Mopiics utisc>tou anu i<tttir
Rock celebrated Mardi Grss with the usual
ceremonies. Memphis had no formal cele-
bration.
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
Charles w. Angel, the defaulting Secre-
txry OF the Pullman Palace Car Company,
who was arrested in Lisbon, Portugal, ar
rived At Philadelphia on the Esd in charge Of
London detective.
A most important railway consolidation
has been effected, being the lease by the
Erie Railway--or the New York, Lake Erie
and Great Western Railway, as II il now
caIled--of the Atlantic and Great Western
Railway and its branches, for the period Of
- years The terms Of the lease provide for
the laying OF third rail on the Atlantic and
Great Western Cat present broad gauge
road), the same As has been done on the
Erie. The consolidated road, extending
from New York 70 Cincinnati, with many
important branches, il is expected will be-
come one Of the most important OF our trunk
line railways.
Ex-C Congressman Hasbrouck died At
Rondout, n. ~, on the sd, aged S..
FOREIGN.
The chartered steamer Dublin Castle
from London, with the Sd Battalion Of the
6oth Regiment, and the Pretoria, from South
ampton, with the 9lst Highlanders, sailed on
the 18th for the Cape OF Good Hope. and
several ships were in readiness to follow At
intervals Of few days
Startling intelligence has been received
from Mandalay. the capital Of Independent
Burmah- The King Of Burmah, bis Majesty
Mendoomen, has for some time cherished .
deep hostility against certain OF his mobiles,
and especially against Princes Thouse and
Mekara. The King himself Il an or
thodox and devoted Buddhist, and
il largely under the influence OF his ecclesi-
astical advisers He i Of an extremely
jealous and secretive disposition, and for
some months past appears 10 have cherish
ed the belief that the Princes in question
were plotting against him. Finally,
summoning his Privy Council, which
consisted Of four persons, known
a. Afwenwoons, he laid before
them his suspicious and demanded that the
Princes and their whole households should
be executed. A. the will OF the monarch
i'm Burmah j. supreme, the order was given
and the massacre took place. The two
Princes and 81 Of their relatives were slain
immediately. The details Of the massacre
are described A. horrible In the extreme.
The Italian Government has prohibited the
importation OF American swine,or any prep
aration Of their flesh, as q precaution
against trichinosis.
\. 4. .<E.g.tf~ 100000 60. Z. n~<.-.
burg that Gen. Melikof declares the plague
af an end in his Jurisdiction; the military
cordons isolating different villages have been
abolished, although the general Gordon
Il still retained. The Russian papers,
however, continue 10 report the preva-
Ience Of various malignant diseases,
and there Is no abatement In the
precautionary measures taken by adjacent
. countries 70 prevent the fatal epidemic from
crossing the borders. Dr. virchou, in lee
ture before the Medical Society OF Berlin,
pronounces the disease the real Eastern
plague, and says that the measures adopted
by the German Government to prevent it,
inroads are Of too general character.
British sdvices from Cape Town, under
date Of Feb. p, state that the native con-
tingent has been forcibIy disarmed and dis
banded. Col. Pearson, with 30 British
troops, was entrenched At Ekowe, 20 miles
within the enemy's territory, and his com
munications had been interrupted for some
days. The bush surrounding the post was
infested with Zulus, but Col. Pearson had
two months provisions, and Lord Cheims-
ford was about to make m effort to Join him
with additional troops.
The Chinese Government has purchased
machinery and engaged experienced en-
gineers and spinners In Germany TO estab-
Iish cotton mills in China, 90 a. to free that
country from dependence upon English and
Russian imports.
Pope Leo Il proposing to create Scotch
Cardinal. Scotland has now six Roman
Catholic Bishops, ~ priests, aci churches
and chapeIs; in 1851 Il had only lis priests,
~ churches and chapels.
The Pope recently received the represent
atiyes Of large number Of Catholic publica.
lions issued In Europe and America, and adj.
dressed them on the influence and mission
Of the press.
The Duke OF Newcastle 10 dead.
A motion In the House Of Commons. on
the 18th, that summary prohibition OF tho