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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-24

Private Smith, company A. I'd cavalry.
Private, Good, company A, I'd cavalry.
Private Everett company III, ID cavalry.
WOUNDED.
Corporal Pulver, company A, Sd cavalry.
PRIVATE Egory, company G, Sd cavalry.
All OF whom are expected 10 recover.
LOSS or THE sAvAGEs.
Forty savages we're killed, 10 wounded.
and about 30 recaptured. Among ~
wounded was . sister Of Red Bear, ! chief
q Red Clouds bands who was present, Nav.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-24

Harry Floty was q university man.
who had been some time in Nevada, and
having had bad luck, couldn't do better
than TO leave digging and take to school
teaching. He was pale, slender, and
scholarly looking. and the President Of
the Board Of Trustees said to him. sor-
sowfully, as he brushed tear:
Mister, you may be book learned. but
Il takes more than that for a teacher in
the Cranberry Gulch school, as Won will
ind. The last teacher sleeps in yonder
graveyard; the one before him left an
eye and one arm TO show his incapacity:
the one before was very much eaten by
the ellis when we found his body, and the
three before him ran away with only
about four eyes and six legs between
them. Our boys are rough and don't
stand no nonsense
"Let me try" replied Harry mildly.
I'm weak, but / have q will. III open
next Monday at 3 .. m"
At eight Harry went down to the
school-house, with the key in one hand
and valise in the other.
Sixty scholars we're loafing around in
a good, big crowd to see what would
turn up, while the undertaken stood near
waiting for job.
" Ready to slope IL he finds we are too
much for him, whispered the big, bow
legged, cross-eyed bully of the school, .
develish looking chap, nineteen years
old.
The new teacher gazed pensively at
the adjacent grave-y yard, opened the
valise, took out three navy skies. and a
long bowie knife, whetted the latter on
the leg of his boot, cooked one of the
former, and then said sweetly:
Ring the bell and wei have pray
ers."
The big bully whom he addressed
mildly obeyed.
1--WE viii arrange the classes, y he said
mildly, as he cooked revolver and
walked down the room.
One after another the boys were ex-
amined and classed. He called the first
class to recite in geography; a whisper
was heard behind him. Quick as light
ming the teacher wheeled and covered
the offender with deadly aim, as he
spoke sternly for the first time:
"Don't do that again, for never give
} second warming"
recess then came, and the boys, very
much cowed, went out on the play
ground.
One Of them threw his ball in the air.
and before it started TO descend toward
the catcher, the new teacher struck IL
with bullet, and from that time Harry
Floty has kept school undis.urbed.
drQOnGtf.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-24

Senator Stanley Matthews, having re-
turned TO Cincinnati from his visit to
Memphis as member of the Yellow Fe-
YER Commission, said to reporter last
week:
"Memphis people dread very much
the recurrence Of an epidemic OF yellow
fever. They are encouraged to believe
that the severity of the winter will de-
stroy the germs of the disease in this
country, and prevent is reappearing
next season. But in 10 event that &
should break out again next summer "a
New Orleans, the feeling il such that the
people Of Memphis and along the river
would certainly isolate New Orleans
completely-if not with law, then with
out law. They would not allow boat
TO ascend the river, and II necessary
would plant cannons on the bank to
prevent It. They would not allow :
railroad train to carry = passenger from
that point. That Is their present feel
ing and expressed determination, not
confined to any class"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-24
How Scotch Funerals We're Conducted
in the Good Old Times.

Talking of funerals in the good old
times, and in the mansions of the lairds.
these used to be the most ENJOYABLE az
our parochial festivities. The kith and
kin came from great distances to be en-
tertained in . style BETTING the occa-
sion. There we're grave faces Mt the gath
ering when the guests assembled round
the coffin TO listen to suitable PRAYER.
The glasses of wine were handed round
once, twice, or oftener-the poorest peo-
pie would procure wine for the occa-
sion-and "the memory Of the deceas-
ed" was toasted in silence. Then the
long procession moved of to the kirk
yard, and the body was laid silently in
the grave. That duty being solemnly
discharged, load was visibly lifted
from the assistants. Acquaintances
came together in the carriages and
mourning coaches, and there was plen-
ty OF animated conversation When the
guests took the tables in the dining
room all were in excellent spirits and
appetite. The near relations might be
sad .. heart, but they felt Hospitality
bound TO stifIe their sorrow, and there
were ample appliances for drowning II.
When the old fashion Of drinking
healths and taking wine" prevailed,
mourners were apt to get merry in spite
OF themselves, while, rs may be sup
posed the mere acquaintance ofth de-
ceased gave themselves over easily to
boisterous jeviality. 1t was q churlish
thing to be the first TO break up good
company, and even the minister might
well sit i out till convivial example up
yet his decorum. 80 Cornhiu Magazine.
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--Bayard Taylor left nothing Of VA
ue in the way Of property except an in
surance policy Of $4,000.
Mr.. Forbes's letters from India cost
the London Duly Ncms a pretty sum.
They are telegraphed TO England at the
rate Of SLIP a word.
Jefferson Davis's book OF memoirs Is
TO be published next spring simultane-
ously in New York and London, with a
French edition in Paris.
Mrs. Sallie Van Pelt, formerly con-
neeted with the Dubuque Herald, has
been engaged TO take charge Of the city
page of the Dubuque Telegraph.
The late Mr.. G. ii. Lewcs has left
behind him as much manuscript as will
add two additional volumes TO his last
work, "Problems of Life and Mind
These volumes will be published in due
course, under the supervision OF
4George Eliot"
Emma Abbott, who appeared in
opera at her old home in Peoria, the
other night, wrote to the editor Of the
Transcript, extending to all old friends,
ESPECIALLY the girls with whom used
TO romp and make mud-pies," to come
and see her in her dressing-room at the
close Of the performances.
With such unfinished works as
Charles Dickens's "Edwin Drood.-
Thackeray's "Denis Duval,r Macau-
lays "History of England" Motley's
"Life of John Of Barneveldt," and Hen
~ Wilson's /" History Of the Great Con-
fict," must now be placed Bayard Tay-
lor's Life of Goethe"
In the poems Of New England
places, edited by Mr.. Longfellow. are
some lines by an anonymous author en-
titled "Thoreau's Flute.- The name
which should be given at the end is
Louisa NJ. Alcott. One evening, after
Thoreau had been in Mr.. Alcettfs par
Tor playing his flute, such an effect was
produced upon the mind of Miss Alcott
as led TO the immediate composition Of
the poem named.
Long ago, when Bayard Taylor was I
a young man, he wrote in the album of \
a young friend the following lines, which \
reveal the character Of his aspirations
at that early age:
7 pom the worlds great battle field the brave
struggle and win and fall. They proudly 10,
,s1li " nnnoticed graves and some 10 stand
With cnrth's bright catalogue OF great and
good,
Who, urged by consciousness Of noble aims.
''ahds breast % breast with every evil
thought.
,ubdning until stricken down, shall pass
" warrior glory 20 his long rcposc,
nnu ms good deeds rest Ike Il banner. pail
Telling the faith he fought for 20 the world
lpcn his memory. for all coming timci
BAYARD TAYLOR.
NEW YORK, October 3, ISIS
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-24

Ing arrived from Pine Ridge Agency the dav
previous. On seeing bis sister wounded
Red Bear shed tears, and called her bsd
squaw. She was member Of the Cheyenne
band ne left for his agency the following
A relative Of Red Clouds was killed. s..
rious trouble Is apprehended from RED
Clouds and Spotted Tail's warrior.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-24

From the debris of their coal mines
France makes annually zoo, 200 tons O.
excellent fuel, and Belgium 500,0Ot
tons.
A new feature of the export bust
ness Is the consignment Of fresh oyster.
20 Germany. The first shipment was
made in the Inflated Pomerania.
Very promising nickel mines have
been discovered in New Caledonia, and
an English company has been formed
70 work them under encouragement
from the French authorities OF the
island
Stag wool Is fiber of silica pro-
uuced Ny blowing steam through the
stag OF iron-furnaces. 1t is woven into
strips and sheets, and promises to be
very useful as non-conducting wrap
per for boilers and steam-pipes.
A Liverpool firm is reported TO have
purchased steamer for the purpose OF
importing live pigs from America. The
vessel IS being fitted up to hold over O.
ooo pigs, as well as cattle.
Prof. Cox, Of Indiana, who recently
examined the Arizona mining region,
says that the mining property Of South
e,n Arizona once developed, would sup
Ply the world with precious metals.
The Toronto Globe says that the
american paper manufacturers are buy
.ng aii the poplar wood they can find in
ne canadian Eastern townships. They
Pay oV cents cord in the tree, and thus
me farmer reaps q return for wood
mat y almost valueless for fuel
Charles j. Moore, OF West Virginia.
nas invented machine, which com.
pany here will manufacture, and which,
= = claimed, will revolutionize the art
- type-setting. A female operator here
can PRINT ut the continuous rate of rs
words per minute.
i, The fibre Of the jute plant is capa-
oie q very minute subdivision, and bv
. : lately improved process BY Julius
Sacns' German, it Is reduced TO ex-
,eeeulngly fine filaments Of silky quail
~ winch take dye in remarkable man.
~; a firmi in Manchester, England, Is
asaillng itself Of the process.
The West Point (Nebraska) Butter
81 slu Gneese Association has more than
~ s., vnck and frame structures. and Il
~ t,i building. When the capabilities Of
- We association are fully utilized il will
~ ao,e 70 manufacture about 100. 900
b bvunus q cheese and $4,000 pounds Of
outter annually. " 7
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-24

Eliza Tisdale, aged u, of Halle
ton, Ind, was fatally burned by her
dress taking fire from a stove.
Miss Josephine Boyd was fatally
burned at St. Louis by her clothes TAX
ing fire from a CRATE in front Of which
she was standing, talking to her father.
AT Danvers, Ill, Minnie Sloan aged
10, daughter Of John u. Sloan, fell into
bath-tub Of scalding water and was so
badly burned that she died on the fol-
lowing day.
"A l0-year-old daughter of John
Breachdol, at Walton, Ind, was dan
gerously burned by the upsetting and
explosion Of a coal-oil lamp.
AT Delphos, O., Miss Mary Wilken-
hauer, while drawing water from els
tern lost her balance, fell in and was
drowned before assistance could reach
her.
AT Bellaire, West Va, young son
Of Christian Bippus pulled teakettle
Of boiling water from the stove, fatally
scalding both himself and younger
brother.
Professor Henry Dirk, in making
balloon ascension at Jonesboro, Ark,
few days ago, fell distance Of 1000
feet and was instantly killed.
John Starr, well known attorney
OF cambridge, Ind, took drink Of what
he supposed was liquor, at his sons
drug store. The draught proved to be
muriatic acid, and the result was fatal.
AT Davenport, Iowa, Mrs. Thomas
Hogan was sitting in front Of hot stove
with her infant in her arms, when she
discovered that her clothing had taken
fire. Putting the child down in a place
Of safety she screamed to her husband
for assistance, but before the flames
could be subdued she was burned so
badly that she could not survive.
-Gustave Rutterbeck, a German, was
killed by the accidental dis
charge Of pistol in the hands Of a CON-
panion, at Lost Nation, Clinton County,
Iowa, on New Years Day. The de-
ceased was the smallest man in the
county, measuring four feet two inches
IN height. He was 80 years old and
weighed y pounds.
A young man named Black, recent
y from Kentucky, with his father,
brother and brother-in-law, Frank Rus
or, went hunting deer in the swamp at
Clear Fork, Texas. In the thick bushes
Slack caught glimpse OF busters
white shirt, and, thinking II deer,
'aised Remington and fired. Ruster
ell fatally wounded and died the same
'vening.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-24

The editor Of the Republican,, Of
Tessin, Switzerland, has been con-
demned by local court to three months
imprisonment for printing an article
deemed TO be derogatory to the dignity
Of gendarme.
In accordance with the Berne Con-
vention, the Importation Of non-Europe.
an vines Is to be limited to certain ports,
and the planting Of them allowed only
In districts already subject TO the phyl-
loxera.
There has been the greatest difficult
~ in inducing the Duchess Of Edinburgh
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-24

The following statement Of the amount
OF public money expended on public
works during the past two fiscal years
has been prepared by the Register Of
the Treasury:
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-24

--ssYou flatter me, !" rs the orange said
to Judge David Davis when be sat
down upon it.--6sss-ss
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-24

= L ,. David w. Swing is described
is-r COOKING haggard and overworked. A
- e hall, 70 cost $4,000. 4 10 be-
coming year. 80 uu'ng 'ne
scientific Boston now sings its
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-24

hymns Mt prayer-meetings not out ol
hymn-books, but from hymn-screens
wherein they are projected by means
OF stereopticon.
The Fisk University at Nashville.
Tenn, had 1888 students last year, and
u has been ascertained that alumni az
the institution taught 1882 pupils.
The Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon saws
mat the time seems to have come for a
reconsideration of the differences be.
tween Congregationalism and Presby-
terianism, with view to union.
The Normal School Of Boston costs
the people $64 900 year. and 1t il pro
posed 70 abolish IL, on the ground that
good teachers could readily be secured
without that expense.
Three sons Of the late Edward
Dunphy, of Newburg, N. ", have been
ordained as priests in the Catholic
church. This is said TO be the first in
stance in this country where three broth
ers have been members Of the priest
hood al the same time.
- The IWo Republics, City Of Mexico,
says; There have been consecrated
three Bishops Of the Protesting Catholic
Church Of Mexico, DIR. H. @. Riley for
the diocese Of the Valley Of Mexico;
Dr. Thomas Valdespino for that OF
Puebla; and DR.. Prudencio G.. Herman
dez for that Of Cuernavaca. These are
The first creations of the Protestant
hierarchy in Mexico.
The Government of Costa Rica.
Central America, has decided TO insti-
tute free public schools throughout the
State, and has given orders to report
the name of every district where there
are thirty or more children living. The
President, in late message, hoped that
the time would soon come when no
Costa Rican OF either sex should reach
maturity without being able TO read and
write, have knowledgs OF arithmetic
and history, and be acquainted with the
elements Of Christian doctrine and NOR
atty.
The way in which the Mennonites
choose their ministers is by lot, regard
less OF the qualifications Of the persons
chosen. Certain brethren are nominal
ca, and the name of each, written on a
slip of paper, is put into separate copy
d the New Testament. The books are |
hen shuflled and placed on a table, when
Zach nominee walks up and takes one.
At recent selection Of ministers in Vir-
snia, two were wanted, but to secure
hese sixteen were placed in nominal
ion. The brethren on whom the lot
ell were designated by the fact that they
happened to pick up the books contain
ne their own names. The call to the
is thus considered divine.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-01-24

On the tramp-the Meriden
Recorder. On the flee the tramp-with
the big dog after FishkiH Stund-
ard.
"A Whitehall milkman was very
mad because some one bought a quart
Of milk and then told him TO sschalk it
down. - WhitehaH Times.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-07
Cnns,,mntinn Cured

An old physician, retired from prac-
ticc, having had placed in his hands by
an Fast India missionary the formula OF
simple vegetable remedy, for the
speedy and permanent cure OF consump-
ton, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, and
all throat and lung affections; also a
positive and radical cure for nervous de-
bility and all nervous complaints, after
having tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, has felt it
his duty to make it known 70 his suffer
ing fellows. Actuated by this motive,
and desire to relieve human suffer
idg, will send. free of charge, to all
who desire it, this recipe with full di-
rections for preparing and using, in
German, French or English. Sent by
mail by addressing with stamp, naming
this paper, w. W. Sherar, l49 Powers
Block, Rochester. \. Y.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-07
A Rrit,sh Disease

The most marked peculiarly that VIII
impress the American traveller when he
walks the streets OF London for the nrst
time. is the great number OF excessively
fat PEOPLE whom he everywhere meets.
He at first supposes these persons TO be-
long 10 the nobility, on the same .princi-
ple that he would pronounce them alder
men or bankers II seen in Boston or
New York. In brief, he labors under
the popular, though mistaken impress
sion. that obesity is invariably the com
bined result Of laIineSS and high living;
while in reality il is constitutional dis
ease. Until very recently there Was no
known remedy for this uncomfortable
disease. and its victims were Obliged 10
submit to the yexation and not lntre-
ouent modification that II occasions.
AUan's Anti-Fat is the only remedy for
this disease, and removes the abnormal
condition by purely natural means. Ask
YOUR druggist for il.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-07
One Of Yanderbilt,s Freaks.

Millionaire Vanderbilt, son OF his
father, stopped at the Altamaha Hotel
in Jessup, Georgia, while travelling
southwark to the land OF flowers, few
DAYS ago. When seated with his reti-
nue. at the tea-table a freak Of human
kindness struck him, and he told one
of his negro servants to sit at the same
table, so that the servant might eat his
fill by train time. Up rose the ALBANIA
ha host, and with angry gestures ordered
the darkey to leave the room. Up rose
the millionaire and swore "by the great
horn spoon" that unless the darkey
were allowed to remain he would leave
the hotel. The proprietor still kicked;
The Vanderbilt crowd left. "Now,"
SAYS Ou- esteemed contemporary, tie
Jes sup S n in 1, "what means this purse
proud, swell head?" Vanderbilt" ex-
claims another esteemed contemporary,
the Quitman Free Press, Vanderbilt is
an Internal skunk" This person will
have to learn the first principles Of a
gentleman" adds the Macon Telegraph
and Messenger.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-07
On the Ventilation of House.

Mrs. A. l.. Beaumont, in the american
Home, says: Being Yankee woman, |
venture to give my opinion on ventila-
ton. | think it the easiest thing in the
world to circulate pure, fresh air into
every room in the house, and in cheap
way. Instead OF whole panes Of glass at
the top of the upper sash, there should
be strips of glass about three inches
wide, cut so as To overlap little, 10
keep out rain, like old-fashioned green
window blinds. The cross piece next
the top of the upper sash, on the outside,
should be made wider, and project out
enough to receive the nicely fitted frame
above that holds the Slated glass, which
being fixed with genteel slide on the
inside. can he made to let in much or
little pure air at any time; and | earn
estly hope the time will soon come
when at the top of every door shall be
fitted false panel, with Stats to let up
or down at pleasure. Ii stands to rea-
son that i'm this way the impure air will
90 out and the pure air comein. While
am about it, | must say | think 1t an
absolute fact, that many dear children
die, and older people become feeble, for
the want of the hceling rays of the sun,
which is carefully kept out by heavy
window curtains for fashions sake.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-07
THE WEDDING CAKE.
A Remarkable Feature of the
Royal Wedding Breakfast.

According to the London Standard
the most remarkable feature Of the we'd
ding-cake, or rather cakes, ior the work
is in duplicate-one for the private Ia
BILE and the other for the guests table.
1t stands five feet six inches in height
and is shaped as temple-base, coli
umns, vaulted roofs and ornamentation
cast in white sugar. 1t was built in the
confectionery OF Windsor Castle by Mr..
Ponder, her Majesty's chief CONNECTION
er. The superstructure consists OF two
vaulted roofs beautifully chased and
supported by pillars with Corinthian
capicals. At the four corners OF the
lower chamber are stationed four female
figures, as clearly cut as if they had been
chiseled, emblematic OF the four CONT
nents-Europe, Asia, Africa and Amer
ica-while at intervals are cupids drlv-
ing swans or doves. Within the balus-
trade, made up OF dwarf pillars joined
by a fllgree work Of fine lace, are the
figures OF Cupid and Psyche, while in
plaques of sugar, on white arms. The
various pedestials bear the interviewer
monogram of bride and bridegroom,
while the base is richly decorated with
scroll brackets, from which are suspend
ed festoons Of orange-blossoms.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-07
Lining Out" Hymns.

The old ladies of Connecticut are
among the best story-tellers in New
England. Mrs. Hannah FOrwell Clark,
of Fast CRANKY, is now in her ninety
fifth year, and vet tells with humor a
quaint tale OF the Olden time when it
was the custom to Line hymns in meet
ing" The deacon adjusted his specta-
cles. raised his psalmn book and Incl
dentallv said, Pm almost blind, and
the congregation took up the words and
sung them rs line. The deacon, great
" ANNOYED, explained, 81 can scarcely
see at all" but this also was sung in
solemn measure. In holy Indignation
the deacon raised both hands and eX-
claimed, you're all bewitched" and
this, too, was rendered into praise;
whercupon the deacon vOcifcrated
loudly, The devils in every one OF
YOU" Such a change in the sentiment
as well the metre, brought the singers
To a StandStill, and after some confusion
they sang the proper psalm.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-07
He Knew the Rores.

Frnm tho Detroit FRYE Press.
The other evening man with his hat
ON his ear and a knowing look in his
eyes got off Grand Trunk train and
made inquiries about an uptown hotel,
and finally decided TO take hack up.
Nothing was said about the fare, which
was fifty cents, but when he had been
safely carried To his destination he
pushed his hat up 4 little more, drew
down his left eye, and said 10 the hack
man:
Now, boy, look a-here! hain't
traveled-Oh, no, and don't know my
gait. I've heard OF you fellows before,
and I'm right on the gouge and kick.
III give YOU a dollar for this ride, but
no, another cent-Ill fight fist
The driver took the dollar in place Of
tho anticipated fifty cents, and the
smart Aleck walked into the hotel 10 tell
the clerk how he blutfed fellow weigh
inc thirty pounds more than he pulled
down.