The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-05-16

At Cansseraga, Allegheny County y. r.,
recently, : young man named John Luce, In
desperation caused by an unrequited love,
shot the object Of his affections, Miss Lucy
wyman. and afterward fired pistol ball
into his own brain. The young lady may
recover, but the love-craxed youth died
within = fen hours after nriLg the fatal
shot.
Governor Seymour Of New York positive
" declines tori for Governor OF New York
or for any other Office He says he has per-
manenily retired from politics.
Mr.. Sarah Josepha Hale, for half centu-
~ editor Of Godey's Lady's Book. died In
Philadelphia on the 3oth ult. She was In the
s5th year Of her age.
Charles y. Freeman Of Pocassett, Mass,
became craxed from attending revival meet
ings Of the Second Adventists, and proceed
cd 10 Offer as sacrifice to the Lord his
youngest daughter. The little one was
transfxed with knife, and her blood pour
ed out on table improvised as IN altar.
He asserted that the Lord had directed him
to sacrifice her and that she would rise again
in three days. Freeman was mail-csrrier.
Lewis Cocns Of Taoghkanie, Columbia
County. n. ", in = nj Of jealousy, cut his
wife's throat and then his own. The woman
Is dead. Cocns will live. Both were young
and recently married.
At New Preston Hill, Litchfeld County,
Conn, on the 5ih, Egbert Cogswell, while
drunk. killed his wife and then took his
own life.
Alden r. Davis, Charles r. Howard. Ma
thaniel Wing, Alvin Wing, Walter II.
Wing, Phineas Gibbs. Jr-, Harriet \.
swift and Ann Louise Howard have
been arrested - accessories 10 the
killing OF little Edith Freeman at Po-
casset, Mass. At the funeral OF the victim
Alden r. Davis, one Of the Advent
ist fanatics, mounted a tombstone and
began an address to the crowd
assembled, attempting to prove that Free
man was justified by God in killing the
child. He was re6uked BY the crowd. how
ever. who compelled him TO desi-t. Neither
Freeman nor his wife show the slightest sign
OF pity or remorse for the taking OF OF their
innocent child
FOREIGN
A Berlin dispatch says that on the reas-
sembling OF the Reichstag letter from Bis
marck was presented asking leave to prose-
cute Deputy Hasselmann for smuggling pro-
hibifed newspapers into the empire. The
introduction Of copies Of three German
newspapers published in The United States
has been prohibited. Three medical stu
dents, Gerwitz, Arohnson and Leibermann
have been convicted and sentenced TO I'M
prisonment for disturbing public order and
maintaining secret relations.
A great fire has occurred in the City Of
Orenburg. Russis, on the Trial River, de-
stroying its principal part. More than half
the population are destitute OF food and
shelter. Anumber Of persons were injured.
The village Of Gratchenko, on the yolga,
IL l. reported, has been totally destroyed by
IRE. A Berlin correspondent attributes the
Orenburg fire to political discomfort, and
points out that offenders are frequently
banished 70 Orenburg.
Prince Alexander Of Baltenberg has been
elected to the throne Of Bulgaria, with the
tile OF Alexander the First.
A telegram from Constsntinople states
the khediye's emissary has notified the Porte
that the Khedive has refused u assent TO
the appointment Of foreigners IS Ministers
Of Finance and Public works, but would
mske other concessions TO meet the wishes
Of France and England.
Loriilard's American two year-old Pap
poose won the race for the first spring two
year-old stakes At Newmarket, England, on
the 1st.
A recent dispatch from Calcutta says
nearly a million pilgrims who assembled 1t
the Hurdwar Fair have carried cholera in
various directions, and that thousands have
been swept away by the epidemic.
The single-scull race between Edward
Hanlan Of Toronto and John Hawdon Of
England, for the championship and 5000,
rowed on the Tyne on the 5fh, was won by
the Canadian, who led easily from the start.
BY the explosion Of CARLOAD Of dyna-
mite 1t STAFFORD, Ont, on the 9th, two men
were instantly killed and fve others badly
injured About 70 carloads Of freight were
wrecked and mixed up in inextricabIe con-
fusion.
DR.. Isaac Butt, the well known Home
rule member Of Parliament, l. dead.
Gen. Felix Douay, Inspector General OF
the Armies Of France, Il dead.
The news fromSt- Petersburg does not in
dictate that the coercive measures adopted
by the Government are like y TO prove eject
I've In stamping out the conspiracy. The
wife Of Professor Botkin mas been imprison-
ed in ST. Petersburg on suspicion Of Mill
ism, and the wife OF the chief military pros
ecutor T. also among the suspected. Lieut..
Dubrovin, who was arrested near Nov
gorod on suspicion OF being one OF
the chief members Of the Reyolu-
tionsry Committee, has been hanged.
Troops are held IN readiness night and day
% quell any outbreak, and At O'Clock every
inhabitant must be indoors and all lights
extinguished. Notwithstanding these pre-
cautions, Incendiary placsrtls continue "a he