The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-02-28

on Indian Afairs, the Senate has appointed
select committee 70 cit during the recess TO
Investigate the treatment and escape from
Fort Robinson and subsequent slaughter OF
The Northern Cheyenne indians.
President Hayes expects to 60 next sum-
mer 70 Connecticut, California and Texas.
AT caucus Of the Republican members
Of the Senate, held on the l3ths 4 was
agreed that the Post-ofzlcs Appropriation
bill shall be taken up q soon - the pending
measure In regard to Chinese immigration
h disposed Of, and that preference shall be
given 70 other regular appropriation bills,
including the River and Harbor bill, over
al other business thereafter.
The President has nominated Horatio c.
Burchard, Representative In the present
Congress from the Fifth District Of Illinois,
Director Of the Mint, vice Linderman. de-
ceased. Mr.. A. Loudon Snowden, the first
nominee, declined the position.
The President has approved the bill to al
low women to practice before the Supreme
Court.
The Democratic Senatorial Caucus re-
solved to recede from the action previously
taken by the Joint Congressional Caucus,
RiC0ktuk kuCAl -uHR1it ~ enV A<fS@i Va tHo
Federal Supervisors Election law. The
abolition Of the Jurors test oath will be APP
pended to the Legislative Appropriation
bill, as heretofore agreed upon.
Secretary Sherman, In a communication
to the House, states the estimates for expend-
itures for the next fiscal year At $2s4 &c.,
4l9. The estimated receipts are: From
customs. $4,000, 900; from internal rev.
enue, $106 100000; from miscellaneous
sources, SIS, 10000; total, $25s 800 ,O00 leay-
ing deficiency Of 81, 062 ,419.
The Senate Committee on Transportation
Routes to the Seaboard have made q fayora-
BILE report on the application Of Capt. Jas.
B. Eads and his associates for relief. The
bill proposes modification Of the original
act, authorizing the immediate payment 10
Capt. Esds Of $50. 600; when the channel Is
Is feet deep and not less than 300 feet wide,
500, ZOO; for % feet the same, aud for 30
feet the same, without regard to width.
tenance OF the work, as provided in the
original.
Senator Bruce OF Mississippi was called
to the chair In the Senate Chamber on the
18th and presided over the Senate portion
Of the afternoon, il heing the first time in
the history Of the Government that colored
man has occupied the chair.
The President has nominated William
Garvey, Of Ohio, Indian Agentfor Nevada
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
A correspondent Of the Louisville Cou-
journal. sent to Memphis to investi-
gate reports Of yellow fever there, telegraphs
IN emphatic denial Of its existence
AT Brownsville, Tenn, on the 18th, Frank
Bond, syoung lawyer, was shot and fatally
wounded by his cousin, James 5. Bond, Jr.,
who then attempted TO commit suicide, by
shooting himself through the head. The
iatter's wound Is not serious. The shoot
ing was the result Of disagreement regard
ing the sale Of some property In which both
had an interest.
A negro burglar named VIM. Patterson,
who attempted to rob the 1ewelry store Of
n. B. Wright In Kansas City, on the night
Of the 18th, was killed In hand-to- hand
fight with the clerk, . lad II years old, nam
Cd Augustine Marty, who was armed with .
dirk-knife. The Coroner's Jury exonerated
young Marty.
The steamer A. G. Donnally was burned
on the night Of the 1lth few miles below
Cairo, on the Mississippi River. The burn
ing boat was run aground upon Island
No. l, and All the passengers got on, al
though several we're crippled BY jumping
from the boat. The boat burned to the
waters edge, and not even the books and
papers were saved. The pilot, VIM. Under
wood, remained at his post until the boat
struck the shore, when the pilot-house was
IN flames, and he descended through the
wheel-house, jumped into the water, and
swan ashore.
Seven Of the Cheyenne prisoners confined
ct Fort Leavenworth have been identified a.
being engaged IN the raid through Kansas
last fall, and they have been turned over to
the civil authorities Of Ford County, where
they will be put on trial for murder.
james Beck, baggage master on the Iron
Mountain Railroad between 81. Louis and
Columbus KY, has been convicted Of rob.
hing the mails and sentenced TO three years
In the Penitentiary.
The main building Of the'soldiers' Or.
phans' Home at Xenia, o., was destroyed
by fire on the morning OF the 10th. Six
hundred children had Just finished breakfast
In the building and returned to the cot
tages when the fire broke out. Several
members Of the Legislature, officially
visiting the institution, saved their lives ~
jumping from the second -story windows.
The entire contents Of the building, includ-
Ing the personal effects Of officers and teach
err, were destroyed. The loss 10 the State
il about $4,000, upon which there il no In
surance.
Three masked men robbed the Little Rock
maiI-stage, on the night OF the l4th, three
miles west Of Pine Bluff, Ark. The driver
and the single passenger on board were re-
lieved OF their money and valuabIes and the