The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-03-19

An attempt 70 assassinate Gen. Melikoff
was made az st. Petersburg on the 3D.. A
he was aighting from his carriage at his res
idenee Young man fired ut him with re-
yolyer. the bullet passing through the back
folds OF the Generals cloak. The man was
about 10 fire a second time, when he was
seized BY Cossack. The would-be assas-
sin Is said to be student. lie feigned in
sanity when arrested.
The report OF the arrest Of Vera Sassulitch
proves 10 be unfounded.
Gems. Grant and Sheridan, on the I'd, re-
viewed the troops stationed In the City OF
Mexico. 1t was a gala day in the Mexican
capital.
The paper-makers Of the Northwest are
said 10 have combined for the purpose Of
making vigorous effort 10 prevent legisla-
ton by Congress aboishng the tariff on pa
per and articles used in It's manufacture
The Mont 81. Gothard Tunnel, nine miles
In length, Il practically completed II con-
meets the railway systems Of Germany,
switzerland and Italy, and as an engineering
effort surpasses the Mont Gems Tunnel,
which has heretofore given 10 France the
practical monopoly Of rans-Alpine railway
traffic.
The London Times anticipates an unusual
" large emigration to America the coming
season.
James Russell Lowell has left Madrid for
London 70 assume his duties a. Minister 70
the Court OF st. James.
The would-be assassin Of Gen. Melikon
was tried on the 4th and executed by hang
ing on the 5th. His real name was Melodet-
Ky: he was a native Of Minsk. thirty years
OF age. lie maintained n stolid demeanos
throughout his Incarceration, and would
only ssy In his own defense that he acted
from principle and not from personal mo-
tives. lie further said, az reported, thai
though he had failed in killing Gen. Nell
koff some OF his comrades would succeed.
A Berlin dispatch says that, with view
r 20 affording Bismarck further relief from M
: arduous duties, Count Won Stolberg Werni'
: gerode. vice-Prerident Of the Council o.
Ministers, will be appointed Prussian Pre-
I mier.
A boiler explosion at Glasgow, Scotland
: on the 9Th. resulted In the death Of sixteei
persons. ON the same day Galbraith's spin
ming mill burned and two lives were lost
The residence Of Norman Mcleod, a
1 Scottstown, Quebec, burned on the 9th, AM
his two children persisted In the flames.
/. A Rio Janeiro dispatch OF the 9th gives
4 brief statement that the Gillian fleet ha'
4 attacked africa, and that the commander 9
! the iron-cad Huascar was killed during tn
: engagement.
The reports OF the famine in Armenia ar
! heartrending. VI. me locality fiffy-two per
sons died from starvation. Thousands ar
, endeavoring 10 escape to neighboring Per
/. sian provinces, but the roads are covere
Il deep with snow, and many perish on III
i journey.
The Duchess Of Marlborough, writing
y the Lord Mayor OF London, March !, says
n ). The distress In Ireland continues to
n general, and In some parts j. increasing"
"A The French Government refused TO SUI
render Hartmann, the Russian charged wit
N being connected with the Moscow explosion
n but ordered him TO leave France. He y "a
ly TO be now In London.
Il An explosion In the artillery barracks
~ Santiago, Chilli, killed twenty -four perso
al and injured many others.
a. The bark Elbana, from Newport, Vale
for -. Johns, n. b., was wrecked nj Nigg
Va Head, five miles from her port 81 destin
N. tion, on the morning Of the stl. Capt. Bar
~ and seven men were drowned.
VI Parnell and Dillon received hearty w
~ come At Montreal on the night Of the sth.
~. the procession were a number Of Home r,
nm transparencies.
-, Avienna dispatch Of the 9th reports
on ice In the vistuIa River accommodating on
~ Austro- Russian frontier, near Dizkos
he The river broke through dixie and Hood
ber thirty villages, some Of which were co
rem plctcly destroyed. Thousands Of pers'
~ are without shelter or food.
m- The dissolution Of Parliament has b.
has announced, 70 take place AT Easter.
he GENERAL.
The National Union Greenback Labor q
~ ~, vention was held In 81. Louis on
wv 4th some 2ls delegates were press
~. representing 10 States. Judge stepl
~ d. Dillaye, 81 New Jersey, was nc
~" mated for President, and B. ,. Cha
~ bcrs, Of Texas, for Vice Prcsident.
platform 81 March I, 1879, was suhstanti
- rcadopted. A Committee ~ Confcre
w. with the Chicago National Greenback G
vention was appointed, and an adjcurnm
~ Of the Convention 10 Chicago on June o I
IN" ', ried Ia the face OF considerable OPPOSITE
-. ~. The Chinese are leaving San Francesca
I'M the ear load for the Atlantic States. The
- cent action Of the san Francisco Doars
Health. ordering the depopuiation Of