The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-05-14
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE,


4 MN oUunARI o. fuE WOsLDS w.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Tur Connecticut Democratic State
Convention elected an unpledged delegation
% the Cincinnati Convention. The Tildel
men claim ten II the twelve delegates
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention, which met on the 18th, har-
nonixed the conflicting elements In that
SKATE and chose an uninstructed delegation
% Cincinnati. The delegates are
aid 70 stand twenty each Tor
ridden and Hancock and eighteen for
hazard. The unit rule was rejected BY
vote Of rs 70 ~. Tilden's friends claim
stronger showing than y here gwen
them.
The California Republican State Con-
veution instructed for Blaine and adopted
the unit rule
The new British Parliament was
formally opened on the 3oth.
ID. w. MIDDLEroK, for twenty years
Clerk Of the Supreme Court Of the United
States, 4 dead.
The Indiana State Greenback Con-
vsntion, held on the 18th, elected delegates
% the National Convention and also noma-
mated full State ticket, headed ~ follows;
Richard Gregg for Governor; Thomas De-
BrlIe, Lieutenant Governor; J. B. feag-
~, Secretary Of State; George W. DemArre'
Auditor; John r. Ulery, Treasurer; John
l. Miller. Attorney General.
HARrMANN, the Socialist elected from
Hamburg TO the German Reichstag, Il I
1ourneyman shoemaker.
POsrMAsrER-GENER KEY has beer
tsndered and has accepted the United States
Judgeship for the Eastern and Middle Dis
trict Of Tennessee, made vacant by thu
death Of Judge Trigg.
The Congressional exodus investiga
ton has closed. 1t has cost $4,000 exciu
sive OF printing, which will swell thu
amount to about s., 900 more.
KExBLE and companions, the CON
victed Pennsylvania bribers, have been par
doned BY the Governor, upon recommen
dation Of the Board Of Pardons, 80 far .
ehelr imprisonment II concerned They pai
their zines and have been discharged fror
custody.
DENIS KEARNEY has obtained
wit Of habeas corpus, returnable May II.
JUDGE A. W. SWEET, many year
80 I resident Of Illinois, Missouri an
Iowa. and since then Of California, commit
I'd suicide BY taking opium At Dallas, Tex
. tho 18th.
EARL CowpER has been appointe
Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland.
In Is said that an understanding hl
bssn arrived 1t By both parties for an %
tournment Of Congress by the LIT Of June.
The German-Amer Independel
Republican organization Of New York ha'
Issued manifesto fssoring the holding
IN Anfi-Third- term Convention 1t Chicae
simultaneous with the regular Republics
Convention.
Col. THOMAS A. Ecorr has resigns
ths Presidency AZ the Pennsylvania Ra
road Company, 70 take effect on the 1st
June. IN health Il the cause.
MAJ GEN. SAMUEL HETNTzELMI
died on The Isl, aged seventy five.
DIR. SAMUEL CHOPIN, the well know
physician and surgoon, died II New Orlea
q the ID, a pneunonia, after three da
Illness.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat Of I
III published special from Chicago .
aosrncing that Gen. Logan had be
callcd hone from Washington
tske the leslership of the CIR
uarty in Illinois, because q the discover,
: conspiracy between the Blaine and Wa
hurue men n elect IN -third-term de
enfion It Springfield 70 the Chicago G.
vcntien.
w. II. DO0EzTTEx, Assistant Co
usssioner q Ps1en<s, has rendered his res
nasion, to take e9s0t Nay D.
COSSGERCE AND INDUSTRY.
a WASHINGTON special Of the
49,: The River and Harber III b pI
tsonIly completed. ana Chairman Rea
~ thai. he VIII report = within few d.
ne aggregate amount a the bill has b
cut down from 81, 100000 = - 100000.
wakInx the reductton Tie eoUmittee v
compelled % strike out . large numbei
appropriations whtch they had intended
sbe Mississippi and tributaries and O
iarge rivers IN the West. The unimpor
tributaries have been omitted entirely
THE public debt statement Of MI
shows Z decrease IN the debt dnriag Apr
ea2Q7e, 070; legal tenders outstanding. 8,
sz3,l06; total without Interest, sol, 81.
to6al debt, $2,1l7, 49, 0ls; tstai inter
e1oe27,0e8; cash In Treasury, $ioe, ~,
sssal ddbt, less cash in Treasury, $I,oGs, !;
-.
THE Canadian Minister Of Agricul
- been persuaded BY large numbe
pork.packsn II Montreal 70 rcscind tn
surd order, recently issued, prohibiting
Importation o. hogs from the United 81
THR 81. Louis, Iron Mountain
Southern Railway Company has purch
alarss majority Of the capital stock q