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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-18

The new York World publishes ias
following:

The new York World publishes tas
following:
II imclase a specimen ~ the Civil-zeryics
reform OF the Republican party. lam n post
master AT the CROSSROADS IN tire rincy >xoo1S
~ Alabama Tne per9uisifes 81 my ohhct
amounted ~ 8 Leo FIR the Ia quarter. which
I viii devote ~ any charitable object. hut r.
specftully dncI ne 10 pay one cent ~ hepubii-
can hlsckmaiL- Hh~ hAcclIcfcy and the Re-
publican ring don't ike 4. Mr.. Hayes can ap
point hNs or General Grants hrofherin-ia1
pr any other man IN my Fiice- W q
The specimen wasthe usualcircular
calling for contributions to the Re-
public an cam paign fund. and though
there was evidently a mistake in send
ing sulh a document to a postmaster
whose official p~ergu.siies for the last
quarter amounted 10 only II. 80. vet there
isnodoubfthaf most ofthe Central Com
mittee seed will fall in richer soil and
bring forth q more abnnd mt harvest
As for Mr.. HAYES remarkable Civil
service reform. il has long sinoe been
abandoned bv him and j. almost for
gotten by the people Every body knows
that. whether nj or unfi. ever man who
assisted in the preparation ami con
summation Of the centennial fraud
and who did not already have 4 place
a the public crib-has been provided
with one. No single Individual Of the
conspiring crew has been turned empty
away. Zach tool euiployeH in that dry
w0rk WAS duly ..grea~ei. ardfhere has
not been a prayer-mecting the less IN the
White House on : count III work or
wOrkmen.
But fearing we presume. THAI some
creduious persons might suppose he
still had a lingering respect Tor solemn
pledges made beios,. aud after inanxn-
ration. Mr. Hayes kindly threw Of All
disguise ia the Cornell affair. This
gentleman, as our realers will remem-
Der. had been summarily dismissed
from the New York Custom House u
account ofwillful disobedience ana 0pen
defiance ~ the Ciyil-service rules ami
regulations laid down by the adminisfra-
ton. Conkling. to show his contempt
~ the Administration. nominated Cor
nell for Cox ernOr Of New York.
Straightway. and without much appar-
eni urging. NJ. Hayes gave Cornell the
whole weight 0f his influence. personal
~ recommending him to the Republic
cans ~ that State. thereby materially
his election. Since this amazing
performance even the small boy in the
street laughs when Hayes civil-service
reform i mentioned. and we fancy
: the piney-wocds' postmaster in Ala
bama wa "a greatly surprised BY the
Republican call for Civil-service cash.
The President and his party are NJ one
on this subject. and nothing but the
poverty Of his Office viii prevent Nv
o." from losing his hcad--Sk Louis
Republican.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-18

Will you deer ii out Of place II now
| say a word rs TO the Northern Democ-
racy? Need / point You u is sfrmg-
giles. it, contests and sacrifices for the
maintenance Of the Constitution and the
rights Of the people Of the South under
il? have seen the young men Of that
party grow up full Of ambition. but
strangers TO public position. defeated
election after election by the over
whelming majority Of the people Of
their section. have seen social oSfra-
cism practiced and political prescription
adopted because men could not agree
with the dominant party. We have
had every temptation TO abandon the
faith and surrender our convictions. but
the temptations have been spurned-
The organization Of the Democratic
party has been maintained in every
county and township in the North II
has stood ike a wall Of adamant be-
tween you and your enemies. II has
fought them everywhere. Disaster has
not broken our ranks Defeat has not
demoralized our force. After every
victory for our foes we have rallied and
organized again W. have saved the
old party name from dishonor. We
have preserved the faith. and new
er was the Northern Democracy
20 united. 50 determined. 50 def
ant as now. Victory Il about 70 be won;
but Il cannot be won unless the Dcmoc-
racy Of the South i with US. For the
sake Of Northern Democrats. who have
restored TO you since the war the right
Of self-goycrnment- let no local contests
divide You now I know men of yir-
GINA, YOU will not abandon the men
who refused 70 abandon you in the
hours Of your defeat ana humiliation
and conquest,-FroDs Mr.. Hurts Speech
before hc Virginia Conservative Coz
rtntioD.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-18

Of the moon." and Il appears above
the surface so that the moon gives il
light during It's earlier stages o fgrowth.
perhaps growth may be more rapid
than II II gcrminated Just A. the be-
ginning OF '.the dark Of the NOON yet
we doubt greatly whether the differ
ence could DO perceived by the naked
eye. An exchange says:
There "a never a popular opinion
or prevalent error without some SORT Of
basis for IL; and that which attributes
influence upon vegetable growth 4 the
moon. while il il a delusion for the
greater part. vet has some speck OF
truth AT the bottom of IL. Light il
necessary for vegetable growth. and
the increase in growth j. in proportion
to the amount OF light. In Northern
regions. where the sun does not set
for several weeks or months. the
growth Of vegetation is excessively
rapid. corresponding TO the excess Of
sunlight. which is without intermission
during the nights. When the moon is
full and the nights are quite light. veg
etable growth will be increased accord
ingly. SO far the moon has an effect
upon vegetation. but no further. To
suppose that il causes beans to Irvine
about a pole, or 10 sprout downward
instead Of upward, is an example OF the
usual e~xaggeration in which ignorant
persons often indulge"
The superstition regarding the time
of planting to conform TO the different
phases OF the noon has probably no
better foundation than that Friday is
an unlucky day to begin = journey; or
that breaking q mirror p~ortends q
death in the family; or that spilling
salt will bring IN a quarrel. Our ad-
vice is: Get your soil in good order.
and then plant-moon or no
Cor. Chicago T1nbae.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-18

The fraudulent President j. enlarg-
ing his residence at Fremont. prepara-
tory to removal from Washington next
March. He will have occupied the
White House four years without the
color Of honest title. and will have
drawn four years salary that rightfully
belonged 10 Mr.. Tilden. There Is good
reason 10 believe hat Of the two hun
dred thousand dollars received during
this term he will carry away from
Washington more than n hundred
and sixty thousand dollars in bonds
and in money. Indeed. persons who
ought to be well informed. from their
opportunities of association and from
their knowledge Of the footing upon
which HAYES household Is conducted.
estimate that his savings Will aggregate
between one hundred and seventy and
one hundred and s~eyenty-iye thousand
dollars. Money boarding seems 10
have been, from the very start, the alb
sorbing thought Of the fraudulent Pres
ident. His personal n i a.
well known at the capital a. the per
sonal hypocrisy which j. one Of the dis
tinguishing traits Of the intruder.
Never before has such n~iggardliness
been exhibited to the world in the man
agcment Of the household of the Ex-
ecutive Mansion as has been thrust upon
the attention Of every body. residents
and strangers. citizens and diplomats.
since the 18th Of March. 1877. Not only
has the large pay voted by CongrcSsfor
becoming hospitality at the White
House been pockcted by the occupant.
but the contingent fund appropriated
to special objects has born diverted 10
uses never contemplated By the law.
Hayes entered Office in the last quar-
ter Of the fiscal year Of 1857, for
which six thousand dollars had been
granted 10 his predecessor to cover con-
tingent expenses. One Of his first acts
wa 70 ask through his Secretary, Rog-
ers, for a larger deficiency than the
whole sun allowed for the year. with
out giving an item to Justify the re-
quest. And it was not until John Sher-
man had patched up a false estimate
that a scandal was prevented which
must have involved both Grant and
Hayes, but particularly the latter. in an
attempt to grab money to which he was
not entitled.-N. Y. San.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-18

THE Cincinnati Commercial
heartily indorses the views expressed
IN Senator Davis letter. To be- con-
sisten. il must support the nominee Of
the Cincinnati Convention who will
stand on the Davis platform. -Cincin-
matt Enquirer.
The verdict is unanimous that
Whitaker slit his ears and tied his own
hands and legs. The TESTIMONY i con-
elusive against the mulatto, and now
the question ought 10 be, What shall be
done with the niger? Respectively
referred TO Allison, Dawes 4 Co.
-. The Pittsburgh Post thinks il
nothing strange that Mr.. and Mrs
Hayes have slept in George Washing
tons bed at Mount Vernon. for Lincoln.
Buchanan and several others have done
the same thing. But Mr.. and Mr..
Hayes have been sleeping in Samuel j.
Iilden's bed at the White House for
some three years. That Is something
nobody else has done. Boston Post.
-Republican journals occasionally
air their Importance BY twitting Demo-
Gratis rs to inaction Of Congress on pro-
viding a more definite manner Of count
ing the Electoral vote. but when the
subject is brought forward, they grow
and whine about snap judg-
ment. But it does not make the slight
est difference. there win he a fair count
or a fair fight next time. -Pus6urgh
Pest.
- The way in which John Sherman
worked to secure delegates from Mis-
sissippi j. the best illustration Of Hayes
civil service reform that has come re-
Gently 10 hand. Of the delegates 10
the Convention eight were employees Of
the Treasury Department. six were
postmasters and route agents and one
was a Federal District Attorney. Such
OF the Federal employees as were unable
to get into the Convention as delegates
constituted themselves into u strong
Sherman lobby on the outside. The
wages received b. these Sherman men
from the Federal Government amount
70 the sun of $4,000 yearly.-Boston
Globe.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-18

We don't expect the leaders of the
Re-adjuster faction 10 act in concert
with the Conservative party in the com
ing Presidential and Congressional can
vass. They are already stepped in too
far to return, and for them II Is safer to
20 forward and cross over TO the other
side than TO retracc their steps. And
we can well afford to let them 20. For
some yea they have not acted with us.
and yet we have experienced no loss or
disadvantage from their detection. In
the last Congressional elections they
ran candidates Of their own independ-
emily in many Of the Districts. hit
failed TO make any impression upon the
Conservative nominees. In this Dis
trict. as well as in the extreme South
west, where they gather strongest, we
easily defeated them. although they
we're aided BY the entire Radical
strength, and we can do it again, IL only
the Conservative people will remain
true to their principles and party; and
as there Is no question before the peo-
pie but the simple one Of whether Dem
ocratic OF Radical ideas shall prevail in
the administration Of the Federal Gov
eminent, whether we shall continue TO
be a Constitutional Republic Of sover-
eign States or a grand centralized En-
pire, we do not suppose very many
real virginians win halt long in
deciding how they vote. We will
even make : liberal allowance
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-18

for the detection Of a portion 81
the rank and tile. who may vote for an
unpledged ticket or for the Radical
Electors. and set We shall have enough
Of tru and loyal yirginians 10 carry
through the Democratic Electors. anu
elect ~ least seven or eight o. IA rep
re~sentatiye congressman In all a
calculations then In Virginia NE must
be careful 10 make due allowance for
this unknown but small quantity. and
learn as rapidly as possible 10 get along
without il. Nor will this be IS difficult
as some seen { 0 imagine. As will rcadi-
IN be seen after We shall have fully or
ganized for work and drawr the lines
Then we will see and know exactly who
are against us. and bc able 10 take our
measures accordingly. That there i
any danger Of the State being lost
through this small detection from the
Conservative party. we never have be-
licyed; for even in its most formidable
character as an anti-debt party il lacks
the strength Of numbers. with the Rad
icals added. TO defeat Us in a general
vote wher we bring our whole force
into the field and do our work well and
faithfully. and in a contest IL this kind.
when no local issue j. involved. they can
not possibly muster anything like the
force they probably could on a bare
question Of the settlement Of the State
debt--RihDaond (Fa-) Sfatcs.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-18

VIZ have on hand two or three letters
asking our opinion about planting in
the moon" So far as experiments
conducted through . series Of years 60
% settle anything, they settle the fact
that the moon has no perccptiblc in
iuence upon the terminating Of seed or
On the yield Of any crop. Recent ex-
periments made with the electric light,
70 test the effect cs continuous daylight
upon plants, 20 to show tina. plants so
( Gated grow more rapidly than those
: xpoeed 70 only the ordinary amount Of
Lgnt- That there Il some effect caused
~ moonlight, perhaps greater
growth than when there Is no moon
may be inferred from these expert
meDts. II seed be planted in 1.-THE old
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-18


CONSIDERABLE excitement was Gre
ated among the cclored people last
week occasioned by the report that the
Grand jury would iniicf all negroes
who were living together - man and
wife and who had never been married
under . license from the ordinary The
excitement ran high. and negroes whO
had been living together thirty years.
and had grown families obtained
license. and were duly joined according
10 law. During the days Of slavery i
was nof customary for slaves % b. mar
ried by license. and consequently .
number ~ colorcd people are now liv-
ing together who were never legally
married. There was danger for some
parties. but not the old couples who
were married before the war.-Lnmr-
lin (Ga) fBfq<nfzrk
A RECENT cssayist Observes. The
ideal woman - the possible wife and
mother, the actual daughter. j. hallcw-
ed and gioriiied by the genius 81 AL
time All that i right in il i 80 In
iimately allied with images Of beauty
and tragic interest that the moral ludg-
ment in this direction does not work
alone. but Is stimulated and supported
By the constant guidance II an aesthetic
feeling. which every poet thai ever
lived has contributed 70 FORM
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-02

In opeaatlon shall pay their pfopoetion OF
tho expense, and tho remaiuder be borne bv
tho government, which alope reos,yes tn
benefit, and should, therefore, pay ,ts lust
share.
Tho government has fox tho past ten
yeaSs annually received averages of more
than $l3, 100000 of taxes upon deposits
upon system unknown elsewhere in any
country, and it is certainly but just that il
should bear tho expenses OF redemption OF
those notes, from the circulation Of which
it receives the entire benefit.
The total amount Of national bank notes
received for redemption BY the COUP
troller OF tho currency and at tho
redemption agencies of the treasury
during the year 1880 is shown to have been
6OO,98S.940. The plumber of bank notes
which have been issued since tho organiza.
tion Of the system 10 7,678 229. valued 1t
1889 n689S5 or these 98,93G, ,5GC, valued
At S6%7.OO5.63 have been redeemed, and
3S.74O.343. valued at $342,O63. .45l. vere
still outstanding on November l. 1880 Tho
amount of national bank currency destroyed
during the year ending Ostober 81, 1880,
wa $35, ,539, geo.
The comptroller ssys: Tho total Losses
charged of BY the banks during current
year were $l4. zoo 4O6 and for four wears pre
vious $85, ,S45 ,O68. The total losses charged
Of during the last 1--WE years arc moro than
20 per cent. of the entire capital OF banks
Dor'ng tho last i've years tho average num-
ber Of banks annually omitting divide 1ds
on account Of loeses has been
27 per cent. The average amount Of capt.
tai upon which no dividends have been paid
durtog that time ia $42,266,244. From
which it follows that for q continuous period
OF five years about 1-72 per cent. Of tho
~hole number Of banks in operation have
paid no dividends and nearly one-tepth of
the total capital has been unremppefaliye.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-02

DURING the last fiscal year, 30,661
tons of second-class matter newspapers
and periodically were transported in the
mails, an iacre ase Of 5,048 tons over 1879.
The amount Of postage collected on the
same was $l,220,452.5s, an increase over
1870 Of $l22, ,267.91. At the New York
post Office, the weight Of such mail mat
ter was 6e3 tons, and the amount Of
postage collected on the same was $780,
629. Chicago comes next with 2,ssS
tons, and $116.515 collected; Boston,
1875 tons and 275,060 collected; Phila-
delphia, 1855 tons and $es.s9s collect
St. Louis, 1,84s tons and $5s, ,o4e collect
ed; Cincinnati, 1897 tons and 2S1.s76
collected; Augusta, Me-, 1,10s tons and
$44,3a collected; San Francisco, $50
tons and $28,615 collected; Louisville,
ss2 tons and $15,276 collected; Balti-
moro, a9e tons ard 81, $50 collected.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-02
Too Much Civilized.

Pcck's San says that the mum.
ber of persons that are BROUGHT
to Milwaukee from up about Sha-
wano, charged with selling q glass of
benzine to Indians, to be tried before
United States officials, is 50 large that
there is a suspicion that the fees OBJ
tanned by some one is the end sought in
stead of the protection Of Indians. The
Sun scouts the idea, but if the arrests
become much more frequent it will pay
the Government to take the Indians to
Washington and board them at the ho-
tells, and furnish them with champagne
at every meal. If these Indians are
civilized, as is claimed by the Govern
ment, they cannot get along without
whisky any more than white men.
There il such thing as civilizing an
Indian too much.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-02
The INSANE ASYLUM FIRE.
Arrest OF tho Incendinry-1nvestlsa
ASkou.

Arrest OF tho Iucendinry-1nvcstlea,
ASkou.
It is now thought the asylum ut st. Peter
Wa set on fire by one OF tho patien's named
Ben Husselton, of Worthington, Minn. He
has been placed under Arrest and taken to the
Nicollet county Jail. He was ordinarily &C
traotable a to be employed around the ho<pi.
tai, perfor min menial duties, and was sup.
posed to be 80 ens rely harmless ~ to be a.
lowed the lib1rty OF tho entire building. He
10 rat her small in stature, very closely knit, is
about five feet eight inches in height, and
weighs lA0 pounds. His hair is eighty tineed
with gray, aud when relating the horrible deed
which sometimes he acknowledged, bis sml
gray eye lighted with dendish expression Of
delight, which caused . shudder to ruu through
the veins of his hearers. He said this:
damn them. I would like to buro them
ali Haven't they broke my head on the stons
door four OK five times All .m sorry for is
that the napthA under the female wing did not
burn ard tnen would have them all, old Bart
lett as veil ~ the rest! can only die once,
but I only regret that did not complete the
business. Am ready to stretch hemp, for ]
made them tquiIm when l Has on t"p!'
1t appears tnat Ben Husseltou. having been
employed OF some outdoor work around the
hospital, In the iesire to finish tho task. be was
detained q little later than ususl, and On re-
turning to supper no found that bis meal va
cold and unpalatabie, upon which he swore
vengeance on the sttendants. and told the en-
gineer, Wm. Pearoe, that he would have re-
venge on them if he had to burn down the
whole hospital to do 1t. No sttentios
appears to have been paid to biz
threats, ard In q abort time after the 6re was
discovered in the north wing, and the mani.
ac's story that he used naphtha is confirmed
by the statement of several fremen who wero
early on the ground, that they heard . dull ex-
plosion from the cellar. Immediately after
his incarceration he informed bis captors OF tho
location of the other osn Of nsphtha urder tho
female wing, which, by scme provideutisl cir.
cumstauoe, had failed to isnl.e, thereby sav:
ing the lives Of hundreds Of hslpless female
patients.
Tho trustees held meeting st st. Peter and
passed tho following:
RESOLVED. That Gov. Pillsbury il hereby rs-
qnes,ed to appoint = suitable committee Il, in
vis'igate ell the facts and circumstances G NJ
nccted With tho said fire 1t the earliest d.,s
practicable. eai1 committee 70 maize . full 70.
port thereon to tho governor IT all the facts
bearinG upon the subject and their feeling in
the matter.
The trustees also awarded the contract for
beating the new asylum 1t Rocheater.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-02

A MOST remarkable series of contribu-
tions to sciepce have been received from
the fishermen Of Cape Ann. When the
U. 8. Fish Commission had its head.
quarters at Gloucester, in 1878, general
interest in the geological work sprang
up among the owners Of the fishing ves-
sells, and since that time they have been
vy;ng with each other in efforts to find
new ANIMALS. The number Of separate
lots received exceeds 800. At least
thirty fishing vessels now carrying collec-
tion tanks on every trip, and many OF
the fishermen, with characteristic super
st1tion, have the idea that it insures good
luck to have tank on board, and will
not 90 to sea without one. The number Of
specimens acquired in this manner is 1t
least 10000.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-02
Insane Shooting.

On the highway leading from Mime
opolis, on the Crystal Lake road, family BY
tho name Of Mccarthy live, consisting Of sev
eral sons and daughter. On the morning
Nov. 22nd, Mrs. Mccarthy observed that Fe.
lix, the youngest SOD, aged 10 years, was cry
Ing and acting differently from Usual. Not
much attention was paid to him, and after
while he went ont OF the house and down the
road. He came hack after some little time
and entered the house, where a scene of the
widest description took place. Felix now
had revolver In his hand. and began a serio
Of peculiar actions which eliminated in hi
aiming and firing shot at his older brother
John. Mrs. Mccarthy and her daughter
screamed and were filed with terror, while
John ran up stairs and Jumped out Of the
window. The mother and daughter made
their escape from the house, and fed precip.
itately to the nearest neiRhbors, some forty
rods distant. Late In the afternoon Felix wa
found lying on the door, shot by bis own
hand through the right lung. He was insane,
though never before showing signs of insani-
ty. 1t is thought he will recover.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-02
beath Of Prot. Watson,

Prof. J. c. Watson, the eminent astrono-
mer of Washburn observatory Of the Wiscon-
sin State university at Madison, Wis, died at
his home in that city, the morning of the 2sd
Prof. Watson removed from Ann Arbor uni
vcrsity, Michigan, and assumed charge of the
Wisconsin university observatory about year
and half ago, after twenty years in the
former position. He was one of the best
known astronomers in this country, and his
loss will be keenly felt In scientific circles
throughout the world.