The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-07-23
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.


PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE Connecticut Greenbackers have
placed In nomination : full state ticket
he2ded By Henry C. Baldwin for Governor
A resolution vas passed repudiaring any ar
tempt 10 bring about ecAliti0n with either
the Democratic or Republican party
GENERAL SHERMAN has received =
very cordial reception in the Queens Do
mlnion- lie wAs received on the internal
sion2l boundary By the Premier and several
other prominent citizens Of Manitoba and
escorted to Winnipeg. where there was =
military display on his arrival.
GEx. WEAyER. Greenback candidate
Cor President, was interviewed in Chafra-
noo-A while On his way South 70 open the
political campaign He i confident Of his
ability 70 carry Alabama, Tennessee, Texas.
Mississippi. West Virginia. Missouri and
Arkansas. and says be viii make heavy
gains in Maryland. Iowa. Michigan and
Ninne<csa- He saws II he does not receive
. majority of the Electoral voies, neither Of
the other candidates viii. and the matter
viii again 20 10 the House Of Representa-
tive=- II thrown into the House nc Will
stand m equal chance with the rest
Hox. VIZ. H. ENGLISH, Democratic
candidate for vice. President. on the 18th ar
rived in New York City for the purpose or
con-nlting with Gen. Hancock. On the same
dzy, Hon Marshall Jewell Chairman. and
Hon. stephen W. Dorsey. Secretary Of the
Republican National Committee. leff New
York for Mentor. O.. 10 consult with Gen.
Garfield on the approaching political cam
paixn-
SECRETARY ScHURz has engaged to
make . number Of political speeches in In
diana during the pending campaign
JUDGE WILLIAM LAWRENCE, of
Ohio. has accepted the position Of First Con-
troller Of the Currency, rics Judge Porter.
resigned.
Co.. W. T. PELrox. nephew Of Sam
mel J. Tilden, died Of heart disease in New
York on the sth-
GENERAL GAEFrELD's letter Of &C
ceptance was published on the 18th He
takes strong ground against the doctrine OF
State supremacy; declares that the National
Government should exercise ali il Con<ti-
tufional powers 70 secure % every citizen
the equal enjoyment Of every civil and pO-
litical right guaranteed By the Constitution
and the laws: favors National aid 10 the
States in support Of the common schools. not
of = secfxrian character; and declares that
our present financial prosperity should not
be endangered BY any violent changes or
doubtful financial experiments The i'm
proyemenf o. our nzyigable rivers. and e.
pecfally Of the Mississippi and fts tribu-
tarie<. il deemed Of vital importance TO the
interests Of the people Finally the writer
fsvors placing restrictions upon Chinese i'm
migration
BIZ the terms of the French Amnesty
bfll Roeheforf, Blznqui and other noted
C0umunistic leaders are excluded from It.
effects. The Government, il il said. will al
low them 20 return 20 France, but they can
not exercise any political privileges or
rights.
THE President has appointed Orange
Judd, View York, Of the American Agricnf-
dian Commissioner, vice Bzrtow, resigned
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
The June report Of the Department
ef Agriculture shows the following in rela-
zion to crops throughout the United States.
There Il IN increase Of , per cent. in the
acreage under oats, and the condition Of the
crop h excellent, promising yield Of IL
PER cent greater than last year. The acre.
age under rye and barley has decreased
since 1s-e, but the yield viii be about the
same Clover has an increased acreage; the
Increase, however, Il confined to the cotton
81 -. -
condition Of the crop l. not good. Fruit Of
al kinds viii Be quite plentiful, much more
% fh.n for the previous year.
THE St. Louis census shows . popu-
Iafion q Iess than $4,000. and the citizens
have made m appeal - Washington for =
new enumeration, on the ground Of gross
inaccuracies and omissisn<-
THE German Government, BY an i'm
perial decree, has prohibited the impcrta-
- simple sanitary MEASURE American
shippers claim that the measure i taken for
he protection Of German packers, more than
Or any other reason
The Mississippi Valley Cotton-plant-
err Association has decided TO hold series
II interstate fairs in Memphis, Little Rock,
Few Orleans. and Montgomery. TO create
fund for the encouragement u inventors OF
Improved plantation machinery. and 70 put
several lecturers In the field. whose especial
duty il shall be 20 travel ever the Cotton
States and form branch associations
DISPATCHES from various points in
the Northwest show that The wheat crop
prcuises 70 b an average In quantity and
quziiiF- In some localities there are com
pl2iniz a russ and chinch-bur-. ss.s usually
fhe ease 5uf the general outlook 4 favora-
Dc one The reports from Minnesota. Da-
kota and Nehrasks agree that the yield viii
- the lsexr n many YEAR,