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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-02-03

GUrrEAu addressed the jury on the
21st, reading from manuscript. with an at-
tempt Il every conceivable form Of oratori-
cal and dramatic effect. At times the In
tensity or his utterance seemed % react up
On himself but the effect was transitory,
and. with ihe exception Of one instance,
there was no indication Of breaking down.
Leaning toward the jury, he solemnIy said;
III tell you, gentlemen, a. sure q there 4 .
God II heaven, II you harm hair Of my
head this nation will 20 down n blood. You
can put my body IN the grave, but there Will
be day Of reckoning Mr. Porter began
his closing argument on the 2ad. After
sketchlng he circumstances leading up "a
ne crime. end pointing out with fervid
language The damning Wickedness Of IL *.
ception, with a Irresistible torrent Of Do.
nunciatIon and invective be analysed ths
prisoners character, pointed out the glar'
INK defects - The insanity d inspiration
theory Or defense, and declared The GRIND
ths result o. diabolism On The part Of |
cowardly rufIIan thIrstIng for notoriety'
August WALTER, notorious swim
| dler Just released from the Penitentiary,
w. arrested n Baltimore, Nd, for cheat
| Inc Rev. ,. y. schauer, Provincial q ~
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-02-03

"A Connecticut farmer seeing some
railroad surveyors getting ready % run
their line straight through the center q
his barn demonstrated with them.
want you tcw understand, said he'
s.that I've got sumthin' else tew dew
besides r,lnnin out tcw open and shet
them doors every time train wants tew
20 threw" hut, being monarch Of al
they surveyed, they went right on Just
the same.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-02-03

"A Washington paper says that On .
winter nirht, when the slcct was driv-
inr, and poor Irish woman was strug-
plinr along the Icy pavement with =
heavy bundle IN her arms, Senator Ere
linghuyscn came out Of his house on his
way 10 state dinner. and with courtcs,y!
invited her ID take his carriages and tcl'
The driver where 70 take her.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-02-03

The most extensive conhagration
known IN Atlanta, Ga, since the burning OF
the city during the war occurred on January
2lst. II q said to have originated 10 Frank
Rlock's backery, corner Of Alabama and
Pryor streets. A strong wind was blowing
and for three hours the flre ragged with the
greatest fury and threatened 70 destroy the
entire business portion o. South Atlanta.
The total loss Il estimated It 500, oo0 John
o. Wickham, Of Richmond, Va. was
burned 10 death In his room AZ the Windsor
| Hotel.
JAMEs ARCHER, Of New Baltimore,
Seneca County, o., went 70 the woods last
week 10 cut sled runners. Failing 20 re-
| turn IN three days, friends made search and
| found his mangled body under tree, which
| had fallen on him.
THERE was collision Of passenger
trains On the savannah 4 Charleston Rail
way, twenty seven miles south Of Charles
1 ton. Jan. rs. II. A. Fox. the mail agent,
| ana a unknown cclored man we're killed.
WIN. Beerbridge was seriously injured.
and i've Others sustained slight wounds.
WIN. L. HOWE, Of Portland, Me-, was
killed the other day b. the accidental dis
charge Of gun IN the nanos O Sosepn -
Flint, ~ Hanover, =. =. me TWO men
were members 81 me sophomore Class q
Dartmouth College, ana most in'''nAse
friends ..~.,,
Two young skaters. Willie burcnnelo
and David Gardner. broke through ne lce
and were drowned 10 ne On'o Sana'' neal
Coshocton, On the "a. y
II HUGH SCOTT, son o. IT. james =
Scott. o. Greentown, Howard County, md
was found drowned n Wildcat Creek nea'
biz home. He Wa nineteen years q age
and demented: ne 'eit nome NJ osner g.
, % 50 TO neighoor's' ana ne suPPo'''Ion
that be attempted % cross tne creek p ~
! Ice and broke through
A SHOCKING ARRAY occurred at JohI
! Cav.encro's saloon IN Comanche. Calavera
} County. Cal, on the 2l>t, in which one mai
49, mortally wounded and several other
received serious injuries. r. T. Pope, T
A. pope. Charles Brannock and one wer
moth. excited By liquor, engaged in flgh
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-02-03

a coNCEssIoN has been granted 70
lhe Mexican Southern Railway FOR colonixa-
lion along ~ routes. The Government payu
Is Per individual end 80 per family. Not
Ioss than 800 families must b settled during
- nrst I've ~ 400 - hrst ten years.
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BY THE OLD MASTERS.

A bod carrier broke his bod "Ah. well, l" he said, with bright smile, ''it will do for bric-a brac." He had heard of O. Wilde EEnlird Free Press.
 The New York authorities are very care full of their police force. They never put two officers on the same beat because it is said to be unhealthy for two persons to sleep together.-PhiIa. Nes1s.
 4 hardy but cunning looking son of toil accused of stealing pair of trousers, was discharged by the sitting magistrate, after a long and patient investigation of his case, on the ground that the evidence brought tor ward against him was insufficient to establish his culpability. He continued, however, to remain in the dock after his acquittal had been formally pronounced. The lawyer who had conducted his defense, observing that he did not move, informed him that he was free to go about his business, if he had any. He shook his head slightly, but did not budge By this time, no other case being on hand the court was nearly empty. Again address jug him his defender inquired, with some irritation, why the deuce he did not go. "Step this way moment, please" replied the steadfsst one, land let me whisper in your ear. I can't go till all the witnesses of the prosecution have left the court" "And why, may I ask ?" Because of the stolen trousers-don't you underestimate 2'' ''Most assuredly do not understand. What about the trousers ?" "Only thisn-confdentia and in the lowest whispers, "I've got 'em
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GOV. LONG ON REFORM SCHOOLS.

GOV. LONG ON REFORM SCHOOLS.
 The condition of the Massachusetts reform school for boys has long been 8 scandal in the State, and it has seemed as if the school produced as much evil as good. This de- plorable state of affairs is referred to by Governor Long in his message, and he has something to say concerning what a reform school should be which has interest and value outside of Massachusetts.
 Governor Long would not have a reform school house of correction. It should be, he thinks, well-disciplined and reforming school. Fix, says he, the maximum age for entrance at fourteen years, and have no boy remain there longer than is usual in other schools-which is three or four years. He | should then come away exactly as from any other graduation. If his stay has reformed him he is 30 much better fitted, like other graduates, to enter the world. If it has not reformed him it is sufficient evidence that he | is not in the right place. He may after wards do mischief, but if so he becomes ia- ble, like all other citizens, to the punish ments which follow crime. Besides, three or four years commitment is 8 severe sen- tence for an adult offender In justice even to bad boy, why should he, for truancy or boyish mischief, be sent to a reformatory for longer term than that for which a profes- sional robber or house. breaker is oftentimes sent to the State prison? Remember, too, | that many a lad goes to the reform school not so much from fault on his own part as the inability or incapacity of parents or guardians to keep him usefully employed and out of idleness.
 | Governor Long calls attention to the fact that superintendents and trustees alike testi- | fy that boys who are kept in the re- form school year after year for six, eight, ten twelve years, till near | ly or quite of legal age, and kept there because too bad to be discharged or bound out to labor, are not, on the one hand, benefited by staying and, on the oth CT, only disseminate the worst evils among their younger associates. Make this, there fore, says Governor Long, a school with good wholesome discipline, instruction in manual labor, and out-of-door work on the farm. Discard the prison bars, abandon the cells, and have a home. Let the trustees still have the power of discharge. If during the three or four years' course boy is utterly incorri- gible, let there be an alternative sentence or power in the trustees to transfer him to the house of correction for the remainder of his term. If, on the other hand, he improves. and place can be found for him in useful labor elsewhere, let him have the opportuni- ty. It is well recognized that the main ob- ject of such public institutions is to be but probation where those who come shall re- main only till they can find occupation in the regular channels of life; and the sooner they are in them the better. An institutionized boy or man is not valuable contribution to society.
 l These words do credit to the head and heart of the Massachusetts governor. If re- form schools could be managed as he sug- gests they would not be the painful affairs | that most of them are.
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Wednesday Morning, Jan. II, 1882.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEES.

Speaker Hall announced the joint standing and select committees yesterday, and though he has, of course, been compelled to disap- point many in making his selections it will be generally admitted that he has on the whole used the material at his command wisely. Hon. J. Warren Johnson, of En- feld the chairman of the Judiciary commit tee, is well equipped for the place, having had much legislative experience and being a capable lawyer. The other members of the committee are Messrs. Cothren of Wood bury, Sill of Hartford, Ripley of Norwich, Scofeid of Stamford, Nortnrop of Middle town, Robertson of New Haven and King of Stafford. This is strong committee and good work may be expected from it. The speaker has done well by the younger members. Captain Stiles Stanton of Ston- ington is at the head of the important Con- mittee on Banks, where he may be expected to do good work, MT. A. w. Paige of Sher- man at the head of the Committee on State Prison, and MT. Edward D. Robbins at the head of the Committee on Education. Judge Gillette of Waterbury, who was spoken of in connection with the Judiciary committee, is assigned to the Railroad committee, which will probably have some very important mat ters before it. Mir. H. M. Cleveland of Brooklyn is chairman of the Incorporation committee, and Timothy J. Fox of New fla ven is member of this committee. The Committee on Finance is headed by Hon. Samuel Bingham Of Windham, a good man for the place. Mir. Charles H. Pine of Der by is at the head of the Military committee. Mir. William S. Congdon of Norwich has the chairmanship of the Committee on Cities and Boroughs. Mir. William W. Lyman of Meriden is in the right place at the head of the Committee on Manufactures. The Committee on Engrossed Bills, which is in some respects one of the most important committees of the House, is given to MT. D. Ward Northrop, of Middletown. These are all excellent appointments, and the others on the list are made with the skill which Mir. Hall might be expected to exhibit. He has done his difficult and important work we'll
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Oscar Wilde, the chief 9esthete, is ''all the rage" in New York, and fair women seem to
 flock around him much as the lovesick maid ems in Patience" do about "Bunthorne.' He does not seem to be as foolish as he has been made to appear, though he is certainly quite too too. His gospel has thus been stated by him: My theory is that you cannot teach anybody what is really beauti- ful. The true spirit of painting or poem cannot by any method be taught-it must be gradually revealed. A schoolboy, for in- stance, can arrive at an understanding of a scientific truth under a competent teacher, but the only way in which anybody can come to knowledge of the beautiful is by being thrown among beautiful surroundings. I think if you desire a cultured society you must put the youth of the land into beauti- full homes and let thsm gradually come to feel a necessity for such surroundings. A young man reared among such surroundings has not got to make distinct effort to ap- preciate the beautiful He will, if reading, come at once into sympathy with his author in his description of the true and beautiful" !" He said in his lecture in 'Jhickering Hall, Monday evening:
 You have heard, have no doubt, at least few words about two flo Wers connected with the aesthetic movement in England. The flowers, I assure you, enormously are supposed to be the suitable food of some artistic young men. Let me tell you the reason we love the lily and the sun-hower. It Is not Mir. Gilbert's reason It has noth- ing to do with @ vegetable passion at all. It | is because those two lovely flowers, of all our flowers in England, are the most perfect models of design, the most naturally adapted for decorative art. The gsudy, leonine l beauty of the one, and the chaste and l'rec- ious loveliness of the other, give to the artist the most entire and perfect joy, a7d see that you let there be no flower in your meadows that does not wreath it's tendrils
 around yonr pillars, no leaf in your giant | forests that does not lend it's form to design;
 no graceful spray of wild rose or brier that has not been grown on marble archway
 window; no bird in your air that has not given the irideseent wonders of his color or the exquisite curves of his wings spread in flight, to create more beauty and freshness of simple adornment.
 We spend our days, each of us, looking for
 the secret of life. We'll, my friends, the se- cret of life is in art.
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do not find in practice to produce any good effect in raising the bread, and should not therefore, consider it's presence as desirable. If, then, we accept Dr. Love's standard of commercial value, these two powders are both worth 50 cents, with the additional advantage of purity, or freedom from ammonia, on the part of '' Hecker's Perfect Baking Powder.'
 We feel called upon, in justice to ourselve and the public to give the above facts, as the article denominated ''Kitchen Economy" was published apparently as disinterested infor- nation, intended for the public good, where as in fact it was an advertisement of the Roy al Baking Powder Company.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-11
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

About 5000 bills have already been intro duced in this Congress and the end is not yet The number of bills in the last Con- gress (7,0OO), which was the greatest number ever introduced in any Congress promises to be exceeded before the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress closes.
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Contrary to the general idea the majority of the European immigrants who come to this country do not go west, but remain in the eastern States Thus, of the 40O,O0 inn migrants who landed at Castle Garden last year no fewer than 143, ,OOO settled in New York State and city, while 36,Oo0 found homes in Pennsylvania.
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AMMONIA
" ROYAL" BAKING POWDER,
LEGAL NOTICE,

LEGAL NOTICE. THE undersigned, inventor and manufacturer N (since 1847) of the celebrated JOHANN HOFF'S MALT EXTRACT, which has been so favorably re- ceVed by the Medical Profession, beg to inform the Trade and general public that Messrs. Tarrant Co.,, Of New York,are advertising themselves my agents when they not receiving the genuine article from me, and consequ sntly selling another preparation under the name and on the reputation of my Malt Extract
 have brought Suit against the above party in the U. S. Circuit Court of New York; and hereby caution the public to buy only the genuine JOHANN HOPES MALT EXTRACT, which bears my picture and sigma tre as trademark the label (which is printed in Germany, and has the signature of Mir. M Eisner 32O Race street, Philadelphia Sole Agent for the United States and Canada the neck of every bot tie.
 JOHANN HOFF
 Royal Prussian Counsellor, Purveyor to the
 Emperors of Germany and Austria, &c.,
 &c., Berlin, Germany.
 For circulars and other information, address my Sole Agent, M. Eisner, Phila.
 ja6 d&w1y
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ment in Georgia and elsewhere in the South Ca second attempt to Africanize the South for the benefit of the Republican party. !" Mr. Hill is much pained and grieved, and impressively declares: q shall give every energy of my body and soul. every hour of my time, and every influence I possess to breaking down this infamous coalition and holding Georgia true to her faith and honor I never was so much in earnest or in such fine physical and mental condition for doing the work that is in me.' If Ben does pitch in as he intends to he will doubtless do a good deal to further the cause of the inde- pendents
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Captain James B. Eads is in Washington and busy in advancing the interests of his proposed ship railroad across the Isthmus of Tehauntepec. Captain Eads says that he has no doubt as to his ability to raise in England all the money he wants, but his strong desire that the railroad shall be an American enter prise leads him to give the United States the first chance to subscribe and guarantee semi annual dividends on $50 GOO, 900 of stock for fifteen years.
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Oscar Wilde, the Aesthete.

Hts Lecture in ChtckertnR Hall, New
 York-Hovy He Looked and Acted.
 From yesterdays New York Sum-
 Mir. D'Oyly Carte, Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan's manager, brought out MT. Oscar Wilde, Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan's subject, at Chickering Hall last evening Pecuniarily the first night of Patience could not have surpassed, if indeed it equalled, last nights entertainment. At o'clock no ticket, even of admission, was to be obtained at the box office, and the spectators outside had only a few more left at $2 apiece.
 At 8 o'clock the hall contained a greater
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fifteen years.

Ex-President Hayes recently had a conver- sation on civil service reform, in which he is reported as saying that he was free to admit the failure in part of his civil-service policy, but gave himself the credit of being the pio- neer in the movement for practical reform and of actually having accomplished great deal in that direction. He said, cmphatical- ly: Confidence in the Republican party re- vived and the first efficient step in the reform policy was taken when 1 made change in the Collectors office at New York Had not that change been made the Republican party would have lost 20, GOO votes in the State of New York, which would have defeated our ticket in 1SS0."
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5Soutnal alrb Courier.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY
 CARRINGTON & CO.,, No. 400 State Street, Courier Building
 JOHN B. oARRrNaToE. EDWARD T. oARRrNaroN JOHN B. HARRINGTON, JR.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-11

An interesting statement of some of the results of the great railroad war has been made by the Comnae7ctaE and Fin0nciag Chronicle Five roads have been engaged in the war, namely, the Central, the Erie, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Pennsylvania, and the Grand Trunk. The total gross earnings of these lines amounted in 1880 to $12l,- OOo, 1000, and last year, in spite of all the cut ting and slashing of rates, the total rose to $126, 500, 900. The net earnings for 1880 were over $50, ,OOO, GOO, and about $48, 25o, 900 for last year. All the railroads in the United States earned net amount of S255,- 193, 436, their gross earnings being $615,- 4O1, ,931. Thus it is found that the four trunk lines within the United States earned in 1880 more than one.sixth of the total revenues of all the lines The loss of S2, 25O, 900 shown in comparing last years gross earnings with those of 1880 is not regarded as very unfavorable, as the falling of is less than per cent, and the operating expenses were higher than in 1880. Con- pared with the totals for 1879, the increase in favor of 1881 Is S9, ,123, ,597. The Central road, which, according to the estimate in question, is the only one which shows a de- crease of gross earnings, suffered to the ex- tent of per cent. loss only. The Pennsyl- vania is found to have large increase, while the Erie's total gross earnings are S2,022, 497, the latter road thus leading all the rest in respect to the percentage of increase of earnings. The Baltimore and Ohio also records an increase although it amounts to less than per cent. The Grand Trunk line increased its gross receipts about per cent, and its net earnings vary less than per cent. from those of 1880.
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premium of Cd. per dozen has been placed upon sparrows' heads by the govern ment of South Australia, acting on the advice of a commission specially appointed to in- quire into the sparrow question, while the somewhat disproportionate sum of 2s. Cd. per hundred is offered for the tiny pale-blue eggs of the bird. The bird which only few years ago such efforts were made to accima- tize in Australia is now doomed to extermi- nation-if that can possibly be achieved. So rapidly have the few pairs which were intro duced few years ago multiplied under the congenial skies and amid the luxuriant vege- gation of tine Australian colonies, that the ag- riculturists complain of the serious injury done by them to their wheat and fruit crops, and have called upon the government to de- wise some means for insuring their destruc- tion. Before the commission appointed to inquire into the matter, one witness said that in the space of ten days the sparrows took ton and half of grapes. They stripped all the figs of five trees, and kept low fifteen acres of lucerne during summer. Another complains that in the season they took $50 worth of fruit; while third declares that he sowed peas three times, and each time they were destroyed by the sparrows.
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NEW HAVEN, CONN.,. WEDNESDA
The Wlsonia Magnetic Garments
Including the CORSET.

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  Office Mo- Elm street. Todds Block We have upon
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Ben Hill sees in the independent movs-