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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-01-05

tec on evening session reported that on
|account 81 bad weather no evening ees-
sion would be held. On motion tie rs
sociation adjourned till Q o'clock .. m.
THIRD DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
After the opening exercise by Prot.
Nonfec, Prof J. N. Daniel came forward
|aud read paper iuil or good points on
|"Ihe boys-Nhat shall we do with
|thcm," aud discussed by several mem
bers. a short but good paper was then
|lcad by Miss Helen Diilin, subject. "Uss
land abuses OF Whispering" This sub
|jtct as well as the subject Educational
columns In newspapers was thoroughly
|discusscd by the teachers. A motion
was made and carried to adjourn Till ]
o'clock p. ~.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The important subjects. Temperance
lin public schools and "M0ral and Liter
|ary training were taken up for discus
sion, and thoroughly ventilated. After
the report Of committee on nominations
the association proceeded TO ballot and
the following are next years officers
president, "A. M. Sweeney, Vice Presi-
dent Dora Hope, Secretary "A. A. Hesse-
mere, Treasurer Clara Goldman, In the
report Of tho committee on resolutions,
which was adopted, thanks were cx-
pressed TO Profs. Sanders, Friedly and
Noursc for their attendance: and obitu-
ary on the deaths Of n. A. Sonderman
and w. E.vBeelor.
On motion the association adjourned
sine die.
MARTIN RorHERr, Sec'y.
J. Al. PLEASANT, President.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-01-05


A Journal reporter called nj the Office
Of tho Commissioners yesterday and
again interviewed Gen. Morris aud Mr..
Nelson regarding their views. Both
gentlemen declined 10 talk freely, but It
was evident from remarks made that
they would not be aversc to recommends
ing an Increase in the appropriation for
the State House in chse they became sat
isficd Of the justice Of the contractors
claims. Gen. Morris said that il wcs
evident that they had lost money, owing,
probably 70 the advances in the prices Of
building material and labor over the fig
urcs governing when the work was con-
tracted for, and the question now was
whether the State of Indiana was dceir-
GUS of obtaining q capital building paid
for by private capital.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-01-05

during the winter. The building may BE-
|eot under roof carly In The year 1854
l;espectfully submitted.
kANNAciiER & DExIG,
Contractors.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-01-05
Minutes Of the Fifth Meeting Of
The Dubois County Teachers
Association, held at Hunt
fngburg, Dec. = 7tI,, 28th
and Goth. 1882.

E@A>oA 20 = Ih0<LkHi<N1.
The house was called 10 order By the
/ President, J. Al. Pleasant. A fter devo.
tional exercises, on calling the roll, il
was found out that no quorum (20 mem.
bcrs) was present, and 50 motion was
made and carried 70 adjourn till 80
o'clock p. M.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-25
FOREIGN.

The HYGIENE Exhibition at Berlin
has closed. 1t has been a great success.
The great Northern Telegraph COM
pany has taken a contract to lay cable
from Japan to Corea,
Two daughters of the mikado of Japan
died within forty-eight hours of each
other. OF ten children only one sur
wives.
A FEW gentlemen have contributed
Sc, 900 to pay the preliminary expenses
of a six months mission of Moody and
Sankey at Islington.
FATHER SMELDKR has been sent from
Rome to Canada by the papal propogan-
da, to adjust the Qnebec university diff
Guilty
AT st. Petersburg, Wednesday, the
car and czarina laid the cornerstone of
a church on the spot where Alexander
II. was killed.
LORD LANsDOwNE, the new governor
general of Canada, will take the oath Of
office at Quebec next Monday, in presence
of the marquis of Lorne and Princess
Louise
THE police of Cork are compelled to
protect Mr. Moody's meetings from
raids by roughs who assemble outside
the hall
The dynamite men arrested at Hall
fax deny knowing each other, and claim
protection as Americans citizens. Holmes
says the packages found in his yalise do
not belong to him.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY says the inhabi-
tants of the Congo basin of Africa are
born traders, and that French mission
aries follow them up closely.
A COMMITTEE of justices at London,
after full investigation of the COM
plant that Avenger O'Donnell was de-
prived of the use of tobacco, decided to
continue the prohibition.
THE report of appointment of Sir
Henry Norman as governor of Jamaica,
is confirmed. The appointment is APPROX
ed by the Queen.
AT the closing Of the Cork Exhibition
Saturday night the band played God
Save the Queen" The tune was vigor-
ously Missed. The police had to interfere
to prevent a free fight. The exhibition
was a financial success.
In a speech at Havre, Prime Minister
Ferry intimated that the order against
the importation of American bacon
might be Cancelled. Four deaths from
trichiniasis have occurred at Ermsleben,
Saxony, and $50 persons are afflicted
from the same cause.
FIVE HUNDRED liberal associations of
Great Britain are represented at a con-
ference at Leeds, over which John Nor
ley presides. Joseph Arch and John
Bright are present. Mr.. Morley ex-
pressed himself in favor of county
franchise bill at the next session of par
lament.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-25
Deserted Farms in Vermont.
Rutland Herald.

Vermont fairs show better butter
and cheese, better cattle and sheep
than they did forty years ago, but the
farmers teams do not stand for as
good horse-stock as they did then;
there are fewer farms we suspect in
Vermont there are as many deserted
farms and decayed towns in Southern
Vermont to-day as there ever were in
our history; at least that is the testi-
mony given US by a very intelligent
farm-bred' lawyer who has recently
personally visited the towns that
touch either side of the Green Mount
aims from the Massachusetts, line to
Addison county. In Stratton, where
Webster IN 1910 addressed the great
Wing meeting, the farm house
where Webster spent the night is q
ruin and the farm deserted. In the
woodland you meet the ruins Of old
four-foot stoRewalls; in Somerset you
find Il the forest stone-walls and the
remains of an old highway; the decay
ing abutments of a former bridge
across the stream are all that remain
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-25
LATEST KILOGRAMS.
WA SHiNGTON.

POSTMASTER-GENER GRESHAM has
ordered the employment Of twenty-five
additional carriers at the Chicago post
office
THE president and cabinet, after con-
sidering the question of attending the
centennial celebration at Newburg, have
decided that such is the pressure of pub
lie business that it will not be advisable
to leave the capitol.
GOVERNOR BUTLER, as attorney for a
manufacturing company, has filed in
the department Of justice at Wash
ington a claim for 100000 damages
caused by the government taking prop
erty for the extension of the water sup
ply.
COMPTROLLER KNOX states that the re-
duction in national bank circulation the
current year will be between $50, 000 900
and $50, 600, 900, with the certainty of
much more rapid decrease Hext year.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR and the members
Of the cabinet received Lord-Chief-JUs-
tice COleridge Thursday evening at the
residence Of Secretary Frelinghuysen,
in Washington.
COMPTROLLER KNOX finds that a call
for $15, 100000 in per cent. bonds
would take at least 100000 deposited
for circulation by ninety-six banks, and
perhaps $10,000,00Q, which would COM
pei the retirement of 50, 900, 900 of nation
al bank currency. unless other securities
could be obtained.
Capt. John Pressel has been ordered to
the command of the navy yard at Mare
Island, Cal, Nov. 1, by which time he
will have been promoted to the grade of
commander. Commander Frederick '.
McNair, now member of the naval ex-
amining board, has also been ordered to
Mare Island navy yard, as captain of the
yard.
ALL Of the cabinet are looking well
except Gresham, who is sallow and pale
from chills, and is just out from several
days confinement to his rooms. Lincoln
is brown and fat Chandler has the real
brown Of 3 jolly tar. Teller always
looks dry and hard as q stick Of we'll
seasoned timber. Folger, who was the
invalid OF the cabinet six months ago,
appears to have fully recovered his
health. His eyes are clear and his color
solid and good.
THE President is thinking over the re-
concentrations of his message. All the
Cabinet officers are busy with their an
nual reports. The President will have
their conclusions as soon as they are
ready. He is already receiving numer-
GUS suggestions from those people who
are always lowering around committees
of resolutions at political conventions.
EX- SECRETARY and Mrs. Blaine WILL
on the first of November, occupy the
house No. %. Lafayette square, lately
leased from the widow of the late Secre-
tary Marcy. After seeing the house in
perfect order for the coming season,
Mrs. Blain will leave Washington for
visit to her daughter Alice, whose mar
agS to G0l9nT Tn copGR nHe took place
is delightfully."- stationed at Fort Laven-
worth, to which place he went with his
wife Immediately after his marriage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-25

of the civilization that was once re-
presented by church, a grist-mill
and country store. The woodland
has so encroached upon these deserted
farms that our friends is confident
there is more woodland to-day in the
mountain towns of Vermont than
there has been at any time during the
last forty years. In the old counties
of Bennington, Windham, Windsor
and Rutland our informant found, he
assures US, plenty of evidence OF
deserted farms and decaying towns
along either side of the mountain
range, and these deserted farms are
not being re-occupied by any return
ing wanderer, although most of these
towns are places of much natural
beauty and effectiveness. Among
those towns are Readsboro, Somerset,
Searsburgh, Sunderland, Wardsboro,
Poru, Jamaica, Landgrove, Weston,
Plymouth, SALISBURY, Winau and
several mountain towns in Rutland
county. Our friend thinks that
towns touching the mountains on
either side have been permanently
deserted. The future OF Vermont, if
she is to increase henceforth largely
in wealth and population, lies in
manufactures, not enlarged agricul-
ture, and this is true, not only of
Vermont, but of all New England.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-25
Poisoned BY NJ Oney.

The girls who count the greenbacks,
new and old, in the Treasury Depart
ment, suffer g great deal from arseni-
cal poisoning. From to o'clock
every day, with a slight intermission,
they are handling Treasury notes. OF
course, they wet their fingers in order
to help them over the sticky money.
This process soon brings out the ar
senic in the green dye, and by 2 o'clock
the sponges in the finger cups, which
were fresh and yellow in themorn-
ing, are of a muddy green color.
Every time a counter puts her green
finger to her face she runs the risk of
blood-poisoning. Many of them have
suffered from it again and again The
least abrasion Of the skin on the hand
or the face gives the poison entrance
to the system. Once in, it is hard to
drive out again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-25

threw her driver, Ray Warner, forward
nearly uuder the wire. The driver re-
ceived very serious bodily injury.
TUESDAY, the depot and freight house
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railroad situated at Western Union
Junction. in Racine county, Wis, was
entirely consumed. All the freight and
papers were saved. The loss is estima-
ted at 1000.
GEN. J, B. -STEEDMAN died Of pnemo-
MIA at Toledo, Thursday, aged Sc wears.
He was made a major general for brav-
cry at Chickamauga. Of late he has
been chief OF police at Toledo.
YELLOW FEVER is raging at Alfalfa.
Mex, on the Gulf Of California. While
the pestilence was at eits hight. the
deaths numbering twenty a day, hur-
ricane came upon the town, DESTROYING
the greater part and killing many peO-
pie. The Inhabitants then fled to the
mountains.
AT Joliet, H., on Saturday night. an
incendiary fired Benefits livery stable.
The flames spread from there to the
barns of DR., Casey and Miss johnson,
and all Of them were completely des-
troyed. Bennett lost six of his horses
and all Of his buggies and harnesses.
Loss about So, 000;insurance $4,000. DIR
Casey's loss is $1,000; insurance $3.50
Miss johnson, 81 800; fully insured.
WHILE the 1880 up train on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road known
as the Flying Dutchman, was entering
Dubuque Monday, it ran into team be-
longing to J. Randall, that was being
driven across the track, and disabled SO
they had to be killed. The driv erwas
thrown violently from the wagon, sus-
tanning serious but not fatal injuries. A
coal shed near the track hid the train
from the driver, and he claims that no
warning was given by the engineer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-25
1t Was Contempt.
Detroit Tree Press


In the days gone by citizen of De
troit who has lately been gathered in
to his fathers, was a justice of the
peace for one of the townships of this
county. One day as he sat in his office
with nothing to do a friend came
along with a young horse. The squar'
was somewhat eonceited on the horse
question, and informed that the
equine before him would let no man
ride him he at once determined to &C
complish the feat. A crowd gathered,
a saddle was brought, and his honor
presently found himself astride of the
beast. The next thing he knew he was
lying in the muddy ditch. and a dozen
mea were laughing to kill
II declare this court ia session p
yelled his honor as he struggled up.
At this there was a fresh burst OF
laughter, and he continued:
And each and every one of you is
fined three dollars for contempt OF
court"
They laughed harder than ever, but
the fines were recorded and collected,
and for years after it was understood
that court was always in session ex-
cept when the squar' was IN bed and
aSleeD
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-25
The Subscription Rage in New York

Inc SUBSCRIPTION Rage IN New YORK
A New York paper recently gath
cred some of the statistics of New
York benefactions. Many of these
have been started under the auspices
of the Chamber Of Commerce, which
has raised fully $4,000 during the
past twenty years for public objects.
In 1862 New York subscribed SIS, 900
for sufferers by fire at Troy; in the
same year $3.50, 900 was raised for the
sufferers at Lancashire, England. In
1865 there was 100000 subscribed for
destitute in East Tennessee, and $685.
600 for destitutein Savannah, and
$25, 900 for testimonials for the crew
Of the sloop-of-war Kearsarg0 Dur
ing the war of course, immense sums
were raised by subscriptions and fairs,
for the support OF the war and the
amelioratiOn of the soldiers. In 1866
there was 800, 900 raised for the suf-
ferers by fire at Portland, Maine. In
1870 SIS, 200 was contributed for
the sufferers by the falling Of the Cap
itol at Richmond, Va. In 1871 New
York raised $143, 900 for the French
sufferers by the Franco-Prussian war
In the same year the immense sum of
81, 044, Isl was raised by the Chamber
of Commerce alone for the sufferers
by the Chicago fire. In the list were
ten subscriptions of $40, 900 each, two
of which were from Henry Clews and
Jay Cooke, both of whom were swami
ped by the panic of the following
year, though they have since recover
ed themselves. In 1876 $4,000 was
raised for the sufferers by yellow few
or in Savannah, and in 1873 SIP, 900
for the yellow fever sufferers in the
Southwest. In 1879 about $40, 900
was raised for Memphis. Since then
several large subscriptions have been
raised for various purposes. Over
500, 900 was sent to relieve the dis
tress in Ireland. In 1881 $500, 345 was
raised, chiefly in New York for Mrs.
Garfield, and the same year a large
sum was raised to relieve the suffering
In the Northwest. Early this year
about 5000 was obtained for the
Ohio flood sufferers The Grant pen
sion Of $3.50, 900 was also raised chief
~ in New York. The largest individ-
ual subscription made in recent years
was $50, 900 by the late A. T. Stewart
for the Chicago fire sufferers. Re
Gently $33, 0G0 has been raised for the
| Washington monument for the Sub
Treasury steps, and lately $25, 900 for
the Dodge statue, and over S100, 900
has been raised to ward the Bartholdi
statue pedestal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-25
TWO YEARS IN ALASKA.
Lieut.. Rays Account of E2is work at
Port Barrow and the Advantages of
the Signal Service There.

Ihe signal service IneFe.
Lieut.. Ray, who has returned to
San Francisco in the schooner Leo.
gives the following details of his So
JOurn north He left San Francisco
on July Is, 1882, under instructions
OF the signal service bureau to estab-
IIsh permanent signal station Port
Barrows, and to remain there until
the summer OF 1884 unless otherwise
ordered. The order for his whole
party to return created great surprise.
as the work was being successfully
earned out, he having ACCOMPLISHED
all that portion respecting the inter
national work. corresponding with
that of similar stations established by
Russia, Sweden, Denmark and Aus
trla. The details of his work will be
made the subject of an official report.
Apart says Lieut. Ray, from the
scientific importance of the station. il
IS necessity as refuge for the crews
OF whaling vessels. Every year in the
Arctic there is an average loss of forty
vessels, worth, with their carooS
81, 600, 600, and sixteen hundred men
engaged. Out of eighty-seven vessels.
MY ISNF z OCSI 1OSI NllIlln one nun
dred miles of Port Barrow. Ina one
year alone, 1877, twelve were lost
with all on board. The crews would
not abandon their vessels knowing
there was nothing on shore for them
to live on. Had a station existed
probably all would have been saved.
Since the station was established two
years ago over fifty lives have been
saved. Lieut.. Ray says all the party
lived comfortably and IN good health.
The climate was particularly bene-
ticlal to those suffering from malaria.
Besides their regular provisions they
had seal, walrus ana white whale. the
last being the best meat, being sweet
er and more nutritious The buildings
erected were left to the Indians. He
expresses regret at his recall. Infor-
nation from other sources attribute
the recall to Secretary Lincoln, who
objects to people living in the Arctics,
and wants the discontinuance of Are
tic explorations, owing to the loss Of
life they have entailed. Lieut.. Rays
statement goes to show that station
at Port Barrow would be the means
OF saving many lives.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-25
A Real German Dude.
Baltimore American.

Walking in the garden we saw a
dude. Such a one, regular German
watering place dude! He was dressed
In black, with trousers that fitted like
wax, but hung in great folds at regu-
lar intervals down his legs. His coat
was Of remarkable cut, and his vest
white. His hair was parted in tie
middle and brushed in great waves at
the side. In the depression rested a
tiny black hat, which sat on the side
as far as the waves would allow On
the right lapel was tied-not pinned
"a great bunch of flowers, which
hung in a cascade over his entire right
side. His collars and cuffs were
broad and of black and white stripes,
while his eyebrows and mustache were
toached up in the nobiest style. To
complete the toilet he had black and
white handkerchief thrust between
the second and third buttons of his
coat, and IN his kid-gloyed hand he
carried a cane
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-25
CRIME.

THE safe of the Canadian express
office at Port Hope, Ontario, was Wed
nesday robbed Of $4,000.
THROUGH the arrest of four burglars
at Montreal Saturday, $4,000 worth OF
dry goods belonging to Hodgson, Sum
mer & Co., were recovered.
WYATT AMES, who murdered Deputy
Constable BlOunt near Helena, Arkan-
sas, tried to escape from his captors and
was riddled with buckshot
MASKED men entered the house of Ed
ward Mclaughlin, near Joliet Ill, and
hiding-place of 1000 in geld was lis
closed.
JACOB MELTING was arrested at
Lafayette, Ind, Sunday, on suspicion OF
having murdered Ada Atkinson. a bun
die Of his clothing was found conceded
in a wOodshed, near the Atkinson home
stead, covered with blood. Melting mas
been employed on the Atkinson farm.
A DESPERATE attempt to wreck a
Pittsburg train was made Tuesday eve
ming in the vicinity of Wheeling, where
a rail was found laid across the track.
Had the wheels not broken the Obstruc,
ton, the train would have been plunged
into the Ohio river
IRA d. BELLOWS who, while in the
water register bureau of New York city
is alleged to have defrauded the city out
Of various sums, gave bail Monday to
answer to new indictments charging
embezzlement and grand larceny found
against him by the gra jury.
JAMES WEEKS of Wild Rose, Wau
shara county, Wis, was Monday bound
over by United States Court Commits
siOner Reed for his appearance at the
United States court on the charge of
cOunterfeiting silver dollars, and procur-
ing the passage Of the same.
RODEMUND, the man who has been on
trial in Milwaukee the past week for the
murder of the coachman Kohlbeck, on
the night of 9th September last, was
Monday found guilty of manslaughter
in the fourth degree. The heaviest email
ty for this is two years imprisonment at
hard labor.
AT saloon on Fourth avenue, Chica-
go, frequented only by colored men, a
quarrel arose between Charles Reynolds
and Edward Patterson, in which the lat
ter was stunned by a blow from a whis-
ky bottle and finished by pounding with
a billiard cue. He died in a patrol
wagon.
The murder of Zura Burns, at Lincoln,
Illinois, Sunday evening, begins to at
tract attention throughout the country
because of its mysterious character
The victim was engaged to be married
to Thomas Dukes, of Kewanna, Indiana,
who has been sent for to aid in detecting
the murderer. The testimony at the
coroner's inquest cast suspicion GA 0. A
Carpenter, grain merchant.
A DISPATCH dated Grand junction
Col, October IS, says: GA year ago the
wife of FL. A. Herrick, a well-to- do ranch
man Of this county, left him. Herrick
afterwards obtained a divorce and mar
ried Margaret Thompson. Mrs. Herrick
No. 1 returned a short time since, and
meeting Herrick and his wife shot and
instantly killed the second wife. She
was admitted to bail, and commenced
proceedings to recover some of Herrick's
property. This afternoon, while the
Sheriff and Mrs. Herrick were at the
ranch looking up cattle Herrick shot and
killed Mrs Herrick, and then gave him
self up to the Sheriff."