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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1884-12-26

The Republican organs arc finding
consolation In the assertion that The
Democrats we're only successful in the
election Of Cleveland 'sby the skin q
their teeth"
This saying has grown out q che
smallncss Of the Democratic plurality
in this State. A little ovcr . thousand
votes Is certainly . narrow margin ~ .
poll Of about one million and . quar-
ter. But II must be remembered tnat
Garfield carried New York IN 1850 by =
little more than 2l.OO0, SO that the
Democratic gain was actually over
~. 900. without calculating the a.
creased vote.
The truth Is that the Republican can
didatc only escaped . most ignomin.,
ious defeat ''by the skin Of his teeth.
II Michigan, where Garfield got near
" $4,000 majority, Blaine managed p
squeeze through with less than 5000
n Iowa. instead IL $4,000. which was
| Garfeld's majority. Blaine got = scan'y
Is. 500. He came within an ace d los-
/ inc Wisconsin. In Massachusetts, bu1
lers fraud alone saved him. II he haa
| not escaped defeat In these States by =
..scratch'' Mr.. Blaine would have bcea
left with only fourteen States ~ ny
back.
Of course. IN such an event Blaine
would have been just As indignant =
Ne now II about the injustice inf cted
on Northern States By allowing South
e,n States 10 vote as they please In 4
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1884-12-26

nn19nrDI<1san Rib Ihnf No. May Lave
Dsrn nolpe1 - 10 O<her shere-
NV ronk. Deccmb<r IS
Exciremenf exists II Lyons, y. n, on
IL . umors q : probable murder -
Gently connitted 10 Ne town d Sodus,
buf = yes the fncts II the csse seem % b
Known Only % che police and detectives,
Who 1re hard e work on t. Miss Par
u<Is Nnrquet- : dsshin2 young lady and
q x<n<r1Ily good health, died very sud-
denly g - honse q her sister, Mr..
Co. Bridges, - Lyons On the 9Th 81 o.
rcbrf. - the time ~ her death there
were sIfrht suzpicions u foul play, but
ohe burial q h<R body VA o Interfered
With Since then, however, new cIevs
haxe been obtnIned- y seems hat Alss
Wxg AZ uErEEs9
- several hunired ncrcs q valuabcl
farming land n this county, besides
y fh0usan1 dollars She lived for
800 tiuc - her sisters family bot
ouInr ~ doueSf< troubles she suddenly
IN tkere I'D went - live H. The family
Il Albert Thorn Last August <he, - y
ALLEGED. 49, prevailed upon % give Mn.
han = I'D - her fnrm besides making
= VIII = her lnvor. Tie Bndges were
tuned - ~ nevs % this action, they
clninInx Ut th<y should hsve The prop
er<y. Mis- Nnrquet and her sister Mrs..
Bridges - nothing - % with each 9th
e. ~ soue time, until d October Oh,
whrn Mrk. Bridges suddenly semi for
lliss Marques . come % ne formers
kous< Tor , short visit She ~
$500 -. tu~ff4fInm md vent there
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
Growth of Human Beings.

The investigations Of the Anthropo-
metric committee of the British associa-
ton have made more or less clear several
interesting facts respecting the rate of
growth OF the two sexes. The period of
most rapid growth is from birth to five
years of age, and then both sexes grow
alike, the girls being little shorter and
lighter than the boys. From five to ten
the boys grow little faster than the
girls, but from ten to fifteen years the
girls grow the fastest, and ut between
eleven and half and fourteen and half
years old, are actually taller, and from
twelve and a half to fifteen and half
are heavier than the boys The boys,
however, take the lead between fifteen
and twenty years, and grow at first rap
idly, but afterwards slower, and com
plete their growth at about twenty-thrce
years, while girls grow very slowly after
fifteen years of age, and attain their
full stature at about the twentieth year.
The tracings and tables show slow
but steady increase of stature up to the
fiftieth year, and "A more rapid increase
in weight up to the sixtieth year in men
but the statistics of women are too few
after the age of twenty-three to deter
mins the stature and weight of their
sex at the more advanced periods OF
life. The fact that man continues to
grow in stature up to his fifteth yeaI
contradicts the popular notions on the
subject; according to which he ceases
to grow before reaching half that age.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
The Story of a Love Song.

Upon one of the many hills surround
ing this old Ohio city, says letter from
GAINESVILLE to the New York Sun, is
beautiful homestead which overlooks the
smoky expanse of the town and the shin
ing course of the Muskingum river.
Thirty years ago a young preacher walked
down the hill from this home heavy at
heart and weary of the world. Two
years before he had come to GAINESVILLE
fresh from the old collegian institution in
Columbus as the Rev. II. D. L. Webster.
He soon fell in love with Ella Bloxom,
the daughter of Judge Bloxom, who sang
in the choir Of his church. He was priv
LEGGED as a pastor to call upon his fair
chorister at the home of her married SIS
ter, Mrs Henry Blandy. The young, pen
niless preacher proposed marriage to her,
and was rejected. The refusal was given
in kind though firm manner, and the
young man persuaded himself that his
suit was denied because of his poverty
and the pride of the girls family. He
left GAINESVILLE, for he could not be at
peace where the woman he loved was
shining in society.
In 1856 he moved to Racine, and soon
afterward wrote song and gave 1t to j.
p. Webster, the composer. This song was
the once popular " Lorena." In it Web
ster wrote the sentiments of his heart to
the memory of the woman he had loved.
People who remember the songs of twenty
years ago will readily recall the opening
lines:
The years creep slowly by, Lorena,
The snow is on the grass again.
The SIM : low down fine sky
The frost CLEANS where the how'rs have
been;
But the heart throbs on warmly now
AS when the summer days We're nigh.
Oh, the sun can never dip so low
Adown affections cloudless sky.
In the days of the war the song took
a firm hold on the popular fancy. Soldiers
in the camps of both armies sang the
plaintive verses. 1t was the Annie
Laurie of America. The name Lor-
ena" was given to all sorts of things,
and the young ladies of to-day respond
to the same musical name which senti-
mental mothers of that time bestowed
upon them. !
When it became known that Webster
wrote the song many of his acquaintance
in GAINESVILLE remembered his love affair
there, and concluded at once that Ella
Bloxom was the original of Lorena.
Miss BloXom was married to William w.
Johnston. young lawyer of Ironton,
who had been educated in GAINESVILLE,
and who is now the chief Justice of Ohio
and the Republican candidate for select
man. Mr.. Webster, who has drifted
about from pastorate to pastorate, WAS
recently stationed in Oak Grove. He
also is married, having now wife and
several children.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
Deaths from Cholera.

In 1871 there were 300, 900 deaths
from cholera in Russia; in 1873 there
were 10000 deaths in Poland; in 1872
73 there were 40, 600 deaths in Hun
gary; 1S72-73 there were nearly $1,000
deaths in Prussia; in 1S65-67 there were
143, 900 deaths in Italy. In Paris the
mortality from cholera has been as fol-
lows: In 1882, Is, 354 deaths; in 1S49,
10, 1884; in 1S53-54, 5000; in 1866,
IL, 0S2; in 1873, eS5. In England in
1S49 the deaths from cholera were TO-
O00 In 1917 the army of the Marquis
of Hastings lost in India 1000 men in
twelve days from Asiatic cholera.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29

r'a." .or, ' saSn,,r ncSs r.:
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29

neck, and face buried in the feecy back
of one of his special favorites, was sob.
bling as if his heart were breaking.
Mr.. Bright danced about like school,
boy, swung his hat, and pitched it high
in the air.
''Hurrahl hurrahl hurrah for boys and
sheep! They are the best witnesses |
ever want. Mr. Lynn's case is the sound
est one ever carried before a court"
'Witnesses" growled Green. care
you such idiots as to think this will
amount to anything in law"
1t did amount to something in law,
however, as Mr.. Green found out when
the Judges decision was given.
AS soon as the men were gone, Mrs
Lyon bent over Jack, whose head was
still bowed.
'Jack, my boy, don't cry so. Don't
you know you have friends all around
you ~
eyes. Look at EN-" He looked
about with smile.
eyes, the sheep, and plenty more if
you'll have them. Oh, Jack, we're all
your friends. The loving Shepherd
told you of has sent us to try to do you
good. lie wants you to follow him Just
as the sheep come at the sound of your
voice, because they love you and you
love them. DO you want to stay here and
take care of them ?"
"Stay here, with you and the sheep ~
Jacks eyes. bcaming with JOY and graft
tude, frankly met hers.
81 think we've found the soft place at
last" said Mrs Lynn TO herself, as she
went home, leaving him on the sunny
hillside 49, Y0uHg PeOple.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29

"IIiho hiho hiho hiho-o-o 600
my beauties Come, Daisy face, come,
Cloud white, come, my Trigsy-toes and
Hippety- hop and Hobbldehoy. Hilla,
hilla, hol my Hop-and-skip and old
Jump-the -fencel Come with yer patter-
patter and yer wiggle waggle, my
Beauties obi Where be you, Flax and
Flinders and Foam2 Come here, my
jolly boys, and kick up yer heels on the
grass In the mo o Corning.
"He gets off some such rigmarole
whenever he goes near them" she said !;
" and I'm sure every sheep knows him. "
Jack staid for a month among his
fcecy darlings, and when the time came
for saying goodbye to them, nobody
was near to hear him say it. lie allowed
Mrs. Lynn to shake his hand as he
stepped on board the train which was
to bear him back to his home. or rather
to his home!cssness, but with little re-
Spouse to her kind farcwels.
She had tried so faithfully to impress
him with the idea that there are plenty
in this wide world whose hearts the dear
Lord has filed with the tenderest pity
and love toward those whose paths
seemed laid in Swallowed places, that
she felt kcenly disappointed in fearing
she might have entirely failed How
ever, she remembered with comfort that
just as the last car was passing the plat
form from which she watched it, she
had indistinctly caught sight of boys
face whose softened eyes seemed filled
with tears as he strained his eyes to gain
a last glance at her, and she beloved in
her heart it was Jacks face.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
A CHILD BANGLES.
THE LAND OF CoUNTERPANh

THE LAND OF COUNTERPART
When / was sick and lay abed,
I had two pillows at nv head,
And all my toys beside me lay
To keep me happy all the day.
And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my leaden soldiers go,
With different uniforms and drills,
Among the bed clothes, through the hills
And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
ALI up and down among the sheets;
Or brought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities all about.
was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow hill,
And sees before him field and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.
THE WIND.
I saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;
And all around heard you pass
Like ladies' skirts across the grass
Oh, wind, ALLOWING all day longl
Oh, wind, that sings so loud songi
saw the different things you did,
But always felt yourself you hid;
l felt you push, heard you call,
could not see yourself at all
Oh, wind. ALLOWING all day longl
Oh, wind, that sings so loud songl
Oh, you that are so strong and cold,
Oh, blower, are you young or oldl
Are you beast of field and tree,
Or just stronger child than mel
Oh, wind, ALLOWING all day longl
Oh, wind, that sings so loud a songl
THE COW.
The friendly cow, all red and white,
love with all my heart;
She gives me cream with all her might,
To cat my apple tart.
She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day.
And blown by all the winds that pass,
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
Aud eats the meadow flowers.
Robert L. Stevenson, in Art Journal
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-17

Operations have been resumed in two
iron-mills ut McKeesport, Pa, and 1000 men
have been re-employed at the ron.works at
Reading, the puddlers accepting a slight re-
duction.
The Oregon Transcontinental COM
pany has deposited with the Farmers Loan
and Trust company 9l,5OO shares each of
Oregon Navigation and Northern Pacific
common and preferred, in security for n loan
for $4,000, 600, to be used in meeting bills
payable.
The Mexican National Bank has de-
clared dividend of per cent, and promises
another of per cent In March.
Business failures in the United States
for the week numbered 345, being sixty-three
more than the preceding week and an in
crease of three over the corresponding period
in 1888.
The gallows has rid the world OF
John Jarvis, who killed c. w. Bonney I'm Vir-
ginia; of Isaac Anderson, who murdered a
planter named Owen Williams In South Caro-
lina of Stephen Richards, who slaughtered
Thomas Nichols in California, and Of Jerry
Alexander, who slew Sam Fleming In Louis
lana.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-17
IS LOWELL A DUDE :?
An Official Inquiry at Washington
Richelieu Robinson 8 Resolution.

resolution has been introduced in the
House by Mr.. Robinson, of New York, call
ing upon the Secretary of State for informa-
ton regarding the dress OF American repre-
sentatives in foreign countries az they ap-
pear on public occasions. 1t has exclusive
reference TO Minister Lowell, who is reported
to wear knee brooches upon state and other
occasions. When Sunset COX returned from
Europe he reported that Mr.. Lowell was ar
rayed in knee-breeches and buckle shoes
when he called upon him, and that our Min
lister made a vain but Intellectual attempt TO
hide his calves under a table.
what is the object OF your resolution
was asked of Mr.. Robinson.
at is to ascertain if any of our representa-
tives abroad are really acting like dudes" he
replied. II am told that in some countries
our ministers and consuls dress like fops
tharthey don fancy coats and big brass sabers
and imagine themselves kings and princes
"Have you any instances?
Eyes, sir. l am told that recently our Min
lister Lowell could not be seen because he was
dressing for reception. II Is said that our
representative TO Persia had 20 take of his
boots not long since and approach the Pasha
in his bare feet. Such proceedings are
beneath the dignity Of an American citizen.
He ought 10 have applied his boot to the
Pasha."
Mr.. Robinson said that the United States
would not tolerate any "monkey business"
as he put it, on the part of the representa-
tives abroad; that there was statute en-
acted in 1888 for the express purpose of re-
curing American Ambassadors to maintain
the recognized customs and etiquette Of their
own country, and that If Mr.. Lowell had been
guilty of violation of this law he should be
recalled.
1t is matter of notice that Mr.. Lowell is a
subject OF unfavorable comment in all quar-
tiers I'm Washington at this time. leading
Republican Senator said the other day that
the aping tendencies of Mr.. Lowell, which at
first produced only rldicule, are likely to be
so seriously regarded in the end as to neces-
state his recall
MINISTER LOwELL's RBCToRsHIP.
Washington Telegram to Chicago Herald
Your correspondent has definitely ascer-
tanned that Minister Lowell received a polite,
but peremptory notification from the De-
partneut of State that his acceptance Of the
Rcctorship of st. Andrews was regarded as an
act inconsistent with his obligations as the
representative of the American Government
at a foreign court. The letter to Mr.. Lowell
called his attention TO the prohibition put
upon American ambassadors as to their ac-
ceptance of titles, honor, Office. ETC., from
foreign potentates
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-17
THE STAR ROUTE CASES.
Items from the Accounts OF the Special
Counsel.

WASHINGTON Telegram to Chicago Tribunel
The statement of the expenditures of the
Department of Justice In the star-route cases
has been furnished to the Senate In response
to the resolution Of Mr.. Van wyck. The
document is about the size, shape and weight
Of an unabridged dictionary, without index,
summary, or condensation, and with little
clew TO the vast mass of vouchers But the
| bookkeeping methods are not 80 crude that
the astounding extravaganza OF the Depart
| ment of Justice can be kept secret. The
! information shows how the Treasury
can be plundered in the name OF reform.
| Brewster, Attorney-General, received $4,000
! as attorney in the star-route casee, the last
voucher for $500 having been approved
short time before he became Attorney-Gen-
| eral. William A. Cook receives 81 900 for
services in the Howgate case. This did not
result in disclosing the whereabouts of How
gate. He also receives $4,000 in the star
route cases. The leading counsel in the
star-route cases, who was paid the least was
/ Ker, of Philadelphia: yet the vouchers
show that in 1883 he charged S29, 900, of
| which he received $1,000, an unsettled
balance being in dispute. In adj
dtion he receives $3.50 for his services in
the Kellogg case, although the case has not
! yet been brought TO trial. The total charge
made by Ker for the years work was 1872, 800,
most of which has been paid. In addition N
| this, the junior counsel while drawing enor-
nous fees, presents his board bills regu arly.
and the Attorney General approves one, for
| instance of sixty-one days at 81 per day,
| amounting TO Si27. Dick Merrick, who hap
| pens to live here, did not charge for board,
but Ker and Bliss, besides drawing from $50
| to 500 each per day. charged for everything
apparently from a bootblack to a shave.
Mr.. Merrick charges his uniform rates at
| about 500 day and gets them. George
| Bliss presents the champion fees and gets
them allowed, but he has not secured all the
! money, owing TO the fact that tho appropria-
ton was ca hausted. The details OF one of
his bills would served as a model for n chan
Gerry lawyer in the Jarndyce suit. He charges
! for waking up in the morning, for eating his
breakfast for walking to court aud back, for
the place where he sleeps, for the man who
brushes his coat, for the boy that brings his
books. Bliss fees average S100 n day, and
he crowds a great many days into year.
Bill Wood, the detective, gets small sums.
Allan Pinkcrton gets larger ones, having re-
ceived in about year some $1,000 for the
services OF his operatives. No names are
furnished Of the persons Swallowed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-17
WASHINGTON.

The sentiment in favor of retaliatory
legislation against those countries which cx-
clude American swine and swine products is
growing stronger daily at Washington. In
the House, last week. Gen. Browne, of Indi-
ana, offered n bill which authorized the Presi-
dent to exclude from the United States the
wines and liquors Of France and Germany, as
well as other articles of merchandise,
from those countries so long as they shall
continue TO exclude American cattle and
swine and the products of the same. Mr..
Townshend offered resolution, which was
adopted, requesting the President TO furnish
the House with all letters, reports, and other
documents in his possession bearing on the
subject. of the exclusion Of American hogs
and hog products by Germany and France.
The purpose of this information is to enable
the House to proceed intelligently in regard
to such legislation.
Bills have been introduced in Con-
gress for the erection of twenty-three public
buildings In various localities at an aggre-
gate cost of s2,0sO.OOO.
Representative Horr, of Michigan,
SbhiilDtu VI tht bubtOuilulJbtc vi lnO
fcatJon bill, favors an appropriation of
50, Os0 for national defenses, setting aside
1900 for torpedo experiments.
Congressman Robinson's resolution
calling for information as To the clothes
worn by American representatives at foreign
courts Is said to have direct reference to
James Russell Lowell, "Sunset" Cox having
reported that the Minister TO the Court OF st.
James arrays himself In purple and fine linen,
knee-breeches, and bucklod shoes, contrary
to the forms of republican dress as laid down
by statute.
The United States has fled in the
Court.of Claims bin against the Union Pa
cifc road for $500, e67, including 8 per cent.
of the net earnings.
The bill for the forfeiture of the
Texas and Pacific land grant, estimated to lie
worth sac, O00, 900, will be the first one con-
sidered In committee.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-17
FOREIGN.

The postoffice at Pesth, Hungary, was
mysteriously robbed Of q box containing
100000.
A tribe of Achenese hold in bondage
twenty-five men OF the crew of the steamer
Nisero, wrecked in November, and the Gov
ernmont of the Dutch East Indies have sent
troops to compel the RaJah TO release them
There ia one American among the captured
band.
An explosion at Hanoi ruined two
batteries of French artillery, wrecked the
barracks and several houses, killed one man,
and injured three.
The Egyptian Cabinet resigned in O
body because the British Government do
manded the abandonment OF the soudan.
Nubah Pasha has assumed the duties
of Premier OF Egypt. A military commission
wiz perfect arrangements for the evacuation
of the soudan.
Bismarck has issued an order looking
10 slightly better treatment of American
food products.
Prime Minister Ferry is unwilling to
permit England 90 grab Egypt, but his col
leagues are weakened and afraid TO attempt
any protest
Russia has just paid 80, 900, 900 rubles
of her public debt
Judge Denman, OF London, is still
guarded by two policemen whenever he stops
outside Of his residence.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-17
SOUTHERN.

On W. G.. Taylor's plantation in
Lenoir county, N. C., colored family, COM
prising william Cook, his wife and six chill
dreu, were burned to death by their house
taking fire.
Drifting ice stopped navigation of the
Tennessee river last week.
A telegram from Shelby, n. c., re-
ports that n terrible and fatal knife combat
took place about fifteen miles from that
place. "For some years past vendetta has
existed between the Lepaugh and Runyam
families, both of whom have large con-
nections. Philip Lepaugh was this morn
ing driving his wagon to sawmill, when
Craige Runyam, accompanied by his father
and brother made an attack upon him.
They pulled Lepaugh from his wagon and
cut and hacked him with bowie-knves, in
fiicting some terrible wounds. They left him
for dead on the road. AS they we're fleeing,
the wounded mans two sonsin-law came up.
They galloped after and overlook the Runyam
party. A desperate hand-to-hand conflict
ensued, in which every man engaged in the
ARRAY was MORALLY wounded"
The wife of Col. II. Coulter Cabel
was fatally burned Mt Richmond, Va, by her
clothing taking fire from Il CRATE.
At Austin, Tex, in the midst of a
banquet attended by members OF the Texas
Fence-Cutting Convention. n terror walked
In, kicked over the table, and drove the
banquetersl into the street.
In the Legislature of Texas bill
was intrt duced making justihable homicide
the killing of man found cutting a fence.
The cattle men, in convention at Austin, de-
clared against a herd law, but opposed the
doctrine of free grass.