The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-01-09
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

except the announcement OF some commit
Zee assignments BY the speaker.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
HIS the Tenth Ohio District controversy
has been raised over the citizenship Of Con-
gresham elect Romeis-
DIR. GEORGE II. ATKINSON, leading
physician OF Brooklyn, y. ", Is at the
point Of death, as the result Of blood
poisoning contracted professionally.
A FORMIDABLE lobby Is gathering at
Washington to work for and against the
treaties pending.
THE Berlin National Gazette says that
the Reichstag intends TO place new
check on Bismarck by rejecting his de-
mand for credit to conduct the explcra-
tons in Africa.
BY a recent decision the property OF the
late Mrs. Stone, OF Boston, amounting to
$a.ooo,o0o, will all 90 to educational insti-
buttons, as the relatives were unable to
have the will set aside.
GENERAL WoLsELEY having changed
his route, the relief OF Khartoum Is two
months further in the future than was ex-
pected.
OK the 27th Orvin Skinner, alias II. NJ.
Scudder, who swindlcd many people out Of
money, including James g. Blaine, was ar
rested at New York.
THE outlook for an early reconciliation
Of the differences between the Senate and
the House on the naval appropriation bill
Is not favorable.
OK the 2-th the Rev. James o. s. Hunt
ington, son Of Bishop Huntington, Of Gen.
trail New York, took upon himself the
vows OF the order Of the Holy Cross in the
Holy Cross Protestant Episcopal Chapel,
New York. There are but two members Of
the order in America
GENERAL HANCOCK will be asked to act
rs Grand Marshal Of the Inauguration pa
rade at Washington.
CAPTAIN DAVID n. YEA, General Super
irtendent of the Northern Pacific Coast
Railroad, dropped dead at San Francisco,
CAL, on the 10Th.
THE Washington Star Of the Goth con-
tanned an item to show that the prospects
Of the bill for the retirement Of General
Grant are not good.
THE seventy fifth anniversary Of Gldd-
stones birth was celebrated with great
testivity at Hawarden, Wales, on the
18th.
Hon. SAMUEL j. RANDALL was formally
received by the Louisville Board Of Trade
on the 18th. A dinner was afterward iven
in his honor.
The Car Of Russia, Czarina and Care
witch, are going on a tour through the
country OF the Cossacks Of the Don.
A YOUNG Engiishman, claiming to b
the Earl Of Linwood, was married at Dali
las, Tex, on the 10Th, to the daughter d
Belle Boyd, the ''rebel spy"
WoRD was received at Washington, ID
c., on the 2sth, Of the death OF Nava
Cadet T. V. Torrey, Of Illinois, which oc.
CURED on Board the United States vesse
Trenton, at Nagasaki, on the coast d
Asia.
LONG ISLAND, n. Y, is still much agi-
tated over the Ferry Downs elopement
and Deacon Terry, who returned, hat
TO leave again because Of the frequent tin.
can serenades rendered him.
GENERAL GRANTS premises and effect.
in New York are in charge OK Deputy
sheriff.
The contest over the United States Sen
ntorship at Albany is said to be assuming
National Importance, and developing
fight as between the partisans Of Mr.
Blaine on the one side and President Ar
thur on the other.
+. s. FREE. Adjutant- General OF Dakoti
Territory, reports all warlike forces dis
banded, aud general willingness 70 avail
She action Of the court. General Free will
make report favorable 10 Wilmot to tn
Governor.
A TELEGRAM from Genoa states tina
D~f..~r. utu...at...l hnu l..sItrf,,nu
Reno, small town on the Mediterranean
near that city.
EVEN BROTHERS, the New York broker
whose assignment was filed on the 2.th
have fed to Canada. They We're recent
expelled from the Cotton Exchange 70
fraudulent transactions.
A MEETING Of colored citizens in Ne,
York the evening OF the 18th espresso
confidence In Governor Cleveland's fair
ness toward the colored people, while sti
advising their race to adhere to Che part
that gave them freedom.
CHIEF ESGINEER WILLIAM LoRExs I
the Philadelphia L. Reading Railroad die
suddenly on the 18th while seated at th
dinner table at his residence, Chestnu
Hill, PA. Heart disease Is supposed I
have been the cause.
BENZ. \. BIScELow, who W as cashier I
the National Bank OF the Republic
Washington, u. q, in 1852, and convictc
Of embezzlemcnt, was sentenced on tn
nth TO five years in the Concord On. III.
Penitentiary.
The Secretary Of War has recompnitte
20 the Chief Signal Officer the charg,
preferred against Sergeant Holtnorth 1
the Signal Service * conduct unbccon
ing an officer and . gentleman, in hay
ingtampered with the private mail OF Lie,
tenant Greedy, with instructions to detail
court-martial for his trial,