The Jasper weekly courier., 1885-12-25

G.. DOANlt. Publisher.
JASPER. INDIANA.
TOPICS OF THE DAY
News from Everywhere.
yonx W. DANIEL has been selected for
United States senator BY the General AZ.
sembly Of Virginia.
rHERE were eighty.six deaths from
small-pox in Montreal and vicinity during
the week ended the lsth.
THE Supreme Court Of the United States
sustained the Utah conviction Of Cannon
for having plurality Of wives.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE says that his
recent trip 70 Turkey, In the interest OF
American munitions Of war, was success
fal.
DETAILS come from San Francisco Of .
diabolicai plot formed by Socialist agi-
tators to murder number OF prominent
citizens.
IT is reported at Washington that E. G.
Mr.. Hazen As Third Assistant Postmaster
General.
RUSSIA offers to assent to the persona
union OF Bulgaria and Roumelia IL the
Bulgarian policy be subordinated to that
Of Russia.
O'BRIES, Boston's Democratic Mayor.
was reelected on the 18th by the largest
majority ever given q mayoral candidate
In that city.
In the arrangement Of Senate commit
tees, Senator Logan has been restored to
the committees on which he served in the
last Congress-
OWING to the activity OF the rebel forces
under the new Mahdi, the British Govern
ment has decided to send new expedition
20 the Soudan.
SERvIA desires . line Of demarcation be-
tween the Servian and Bulgarian troops
beyond which neither shall pass pending
the negotiations.
ACCORDING to the report OF the Commits
sioner Of the Bureau Of Navigation our
mercantile navy stands second among the
nations Of the world.
PRIvArR advices received at Ottawa,
confirm the reports of lawlessness among
the Blood and Blackfeet Indians in the
Canadian Northwest.
The Interdenominational Congress,
which has been in session 1T Cincinnati,
adjourned on the 11th to meet 1t the call
Of the permanent committee
THE joint committee on the completion
Of the Washington Monument recommend
an appropriation OF $lo7.0 for the extern
sion OF the terrace about its base.
IT is reported that the CANADIAN Gov
ernment, in order to meet the deficit in the
revenue, win double the coal tax, in addi-
tion to reimposing duties on tea and coffee.
A SECRET organization Of miners is said
% exist in Pennsylvania, having q sworn
compact demanding . life for life II any
Of their number falls at the hands Of
strikers-
The President sent to the Senate on the
10th the nominations Of several hundred
Postmasters and several supervising in
spectors Of steam vessels, all recess ap-
pointments.
ADvIcKs have been received st London
that the Chinese Government has sent q
rer,onstrance to Russia against intrigues
Of Russian Officers with the Kuldjam Ma
hommedans.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 18th
transmitted to the Senate the papers and
correspondence relating to the appoint
ment Of Mr.. Kelly q Minister to Italy and
70 Austro- Hungary.
IT has been decided BY the committee
having charge Of the matter that the final
resting place Of the remains Of the late
John Mccullough shall be in one OF the
Philadelphia cemeteries.
JOHN BIGELow, OF New York, was NOM
mated by the President on the 10th to be
Assistant Treasurer Of the United States
at New York, and General Franz Sigel, OF
New York, to be pension agent at the same
city.
The striking shoe cutters OF Cincinnati,
O., having refused to return to work at
the command Of the National Executive
Committee Of the knights OF Labor, have
been declared in rebellion and are de-
ciared expelled from the order.
A LONDON dispatch Of the 18th said or
ders had been received ct the Government
arsenals to prepare munitions OF war in
large quantities for shipment to the Sou
dan; and acquisitions have been made for
the immediate shipment Of arms and
stores sufficient for fifty regiments.
ArrER thorough investi CATION OF the
subject, the officers Of the Propaganda
College in Cochin China find that up 70 the
nrst Of November last nine missionaries,
seven native priests, sixty catechisers, 30
members Of religious orders and $4,000
other Christians had been massacred in
the vicaricate Of Cochin China In the
20 parishes which had been ravaged, sew
enteen orphanages, ten converts and 225
churches had been pillaged and burned.
THE Assistant Attorney General has de-
livered the following opinion, Of interest
% claimants for Indian depredations: I'm
order 70 entitle any claim for Indian dep.