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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-02-06

The owners Of the stock and bonds Of
the Evansville branch Of the Airline
are not 10 have any further cause for
complaint on account Of the alleged
Of the road bed and equip
menss. Receiver Evans has just been
authorized by the Court 10 spend $780,
600. on thi. end OF the line. OF course.
ri. large sum Of money must be taken
ont Of The earnings. and may result in
preferred claim In the shape
Iof mechanics lien. But We shall have
better rosd and quicker time between
here and Louisville as the happy result
Ito the people. and our home stockholders
aud bondhoIders, being public spirited
Imen. will. doubtless, chcerfully sacrifice
their pccuriary interest in the road to
the public good. Neither stock nor
bonds are worth much, snyhow.-Ev-
susville Courier.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-02-06

A rrofrscied meeting J. IN progress
a. ,he N 4. church v which viii continue
turing ;he week. ~ VI the work i
mas c"n'inne longer Rev
Mr Innper, ~ Htr.in-hurg. y sssieiius
Rev. n r. Boring. ps>tor u cn~rsr'
There j. cl.s~ ai citizens in Psoll Who
never attend church meetings. snh ac
cordIng % cnmmun repni hrv are more
~ need ~ Go-pel influences than any
others. Mould IL r"i ~ Nell for those
xnu nre eng .gcd in the good work ~
rpcnulsge sGch persons hy vsi'inS
tnem sna by personsl spp. ~, II nrcrs-
s4rv tus,tentl church Thdie src lev
y y,ung persons here who NUT ~ slorl
i'm enter up,n The pslh IN vIHne sud
secsiinae ~ ~ rsridl, downward on
he ROAD ID utter Abandonment. lhes
r,-, ia msae "a feel lhe restraint q
lnurslizing Influences. of the liLpss 81
llhe iaw. Which viii Il bef Paol
News.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-02-06
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-02-06

England sent 70 Brazil in 1883 nearly
pirhi, sevon thousand dollars worth or
In the United States the
umbrella manufacture. protected 10 the
tor of its bent. has grown to large pro-
Ino~tions Wh.t was the value OF our
exports or umbrellas 20 Brazil 10 1883!
IThirtecu dollars! Evansville Courier.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-02-06

Chicago News. MRS. Nip, why is Il
II alwavs see mere women on the street
|on muddy and rainy days than AZ any
|.ther timer" ~ suppose, Mr.. Tuck, i
HI because you keep closer watch for
them"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-02-06

Little Brother (whose sister Is playing
cards with gentlcman) Mr.. Smiler,
does Minnie PLAY cards we'll?
MIR. Smilcr Yes, very well. indeed.
Little Brother Then you bad better
look out. Mamma said IL she PLAYED
her cards well she would catch YOU
New York Star.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-02-06

Tho Committee on Appropriations oi
INV Ii. -. Congress hiss agreed 10 recon-
u,.nd thst tirst.clsss msii mslter be car
tiaa for two cents rer ounce insieah ~
p.r hall ounce, that Necnnd-ria-s n~lirf
NJ carried for one instead ~ two cents
l.er pound. aud that compensation soF
railwas msiI service will he hsscd on
distance aud >pcrd instead Of on weight
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-02-06

Mrs. Mime Daniels Is ~ home t1i~
n, .rk. visiting her father, Solomon Salm
wLn I. inss recovering from severe sick
ue-s Nrs. Daniels aud her husband
iohn pani-is. arc teachers IN the srlonl'
N Hopkm&visle, kv. They are meeting
With success ia their nrw home Troy
correspondent Grsndyiew Monitor,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-02-06

We'll. since rock OF time
Has f-ilei % form
A pnl.-ll On my mind.
I will resolve NOW. 90 reform,
NJ longer lag behind:
9iil run cfi. WHIST talks call horn,
with rock conlaining lime.
now perccivctc own road,
And trans with al thereon,
Isn'i worth heggsrs note
Ii one can not hold on
Twas nothing hnt an idle dream,
Whcn swuA.. an lrii ~. clean.
Nv ros,is. my irains. ardrrrsiness. 100
For da, light came. and saw : si----.
] SEYMOUR.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-02-06

II Il reported that . conductor Of
trsin was transferred ~ rock
train: II this be true there u evidence
that that X. r. Company twh'chever y
may b-l kreus ~ eve open :" We wei
fare OF il EMPLOYEES, To-. 10 hsn'ir rock
l. cer,sinis more agreeable 70 'ne nispo-
-i;iou OF -omr men. than 20 hs'''e WIN
stupid humanity that u constantly s'riv'
Ing 10 beiog the briliisncy Of . msn's IN
lSeIssct.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-24
SOUTHERN,

A Georgia Pacific Railway train,
freight and passenger, stopped on trestle
fifteen miles from Atlanta, TO obtain water
An East Tennessee train, going at the rate of
thirty miles per hour, dashed into the standing
train, telescoping the sleeper. The escaping
steam and boiling water soon flooded the car,
scalding to death ten persons. Six others were
fatally scalded, portions of their bodies being
literally boiled About dozen others were
manned or burned in painful manner.
Negroes from South Carolina to the
number of one hundred, discouraged by poor
crops and high rents, are making their way to
Arkansas, via Nashville.
A negro living near Gainesville,
Ca, was caught by train on the high bridge
spanning the Etowah River To save his life,
he jumped ninety feet to tine ice covered water
below, and escaped unhurt
James Gunter assailed his wife at
Big Laurel, n. c., and for the act was shot dead
by their little son. years old
Sam Wilson, a negro, murdered Celia
Perryman and her two children at Laurel,
Miss. and attempted TO burn the bodies by fir
ing the dwelling He was speedily captured
and lynchcd
Pat Ford and John Murphy, the New
Orleans murderers, have again been respited
for a month.
The result of the recent Temperance
election at Atlanta was carried to the Federal
Court, where Judge Mccoy decided against
the liquor interest, but pronounced unconsti-
tutional proviso in favor of Georgia wines
and excluding those from other States.
Fire at Jacksonville, Fla, destroyed
several structures, including the Abel Block
and the Herald newspaper building, entailing
a loss of about s45O,OOO upon which there is
an insurance amounting to s350,O00 Falling
walls killed colored fireman and badly in
jured three others.
Eigth Cinnamon at Ell Paso, Tex,
took out naturalization papers, and it is al
legged to be the purpose of the 200 Chinese in
that town to become American citizens
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-24
FOREIGN.

The College of the Propaganda an
nounce that up to Nov. J., in Cochin China,
"a, coo Christians were massacred, ten con
vents destroyed, and 225 churches burned
Mr.. Gladstone and his principal col
leagues have arrived at an understanding on
the Irish question. Says cable dispatch:
"The Liberal leaders pledge themselves TO
grant local Parliament to Ireland and
to use every effort to unite the party on
the question. The party will oppose any
bill introduced by the Tory Ministry deal
ing with Irish affairs falling short of an
Irish local Parliament Mr.. Gladstone,
in the event of the Ministry refusing to grant
an Irish Parliament, will ask leave of the House
TO bring in a separate Liberal measure. The
extreme Wing wing declines to commit itself,
and will probably coalesce with the Ministerial
lists to defeat Mr. Gladstone's proposals. Mr.
Gladstone is assured of the hearty support of the
Irish Nationalist if the concession promised is
conceived in the generous spirit confidently
looked for"
A party of eleven Europeans en-
ployed in Burmah by the Bombay Trading
Company learned of the outbreak Of hostilities
and attempted to escape the country, but were
murdered by troops from Burmese steamer.
Alfred Deutcher, Vice President of
Switzerland, has been elected President for the
year 1856.
At the Royalst Club in Madrid
stormy discussion ended in free fight, and
the adherents of Canovas del Castillo were
forced TO leave
The war preparations of Servia, Bull
garia, and Roumelia continue increasingly The
inhabitants of numerous towns and villages in
Servia have petitioned King NJ Ian to prosecute
the war until Sophia is captured
The arm;stice of thirty days proposed
by the great powers of Europe has been ac-
cepted by King Milan and Prince Alexander
The lines TO be occupied by the belIgerents
will meantime he traced by the military de-
narration committee
DeLesseps, the famous civil engineer
and canal builder, now over 10 years of age,
has been presented by his young wife with an
other daughter.
Citizens of Germany to the number
of twenty three thousand, have sent petition
to the Reichstag in favor of optional crema-
ton.
Qaeen Victoria has intimatcd her APP
proyal Of a measure for an Irish Parliament
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

As result of his successful guer-
Presidency of Peru.
The New York Produce Exchange
estimates the visible supply of grain as fol-
lows: Wheat, IS, 149, III bushels; corn, 1885,
12S bushels
Several hundred cigarmakers will
soon leave New York for San Francisco. An
endcavor will be made to substitute white for
Chinese labor in this line of industry
Thirty of the French Conservatives
in the Canadian Parliament, heretofore sup
porting Sir John A Macdonald, will, at the next
session, vote for a resolution of lack Of conf
dencc
The officers of the Mexican National
Railway who are now at Monterey on a tour Of
inspection, have arranged for the erection of a
permanent iron bridge over the Rio Grande at
Laredo, TO be commenced next month, and
promise to go rapidly forward to the capital
with the track
The total number of failures in the
United States reported to Brddstreets for the
week was 217, against 221 the preceding week,
decline of 4, and as compared with sos in the
like week of December, 1884, 2S0 in 1888, 236 in
1882, and 165 in 1881. This continues the mark
cd decline in the total number of failures
weekly during the last quarter of the year as
against 1884. The grand total of failures in
the United States from Jan. / TO Dec Is was
10,71l, against 1 0SS in a like portion Of 1884, q
decline Of 3l6. The totals for fifty weeks Of
1883, 1882 and 1881, respectively, were 1851,
Z 762 and 5!c}q
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-24
ROBERT TOOMBS DEAD.
The Famous Georgian Passes Away at
an Advanced Age, After
Long Illness.

A dispatch from Atlanta, Ca, announces
the death, at the advanced age of rs years,
OF Robert Toombs, the noted Southern
statesman and irreconcilable. He had been
III for some time, and his demise was not
unexpected. The deceased was born in
Wilkes County, Georgia, July 2, 1910. His
father died before he was years old. He
was educated by an old Scotchman until he
was 10, and then, well prepared for college,
he went to the University of Georgia, then
Franklin College. He was handsome,
wealthy, Iollicksome youth, and got into
some trouble with the faculty, and left
Athens for Union College at Schenectady,
N. Y, where he graduated at IS. He then
went to the University of Virginia, studied
law. and, returning to his home, was adj
mitted to the bar when he was not II years
old. Not long after he married and settled
in the town of Washington. He was very
successful in his profession, before he was
SO years of age having made $l50,000 in
fees and profits, his income being S20,OOO
per annum at least for several years. In the
Creek Indian war of 1886 he was captain
of volunteers under Gen. Scott. When he
was twenty seven years of age-in 1887
he was elected to the lower house of the
Legislature. Then commenced a political
career unequaled in Georgia for brilliancy.
ne StTNeu TWO III tue ItBlbldtuIt,
eight years in the lower house of Congress,
and in 1853 was elected to the United States
Senate. He was reelected to the Senate
in 1859, but resigned his seat in 1861, when
Georgia seeded from the Union. Mr..
Toombs was one of the most striking
figures in national politics during the ex-
citing period Immediately preceding the
civil war. intellectually he was one OF the
strongest of the Southern leaders at that
time-perhaps the strongest-and certainly
none of them exerted more influence on the
public sentiment of their section or did more
to bring about the secession movement
than he. Ardent and impetuous in his tenn
permanent, Mr.. Toombs was inevitably the
extreme partisan of every cause with which
he identified himself. From early youth he
was firm believer in the State sovereignty
and notification doctrines expounded by
John G. Calhoun, and he never shrank
from following them to their logical conclu-
sions. Slavery found in him one of its most
courageous and eloquent defenders, and he
hailed with enthusiasm its recognition as
the cornerstone of the new confederacy.
He took an active part in the was: resign
ing position in Mr.. Davis cabinet mt an
early date TO enter the army. After the war
he He'd to Europe to avoid prosecution for
treason, soon after returning to his native
State, where he lived in retirement until his
death. He never became reconciled TO the
new order of things, and refused to petition
for a removal of his disabilities, or TO have
anything further 10 do with political
matters
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-24
WASHINGTON.

e Sam Randall is said to be at work on
a new tariff bill which will reduce the revenue
s30,000,00O
Washington special: "The declara-
tons of the Congressman from the West aud
South who have arrived are not very reassur-
ing to those who have hoped that it might be
possible to repeal the silver dollar law Many
of these Congressman are outspoken in their
declaration that no compromise will be ac-
copied 1t is quite certain that the @out and
out" will not consent to the unconditional re-
peal of the silver-co;nage act So determined
are they on this point that il is evident that
tho would resort to all parliamentary means
TO defeat the passage of bill having that end
in view if one could be favorably reported
from committee"
In the case of Angus Cannon, of
Utah, indicted under the Edmunds act for un-
,, lawful cohabitation, the judgment of the Su-
preme Court of the Territory has been affirmed
by the Federal Supreme Bench.
DR.. G.. V. Riley, Entomologist of
the Department of Agriculture, and Hon
orary Curator of Insects in the National
Museum, has donated 10 the National
Museum his extensive private collection
of North American insects, representing
the fruits of his labors in collecting and study
for over twenty five years His collection
contains over 10000 species, represented by
over $4,000 pinned specimens, and much adj
ditional material preserved in alcohol or by
other methods II il estimated by those IA
miliar with tho collection to have money
value of at least s25, 600 Professor Baird ex-
presses his warmest appreciation for this
generous gift, and his assurance that, both
now and in the future, it will afford valuable
means OF study for entomologists
Commissioner of Pensions Black an
nounccs that hereafter no application for a
pension il to DO bricfcd up, hot over two let
iers are to be written in connection with any
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-24
EASTERN.

The fund being raised in New York
for monument to General Grant amounts to
s1l1,Coo. An influential journal of that city
urges the committee to proceed at once in
search of a suitable design.
OF the twenty-five persons who at
tended the Weitzel family party Thanksgiving
night, at New York, seventeen are now suffer
ing from trichiniass. The six members of the
weitzel family are very i'll, and three of them
may not recover.
Hiland Hall, formerly Governor of
Vermont, expired very suddenly at Springfield,
Mass, in his nineteth year
At New York, John Harmon, aged II
years, who for the third time attempted to COM
init suicide by hanging, was consigned TO q cor
receive institution.
A mine of the Susquehanna Coal
water which broke IN from the Susquehanna
River. Most Of the miners were warned in
time and escaped, but it is feared that thirty
miners who were in the lower levels were
drowned
The Austrian agent at Philippopolis
has notified Prince Alexander of Bulgaria that
the military commission TO demarkate a line
between Servia and Bulgaria will consider the
defeats and victories of both belgerents.
A crisis in the British Cabinet is
reported impending The landed and
Democratic Conservative elements are at odds
in their views, and negotiations between ex-
treme Tories and the Wing wing of the Liberals
have been renewed Both sides are reported
jubilant over prospect of defeating the
Radicals.
The Dublin Daily Express, con-
sistent upholder of the Loyalists, devotes a
leading article to picturing the consequences
which would result from home rule in Ireland.
II the demands of the Parne+ses are granted,
AID any such scheme of home rule il attempt
cd as Mr. Gladstone has been credited with
contemplating, the Express declares that civil
war would not be unlikely to follow There
would he such clashing of class interests.
such rivalry between the friends of the old
regime aud the partisans OF the new order of
things, that civil strife could hardly be avoid
cd And in case such extremities were pre-
vented, it is perfectly certain that there would
still be endless friction between the Imperial
Government and that OF ireland.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-24

one case, and the credibility Of witness shall
not be inquired into through postmasters
therefore, IL has been the custom TO have all the
testimony of each case digestod by competent
clerks in brief, and the credibility of the vari-
GUS applicants looked up and reported on by
postmasters living in the same towns.
Secretary Lamar has requested the
Attorney General to bring suits against cattle
men in forty additional cases for fencing pub
lie lands in Kansas, Nebraska. Wyoming, and
Colorado
Washington telegram: western Sen
ators Are receiving letters in great numbers
urging them to oppose the confirmation Of
Land Commissioner Sparks because of his re-
cent rulings. Mr.. Sparks was confirmed by
the Senate as Commissioner of the General
Land Office on the 25th of last March"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-24

near Market Lake Idaho, and one man was
killed and several others badly injured
At Dubuque. Iowa, John b. Mueller
drove one chisel entirely through his head,
and imbedded another in his forehead TO the
depth of one and one-half inches. He is still
alive.
In different institutions in Wisconsin
there are at present 2, 264 insane persons.
A packing house in Chicago reports
having slaughtered 500 hogs in ten hours,
working only two benches.
Delegate Niece, second chief of the
Creek Nation. said in an interview at St Louis
that fair offer by the National Government
for the purchase of the Oklahoma lands would
probably be accepted by the Indians,
A dispatch from Minneapolis con-
tains an estimate that two-thirds of the wheat
in the Northwest has been sold Fifteen mills
are in operation, and there are pa cars Of
wheat in sight
The Western Export Association has
raised the price of whisky one cent, making
the basis s1l0 gallon, and reduced the limit
of production from 40 to 3S1G per cent of ca
pacity.
The fact has been developed that the
Knoch family of four persons, supposed TO
have been burned TO death at Detroit, were
killed with a revolver There is no clue 10 the
murderers. The remains of the victims were
buried in one coffin.
The George G. Ware Vinegar Com
pany, in Cincinnati, was burned, involving a
loss of $4,000, and Feldkamp & Bros furni-
ture factory was also burned; loss, So, 600
Two Chicagoans drove double
sleigh through to Milwaukee in two days. d.
r. Timothy and companion drove Agar
old team and cutter from Franklin Grove to
Dixon, H., ten miles, in 3G1l minutes, for a
wager of 5000
Two lieutenants of police were dis
missed at Cincinnati for drunkenness They
had been paid the previous day and nctously
celebrated the event
Joel Anderson and Laurel Baugh
were recently tried for murder at Carrollton,
Mo-, convicted, and sentenced TO life imprison-
ment Securing new trial, they were again
convicted last week, and sentenced to death.
Hon. William Pitt Lynde, an ex-
Congressman and one OF the most prominent
members of the bar in the Northwest, and Sc
Nor member of the law firm of Finches, Lynde
& Miller, died at Milwaukee last week. He
was GS years of age He was a sufferer for al
most year past from complication of dis
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-24
A CRAZY woMAN's DEED.
She Fires Her House and Cremates Herself
and Four Children.
Olympia Wash. Ter telegram.

Olympia Wash. Ter telegram.
AT Long Prairie, about eight miles from
this place, a deplorable event occurred.
Mrs. Miner, relative of Mr.. David Cham
bers, had for some time manifested symp-
toms of insanity, and, according TO report,
she last evening saturated papers with coal
oil and distributed them around the house,
telling one of her children, on inquiry,
that she was wetting them with water.
Early this morning she made the re-
mark that she was about TO destroy the
whole family, and her husband, fearing
that she was about to attempt his life, pro-
ceeded to put her out of the room, but on
opening the door discovered the house in
flames. Reaching the front door with one
of his children, he found il locked and the
key removed; thereupon he ran to the back
door and found it nailed mp. Finally he
and his little daughter succeeded in escap-
ing through window, but were both badly
burned. The unfortunate woman, with her
four other children, was burned to death.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-24

Mr.. Peel will be retained as Speaker
of the new House of Commons.
The President has appointed the fol-
lowing Postmasters:
John A. Barry, at oswego, N Y. John G. Ran
dali. at Doylestown Pa; George Shoi tall, at
Nonistown, Pa. NJ g. Longaker, at Pottstown
Pa. John Haviland, at Phnnixville, Pa. w.
d. Colston, at Martinsburg w Va. Daniel
Hubbard, at Bellefontaine, Ohio Ringgold
w Meiley, at Lima, Ohio; r.. B.. Cor
dSn' IT. Jr,, at St sMnarys., Ohio Ohio; James e
Clark, ut Paducah, Ky. Erastus p. Mckinney
ut Lacon, Ill. ; Henry IL. Wadsworth, at La
porte, Ind. Joseph Brelsford ut onarga, Ill. A.,
J. Weber, mt Abba Iowa John ID. Smith at Bed
ford, Iowa A. G.. Hutchinson ut Burlington,
Iowa Clara W. Snyder ut Racine. Wis.,. RAN
som Nutting at Decatur. Mich: Angelo Tower
at Ionia, Mich. Charles Il. Vaunn at st. Helena,
Hugh O'Brien was reelected Mayor
of Boston by majority of s,597 over ]. NJ
Clark, Republican
Gideon c. Moody and Alonzo j.
Edgerton have been elected United States Sen
ators from the proposed new State of Dakota
Friends of George Fl. Pendleton
send out from Cincinnati denial of the rumor
that he intends to resign the mission to Ger
many and return 10 the United States.
The voters of Boston, by q majority
of 1853, declared for liquor license and de-
feated all the women candidates for school Of
fees. Worcester voted for prohibition and
Newburyport for license The Mayors of the
chief cities of Iowa held a convention at Des
Moines and agreed upon local-option bill to
be submitted to the Legislature A table was
presented showing that in twenty large towns,
under the prohibitory law, the number of sa-
looms has increased over GO per cent