The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-01-16

introduced appropriatlng 100000 for the
improvement OF the Mississippi, which was
referred
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
In an editorial the Washington Star says:
"Ihe feeling of antagonism between the
Senate and the House has greatly in
creased Representatives think the Sena-
tors are disposed to usurp all the powers
belonging to the House The Senators
think the House arbitrary and Dictator
ial.r
TIE Grand Jury in Philadelphia found
true bills against VIM. I. and Lewis J..
Dadner, the suspended bankers, charged
with embezzement.
The plan to raise $4,000 for the reli ef
Of General Grant has taken definite shape.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND, in answer TO an
inquiry emphatically denies that he is
President Of Free Trade club.
BISMARCK says England is solely re-
sponsible for the Egyptian troubles.
ON the ID Hon. Samuel J. Randall and
party inspected the WITHDRAWING works at
Birming ham. Ala.
AT White Plains, N. ", on the Cd. an
Arab tramp was arrested who had $1,000
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IT took $4,000 to pay the expenses Of
the National Democratic Convention at
Chicago.
A GovERxNESr official Is authority for
the statement that physicians declare
General Grant to be completely broken
down in health
JOHN MCCULLOUGH. the tragedian, mar
rowly ESCAPED being run over by q railroad
train, on tho I'd, in Philadelphia, Pa.
GENERAL HATCH and his command will
move on Oklahoma immediately with
forage for fifty days campaign.
OK the I'd the Sprin ger committee start
ed for Cincinnati, O., to investigate Mar
shall Wright's action at the Ohio election.
The late DIR. James II. Harris, Of indiana
apolis, Ind, lett will ordering that no
funeral be held and that his body be sent
1t once to dissecting table. His wishes
were carried out.
OK the lth Ex-Governor Coburn, aged
eighty-two years, died at Skowhegan, Me.
SENATOR EDMuSDs favors the Nicara-
guam treaty and Is taking lively hand in
the proposed leg. slation-
EARL GRANVILLE declines to give his
consent TO the propoe Al to hold formal
conference on the Egyptian question at
Paris.
IT is said that formidable railroad
lobby Is assembled at Washington, bent on
defeating the Reagan Interstate com
merce bill II such q thing is possible.
ACCORDING to the Albany Express Presi-
dent Arthur il not candidate for United
States Senator, and that paper therefore
favors Depew a. its next choice.
SECRETARY CHANDLER Of the Navy De-
partment has written letter to Hon.
Samuel J. Rariall In reference to the hitch
"a making the necessary appropriations
for the service.
OxE Of the notorious Buzzard gang Of
outlaws, John Lippencott, was arrested At
Columbia, Pa, on the ID.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, x-viceroy
Of India, will return 20 England by the
way Of San Francisco.
a DRxIAL h published In London that
Earl Granville received letter from Bis
marck charging England with causing the
Egyptian troubles.
GLADSTONE has gone 70 Hawarden Cas-
Gle, where he will remain until his sickness
h over. His trouble Is from loss Of sleep.
In the Toledo co., District Hon. Frank
Hurd has served formal notice Of contest
upon Jacob Romeis, Congressman-c
In testifying on the Id 1t N ew York u.
8. Grant, Jr., said that Ward, his late
partner, had confessed 70 him that he
(ward) was great rascal
On the 9th Representatives Randall and
HcAdoo returned TO Washington from
their Southern trip.
The arm Of Francois & Bodart, mer-
chants and seed-crushers Of London, Eng,
failed on the 9th, with 100000 liabili-
ties.
In his annual report Mayor Low declares
that the Brooklyn bridge Il not paying
institution.
THE resignation Of Governor Cleveland
Of New York was read In the senate at
Albany on the 9th.
The Secretary Of the Interior has writ
ten the President OF the Senate Z long let.
Ter In reference to the leasing Of Indian
lands.
On the 9Th the Springer committee CONF
menced investigating Marshal wrights
conduct ct the October election in Cincin-
natl, O.
THE Legislature Of California assembled
On the 9Th. Balloting for United States
Senator viii mot take place before The
18th. It q stated that Il ex.0ovsrnor
Stanford win permit his name - y
placed b nomination be viii b elected.