The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-05-07

WEEKLY COURIER.
G. DoA~E. Publisher.
] JASPER. INDIANA
TOPICS OF THE DAY
News from Everywhere.
lsls nos thought probable that Congress
viii b able to adjourn bsfors The Let Of
August
Nh. BRooKs. OF Phelps, N. r. announces
the discovery Of new comet In cassiopeia
IN the neld with Kappa
0nRAr damage has been done 20 lig1e-
houses along the st. Lawrence In Canada
By ice-jams and noods-
TIE labor troubles in Belgium are taking
alarming shape. . great uprising Of the
bower classes being feard.
THR Canadian Government has reduced
the canal tolls on grain shipped through
20 Montreal to two cents per ton
The decrease in the visible wheat supply
Of the United States and Canada for the
week ending April = was 80, - bushels
ALoYALrsr meeting was held at Glas-
row on the 24th, and the usual collisions
took place between Catholics and Orange
men.
THERE were l94 failures IL the United
States and Canada during the seven days
ended the ed, compared with ls2 the pre-
ceding week and 2l5 the week previous to
that.
SrxoR ELxoRR, who has represented the
Government Of Peru at Washington for the
past i've years, has been recalled. and VIII
take o1lcial leave Of the President this
week.
THE formation Of = supreme and per-
manent court for the settlement OF hsh.
cries disputes between Canada snd the
United States is advocated BY the Pal
Hall Gazette.
SECRETARY MAsxrsG continues to i'm
prove daily. He left his room on the 18th
and WALKED down stairs His physicians
expected that he would be able TO take .
drive in few days.
CHARoEs have been filed with the Attor-
nev-Generai at Washington that the Zee
bills presented by District Attorney Bliss
In the Lindsay case are Illegal. and the
matter has been taken under consideration.
CHING TsAo Jr, the retiring Chinese
Minister. took formal leave Of the Presi-
dent on the 9TH. He expressed himself in
warm terms Of admiration Of the kindness
and courtesy shown him and the lega'
tion.
The ignorant GaliciA peasantry are dam
gerously excited over . rumor that the
government intends 70 restore the forced
labor laws and that the aristocrats arr
organizing to massacre the Polish peas
ants.
On. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has gon'
summering to Europe. Though nearly
seventv-seven years Of age he Is still a
lively in body and mind as most men Q
ffty.
rHK visible supply Of wheat In the Unite'
States and Canada, with the quantit,
afioaf for Europe, on the I'D amounted :
65.GOe. 4S3 bushels, against "A. 81. es1 busaei
one year ago. and Of corn ls, ,oa6 bush
els, against Is, ar .ls5 bushels last year.
THE House ways and means committe
have agreed TO q bill repeating the exist
ing law regarding the destruction Of prop
erty used in ALLEGED Illicit distilling. Tn
committee take the view that such Dc
struction without process Of Law Is uncon'
stitutional.
How. Roscoe CosKLrSo and wife are !
Washington. The visit has no politics
significance, being made solely for recrea
tion and change Of scene on Mrs. Conh
ling's account, she having been somewhs
prostrated since the death Of her brothe
Governor Seymour, and his wife.
DISPATCHES received from San deg
Cal. announce the death At that place Q
che 18th Of solomon Whitney. United State
District Judge FOR the Western District I
Michigan. He had been prominent cit
sen Of Grand Rapids for forty -eigf
years, and had been District Judge stint
1863.
CONGRESS- has been In session near
five months, yet more than half the nun
Der Of general appropriation bills rema
Enacted upon BY the House. In which bod
they must originate The Consular 81
Diplomatic and Military Academy bil
are the general appropriation bills now
the calendar.
THE statement Is current that the gre
capitalists Of the country, including all {
principal railroad corporations, have e
tered combination whose avowed pu
pose il to anita gonixe the Knights Of Lab
wherever that organization makes she
OF resistance to or encroachment upon
vested capital.
The total value Of exports during I
twelve months ended March 81, 1886, ~
xx..- 1z.c 1lo - Ir.~foD the rrpradi