Bloomington Progress, Volume 3, Number 46, Bloomington, Monroe County, 16 March 1870 — Page 1

3XF El "VST Cash Store.

New Store ! New Goods! New Prices!

t08.

Established A. D. 1835.

BLOOMINGTON, INl).. MARCH 16, 1870.

HTevr Series, 1 Vol.3 H!o. 46. f

JAMES m'OUKS. NICK. VAN HOKN. HUGHES & VAN HORN,

Attorneys at Law, ISLOOjUINGTOX,

NOTICK

i For Bids for Improvement of College

Avenue.

mHK UNDERSIGNED beg leave to iX form the citizens of lSloornin;ron, and Monroe county, that they have opened out A Large and Wt 11 Selected stock of Dry Good.) and Notions, which they propose to sell E3 Btaa: jbbq sefor cash, in the room

Formerly Occupiid by James Small, j

Our stock consists in p jrt of CALICOES, TAKINGS, BLEACH KD AXD BROWN' MUSLINS, Hli.'KOKY AND STHU'KS. The famous Seymour Jc-ar.s and Flannels. Cloths, Cissimerc mid Boys' Wear. Alpacas, colored mid tlitck, in preat vnrk-ty. Plaid loplii8. Striped mid Checked Mohairs Wool DeUinej. Brocidis. French jmd Enclish Meriaoes, verv cheap. Tabic Line?"cli-;ip. Crish-s. Towels. &e. Call and examine oursioek. No trouble to show Good. IVmonber the .Store JAMES SMALL S OLD STAND. feb23 C. . PE8TCH & Q. .IAS. B. CLnllK. JCX C. OKCI1AUD. PEAl.EKS IN Fancy and Stap'c Provisions, Qtttcusware, &c. Masonic Hall Building, ISIoomlngton, - - Indiana. The highest wricfa paid for all kinds of

country produce. jan20

TTtTILL practice in the Supreme nnd V interior Courts of the State, nnd in the District Court of the U.S. for- Indiana. The collection of claims in any part of the State, will receive proi lpt attention. Woo'iiinirton, Ind.. Nov. 24, lSC!-v

VTOTICE IS HEREBY 0 IVRN.TIIAT 1 the Board of Trustees of the Town of Blocunington, I ml inn a, will receiv; h;ds until the"" 2Isl may of Mar Ii, lSTff, for the Grading, Guttcrin. nnd MeAdum-

t.mg so much ot College Arentio a lies I between Second street, ftnil Fifth street in said Town. Specifications are in the hands j of the Clerk. ; Bids must specify the pr.cn per yard for , grading ; the price per foot for jruuerinjr ; and the price per perch, runiiictr foot.

I for Me Adatnizinc. A4(tOrilCyS Sit LhflW! The Board reserves the right to reject

nnv or hii oiu

S. II. HUSK I UK, JOHK V. BUSK IKK. BUSIiiRK k BUSKIRK,

BLOOJinGTOX, IXD.,

j iO.-'' over Lev- Tanncnbav.m' s Store.) j WILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS i OF THE STATE. Special attention g'ven to Prolate busii r.ess. and to collections. janlsV'O i GEO. A. T.USKIRK. J.S. SMITH IIUNTEB. j gUSKIRK & HUNTER, i ATTO'RA'EYS AT LAW ASD I rill VAT IS BACKERS, ! Bloomington, Ind., office north side cf the ! public square. ! We will attend 10 all business entrusted ! to our care, in the Courts of t .'is 6taV , and j are also prepared to discount good and solvi ent paper, on reasonable terms. Refereuc.ex Messrs. Melon:dd tfc "Roach ; Attorneys. Indianapolis; Messrs. Wii.slow, ' Liimer & Co., Bankers, No. 52 Wall street.

i New York; Messrs. Mi-CV

By order of the Board of Trust ,!es of the I Town of Bloomington, Indiana, tl, is 21st I day of February. 1S70. Attctl

JOHN WALDKON, Prcs't. of IWd. Jem C. Orchard, Chrk of T B

chants, Bloomington, Ind.

dirt & Co., Mer-

m.U'9

70

JE. T. TAYLoB. TAYLOR & DEALERS IN

V

CO

9

Queensware AMD NOTION The b:ghest market pr.ee paid for country produce. Nortlieas: crn:r of the pub

lic square, jan26-70

Blcoinliiston,

liidiaua.

BkKLNNEY k ALEXANUEll

TT7"OULD CA LL THE ATTENV tion of their .''riends in Bloom ngton j to the fact that they have opened j

SEW 31 EAT SHOX, in a new Wilding i.orth of the Post Office, "We will keep noiit but th-i best of

Beef, Fori, Mdlon and Sausage.

Kan!

i B!oo

A share of th.i p. blic patronage is i

solicited. L. K. McK 1 -N t. , MART. ALEXANDER Blooraington, Iii l., Dec. 8, IStiO.

The Neuralgia Ex teroiiuator, THE BISHOP TILL ! THE D IS HOP PILL ! THE BISHOP PILL ! Not -Brandreth s,' not 'A vers.' not Wright's

but "Costard" BMiop Pill, ' "Which is bound to take the place of ail others; a purely vegetable Pill (sugar coatjed,) and of extraonliiiary etb.caey for Cositiveness. Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Head

aches, Nervous Debility, Liver Complaint, &c." M:tt :-cJ Jmii 'Sept P.-sitively the best Pill in the World. Thousands of boxes now ued. For a!e at Fl . AVY LIE'S Grocery Store. Shoe Shop. IIERV JL. HKIVSO-V, has epened a Shop, over Simon Halm's store nxm. on the we.-t side-id' the pul lie square, andjs. now prepared to maniifacturo Calf and Kip

i Boots, to order, in the most workmanlike j manner, and ;U reasoiitille prices, j Tiepairiii;; promptly attended to.

Bemembi r the place over Simon

store room. ington, Ind., sept. 1, 1860.

EARLY ROSE A X IV O U IV E III IS f T. Prce List for the Month of March : "Pleaso announce to Bro. Johks. nd a:l o:he."s whom it may concern," that have a few bushels of the above m.med, justl v celebrated Potatoes, for sale at the : ollow -inc. RVatlv redni'ed, prices, viz,: 'lOcts

!6ew York nierchailM and Trick of Tiate. "MiDnntlav," the Ncwj&ork corrospoiuiout oi the Rofiheakcr Doinocrat, makes, as follows, very serious charge; ngainst some ofvtho New York mtrehants. "Macfnlty," for thirty years or more, wag engaged in the 'mercantile busings in that city : f "The business men of: this city are very dishonest. Thiiji know from (-lose experience. 1hey have certain "tricks of trade,?- as they are called, which tire jtlsolntely nothing: less than stealing! Soxes

of Castile scap and similjir g;

;ods

drinkiiiy;, but

Hanging a. Husband.

Hans is good at

not a success as a provider. He

won't make any money for himself, j land Islands, writes home:

and spends what Oretchen ::nakes.

Disappointed Office Holder. A Tenneseean who was appointed United States Consul to the Falk-

iSlic interviewed a druggist. He

promised arsenic, smelt a rat, put Hans on his guard, and gave his Gretchen starch instead of poison. At dinnertime he came home hungry and pitched into the victuals with unspeakable avidity. His jaws soon lighted on the treacherous starch. He gave a yell and doubled himself lip like a wounded boa-constrictor. He fell on the floor and had spasms. In short.

on tare is outrageous. lea in chests is estimated at twenty pounds tare, which is always allowed by the importer, but a ccuriry dealer seldom gets more thar eighteen pounds. On half chest, tnrelve potin:ls is allowed, while at the same time the dealer marks the chest up a found or two. This marking up of weight

per pound ; $1:00 per peck ; $1:75 P'.r j corresponds to the marking down of half iimsh, l ; 3:0 per bushel. tares. Casks of sugar, which few Thov ciui he procured at present, ft mr ; .- " ' . . residence, ub'ht miles south-west of Boom-1 country merchants can weigh, are

injton, and after the fifteenth inst.. at Pkaksox's Store, north si lei if the squar?, Blooiiiiniitcn, Ind. "My name is" Mar2"'T0-tf M. II LAIR.

Goods! Goods !i

O. Fee

Photographs

B. T. TRUEBLOOD. CI1.US TRUEBLOOD. Tx-etloodL Ac Oo. Have just opened n fresh stock of Family Groceries, Provisions, Lc, West side of tho Public Square, uest door to Stuart & Co.

Eg?" Country Produce wanted

change for a;oods. Bloomington, Ind., Feb. 16. 1870.

Photographs!

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ON T FORGET THOSE YOU LOVE

at home, but send them to

! Booms and hnVe them photographed.

Persons at a distance are informcii that

Negatives are preserved, so that in case of iu ex-1 death. Photographs can be ordered. Or j what is far better, the same Negatives can

j be enlarged lroru medium to lite size, either i plain, at a cost of $4.50, up to $ 0.0o. -olor ed. One of the best Colorists h the country, has been employed, and his work can be relied on. Orders Trom a distence solicited, and satisfaction given.

REAR OF BLOOMINGTON HOTEL, ! A,nbrotype, enVlosing r..o:"and Ket'.i.e of Rl OOmilittOlA, Intl. j las large sized Photographs, neatly frtmed. SADDLE HOUSES, Horses and Buggies,! Hours for children, between 10 uul 2 and teams, hired on reasonable t jrms. j o'clock J. B. ALLISON. Stable just cast of the Postotfice. and in j B yoniiniron. Ind.. Mhv fi. 18:,!i.

rear oi tne sioomingion rioiei

KEEPS THE ISREATEST VARIETY, l-itux-g'ost JStoo'Lc AND AT LOWER PRICES THAN A K IT STORE IS 13L.OOMIIV GTOX". Common Prints . . . Sc. Best Prints 12V Com. brown Muslin . . 8 Best heavy "... 16?, Drimo T?i'f Hnffoo . 99

Choice " " . . . . '25 1 English Soda .... 8 Sugar 14 20 And all other. Goods as cheap FOR CASH. T am selling the remaining stoc of Heavy Winter Goods, at cost. I have determined that the north side of the public square shall be the cllieap Side; for Goods, and I will make it so for a "spell.'' W. O. FEE. Bloomington, Ind., feb2, 1870.

are sold to country ousters, who he took on scollops mighty high.

little think thai they pay f:tr bos His wile sat by, enjoying the spec-

and all, ot tail price. Thec-ieatiug j taelo, and tenderly, inquiring.

"Vat is der mntter nut Plans." When he had become insensible, she went up stairs, three at a time, and let down a, good sized rope, through an auger hole, in the room where Hans lay. Then sha came down, fiustened the rope aro ind his neck, propped him up in a sitting

position, and again went up stairs. But Hans had an inkling of her fell intent, and coming to himself, with remarkable prcsnc; of mind, he

often marked up twenty, and some-! quickly undid the noose from his times fifty pounds. They tell a I neck and slipped i t around the leg good story of old II H , ai of the dinner table; then he calmly well known grocer on the North j sat down in a chair and awa: ted deSido,who was notorious for his bold- j vclopmcnts. The way that table ness in this line. The old man had ! lit across the floor the next minute become at one time somewhat pious, J was a caution. It was yanked all and when in such a frame, was asked ; out of shape, and every dish on it by a clerk, who had sold a cask of; smashed into a thousand pieces, and

sugar, if ho "should go it twentv i then the piece of furniture drawn

pounds." 'No, Johnny, was the reply, "don't go over ten, for I'm under concern of mind." Mob sses, spirits turpentine, and other liquids are gauged up, which is very easily dune. An original gauge mirk, of say thirty-one gallons, can he easily altered into thirty-four, by vising a ganger's "setibe" in a neat manner. If t'lat is not enough, a turn of the scubc can change the thirty-one into thirty-five. As a general rule with many dealers, from one to three gallons are made in each cask,. Provision dealers steal in a different manner. Barrels of mackeivl are opened in the bottom head, and from twenty to twenty-five pounds

"You may be aware that this is

the last sailing point next to the South Pole. Beyond this no vessel sails, and human foot-print is never seen. It is perpetual winter snow every month iu the year. The islands are naked of tree and bush, very little soil high mountains and hills of voleunie rocks ever nine-tenths ot the surface.

About Going Ahead If yoa have a lot of persons,! property to sel l, which ia the bestr to write out a f.nv notices, that not oue in fifty will etop to read, or go to the printer, and get a lot of well displayed posters? If you are ia business of any kind, is it not better to keep a regular standing advertisement, in your home paper, that will etare your friends and customers in the face every week, rather than truss to the old fogy idea of '"Oh, they all know me ?" But, says Mr. Saveall, advertising costs money. Very true, and so docs everything else; and it is a good thing for yoa that advertising does cost something. If it did not, every worthless concern would stand as good a chance for being known, as the very best and most nseful. If you want the people to know that you have anything to sell, advertise in your horns papers first, then in your neighboring papers.

I The man who has a reputable

Nothing of the grain kind is raised

no seed time or harvest. There j business, and spends the most in a

are no animals except wild horses j liberal system of advertising, i-Jlty? . , and cattle. Foxes and rabbits have on j who makes thf most money.

been brought here and increased .This is verified by tl e experience of

tight up against the ceiling. Soon after was heard the voice of his beloved wife from the upper chamber window, calling out in accents of grief that her dear lord had committed suicide, and the neighbors commenced to run toward th-2 .house. Coming down stairs, she met the irate Hans, who advanced threateningly, brandishing a formidable switch, with which he proceeded to belabor her most, unmercifully. Gretchen could not see "how it come to was" that Hans could swallow poison with impunity, and gives it up as a bad job. Han? enjoys

his customary evening gamo, and

much larger than in the United

States. No snakes, frogs, lleas, spiders, bed-bugs, or insects of any kind. The wind blows all the time often so strong that you cannot look out. The population, all told, does not exceed three hundred on all the islands, and are very poor. This is only a harbor for wrecks. Expenses are very high and living poor no comforts of lite whatever. Board and lodging annually $520. I'll come home the first opportunity. I am distant from New York

12,000 miles by sea ; my voyt'ge to

my post or duty occupies 10b days.

I am thirty days from Rio de

Janerio, 2,500 beyond Chili and

Peru, and 600 miles oil Cape Horn. When Mr. John W. Osborn published the Western Register and Terre Haute Advertiser, the first newspaper ever published in this place, he often had a great difficulty to obtain the white paper necessary in his office. The paper had to

those who have tried it. A wagon msy be made to run without greasing, but it's hard wcrk ; so a man may manage to get along without advertising, but he will be apt to see his advertising neighbor going ahtjad of him in a two-forty gait. A traveling agent in Vermont, sayg he has spent most of his time in waiting for the care. Studebaker Bros., at South Bend, wi 11 soon be able to turn out forty wagons a day, complete. The Salt Lake Reporter saya one Mormon family hs buried one huudred and forty-eight children. "Old sledge" was invented by Nebuchadnezzar. He got his living on "all fours" for seven years. Parties selling patent rights and taking notes, and not inserting in the notes, "given for a patent right," are liable to go to Jed!, ia the State of Ohio.

Colonel Jack Templeton, of Ben-

come down the Ohio from Pittsburg, ! ton county, is sore over his defeat

auu incuse up me , tor tne nomination tor State Treas-

in good boating order, which was

not always the case. At one time

he had to send a man to Madison on horseback for paper. Of course the man could not carry much paper in that way, but the sheets were small and the weekly edition not large. At one time Mr. Osborn was out of paper entirely and had to

borrow scraps of white paper from

private houses,

urer. A plaster will be put on the sors spot, labelled County Treasurer. At Lodi, Ohio, recently, Mr. Edwards, his wife and child, all died from the effects of sleeping in a newly-plastered room. Queen Victoria's, income is over 1, 500,000. She has laid np more than $12,000,000. She is not likely

to come to want, though she bas a

J13IES W. COOliERLY, LIVERY, SALE AxD FEED STABLE,

octi eo ;

Bakery and Con fectionery 9 East Side Public Square, BLOOMING TON, IND.

Fresh Bread, Cakes ani Candies, made daily. All kinds of Nuts, Foreign Fruits, Oysters. Sardines, Spices, &c., &c, always on hand. AH orders tilled prompt! v to satisfaction. HEN BY IIOTT.

niMfH, mm. Paint) (ided, Repainted, Refurnished.

are removed, and the place filled up! govern his household. Davenport

with salt. V hen the retailer opens i yloica) ucmocrat

the barrel, he always t:ics out the top head, and here all looks right,

upon w.uicii was

has his opinion of a man who can't j printed one week's issue of the Reg-! very large family.

Gazette.

NE W! NE IF.' NE W !

Wiotcr Clothing.

JUcGEE, DKA1.KB IN EVER STYLE OF Ready - Made Clothing, North Side of Public Square, BLOOMISQ TON, INDIANA.-

X O T V

SHO WERS& HENDRIX, Props. S"Ffth Street, cast of the Fostofficc.a

BLOOMINGTO.V, ISO. September 8. 1SG0.

Siirgreon Ientist DR. JOHN NIJTT, late of Terre Haute, and of Robinson, Ills., tenders his professional services to the citizens of the citv of Bloomington, Monroe, and ad

joining counties. From an experience of

several years, in tho above named places, he guarantees .satisfaction in all cases. ISeHf Office, with Dr. Cummins, on North College Avenue. oct 27 'C9-y

BEN.I. McGEE lias one o' the larg -st stacks of Clothing, in Ids store, at ihe present time, ever brought to the Athens of Indiana, and he is se linsr them at much

lower prices than heretofore. He has Every Style of Clothing for Men and IIo:t'S, Embracing a full line of tin and coarse Coats, Pants, Vests, Linen Shirts, Under Shirts, Drawers, Suspenders and Neck -ties.

Especial attention is directed to a stock of JB HI JBl, '-JC recently purchased, which comprise the latest and most popular styles,.

UNIVERSAL Clothes WRiNGER.

Hear what ihe Peopk say of them ; W. J. Alien Dear i'ir The Doty "Washer ard Wringer, which we purchased of you, ar-j a perfect success. "We would not b-; witho.i; them. Washing day is no longer a terror in our families. Rev. Win. Turner, E. P. Cob , Luke W. Sanders, Jos. M. Howe, Nicholas May field, Win, A. Gabe. Sold only in .Monroe county, by ffm. J. Allen, south sile of the public square, BUxroington, Indiana. naar2-70-3m

SGdh Side of ihe Public Square, DEALER IN HARDWARE AND CUTLERY, And all kinds of Stoves and Tinware. Nails, Sash, Glass, Paints, Oils, and Farming Utensils,

MAHUPACTURKE 07 Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Ware. Bloomington, Ind., March 24, 18G9.

Gents' Furnishing Goods. At this store, a full stock of Gents' Fur

nishing Goods can always be found the newest novelties beinj; secured as rapidly a:s they are introduced in the Eastern cities. A good stock of Trunks, Traveling Bags and Valises, Always in store. 1 would call particular attention to tho Bemis Paper Collar, of which I keep a full supply. I hr.v j, by far, the largest itock of Itroad Cloths, t'anslniercs, Silk Vol vet n. and WorM ed ood.i. Which will be cut and in ulo up in the highest stylo of the art. BENJAMIN M GEE. Bloomington, Ind., Juno 30, IHO'J.

M. A. M.'N.N. K. UATTX.UT0N,

UNN & CO.,

F. 0. DUNN.

Orchard House. S. M. 0RCHARD& SONS, Proprietors.

OPPOSITE THE DEPOT, Bloonciington, Ind. 8A'3 pains will be pared to accommodate the traveling ptibde. aug lly

D

General Produce, Coir: mission

And Forwarding Merchant, Wholesale and lletail fc O C 33 31 3 ,

And dealers in Nails, Kanhiiwa and Lake S.ilt, White Fish, &c, Bloomington, Ind. May5 07-y Don't have your Newspapers deetroyed. Buy a 50 cent File.

but when he gets to the bottom he find!- a half bushel more of salt than he expected. Pork and beef are quite oiltcn thus stolen, and hence our Government supplies are

often short, and men suffer severely in consequence. I have referred to but a few of the different branches of robbery perpetrated among what are called honorable men, for a com

plete statement would fill a volume. One further instance may be cited, and this is the fraud in essential oils. It is next to impossible for any country druggist to buy a pure article of oil lemon, oil bergaruot, oil organuni, or any similar oils. The reason of this is that spirits of turpentine mixes so naturally with these articles that detection is almost

impossible. In these oils wholesale druggists make large profits. Carrying out: this idea, a bold druggist contrived not only to cheat country customers, but also to fleece the trade at large. To do this he employed a machinist to imitate the metallic

seals which the manufacturers put upon the cans. These oans he would unsolder, and then steal about one-tenth of the oil, and fill it up with spirits of turpentine, and then apply the counterfeit seal. These cans would then go into the hands of a drug broker, and would be sold to the trade as pure from the dis

tiller's hands. This operator I well know. He is nothing bub a thief, and yet in society he is a "gentleman." He has a fine house, and lives iu style, but retribution may yet reach him, and, thoug'a slow, it may yet be sure. Was Any Wasted. The De

troit Free Press says : "A night or two since, a gentlemen residing in Congress street found hh house on

a state ot extreme excitement, on returning from his office, and breathlessly inquired the cause, "Why," said' the wife, who was ribbing sweet oil on. a burn on the baby's back, "the lamp exploded." "Indeed,'' inquired the husband in anxious tones, 1 did the lamp explode ?" "Yes, and" "Did it waste any of ihe kerosene?" he cried, rushing by the wife to see if any of the fluid had been left ia the

stump ot the lamp.

An amusing affair happened lately between a coal dealer and a purchaser. Tho latter was very anxious to see that the former did not cheat him, so he (the purchaser) inspected the weigh in of tho coal himself, and

The following from the South

Bend Register is not bad : While the maskers and spectators were enjoying themselves at the

Turn Verein Masquerade inside the

Academy ot Music, on Monday

Iu reply to the objections of the counsel lor the defence, a Virginia justice said he didn't care ibout "consecutions," and would try de case anyhow, and if dcy didn't have satisfaction, "dey could repeal agin' his excision."

the full allowance, without any de

sire on the part of the coal dealer to "shave." However, while the coal was weighing, the driver of the team could no help laughing, aware at the time thai; the purchaser was

particular about his full weight of coal. The purchaser, noticing the laughing of the driver, asked him, when he received the coal, what it was all about ; so the driver told him. "Why,"'' said he, "when your coal was weighing you were standing on the scales, and wen; weighed with it." "Is it possible ? Why, I weigh nearly two huudred pounds!" "Well sir," sa'ld the driver, "you are sold." "Yes," was the reply, and I have bought myself too." Springfield Republican. It is generally supposed that the robins emigrate to the South during

the winter months. J? roni the following account in a Maine paper it would appear that such is not the case : Two gentlemen crossing the Sandwick mountains discovered a deep valley, and approaching ii found it clothed, with homlock,

spruce, fir, and tamarack, growing

so near together that it was with

difficulty they made headway be

tween them. Before they came to this growth the snow was over a foot in depth ; after entering, it was only six inches, the residue lyiug on the tops of the trees, making quite a roof, and excluding much oi the light of dav. After makin':

their v;ay a few rods they were surprised to find the place an extensive

robin "roost," occupied by thousands ; and so thickly wer j they con gregated that they might have kil led numbers with their walkingsticks in crossing the premises from south to north about thirty roths. It is related of a centenarian who died the other day, that he learned to use tobacco at the age of oO, hut abandoned it at 87, having discovered that it made his hand a little unsteady. His nerves improved, h? said, very much after that. Otir readers who have reached the age of 87, should bear this fact in uiiud. The Commissioners of Tippecanoe county will levy a tax of $873,000 at their Juue session, for the benefit of the Lafayettce, Muncie and Bloomington Railroad.

felt perfectly satisfied that he got ; night, the unmasked juveniles con-

.1 ( 11 11 . A-- . - . .

gregatecl outside, along the stairway,

and arouud the entrance, enjoying

themselves over a bran new sensa

tion, caused by a maskeress in an abbreviated dress leaving a ine of bran along the sidewalk and up the stairs. A plump limb and its shrunken mate, revealed the secret where the bran came frorj, and proved the old adage, that "appearances are deceitful."

Spontaneous Combustion. Mr. A. B. Flowers, of Alexindria, Louisiana, writes to the Scientific American that the statement made in a recent article on this subject, to the effect that no one htis ever witnessed a case of spontaneous combustion iu the human body, is a mistake, as he was himself, with several other?, au eye-witness to a case of the kind. The person who was the victim was a hard drinker, and was sitting by the fire surrounded by Christmas guests, when suddenly flames of a bluish tint gashed

from his mouth and nostrils, and he was soon a corpse. The body, he states,remained extremely warm for

a much longer period than usual. Everybody has heard of those gunboats iu the Mississippi which were of such delicate structure that the officers had to part their hair in the middle to trim ship, while the sailors were forbidden to shiS; quids from one cheek to the other sudden

ly, for fear of capsizing tho vessel. But the hardest story is that which

relates how one ot these boats fired a howitzer, and was driven four miles up stream, while the shell dropped plump into the water. The boat was actually fired away from the ball. Wounds made with the teeth often prove poisonous. A man in Detroit struck another in the teeth on Christmas day, cutting his own knuckles thereby. The hand swelled and became very much inflamed, and since then the flesh has decayed from the wounded finger. The diseased bone has been scraped, but without effect, and the physicians think amputation will be necessary. How to fire aud fall back Get a gun that kicks. Nails heated and thrown into Unseed oil, will never ruet.

lerre Haute, Jamps Riddle JlA.MO

recently married Kate Elder, aged

hlteen, in Adams county. Being

the elder ot the two, Kate should have known better ; and she probably does by this time: A man in Jay county bid off a lot of corn at a sale for which be paid $20. When it was measured it was found to contain just eleven bushels. The buyer must have bee:i corned. Dixon Stewart, an influential

colored citizen of Vigo county, voted in North Carolina previous to 1830, when free colored men were allowed the ballot in that State. He voted for John Qaincy Adams for President. The probabilities are that he will soon vote again. The Democrats are fond of preaching economy until they get into power, when they forget all about it. They reign supreme in Kentucky, and last year the expenditures of the State Government, exceeded the ineone by 1,000,000. Thin year it will le as much moie. It looks very much as though nobody wanted to annex the Fejee Islaads. The offi-je-seefcers, strange to say, don't seem to think positions there worth having. They don't relish the idea of being eaten by the cannibals; and doubtless if the cannibals knew what stuff they were made of, they wouldn't relish them

enner. The following is a receipt for making "Indian pudding" : "First, catch your Indians two of them ; boil till the heels come to the top, let stand in cool place for two weeks, thee serve with sorghum and vinegar." A voting lady in Evansville, at

tending a private party, not long since, was asked to favor the party with some vocal music, whereupon she replied : "You must excuse me, for I never attempt to sing, except to warble a few wild notes tor 'pa' at eventide." Bilchmond is improving rapidly, and bas just organized a Building Association with a capital of $100,000, for the purpose of assisting mechanics, or other industrious persons, to obtain homes. This is the kind of enterprise that builds up a town. Tie Sewing Machine Cabinet Factory basbeen oeated at Indianapolis, five actes of grourd having been donated by two of her liberal citizens to secure it. The establishment will employ one hu id red and fifty men, to start with, and the number will afterwards b increased aa tho business justifies.