Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 24 February 1880 — Page 3

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1880.

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The Daily News Call Boxes and

To facilitate the collection of city news, as well as to place advertising patrons in close connection with the office, the publishers have placed Call Boxes at different -points throughout the city, each of which will he visited several times daring the day, from 7 o'clock AM till 2:00 by the Messenger Boys of the I)AII,Y NEWS.

These Boxes liave been put up for the purpose of affording a place of deposit for information of local news, and we cor~~"V dially invite any person who has knowledge of any matter of public interest happening in has or her vicinity to write out the facts and drop it in one of our Boxes. Attached to each Box will be found tablets of paper. Sign your name to your communication, for the knowledge of the edi tor only, as a guarantee of good faith on jrour part. We in*i»t on thin items not signed by a known responsible name are of the value of waste paper, and will le treated accordingly. The advertising pa ^troiw of the DAILY NEWS will also find

Boxes a convenience, as they can drop their favors therein, and thereby save r. walk to the office. -•Communications, orders for the DAILY NEWS by currier or mail, advertising copy, or information of any kind intended to reach the office, can be handed to the DAILY NEWS Messenger Boys, as they pass to and fro through the streets. They will be known by their blue caps with DAILY NEWS in white letters on the front, and Message Pouches of light-colored leather. The names of our Messenger Boys are: GKOROK M. SPARKS and WILLIAM I. PowEit. They are, while on duty for the DAILY NEWS, and wearing the badge of the paper, its accredited representatives, and we trust they will, in their business relations, merit the commendation of our patrons, as well as ourselves, for attention to their duties.

LOCATION OK BOXES.

At the Drug Store of Buntin & Armstrong, corner Sixth and Main streets. At the Terre Haute House, on desk in the reading room.

At the "Depot Drugstore" of Robinson & Sherburne, 5)80 Chestnut street. At "East End Drug Store," J. E. Somes. 1201 Main street.

At the Bakery and Grocery of Mrs. A. Gerhart, 824 South Thirteenth street. At the "South End Drug Store" of Joseph D. Markle, 1015 South Second street.

At. the Agricultural Implement warehouse of C. A. Power, 104 and 10ft Main street.

At the Grocery Store of A. C. Aeuff, 411 LaFayette street, corner of Locust. Additional boxes will be placed in other localities in a few days.

The following card is attached to each box: DAILY NEWS MESSAGE BOX.

This box is placed here by the consent of the proprietor, as a place of deposit for local items, society news, or anything of a character that would bo of interest to the reader of a daily Terre Haute newspaper. The pv&ii.iAer* solicit such information from any onr. They only ask contributors to bo brief and to Uie point, and to give the information nt one*-—what may be news to-day, ten chances to one will be no news to-morrow. yyOffensivc personalities mtuit be avoided..4H Write your items on the paper attached, and drop it in the box, which will be visited several times each forenoon, up to 2 M, by the DAILY NEWS MESSENGER BOYS, and the coutents conveyed to the DAILY NEWS office. A responsible name is required to be signed to each item, (for the personal knowledge only of the Editor,) as a guarantee of good faith. !28rOrderat for the DAILY NEWS to bo left by carrier or sent by mail, or copy for advertisements, can also be placed In the box, thus securing early attention to such orders. Local items or ads. can In? handed to the DAILY NEWS MESSENGER BOYS, as they pass through the streets.

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The Supreme Court of Indiana, in a late decision, says: "Sleeping car companies are neither common carriers nor inn keepers, but they are bound, like other bailees, to use ordinary care, which must 1M? in proportion to the danger, and consequently greater In the nitrht. while the passenger is asleep, than lit the daytime. The fact that articles and money, «at or stolen from the passenger when carried by hint about his person or under his persona) supervision, does not exonerate the sleeping car company from the duty to use ordinary care in respect to them but the right of recovery is limited to such articles as it is usual and proper for a traveler to carry about his person, and to such reasonable amount of money as it may be proper for him to carry far traveling expenses/*

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To sweep* and dust a room properly is ai%»ftrt, ^a&id-iike all the fine arts has a right mettiGd. Well done, it renovates the entire room, and the occupants take possession feeling that "all things have become new." It is not merely a performance to be done by the hands, but a work into which taste and judgment, in other words, brains, must enter. Are there closets opening into the room to be swept? Arrange the shelves, drawers or clothing preparatory to sweeping day then let this be the first to be swept. Cover the bed with soiled sheets, 'js also all heavy articles that cannot be Amoved first, however, having carefully dusted and brushed them. Remove all the furniture that can easily be set in the hall or adjoining room, having first dusted it then, taking a step-lad-der, begin to sweep, brush, or wipe the cornice and picture cords and pictures. Draw the shades to the top of the window, or if there are inside bunds, dust them carefully. Open the windows. All the dust left in the room now is in the carpet or air, and the current of the windows will soon settle it.

Now begin to sweep, not towards a door or corner, but from the outer edges of the room towards the center, where the dust will be taken up with a small brush and dust pan. Go over the room once more— this time with a dampened broom that removes the last bit of dust and gives the carpet a new, bright appearance. Replace the articles of furniture as soon as the air is free from dust, uncover the rest and the room is new and clean. All this seems an easy thing to do, but there is not one in a hundred will follow out the details. Some will sweep the dust into the hall or from one room to another, and then wonder why their house is so soon dusty again. Others forget cornice and pictures, and thus leave a seed to future annoyance while a third class will do all but using the damp broom, which is as the finishing oncnes to a picture.

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Eveiy one is familiar with the substance called vegetable ivory, or celluloid, ft is composed of fine tissue paper and camphor, treated with chemicals by a patented process. It was invented about 10 years ago, by two brothers named Ilyott, but its manufacture in its present perfected condition has only been in progress for about half that time. It is combustible, but not explosive, the statement to the contrary notwithstanding, as it contains no gun-cotton. In its crude state it is in the form of a transparent gum. It can be made as hard as ivory, but is always sufficiently elastic to admit of its use in any form or for any purpose where elasticity equisite, as combs, collars, etc. All the celluloid made is produced by one company, which has its manufactories in Newark, New Jersey. They sell it only to such persons as they see tit to grant a license to manufacture some specitic article. Nor will they grant a second party a license to manufacture which will interfere with the business of a previous licensee.

The cost to the manufacturer of the crude article is regulated by the use to which it is to be put. For instance: A jeweler must pay trom $4 to $5 per pound, while a maker of umbrella handles, combbacks, etc., can procure the same article for about one-half these prices. 'Flic material takes any kind of color, and thus the manufacturer can produce exact counterparts of coral, tortoise-shell, malachite, etc The uses to which the new material can be put are infinite is number. It. is used for combs, backs of brushes, handles of canes or billiard-balls, jewelry, imita tlon of coral, bases for emery-wheels and knife-sharpeners, cigar-cases, pocketbooks, napkin-rings, bases for false teeth, flutes, drum-sticks, drum-heads, dolls, tips for children's shoes (in Much case it is made to counterfeit patent leather), collars and cuffs, sweat-nands for hats, etc.

Origin of tlie Letter Stamp. The oriejn of the stamp has a tinge of romance jn it. 1% was tnirtv-seveti y&irs agtf that Kotflatul Hill, while crossing a district in the North of England, arrived at the door of an inn where a postman had stopped to deliver a letter. A young girl came out to receive it she turned it over and over in her hand and asked the price of postage.. This was a large sum anil evidently the girl was poor, for the postman demanded a shilling. She sighed sadly, and said the letter was from her brother, but that she had no money and so she returned the letter to the postman. Touched with pity, Mr Hill paid the postage and gave the letter to the girl, who seemed very much embarrassed. Scarcely had the postman turned his bads when the young innkeeper's daughter con

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told her all she wanted to know, but the letter contained no writing. "We are both so poor," she added, "that we invent ed this mode of correspondence without paying for our letters.'* The traveler, continuing his road, asked himself if a system giving place to such frauds was not a vicious one. Before sunset Rowland had planned to organize the postal service on a new basis—with what success is known to the world.

The Wife or Grn Grant. Ucorjp? Alfred Townsand.

All these women, ambitious, and partly disappointed, yield in gentle, wifely merit to the ladies of the last two Presidents, Mrs Grant and Mrs Hayes. Without beauty, Mrs Grant was engaging through her goodness, and she worked for her husband and retained him. too—kind, cheerful, hopeful and steadfast. She will take the leading place in the history of American women—the place Mrs Lincoln might have had. The fasiv ofd society matrons of 70 years ago, Dolly STadison and Lady Washington, and that list of dames celebrated for hair powder and "deportment," must come down. The wives of the men of the people go to the head of society, in whose arms the rugged frontiersmen learned all they knew of gentlemen, but it was femmgh when they reached the

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their age like the dew 0f mercy. No President was ever so much influenced for good by his wife as President Grant.

Exarttf, Let** Rrmrnkrr Hit*. Philadelphia Cimmiclc. While we remember the suffering poor of "Ireland, let it" not be forgotten that thousands of American frfcemeft have to fasten their suspender with shingle nails.

DAILY rOT-POl KI.

Prepared without regard to the Seventh Commandment.

Gilded lips is one of the items of toilet with the Japanese girls. James Gordon Bennett ii' just forty times as benevolent as his Highness, the Prince of Wales.

It is the opinion of the New Orleans Picayune that Adam's fall was followed by a severe Winter.

When a St. Louis John Smith is reported dedft, all other John Smiths come out with a card to prove themselves alive, whether it is of any consequence or not.

Baltimore has a colored woman who has devoted the larger part of her lifetime to the care of waifs. Out of over 60 thus taken charge of, only 18 have died.

The Gardiner News, of Maine, makes the cruel assertion that an Englishman would see a man starve to death while he was inquiring if his hunger had any "political significance" in it.

If the roof of the Capitol at Washington were loose, it would rattle like the lid of a tea-kettle over a hot fire, when the question of "riding" appropriation bills is up for discussion by the House.—Cincinnati Commercial.

They talk about the weakness of our arm}-, and the impossibility of putting one in the field at short notice, but let the Government issue a call for400,000 MajorGenerals, and we'll bet they'll get 'em in two days.—Hoston Pout.

An intelligent writer who has visited the middle and southern counties of Ireland estimates the number of the population who will have exhausted their sources of food supplies, even to seed potatoes and the last pig. at fully forty per cent, of the population.

The finding of a nugget of gold in Brown count}', Ind.. has- had the result of causing all the people in that, vicinity to be more industrious with the pick and shovel than they ever were before, and a nuinbA* of old miners have already began to operate in that quarter.

Fred Douglass doesn't appear to regard the abstraction of himself from his master as a crime. It never seems to occur to him that technically, at least, he stole himself, and has been ever since enjoying the proceeds of the larceny, which he seems to regard :us the best piece of work he ever got in.—Naxhville American.

Dr Dudley A. Sargent, director of the Harvard gymnasium, says that of the large number of students he has already examined, at least one-half suffer to a considerable, and, in many eases, an alarming extent, from palpitation and other affections of the heart, caused by excessive cigarette smoking and by drinking strong coffee.

Inquiries are being made as to What is to become of the vast, rafting business between Lakes Huron and Erie if the Detroit river is bridged for railway purposes. The rafts are frequently half a mile long, broad and unwieldy. The.lumbermen of Michigan look upon the project as an infringement to be contended against.

An old Irishman who has been an inmate of the poor-house at Grecnsburg, this State, for several years, has just been found and removed bv his children, one of whom is a prominent citizen of Memphis, and another a member of the Massachusetts State Senate and quite wealthy. The sun of the old man's life is likely to set in a clear sky.

A Chinese student at Andover College wrote in a lady's album the following version of a well-known poem:

How doth the little sting bug Improve every sixty minutes All the d»y* Go piefcee up sting bng jniee From flowers jiiBt got ousted.

"Woodworker," an Indian chief, says he has never seen a gray-lmired Indian in his life, and he has seen some over 00 years old. It is because an Indian has no trouble, no worriment, or anything that way. His wife chops all the wood, builds the fires, goes to market at daylight, stones trumps out of the back yard and blacks his boots. And he is not tormented by tax collectors, gas bills and lightning-rod peddlers. Let an Indian start a 24-column daily paper in a six-column town to fill a long-felt want, and his hair would turn gray in one night.—Pittsburg Despatch.

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The DAILY NEWS will print advertisements of persons wanting work or situations, and of those needing help of any kind, irithwt charge—suchadvertisements not to exceed 80 words. This is proposed because it is believed it will aid many who need and desire work, and we cordially invite all interested to avail themselves of the means offered. It must be remembered that letters through the mail are not delivered to initials only. If initials are used, the letter should be directed to the care of some individual, firm, or postoffice box, and if for city delivery, the posf&ge is two cents. The DAILY NKWS has boxes at the office for the reception of letters addressed to its care, and such letters will be delivered only to the advertiser holding a check for the box number.

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t'lu*liiK of the Mall* and Carrier Well very. Carriers, Leave for Mails

EAST. Delivery, Closed.

Indianapolis and thnV east 7 00 a m.. 12 00 mdt Indianapolis and stations on

Vandalia ltailnwui 7 00 a m. 00 a Indianapolis and stations on Vandalia Railroad 11 SO a m.. 3 15 Indianapolis and stations on

I. & St. 11 30 a in.. 2 50 pin Sast«rn Indiana. Chicago and Northern Illinois ,...11 30a m.. 2 15 pm Eastern Kentucky .... ... 4 30 m,. SWpm Indianapolis and thro' east.... 480 pm.. 2 15 pm Indianapolis and stations on

Vandalia Railroad 4 20 pm.. 2 15 pm Iowa. Michigan. Minnesota and

Wisconsin 4 30pra.. 2 15 pui WKST. St. Lonis arid tlm* west TOOa m.. 1200mdt .Junction* on Vandalia lilt.and

Southern lllinoi 7 0t a in.. 1200 null St. Louis and thro'west....... 4 20 pm. .1200mdl St. Louis ami stations on Vandalia Railroad 4 20 pm.. 0 30am St. Lotiis and stations on I. &

St. L.KK 4 20pm.,1030am St. Louis «nd tliro' west 4 20 pm 2 15 pm Marshall and stations south on the Danville ,& Vineennes 1MI.11 SOnm .. 2 15 pm Peoria and ft at ion* on Illinois

Midland Railroad 7 00 a m.. 0 oo a Stations on Toledo, Walw.-h «fr. Western lilt, west of Danville 700a m..10 00 pm Iowa. Minnesota. Wisconsin and Northern Illinois 7 00 a in..10 00 pin

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Chicago, HI., (thro' poueh) 7 00 a tn .10 00 jun Danville :nul stations on K. T.

II. & V. UH... Chirapi, Iowa, Michigan, 1 onsin and Ml 2

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Stations on IndianapoHs, Decatur &• Sprimjtleld if Stations on Toledo, Wabash &

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Lofjansport and stations on T. II. tfc Lo(iaiiB|orl ItU 2 00 pin

Logans|HIrt and stations on T. sp Stations on Indianapolis, Decatur Springfield RR

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Western RR., east Danville, Northern Ohio, Northern Indiana. Michigan and Canada... 7 00a m..)0 0opm

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Kvansville, Vincennos and Prairieton 700a m..l200nidt Fort Branch and Siillivan(t hro' pouches) 7 00 a m.. 12iH)mdt Evansvillnand stations on E. &

T. H. Hit 100 a in..IS00 unit Evansville and stations on E. &T. 11. RH 4 20 pm.. 2:»»pni Southern Illinois and Western

Kentucky 4 20 m.. 2 30 in Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky 700a in.. 12 oil mdt WorthiiiKlon ami stations on

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The city is divided into seven Carrier Districts, as follows: PinsT DISTRICT—George W. Miller, Carrier.

North side of Main str«et, between 5th and 7th streets north from Main to city limits. Including to the alley between 7th and 8th and to the alley between 4th and 5th streets also, 8th, itlli and 10th streets, north of 3d avcttno.

SuroND DISTRICT—John Knppenhcimer, Carrier. The south side of Main street, between fttli and Oth, aVid all territory between 6th and 054 streets

south to the city limits, including to the alley be tween 3d and 4th streets and to the alley between 64 and 7th streets also 7tli street south of Deining to city limits.

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bisTRicT—James Johnson, Carrier.

The south side of Main street, from the river to 8th street, and all territory west of the alley between 3d and 4th streets south to city limits.

FOURTH DISTRICT—George A. Haywanl, Carrier. The north side of Main street, from the river to 5th street, and all territory west of the alloy between 4th and 5th streets, and north to the city limits.

FIFTH DISTRICT—Frank M. Mills, Carrier. The north side of Main street, from 7th to the old canal, between 9th and 10th streets, and all territory from the alleybetween7t.hand8th streets cast to the Vandalia ItR., north to 3d avenue, and all territory north of the Vandolia RR., east of 10th street to city limits.

SIXTH DISTRICT—Isaac N. Adams. Carrier. The south side of Main, between 0th and 7th streets, from the alley between 6H and 7th streets, cast to the old canal, sonth to Dcrning.and all territory cant on Poplar street and south tociiy limits.

SKVKNTII DISTRICT —Louis Baganz, Jr., Carrier. Sonth side of Main street from 7th east to city limits, including the north side of Main, east of old canal bed to city limits, and all territory west from Ninth street, cast to city limits from Poplar street on the sonth to the Vandalia RR. track on

the north. Fred. L. Tyler. Auxiliary Carrier, whose duty it Is to make extra collection and delivery trips.

IlKOtrt-ATIONS.

The mail Is collected from street letterboxes on Main street from 1st to 13th streets.northon4th to Cherry, south on 4th to Walnnt and south on 1st to Poplar, and Ohio street between 1st and Tth, every week day between 8.30 and9.90a m, between 8:4)and 10:90 a in, between 12:30 and m. [this collection Inrlndes to Poplar street on the sonth, and east to 13th. and north to Union Depot between 2:80 and 8:30 m. between 4:30 and 5:30 m. and between 8:f() and 9:00 pm. All other Mixes are collected from twice per day. between the hours of 8:00 and 10:00 and between 1:30 and 3 30 m.

There are five dellvcrSe* of mail per day in the bnsitiets part.of the city: at 7:00 and 11:30 a m. 1:00, 2:00and 4:20 also a delivery at 8:00 p. tn. to such business liottses as desire It. whose place of bnidne«s is located between 3d and 7th streets and not more tluin one square from Main.

On Swnday. the Post Office Is |r»pen from f» to 10 o'clock a m. and person* desiring their mail ran call at the window designated by the number of their carrier.

Snnday collections over the entire city Is made between 4:30 and 5 fltpm, and atfaln In the bn#i Osf» pju$ of the city between ami o'ckwi» m.

Receiving boxes have been placed on every corner of Main street to enable per*on« residing wear it 14) avail themselves of tbe frequent collections nude thereon with a very short walk.

Tbe atientionof the pnbtle is called to the {preat distance each carrier is obliged to walk, and partie* living a distance back In yards Are earee»tiy reqnested to p!ac« boxes in their front door* or ta «nch other convenient places a* will facilitate the prompt delivery of mall. (Carriers are nwt allowed wait longer than 9t

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bell, and after waiting that ions ami receiving no answer, lie mast rvtant the mail nnUi the next delivery. Carriers are obliged to be prompt, and to do tti«tr work quickly, butunder no elrcnmstaoc#* to be impolite or discourteous, and tnrsuch f/JuxiW be Immediately reported to the Post Master. Ptefson« rfwrrfnr dogs »r* wer^ed that nnless the keep them tied dtaring the day. carrier* will not deUjatr ill be obliged to call at tfc* s%54f their mail, bit tber wl oftce. s, 'nuMfc** P.