Daily Wabash Express, Volume 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 April 1871 — Page 2

DAILY EXPRESS.

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

*i" *T'a or Timrsday Morning, April 0, 1871.

LARGE numbers of documents are being «ent through the mails under forged franks.. Measures have been taken to arrest the forgers and bring them to justice.

BEN WADE is more likely than any other man to be nominated as the Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio, even without hi3 consent. And if nominated he will carry the Sate by 40,000 majority.

TJIE Cincinnati

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journal, violently opposed to the ad» ministration of President GBANT, says: "The people, know that the Democratic party have no principles, and that itg bond of union is hatred of a race and malice toward the great majority of the people of the North who saw fit to squelch the rebellion, and with it the cause thereof."

A WASHINGTON SPECIAL says the action of the Senate in reference to legislation for the South, depends entirely upon the character of the bill prepared by he House. The sentiment of the Senate Judiciary Committee is that if the House bill should be in way near satisfactory, the Senate will dispense with the usual custom of reference to a committee, and take immediate action upon it, as no further discussioh Upon it will be required, either in committee or on the floor of the Senate.

REV. DR. H. W. BELLOWS doesn't like thejaspet of political affairs In -Gotham and elsewhere. Like tho good, old Pajtriarcli, in Sodom, his soul is "vexed from day to day." "Who is not mortified and disgusted," says Dr. B, "at our city and State and national legislation, where most even of the so-called statesmen are 'alieds to the Commonwealth," sacrifice great interests to personal irrations and private feuds, and leave us in doubt anybody understands the wants,the duties the sufferings, of the people, the true policy of trade, currency, corporations or any other public interests?"

ONE of our "independent" cotempora l'ies, in an article on the April elections, concludes that "the result is greatly discouraging to the Democratic party, Compelled still to carry its unfortunate record during the war, it has not had the wisdom to take such a new departure as would command the good will of the people. The old leaders, too proud to alta getlicr abandon issues that have gone up in rebellion, and the smoke and fire of terrible civil.'trar, have unfortunately, depended on some unpopular measures of the party-in power, and too touch calculated on the ignorance of the masses for the success of the worn out policy of the demagogue."..

THE our lud is still harping on New Hampshire and has little or nothing to nay of the elections that occurred on Monday. We have wasted no regrets on the defeat of our ticket in the- Granite State It had a good efle.pt in rousing and uniting the Republicans,Jand its influence was not less potent in unmasking the design of the Ku-Klux Democracy, whose prjematitre einltati6n over what they deemed the wreck of the Republican party, led to the free expression of renewed hopes for the "lost cause/' and to redoubled activity by the wide-spreading KnrKlox Klan, which has the support of Demo cratic Senators and Representatives. A party which uses and shields masked murderers, to carry the South, cannot live in this country.

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The inauguration of the Morse lias been postponed to June S.

Wood & Ivory is the name of a firm in :i Pennsylvania country town.

The Augusta, Maine, Journal speaks of raising pigs as '"hogriculture."

Gov. Samuel Merrill, of Iowa, has declined to be a candidate for renomination.

Governor Holden lost heavily by the war, yet he is still the wealthiest man in Raleigh.

Suggestion'for '"h^rtfcWlYuriats—The easiest way to make a hot bed is toset the mattress on fire. ...Jl'.ZQiJ,

Mayor Kalbfleisch, of Broolciyn/ New York, has given $10,000 to the Public Library of that city.t:r

The closest study. Any study where the windows haven't been opened for the last six months.

Bazaine's fortune exceeds four million francs. The French authorities talk of onfiscating his estates in Touraine.

Monograms on note paper are now made larger than ever, beautifully elaborated in gold, carmine and ultra marine.

Emperor William proposes to give Bismarck, Moltke and Van Roon a million dollars each out of the French indemnity money.

A Boston cemetery report says of a new receiving tomb: "The whole inside arrangement of the tomb gives a pleasant and cheerful aspect to it."

There are said to be millions of pounds of fossil ivory in Alaska. It is of excellent quality, and is worth one dollar a pound in San Francisco.

Dr. Mary Walker insists that woman has an undeniable constitutional right to go to the poles—and she threatens to accompany Captain Hall on his next vovage.

Boston and Philadelphia are trying to frighten country trade frein New York, by terribly exaggerated stories of the epidemic small-pox in the latter place.

The New York papers speak of "Boston props" as "the game that is to replace keno," and proceed to give a detailed description of the shells and the method of playing.

Charles Carter Lee, one of the brothers of the late Robert E. Lee, died at his residence in Windsor, Powhattan county, Virginia, on the 21st ultimo, in the 73d year of his age.

It is suggested that in these days of panic about national defense in England, the army of footmen, which exists in rich men's houses,should be drilled for a couple of hours daily. ..

The .New Orleans Times announces: "Col. Sam James has recently introduced a new regulation into the penitentiary. Hereafter all prisoners are to be washed before thev are ironed.''

WASHINGTON'S SON.

Awn Eliza Tandervoort Takes What She Said

Back

LFrom a N. Y. Son Report of the Testimony taken in the JpmelWill Case. Question—Ton* have said that your, mother believed that George W. Bowen was the son of General George Washington. Did she seem in earnest when she said that?

Witness—When my mother spoke of Gen. Washington as being the father of George W. Bowen I understood her as only joking, for she always laughed about it. She said that Major Reuben Ballu named the baby George Washington Bowen because he thought so much of the General. I never believed that General Washington was the father of Mr. Bowen.

Question—Since you gave your testimony in regard to the. birth and naming of Gerge W. Bowen, Has any one talked to you about it?

Witnes—Nobody has talked with me on the subject. I have neither heard nor read about it in any newspaper. I have heard some talk about it, but have paid no attention to it, for I thought it was nonsensical to put such stuff in a newspaper.

Question—Why did you give it myour testimony,-then? Witness—because you asked me what was the opinion in regard to George Bowen's paternity. I told you that it was a wise child that could name its owir father, and then 1 mentioned my mpther's joko,and the newspapers have taken it in earnest. You oughtn't to ask such foolish questions.

Question—Has your son John been present during your examination? Witness—Yes, sir. You ought to know him by this time. He has been here a good deal, and you know it. He hasn't said a word to me about George Washington. r-•"!

Question—Is your son deaf? Witness—He is veiry deaf but he is neither blind nor dumb. He can read and talk. He reads the papers...,

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A MAIL ROBBER TK APPED.

Xfce Danger of nsln^ flag Tobacco.

From the Chitfogo Post.] The mysteries connected with the Postoffice Department of the Goveenment are numerous, and some of them border somewhat on the marvelous. The diaries of the retired physicians and venerable lawyers may contain strange adventures and romantic incidents, but they can scarcely equal, in fruitful subjects and interesting details, the experience of some of the de tectives of the postal service. And they did, the revelations could never made public, for the seal of eternal secrecy is placed upon the mouths of honorable professional gentleman^ while the detec tive, when his ends have been accom plished, is free to relate not only the crimes, but the names of the criminals and the. minutest, particulars regarding their development.

A special detective connected with the Chicago Postoffice, some time ago "worked up" a case, and brought it to a successful termination,.which has in it many ele ments which are calculated to impress themselves in a marked manner upon the minds of those who peruse this article, A registered letter was forwarded to this city, which ought to have contained five one hundred dollar bills. But when the envelope was opened the money was mis sing. As is usual in such cases, the mat ter was placed in the hands of an experi enced and skillful gentleman assigned to the duty of bringing criminals to justice^ with instructions to make a thorough and rigid investigation. The task was one well calculated to baffle the skill of even these experts in the art of detecting crime The envelope arrived here intact, and to all appearances had not been tampered with in the least. What, then, could be done? There was not the slightest clue, and the detective finally abandoned the matter in despair of success.

One day, from what motive lie did not himself realize at the timet the officer took the envelope, soaked it in water, and carefully removed the portion where the seating process had been effected. By the assistance Of a microscope, he found that small particles of plug tobacco 'till adhered to the paper, and from this fact became convinced that whoever wet the mucilage of the envelope must have used t^at description of the weed. Here, then, was found a faint clue upon which the investigation might be continued.

He determined, in the first place, to ascertain if any one connected with any of the offices through which the letter had passed used tobacco of that description. Office after office.was visited, from Chicago to the locality where the letter was first mailed, but in no one of these jvas there a single person who masticated any thing but "fine cut." He.arrived at tfie last office with a faint heart, fully: coin: vinced that the last clue by which to entrap the guilty party bad utterly failed in its accomplishment. The Postmaster was an old acquaintance and friend of the detective. He was ah upright, respectable citizen was loud in his denunciation of the crimei and regretted with manifest sincerity that the culprit, could not be brought.to justice. The Chicago official had not the .slightest suspicion jn the direction.of this honest Country Postmaster but he had asked so many people for

chew" that the habit had grown upon him, and, addressing the worthy P. M. by name, he said: "Will you give me a chew of tobacco?" "Reallys" was the reply, "I doh't think have any tobacco you would use. I never chew anything but plug/"

The detective was dumbfounded. That respectable man whom he had known for years, and who maintained a character among his neighbors above reproach, was the only man in all the offices through which the letter had passed who chewed plug tobacco the person who sealed the envelope used that article consequently the conviction unwillingly forced itself upon the officer's mind that his friend was the thiet.

Detectives never hesitate In cases of emergency, and with them friendship is a matter of no consideration when it is calculated to interfere with business. The party in quest of the thief who stole the $500 in question, did not for a moment pause. He believed the postmaster to be guilty, and acting upon this belief, at once informed that functionery that he was a prisoner. Detaining the suspected party in custody, a search warrant was produced, and the residence of the village postmaster was visited. The house was subjected to a through overhauling from cellar to garret. Every crevice, every drawer, every hole in the wall, every trunk, all places where money could be concealed, were searched, but the examination was fruitless—nothing could be found to implicate that honest man. Just as he was about to leave, the detective noticed on a table in the parlor a deguerreotype case, such as were used years ago, before the art of photography was discovered, and before ambrotypes were known. Carefully folded up, behind the licture, he found five one hundred dollar ills.

The mystery was solved. The postmaster was tried in the United States Court in this ci.v, convicted, and may now be found at Joliet, where he is working oat the penalty assessed for his crime.

There is amoral to this statement of facts, which country postmasters -iii particular will do well to profit by. It may be thus stated: 1st—It is better not to steal. 2d—It is better not to use plug tobacco. 3d— Bat if a person does steal, and does use plug tobacco, it is eminently essential, that some safer sticking process be adopted than that which brought the hero of the above adventure to the State prison.

Arctic Folly,

Captain Hall is busy with the preparations for his projected Arctic voyage. Having received a government subsidy of fifty thousand dollars, the monetary success of the expedition is assured. When the bill to appropriate this money was tinder consideration in Congress we opposed its passage, believing that the country could more wisely use so large a sum than by sending an expedition into the Pelar Seas. But there are better reasons than this why Captain Hall's voyage should not be undertaken, and- the chiefest of them is that the: prospects,. iof compensation are not commensurate with the risks to life and health that-must be encountered.. Arctic explorations, though they have been many during the last quarter of a century, have addetf little or nothing to our store of scientific attain ments, and, though one or two of the explorers claim to have found an open polar sea, the evidence of any one having done so is not at all satisfactory or conclusive. Still, with each new reputed success or assured defeat,: others press on to swell'the list of victims.

On the 23d of February, 1869, the "Hansa," being at a point as far north as Upernavik, on Baffins' Bay, was crushed like an egg-shell by mountains of ice .and sank between them. All on, board escaped to the iceberg, which was not less than seven miles in circumference, but Before doing so they had time to rescue boats, rigging, coal and provisions from the vessel. With the- coal they built.a house upon the iceberg, twenty feet long by fourteen broad, and six feet high in side, the wall being fourteen and a half feet thick. ^Fhis shelter was, howefer, soon buried under the snow, while the iceberg was slowly drifting southward on the sea between Greenland and Iceland. In January 1S70, during a racing1 tempest, the'waves broke off portion* of the raft, and. in addition, made a chasm at night which cut the house in two.

Rescuing a portion of-the coal, another hut was built, but it was.so small that it could only be made .to hold sis of the crew. Through darkness, cold, sforij^rice 3P.d snow, the jceberg drifted ph, ai)d in May^ 1870,_ it was within, three miles of Greenkpd., fiereithe jioat. wa?'launched, but- jrh^n the shore was reached, it Was Qply-a wilderness of ice andsnaw. For twenty-five days tne /suffering^ freezing crew dragged their boat, over chasms »tid fields of ice, one oI their officers, from, e? cessive fatigue and misery, going crazy, and the others not greatly differing from him in condition. On the 13th of June they once more encountered their fellow men and had their sufferings relieved.

But where was the compensation for all this nameless misery and suffering, at which we have scarcely hinted here? Imagine it, if possible Seven months drifting, through the cold and storms of an Arctic winter on an iceberg! Captain Hall has no right to expect any better fortune. His suffering may not come to him On an iceberg but again it may. come to him, as it came to Sir John Franklin. Science may excuse this North Pole hunting madness, but humanity and common sense must protest against it—Philadelphia Inquirer.

STILL the iconoclasts are at work. They have now grubbed up the Upas tree and thereby taken away from us one of our best sophomoric similies. No more will the "deadly Upas" dare to raise its deathdealing head. No more in its melancholy shade will love lorn youths and maidens bury their fresh and palpitating hearts 'neath its solemn branch^. A "responsible gentleman? lias visited the "intelligent contrabands" who Jive in the country of its growth, andhas."interview ed" the Upas. Instead ,of seeing.ii sur rounded by an arid plain, the. approach that lead to it wiis grassy and green with verdure, and bright with flowers. The trunk of the tree was girdled round with creeping vines and many colored paras ites, that wound their way frotn the ground to the topmost branches. The peo pie of the island bury, their dead-near these trees, a fact which doubtless accounts for the wonderful stories of the early travelers. Asa work of nature,, the Upas tree is deserving of recognition. Its girth of trunk is immense, and.its branches'are lofty and spreading. But here its wonders cease, and as a phenomenon-it.must be consigned to that cabinet of exploded superstitions which already contains the kraaken, the mai'lslroto, and the mermaids with their golden harps.-

The "Wickedest Man's" Estate. From the New York Tribune.] John Allen, of Water street fame, died on the 16th of last September, leaving real estate in New Chambers street valued at $30,000. When Allen was a young man he lived with a woman whom he never married,, but who bore him a son, now ten years old,. Allen left this woman and married another, by whom he had a son now nine years old. The two boys are at present living with their grandfather, Mr. Allen, of West Perth, Fulton county, in this State. Judge Cardozo granted an application yesterday to have a guardian ad litem appointed for the youngest or legitimate son,-and. appointed Samuel Chandler guardian. It is said, that Allen just before his death, drew up a will dividing his property equally between the two boys, but lie did not execute it, nor caivit be found.

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Lively Girls at the Antipodes. 11 Erom the Sydney (Australia) Herald.] On Sunday morning, Jan 7, a very serious riot occurred- in the Industrious School, at Newcastle. Tlie girls it appears, went to bed at the usual, hour, and remained quiet until after, .midnight, when the disturbance commenced. After howling and yelling like maniacs, they pulled the legs off their bedsteads, and smashed windows and window-frames, besides demolishing everything that it was passible to break in their dormitories. Tho officers endeavored to quell the riot, but without success and the police were then called in With some difficulty (for the girls fought most indefatigably) eleven of the rioters were arrested and confined in the cells} and, seeing this, the others became quiet.

WE SIIXVEK, we broil, we perspire, we are horror-struck in advance for a Mrs. Klebert, described as "The Western Sybil," has, "in a trance state," predicted —1. A wet spring. 2. A hot, dry summer. 3. A dreadful epidemic of a new and horrible type. 4. Afresh andbloody European war. This isn't what may be called a comfortable prospect, and we are not at all obliged to Madame for the early information. We respectfully beg lier to go into the trance state again, and to ask the spirits what we mortals had Letter take when we are seized by the epidemic? We shouldn't wonder if it were revealed to be three daily doses of some fluid nastiness which Mrs. IvUbert makes and sells at $5 p^r bottle.—r-Aeir York Tribune.

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Bidders wi}l be bound strictly to their eon' tract, tor which they: shall give good freehold surety, to be approved by the Board of Commissioners, and all persons bidding on any of said work shall give an undertaking, sign^ ed by responsible parties, that-'if contract is awarded him or them, that, they will enter inifo-agreement and file bond, in-any sumfixert by .the Board of .Commissioners for the' faithful performance of their agreement.,

Oho bridge, either iron or w.ood.jifty feet long, over Spring Creek, on tho Lafayette Road. 270.oubic: yards of masenry, 100 cubic yards of rip-rap, ani2.,00p. yards of embank ment.

One bridge-, either .iron or wood, seventy five feet-long, over Honey Creek,.on the Erisman! Road,squthwes.t:from Terre Boute.' 233 cubic yards jof masonry, 200 cubic yards of rip-rap, and 2,000 yards of embankment.

One bridge, eitheriron or wood.eighty^vfe foot lohgi overLttoney Cre|k, at the o-rossing ot the Bono Road, near D. Douham'e. 368. cubic yards of masonryl 200 cubic ys,rds riprap, and 3,147 cubic yards embalikmeht

Jn'e brid*e, either irqn or wood, ninety feet irH

lonj* over Honey Creek, on the river read, in Prairioton township. 300 -cubic yards of masonry, 250 cubic yards of rip'rap, and 600 cubic yards embankment.

One bridge, either iron or wood, sixty-five feet long, over Clear Creek, at crossing of Darwin's Ford, in Sugar Creek township. 300 cubic yards masonry, 200 cubic yards of rip rap, and 600 cubic yards embankment.

One bridge, either iron or wood, fifty feet long, over Lost Creek at crossing of poor farm road- 250 cubic yards masonry, and 450 cubie yards embankment.

One bridfje, either iron or wood, forty-two feet long, over Lost Creak, south ofMilligan's in Harrison township. 250 cubic yards masonry, 150 cubic yards rip-rap, ind 5v)0 cubic yards embankment.

One bridge, wooden trestles, 60 teet span, 15 feet approaches, embankment 75 yards, excavation 100.

Bidders will state from what quarry they will furnish stone for masonry, and the kihd of stone also, .at what time the work they bid on will be completed.

Bids will be received for iron bridges, as above stated, for each place, with or without masonry, or for wooden bridges wit'a or without masonry also for masonry, rip-rap and embankmcntat each place.

The Commissioners reserve the right to rejoct each and every bidNo bid for bridge will bo entertained unless accompaniedT)y plan and specifications.

No plan or specification will be paid for by the Commissioners.

Proposals for Furnishing Medical Attendance to Poor. Also, at sane time and place, the Commissioners will receive sealed proposals for furnishing to the poor of each township medical attendance. Medicine, including opium, whisky, oil and strychnine, and Surgery during the year ending 1872.

Bidders will state" which township or townships they wis-o, and the location of their office or placeof business.

Bidders for Harrison township will be required in addition to the above to visit the l'oor Asylum eVery morning vtd keep a daily record of tbe health of the paurrers. and furnish the same daily t6 the_ Superintendent and quarterly to the Board ot CommissionersHe will further be required to make all post mortem examinations on bodies.of persons whose estate is unable to pay therefor at Coroner's inquest.

Ji'cf Tot lie. Voters of Vigo Covnty. Petitions, numerously signed asking the Board of Commissioners bu- the bridge crossing the XVabash River,at Terre Haute also, further reqriesttng "ns to "build a Court House at the county sestt. &nd, deeming that we should at all times in such-matters before acting thereon, hear the will of the people in yrard thereto.

We therefor invite the qualified voters of Vigo oounty to assemble at their usual place? no'ding elections on the day' of May. A.D-1S71. then a~nd thereto e-press by their ballot their wishes as to both Bridge and Conrt-Honse.

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The bridges are to-be located at the follow ing named places,,and the length of the span bridge is.stated: *lho Commissioners not having -decided whether to build woo'd or iron bridges, or stone or wooden abutments, or the exact style of bridge to be built in each place, invite competition as to plains and prlce.

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HIGH PRICED STORES" MUST STAM AhtPE

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The greater part of it has arrived within a few days. The patterns are new, very fieh in colors and exquisite in design and as we

PROPOSE SMASHING THE PRICE OF CARPETS

This Spring as badly as we have Dry Goods, WE PROPOSE TO SELL THEW TWEXTY PER CENT. BELOW RECEHT PmiCES, Good yard-wide Carpets, 23c, 28c and 30c. Carpet Stores charge for the same goods, 30c., 35c and 40e.

Uoodyaed-wide Ingrain Carpets, 50c and 60c- Carpet Stores charge 66c and Too for them.! All-wool Ingrain, 75c and 80c. Recent priee 901 and $1. Elegant new styles, very find heavy, only 1100 now being sold in Terre Haute Carpet Stores at»l 30.

Best English Brussels Carpets reduced toM 25: our recent price was SI 60 fer same goods, and Carpet Stores are now charging 1 75 for them,, 1 tmt

Continued Bargains in Dry Goods!

Rich assortment of Dress Goods, from 12)f« up to 91 00. Elegant lines Of Parasols at New York prices. We shall seUDry Goods cheaper than- ever this Spring. H'l

FOSTER BROTHERS

Great New York Dry Goods Store.

NORTH SIDE OF MAIN ST., TERRE HA UTE, IND.

DRY GOODS.

'SEND THE SICK TOHOSPITAL."

Opening" of the Spring Campaign I CHEARTHE DECKS FOR ACTION

The popular current runs strongly in our favor. High priced stores are emptjJ Will there be more "deserted palaces" soon? $ We are of the people and for thepeople. We know neither aristocrats or p!ebians. All are alike in our eyes. "Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow." We believe in small profits and big trade. if, 66

[Grant's order to Sheridan.] f"

MORE NEW GOODS! LOWER PRICES STILL!

5,000 yards Atlantic Mills Mnslin 6c Country stores charge 10c, and Terre Haute stores 9c for same goods 4,000 yard of yard-wide EXTRA HEAVY Unbleached Muslin, down to 10e

This is one of the very best Mnslins made, other stores charge 15c and 16c Very large lot of BEST AMERICAN DB LAINES down to 12$C Ceuntry stores charge for the same goods 25c, Terre Hnute stores 22c-. Big lot of the best SPJRAGl/E PRINTS dov to 10c

All other stores charge 124c for them. Good heavy ALL LINEN TOWELS down to 6c -rr Country stores actually charge 15c for the same goods. fs.ir33 A':Sfiaos'S

HENCEFORTH WE CONTROL THE CORSET TRADE

OF TEBRE HAUTE.l,(l'i5''! r~Zar'I kO :i:tl)

A splendid, all whalebone, nicely fitting CORSET reduced to .........35c Fancy stores in Terre Haute sell the same quality for 65c. A Superb glove-fitting FRENCH WOVEN CORSET, all sizes, down to,..'...I.:?.^150c

Country stores charge $1 50 for same goods, and Terre Hante fancy stores charge $1 00. The celebrated Glove-fitting HIP GORE CORSET reduced to 50c Dayton and Maysville Carpet Warp 29c Stamped Boulevard Skirts for spring ...90c Coats' Cotton 5c Elegant Dress Gooods, 12Jc, 15c, 20c, 25c and np

FOSTER BROTHERS'

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GREAT NEW YORK CITY STORE

V, TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

DRY GOODS, &C.

Spring Fashions

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TRADE PALACE,

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TNlTANAPOLIM,

Our Opening or Kpriag Styles of ladie*' Suit*, torcuci, Mnntlfs, Sbawls, and Millinery Good*.

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CARRIAGES.

W. D« BOOEBS.. J08BPH MOORK, JB.

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ESTABLISHED 1846.

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PLEASURE. CARRI AO ES OT THK-*A!HTACTRBE OF

W. D. ROGERS & CO.

Built with especial care during tho late winter Ibr the coming Dnv'ng 8 ajon, embracing the most stylish Carriages and Light Road Wagons,

WAREROOMST 10 9 41011

WMANUFACTORY:

ATSOS

STBEET,:

Chestnut St.,

(Formerly

OKUMJ* W.

Co., Retired.)

COB. THIRTEENTH & PARBISH STS. phii^Adelphia. Carriages Built to Order. Alt descriptions of F1XB Carriages built to

Drawing* & Specifications mailed when solicited.- apr4-d2m-,

Children's every-day cop-tip Show, and fine Shoes for Sunday, or any other day, at Frank Crawford's, 98 Main street.

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CARPETS are very cheap this year, and we intend the public shall know it and shall get the benefit of the decline. Buy no last year's goods: they are dear and very likeiy moth-. eaten and damaged. Buy only new. clean, fresh goods, and what is equally important, buy only well known makes~ It costs Carpet Stores twenty cents on a dollar for every yard ofCarpet they sell, and so in order to make any show at all of competing with as they are foreed? to buy shoddy and unknown makes of Carpets, whioh ther andeavat toPftUa 08 oa uteic cus-| tomers as "Hand Loom" or "Family" Carrots.

We keep only tbe best brands, such as Kifion,s, Lowells and Hartford! in the grades, ef xtra." ''Super Extra" and *'SuPei Extra Super." three-ply" and English Tapestry Brussels.

iartfords in the grades en

and the very best makee of "Imperialp

New, and Fresh

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COLD LOAN.

NEW 7-30 GOLD LO AS.

SAFE! PROFtTABLE! PElMAXE!TT!

JA1 COOKE CO. Offer for Sile at Par and Accrued Intcreit the

First Mortgaged Land Grant Gold Bonds

or THE

Northern Pacific Railroad Co.

Those.bonds arc secured, first, by a First Mortgage on the Railroad itself, its. rollingstock, and all equipments second, by a first Mortgage on its entire Land Qfttikt being more than Twenty-Two Land to each mile of road.

an Twenty-Two thousand Acres of each mile of road. The Bonds are-free front'United States

Tax

the PrjnCipal and Interest payable in Gold the Principal at the end of tho Interest Semi-annually, a SKVEX AND THRM-TENTHS P*R num

Ky sears, and tho rate of )tnr. per an-

They are issued in denominations of $100, $500, $1,000, $i,000 and

The trustees- under tho Mortgage are Messrs- Jay Cooke, ot Philadelphia, and J. Edgar Thotason, President' of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company.

These Northern Pacific 7-3uBonds will at all times before mafarity, be recordable

PBB O" NT PB -HIUM,

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or 1,10, in exchange Cur

th Company's lands at their lowest cash prioe. .. ., In addition to their absolute, safety,, these Bonds yield sn income larger, we believe, than any other first class security. Persons holding United States 5-20's can, by converting them into Northern Pacifics, increase their yearly incomes one-third, and still have perfectly reliable investment.

HOW TO GET THEM.—Your nearest Bank or Banker will supply these Bonds in any desired amount, and of any needed denomination. Persons wishing to exchange stocks or or other bonds for these, can do-so with any of our Agents, who will allow the highest carrent price for

ALL KAKKXTABLI

sscrBtrns,

Those living in localities remote from Banks, may send money, or other bonds, directly to us by express, and we will send M|ck our Northern Pacific Bonds at our own risk, and without cost to the investor. For further information, pamphlets, maps, etc., call on or address the undersigned, or any of the Banks or Bankers employed to sell this Loan.

FOB SALK BT

STUMP

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FIRST NATIONAL BANK ni£B« .NATIONAL STATE BANK ,..l% PRAIRIE CITI BANK, McKEBN A M1NSHALL. Bankers.

Agents at Terre Haute, Ind.

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PIONEER

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FTER four yearr |if severe testing it is a by all who have triea them Machine extant—sijnple, werful and cheap. Two men wfll raise 25,000 pomdsand pull 100 Hum pi wert day. Thousands, are now in use throughout the Eastern States, where its snceesS anting the past year is without a parallel in the history of Agricultural. Machines. It has taken the Firtt Premium at .thirteen different State Fairs, also at the' American Industrial Exposition. Priee S66. Q. H,. CHURCH,

Gen. Southern and western Agent.

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L. O. SCHULTZ, J. P., Brasil, Indiana. ^ILL conict claims In thir connty^^