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DAILY EXPRESS.

TEHEE HAUTE, INDIANA.

Tuesday Morning, June 20, 1871.

REV. C.

MARSHALL,

of Indianapo-

w, Las arrived at New York from California. He will remain in New England until September, when he will return

home. ».«.« THERE

is less grumbling about Presi«

dent

GRANT'S

THE

temporary absence from

the capital since the fault finders discovered that he is but following the example of the first President.

publication of

"Our Monthly,"

the

Presbyterian family magazine, has been transferred from Cincinnati to Philadelphia, where it will be continued without material change of character. ,i, /.:• y:

Tufi editor of the Indianapolis Journal is puzzled to know how and why it is that hundreds of our religious people give their support to negro minstrelsy while they frown upon theatrical representations equally innocent, fully as entertaining, and far more profitable. m» —. .£.|"

BILL is before the Connecticut Legisture giving citizens of towns the power of cumulative voting in choosing town officers: that is liberty—provided two or more persons are1 candidates for office— lo cast all the votes for any one of them, or divide the votes as the voter may choose. The plan has been tried in Pennslvvnnia, and proved satisfactory.

COMMENCEMENT

at DePauw College

occurred last Thursday, on which occasion the President conferred the degree of "Mistress of English Literature/' upon Miss

LAUBA SLEEPER, FAHNY BLACK, MDRRIE

PFLLLIPS,

ANNIE JONE8, ANNA

LOCKWOOD, SALLIE DAVIS, FLORENCE GOODWIN, MABY

MOODY,

and the de

gree of "Mistress of Liberal Arts'' upon Micses MINNIE STOY

and

LIZZIE WELLS.

important suit, involving a questron likely to Occur in any city or town, has just been decided in the Superior Court in Connecticut.

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citizen of Norwich

brought an action against the city for damages canned by breaking into liis premises in order to carry the hose of a fire engine through them to quench afire in an adjoining dwelling. The suit was decided in favor of the city, which was 4 declared irresponsible for the action of firemen when at work at fires. "•iJJ

.i') AMONG the many good things for which

the reading public is indebted to Pliila- .. delphia, the best is

Lippincolt's Marpizine,

just commencing the eighth volume. The. July number of this able, entertaining and instructive periodical is so excellent, in all respects, that we have sincere pleasure in commending it to our readers. Pass by the wretched trash that finds its way into so many homes, and cultivate a taste for useful reading, which you will find in all the leading magazines.

THE recent Democratic Conventions in Ohio and Iowa, arraigned the Administration and the Republican party for a long list of the evil which afflict the countVy at the present time, and the Chicago Republican understands that when the Indiana Democracy meets for deliberation, it will "see" all the troubles re-cited-in the Ohio and Iowa platforms, and "go them"the potato-bug better. The Republican is confident that a resolution attributing the potato-bug to the usurpations of the party in power, would be received with great applause in a Democratic Convention.

BISHOP MCILVAINE, of Ohio, has sailed for Europe as one of a committee from this country to unite with similar com mittees from England, Holland, France, Switzerland and Germany, in an earnest remonstrance fro* the Protestants of Europe and America against the treat' ment, by the Russian Government, of certain of

brethren, inhabitants of

two of the provinces of that country immediately south of St. Petersburg, which were ceded to Russia shortly after the Reformation by Sweden,thestipulation being that the people are to have the privijege of worshipping GOD according the dictates of their own consciences. Among the American committee, which numbers eight or ten, are Rev. DBS.

and

WASHBURNE,

organization.

of the Pres

byterian Church, and CYRUS W. FIELD, Esquire. The committee of the various countries will meet in Berlin, July

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Making: Preachers Comfortable.

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Vincennes correspondent tells what some of the people of that city are doing towards making their parsons comfortable:

As a general rule, preachers are supposed to be very poor, financial!V, and, therefore, have but very little "surplus money ior house-rent. The First Presbyterian Church of this city has just built a large brick parsonage, and are making it complete in every respect, and will invite Rev.

move

F. Hendy, their pastor, to

his quarters to the said parsonage in a few days, and ask him to make him* self perfectly at home. We suppose he will be greeted with an old-fashioned house-warming but if the weather continues as now, they can dispense with fires.

The Second Presbyterian Church congregation have just marked off their parsonage, and have commenced digging their cellar. This is to be a frame buildTAG,

planned with a view to comfort and convenience in every respect. As the parsonages will be more imposing than the churches in appearance, we suppose the next movement will be a remoddeling of their houses of worship.

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We have

heard some preachers sav they would much prefer a comfortable home to a fine CH,U^CH. FO[

ONE

they live all the time,

while in the other they remain only during the hours of service. In this case the houses are better than the churches.

A Noble Physician.

Prof. Oppolzer, the great Austrian PHYSICIAN,

who died a few weeks ago in

tenna,

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T.SR,,

a very eccentric man.

often went out among the poor of Vienna

and prescibed for them in a disguised hand. One day he was at the bedside of a poor widow, who was dangerously sick. All at once a messenger from the Hotburg entered the room and requested Oppoker to repair immediately to the

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Empress having been

Oppolier inquired what was

IRIM^TER

HER- On receiving

8AID:

the

she had a very bad heaaache.

U"HER

can waii

until to-morrow, but the widow here can 5.°™,. «»°THER

occasion the Emperor

Ferdinand conferred a very high order «poa him, but as there were some charges

II.IHV: Jo be paid on it, Oppolzer sent the order bark. vt .it-'

ALL SORTS.

Quebec is being disarmed. Letter writing floored Colfax. Paper is used to line ice coolers. Portugal's wine crop is promising. Copy wrights are issued for 28 years Lead ore has been discovered in Iowa. London has 200 ^female medical students.

The Southern people prefer silent Toombs. Boston sells 1,000 soda fountains annually.

Paducah is threatened with twelvei windmills. Boston sells 12,000 lobsters daily during the season.

Roasting ears are sold in North Carolina by the quart. Wilkie Collins is not coming this year. Bad health.

The author of the "Swiss Family Robinson" is dead. The flood at New Orleans has almost entirely subsided.

Syracuse mixes cocktails so big that they have cellars to them. The Troy public schools have one daily session of five hours.

Two hundred and fifty Seminole Indians still abide in Florida. Repudiation will be" the main issue in the next Mississippi election.

Last year, 936,375,505 letters were posted at the London Post Office.

Fred Grant would stand fifth in his class if you counted from the foot. The Duke of Edinburg is to marrv the Princess Thy ra of Denmark.

A Pittsburgh woman has been relieved of a 25 pound tumor. She died. "Devilled Entrements" is a New England dish —a sort of condensed hash.

The latest wedding trip novelty is to take the bride's mother along. Good evening. "IO 'vV «i

A 'Squire at Rochester, in this 8tate, prides himself on marrying people in less than a minute.

Some says that a snail has a perfect set of 12,210 teeth—110 rows, with 112 teeth in each row.

More than a hundred Parisians committed suicide by jumping from the Column Vendome.

Darwin's book has caused an influx of visitors in the monkey home in the London Zoological Gardens.

Georgia has a greater colored population than any other State in the Union. Virginia comes next, then Alabama.

New-Berne, North Carolina, boys tie ropes across the sidewalks to trip up passers. New-Berne boys should be larruped. "Ethalinda Christabello Montgomery Royd Fish" is the name of a Rhode Island woman who has survived it these fifty years or more. v.'

An excursion of Iowa business men at St. Louis drank 2,400 bottles of chain* pagne at a banquet on Thursday, an aver* age of four bottles apiece.

The agent of a Pennsylvania marble worker persuaded a widow to buy a stone for the grave of her dead husband by promising to marry her.

Noah Perry describes the averge anniversary attendant at Boston as "given to lankiness, slinkiness, and an ironed down-in-the-back expression." •,

Heroism is not so rare as some people think. Maggie Gregory, of Long Island, lost her life on Thursday while trying to save a friend from drowning.

A young man of the highest respectability and connections in Savannah, Georgia, has been found to be a defaulter to his employers to the amount of $10,000 all traceable to the gaming table.

FOK LADIES ONLY.

A lady at Ellsworth, Me., has six pairs of twins, and another little episode ton from.

Both in quantity and quality the magazine contributions of American are improving.

A public institution in Iowa lacks woman's purifying and refining influence— to-wit, the penitentiary,

Mrs. A. J. Duniway duns away at delinquent subscribers to her woman's rights organ, Portland, Oregon.

Rev. T. K. Beecher is surprised to find that women are more generally employed in England than in America.

The women of Bloomington, Illinois, have a library of 4,000 volumes, which they have acquired in five years.

The Catholic women of Munich are raising a fund to assist the Pope, by renouncing cfyera tickets and new dresses.

Only women teachers are to be/m ployed. at Jacksonville, 111. The janitors will act as ministers of justice—"tails' men," to use a legal phrase.

The Independent says that while women who dance the German are against female suffrage, Women who translate the German are for it. v#

Three widows who were freeholders voted on town matters in Detroit in 1804. Strange that Anna Dickinson should not remember this fact. But, then, she was very young at the time.

The Princess Louise earned $50 by painting a fan for a recent international fair. It took the third prize. Mrs. M. Jane Higginbottem took the first, and Miss Louisa the second.

The Revolution is responsible for the statement that nine tenths of the young men of America go straight from the presence of their sweethearts, excited by oving words, and silly nonsense, and wines and spiced meats, to the embrace of the courtesan.

FASHION ITEMS.

Upon plain linens, folds and single pleating ruffles.

tare entirely replaced puffs-and

For half dress thft round skirt, dipping slightly at the back, is to be fashionable this season.

The new street toilets dispense with sashes, though they are worn occasionally for convenience.

All kinds of pearl ornaments will be extensively used this summer, with Etruscan setting preferred.

For children's summer wear, washing dresses of soft nansook, pique and linen, white, buff, and brown are all the rage.

Blouse waists are no longer drawn to a band, but made to pass over the hips and fasten with a drawing string.

White waists, which so many ladies inquire for and were so useful for neglige, are not now fashionably worn with color* ed skii t, or any other.

Very wide sash ribbons, tied behind with long, loose loops, will continue to be worn by children. The newest are in solid colors, with a narrow fringe all around.

New traveling suits are made of white linen lawn, with pointed collar, cuffe and handkerchief of buff gram linen, embroidered in black and crimson or scarlet wool.

Tbe Case of C. C. Bowes. The statement of C. C. Bowen, the South Carolina Congressman, recently tried for bigamy in Washington, cannot be read by any fair minded person without creating the impression that there is aside to the case which, somehow or other, has not yet been fully- heard. There is no donbt that Mr. Bowen has led a strange and chequered life, and that some passages in it require much explanation. But there are two facts which the testimony in the case, and the statement of responsible persons not brought to the stand, make plain. One is, that at the end of a career of indulgence, he has found a pure and highly intelligent woman, willing, after a full knowledge of his affairs, to become his wife. Notwithstanding the charges brought against him this Iadv still remains devotedly attached to him.* The other fact is, that there are several men of very questionable character'who have an undoubted interest in disgracing Bowen, and that among these is a Mr. De Large, who is a contestant for tbe same seat in Congress, and who is a political intriguer and an active member of probably the most offensive political ring that exists, outside NeW York City. In the light of these two facts, a more merciful judgment upon Mr. Bowen's career than some writers have pronounced, may possibly be jnst.

Mr. Bowen's earlier years were marked by great faults. "I knew," says his present wife in a communication to one of the Washington papers, "that he had been an orphan boy, without relations or friends had drifted into the company of gamblers and prostitutes, and had lived their life until it had pleased the good God to-lift him from the mire." "He had not," she says, "concealed his antecedents from me." And in another place Mrs. Bowen gives the history of the marriage of her husband to Francis Hicks. He was eighteen, and she between thirty and forty. They were married in 1852, lived together two years, separated by mutual consent—a consent she subsequent* ly refused to withdraw, declining to hold any communication with him. In 1865 they were, Mrs. Bowen says, divorced, and in 1870 Mr. Bowen married Sarah Pettigru, the daughter of the famous Unionist, Mr. Sames S. Pettigru, of Charleston. It is but just to remiember that Mrs. Bowen was not deceived in any respect by her husband, and that she fully believed in the Reality of his divorce from Francis Hicks.

Bowen's conviction at his recent trial was based largely on the alleged forgery of the certificate of divorce procured in a New York Court. It was admitted that the certificate was in the handwriting of a clerk now dead. Public opinion may fairly deduct somewhat from its severity in judging a man tripped up among the mysteries of the District Attorney's Court in New York. Amid all the haze surrounding this painful case, it appears clear that it is to the interest of Mr. Bowen's political rivals to ruin him. But it is to the interest of the community only that justice shall be done. We believe that the facts we have mentioned are.sufficient to suggest thatjnstice does not^call for the sweeping denunciation of Mr. Bowen now dealt out by a portion of the Press. Indeed, there seems to be good ground for his wife's demand—that the circumstances in his case which are at present surrounded in mystery, should receive fuller investigation than they have yet done.—N. Y. Times.

Success.

When men shall have learned that money is *ot around in the ladder to success, only a side Bnpport that social po sition and erudition are not goals, but milestones, they will idealize better and realize more.

When ladies shall have turned their day-dreaming into solid culture and sublime effort for the world's best good, and shall have buried style, fashion, gentility, and the baubles of life in a common grave, and developed a vigorous body, full mind, and a good heart, welded in symmetrical harmony, ever learning, evei growing, they will know the secret of success. Success in life thus becomes the' chief end of man.—Phil. Press.

If Mr. Toombs doesn't like the "new departure," why the deuce doesn't he get up one of his own? Ten cents' worth of strychnine would be amply sufficient for the purpose.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

Patagonia produces meerschaum in abun dance. An inhospitable habit the inhabitants have of making mince meat of all strangers who visit them, however will prevent a glut in the pipe market for some time to come.

The absurd statement is made that Virginia only made 65,000 gallons of fruit brandy last year. That from a State renowned for apple-jack and old peach. Must have been barrels instead of gallons. WABASH COLLEGE COMMENCE"

MENT.

si Programme of Exercises..

TUESDAY, JUNE 20.

9 00 A. M.—Annual Meeting of Board of Trustees. 10.00 A. M.—Valedictory Exercisesof the

Literary Societies* at the College Chapel. 2.30 P: M.—Reunions of the Literary Socioties, at the Society Halls. 7.30 P. M.—Oration before the Literary Societies, by Hon. Daniel W Voorhees, of

Terre Haute, at Center Church. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21. 9.00 A. M.—Meeting of ihe Associated Alum ni, at the College Chapel. 2.30 P. M«—Class-day Exercises, at the Col lege Chapel. T.30 P. M.—Oration before the Associated

Alumni, by Rev. H. C. Hovey. of Peoria, Ills., at Center Church, THURSDAY, JUNE 22. 9.00 A. M.—Exercises of Graduating Class, at

Center Church.

7.30 P.24.—President's Levee, at the Society Hans.

TTACHMENT NOTICE.

STATE OF INDIANA,

Vioo COCSIT, HARBISON TOWXSHIF, Whereas, William Mahan has taken out a Writ of Attachment against the goods and chattels, rights, credits and effects of Walter Briggs, before the undersigned, a Justace of the Peace in said township, county and State.

And whereas. The summons issued in the remises has been returned by the proper Nonstable, with the endorsement of "defendeot not found and by reason of laid return, on motion of plaintiff, this cause has been continued for notice to defendent by publication, the said defendent is hereby notified of the pendency of this action, and to be and appear before me at my office, in said township, on the 14th day of June, 1871. at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon_of said day. to plead or answer the plaintiff's eomplaint, or the same will be heard and determined in his absence. Given under my hand and seal this 23d day r7l871. [SKAL] of May, ray84-w3w L. B. DENEHIE, J. P.

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Success in life is rarer far,than it would be, if the world knew what it really is. The majority of men and^women, under the light of our best civilization even, do not understand the true meaning of the term. For the same reason many are credited with the acquisition who are entirely without it. In the same way society generally fails to recognize this prize, though it be of the most solid and genuine character. The achievement of the greatest personal happiness, though ever made the standard of success, seldom be* comes a reality. Many, it is true, are led away from the pursuit of that which in early life was their glowing and noble ideal. But the most set up a false shrine, and realize only its falsity at life's close. With some the massing of wealth consti tutes success. To such every breath is in vain that does not prove a golden inspiration. Life is one grand stock board home, friends, society, education, all fig ure only upon it as a profit and loss, With others, letters or science is the fa» cinating ambition. Domestic happiness, friendships, are health sacrificed to the one, but incomplete, idea. And so the long list of life-blunders succeeds.