Daily Wabash Express, Volume 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 September 1871 — Page 2

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DATLY EXPRESS.

TE3RE H4.TTTE, INDIANA.

.Saturday Morning, Sept, 30. 1871,

SEWS AND NOTINGS.

NINE-TENTHS

vVS

inK-

THE

of all the teachers in

Massachusetts are women but they do not get nine-tenths of the pay for teach-

IN TIPPERARY

l*',

and other districts of

Ireland, the potato crop is again diseased,

and the price of the staple has gone up to unusually high figure3.

THE

Grand Rapids "Times" has the

mournful information that most of the popular poems of recent production "lack the divine afflatus of the true bard—the redolent ichor of true poesy." TL."

A'NEW YOEK

THE

cotemporary congratu-

late? its'readers on the quietness and good order of last Sunday, and seeks to strengthen the ground for its complaisance by stating that only three murders were committed on that day.

Canadians bewail the fact that

girls will rather starve on needlework than gel fat in another's kitchen, and say that every other description of employment for woman is crowded to excess while good domestic situations remain unfilled.

Chicago "Republican" learns that

the Rev. Dr. Sabine, the fastidious Pharisee of New York, who didn't care to read the burial service over the body of George Holland, the actor, has engaged an opera singer and an actress to sing praise to the Almighty in his choir. On the principle, we presume, that a living soubrette is better than a dead commedian.

surviving members of the Seventh

Ohio volunteer regiment have just had completed and erected a beautiful monument to the memory of their dead at Cleveland. The Seventh was one of lhe rnosL gallant of the many brave regiments that left Ohio during the war, and it may be doubted if any command saw harder service or participated in more hard fought engagements than did the Seventh Ohio.

ENGLAND

is still much agitated over

the Indian opium trade. For some time past the Gladstone party have been striving to shut their eye3 to the evils of the traffic, because informed by the UnderSecretary of Indian Affairs that it would be impossible to keep the finances of that country at a level if deprived from the opium tax. Nevertheless, journalists persist in holding up the horrors of the trade, and it is doubtful if the Govern ment can long ignore it.

LAST TUESDAY

afternoon the special

train East, taking the delegates to the General Railway Ticket Agents' Conven tion in Philadelphia, made the fastest time ever known on the Pennsylvania Railroad. From Harrisburg, the schedule distance 107 miles, the time was made in two hours and thirty-four minutes—or somewhat less than a minute and a half to the mile. So smooth and easy was the running that perhaps few of the pssengers, except those of them who were pro' fessional railway men knew that anything extraordinary was being done.

successful completion of (lie Mount

Cenis tunnel has brought into full play the ideas of a civil engineer of Paris, E. Lsgont by name, who gravely an nounces in the columns of the "Siecle" that there is nothing whatever to prevent the construction of a railroad tunnel from Paris to Pekin This enthusiastic excavator has gone so far as to calculate the cost of his immense enterprise, and sets it down at 220,000,000 francs. An exchange remarks that, the piesent travelers in China will, no doubt, prefer the long and breezy ocean route to the dark, subterranean path proposed by Monsieur Le gont, who may with truth be said to have anticipated all other engineers, dead and living, in the matter of tunnels..

THAT

wasn't a bad resolution wfiicli the

Universalist Convention, just held in Philadelphia, passed. Its substance was that "WHEREAS, by spending more money than we had received, we have already contracted a debt of $30,000, therefore, Resolved, That it i3 the grave judgment of this Convention, that unless we get more money from the parishes we must stop your disbursements." The New York "Tribune" thinks there is no doubt about that, and the parishes had bettei1 govern themselves accordingly. A re' ligious body, whether it calls itself a Church, or a Conference, or a Convention, or a Concern, which walks deliberately into insolvency, and then begins to pray for money, isn't so religious as it might be.

THE

Indianapolis "Journal" very sen

sibly remarks that the principal com plaints about Grant's nepotism come from men who have been unsuccessful appii cants for office. Men of this class seem to forget that the people who never apply for office, take no stock in their private griefs. There is no prevalent disposition among the masses of our people to weep with those that weep for the loaves an fishes with which they would fain have filled their bellies. If the public service is well ordered by Grant's appointees, if the revenues are faithfully collected, if the public moneys are lawfully disbursed, if our national honor re. ceives no detriment abroad, if the laws are faithfully executed, who cares a continental whether it is Dent, Dana, or Donn Piatt who plays usher at the White House on reception days? While in the matter of taste they may differ with the President concerning the propriety of his appointments, the people, who are not clamoring for office, are concerned only for the competency and honesty of public officials. It is better for the public that some or the President's relatives should hold an office and honestly perform its duties, than for Mr. Hendricks to put scoundrels like Chas." W. Hall in positions where they can steal the people's money. In summing up their {account with Grant's administration, the people will look at the grand results it has achieved, among which are the pacification of Indians, the steady-reduction of the national debt, the decrease in the rate of the taxation, the strengthening of the national credit, and the consummation of the treaty with Eng--'land. No administration has made a nobler record. If Grant and his advisers --J a)( appointees have been able to accomplish all this, the people will not be very &ngry with him forhis fondness for horsefle«h cigars, and his wife's relatives."

POST OFFICES ON WHEELS.

How OnrLnters are Carried and Distributed on the Cars,

The Bailway Mail Service—Its Origin, Importance and Management.

The following interesting and well written article, which we take from the Syracuse "Journal," is from the pen of Mr. H. H. Boone:

Probably a very small proportion of the people of this country are aware that the Post Office Department at Washington has nnder its care large numbers of "Post Offices on wheels," in which, as the railway trains are passing along from point to point, mails are received and given out, and letters and papers are assorted or classified for their various places of destination, with as much regularity as that which exists in the best managed Poat Offices in our cities. Such, however, is the case. Under what is known as the Railway Post Office Service, the postal system of the United States has been improved so as to increase mail facilities beyond the expectations of the most sanguine of the few who interest themselves in the improvement of the mail service. In these improvements every jnah, woman and child is directly interested,' and in one way or another receives the benefit of them. WHAT THE RAILWAY POSTAL SEBVICE.TS.

The Railway Post Office Service of. the United States may be described as the endavor to give a letter the esame rate of speed and continuous progress as a trav eler can attain. Underwhat was known as the old route agent system, although large Post Offices and cities had the advantage of through mail-bags, by fast trains, small ones were restricted to way service on slow trains, and a letter going any considerable distance from one small Post Office to another, was subject to delay of from twelve to twenty-four hours at one or more points on its journey, in some one of the large offices.. As yre shall presently show, these delays are now almost wholly obviated bv the Rail way Post Office system.

A POST OFFICE ON WHEELS. Before we consider the origin of this system, a brief sketch of what it is, as seen in its practical workings, will not 1& inappropriate. Probably the New York Central and Hudson River route, is as good an example of the system as can bfe found in the Atlantic States, running, as it does, through a thickly populated section of the country, and performing what no other eastern route does, viz: the en tire "way'*"service as well as the express service, over the whole line, from New York to Buffalo, excepting, of course, mails sent by some trains ifi "through" mail bags, or pouches as they are termed The best way to understand the Railway Postal Service is to see it in operation but as it is difficult for the public to gain ac cess to a postal car/owing to properly stringent regulations, we will take our readers into an imaginary one which the countepart of two which we were permitted to visit, through the official kindness and courtesy of head clerks, A. D. Sanford and M. Gregory, who are employed oft the New York Central and Hudson River route. The Exterior of a postal car does not differ materially from that of an ordinary baggage car. The interior is fitted up for business more than comfort and pleasure.

On entering the car, the first objects which the spectator notices are a large number of pigeon holes on the one side and at the forward end of the cars. These are for the distribution of the mail matter which has not yet made its appearance. We will suppose we are in Bufialo Just previous to Rie train's starting, wagon load of mail bags or pouches is drawn up to the side of the car, and the contents are thrown unceremoniously through the side door, upon the floor, The head clerk, the clerk, and the assis tant clerk are on had to take charge of the car and the mail bags. The bell rings, the train starts, and the work in the postal car begins. The contents of the pouches of letters are emptied on the table of the clerk, who assorts the letters from the mass of other maif matter, and passes them over to the head clerk, whose duty it is to distribute them and take charge of all the registered packages. These letters are examined by him with a view to ascertaining their destination and putting them on the right route to secure a speedy arrival. The pigeon holes in front of him, duly labeled with names of Post Offices and postal routes, are used as temporary receptacles for the letters, as they are classified. The classi fication, by the way, is one of the most difficult tasks which a postal clerk etf^ counters. There are in this State more than twenty-eight hundred Post Offices, with the location of which, and with the most feasible postal routes thereto, he must be familiar, to say nothing of the other Post Offices in the other States.

While the head clerk is distributing and classifying the letters th^t were emptied from the mail bags, and the clerk is distributing the printed matter, such as magazines, newspapers, etc., we notice that the assistant clerk is "making up" a pouche which he locks, and places near the side door. We notice also a singular cdntrivance attached to the side door which we are told is for the purpose of catching mail-bags while the cars are in motion. This arrangement is a necessary adjunct to the service on fast trains, and although simple is effective. It has lately, we understand, been adopted by the British Government in India. We are now approaching a little village which, before the postal car system was adopted, only received one mail a day, and that on the slow way, mail train. Now, however, it is favored with as many mails as Syracuse, Rochester and Utica for, although the express trains do not 6top there, the head clerk of the postal car makes up a pouch for that place, which is thrown off while the cars are under motion and the singular contri vance of which we have spoken, almost simultaneously catches a mail bag in return, which is taken aboard and the contents are emptied and properly distributed first into the pigeon holes arid ultimately into mail-bags. The advantage of the postal car system to these small places along the line of the route from Buffalo to New York, and on other routes, is incalculable it is, in fact, proportionale to that enjoyed by cities.

THE POSTAL CLERKS.

The work of postal clerks during the time of their employment on the cars is incessant. From the time their car starts at one end of the route until they reach the other terminus they are constantly employed in handling letters and newspapers, and receiving mail bags, whose contents must be classified by them (except those of through pouches) and put off at the right place on the route, or started on a route which will take them to the designated place. It is said, indeed, that the head clerk on a postal car on the route from Buffalo to New York handles 10,000 letters daily. We hare no doubt that the statement is true, for there is a constant influx of letters and other mail matter from small villages and cities along the line, nearly all of which must pass through the hands of the clerks on the car. Moreover the New York Central and Hudson River route is the main line for twelve different States.

ADVANTAGES OF THE SYSTEM. The mail matter which "now goes into a postal car, and is there "made up" for different places, formerly went into distributing poet offices, where it lay over from twelve to twenty hours. It is not difficult for the most obtus^pbserver to aerceivelhe immense advantages that hav* been conferred upon* the public by

the Post Office Department in the adoption of this system. At the present time, railway postal lines run In connection with one another BO that they receive and give otf'rnailB, lill afongf the route from aewrS&rk..to San rFrancisSo, while from the idian lines shorf postal rtutes branch off to sffoM invaluable mail fatalities in all parts of the Union.

Another valuable feature of the Railway Mail service is the system of registered packages, by which valuables are sent from one place to another through the medium of the head clerks on postal cars, many of whom respectively, receive daily, on an

:ayerige,5'66fe

hundfed'ahd

largely:i'^

KETENTIOX OF EFFICIENT CLERKS IN THE SERVICE.

From what we haveseen df jthe Railway Mail system, we have been impressed with.the importance of the retention ol truthful and efficient clerks in the service. The business.-of-a postal,car cannot be thoroughly learned in years, but when once learned the efficient clerk becomes a valuable adjunct to the service, whereas one who is inexperienced is sure to create confusion and vexatious complications. Some of the postal clerks now employed, have been in the service several years and we do not exaggerate when we say that it would be exdeedingly difficult io find competent men to fill their places. The policy of the present Administration has been and still vcontinues to be not to make changes in the clerical force of the Railway Mail service, except for inefficiency and dishonesty.' The wisdom of thjs policy is perfectly apparent.

^ORIGIN OF THE SYSTEAT.

We will now notice the origin of toe Railway Post Office system. In I860, the Postmaster General, Joseph Holt, affected an arrangement with the railway companies to run a mail train from New York to Boston, via Hartford and Spring field, by which the Southern mails, arriving in New York, which were of great magnitude^ ^WJffTd bef lirimi'diately far

cify' tfie foll^ii^ day/ as t!£ ^pratiice had been. This was really the germ of the railway poital system. The next year like facilities were secured bitween New York and Washington. By referring to the United States Mail, we find that Hon. Schuyler Colfax, in 18G2, in troduced a bill into the House of Representatives, to secure the speedy transportation of mails. The principal provisions of Mr. Colfax's bill were "That all companies, corporations or persons haying or employing locomotives or cars for the transportation of merchandise or passtfn gers for hire, tr are- re quired, upon demand by the Post Office Department, to receive and transport the malls of the United States and postal agents in charge thereof and deliver such mails, according to their destination along the line of

such

road or route." Although the bill was not passed, yet two years subsequently the Post Office Department adopted a plan for putting "Post Office cars" on the principal railroads, in which mails could be made up by route agents for offices at the termini and along the lines ot the loads.

The first practical operation of postal cars in the United States was on the route from New York to Washington, D. C., in the summer or early fall of 1864, under the supervision of A. N. Zevely, then Third Assistant Postmaster General. The cars were fitted up under his direction from hints obtained in Canada arid else where, but the internal arrangements, al though elaborate, and in-some respects almost elegant, were not such as'would suit the idea of clerks now. At the out set the Department selected clerks for du ty on the cars mainly from among the more expert clerks in the New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Post Offices, and it was generally an nounced, or rather understood that the service was to be .perated on the basis of qualification and merit because it seemed to be acknowledged even then that a high standard was necesearv to suuccess. Al most simultaneously postal cars were placed on several routes out of Chicago, where they spread and prospered with a vigor characteristic of the locality.

In the East, however, the route between New York and Washington continued for some time to be the only one in this section of the United Stateg, and it struggled along for nearly two years rather as an experiment than a recog nized branch of the service. Toward the close of this period the success of the service at the West began to affect the East •and infuse into it some of its own activity, and thence onward it continued to be extended and perfected.

The railway postal system^ in its early days, met rather more than the usual op position to which new enterprises and ideas are liable and this came quite as much from conservativism within the Department as from obstacles without

DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED.

Aunther great difficulty from the beginning until now has been to procure proper facilities from the great arterial railroad lines, over which, for obvious reasons, the Post Office service is chiefly organized. This difficulty consists not so much in any prejudice or factious oppo sition on the part of the companies to the system, for that is not the case, but simply because they claim they are not paid enough. Some of the results are either that it is impossible to make any arrange ment at all with a company, or it puts the Department off with unsuitable car accommodation or, what is more frequent and worse of all, a company will restrict the service to slow trains or such as do not fully meet the requirements. Postmaster General Cress well has twice recognized this in his annual reports, and has urged upon Congress the hece&ity of allowing the Post Office Department to increase the compensation of great trugk lines. This is in fact the great obstacle to the development of the railway postal system in the Middle States, and will continue to: be s6 .until Congress takes action in the matted. In the West/on the contrary, the railroad companies stand in a different relation to the General Government, as well as to the people and to each other, and consequently there has been little or ro trouble in procuring all that the service needs, including a choice of trains and really magnificent

ERINISN

of the Railway Mill Service, at Washington, is Mr. George S. Bangs, of Illinois, a gentleman of large experience and of great vigor in conception and execution inshort, just the man for the position. His predecessor was Colonel George B. Armstrong, la.tely deceased, who wa* the life and soul of the railway "postal system in the West, and to whom its jreat success there is very largely due Under the General Superintendent are five Assistant Superintendents, each one of whom has charge of a "division^" bom-5 prising several States. For instance, the Second Division comprises the States of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and the eastern shore of Virginiar ^It is under the stf--pervision of

HOEU

Roswell Hart, of Ro

chester, long and well known, especially by the people of this State for the efficient discharge of the duties of his official position, the public are greatly indebted. Superintandent Hart is assisted by Mr. R. (J. Jackson, a gentleman of thorough practical experience in the system, whd 3 Chief Clerk in the Railway Post Office at New York.

The Superintendent at Washington has full charge of^the railway mail service. This includes the making of arrange

ments for postal cars and route agencies on different lines of railroads, «o as to secure the greatest postal ,conveniences— ,for?:the public, and a gen-, eral js^{)ervision of the postal clerka and 'route agents employed thereon. As a matter -of -course, he' defew largely to the Aesigtfcnt Superintendents, who-'are favorably sitnated to judge properly of the necessities of cases arising "Vithin their jurisdiction. The division under the care of Assistant Superintendent Hart is one of the most important, and, perhaps, the most difficult tp manage, of any.in ihe„ United States. ^hi&Tg owing to the' fectf tjt^«(the city of New York, which is withTn the division,

twenty packages, every one of which is'so guarded and checked byreceipte, «ilWft4'« *h® gre»t local centerinto which^ th® and taken by the clerk, as to enable the proper officials to trace a lost or stoleil package into the hands of the responsible party. This branch of the services hak become very popular with business men, who now avail themselves of, its, advan^ tages very

great mails from every quarter of the Unidh,!and, indeed, from all parts of the world, are constantly pouring, and from which the most important postal r6utes diverge.

We are conscious that' our sketch of this-important branch of the postal service is incomplete but possibly it may awaken a desire in the public mind tb become more famUi&ir With the workings of a system whose 'efficiency has -been steadily develope'd since the Republican party came into power, until it is not surpassed by any other railway postal system in the world. The Post Office .Department has done the work of perfecting it with so little ostentation that the people have not .realized the graeat benefits^ resulting therefrom, which have so quietly been conferred upon them. But in these days when there is a demand Tor' reforms in the Civil Service, it is right that the public should know there is one branch 6fit which needs no reform.

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1,003 GIFTS.

Grand Gift Concert and. Distribution for the Benefit of the Foundling Asylum of New Yoilc, and Soldiers' and Sailors' yf' Orphans' Home, Washington, J). C.

To be held in Washington (as soon as all or than Nove

Tickets arc sold, of which will bo slTen,) ari'd not later than 18711 Knfipft nnmh«r ftf HAIta!

tea Days' Notice N

Indiana. Or. P. C. DEVLIN. General Auent. Hon.

MOCULLOUGH,

Elkton.

Maj.

GEO. "T. C.STMS.

Baltimore,

Hon. J. 8.

NLGLEY,

Pittsburg, Trustee.

DIET

FOR ONE MONTH TO ALL 1. WHO ASK POttIT 75o to Jan., '71 «l 50 to July, '72 82 50 to

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Greatest Invention of the Age

West's .Automatic Lathe for all kinds of wood turning. Also, Dnrkee's Automatic Sawing Machine for sawing small stuff directly from the log. Work perfectly, and will pay for themselves in sis months in savin timber and labor. Send tor descriptive boo! to the manulacturers, J. D.xPliiG CO.,

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BAST© LEADKBS.

For something interesting, send your address to GKORGt: W^flATtS, Frankfort, i.

$500 PER WEEK.

Call be made by any smart man who can keep bis business to himself. Send stamp tor particulars to HOWARD & CO., Williamsbugh, N. Y. VTOKTfl-EAST MISSOURI Farms and Uniraproved Lands for Salo by McNurr & MoiB, Paris, Mo.

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BOOTS & SHOES.

NEW ARRIVAL.

..A FIXE A.\B COMPLETE

Fall and Winter Stock

0F—V%t

BOOTS AND SHOES,

In all styles, and to be sold at the

liOWESTT PRICES,

J. B. LUDOWICI ft CO.'S

COr. Sixth aid Rata Street* sepW-dwSm

OPEN""

bus,

Besides our well-known

•'Coat.. Fitting Shirt,"

lovember

23d, 1871 Entire number of tickets, 52

$5 e'aoh. 1,003 Gifts, atnountmg to $200.Ow,

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09 Send for Price List.

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And a Beautiful Line of Testings. THE LAHGEST AND HANDSOMEST STOCK OP

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EVER BROUGHT TO THIS MARKET.,

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thing entirely New anddecidedly Good. Call and look at it.

1871. FALL CAMPAIGN. 1871.

W. H. BANNISTER,

.r^t.rv" ih,. 'i saltan ,kv j.

At No. 79 Jfai ii Street,

Is now' receiving Iiif*

Fall and Winter Stock of Fine

Cloths, Beavers and ^DjO»eskijis,

Finr French, English and American Cassinieres.

E A I N E O

1794::

It is Wisdom and Economy

U'SCiWi !!1( 'Jf'l TO INSURE IN THE

BEST COMPANIES

A N E E I S

NONEBETTER

THAN THE

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OUR STOCK OF •»., ,t

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i-i Js the Beat and Largest in the City, and we defy Competition in Prices. I'' iii ,/ rt'jsfi'l' rf-'i'•! 'tii il f£/!'T ti

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We believe ill Squares Dealing, and treating ill alike. Every article has the Price Marked on it in Plain Figurea, and there will be no deviation. j!' juwtt .'!" ,7,?""•!:•&%

CLCr-ft jElX asm

we have the Agency for the:

which we make to order on short notice. It is some

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Fashionable Merchant Tailors and One-Price Clothiers, Middle Room Opera House Building

CLOTHING.

DIAGONALS, STRIPES AND MIXED SIJITINGS

Beaver Coatings.

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And a General Variety ot Gents' Furnishing Goods. These Goads ivere bought in New York, direct from the Im porters and will be made up in the best style and sold at rea« sonable prices. Call and see for yourselves,

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jj ..A

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Ab« IKOIf HE ATE Combined,

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It is a neat piece of furniture, a general purpose machine is the molt simple ot construction, cheapest most durable, ornamental and ready sale of any thing before the people, and can be manufactured from a sample machine, in any villago, by ordinary

The merit of the BOSWELL HEATER and ORYER is acknowledged to have no rival in any point It is the most even and nealtny Koom Heater in America. As Pnnt Dryer the price of the machine is saved eajh season in weight of ,fnut by solidfying the nutriment in place of- evaporating it. and tne rruit is clean, infiiUtely better, and becoming the only Marketable Fruit. machine is kept in operation at the Terre Haute Sews Depot, opposite the Postomce. for the, inspection of the people, where orders ori Machine* sd Territory ar 0fcj[np jyHKltf

M.P.

BINDING.

gOOK BINDUTQ. JOSEPH KASBERfl having established a new and complete B^ok Bindery, is prepared to do all kind* of Book Binding and Blank Book m»nufaeturing. Magalines beund Ubwtrtyle.... .,

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jpijljstos,

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W'i

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"-y (Opp. the old Court House.)*"4 '1'

Tif wV^iL uTJBME

The Council reserve the right to reject any bid that they may ieem not the interest ot the oity also, to take possession of the work at any time and compl'te it under the contract, should said contractor fail to perform the work in asatisfactory manner. or

RICHARD STROUr, City Engineer. September 21,1971.

JJISSOLVTION.

The partnership of Turner & Buntin was dissolved by mutual conge ot on thelst day I of September inst., T.C. Buntin retiring and

W. B. Shillito taking his place in the concern. All accounts due the old firm must be closed at onee. TUe books wlli be found at (he old stand, corner of Main and Seventh streets,' until the 1st of Octobcr, as all ac counts must be settled by that-dat«.

VTOTICE is hereby given, that the Annual lA Meetine of Stockholders in this Company will be held at the Court House, in the City of Evansville, on Monday, the id day of October neat, at 10 o'clock A* M., atwhich time an election will be held for tlnrteen Direotors, to serve during the ensuing year*

Stockholder* and their families or legal representatives will be carried to and from the meeting at half-fare.

By order of the Board £td J. B. MARTIN. Secretary.

WINES.

JACOB rn

Has Jusi received another choice lot ef

RHINE, FRENCH AND CALIFORNIA WINES,

Which he

will sell by

the

h:*-• iV''.','i:'»«!.!

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NOTICES.

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Sealed proposals will be received by the Common Council of the ty of Terre Haute at their next regular meeting, to wit! on the evening of the 3d of October, 1871. lor era iing and graveling Spruce street between Seventh and Tenth street#, the wore to be done according to plana and specifications on file in the office of the City Engineer.

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EVANSVILLE A CRAWFORDSVILLE R. SKOB*T

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bottle or fftllovV

reasonable prioei. Txy a bottle, if you want ture artiele

BINDERYadioining Daily Kxpreas'Offi ce will be fartdiked jMnvUyJy p^stoiT*,T«rrelT*nte. Indiana. c*Uon or in dnieni.

TUELL. RIPLEY OEMINC

Ladies will frinci

Fringe^. Ties, Tassel End Ties, Windsor

Grain and Roman Bows,

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Cotton Quilting, "White Brussels 'Net Valenciennos Collars, Yalen. ciennes and Hamburg Edges, Tacked Embroidery, Black Blonde, Real Gaimpnre and Uucheese aces.

A*great variety of Handkertshiefs, some'fine bright Striped 8hawls, as well as the modest styles plenty of Embossed Wool Skirts a handsome .stock of Dress Goods, Black Silk Velvet and Velvet Bibbona, Tabby Velvet, Opera Flannels and Light Cloakings. a.

We have a first-class stock of Hosiery, Ladies' Merino Drawers and Vests.

HOUSEKEEPERS CAN GET

A complete outfit of Sheetings of all widths, Pillow dase and ordinary Mnslins, Bleached, Half Bleached and Brown Table Linen from 25e to $2 00 per yard Turkey Tabling, Napkins. Doyles, Towols Crash, Bed Ticking. Blankets, Carpet Chain, Cotton Batting, Bed Spreads, Furniture Chintz, Checks, Ac., &e 4^

FOR THE MEN WE HAVE

A fall stock of Cloths, Cassimered, Jeans, Flannels, colored and white Canton Flannels, Denims for Overalls, Check, Hiekory, and Muslins for shirting. All numbers of Richardson's Celebrated Irish Linen.

British and German Cotton Balf Hose of fine, stont and heavjM' rough qualities Country Knit and Machine made Wool Half Hose

Colored Cotton Linen and Bandanna Handkerchiefs The nicest of Paper Collars and Little Notions. *t, (Sportsmen will bear in mind that we have material expressly for

CHILttKEX AND MISSES"

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Will find beautiful Plaids and suitable Trimmings, material for those jaunty little jackets Rubber Combs the nicest shades of narrow and broad cord edged and Gros Grain Ribbon Merino Underwear and

Hose of all sizes and qualities. ..-ni i-.,.... .. JvrjJ •.f

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Corner Main and Fifth Streets, Terre Bant

WARREN, HOBERCACO.

"DRES? GOODS DEPARTMENT."

Warren, Hoberg Coll

Open This Morning large lot* of fresh, attractive

fALL DRESS GOODS,

In alkthe New and Handsome Stjles of the season. -i.: ',!.•» I

Handsome Serviceable Dress Goods

At 15c, 20c, 25c, 30c, 35c, 40c, and BOo per yard» n:! *'i .*

ELEGANT LINE OF

BLACKAND COLORED DRESS SILKS

French Merinos and Cashmeres, Velonrsl i,"

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SATTOTE&, iPIiAID POPLINS, etc. etc

Now'open^a"^!!^!we o^our Celefei-a&d "HOHSE SHOE" BLACK AIIPACAJS, unrivalled in durability and brilliancy of color, at 25c. 80c.35o,40o, 50c, and00c per yard. .1

I^CoitoDtn will please remember thafonr are hoi 'a^aiikJ.1" Oiii*' |v MOUBNING DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT la full and coiLplete!. AllJhs^Ji ew arid desirable Fabrics in uae on sale at

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CARPETS

WARREN, HOBERG & CO'S.r. Great Headquarters for Dry Goods,' Opera House Corner

CARPETS.

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At 05 per cent, less than present Factory prices,

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i%e offer our entire stock of CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS and MAT TIROS at WEITTT-FIVEJPEB CENT. BELOW PBBSEN FACTOBT PBICES. le to continue until every yard of Carpet|i8 sold 1 Cotton Chain Carpets at.....

vottage Carpets at 33 All-wool Ingrain Carpets at.. 05 Super Ingrain Carpets at W Hashfort Carpets at 1 12 Lowell Carpels at ..1 25 Three-ply Carpets at...., ~1 45 Brussels Carpets at... 95

Oil Cloths at- ...,50 etsper square yard

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a9aTbe opportunity to bay Carpets at the above priecs will not prewnt Itsel. ub this year, as the immense advance in Wool has enhaaeed the (Vices of a1, ool.en Goods at least 25 per .cent.

2TEW YORK STORE 73 MAI1? STREE1

Jfear Court Hense Sqasre,

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TH EI TRADE

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Wc invito to inspect our stock of Prints, Ticks, Ginghams, Bleached and Brow^n Mus ins Canton and Wool Flannels, Jeans, Tweeds. Repellants, Checks Stripes, Grain Bags, low and medium priced Dress S tioods, Ta"ble Linens, Colored Cambrics, Thread, Buttons, Braids, Tape, Pins, Needles. Knitting Cotton, Carpet Chain, Cotton and Wool Yarns, Batts, White Goods and other articles of which we are

jobbers and which we buy from first hands for cash.

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