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DAILY EXPRESS

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

Thursday Morning, Dec. 7, 1871.

THE CLARK COUNTY HORRORS.

Astounding Developments

Facts Going to Show That the Innocent Have Suffered !

AND

THAT THE GUILTY ARE YET UNPUNISHED!

Startling Acknowledgments of Those Who Were Foremost in Procuring the Arrest of the

Negroes!

And Who Extorted Johnson's Confession!

Special Correspondence of (he Ind. Journal.] JEFFERSONVII.LE, IND., December 4. HaviDg spent several days in walking and riding through Clark county, and talking to those who were moat intimately related to all the circumstances leading to the arrest and summary execution of the supposed murderers of the Park family, I here present what I know to be facts.

It having been discovered on Sunday, the 12th of November, 1871, that Cyrus Park, and his wife, and a little son of ten years, had, on the previous night, been most inhumanly butchered while sleeping in thei^pwn beds, and that two daughters, one seventeen, the ofher fourteen years of age, had, at the same time, been so terribly wounded that recovery was pro nounced hopeless, runners were sent in every direction to spread the information and call the citizens together.

Almost with the speed of liglitning'the awful intelligence flew from house to house and from neighborhood to neighborhood. In an incredibly short time more than two thousand persons were assembled at the scene of the tragedy. So soon as anything like order could be secured, E«q. Gurnsey, an excellent citizen, instituted what night be styled an informal inquest. After the rendering of the redrict as to how the deceased came to their death, the inquiry was started,

HAU MR. PARK ANY ENKMtK9? At first there appeared to be a universal reply of "No! nol He was too good a man. He couldn't have an enemy."

But Justice Gurnsey, with a judgment highly praiseworthy on such an occasion, refused to be satisfied with this answer, and at one set about the w^kof a person al examination of the witnelM, beginning with the nearest and most intimate neighbors, the mo3t important of whom was. «.

MR. KIRK,

a brother and fellow-elder of Park in the church—a man of irreproachable reputation, and whose relations to the dead had long been those of the most confidential character. This man, before that court to the utter astonishment of almost every body present, stated that he had the best reasons for believing that his murdered friend had some of the bitterest «f enemies that some time previous to the tragedy, he had seen certain letters received by" Park, threatening the latter with death if he did not leave the neighborhood, and giving as a reason for this threat that Park had given much trouble to certain parties that to one of these letters was signed the name of a certain well known citizen of that comunity. For some reason not yet made known, this inquiry was suddenly stopped, and Mr. Kick's testimony touching the threatening letters, was never more heard ot till after three men, who are now by many believed to be innocent, were hanged ana burned by the infuriated mob.

By certain very active and talkative per sons who assumed pre-eminence, (whether these persons were interested or not the reader may judge when he has examined the facts,) the channel of inquiry .was now turned, or rather a new one cut with an adroitness truly amazing, and from amid the tumultuous throng went up the cry, "WHO WAS AWAY FROM HOME LAST

NIGHT?"

And the maddened assembly separated with the understanding that every man should use his utmost endeavors to fnrnish a satisfactory answer that to ques tion.

KIRK'S LIFE ATTEMPTED.

That very night—the night following the murder of the Park family—the house of Mr. Kirk, the man who had furnished the important evidence in re' gard to the threatening letters, was attacked. Staying over night with Mr, Kirk, was another well known and responsible citizen named Lewallen. Hearing a strange noise, accompanied by an unusual commotion among nis dogs, Mr, Kirk went out to discover the cause, upon which he distinctly saw at a short distance two men. He asked them what they wanted. They made no reply,(but started slowly away. He followed them. They continued retiring till they had drawn him a few paces from his house. Then, turning suddenly upon him, one of them ran at him with the fury of a demon. Having no weapons in hand, he retreated with all possible speed toward the house, his pursuer close upon his heels, and endeavoring to get between him and the door. He entered barely in time to shut the door against the villain who thus sought his life. It is not known that Mr. Kirk recognized these men but he hesitated not to say that they were white men, and that one of them was a tall, scraggy looking specimen, with long arms. More of this hereafter.

THE PURSUIT

for the man otwthe men who ware not at home on the night of the murder, was kept up with unremitting zeal till finally a poor, semi-demented negro of indifferent morals was found. On being questioned in regard to his whereabouts du» ing that fearful night, he did not give a satisfactory answer. He was immediately harried off to a secret place by a squad of men whose leader has for a number of years .made himself useful in detectin and convicting criminals, an$ demandei to give a clear account of himself on pain of death. Scared out of what little wit he possessed, he began the task in a shaky, stammering tone. He told that he was at a negro ball. "We know that's a d—d lie" said the squad, "there was no negro frolic in the neighborhood that night. He then told what has since bgfen admitted personally to me by some of that same squad to be true, that he was at a negro house of illfame. "Now we know you've lied," said his persecutors, for you've told two different and contradictory tales." Hang him! God d—n him! Hang him!" And with the utterance of those terrible words, the noose was thrown around the neck of the trembling, half-crazed negro, and the rope thrown over a limb. "Haul 'em lip! God d—n 'im! Haul 'im up." "Hold! hold! for God's sake, gemmens, art* I'll 'fess it all," cried the miserable African. This ill-fated negro was Johnson.

JOHNSON'S CONFESSION.

Johnson being assured that if he would tell all he knew about the murder he would be saved, finally admitted that he knew all about it; that two other negroes, Taylor and Davis, did the work. Being asked how he knew it, he replied that he saw them do it. "If you saw them, where was you?" asked the squad. "I was—I was—well, I was—"

The rope being again Bmartly tightened around his neck, Johnson fully confessed his own participancy in the crime, taking care, however, to place, himself in the most favorable attitude, representing that Taylor did the killing while Davis held the light, and he (Johnson) kept watch outside of the house.

All the significant points in Johnson confession, as represented by those who extorted it, are these: First, Taylor want ing money to pay a lawyer's fee of small amount, induced Davia and Johnson assist him in the murder, stating to them his .object. Second, that Johnson saw Taylor and Davis at their bloody work work through a riven window blind Fhird, that the weapon used was an ax: which would be found at Mr. Park's wood pile, near a spot of earth in which a con pie of hacks had been made with the ax Fourth, that the murderers approaches the house and vent from it in a certain direction. Fifth, that in their retreat they stopped at the crossing of a certain stream, to divide the spoils, which con sisted of some money and two bundles goods, one tied up in a white cloth and the other tied np in a red cloth. Sixth Taylorjtold Johnson he had not procured as much money as he had expected Seventh, that Johnson was sent home without anything, Taylor and Davis taking all the money and the two bundles of goods with them.

The reader should hold these points, for before I am through he will have nse for them.

THE ARREST.

Upon the foregoing confession, Johnson, Taylor and Davis were immediately arrested and taken to Henryville, at which point a promiscuous and enraged crowd of citizens with out masks gathered around them and clamored for summary vengeance. Right there and then they wofild undoubtedly have been hung, had it not heen for the interference of Matthew Cleg, who appealed to the better judgment of the multitude, and with the .assistance of John C. Stuard, and other influential gentlemen, secured for the time the supremacy of the iaw.

By order of Judg«- Cyrus L. Dunham, who had been apprised7of the arrest, the prisoners were immediately taken for se curity against the mob, to the State' Prison, at Jeffersonville, to await thei trial at Charlestown, the county seat of Clark county.

THE SEARCHES.

It is, indeed, not a little mysterious that the public mind has been persist' ently abused with the rfeport that only one search was made for articles that would lead to the conviction of the ne groe3. The fact is, as everybody in-the neighborhood of the tragedy knows and says, that there were two searches. The first was made prior to the arrest of the negroes. Daring that search the houses of Taylor, Davis and Johnson, wi^h those of several others, 'were thoroughly ran sacked from bottom to top—every hole, corner and crevice being minutely jLn spected. Yet not a single thing could be found that could be identified as the prop erty of the Park family.

After the arrest, and two days after the first search, the houses of the prisoners were again searched, resulting in the finding of an old linen coat, worth about one dollar, in Taylor's house and a sheepskin pocket-book, containing a couple of ferry tickets, in Davis' house. And these two articles, the 'first vSgnely recognised before the Clark county grand jury by Mr. Park's eon Marion as his garment, and the second recognized by the same witness as being like a pocket-book belong ing to his father—these two articles, say, were all, .supposed to belong to the Pa^-ks, that were ever found or that have yet been found in the houses of the ac cased. Now is it not remarkably str that the search prior to the arrest, which was as thorough as it conld be, should not reveal what was so easily found in the search subsequent to the arrest? The coat, when-found in Tayloi&Jiouse, was hanging in plain view on the wall. The pocket-book found in Davis' house was taken from a trunk which had been com pletely disemboweled by the same search .ers before the negroes were taken, with no result whatever. It was reported, and «in credibly informed that it was distinct' ly stated by certain members of the searching committee, that a bloody coat was found in Taylor's house. But if this coat was found it was never seen by any but the finders, and it would be Interest ing to know just what they did with it and why it was never even mentioned to the grand jury during the investigation had by that body.

THE TRACKS,

Immediately after the arrest of the negroes, Johnson's confession ran from lip to lip and was echoed from hill to hill throughout the Park neighbor hood and every circumstance or shadow of circumstance that could be made to bear the semblance of a corroboration of all, or of any part of that confession, was eagerly snatched up and thrown npon the breeze of rumor. Not only so, but the most groundless assertions designed stamp the confession with validity were set afloat. Chief among these was, the report circulated all over the country and caught up and repeated times out number, by the press, that around the Park residence and in an adjacent potato natchi i^Ah BI^UQQERS,"or to convey the real mean ing of the report, THE BIG TRACKS OF THREE NEGROES. IflWas said that these tracks were about twelve inches long and proportionately wide that from the house they were easily traced through the potato patch to the stream at which the niggers" halted to divide their plunder that they distinctly ahd precisely marked the route of approach and retirement described by Johnson in his confession From the arrest till the lynching of the accused this report about the tracks held complete mastery of the public ear.

Now, the fact is, there never were but the tracks of itro persons discovered about the Park residence, in the potato patch, at the crossing of the stream, or any where else. One of these tracks was a rather large one, the other was comparatively small, and appeared to be that of a num ber six boot of fine or 6oarse-tine make— the heel being high and well formed, and the shank bein^ neatly turned. This have from Marion Park, the surviving son, from his uncles and other friends who have been constantly at the house of the deceased ever since the discovery of the crimfe, and from everybody else who claims to have ever seen the tracks. And I wish it well understood that I have it from them personally, not by hearsay. even have it from those who first captured Johnson, extorted his confession, and, in fact, worked up the whole case, and from them personally.

Now let us revert to the statement made by Mr.*Kirk of the attack made upon his house the night following the murder. In that statement Mr. Kirk says that when he went out to see what was the matter, he saw two men, whom he followed, and by whom he was chased bacWnto his house, gaining ingress hire ly in time to save his .life that he saw these men plainly enough to know that they were white men. But he made one other statement which I have reserved for this place, and which is of the utmost importance as a starting point in the investigation of the question, "Were the negroes guilty?" It is this: That on the morning after the attack upon his house, Mr. Kirk found plainly printed in his yard the tracks of the two men whom he liad seen the preceding night that he made accurate measurement of these tracks in all their parts that he then proceeded to the Park residence, and upon applying the measurements taken of the tracks made around his own house to the tracks made around Park's house and in the potato patch,(and on the line of

"God d—n your black soul to h—11, out with it! Own that you was there and helped to do the job, or up you go."

approach and retreat, during the night of the tragedy, a complete identity was established. In other words, the tracks made by the murderers on the Park premises were proven to be identically the same with those made on Mr. Kirk's premises by the two white men who attempted his life on the night following the murder

This identity of tracks made around the two houees, and on two consecutive nights, was given to me personally by young Park and several others who say they know whereof they affirm, and whose rigid truthfulness is acknowledged by all who know them. Nevertheless, many of these persons, including yqnng Park', profess to believe the negroes guilty.

But why, asks the reader, was not this important matter pnt in evidence before the Grand Jury? The answer is simple Because of a local reign of terror superinduced by the temporary madness to which the sight of the murdered Parks and the confession of Johnson had given rise.

It must not be forgotten that Mr. Kirk had, on the day succeeding the murder, testified to certain very astounding facts that he told of several threatening letters received by the deceased prior to his death, and that to one of these letters was signed the name of a well known citizen. If any of the authors of these'letters were present at the investigation before Esquire Gurnsey, it will readily be seen that they might have thought it expedient to put Mr. Kirk out of the way. In full keeping with this high probability is the fact, that when, subsequent to the attack on Mr. Kirk's house, an examination was bad of Mr. Park's papers, the peculiar letters in question could not be found. Mr. Kirk apprehending that his own life was in imminent danger, no doubt thought it prudent to keep "what he knew about"-— tracks to himself till the arrival of a more opportune season. And to thi3 day it is next to impossible to get him to tell what he knows, much less express his views in his own neighborhood.

BEFORE THE GRAND JURY, I!. From the State's prison the accused negroes were taken in due-course of time to the county jail at Charlestown. Here their case was immediately brought before the grand jdl^, which was then in session, and after all the searches and researches, and all the noise and bluster, and all the raking and scraping of the previous few days by those who had assumed the task of bringing the murderers of the Park family to justice, the only evidence that could be produced against the prisoners was Johnson's confession, corroborated by the cheap linen coat of young Park, "the pocket-book found in Davis' trunk, the testimony of the tenyear old little grand-son of Taylor, and the testimony of those who said they found the bloody ax the "big nigger tracks," etc. In identifying bis coat, I have: been personally informed by several members of the grand jury that young Park was by no means positive. "It lookea like his coat. It had a hole burnt in one sleeve as his coat had. But, inasmuch as there were other coats of the same kind and style sold out of the same lot from which he took his, and at the same time, hecouldnot swear positively to it." Putting it on, he said, "it seems rather long for my coat, yet I think it is mine." Now this is all that the witness would or did swear concerning the coat. Required by the grand jury to identify the pocketbook, the same witness said .it locked like his father's pocket-bo6k. He conld not iwear positively that it was his father's pocket-book. If it wa3 the property of his father it would be apt to contain a couple of ferry tickets of a certain description. On being Opened, the pockethook was found to have in it two ferry tickets, one of which answered young Park's description. And this is all that could be made out of the pocket-book.

The little grand son was brought up to testify that prior to the tragedy his grand father (Taylor) had said that he must have some money to pay a lawyer' fee that Taylor told. jiia wife he knew where to get the money, but that he would have to steal it, as there was no other way of getting it that on the morning of Sunday, November twelfth, a- little before day, Taylor came home accompanied by Davis, the two carrying the bundles of goods described by Johnson in his confes sion that these bundles were' taken up stairs and deposited that on the following day.Taylor put these bundles' into a box and, hiding the box in a load of wood brought it to Charleston that he saw Tay lor at one time after the murder counting a great lot of money. But I am told by one who was present that this boy, when taken before the grand jury, broke down at all points that he failed to remember hav ing actually seen his grandfather with dollar of money that his evidence touch ing the two bundles of goods was so chop to pieces and mixed up that it amounted to nothing! All efforts to find the box hauled to town in a load of wood utterly failed. One man saw it coming in on one road, another man saw it com ing in on another road. One man saw the box in the centre of the front, tier of wood, the top being exposed to view Another man saw it in the centre of the hind tier. No one could tell where it was unloaded. No one could give the slightest clucto its place of deposit.

Now for

A BRIEF BEVIETW

of this evidence, if evidence it may be called, in the light of established facts First, it is well known that Mr. Park was, in the truest and noblest sense, the friend of the colored man, giving largely of his means and energies to the promotion of the moral, intellectual and physical welfare of the black race; that he was a hearty believer in what some are pleased to call negro equality; that he was the special friend of Taylor, defending him when others traduced him, helping him when others neglected him; that he was on terms of the closest intimacy with Taylor; that he was making into shingles at the time of his death a large amount of poplar lumber that grew on a piece of land belonging to Taylor; that Taylor could at any time have borrowed of Park or through Park money enough to pay four such lawyer fees as he owed. Is it at all reasonable to presume that in a region of country such as this—a region in which negro haters are numerous and negro sympathizers are scarce—very scarce, too—a black man to whom all parlies attribute unusual shrewdness and good sense would kill his best friend to get what he could easily obtain by asking? Again, is reasonable to presume that a man so smart as Taylor is said to have been, would butcher a whole family, and carry off an old linen coat and a couple of bundles of clothing, but leave on a table, right in the centre of the bed room of his victims, a splendid silver watch and a pocket book containing three dollars in money? for such a watch and such a pocket-book were found as here described on the morning following the slaughter. Is there any sense in supposing that such a man would have paid any attention to that linen coat? And again, would a shrew darkey try to hide a box containing the fruits of a wholesale murder in a load of wood, either by covering it at all except the top in the front tier, or by sticking it into the hind tier so that one end would be fully exposed? I think I have heard of a certain silly bird that tries to hide from its pursuers by sticking its head only in the sand. The reason

WHY NO BTLL W^S FOUND

by the grand jury is stated by some of the jurors to be that Court was adjourned before they were through with the evidence that they had testimony enough, but not as much as they wanted, which is handsome way of putting it, and is just about equivalent to saying that they had testimony enough but did not have quite enough (testimony. The fact is, they ound no bill because the evidence would not justify a finding—in other words, because they had nothing that any sensi-:

has since been admitted by several of the grand jurors themselves, and by the Criminal Prosecutor, who acknowledged to a well known Attorney of Charlestown that, as a lawyer,- he could by no means say that the evidence before the graild jury was conclusive. it "THE NIGGER WON'T KEPEAT.'$ 1

I have it from a source which cannot be gainsayed, but which for the present must not be made public, that when Johnson was first taken before the Grand Jury, he flatly denied his confession that the prosecuting attorney being posted went to one of1 the men who extorted the confession prior to the arrest and said "2jir.. what shall we do the fiigger won't repeat?" Mr. then told the prosecutor just how to proceed— jnst what questions to ask and how to put them— just how to press the "d—d nigger" a' all points. The prosecutor did as di rected, and finally succeeded in procuring a repetition of

THAT AWFUL CONFESSION,

which the negro denied every time he be lijeved himself to be in the presence friends, and which he utterly repudiated to a Mr. Boyer j.nst before he was taken by the mob and hanged.

THE BARBAROUS EXECUTION

wifS by no means animpromptu affair. It was deliberately planned and definitely appointed long before it was decided that the grand jury would not indict the ac cased. Indeed, it was known that that body could not indict them unless there could be manufactured a better class of evidence. It has been hinted that the grand jury, by its failure, invited the mob. Such is by no means the case. The mob invited the grand jury for it is now more than hinted, and that by those who ought to know, thai there were

THREE GRAND JURORS IN THE MOB. Being wholly incapable of "getting through with the evidence" before the ad jurnment of court,.these high-toned gentlemen, rather than lose their game coolly divested themselvesof their official dignity, and proudly donned

rthe

face-*ag»

oftheKuKlux, ana participated'in the Ranging and roasting with a relish worthy of a chief of the Fiijii Isles.

I am informed that three of the mem bers of this grand jnry have each..killed man in times past that a .few years ago one of them shot a.man dead on the streets of Charlestown^ and was never legally dealt with for it. These, most likely, were the three who were with the mob. One grand juror told me that when the charge of murder was first brought^against the negroes he felt though he would delight in burning them. Query: Is he an average Clark county grand juryman? HEM ARK ABLE SUBSEQUENT- DEVELOP

MENTS.

The maddened populace having satisfied ifs cravings for blood, and the sacri fice of the three negroes having eased the pious consciences of those who believe the black itian is incapable of an honest thought or a humane feeling, a good many things are coming to light which leave no doubt in the minds of impartial per sons that the victims of the mob were innocent. In the first place there are those stubborn facts in regard to the tracks in regaid to the searches in regard to the goods taken 'from and the goods left in Park's house regard to those threatening letters showing tli tit Park, notwithstanding his goodness, yea, perhaps on account of his goodness, had mortal enemies in regard.to the manner in whichJohnson's confession was obtained, and the myster ious manner in which the bloody coat disappeared—all going strongly to unset' tie that moral conviction which had been so easily impressed on a community whose blood the horrible murder had kindled into a raging fire. Rut now comes the startling statement that the little grand son of Taylor was induced by offers of money and by threats of death to give in false evidence corroborating the confession of Johnson that his piece was prepared for him, and that all he had to do was to commit it and repeat it, in which latter performance he signally failed. I have this statement from one who himself says, and of whom all say, that he knows more about the whole affair from begin ning to end than anybody else, i. e., the whole affair relating to the hunting up and the arrest of the-negroes. Also, comes fcom the same Bource the statement —a statement that raethinks would

FREEZE THE BLOOD OF A CONTtHENT,

that he is thoroughly convinced that Taylor, Johnson and Davis had nothing to do with the murder. He alludes to all the circumstantial evidence which I have presented from the first to the last, and treats it precisely as I have treated it. He refers to the barbarous tortures to which Taylor was subjected on the night of his execution, and says, "If the thrusting of a dozen firebrands into a man's flesh all at one time, will not force him to confess guilt, I know he is innocent." This, if you please, from a man who was among the most active in ferreting ont and bringing to trial the supposed criminals. It would appear that a reasonable world would ask no more for if he who says this does not believe the negroes guilty, no other man under heaven has aright even to surmise it. But his name must not yet be revealed for he is an efficient worker in the cause of justice, and if let alone, will, no doubt, soon detect the reallj guilty ones.

THOSE OTHER CONFESSIONS. The report has been published that Taylor and Davis made each a Con fession to the mob, corroborating that of Johnson that Tavlor in his confession told that his son John murdered a crippled negro, Jack, two years ago, in Charlestown. Now it is well known in Charlestown that the crippled hegro, Jack, was killed seven years ago, not 'tun, and that when he was killed John Taylor was on the river working as a steamboat hand. The report that either Taylor or Davis made a confession to the mob is as a baseless fabrication, and no man in all Clark county can be found to confirm it. The fact is that Taylor, while the cruel firebrands were searing and crispidfe his flesh, stood as mute as a marble statue, and neither by word nor by gesture signified the slightest willingness to secure a release by tainting his memory and his progeny with a false confession of guilt.

THAT DEPOT OF STOLEN GOODS.

From the fuss made about the "stolen igoods" found in Taylor's house, the public ias quite generally been led to suppose that a sufficiency might there be found to stock up a respectable jobbing establishing. The truth is, however, that few men would invest fifty dollars in the whole contentaof that house- e., in the whole of the present contents and if there ever were any more, the keepers of the keys ought to teU where they are. Besides a few piles of second hand clothing, there is scarcely anything to be seen. Taylor's possession of these goods is thns accounted for: He had a daughter living in Chicago, it is said, either at a first class hotel or at a first class house of ill-fam6, and this daughter was in the habit of sending to her parents occasionally a package of superfine offal, which from time to lime, no doubt., fell to her gratuitously in her place of employment. No taint of dishonesty ever, attached to the character of Taylor till after he was accused of the murder of the Park family. It has recently been said that he was once the slave of a very bad mat in Kentucky, and that he was once sent to the Kentucky State prison for stealing. But I have heard of only one man who pretended to know anything about that matter, and

this, like other evil reports, was reserved till the present evil hour. Fortwenty years Taylor has sustained in this community a'good reputation, both as a citizen and as a member ot the Colored Methodist Church. He was sixty-five years old.

DAVIS AND JOHNSON.

Davis was a man in whom everybody

who knew him.had the utmost oonfldsnoe —apber, industrious, rigidly honest in his dealings, or at least so he was always reputed to be during his long stay in this community. Johnson was a man of rattier dissipated habits,0 but was never' accosed of anything criminal till jpow. Since his death it has been proven that he VM in a negro house of ill-fame dur ring the night of the murder of the Park family. The proof is furnished by one of the inmates of that house, and by others.

SUPERSTITION BROUGHT TO BEAR. A young man in the neighborhood of Henryville told me the other day that

rwhen

Taylor was arretted he was led into thehouse of the dead and made to put his hand on the.bodies and that when he did so the blood started, afresh from the wounds and Stuck to his hand. "It is an old saying," said my yonng acquaintance, "that when a murderer puts his hand on the body of one he. has killed the blood will do just as it did in Taylor's case, and I believe it." Till I met this youth I was of the opinion that we had passed the age of witchcraft. I have discovered my mistake.

WHO ARE THE REAL MURDERERS?

Three men have been hung, not according to law, but in defiance of it, at the expense of the dignity of the Grand Jury, and to the everlasting disgrace of this whole community, and yet'the ques tion, "Who murdered the Park family?" is as fir from being settled as it was before the negroes were arrested. The belief that the guilty are yet unpunished of jus tice, is daily gaining ground, and it is thought it will not fye long till those who did the horrible deed will be in the grip of the law. May the God of Heaven have mercy on the poor lynchers, many of whom are now suffering the tortures of a thousand hells.

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Shawl Double Shawl pair Blankets

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This ia one of the thousands of bills we turn out.

is sufficient. Buy yoar goods at the _...

Lf-, i: V. 75

1**1 -1:

and the calil, chilly winter days ai*

clothe3

engrosses tlie mind of every father in the land. A consultation with the ''gQfid wife" brings up the question VVhero can wo buy our supply 6T Winter Dry Goods to tho best advantages which one of the matiy stores in Terra Saute offers tho bast inducements, a ad furnishes the best goods at the lowest prieos? The mind of the •'good wife" is readily made up. She remembers quickly, that tb$5 New York Store, this roliable and popular House, has proven itself worthy of her patronage, and finds littie trouble to convince her husband, whose thoughts have Jecn wandering through the immense piles of Dry froods that are here stored, that the best place for them to trade, is at this well-known establishment. Sho speaks of lhe courteous treatment received at the New York Store remembers the strictly just and honorable dealings of this House., and exhorts /n words of prailS"the one-price systom," and consequently low prices "for all kinds of goods. havo never been overcharged at the New "York Store. I have always bought my goods chcaper there than "anywhere else," said sho "and I know we will save money by "buying our Winter supply at this store! Thoy koop tke best goods 'and I have never found them to misrepresent a single article 1"— The question is settled 1 The old gentleman hands out the cash, and she proceeds to the Now York Storo with a happy heart.

Here is the bill of goods she bought and what she "saved" by buying them at the New York Storo.

Main Street,

NEAR COUBT HOUSE S^UA.

I WITTENBERG, RUSCHH A.UPT & CO.,

'f Proprietors New Yorlc Sto»• j-rii

CLOTHING.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN!

New and Handsome Styles of

SUITINGS, OVERCOATINGS,

Slain and Fancy Cassimeres and Vestings,

.JUST RECEIVED

We have also a Splendid Assortment ot '.

ERI,ANGER & 0O S

These Goods will be sold Cheap and made up in the very best style by VV C. MILLER, the favorite cutter.

OVERCOATS, DRESS & BUSINESS COATS & SUITS For Men, Youths, Boys and Children, at very low prices.

A COMPLETE LINE OF ,,

I)ress

.for the family

THE

NEW YORK STORE,

(Wittenberg, Rnsclilianjit & Co.,)

78 Main Street,

H'car ('onrt House -Square,

Terrc Haute, Ind.

Mr! of WITTENBERG, BUSCHHAUPT CO.

Ain't save! 30 00 80 45 30 25 1 00 75 21 15

80 50 20 45 95 85 25!

4|25j 54} I 75 30 40. oo 40! 87" 25 75 87 17

Shirts, Night Shirts, Gloves,

NECK TIES, BOWS AND SCARFS.

H&*For everything FIR3T-OI.A83 in the Clothing line give us a call. Every article has the price marked on it' in plain figures, and our motto is

.f'Deal Fairly with all, and Treat all Alike." ERLANGER & CO.,

a I Oij^ylnal One-Price Clotliiors,

MIDI)LE ROOM, OPERA HOUSE

CARPETS, WALL PAPER, &C*

Good Newsfor the People.

at Cost!

•"Oil

Cloths at Cost! Mattings at Cost

Curtains

Parties desiring to furnish will not have aach a chance a$ain fir year*. 8&»77t# Sale is Positive.

PRINTING INK.

FERRY PRINTING WORKS,

... /Philadelphia, Pa.,

C. JE. ROBINSON & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS

of FINE BLACK AND

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I 20

1 20 25 10 33

$42 38 $9 27

A word to tho

Shades at Cost

and

The ill health of our senior compels him to retire fro'n active bmine-is* therefore we have determined to close up oar affairs We will sell our IMMENSE STOCK AT ORT and at lower figures than the same goods can be bought of the manufactures now, aa the bulk of onr stock was purchased before the late heavy advance.

HUtfE, AU.I4 & CO.,

47 & 49 South MeridianS jt, Indianapolis

WOOD

QHBAP SUMMER WOOD.

GILMA5 BROS. & CO., Are furnishing Two Dollars' worth ei

Good Summer Wood

FOR OHLY 91.20,

Delivered to any 'pait of the ciiy. •eft. Leave orders at the Stave Faetery. North Second street. anglHlti