Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 March 1882 — Page 2

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

DIED.

PETERS—Friday morning, March 8, at 8 o'clock, of consumption, Mis. Catharine Peters, wile of Henry Peters.

The funeral will take place from the KsjjpWpal church on Seventh stress, Snnday at* 2 o'clock, p. m.

Friends

POLITICAL.

COUNTY COM MIBSIONEB. We are authorized to announce the name of JAVES M. DUCK, of Fayette township, for the office of County Commissioner for the First district, subject to the decision of the Republican nominating convention.

WANTS, ETC. SD

I2RTION. NOTMKH EKtOMSDUMW iim KoDisoatmi (On, At the amounts re small payment^ js squired in advance. lL—

WANTED.

ARTED-A good girl. Spruce street.

WAITED-A

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good girl, who can come

well recommended, as seamstress and house girL Apply at 664 Ohio street. ydung man on

WASTED—Situationwagon,

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grocery or bakery «tn conie w®U recommended. Apply at 485 north Ninth street.

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KEWTF—Rooms One comer- front room, handsomely fnrnlshed, and two connecting rooms, unfurnished, aU having large closets. For terms, apply at Northeast oorner Eighth and Mulberry streets. TOOK BEST—A house of seven rooms, with J1 cellar and cistern, on the comer of Eighth and Sycamore streets. Inquire of Mrs. Dr. wilson, 234 South Ssventh street

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BENT— Furnished rooms OH. Main street, No. t02%.

RfeNI -New house, comer of Eighth and Sycamore streets. Inquire of Mnu-Dr. 'Wilson, No 234 south Seventh street.

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ot five rooms, cellar,

cistern and outbuildings. For further particulars lrquire at L. Kustner's Music Store, 213 Ohio street.

RKHT-A nice two-story brick house on Cherry street between -Second and Third streets also one brick store room, No. 102 north Third street, with which three rooms*® second floor, suitable for dwelling purposes, will be rented. Apply to m. RILEY,

Corner Third and Cherry streets.

nOR BENT—Store rooms on Fourth street, a. second door south of Ohio. Enquire of Mis. Dr. Long, 214 south Fifth street.

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BEAT—A very pleasant room, furnished, and in a desirable location, to one or two young gentlemen. Apply at 636 Eagle street.

BENT—ROOMS—Two or three rwms furnished or tin furnished for housekeeping. Apply at 425 north Ninth street.

17 OB BENT—Desirable brick dwelling, No. 222 Soutt 118 Main street.

222 South Fifth street. Apply at once at J. D. EARLY.

FOB SALE.

IB 8ALE-A large first-class safe, office fixtures and stock tables also, second-hand carpets. Will be sold very cheap. Call Monday/ GARRABRANT & COLE.

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SALE—One sundown,, one surrey wagon, two side bar buggies, one Phaeton, and five single sets of harness, all incomplete repair, and almost as good as new. Inquire at

WHITAKER & STICKLE'S, Shop 210 South Third Street.

FOBSALE-1have

an excellent tread pow

er, nearly as good as new, for sale at less than half first cost Suited for TOMln^awood Martinsville, His.

SAW or any light machinery.

|M»B BAM3-HOU8KS AND LOTS—Two ,JP on the corner of First and Lin ton streets three on Second and Eagle. This properly belonged to Rufus St. John, deceased. The property must be sold at once, and there are just five chancei* for the five good bargains. Apply to George Planet, at John Armstrong's, No. 10 north Third street

FOB TBADE.

FOB

TBADE—A vacant lot to trade for a buggy or spring wagon. ADAM TRESSEL, 1300 Poplar street.

LOST.

OBT— One single set of harness somewhere on Main street, between Sixth and Thirenth streets. Finder will receive reward by returning same to

interest on roperty

C. J. KLOER,

Corner 13th and Main Sts.

MONEY TO LOAN. •NET TO LOAN—At lowest rate of interest J- T. Downey, 315 Ohio street, Terre Haute OHEY TO LOAN—In sums of $1,000 and upwards at lowest current rates of first class improved farms and city

I. V. PRESTON.

FIFTH STBEET

SECOND HAND STORE

18 SOUTH FIFTH STREET.

Second-hand furniture bought nnd sold. Repair work neatly done. A liberal CBBh price paid for cast-off clothicg.

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It is folly to experiment with the numerous low-priced mixtures, without medicinal virtues, offered as blood-puri-flers, while disease becomes more firmly seated. ARAN'S SABS APARIX.I\ is a medicine of such concentrated curative power, that it

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SOUND DOCTRINE.

The Madison Star holds that a party is greater than a faction. Such a sentiment, generally adopted, wonld make the republican party invincible. Individual grievances, disappointments and dislikes would give way to the welfare of the party at large. Here is what the Star says:

No faction can or should he allowed to control the Bepubllcan paity. Each one must yield a little the rough edges must be smoothed off the cement of forgiveness, conciliation and common sense be liberally applied, and the main object to govern for the good, not greed and to defeat the common enemy, must always, be kept In sight, and you have a solid, compact party the gates of hell cannot prevail against Then, again, the Bepubllcan party must be fonnded upon principle, and be greater than any man or set of men.

The star route indictments have all been handed into court by the grand jury, and bench warrants will, be issued for the indicted parties this week. The cries which were raised against Mr. James have been silenced. It will be remembeiret! that he was accused of cut* ting down the star route service,'and wasting the savings on the railroad service. An exsmination of the facts shows this to be absolutely false. The compensation of railroads for carrying the mails is fixed by law and cannot be increased, while in the matter of the star route contrasts the: Postmaster Qeneral could increase the compensation of a route from |6,000 to $600,000 if he saw fit to do so.' In Mr. James'case he pot only cut down the star route service but recommend congress to cot down the compensation of the -railroad companies for mail service. It is true the railroad mail service ha* been increased, and in the nature of things it will continue to increase, as Ion* as the construction of railroads continues. Railroads and stage lines are natural enemies, and, like the "noble red man," the latter is some day bound to go to the wall and be succeeded by the iron horse.

General Fremont has filed iu the senate a petition, in which he claims to be the owner in fee-simple of Alcatraz island in San Francisco bay, and asks that the matter be referred to the court of claims for adjudication. His petition sets forth that when he was military governor of California in 1847 *he purchased the islsndior the government, but that the government repudiated his action and declared it an act of mutiny that in 1856 fie paid the bond given for the purchase anU became its owner, and that afterwards the United States, finding the island the key to the harbor, took possession of it without his knowledge or consent, still holding the same its the propertyjof the government. To say the least the ancient general has been along time in discovering his rights in the matter, and it is very doubtful if the government will consent to listen to a claim to property of which it has been in undisputed possession for thirty-five years.

The Fort Wayne Gazette states by authority that Col. R. S. Robertson of that city is not a candidate for secretary of state. One of his friends publishes a card in which he says that when Col. Robertson starts out on the hunt of an office he will go for something better than the aboye. He has excellent material in him for a much higher position.

Old army officers are writing to senators orging that tbe action in retiring Qeneral Orant establishes a precedent Upon which they also have a right to ask to be retired. The communications receive no encouragement, as Grant's case is regarded as exceptional.

Rf, Rev. George F. Seymour, Episcopal Bishop of Springfield, 111., is in the city and will preach at St. Stephen's church this forenoon and evening. He ia an eminent divine, and has come to Indisna to amist Bishop Talbot during his serious illness.

An Ohio man, John M. Wilson, has been appointed consul to Bremen, and other Ohio men are hopeful. Ohio has been waiting long is waiting still—-for more. It remains to be seen how its hopes will pan out.

In England the administration disposes of a formidable political enemy by having him appointed to a good position on the bench. Probably Mr. Arthur thought of this in his recent selection of a supreme court judge.

Brule B. Strang, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed United States marshal for Dakota. It ia said he was obnoxious to Cemeron and Mitchell and that he has been sent to Dekota to be out of their way.

The fifth annual convention of the Indiana State Christian Temperance -Union will meet at Indianapolis April 5th, at 10 o'clock a. m. The official call will be published soon.

We have received from Hon. R. B. F. Peiroe abound copy of the Congressional Directory—a book that is very handy in a newspaper sanctum.

"RATAL AFFAIRS.

The naval advisory aboard iu their report riccntly submillfcd to congress recommended the expenditure of $30,000,000 in the construdmn of swift steelplated craiseis to taw the place of our present apolojry for a navy. The house committee on naval affairs considered the matter carefully and have agreed to report favorably an appropriation of*$10,000,000 on the class of ships recommended bj the bdard. It now tranpires that the government has four elephants on its hands of huge dimensions, in the shape of unfinished monitors. One, the Amphitrite, 874 tons, is at Wilmington, two, the Miantonomoh, 1,225 tons, and Terror, 1,085 tons, at Philsdelphia, and the Puritan, 1,870 tons, at John Roach's ship-yard, Chester. About $1,125,000 have been ex|wnded on the Paritan, and upon each -of the others nearly $1,000,000. They have been building lof these many years, but are yet from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 from completion and the question is whether to proceed „and'„: finish ''them or tear to pieces ibe work already done and dispose of the material to junk dealers. Commissioners have several times been appointed to examine the work and report thereon. In 1877 the Puritan was examined for the third time, the committee consisting of Naval Constructor John Lent hall and Chief Engineer B. F. Isherwood. These gentlemen received their instructions from the secretary of the navy, and in accordance with thoe instructions mads careful and personal examination of the vessel, the result of which was a very complete report, which was summed up as follows:

First—Neither plans or specifications were drawn for tho construction of the new Puritan, nor were any measures adopted to ascertain whether, when built, she would sink or swim. The failure or success of a fiist-class National iron-clad was thus left to the hazard ot mere chance.

Second—Thia vessel, as far as constructed, and if finished as contemplated, is a total failure nor can any change now practicable make her efficient-meaning, by that term, on equality with foreign irgn-clads of the same size and type. .T"'

Third—No measures itere taken to protect the Government interests either ia the cost of building the vessel or in securing efficiency for her when built "Uninvited proposals were made by the contractor iu the absence of plans, specifications or any definition of the kind, quantity or. quality of the work to be done, to build an updescribed vessel for a stipulated round sum of money and such'proposals were at once accepted without inquiry, competition or any provisions guarding the interest of the Government. No competent person would have allowed the commencement of a National iron clad of such dimensions and post without study and preparation on every point. Nor would an officer of the Government, careful of interest, have contracted for such a vessel, except after public competition. The manner in which tho new Puritan was built is a flagrant exhibition of gross Ignorance and culpable carelessness."

What is said of the Puritan applies with equal force to the other vessels manned. Mr. Whithmore, chairman of the naval committee during the six years of democratic rule, is of the opinion that it would be useless to ga ahead with these monitors, as they could not cope with any of the great modern-built war ships of other countries. Senator McPhfrson, of New Jersey, is of the same opinion. From the report on the Puritan it Beems that her construction has been of greater benefit to John Roach than to tbe United States. He has had thingg very much his own way, and the public may rest assured that he has made the moat of it. As a sea going vessel the monitor style of war vessels is a flat failure. It has neither speed nor sea going qualities, and for harbor defense the torpedo is much cheaper and far more effective. But the experience which we have had wilh expensive unfinished hulks at present in the navy /ards should teach congress to go slow. DuriBg and since the war the navy has cost the government immense sums of money, yet it has nothing to show for it. It is true we need new war vessels, but none but the best modeU should be accepted, and when accepted they should be built in the best possible manner at the least possible expense. We want ships which will float, and at the same time be useful as well as ornamental.

Rear Admiral Rodgers, superintendent of the United Stetes naval observatory, has written a letter to Secretary Hunt urging the appropriation of $85,000 for the expeditions to Observe the transit of Venus, December C, 1883. In the letter he says "The transit of Venus Is regarded by astronomers as an important means of ascertaining the parallax of the sun, a quantity which enten directly and as a most important factor in the deductions of astronomical science, for by its parallax onr distance .from the Bnn is computed,and our distance from the sun is a unit by which the universe is measured. The English Government in 1769 sent out Cap'.ain Cook to observe the transit of Venus, whence resulted the discoveries of that illustrious navigator, which have so much redounded to the honor and to the advantage of Great Britain. In these dayB the importance of the transit of Venus has become relatively less, since other means of finding the sun's parallax have been devisednbut the transit of Venus is still of so much moment that the countries of Europe are already making extensive and costly preparations to observe the transit of'December next We cannot afford to neglect this one, which will be the last until the year 2004. The principal Instrument employed by ourselves is different from anything which it is proposed to use in Eaiope—we contemplating to nse the horizontal photo heliograph. This method Is peculiarly American, and its use seems to promise so well that we think it should not b« neglected. Foreign photogsapblc methods have apparently given no results of value."

Hie letter has been forwarded to congress snd there is no doubt that the appropriation will be granted. The passage of the bill creating'the transit of Venns commission in 1S71, and making the first appropriation for tbe work, was secured by General Garfield. The commission is composed of prominent scientists in and out of the navy, and next year the work will be conducted under its auspices. Four parties of four men each will be sent to different portions of the United States, and like numbers to various points abroad.

General Sherman denies that his brother, the senator, is opposed to the bill placing General Grant on the retired list, but that on the contrary when tbe bill was up for consideration in the senate he not only advocated i!s passage but urged his friends to do tbe same. He also denies the story that be wants tbe bill held back in the hqtae.

ATCOTMEH VIEW OF HOMEOPATHY. The article ia tbe North Americat,~1)f which was given a good epitome iu a recent ngmber of your paper, has died forth a communication from tbe pen of Dr. Taylor to which a reply may be the beginning of a controversy, in wnich the respective merits of homeopathy and scientific medicine are likely to be folly discussed. Those who wish to have an intelligent understanding of the matter should obtain the article for careful perusal. It is true ita author is pronounced in "A View of Homeopathy" to be a partisan, but so is the author of the article just named, for beyond assertions aud denial* he offers nothing to call for attention. On the other hand Dr. Palmer supports bis statement by references to, and quotations from recognized homeopathic authorities. It is to one of these that I wish to refer, one that relates to a dogma which Hahneman considered essential to his system, and yet one which Dr. Taylor has the temerity to pronounce as betog in ao sense an homeopathic dogma, viz: That Hahneman did not teach that there was a gain in strength from trituration and shaking in the process of dilution

In an edition of Samuel Hahneman's Organon der Heilhmti, published in Coethen by Atthur Lutze, we find the following "Hingegan dient, dasB bei Bereiting homeopath ischer Aizoel-Verdunnungen stent bloss ein kleiner Theil Arznei zn efner ungehenem Mengeunarzaeilicher Flumigkelt hinsugetban, Oder leicht damit vermengt wlrd, wie in oblgem, bloss znr Spotterel ersonnenen Glelchneisse, Tielmehr entsteht durch das fortgesetzte Schutteln Oder Keiben nicht nur die inaigste Mlschung, Eondern sngleich—was die' Hauptsache 1st—elne so grosse, blsher ganz unbekannte, nie geahnte Veranderung in Aufschltesuug und Entwleklung der dynamiscnen Krafte der so bear bei te ten Arznel-Bubstanz, daises Erstaunenemgt"

Of the above this is a close translation: ["The continued shaking and rubbing together of a small portion of a medicinal agent with a law amount of a diluent causes not only a most intimate admixture, but simultaneously —the main poiiU-tnch a great, hitherto entbruy unknown, unanticipated change by devaoptng ana liberating the dynamic poieerg Of the thus treated medicinal substanceas to create attonwment."

This doctrine of potentization is inseparably in woven with the whole fabric of homeopathy and with its withdrawal tbe system, "baseless fabric of a dream" falls to the ground. Hahnemann wrote that, .-'The best dose was the very smallest one, in one of the high dynamizstions, as well for chronic as for acute diseases— a truth that is the inestimable property of pure homeopathy," and which keeps it separated from other systems by an impassable gulf."

To even refer to all of the correlated doctrines of Hahnemannism would take too much space, but.it will lead to clear thinkiug on tbe subject to familiarize oneself with the following propositions, a belief in which is essential to a true disciple of Hahnemann. 1. That diseases are dyoamic changes in a vital principle,,or, in other words, are spiritual entities not depending ppon material substances. 2. That the cure cf disease is most easily and completely affected by drugs,_ the therapeutic action of which closely simulates the symptoms of the disease itself and that the probability of a favorable result increases into the exactness of tbis resemblance. 3. That the power of drugs increases with their attenuation which may be carried to an almost nulimited extent. 4. That trituration or agitation confers new and augmented power u)on the drug so treated.

These constitute a foundation for the system of homeopathy, and will do just now a good seryice if they will enable our homeopathic disciples to discuss cogently the underlying principles of their school. it,,

Daniel Webster's Widow. S

New York Special, March 1. i? The funeral of Mrs Daniel Webster took place this morning from Trinity^ Church, New Rochelle, and the remains were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. The services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Canady. Mrs. Webster was the great statesman's second wife, and was born is New York City in 1797. Her father was the late Herman Leroy, head of the once famous house of Leroy, Bayiird,-McKiven & Co, who had a large trada in different parts of the world. Mr. Leroy was aliso the first Holland Consul to the United States. Mrs. Webster's mother was Hannah Cornell, a daughter of the last of the Royal Attorneys General ol the State of North Carolina. Caroline was one of the eleven children, and inherited from her parents qualities that bespoke high biirth and high connections. Even in her girl* hood days she was noted for a certain stately and impressive demeanor that caused her playmates to look upon her with deferential respect She was sent to a fashionable boarding school in New Jersey, where she received her education, and on her return to her. home at once began to make a brilliant impression in the leading society of the city of that day. She became widely known for hergifts as a conversationalist and for her attractive qualities generally. Her father's house at tbis period was at No. 76 Broadway, then one of the fashionable centers of the, city, and it was here that, in 1828, she was first introduced to Daniel Webster, the Senator from Massachusetts. Those conversational abilities, which had charmed so many of the visitors in her father's house, soon captivated tbe distinguished Senator, and, after only a few months' courtship, he married her. The ceremony was performed in Grace Church in February, 1829, in the presence of a large and fashionable assemblage.

After Mr. Webster's death Mrs. Webster returned to New York and lived with her brothers and sisters. But two of the family have survived her—the brothers who were at the bedside when the deceased lady passed away. After Mr. Webster's death 100 citizens of Boston contributed $1,000 each to a fund of $100,000, which was invested for the widow's benefit, and the interest of this she received regularly, although she had inherited sufficient property from her family to supply her needs. Mrs. Webster was among the spectators at the unveiling of the Bunker Hill Monument, and the last public event she attended was the ceremony of the unveiling of her hnsband's statue in Central Park in 1877. For three years preceding her death she had been in the habit of staying at the Leroy House in New Rochelle, the builder of which had in his lifetime often carried serosa the seas mercantile goods for her father's house. Her sister-in law, Mrs. Jacob Leroy, had been staying with ber since November last, when Mrs. Web* ster first began to be ailing, although she was able to be up and around the old house daily. Her courteous manners were the subject of admiring comment among all who came in contact with her, and she treated high and low with equal kindness and politeness. Those who were more intimate were often entertained by her anecdotes of her husband's career, of which she remembered and could narrate scores. She was very unostentatious in her later years, and loved the quiet retirement of tbe romantic house that wins an added interest and historical value from the fact that she lived and died. there. Her family were among thei oldest settlers in Pelham, aad tha family name is well known all over the country.

Sick and bilious headache, and all .derangements of stomach and bowels, cured by Dr. Pierce's "Pellets"—or anti-bilious granules. Twenty-five cents a vial No cheap boxes to allow wute of virtues. By druggists.

Oastelar's Oratory.

Castclar, Spain's greatest orator, resembles tho late Rufus Choate, in tb» Style of the eloquence and in his manner of speaking. Like. Choate, he is a very nervous man, and throws himself, soul and body, into his speeches. It is doubtful if the Spaniard's oratory would havo an important influence in the House of Commons. An Englishman is practical, and so much in love with facts as to be indifferent to mere rhetoric. Great as was Choate before a jury or a mass meeting, he did not attain to eminence as a debater while in Congress, Bat Castelar's audiences in the Cortes are Spaniards who loye tropes and apostrophes for themselves. Therefore we can easily believe the following account of the effect his speeches proouce

Before speaking, he is restless and* cannot keep quiet an instant, he enters tbe Chamber, leaves it, reenters, goes out again, wanders through the corridors, goes into the library and turns over thV "leaves of a book, rushed into the cafe to take, a glass of water, seems to be seized with fever, fancies that he will not know bow ta put the words tother, that he will be laughed at or not a single lucid iaea of Ms speech remains in his head he has confused and forgotten every thing. "How is your pulse?." his friends ask, smilingly.

When the' moment for speaking, arrives, he takes his place, with a bowed, head, trembling and pallid as a man condemned to death, who is resigned to losing in a single day the glory acquired with so many years of fatigue at that moment even hife enemies feel pity for his condition. He rises, gives a glance around him, and says. 'Senores!'

At once his courage returns, his mind iws clear, and his speech comes ,to like a forgotten air the President, the Cortes, the tribunes disappear. He see nothing but his gestures, hears nothing but his own voice, and feels naught bat the irresistible flame which burns within him, and the mysterious force that sustains and uphplds him. "I no longer see the walls of the room," he exclaims "I behold distant peoples and countries which I. have never seen.'?

He speaks by the hour, and not a deputy leaves the room, not a person moves in the tribune, not a voice interrupts him, not a gesture disturbs him not teven when he breaks the regulations has the president sufficient courage to. interrupt him.

Castelar is master of the assembly he thtrnders, lightens, sings, rages and gleams like fireworks makes his auditors smile, calls forth shouts of enthusiasm, ends amid a storm of applause, and goes away with his head in a whirl.

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The Longevity of the Anoients. Can man reach and pass the age of a hundred years, is a question concerning which physiologists have different opinions. Bunon was the first one in Francq to raise the question of the extreme limit of human life. In his opinion, pian becoming adult at sixteen, ought to live to" six times that age, or to ninety-six years. Having" been called upon to account for the phenomenal ages attributed by the Bible to the patriarchs, he risked the following as an explanation: ''Before the flood the earth was less solid, less compact than it is now. The law of gravitation had acted for only a little time the productions of the globe had less consistency, and the body of man, bein» more sftpple, was more susceptible of extension. Being able to grow for a longer time, it should, in consequences live for a' longer time than now." ...

The German Heusler has suggested, on the same point, that the ancients did not divide time as we do. Previous tjj the age of Abraham, the years, among some people of the East, was only three months, or a season so that they had a year, one of summer, one of fall, and one of winter. The year was extended so as to. consist of eight months after Abraham, and of twelve months after Joseph. Voltaire rejected the longevity assigned to the -patriarchs of the Bible, but accepted without question the stories of the .great ages attained by some men in India, where, he says, "It is not rare to see old men of one hundred and twenty years."

The eminent French physiologist, Flourens, fixing the complete development at twenty years, teaches that he should live live times as long as it takes him to become an adult. According to this author, the moment of a completed development may be recognized by the fact of the junction of tne bones with their apophyses. This junction fakes place in horses at five years, and the horse does not live beyond twenty-five years with the ox at four years, and it does not live over twenty years with the cat at eighteen months, and that animal rarely lives over ten years. With man, it is effected at twenty years. The same phvisologist admits, however, that human fife may be exceptionally prolonged under certain conditions of comfort, sobriety, freedom from care, regularity of haDits, and observance of the rules of hygiene and he terminates his interesting study of the point ("De la Longevite liumaine") with the aphorism, "Man kills himself, rather than dies."—Popular Science'Monthly.

Historical Items.

Henry HI. was the first English King who wore spurs with rowels. Sit hundred lions were killed at tho show given by the Roman Pompey.

Archimedes invented a screw for faciliating irrigation in Egypt, B. C. 600. Thenrst altar mentioned in Scripture was erected by Noah after the flooa.

Gibbon began to write his ''Declihp and Fall of tne Roman Empire" in London in 1772.

In Moscow the plague introduced by the Turkish army carried, off 20,00Q victims in a month.

During the fourteenth ind fifteenth centuries in France, guilty an iqjals suffered death on the gallows.

Peacocks were carefully reared on, the island of Samos, and sold at such high prices that Varo says they fetched nearly £2,000.

Grasshoppers were venerated in Greece both as .sacred and musical. Tbe Atheniaus wore gold ones in their hair to denote the antiquity of their race.

The body of Julius Caesar was borne to the grave on the shoulder^ of the magistrates Augustus by the Senators ana Germanicus by the tribunes, and centurions.

For more than two centuries the use of .the potato was vehemently opposed. At last Louis XV. wore si bunch of its flowers in the midst erf his courtiers, and the consumption of the roqt became universal in France. 's

In Japan, in honor of a deity Jiavitrj|' the head of a dog,the different streets of each town contribute to the maintenance of a oertain number of dogs they have their lodgings, and persons are especially appointed to take'care of them 5Vhen sick.

According to several writers, Charles' V. ordered a rehearsal of his own obsequies. His domestics marched with black tapers. Charles, folded in bis shroud, was laid in his coffin, and the service for the dead was chanted. The farce was followed in a few days by the real tragedy.

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TELEGRAPHIC.

OoBgreaa: The House Ostensibly.!* Discusses the Diplomatic and .Consular Appropriation

Bill, bat Really

Lets loose Ibe Political Doga of WAT for tbe Day—Washington News

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What it will. Cost to Help JDrowned-Out People in the Mississippi

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W?."* TI1K HOUSE. WASHINGTON March 4, 1882. Tbe bill patted providing for folding term ot the District Court of the United States at Wichita Kaa.

The Houee went into committee on the consular and diplomatic ^appropriation bill.

Hiecock claimed for the Republican party all the credit of the legislation of 1868, respecting the rights of naturalized citizens. He said that an inspection of the record would dissipate all illusions respecting the legislation oi .1868, created by Hewitt on Thursday, and would stfip Robinson of all his borrowed plumage.

Cox, of New-York, advocated the abrogation of the Bancroft treaty, which discriminated against the German citizen.

Robeson said the Irish question had again come to the surface, and the question had been argued by gentlemen on the other side, going to show that the interests of freedom, as represented by struggling Ireland, found their great defender in the Democratic party. The orators and speech makers of the other side stood np to tax the ear of the country by declaring the great and unquestioned principles of freedom, progress and tbe rights of man, and adding to it the falsehood that the modern Democracy of this country was the champion and defender thereof.

Cox inquired whether the bill of E. R. Hoar, providing that a residence of two years in Germany by a naturalized German citizen of the United States expatriated such a citizeB, had not come from Grant's Cabinet, of which the gentleman from New Jersey was a member.

Robeson—I don't so remember it but I remember that that treaty, and all treaties which recognized in the form of international law the rights of foreign born citizens here, and elsewhere, cud originate in the Cabinet of General Grant, and were plaped on ,the treaty book under his auspices, and when there was a twethirds Republican majority in the Senate.

Cox—Do jou approve. the Bancroft treaty? Robeson—I did not take die floor to answer all questions of my own belief on the legislation of the country. I merely took the floor to say that, like in any other good causes, the Irish cause has loBt much by the weakners of its leaders and the inconsistency of its advocates. The freedom of labor Irish or German, must look for its protection in future, as it has done in the past, to that party, and that party only, which cherishes in its principles and illustrates in its action deep and profound sympathy with man, and not to that party which, during its years of power, held labor in chains and degraded it by association with slavery.

Cox—The gentleman did not answer the question I propounded, though he was a member of General Grant's Cabinet. That treaty gave away the rights of naturalized citizens without consulting them. Well did the cunning| gentleman avoid answering the question. When any man on the other side impeaches this side with being recreant in its devotion to the naturalized citizen, he falsifies history and will be convicted for it before the peopled this eountry.

Robeson said that during thirty years that the Democratic party held sway that principle had never been embodied, either in legislation or in treaty, and it had remained for the Repnbhcan administration of General Grant to recognize it aad. place It in the statute books forever. The great battles of civilization were not achieved by the entail boys who put feathers in their caps fend inarched ahead of the music, but by the great column of stalwart soldiers, who marched steadily on to a principle, and overcame it by their assaults or trampled it down by their pressure. He Wonld' remind the gentleman from New York [Cox] of what Bnrke once said in a debatt somewhat similar to this: "The gentleman forgets that the grasshopper that chirps on die bough is not the only occupant of the field, where a thousahd noble cattle chew the end is silence.'.' [Laughter.]

Bragg sarcastically inquired whether the stalwart column to which Robeson alluded was the stalwart colqmn numbered 30(5.

William*, of Wisconsin, suggested that if the Democratic party was not a friend of the Irish, it ongnt to te, for at times it would be seriously inconvenienced if it were not for Irish votes.

The reading ol the bill for amendments was proceeded with. Springer offered an amendment for the consolidation of minions lost.

Goo verse offered an amendmentabolishing Consular fees rejected. Bruner moved to strike oht the provision for a Consul at Lisbon adopted.

Consideration of the bill was concluded] and it was reported to the Honse, and the previous question ordered on thep—sage of the bill, but no forther action taken.

Reed presented a protest againat the admission of Dakota, as a State, signed by mmr s--i'

numerous bondholders of Yankton ountj, Dakota reletfcd. Adjiuranl ,.£* w-

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__ BRADY |T£L) D.1RSKT INOFORKD. WASHINGTON, March 4.—The Grand |6ry cane Wto the ^rimilMil Court today and presented indictments for conspiracy in connection with the Star route mail service against the following: Tho*. J. Brady, S. W. Doiaey, Henry M. Vail, John W. Dorsey, John R. Miner, John M. Peck, M. C. Rodell, J. S. Sanderson, Win. H. Turner. Also against Altin O. Boek/ Wa&. &'Barrisger and Albert E. JBoone, and against Kate M. lAfttiBtroiag tor pe»jihe indic ment agarhst Br*dy, Dorsey and other! are Very votamfcKma and baaed upon charges heretofore stated in the prosecution oi the cases in the various Stages.

SEAS ROUTE BIDS.

WASHISGTOJT. March 4.—The contract division of tbe Post Office Department, today, sent out nearly 3,000 notifications to successful Btar route contractors, informing Iheih of official acceptance of their proposals for service. Tbe aggrigate sum of these bids is abont $4,000,000. A. E., Boone one of the contractors now under indictment for conspiricy by the Qrant Jury, has secured a large number of these'awards, although, if found guilty of this offence the Department may begin proceedings looking to the cancellation ot these and similar contracts.

AID FOB THE OVBHFLOWKD. The Secretary of WAr to-day telegraphed •Senator Vest, of Missouri, jn reply to a telegram from Governor Crittenden for more rations, as follows: Eight days' supplies for. tbe number stated by him fQovsrnor Crittenden in Mississippi and Pemiscott counties have' ^already been 'sent. In view oi the enormous demands from' lower down the *rtfer it does not seem-advisable tQJncreaee

Q-J.L Congrees for all the sufferers. The dele-

iaai »w»..vu uicuuim wurauiiri.^ Congress for additional appropriations, and Secretary Lincoln will detai ght Army officers to visit the suffering fetricts and report the wants thereof? It is stated that all the Beed corn is de-

consent snd pass the bill to retire tbe trade dollar.

Randall objected. He favored the oi ject contemplated by the bill, but did no think the mea#{ire should he sgreed to in this manner.

Hiecock presented the. conference report on the immediate deficiency bill. He explained that the bill as it now stood increased the opproprlalion made by tbe House, $256,0C0. The report was sgreed to.

Miller,from the Committee on Election", reported a resolution dismissing tbe contested election case of Smith vs. Robertson, Sixth district of Louisiana adopted.

Horrj from the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill to prevent shipping from foreign countries adulterated food and drugs into tbe United Stages House calendar.

the supplies

to thia point at preseaU For example, the Arkansas

commissioners

asks i5,0C0.rat|ooe for forty days, which alone #mld ooet about f20,000 more than the total amount appropriated by

atroyed, and unless this want is supplied the want of the present will be turned into an actual famine during the year

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GETTING IN THXIR WOBK.

Advocates of the improvement of ine Mississippi river are using the present condition of the valley as a strong argument in favor of a liberal appropriation to build National levees and straighten the course of the river.

Ala Sin Host Go.

SAN FKANCISCO, March 4.—The anti Chinese demonstration this afternoon was on a grand scale. Long before the hour fixed Piatt's Hall was packed with the best citizens, while a crowd oi probably 30,000 surged about the stands erected on Montgomery and Pine streets. The hall was beautifully decorated for the occasion with die National colors. At two o'clock the meeting was called to order by Jacob S. Tabor,'president of the Board of Trade, who read a long ljst of vice presidents, composed of leading citizens in every department of business, including all the Judges of the United States and State courts. In a few words Mr. Tabor introduced Msyor Blake as the presiding officer, Mr. Blake spoke briefly, dwelling on the importance of appealing to the good judgment and sense of propriety of the Nation. After a short address by Hon. Phillip A. Roach, W. E. Sheridan, tbe actor, read Gov. Perkins' proclamation appointing a legal holiday, and a letter expressing the inability of the Governor to be present, and his entire sympathy with the demonstration. The Chairman read the following dispatch from Gov* ernor Kinkead, of Nevada: "Nevada united vith your people. Meetings will be held in all the towns of this State to give expression to the popular opinion."

Mr. Sheridan then read the resolutions prepared for the occasion. The preamble recites tbe ruinous consequences of Chinese immigration, and continues: The people of San FrancisCo, in general mass meeting assembled, do therefore solemnlv reiterate and reaffirm the unanswered and unanswerable arguments heretofore made in their previous petitions to Congress for relief, and they farther respectfully urge that time and experience have but confirmed their apprehensions ss to thegreat dangers that would arise from unrestricted Chinese immigration. It is therefore

Resolved, That laying aside all political distinctions, we unite as one man, as one people, as loyal and law-abid-ing citizens of the Republic, in urging npon Congress the absolute necessity for speedy and efficacious legislation pursuant to the tenor of the recent treaty with China, restricting and controlling Chinese immigration. Be it further

Resolved, That our Senators and Representatives from this coast have onr entire approval and hearty and nnited support in their efforts to present this great question to the country as of vital importance and deserving immediate and favorable action on the part of the Federal Government. Be it further

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be telegraphed to onr Senators and Representatives in Congress.

The resolutions were greeted with enthusiasm and adopted. The chairman then read a dispatch from Senator Farley, expressing confidence in the passage of the anti-Chinese ibill. Tbe meeting was then addressed by Judge J.

ess

S. Hager,

W. M. Estee Irving M. Scott, Paul Newman and John F. Swift (Ex-Treaty Commissioner to China), W. T.-Coleman, Horace Davis, and others, some of the gentleman speaking in the ball, others addressing the crowds in the streets. The speeches were characterized by moderation and dignity of tone, and calm argument, reviewing in a number of cases the positions taken by the opponents of the measure now before Congress. During the meeting a procession of Workingmen escorting a number of children in a wagon, bearing the motto, "Shall onr boys and girls, or Chinamen, have California?" passed through thp crowds on Montgomery street, ana was received with applause. The demonstration throughout was conducted with the greatest decorum, becoming the deliberate expression of sentiment or all classes of the city, irrespective of buna

or politics. Business was closed

for the day, and the observance of the holiday wafgeneral. Dispatches are pouring in from the interior, showing that similar demonstrations have been held thropgbont California and Nevada.

Close ol the Walking Match. NEW YQBK, March L—Score at 9 o'clock: Hazael, 598J Sullivan, 525 Noremac, 555 Hughes, 535 Fitzgerald, 575 Hart, 542.

At 9:11 Haxael completed his-600th mile, and the cnampion and Fitzgerald were stopped in front of the scorers' stand, where Hazael received the jeweled whip, and he and his companion made a farewell circuit of the track. Hazael's record when he finally left the track, was 000 miles and one lap Fitzgerald, ffil miles Noremac, 555 miles Hart, 542 miles, two laps Hughes 535 miles Sullivan, 525 miles.

The great contest ended w|th an exhibition walk by two small bcrys, The offidaf time when each man left the track, was as follows: Sullivan, 6:53 Norniite, 8:48 Hughes, 8:43 Hart, 8:42 Hazael, 9:15 Fitzgerald, 9:1-5. The race officially ended at 9:15.

Tbe actual resting time of each man

Cure of Coughs, CoW ss, Bronchitis,Croup, inl

*enza, Asthma,Whooping Cough, Incipient Consumption and for the relliefof consumptive persons in ad vanIced stages of the Disease. For Sale

who lasted through to the fiuish was as fellows: Hazael, 35:21 Fitzgerald, 29:23 Noremac, 32:05 Hart, 80:41 Hngbesi 35:51 Sullivan, 33:13.

As soon as the men left the track tbey were immediately removed by their friend to their hotels and quarters outside of the garden.

There will be about $30,000 gate money to be distributed among the six men.

Treubie Saved.

It ia a remarkable fact that Thorn a*1 Eclectric Oil is as goed for internal as tern a 1 use. For diseases of the lungs throat, and for rheumatism, neuralgis .crick in the back, wosnds, and sores, it is the beet known remedy, and much trouble it saved by having it always on hand.|

NOTICECITYNON-RESIDENTS

TO OF

THE OF TERRE HAUTE, VIGO COUNTY, INDIANA.

CITY CLKKK'S OFTICK, 7

TEKBX HAUTK. Ind., Feb. 16th, 1882. To John F. Knight, Ellen Modesitt. Jnlia B. Caaghltn, Amelia R. McPheeteiv, and alt others whom it may concern:

In purananoe of an order ot the Common Council of the City ol Terre Haute, Vigo Coun ty, Ind., I hereby notify you that on the 29th day of Maich. 1882, the City Commlssfonera meet at the office ca the Mayor on the nor west oorner of Fourth and Walnut streets, said city, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 6 o'clock p. m., and proceed thence to the grounds for the purpose of appraising a&dss sesslng the benefits and damages that may ac erne to you by reason of the opening of the fol lowing proposed alley, to-wik

Whose west side will be 140 feet east of tht southwest comer ol out-lot No. 12 of theorigl nal survey of the City of Terre Haute the sale alley to be fifteen feet in width running thenct Dorth to the north line of out-lot No. 12] thenct east the same width to the east line ot th alley already opened between Sixth and Six and-a-half (6%) attests, ta said city and county In accordance with the plat of the Mid Cltj Commissioners now on file In this office.

Witness my hand anA official seal this ictt day of February, 1882. V-a-, EUGENE V. DEBS. •{Seal}. City Clerk.

PPLICATION FOR LICENSE.

tfoUce Is hereby giv that I will apply the Board of Commissioners of Vigo county, ai their June term, for a license to sell "in toxica ting liquors" in a lesa Quantity than 11

Slie

uart at a time, with the privilege of allowing same to be drank on my premises, for om year. Myplaoeof business and the premise whereon said liquors are to be sold and drank are located on the northeast oorner of First and Poplar streets, on lot No. 208 in the old plat the town (now city) of Terre Haute, Harilsoi township, Vigo county, Indians.

JOHN L. TUCKER.

IRUSTEE'S SALE.

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Notire la hereby given that tbe umlertigned Trustee by assignment of Jacob Bebringer, wil sell at public auction to the highest bidder, a: the late place of business of said Jacob Behring er, No. 829 Main street. Terre Haute, Ind., tht stock of goods, groceries, provisions and othe article* assigned to me. Said sale to be on th *in day of March, 1882, beginning at 1 Oo'clocl A. M., and-to continue from day today if neces **¥JSKM8 OF SALS to be made known on Uu dayofsale. 8TE1NMKHL, Trustee.

OG TAX. *.

Notice is hereby given that the new dog law will go into effect April 1st, 1382. Previous tt that time every person wishing to own or bar bor a dogmust report the same totheTownshf Trustee, and pay |1 each for every male and ft each tor every female dog over six months s, and for each dog more than one the sum __ jach. The Trustee will then issue a iaetalll check to the owner of each dog registered aut numbered, and no check (hall be used on anj dog other than the one for which it was issue by the Trustee, snd any attempt to evade thl. provision ahall be held to be a misdemeanor and he punishable by a fine of not more thai twenty-five dollars. The constables of ihi various towns and townships will then proceet to kiU all does having no checks.- Persons own lug dogs will take notice and secure the! checks before the time expires, as the law wil be strietly enforced.

Office houri for the registering of dogs ever day during March, Sunday's excepted, trom 8 a m. to 19 m. and from 1p.m. to p. m. Office 681% Main street, up stairs.

L.FINKBINER,

Trustee Harrison Township.

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