Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 December 1882 — Page 2

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The supreme court yesterday bad a few words lo say on the subject of political as^.ssrnents.

The contractors building the state capitol say they will lose a quarter of a million on the contract, and are pre paring to ask the legislature to help them out of the scrape.

The house yesterday decided against a recess over the holidays, and showed its zeal for work by passing a resolution fining members 850 for absence during the gay season. It is the fate of the bad boy tj bo "kept in after ,'-chool."

The New York World says: "Jt becomes a duty for Democratic journals to disavow Mr. Daniel Voorhees and permit him to go where he belongs, and even to assist him in that direction if he shows a continuing disposition to be a Democratic marplot."

An Indianapolis correspondent of liie Express a short time since, kindly prepared a cabinet for "Old Saddlebags," with the provision that the exlienator must first be chosen by the people to fye president. The press has as arule taken kindly to the cabinet. AVe merely wish to make the announcement that the Express has correspondents who can furnish cabinets which are warranted to (it.

The news from Ireland this morning is distressing. There arc twenty-five hundred persons in one locality on the brink of starvation men testify that

ion of murder they did so under the belief that they were preparing for nothing worse than when preparations are made for war, and Parnell delivers a speech which is anything but. conciliatory in tone. Altogether, the holidays will not be an occasion of rejoicing in,the land of the shamrock.

According lo the Terre Haute Express, "tho Democratic party is continually proving Itself to be a blustering slinm. It howled for civil service reform, and now that Its representatives have an opportunity to promote such reform they are found wanting."

This may be owing to the fact that the Republicans have a voting majority in each branch.—[Cincinnati News.

The News evidently has not been reading the full reports from Washingington in the columns of its esteemed contemporary, the Enquirer, of the speeches made by Senators Brown and Voorhees in opposition to the civil service reform bill.

TOO MUCH POPULATION. An English economist calculates that in 19S2 this country may have a population of 800,000,000, and that again it may not have 200,000,000. It affords occupation to statistical souls and basis for dreadful fears of impending ruin to crowd the world with a multitude too great for support. Developments do much to show that several may exist in plenty where now one hardly supports life. Discoveries continually disclose .hidden resources of nature and science for man's benefit.

The waves of the Atlantic for ages washed upon the shores of South Carolina shells, fish bones, dead fish and other of the veriest refuse of nature to bo buried, decomposed and transformed into tho rich beds of phosphates that now furnish fertilizers to increase the yield of the sterile northern farms. A sieel rail company can make its plant by beds of culm or anthracite waste, too vt'lulcfs to be removed, and by modern improvements draw thence -ts fuel at a cost of 10 cents a ton. The I'rugal

Chinaman gleans after the

American and European miner and gathers a store of gold from a deserted gold-placer. In his own crowded empire he tills the mountains to their tops, and makes a row of luxuriant terraces on a barren declivity. The coal tar and waste ot a great gas works were first worth nothing, then five thousand and then forty thousand dollars a year. Along the avenues of great cities, where thousands can hard'.y live appear a swarm of scavengers who find money in the valuless rubbish and otlal thrown into the streets. Into the •ields where once the straw was a burden comes the chemist to show that it will make paper-pulp, and its price pies up. Here is the fairy of the story who spun straw into gold. A trace of oil on a stream and its gush into a well, and straightway there is work and money for a hundred thousand, and a single company. accumulates fifty millions in a score of years. The more people in the world, the more to discover its hidden riches. Science olds tho philosopher's stone—its

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magic touch turns dross to gold. Weeds become useful plants rubbish enriches more goldea dustmen stratum beneath stratum appears as each are exhausted the viewless gases are caught and solidified. As in the apostle's dream, nothing is common or unclean—or useless. It is easier to believe that cities will some day hang in the air and burrow to the earth's center than that the coming races will lack room, support and plenty. It is impossible to limit our resource*. When the southern lands raise tea and the silk culture flourishes south and west, when the beds of ore and minerals already located by geologists but untouched by labor, are worked when the Pacific trade goes through a Nicarauga canal and the Florida ship canal, when the Mississippi valley is all tilled and the great river crowded to the gulf with the commerce that will go south and west, when New York will be a London, and San Francisco a New York, when the Pacific slope is fairly settled from San Diego to Sitka— why, then we will still have room if needed—but it may not be needed, for one factor in all the calculations maybe unnecessary. It is that of foreign immigration, which like other race movements, will run its course and cease.

Doubtless.

Cincinnati Enquirer. We think wo know Langtry well enough to say sho will hang up her Christmas stocking where Freddy can get at it.

Time for Aotion.

Washington Post. Ton years of discussion would not make the legislative mind more familiar than it now Is with the civil service question.

A Great Place.

Opellka Is the greatest place In Alabama. It has two mayors, two factious, two sets of warriors, two battles, two wounded men, one dead man, and one very bad reputation.

How it Fays.

Indianapolis Journal. St. Louis merchants take hold of business in a business-like way, and ns if they intended to sell something during th? holidays. One firm takes an advertisement of four—not columns—pages. The result is that everybody is set to talking about that firm, and it is safe to say that their bills will surpass those of all former seasons.

It May Beoomo a Burlesque-

National Republican. Civil servico reform would soon become iv burlesque if It should be invoked by every over-fed, lazy, an Insolejit official of the barnacle class when called upon to yield his place to some one more willing to realize that tho government itself is not subordinate to him.

WISE AND OTHERWISE.

Mi-3. Langtry is said to be forty years old, Gerster is singing in Russia this winter.

Gen. Howard insists that fencing is neglected at West Point. The favorite color for undressed kids for street wear is dark tan.

The highest salary paid to a woman teacher in Iowa, is $1,200. A firm iu St. Sebastian, Plm-ir1« v,-~ on r\en »•i--~

Leadville is now extracting ore from a depth of 800 feet below tho surface. The improvements to Lowell mill buildings this year are put at a million.

There seems to be an epidemic of exposures of wives, infidelity in St. Louis.

The attempt to enforce the Sunday

law in New York has practically been

abandoned.

Tho widow of Chief Justice Hardin, of Ky., was found starving in squalid poverty in Louisville.

Minister Astor has given 2,000* francs for the relief of sufferers by the recent floods in North Italy.

The Chicago Herald says that "Mr. Josef Medill's New England fonetie friends propose to shake the final 'c' from ague.

One of Mrs. Labouchere'strunks was stolen by a daring thief from an express wagon while being conveyed to the stealer.

It is still an open question whether Fweddy's mistake was in making too much love to Langtry or too little to Laboucliere.

It isn't Senator Kellogg but his pretty pup, a real imported spaniel, which is one of the reigning sensations in Washington just now,

The reason Dorsey has not written any more lectures is explained by the Chicago Times, which says he is "waiting for two-cent postage.

The president expects to spend Christmas in the White House. The otfial new year's reception will undoubtedly take place there.

Mrs. Neil Denison, daughter-in-law of ex-Governor Denison, of Ohio, whoso recent debut in comic opera caused a furore in social circles, is dead.

New Orleans Times: Solidified whisky is the latest racket. It bites off like candy, and can be taken straight in the mouth. It will fill a want long felt by lecturers.

A man named Sturmra, of Indianapolis, wants a good many thousand dollars for defeating Maximilian in Mexico, now that Wallace has been paid. Sturmm was quartermaster.

The shortest courtship on record is here given: A California miner fell fn love with a girl at first sight. She was equally smitten with him and the entire courtship was: "Mv pet?"

You bet."

A JAPANESE PRINCE.

His Arrival on tho Scythta. New York, Deo. lti.—The Prince of Arisgawa, uncle of the emperor of Japan, arrived in this city to-dav on the Scythia, and at present occupiesa suite at the Windsor hotel. The prince is accompanied by four Japanse officers of high rank named Hayaski, Nissi, Y'amanoto, and Kato. The first named is tho chamberlain to the ei.'peror. The party was met by M. Tokakashi, the Japanese consul at this port, and a delegation of Japanese merchants of this city and of Washinton. Theprince received the party cordially. He is a man of dignified appearance, 47 years of age, and somewhat below the average height, lie does not speak English, but he has some knowledge of French. At the Windsor lie was

He regrets that he is compelled to return to his native country at an earlydate, and hopes at no distant date to return and pay an extended visit to thie country. "He said that he was impatiently looking forward to meeting "his friend," General Grant.

THERESA STURIjA'S WRONGS.

Her 3Ifnd TJnscttlcdBy the Crnelty of the Man Sho Loved.

The Story of Charles Stile's Inhuman Treatment of Her for Fire Tears Before Sho Killed Him.

A Chicago correspondent tells the following story of Theresa Sturla's wrongs, which led her to kill the man who abused her, and for which she has just been sentenced to one year iii the penitentiary.

The trial of Theresa Sturla for the murder of Charles Stiles was concluded to-day. Yesterday Mr.Trude made the closing appeal to the jury ior the unfortunate girl, and United States Attorney Mills closed for the prosecution. During Mr. Trade's speech much sympathy was manifested for his client by the spectators, and at its close the applause was loud and hearty. The feeling of sympathy was so infec tious that one of the jury even joined in the applause but, realizing hisim proper conduct, he covered his face with his hands and displayed great embarrassment. This forenoon the jud^e delivered his charge to the jury, closing at noon. The jury then went out, and the court adjourned until p. m.

The story of Stile's extraordinary cruelty to the girl, Theresa Sturla, which has been unfolded by degrees during the trial, has, it is believed, no parallel in this country. The defense set up for Miss Sturla at the opening of her case was self-defence and insanity. As the case progressed it became more and more evident that insanity was to be the main reliance of the de fence. It has been shown that on many occasions after Stiles had beaten despoiled, and temporarily abandonee, the girl, she suffered intensely from hysteria, and in some cases showed unmistakable signs of insanity. She was naturally superstitious, and Stiles, knowing this, worked upon her fears to accom plish his ends. When out driving with her at night he would take her into some neglected or abandoned grave' yard, and fill her ears with ghostly romances, until she would scream with terror. One night he drove the old cemetery at the south end of Lincoln Park, and talking to the girl of ghosts, ekeletens skulls, and other matters conhectec. with the dead, frightened her so that she leaped from the carriage. The horses took fright and ran away, and she hid behind a vault for hours, afraid to move.' After a night of agony she made her way to a neighboring house and related her wrongs to sympathetic family, certain members of which have appeared at the trial to corroborate her story.

The incantations indulged in by the girl when suffering from Stiles' illtreatment luivo b^cr. used to show the unsettled condition of her mind. feliciles','re"a3 letters to her't'ffencfs^iW? over them, and talk incoherently. She would, stick pins through photographs and stand them on their heads, and make pin holes in all sorts of things She was always- burning incense and burying things in a box of dirt. When suffering physically or mentally from his cruelty she would sing and cry and laugh alternately-, and then would throw herself on' the floor, talking to herself, first in Italian and then in English. A lady and gentleman, who move in the first circles of society here, heard her screaming once as they passed her dwelling on Wabash avenue, and rushing in, found Stiles escaping and the girl on the floor, with marks of his fist on her forehead and of his fingers at her throat. The lady who is noted for her philanthropy, has been a constant visitor of the defend ant since the tragedy, and testified in her defense.

The dress whichthegirl had painted with snakes, lizards, crocodiles and frogs for the purpose of scaring Stiles into decent behaviour was originally

supplied with diamonds for the

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ot' tne reptiles, but Stiles took the diamonds and used their proceeds. So low had Stiles fallen while outwardly maintaining the appearance of re spectability that no expedient seemed too desperate or infamous if it prom ised to result in money. When it suited his purpose to be kind to her, he overpowered her with affection When money could not be got in this way, ho would knock her down and kick her prestrate form. If under these circumstance she still clung to the home in which they lived, he would order her, beg her or compel her to go to wealthy men about town or to houses of ill-repute, to procure money for him. The fact that she clung to him through all this, and

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ever ready to return to him when he promised to make her his wife, is now cited as the slrongest proof of her insanity.

The Stiles family, as has been said, was onco wealthv and very prominent in Illinois. It has been shown, however, that old Gen. Stiles died in this •irl'sarms, giving her his dying blessing,and thanking herfor her goodness to liis son that one or two uncles of the murdered man were at various times assisted financially by Miss Sturla, aud that Stiles more than once obtained money from her to use for his younger brothers. The attorney for the defense undertook the other day to bring these facts before the jury, but the evidence was ruled out as incompetent. The girl in her story of her life referred to this part of her career as follows:

An Offensive TheatricalEnterprise. XPW York Sun. The revival project of a Passion Play in this city is arousing a storm of disapprobation. It finds no favor with religious people of any kind. Protestant Christians are, we believe, almost unanimously against it. Vicar-general Preston says that, while the Roman Catholic church is not likely to actively oppose it, the opinion of the clergy is that the show will involve irreverence, and ought not to be attempted. The Jewish Messenger doubtless expresses the Jewish sentiment when it says that "the better classes of the community are opposed to its presentation." It may be as truly added that intelligent infidels are not in favor of

waited upon by another delegation of! anything that wantonly and needlessly his countrymen, who were presented by Mananari Terashimn, the Japanese minister at Washington. The Prince of Arisgawa left Japan in June last. He proceeded to England, and, after traveling over that country, visited all the countries on the continent, with the exception of Norway and Sweden.

shocks anybody's religious sense. To personate Christ on the stage is highly offensive.

It seems foolish, too. viewed «s a business venture. Of whom are paying audiences to be composed Surely, not of religious people and what will there !e in the exhibition to at-

The New York Sun tells of the effect on the money-order business, which by the way has increased at the Terre Haute office in about the same ratio, according to population. The Sun

''¥lie money orders sent abroad dur ing eleven months of the year average about £1 each, and are pretty regular in their flow. But about the 1st of December they begin to increase largely in number and amount. People send over extra provision for Christmas gifts to the friends across the sea. The volume of these remittances increases day by day up to about the 12th of the month, and" then falls off gradually until the end of the year. By January 1 the ordinary level is reached. On Tuesday last 5,300 money orders were sent from here, of which the average value was $12.54. That was the busiest day for money orders. Those orders went to all parts of the world, but the greatest .number to any one country were directed to Ireland.

AN ERRING WIFE'S VAIN APPEAL.

Social Scandle at East St. Louis—Detected and Turned From Home St. Louis, Dec. 18.—The people of East St. Louis and Belleville, III., are greatly agitated over a scandal which affetts the standing of the wife of W D- Uncer, the paymaster of the Cario Port Line railroad, and William M. Elager, a prominent banker of Belleville. A few days ago Uncer received a letter from unknown source which told him that his wife was not true to her marriage vows. He hired a private detective to shadow the lady. Yesterday this detective came to him hurriedly and told him to come quick, and led him into the hallway of a certain house, and pointing to a door, told him that his wife was in there. The husband knocked on the door and called out to those within, but received no answer. He then kicked the door open, when he was confronted by a man with a rovolver, who told him not to advance. He was very cool, and told the man that he had not come for blood, but simply to identify the occupants of the room, and, walking forward, he made the discovery he dreaded. He walked away without a word and went to his home.

Several hours later, after dark, there was a ring at the door bell. Going to the door, he found the erring woman there. He asked her what she wanted. She was crying, aud said she wanted to come in. He told her that she could never come in there again, that they must always be as strangers, and he would try to take care of the children and teach them to forget the woman who had forgotten them. She pleaded hard for forgiveness aiul against being turned out into the streets, saying she had no money and no place.to go for shelter. He opened his pocketbook and gave her all the money he had, bade her good-bve, and closed the door.

The Comet Moving. South, ew York Sun. The great comet which astonished everybody by suddenly blazing out close beside the sun at broad noon in September, and which shone brilliantly in the early morning hours during October, hja not yet disappeared. It may be seen any clear morning, soon after midnight, a little southeast of the constellation of Orion, and it is still so bright that manv persons seeing it far south of the place it occupied two months ago think it must be a comet.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19.1882.

tract scoffers? The qualities In The Black Crook which the clergy preached against t»-ere pleasing to many amusement seekers, and all thie condemnation was just so much effective advertising. But the Passion Piay will fall to the ground betwixt those who will not pay to Bee it on principle and those who "will not deem it worth paying to see.

But without regarding the judgment of the man who is getting his Passion Play ready for the stage, there will be no question" as to the foolishness of the aldermen if they passau ordinance to stop him. This is a free city in a free country. Nobody will be compelled to witness the sacrilegious exhibition and its promoter will be transformed, in unbiassed public consideration, from an offender to a martyr if subjected to religious intolerance. Let him and his show alone.

CHRISTMAS CORRESPOXDEN'CE.

Curlous Features of the St. I.onls Postofflco Business Daring the Holiday Season. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

The busiest place in St. Louis now is the postoffice. "I shall be infernally glad when this racket is over," said a carrier yesterday as he climbed up the steps with two well stuffed bags over his shoulders. "It is the woi"°t I ever saw. You go out with a load, you hustle around in a hurry and you come back with a bigger one. Just why everybody wants to write a letter to everybody else just before Christmas is something I can't make out, but they will do it, and we've got to carry the letters," It is not alone the carriers whose efforts are taxed to the utmost. Inside the postoffice everybody from high to low is_ on the bounce. The third-class, registry department was a sight. Boxes, bundles, packages of all sizes and descriptions were piled in an indiscriminate mass. The windows were crowdedin lines, and the clerks fairly groaned with their labors. At the registered letter window a long line of people stood, and the money-order clerks were so beset, that they could hardly be polite. One of them, in a moment of impatience, resented a sneering remark from a citizen in line, and was immediately assailed with a proclamation in a loud tone that "You area public servant, sir, and don't you get impudent, or I will call on your superior." The poor clerk wilted. As a matter of fact there does seem to be less effort to expedite business in the money-order department than any other. Though there are two windows for the reception of money-order applications, only one is opened, and the long line of applicants are but slowly waited upon. Yesterday people stood in line half an hour and upwards. The registered-package department is where the work now is, and it will continue so until after Christmas. The sending out and receiving of presents through the mails involves tons of bags—enough to fill every postoffice van to the roof on every trip to the Union Depot. "And," said an official, "every package means an extra letter, and thats what makes the mails so heavy."

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It is not at all surprising, however, that the comet is yet visible. Some of the great comets of history remained visible for many months "after their perihelion passage, and it is doubtful if any comet ever seen exceeded this one in brightness when near the peri-

helion point. The question whether the comet will return next year, or in a few year^fliereafter, Sand fell iiito the sun, is Btill beibg debated. The best observations of its ofrbit seem to indicate that it will not sooix return, and no astronomer of reputation lends countenance to the notion that it threatens disaster to the earth.

Astronomers have tb deal with a great many tough problems, but not any is tougher than thai of determining the orbit of a new comet, and few comets have given more trouble in this respect than the one now visible. Calculations of its period have varied from a few months to 200 years, and some computations indicate'thatitmay never return, but go wandering off through space, to fall, some hundreds or thousands of years hence, within the attractions ot some other sun, when it may repeat its performance of last fall to the inhabitants of worlds belonging to another solar system.

A Dress With Eighteen Hundred Buttons. New York ietter.

It almost seems incredible, and had I not had ocular proof, I should not dare to state it, that a single dress should have on it eighteen hundred buttons, varying in size. Ten days were consumed in arranging and sewing on the buttons by a seamstress. On each sleeve there were ene hundred buttons on the body, basque, and collar three hundred and fifty, and on the skirt one thousand three hundred and fifty. Those on the skirt were arranged in triangles, squares, crosses, stars and other curious shapes, on a foundation of black satin. The^dress had a satiny appearance, and was very weighty—so much so that it would require a lady of considerable strength to wear it. The intention wa6 to nave two thousand buttons on it, but the entire Burface of the dress would have to be covered. The buttons were all black, some round and others fiat, and many of them quite expensive.

INDUSTRIAL.

Items of Interest Prom Our Various Industries.

Car Shops.

Charley Steward sports a new overcoat. The switch engine is standing in the yards, all frozen up.

JakQ Jerrell was absent from the shops, Friday, on account of sickness.

Bob Parker is considered tho best punster and comedian there is in the carpentering department.

Edward Wires, a pattern maker, left yesterday afternoon for New York state, where he expects to remain for several weeks.

Yesterday, while John Baker was standing on a board, it broke, apiece striking him on the head, severely bruising and cutting him.

J. Reese will do the lettering work on the new refrigerator cars that are now in process of construction, and no doubt it will be splendidly executed, as Mr. Reese is a first class artist. This is his first week at the car shops.

The refrigerator caiB which are being built at the shops will bejnore substantial and elegant than any that have ever been constructed at the shops, and indeed, the best that have ever been built in the state. A corporated company are having them hijiit. onrl have made arrangements with a of the Texas railroads and roads running to tne cant-, tijcj are to be^sed mainly for the transportation of dressed meats, the meat keeping perfectly fresh for ten days, and even longer. The cars are each to have the lone'star flag of Texas painted on both sides. The color of the cars is lead, and the lettering black, with Vermillion shading. There will be over 500 letters on each car. The floor, roof and sides arc to consist of live distinct sections, manilla paper being used between the layers of wood. It will require 500 yards of paper in tho construction of each car. The entire inside is to be coated with shellac varnish. There is about double the work on these cars that is put on the ordinary ones. It is expected that there will be about eight completed by next Saturday.

Blast Furnace.

James M. Kyle is on the sick list. The blast furnace is running steady and putting in full time.

Mr. John Higgins sprained his ankle the other day and has been suffering considerably from if.

Henderson Hughes, who has been confined to his bed for about two weeks, is slowly recovering.

Sue Humphrey is visiting her sister, Mrs. William Parker, of South Thir-teenth-and-a-half street.

Thy boys have a good joke on the engineer, Ervin Rossman. They say he wishes he was married.

The eastorn trestle and the one which was recently demolished, have been rebuilt. It is only about half as lOng as it formerly was, but fills the purpose for which it was erected as well as if it were longer.

Wabash Mills.

The muck rolls were repaired Saturday afternoon. The employes of the mill received their pay Saturday.

The double furnaces will soon be completed and put in operatied. A brother of Edward Long arrived in this city from Ireland, Friday evening.

Tom Godsey and Dan Thompson set 'em up to the boys Saturday night, at the former's place.

Dennis Caughlin, who bas been sick for some time, is reported as being worse yesterday.

Our news column this week is very meagre, there being but very few important happenings.

A large number of the boys have sharpened up their old skates and are now enjoying themselves.

With a single exception, the men are all in good health. John Shumyer has been sick the latter part of the past week.

Saturday was moving day for the coopers. They removed their tools over into the new shop where there will be more room, there being eighteen berths. The old shop will be nsed as a store room for staves and other articles connected with the shop. Work will begin in the new shop next Tuesday.

Nail Works.

Another double furnace is in course of erection. Will Davis is unable to attend the mill on account of sickness.

William M. Lee, residing near the works, is confined to his bed. Will Davis is still confined to his liome by a severe throat affection.

Billy Beatty desires the writer to

state that she will be his in June. A new man, Samuel Cashmore. has been working at the mill for the past week.

Ed. Riley is dangerously ill, and fears are entertained that he cannot recover.

Frank Phillips was compelled to

suspend work, yesterday morning, on account of illness. The rolling mill employee received, Saturday,~a just recompense for two weeks' laborious toil.

A-nton Mayfer commenced cutting ice in the old "canal Saturday. The ice was about five inches thick*.

Joe Johnson's condition remains unchanged. He was suffering .Saturday from "an attack of hemorrhage of the bowels.

Dave Thomas, of Louisville, Ky., after a two weeks' stay in this city, the guest of his brother, Joe Thomas, left lor St. Louis Saturday.

The new pump which has taken the place of the old one being repaired, broke down Wednesday and consequently there was no work.

Gesorge Smith, of the machine shops, who has been off duty for two weeks enjoying a felon, has recovered sufficiently to be able to resume his labors.

Dave Dunn, the inimitable rougher up, has once more 6hed liis elegant mustache. He will apply court plaster as a substitute during the extreme cold weather.

P. C. Moran will depart Saturday morning for the southern part of Iowa, where he will spend the holidays among relatives and friends. Pat is looming up as a Democratic candidate for the office of city clerk.

Davo Stough took another of his now frequent-visits to Young's Station, Saturday afternoon. It is said that David, before"tnany more sunsets, will convey the object of his affections to this city. May he have abundant crops and no chinch bugs.

John Miller immediately upon learning that Will Williams, of" the Wabash Iron Works, had succeeded in breaking the ice on Conover's pond, and was slaying the finny tribe with a base ball bat, started for the scene of the mutilation, armed with a clothes basket, which he loaded with the poor dead animals.

PERILOUS ESCAPE,

To the Editor of the Express. Last night, yesterday morning about two O'Clock in the afternoon a Hungry Green Backer, about forty years old bought a fip Custard for a Levy, to treat the

Boys. But Being informed of

his Defect, got mad and threw it through a Brick wall 15 feet thick, jumped over, broke his Left ankle off, just above the right Knee fell into a Dry Mill Pond, and was drowned. A short time afterwards on the very same Day, a high wind blew. A would be Marshal on a frying pan with a Grid iron Accompaaiment. Killing nine Turkey Gobler, :md_ two Dead pigs from that time up" to the present. Crowley, states that lie has hot learnt "of his whereabouts when last seen he was giving one of the roll hands of the nail works a prescription to make him long winded, for his past experience has been a good test, also any one wishing salve for chopped hands can have the same by calling on "VV. W. of the nail works, better known as the Green Back Oriter.

The prefect of the Seine is going to remove frim the gates of cemeteries symbols not accepted by persons of all religious persuasions.

RucUlen'g Arnica Snlvo.

The BcstSalva in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money, refunded. Price 25 ceuts per box. Sold by Gulick & Co.

AMUSEMENTS.

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PERA HOUSE.

OXE NIGHT OXI-Y.

Wednesday, December 20.

FIFTII ANNUAL TOUR.

THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE,

Barlow, Wilson & Go's

MAMMOTH MINSTRELS.

B. W. & Co. E. B. BROWN,

Bole Proprietors. Manager.

All the original members still In the coinpaiiy, and new attractions added. Will possitively appear, on this return date, In an entire new programme.

ADMISSION, 75,50 nnd 25 cts,

A'

TLAXTIC THEATRE.

673 Slain St. P. M. Schumnkor, l'rop. Every Night During the Week and Saturday Matinee.

Second week and flattering success of those celebrated of all dramatic stt.rs, the Lcomo Bros., Vic nnd Harry, and their acting dogs, Lion anif Tiger, for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 18,19 and 20. The new original drama,

The Dog Spy,

Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Dee. 22 and 2:{, and Saturday matinee.

great Mexican drama, Rupcits Dogs, with a grand Olio, Miss Lotta Richmond, song

and dance artist. Dave Marlon, In origf nal specialties. G. A. Osborne, the Dutch Cotnfque. James Hearne, Irish vocalist and dancer.

Prices of admission: General admission 15e. reserved seats, 33c.

HARRIS REMEDY C0,,stMSIL

STf CbrmliU and Sole Prop** of PROF.HARRI8'PASTILLE REMEDY

Yoan* Sen And others who suffer from Nerrooi and Phjaieal Debility. Premature Exhaustion and their many gloomy consequence#, are quickly and radically cured.

The Remedy If pat op In boxes. Ko. 1 (luting a month Ko, S (enough to effect a cure, unless in erere ca*e«,f 9* Ko.1 (lasting three months), 9?. Sent by mail In plain wrappers.

Directions for Ptley ereompany each Box. Pamphlet desert* line this disease and mode of cure sent tealcd on applicaiknu

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$

Absolutely Pure.

This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomcness. More economical than tho ordinary klndst and cannot be eold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. cans. HOYAlfSAKlic POTTDEJt Co., 100 street, New York.

Make No Mistake

In Selecting your gift* for the Holidays, and bear In mind that

Good Books

Male the Best Presents, AND THAT

E. L.

of the

OPERA HOUSE

BOOK STORE,

Has made unusual preparations this season to supply everything In tho way of Pictures, Juveniles, and Standard Works of Poetry, Fiction, and general Literature, Pocliot and Family Bibles, Christmas and New Year's Cards, Picture Frames, Photograph Albums In great variei y, Scrap Books, Gold Pons, Ladies' and Gents' Pocket Books, Fancy Ink Stands in Glass, Bronzo and Nickel, Jewel Cases, Games, Alphabet and Building Blocks.

OPERA HOUSE BOOK STORE. 40G Main Street, Terre liaute, Ind.

DMINISTRATORS SALE.

A

Iron* Worker.

Why He Preferred Poker. Wall Street Reporter. "No, I never invest in stocks," answered the fat mail as lie blew his nose with a loud report and leaned backin his seat. "Perhaps you prefer dealing in grain?" "No, sir when I feel like speculating I go to a regular poker room, conducted in a first-class manner, and lay down my money. It is far more satisfactory to me." "How!" "Yi'iij,-! just how long it will take me to lose $500 ana get back to the office, and I don't liavo to waste time, put up margains, run to the broker's, or loose any ^Jeep."

Notice is hereby given' that the undersigned administrator With the will an nexed of the estate of Leonard west, de ceased, by order of the Vigo Circuit Court, will on tho 10th day of January, 1SS3, at the oflice of W. E. Hendrich, No. 229 Ohio street, Terre Haute, Imlinnn, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock m. of said day, sell at private sale the foj lowing real estate, in Vigo county, Indi ana. Lots eighteen and twenty-one (IS and 21) In Joseph Grover's subdivision of ou: lot sixty-seven, (07) of the original out ,'*t of the town, now the city of 'ierre Hautt-,

Also tho south half of lot thirty-two (32), of said Grover's subdivision of lot one (1), of the subdivision of out lot sixtyseven (C7) aforesaid.

Terms of sale. For tho last described lot, cash. For the two lots first above described, all cash except six hundred dollars, which rioforrcd payment to be made one year after date or snle, bonring isJx per cent interesi with approvedsecurity. Said sales to bo made ainot less than the appraised value of said real estate now on file in the Clerks office of the Vigo Circuit Court.

LORENZO D. GORDON,

Administrator with the will annexed of Leonard West, deceased. December 16,1SS&

CELEBRATED

Remember tlir.t stamina, vital energy, the life-principle, or whatever you pay choose to call the resistant power which battles against the causes of disease anu death, is tbo grand safeguard of health. It is the garrison of the human fortress, and when it waxes weak, the true poacy is to throw in reinforcements. In other words, when such an emergency occurs, commence a course of Hostctter Bitters,. For sale by Druggists and Dealers, to whom apply for Hostetter's Almanac for 18S3.

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Letter From a Traveler.

KaksasCitt, Mo., Sept. 20, 1SS2.

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your spe-. 11 c, a si tliey tcncwl of severuse. I commenced tho use of it with very little faith, hnd In less than three weeks was ablo to take my place on tho road. The sores and copper-colored spots gradually disappeared, and to-day I bavo not a sore or spot on my person, and my weight Js 217 pounds, being more than It ever was. I do not wish you to publish my name, but you may show this letter to anv who doubt the merit ot S. S. 8., for I know It is a sure cure.

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(Also Keg Beer) can be had {torn this day at the office,

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Orders by telephone promptly attended to. Eugene Duenweg Bottler and Sole Agent.

IF YOUR.

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NKE!« ItEPAIRIXO. CALL ON

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i03 MAIN STREET.

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NELGEIM'S

City Steam Dye House.

The only steam dye house In the city. Ladles' dresses cleanod or dyed in any desired shade shawls cleaned and dyed, plumes cleaned and dyed, kid gloves and slippers cleaned, lace curtains nnd ties cleaned. Gents' garments cleaned, dyed and repaired in nn unsurpassed manner All work guaranteed. Work lrom a distance will reeelvo promptattcntlon. I deliver bottor aud more work for less money than any house In the State.

JOHN H. NELGKEN,

60S Slain Street, McKeen'* Mew Block Terre Haute, Ind. (Telephone connection.)

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