Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 December 1882 — Page 2

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Peace is renewing its reign stroet circles.

in AVail

It is reported from Indianapolis tliat the militia of the state is being rapidly strengthened and improved. By spring it is hoped the state will be on a good war footing."

Terre Haute is to be congratulated on tho exceptional freedom of crime now that other cities are overrun with footpads, burglars and murderers. The holiday season is apt to be marred by deeds of violence, and this year other cities were unusually excited by the lawless elements of society.

The associated press burdens the wires with the statement that one postal employee "caned" another at Richmond, Va. It may be a rare occurrence in Richmond but afrthis time of year hereabouts, cane presentations are common. Perhaps, come to think of it, tho donor in the Virginia case was too enthusiastic toward his friend.

A company in fit. Louis has started an opposition carrier service to that of the postoflice. Packages and mail are delivered within the city limits at lower rates than charged by the government and the managers of the enterprize state that although the carrier system of the government is not self sustaining, the outside concern will be a profitable undertaking.

It is believed a bill will be ready for reporting to the house by the ways and means committee not later than January 10th, for the revision of the tariff. There should be no unnecessary delay in passing some such bill as recommended in tho report of the tariff commission. This report lias been accepted as being as nearly satisfactory to all interests as any tariff revision measure can be, and to let this session of congress pass without action on the subject would be suicidal to the majority in congress. After the tarift is revised it will be plain sailing in deciding* on just how much reduction can bo made of the internal revenue tax.

Massachusetts has again been the scene of one of those tragedies peculiar to the Btate. A man killed his two children Christmas, because his wife would not leave her father's homo and again live with liim•elf. There has been a strange fact about Massachusetts crime. The most unaccountable and blood chilling affairo have occurred in that state. The Pomerov boy in Boston, the father who martyred his child a few years ago and many instances of devilish depravity in young per .ons have given the crime of that state distinctive characteristics. We do not hear of so many drunken brawls resulting in murder, or offends ending in death, but in no other state has there been anything like the unaccountable crimes of Massachusetts.

The co-operative dress association which Kate Field organized nineteen months since has collapsed and gone into the hands of a receiver. The management announces (hat tho cause of the failure was "the continued dullness of trade" and Kate Field explains it all in an interview in this way. "You"are a business man—suppose somebody wanted to collect from you more than yon had the ready cash to pay. That is our position."

That is the position of most business houses when tney fail. The trouble is that there was no co-opera- considering a bill (ion, and like any other business enterprise, it hail to depend on trade. Either through inability to command a sustaining patronage, or through bad management, this "association," which, we were informed, when it began its career, was so arranged that failure was impossible, has gone to tLo wall.

There are good prospects for the house passing the senate bill placing General Grant on the retired list with the same rank he would have held had he not left the army to become president. Of late there has been a marked change in sentiment regarding the measure, many of those who earnestly opposed the bill heretofore now declaring their cordial support. The New York Tribune, which has not said a kind word about the general for Tears, is now advocating the passage of the bill by the house by a "unanimous vote." The Tribune says: "Whatever difllercnees of opinion may exist as to tho wisdom or unwisdom of lilt course as president, all men of all parties -will agree that during the war Ueneral Grant rendered to his country sorvices of inestlmcble value—services deserving every honorable recognition from the government of the union he aided so greatly in saving. In the public opinion

of the generation now living, and in the judgment of Impartial history yet to "be written, five men attained a rank of merit for generalship above and beyond the great host of heroiccommanders who battled against the rebellion. Of these,Thomas and Meade sleep in honored graves Sherman is alone to go on the retired list with the full rank and pay of general: Sherldah will In a short time assume command of the army with the rank of lieutenant general, which is to be his for life. It is not altogether a pleasant thought that the man who came out of the war conspicuous above all others for his military skill, forhis services and his renown, should be left in the afternoon and eveuingof his life unrecognized on the rolls of the arrny he did so much to immortalize.

THE CIVIL SEBVICE BILL. It was a bitter dose but the Demo crats in the senate, except five, swallowed the civil Bervice reform bill yesterday.

For several weeks they have been telling the country the}' would oppose and vote against the bill because it would be ineffectual. Some of the more audacious speakers openly declared their opposition to the bill to be based on the ground that in the event of the election of a Democrat as president they did not want any civil service law that might hamper thein in filling the federal offices with hungry Demo crats. Their great desire for a reformed civil service disappeared with the prospect of such a state of affairs being attained. The Democratic press as a rule took up the pretext that the bill was faulty and opposed its passage But the demand of the people for the bill to be made a law has had its effect, as yesterday's vote evidences and all see within less than sixty days the Democratic party change its position twice on the subject. In the wild hope of possession that carae after the November elections the pretense was dropped and the blundering organization calling itself a "great political party" was seen in its true light. Now, however it has determined to atrain hide its ravenous appetite for office.

The bill as it passed the senate will come as near securing the end desired as any measure proposed if it is rigidly executed. We have the promise from the present executive of his cordial support of the reform and have every reason to believe that lie will prove the merit of this bill. It should be taken up in the house without delay, certainly without a long debate. Further discussion will only have the effect and will be for the purpose of allowing "bunkum" speeches. The house has rules which can cut all this nonsense short, and the majority in that branch of congress should see that this is done. If the Democrats in the lower house choose to follow the lead of the Democrats in the senate they will then be forced into filibustering tactics, the onus of which the country will place where it belongs.

The Codfish Soon Decays.

Cincinnati Commercial. An autocracy of riches-ln this country is perishable.

Democrats Inviting Their Own Destruction. The spoils cry that is raised against Pendleton Is the very thing the licpublicans want.

White House Decorations.

Washington Post. The press of the country is slightlyjin error In supposing that tlio possibilities of art have been entirely exhausted in decorating the White House. It was tho appropriation that was exhausted.

Lome's Gift.

Philadelphia News. The Marquis of Lome .sent his royal motlicr-in-law a car loail of sheep. This, we suppose, is a gentle hint that the next time ho comes to visit her he hopes to flud more bed covering in the spare room.

A Slang Word Made Respectable. Boston Transcript. The etymology of "masher" is trs-: ed by a Transcript reader to the eminently respectable Beaumont autl Fletcher, one of whose plays has the phrase "mashed in love," where the word is explained in a foot-note to be an old form of "meshed."

WISE AND OTHERWISE.

Suicide will soon become as common as lunacy. Truth smashed to earth lies there, and is trod in the mire.

It is stated that Texas girls go wild after northern schoolmasters. Wild duck are so plenty in and about Lake Charles. La., that they well at 'Jo cents per dozen.

The receipts from recent collections in New York for 1'ope Leo XIII. amount to SIS,302.

It is stated that real estate in Pan Francisco is increasing in value as rapidly as in New York.

Somebody in England has paid a Boston (inn $5,000 for a walnut chamber set of five pieces.

John Howard Payne's original manuscript of "Home, Sweet Home," is owned in Athens, Ga.

Harvard college only allowed thestudents one day for Thanksgiving and two days to sober up in.

Prof. Julius H. Seelye favors the reelection of Senator Hoar as desirable on every ground of public policy.

The South Carolina legislature is appropriating $00,000 to complete the state capitol.

Ton Crystal has defined the Henry kiss as a procession that takes two minutes in passing a given point.

Lots of people pay five per cent, more for goods in Canada for the sake of smuggling them over the border.

Illinois has 10,403 miles of railway track, leading all other states. Four of her roads are in the hands of receivers.

Flotow, the well-known composer of the opera "Martha," hasabecome blind from the disease known as gray cataract.

Mr. Bancroft, the bistoriau, has founded a scholarship ot Worcester, Mass., to perpetuate the memory of his parents.

The New Orleans Times-Democrat is unhappy over the exclusion of Jeff Davis trom the Mexican veterans' pension bill.

Detroit Free Press: It is said that a new stage kiss lias been invented which lasts a minute. Look out for a rush of amateurs.

A babe was born at Topeka. Kan., a few days ago that weighed only one

Eealthvami

ound two ounces at birth. It is and growing nicely. Six Pompier ladders have been procured for tne use of the Fire Department of Boston, and iflen' "will be trained especially to use them.

Philadelphia News: The .president of the Fonetic Speling Reform associ-

asbun is thinking of resigning in favor of a New York man named Gehart.

Mrs. Rav, the first woman who went to Leadville, dug in the mines, scoured the plains as a scout, took in washing, and jiow has a fortune of $1,000,000.

A sleeping car porter who traveled 630 miles with ten passengers worth over $3,000,000 each, say3 that his perquisites amounted to only fifty cents.

In a case in Cincinnati one of the lawyers challenged a juror on the ground that he was a reader of gasmeters, and the man had to step down and out.

Mr. George E. B. Jackson, of Maine, is now President over 800, miles of railroad—a greater distance than any other New-Englander has under his charge.

It is stated that Florida oranges are so plentiful this year that they can be brought to New York and sold at a lower price than apples from adjacent countries.

Mrs. Labouchere wonders why upper strata ladies ruthlessly steal flowers, while lower strata ladies frequent

the parks without ever indulging in other kleptomania. Miss Mary Anderson is said to intend to take a long course of study under Mr. Ryder, the veteran English actor, next year. It is about time for Mary to attend school.

The Whitehall Review says that at a banquet given to Lord Salisbury the radical daughter of a Scotch earl refused to rise when the band played "God Save the Queen."

Courier-Journal: It is to be regretted that Herr Most is to confine his speeches to revolutionary politics. Many citizens would like Herr Most on American nose-paint.

Joseph Cook says that'nine out of ten scholarly physiologists abroad are theists and that Herbert Spencer is regarded as nothing more than a mere crescent moon in its last quarter.

Suit was brought by the city of San Francisco against J. C. Flood to recov ev taxes on 8000,000 worth of mining stock in Nevada. He proved that the mine i3 situated in California, and thus won the suit.

Colonel Nicholas Smith, who is known to fame as "the handsomest man in America," has become a resident of Shelbyville, Ivy. His wife, one of Horace Greeley's daughters, died recently.

The Democratic Editorial Association of Indiana is to hold its third annual meeting in Indianapolis on Thursday, January 4, and the promise is made that it shall be in many regards the most imjjorlant yet held.

A young man in Connecticut started to kiss the girl beside him in the cutter while the horse was going at a three minute gait. The cutter struck a stone and the girl had her nose broken and the young man lost a tooth.

Detroit Free Press: No man living walks in a straight line. The squarefooted walker walks to the right or left a distance of thirty-six feet in a mile. In case there is a saloon on the way he may diverge as much as 150 feet.

Norristown Herald: A French chemist thinks he can resuscitate a human body after it has been frozen a few weeks. He might experiment on Oscar Wilde, and'if he missed the combination, people would be just as well pleased.

Philadelphia News: Miss Rowe, of Boston, has written a play for seven girls talking separately. In the second act they are all talking at once. In the third act the talk is continued, and in the fourth act there is a grand climax.

Tfieve is" a"man'"at tlie gate,

and all rush up stairs to fix up, while the curtain fall to slow music.

CHAUNCEY ROSE.

A Reply to

WB,

W. H."

To the Editor of the Express. I noticed in the Express of Sunday morning a contribution signed B. W. H., giving sketches of citizens prominent in the earlier history of Terre Haute, which, if allowed to go forth unchallenged, might pass current as faithful pen pictures of the worthies alluded to." I particularly object to the sketch or rather caricature of Chauncey Rose, as drawn by the writer. In the turgid, and I may say, foggy rhetoric of B. W. H., Mr. Rose was styled a "moral and intellectual hermit," whatever that may be, and we are told apologetically that "had he made his money by the contrivance of his own mind, felt the hard hand of the law upon himself which he so often placed upon others had ho realized that in order to receive much, much should be bestowed that the affairs of mankind are all dependent upon the tenderest sense of justice, that the motor of human dignity, power and success is hidden in an enlightened sense of perfect reciprocity, his character and life would have been different." I remark, in passing, that probably Mr. Rose made the mislake, very naturally, too, of hunting for the hidden motor in some obscure place, instead of an enlightened sense, &e. 1 resume my quotations: "But his wealth came to him and rushed upon him. He regarded it as an enemy to his peace. It made him suspicious, always doubtful, and sometimes uncharitable. His primary investments were comparatively insignificant, but people came from every direction a generation was born here railroads and telegraphs and trade and commerce came like a tide and converted his farm into a city. He could not prevent it and never seemed to quite realise the necessity and wonder of the fate which had thus found and enslaved him. lie became fabulously rich."

One would infer from the above description of the man, that Mr. Rose was a gloomy recluse, avoiding all intercourse with his fellow-men, oppressing those in his power by harassing law suits that he was the recipient of wealth which he had no hand in producing, and which was a vexatious burden to him that he was in fact a veritable Croesus whose mere touch, without any other exertion, turned everything to gold.

In the latter part of his life Mr. Rose was a martyr to a malady which racked his body with pain and confined him much of the time to his house. He had an imperious will, becomingto a man of his energy and force of character, and he chafed under confinement like a lion in his cage. That, under circumstances likely to provoke any ordinary person, he should at times have given way to peevishness and irritability, was natural and to be expected. He was harassed by ceaseless appeals to his charity from all sorts of people from the respectable clerical gentleman soliciting aid for some "cause," to the improvident tramp begging for a quarter. He saw the follvof indiscriminate almsgiving, and ily his liberal donations to the Ladies Aid Society made it the efficient almoner of biff" charitv to the

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WITH LONG WHITE HAIR

and beard, at its feet Mary. A group of angels arc in the alcove above. The painted figures of domestic animals are in tho background. The shepherds appear and fall prostrate before the manger. The curtain next rises in the court of Herod, who sits upon his throne, black-bearded, and in robe and crown. Four velvet-clad pages are at his feet. Ten guards in mail stand about him. The eastern magi are announced and enter, wearing rich robes and crowns. A group of children in the audience, recognize friends upon the stage, and endeavor vainly to conceal their merriment. Not a smile or look of consciousness appears upon the face of one of the actors. The magi visit the manger at Bethlehem. An angel warns them not to return to Herod. The angels are represented by young girls of 16 to 18 years. Herod again appears in his palace. He consoles himself with the music and dancing of his minstrels. These are thirteen little girls in white. They dance singly, beginning with the smallest, and in couples. Each carries a small bell and sings. They keep good time with feet, voice and belL The principal dancer appears to be about five years old. Herod

CALLS THE CAPTAIN"

of his guard aud orders the slaughter of the male children. The captain shudders, protests and moves away with face down. Groans are heard after his disappearance. Another curtain arises and reveals a tableau erf guards with their spears raised above the heads of children crouching at their feet. In the next act nineteen male children dressed in white, with red sashes and red hose appear. They bear a banner inscribed, "We are the little ones who died," and sing and recite in unison. In the final tableau the manger at Bethlehem, the angles, the

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. THURSDAY MORNJNG, DECEMBER 28.1882.

poor of the city. His donations I the charitable institutions of Ne^ York city are well known and ned not be specified. Mr. Rose believi in helping those who showed a position to help themselves, and wi the sworn foe of charlatans, impostei windy bores, loafers, and dogs. was not what is knewn as a man if culture, though he was wall-posted jp on the current event? of the buy world around him. He was eminejbly a man of affairs, far sighted, shrewd and indefatigable in the accompliament of the end in view, and was tte soul of commercial integrity, je built his hotel out on the prairie bjt his prophetic vision saw the tine when it would be the center of abty population. He foresaw the advance of a railroad connection with the eaptal and the East, and mainly through )is efforts, the Terre Haute and Ribmo nd railroad became a possibilty and eventually a success. He g*e his Unremitting personal attentionto the construction and equipment of tie road, assisted by such men as te Crawford Brothers, James Farringty, Chas. Wood, and E. J. Peck, aid prominent men stod aloof doubting the success of the oterprise, he pledged his means aid enlisted eastern capatalists in suppot of his scheme. No sooner was tie road to Indianapolis completed acd its immense value to the city demostrated, than he turned his attentin to a St. Louis connection and in coicert with John Brough organizeda company for that purpose.

Unfortunately the logislature of 3linois, tempted by the bait held out them by the Terre Haute & Altai company, refused to charter tie Brough Line, and thus Terre Haue lost the prestige and patronage whidi would have accrued to it as the heatquarters of a St. Louis line.

A railroad had been built fron Evansville to Vincennes and theE halted for want of means. Mr. Roe again saw the advantage of a southern connection to Terre Haute, and with his usual energy had the line surveyed, raised the funds to build it, and placed Wm. D. Griswold in control. Tie earnings for the first few years were small so small that Mr. Rose had pay the interest on the bonds for several years from his own resources, bit it eventually suceeded in becomirg one of the best properties in the statj.

By his exertions the Evansville road was extended to Rockville, to the alvantage of Terre Haute. The next scheme to engage his attention wis the Danville railroad, giving Terre Haute a short and direct route to Chicago. He surrendered the active work in this enterprise to Josephus Collet.*, as advancing age and infirmities admonished him to desist from business pursuits.

I say nothing about his later benefactions to the city of his adoption. They are known to everybody, and tell their story better than I can but it seemed to be a graceful act to vindicate the memory of the grand old man who, in his day and generation, did more to advance the material prosperity of Terre Haute than any other citizen.

P.

NATITITY PLAY.

A Curious Drama Given iu York Last Night.

New

Tlie Birth of Christ Illustrated on the Stage—How tlie Actors Looked and Conducted Themselves.

Special to the Post-Dispa cli. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—The produck'SIl,,?] A&.A'SUe basement of St. Bernard's church, on Fourteenth street, last evening, At 8:10 p. m. fifty children rose from their seats at the right of the stage and sang the opening chorus. Then the curtain was rung up.. The stage was about thirty feet square and was equipped with foot-liglits and drop-lights. The first scene was the interior of a dwelling. The Virgin Mary, attired as a nun, was kneeling in prayer. At the right of the stage was a motionless figure in a brown robe, bearing a banner, inscribed: "The Evangelist." He repeated a few lines from the Bible and then became apparently as inanimate as a statue. An angel in white and rose color announced the coming of the Redeemer. Another curtain then rose, displaying a tableau in which angels with extended arms were bending above a row of children, whose eyes were uplifted. The drop fell and a carol was sung by the chorus. The next scene is a rocky woodland. The Virgin Mary visits St. Elizabeth, who kneels before her and tells her that she is to be the mother of the Savior. They enter the door of a cottage. In the next scene are four shepherds with crooks in their hands. They are boys of about eighteen years of age. An angel appears to them and announces the birth of Christ. A group of angels appear. There is music and singing. The scene changes and the manager at Bethlehem appears. The waxen figure of an infant rests upon the straw. At its head is Joseph.

minstrels and all the other participants appear, and the representation closes with carols and recitations. Throughout the play the 50 children show excellent training. They speak distinctly and clearly. Many of the number have participated in the play for several years. All have been in training for the last month. The stage manager, a lady who directed the representation, was concealed from the andience by a wing. She stood, bell in hand, and

WITH GENTLE TOUCHES

directed the movements of the younger actors from time to time. Perfect order was maintained, and when off the stage the smaller children were with their mothers outside or stood in a group together.

THE BRUISERS.

Arrival of Jen Mace From New Zealand—Bringing Vsksowa to Whip Sullivan—The Elliott-Sullivan Affair. Special to the St. Louis Republican.

NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Richard K. Fox to-day received the following telegram:

I have arrived with my unknown who is the coming man, and waits orders. [Signed] JEM MACE.

Mr. Fox returned the following reply: "Come direct to New York. After your exhibition here I will match you or your unknown to fight John L. Sullivan for $5,000 and the championship of the world."

Mace is just from Dunedin, New Zealand, on his way to New York. He is at the Palace hotel. He brought with him a half-breed Maori named Slade, and told a San Francisco reporter that he himself has no objection to meeting Sullivan with the gloves, but that Slade will fight Sullivan. A dispatch received in this city, says'that Larry Foley, who whipped Abe Hecken, champion of Australia, bout at Melbourne about three years ago, also accompanies Mace. On Mace's arrival in New York, he will hold a conference with his backer, and in all probability a match will be arranged between Mace and Sullivan or between Sullivan and-the unknown. Some time ago a sporting man of this city wrote to Jem, asking him if he would be

ABLE TO FIGHT AGAIN*,

and he wrote in reply: "I am still champion of the world, and if the stakes are large enough I would train and win just as easily as I did when you saw me fight Tom Allen at New Orleans in 1870. I should like to meet Sullivan, especially as you state that there is so much money to be won by beating him. He must be a good one to knock men out as he has done, but since he failed to stop Wilson I think he is over-rated. If Mr. Fox will match me I will tackle the great American wonder. lean train again, certain."

ELLIOTT AND SULLIVAN.

The falling through of the SullivanElliottiight is explained as follows: The men have been on bad terms since their battle at Washington park on July 4th, last. Elliott agreed to box Sullivan four rounds for $500, Elliott receive the money provided he was not knocked out. The exhibition was to take place in Chicago. Elliott sprained a ligament in his right hand in his contest with Dalton, and sent word to Sullivan's manager, Joe Dunn, asking for two weeks more time. This was granted, and Decenfen'gg $u"llivan Stefifffn from New York and the betiiug -rrao $100 to S.~0 uii his success. On December 19th Chas. E. Davis, Elliott's backer, told Dunn that Elliott, in his running exercises on the Sunday before, had fallen, injuring the small of his back and incurring a partial paralysis of his left side Dunn found this to be true, but it was kept a secret in the hope that Elliott would recover. The|police interfered. Dunn sayB he had nothing to do whatever with the breaking up of the match. Afterward Sullivan and himself went to see Elliot at 119 Randolph street. They found him in his bea-room undoubtedly a very sick man, and Sullivan shook hands with him and cheered him up as best he could. It is not likely that they will ever meet in the prize ring. Sullivan arrived from Chicago this evening and will appear at Madison Square garden on Monday evening to wind up with Joe Coburn at the latter's benefit. He says he will fight no man with the bare knuckles for less than $10,000 a side and that he thinks of settling in California.

The Lime-Kiln Club.

Detroit Free Press. "Am "Brudder Stepoff Johifton in de hall die eavnin' asked the presi dent, as he arose and looked up and down the aisles. "Yes, sah." "Den he will please step to de front."

Brother Johnson appeared to labor under the impression that a medal was about to be presented him for having the longest heels of any colored man in America, and his face wore abroad grin as he stood at the desk. "Stepoff Johnson!" said Brother Gardner in his most solemn tones, was in de back room of a grocery on Beaubien street de odder night to bargain for ten bushels of 'taters, an' I heard your voice as you cum in to order fo' pounds of buckwheat flour, an' to remark dat your ole woman was ravin' crazy wid de toofache." "Yes, san, dat was me." "De old man Climax soon drapped in, an' it wasn't five minits befo you had a hot dispute 'bout de aige of de airth." "He doan'tknow nuffin, sah." "You called him a fool." "An' he called me a liar!" "You said he was a bigot." "An' he said I was a humbug." "I heard it all, Brudder Johnson, an' now I want to talk to you a little. In de fust place, what do you know 'bout de aige of de world "I—I—well, sah, what does de ole man Climax know 'bout it?" "Dat's it—what do either of you know'bout it? Nuffin'—nuffin' 'tall. Dat's whar the trubble cume in. Two men will dispute harder ober what dey doan' know dan ober solemn facts. De worst enemy I ebber had was a man who got mad at me bekase I wouldn't believe in ghosts. What wo doan' know we often try to make up for in argyment. What we lack in argyment we try to make up for in blab. It am easier to call a man a fool dan to produce facks and figures to convince him dat he am in de wrong. It am safer to call an old man a liar dan to wink at a young man's wife. Let me say to you: "What you believe in wid all yer heart may, arter all, be wrong. "De man who draps argyment fur epithet has no case. "It am only de fairest-minded men who admit deir ignorance of what dey doan'know. "Abuse may silence a man, but it won't convince him. "It am only de bigot who prides himself on his cast-iron opinyuns.

It am only dt fool who .believes

assershuns am true bekase he asserts 'em. "Now, Brudder Johnson, you drap back toyer bench an' sot down an' stay sot, an' de next time yon h'ar somebody, boldly announce dat dis world am fifty million- y'ars old, you

Eome

ick up you buckwheat flour and walk wid the refleckshun dat it wouldn't establish de facks in de case if you an' him war' to gouge an' bite an' kick an' claw till deir wasn't a rod of sidewalk left in Gardnerville."

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AMUSEMENTS.

PERA HOUSE.

Saturday, December 30tli.

Inaugural Appearance of the Funniest German Dialect Comedian In the World,

CHAS. A. GARDNER,

Who will appear in his Grand Characterizations of a German From Frank-fort-on-the-Main, in his Comedy Drama of

Specially supported by the brightest little soubrette on the American stage,

MISS PATTI R-OSA. Our unrivaled orchestra and uniformed military brass band, together with GEN, C. R. DECKER, the smallest man in the world.

Popular prices of admission. Seats on sale at Button's Book Store.

OR-A.2STD

New Year's Ball!

DOWLBG HALL.

JANUARY 1, 1883.

RECEPTION" COMMITTEE. (WHITE RIBBON.)

Patrick Osborne, William Prlndible, Patrick Mohan, Daniel Murphy, Maurice Hagerty, P. B. O'Reilly,

John Hanley.

INTRODUCTION COMMITTEE. (BLUE RIBBON.) John F. O'Reilly, Barney Dougherty jr John P. Hagerty, James P. Foley, P. W. Stack, P. M. Suglirue.

FLOOR COMMITTEE. (RED RIBBON.)

Joseph P. O'Reilly, Thomas Finley, Patrick Leahey, .Tames Dougherty, James Grace, Patrick O'Leary.

MUSIC BY FULL RIX(ISoLD BAND. A is $ 1 0 0

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PERA HOUSE.

W. C. T. U.

LECTURE COURSE!

MAJOR DANE,

MRS. MARY A. LIVERMOfcE, MISS NELLA F. BROWN,

98" 'KM'". •""tS3""

HON. WM. PARSONS.

Reserved Seat—Season Ticket, 81.25. Major Dane, January 3d.

A

TLANTIC THEATRE.

673 Main St. P. M. Schumnker, Prop. Every Night During the Week and Saturday Matinee.

Joe MEALEY& HAGUE Nellie Celebrated Mimics and Character Artists. Billy Jackson and Lizzie Peasley, in great sketch, entitled "Happy their Hours.

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TERRE HAUTE & LOOANSPORT R. R. Co. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, TERRE HAUTE, IND., NOV. 25th, 1882,

2.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of this company will be held at the general office of the company in the city of Terre Haute, Indiana, on

Monday January 1st, 1883,

between the hours of twelve (12) and two (2) o'clock p. ni.. for the election of five (5) directors to serve for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of ^uch other business as may be brought before the meeting

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