Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 December 1882 — Page 2

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The Gazette lias a labored argument on the fourth page yesterday to show why the testimony in the Clutter case should not be published and on tli# first paye|is a column of the tabooed news. It "dawn't cawnsist,you know."

The Vincennes News says the Express has done Judge Kiblack injustice in mentioning him as a candidate for the vice presidency. It should have been vice presidency. All right, let it be so. In the numerous candidates for the presidency and presidency in this state it is pretty hard.to keep run of things.

Milwaukee has vied with Texas in the way of sensations for several months past. The list of murders, abductions, etc., furnished b.v the beer city on the lake is now completed by the arrest of a man for challenging another to light a duel. Evidently the Southern idea of honah, sail, is to be allowed no foothold on the soil of the Badger state.

The contest in Illinois for the succession to David Davis in the United States senate is getting fiercer every day and the probabilities are that none of the leading candidates will secure the prize through the bitter feeling engendered. Governor Cullom is leading and Commissioner Raum is next with Farewell, Carson and a half dozen others following with all the way from live to fifteen votes pledged.

The same day we hear that the silk men are going to congress to ask a more rigid enforcement of the tarifl' law we learn that frauds have been discovered in the New York custom house fn appraising imports. The silk manufacturers say they do not object to the reduction of the duty from sixty to fifty per cent, ad valorem, but they want the duty collected. They claim that great frauds by under valuation are being practiced.

The prospects for Senator Hoar's reelection in Massachusetts are not very good. Yet is stated there would be no doubt of his success if the caucus rule applied in the state. He has enough supporters to go into a caucus and secure an election, but in an open contest he stands only an equal chance with any Democrat who has as many of his party votes behind him, both, of course, depending on disaflections in party ranks that would be wiped out by caucus action.

The senate has adopted tho resolution that a rebalo will be allowed on tobacco if the tax shall bo reduoed or repealed, with an amendment providing that the rebate shall be allowed only in case ample noticeofthe change is not given. 1 the debate signs were plainly shown that no reduction of the tobacco tax will bo made at this session. When such men as Senator Morrill and Senator Sherman express so confident a judgment on a matter of this kind, it is safe to act on their opinion. It is barely possible that, the lower house may insist upon a more radical policy.

The Kit7. John Porter case has again me up in the senate, and the pros1 (s are there will be a long, bitter and personal debate on the proposition to restore Portertothe position he held in the army at the time he was court martialed. Naturally the proposition is one calculated to cause strong feelings as Porter's justification would be censure of some one who has friends and intluouce, perhaps more powerful than Porter can command.

Porter was in eonm.rmd of a division at Dull Run, and it is charged ho disobeyed orders given him by Pope, his superior. It was at the opening of the war, and the defeat at that battle was a sad disappointment to tho whole country. Someone was undoubtedly to blame, and the court martial was called immediately afterward. The result was the finding that Porter disobeyed orders, exercised his own judgment in preference to that of his superior, and so failed to have his command at the point desired at a critical stage of the engagement. Such conduct was inexcusable in the opinion of the court, and :Porter was dismissed the service. This was many years ago and during these years Porter has been endeavoring to vindicate himself. Within the past few years he has had a number of converts to his side of the case, and now comes to congress asking relief from the stain on his character as a loyal defender of tho Uuion cause.

Porter, nor his friends deny that ho was disloyal to Pope, but claim the latter did not understand the situaion and that tho failure to at­

tempt compliance with the order given was, instead of being an act of disloyalty an act wherein extraordinary good judgment was exercised.

Porter and a number of other officers were undoubtedly seeking Pope's oyerthrow they wanted McLellan, and whatever else may be said in their behalf, it is true beyond dispute they were not in harmony with the commanding officer. They may use the "new evidence," that of participants, on the rebel side of the celebrated battle and assert the exercise of better judgment than that of their superior, but the fact remains there was disloyalty to that portion of the army then engaged.

Sweet to be Remembered.

Post-Dispatch. We have received from Dr. J. H. McLean, representing the old Second district, a fine lot of public documents. It Is sweet to be remembered—especially about the holidays.

Bad for Plumbers.

Denver Tribune. The only people who are suffering by this kind of weather'are the plumbers. If this ethereal mildness continues they will be compelled to throw their corner loU and brown stone frosts on tho market. In order to avert such a calamity, it might be a good idea to give a sacred concert at the opera house for their benefit.

Tfce Pension list.

Chicago Inter-Ocean. No man need be ashamed to have his name on tho pension lists. If placed there because of wounds or disability secured in the country's service, it Is a badge of honor, and not an evidence of disgrace. Tho publication of the pension lists will have the good purpose to free the list from any names that should not be there.

'WISE AND OTHERWISE.

HOLIDAY RELAXATION.

On Christmas morn he gayly rose Quoth he: "As this Is a world of woes, I'll go somewhere and palntmy nose."

He put on the color deep and thick, Then played the very ancient Nick With Bill and

Tom and Bob and Dick.

But at the close of Christmas week The world to him was vet more bleak, As he his home did slowly seek, With bloody head and features meek. St. Louis is to have an elevated railway.

Nerly every town in Turkey is now lighted by American petroleum. General Beauregard's forthcoming book will attack Jefferson Davis.

The American system of postoflice boxes have been adopted at Rome. Judge Tourgee has abandoned lecturing in the West because of illness.

It is said that Gebhart has hired an amanuensis who knows how to spell. The opening sale of seats for Langrry in Chicago next week was a big success.

The canoe party which started from Lake George, N. Y., has arrived in New Orleans.

New Orleans Picayune: Hon who lose on futures are those who kick the bucket—shops.

New Orleans Picayune: The errand bey who smokes cigarettes will never be tho proprietor of a store.

Mrs. Partington says she has no doubt at all that Mrs. Langtry recuperates Freddie's affections.

Harry A. Garfield, son of the late president, has been elected editor of the Williams College Athenreum.

Mile. Litta the prima dunmi Is vury sick, at Bloomington, 111., and has given up all professional engagements.

General Chas. Grosvenor lias declined $4,670 arrearages of pension allowed him. His friends are alarmed.

Five representatives in congress have died during the present yearMessrs. Allen, Lowe, Ilouck, Updegraff and Orth.

There are generals in the German army who have as many as thirty-six medals of honor, and yet find it hard to keep out of debt.

Weaver, late Greenback candidate for president, has become an editor. The enormous pay of journalists is seducing all the great men.

Dion Boucicault's new drama, which is shortly to be produced in the United States, is said to be unlike anything that has been previously put upon the stage.

While in San Francisco recently, Mme. Nilsson went through Chinatown and amused herself by talking pidjen English to the Chinese inhabitants.

Congressman Perry Belmont, son of August Belmont, was married to Miss Swan Whitney, of New Y'ork at Newport Wednesday. It was a very fashionable affair.

The Hon. C. R. Breckinridge, con-gressman-at-large-elect from Arkansas, is a son of John C. Breckinridge, but resembles him in personal appearance very slightly.

Philadelphia Times: Mrs. Langtry created a grest sensation in Philadelphia, not because she is a handsome woman, nor because she is an actress, but merely because—well, because.

It is said by his friends that Mr. Parnell is trying to sell his Irish estates in order that his tenants mayhave a chance to tako advantage of the purchase clauses of the land act.

Puck: One of tho saddest moments in lifo ii when a man is looking through an old vest, and thinks he has found a ten-cent piece, which, when brought to light, turns out to be a cough lozenge.

A Chicago minister reccntlv undertook to introduce moral reform at a cocking main, but all ho got for his pains was the advice to "soak his head," or "chase himself up an alley."

Amid the quiet shades of Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, 2Ui,500 persons havo been laid to rest since its incorporation as a burial place. The first interment there took place September 5, 1840.

Philadelphia Nows: Mr. Talmago offers $1,000 to any person who will provo him a plagarist. We should make a strike for that reward, but the trouble is we never attended many circuses.

Tho matrimonial gossips in Washington, failing to make anythingout of President Arthur or David Davis, have now turned their attention to that other conspicuous widower, Secretary Folger, and assert that he is about to take a wife.

One of the crimes charged against Arabi Pasha was displaying a Hag of truce to deceive the enemy. Mr. O'Donnell recently read in tho house of commons a selection from "The Soldier's Handbook," in which Sir Garnet Wolseley justifies the practice.

Lome has cousins in Virginia, his mother, Joanna Glassell, being the daughter of John Glassell, who, after living some time in Virginia with his brother Andrew, returned to Scotland. Some of Andrew's descendants remain in Virginia, while others have emigrated westward.

Two English girls are romping with boisterous laughter in a hotel at Nice. Then comes the shocked matron: "For heaven's sake, Mabel, don't! They'll take you for one of those horrid Ameri­

can girls. One of this sweetly designated class, chancing to overhear, says zently, "I guess not, with those awfully big feet.

THE THUMPERS.

How They Talk With the Entire Contlnent Between Them, Special to the St. Louis Republican.

NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Mr. Richard K. Fox, proprietor of the Police Gazette, received from Jem Mace in San Francisco to-day a telegram in which the pugilist says: "I send this dispatch to let you know that I have taken up my quarters at Patsey Hogan's Palace hotel with the big one. His name is Herbert A. Slade and he is an Australian by birth. He stands 6 feet 2j inches in height, and when in fighting condition weiglis over 200 pounds. I think he will be a'good match for Sullivan or any other man. Although I am now in my fifty-second year, I am still champion of the world with the gloves, and would only be too happy to have a trial with John L. Sullivan, the American wonder, especially as you state there is so much money to be won by beating him. He must be a great pugilist if he knocks me out in four rounds. I have sent a letter by mail, with full particulars, and I call your attention to my companion, Slade. I wish you would make no arrangements until you receive my letter.

Mr. Fox was asked if he had made any arrangements in regard to Jem

"Yes," he replied^'1 have sentword for Mace and his party to give an exhibition in San Francisco and come on to New York at the expiration of two weeks. I have received offers from two railway lines'to bring the party on, have taken the best offer and sent on four tickets, and when they arrive we will make a match, if possible, to fight John L. Sullivan for any amount."

The reporter found John L. Sullivan at Wm. Bennett's, surrounded by Bob Farrell, Peter McCoy, Mike Moran, Joe Coburn, James Dugrey, Samuel White, Steve Dubois and other wellknown sporting men. He said: "I will fight Mace if I have to, but would rather fight the young man (Slade), as there would be more credit in it. Mace', according to his own say, is 52 years of age. I will box Mace, and agree to stop him in four rounds easily. If Mr. Fox, after two years' looking around, thinks he has found the man to whip me, I will fight him for $5,000 a side to accommodate him, but would rather have it for $10,000 a side. I care nothing for the title of champion of the world, which Mace claims, but am satisfied with that of champion of America."

THE CODE IN WISCONSIN.

A Challenge to a Duel Sent by One Milwaukee Man to Another. Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat

MILWAUKEE, Wis., Bee. 27.—A sensation was caused to-day by the arrest of John Gradewahl, a West Side business man, on a complaint sworn to by Frederick Matzahn, acarpet merchant, that the former had threatened the latter's life. Investigation showed that the real ground of arrest was the fact that Gradewahl had sent a challenge to mortal combat to Matazlin, basing his grounds for such action on the charge that Matzahn had seduced }iiu (G-rnUowhaVo) daugliter. Bofcli aro well known in West Side business circles, and their places of business aro opposite each other on the same street. Gradewlial sent his challenge by his next friend, and the latter returned with a reply that Matzahn would consider the matter. The challenged man's method of "considering" was to proceed at once to swear out a warrant. His promptitude in the matter was hastened by the fact that Gradewahl accompanied his challenge by a statement that unless the challenge was accepted he would follow him as long as he lived, and upon the first opportunity he would take his life.

Gradewahl was interviewed by your correspondent this afternoon. He said "Don't talk to me, for God's sake. I am nearly crazy now." After awhile he calmed down and said: 'I sent Matzahn the letter you ask about. He is a coward, and he dare not meet me like a man. Yes, ho did seduce my daughter last Sunday, and I can prove it. He was supposed to be a respectable man. He has three children and a nice wife. I have six children my daughter is 15 years old and mv oldest. I am ready to stand trial."

Gradewahl is now confined at the Central police station.

Mysterious Shooting.

Hpecial Dispatch to Chicago Tribune. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 20.—George Heide, a youth of about 20, was arraign ed Christmas morning before the mayor upon the charge of assault and battery, with intent to murder Lena and Lizzie Pfauand their father. During the preceding night Heidc was out, carrying a double-barreled breechloading shotgun. Pfau states that himself and daughters were quietly walking in the center of the street when they saw a man walking on the pavement. When ho came opposite them he deliberately took aim and pulled tho trigger, the contents of the gun lodging in the lower limbs of the girls, and some few shots penetrating the boot-legs of Pfau himself. The fellow ottered no explanation, and presently returned to the steps where Pfau and. his daughters had sat down, the girls being unable to walk, and, pointing the gun at Kfau's breast, said he had another load lor him if Pfau wanted to take him. The injured girls were conveyed home, and to-dav are both confined to their beds. The singular part of the thing is, that the girls were strangers to Heide. He was captured towards morning, but not until after a long chase.

The German Vote in 1884. Oath, in Cincinnati Enquirer. The German vote is very likely in the next national campaign to be cast with that party which is believed to be capable of giving to our politics and public system the economy, stability and efficiency which are the redeeming features in the eyes of the American Germans of the monarchical system they have left in Europe. Promises from either party will be interpreted by the Genual element according to their belief in the virtue of the two parties. The beer question is not a durable one. The Americans are constantly having spasms about how these men spend Sunday and treat their guzzle but these spasms are Mlowed by intervals of quiet. On the other hand, a very large German element in America is adverse to the American rowdyism which chooses Sunday for" its brutalities and excesses. Among men who have

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29.1882.

come to stay in this country and leave their children here after them, there is no broad difference with the better class of Americans. Sunday is taking all over the world the form of interpretation, the author of the present Sabbath gave it—of being made for man, and not man for it. If the Sabbath is made for man, it is made for the best in his civilization, and that in one age may be worship, and in another hospitality in one age a trance, and in another intercourse with the stars in one age conventicle, and in another education and individualism. Between the excesses and audacity of liquor sellers and the intolerance of Puritans is a very wide space "of ground, great enough for the larger body of mankind to encamp upon.

Analyzing Harrison."

Washington Cor. Chicago Tribunje. General Ben Harrison, of Indiana, stood lighting a cigar, ready to take a train to New Y'ork. I asked a western senator who stood by: 'What about his presidential chances "That man has a better assemblage of decorated, ornamented and embellished possibilities for the presidential nomination than any one that has been named. He came into public in Washington too late to enter into the strifes which have created the destructive Republican factions. He is not disliked by the stalwarts nor by the half-breeds, and could be supported by both. He has the traditions which help to make him popular lie is the descendant of the regicides one of his ancestors was in the first constitutional convention his grandfather was president of the United States his father was a man of note he is himself a man of brain, of self-poiso, of ability. He has made no blunders. He is "keen, quick witted. He comes from a good local point. He is central.

FASHION'S LATEST AGONY.

Women Who in Handshaking Turn (jTliemselves Into a Sort of Electric Battery. New York Star. "Do you know the latest agony among the first families?" asked a friend with whom I was recently chatting. Of course I professed both ignorance and anxiety for enlightenment in this respect, and my friend, with the observant eye and glib tongue went on to say: "This craze is called the 'Langtry expression' and handshake, because it was introduced to America by the Jersey Lily a few weeks ago. It is never practiced among intimate friends, for it is positively dangerous to a warm friendship. It is adapted to ladies alone, and its workings are decidedly shocking. By the way to illustrate, you are introduced to Miss Smith. The young lady acknowledges the introduction with a bored and careworn air, and her eyes take on a been-out-over-night look. Just as you are wishing yourself in another country Miss Smith braces up and steps forward as if desirous of making amends lor her cruelty. She extends her left hand, grasps your right, and then, contracting the muscles of her arm, pulls down with so much vivacity th the poor victim is in danger of being doubled up like a jack knife. Miss Smith says nothing, but before releasing you permits a tremor to so through her frame, which leaves vou in doubt as to whether she would like to know you better or is only joking Many ladies, I understand, take les sons in litis new social acquirement every afternoon."

Alison on Dickons.

London World. If all books professing to be humorous were as funny as the just published autobiography of the late Sir Archibald Alison, life would be less sombre than it is at present. Though Sir Archibald's "History of Europe" was certainly very long so no one would have been unkind as to call its author Mi Wordy had it have been as amusing as this "Account of My Lifo and Writings." The writer is, of course, mainly concerned with the great themes indicated in his title but now and then he is good enough to de.vote a few lines to less important subjects, such, for example, as the works_ of Dickens, which suggests the following delicious remark: "I never had any taste for those novels the chief object of which is tin paint the manners of foibles of middle or low life. We aro, unhappily, too familar with them. If you wish to see them you have only to go into the second class of a railway train or the cabin of a steamboat." This, as a whole, is supremely precious, but the refined sadness expressed in the one word "unhappily" is too, too utterly consummate. Sir Archibald tells us how when Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton and similar people AYIIO had not written a historv of Europe sat awed and silent in his presence, it was his gracious habit to put them at their ease by "saying something ridiculous," and ihis must have been as easy as it was efficacious. Mr. Wordy did not appreciate Dickens, but how thoroughly Dickens would have appreciated Mr, Wordy!

A Curious Marriage Vow. London Standard. It a trial recently a curious document was produced which was called forth the marriage of the Count de Sulz, a Roman Catholic, to Agatha Countess of llanau, a Protestant, in 1095. At the wedding the bridegroom solemnly swore to respect his future wife's religions view?, and signed, sealed and delivered a deed to that effect. It was couched in the following terms: "I, Rudolph, Count of Sulz, hereby promise on my honor as a nobleman—or ma)' the devil take me— that I will allow my future wife to remain in her religion, nor will I offer her any inducement in the slightest to abandon it. I have at home two bibles if that be not enough for her, I will get her two more. Moreover, it is her body, not her soul I take. I shall remain in my religion, in which I have been brought up from my youth. I know that I ant on the right road if she won't go to heaven, let her go to hell. Signed: Rudolph, Count of Sulz."

Charles Reale.

Charles Reade has been interviewed by a correspondent of the Philadelphia Times. He says tho interview is the disease of the American newspaper press, and then proceeds to chatter away to the extent of two columns and half about the orthodox method of constructing readable fiction, winding with a' regular howl on the subject international copyright, his agitation on the subject being apparently aggravated by the extraordinary sale acquired by the sixpenny editions which forced out of the field the only publishers who would pay him anything.

THE COW-BOY'S PRAYER.

A Texas Christmas Story.

New Orleans Times-Democrat. All the cow-boys on the ranche liked Briggs, because be was always so kind, so cool and brave, and had a nerve as strong as steel. He came to us one day when we needed hands and were getting ready to make a "spring drive." He asked for employment, and Bolly Jennings, the foreman, sized him ap, liked his looks, and he became one of us. "What's your name," some one inquired. "Well, it doesn't make much difference what it is," he said, and his thin lips closed firmly "but you can call me Briggs."

That settled tlie matter. There was a sharp look in his eye, which indicated that it was no one's business what his name was, and so the boys just took him at hia word and called him Briggs.

Well, to shorten a long story, he lived with us for over three years and was always the same man. He worked hard and willingly, and when ahead of a stampede on a dark night, or under fire in a raid after cow thieves, he was invariably as devoid of excitement as a statue, and it seemed as if fear was a sensation he had never known.

His face was handsome, but grave, and his eyes was large and bright and of a peculiar pale blue color. When his blood was up not a muscle in his countenance moved, but his eyes would grow cold and gray and sharp, and his steady look appeared to pierce your brain, so intense was it. His form was tall, graceful and muscular, and as straight as an arrow. This will answer for a short description of Briggs' personal appearance. One night in the early part of December, 1877, Briggs shot himself while cleaniug his pistol, the bullet inflicting a fatal wound—a rather nnromantic way for the hero of a-story to be served, but it was so.

Briggs' nerve was such that he did not believe that he was going to die, but the doctor, who had been summoned a distance of forty miles, said there was no hope.

It was then the cow-boys, rough and uncouth as they were, showed their affection for Briggs. They nursed him day and night as tenderly as a woman, and in his weakness he evidenced his appreciation of every little kindness, by a smile that brought tears to the eye. There was no woman present only a dying man among men—but these hardy fellows, who made the pr,ari.e their home, became gentle, al most womanly in their actions.

Briggs lingered until Christmas morning, and when we saw that he was sinking fast Bolly Jennings, Jim Henderson, Ted Williams, Arkansas Bob and the rest of the boys gathered about the bed. "Is there any hope, Bolly?" he asked. "I can't say, Briggs, but while thtre is life there is hope." "Well, there is darn little left," and he looked at us and smiled, "but I can stand what comes. God made me a man, and there is nothing that I cannot face."

His voiee grew husky then, and we lifted him up on his pillow. -"Boys, I had the best old mother in the world away back in the old states, and I would like to see her now, but I cannot. She will never hear of my death, and it is better, perhaps, because then she will always hope to see mo again. No, she must never know how I died, or the life I have led. It would" Tcill her. I—I believe I am go—going now, boys. I don't know where to, bttt I can face it," and a defiant smile curled his lips.

We saw the life fade slowly out of his eyes—a strange, chilly sighi,—and, in death, with that smile of defiance and the cold, fixed stare of his eye, he looked as if he was face to face with an enemy. It was a touching sight to see how the boys stood around the dead form of Briggs and endeavored to hide their emotion and failed.

The tears ran down the nose of Arkansas Bob like rain off the gable end of a corn crib, and Ted Williams and Jim Henderson and several more bowed their heads while their forms shook with the sobs they would not allow' to escape.

The l^oys dug a grave on the bank of the Brazos river, and that Christmas night as the clouds drifted away, and the moonlight fell upon the snowcovered ground and sp arkled amid the ice laden limbs of the tall forest trees, we laid poor Briggs down in his narrow resting-place.

The only requiem that wo sung was the roar of the turbid Brazos, as it surged and tumbled along on its way to the sea—a mass sung by nature.

When the grave had been filled Jim Henderson said: "I think we ought to have some kind of service. It ain't right, by a durn sight, to go away without sayiu' somethin' over the grave. Any you fellows got a Bible?"

No one had a Bible, nor had seen one in a number of years. "Well, suppose some one says a sorter of a prayer."

The boys scratched their heads, glanced at one another for a moment, and then looked away off into the woods.

Finally some one whispered, "Sish! Arkansas Bob is going to pray," and he did. "Oh, Lord," he said, "I guess in your opinion I'm pretty tough, but I ain't askin' nuthin' for myself, it's for Briggs. He is dead now, but he was as white a man as ever walked. He never did no man any dirt, and he had a heart in him as big as a mule, and no one, as I've heard, ever said a word agin him. I don't know as what I say will have much influence, but Briggs stood well with us down here and although I don't know much about his career, or his history, or his family, he was a man that j'ou could bank on every clatter. He gave a sick Mexican S4.50 once for medicine, and then turned right around and nused him through a fever, but the infernal Greaser hadn't been well more'n two days before he stole Briggs' saddle-bags. Ah! Lord, there hain't any preacher nowhere round here or we'd have him here to say something more pinted to you than I can say it. I never pattered any with the Bible, an' can't just now remember a hymn song, but I'm a man of my word I mean what I say. and Briggs, if he gets a chance, will make as good a record in heaven as any one that ever got there. He had away down in his heart, something that was square, and good and as true as steel, and O Lord, you mustn't go back on that kind of a man, cause theyie too skeerce in these parts. Amen."

The prayer was as rough as Bob, but no more sincere, as was evidenced by his tearful eye and trembling lip. After the prayer the boys ranged themselves on" one side the grave, and drawing their six-shooters, fired a salute over their dead comrade, and while the sharp reports were still ringing through the vaults of the forest, they turned and slowly left the scene.

Who Briggswas no one will ever know, but in that solitary mound on the banks of the Brazos, now matted over with rank grasses and creeping vines, rests one of the bravest men that ever faced eternity and his God.

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AMUSEMENTS.

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PERA HOUSE.

Saturday, December 30th,

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-Maln, in his Comedy Drama of

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

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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. PERA HOUSE.

O Monday, January 1,1883

Two Grand Holiday Performances. Matinee at 2. Evening at 8. The Popular Actor, Mr.

FRANK M0RDAUNT,

And his complete first-class Dramatic Company, composed entirely of New York Favorites, in RobertG. Morris' great American Comedy Drama,

OLD SHIPMATES!

Magnificent Scenery and Mechanical Ef fects, including the

GREAT SHIP SCENE,

PRICES OF ADMISSION,

livening 75, SO and 25c. Matinee Adults, 50c Children, 25c,

No extra charge for reserved seats.

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New Year's Ball!

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DOmiXO HALL.

JANUARY 1,1888.

RECEPTION COMMITTEE.

(WHITE RIBBON.)

Patrick Osborne, William Prlndlble, 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. Hugh rue.

FLOOR COMMITTEE. (RED RIBBON.)

Joseph P. O'Reilly, Thomas Flnley, Patrick Lealiey, James Dougherty, James Grace, Patrick O'Leary.

MUSIC BY FULL RINGGOLD BAND. Admission $1.00.

PERA HOUSE.

O Tuesday, January 2d.

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LECTION NOTICE

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TERRE HATJTE & LOOANSPOUT R. R. CO., SKCKKTA V.Y'S OFFICE, TERRE HAUTE, IND., Nov. 25th, 1882.

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The annual meeting of tho stockholders of tills company will be held at the general office of the company In the city of Terro Haute, Indiana, on

Monday January 1st, 18S3,

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

GEO. E. FARR1NGTOV, Secretary.