Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 December 1883 — Page 2

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Terre Haute offers manufacturing industries unequalled Inducements. Fnel is olieaper than tn any city in the west, so cheap that flour is manufactured at less eost for power than prevails anywhere else in the oountry. There are nine railroad* leading Into the city, making freight rates cheaper than for any city Of lbs size In the west.

THE CARRIERS' ADDRESS.

Geo. M. Allen, Esq: DKAK SIB—'The committee appointed to examine the poems presented in competition for your prize, have decided to award the first place Jto Mies Foland's "Carrier's Story," as possessing more interest for the intended paper. The committee, however, concede to Miss Judson's effort greater literary excellence—excelling in some respects the other four presented.

G. E. HOSFOBD.

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A. L. WYETH.

C. C. OAKKY.

The address will be furnished by the carrier boys Tuesday morning. Miss May Foland, the successful competitor, is a resident of this city. Miss Judson is a resident of Paris, 111. ft

A Washington correspondent has discovered that no state furnishes so many native scions to the halls of congress as Ohio. The two senators from Iowa, the two from Indiana, one from Kansas and the two from Ohio are natives of Ohip. Of representatives Ohio furnishes four for Iowa, three for Indiana, two each for Kansas and Mississippi, and one each for California, Illinois, New York, Oregon and Tennessee. Of her own twenty-one representatives fifteen are to the manor bora.

A dispatch from London of the 23d inst. sayB: Messrs. Moody and Sankey concluded their two weeks' mission at Stepney to-day. Five immense meetings were held in their hall, and overflow meetings were conducted in Stepney church and Beaumont hall. The interest excited by the mission at Step*ney is remarkable, as there ithas reached lower classes of the population than heretofore. Fervent and crowded inquiry meetings have been held, and thousands of people have toeen converted. The attendance at the churches in Stepney bias bean largely increased. The mission services have been partially suspended until after the holidays, and will be resumed at

Claphiun, whither the irom mission hall will in the meantime be removed. From Olapham the evangelists will go to Stratford. They have engagements up to

The Christians are making an earnest effort to capture Utah. Six denominations are now working in harmony, and in substantially the same way. From all the smaller towns rivalry is absent by common consent, the first occupant holding exclusive possession. In the territory have been opened seventy schools, with 120 teachers and 4,500 scholars, the latter largely Moir-mon-born. The annual expense is more than $60,000. Every step in advance has cost a battle. In most cases the teacher lias gone uninvited and found few to welcome her. Suspicion, if not hostility, was universal. Success was gained ohly by conquest. In various ways the pupils were madejto suffer. If the youth will not absent themselves, then they must forego the church dances. Of late, opposition of a nobler sort is coming into fashion. The ward schools are made free, inoompetent teachers are discharged, buildings and all manner of helpB are improved and increased and thus, by competition, the church is put on good behavior.

Lamentations of C.4- S.

New York Sun. Poor, stricken, hapless Democracy, divine In Ideas, most Impotent In conduct, what fatalities beset thee, what follies are committed In thy name! J, yi?

Experiences a Change of Heart. Detroit Free Press. The man who gets up In the morning feeling that he would like to die for his country, changes his mind the minute he feels In his pooket and finds he has been /'stuck" with a trade dollar.

A Different Xind*)f a Veoklaoe. Bismarck Tribune. A pearl necklace owned by a New York lady Is valued at 9100,000, and yet the pleasure she derives from wearing His as nkim milk beside golden cream when compared with the pleasure the Dakota girl experiences while wearing a necklace composed of a strong, honest arm. This is semiofficial, but it can be relied on as being oorrec t.

Holman's Betrayal, j- -*f

"New York Tribune. When William Holman stoops to follyu And finds to late the Sun betrays, What charm can sooth his meloncboly?

What art his withered boom can raise?

The only method to recover His boom now fading branoh and root, To give repentanoe to his lover

Is ust-—a breach of promise suit.

The New Yorkgynasiums have looking glasses, in order that athletes may watch the play of their muscles. These

ftlemen

hardly ever need mirrors

their beauty.

dShfcago Herald Bays the genu*:lUmer never says "valise, but %But that doesn't excuse the ,e he lets go when he has lost

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WISE AND OTHERWISE.

THE DKBUTAXTK.

Forthlfsplurge on New Year's day? You look, serene as a regeant queen,

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But there'll be soine talteb, 1 fear, For I'm to receive this year, mother—

I'm to receive this year. My dress is such a daisy, mother, what Wonder If I am. vain Tia a white .pekay, .decollete,

ISots 4 7 GO 8

With a princesse 8kirt, en train That* why I yearn and impatient burn For the splurge that is, on, so near— For I'm to rfecelve tbis year, mother,

I'm to receive this year. Jack says he will come at 10, mother, And tarry the rest of the dayWhy turn up your nose—you don't suppose

Heft dare to stay away! Though Jack proud and hates a crowd, I'm certain he will be here, For I'm to receive this y^ar, mother,

I'm to receive this year.

So call me at hal fTpast 8, mother— Don't let me sleep till 9— I've crimped my hair, and over the chair

I've thrown ID? dresses fine At half-pa*l H—now don't be late— Comerarly, O mother dear, For I'm 1 roi-ol ve this year, mother—

I'm to lecplvB this year. Dying year poets are now in the .agony of sentiment.

The eeaiskin sacque is the coat-of-arms in many families. Binns, the English hangman, is charged with drunkenness.

The Mormon church has bought the Pioche & Meadow Valley railroad. Prof. Baird Bays the Long Branch sea serpent is a South Carolina devil fish.

The Austrian ladies have taken to learning the art of fencing as an amusement.

All of

this

The Yuma Indians, on the Colorado, bury watermelons in the dry desert sand, and preserve them all winter, fresh and crisp.

The Peter Cooper monument fund lags eVen worse than the Barthold subscription. Only $4,000

The

mother,

Haveyougot theiellies made, Arethesandwkjhes^ufait—

leiuling farm and garden

seeds are gdipittgd to this coiintry free, of doty. i' The emperor of China sleeps on a bedstead that has jeen in use for two centuries.

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The Detroit Evening Jourhal* says Cincinnati is advertising for

Bome

one

to bail the city out. A man in Buffalo announces that he is preparing to destroy the city of London with dynamite.

Mr. Arnold is quietly loading up With criticism, and will make America howl when he gets home.

Prohibition is gaining ground even in' Texas. Two counties have just voted against licensing saloons.

Science says there is but one chance in twenty for a cold winter. But what does science call a cold winter?

A church festival was anticipated at gftmma City by a mouse which, at an unguarded moment, stole the OyBter.

Barnum made his will last week, and summoned three physicians to certify on the document that he was of sound mind.

Codfish have reappearrd off Newburyport, Mass, since the Merrimack has been restocked with shad and alewives.

First-class passenger rates on American railroads are less than thejr are for aimiUr traveling accommodations in Europe.

Edison is still an indefatigable worker, and, it is said, hopes to again astound the world with some new inventions. '':y

BetnBlarze shot himself and wife in a nightmare at San Francisco. Investigation showed it was clearly somnambulism.

The habits of all great men are mercilessly assailed. It is now charged that the lion. Bartholomew Binns takes on too much gin.

Sarah Turner, of New Haven, wants pension. She served as orderly in the war, being dressed in man's attire and called Jim.

A breastpin containing an Edison glow light, fed by a small waistcoat pocket battery, is sold for $9 at Nurmberg, Germany.

haB

Eottery

been raised

in four monthB. While aNew Yorker was skimming proudly over the snow, the observed of iall observers, his $1,800 horse dropped dead.

A Michigan woman is a kleptomaniac only while she is asleep. She has

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robably been detected by a somnampoliceman. A Virginia lottery company does business under the disheartening ap-

ellation of the Dismal Swamp Canal company. ANew Jersey trapper (colored) reports musk rats as good eating as 'possum, which means, in his estimation, that muskrat is tip-top.

A wounded soldier who lives in Burlington, Iowa, declines to draw any mors pension money because he has recovered from his wounds.

Some farmers induce hogq to sat hay by cutting it fine and mixing it with meal, as cattle are coaxed to eat cobs by throwing them ear corn.

Socks with tote—or foot-gloves—are selling in Boston at $36 a dozen. They are recommended as easy on corns, and preventive of ingrowing nails.

A New York dealer marked his heaviest turkey: "Chester A. Arthur, hatched June 9,1883 ater two quarts corn daily guaranteed tender.','

To a veteran compositor: Good, dear old "Pap," this day let none Hold honest praise from thee aloof. Thy blameless life a crown hath won:

Than thine there Is no cleaner proof. The New York Sournal asserts that a Pennsylvania man, in excavating for a building, found 600 snakes. He must have been digging for anew distillery.

John Hines, cashier of a Great Harrington, Mass., bank, ran off with his father's young bride, Monday. The old man was sixty and the girl under twenty.

Bather than be an Englishman, the American of 1775 fought thirty-six battles. Bather than not be an Englishman, the American of 1883 would fight a hundred.

Another alleged cousin of the late A. T. Stewart has just announced himself at St Albans, Vt, and proposes to appeal to the courts for a share of the millionaire's estate.

In the cities of Brazil, where coffee is largely used as a beverage, alcoholism is unknown. The Cincinnati Pries Current says coffee is "nearly as good as Cincinnati beer."

James Sprague, counterfeiter, pardoned out of the Indiana penitentiary a few months ago, has been captured again. Immediately on getting out he resumed his former calling.

The value of church property in Indiana is estimated to be about $15,000,000. In Indianapolis it is nearly if not quite $2,000,000, or four percent, of the whole amount of taxables.

A Russian weather sign is that when ducks bathe and quack there will be rain, and when they are quiet there will be a thunder-storm. When do the Russians have fair weather?

Some thieves stole a $500 India shawl from Mrs. James Turner, in Brooklyn, and on examining the plunder, saw from its coarse texture that it wouldn't sell for a dollar, and threw it aWay.

breastpin containing an Edison glow light, fed by a small waistcoat pocket battery, is sold for $9 at Nurenberg, Germany. But 1B the hotel clerk to give up his diamond for every nswtoy?

PEOPLE.

8rinday

Are the salads wrought and the wine all

Schools Will Review

tho Ls—ong of the Last

Three Months.^

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Lesson tor Dacamber 80—The Quarterly Review—Outline of the Lessons. 1. Mi's death Sim. iv. 10-18.

Golden text: His sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not. —I Sam. iii. 10. 2. Samuel the judge I Sam. 8-17.

Golden text: It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.—Psalm cxviii. 9. 4. Said chosen king I Sam. x. 17-27.

Golden text: And all the people shouted, and said, God Save the king.—I. Sam. x. ?4. •5. Samuel's farewell address.—I. 8 a 1 3 2 5

Golden text: Only fear the Lord, and serve Him with all your heart for consider how great things He has done for you.—I. Sam. xii. 24. 6. Saul rejected.—I. Sam. xv. 12-26.

Golden text: Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.—I. Sam. xv. 22. 7. David anointed.—I. Sam. xvi. 1-13.

Golden text: I have found David my servant with my holy oil have I anointed him. 3. David and Goliath.—I. Sam. xvii. 38-51.

Golden text: The battle is the Lord's.—L Sam. xvli. 47. 9 David's enemy—Saul 1 Samuel xviii, 1-16.

Golden text: And David behaved hiinself wisely in all his ways and the Lord was with him—-1 Samuel xviii.,. 14. 10, David's friend Jonathan 1 Samuel xx., 32-43.

Golden text: A man that hath .friends must show himself friendly and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.—Prov. xviii., 24. 61 David sparing his enemy 1 Samuel, xxiv., 1-17.

Golden Text: But I say unto you, Xovs your enemies, bless them that cruise you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.—Mat.

12. Death of Saul and Jonathan. 1 Sam xxxi. 1-13. Gulden text: The wicked is driven away in his wickedness but the righteous hath hope in his death.—Prov. xiv. 32. 3.: Review. 1 Sam. iv. 10 xxxi. 13

Golden text: But God is the judge. Psalm xxv. 8.

Centenary.

The remodeled Centenary church will be dedicated January 29th. The RevJ Dr. Fowler, of New York City, will preach the sermon. The church presents a handsocfle appearance, and wheh dedication day arrives will presentja fine appearance. Two hundred new' chairs were received yesterday, and placed in the Sunday school room.

Congregational Church. Music for Morning Service?™*4*4

1. Organ Voluntary—Ave Maria"...... ....Eugene Thayer Mrs-Allyn Adams. 2. Solos and Chorus—"O How excellent".... ... •. .Palmer

Solo, Miss Anna Auble.

8. Offertory Duet—"O Magnify the Lord." X.. Carter SBMrs. Hoberg and Miss Ida Ensey.

In the evening a "song service" will be £iven with the following programme 1. Organ Voluntary—"Jerusalem'V 2. Sofo and Chorua-

From "St. Paul"

"Christmas Anthem" .Dauks

Solosj Mri. Hoberg and T. W. Parked 3. Solo—"The Palms"'. Faure Allyn Adams.

Solo and chorus—"The Lord is My Shepjherd ..Mrs. Allyn Adams SoloS, Miss Ida Ensey .anl O. F.

Hughes.

6. Bolo—"I Know that My Redeemer •Llveth" From "Messiah" Mrs. Hoberg. 6. Anthem—"The Angel Heralds"..Palmer

Duet Obllgato—Mrs. Hoberg and Miss Ida Ensey. 7. Solo and Chorus—"Soft as Fades the

Twilight Splender" J. H. Morey Solos, Mrs. Hoberg and T. W. Parker. Notes. Special music at the Christian church to-night.

Lqve feast at Asbury at 9:15 this evening. Song service at th# Congregational church to-night.

A beries of revival meetings will begirt at Asbury next week. The Rev. Alfred Kummer will preach a Neiw Year's sermon this morning.

A Sunday Bchool concert will be give|i at Centenary church to-night. The Rev. Parry will not preach at Chidago to-day, but will next Sunday.

Tl|e Rev. Clancy. Congregationalism has been secured for a year to preach at Macksville.

The annual meeting of the Congregational church and the society will be hield Monday night.

Quarterly conference will commence at Asbury to-morrow night, the Rev. Buckles, the presiding elder, officiating..

The Rev. Mr. Crofts will preach a sermon at the Congregational church this imorning appropriate to the Sunday in the year.

The Rev. Wheeler will preach his fifthisermcm on the Prodigal Son at the Baptist church to-night. He will pay 'attention to the gamblers.

The annual Meeting of the Central Presbyterian congregation will be held Wednesday evemng, to elect officers and, consider the resignation of the pastpr.

Quarterly meeting began at Asbury chapel last night, and will continue ti(l ilonday. Services were held last evening, iDr. Cissel, of Greencastle, presiding. The Doctor will preach this morning and evening.

Tlie Rev. Mr. H. O. Breeden, of the Christian church, will preach a new sermon on "The Past and the tire," this morning. In the evening ithe second and last discourse on "Thfe Real Jesus."

Oil New Year's afternoon the officers of the Baptist-church will receive in the Sunday school room between three and feeven o'clock. A special invitar tion is extended to the members of the Church and all Baptist congregations in the city.

The Rev. W. D. Thomas, of La Crodse, Wis., will preach at the Central Presbyterian church this morning and evening. He is a candidate for the soon to be vacant pastorate. His morning subject will be "Lost Opportunities?' Evening, "Peculiar men."

Volcanic Outbreak In Alaska. On the 6th of October, Mt. Augustine, near the entrance to Cook's inlet, Alaska, indulged in a violent eruption, the phenomenon being accompanied by tidal waves from eighteen to thirty feet high. During the continuance of the disturbance the mountain was split in twain from base to summit A new island formed in the passage between Chernaboura island and the main land. A party of Alert Indians engaged in that locality otter hunting, became afraid of the subterranean noises, refused to stay, and returned horns. None of those who remained can be found.

Photographing Sound.

Cornhill Magazine. Till recently no one would ever haye dreamed of applying photography to acooustics but it is now possible to photograph sound, or, speaking more correctly, sound vibrations and Prof. Balteman is no^r announced as the discoverer of what at first might be regarded with incredibility. The sound vibrations are communicated to a thin platinum plate, and the movements of the plate, after being magnified by a solar microscope, are reflected on a screen, and photographed by rapidly drawing a gemdtiye plate across the

image. Every letterwhen p: gives a separate Wf: distincp

vu.

the

Golden text: Hitherto^ hath Lord helped us.—I Sam. viL 12 3. Asking for a king I Sam. 10.

The uses of an arrangement like this may be innumerable. We can almost imagine that when the procew perfected eavesdroppers and spies will have a very easy time, and need run no risks in order to OTtain AeCret .information a 6mall ins^niment se^npfly placed in a room, and acting automatically, may copy down every word spoken nay, it is far more chimerical to expect that photography may one day take the place of shorthand reporters. "HS WEATHER-WISE PREDICTIONS.

How Icemen, Lumbermen and Farmers Watch the Hoavens for Revelations, Quite similar to the Iceman's ideas on this subject, says the Port Jervis Gazette, are the opinions of the Delaware river raftsmen. They, too, are close observers of the state of the atmosphere, wind, and

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The farmers—at least some of them —are able to make fair predictions as to the weather. They join with the icemen and the raftsmen in asserting that the present winter will be mild. They base their predictionB on the recurrence of seasons of like character following each other. Eight or nine yearB ago, they say, the winters every year grew milder, until the culmination was reached in a winter of exceptional mildness, when warm.winds prevailed, little snow fell, and scarcely ice enough was formen to enable them to gather even the slimmest store for summer use. The past two or three years, they say, have resembled in general character and. in increasing mildness the years which preceded the warm winter alluded to, and the present, they feel certain, will be a very near .counterpart of the warm winter itself. This year the culmination of warmth will be reached, and more rigorous seasons may be anticipated after this one has passed. 7

Dona Piatt as a Farmer.

New York Herald's Interview. "No farmer in Ohio can better himself now by moving further west, Now my neighborhood, counting the valiie of the farm, the cost of labor and that of fencing and farm implements, also the cost and keep Of work horses, no man can raise wheat- at less than$l a bushel. It is seldom we get $1. This year*we sold at ninety cents. I spei of wheat because it is our main staple." "But those farms exhibit in the improvements evidently of prosperity?" "Yes, and if for sixty years a man will work from before daylight until after night, work in all seasons like a mule—making himself, in addition, a hard taskmaster to his family—eating what he can't sell, and wearing next to nothing, he will before he dies be able to build a barn at a cost say of $800 and a farm house at twice that amoun). Why, the fencing alone is getting to be a greater burden, than )ie can bear. If the farmers of Ohio, under the present regulations, were called upon to rebuild the fences they would be bankrupted. It could not be done, and yet these fences must be rebuilt every ten years." "To what do you refer when you speak of the present regulations?" "I mean the monopoly given lumbermen and dealers in iron by the government. Every year timber gets scarcer, and of course, more valuable. Barbed* wire, the only article to replace wood, is held by a monopoly made.by the government. It is so arranged that a farmer shall buy all he needs to buy under protection and sell under free trade, all 1 wear, all I use in my business, from a tin pan to a mirror, is forced up by law, to twice its value, while all my -products, sold at home or abroad have the price fixed by competition in Durope. This is free trade to me. Talk of pauper labor. Why, my wheat, for example, at Liverpool, where I am forced to sell, if I sell at all, comes in competition with that of the Baltic, where a laborer works for $18 a year, and a goat-skin coajt or with the wheat of Egypt, where tjie man labors for a bare subsistence. That is our system, and it is unjuBt to the industry of our country." "But it is urged that the system builds up a home market that takes the place of this unfair foreign one." "No, sir it is impossible. We can not consume at home our surplus. But taking a man from the field and adding him to a workshop does not add to the consumption it only cuts off supply. And we are forced to remember that it is not the manufacturers we feed in Europe it is the millions back of the manufacturers."

The Home of

sion, the vowels showing Mgrnafeandulatory vibrations, while the^ consonants give curves and lines of vaned

on the day

that luminary crosses the equinoctial line. The Delaware river raftsman's anxiety is for a freshet, and all the sighs and indications by which they may be predicted are carefully remembered and diligently studied. Their observation, they say, has establishsd that when heavy rains and high water occur at the time of the equinox, every- succeeding storm will shed less rain, and the height of water in the river will continue for months to decrease. On the contrary, when clear skies and low water accompany the equinox, the rainstorms wtiich follow will increase in volume in geometrical progression, so that by the time March is reached heavy rainstorms, high water and rafting freshets may be confidently anticipated. This year the sky was clear on the equinoctial day, and the lumbermen are preparing to get out logs in abundance for the great freshets they confidently expect during the latter part of winter and early spring. To be rainy the weather must be warm, and as the signB, in their opinion, point to an Increasing amount of rainfall as the winter passes, the inference is that the prevailing temperature will be warm and mild.

THE TERRE filMS EXPRESS. SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER SO. 1881

Poet.

Washington-Star. 1 Work has been commenced on Mr. Joaquin Miller's log cabfn, on thelot recently purchased by him on the brow of the hill at the head of Sixteenth street. The cabin will contain two apartments of convenient size. These will be lined with fur, and it is stated by the residents ef the neighborhood that tho poet of the Sierraslntendf to mount a stufi'ed bear upon a. persimmon tree in- front of his door. "The cabin is very picturesquely situated -among some fine oaks. J'"4

Did Not Want Any Favors^ New Tork 9un. A good story, which may or may not be true, is told in Wall strset apropos of the recent Vandeibilt ball. Mr. W. H. was going out one afternoon when he was met upon the threshold of the entrance hall by *a boy loaded with packages "What is tins?" he asked we boy. "Them is favors," was the answer. "Go right back where you come from," thundered the great railroad ^magnate, "and tell to whoever sent you here that Mr. Vanderbilt does not want no favors from nobody."

Theatricals in Greencastle. Banner. Monday night "Mr. Orlando Blake, the peerless comedian," produced his ideal Rip Van Winkle, nobly essisted by a "troupe" of five or six "brilliant artists" and a prompter, the last named assuming the role of "star." The orchestra, consisting of a violin and piano, did very welT, except that the violinist was so cold as to necessitate frequent trips to the stove to warm. The playing by the "troupe" was extraordinary.

The San Francisco Chronicle has an editorial on "Satan in Congress." Now we arevery sure he wu not sent from auQhio district,,

HUNTER* OF FORjQUI. The Baltimore

They Drop Swift-Flying Ducks Freqaent the Quail goxnab Vallejo Chroniole.

A solitary sportsman, roannqg «er the Alvarado marshes on Sunday last in pursuit of the duckf, vhich,

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few and far between, bethought himself of an artesian well ia the distance where he might slake his thirst. When he reached -the desired spot he saw two girls seated on the margin dressed in a peculiar and striking costume. They wore tunics extending to the knees, long rubber boots, hunting coats and caps, and were provided t^ith an excellent brace, of breech loading shot-guns. Beside them lay a pile of teal, widgeon and rail, ample testisnobleand mony of their skill -in the use ef their weapons. The hunter raised his hat and presuming oh the fraternity of sport inquired if the ladies had good luck. They pointed triumphantly to their birdd, and then glanced sympathetically at their interrogators flaccid game bag. Both were unusually pretty girls, their cheeks brown from exposure, wowing that it was not their first excursion, and the bands with which they dabbed the cool water upon their heated faces were white and ^dimpled. They confessed that the oddity ef their. costume made them shun the male hunter, though, the sportsman confessed that he had never believed that rubber boots could look so cunning.

JuBt then a bunch of teal came down the wind with lightning speed, and both girls squatted on the marsh in a moment. Along swept the birds, bang went both guns, and three birds fell to the iground. They picked them up, and with a generosity altogether unknown to the male sportsman, offered him a brace of the birds, as he had the courtesy to allow them to do the shoots ins.,

They explained how they came to be hunters. One was extremely delicate, and: after graduating at a well-known seminary in Alameda county was recommended outdoor exercise by the doctors as the only escape from eonsumption. Tired of objectless strolling» the girl, under the kindly tutorsbip of her uncle, learned to shoot, converted a companion to the sport, and poth are now passionately attached to hunting. They visit the best duck

Itimore.

generous

DEAD LETTERS.

The Enormous Number of Hlsdlreeted and Uncalled For Missives. Fdur million three hundred and seventy-nine thousand one hundred and ninety-eight letters strayed into the dead letter office during the last year! says the Globe-Democrat 3,346,* 457 of these were not called for at the poBtofficesto wl -"ch they were ssnt 78,865 were Bent in from hotels because the] departed guests had left no addresses for forwarding their mails 175,718 were insufficiently'paid 1,345 contained forbidden articles, lottery tickets and the like 280,137 were erroneously or illegibly addressed, and 11,979 letters bore no addresB whatever Of these letters 15,301 contained moniey amounting to $32,647,523. Besides that, 18,095 letters contained drafts, checks money orders, etc., to the amount of $1,381,994.47. Moreover, 66,138 letters contained postage stamps, and 40,125 contained receipts, paid notes and canceled obligations of all sorts.

With this remarkable showing of more than $1,000,000 gone wrong, too much cannot be said in caution to those who confide letters and packages to the mail. The money thus collected at the Dead Letter Office is turried into the treasury. The goods the packages

and merchandise from are sold at auction, and the and fancy cards are done up in packages and sent to the children's hospitals and orphan asylums of the city.

Christmas

whole history of possible-jmguish and heart-burnings is wrapped up in the collection tf 35,160 photographs that: came to the Dead Letter office in a year, and injured and resentful swafris, angered relatives and^friends may know where _Bome of their treasures have gone to. The photographs are preserved, and this portrait gallery'of the postoffice department numbers up into the millions, beginning with a minature that was lost in the mails fifty years ago.

I SANDWICHER KINO,

Of the seventy sugar plantations on the Sandwich Islands Sir Claus Spreekels has secured the crop of all except the Una and eight or ten small affairs, which are not expected to produce more than 10,000 tons of siigar, while the Hawaiin knight confidently count upon handling from 40,000 to 50,000 tons. The price to be paid la reported to be the cost of dutiable sugar from the West Indies landed in New York, less three-quarters of a cent per pound, without regard to colOr. For example, if sflgarfrom Cuba polarizing 91 per saccharine matter cost 7f cents

11 sugar in

cent, sacc lanqed at of siigar la

New York, the same ghide landed at San Francisco is to

net the Hawaiin planter 7 cents. There is provision for one-eighth of 1 cent advance or decline according as the sugar varies one point either way'from 91ppr cent.

Then the ocean steamship company in which Sir Claua and the scions of his noble house are the controlling owners is to do all the carrying of. the sugar, driving out of the ,island trade the fSan Francisco firms of Williams, Dittiond & Co., J. G. Merrill & Co., Jones & Co., and Welch & Co. The capture of the Sandwich Island trade is complete, and next year the Hawaiian sugar raisem will be more than eve^ at the mercy of Sir Qlaus.

Further than this, alii competition from the east is prevented by the two cents a pound freight tariff on the Pacific railroad, while it' is intimated thai Sir Charles Sprockets intends to carry his operations still further and come into competition with Eastern refiners in their own territory. ia blic Men. National Republican.

Some months ago a well known lady of Ifew York invited on# of the club men of that city to meet Senator Jonfes, of Nevada, at her house. An invitation to this lady's receptions is esteemed an honor and a favor. Most not4d people of American social and political life have at* one time or another enjoyed the hospitalities of her home. The club nan was a fair type of the class of rich young New Yorkers who can find no go outside of England and who

thing ftmlo

have no other reason for existence than to ape English fashions in dress, speech, and manners. The invitation to meet Senator Jones was met with the following remarks, delivered with a half-defid drawl: "Rut I don't know Mr. -ah, Jones, you know. We don't invite him to our club. Our club men don't know him. He is a politician, I suppose. I don't believe I know who he is. Who is Mr.-—-—ah, Jones?"

The lady replM thai Mr. Jonas was a*T7»ited States senator from Nevada, and a gentleman of national reputation, "You know Senator Bayard, don you?" she asked. "Isn't he a politician?" •'Oh, yes," said the club man. "I kabW Senator Bayard. We invite him to our club. Our clubmen know Senator Bayard. He isn't a politician: he a statesman, And bendes that, hes to be president, and he has promised that, when be is elected, he will agpoiAt me senator from New (York,

|!55,2v-

81 t, 1 the li Bie

city in Great Britain

«ad thrtiiJyri cammewtol import tsnce. In population and manufactories it almost equals Philadelphia, «nd for wet ireather aarpiini any American dtjy lug* or small, with whieh I am acquainted. The people are busy, thrifty, industrious and excSiMngly poli&s ihtenstfy natioikiil, but absolutely ignorant and indifferent about America and American aflainj. I have not met any person so ignorant as the Italian count who asked wtaetheritwas notdangerous to yentdre outside of New York on arooaot of the Indians, but they do not seem to know or care that in the vicinity of the city of Towson there is a lulotis thriving village called

Wiping Out a Horse Thief Gang. LITTLE Rock, Ark., December 29.— For along time past the"northwestern part of this state and the southern part of Missouri have been infected with horse thieves, whose headquarters, it is believed, have been Cape Girardeau. A farmer named Kimball, living in north had three UV1UI( 1U uvtvu .Ijnvw.<p></p>Missouri^ horsbs stolen, and organizing a .posse of seven started in pursuit of the thieVes, who numbered three, and who wera overtaken near Forsyth, Mo. The thieves turned on their pursuers and sharp fight ensued. Two of the ptmners were seriously injured two of the thieves, James ana Andrew Davis, formerly residents of Cape Girardeau, were shot dead, and the third one fatally.

Gibbons to be Hade Cardinal. BOMJI, December 29.-—Thepope holds a consistory in April, when several carwill be created and vacant sees in America filled. It is rumored that annrtinr American cardinal will be made at the close of the forthcoming council in the United States. It is probable that Archbishop Gibbons of Baltimore, Md., will be selected.

General Grant Better.

Njtw

YORK,

Y.,

orfdul days.

December 29.—

There is a marked improvement in General Grant's condition to-day. The pfdn is not so severe, and he rested cftrniortably during the night. The physicians

Bay

he will be out in three

AMUSEMENTS.

QPERA HOUS

JTue«day, January 1st, 1884.

"THE STRAIGHT TIP!"

Host Positively the only great Novelty Mid Burlesque Company, that will visit Terre Haute this season.

America's Standard. Attraction. THE CELEBRATED

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Wovelty arid Burlesque Company.* ALWAYS THE GREATEST—NOW GREATER THAN EVER. on Scene I Our 80-

Stars—16! Maiperb Coterie of

ETflOPEAN" AND "AMERICAN SPECIALISTS. Each entertainment concluding with the new'Sensatlonal Burlesque, entitled

DON JOSE,

The Spanish Dude

Introducing the latest Parisian Crase, THE MASHERS' QUADRILLE andTTHE BEAUTIFUL SPANISH BELLES.

XllUfO vailUB ceptlon Scene! A performance grandly

Paa«^Secure

seats in advance, at Button'9

Bookstore, without extra charge. Prices, 75,60 and 25 cents.

AYER'S PILLS.

A large, proportion of the diseases whuu. civbe ftuinan suffering result from derangement of the stomach, bowels, and liven Area's CAmutrio

PILLS

act directly upon

these orgaitt, and are. especially designed to cure the diseases caused by their derangement, including Constipation, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Headache, Dysentery, and a host of otber ailments, for all of which tbey are a safe, sore, prompt, and pleasant remedy. She extensive use of these PIQLS ty eminent physicians in regular practice, shows unmistakably the estiihation in wh|oii tkey are held by the medical profession. l?iese

PILLS

TheMlahtySpreokeis Appears to Have Captured the Hawaiian Islands. San Francisco Chronicle.

are compounded.of vegetable

substances only, and are absolutely free from ealpmei or any other injurious ingredient. A Snflterer flrom Headache writes: "(AVER'S PILLS are ihValuahle tome.and are my constant companion. I have been

forirellef. /One dose will quickly movejny bowels and free my head from pain. They ftiffecUTe and" are the. most 1 and the easiest physic I hive ever found. It is a pleasure to me to •pc&k in tbsir praise, and I always do so when occasion offers. 1 W. L. PAGE, of W. Ik Page& Bro." lyanklln St., £Uchmptd,Va., June 3,1882. "il have used AYiB's PitLS in numberless instances as recommended by ^00, and ba«ene»rknowB them to^ailto aeeompUsh: thetdedred result, we constantly keep them, on hand at our home, and priie thew as a. pleasant, safe, and reliable fsmily medictne. FOR DYSPEPSIA (hey are inv^mrile.

.H4.YBS."

Btexla, Texas, Jnne 17,1882. The REV. FBAXCIS B. HABLOWE,

writing

from Ailaitia, Go., says: ''Por some yeara

reading

It, an§

haxe rastiy improved my general bealth." AYKR'S CATHARTIC PILLS correct irregularities of the bowels, ettiiiaiate the appetite and digestlon/and by their prompt and thair9agh.aetiQn.-gire tone^aad vlflor the whMe physical economy. 'j -vj. .. nOPABIOBT Dr.J.C.Ayer&Co., Lowell, MiWr

Soldby allDraggisU.

All experience weadwfsl of

YOUNG, 0Lt, AND HHJDLE-

Ayei*s Sarsaparilla.

AGED.

Children with Sore Eyes, Sore Ears, or any scrofulous or syi»may be made healthy and strong

ill tic taint, by Us use. 8Hd by aU Oru«Ists 91, sia bottles for

mMSSZi

at home. Sampi* KU» free, Addia« nd. Maiaa.

-UNTIL—

ALL

BRUSSELS AND INGRAIN

Sold by us will be made and laid

Free of Charge

ExcaptCthose we sell at 20 and 25 cents «rd. This offer is made to the

public for their liberal patronage to as during the past season, and lor the purpose of reducing stock rapidly, preparatory to our January invoice, when we expect to make a radical change in our Carpet and Housekeeping business.

We Hold the Finest Stock oT,

pAPEE HANGINGS

In the city, which we. will put on the market at the following prices, subject to such changes as a lively competition in business may make necessary^

Brown Blanks, 10c. White Blanks, 12 1-2c. Satins and Flat Grounds, 18c.

Gilts, 25c and up.

These goods we can turaish in new Spiing Patterns, and in any quantities.

THIS IS OUR FIRST

GRAND CLEARANCE SALE

We have ever offered to the public, and one which everybody in need Oi House Furnishing Goods should take advantage of.

Oite centaeman who had been confined to his bed six weeks with Mercurial Rheumatism had been cured entirely, and speaks in the highest praise ofS. 8.8. CHILE8 A BEBBY, Chattanooga, Tenn.

A negro was cured of a violent case of Rheumatism by S. 8. 8, Without the remedy be would havedled. W. B.SMITH, M. D., Tumbling Shoals, S. C.

Swift's Speoiflc cured me of Mercurial Rheumatism afterl had tried everything.

C.R. GU1NN, Hot Springs, Ark,

1 aaa REWARD will be paid to any 31,wvv Chemist who will find, on analysis of 100 bottles of S.S.S., one particle of mercury, iodide potassium or any poisonous substance.

THB SWIFT SPECIFIC (XX. Drawer 8, Atlanta, Oa.

Our treatise en Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free to applicants.

New Coal Office.

3ST. S. WHEATJ

NOW BEMOVE1) TO HIS OWN OOAJj OFFICE, BUILT AT «.i 4^-:- fir ,?

0^3 East Main Street.

There is a telephone oonnected with the: offlee, and he is prepared to furnish coal of ail kinds as 10w as the lowest, and of the beet quality. His Old former riehdi, and aamatiy new ones, are cordially Invited to call and get prioes wbtoh he la satisfied will he satlsAictory.

CHICKENS, Ducks, "v iv RABBITS,Squirrels, Quails, Oysters,

Celery, Cranberries, r.. Choice Apples,

Black Bass, Pickerel,

A a so 5 LEAVE YOUR ORDER AT THE

CUM FISH and POULTRY MARKET,

468 Ohio Stresst.

JJLS. MYERS.

CUT AND SLAU6HTER

-OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF-

tiBWTS' FUBWISBOJfe «H»1»8,

HATS, TRUNKS and VALISES,

per cent less than actual value..

Hlveryioocly InvltecL to In»p®ot

A Fine Cigar given to every Visitor, at

Excelsior Clothing House,

28 SOUTH FOURTH ST., NEAR OHIO,

521 OHIO

No. 1488. Two-story brick oa south First street, will be sold cheap. No. im House and three lots in Mack ft Grimes' subdivision. House of four rooms and in good condition, southwest corner of Liberty avenue and Twenty* firslstreet.

No. 1497. A good four-room house on south Second street, cheap and on easy terms.

NO. 119?. No. 610 north Sixth-and-a-half street. House of seven rooms good cellar, cistern, stable lot 40 by M0 east front.

Nd. 1201. South Fourteenth street. House of five rooms, pantry, porch, cellar, and good new barn.

NO. 1479. A good four-room house on south Second, cheap and on easy terms. NO.M2L Large frame residence on south Third street, twelve rooms, beautiful

Hinds and good fruit lot U0 by 800: i, well, two cisterns, smoke house, ail ne order. N4.1480. Anew one-story frame house, three rooms and all improvements, on corner of Seventh street and Lafayette.

Inane

Himse and lot oa north Third street, four rooms, wltt* barn and other outbuildings, cistern, well, *c. Will sell cheap.

House on Seventeenth, between Syca. more and Liberty avenue new hou»» of three rooms, wltb vmiitr kltehen. Will •eurort^m

No. 1 order. N&. i*1" Frame house, two stories, fl rooms and summer kitchen, large barn. Lot:83 by 141, andS squares south of Main, on Eighth street.

Nb. 1254. House of 6 rooms on south .hirdstree good order.

VI IWUiO VU OVUVM

Third street good locality 86 by 141 all la Price, 91,186.

NO. 1261. Lot 60 b: Tuell & Usher's

No. 1282. Four good lots on high ground near the nail wonts. Very cheap No. 2296. A-No. 1 corner lot on south Seventh street, 9600.

Np. 1371. Two vacant lots on east Main strebt, very cheap. NO. 1875. Large lot, pleasantly located, 50 by 140, in southeastern part of the city. A pleasant place for a home.

No. 1878. Northwest corner of Seventh and' College, No- 1400. Vacant lot on east Main street.

NO. 1414. Very desirable corner lot on north Third street. NO. 1689. Six lots in Burnham'S sub., andean be fenced together.

No. 1260. Lot 75 by 141 feet, on south Sixth-and-a-half street, south of Oak, and on east side. Easy terms.

No. 1210. Splendid lots, near the Seventh ward sehool house, in Xuell 4 Usher's addition. A No. chanc for persons of moderate means to seoure to themselves a home, for a^yery small amount of money.' Small cesh payinents. almost any time given on defe—•" paytnents, it purchaser will build. These lotsiaceln everyway, desirable, and we havie no doubt will be taken up immediately. Thevare specially recommended to non-residents and others desirtng a safe investment, being- near the Polytechnic, and only a pleasant walk north of the Vandalla railroad. Houses bnU* upon them would rent readily and at paying rates.

Lot 1281. Lot 70 by 168 feet on south Sixth street, near the resldenoe of-Henry Robinson, Esq. Price,' 9t,9B0r

No. 1869. A very desirable lot, 4* 14 by 142 feet on west side of Fifteenth street north of the residence of Charles Daggett, on easy terms. Price I37&. One-hair eaan, balance in one year. A bargain.

No. 1289.

Two

No.

good lou, southeast cor

ner of Sycamore and Seventeenth, in

mote, and north of a nonabcr oijB6W houses, recently built by Esq. tfhese lots are very eligibly situated for small homes. Houses ln that ioetfity rent well. It Is only twojjnd one-balf squares north of the street railroad. Will Sell ail or singly for 9230 each. One-half cash balance in one year, with8 per cent, interest. First come, first served.

No. 12391 Five lots on Eutaw avenue, a part of Jewett homestead, east front, good shade and very cheap. Thsse lots are only a few feet north of Chestnut, and near Main.

No. 1246. Large and small lots on Thir-teenth-and-a-half street, near the nail works. Cheap homes rent well. Good Investment. Lots cost, say ...—•*** A house of four rooms, cellar cistern, outbuildings and fence _790

Total cost...—.......... 9900 Which will bring 910 per month. How ie this for a safe and profitable investment*

1280.

Lot 85 by UiO, on north Side Of

Chestnut first lot

*astof_

&BALUE,

Blxth, aad«^r

good lot left in that neighborhood «M00., No. 1426. Northwest corner of Seventh: and Linton streets, ••Old Brewery 'property, 148 feet front on Seventh street.

No. 1485. Two lots in Tuell A Usher's subdivision. No. 1898. Two lota on Stxth«and-a-haif and College streets, 50 feet eaoh.

No. 1487. Corner Second avenue and Lafayette street, 07% feet front on Lafayette. Only 9450.

Nd. 1488. Vacant lota in Burt's addition.

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T?^AT.

STREET

Take plsasure in calling the attention of those who may wish to make a good investment, or who desire to purchsse a Home cheap, to a few of the many pieces of property in their hands for Bale. Our list of property for sale is so large and has such a great number of Bargains, that we will shortly issue a Bulletin, in which wecan do full justice to all parties who have placed property in our hands. Before enumerating a few of the many bargains in real estate, we may mention two stocks of groceries, one valued at $1,900, and the other, 18,000, which will be traded for real estate. The following is only a partial list of vast numbers of bargains in real estate they can oiler:

IMPROVED CITY PROPERTY.

No. 1813. Houses of seven rooms on seut Second street. A very pretty place and good ioeatlon. Easy terms. 13& A desirable residence on north street. Large corner lot, room for i, and

NO. 133

Thitd st another house, and on easy terms.

In erty-east,

ith cheap. NO.M7Q. House and three lots part of city, will exchange for prope more central.

No. 1282. Eleven acres, near Fort Harrison, ail in cultivation. House of three rooms and a desirable garden spot.

No. 1196. Northwest corner of Elm and BevSnth, knownas the Wintermute prop- .... of 10 erty ground 180 by 141 good house rooms, all in perfect repairs, large t—. beaattfui shade and fruit trees.

No. 3908. James H. Lyons' homestead on eonth sixth street. No. 1280. Two houses and lots on north Tenth street.

NO. 1413. House and lot on south Slxth-and-a-half street, seven rooms and on easy terms.

House of four rooms, and three and a naif acres of ground, on Locust street. With good barn, well and cistern, will sell or exchange for other small property In the city.

House and lot on north Seventh street, of seven rooms, with good barn and outbuildings. Will be sold cheap. Lot 74)4x180 feet.

SUBURBAN PROPERTY.

No. 1208. House and six lots, east of blast furnace and south of Montrose school house very pretty little place and ver^ cheap.

NO. 1288. About 15 acres of land south of city limits, on Seventh street lay together and very desirable.

No. 1240. Five acres on incennes road, a short distance below city limits good double house a valuable piece of ground anaa good investment very cheap.

N. 119L Five acres, beautifully situated, east of city fine fruit and shrubbery, house of nine rooms, with clothes presses and porches, good barn, and everything

No. 1226. Large frame house, two stories, eight rooms and on south Seventh street lot 80 by 168. Can be had cheap.

No. 1214- A first rate brick residence of eight rooms, two stories, large barn, all needed out bulidlngs,and all In No. ,1 good order: in the central part of city, anil Jnst the place for a business man. Price low [terms and! easy.

NO. 1237. Large frame residence, 1% stories, 11 rooms all in perfect order northwest corner Ninth and Mulberry. Will sell very lo^ and give long time oa part... .. ...A'"'

No. 1202. House aSS lot on north Sixth-and-a-half street- lot 87 by 250 large frame house will be cold at a barealn being near the depot of the I. & St. C. R, K., and Is very desirable as a boarding house-

No. 1306. House and lot on south Third street lot 83 by 141 well in front house has 4 'rooms good order on easy term

VACANT LOTS.

Seoond avenue, near Polyteoh-

TUeil usner MIUIUVU. u»»i ""J nic Institute, and near the Beventh wart school.

barn all itt flrst-rate

•.,.

Four vacant lots In Burt's addir Do. tion.

No. 1489. Nineteen aores of land one mile south of city limits. A splendid garden place.

No. 1490. A nice building lot, corner of Bixth and Third avenue. No. 1261. Lot 75x150, north Slxth-and-a-half street, near Lafayette.

No. 1366. Thirty-three feet on isouth Beventh street, will be sold cheap. No. 1442. A desirable building lot on south Sixth street, all under fenee, ready for buildings. Will sell cheap.

FABHS.

No. im Twelve acres of land on south Bixth street, known as the Sparks property.

No. 906. Four hundred and eighty-eight acres of land in Prairie- Creek Township 250 acres in cultivation all under fence, and: two small houses on It. .906. Eighty acres in Clark county 60 acres in cultivation, 6 aores In meadow will sell oheap.

No. 907. Three hundred and seventyfive: acres In Clark county 120 acres In cultivation a good rooms and good fn half cash, balance on time.

Ac. Will sell at a bargain. Two hundred acres of land in Greenwood county, Kansas part tn cultivation, A good stone house ana stable.

No. 901. Forty aores in Cumberland cOunty. Illinois house of three rooms, orchard and small barn aboat 85 acres la' cultivation close to Toledo, the country seat. r.

One hundred and sixty acres or land iff Miller county, Missouri good timber land. Will exchange and pay difference for Terre Haute property.

One hundred and sixty acres In Greenwood county, Kansas, will trade for city ,• property and pay small cash difference.

Eighty acres In Cumberland county. This is fine tlmberland, one and one-half, miles from Vandalla rail road.

One hundred and eighty-two acres of land sOuth of city, on west side of Wabash, river 70acres in cultivation bottom land. We sell cheap or exchange for city prop-, erty.

Eighty acres of land In Clark county Illinois. Will exchange for city property. Forty acres land In Clark county, 111., all inxultivation. Will exchange for cityproperty. Lays on National road.

Three hundred acres of land in Sullivan county, Ind. house of six rooms, new— built two years, with barn and all necessary out buildings 230 acred in eultlvation fences fair. Ready to move on March 1st, 1884. Will exchange half for etty property. Thirty-five dollars pen acre.

Four hundred acres south of Merom, Sullivan county. Indiana will sell ail together or divide up in small tracts. Price, S8D per acre.

One hundred and fifty acre* iu Da vies, eounty, Indiana, on the e%st tork of White river, near Hutsonvilie, say half mile ten ties from Washington, county seat reenty.ave acres tn cultivation, cast fair Umber—920 per acre.

Ten acres of land on National road near Orphan Home. Will trade for Improved city property or will sell on payments, part down.

ROSS & BALUE,

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ESTATE BBOEER&,

§M: 'A

a*-

farm house with eight frame barn will sell for

One.hundred and twenty acres in Clark county, Illinois, six miles weet of Marshall, and two and one-half miles from Vandalla railroad about thirty-five aores in Cultivation and under fence. Log house with two rooms orchard and log stabled

One hundred acres In Sullivan county,