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odon—On file at Amerloan Exohange 11, Europe, 449 Strand. Carls—On file at American Exchange in 86 Boulevard des Capuclnes.

Terre Haute offers manufacturing industries unequalled Inducements. Fuel is cheaper than In any city in the west, so sheap that flour is manufactured at less cost for power than prevails anywhere else in the country. There are nine railroads leading Into the city, making freight rates cheaper than for any city Of Its slue in the we6t. tifc'-i

WHY YOU OUGHT TO JOIN.

The Spirit of the Board of Trade. The Board of Trade is an organization to promote harmony and good will in our business relations and transactions with one another, and to secure concert of action in all matters having for their object the building up and improvmeat of our city in its manufacturing, industrial, and other commercial relations. It is also interested in whatever will improve the social and educational interests of the city, and whatever will beautify and develop the advantages of Terre Haute as a city to live in or transact business in. ajsfsj

The Board of Trade is quite the biggest thing Terre Haute has had in many days. Webster giyes the definition of "Quite" as: "Completely: whollj: enre to a

It is suggested that the disparity in the number of Osman Digma's forces killed in comparison with the British losses is accounted for in the dispatch that the correspondent*-- "with the British forces took a hand in the scrimmage.

We observe that some of the dude editors in the east are fearful that any pronounced action by the house in the Lasker affair "would work mischief and impair the reputation of the American government abroad." Suppose we satisfy our own sense of honor in the matter and if the fellows abroad don't like it, well, let them dislike it

The good feeling and enthusiasm of the Republicans in the township convention yesterday afternoon and the large and enthusiastic attendance at the meeting of the Young Men's Republican club last night had no uncertain meaning. It is altogether appropriate this Sunday morning to refer to the conversion of many Democrats who made application to become members of the club last night.

Mr. Watterson telegraphs his paper, the Louisville Courier: I risk nothing in predicting that at no distant day there will be a Democratic cauous. This cauous will indorse the Morrison bill by an overwhelming majority, and Democrats who are prepared to rebel may as well do It early as late. There will be a plank quite big enough for all such to walk, and the way into the Republican camp Is about as short as the way of the transgressor is hard. In a word, the poker is In the fire, and, if there be Democrats who hanker after It, they can take the hot end, and may get this sooner than they Imagine.

Are we to understand from this that Senator Yoorhees and Congressman Lamb are reaching for the hot end of a poker They are two able bodied Democrats and the question is whether they can be read out of the party in this manner.

IKTOLEEAHCE.

A party of English roughs assaulted Bradlaugh the other day and chased him to- his hotel. Bradlaugh is a radical free-thinker, who owes his notoriety. and accompanying influence largely to the persistent attacks made upon him by lordB and commons, saints and sinners. He has been chevied out of town by Y. M. C. A.'s and pelted by the mob persecuted in the courts and dragged from the house oi commons. Like a ball he has been kept in the air, in the public gaze, but if let alone he would drop to the low level of mediocrity and obscurity. Although bigotry is found among even the educated and pure, it seems natural to look for it among the ignorant. There is something absurd in persecution for principle's sake by men without any principle, but it is not rare. That man who, learning late in life that the Jews crucified Christ, attacked the first Hebrew he met and drubbed him because he had killed Christ, is a good type of the average persecuting mob. A majority in parliament, representing the conservative aristocracy, education and gentility, has repeatedly refused Bradlaugh the right to take the seat to which an important constituency elected him. The persistency of the voters and the courage of the man have gradually .won him reepect which doubtless his principles do not entitle him to. To the average Briton he stands for fair play, whilst the gentleman, who may play baccarat and gamble on the turf, and the rough join in "electing him by knocking him down in the name of religion, and denying him the rights belonging to manhood.

It is difficult for some to recognize the right belonging to others to do wrong—that is what they may think is •v rong. Our ideas of right and wrong have quite a local coloring, and vary

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countries and races. Of course,

-certain moral laws are inflexible bat the minor points, which burden so many consciences, shrink or grow as move «bo$t, Stone 9* *nd

some of the virtues are quite artificial. The teacher who.lenghthens his catalogue is merely piling up a burden to break down character.. It may be a very good camel who breaks down under the last straw, but that last straw is in the way of hisever being a good carrier again. If it was not for the last straw be would be csrrying loads yet Many a man hasgone hell-bent after a peccadillo. His conscience, cultivated to perversion, shrinks nndera dictum of some favorite teacher. Beecher eaid he had members who thought it a sin to black their boots but not to shave, and others shaved Saturday and shone 'em up on Sunday. Each class would have felt guilty in a violation of his custom. In truth, the fewer attempts preachers and teachers make to classify and catalpjr'ie offences the better for all. Much of the infidelity of the day is dne to the revolt of sturdy independence ajrainst human definitions. The average intelligent man says "I know what hurts me as well as you do," and if he e? not know, he ought to. In primitive, antiquated French Canada the priest regulates the marriages and generally leadB his flock like ohildren. They are very good and torpid, as harmless and useful as animals in hibernation. We are not prepared to give the prescription of our duties, our recreations, our work too entirely to some other man. So little are we prepared for it that in this day an attempt to enforce it would lead to rebellion and secession. See to it, brethren, that he are not over zealous more than enough is always too much, even in proclaiming the truth, if one is not right sure what truth is.

A July Item.

Exchange. The Ice, old and new, on hand in Maine, is estimated at 1,188,000 tons, about 700,000 tons less than last year.

Biimarok's Offense.

Cincinnati Enquirer. No warrant has yet been sworn out for the arrest of Mr. Bismarck for Intercepting the United States malls.

One Mystery Elucidated.

Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. s. A Brooklyn man claims to have a paper of pins which he purchased when he married, twenty-five years ago. He found them in an old overcoat, the other day, along with an unmailed letter of bis wife's.

Afraid of Seoret Booietiea.

Marathon independent. "No," said Flskins, "1 don't think I shall ever try to join the Masons. It's too dangerous." "Dangerous! How?" "Oh, you sec we hear about so many murders in the first, second and third degrees that I don't dare try it." 53

Hissing Too Muoh Fun. 3$

Eureka (Nev.) Leader. H. C. Ward, who has served in ihe capacity of deputy sheriff for some time, to-day tendered his resignation to Sheriff Sweeney. When asked bis reason for resigning Ward said: "There ain't enough fun in being sheriff, I missed two or three damn good fights last night on account of being an officer."

Fatherly Advice.

Lebanon (Ky.) Standard. Some time since a young man from this county went to Texas, and not long afterward wrote baok to his father here that he was getting along first-rate—he bad bought a saw mill, had plenty of work and was clearing $60 per day. The father upon the receipt of the letter, became greatly excited, came at once to Lebanon and dispatched the following telegram to his son: "Why don't you buy another saw mill and make $100 a day?"

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.

"THE HYMNS OF LUTHER" is a new edition of the great reformer's hymns, each one of which is prefaced with an interesting account oi its origin. It is an exquisitely bound volume, and there is considerable taste exhibited in the arrangement and classification of its various hymns. Both the German and English words are given. E. L. Godeck, Opera house.

FENNO'S FAVOBITES is a collection of 100 pieces for reading and speaking, and contains some of the best selections of leading authors. There are so many worthless books on this order that this volume will undoubtedly be appreciated and valued for its true merit. John E. Potter & Co., publishers, Philadelphia, 617 Sansom street New York branch, 143 and 145 Broadway. Price, 25 cents.

JAMES ANTHONY FKOUDE'S BIOGRAPHY OF LUTHER isa well-written sketch of the great German's life. Froude has produced an entertaining as well as a valuable work, and every reader will certainly find it attractive. Ohas. Scribner's Sons, New York. Price, 30 cents.

THE DOMESTIC MONTHLY—published by Black, New York—is a splendid magazine of fashion, literature and fine arts. Each volume contains A number of entertaining and instructive sketches on almost every subject It is also invaluable tor its ideas in regard to the prevailing styles of fancy work. $1.00 per year 15 cents single copy. Black & Co., publishers, 853 Broadway, New York.

THE DECORATOR AND FURNISHES is comparatively new magazine, but has taken quite a high standard owing tci its true merit. It contains some very valuable hints and suggestions in regard to home decorations, and its designs are highly artistic. It is also well supplied with valuable and entertaining reading, and on the whole is one of the very best magazines of its kind that we have. 231 Broadway, New York. P. O. Box 1543.

LADIES FLORAL CABINET. This monthly is quite elaborately gotten up, and is replete with valuable information on the care of flowers, their progress and successful growth under proper training. Each volume also contains a number of good recipes which will prove quite a help to house keepers. 22 Yesey street, New York. $1.25 per year.

Forty Years of Courtship. A courtship extending over a period of forty years haB just resulted in a marriage at Sylvania, Ga. In 1843 Miss Mary Poythree was the belle of the county. There was one John Gross among her admirers, to whom Bhe was more than partial, and, counting on him, she rejected all other eligible offers. Gross, however, wandered off, and for ten years was not heard of, when one day be returned, bronzed and bearded, and expected to find bis former sweetheart married. True to her heart, she was still single. They became once more engaged and once more estranged, since which time they have been as strangeis, though often meeting socially. Lately the lady, still unmarried, was about to celebrate her sixtieth birthday. Mr. Gross began thinking of the days gone by, and made up his mind that the long-de-ferred nuptials sbould come off at last if Mary was willing. He found she was, and they have just sealed the vows made forty years ago.. •,

HowLaw ts Enforced In Ireland. The following extract, taken from the news column of an Irish exchange, will give fair idea of how English law is enforced in Ireland: "The other day, at the Castlebar petty, sessions, the landlord magistrate solemnly sentenced Annie Burke, a three-year-old infant, to three months'

imprisonment for trespass, because the police found her in the cabin, at Breaffy, in which the child was born, and from which her parents had been evicted. After this who will dare dispute the benign character of Knglinh rale in Ireland!

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WISE AND OTHERWISE.

OHI.T ABOY.

Only a boy. with his noise and un,'The veriest mystery under the sun As brimful of mischief and wit and glee. As ever the human gremecan be And as hard to manage as— what? ah me!

Tis hard to tell, vet we love him well. Only a boy with his fearful tread, Who cannot be driven, but must be led Who troubles his neighbors' dogs and cats, And tears more clothes and spoils more hats. Looses more tops, and kites and bats.

Than would stock a store for a year or mora. Only a boy, with his wild, strange ways, With his idle hours and nls busy days With his queer remarks, and his odd replies, Sometimes foolish and sometimes wise Often Brilliant for one of his size.

As a meteor hurled from the planet world. Only »boy, who will be a man, If nature goes on with its first great plan If water or fire, or some fatal snare, Conspire to rob us of this, or heir, Our blessing, our trouble, our rest, our care,

Our torment, oarioy—only A.boy.

The United States has 190 college papers. The Bartholdi statue is still in need of $128,000.

Missouri artist advertises "painless photographs." Princeton college has a ^library, of 62,000volumes.

London mascuUne swells wear Jersey suits of elastic stuff. New York city lost nearly $5,000,000 in February by fires.

Puck says credit is the thing that keeps a man in debt, The California State University has been turned into a military school.

Portland, oregon, has 233 Chinese children attending her public schools. Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald: Lent is never observed around free lunce tables.

Tucson, Arizona, with a population of 10,000 persons, spends $2,000 daily for cigars.

A bill prohibiting the sale of toy pistols has been passed by the Utah legislature.

The loss of property by the recent Ohio floods is now estimated at some $10,000,000.

A Massachusetts woman is suing her mother-in-law for $25,000 damages for alleged slander.

Reservoir square, New York, is to be called Bryant's squnre, and have the poet's statue..

General O. O. Howard expects to sail for Europe this week, on a fourmonths' leave of absence.

The manufacture of perfumes from local grown flowers is becoming an extensive industry in Florida.

Prof. J. G. Wood, the English natulalist, has announced his purpose of settling permanently in Boston.

The Philadelphia Times feels called upon to deny that either of its colored reporters wrote "The Bread-winners."

All goods manufactured in the New Jersey state prison must be stamped, "Manufactured in the New Jersey State Prison."

The Count and Countess de Tocbueville, who have been spending the winter in California, are now en route for France.

Diminutive dude—"Why do you make me wait until the last dance?" Young lady—"Oh, to give you time to grow."—[Puck.

Ninety-one wills deposited in the Berlin royal court over fifty years ago are still lying there unopened and without claimants.

The sultan of Turkey is a pigeon fancier. Two hundred and fifty fancy birds were shipped to him from New York the other day.

The Buffalo Express is filled with alarm lest Mr. Cable shall be mistaken in Chicago for the inventor of the cable street railway.

At the recent auction sale of the library of the late Henry C. Murphy, of Brooklyn, five thousand volumes were sold for $52,000.

The CubrnB have the most of our mutilated coin. The banks in this country send it to them because they would as soon have it.

Archibald Forbes, the English war correspondent, has settled down to hard and steady work in order to regain the fortune he has lost.

London Truth says that sherry is going ont of favor, and that the only wines really largely consumed in England are claret and champagne.

William Lawrence, who died in Lansingburg, N. Y., on Wednesday night, had for many years believed that he was immortal and would never die.

Victor Hugo is now devoting several hours every day to the final revision of his works for the complete form in which he wishes to leave them to posterity.

Good beer is said to be 90 per cent water, 5 per cent, alcohol and 5 per cent, hops and malt. Bad beer has in it a large percentage of drugs and headache.

Auguste Bonheur, who died a few weeks ago of heart disease in France, was a brother of Rosa Bonheur. He was traveling on a railway at the time death occurred.

Miss Georgina Jeffries, the daughter of an Australian millionaire, has been married to E. F. Sandeman, an English fortune hunter. The only thing significant in this to Americans is that it points the way to anew field of matrimonial adveuture, and relieves this country.

A suitable memorial of the late Keshub Chunder Sen, the Hindoo reformer, will be set up in Calcutta. A meeting having this end in view was recently held. Prominent men of all races and parties took part in it The exact form which the memorial will take has not been decided.

An English tourist says that most of the hard wood shipped from this country to Scotland is converted into paperfolders and other trinkets, and sent back to us as souvenirs of the house in which Burns was born or died, or the tree under which Walter Scott wrote some of his most brilliant gems.

Joseph Cook.

Joseph Cook, the Boston Monday lecturer, is becoming flippant and reckless in his statements, and if he only had a* D. D. attached to his name and himself attached to some church it would be time for. a first-class sensational church trial. Last- Monday at Tremont temple, Boston, he talked on divorces, and informed his hearers that on all railroad trains entering. Chicago now the train boys announced twenty minutes' stop for divorces. This was received as the utterance of a wit, and Mr. Cook then proceeded to denounce Sunday newspapers, his strongest objection being that the boys calling them on the street disturbed the preacheis.

A Printer's Mistake.

A printer in New York spoiled a concert last Saturday and started a suit for slander by making the programme read the "milkman pianist" instead of the "eminent pianist" Mr. J. N. Pattison was the unfortunate man whose name these words followed, and when he saw the programme he left the hall and refused to play. He has now decided to bring anit apainst the Chickerings, claiming that it was done with intentional alight, but this is denied, and the whole blame laid as usual on the printer.

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PASTOR AND PEOPLE,

"The Coming of Christ" the Saltfeet «f the Suday-Scbeol

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.1

Lesson for March 16—Subject: The Co*lng of the Lord. Thess. IT. 13-18, AND 14-17.

This epistle to theThessalonians was written by Paul while he was spending a year and a half at Corinth,, during the time to which reference was had in our last lesson, and it is probable for this reason that those who arranged tbe lessons for the year give us this here, in the m'dst

a series on the

journeys and labors of Paul. The apostle had spent but a short time at Theesalonica: had made some converts had established a church, and had been hurried away by the persecutions of the Jews. Again and again his heart had returned to the little band, and once or twice he had well-nigh perfected arrangements to visit them, desiring earnestly to strengthen them in the faith, to guard them against errors, and increase their efficiency as a church. But not being able to go to them in person, he had sent Timothy to them, and he, having! returned, had told the apostle of their condition and of certain errors into which they had fallen, both as to doctrine and consequent practice. And yet Timothy had found many things to commend, and the faith and zeal of the Thessalonians had gone abroad, so that Paul can use words of kindness and praise while he corrects their errors. One of the errors into which the Thessalonians seem to have fallen was that of expecting an immediate return of the Lord and the end of the present order of things and so they were troubled about the dead and the resurrection, and this is the subject of our present lesson.

While the whole Protestant church believes this prophecy of Paul, there are many different theories as to what manner the second coming of Christ is to be looked for. To undertake to discuss this question and give all these different shades of belief would take up too mush space, and would not, after all, help the Sunday school scholar in arriving at a conclusion. Lyman Abbott is acknowledged as a very careful and reliabla Bible student^ and in his exposition of this lesson, he says:

Christ foretells in various parable? the hour when the farmer will come to gather in his grain and separate it from the chaff as the period of His departure draws near He grows more explicit at last, in a quiet conference with His own„sitting on the Mount of Olives, and overlooking the sacred city. He depicts the whole panorama of future history, ending in a coming of the son of man "as the lightning corneth out of the east and shinetn even unto tbe west when the clouds receive Him, ofter the resurrection, out of the sight of the beholding disciples, hope gives them its message: "This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven and the great apostle catches the spirit of these prophesin. and repeats tnem again and again in bis epistles and the whole canon is closed by the vision seen by the beloved disciple of the coming of Him that cometh with clouds, when every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him. Those who believe that the incarnation is the last and supreme manifestation of God to men are compelled to believe that Christ was misunderstood by his reporters, that Paul was misled by his too sanguine tem-

and John was a deceived

reamer. Even this hazardous attempt to limit the prophetic teachings of the New Testament by our experiences of the past and the present, by the belief that nothing is to be that has not been and is not, fails to bring the New Testament into harmony with this dull, prosaic, unhopeful spirit. He that would take the second coming of the Lord out of the New Testa ment must ravel it and weave its threads together in anew pattern. He must make it a new book. He must deny to it that anticipative character which belongs no less to the New Testament than to the Old Testament. He must turn the seven-sealed book which John saw in the apocalyptic vision into a book of history. For the whole prophecy of the NewTestament, as of the Old Testament, points to a coming one.

This new Testament doctrine of the coming one has been received as the Old Testament [doctrine has been received by two forms of skepticiam—a sensuous imagination has despoiled it of its truth and beauty by despiritualizing it an ittellectual skepticism has denied it altogether. Pharisian materialized the Old Testament prophisies of the Coming One. He was to be a king to make Jerusalem his capital to gather all Jews there to establish a universal Judean empire to repeal the conquests of an Alexander or aCsesar, or to anticipate, on a grander scale, the political enfranchisements of a William of Orange ora Washington. Modern Pharisaism has brought all faith in and hope for a true fulfillment of the New Testament prophecies of a Coming One into disrepute by a like sesuous literalism. That the world is growing worse, not better that the gospel iB no power of God unto salvation, only an unavailing witness against wickedness that Christ must come again, not merely to complete a work unfinished but to do a work undone that a trumpet wil send its echoes round the world, and a celestial appearance will awaken slumbering humanity from pole to equator and from tne Holy Land round till it reach the Holy Land again that the Coming One will appear in human form as a crowned king in the now dismantled and no longer Holy City that the Jewish nation will be then converted to allegiance, and flock to His dwelling place —these are the beliefs which are pop nlarly identified with what is known as the doctrine of the Second Advent. They are about as near a true interpretation of the New Testament prophecy as the glosses of the Talmud are to a true revealing of tbe spiritual meaning of Isaiah.

Christ will come? they that have gone before to be with Christ will reappear, will come with Him, will be made manifest in the hour of their Lord'B manifestation the living will receive them both the coming will be accompanied by some manifestation such that all the world will recognize it, the un8piritual no less than the spiritual—they that pierced as well as tnev that crowned Him it will be no gradual process, as summer comes, as peace and righteousness are coming in slow development even now it will be sudden, like the coming of a thief in the night, like the stroke of lightning in the heavens, like the flcx^l in tbe days of Noati, like the storm on Sodom and Gomorrah no man can foretell the hour the development of ir.iquity must first go on to its consummation, with the development of gooduess, the anarchy of anti-ChriBt with the kingdom of Christ, before the hour of Revelation 'and of consummation: and, finally, for it we are to prepare, not by looking back alway, or looking up alway, but by looking forward not by dreams and visions, but by watching and keeping sober, putting on the breast-plate of faith and love, and_ for an helmet the hope of salvation. "Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when He cometh shall find so doing."

The Baptist Chnrch.

The morning services at this place of worship will be conducted by the Bev. J. K. Wheeler. There will-bee baptism in the evening, making the eleventh consecutive Sunday night on which baptism has been administered. In the evening Ah-Brah, a Bar* pese oonvart, will £naeh. Subject,

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THE TERRE HAtJTE EXPRESS. SUNDAY 'MORNING. MARCH tt. 1881

"India, Her Idols, God*and He has been preaching throughout the states for some time past. He will be at this church to-morrow evening end Tuesday evening. His subject the last two evenings will be "Social Life in Burma.'" Tuesday evening he witi introduce stereootican view^ highly colored and very handsome, of the Orient These views were photographed especially for his use in his lectin se. An admission fee willbe cliarged Menday and Tuesday evenings of 25 and 15 cents. The press throughout the state spoke very highly of him.

IiroiAyAPOLis, Ind., February 28.—Sau Ah-Brah gRve his Illustrated Oriental lecture on "The Social Life of Barm ah" in our church last evening. He magnetised his audience from the beginning and held them with unflagging interest to the cloee •in a style the most original and unique. He far exceeded our expectations.

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Pastor First Baptist Church,. St. Stephen's.

The following is the grogramme at St Stephen's to-day: Early celebration, fcSO a. m.

Full service,lfc30a. m. C:. Evening service with an address by the Hon. Wm. Mack, 3 p. m.

The following is ihe grvgramme for the week: Dally, 9 a. and 4£0 p. m.

Tuesday, chorester rehearsal, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, ladies'church and society, 1 p. m. confirmation, 7:30

Thursday, choral union, 7:30 p, m. Friday, men's Bible class at tne rectory, 7:30 p.m. subject of study, "The Flood."

Saturday, ladles' altar society, 3 p.m. Industrial school, 2 p. m. teachers' normal class, 7:90 p. m.

Asbury Church.

Subject for the morning sermon: "The Obligations of a Christian life." Evening programme: Anniversary of the Northwestern Branch' of the Womans' Foreign Missionary society. Exercises by the ladies. Miss Grace Beck, of Greencastle, will jpve a recitation. Young peoples' meeting at 6:30 p. m. in the basement.

Centenary.

The Rev. Alfred Kummer will proach both morning and evening. Morning subject: "The Christian Never Dies." In the evening he will deliver his fifth sermon on the popular amusement series, subject: "The Christiau Life—What it Is, and How to Maintain It"

Christian Church.

The Rev. H. O. Breeden will occupy the pulpit at his church both morning and evening. Morning subject: "Truth and Error." Evening "Realm of Mystery." /•/_-_

Central Presbyterian.

The Rev. S. S. Cryer, of Rock Island, 111., will occupy the pulpit both morning and evening. Mr. Cryer is a very popular minister in that city. A call will probably be extended him by the Central church. i-

Congregational Church,

The Rev. C. P. Croft will occupy the pulpit at this church both morning and evening.* The following is the musical

programme:

MUSIC FOB MOBNING SERVICE.

Organ—"Zlon Awake" ....^Costa 2. "Jubilate Deo, in Bfjat" AWBalmer Duet—Mrs. Hoberg and Miss Ensey. Solo —Allyn Adams. 3. Ofl'ertolre Duet—"He Shall Feed His

Flock —. ."Messiah" -Mrs. Hoberg and Miss Ensey.

MUSIC FOB EVENING SERVICE.

1. Organ—"Evening Song". Emerson 2. Anthem—"Tarry with Me" ...GiflTe 3. Solo and Chorus—"Jesus Lover of My

Soul" Suflfcrn Mrs. Hoberg and Choir. German Methodist. Services to-day as usual. Sunday school at 1a.m. Preaching at 10:30 by the pastor, Rev. Severinghaus. Text: "Therefore be ye also ready."— Math, 24, 44. Preaching in the evening at the usual hour.

Third Baptist.

The Rev. W. T. Franklin will hold services both morning and evening. Covenant meeting at 11 a. m. The Lord's supper will be administered at 7:30 p. m. Sabbath school at 2:20 p. m. Preaching every night next week. Rev. T. "Ford, of Rockville, will be present. All tne members and friends Are especially invited to attend these meetings.

The V, B. Church.

General class meeting at 9:30. Preaching every alternate Sunday at 11 o'clock, by the Rev. Sheets, the pastor. Sabbath Bchool at 2:30 p. m. Holiness prayer meeting at 4:S0 Sunday afternoon. Regular prayer meetinfrThursday evening. Everybody cordially invited.

Notes.

Baptism after the morning sermon at Asbury. Quarterly meeting at Asbury next Saturday and Sunday. •The choral union at St. Stephen's has increased its membership.

The young men's Bible class of St Stephen's meets every Friday evening at the rectory.

The vestry of St Stephen's held a meeting yesterday and examined plans for anew rectory. The building will be erected on the lot south ot the church.

The widow of the late Rev. T. M. Eddy, a noted divine, and the one who dedicated the basement of Centenary church, has presented the church with a handsome picture of her husband.

The Town of Bac Ninh. W New York Herald. Bac Ninh is not a place which gives its defenders much chance. The fortress is a quadrilateral, furnished with bastions, and like all the others in Tonquiu, iB of the Vauban type. When last a European was there the few guns mounted were ho'oey-combed with age. Possibly there is something more formidable there now. The place is commanded by some low hills from a quarter to half a mile distant These eminences are perfectly devoid of' vegetation, and offer, therefore, no difficulties in getting the guns into position. It is in making their way to these hills that the French will find tbe trouble. Unlike the majority of Eastern towns, B»c Ninh does not stand on a river. It is about two miles from the Thaibinh arm of tbe Sorgkoi Delta and four from Doho, a small village on the Sorigchi cdiia). From this latter place is an imperib! road to Bac Ninh. This road is, however, a mere delusion. It is an embankment about a yard wide, worn away by the floods in many places, and probably nowhere able to support the weight of field artillery.

Apart from the fact that it is in tbe occupation of the Chinese, the town is of no importance. There are no more than five or six hundred thatched houses, arranged in a semicircle outside the kosse of the citadel. These houses are, however, surrounded with high bamboo and cactus fences, end scattered about regardless of order in tangle of bamboo clumps and palm trees. If retreat is cut off, they may, therefore, be some desperate fighting before the place is taken. Bac Ninh is now very strongly fortified, and will prove a hard nut for the French to crack. It is very probable that the Chinese ganison have been strongly reinforced from over the border, and that during the past six months the the work of strengthening the bastions and forts has gone on steadily. Since 1870 Bac Ninh has been garrisoned by Chinese imperialist troops, the Canton militia. These troops were sent by the viceroy of Canton at the earnest entreaty of the king of Anam. The whole of Tonquin was then in danger of falling into the of the Black and Yellow Flan and it waa only the intervention of the Suzerain power which prevented such catastrophe. Ten years ago there was a garrison of 200 Chinamen in the citadel, End there -never has been anvthing to show that they have returned to uieir own country. Gen. Tehen, a Chinese warrior who has made some name for hinaelf, was then the commander. A few weeks ego it was announced that the seme general had gone to the OantonTonquin frontier.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP

The Baslneea OaOoolrPoar—Dalaeaa of the Iprtag Trade—Departure of 1st. Ikev A mold—His Trip a Zlssadsl

Baecess bmt a Msl Mlnre—His Sol* Pstros Tfce Craae far Pnglllsail Sabsided—The newspapers Jlesponsible— Tke Wail sf's Professional Chinese Gambling la the City—A flood Move, meat by tke Seprsesntattvea of the Snplrvof the Middle—The Sale of the Coatntercial Advertiser—Its Probable Chasgo of Tone—The Prospective Real Oaiaer by the Transfer to Mr. Parke Godwin. Special Correspondence of the Express.

Nxw Yoax, N. Y., March 11..—1The business outlook is as yet very poor. In comparison with former years there is a dulness in the dry goods and similar trades whose like has not been experienced for yearfc, and in consequence the hotels that depend upon out of town buyers for patronage also suffer, western and southern floods, prolonged snow storms and heavy ice formations have for the time being almost paralysed trade. In agricul tural districts the fierceness of of weather with which March has installed itself has been the cause of delaying farming operations,-and thus everything is backward and spring trade will' be known barely in name. The retail business is no better. Here it is barely a week from the formal opening of spring, according to the calendar, and the stores barely show a trace of spring goods. Of course such unhappy beings as are annually compelled to dive deep into their pockets to pay for the spring bonnets of their wives will not weep over this absence of temptation from store windows, but the tradesmen whose money is invested cannot but look very blue over the prospect

The apostle of sweetness and light, Mathew Arnold has returned home, ensij^ien in experience and in wealth. He came over to this country mainly to make enough money to liquidate certain liabilities which he had incurred. In this be more than succeeded, for, after paying off everything, he will have a snug ballance to his credit, Will he come back to this country Of course he will. There is too much solid meat and substance in this land, populated with people always willing to run after celebrities, and willing to pay them for having fame or notoriety. Mr. Arnold has not made many friends during his sojourn in this country. At the literary clubs his puggishness has rather repelled than attracted. In so ciety, his unconscious assumption of superiority has frequently offended, and with good cause too. The only person that took him up, or rather hung on to him, was Mr. Andrew Carnegie, a

From the domain of philosophy to the prize ring is a big jump, but somehow Mr. Arnold reminds me of the fact, greatly to be rejoiced over, that the craze for pugilism is in a measure dying out. Within the last few weeks there have been several entertainments, and a few of them of a very high order, viewed from the purely sporting point which have practically fallen dead. Now and then an encounter with bare fists is arranged but the combatants are always fourth or fifth rate stars, the stakes small, the attendance purely "professional," and the bettinginfiuiteBsimal. I asked one of Harry Hill's lieutenants about the case of this the other day,and he faid,witha touch of sadness in his voice, that the newspapers were solely responsible for tMs. "Whenever there is a nice genteel entertainment with plenty of science and no singing, they call it a farce, a thimblerigging affair gotten up to swindle the public. When you give them an up-and-up fight they call it a .brutal encounter and call the vengeance of heaven and the police on the heads of the combatants and the managers. The result is that the public, which always follows the newspapers, gives us the cold shoulder, ana many a good man who might win fame in tho ring had to go back to W3rk as a common laborer, and then he speedily loses all his good qualities."

The representatives of the Chinese government in this section of the country are at last awakening to the fact that something must be done to save their honest and hard working countrymen from the depredations of the sharpers in their midst. "No one, uot a Mongolian," said an attache of tbe Chinese consulate, "has an idea to what an extent opium smoking and gambling prevails in Mott a Mulberry streets, which is the nucleus of the Chinese colony in this city. And this place is infested with sharpers of the worst and most dangerous description. Poor fellows who arrive from country districts, where by dint of hard work they have accumulated a little money, are at once taken in hand by swindlers and villians of their own nationality and robbed unhesitating. I know of one poor fellow who came on here from Belleville, N. J., some weeks ago. and who bad saved a little over $1,000, by several years washing. He wanted to go in business here. He was taken in hand by a pretended friend who made much of him, took him around ostensibly to show him opportunities for investment then persuaded him to smoke a pipe of opium, and finally steered him to a den whefe fan-tan, the Chinese faro, is played. In a few honrs the poor fellow had lost every dollar he owned and found himself in the street. He came here, but we could do nothing for him, as he was nnable to identify the place or the parties to whom be had lost his money. We are now striving to put an end to this wholesale robbery, by issuing thousands of circulars, printed in the Chinese language, which we distribute wherever Chinamen ere located, warning them against the gambling devices of New York, and urging them to foru a society, whose members bind themselves not to yield to the temptation of gambling, the society has just been formed here, and is of a benevolent nature, its fund assisting members in distices or sickness and procuring employment for them when out of work. A member who is found guilty oi gambling shall be fined thirty dollars, ten dollars goes to the informer. With theee fines we will form a relief fund, and the magnitude of the fine will cense a men to think twice before he will sit down to a gambling table, particularly as he can be almost sure that some one will inform against him."

A noteworthy event in the journalistic world is the sale of the Commercial Advertiser to Mr. Parke Godwin, for many years identified with the Evening Port. The purchase was no doabt made by Mr. Godwin on account of hie two sons, both of whom ere engaged in newspaper work, one ae an art critic, the other in the literary line. The sale will no doubt hurt the Poet'e circulation, for Mr. Godwin will no doubt bring over a large clientage with him. At the same time, the tone oi the Commercial will be So modifed that loose much of the spriphtiinees which was characteristic of its pages during the late Hugh Hastings' management, end tbe glamor of which has not yet entirely faded. The real gainer by the will a^tdoobtedly be the lfeil!$4 vJis*

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419 Valont Street.

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THE APOLLO BAND

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Respectfully call attention to tbe announcement that they are fully prepared to ornish music for concerts, balls, receptions, mass meetlnds, parades, funerals, serenades, pic-nlcs, pleasure excursions, or for any occasion requiring tbe services of a band or orchestra. Terms liberal, for which apply to George Burt (leader) at band office, southwest corner Fourth and Main streets, over Myers' clothing Store, front room, third floor, (office hours from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m.) or to Thos. McKennan, at his place of business, Ohio street, between Third and Fourth.one door West of Shannon's bank. MILITARY BAND FULLY UNIFORMED and KQUIPPKD.

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Will move about February 15th, to

AND 662 MAIN STREET

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ALL WORES OF TASTE

•list bear a price in'proportion to the skill, taste aid expense of their construction. Many things called dear are, when justly estimated, the cheapest. They are made with much less profit to the hailder than those which some people «ll cheap. Beautiful style and elegant finish are not attained by chance, nor can they be made at small expense. Those who enter into competition for cheapness, and not for style, quality' of material, and excellence of workmanship, are sure to sooner or later close their doors for want of patronage. To be a saccessftal manufacturer you must be practical you must be capable to judge work when it is being done as well as when completed. When buying material you must have a perfect knowledge of your business, so as to be able to dotect any inferior goods that an ignorant person would be likely to let pass and say "that is good enough."

Haying been engaged in the carriage business for more than twenty-fire years, and in this city for nearly half of that time. I can say without tear of contradiction that I never made a poor or shoddy carriage of any description, and I make work for most of the people in this city who use good work, as my books will show. I make the best styles, use tbe best material, employ the best workmen, and as a matter of course make the best work in the city. When you want to buy call and see me at my factory, No. 319 and 321 Cherry street,' Terre Haute, Ind.

Respectfully, Tour Carriage Maker, ..

ROBERT M. HARRISON.

SILKS! SILKS! SILKS!

THE OPENING OF OUR

NEW SILK DEPARTMENT

-ON-

WILL BE A MATTER OF INTEREST TO EVERY LADY IN TERRE HAUTE AND VICINITY, as

EXCEPTIONALLY LOW PRICES

Will be made daring tho entire week on choic^Black 6. G. Rammer Silka.

BUCKEYE "CASH STORE,

MERCHANT TA.LORING,

I have fitted up Boom. No. 8, over 8avIN— BANK AND AM BOW prepared to do merchant tailoring In the Wmlrt rtjrleof the art. Salts ooausg from 190 to M, ean be had on abort notice.

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REMEMBER OUR GREAT

CLOSING OUT SALE

OF-

BANKRUPT STOCK

BOOTS & SHOES,

Bought at Sheriff's Sale. We are Selling Boots and Shoes at Nearly Half Price.

R. FISHEC 329 Main St.

BOSTON

STORE,

DEMING BLOCK, 604 MAIN STREET,

WALKER, TRANKLA & ANDERSON.

We have bad our openlntr day and we-, feel satisfied from the result, that when we Become acquainted with theneedi of the peoole of Terre Haute and vicinity, we can furnish what they dealreln our line at

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We shall keep on band a well assorted stock of Dress Goods, Domestics, Linens, Flannels, Oloves. Hosiery, Corsets and a I large variety of notions, etc.

Our principle In conductlag business as, before stated, will be

Strictly One Price and Cash.

Examine our stock and compare prices before buying elsewhere. It Is no trouble to show goods.

WALKER, TRANKLA & ANDERSON,

ass£ifes

604 MAIN STREET.

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