Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 August 1885 — Page 2
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The Emporia, Kansas, sensation is a much biggerone than.the St. Louis affair. This is because there is a woman in the case.
Mr. Parr.ell evidently believes in crowdjag on all sail when (he wind blows his way, He certainly is the uncrowned king of Ireland.
The finding of the htiman skeletons north of the city presents a mystery which will probably never be unravelled—except in theories.
The tornado, cyclone or hurricane that swept along the south Atlantic coast was more disastrous in its effect than at first reported. The peculiarity of the storm is that it lasted for nearly twenty-four hours. Out west we get them up shorter time than that.
The Gazette, having taken down the emblems of mourning that were placed on'its building in obedience to the demand of public sentiment, renews its sneers and insinuations about General Grant. Our neighbor is undoubtedly the most contemptible, sneaking coward that lias maligned General Grant. Its judgment has been against this sort of thing, as evidenced by its silence during the general's last days and the mourning emblems at the time of the funeral, but the bitterness of feeling, caused by personal grievance or what not, overcomes the dictates of good sense and pioduces such flings as appeared in the paper yesterday evening.
Very Apt.
Sittings. A man who- gets the mitten i8 apt to be guilty of contempt of court.
Evening Up.
Savannan News. The prospects of general reciprocity with Canada are brightening. Another Canadian bank defaulter has retired from business and taken np his residence in New York.
Grandmother Hendrioks*
Chicago News. An exchange makes a wonder out of the fact that Conkling is a grandfather. Why, Hendricks has been a grandlnother for twenty years.
When the Women Prevail-
Inter-Ocean. There are 25,000 more w.omen than men in New York city. In Boston there 18,000 extra women, and in Baltimore 17,000, Strong drink and tobacco are beginning to tell fearfully upon the boys and young men.
Is Business Improving?
Atlanta Constitution: Everything seems to be picking up and improving.
Philadelphia Times: At all events, there are to be plenty of good peaches and apples this season.
Washington Republican: The pros pects for the coming season indicate un usual activity in trade.
St. Paul Pioneer Press: There is nothing like a revival thus far, but a more healthy tone begins to be apparent
Kansas City Jqurnal: If the time has come when merchants can order goods with a fair promise of selling them they will have no trouble in making their purchases.
Kansas City Times: In the organiza tion of railroad and manufacturing enterprises there is great activity,.and the out look for industrial intereits is particularly promising.
San Francisco Alta: San Francisco merchants and -manufacturers who com plain of a dullness oi trade believe it exists because they were outflanked by eastern dealers.
New York Citizen: With 'forty millions of bushels outside of farmers' hands including fifteen millions in Chicago anc seven millions in New York, the prospect is not brilliant for a rise.
Cincinnati Commercial: With peace, plenty, good health, and prices resting upon a low level, there ehould be a very marked improvement in trade and in foreign shipments, and this is the outlook.
Baltimore Record From an agricultural point of view the prospects for the south could hardly be better. In trade and manufactures there is already decided change for the better, and everything is promising for great activity in business this fall and winter.
He Went.
Washington Special. Mr. Montgomery, the new sioner of patents, while engaged in "turning the rascals out," decapitated a messenger in his bureau who had been in office for several years without doing much of anything to earn his salary. Upon receiving his discharge he made a great ado over it, and insisted that the axe had fallen on the_ wrong neck. He was a democrat, lie said, and had always been a democrat had voted the ticket straight at every election, and stood by his party even in the face of discharge by a republican administration. Mr. Montgomery looked him over and then called or the letters of recommendation upon which he was originally appointed. "You area democrat, are you?" "Yes, sir," replied the man. "And always have been "Always." "Then you are discharged for falsehood and for obtaining an office under false pretenses. In this application for appointment, filed five years ago, you state that you area republican, no one but republicans endorsed you, and every one of comments you as a faithful and useful member of that party. You can go."
There are a good many department clerks turning up who have always been democrats, but this example has assisted to make such pretensions unpopular.
Roscoe Conkling Does Admire Boston Brooklyn Bagle. Will the Boston Herald permit us to correct a serious error into which it has fallen? It declares that Roscoe Conkling is the last man who should be invited to deliver an oration on Grant in Boston, because he does not entertain a very flattering opinion of the Hub. This is a strange mislake. We have heard Mr. Conkling express the very highest respect for that city. It was upon the occasion of a crowded meeting at the Madison Square garden when Boston's .favorite son, John Lawrence Sullivan, outslugged the notorious Englishman -in two rounds. Mr. Conkling called Boston the proud mother of a pugilistic prodigy, and de-. clared his readiness to doff his beaver to her. The tone and manner in which he said it attested the profound reverence lie felt.
The Board of Health.
At a meeting of the board of health Tuesday evening it was decided to make an effort to secure the appointment of a meat inspector. The butchers have been complaining of the country butchers who
bring meat to the city and peddle it out, setting forth that much of tnis meat is of a bad quality. They desired an inspector for the country butchers, and the board concluded that while they were about it they would endeavor to induce the council to appoint an inspector for, all the butchers. The board further decided to dispense with the two extra sanitary offices the 1st of September.
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J£ New ENTERPRISE.—Se^eralPgentiemen of this city, it is said, are discussing the possibilities and- the feasibility of purchasing the sixty acres of land near the fair ground and converting it into q. pleasure resort It is said there is a natural water supply ttt this point from ever-living springs, by which a lake can easily tie made of nearly forty acres in
THEY AEE DECEIVED.—When people take out building permits iney seem to have an idea that the*, assessor anl board of equalization assess the improvements according to the value the builder places on the improvements when he takes out the permit. For instance, if the improvement costs $2,000, and the statement should be made to the city clerk that it would only cost J800, the assessor and board would be guided by that.' Never were men more mistaken. A few weeks ago a grocer who is building a two-story brick, for a grocery and dwelling, stated to the clerk than the improvement would cost $800. He will no doubt be surprised when the a makes it $3,500. the
HIGGINS' CASE.—Higgins, whose .divorce Judge Mack revoked a few days agoj came to see the judge about it. He wanted to know how such a thing could be done, and the judge told him it was easy enough, as he had the power, Higgins told the judge that the story set afloat that he bragged how easy it was to secure a divorce, was false. The story was to the efiect that Higgins' wife gave him $50 to secure the divorce that Hig gins secured the divorce for $20, clearing $30. Higgins refuted this story by saying that it was his wife's mother who gave him the. money.
THE GERMAN DRAMATIC CLUB.—NOW that Miss Fisher's entertainment for the benefit of St. Anthony's hospital is out of the way, the projectors of the German dramatic entertainment for the same benefit, intend to commence a vigorous and systematic effort to arrange for the rendering, at an early day, oi "The Pearl of Savoy" in German, with the finest ap pointments that can be procured.
ARTHUR'S SISTER.
The Queer Character Who Lived in Washington With the President, But Was Unknown.
An Albany man who is familiar with the history, of the family of Chester A, Arthur said today: "You newspaper men generally find out what is going on about officials, but I am surprised that no one. in Washington ever discovered the fact that Arthur when he was president had an elder sister in Washington, who was the source of the greatest possible annoyance to him. Mrs. McElroy, who did the honors of the White House, and Mrs. Hayncsworth were supposed to be his only sisters. The third and generally unknown sister was the eldest of them. She was 52 years old when Arthur first went to Washington. She has never been married. She has a very peculiar disposition, and is so eccentric at times as to warrant the belief in the unsoundness of her mind. Her brother has always provided for her handsomely, and has been always more than willing to give her the most liberal of allowances, Yet she appeared to get it into her head after he became president that she was not wanted in Washington and that the other members of the family looked down on her. From then on she did everything 'she could to mortify and embarrass Mr. Arthur. She would go. to Washington and would stop at the cheapest and most obscure boarding-house that she could find. She would refuse to go the White House under any circumstances. While she would accept money from her brother to' pay her bills she yet continued to labor under the delusion that he was anxious to gft rid of her. Oije time she sent word to him that she was going to commit suicide in the Potomac back of the White House. Her conduct became so alarming at times that the president was obliged to set a watch upon her. He was fretted and worried for fear some of her loose talk would get out. You know how sensitive Arthur is, and the idea of having the papers come out some morning with an interview with this sister with the story of an attempted suicide on account of his alleged ill-treatment was a constant worry to him. He was particularly annoyed about the time he was working for a renomination. She became so violent at times during that period that he thought seriously of shutting her up in some asylum, but he soon saw that this might be the means of simply precipitating a sensation, and so he bore with her as best he could. One day she disap-
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eared and for three weeks nothing was of her. Then there came a cable dispatch'from her at Liverpool, saying that she was in Europe and was ofi for an extended tour. The state department was at once notified by the president, and they at once cabled to all of the consuls and diplomatic officers abroad to be on the look out for her and guard against her becoming the object of scandal. They were probably successful in their unpleasant task, for nothing concerning her has ever reached the public. I thjnk she is still in Europe. At any rate, wherever she is, Arthur provides for lier with princely generosity."
A HANDSOME FORTUNE.
How the Post Office Department tfound the Heirs of. Charles Conrtright. Washington Special.
The American consul at Callao, Peru, to-day notified the state department that the several suit? against the estate of Charles Courtright had been decided in favor of the defendant. This information is the final of a novel and interesting story. Several years ago an American merchant in the city of Callao, Mr. Charles Courtright* died intestate.
TALK ABOUT TOWN tary called at the sta-e department The Courtright affair win mentioned to him. He suggested the printing of a number of circulars setting forth the above facts as briefly as possible, and giving one to each' carrier in New York and Brooklyn on a certain day, to be afterwards agreed upon. Each'carrier was to present this circular at every house on his route. The plan was put into execution a week later, and on the evening of that day the address of each sister had been obtained.
On either side of the proposed
lake will be a strip of land having a luxuriant growth of trees among which it is designed to build a restaurant, pavilion, shooting and bowling alleys and other conveniences for picnic parties. During the winter season it is intended to convert the surface of the lake into a skating rink of natural ice from which at intervals sufficient ice can be gotten at 8 cents a ton to stock six or eight large houses. It is possible this new enterprise may never materialize, but it is not unlikely that it will be brought about.
private papers furnished no further clew to his antecedents than the fact that he had five married sisters living in the' cities of New York and Brooklyn. The surnames of these ladies did not appear in the correspondence, as the letteis were uniformly signed, "Your loving sister Mary or Martha," or whatever might be the writer's baptismal name. The officials of tLe state department were puzzled over the letters for some time. The dead man had left an estate of $50,000. The heirs were known to"be living, and vet, by an oversight common enough, their identity could not be established. One, day Postmaster Pearson's pyvate secre- amounts to stealing."
THE ESPBES8, TERRE HAUTE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21 1886.
Meanwhile a number of claims, aggregating, many thousands of dollars, were filed against the estate. The American consul, believing that most, if not all, of these claims were fictitious, carried the matter into the courts, where, as stated, a decision has been finally rendered against them. After deducting the cost of litigation and other expenses, fhe heirs will come into possession of about $40,000.
WISE AND OTHERWISE!??
THE PBKTTT SCHOOL MA'AM.
'Tie now that the school ma'am begins to remember She's drawing quite near to the month of September, And having enjoyed herself throngh the vacation, She viewB its conclusion with mueh tribulation. She feels so mnch happier, healthier, stronger, She wishes the season would last a month longer, And the urchins, who'sit on the wharf catohfishes, No doubt,' when they think of it, echo her wishes.
"Liquid gunpowder" is the latest invention. Artificial human ears are being made of celluloid, a recent invention.
Scientific inquiry is being made into the medical virtues of dogs' tongues. Amethysts and pink cameos are the fashionable fine Etones of the season.
Wild woodcock have been seen lately in the park in the very heart of London. Salida, Colo., is said to have six-teen saloons and "not one church spire in sight,"
In many eyes the pink blossom of the crepe myrtle is the daintiest flower in bloom.
Anew wax of value has been found in the bark of the ocotillia, a thorny plant of Mexico.
A gavel in use at Saq Francisco was made of wood from the ships Kearsarge and Jeannette.
The Ishmaelite apd Times and Planter is the' big name of a bit of a paper at Sparta, Georgia.
Los Ajgeles, California, has a watermelon weighing 178 pounds, which is to be sent to London.
The children of Queen Victoria now take £600,000 a year from the purse of the British people.
Bones quickly dissolve in sea water, and consequently they are seldom found in ocean dredgings.
Paper is taking the place of wood in the manufacture of lead pencils. Gas pipes are also made of paper.
Two tons of gold, worth $1,500,000, are lost every year from the wear and tear oi commerce and personal use.
Ninety out of every hundred predictions niade by the Fiench weather bureau last year proved true to a dot.
Scrap iron shipped from Portland, Ore. to Hong Kong, is turned into little razors with which the Chinese tfhave theirscalps.
Thirty-two thousand humming birds, killed to beautify the bonnets of the fair, were received in a single consignment in London not long ago.
A bank note in colors will be issued shortly by the bank of Scotlamb- The Colors are put in so that no counterfeiter can call photography to his aid.
A Lowell, Mass., individual tried to exchange his baby for "one good square drink" the other day. The barkeeper ran the unnatural father out of the place.
The production of cottonseed oil in the •United States each year is about equal to 200,000 tierces of lard. The quantity might easily be doubled if there was an adequate demand for it.
In Paris the people are asked to give their sous in aid of a project to hore a big hole far down into the earth to see what is going on inside this mysterious planet, upon the unscra'tched crust of which we liv£.
It is common to suppose that a ship loaded with wooS can not sink. Yet, aocording to the latest returns of the British board of trade, it appears that during the past three years no fewer than 149 ships laden with timber were totally loft, with 457 lives.
A French scientist predicts very severe volcanic disturbances in 1886, to occur at a time when the attractive influence of the other members of the solar system is most strongly felt upon our planets, or, rather, when that influence is most unevenly distributed during a near approach of the great attractive bodies.
The increase of divorces in Philadelphia is attracting much attention. In 1875 there were 6,144 marriages and 153 divorces, or one in forty. In 1884 there were 8,637 marriages and 242 divorces, or one in thirty-five. During the ten years there were 68,637 marriages and 1,965 divorces, an average of one in thirtyfour.
Crinoline seems to be exceedingly an cient. Hesiod, who wrote in the eighth century before Christ1,ad vised young men not to be led astray by certain women of his day who wore their clothes pufled out behind. Some writers assert it was worn 200 years earlier, and that Helen, wheh she fled with Paris to Troy, wore crinoline.
James Arkinsall, one of New York's champion swimmers, says swimming is fast becoming more popular with women. "Five years ago,", he says, "a woman who could swim was looked upon as 'masculine,' and a girl who dared confess such a thing was included in the condemnatory catalogue of 'torn boys.' Now at every watering place you see women away beyond the line of ropes."
A border farm offered for sale in the province'of Quebec is advertised in several Canadian papers as follows: "The stand is well known to Americans, and all I kinds of goods, such as liquor, butter, I horses, grain, hay, etc., find an easy chan-
nel into the states at all times. A good, active business man can clear his $100 a day, or night, besides making on an average of $10,000 a year of net profits."
Dr. James Barr quotes the assertion of some authorities that "death from hanging appears to take place very rapidly, and without causing any suffering." But he is of a different opinion. He concludes that, although the pain in hanging can under no circumstances be very acute, yet when we'see a culprit heaving his chest
and almost raising the whole body in his struggles for breath we must conclude that there is a considerable amount of torture.
From a Michigan supreme court de» cision in the case of sharpers who had swindled a countryman by a familiar card trick: "We do not think it profitable to draw overnice metaphysical distinction to save thieves from punishment. II rogues conspire to get away a man's money by such tricks as those which were played here, it is not going beyond the settled rules of law to hold that the fraud
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GENERAL GRANTS ARTICLE.
The Siege of VSekuburg, as Told in the September Century. General Chant's Paper in the
Septembor^Cen-
•. tary.
We had no siege guns except six thirtytwo pounders, and there were none at the west to draw from. Admiral Porter, however, supplied us with a battery of navy-guns of large caliber, and with these, and the field-artillery used in the campaign, the siege began. The first thing to do was to get the artillery in batteries where they would occupy commanding positions then, to establish the camps, under cover from the fire of the enemy, hut as near up as possible aqd then to construct rifle-pits and covered ways, to connect the entire command by the shortest route. The enemy did .not harass us much while we were constructing our batteries. Probably their artillery ammunition was short, and their infantry was kept down by our sharpshooters, who were always on the alert and ready to Jrfie at a head whenever it showed itself above the rebel works.
In do place were our lines more than six hundred yards from the enemy. It waa necessary, therefore, to cover our men by something more than, the ordinary parapet. To give additional protection, sand-bags, bullet-proof, wire 'placed along the tops of the parapets, far enough apart to make loop-noles for musketry. On top of these, logs were put. By these means the men were enabled to walk about erect when off duty, without fear Of annoyance, from sharp-shooters. The enemy used in their defense explosive musket balls, thinking* n» doubt, that, bursting over our men in the trenches, they would do some execution. I do not remember a single case where a man was injured by apiece of one of these shells. When they were hit and the ball exploded the wound was terrible. In these cases a solid ball would have hit as well. Their use is barbarous, because they produce increased suffering without any corresponding advantage to those using them.
The enemy could not resort to our method to protect their men, because we had an inexhaustible supply of ammunition to draw upon, and used it freely. Splinters from the timber would have made havoc among the men behind,
There were no mortars with the besiegers, iexcept those that the navy had in front of the city but wooden ones were made by taking logs of the toughest wood that could be found, boring them out for six or twelve pounder shells, and binding them with strong iron bands. These answered as coehorns, and sheUs were successfully thrown from them into the trenches of the enemy.
The labor of building the batteries and of intrenching was largely done by pioneers, assisted by negroes who came within our lines and who were paid for their work but details from the line had often been made. The work was pushed forward as rapidly as possible, and when an advanced position was secured and covered from the fire of the enemy, the batteries were advanced. By the 30th of June there were 220 guns in position, mostly light field-pieces, besides a battery of heavy guns belonging to, and manned and commanded by, the navy. We were now as strong for defense against the garrison of Vicksburg as they were against us but I knew that Johnson was in our rear, and was receiving constant re-en-forcements from the east. He had at this time a larger force thari I had had at any time prior to the battle of Champion's Hill.
From the 23d of May the work of fortifying, and pushing forward our position nearer to the enemy, had been steadily progressing. At the point of the Jackson road in front of Ransom's brigade, asap was run up to the enemy's parapet, and by the 25th of June we had it undermined and the mine charged. The enemy had countermined, but did not succeed in reaching our mine. At this particular point the hill on which stood the rebel work rises abruptly. Our sap ran close up the the outside of the enemy's parapet In fact this parapet was also our protection. The soldiers of the two sides occasionally conyersed pleasantly across this barrier sometimes they would exchange the hard bread of the Union soldiers for the tobacco of the confed erates, and at other times they threw over hand-grenades, the rebels throwing them first, and our men often catching them in their hands and returning them.
Our mine had been started some distance back down the hill consequently, when it had extended as far as the para pet-, it was many feet below it. This caused the failure of the enemy in his search to find and destroy it. On the 25th of June, at 3 o'clock, all being ready, the mine was exploded. A heavy artillery fire all along the line had been ordered to open with the explosion. The effect was to blow the top of the hill off and make a crater were it stood. The breach was not sufficient to enable us to ass a column of attack through. In act, the enemy, having failed to reach our mine, had thrown up a line farther back, where most of tne men guarding that point were placed. There were a few men, however, left at the advance line, and others were forking in the counter mine, which was still being pushed to. find ours. All that were there were thrown into the air, some of them coming down on our side, still alive. I remember one colored man who, having been underground at work when the explosion took place, was thrown to our side. He was not much hurt, but terribly frightened. .Some one asked him how high he had gone up. "Dun no, massa, but t'ink 'bout t'ree mile," was his reply. General Logan commanded at this point, and took this colored man to his quarters, where he did service to the end of the siege.
As soon as the explosion took place the crater was seized by two regiments of our troops who were near by, under cover, where they had been placed for the express purpose. The enemy made a desperate effort to expel them, but failed, and soon retired behind his new line. From here, however, they threw handgrenades, which did some execution. The compliment was returned by our men, but not with so much effect The enemy could lay their grenades on the parapet, which alone divided the contestants, and roll them down upon us while from our side they had to be thrown over the paraet, which was at considerable elevation. During the night we made efforts to secure our position in the crater against the missiles of the enemy, so as to run trenches along the outer base of their parapet, right and left but the enemy continued throwing their grenades and brought boxes of field ammunition (shells), Uie fuses of which they would light with port-fires, sind throw them by hand into our- ranks. We found it impossible to continue this work. Another mine was consequently started, which was exploded on the 1st of uly, destroying an entire redan, killing and wounding considerable number of its occupants, and leaving an immense chasm where it stood, ^o attempt to charge was made this time, the experience of the 25th admonishing us. Our loss in the first affair was about thirty killed and wounded. The enemy must have lost' more in the two explosions than we did in the fight. We lost none in the second.
About this time an intercepted dispatch from Johnston to Pemberton informed me that Johnston intended to make a determined attack upon us, in order to relieve the garrison of Vicksburg. I knew the garrison would make no formidable effort to relieve itself. The picket lines were so close to each other— where there was space enough between the lines to post pickets—that the men oould Converse. On the 21st of tine I was in
formed, through this means, that Pemberton wig pngftrin#5 to escape ctoasrSfr to the Louisiana 'side andexf cover of night that he had employed workmen in making boats for that pufpoee] that the men had be& c^fassed to ra if they would make an assault'on the "Yankees" to cnt their way out that they had refused, and had almost mutinied because their commander would not surrender and relieve their sufferings, and had only been pacified by the assurance that boats enough wonld be finished in a we«k la carry them all over. The rebel jickets also said that houses in the city lad been pulled doiyn to get material to build these boats with. Afterwards this story was verified. On entering the city we found a large number of very rudely constructed boats.
All necessary steps were at once taken to render snch an attempt abortive. Our pickets were doubled Admiral Porter was informed, so that the river might be, more closely watched material^was collected on the west bank of the river with yrhich to light it np if the attempt was made ana batteries were established along the levee crossing the peninsula on the Louisiana side. Had the attempt been made, the garrison of Vicksburg would have been drowned, or made prisoners on the Louisiana side. General Kichard Taylor was expected on the west bank to co-operate in'.this movement, I believe but he did not come, nor could he Have done so with a force sufficient to be of service.
General F. P. Blair, who commanded a division in the campaign, joined me at Milliken's .Bend, a full-fledged general, without having served in a lower grade. I had known Blair in Missouri, where I had voted against him for congress in 1858. I knew him as a frank, positive and generous man, true to his friends even to a fault, but always a leader. I dreaded his coming I knew from experience that it is more difficult to command two generals desiring to be leaders than to command an army officered intelligently and with subordination. It affords me the greatest pleasure now to record now my agreeable disappointment in his character. There was no man braver than he, nor was. there any who obeyed all orders of his superior rank with more unquestioning alacrity. He was one man as a soldier, another as a politician.
The navy, under Porter, was all it could be during the entire campaign Without its assistance the campaign could not have been successfully made with twice the number of men engaged. It could not have been made at all, in the way it was, with any number of men, without such assistance. The most perfect harmony reigned between the two arms of the service. There never was a request made, that I am awaie of, either of the flag-omcer or any of his subordinates, that was not promptly complied with.
During the siege there had been a good deal of friendly sparring between the soldiers of the two armies on picket and where the lines were close together. All rebels wert known as "Johnnies," all Union troops as "Yanks." Often "Johnny" would call, "Well, Yank, •frhen are you coming into iown The reply was sometimes, "We propose to celebrate the Fourth of July there." Sometimes it would be, "We always treat our prisoners with kindness and do not want to^iurt them or "We are holding you as prisoners of war while you are feeding yourselves," etc. The garrison, from the commanding general-down, un doubtedly expected an assault the 4th. They knew froin the temper of their jmen that it would be successful when -made, and that would~be a greater humiliation' than to surrender. .Besides, it would be attended with severe loss to them. The Vicksburg paper (which we received regularly through the courtesy of the relel pickets) said prior to the 4th, in speaking of the Yankee boasts that they would take dinner in Vicksburg that day, that the best receipt for cooking a rabbit was, "First ketch your rabbit." Tfce paper at this time, and. for tome time prior, was printed on the plain side of wall paper. The last edition wa4 issued on the 4th, and an nounced that we had "caught our rabbit."
The Junketing Administration. Washington. Special to the Enquirer,
Secretary Bayard is in New Jersey. Secretary Manning is at Watch Hill. Secretary Endicott is up in New England.
Secretary Whitney is smelling salt water from the Massachusetts coast. General Vilas is nursing his senatorial boom and rusticating in Wisconsin.'
Lamont gone. Higgins, who, by the way, it is said, wants to be door-keeper of the next house, has gone.
Secretary Lamar has gone—the Lord only knows where, as no one at his department seems to be advised of his whereabouts.
This city is now practically deserted The judicial branch of the government left two months ago. The executive branch has been going by'ea'-y stages for a month. The president is fighting mosquitos in the Adirondaoks.
She stepped down from the steamer' deck, And trod the Coney Island sand Her glittering teeth showed not a speck
Her breath jtras like the zephyrs bland These fine effects were caused, we know, By SOZODONT' 3 twice dally flow.
Ladles
who use SOZODONT have only to open their lips to prove its excellence. Their white, gleaming, spotless teeth, and fragrant breath will tell the story. There is more demand for this wholesome and un exceptionable preparation than for any other dentifrice in the markft. Oae day its use will be universal.
LEGAL.
N ORDINANCE
Preventing the erection of any poles for the support Of wires within thirty-five feet of any public street lamp in the city of Terre Haute, Indiana."
SECTION 1. Be It ordained by the Common Council of the city -of Terre Haute, that it shall be unlawful-to erect anc! maintain any pole for the support of wires witnln thirty-five feet of any public street lanrp post on the streets, alleys or public grounds of the city of Terre Haute.
SEC. 2 Any person violating, this ordinance shall be liable to a fine of ten dollars, and tor' every twenty-four hours after having received written notlee he shall be liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars for failing to have such pole removed.
SEC. 3. An emergency existing, this ordinance shall be in force and efiect from on and after its passage and publication.
Adopted by the Common Council of the city of Terre Haute, Indiana, at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 7th day of July, 1885.
The said plaintiff's agent, L. H. Brewster, makes oath- that the claim in this action is for advertising and job printing furnished defendants at their special invitation and request, and the said plaintiff's agent, L. H. Brewster, also makes oath that said claim is Just, and that he ought, as he believes, to recover thereon twenty-three dollars and sixtv cents. He also makes oath that said defendants have left the state of Indiana and are about to dispose of their goods, chattels, moneyB ana .eflbcls subject to execution with the intent to defraud their creditors.
The same will be heard and determined by me on thn 10th day of August, 1885, at 10 o'clock a. m. .Sworn to before me, by L. H. Brewster. tli|p lUh day or July, 1885.
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LEGAL.
ALE OF THE ILLINOIS MIDLAND RAILWAY.' Notice Is hereoy given that by virtue ot adecreeof theCircuitCourtof the United States for the Southern District of Illinois, in the case of Kobert U. Hervey et. al., against the Illinois Midland Railway Company, in chancery, and other causes consolidated therewith, entered on the 3rd day of June, 1885, the undersigned, special commissioner, will, on Tuesday, .the first day of September, A. 1). 1885, beptween the hours of twelve o'clock, noon, ana five b'clock p. m., at the north door of the united States court house and
postoffice building, in the city of Springfield, in the state of Illinois, sell at public auction# -to the highest binder, -without redemption, the following properties and franchises, to-wit:
The railroad and property, rights and fanohises, of the Peoria, Atlanta & Decatur railroad company, whose name hsa been change to that of the Illinois Midland lUtflway company, mortgaged by its itee, ii incline Maroa, 111
.pril 'Jo, 1872, to James K,
Secor, trustee, including its lino of rail-
trust deed of A road,'extending from f'armdale, 111., to
Also, the railroad and property, rights and franchises of the Paris & Decatur railroad company, mortgaged by its trust deed of July 1st, 1872, to the Union Trust company of New York, trustee, including its line of railroad extending from Paris, III., to Hervey City, 111., and its Interest in the -line of railroad extending from Heivey City to the junction with the HUnoiB Central railroad near Decatur, 111.,
Also, the railroad and property, rights and franchises of the Paris & Terre Haute railroad company, mortgaged by its trust deed of April 1st, 187-1. to the Union Trnst company of New York, trustee, Including its line of railroad extending from Farrington. 111., to Paris, 111.
The said three lines of railroad have been-operated sis one line, known as the Illinois Midland Railway company.
The said railroads and properties, rights and franchises of said Peoria, Attant-a& Decatur Railroad company, said Paris & Decatur Railroad company, and said Paris & Terre Haute Railroad company, so to be sold, will -include all railroads, roadbed, mail and side tracks, right of way, lands, machine shops, depots and other structures, and all locomotives and cars of every kind, and all other property, both real and personal, of every kind whatever, of said companies respectively whether owned at the dates of their said trust deeds respectively, or since acquired except that in the sale of the railroad and property of the-Peoria, Atlanta & Decatur Railroad company there shall not be included the railroads and properties, rights and franchises purchased, by that company of the Paris & Decatur Railroad company, or the Paris & Terre Hante Railroad company, on the 17th day of iej tember, 1874.
At'lhe same time and place will be sold four locomotives, purchased by the receiver qjipointed in said oauses, of the Raili'oad Equipment company of New York, and also certain other proporty acquired by which will
sale. The said three railroads will be offered separately, and ha said four locomotives at a separate sale, ahd the other receivers' property a separate sale and then the entire rallroaqs and properties will be offerred en masse and if the highest bid for the sam 3 offered en memtfshall exceed'the aggregate amount of the highest bids for the same offered separately, then the entire rat 1 roads and properties wl 11 'be sold as a unit?
The accepted bidder tor each of said railronds shall pay ten thousand dollars, and accepted bidder for said locomotives, two thousand dollars, at time of sale, and within fourteen days thereafter shall 11 bond, with surety, conditioned for the payment of the remainder ot ihe purcliesa money as the same maybe ordered to 1)0 pa'd by the court.
Purc'n isrers owning receivers' certificates or ortfcer claims male liens by said decrec, or mortgage bonds, will be credited on r,belr bids with the amounts they would be entitled to receive thereon, had the sale been made exclusively forcash, In the manner provided in said dccree.
Upon confirmation of sale, and fulk compliance with the conditions of sale, the purchasers will-receive proper conveyances, and also possession of the railroads and properties bought.
Petersburg, 111., June 18, 1MS5. N. W. BRANSON, Special Commissioner.
ORDINANCE.
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Providing for and regulating the sale of merchandise oy auction in the city of Terre Haute, Ind.
Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Terre Haute. Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, partnership company or corporation to offer for sale or to sell at retail within said city any stock of merchandise or goods of any description unless such person, parenership,company or corporation Intend to become bona fide residents of said city of Terre Haute, without first having procured license as hereinafter provided.
Section 2. .Every person, partnership, compuny or corporation desiring such' license shall pay to the city treasurer the sum of ten dollars ($10) for each day he, they or it shall offer to sell or sell such merchandise or goods, and upon presentation of the treasurer's receipt to the city clerk, such clerk shall issue a license for the period named in said receipt upon payment of the usual fee therefor.
Section 3, Any person violating the provisions of this ordinrnce shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding (SIU0) one hundred dollars.
Section 4. An emergency existing, this ordinance shall be in force from ana after lis pa sage and publication.
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J. C. KOIiStEM, Mayor,
Attest: GEO,W. DAVIS, City Clerk.
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Georgp M, Allen vs. Frit* ft O'Neal, whose first names are unknown to lalntifi's agent. Before S. C. Lockman, J. ., of Harrrison township, Vigo county, Indiana.
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N ORDINANCE
To amend section
4
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titled "An ordinance to prevent the erection of wooden buildings within and the removal to within certain limits, or the removal from one point within smid limits to another point within said limits, and providing for a permit for the erection ot buildings within the corporate limits of the city of Terre Haute."
Be It ordained by the Common Council of the city of Terre Haute, that section 4 of the above entitled ordinance (adopted May 19,1885,) be amended to read as follows, to-wit:
Section 4. Any person violating any of the provisions -of this ordinance, shall, upon conviction before the mayor, be lined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars,' and for each day's continuance of any wooden building, privy, shed, woodhouse, or addition to any building—said addition being of wood—erected within, or removed to within said limits, or moved from one locality to ano.hurin said limits, upon conviction bef'ir. the mayor, be fined In any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars.
An emergen-y existing for the immedlate tuning eftect of this ordinance, th©same shall he in effect from and after its passage and' publication.
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David Bronson ver X*ucius Stock attachment In garnishee before James P. Murpby, J. P., of Harrison township, Ylgo county, Indiana.
Be it known that on the 18th day of June, 188a, said plaintiff filed au affidavit in due form, showiugf hat said defendant is a non-resident of the state of Indl&na, said non-resident defendant is hereby notified of the pendency of said action against him. th'tt the same wlH stand for trial f.." iae on the 7thdi»j' of September, l?^ o'clock a. m. fi JAM&3 F. MURPHY. J. P.
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