Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 March 1889 — Page 2

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Two of the Cleveland White house employes were discharged Monday for drunkenness. Gone to join Riddleberger.

Some of the Democratic newspapers which have been saying that Blaine would rule all things are now finding fault with the inaugural address because there were no "Blaine pyrotechnics" in it.

Mr. Cleveland, late president, permitted several bills to fail because they did not receive his signature, and emong them a dozen or more pension bills. He is, indeed, a stubborn specimen of humanity. And, by the way that is about the only kind of a specimen.

Mayor Kolsem last evening called the attention of the council to the fact that Bome of the streets needed cleaning, but the council refused to vote any money for the purpose. They are a happy-go-lucky set, and no doubt, they concluded that two or three more March days like yesterday, with the wind and sun, the streets, like the country roads, would become passable.

Governor Hovey is furnishing daily evidence that no mistake was made when he was elected governor. The party of spoils is beginning to realize that he is standing in their way, and the Indianapolis Sentinel, which tries to be fair, is compelled by party exigency to say of him that he is "too big for his breeches." Of course the Sentinel knows the fact to be that he is too big for the breeches this Democratic legislature cut out for him.

Kditor Dunn, of the New York Sun, good judge of human nature and litera-, ture says of the inaugural address:

The country has, still to leftrn just what sort of a man President Harrison la, but the address, which will be so readily read In every part of the

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of tlie lndellnable qualities which In literary productions, as In persoual bearing, attract or repel without affording any explanation of their elTect upon the observer, count In tills address In General Harrison's favor, not against him and we think that candid Democrats will be as quick {as enthusiastic Republicans to recognize that fact.

Mr. Dana is right when he says the country has still to learn the man's capacity for great nflairs- He has not been found wanting as yet and although he has but entered the stormy trial, we have no doubt as to how he will meet and overcome the obstacles that a peculiar combination of circumstances have placed in front of his four years' voyage.

C. 0. D.

A Kneesy Task.

Wallace Can a woman Bit on a jury in Indiana'.' Klddler—'Well. I reckon the jury would not object very strongly, If she was young and good looking.

A Smoking .Jacket.

Ciiolly Say, guv'ner 1 want $51). The Old Mail What lor? Cholly -1 want to get oue of those new smoking Jackets.

The Old Man lust step over here in reach and I'll set the Jacket you have on to smoking enough to fully satisfy you. _____

Great Minds Ji!Ver.

"Wendell Phillips," soliloquized Mr. Sandy lllgglnbottom, as he shook the dust of Skeleton Gulch trom his feet, "was the author of a statement that no man could afford to be more than twentyfour hours In advance of the people, but as the Vigilance committee has given nie three days start. I think 1 will be polite enough to accept."

Hard Check.

Billings—What would you do, Marks, If a fellow struck you on one cheek? Turn the other one? Marks, the lawyer—Of course.

Hillings—And If he lilt you on that one? Marks-Ob, by that time Ills hand would be smashed. l'roof.

Wlbble—I had a chance to meet Max O'kell when he was In this country and refused to do so. Wabble—He speaks of it In his book.

Wlbble (proudly)—Does he? Wabble—Indirectly. He says he was most struck by the total absence of stupid faces.

EXCHANGE ECHOES

Detroit Tribune: James Russell Lowell says lie will write no more for the public. If he should ever become an American citizen again he may change Ills mliul.

Sprlnglleld iMass.) I'tilon: We hope that the families of the new administration will stick to American goods, made up by American dressmakers and tailors, till they have fully set the fashion for the whole country.

St. I.ouls Globe-Democrat: The contrast between the Grover Cleveland of four years ago and the Grover Cleveland of to-dsy affords a striking Illustration of the way In which fate sometimes shrivels a man by simply causing him to be found out.

Boston Advertiser: Perhaps ths severest criticism upon the Cleveland regime is the undisputed Indifference with which so very many of its uomlnal supporters view Its termination. That Republicans should be Jubilant Is but natural that large numbers of Democrats should not care is Indeed striking.

Cincinnati Commercial: Vault Is already fsund with President Harrison's cabinet, because some of the members happen to be men of means. The fact that they possess the ability to conduct business successfully should not count against them as untittlhs: them for the discharge of public trusts in the best manner for the public welfare.

Indianapolis Journal: An early and prompt settlement of the

Question

raised by Governor

Hovey In relatlou to the appointing power, is Imperatively demanded. That men of all parties heretofore acquiesced in a construction of the consUtution which has hitherto been comparatively harmless, because in all cases used (peat moderation, will prove no argument In favor of that construction when Its merits are discussed, not only in the light of what was transpired, but of what Is possible under

it.

ON A LONG TRAIL.

A unique and picturesque figure was that of a middle-aged man of scarce medium height, but with the chest and shoulders of a gladiator, who came into the police headquarters early last night, swinging a

heavy

walking stick, while his

peculiar limp marked him as the victim of either some accident .or an hereditary misfortune. His broad, heavy-jawed face was cleanly shaven, except for a pair of Adam Forepaugh side whiskers, while two twinkling black eyes peere out from beneath bristling eyebrows. His attire was that of a farmer, his vest and trousers being fashioned out of a brown material, while a heavy pea jacket of blue cloth was buttoned around his burly form.

A blue flannel shirt, destitute of collar or necktie, completed a make-up that could not be considered otherwise than striking in the highest degree. Eight out of ten men questioned as to who this old character could be, would respond, "a well-to-do drover," while the other two would say, "'a butcher in comfortable circumstances, to be sure." And yet this queerlyattired, grangerish looking man is one of the most skillful, shrewd and successful detectives in the country. He combines within his personality more of the characteristics of the Vidocq Bchool of human slueths than probably does any other man in this country. He has worked in all classes of cases, in every part of this country and in portions of Europe, and in Buch a career, covering over eighteen years, he has never yet, as he proudly says, raised hand in court to testify against a criminal. He asserts that if he can't convict a man that he has arrested without himself going into the witness' box, then the prisoner can go free.

John T. Norris, of Springfield, Ohio, for it is none other than he, two years ago had, alone and single handed, placed 154 prisoners behind the bar§ of the Ohio penitentiary.

He has for years done a great deal of work for great railroad corporations, and is on a regular salary as chief detective of the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo railroad. He carries in a large leather case fifty or sixty passes, which will take him anywhere in the country, free.

Ooe of his most notable cases was his pursuit and arrest of Lou Houk. He followed this man for six years, traveling during that time over 38,000 miles, at one time tracing his man into Spain, but not soon enough to arrest him. Houk was a crook, confidence operator and double-dyed villain of the worst type. In the latter part of 1877 be shot and killed a commercial traveler, Powell Lob man, of Toledo, Ohio, on a Hocking Valley train just as it was entering the town of Delenore, Ohio. He had fleeced Lohman out of a sum of money, and, on the latter's attempting to regain possession of it, Houk shot Lohman fatally, and jumped the train and made good his escape. The railroad authorities determined to capture Houk if it took twenty years and $100,000, and Norris' instructions were to run him down at whatever cost.

In 18s3 a man in Missouri, a private

much-wanted man was in New Mexico. Norris immediately secured requisition papers from the governor of Ohio on the governor of New Mexico, and started without delay.

Accompanied by the Western detective, he went to Santa Fe, and from there to the town of Deming. On the way to the latter point Norris got a "tip" from the conductor, another "Ohio man," that his detective associate was giving him away to the Houk crowd.

Saying not a word, when Deming was reached, Norris watched his detective friend go into asaloon across from the depot, kept by a notorious character by the name of Hedges, and a moment later saw Hedges, who didn't know Norris, go to the telegraph oflice and hand the operator a message. Whistling softly to himself, the wily Norris mused and pondered as to how he could get a glimpse of that message. Finally a happy thought struck him—he is an expert telegrapher himself—and walking up to the operator's window he said: "I say, partner, I've got a new style instrument what do you think of it?" At the same time taking out a silver dollar, placing it on his tongue and rattling off several words by the Morse alphabet, clicking the coin against his teeth. "Great fishhooks," said the amazed operator, "how on earth do you do that trick?" Carefully explaining to him, Norris smiled sweetly, and said: "By the way, can I use your line for a moment over to Albuquerque?" "Why, certainly you may," replied the now thoroughly enchanted key manipulator.

Walking into the oflice, and waiting his chance, Norris whipped the message that Hedges had handed in off the hook and read: "Doc Darin, rare McUinnfo' saloon, "LosAnuelcs, Cal. "Screw your nut and look out for Ohio. rsigned] "HEDGES."

Norris rubbed out the word "Angeles" and substiting "Vegas," thereupon hung the piece of paper back on the hook.

In the twinkling of an eye the Ohio detective had telegraphed the sheriff at Los Angeles, "Lou Houk, alias Do Davis, I want for murder. He is at McGinnis' saloon. Arrest him at once." In a short time he was tearing away for Los Angeles, and on his arrival found that Houk was a prisoner. Then the circus began. The entire cowboy and black-leg element of the Pacific slope came to the front, furnished money without stint, employed the best lawyers obtainable, and undertook to worry Norris to death, or at least until he would give up his prisoner. But they didn't know their man, and Norris managed to hold on to Houk until requisition papers from the governor of Ohio on the governor of California arrived. Then a writ of habeas corpus in Houk's behalf was taken out returnable before one of the supreme judges of California, at San Francisco.

So from Los Angeles to 'Frisco the fight was transferred. When the first day's proceedings before the august tribunal were completed, a number of rough characters, gamblers of the lowest class, and all that ilk, surrounded Norris in the court-room and undertook to "do him up." The sturdy Buckeye laid two of them out, drew his revolver on another, and, with the assistance of the court officers, emerged unscratched. That evening Chief of Police Crowley, of San Francisco, detailed two detectives to thenceforth accompany Norris so long as he remained in the city, and ordered them under no circumstances to permit him to get out of their sight. Finally Houk was ordered turned over to Norris, and in a special car, accompanied as far as Ogden by a San Francisco detective, the murderer and his

captor started for Ohio. Word reached Norris' ears that a warm reception awaited him at Cheyenne, and so procuring a special engine which was attached to his car, he dashed through Cheyenne forty minutes ahead of the regular train, leaving the foiled cowboys and desperados to gnash their teeth in impotent rage.

Just as the sun was about an hour high, a few mornings later, John T. Norris locked Lou Houk up in the Delaware county jail, and a short time afterward he was tried, convicted and sen"tenced to the Ohio penitentiary, where he still languishes and probably will to the end of his wicked existence. For this little work Norris received, beside expenses, $3,500. It would take a goodsized volume to contain anything like a full and complete account of this remarkable man's career BB a detective. He revels in the unraveling of mysterious and complicated cases, and a case that would abash the average dete^ive only causes him to smack his lips with fond anticipation of what's coming. He lives in a beautiful home at Springfield, and has in his library a private collection of over 2,500 rogues' pictures. He simply stopped off here on his way home from the

West—[Detroit

Free Press.

CATCHING A VAMP1KE

Thrilling Experience of Mr. Potts, of Indianapolis, With a Strange Animal. "I had a vampire hunt last night," remarked A. F. Potts to an Indianapolis News reporter, as he took a plaoe in the incoming Woodruff street car the other morning. "About 2 o'clock my wife woke me up with the familiar demand in whisper to know what that noise was in the room. "'Rats!'I answered, still half asleep. 'That's what I think,' she replied, accepting my interpretation literally, 'so get up instantly, before they jump at the baby.' By this time I had myself heard a strange, half-running and hopping noise upon the floor, and jumped up to see a strange creature about the size of a rat, but with a flat bushy tail, scud away under the bureau. "My suggestion for my wife to take the baby and go into the adjoining room and leave me to fight the creature alone met her hearty approval, and I was left alone instantly. A happy thought occurred to me to bring up my Gordon setter pup to join in the chase. This I did, and arming myself with a broom began to stir up the intruding animal. The moment the pup got sight of that strange creature in the house hopping past him he seemed to be paralyzed and slunk under the bed, and nothing that I could do could persuade the dog to come out, and so I was left alone in the fight, not in any wise reassured by the conduct of the dog, on whose instinct I had counted for assistance. I went at it again, poking it out of corners, slashing at it as it flew past, getting more mystified and excited at every view of it in the dim light of the room. Finally it ran to the door, and like a flash, up the panel five or six feet, dropping off with what Beemed to my excited imagniation outspread leathery wings. "Then I sat down to reflect and recall what little I knew of natural history. It could not be a rat, for it hopped and had a long, hairy tail, and who ever heard of a rat running right up a door panel before your very eyes? It couldn't be a bat, because a bat does not run as this thing did. Then I remembered a longforgotten German legend of a bat-like vampire which steals into the bed-rooms to suck the blood of little children. The Ulj pj..yi

A

vfc, fkft nf thft

dog, and this long-forgotten fairy story gave the situation all the important elements of a reghlar night-mare. My wife's sensible suggestion from the Adjoining room to shut the animal up until morning was very alluring just then, and I should have acted on it had it not occurred to me as a duty to destroy what might prove some new and dangerous animal" So, nerving myself with the reflection that the safety of my offspring was involved, I arose to renew the conflict, this time armed with a longhandled brush of some weight. There sat the animal, whatever it was, in an exposed corner, curled up as though ready to spring at me. My hair rose a little as I hurled my only weapon at the crouching thing in the corner, which by this time seemed to me to be possessed of leathery wings, four hideous claws, and the eyes of a demon, and the brush, hurled javelin-like, hit him and laid him out straight on the floor. "Brought near the light the demon of my chase proved to be a poor, innocent little gray flying-squirrel, which had dropped from an overhanging bough to the roof and found its way into the room. My wife was considerate enough to go to sleep without a single observation, and I only want to mention that I have a thorough-bred Gordon setter pup to trade for a canary-bird, or a col-lar-button, or anything useful."

Maggie Mitchell's Koiuance. CHICAGO, March 5.—For the first time the fact will be published here to-mor-row that Real Estate Dealer Paddock, of New York, the husband of actress Maggie Mitchell, from whom she is now seeking a divorce for alleged infidelity, is her second spouse, and this is her second divorce suit. The first divorce was in Chicago, and it is not believed that Paddock himself knows of it. She conceived a sudden romantic attachment for a man in the '50s, eloped with him one Saturday night, was married, and returned to her mother the following Monday. The mother disapproved of the choice, and had so much influence over the daughter that the young actress was persuaded never to live with the chance husband. Years afterward, Judge Robert Wilson obtained a divorce for Miss Mitchell in a Chicago court.

Two Men of Business Meet. A man sat scribbling at a desk in an office on Griswold street yesterday when some one walked briskly through the hall, open the door, and asked: "Anybody in?" "Yes, sir." "Want your coal carried up?" "Haven't got any." "Going to have?" "No, sir." "Then you wouldn't want it carried up?" "No, sir." "And I couldn't carrv it up if I wanted to?" "No, sir." "That's all. Good-day. Glad to meet a man who does business in a business way. See you about some fly screens twq months later."—[Detroit Free Press.

Not in Her Set.

"Au revoir, Jones, I'll meet you at the tea this afternoon." "The tea! What tea?" "Why, your wife's of course." "Ah! Does she give a tea to-day?" "Certainly. The cards have been out for a week." "Then don't look for me there. I'm not expected".—[Washington Critic.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1889.

GROVER'd SOLILOQUY-

Farewell, along farewell to all my greatness! This 1b the state of—Dam, what Is It tbe state of, Anyhow? A tew days more and I go forth Like a poor relation who has overstald his time And worn his welcome out. Dan, do I look like A man strong enough to jerk a living from Tbe law? Think I can make 200,0C3 Dollars, Dan, as easy in the next four years As In the last four? By the living jingo, I'll try it on! Cleveland, Bangs, et cetera— It sounds llks thunder, Dan, but I can't help It I'm done with politics, and my high-blown pride Has no occasion now to get its back np At trifles, nor look a gift horse In the mouth. Tain pomp and show of office, how I hate ye Since the returns came in. The grapes of glory Are not worth picking, Dan! Tet It Is hard. Hard, hard, lor one who weighs 390 pounds To have the props knocked out from under htm And flop down kerchug. For when he falls he falls Like a thousand of brick. —f Chicago Tribune.

THE REPUBLICAN FOREIGN POLICY.

It is Foreshadowed by tke FrnMeit-Eltct ••er Foar Tears Ago. [Extract from a speech by General Harrison it a Blaine and Logan ratification meeting in Indianapolis In 18itt.]

Some timid people fear that Mr. Blaine will involve the country in war. gome over-cautious business men affect to believe that the even current of their money getting will be disturbed by the aggressive foreign policy which they supposed he would inaugurate. My fellow citizens, no one has ever accused Mr. Blaine of being a fool. He has some ideas upon foreign affairs, and I am glad of it. They are rare. He had begun to organize them into a system when he laid down the portfolio of state. Now, what sort of a foreign policy did his dispatches foreshadow? One in which the country should play the bully? One in which we shall, without cause, insult or deny the just rights to any foreign government? Not at all. Do not we all desire that we shall have a manly foreign policy? One that shall not be characterized by such timidity as not to lift a manly protest when any wrong is done in any foreign country to the humblest American citizen.

What is it Mr. Blaine proposed to do? Briefly and chiefly, he proposes to call a congress for consultation as to the mutual interests of the nations of the Continent—a meeting of our sister republics, not for the purpose of aggression far from it. It was that we might exercise our friendly offices in the interests of peace and stable government among these people where government has been so unstable where the existing regimes are so frequently overturned as to bring prostration to all private enterprises. It was that we might extend a kindly hand to these people to help them on to a higher civilization, and that we might in return enjoy some of that commerce which Great Britain monopolizes to day. We are living near these people. They are striving to imitate us in the experiment of free government. Yet we are without influence. It has been a standing shame that our relations in these South American governments have been such that neither we nor they have enjoyed any of the benefits of good neighborhood. Mr. Blaine proposed to remedy is is on in or A congress of these nations was the leading feature of his brief administration of the state department. There was nothing to disturb business in that policy, but much promise of a new market for our surplus. Nobody wants war. It is a last resort, but every self-respecting American does believe in maintaining the proper dignity, honor and influence of this great nation. I am otrongly in favor of putting Upon the sea enough Auioriooii •hips, armed -with the most improved ordnance, to enforce the rights of our people against any foreign aggressor. It is a good thing in the interest of the peace of commerce to show our navy's flag in the ports where the flag of commerce is unfurled. It opens the way to traffic and gives security to our citizens dwelling in those remote lands. Neither Blaine nor we propose any policy that shall imperil the quiet of this country, unless, there should remain no other resource but war. But when that issue comes, the patriotic, brave hearts of his countrymen will respond that the dignity and the honor of the country and the safety of her citizens must be maintained.

THREE GOVERNORS IN ONE STATE.

The West Virginia Complication Reaches a Climax. A special from Charleston, W. Vs., says: Promptly at noon to-day, Monday, General Goff, the Republican candidate for governor and claimant to the oflice, took the oath in one of tbe rooms of the state house set apart for the use of the governor. About the same time in another apartment, President Carr, of the senate, also took upon himself the proscribed oath and was prepared to transact the business of the office, while in his private oflice, E. W. Wilson, who has tilled the position for the past four years, continued in form, at least, to discharge his accustomed duties. While in and about the state house there was gathered a tremenduous crowd of people, about equally divided between the two political parties. About half-past twelve o'clock General Goff and several friends came into the capitol and proceeded to the private office of Governor Wilson, who was also surrounded by a number of his friends. General .Goff mounted a phair and addressed the crowd which had assembled in the room. He claimed he had received a clear majority of the votes cast, charged Speaker Woods, of the house of delegates, with having failed in the performance of his constitutional duties in not declaring the result, and said: "I am now ready in the presence of these people of my state to kiss the holy Bible, and commit myself to the destiny that awaits me by virtue of the partiality of my fellow citizens." The oath was then administered by H. C. McWhorter, after which General Goff proceeded to Governor Wilson's private office and demanded possession. Governor Wilson was surrounded by a dense mass of his friends and party leaders. In reply to the demand he said he was of the opinion that the legislature as a co-ordinate department of the government, in joint assembly, had exclusive jurisdiction to ascertain and declare the result of the election, and no title could come from any other source. He felt it his duty to continue in charge. Thus the matter stande.

A Bound About Route.

It is reported that canned goods equal in quantity to about three hundred car loads will be shipped from San Francisco to New York by water. The freight rate agreed upon is 55 cents per 100 pounds, and tbe ocean route was chosen because the railroads, in seeking to make the traffic pay all it will bear, insisted on too much. The tariff demanded for overland transit is not stated, but it must be considerably more than 55 cents, or the owners of the propertywould not prefer to send it around the

Horn, incurring the risk of damage to perishable goods due to a doable journey through tropical seas.—[Chicago Tribune.

TURF NOTES.

The Columbus, Ind., trotting association agreed on May 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st to hold the spring races.

Conkling Maid, by Volunteer, out of the dam of Rarus, in foal to King Wilkes, bought by Mr. J. C. Clay, of Paris, Ky., at the Lexington sales for 81,360, died last night from inflammation of the •pine.

Colonel R. G. Stoner, of the Hambletonian stock farm, at Paris, has sold to Mr. J. H. Moore, of Pennsylvania, the black colt Orphan Wilkee, foaled in 1887, by Baron Wilkes, dam Skipper, by Mambrino Russell, for $1,500. This makes the fourteenth sale of colts and fillieB by Baron Wilkes made by Colonel Stoner since the 1st of January, 1889, the fourteen head aggregating $27,000. One also died, which was sold for $8,000, and was to have been delivered in a few days.

The first biennial meeting of the congress of the American trotting associations convened yesterday afternoon at Chicago. About one hundred sub-as-are asociation represented. The association was formed two years ago, with sixty-six members, and now has 318 from all parts of the Union. Committees on candidates, nominations and rules were papointed after the report of the last meeting was read, and will report this morning. George Merriam, of Minnesota, is president, and J. H. Steiner, of Detroit, Mich., secretary. The congress will probably adjourn this evening.

Sam English, the pool Beller, said to a Pittsburg reporter: "I stopped off at Buffalo on Saturday night to meet a few friends, and I was plainly given to understand that they have a worldbeater there, and from what I can learn, it seems to be true. The horse I refer to is Grover Wilkes, by Red Wilkes. He was 4-years old last fall, and made his first appearance at the Buffalo fall races. He made a mark of 2:233^ and has repeatedly shown quarters in 32. Undoubtedly he is a flyer. He is owned by Mr. Beier, who raises stock a short distance out of Buffalo. Harvey Ernert will no doubt arive the horse next season in the grand circuit races. Grover will be entered in the '24 pacing class, and the authorities at Buffalo are convinced that he is another Buffalo Girl. His owner has a number of Red Wilkes' colts. Many of them are promising, and Grover Wilkes is the pick of tbem. Ernert is a good judge himself and handled Little Ida last year. He is confident that he has found a jewel in Grover Wilkes."

SPRING STYLES.

New jackets in all stuffs will have long revers and inserted vests. Dinner gowns for wear during lent have no trains, the Bhort- skirt resting on the floor.

New Iudia silks of mouse gray with figures of deeper tone are elegant and fashionable.

Miniature crotch sticks of gold, with frosted handles, are quite the thing for shawl pins.

Many of the light spring woolens exhibit blocks two inches square in strongly contrasting colors.

Directoire and empire evening gowns are now made in silk-wrap Henrietta cloth in cream and magnolia tints.

Shirred corsages in thin summer stuffs will bo much worn this «eneon. The trimming will take a great variety of shapes.

Black, brown, or green wool widely cross-barred with green or blue or red is very much used for house and school gowns for girls from 10 to 20.

The newest black veil is of plain net, hemmed at the bottom, with a faint pattern of gold thread wrought on the hem and other lines of gilt above it.

With empire gowns the length of the sleeve puff depends on the height of the sasb, as it is desirable that the puff should end just at the, top of the girdle.

New brocaded ribbons are shown in a variety of patterns. One design has a row of green laurel leaves running along one side of a very rich old rose ribbon.

Woolen stuffs for spring and summer gowns are in plain colors, blocks, checks and stripes. Tobacco brown and tan colored woolens are brightened by Scotch plaid sashes of silk surah with fringe raveled out.

Black openwork gimp is a stylish garniture used on bengaline and armure silk gowns. It appears as a girdle and plastron or vest on the corsage and as a oollar and wristbands with a broad border trimming the foot of the skirt.

'•Dammin" and Pythias.

When Mary Anderson was here a bright young man gave up three weeks' salary in order to take his best girl to the play. He didn't like the "piece," as he expressed it, but remarked to the young lady: "This show ain't my style. I am dead stuck on comic shows. The funniest play I ever set out was 'Dammin and Pythias'"— The continuance of his criticism was drowned by a burst of applause—not for him, but for Mary.—[Indianapolis News.

A

Chain that is Broken

"Why is the legislature like a broken chain?" "Because there is a Linck out!"

Nine cents, please.—[Indianapolis News.

New Zealand's Rabbit Pest. Up to the present time 70,000,000 rabbit skins have been exported from New Zealand alone and yet the number of rabbits in that country has not perceptibly decreased.

Coal For The Ohio River.

PITTSBURG, March 6.—There was an excellent coal boating-stage of water this evening. Reports from the headwaters of the Allegheny Indicate there will be from fifteen to sixteen feet here tomorrow. There will be between four million and five million bushels of coal shipped to the lower ports ou this rise.

Dnffy Knocks Oat Mallon.

CHICAGO. March 4.—James Duffy and Patsy Mallon. local heavy-weights, fought to-night with two ounce gloves, for a parse of f200, a few miles from tbe eity. It was a bloody slugging match from start to nnish. Duffy knocked Mallon out in the sixth round.

Not an Unnatural Misapprehension. The gas area of Indiana is 165 miles long and sixty-five miles wide. We thought it covered the whole state.— [Martha's Vineyard Herald.

What the Silver Watch" Means. The latest idea is a supposed silver watch, which being opened reveals a small silver cup. This means it.'s time to take a drink.

Mr. Robert Sutcliffe, late of Birmingham, England, now a resident of Baltimore, claims:—"For neuralgia Salvation Oil is worth its weight in gold."

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

CAUGHT I* A GAMUT STORK

I went up town the other day Where I never had been before, And if I now conld have my way,

I never would go no more, Fot there my heart It fell a prey To a girl in a candy store, „,6r

A gum-drop girl, A bon-bon girl.

That waits In a candy store. ~t '15

I made my mind that very day *, That 1 never would go no more. .* If I conld only have my way. **,4

As I'd always had before

p,

That stands In the canay store.

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But. alas! my heart had gone to stay With the girl in the candy store. The butter-cup girl,

The sugar-nut girl

And since I can not have my way, As I've always had before, •. It ain't no use for me to say

I never will go no more, For I'm stuck up town, and stuck to star With the girl in the candy store.

The French-kiss girl. The tu-lu girl

That tends In a candy store. Dayton (O.) has adopted standard time.

In Samoa English is the language of trade and social intercourse. Not a poisonous reptile, insect or plant is found in the Puget Sound region.

A Georgia man has a hen which lays double eggs, each one having an egg within an egg, as it were.

Some Japanese chestnut trees at Santa Rosa, Cal., yield enormous fruit. One dozen nuts weigh a pound.

Old miners say that the gold discoveries near Eusenada, Cal., are probably the riohest ever found on the Pacific coast.

A Dubuque, la., man has just shipped 1,100 cats and 200 dogs to Dakota, where the animals are wanted to exterminate ground mice.

Tuscumbia, Ala., was excited the other day over a negro who conld drink whole pailfuls of cold water and eat glass with an evident relish.

The hereditary grand falconer, of Great Britain is the duke of St. Albans, who receives a salary of $4,825 a year for holding the title.

PeachstoneB are used for fuel in Vallejo, Cal. They bring $6 a ton. The apricot stone does rot burn so well and does not bring so good a price.

A Griffin, Ga., citizen, who shaves three times a week, has noticed that his beard grows much faster in bright sunny weather than when it is cloudy.

On Monday last a new flag was raised over the Pennsylvania capitol at Harrisburg which bore forty-two stars, representing the age and youth of the union.

The present tory administration in England is opposed to free education and refuses to pay the expenses of the voluntary schools, though more than half of the children in England are taught in them.

A little girl of Savannah, Ga., owned a cat and a dog which were great friends. The dog died, and the cat, overcome with grief, lay down betwixt the dog's paws and gave up the ghost. So the story goes.

A sharper, whose methods and description much resembles those of the notorious "Ross Raymond," is operating in and around Birmingham, England. That worthy sailed from New York for Liverpool last autumn.

A Toledo woman has been married six times and has had but four husbands. A southern woman this week eleped with two men, and a Utah man recently ra» away with the four wives of a Mormon. Pick out the winner?

A young lady teacher in Mercer county, Missouri, knocked an unruly pupil down with a poker. The boy's parents prosecuted her. After the jury had acquitted her the people made up a puree and paid her attorney's fees.

An inhabitant of Portland, Oregon, not long ago offered to sell twelve acres of land for $850 per acre. His wife refused to sign the deed, and though he was angry at the time, he is more than pac fled now, as the property will bring $20,000 readily.

An old negro passed through Athens, Georgia, recently, holding a rope that was tied around the neck of a young girl who was thought to be his daughter, He was frequently asked the cause ef having her tied, and the only answer he would give was "runaway nigger."

Mary Beard, an old colored woman living in Guyton, Georgia, has just returned from Florida, where she was reunited with her mother, from whom she was separated fifty-four years ago, and had never seen since. She was taken from her mother when only five years old.

A fine setter dog owned by Henry DLxon, a Georgia negro man, took his own life one day last week. He had a block attached to his Leek, and was prowling around over the plantation, and attempted to cross a gully, a depth of ten feet or more, on a plank, and fell, when the block fastened itself around the plank, causing instant death.

Paper doors are said to be great improvements over wooden ones. J?hey are formed of two thick paper boards, stamped and molded into panels and glazed together with glue and potash, and then rolled through heavy rollers. After being covered with a waterproof coating and one that is fireproof, they are painted, varnished and hung in the usual way.

Mrs. C. A. Byrd, of Brooks county, Ga., owns the skillet her great-grandmother used. It is as good as new, notwithstanding it is something over one hundred and fifty years old. Mrs. Byrd also has a small lightwood knot her grandfather wore around his neck for palpitation of the heart. It is worn perfectly smooth, and is said to greatly benefit the ailment mentioned.

A railroad is to be constructed in Australia from Euclato Perth, a distance of 800 miles, which, when completed, will bring into railway competition Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. It is expected that the work will occupy ten years, but as the line traverses" the whole length of the Australian Bight—still practically an unknown land, in crossing which several explorers lost their lives—some sceptic'sm prevails on the subject.

It may save your life, for it curee your cold and cough. Dr. BUII'B Cough Syrup. Price 25 cents.

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promptly

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Tender FeetAt Dr«f(l«U sat Saklafs.

The Charles A. Togeler Co., Balto., Md.

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HBW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS.

AMUSEMENTS. NAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE

Wilson NAYLOR, MAMAO**. »,

Thursday, March 7.

The Great New York Success,

A LEGAL WRECK.

SAME CAST I SAME SCENERY SAME APPOINTMENTS

By Wm. Gillette.

TRANSFERRED ESTIRE TO TERRE HADTE!

Sale Opens Monday. Prices $1,75c, 50c and 25c.

NAYLOR'S.

Friday Ev'ng, March 8.

Return of the Favorites.

THE GORMAN'S

35 ARTISTS 35

Presenting an attractive programme, concluding with the great burlesque written by Mr. James Gorman, entitled

THE PASHA OF BAGDAD.

Sale opens Wednesday. Prices, 75c, 50c and '25c.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote- Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) de note Bnffet Cars attached. Trains marked thus(*) ran dally, ill other trains ran dally Sundays excented.

VANDALIA LINE.

T. a A1. DIVISION. LJUVB IOB THB WOT.

No. 9Western Kxpress (3AV) 1.42 a. m. No. S MaU Train* 10.18 a. m. No. 1 Past Line* (PAV) 2.16 p.m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.01 p. m.

LBAVIICB THB BAST.

No. 13 Cincinnati Kxpress *(S) 1.90 a. No. 6 New Tork Kxpress (84V) 1.61 a. No. 4 Mail and Accommodation 7.15 a. No. 20 Atlantic Express *(P4V) 12.4* p. No. 8 Fast Line* 2.00 p.

ABBIVB FROM THI MAST,

No. 9 Western Kxpress (SAV) 1.80 a. m. No. 6 Mall Train 10.12 a. m. No-1 Fast Line (PAV) 2.00 p. m. No. 8 Mall and Accommodation 6.45 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.00 p.m.

ABBIVB FBOM THE WOT.

No. 12 Cincinnati Kxpress*(S) 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New York Kxpress*(SAV) 1.42 a.m. No. 20 Atlantic Kxpress*(PAV) 12.87 p. m. No. 8 Fart Line* 1.40 p. m.

T.E4L DIVISION.

LSAVB VOB THB BOKTH.

No. 62 South Bend Mall 6.00 a. m. No. South Bend Kxpress 4.00 p. m. ABBIVB 7B0M SOUTH. No. 61 Terre Haute Kxpress 12.00 noon No. 68 South Bend Mali 7.80 p. m.

WARREN-SCHARF

Asphalt Paving Co.,

CONTRACTORS FOR

GENUINE TRINIDAD ASPHALT SHEET PAVEMENT

As laid In over Thirty American Cities, ranging In climate and other conditions Iroin New Orleans and Savannah to St. Paul and

Montreal, to the extent of

Over 4,000,000 Square Yards,

OR 225 MILES OF STREET,

Ten miles of stone block pavement have been torn up and replaced with Trinidad Asphalt In Buffalo alone. nm«.aJ

114

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•lohn Street. New York.

Gen onices-j jjiymyer Building, Cincinnati.

FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE1 INSURANCE.

You can get Fire Insurance or any other klnrt of Insurance of

Allen, Kelley & Co.,

665

Wabash Avenue,

Terre

Haute, Ind.,

TKLKFHONB No. 248.

This agency represents the best Fire Insurance companies now doing business, also the best

LIVE STOCK INSURANCE

company in the state. All Lossses are AWCSTKU BY CS and paid within ONK or FIVK DAYS from date of same.

ASSETS, $153,000,000.00.

Very Lowest Bates and good treatment. Give us a call.

MANION BROS.

Stoves and Mantels.

Finest Une of slate and marbleized iron munties In the city. Kspeclal attention given to slate and tin roodng

A. J. GALLAGHER,

PLUMBER

Gas and Steam Fitter,

424 Cherry Street. Terre Haute