Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 May 1889 — Page 2

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The local G. A. R. people propose to have the school children t* ke part in the memorial day services, aud it is an excellent idea. The children can thus be imbued with the sentiment and carry on the observance years after the last of the veterans is in his grave..

It is jftoposed to have oil well excursions into this city. It is a good idea. We have the oil to show and give to the people of this valley, and we will be glad to have them come here to get it and join with us in congratulation over the great find. Anything Terre Haute has belongs to the people of this valley.

The English government is a trifle hasty in the matter of the Behrings' Straits proclamation. There is no dispute, when all the records of priority are considered, as to the full province of this government for the rights claimed in the president's proclamation, and the bellicose demonstrations of the imperial government with the loud sounding threats of Canadian officials will not avail to prevent this government obtaining and securing all that was secured in the purchase of Alaska. The latest news is that the English, or imperial government, is preparing fortifications on the Pacific coast. "If the Americans .object," said a Canadian official, "to our establishing batteries commanding the entrance to Puget Sound, why let them build forts on the opposite side of the straits." We don't object to the fortifications on these shores, but look out for solid shot ob jections if these fortifications interfere with the plainly announced programme of defense of all our rights.

The German miners are returning to work and the loud outcry of the free traders in this country that the strike .••• was owing to the protective tsriff in that country must be stilled until the next strike in a protective tariff country is reported. When it is recorded we wiU again bf? regaled with the tirade ul1 iree traders against the protective tariff principle and asked why it is that we hear of no strikes in free trade England. And again we will be under the necessity of calling attention to the fact that the workingmen in free trade England have been ground down to that point where they are too weak to organize a strike. Whatever may be said against a strike, per se, the fact is that a successful strike such as that in Westphalia simply shows that the wage earners have become strong enough to win a fight with their em ployers. If they had been at starvations extreme we would have heard of a bread riot and not a strike. It is bread riots we hear of in free trade England. There is a distinction between them.

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Once Upon a Time.

Yalisley (to waiter)—Hive me a spring chicken. Walter (to cook)—Spring chicken, once. Yabsley (after he gets It)—He's right. It was a spring chicken—once.

ltase lilts.

Personal.—John W, B.—If you will return to your home you will llnd all Is peace and happiness again, The piano has been sold. Your loving wife.

Humanity very much resembles the succulent and seductive strawberry. The green ones generally go to the bottom. "Maude" writes to know what plants are most suitable for Interior decorations. The "Woman and Home'' editor not being able to answer the question the horse editor comes to the rescue with the statement that asparagus will be found quite satisfactory, though for his part he usually imbibes the humble bean.

The quiescent and somnolent mud turtle presents an appearance

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Among revolutionary relics the spinning wheel stands pre-eminent. Sportsmen are informed that the wife shooting season closes next mouth.

Seeing Is believing, but when one of those big •"electric light bugs" drops down a woman's back she Is fully convinced without the aid of vision.

KXCHANOE KCHOES.

St. l.ouls Ulobe-Democrat: The Idea of organizing a Democratic rival to the Urand Army of the Kepuhltc has finally been abandoned. It appears that the bounty Jumpers were all In favor of the --project, but the reputable soldiers could not be Induced to touch It on any account

St. l.ouls (-ilobe-Democrat The Hon. Theodore Itoosevelt. the new civil service commissioner, very frankly observes: "I don't believe I could pass the civil service examination myself If compelled to In order to hold the ofllce to which I have been appointed." Could there be a more significant commentary upon the absurdity of the rules and methods of that dlsUngulshed body from which we are •asked to expect an Improvement In the fitness and worthiness of federal appointees.

New York Sun: It Is true that the merest monition of Mr. Cleveland's name as a possible candidate Tor president In 1892 affords Just grounds for ^apprehension. but we really do not think It Is the

Republicans who are atrald of him. We have discovered no signs of trepidation in any Republican quarter over any prophecy that the Republican party will yet see more of Mr. Cleveland In his quality as a Democratic leader and candidate. On 'the contrary, It would appear that the Republicans can regard such a prospect with tranquillity, even with satisfaction. It is the Democracy that has reason to be afraid of (Jrover Cleveland.

Not Farislan Enough.

PAKIS, May 20.—Parisians express great dissatisfaction over the fact that the American section of the exhibition ju! &nd also a portion of the English section are closed on Sundays.

THE MOTHER OF ICEBERGS

The most notable of the glaciers in southeastern Alaska is the Muir, named from Professor John Muir, a geologist of some reputation, since he gave the first uncolored description of it, writes Professor Horace W. Briggs in the Sitka Alaskan. It is forty miles long, and back on the land in a basin of the mountains. Being reinforced by fifteen tributaries coming down the glens from different points of the compass, it swells to an icy sea twenty-five milee in diamater. Thence it moves with resistless power, bearing rocks and long lines ojl detritus on its billowy surface. JU6t before it reaches the bay it is compressed by two sentinel mountains into and is forced through a gorge one mile in width.

Emerging from the narrow gateway it moves on, at a rate of forty to sixty feet a day, to the waters whence it originally came, buttressing the bay with a perpen-' dicular wall 800 feet high, 300 feet of ultramarine crystals tipped with purest white being above the surface, and, being pushed beyond its support in the underlying rock, a battle begins between cohesion and gravity. The latter force always prevails, and vast masses break from the glacial torrent with the combined crash of falling falls and heavy thunder, and tumble into the bay with a dash and a shock that agitates the waters miles away, making navigation perilous to craft of all sizes. The almost deafening roar made when these masses are rent away, the splashing baptism they receive in their fall, and the leaping waters are lively witness es to the birth of an iceberg, which henceforth, as an independent existence, goes on its mission of girding the

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stretched out on the sunny side of a log, but If you put your linger In his mouth you will llnd that •lie hasn't such a soft snap.

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butting against its fellows, and of scaring navigators. While the ship was resting unmoored near the front of this icy barrier, we were startled by the sudden appearance of amass of dark crystal, vastly larger than our own ship, shooting up from the depths and tossing our steamer as if it were an eggshell. As the vessel careened, the frightened passengers were sent whirling against her, over chairs, or prostrate upon the deck. This strange visitor had doubtless broken off from the roots of the icy mountain, hundreds of feet below the surface, and hence had unexpectedly appeared upon the scene. Had it struck the ship fairly, nothing but a miracle could have saved us.

Having recovered somewhat from our dumb amazement, about twenty of us were sent on shore in the captain's gig. Landing some distance below the ice wall, we climbed seventy feet up a lateral moraine, crawled, shoe-deep in wet gravel, down into the valley of a glacial river, forded it, paddled through glacial mud covered with shingle just deep enough to hide the creamy pools, slipped prostrate on the ice made treacherous by a thin disguise of detritue, and barked our

and cut uur shoes on the sharp

angular blocks of granite and basalt strewn for two miles, in great profusion along our perilous route. Blocks of the finest marble hedged our pathway we trod upon chips of jasper and chalcedony, the product of different mountains far up on the peninsula, and we passed two exquisitely beautiful bowlders of veined porphyry, weighing two' or three hundred pounds each, rounded and polished by centuries of attrition. Th«y were of dark purple, streaked with qutirtz spot lessly white, verv deairablo ror a cabinet, or for out-of-door ornamentation.

After more than an hour of plunging and sprawling and of pulling each other out of gray mire, about half of our number reached the uncovered glacier, and at the first glance we felt here we should stand with uncovered heads, for we were in the presence of the marvel ous manifestations of superhuman power in action, and looked with unveiled eyes upon the potent agencies by which the planet has been fashioned.

Away in the distance was the white lake fed by numerous frozen rivers, and these rivers were born of mountain snowB fifty miles distant. The white robed mountains themselves,

the past, were smoothed and grooved far up their finty sides, where this same glacier was three-fold deeper and many times more ponderous and mighty than it

Strewed along the base of the mountains till there are only a line in the distance were the records of those gray old years in the form of moraines 100 feet high, and appearing like a range of hills.

The larger portion of this crystal river, perhaps an eighth of a mile in width, is heaved into rounded hills and beetling precipices, quite resembling the sea in a storm,while the middle and much the wider part is splintered into countless spires and needles and pinnacles, ten, twenty, thirty feet in height, and of a beautiful ultra marine at the base, shaded into a dead white at the summit. In the onward march of the glacier these pinnacles are occasionally wrenched from their 6eats in the solid ice beneath —they nod, then totter, and then make a plunge, and are shattered into a cloud of a circular crystals that

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the frosted snow under a full moon of a winter's night, only with more of color— they are diamonds on the wing.

Again the whole surface is riven by a thousand crevasses, along the bottom of which streams of clear water find their way, often broken by waterfalls that plunge further down into the dark-blue abyss out of sight. These chasms are frightful gaps to one peering down a hundred feet between their turquois walls. A slip, a frail alpenstock, a feeble grasp of the guide's rope, and gravity would close the soene without further ceremony.

The molecular structure of the glacier is continually changing, adjusting itself to the elevations and depressions of its rocky bed, and hence there is an incessant clicking and cracking, interrupted here and there by an explosion heard over every inch of the surface.

The whole scene is weird and strange in sight and sound—in the voices that rise to the air from the azure depths— fascinating because every step is perilous, majestic from its massiveness, and awful because its march is irresistible.

Consider what a force in wearing away mountains and glenB an icy torrent must be, one mile wide, 800 feet deep, and in th« middle flowing sixty feet a day it goes grinding and groaning and cracking in startling explosions, all mingled in a loud wail like that from the Titans imprisoned under Mount .-Etna.

Now let any one in fancy frame for himself this picture: Snow-capped mountains in the background, two of them, Fairweather and Crillon, more than sixteen thousand feet high, thick set with glittering peaks and clear cut as silhouettes on a dark sky the great glacier, child of artic snows, turreted and pinnacled and splintered into a thousand strange form9 upon which Iris has Hung the varied hues of amethyst and turquois and sapphire huge

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river with a thundering roar, reeling and toppling into an amber sea, thickly dotted with new-born and vagrant icebergs and all this seen* glorified and transfigured ~by the setting sun. .Looking upon this picture through the creative power of imagination, one readily conceive that the enraptared tourist, standing in the presence of the realities, would call that day spent with the Muir glacier the day of all the days he ever

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in gassing upon and listen

ing to the wild wonders of our planet. But hark! That was not an explosion of the glacier's artillery it was the echo of the steamer's whistle ringing along the glens of the mountains, softened, indeed, by distance, as are the notes of the Alpine horn.

In just one hour we must be on the ship or be left without couch or food or fire in these wild and awful Bolitudes, ninety miles from the nearest habitation and we made it in time, regardless ol' shoes or shins.

OCHILTREL'd EXBAffltASKMKNT..

He Asks Privilege to Practice Before Judge Woods and Is Refused.

Tom Ochiltree, of Rushville, an attorney, best known here by reason of his connection as foreman with the first Coy grand jury, figured conspicuously and somewhat ingloriously at the federal building to-day, says the Indianapolis News of last evening.

George W. Howery, a farmer living on Blue river. Shelby county, and Frank Young, his nephew, are under arrest for "shoving" counterfeit $lO-bills at Rushville. They employed Ochiltree to defend them before the United States authorities, and gave hiip a note for $100 as payment. The defendants, particularly Howery, are well-to do, and the note is therefore good. 'But the defendants' friends were not satisfied with the arrangement. They prevailed on Howery to employ Judge Hord and Stanton J. Peelle, and to day Howery was en deavoring to get his note back from Ochiltree. The latter was not disposed te give it up.

The matter becomes public by reason of Ochiltree's petition this morning to be permitted to practice before the federal district court. It appears that he is not an attorney at that bar, and unless the special permit were granted "he could not represent his clients, from whom he had already taken pay. The court was disinclined to bestow the favor, for reasons. When a federal officer went to Rushville to make the arrest of Howery and Young, Ochiltree made him the unwilling witness of an injudi cious criticism of Judge Woods. "If my clients were Democrats," said Ochiltree, "they could not get justice before Judge Woods." He further, by inuendo, charged the court with unfairness and gave vent to much similar utterance. By chance the mat ter came to Judge Woods1 ears, and it was a surprise to him, therefore, when Ochiltree to-day came before him and asked the privilege of appear ing as attorney in the case in question, the court confronted him with the statements made to the officer last week, and to increase Mr. Ochiltree's confusion the officer to whom the statements were made put in an appearance. Ochiltree declined to admit or deny the statements in this dilemma, and a spirited scene ensued. The inference is that if Ochiltree practices before Judge Woods he will do so after passing the usual examination.

Late this afternoon Mr. Oahiltree did the fair thing jiy giving up the $100 note Howery and Young gave $1,000 bond and were released.

SUNDAY CLOSING AT PORT WAYNE.

Good Work of a Republican Mayor—Reprisals by the LI| uor Interest.

Mayor Harding, the first Republican mayor Port Wayne has had for twentyfive years, issued a proclamation last week ordering all saloons closed at 11 o'clock p. m. during the week, and all day on Sunday. The police department received rigid instructions Saturday night to carry out the law to the letter. Sunday every

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New Union of Traveling Men.

Fifty traveling men, representing wholesale groceries, organized a Traveling Men's union at a meeting of the board of trade at Indianapolis, Saturday evening. The purpose of the union is to check disreputable practices becoming prevalent among merchant travelers, such as selling below contract prices and clear the profession of its unworthy element. H. B. McCune was elected president, J. T. McCune secretary, R. K. Syfers treasurer and William Kothe, Julius Wocher, James Broder, Q. S. Rittenhouse and G. W. Stout executive committee. The union is an Indiana branch of a national organization, which includes traveling men for all kinds of business.

Bethany Assembly for 1880.

Bethany assembly encampment win open at the Brooklyn park July 31, and will continue to August 19. The grounds this spring are of extraordinary beauty. The improvements required to put the grounds in prime condition have been attended to. A perfect system ef water works, enlarged boating, bathing and fishing facilities, the hotel of fifty rooms, with a twenty-room annex, the tabernacle and pavilion, are features of the place. In an intellectual way, every interest of the christian church will be represented by the most learned and popular evangelists, missionaries and educators.

HefTron's Great Eastern Show.

Heffron's Great Eastern show opened laBt evening at the corner of Ninth-and-one-half and Walnut streets to a large crowd. A matinee will be given this afternoon, and the street parade will take place at noon.

What Despair Caused.

Ohio men are having such desperate luck at Washington this year that one of them, in bis chagrin at not getting just exactly what he wanted, has gone and married his mother-in-law.—[Springfield (Mass.) Union.

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and brewery was

closed—the first time for years. At a meeting of the AMen county Licensed Liquor Dealers' Protective association yesterday, a committee was appointed to patrol the streets and watch every business man pursuing his usual vocation to-day, and as a result, upward of fifty complaints will be filed against livery stables, milk dealers, cigar stands, street car and ice companies that did business on Sunday. The streets were almost deserted. Mayor Harding publicly stated that all such cases brought before him would be dismissed without trial, thus openly committing himself to a war on the saloons and gamblers alone. The Occidental, one of the oldest gambling houses in the state, closed up its business on Friday night, the firm dissolved and the saloon is offered for sale.

TCER YOB KIKvMIbb*

A- Missionary's Ftually Mandated by gsltor. Puebto Lntoir, Ooata Rica, May 10.— News of a terrible tragedy has been received from Ruautan island, off the north coast of Honduras. The Rev. Mr. -Hobbs, a Baptist minister from the United States, had been living at Floras bay with his wife and little daughter. He was preparing to leave the island for Belize, and had sold his property, receiving for it $600 in gold.. Shortly before he intended to depart a neighbor called to bid him farewell. He knocked at the door, and, receiving no answer, entered the house, the door being unlocked. Finding no one in the hall or parlor he called. Again there was no response. Alarmed, he searched t}ie house, and upon opening the bedroom door' a sickening spectacle met his eyes. Mr. Hobbs, his wife, and chUd were dead, with their skulls smashed in. Their heads were nearly severed and their bodies covered with wounds. They bad evidently been murdered in their eleep, and the wounds were inflicted with a machette.

The bodies were cold, and blood ran in pools on the floor. The murder must have been committed two days before. The money had disappeared, and the object, therefore, was robbery. A shipwrecked sailor, a Jamaican named Burrell, who had been taken in out of charity and cared for by the family, also disappeared about the same' time, and waaarrested just as he was about leaving the island on a fishing-smack, three days after the discovery of the murder. He obstinately declared his innocence, but a portion of the missing coin was found upon his person, and he has been fully committed for trial.

OPENING NEW ILLINOIS COAL FIELDS.

A Big Enterprise Near Danville—An Ontput of 1,000 Tons Per Day.

The Consolidated coal company of St. Louis has given anew turn to coal operations by opening up the most extensive strip bank weet of the anthracite regions, in what is known as the Missionary Tract, eight milee weet of Danville, 111., says a special from that plaoe. The field is near the junction of the Salt Fork and Middle Fork of the Vermillion river, and contains 600 acres of land. A horizontal six

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vein of coal, covered

with only fourteen feet of light soils, extends throughout the entire tract.. Wallace & Wright, of Lafayette, Ind., have taken the contract of removing this dirt and have placed three

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at work. The capacity of this plant will be 1,000 tons a day, ana with this output, counting 300 working days in a year, it will take sixteen years to exhaust the field, it being estimated that there is at least eight thousand tons of coal in an acre of ground. The company has a locomotive to haul the coal to the foot of the hillB, where it will be hoisted on an incline to the table-land above and then dumped into coal cars on a switch which leads to the Ohio, Indiana & Western railroad at Oakwood.

MRS. LANGTBY TO LEAVE THE STAGE.

Friends of the Lily Say She Is Tired of Being Talked About.

It is currently rumored—and those who ought to know claim to be able to substantiate the. rumor—that Mrs. Iiangtry bas decided to leave the stage and once more retire to private life, says aNew York special. She is said to be tired of being talked about in news papers and scandalized by unscrupulous rivals who imagine that the only way to win the esteem of the critical public is by pulling some one else down to their level. One seeming proof of the Lily's intention to desert the thespian boards is the advertised auction to be held next week at some theater, probably the Grand opera house, at which all the scenery used in "Macbeth," "Lady of Lyons," "As in a Looking-Glass," "As You Like It," and the other plays in her repertoire, will be knocked down to the highest bidder.

Washington Society Getting Up Circus,

The present excitement in society is the prospective amateur circus, which a number of well known society people are arranging to take place next month in the country club. The success of this species of entertainment in' New York has stimulated society leaders here, and an imitation of what was done in New York is to be undertaken. A number of the ladies who have posed as cross-coun-try riders in the fox hunts will take part, and the positions of clowns and ringmaster will be supplied by well-known society men, whose qualifications for the positions are undisputed. A public rehearsal for the members of the press and the friends and families of the participants will

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[Washington Special.

The Truth About the Jews.

Protesting against a slur on Hebrews in general, a correspondent of the New York Sun comes to the defense of. the race in this country. "The American Jew," he writes, "hasn't any barefooted children running about the streets the American Jew educates his children and if the American Jew bas any unsocial attributes, he certainly has as much love for art-, literature and. music as his christian brothers." The force of this is in the truth of it, apparent to everyone.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

Is Iron Overhauling Steel?

A revolution of feeling regarding the supposed superiority of steel over iron for heavy shafts for steamboats has been gaining strength for some time, and it is said that nearly all steel shafts that break nowadays are being: replaced by iron. It is also stated that those made by Krupp, the German iron-worker, have fared no better in builders' estimation than eome made in this country.—[Pittsburg Dispatch. v-

Jefi Davis' Inconsiderate niece.

It was very inconsiderate: of Mrs. Maybricht, niece of Jefferson Davis, to

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poison her husband and gat into the newspapers. Not thai Mr. Maybricht may not have deserved poisoning, but her course is likely to afford her uncle an opportunity lor writing another lettar to the press to explain or deny something.—[IndiaiiapoliaJournid^^

A HAY MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

The Ob* to Be Held at Tomllnson Hall, IndiaupolU, May 7, 2« aad 29.

This association, formed to advance musical culture-in this state, and to develop! Indiana talent, will give at its first festival five concerts, three at night and two in the afternoon.

There will be a chorus of €00 voices which b8ve been trained carefully for months, and a large orchestra composed of members of the Theodore Thomas and Boston Symphony orchestra and local musicians.

Indiana talent will be represented by Miss Margaret Reid Kackley, who is now studying in Paris, and Miss Hortense Pierce, of Anderson, who has acquired a national reputation.

The eminent aoloists who have been engaged are Miss Emma Juch, whoae work as the leading soprano of the National opera company has made her a prime favorite with Indianapolis audiiencec Signor Jules Perotti, the tenor whose magnificent high created, so much enthusiasm at the Metropolitan opera house during the last season Herr Emil Fischer, primo basso at the Metropolitan opera house, and a great favorite with New York audiences Mme. The-reae-Herbert Foerster, dramatic soprano Miss Helena von Doenhof, contrait^ Miss Adele Aus der £)he, one of the few pupils of Liszt #h» can rightfully claim that distinction ~Max Bendix, violinist, and Victor Herbert, violincellist-.

Season tickets,^ including reserved seats, $5 general admission $1 to night concerts and fifty cents to matinees reserved seats fifty cents and twenty-five cents extra. Season tickets or single tickets for any concert may be bad by addressing Henry S. Fraser, No. 1 East Washington street, IndianapoliB, Ind.

IN THE LATIN TONGUE.

The Fifth Provincial Councilor Cincinnati in Session To-Day. CINCINNATI, May 20.—The fifth pro

vincial council of Cincinnati (Roman Catholic) which includes the states of Tennessee, Kentucky,Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, has begun its seesion, which will continue for perhaps a week. It is called to consider moral and educatioual questions pertaining to the church, but has no jurisdiction over doctrine, and its decrees are void until approved by the pope. The religious ceremonies attendant upon the opening of the council were very imposing. The officers of the council under the archbishop are: Promotor of council, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Dwenger not&ry, the Rev. Sell of the seminary master of ceremonies, the Rsv. Dr. Moeller, chancellor of the archdiocese secretariee, the Rev. Dr. Byrne of the seminary, and the Rev. Dr. Moee of Cleveland. Sessions are held in secret and the proceedings are in the Latin tongue.

AMUSEMENTS.

The Melville dramatic company began its engagement last night to a great house. Early in the evening the notice "standing room only" was displayed at the box office, but people kept buying tickets all the same for the privilege of resting their elbows on the back rail. "Michael Strogoff," from Jules Verne's most thrilling story, was tie play, It interested the audience and held it to the close, very few of those standing going out, and if they did they stopped at the door to congratulate the popular manager, Mr. Sam Young, on having a good show. The company is one of the best traveling under the banner of low prices some members are noticeably good. Mr. J. P. Rutledge as Michael Strogoff made a good impression Miss Celia Barbour as Nadia was spirited, and Miss Anna Quinn an impressive Maria Strogoff. The two correspondents, Billy Barbour and R. W. Bowers, relieved the strain of a tragical story by their comedy and won laughter and applause. Specialty business

wa9

take place.—

Engagement of Ex-Secretary Bayard.

The rumor of the engagement of exSecretary Bayard to Miss Clymer appears to have become an authenticated fact, and no further efforts at concealment are attempted by either family. Eaoh afternoon Mr. Bayard may be seen driving out by the side of his fiancee, or, upon rare occasions, in company with her mother. One evening lost week Mrs. Clymer and Mr. Bayard were seen driving together on one of the principal avenues, and the question of the engagement to her daughter was from thence considered an established fact. The wedding will most probably occur quietly in June, after which the wedded couple will go abroad for the summer.

introduced which pleased

the audience. The pomp and circumstance of war with cannon and bomb and lots of noise made some of the scenes stirring. To-night "Jack o' the Mines" will be presented. Mr. Sam Young, who is great as a Chinaman, will appear as Sing Sing. Many a man would break out of the original Sing Sing to

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part—if he could. The Melvilles having discovered the great interest in, and demand for, lots, intend to give a city lot to their patrons of this week and will, at the end of the week, give somebody a warranty deed for a lot of fifty feet front near a city school and street railroad, with all the rights and privileges that may arise from whatever gas, oil, minerals, etc., that can be found beneath said lot.

Fannie Davenport Married to Her Best Man NEW YORK, May 20.—Miss Fannie

Davenport, the actress, and Mr. Melbourne McDowell, leading man in her dramatic company, were married privately by the Rev. Dr. Charles II. Eaton, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, at Dr. Eaton's residence, at a few minutes after five o'clock, yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Eaton, the doctor's wife, who acted as one of the two witnessee required by law, a male relative of Miss Davenport-, who acted as the other witness, and Miss Davenport's 10 year-old-niece were the only persons present at the Ceremony besides the principals and the clergyman.

Eiffel and the Bean Stalk.

M. Eiffel is now occupied with landscape gardening he is ornamenting the rockery work base of the tower, with creeping plants—Aipine flowers, of course, for the summit, and sowing Jack in the Bean Stalk grass seeds, on spaces intended to border his allegorical fountain.—[Paris Letter.

Hamlet Left Ont.

Architect—What do you think of these plans for an inebriates' home? De Tanque (examining them carefully)—Great Scott, man! you have forgotten the bar.—[Town Topics.

Hnrrah for the Northwest.

The Northwest is a grand region. .It has the fastest horses, the handsomest women, and the homeliest men of any section of the globe.—[Dakota Huronito.

Sure Proof.

Elsie—Does Reginald love you? Aggie—I think so. He treated me last night to ice cream after ice cream, until I actually ahivered —[Epoch.

Getting Warm.

When candidates begin furnishing certificates of health from their physicisns, the contest is getting warm.— [Columbus Press.

KXPBH PACKAem.

THl N*W DISITWSATIOM. What!

Beaten Proctor Knoxt! Beaten again Br Spokane) Has it come to pass That the famed blue grass

Gives no such speed As the feed

On some wind-swept nvanna Of Montana! ItTs bad! (Tolueky

For Kentucky! It's soul is vexed. v*

The far Northwest is getting vain and frisky rwlll be producing pietUer women next. And bettor whisky! —[Washington critic.

The Florida vegetable growern are having a very prosperous season. In Great Britain last vear 919 persons were killed and 3,826 injured on the railways.

They are making fun of a Buffalo judge for calling a double-barrel gun a "two-shooter." Cw k?

Mr. Smith, a gun dealer of Stepney, Conn., is suffering from lockjaw from the bite of a six-foot blacksnake.

A company of Boston stock brokera recently dined on two lobsters weighing twenty-eight pounds, caught at Suliivan, Me.

The aheriff of Troy, N. Y., put a prisoner in charge of hie trotting horse, and the priadner naturally trotted off with the animal.

About one hundred and fifty colon are now obtained from coal tar, which has almost entirely supplanted vegetable and animal dyes.

The war records show that almoat four thouaand union soldiers deserted during the war, while 267 were caught, tried and executed.

A Western Union operator in Alabama while taking a message waa shocked by a flash of electricity which came from the sky. He died in a few hours.

State Entomologist Lintner, of New York, says the destruction of vegetation by insects was not so great before the introduction of English sparrows as it is now.

Bay City, Michigan, will have a match factory in operation in two weeks, and it iB'expected that 100 boxes of matches will be made and boxed up every second it is in operation.

It has been found that the best thing to disperse a mob is cold water. Get out an engine and put on a full stream and your mob is no sooner wet down than it scatters to dry up.

Fifty thousand persons have visited the new ocean flyer, the City of Paris, during her recent stay at her New York pier. Her magnificent saloons were crowded from morning until night.

A man in Cohoes, N. Y., who was sus pected of killing his wife, held out six days against all questions, but when finally given a drink of whisky he owned up and told all the particulars.

It has been found in experiments at Leipsic that skin grafted from a white to a colored person becomes gradually black, and that black skin grafted upon a white person in time turns white.

There is one bar-room in New York the decoration and furniture of which coat $200,000. There are scores of them that are fitted up at an expense of over fifty thousand dollars each.

A horse at Ansonia, Conn.,got a pebble in his nose while drinking from a shallow brook, and now whenever he crosses it, laps water there like a dog, though elsewhere he drinks in the usual fsshion.

Adelar Fascette, sitting on the bank of the river at Chippewa, Wia, was taken with an apoplectic fit, rolled into the river and was drowned before the eyes of the friends with whom he had been chatting.

Always deduct about forty years from the age of a veteran claiming to be 120 years old. Medical science has no record of a person in this country living beyond one hundred and two years.

An old English diplomatist once said: "A dinner lubricates negotiations." It has been evident since the opening of the Samoan negotiations in Berlin that Bismarck has not lost sight of this great idea of Lord Stowell.

A niojority of the trustees of the new Protestant Episcopal Cathedral in New York are understood to favor marble as the principal material for both interior and exterior. The design most in favor ia said to

reBemble

St. Paul's Cathedral,

London. The "goddeas of liberty" on one of the floats in the New York centennial parade was observed to chew tobacco and expectorate vigorously. "She" was a young woman hired for the occasion, but this fact may not have been patent to all those who viewed the performance.

John Healy, at Columbus, Ohio, going in swimming with some companions, dived into twenty feet of water and never came to the surface. When his body was recovered it was found entangled in the meshes of loose wire into which he had plunged, and which had held him down.

The tensile strength of a wet rope is found to be only one-third that of the same rope when dry, and a rope saturated with grease or soap is weaker still, as the lubricant permits the fibers to slip with greater facility. A dry rope 25 feet long will shorten to 24 feet on being wet.

One of the poorest parishoners of a Pittsburg pastor proudly called his attention to the $7.50 lace curtains in his window which he had nearly paid for. In the window thus draped several panes of glass were broken, and to catch the rain which blew in a series of pots and pans were ranged along the sill.

Peter Stein, of St. Paul, walking along a bluff near Vermilion Falls, Minn., with two young ladies, was asked by one of them to pick for her a sprig of honeysuckle blossom that hung over the precipice. He held to the limb of a tree as he reached over for the flower, the limb broke and he fell eixty feet to the rocks and was killed.

At High Ridge, near Stamford, Conn., there is a wife who is the mother of fourteen children, all living, and none of them twins. All but two live at home, and these two, catching the scarlet fever, went home to be nursed. They gave it to the other dozen, and the whole fourteen were sick at once, and medicine bad to be mixed in pitchers and bread pans.

Trial of the Electric Sugar Refining People NEW YORK, May 20.—The trial of

Wm. E. Howard, chief of the alleged sugar swindlers, who cheated the Electric sugar refining company out of thousands of dollars, was begun here to-day. He is being tried on an indictment for grand larceny in the first degree in obtaining $6,500 from the sugar company under falsis pretences. The work of securing a jury is in progress.

Use Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer, and your thin gray locks will thicken up and be restored to their youthful color, vigor and beauty.

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Warm Wea

A multitude of material in Lawns, Organdies, Batistes, Linen Lawns, French Ginghams by the yard and combinations, Challies,Satteens and light-weight Woolens.

The Challiee, in light and dark grounds and with wide side bands, are beautiful and the deeigns are exclusive to us.

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Of Satteens we have a great assortment in plain black and black ground with white figures. The style and colon are both new and novel. The only abeoliftely fasl black Satteens manufactured are exclusive to ub in this market. We guarantee that neither water, perspiration nor the strongeet acids will affect it.

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INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

AMUSEMENTS.

HEFFRON'S

Will exhibit at Terre Haute for one week only, commencing MONDAY, MAY 20th. Location corner or Walnut and Nlnth-and-a-hair street. Introducing

30 STAR PERFORMERS 30

Grand street parade at 2 p. m. Good comfottable seats for 5,000 people. Remember tbe price of admission Is

Only lO Cents.

Opera chairs 10c extra. The largest and strongest 10c show In America.

INDIANAPOLIS

May Musical Festival,

Tomlinson Hall, May 27, 28, 29. This association, formed to advance musical culture In this state, and to develop Indiana talent, will give at Its first festival Ave concerts, three at night and two In the afternoon.

There will be a chorus of 600 voices which lias been trained carefully for months, and a large orchestra composed of members of the Theodore Thomas and Boston symphony orchestra and local musicians.

Indiana talent will be represented by Miss Margaret Held Kackley, who Is now studying In Paris, and Mis* Hortense Plerse, of Anderson, who has acquired a national reputation.

The eminent soloists who have been engaged are Miss Emma Juch, whose work as the leading soprano of the National Opera Co. has made her a prime favorite with Indianapolis audiences Signor Jules Perotti, the tenor whose magnificent high created so much enthusiasm at the Metropolitan Opera house during the last season Herr Emil Fischer, primo bass at the Metropolitan Opera house, and a great favorite with New York audiences Mme. Therese Herbert Foerster, dramatic soprano Miss Helen von Doenhof, contralto Miss Adele Aus der Ohe, one of the Tew pupils of Liszt who can rightfully claim that distinction Max Bendix, violinist, and Victor Herbert, violoncellist.

Season tickets. Including reserved seats, $5 general admission, $1 to night concerts and 50c to matinees reserved seats 60c and 25c extra. Season tickets or single tickets for any concert may be had by addressing Henry S. Fraser, No. 1 Kast Washington street, Indianapolis, Ind.

NAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE

EXTI^A!

Wednesday and Thursday,

AUD

30th.-

Matinee on Decoration Day

Engagement of the Distinguished Tragedian.

Supported by a First-class Company.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (PI denote Parlor Car atI thus (S) denote Sleep tached. Trains marked Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Buffet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All other trains run dally Sundays excepted.

VANDALIA LINE. H. 41. DIVISION.

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No. 9 Western Express (34V) No. 5 Mall Train *. No. 1 Fant Line (P4V) No. 7 Fast Mall

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1.42 a. 10.18 a. in. 2.16 p. ui.' 9.0* p. mr

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No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) No. 6 New Tork Express (3&V) No. 4 Mall and Accommodation No. 20 Atlantic Express (P4V) No. 8 Fast Line *.

1.90 a. m. 1 61 a. m. 7.15 a. m. 12.42 p. in. 2.00 p. in

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No. 9 Western Express (84V) No. 5 Mall Train No. 1 Fast Line (P4V) No. 8 Mail and Accommodation No. 7 Fast Mall

1.30a. m.. 10.12 a. m. 2.00p. in. (i.45p. m. 9.00 p. in.

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No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) No. 6 New Yark Express *(S4V) No. 20 Atlantic Express (P4V) No. Fast Line*

1.20 a. m. 1.42 a. in. 12.37 p. m. 1.40 p. m.

T. H. 4 L. DIVISION.

IJUVX FOR TH* WORTH.

No. 62 South Bend Mall 6,00 a. No. 64 South Bend Express 4.00 p. ui. ARRIVB FROM TBI MORTB No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. 68 South Bend Mall 7.30 p. m.

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