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tf- CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.

To Meet at Brazil on Wednesday. July SfCj 10th. The Republicans of the Eighth congressional /district will meet In delegate convention at the ""opera house In the city of Brazil on Wednesday,

July 16,1890, at 10 o'clock a. m. for the purpose of placing in nomination a candidate for congress. The counties of the district will be entitled to ^Mpreaentatlon In the convention as follows:

Vigo Total .230 The several counties will select their delegates 'as the county committees shall direct. By order of the committee. T. .BRUSH, Chairman. (}. M. ALLEN, Secretary.

The Union stockyards at Chicago have been sold to an English syndicate. The stockyard syndicate of packers was heartless enough. What may we expect from the "blasted Britisher?"

There iB a probability that the Ksmmler execution by electricity will again b? postponed by renewed proceedings in the United States court. No cat ever tortured a mouse as has the law Kemmler. And all of the delay is sure to make sentiment against capital punishment.

The prtaident has ordered that the flag shall float every day over the White house. It is a good order. Like the monuments to illustrious and patriotic Americans it will have its effect on the people. The country is old enough to receive strength from tradition, if not from facts. The George Washington hatchet story has been of inestimable value.

The Harper Brothers who print Mr. George William Curtis' "Journal of Civilization," have been bought out by the school book trust. These are the same Harpers who tried to secure Mr. Blaine's book of reminiscence, and failing to do BO immediately waged war on him in 1884. They are proprietors of the same "Journal of Civilization" which went with the Democracy to secure the school book business in the South where they lost all because of the cartoons of Nast, an artist dispensed with by the publishers as readily as they dispensed with honorable party relations.

Justice Miller, of the Supreme court, has written a letter to a Methodist clergyman in Iowa who criticised the justice's decision in the original package case. The justice says:

Many people like you, I think, have the Idea that the Supreme court is only bound In Its decisions by the views which they may have of abstract moral right But we are as much Bworn to decide according to the constitution ot the United

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Very Laxy.

"lie Is too lazy to go to sleep." "Oli, the Idea!" "Fact, nevertheless. He Just simply Tails asleep.

"In Vino Veritas."

Yabsley—Whatls the meaning of "In Tine Veritas?" WIckwIre-lt means that when a man gets full he generally lets everybody know what Is in him.

A. Bit of Impudence.

Cholly-Excuse my asking, but do you really enloy talking to yourself? I have noticed you have that habit.

Dolly-1 suppose 1 enjoy It, but why do you ask? Cholly OU, 1 didn't know whether you did or not. You see, didn't know but that the enjoyment you took In talking to yourself was counterbalanced by the lnttlc tlon of having to listen to youraeir at the same time.

He Was Not Green.

"Look here. I am not so green as you think I am," said the young man to a policeman who objected to the noise the y. m. was making. "No I guess you are just about rtpe," was the answer of the oillcer—and then he pulled him.

Still She Was In Favor oT It. Mrs. Watts—What You don't mean to say that you do not believe In Sunday as a day of rest?

Mrs. l'otts-I might, If Mr. Potts was not so fond of good dinners. They Are Not That Way.

E«.'gar Faweett's new novel Is called "A Daughter of Silence." It Is safe to presume that she does not take atter her esteemed parent.

The Long and the Short of It. "Cashier in?" "Nope." "Gone long?" "Gueesso. The bank's gone short."

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Omaha Bee: Between original packages, licensed saloons, and the steady Increase of re-sub-mission clubs prohibition is being hopelessly pulverized In Kansas.

Chicago Journal: The trail of the serpent Is over it ail. Chars*# of boodle are made against the Presbiferi-n Publication society and are being investigated by the genewl assembly In session at ^^ratoga.

gt Louis Globe-Democrat: It the Louisiana lottery can be suppressed In no ottarway.an amendment to the confutation ot the 6 tilted States prohibiting any state from chsxterln*, toleraUne or sustaining any such scheme would be a goodthlng.

Pittsburg Dispatch (Ind.)- A poll ot the views of 1,500 of the seniors of about forty of the colleges in this country shows that two-thirds of the coming generation will leave college with a strong tendency in favor of either tariff reform or free trade. It Is not necessary el they to apprehend danger or to attack the colleges for the preponderance of free trade views among the undergraduates. The college students will learn a great deal after leaving college.

San Francisco Bulletin: Southern California expects next year to ship eastward 6,000 carloads of orange, besides perishable vegetables and summer fruits. There Is a great deal more permanent profit In that kind of business than In booming sand lots and planning state dlvison to make offices for a few patriots. There are signs that the southern section Is outgrowing some of the wild Idea born of speculative excitement.

The New Haven Palladium (Bep.) says: "A careful examination of fuller reports of the brilliant speech made by Congressman Butterworth Friday falls to show why the free trade journals should go Into spasms of joy over it It contains a powerful defense ot the theory ot protection as taught by Hamilton and Clay and presents in a clear light the Issues upon which Garfield was elected and Hancock was defeated. The famous Ohio orator stands to-day, as be always has, upon the Republican doctrine and platform of 1880. Protectionists need no better arguments than those used by Mr. Butterworth.- Connecticut gave a majority of 2,500 In 1880 for the principles he advocates to-day."

New York News: "Drake Is heart-broken over the tragedy." Such Is the end of a dispatch from Syracuse giving the details of the death of Charles B. Biggs, a young man who was accidentally shot by Robert E. Drake, Drake's remorse ought not to secure him immunity from punishment. He Is a lawyer, and is supposed tone a man of sense, and yet he picked up a rifle and In a spirit of bravodo pointed It at his friend, pulled the trigger and caused his death. To say that he did not know that the rifle was loaded Is no excuse whatever. He should receive the full penalty of the law.

TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH.f*"p*

An Embarrassing State ot Affairs In a Washington Colored Congregation. Asbury Park M. JU. Church is the place where the happy, roaring colored "b'rer'n" go, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune. It is on the corner of and Eleventh streets, 8nd for fifty years it has stood firm and strong against all the evils of the day. To be a member of "Asby Pahk" has been the ambition of three generations of good darkiee, and no matter what the attractions elsewhere the minister hae never had to weep over a scattered flock. Even when the "Baptis'" have their semi-annual dipping of the five hundred in the eastern branch of the Potomac, the congregation of Asbury Park has remained intact. They have withstood everything, aDd not a single erring brother had to be churched for going against the command of the minister to see Peter ackson, the colored John h, put on the gloves. Wonderful has been the tie that has bound the "Asby Pahk" contingent, and they have even gone through the trying times of changing ministers without a ripple. But thai is all changed now, and there is a deep fissure in spite of the fact that 200 were added to the membership at the winter protracted meeting. It happened in this way: About three months ago Elder announced that there would be a special meeting at the following Tuesday, "foh de discussin' ob a deficit dat had been discovered in de Sunday collections." That was all Elder said, but his manner was such that one good sister asked that there might be a prayer meeting right there to ask de Lawd to fill up dat hole in de collec1 ions befoh Tuesday night."

Everyone was so intent on the subject that they did not notice that Elder S who had been newly appointed a collector, prayed with unusual fervor when the minister called upon him at the sister's suggestion, and made an especial point of the fact that those who had faith would see wonders performed. The following Tuesday every one connected with the "Asby Pahk" was present, and, much to the dismay of some of the brethren, many of their rivals, "de street Baptis'," were present, looking happily expectant.

After a fervent prayer by the pastor the elder who had proposed the meeting on the previous Sunday arose. "We had just swung ourseln claro' debt," he began, and the Baptist brethren looked disappointed. "So we tought but, b're'n, we mistaken. At this yere moment while I speaks to you we am worse off dan when in the spirit of our ride we foun' dat ole building on leventh street too small, and began ta build dis new and commodious construction—"

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you are bound by jour conscience to a faith In the Bible which you profess to follow. It my views on the true mean lug of the constitution of the United States Is a iiuestlon before me as a judge of one of the courts of the country should compel me to diner from the whole world, I should do It as courageously ns, I have no doubt, you would stand by any doctrine which you believe to be taught In the holy Bible. This Is the only letter that I have attempted to answer on tills subject, and however my friends may think that I erredon this subject I must bear their censure. II 1 should believe everything which you believe on the subject or prohibition 1 must still follow the constitution of the United States until It Is changed by those who have authority to do so.

There was a breathless pause the visiting brethren once more looked hopeful. "B're'n," he continued, "we stand tonight, and though ouah good paatah has tousans to hear him die year, it am a fact dat he hab not received one cent of quarterage. De conference sent him here, an' we plan dis year not to gib him any salary, but to let him depend on de collections which hab been taken up twice a Sunday since he preached to us. Las' Sunday, br'er'n, from dis whole congregation dar war only 10 cents taken up in de body of dis church and 1 cent in de crowded galleries. As far as we know, b'er'n, as|far as we know—" and with these mysterious words he took his seat.

The "gememan" who had been newly appointed collector immediately filled in the breach by suggesting prayer, and he again urged that they look to "de .Lawd" to help them out of their trouble. Fol lowing his suggestion a very old member in the front pew began a prayer that grew strong in its intensity and seemed to gather the old worthy's vitality in its energetic sentenoee. His last words expressed the horror of the situation so strongly that its hearers dumbly repeated it. "Lias' Sunday night," said he, "only leben cents in dis whole con'gation, an' de minintih still unpaid. Oh, Lawd, dis am suahly no chile's play doan sen' youah Son, oh Lawd, but comedown vouahself dis time."

As he concluded the elder who had first spoken arose, and, fixing his eye on the collector, he said, with heavy emphasis: "I war tole to-day dat Br'er naming the collector, "had not had a job ob work since he been a collectin' foh Asby Pahk Church, and yet I'm tole dat he hab built for himself anew house an' furnished it wid articles dat no man outen a job foh Bix months can buy. Only leb6n cents in de church treasury, br'er'n, foh six months, an' it am no wondab one of ouah collectahs can settle midst de moet luxurious surroundings."

The mystery was explained, but there area whole succession of called meetings for Asbury Park Church before they will again go on as unitedly as before the new collector made enough in six months to build a house.

A Methodist View.

Not a few of the presbyteries, in taking action favorable to revision, and in specifying the particulars in which they desire it, have added a proviso that the revision should so be made as not to 'affect the integrity of our Calvinistic system.' It is quite natural that an Arminian should wonder how such change can be made without affecting the integrity of the Calvinistic system. These are the very features of that system which have seemed to him at once the most prominent and the most repugnant —{Christian Advocate.

PYGMIES IN AFRICA.

TFrom Mr. Stanley's Speech in London.] The longevity of the animal creation in the rivers and shades of these aged woods is something worth glancing at. The elephant and hippopotamus and the crooodile may boast of their 400 yeara of life, the tortoise a century, the buffalo fifty yeare, the crows, eagles ibis and touracos nearly a century, the parrot, the heron and flamingo sixty years.

From the chimpanzees, baboons and monkeys, with which the forest abounds, is but a step, according tj Darwinism, to the pgjmy tribes whom we found inhabiting the tract of country between the Ihuru and Ituri rivers. Thfy were known to exist by the fathers of poets nine centuries before the beginning of the christian era. You may remember Homer wrote about the sanguinary battle that was reported to have tiken place between the pygmies and the storks. In tfce fifth century before Christ Herodotus described the capture of five young explorers from Naseamovee while they were examining some curious trees in the Niger basin, and how the little men took them to their villages and showed them about to their fellow pygmies much as you would like us to show the pygmies about England. The geographer Hekataeue, in the fifth oentury, located the pygmies near the equator of Africa, under theBhadowa of the Mountains of the Moon, and I find that from Hipparchus downward geographers have faithfully followed the example of Kekataeue, and nearly a year ago we found them where they had been located by tradition under the names ot Watwa and Wambutti. The foreat which we have been juet considering extends right up to the base-line of the Mountains of the Moon.

We were just now paying due reverence to the kings of the forest who were born before the foundations of the tower on Sbinar plain were laid, and because it seemed to us that in their life they united pre-historic times to this society-journal-loving nineteenth century. Let us pause a little and pay honor to those little people who have outlived the proud Pnaraohe of Egypt, the chosen people of Palestine, and the emperors of Babylon, Ninevah, Persia and the Macedonian and Roman empires. They have actually been able to hold the lands for over fifty centuries. I have lately seen the wear and tear on the pyramids of Egypt, and I can certify that the old Sphynx presents a very battered appearance indeed, but the pygmies appeared to me aa bright, as freeh and as young as the generation which Homer sang about.

You will therefore understand that I, who have always pro leased to love humanity in preference to beetles [loud laughter,] was as much iritareeted in these small creatures as Henry Irving might be in the personnel of the Lyceum. Near a place called Avetiko, on the Ituri river, our hungry men found the first male and female of the pygmies squatted in the midst of a wild Eden peeling plantains. You can imagine what a etock it was to the poor little creatures at finding themselves suddenly surrounded by gigantic Soudanese 6 feet 4 inches in height, nearly double their own height and weight, and black as coal. But my Zinzibaris, always more tender hearted than Soudanese, prevented the clubbed rifle and cutiaeees from extinguishing their lives there and then, and brought them to me as prizes in the same

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brought a big hawk moth or mammoth longicorn for inspection. As they stood tremblingly before me I named the little man Adam and the miniature woman Eve, far more appropriate names in the wild Eden on the Ituri than the Vukukuru and Aklokwa which they gave us. As I looked at them, and thought bow theee represented the oldest people on the globe, my admiration would have gone to greater lengths than scoffing cynica would have expectsd. Poor Oreekish heroes and Jewish patriarchs, how their glory paled before the ancient ancestry of these manikins! Had Adam known how to assume a tragic pose, how fitly he might have said, "Yes, you may well look on us, for we are the only people living on the face of the earth who from primeval time have never been removed from their homes. Before Yusuf and Mesu were ever heard of we lived in these wild shades, from the Nile fountains to the Sea of Darkness, and, like the giants of the forest, we despise time and fate."

But, poor little things, they said nothing of the kind. They did not know they were heirs such proud and unequaled heritage. On the contrary, their faces said clearly enough, as they furtively looked at one and the other of UP, "Where have these big people come from? Will they eat us?" There were some nervous twitches about the angles of the noee and quick upliftings of the eyelids, and swift, searching looks to note what fate was in store for them. It is not a comfortable feeling which possesses a victim in the presence of a possible butcher, and a possible consumer of its flesh. That misery was evident in the little Adam and Eve. of the African E Jen. The height of the man was four feet, that of the woman a little lese. He may have weighed about eighty-five pounds the color of the body was that or a half-baked biick, and alight brown fell stood out very clearly. SJ far as natural intelligence was concerned, within his limited experience, he was certainly superior to any black man in our camp. The mysteries of woodcraft, for instance, he knew better than any of UP, he knew what wild fruits were wholesome, and what fungi were poisonous. He could have given us valuable lessons bow to find our way through the forest. I saw also that he could adapt himself to circumstances. If the pot was to end him, a very little shrinking only would betray his fear of pain if he were to be treated affectionately, none could be so ready to appreciate affection and kindness.

We began to question him by gesture. "Do you know where we can get bananas?" He catches the cue, he grasps his leg to show us the size and nods hia head rapidly, informing us that he knows where to find bananas of the Bize of hia leg. One sees that he can exaggerate aa well aa Mark Twain. [Laughter.l He points to the four quaitera of the compass, queetioningly. "Is it far?" He shows a hand's length. He points to the sunrise in reply. Ab, a good day's journey without loads, two days with loads! "Do you know the Ihura?" He nods his head rapidly. "How far is it?" He rests his head sideways on the elbow joint. "Oh, four days' journey." "Is there much food on the road?" He pats his abdomen lovingly with an artful smile and brings hia two hands to a point in front ot him, from which we may infer that our ponnches will become like prostrated pyramids. We ask him why Aveliko has BO little food.

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The little man attempt to imitate the eound of gunahota, ana cries "DIMH^ and we are informed quite intelligently that the devastation ia doe to the Manyuema.

I suppose we moat have paeeed through as many as 100 villages inhabited by the pygmies. Long, however, before we reached them they were* deeerted and utterly cleaned out. Oar foragers and scouts may have captured about fifty of these dvtarfs, only one of whom reached the height of 54 inches. They varied from 29 inches to 90 inches generally. They are BO well proportioned that at first sight they might be taken tor ordinary mankind, but when we placed by their side a European, Soudanese, or a Madi, they appeared exceedingly diminutive. By the eide of dwarfs of mature age a Zanzibar boy of 13 would appear large.

The agricultural settlements in this retrion are to be found every nine or t«i miles apart, and near each settlement at an hour's march distance will be found from four to eight pigmy villages situated along the patha leading to it. The larger aborigines are very industrious, and form a clearing of from 400 to 1,000 acres. Amid the prostrate forest they plant their binana and plantain bulbs. In twelve months the prostrate trees are almost hidden by the luxuriant fronds and abundant fruit, of anrivaled quality, size ana flavor. It would be easy to prove that, in the forest, an acre of banana plante produced twenty-five times more food than an acre in wheat produces in England. The pygmiea appear to be aware that a banana plantation ia inexhaustible, and to think that they have as much right to the produce as the aboriginal owners. Therefore they cling to theee plantations and make the larger natives pay dearly for the honor of their acquaintance. In another manner they perform valuable service to them by warning them of the advance of strangers, and assisting them to defend their settlements they also trap game and birds, and supply the larger natives with peltry, feathers and meat. It appears to me thet the pygmies were regarded somewhat as parasites, whose departure would be more welcome than their vicinity. When honey and game, meat, peltry and feathers get scarce in the neighborhood, the pygmies pack their household goods on their women's backs, and depart elsewhere to attach themselves to some other plantation. A forest village consists of from twenty to one hundred families of pygmies, and probably in that area between the Iburn and Ituri rivers there are aa inany as two thousand families living this nomadic and free life in the perpetual twilight of the great and umbrageous forest of equatorial Africa.

DUKE OF C0NNMJGHT.

The dutgkof Connaught, who is just now in

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Eagland, has been received there with royal honors. His royal highness, Arthur William Patrick Albert. K. G. K. T. K. P. G. C. M. G. G. C. E. J. prince of the United Kingdon, duke of Saxony, prince of Coberg and Lotha, the third eon of her majesty, Queen Victoria, was born at Buckingham palace May 1,1850. He entered the military academy at Woolwich as a oadet in 1866 He was made a lieutenant June 19, 1868, and a captain May 1,1871. On attaining^ hie majority in 1871, parliament voted him grant of £15,000 per annum and an addition of -£10,000 was voted on his marriage in 1879. Prince Arthur was created duke of Connaught and Strathaven and earl of Sussex, May 26, 1874, and took his seat in the house of lords on the 8th of the following month. He was made a major August 7,1875^8 lieutenant colonel September 27,1876, and a major general May 29,1880. His royal highness married Princess Margaret Louise of Prussia, third daughter of Prince Frederick Charles and grand niece of the emperor of Germany.

IN THE SANCTUARIES.

Where Divine Services Will be Held Today In Terre Haute* ASBURY METHODIST CHURCH.—Presi

dent W. W. Parsons, of the State Normal institute, will speak at 10:30 a. m. Subject, "The Christian View of the World." Class meeting at 9:30 a. m, Sunday school at 2:30 p. m., Young People's Epwortb service at 6:30 p. m. At 7:30 p. m. the pastor will preach the annual Memorial sermon to Morton Poet No. 1, G. A. R., the Women's Relief Corps, and the Sons of Veterans. The public cordially invited to all services.

CENT RAT. CHRISTIAN CHURCH—Preaching by J. L. Brandt on "Women of the Bible. At 7:30 p. m., an "Anniversary Sermon." Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Y. P. S. C. E. at 6:20 p. m.

FIRST BAPTIST.—Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Preaching by the pastor at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at the north and eaet missions at 3 p. m.

MOFFATT ST. PRESBYTERIAN.—Subject at 11 a. m., "David's Threnody Over Absalom." At 7:15 p. m., after a service of patriotic and appropriate hymns, a discourse on "Lsesons from Memorial Day," with a reading of "The Blue and the Gray."

ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH.—Holy communion at 8 a. m. Service and sermon at 10:45 a. m. children's Whitsunday service at 7:00 p. Sunday school at 9:15 a. m. Sunday school at St. Luke's at 3 p. m.

MATT ox CHAPEL.—Corner Locust and Fifth streets. Sunday school at 2 p. m. preaching service at 7:30 p. m.

CENTENARY METHODIST CHURCH.— Quarterly communion services at 10:30 a. m. preaching at 7:30 p. m. by ths pastor Sabbath Bchool at 2:30 p. m. young people's meeting at 6:45 p. m. Strangers in the city and visitors are always welcome.

CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.— Preaching at lLa. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Christian Endeavor society at 6:30 p. m. Seats free. Cordial invitation to all.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL.—Corner of Sixth and Cherry—J. H. Cram, pastor. Sunday school at 9:45. Preaching at 11

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a. B. and 7:30 n. •. Subject for in*. "Duty." x. P. 8. U. K. meeting at 6:30 p. m. Prayer nesting for women at 4 p. u. Church prayer meeting Wedneeday evening at 7:30.

INDEPENDENT LSTHERAN.— The German Independent Lutheran congregation will nut hold servioss Sunday on account of sickness of the pastor.

RAILROAD NEWS NOTES.

Smnl ud Fmoul Mention of 8M«i»1 •ad Loral Interest. Joe Natsch, of the machine shop, is visiting relativee at Indianapolis for a few days.

The T. H. & P. will bring in two excursions to-day to sse the horses, one from Paris and the other from Decatur.

Friday the Logan division brought down a chair-car load of Dunkards bound for the encampment at Pertle Springs, Ma

Charles Conk'iin, of Kansas City, and Charles Owen, Western passenger agents of the Vandalia and Pennsylvania lines, were in the city yesterday.

Engine No. 23 was turned out of the erecting shop yesterday after having received an overhauling, and No. 26 sent in to undergo similar treatment.

Wm. Martin, who worked in the erecting Bhop some years ago under Foreman Charles Fuller, but resigned to make a tour of the West, again resumed work in the shops this week.

The ball team. recently organized in the shops will play ths Pastimes on the north Third street grounds this morning if the weather permits. Tim Casey and Billy Lutz will be the battery.

The Vandalia will run a free train to Indianapolis to-day for the accommodation of railroad men who desire to attend the joint meeting of the railway employes. The train will leave the Union depot at 8 o'clock, and returning, will leave lndianapolis at 11:30 p. m.

General Passenger Agent Ford, of the Pennsylvania, has sent out notice to agents of the company that special trains for Sunday excursions will not be run over any portion of the company's line. Neither will Sunday excursion ticket* be sold for regular trains at less than regular rates.

Trains No. 21 and 21 extra, wee'bound from Indianapolis on the Vapdalia, were consolidated into one train here yesterday afternoon, and made a. solid train of ten coaches and an engine No. 1 on the Panhandle was abandoned and an extra No. 1 wa9 made up at Indianapolis by the Vandalia, which became No. 21 extra here.

Indianapolis News: Riilroad men are beginning to arrive in the city to attend the mass meeting at Tomlinson hall tomorrow afternoon. Ia addition to the public mass meeting there will be secret meetings held by representatives of each branch of the service. The idea of the day will be the federation of all the railroad men's organizations, and the speakers at the mass meeting will attempt to crest} a sentiment in favor of such a move. Mayor Sullivan will welcome the men to Indianapolis in an address at 1:30 o'clock and addresses will follow by all who desire to speak.

AMUSEMENTS.

A spectacular production of thfe great moral play, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," will be given at Naylor's Opera houBe on Monday and Tuesday evenings of this week by an excellent company which includes Harry Webber as Liwyer Marke, Milt G. Barlow as Uncle Tom, and Carrie Webber as Topsy. The company carry their own special scenery to properly present the piece and from reports it iB in fact a meritorious performance and one that should be patronized liberally. The prices of admission have been placed at 25, 35 and 50 cent1. The Journal, of Indianapolis, speaking of this company, says: "One of the beat performances of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ever seen in Indianapolis is being given at the theater this week by Harry Webber's company, of which Milt G. Barlow, Carrie Dillon Webber and Jay Hunt are the principal members. The tiret named is probably the beet Uncle Tom in the country, and it is safe to say that Miss Webber, who is only about 14 years old, has very few equals in the part of Topey."

ONE HUNDRED EARTHQUAKES.

A Lively Time on An Island—Late News From Japan. SAN FRANCISCO, May 24.—The steamship Belgic arrived this morning fourteen days from Hongkong and Yokohoma. The Japan Mail says that about 100 earthquakes were felt on Myake island in the Insu group from April 17th to the 19bb. Many housea were destroyed and landslides occurred in various parts of the island.

A large number of persons have been arrested on suspicion for the murder of the Rev. T. A. Large, the Methodist missionary. Four are still in custody.

The Shanghai Mercury says that at a place called Zschu, near Ningpo, a miser named Chang, while delirious from fever, murdered his wife, son and daughter, mutilating their bodies and afterward committing suicide.

The train which last month conveyed the emperor of Japan from Tokio to NagoyB, made the distance, 226 miles, in nine and a half houre, including stoppages, the beet time yet made on a Japanese railroad.

The National Japanese exhibition during April was visited by half a million people, the receipts from the sale of tickets amounting to about $56,000. It is now expected that the exhibition will remain open until August.

The Royal Gazette, of Seoul, on April 15th contained a notification that O. N. Denny's contract for two years for the Corean government having expired, his connection as vice president of the home office had ceased.

Overestimated Popularity.

The late Dr. Cook, of Haddington, after assisting the late Dr. Forsyth, of Morham, at a communion service, replied as usual to the manse. While the enjoyment of a little social intercourse the minister of Morham—which, by the way, is one of the smallest parishes in Scotland—quietly remarked to his brother divine: "Doctor, you must be a very popular man in the parish?" "Are," replied the doctor, "how's that?" "Why, rejoined the other, "our usual collection is threepence, but to-day it is ninepence!" "Oh, is that all?" said Dr. Crook "then wae's me for my popularity, for I pat in the extra sixpence myself!" —[Exchange.

The loing Fiend.

As soon as the child begins to crawl, His wo«s are ail forgot If you onlj give him aBet and ball

And tbe use ot a vacant lot. —f New York Son.

EXKESSJPAMMES. •fsautaoaaow.

joe BaaU *od sat npon a kai Down to tbe grorrj ston. a One lemchtovw totter kg

An' swear he'd never had no show tthednosbow.' Then shift his quid to totter Jaw, An' chaw, an' ehaw, an' ehw, an' chaw. Be said he got no start tat life.

Didn't get no aone froth his dad. The washln' took in by his wife Darned all Uie funds he ever had. '•Oh, no," said Joe. "HatA't bed no show." An' then he'd look up at the clock An' talk, an' talk, an talk, an' talk. "I've waited twenty rear—let's

Yes, twenty-four, an'never struck, Altho* I've sot roan' patiently. The fust tarnashlon *treak er lock.

Oh, no," said Joe, "Hain't bed no show."

Then stock like mud luge to the spot, An' sot, an' sot, an' sot, an' sot. "I'TB eome down regerler even day

Fer twenty years to Piper's store rve sot hero in a patient way, Say, hain't I, Piper?" Piper swore, "I tell ye. Joe.

Yer hain't no show

Yer too dern patient"—ther hull raft Jeet laffed, an' laffed, an' Uffed, an laffed. —rd. W. Foss, in Yankee Blade.

There are

30,229

Germans in Paris.

Nearly twenty thousand people have visited Shakespeare's burial place during the past year.

A tree raoently felled in Oregon was 120 feet long, while the batt measured only one foot through.

An ambitious young Englishman announoes that he is about to produce a key to Browning's works.

Several basketf uls of fish that suddenly found themselves on dry land after the water receded were picked up in Maine last week.

A young lady 19 years of age, named Cyrena A. Boyd, died at Sacramento, Cal., of blood poisoning, caussd by having her ears pieroed.

The Maine Savings bank in Portland has 325 unknown depoeitors, of which number twenty-six have not troubled their depoeits

Bince

1859.

A Maine girl, 3*4 years of age, recently traveled from Michigan to her home in Thomaston unattended. She attracted more attention than a circus.

A penniless Scotch immigrant accidentally etumblsd upon a rich brother in New York the other day whom he had not seen for thirty-seven years.

French scientists have analyzed a quart of water taken from a typhoid-in-fected district and found 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 typhoid germs therein.

An Aroostook, Me, couple were mar: ried last week whose combined ages were 29 years, the bride being 14 and the bridegroom one year her senior.

Scotchmen banqueting iu London are now entertained with music of real northern bag-pipes, played into a phonograph and sent to radon by express.

The popular fad in Washington nowadays is the study of the language and literature of Spain, which was given a great impetus by the session of the PanAmerican congress.

An Ansonia, Conn., druggist has an electric bell in a cabinet containing poisons. When the door opens the bell rings, reminding the compounder that he is handling poisons.

An English naval officer has ivented a pneumatio line-throwing gun, very light and portable, which fires a hollow shell bearing the cord to a wrecked vessel or a burning building on dry land.(

A rich Italian baa purchased the Villa Zirio, at San Rsmo, in which the Emperor Frederick was ill so long before he went to Berlin to be crowned, and has closed it rigorously against all visitors.

Anew red glass has been recently produced in Germany. Besides its use for the manufacture ot bottles, globes and vasss of various kinds, it is applicable in photography and in chemists' and opticians' laboratories.

A farmer at Ipswhich, Mass., while plowing turned up an Indian idol of solid stone, in the shape of a serpent. It is thirty inches in length and of a dark color. It is to be deposited in the Eisex institute collection at Salem, Mass.

For original ideas in the line of theft Walter Johnson, a young man of Springfield, N. J., is hard to beat. He recently drove to the farm of James S. Worrell, jr., near Vincentown, stole a load of hay and drove off to market. He is in jail.

Captain Owen J. Sweat, of the Twen-ty-fifth infantry, and a special detail of troops have completed the work of setting headstones over the graves of General Custer's brave band who fell in the battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876.

Grasshoppers are very numerous on the Grass valley slope of the Sierra Nevada. In the edge of the snow line they cohae forth in great numbers. As the edge of the snow creeps up the mountain the grasshoppers rise out of the yet moist ground.

A pretty incident accompanied the shower of rice at a recent wedding. As the departing couple were showered with rice, a flock of city sparrows swooped down and covered the pavement, and before they Hew away not a grain of rice was left.

"That tired feeling" is entirely overcome by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which gives a feeling of buoyancy and strength to the whole system.

How's

Your Liver?

Is the Oriental salutation, knowing that good health cannot exist without a healthy Liver. When the Liver is torpid the Bowels are sluggish and constipated, the food lies the stomach undiested, poisoning the ilood frequent headache ensues a feeling of lassitude, despondency and nervousness indicate how the whole system is deranged. Simmons Liver Regulator has been the means of restoring more to health and 38 by giving them wealthy liver than any agency known on earth. It acts with extraordinary power and efficacy.

NC'CR BEKN DISAPPOINTED.

Torpli ever use anything else, and have never been disappointed In the effect produced It seems to be almost a perfect care for all dlMw of the Htomach and Bowels.

W. J. MCEIBOY, Macon,

Peculiar in combination,^ proportion, and preparation of ingredients,flood's Sarsaparilla possessea the curative value of the best known reme- UAAJ?a dies of the vegetable 0000 Skingdom. Peculiar in Its strength and economy, Hood's ia the only medicine of which can truly be said, "One Hundred Doses One Dollar." Peculiar In Its medicinal merits, Hood's Sarsaparilla accomplishes cures hitherto un^SarsaparillaSiu the title of "The greatest blood purifier ever discovered." Peculiar In its "good name at home,"—there is more of Hood's Sarsaparilla sold in Lowell than of all other blood purifiers. Peculiar In Its phenomenal record of QA-%11|S®M8ales*,road no other CCUIIOl preparation ever attained so rapidly nor held so steadfastly the confidence of all classes of people. Peculiar In the brain-work whlc* it represents. Hood's Sarsaparilla com* bines all the knowledge which modem research wi medicaA science has I O IiSOIl developed, with many years practical experience in preparing medicines. Be sure to get only

Hood's Sarsaparilla

Sold

all druggists. fl sixfor55. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Hut IOO Doses One Dollar

AYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE, WILSON NAYLOB. MJJUOIH

TWO NIGHTS

MOIMI, TUESDAY, MAT 26 &

WEBBER'S

MILT G. BARLOW, CARRIE WEBBER

AND AN EXCELLENT COMPANY.

O S I I E

THE BEST

Uncle Tom's Cabin Co.

EVER PUT ON THE ROAD V'—

A-:-POPULAR ATTRACTION

PLAYING AT

POPULAR PRICES!

MALE MANKIND:

V*-

INTERESTED IN

9- .1

Cassimere Suitings!

We have $10,000 worth that are for sale by the yard, suit pattern or piece. REDUCING STOCK.

We go about it this way:

$6.00 goods for 13.00 a yard. $5.00 goods (or $2.50 a yard. $4.50'*goods for $2.25 a yard. $4 00 goods for $2.00 a yard. $3 50 goods for $175 a yard.

This lot embraces suit patterns, pants patterns, overcoat patterns and odd lengths, at purchaser's call.

Those who come firct will get the best bargains.

CLOTH DEPARTMENT.

L. S. AYRES & CO.,

Indianapolis, Ind.

V" Agents for Bntterlck'a Patterns.

TIME TABLE!

VANDALIA LINE.

GOING KAST.

No 12 Cincinnati Express* 1 i*) a ra No 6 New York Express* 1:61 am No 4 Mall and Local 745am No 20 New York Limited* 12:47 No New York Dar Express* 230 No 2 Indianapolis Local 6.-06

GOING wnr.

No tt Western Kxpress* 1:42 am No 6 St. Louis Mall 1021 a in No 1 Fast Line* 2 :10 pm No 21 Pacific Express* 8:10 No 13 Effingham Accommodation 41)6 pm?

GOING NORTH (I/MANSPOBT DIVISION). No 62 Soutn Bend Mall 6:00 a ra No Soatb Bend Express 4:00 put

Trains marked thus run daily. All otlier

trains daily except Sunday. No. 12 has through sleeping car for Cincinnati. No. 6 has through sleeping car for New York, Baltimore and Washington.

No. 20 has vestibule sleeping car for New York and dining car also parlor car ror Cincinnati. No. 9 has sleeping car for St. Louis. ,.

No. 1 has parlor car for St Louis. No. 21 has sleeping and dining cars. All Trains Depart From Union Depot.

All grocers sell and guarantee it. Price 20 and 50c. Samples free.

M. A. BAUMAN,

House and Sign Painter

nura, uizm Pira hiigbl itc-

No. 1825 X. Chestnut street, Terre Haute, Ind, In BaaeiMnt Under Prairie City Bank.

S1JQP

GEO. E. FARRINGTON, Gen'I Agent.

I\0 PRUTT STORES KEEP IT. "V' IT CURES TOO QUICK.