Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 June 1889 — Page 2

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^The question arises if the police have thrown a big enough tub to the whale? Will a few arreete of voluntary culprits suffice to still the clamor against the undoubted protection of public gambling by the police?

.' The hangman's rope was^in use yesterday but it is a grave question if any good will result therefrom as amoral lesson. Judging from the statistics of crime we may expect to.ihear of more than the usual number of murders in tbe immediate neighborhood of these legal murders.

The Ohio Republicans will to-day nominate candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, supreme judge, treasurer, commissioner of schools, attorney general, clerk of the supreme court and member of the board of public works. The general impression is that Governor Foraker will be renominated.

In the death of Mrs. Hayes the country loses one of the brightest ornaments of her sex and one who has done more, perhaps, to elevate the standard of true womanhood than any woman who has lived in many years. The opportunity to set a good example of what strong character combined with effeminate delicacy can do came to her when her husband occupied the White house, and it is to her lasting honor that she was fully equal to the occasion.

'Miss Mary Anderson is so ill in England that she has canceled all her engagements for this year. This will be a relief to those St. Louis critics upon whose criticisms so quickly followed Miss Anderson's illness in this country and they will now, no doubt, make much of the situation. If Miss Anderson can possibly be so ill in her beloved England as reported certainly her prostration in this country can not be wholly attributed to the remarks of the press that she had been fwt.rnncrori

Another Chicago policemen, Officer Riley, has been caught in secret efforts to protect the men accused of the murder of Dr. Cron'.a, from prosecution. He Btole a letter addressed to Coughlin and held at the police station for use in ferreting out the criminals. Mr. Riley was immediately discharged from the force. The hard truth is that Chicago will have to remove every mother's son of them before the police force will be of any avail in this work. It has been shown that these men of these sooieties have taken an oath which they consider of greater consideration than their allegiance to the country in which they have found liberty to hatch their conspiracies.

C. O. D.

A Bad Scare.

Mrs. llitBlicroft -There has been another coilee panic, 1 set". Billings—Yea. This coffee seems to have had all the life scared out of It long ago.

Another Skeptic.

Deacon l'odsnap—What a beautiful sight It will be in the world to come, all the streets paved with gold.

Brother llalseatl—I don't believe It's notlnn' but brass. 1 bought one of them there dog-goned gold bricks myself oncet.

The lloys were Right.

Cholly—1 was telling some of the—all—boys I had a notion to ask you to marry me, Miss I'yrte, and they said I would be very foolhardy to do so. What do yon think about it, eh?

Miss Pyrte—I think not. You can never be other than a fool dolty, no matter what you do.

£»sily Accounted For.

Mrs. Jason—I've had such a funry feeling fa iny back all day. I don't know how to account for It.

Mr. Jason—1 shouldn't wonder If It comes from your using a humorous paper for a bustle.

(Jnoriei.

Can a ear be rolling stock and be standlrj stock Btil'V is a willowy tlgure necessary to a girl who works In a cannery.

How long Is the head ot tlie family expected to support the heir" Can a young man be a chip oil the old block when he Is n-shavingv is It possible for tlsh to be smelt when served with llmburger cheese?

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

St Louis Republic: "The Lord made me and then lost the pattern," says the Rev. Sam Jones. Thanks be to the Lord! llttsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph: Wyoming Is lit for statehood In one particular. Of her adult population only 2 3-5 per cent, are Illiterate.

Boston Advertiser: Tbe Cook county asylum was too much under the control of the lower class of Chicago polltloans. That WHS the real cause of most or the brutal and disgraceful happenings there.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Dakota has adopted a high-license lhiuor law and w.ll come Into the Union to take Us place among the states which control the liquor traftlc in a progressive, sensible and advantageous manner,

New Orleans States: There can be no doubt, from recent manifestations, but that the existent of the Clan-na-ttael Is both a curse to the Irish cause wlilcli it professes to promote, and a disgrace to tills countiy which gives Its hospitality.

Rockford (ipzette: When the Cronln InvestlgaUon is ended Chicago might w.th profit and honor to herself reconstruct her police force. It might be well to see that they owed their flrst duty to the municipality and not to some secret organization.

New York Press: How much longer will tbe Prohibitionists of New York state be like the fool In the boat who was rowing down the river and thought and thought all the time he was rowing up the river, because he was facing that way? Turn around.

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THE RULE OF SUPERSTIT0N.

"Don't you want your umbrella? I'm afraid it's going to rain," called out a member of a well-known law firm to his partner as the latter was going out. "No, I guess therell only be a shower. I won't need it," and away he went. "Now, there's an example of how we mortals are ruled by senseless superstitions," said the lawyer, turning to the writer. "He went out without his umbrella when he was sure it was going to rain, and that be was in danger of getting wet, catching cold, and perhaps being laid up for a week or so. Why did he do it? Because he's a slave to superstition and believes that if he turned back after starting to go he would be unlucky. "The -world's full of such people. I don't believe there's a man or voman living who hasn't got a superstition, but I belong to the list myBelf. I won't undertake or begin anything important on Friday, and I object strongly to starting on a journey on that day. Superstitions and belief in signs are especially common among criminals and the uneducated. Many a criminal has betrayed himself by his superstitions but men and women of the highest education and strongest intellectuality have some absurd belief to which they cling blindly and tenaciously. They don't like to admit it, and try to hide it or pooh-pooh it, but some time or other they will betray themselves. Just keep a quiet watch on the people you meet, and you'll be surprised at the number of silly superstitions you'll discover. "I think that must be the way Mr. got all his. I've heard him laughingly beg people not to tell him of any more, for he said that every new one he heard of he immediately added to his list and his misery and discomfort grew as the list lengthened."

What the lawyer said is true,

Bays

the

New York Sun. Any day and any place you can see people yielding to superstitions. Notice people walking together. See a couple of girls going along, carefully preventing any one from passing between them, or if one passes round a lamp-poet or" hitching-post how the other will follow on the same side. Dignified old men and women will dodge back and follow their companions round a hurried pedestrian, who tries to save steps by passing between them, or round some inanimate obstruction, causing any number of amusing encounters. They believe they will have a quarrel or meet with some disappointment if they let anything come between them.

Others couldn't be hired to meet any one on the stairs, going up or down, for fear they will be disappointed. Housewives have innumerable signs by which they can fortell events. If the dishcloth is dropped, a woman is coming a fork, a man is coming a spoon, a fool. If two knives or forks or spoons are put at a place by mistake while setting the table, there is going to be a wedding. If you spill salt you will have a quarrel this can be prevented by burning a pinch of the spilled salt or throwing some over your left shoulder. If a rooster crows at you or at a door, he is playing the clairvoyant and telling you you will have a surprising bit of news or an unexpected visitor. So also if you drop a pair of scissors, and they stick in the floor, you will have an unexpected visitor. If a needle sticks in the floor, you will get a letter. If you see a pin with the head to you, you must surely pick it nvmti, ii possime, seeing pins with the points to you, for if you pick them up you will hare sharp luck or bad luck. You must pick them up, however, if you see them, for the old lines say:

See a pin and pick It up, All that day you'll have good luck ".. See a pin and let It lay. You'll have bad luck all that day."

If froth or little bubbles rise to the top of a cup of tea or coffee and you are lucky enough to catch them in a spoon and swallow them you will get money, the amount varying with the quantity of bubbles. This doesn't apply to the froth on Coney Island lager. If you find any little sticks, the stems of tea leaves, in your tea and swallow them, you will capture anew beau.

A good housewife will never sweep at night. If she is ever obliged to do so she will sweep the dirt into a corner, and couldn't be prevailed on to lift it until morning. This is to prevent misfortune. Nor will she at any time sweep the dirt out of her door. She will lift it in a dustpan and burn it. This is to keep the family possessions safe, if you break a dish fate will pursue you till you break two more. If you are unmarried and fall going up stairs, you will not get married until the next year and if your chair tumbles baokward your chance for matrimonial bliss for that year go with it. Getting out of bed backwards causes things to go wrong for the day, while putting your right foot out first pleases Dame Fortune. You have to consult her pleasure in dressing yourself, too. She likes you better if you put on your right shoe and stocking first. You change your luck if by accident you put on a garment wrong side out, and if you want to keep your old luck the proper thing to do is to turn the garment, and while doing so spit on it and say: "For good luck or bad." If a woman's skirt comes undone her sweetheart or husband has loving thoughts of her.

If a widow gives you a yellow garter on EaBter Sunday you will have success in love if you wear it around the left leg, and success in business if you wear it around the right leg. The most dire misfortune results from opening an umbrella or Bunshade in the house, and if a man should go into the betting stand at a race track with his umbrella raised he would be in danger of being mobbed.

You will meet with a disappointment if you start to go out and have to return for something you forgot, unless you sit down for a minute when you return.

You can tell your fortune by the sensations of your own body. When your right ear burns some one is speaking good of you, and when the left ear burns it is evil. You can even discover who the goesipers are by moistening the lobe of the warm ear with saliva and naming a person. If the name you guess is correct the ear will cool at once. If your nose itches you will have news or company. If your right eye itches you will shed tears, and if your left eye itcnes you will laugh. A quick ringing in either ear, that overwhelms sound, is oalled a death-knell, and precedes news of a death. If your inner arm itches at the elbow joint, you will have an insleep or an outsleep. That is, some one will sleep at your house who is not accustomed to sleeping there, or a member of the family will be away all night. If your leg itches at the back under the knee, you will go on a journey, and if the sole of your foot itches, you will tread on strange ground. If your right hand itches, you will shake hands with a friend your left hand, you will get money. There is an old saying about this: "Scratch it on wood, and it'll oome good." That many are aware of. I've seen men who ought to know

better, hunt around for wood to scratch their hands on, and, not finding any available, take a lead pencil oat of their pockets and rub their palms with. it. A fair Washington belle will not have an umbrella without a wooden handle, because, she says, she always wants some wood around to scratch, her hand on. Even the .spots on one's finger-nails oome in for a share of su perstition. They ace called gifts, and it is said: "A gilt on the thumb to sore to come,

While a gift on tbe Soger has long to linger."

It is unlucky to cut the finger-nails on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. If yon cut them on Friday, you are playing into the devil's hand on Saturday, you are inviting disappointment, and on Sunday, you will have bad luck all the week. There are people who suffer all sorts of gloomy forebodings if they absent-mind-edly trim away a bit of nail on any of these days, and who will suffer all the inconvenience of overgrown finger-nails sooner than cut them after Thursday.

Nearly every person has an unlucky day, although most people look on Friday as a day of misfortune, probably because it is known as hangman's day. You can seldom find any one willing to move on Friday or Saturday. Friday is considered unlucky and "Saturday's flitting makee short sitting."

Superstition is closely allied to witchcraft, and BO extends to persons. Every one has heard the expression, "That fellow is a regular. Jonah," or "He's a hoodoo," "or I never have a bit of luck when I see so and so." This is especially so with theatrical people, racing mep and gamblers. "Monkey Charlie," a successful steeplechase jockey, rents his spurs out when he hasn't got a mount, at $5 a race to jockeys who think they can absorb some of his luck by wearing them.

ANOTHER NEW DAILY NEWSPAPEB.

The Terre Haute Journal Chaoses From Tri-Weekly to Dally Issue.

The following is taken from the Evansville Democrat (German): One of the most popular, experienced and competent German journalists of Indiana, is our old friend Mr. J. E. *Wolff, of Terre Haute. He has served as a compositor, from an apprentice upward, and hence can thoroughly master every department in the newspaper business. After being connected with the Huntingburgh Signal for many years he removed to Rockport, Ind., where he established a weekly, the Banner, which soon became very popular everywhere. About five years ago a larger and better field offered itself to the enterprising newspaperman at Terre Haute and hence he began the publication of a tri-weekly paper at the latter place, which, under hej excellent business and editorial management of Mr. Wolff, Boon became a welcome and appreciated visitor in the German families of Vigo and surrounding counties. Together with the rapid growth of Terre Haute, the German press must necessarily keep pace, and thus Mr. Wolff transformed the Journal into a daily evening paper. While its publisher heretofore admirably succeded to give his subscribers an exemplary paper in every respect, he will—and his past career, which was ever devoted to the interest of the Germans, is sufficient guarantee for it—as proprietor of one of the best equipped dailies—expand his abilities in the field of journalism, and the German citizens, who know how to appreciate his abilities will certainly not fail to favor him with an increased patronage, which he so deservedly merits. While we heartily congratulate our friend Wolff QD Jihe nenftr Be can justly Tie proud, we sincerely trust that his new enterprise, which starts under most favorable auspices, may continue as a fountain of instruction and enlightenment for the Germans and that a source of material success will crown his efforts. V"!

RAILROAD NEWS NOTES.

General and Personal Mention of General and Local Interest.

The weeds along the tracks in the Van yards, between Main and Chestnut streets, are being cut down.

Twenty-eight Italians

paBsed

through

the city yesterday on the I. & St. LJ. on their way from Chicago to Charleston, where they are going to work on a railroad.

The I. A St. L. has made a rate of onehalf fare for the round trip for those wishing to leave the city on the Fourth of July. Cincinnati is included in the reduction, and the tickets are good on all trains leaving on the 3d and 4th and returning on the 5th.

SamuelS. Woodward, appointed trainmaster for the south division of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road, has taken charge, with headquarters at Bloomington. He is a brother of W. R. Woodward, general superintendent of the road, and takes the place made vacant by the resignation of John B. Crafton.

The officers of the traffic department of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad will be removed to Chicago as soon as arrangements therefor can be completed. The passenger department will occupy its present quarters in Milwau kee until after the Grand Army national encampment. This change of base will take about thirty Milwaukee people to Chicago.

John D. Casey, of the Vandalia blacksmith shop, and Miss Mary Murphy, of east Mulberry street, were united in marriage yesterday morning at 7:30 at St. Joseph's Church,the Rev. FatherJMcEvoy officiating. The young couple will go to housekeeping on north Twelfth street, where a reception was tendered their many friends last evening. The wedding was very quiet, none but their immediate friends and relatives being present.

Judge Gresham yesterday made an order (the counsel of all parties in interest agreeing) allowing Receiver John McNulta of the Wabash railway, $25,0C0 per annum for servioes as receiver, and his attorneys, Isham, Lincoln & Beale, $12,COO per annum. This remuneration is for the period between April 1,18S7, and (about) July 1,1889, and the date of the delivery of the property to the purchasers. The rate of compensation for services after delivery is matter for further consideration.

Logansport Journal: A Panhandle freight special coming this way from Cbicatro killed a young lady at English lake Monday afternoon at 4:15 o'clock. Her name was Anna Cado, 14 years old She was crossing the long treetle work, and when the train approached, got out to one side, on an abutment, out of reach of the train. The engine passed her safely, but the motion of the air knocked off her hat and in her efforts to catch it, she swung near the track and was struck on the head and instantly killed by the steps of the caboose. She fell into twelve feet of water and

Bank

O, Come. Mow.

Governor Hill's signature of the bill to suppress the bucket shops in New York has made the proprietors of thoee places fairly turn pail.—[Philadelphia Press.

Til raw ucnas JAW.

A Timely DMWM By tbml OoartYsstafiley. In the can at State** Kelly Bonnell, Ueesursr oHM^ city at Catfordsville, the supnme oburt, seterd«iy» in an opinion writteh by Chief Jmtioe Elliott, holds that eeloooheeper csoiwfc take out a license in advance, and that a license is not a contract, but is a pan special tax.

The court says amonr othar things: "That the grant of a Uosoae would not preclude action by tbe mania pel authorities for a license ii not oootraofc. A license may be changed or even annulled by the supreme Isgislstive power of the state whenever public welfare demands it. (McKinney vs. Town, 77 Ind. 213: Martin vs. state, 37 N. W. Rep. 554 Brown vs. state, 7 S. E. Rep. 915, state vs. Isabelle, 4 So. Rep A license is a restrictive special tax imposed for the public good, and in the exercise of the police power of the state (Emerich vs. the city, Miilger ve, state, 123 U. S. 623, exparte Burnside, 6 8. W. Rep. 276 state vs. Mullenhoff, 37 N. W. 329.) As the power to

grant,

withhold

or annul licenses to sell liquor is an exercise of the police power, it follows that no limitation can be placed upon its exercise by any statutory provision. It is a power incapable of surrender or annihilation. (State vs. Woodward, 89 Ind. 110 Stone vs. Mississippi 101 W. S. 814.)"

This dscision is for Indianapolis It ought to settle the controversy as to the liability of the saloons to the $250 rate, notwithstanding some of them took out licenses under the $100 ordinance before the new rate was fixed.

The suite between the reporter of the supreme court and the state secretary in relation to the distribution of the published reports of the supreme oou rt decisions, was argued orally before that body yesterday.

The court returned the following decisions yssterday: 13,018. The Brazil Block Coal Co. vs. John Guffney. Clay C. C. Affirmed. Berkshire, J. 14,954. Dell Freeman vs. state. Knox C. C. Reversed. Olds, J. 14,985. Exrel. John Kelley vs. John K. Bonnell, treasurer, etc. Montgomery C. C. Affirmed. Elliott, C. J.

INDIANA PATBONAGE.

A Conference Held Yesterday Over the Disposition of Certain Federal Ofllcee. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

WASHINGTON, June 25.—There was a conference here at the White house today which will have a great deal of influ ence in future appointments for Indiana, as well as of Indianians for federal offices generally. Early this morning Mr. D. M. Ransdell, of Indianapolis, who arrived in this city yesterday, called upon Attor-ney-General Miller and was closeted with him for about an hour. He then went to the White house, accompanied by Colonel W. T. Durbin, of Anderson, and was shortly followed by Mr. Miller. These men, in company with Private Secretary Halford, entered the latter's office and remained in consultation nearly an hour. It is said to-night that the subjects considered were the collectorship of internal revenue and several pother minor offices for Indiana, including the pension board of Indianapolis. In fact, the whole field was gone over, and the merits of certain aspirants were discussed. Mr. Ransdell was called to

pointmente, and it is suggested that while he is here he will be appointed United States marshal for the District of Columbia. In fact, it is almost absolutely certain that Mr. Ransdell will be given this office.

Third Auditor J. S. Williams, of Lafayette, the only remaining Democratic auditor of the treasuiy, is about to meet the fate of his associates under the Cleveland administration. He will be succeeded by M. M. Hurley, of New Albany, Ind., in about six weeks, when the business of his office will be in such a condition as to admit of a change being made.

Couldn't Sell the Old State Bnlldlng.

This morning at 10 o'clock was the time fixed for the auction sale of the old state building at the corner of Washington and Tennessee streets, but no bidders appeared at the appointed hour. The act authorizi the sale of the property provided that it should not be sold at a price below the appraised value, which was fixed at $50,000 by the three commissioners who were chosen to make the appraisement, but afterward, on the advice of real estate men, it was reduced $10,020. It was believed by the real estate dealers that it could not be readily sold for 850,000, but at $40,000 8 purchaser might be found. No offer has been made, however. The property will now be disposed of at private sale if an acceptable offer is made., —[Indianapolis News.

A Groundless Charge.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CKAWFORDSVILLE, IN&R^TUNI

.—The nt La-

case against Super in Follette was called in Squire Ramsey's court this mornmg. Bpbert E. Patterson had chargerl^iFoll6ute wKh assault and battery. After hearing the witnesses in the case introduced-by the state the case wes dismissed withoutfhearing a single witness for the c^g9ndant. It was clearly shown that Uiere -was not the least ground for and that it was the result of en'

Thc Coming

The state military^Bcapipment in this city, beginning JulyajjL wi^be held at either Garfield park, VBron Ripple. It is probable that the totmu•place will be chasen, as it is of easy Rcceas from the city, and well adapted for the encampment. All the details will be completed in a few days, and sent to the companies throughout the state.

A Michigan Gold Mine.

CHICAGO, June 25.—A dibpatch from Ishpeming, Mich., says: One hundred and fifty pounds of quartz, carrying gold at the rate of $50,0"0 a ten, were brought in from the Michigan gold mine yeeterday. A new shaft was started Thursday, and at a depth of four feet a pocket of quartz carrying gold was struck. Tbe vein at the point where the find was made is three feet wide, double the width of the vein at points previously worked. The discovery has caused much excitement and is regarded as the most important yet made in the Ishpeming gold region.

In Prohibition

out of

sight. The train was stopped and the body fished out after an hour's work.

KAOMI.

LKAVKXWORT H, Kan., June 25.—Chief of Police Robinson entered the office of the American express oomptny yesterday afternoun, and with two policemen forcibly removed a wagon load of beer to the aidewalk, where it was reloaded and hauled to the police station. The probabilities are that the chief and his aids will be put under arreat by a dep­

uty United Btatea manhaL The opinio* is that Bobinaon overstepped hie thority.

HI DRANK WITH JOHN L-.

tfca OsaUsmaa tk«s IstsrtslMd How

•sfsstksOlHUMtw will be Beataa. "I am pleseed to see that one of my erstwhile acquaintances stands a fair chance of being pattered np and made to look like a chopped beefsteak/ said John Stapleton to a Chicago Mail reporter. "I refer to the genial gentleman who belongs to the name of John L. Sullivan. "Didn't know I was acquainted with Mr. Sullivan?" he continued. "Ob, yes 1 know him. I made his acquaintance several years ago in New York. It was when I fint joined Augustin Daly's oompany. One afternoon I went around to the Ashland house to meet a friend who was with-a firm in Wall street. I met him, and we were about to leave the hotel when he excused himself to run up to the room for something he had forgotten, and I strolled into the bar-room. "There waa a very boisterous crowd there and lota of loud talking by a very big man, who seemed to be aa near to being in the king-buainess as is possible in this country. Nobody oontested anything he said, and whenever he gave an order it was filled without question. I stood off to one aide, enjoying the performance, when the big man called out:

u'AU

hands up to have a drink.'

"I didn't this meant me, so I turned to look out of the window. A moment later a great hand closed on my coat "n»ar and yanked me up to the bar. Than the gentleman who owned the fist smashed it down on tbe bar and said: 'You're drinkin'l What'll you have?' "I begged pardon, and said I'd take a glass of beer.' "'Hell!' roared the big man, contemptuously, and then said to the man in the white apron: 'Rye whisky for

thiB

dood!' "Everybody laughed at me, of course, and this tickled the big man more than ever. He made it his business to see that I drank the whisky which he poured out, and I only got away when he had grown tired of watching me and had got interested in something else. "That was John L. Sullivan. A moat hospitable gentleman is John L. Sullivan. I hope Mr. Kilrain will break him in several pieces."

IMPORTANT INVENTION.

A Detrolter's Big Improvement On the Now Immovable Telephone.

A patent for telephone improvement was recently granted to Philo E. Hall, of Detroit, says the Journal of that city, It consists of a simple device by which the telephone can be adjusted to any required hight convenient to the person speaking, who can also use it in either an erect or sitting posture at will. It can be brought to any floor by manna of a chute through which the telephone is made to slide, thus affecting a large saving of money to firms occupying entire buildings. In office buildings, one instrument is made to do service for an entire vertical row of offices. Another feature of the patent is a folding shelf, which answers the double purpose of a rest for the arm holding the receiver and of a desk on which notes can be laid conveniently, and messages taken down as received. The desk and arm-reet are independent of each other and can be used separately.

VOIVICUNT

by the Clock.

A lady from Ithaca, the birthplace of ex-Governor Cornell and his wife, told me yenterday a good story apropos of the perils of wedded life, which the governor told at his own expense. It seems that when in office at Albany he would sometimes return home late at night, after liis wife had retired, and when she asked him what time it was would answer, "About twelve," or "A little after midnight." One evening, instead of making the inquiry, she said: "Alonzo, I wish you would stop that clock I cannot sleep for its noise." All unsuspicious he stopped the pendulum,. In the morning while dressing Mrs. Cornell inquired artlessly: "Oh, by the way, what time did you get home?" "About midnight," replied the governor. "Alonzo, look at that clock!" The hands of the clock pointed to half-past two. The governor was crushed.—[Philadelphia Record.

Illinois Crop Kstiraate.

SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 25.—The state board of agriculture estimates that there will be 127,000,000 bushels of oats harvested in Illinois this year, and 4,072,000 bushels of rye. The growing crops were injured by drouth in April and May to the extent which could not be overcome by the subsequent rains, and the condition is only within 93 per cent, of an average for the state. An average yield of oats is estimated at thirty-three bushels to the acre, on an area of 3,850,000 acres.

The 8outh Fork Fishing Clnl) Sued.

The question of the liability of the South Fork fishing club for the Johnstown disaster is to be tested by litigation. A Johnstown firm, which is among the heavieet losers, has decided to bring suit for $150,000, and over a hundred Johnstown merchants have offered to share the expenses. As all the members of the club are very wealthy, along and bitter legal war may be looked for.—[Indianapolis Journal.

Colonel Cody's Winning Pair.

Buffalo Bill and his horsemen are to show the French people what a stag hunt is like, and it is said that the due and ducheese dUzes will participate. The affair is for the benefit of a charity, for whioh Bill expects to raise considerable money through the kind assistance of this distinguished pair of d'Uzes.— [Chicago Herald.

Preparing for the Fourth.

A coming event casts its shadow before—Fourth of July mayor's proclamation against fire crackers fire crackers sold to child, child burned so severely as to be in danger of death fire crackers and other fireworks still on sale, in spite of the proclamation and of imminent death.—[Philadelphia Public Ledger.

An Old Acquaintance.

A dissipated old man applied for a position in the New York custom house. "Do you know anything about the general management?" asked the officer. "Know him? I should say so. I knew him when he wss only a lieutenant."— (New York World.

She Knew.

"I don't know what makes me feel so queer this morning, my dear." "It's because you didn't go to bed drunk."—[Epoch..

Where Mercury Would Freeze.

The molest plaoe for the

Bummer

is

about midway between Graver Cleveland and David B. Hill.—[Washington Prasa.

rAcauMfc

ALL A

noun.

In her cheeks that beanUfal flow,

That lovely light In hereje? fhat wakes her necfc as white as the wxm. What gives to her Ups their bright dje? What gives to that graceful and willowy farm, 'H

That hand so shapely and small, These graeea of hen—bewitching ther are— Oh! does she Inherit them all? KO her fatter hontiy. her BMUMT was plain,

Her tovettnseBcaaM not that way She diets, takes exercise, wears low-heeled shoes, And walks several miles every day. She's growing more lovely the older sbe grows,

And never Snows Illness or ache She's makiiw experiments, trying to show Heredity's all a mistake. —[Boston Courier.

The cultivation of pineapples is rapidly extending to southern Florida. One grower will have 106,000 pinee to ship this sessbn.

A farmer by the name of Josh Wiggins, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who la short of stock, works his boy instead of a mule.

A little girl in Preston oounty, W»st Virginia, was rsoently poisoned by eating strawberries, and now when she goes near or sees them she goes into a spasm.

The Chinese lack appreciation of the atage. As soon as a Celestial enters on the stage he is deprived of citizenship and his children after him for four generations.

Beggary has been reduced to an art as well as a profession in

Rom**.

Twenty-two CHESS of insanity have been brought before the judge at Ta coma, W. T., since last March, and onehalf of the oases are persons who came from the East.

The coin and slot device has been applied to children's savings banltB. When once Bet for action a regulated number of coins must be dropped into the bank before it can be opened.

A company has been formed in New York to manufacture sandwiches by the thousand and retail them throughout the city in liquor stores, offices and factories by means of peddlers.

An English detective, after a search of four months, has found (in Sydney) a

Soa

iece of silver plate stolen from a Lionhouse, and which he was instructed to recover at any coet.

An experimental train on a railroad in Pennsylvania made a run of ninety-odd miles in about sixty

minutes,

some of the

distance being run at the rate of nearly two miles per minute. The proceeding of the Japanese parliament are reported verbatim by means of a stenographic eyBtem original in Japan. The characters are written in perpendicular rows from right to left.

A Hindoo lecturer in England

Bays

that the British have degraded India and her people to the level of beasts, and that tens of thousands die yearly of starvation, and all reports are suppressed.

The total Indian population is leas than 250,000. Of these 21,232 live in houBes and 9,012 families are engaged in agriculture. And among these so-called savages there are 28,6G3 church members.

The Piute Indians of Nevada are so alarmed by the prediction of one of their number that a great flood is soon to sweep over their territory, that they have taken to the mountains, carrvim*

The French have just sent out a fleet of seven first-class ironclads, attended by a veritable flotilla of cruisers, to the Mediterranean for the summer maneuvers. Another delegation of ironclads will join this fleet later.

A man who lives near Piatt, Sullivan county, Pa., claims to have a scheme whereby he can manufacture shoes with movable soles, so that when one sole wears out the old one can be replaced with a new one without any trouble.

A Kentucky man, who was dying alone, left his will in lead pencil on the head of a whisky barrel, and it is held to Be valid. The only thing he left, however, was a gallon of whisky in the barrel, and that isn't worth fighting over.

A San Francisco firm has built the largest wine cellar in the world. It is capable of holding 3,COO,CCO gallons of wine. Its cost was $250,000. This is one indication of the rapid growth of wine production on the Pacific coast.

Mrs. J. W. Cureton, of Trenton, Ga., caught one of the largest eels that was ever caught in Georgia one day last week. It was five feet long and estimated to weigh about

Beventy-five

pounds. It took one bushel of bran to stuff its hide. Who would believe that the once derided velocipede would within a few years give birth to more than seventyfive thousand bicycles, and that the league of American wheelmen counts alone 12,000 members, 10,000 of whom live in New York and the surrounding suburbs.

A sharp fakir is making a good income by advertising a sure method of killing all insecte. When you send him 50 cents you will receive a printed card on which are these words: "Get ytiur in sects to smoke cigarettes, and they will die within an hour. So long."

The kangaroo is in danger of being exterminated. Its ekin is so valuable that large numbers of young kangaroos are killed, and high authoritiee are of opinion that, unless the process is stopped, Australians will soon have seen the last specimen of this interesting animal.

The experiment of going down the Idaho mine at Grass Valley, Cal., in submarine armor to put out the fire has been unsuccessful. The heat was too great and gas passed under the helmets of the two men who descended. They reached the 900 foot level, or within 100 feet of the tire.

William Mooney, of Weet Pike, Potter ooonty. Pa., has a peculiar head of hair. When a storm approaches every hair in hie head stands out straight, and as be -wears his hair very long he is quite a iidiculous sight. On that eocount he nwer leaves the house when it is cloudy.

Adolph Struthere, of Hancock oounty, Ohio, is bound to keep cool this summer. He hju invented a fan to be placed in his hat, whieh is run by an electric battery carried in one of his pockets. He has been using the fan for several weeks past and says it works perfectly, and that be doesn't mind the extra weight.

A boy of sixteen, who is pretty sure to break his neck one of these warm days, is David Pickering, of Newark, who is said to clear a bar 5 feet 3 inches above the ground, head foremost, diving over the stick, landing first on his hands and then on the back of his neck, without even tbe comfort of a mattress to break the violence of his fall.

He Didn't Need To.

The late John Gilbert never ran off with another man's wife, never effected an English accent and never wore his hair down on his shoulders. Yet he was a great actor.—[Philadelphia Pi

POWDER

Absolutely Pure.

This

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new

fina.

•tnaatfe mtd wbolesMMWs. thMthe snflnarykinds, and

In a re­

cent case before the police an old man .admitted that he had as many as fifty lies in daily use.

ofpwity.

ordinary kinds, sadmaoot be sold n«.an with the moltltode otiMrteit, short it alum or phosphate powdwa. gtMnpiyla

Bouiium nwnn o&iin wmai,

H.T.

Our Special bargain day—Fridaydoes not suffice to cover the cuts that at this time we make in so many lines of our large stock. Therefore,

BEGINNING MONDAY, JUNE24, On sale: 200 parasols, all styles, in three lots at $1.45, $1.95 and $2.45 former prices $2.95 to $G. 2 cases lfcdies' ribbed vests 12J^c worth 26 o. lease ladiee' Jersey-fitting vests 15c worth 35a. 2 cases ladies' balbnggan vests worth 40c. 25 dozen ladies'.'pure silk vests, pink, blue, white and cream, 75c worth $1.50. 100 dozen gentlemen's half hose, balbriggan, fancy stripefand plain colors 15c sold for 25a. 200 dozen ladies' fine quality stn cotton hose 25c sold at 35 and 45c. 50 dozen ladies' regular made striped cotton hoee -15c wotth 25c.

Black silk hose 63c worth $1. 2G}4 dozen ladies' French lisle hoee, in the latest novelty patterns, 95o former price $150 to $2.

A vast variety of silk'mitts and gloves at very low prices.

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S.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (8).denote Sleeplsg Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) dedaTlySunday! excepted.

VANDALIA LINE.

.J T. II. 4 I. DIVISION. UAVZ TOR THK WSST.

No. 9 Western Kxpress (S4V) 1.42 a.m. No. 5 Mall Train *. 11118 a ra. No. 1 Fast Line (PAT) Xlfi P. m. No. 7 Vast Hall #.M p. m.

I.KAVB FORTH BAST.

No. 13 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.311 a ni. No. 6 New York Express (S4V) 1.61 a. in. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.16 a. m. No. JO Atlantic Express (PAY) 12.42 p. m. No. 8 fast Line 2.U0p. ra

ARRIVE FROM THK KAST.

No. 9 Western Express (S4V) 1.80 a. m. No. 5 Mall Train 10.12a. ni. No. 1 Fast Line (P4V) 2.00 p. in. No. 3 Mall and Accommodation «... 6.46 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mail* 9.00 p.m.

ARRIVJt FROM THK WKST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New York Express (84V) 1.42 a. in. No. 20 Atlantic Express (P4V) 12.37 p. m. No. 8 Fast Line 1.40 p. m.

T. H. 4 L. DIVISION.

LKAVK FOB THK HOBTH.

No. 63 South Bend Hall 6.00 a. m, No. 64 South Bend Express 4.00 p. m. ABR1VX FROM THK NORTH No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. 63 South Bend Hall 7.30 p. m.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

DR. E, A. GILLETTE,

DENTIST. 4,.^-

Filling of Teeth a Specialty.

OBJee—McKeen's new block, cor. 7th and Main sts

W. R. MAIL. L, HL BARTBOLOmW.

DRS. MAIL & BARTHOLOMEW

Dentists,

(Successors to Bartholomew 4 HaJL B2Q% Obio St. Tens Hauto, Ind.

I. I^OYSE,

NO. 617 OHIO STREET.

DR C. O. LINCOLN.

DKNTI8T.

All work warranted as represented. Office ano residence 310 Noit'i Thirteenth street, Terre Haute, bid.

M. A. BAUMAN,

Painting, Graining, Gluing, Calclmlnlag •id Paper Hanging,

NO. 23 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. (Residence, 1SB Chestnut street.)

Your Patronage Respectfully Solicited.

WORK PROMPTLY DOHK.

A. J. GALLAGHER,

PLUMBE^j

Gas and Steam Fitter,

424 Cherry Street. Terre Haate

PATENTS

For Inventions promptly secured. Reference, by per--miMlon, to Hon.

WD.

Mack. Address

O. E. DUFFY,

607 Sennth Street, Washington, D. c.