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trust is too freeh.

& if any man sets up the cry "goner," Bhoot him on the spot.

The queen's granddaughter married an estimable young man named Fife yesterday and the couple have gone to a quiet place in the country where they will remain during the honeymoon. Thi« ia setting a fashion that will bankrupt the Niagara Palls hotel people.

Terre Haute'8 lower lip Is beginning to quiver as tle drills In a number of her oil wells begin to hammer away at the center of the earth and not.a sign of oil or gas.—rCllnton Argus.

Nary a quiver. We're just getting the lay of the land, so to speak, and will soon have our Clinton friends here to see a big display of gas and oil wells.

Among the exchanges that come to our table the

TERRE HACTE EXPRESS IS

II the boom in the industries and commerce of the country which began rumbling this spring after the inauguration of a protective tariff president and which according to the reports of all commercial exchanges, will not follow the time honored precedent of supending operations during July and August, persists in giving the country a great wave of prosperity this fall, we will feel called upon to provide some relief for our free trade friends in the cold days this winter.

Mr. Kilrain, the gentleman who was recently received by New Orleans aristocracy because he was so gentlemanly, has been on a regular, old-time, paint-the-town-red drunk. In short, he has been making a brute of himself. And thus we are again forcibly reminded of the truth of the old adage that evil associations corrupt good manners. No doubt Mr. Kilrain acquired all this brutish instinct in his two hours' association with the brute, Sullivan, at Richburg.

Senator Voorheea oan make a good speech. That is a proposition no one will dispute, nor will any one deny that he can make speeches on all sidee, some, like whisky, better than others. We have not read his latest free trade speech, delivered yesterday at Bloomfield, but we are satisfied that it is not equal to the one he delivered here last fall and that is not to be compared with his protective tariff speech delivered in the senate this year and which we republish elsewhere in this issue.

TO REAP IN A WHIRLWIND.

Those 1,2C0 Cincinnati saloonkeepers who agreed to "keep open there saloons in defiance of law," to-day, are foolish saloonkeepers. They are inviting the wrath of that great majority of people who do not take a personal interest in the question of temperance but who do believe in the law when challenged as to their loyalty to it, and the Cincinnati saloonkeepers may confidently look forward to a manifestation of this spirit of the American people, almost divine, which will so rebuke their arrogance that they will wish they were never made foolish by undue license to interfere in political and official affairs. -TfiS Terre Haute wide open people may profit by the lesson at Cincinnati. The sentiment in this city is what is called "liberal" in respect of the temperance question but this liberality will not tolerate all things. The indifferent citizen, even the wide-open advocate, will not consent that the saloon violate all the laws provided for the judicious restriction of the traffic, and by its domineering influence prevent the city collecting a license revenue such as is collected in in every other city in this and other license states. The increased taxation and the debt _hanein£ over the people of this city as yet

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not have caused the people to rise in their might, but the element in Terre Haute which is now so free from the enforcement of the law should take warning. The city council recently adaed a few cents to the tax rate and it will yet be necessary to go to great extremes to lift the city out of the mire into which it is sinking because of this load of wide-open rule in its municipal affairs. The next straw may be the last one on the camel's back

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The Usual Way.

Mr. Braggs—What are the children so out #1 humor about? Mrs. Braggs—They were quarreling about an apple. and I divided It equally between them, but they seem to be angry at each other yet

Mr. Braggs—My dea-, you will never make a good lawyer. You should have eaten It yourself,

and then they would have been so mad at yo« that they would have made up their own disagreement in less than no time.

Willing to Trade.

Young Man—Miss Minnie and I love each other, and I have come to ask your consent to our marriage.

Old Man—How much money have yon? Young Man-Oh, considerable. About how much do you want to relinquish all claims? game Reason.

Judge—Why did you persist In rushing the growler alter you had been warned not to? Tramp—For the same reason that you hold your jnh—for what there was in It.

They Still LlTed on Love.

Walter Bosebeefstewedlambroastmuttonbaked porknvegetblesappleplepeachpleblackberrypuddn. Tabsley—Gimme the whole bill. I've been stopping with a newly married couple lor the past two. days, and I am nearly starved.

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VOICK.OF THE PEOPLE.

Free Raw Materials.

To the Editor of the Express: SIR:

The organs of free trade are once more telling us all about free raw materials, and a few days ago the Sentinel showed to an Inquiring Republican, for the hundredth time probably, how it is that if our manufacturers could only get such thing as they need In their business, free from custom house exactions, that we might soon be supplying the world with finished goods at such prices as would defy competition. And because the antl-protectlon journals of the country come to the front with this absurd pretense about every two weeks, it may be worth while to refute it once more. And if, upon this Interminable question of the tariff, there Is really nothing new to offer we must yet not forget that with it, as with religion and morals, it is only "line upon line and prewpt upon precept" that can keep In memory the good lessons we have learned or preserve to us the fruits of victory over enemies who are able, alert ana

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the brightest, wittiest,

newsiest of the lot.—[Greenup Progress.

There is much in a name that belies the locality as well as the individual and this happens to be the misfortune of our esteemed contemporary, the Progress, in the name of the town where it is published. It is way up in all that is not green or verdant.

of the free trader Is for free raw ma-

terlals and bis dream by night of the world he Is going to conquer when he gets free wool, free cotton, free Iron and steel, free leather and free everything else. But if he would stop and look around he could easily, *5 that we now have more free raw material than any other country In the world. We have free material for cotton and silk, for leather, lumber and rubber goods for queensware, chlnaware and every kind of glass for tobacco and cigars, ror salt, sulphur and soap for everything that is made of lead, zinc, tin, brass, copper, gold or silver for marble and stone goods, and for ail liuuors, malt and splrltous eic.»©tc«, and those wno manufacture woolen, or refined sugar, are about the only people In the country who do not get their raw materials free. It follows that the great bulk of our importations are produced from materia lb that we have at home In exhausted quantities, or that, like the crude material of leather, silk and rubber goods, pay no duty. But a few words about cotton may set this truth in a stronger light.

It will hardly be denied by the most unscrupulous enemy of protection that In our great Southern staple we have the free raw material of cotton goods In greater abundance and at lower prices than any other country. Indeed, our supply of cotton has always been so ample that we have been exporting it for more than a hundred years, and we are to-day sending over the ocean at least thret tilths of all we produce. Year by year we send to Europe cotton bales by the million, and year by year we have been Importing cotton goods by the million dollars' worth. We export these goods, to be sure, but for every dollar's worth we sell, we buy two. In 1F37 we manufactured cotton goods worth at the mills more than $260,000,000. Of these we spared to the world's market $14,929,343 worth, and in the same year we took out of the world's market cotton goods to the value of $29,160,029. The question then, is, If after a hundred years of free raw cotton, In far greater quantities than we could use at home, we are still Importing twice as many cotton goods as we are exporting, how soon will we be able to monopolize the markets of the world for these commodities There Is but one opening out of this difficulty, and that can easily be closed. It may be urged that cotton yarn, the raw material of cloth, Is taxed, and cloth lteelf. which from the tailor's point of view Is raw material, pays a heavy duty. But in this matter the free traders have been contending for a principle which, If true at all, ought to apply with equal force at every point Included In their claim. If they are right, untaxed cotton ought to asssure us cheap yarn at least, and this cheap yarn should be woven into low-priced cloth, while the cheapest cloth In the world ought to give us clothing at lower rates than prevail In any other country. But this beautiful theory, with pure raw cotton for Its base and the captive markets of the world at Its summit, don't work In practice, and the time when It will so work we have reasons to believe Is tolerably remote. Some of these reasons are as follows: The American manufacturer must pay at least twice the average wages that are paid by his European rival. Then, If he carries on his business on borrowed capital he must pay a higher rate of Interest than the Englishman pays, and even If the money Is his own It Is worth more than It would be In Europe. Besides his rents are higher and he must pay larger salaries to his Immediate assistants, and what is perhaps of most importance Is the fact that the American merchant or manufacturer will not do business for such profits as will satisfy the European shopkeeper or mill owner. And It seems likely that If any method could be found by which we could ascertain the cost of goods to the consumer as compared with their cost at the factories, it would be fouud that the capacity of those who handle the goods has more to do with their price to those who finally use them, than has the profits of the manufacturer. It Is notorious, for example, that sewing machines which cost from $12 to *16 by the dozen are sold to poor women In this city at from $60 to $60. Then, on ocean freights the profits are said not to exceed 3 per cent, and as such gains In so hazardous business will not satisfy Americans, tht have practically abandoned the carrylDg trade of the world to the British, and this Is the real reason for the decay of American shipping, or rather tor our failure to rebuild our merchant marine alter its destruction by Democratic pirates.

Another reason for believing the hope of conquer lng the markets of the world to be vlslonery, Is found In the situation of such countries as England and Be'slum. They are so densely populated that not half their people can find employment In agriculture, or Had bread except as it Is brought from abroad. These people must work and will work at such wages as will leave It possible for the goods they make to be sold in foreign markets, and against competition that has nothing but starvation In prospect for those who are overcome. we may not hope to succeed. It may be doubted whether we ought to succecd. But If we only had free raw materials. C.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Milwaukee Sentinel: There never has been such an outbreak against the civil service law as we see now, and the reason for it is that there Is more reform Just now than ever before.

Boston Herald (Ind. Dera.): We have no great faith In the backbone of the main body of Prohibitionist Republicans. As we have several times said on other occasions, their attachment to the Republican party Is stronger than their attachment to prohibition.

Globe-Democrat: The proposed dismissal of General Rosecrans from the office of register of the treasury will be generally approvrd. He was appointed to the place by Cleveland mainly because of his opposition to the bill giving a pension to General Grant and that happens, under present circumstances, to bj a conclusive reason for his removal.

Omaha Republican: The great railroad trust or combine Is still being discussed In our exchanges as if It were almost a fact accomplished, but we do not believe It will be. There Is such a thing as making a trust too big for management, and there Is also a very good chance for going Just one step too far in trusts, and thus arousing the people, the legislatures and the courts, to concerted action for the destruction of all trusts. That time may not be very far away, anyhow.

Baltimore American: There are open bars In some ot the larger cities In Maine this season, and In all of them the sale of liquor goes on regardless of the prohibition law. The state gets no revenue from It the violations breed a contempt for the law among the very people who should be made to respect It, and the general moral effect Is disastrous. On the other hand, high license Is still working smoothly and beneficially In Pennsylvania. It Is decreasing crime and enhancing property values. It is a measure that is sensible, practical, and effective.

Strange Death of an Artist.

A curious accident, which unhappily has since proved fatal, befell M. Boutet, an artist, residing in the Avenue Victor Hugo, on Saturday morning. M. Boutet was working in his studio, when, inconvenienced by the sun, he asked his bonne to go on the roof and pass alight linen covering over the glaass. As the woman was arranging this awning she slipped and, falling through the glass, alighted on the table at which her master was seated. Oddly enough, she sustained no injury worth mentioning. M. Boutet, however, was not so fortunate. A piece of the broken glass struck him on the neck, severing an artery. He tried to stanch the blood, and, failing, ran out of the house in the direction of a neighboring druggist's shop, but he fell down fainting ere he reached the place, and two hours afterward he breathed his last.— [London Time&

COLUMBUS AS A SAINr.

"Sir Christopher ColumbuB" would to many, no doubt, appear a strange addition to the calendars of the canonized but it is on the cards, if so irreverent a phrase may be permitted in the connection, that the name of the great explorer may one day take its place in that Celestial peerage. It iB true that the honor of beatification is all that it is at present sought to confer upon him, and that a beatified person may have to wait years, generations, centuries even, for "his step," and perhaps may never attain to the dignity of samtship at all. Nevertheless it is something that Columbus should be proposed even for the minor preferment. "Christopher B." is not BO imposing a title as that which canonization would confer upon him but the style of "Beatue," which the Lutheran divines after the Reformation so clung to that they conferred it posthumously upon the friends of their church, is not to be despised, even though it may be destined never to be converted into '"Sanctus." For the admirers of Columbus it seems to have possessed an extraordinary attraction in his behalf, since we are informed 4hat no fewer than 850 bishops have petitioned the pope for his elevation to this exalted state. So far, indeed, has the matter proceeded that a postulant has been appointed for the beatification in the person of Comte Roselly de Luynes, a French layman of the advanced age of 831 It is very unusual for any layman to be appointed postulant but the comte, having devoted many years to this particular cause, an exception has been made in his favor. Who is to be the "advocatus diaboli" is not stated, and it is pleasant to think that if and wtea such a functionary is appointed he will find but scant materials wherewith to furnish forth his brief. Far otherwise would, it be with more than one of the successors of the great Genoese in the work of exploration. It is not probable, perhaps, that the idea of beautifying Hernando Cortes will ever enter the heads of 850, or of any number of bishops of the Catholic Church but if it did, and if the cases ever came to hearing, the proceedings would certainly be animated, and the speech of the devil's advocate might, at least if he did justice to the subject, be made a most interesting and impressive effort. None, however, of those dark stains which disfigure the life history of Cortes are to be found on the blameless record of ColumbuB. His character stands as high for virtues of patience, of forbearance and of agnanimity as it does for unflinching courage and unwevering determination.

Still, it would be a littjp surprising, we imagine—to most protestants, at any rate—to hear that Columbus had been beatified. It is true that, like many a man of action in that age, and like not a few in our own, he was of a fervently devout temperament, and he showed it in the way of specific observances as well as in his general tenor of life. Not only, says a biographer, was he temperate in eating, drinking and drese, but he was "so strict in religious matters that, for fasting and'saying all the divine office, he might be thought to belong to some religious order." His piety, as his Bon has here noted, was earnest and unwavering it entered into arid colored alike his actions and his speech. He is known to have tried his pen in the composition of a Latin distich of prayer his signature was a mystical pietistic device, in which the words "Christo Fereus" are surmounted by a seven-lettered cipher which has been interpreted as standing for "Servate me Christus, Maria, Josephus." Still, the Catholic Church has not been wont to grant posthumous spiritual honors to any save men whose mission in life has been of a distinctively religious character, who have been famed for their zeal in works of charity, for their ardor and success in proselytizing, for their exceptional learning in divine things, or for the singular purity and holiness of their lives and certainly none of these qualifications can be predicted of Chtistopher Columbus. Indirectly, of course, he may be said to have rendered immense and incalculable services to the church of Chrisendom, as the discoveries of a new world. The able but profligate pope, who bestowed upon Spain the temporal sovereignty of all lands discovered or hereafter to be discovered in the Western ocean, had doubtless no higher {purpose to serve than that of reasserting pontifical pretentions which had already begun to lose their credit with European princes and their subjects but the bulls of Alexander VI. were, in fact, the anticipation of a spiritual conquest of vast extent—no less, in fact, than the winning of anew hemisphere to Christianity. For this extraordinary service the church undoubtedly oweB a deep debt of gratitude to the great Genoese sailor but it stands indebted in a similar manner, if in a much smaller degree, to other explorers before and since, and we are not aware that it has ever been proposed to reward any of these unconscious, or but half conscious, servants of the church with the honor which Comte Roselly de Luynes is to "postulate" for the discoverer of America. It has generally been assumed that a direct and deliberate design of promoting the interests of Christianity, if not of the Catholic, branch of the Christian Church, was the indispensable antecedent condition of a claim to be enrolled among the saints or Baintsdesignate of the Roman calendar—at any rate, in all those cases in which the claimant's title rests upon the deeds done by him in the world of practical life, and.not on any special repute for sanctity or any rare gift of labor in the vineyard of the faith.

It is possible that the ingenuity of ecclesiastical historians may succeed in unearthing episodes in the career of Columbus which will give him a technical title to canonization. Or the postuland may intend to rely on the fact that the immortal explorer did deliberately meditate the scheme of a new crusade for the recovery of the Holy Bepulcher, and that if the pope, the papacy and Christendom itself had not so profoundly changed since the

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of Peter the

Hermit, it is quite possible that he might have infected kings and peoples with the contagion of his own enthusiasm. It was fortunate for him, however, that he found himself preaching, in this instance at any rate, to deaf ears, and that he was diverted from projects of this visionary description to the real work of his life. And since it was this work, much more than his religious aspirations of his pious observances, which brought out his highest and noblest qualities, it would be all the mere satisfactory to hear that he owes to it the honor which the church is to be asked to confer upon him. If Rome consents to beatify Columbus at all, it will be all the better a precedent for the future that he should be beatified, not as the man of specially religious procivities, but as the man of splendid human gifts and secular virtues—not, in Bhortr as the priest, but as the hero. We ought to feel that he won his title of "Beatus" at daybreak of the 12th of October, 1492jwhen the land of the new

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hemisphere dawned dimly through the morning twilight and hia mutinous seamen prostrated themselves with shame and re-, pentanoe at hia feet Or, if it be thought that he did not so soon qualify himself for this posthumous honor, it would be easy by panning hia career to the end to assure his qualification without a single reference to any definitely religious act. If knightliness be next to Baintliness, as the name ot Gordon may well remind ua that it is, the life ot Columbus, considered in its purely secular aspect, should bring him almost within reach of the canonizing decree. Assuredly Columbus achieved a nearer approach to the perfect ideal of christian chivalry than has been attained to in any but the rarest instances in human history, aad it may be that the shade ot him whose body was deposited in 1806 in the Convent of St Francis at Valladolid has had to wait in the Elysian fields for near four hundred years, to find its first true kindred in the heroic spirit which had left its mortal tenement within the walls of Khartoum. Indeed, one cannot read the measured obituary of Columbus in the pages of the eminent historian of Ferdinand and Isabella, without feeling the strange resemblance between these two knight-errants of humanity, divided as they are by centuries from each other. "Whatever," eays Mr. Presoott, "were the defects of his mental constitution, the finger of history will find it difficult to point to a single blemish in the moral character of Columbus. His correspondence breathes the Bentiment of devoted loyalty to his sovereigns. His conduct displayed the utmost solicitude for the interests of his followers. He expended almost his last maravedo in restoring his unfortunate crew to their native land. His fo*lingH were regulated by the nicest principles of honor and justice. His last communication to the sovereigns of India remonstrates against the use of violent measures in order to extract gold from the natives as a thing equally scandalous and impolitic. The grand object to which he dedicated himself seemed to expand his whole soul and raise it above the petty shifts and artifices by which great ends are sought to be compassed. There are some men in whom rare virtues have been closely allied, if not to positive vice, to degrading weakness. Columbus' character presents no such humiilating incongruity. Whether we contemplate it in its public or private relations, in all its features it wears the same noble aspect." Surely there is title enough to canonization in the character of such a man as thin. As to the English hero who plays the other part in the comparison, he is canonized in English hearts already.

HOISTING BIG 8TONE8.

The Soldiers' Monument—How the SevenTon Stones Are Raised Into Position.

The soldiers' monument has at last begun to grow toward the eternal stars, says the Indianapolis News. It will stand like a silent index finger, directing men heavenward. The laying of the first huge seven-ton stone of the pedestal was accomplished Thursday and since then the work has gone steadily on. The mechanism and skill by which the great blocks are swung into their places and adjusted with all the nicety displayed by a mason in laying brick, are wonderful.

The chief agent employed in the work is the small car perched dizzily upon the very top of the 100-foot scaffold. It contains an engine and a windlass and a grimy cool-headed man who runs them. From the windlass two slender wire ropes drop down to the level of the surface of the stone and at their end dangles an iron hook big enough to anchor a man-of-war. A ring, correspondingly strong, is firmly fixed in the center of the block of stone, the hook iB caught in it and all ie ready. The Btone, let it be supposed, is the topmost one of a great heap at the east side of the monument. It is shaped to fit a niche in the southwest corner, and though it weighB anything from fourteen thousand to thirty thousand pounds it must be_ picked up and carried to

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place and laid upon its

mortar bed with absolute accuracy. Two quiet, swiftly moving men direct the worn. They try the firmness of the ring and see that the hook iB properly caught. Then one of them waves his hands mysteriously over the stone, much as a magician makes passes above the object of his black art. Without a sound it slowly rises. Another wave of the hand and it Btops, hanging in mid air by the wire ropes, which seem scarcely larger than threads. The magician waves his out stretched hand again, and noiselessly and airily as the flight of a bird, the ponderous stone floats toward the west. Another

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by the magician and it

stops precisely above the western edge of the monument wall, changes direction and moves southward. Over the southwest corner it pauses and slowly, slowly, in response to a series of signals, it settles down upon the bed of mortar prepared for it. The water in the mortar trickles out at the edge like cider from purnice in the press. Slowly the hook relaxes its hold, and presently swings clear, and then the monster Btone lies as snug and firm bb though it had never been moved from the bed whereon it was formed, a million years ago.

The absence of noise while work of such magnitude is in progress seems unnatural—almost supernatural. Not a sound comes down from the clanking machinery 100 feet above. The engineer, with keen eye, watches the signals below, and regulates the powers at his command accordingly. The men below, both understanding their business fully, need few words and lose no time in useless motions. Every detail of the work iB preordained in the architect's

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The dimensions of each stone are known before it comes from the quarry. Every part must be exact. The converging and crystalizing of all the necessary elements and forces is what is now taking place, and the result will be the greatest monument ever erected to the memory of a nation's defenders.^

WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT.

A Safe Burglar Gets Away While the Electric Gllui is **Douned." SAN FRANCISCO,

July

27.—A

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lar named Charles Paul, serving an eightyear sentence, escaped from San Quentin Thursday night, while the electric lights were shut off by a confederate.

That several hundred convicts working in the jute mill did not escape at the same time was owing to the vigilence of the guards, Paul had charge of the electric lights, and while fixing a burner he hit the guard in the prison yard over the head. At the same time all the electric lights in the yard and mill went out

The guard was only stunned and fired a pistol at Paul, who managed to scale the wall end escape. The convicts in the mill rushed for the yard when the lights went out, but illumination was soon resumed and they/were corralled.

A Cat That Feada Bird*.

A cat at Port Jervis digs angle-worms, and after biting them in small piecee feeds them to the young canary birds.

MB. VOOKHH8 OH THE COAL TARIFF-

Bla Speech la the 8—ate In Defease of the Duty. The following ia from the congressional reoord of February:

Mr. Voorheea Mr. President, I think that I am a party man in good standing. I have been under the impression that I passed through the last campaign upholding the Democratic platform, Democratic principles and the Democratic flag. I was under the impression, and •till am, that the organized expression ot the Democratic party ia strong enough to withstand the dissent of even so distinguished and eloquent a gentleman as the senator from Missouri.

As a member of the St Louis convention, I heard what is known as the Mills bill on this subject indorsed in speoial terms. That bill contained a provision levying a duty of 75 cents a ton on coal. I came into the senate a moment ago mil found a proposition here to utterly overthrow what we declared at St Louis and what we told the people of Indiana was correct-, by putting coal on the free list

Id order to show that the people believed we were in earnest when we presented the Mills bill, I desire to say that in the mining regions of Indiana it was well accepted. I live in that part of the state of Indiana which embraces 6,500 square milee of the best ooal in the world. Literally, I repeat mv words, the best coal in the world is there. Long trains of cars are hauling ore from the iron mountains of Missouri this day and putting it down at Terre Haute and out at Brazil, sixteen miles beyond, and making iron out of it for $4 or $5 lees on the ton than can be done at Pittsburg, because of the quality of the coal we have there. We have ooal that needs no charcoal, no coking. It is the finest block coal there is on the globe. There are but two other plac9e where it exists.

In that region, in the county of Clay, there were at least 2,500 miners. Some of them were employed by men unscrupulous and abominable in their methods. Their employers in some in stance shut down the mills in order to turn off their hands in large numbere, and then hired back only those who would vote the Republican ticket, leaving the Democratic employee to shift for themselves and do as well as they could. But, with all theee discouragements, Clay county did better for the Democratic party, considering everything, than any other county in the state of Indiana, with possibly the exception of Marion, where the president-elect himllVOfle

I say. therefore, that this measure, indorsed at St. Louis, brought forward by the Democratic party, canvassed for on every stump, commended itself to the laboring men themselves. For my part, I have received no instructions since from any authorized source to compel me to unsay what I said in along and arduous canvass of my state, and to unsay what the Democratic party through its delegated wisdom at St. Louis said in the most solemn terms. Others can do as they choose.

Mr. Vest—Will my friend permit me to interrupt him? He is not under the impression, I suppose, that the Mills bill made any declaration on the subject of coal.

Mr. Voorheee—Yes, I am. Mr. Vest—No it says nothing about it There is not a word in the Mills bill on the subject

Mr. Faulkner (West Virginia Democrat)—I ask the senator from Missouri whether it did not leave the duty on coal at 75 cents a ton, as it was at that time?

Mr. Voorheee—That is the point. Mr. Faulkner—That was equivalent to sustaining that duty on coal.

Mr. Vest—I do not want the senator from Indiana to say that the Mills bill made any declaration on the subject.

Mr. Voorheea—I will not say that the senator from Missouri pettifogged on that point. I have too high and sincere a regard for him but certainly he well knows that when the existing law was 75 ceilts a ton, and there was no proposition in the Mills.bill which was a reformatory measure, to change it, it was the same as asserting it in so many words.

Mr. Vest—I did not say anything about the'legal effect of it. It was the expression of the senator from Indiana which brought me to my feet. I nderstood him to say and emphatically declare that the Mills bill put a duty of 75 cents a ton on coal.

Mr. Voorheea—It could not have declared so any more emphatically than by letting it stand.

Mr. Vest—There was no affirmative declaration at all. Mr. Voorheee—There could not have been a more affirmative declaration than by letting it alone as it was. This is all I desire to say in explanation of my own vote.

HOWAHD GETS ONLY ONE CENT DAM 4GE?.

The Celebrated Libel Suit at JacVion, Tenn., Decided at Last. JACKSON,

Miss., July 27.—After being

•ut two days the jury in the celebrated Howard damage case returned a verdict for plaintiff, giving him one cent damages. It is understood that the question of identity was the main question which caused the hitch in the jury returning a verdict The plaintiff

Beemed

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pointed, but the defendants are pleased with the result. This suit was begun nearly three years ago by the Rev. Frederick Howard, D. D., agaiaet sixteen leading Baptists and three newspapere. He was charged with being under an assumed name and "a mass of corruption." The case will be handed down as one of the' most celebrated in the history of the state. Depositions were taken on three continents to establish the charge of identity. The town, county and surrounding communitiee have been greatly interested in the result, as well as Baptists throughout the country, one of the defendants, Dr. J. R. Groves, having more than a national reputation and all being prominent citizens. The case will not be appealed^

The 8ulllvant Nicely Fixed, Thanks.

Racent letters from John EL Sullivan furnish the newB that be is permanently located in Montreal, Canada. He has gone into business there, being engaged in shipping poultry to New York. Mrs. Sullivan and daughter joined him thne weeks ago, and have written back that they are well pleased with their new home.—[Indianapolis News.

Determined to Succeed,

Mrs. Dewinks—Got your husband trained yet, Mollie? Mrs. Dejinks—Not entirely, but I'm doing the best I can. I broke three rolling-pins over his head last week.— [Philadelphia Inquirer.

Likewise the Noose.

Cowboy chivalry draws the line at the neck of "lady horsethieves."—[Buffalo Express.

Arthur Blackford, of Chattanooga, was arreeted and jailed for stealing two silver dollare covering the eyes of a dead baby.

*ACKAOTP.

ras onancuL TKAVKLKB..

His language ia artless and tree. and ills fond of «ood lotas Is immense, His handshake is beard andwarm.

And his manners polite to intense.

HU clothes nt him snnglr and trim, His neckUe war up in the style, HU hat 1s the latest thing cut.

And his lace wears a genial smile.

He has tbe time tables by heart, Hels "chummy" at all tbe hotels He calls his trade by their llrst name.

And leaves copies of all goods he selli. Hia trunk la just packed with "big Jobs," He throws out his pet little "baits He's determined to sell hia new man,

So he's oflered him all sorts ot "date*.'

The trade never wants any goods. He1! accustomed to alights and retail— But get a man started and then

He can scarce wait a day for his "stuff.' Oh, a jolly bright fellow Is he, This tourist of commerce and trade. Don't call him a "drummer," forsooth

He'a a fall band complete on parade. —[W. S. King in Philadelphia North American. Buenoe Ayree proposes to hold a world's exhibition.

A Dakota farmer holds that the failure of the wheat crop is largely due to the work of gophers.

The province of La Platta, in the Argentine republic, has a population of 785,138 and a debt of |70,CD3,000.

A lecturer in San Francisco, treating of the lower forma of animal life, said that

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oyster is capable of being edu­

cated a limited way." Anew varnish has just been brought out in England. It is called "ardenbrits," and is said to be proof against water, steam, smoke, Bea air and sea water.

There is no prospect of a fruit failure. Even peaches arise serenely in abundance, and watermelons promise to satisfy all the demand? of the new South.

A girl of 15, at Renovo, Pa., became insane immediately after drinking a glass of ice water a few days ago, and died soon after. The doctor attributed the reeult to the effect of the ice water on her brain.

At Keeneyville, Pa., a man who was startled by a cannon cracker which an urchin exploded behind him, went across the street and knocked down a young man who laughed at the affair, and then paid him $10 to settle the case.

The tallest chimney in this country is the new stack of the Clark thread company, at Kearney, near Newark, N. J. It is a circular shaft 335 feet high and 28% feet in diameter at the base. This chimney cost $30,000, and contains 1,697,000 bricks.

There is a constant element of excitement in a promonade in the city of New York at this time. In addition to the danger of being "blown up" when one gets home, for being out late, there is no telling when or where one will be sent heavenward by a sub-way explosion.

The malting of a tramway from Cairo to the pyramids is likely to become a completed fact before long. The money paid for the government concession has been actually handed over to the official concerned, and it is said that the preliminary operations have already commenced.

Recent storms have washed thousands of tons of culm down upon farming landB in the vicinity of Sunbury, Pa., and a number of farmers have taken legal action to recover damages from the Mineral mining company, the Philadelphia & Reading railroad and other operators.

It does not pay to be a hog. Two thieves sppeared at a house near Montreal, where a peddler was spending the night, and demanded money. The peddler gave them his pocketbook and contents, but they said this

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to pay them for their trouble, whereupon he shot them both dead. Martha Cobble, of Owensboro, Ky., a colored woman formerly a elave, has searched forty years for her two sons, who were sold to aNew OrleanB trader when they were 8 and 10 years of age. Recently she learned the whereabouts of both and was made happy by a visit from one of them.

O. Erickson, of Muskegon, Mich., was the victim of a queer accident. He was milking one of his cows when the animal made a swing with her head and drove one of her horns up through the roof of Erickson's mouth. The doctor says he had a narrow escapa from instant death, but will recover.

An Oklahoma hack driver purchased two lots on the day after the opening from men who decided that there would never be a city, and who were go ing away in disgust. For one be paid $10 and for the other he traded a well-worn six-shooter. One of the lots he has since sold for $1,100, and he is holding the sixshooter lot for $1,500.

A curious strike is in progress at Rochester. The osterologists and taxidermists at Ward's natural science establishment, where Jumbo's skeleton was prepared, have stopped work, and, as a result, many rare birds and animalB being prepared for collections in different parts of the country are left partly mounted and the loss will be severe.

There were numerous casualties during the erection of the PariB exposition buildingp. It is estimated that 300 workmen hurt their legs, 260 received severe injuries in the eyes from projecting timbers or bars of iron, 114 were scalded or Beverely burned and fifty had their fingers cut off. The deaths from falls are put down at 24.

The Times of India says that "a former secretary of the American legation at Pekin is now traveling through Thibet in native dress with a caravan of Thibetans. He is on equal terms with his escort, Bnd as he can speak the language fluently and thoroughly understands the customs of the people, he feels confident of penetrating to Lhassa."

The London Queen says that fewer people ride in the "Row" now, "probably because riding is a luxury, and a luxury which farms unlet, laBd depreciated in value and depression in prices forbid to the land owner and country gentleman. However, there are yet a few remaining who are neither impecunious English squires nor English landlords."

Dr. Howard Crosby thinks that sufficient evidence has been obtained to show that New York gambling houses are allowed to run by connivance of tbe police. The commissioners are to blame, and are to be pushed just BB far as the law will allow. Several police captains will come up for trial on charge of permitting gambling in their precincts in about ten daya.

Camping out is capable of much luxury. A large camp at the Adirondacks contains about forty acres. The sleeping apartments are all in separate tents, the drawing-room and dining-room being a very pretty log cabin overhanging lake. In one place is an artistic children's play house, and in another a irfectly rolled tennis court shaded by "Ity birches. The stables are near.

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Do you suffer from scrofula, Bait rheum or other humora? Take Hood's Sarasparilla, the great blood purifier. 100 doses one dollar.

POWDER

Absolutely Pure.

This powder never vanea. A marvel ofpuritj •traistn and whoieeomeneaa. More economic* than the srdUiarr kinds, and cannot be sold in oompetltloa with the multitude ot low test, shott •etgntalomor pboephste powdera. Sold »nl»ln •we. BOVAX.Blame Powsm Oo., 1U0 Wall HI, K.T.

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it begins this year on Monday, July 22.

AIIUAL CLOSING ODT SALE

Hosiery, Underwear, Gloves.

35c Black silk Mitts for 26c. 46c and 60c black silk mitts for S5c. 60c and 66c black silk mitts for 60c. Ladles' fancy regular made linse for 12\fec. Ladles' boot iwittern hose at 15c. Ladles' fancy liose. several different lines, at 19c. Fifteen (liferent lines of ladles' fancy hose at Tic, all worth double.

Fancy half hose, six different lines, all regular made. 16c, were 26c. Fancy Lisle half hose SSViic, worth 60c.

Ladles' long sleeve Balbrlapin vests, 23«. Ladles' .Jersey ribbed vests, fancy trimmed, 16c. Ladles' lace trimmed bodies 25c, were 60c. Ladies' pink, blue, white and cream Lisle vents,

25c. Gentlemen's ribbed shirts and drawers, 39c, cheap at 50c.

Gentlemen's gauae shirts, lie. Extra bargains In fancy parasols

S. AVKKS 4 I'II.

T. H. ft I. DIVISION. IJEAVK FOK.TH* W*ST.

No. 9 Western Express (84V) 1.4J a. ra. No. 6 Mail Train *. MMB a. pi. No. 1 Fast Line (PftV) A1B p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall IM p. m.

IJEAVK TOR TUK KAST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (3) 1.80 a. m. No. 6 New York Express 8 1.61 a. m. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.16 a. m. No. 20 Atlantic Express (P4V) 12 42 P. m. No. Fast Line 2.00 p.

ARRIVE FROM THK KAST.

No. 9 Western Express (SAV) l.ito a. m. No. 6 Mall Train 11U2 a. ra. No. 1 Fast Line (PAV) 2.U0 P. No. 9 Mall and Accommodation 6.46 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.00 p. in.

ABRIVK FROM THK WJC8T.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (3) 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New Ywk Express (S4V) 1.42 a.m. No. 20 Atlantic Express (P*V) 12.87 p. m. No. 8Fast Line* 1.40 p.m.

T. H. ft L. DIVISION.

LKAVK FOR THX NORTH.

No. 62 South Bend Mall 8.00 a. m. No. 64 South Bend Express 4.0U p. m. ARRJVK FROM TUK NORTH No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.H0 noon No. 68 South Bend Mall 7.SU p. m.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

W. B. MA IT- h, H. RARTHOL/UHTW.

DRS. MAIL & BARTHOLOMEW Dentists,

(Successors to Bartholomew ft Hall. 629% OHIO St. Terre Haute, Ind.

MARK k. SHERMAN,

Attorney at Law,

'1th I. H. C. Royse.

NO. 647 OHIO STREET.

DR. C. O. LINCOLN.

DENTIST.

All work warranted as represented. Office ano residence 810 North Thirteenth street. Terr» Haute. Ind

DK. E, A. GILLETTE, DENTIST. Filling of Teeth a Specialty. Office—McKeen's new block, cor. 7th and Main sts

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Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, ia the only medicine of its clam that ia guar* an teed to benefit or cure in all diaoaaoa for which it is recommended or the money paid for it

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Agents for Butterick's patterns.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Oars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Buffet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run daily. All other trains run dally Sundays excepted.

VANPALIA LINE.

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ical Discovery cures all humora,

from the common pimple, blotch, or eruption, to the worst Scrofula, or blood-poison, saltrheum or Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas. Feversores, Hip-joint Disease, Scrofulous SorMiand Swellings, Enlarged Glands. Goitro or Thick Meek, and Eating Sores or Ulcers.

Golden Medical Discovery cures Consumption (which ia Scrofula of the Lungs), by its wonderful blood purifying, invigorating, and nutritive properties, if taken in time.

affections, it is a sovereign remedy. It promptly cures the severest Coughs.

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For Torpid Liver, Biliousness, or Liver Complaint, Dyspeptfa, and Indigestion, it is an unequaiod remedy. Sold by druggists.