Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 November 1889 — Page 2

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Don't be alarmed about Ohio. A week or ten days ago the Democrats were jubilant over a false sign of victory, but the best judges

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amoDg

them

concede the election of the Republican governor and legislature.

Emperor William's visit to Constantinople is said to be of great importance in an international sense. According to the reports, it is of groat weight in the internal economy of the dignitaries, as banqueting seems to be the chief occupation of all of them.

In the death of Mr. Nippert Terre ilaute loses one of its best citizens, a man who without ostentation was of great value in the development of the city's welfare, and whose charitable deeds were performed so quietly that but very few indeed knew of them.

Secretary Rusk does not want the president and congress and the people to overlook the importance of the bureau of agriculture. In his annual report he takes pains to make it known to all that the department is one which detls with the interests of the people who form the basis of all other callings in life.

The People's Paper, of Covington, says the News of this city has come out in fovor of a protective tariff. Has it? To the best of our knowledge it has taken the remarkably bold and independent position for a newspaper of being noncommittal on an issue whish it says is of great interest to the people.

Dr. Cronin's friends in Chicago woul*1 render a good service to the Irish cause by removing any impression that he was a spy. They would also render a good service by denouncing murder conspiracies of all kinds, whether the victims be spies or not. The crime of murder is not changed by reason of any suspicion of treachery that may attach to a member of a secret society whose object teems to have been the destruction of life and property

The elections in several states to-mor-row are attracting a great deal of interest in other states, and in Virginia and Ohio the campaign is as exciting as when the election of a president is pending. In Virginia the tension is even more severe, and it is not unlikely that there will be trouble there. The following is the list of states in which elections will be held:

Pennsylvania will elect a state treasurer. Ohio will elect a governor

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oilicfrs.

.Mississippi will elect a governor and state oflicers. Massachusetts will elect a governor am! state olllcers.

Maryland will elect comptroller and attorney general. Nebraska will elect a supreme court judge anil and two regents.i

Iowa will elect governor and llentenant governor and other ollieers. New York will elect a legislature and state oflloers except governor and lieutenant governor.

Mrs. Mackay is suing an English newspaper because it said that she once kept a boarding house and that she washed the shirts of Nevada miners. Why should Mrs. Mackay consider herself entitled to a verdict for damages on these charges? Surely there is nothing so disgraceful in them as in her neglect of home that she may court the favor of foreign nobility. The pity of all the sensations caused by Americans abroad is that the women are the ones who are the objects of ridicule and contempt on the part of sensible people everywhere. The recent marriage escapades and the Mackay suit are cases in point. American womanhood does not ileservj the stigma such women put upon it.

C. O. 1.

With Mullee Prepense.

Watts—U there Is anything 1 despise, It's a cigarette. Potts—That's just what Braggs was telling me about you.

Watts—Thai's funny. I didn't suppose he had noticed It. Every time 1 iio Into Ills cilice for a comfortable chat he lights one of the cussed things.

A I^ittcr-Uay Slave.

Were they all tor nothing, those four years of war. those battles to make men tree? Kor somehow or other they failed to connect, as far as applies to me. lias the soul of John Brown ceased Its vigilant round, like his body asleep In the grave'.' Kor surely he knows the wrongs and the woes of the suffering baseball slave.

Oil. why did 1. like a b'.oomlng guy, that cast-Iron contract make, That contract which l.awyer Kvarts remarks 1 will not be allowed to break Oil. why did I a victim become to such transparent

Intrliue?

oil. woe to the day that 1 bartered away my liberty to the League.

It's that before 1 learned to play ball 1 considered a dollar a day With regular work the whole year round, a pretty good thing In its way, Ami now for six months' play I'm getting of do! lars just thousands three. But what Is gold to a man who's sold and hasn't his llbertee.

A ROMANCE OF THE WAR

"Is dis yere de road to Bostiog, master?" It was an ancient negro who asked this question of a reporter on the corner of Broad and Arch streets. He was an extensely black negro, with the whitest of white teeth. He was the personification of good nature as he stood, hat in hand, making from time to time respectful obeisances to the reporter.

He was strangely and typically attired, and his feet were enormous in size. His face was kindly and full of honest purpose. His long, bushy wool was snow white. "Surely, Uncle," interposed the reporter, "you are not going to walk all the way to Boston?" 'Deed I is, master," was the answer.

Where are you from?" "Ole Virginny." What part?" "Ise hada little place in Fauquier county since surrender, till I done heerd from Miss Em'ly's gran'chile. Den I done give up, an' hyar I is, TO years ole nex December, 14th day, trabbling 'cross de country like de patriarchs did in Bible times when day was out on a mission o' kindness or to smite an enemy."

The old negro soon became communicative, and in a neighboring restaurant, where he could rest and refresh himself, he told his story which, robbed of the homely dialect impossible to reproduce, is as follows:

Long before the war there settled in Nottoway county, VirginiB, a certain Thomas Bostwick, who came from Georgia with his young wife and purchased a large plantation near Jenning's ordinary. Among the goods and chattels purchased by the Georgian was Aaron, warranted by hie late master as "dound in limb, of good temper, faithful, honest and industrious." Aaron was the ancient negro who is now trampiDg across the country to Boston. When "Master Tom" bo'ught him Aaron was a young man and for years he held the confidence of his owner, was his friend and counselor in health and nurse and doctor in sickness. "Miss Em'ly," quoth Aaron, "dat was Master Tom's wife, was a mob' lubly lady, gentle as a dove an' as foir as a lily. She had two chilluns—young Master Willie and young Misa Eai'ly. Lord bless you, master, I nursed dem bofe fum de time dey fust ki ied to de day w'n dey wuz 'lowed to run 'round de ole plantation in short dresses. An' I lubbed dem chillun. S'nuah, I did, master."

When the war broke out "young Master Willie" had grown to a man's estate, and "young Miss Em'ly" was the belle of Nottoway county. When Virginia called upon her sons to defend the soil of the Old Dominion from the invading hosts that swarmed down from the Northwest,"young Master Willie" was among the first to volunteer, and until the battle of Ball's Blufl' he passed through the ordeal of shot and shell unscathed. In this hotly contested light he was badly wounded, and when the confederates retreated he was left upon the field of battle and became a prisoner. He fell into good hands, for Captain Charles Dalrymple, of a MassachuEetts regiment, was his captor.

Captain Dalrymple was wounded also, and after the battle secured leave cf ab sence. He had formed an attachment for his rebel acquaintance, and reaching home on furlough wrote to him at the federal prison in Elmirn, N. ^. The Virginian pined in captiv:ty and wrote doleful letters. The Vankee captain, wiih a heart full of sympathy, applied to Massachusetts' war governor, John Andrews, aud "Master Willie" was paroled. Out of gratitude' to his Yankee friend the released prisoner accented the latter's invitation to spend a few weeks with him at Jiis Boston home.

The bond of friendship between the two was firmly cemented before the Yankee captain's leave of absence ende.d, and he went back to his regiment with bright visions of a certain Emily, whose praises had been sounded in his ears for da\s, and towards whose home the nrfnies of the North were marching. VouDg Master Willie, furnished with a pass, went through the lines and finally reached his old home. He had sworn not to take up arms against the Northmen, but when, one October night, Burnside's army mude a sudden march upon the enemy's linos, and a scouting party dashed down Jenning's ordinary, he buckled on sword and pistol, looked up his fowling piece and started out at the head of a hastily organized home guard to repeal the invaders. By his side rode black Aaron, and his stout heart never quailed when bullets whistled about him like a shower of hail.

The opposing forces rushed toward each other nearer and nearer. From their rifles and guns belched a lurid flame. At last there was a crash, a fierce commingling of gray and blue shouts, curses, groans of agony and sarcasms of pain. At last a triumphant rebel yell and the scouting party were driven back wilh half their number dead.

Aaron was sorely wounded. He bears the scars of that conflict yet on his black body, but weak though he was, from loss of blood, he began to search for "Master Willie," whom he had seen go down in the thick of the fray. He found him at last, dead, with his white face upturned to the stars and the dew. As he bent over him, tears streoming down his black face, a groan awoke the stillness of the night, and leaving the dead that was past help, he turned to the liviug so

Borely

in need of it. Not

ten feet from where his young master lay tossed another form in the blue uniform of the enemy. The negro bent above the wounded mac, and the letter's lips formed the single word: "Water!"

It was brought to him and he drank eagerly. In the meantime several of the other plantation negroes had crept through the woods at the late scene of carnBge. and now questioned Aaron with chattering teeth and quaking limbs. He ordered them all back to the plantation for mules and a wagon and sent a verbal message of preparai ion for the coming of the dead to young Miss Em'ly.

Just as the pale light of the stars was giving way to the stronger light of the coming day Miss Em'ly, with tears in her eyes, stood upon the porch of the plantation house and received two parties—one was that of her dead brother, the other that of his wounded Yankee friend, Captain Charles Dalyrymple, who had led the scouting party. She was all that was left now of the Bostwicks, for her father and mother had both died early in the war.

With heroic fortitude she performed the last office for the dead, shed tears of heartfelt sorrow over his grave, and then, brave woman that she was, turned her attention to the suffering living. She nursed Captain Dalrymple back to life, although he was along time recovering, ana when Lee surrendered at Appomattox these two, who had learned to love

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each other, were married, and "Mias Em'ly" went to the North to make her future home in Boston. "Deyjrdidn't forgit Aaron, master, said the old negro," "an' dough I ain't no scholar, my boy dat's dead and gone dese two yearB was, an' ev'ry month I Daid my mos' doubtful compliments to Miss Em'ly an' her husband, an' dey always answered de letters. Miss Em'ly on'y had one chile—a boy. She's dead an' her husband's dead, an' de youngest, 'young Master Willie, was a man grown an' married two y'ars ago. Now, he's dead an' his young wife am left all alone in de world, wid a little baby who's a Master Willie, too. Dey's in need, master, 'cause dey's monstrous poor, an' libing like no qual'ty people ought to live. De young miray don't dream dat I know dis, but I do, an' soon's I hearn of her trouble I packed up a snack for rations, sold out my little place in Fauquier, paid my debts, an' here I is more'n half way dere, bress de good Lawd." "And what do you propose to do, uncle?" asked the reporter. "Do! chile, do? Why, I'm gwine on to Bosting to hunt up my young missy's gran'-chile, de youngest Master Willie, to work for him till my ole body is plum worn out." -Boston is a great city. Do you know where to find them?"

The ancient negro chuckled at this question, and fumbling in his pocket proceed a letter on the back of which was scrawled in rude characters: "Young Master—Willie—Albion street. Bo3ting." "Dare's de place, master," he continued earnestly. "Albion street, Boston. Dere may be a t'ouson' houses dere, but I'll knock at de door an' ax at eb'ry one, an' if I keep on I'se suah to find youDg Master Willie!"—[Philadelphia Inquirer.

A RING FOR A B0RU1A.

Curious Poisoning Implement Secured by a French Antiquarian.

At the last session of the French society of the antiquarians of the west, one of the members, M. Gailard de la Dionneir, made the following curious communication: "I have the honor to offer the society a photograph reproducing in its exact siz* a ring that can be used for poisoning. I have never seen a jewel like it before. I got it in 1S78 in a city of Normandy, and the merchant sold me at the same time a remarkable pair of pistols, made in the last century, but of foreign manufacture. He claimed to have obtained these articles from a lady of Italian origin, whose name he gave me, and who lived, he said, in the vicinity.

The ring is made of a hollow rod of silver, with a little opening concealed between the two stones that ornament the mounting. On the opposite side of the ring is a brass syringe incorporated in the ring, and communicating in each direction with the inside of the rod in such a way that, when the piston is pressed, the liquid contained in the' syringe immediately spurts out between the two 6tones in the ring.

The ring is so made that it can be clusped around the little linger of the left hand in such a way as to completely hide the syringe and yet enable the wearer to press the piston with.the thumb of the same hand."

Ou the SqumiderJng of Natural Gau.

The American Manufacturer prints an article calling attention to the waste of natural gas which is going on in those districts where it has been discovered in abundauce and devoted to practical ends. The article gives figures gathered from a certain number of factories in Pittsburg, and the tables show that from •2") to 35 per cent, of the whole amount of 'natural gas consumed in these establishments is wasted, either through the use of defective apparatus or the carelessness and indifference of operatives. It can not be said that there are reliable indications showing that there will be any general failure of the gas supply in the near future, but the dictates of ordinary prudence are all on the side of a consumption which is adequate to the carrying on of business, and not on tiieside of squandering valuable fuel merely because it is cheap and the supply seemingly inexhaustible.

Hie Hooaier of the Past

The lloosier is no longer the pictureeque creature he was years ago. There is no more homespun clothing. Keadymade clothing has penetrated to the uttermost parts of the country, and the countryman can now only be detected by his sun-burned face and swing of his arms. As to the young women from the small towns, they can only be identified by their fresh, blooming complexions and bright eyes.

In the matter of styles they are fully up to their sisters of the larger cities in fact, the belles of small towns are often familiar with New York fashions long before they become general in St. Louis, this being due to the fact that the town dressmaker closely follows the plates in the fashion paper as soon as novelties are presented.—[Globe Democrat.

Origin of tile Kulghta of Pythias.

"It was a freak of fortune," said Justus Rathbone, the founder of the order of the Knights of Pythias. When I wrote the work it was intended for only one lodge, or society, of clerks at Washington, who desired to use it for mutual benefit. I had no idea it would become so popular indeed, no one dreamed that it -would spread beyond our little circle of fourteen. The wonderful growth of Pythianism, with its 30,000 lodges, is a constant wonder to me as much as to any one else."—[Louisville Times.

A Captious Criticism.

"This is a great country and all that," said the chronic bachelor, "but I must say I think it was unfortunately named." "Why?" "Well, United States always suggests to me the bargain which people enter into to make each other miserable for life."—[Merchant Traveler,

The Worth of Good Roads.

General Q. A. Gilmore, it is asserted, has proven by experiments with the dy-namo-meter that four times as much load can be hauled on a good road as upon a poor one. Can stronger testimony for good roads be produced?

When a Liirab is a Sheep.

An English court once decided that a lamb became a sheep as soon as it had acquired its first pair of permanent teeth. If that is sound doctrine, the lamb becomes a sheep when it is about a year old.

A Find fur Mathematicians.

The London Athemeum says that a Sanscrit translation of the lost books of Euclid has been discovered in India.

One bottle of Salvation Oil can change a frantic victim of rheumatism into a dove of gentleness.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1889.

FORAKER WILL WIN.

Both Branches of the Ohio. .Legislature Will Be Republican, Special to the Commercial Gazette.

COLUMBUS, O.,

November 2.—It"would

be difficult to find an informed and intelligent Democrat to-night in the state capital who believes that his party will win next Tuesday. Day by day the conviction has grown stronger in all circles of political knowledge that the Republicans are masters of the situation. So strong has this conviction become that even amoDg the gambling fraternity of Columbus, which is practically unanimously Democratic, not a bet is being offered against Foraker, except on his majority at ten thousand and upward and then odds are required. As to the legislature, not a single bet. on the Democratic side is offered.

Mr. James E. Neil, chairman of the Democratic state committee, was asked by me to night whether he had any estimate to give to the public, sure of at least 9,000 majority, but to-day the Democratic committeie's own executives say that indications ooint to Foraker's re-election by about 12,000. The Republican committee, on the contrary, is confident, whichever WBy the situation is looked at, and, taking all the conflicting estimates from the counties of the Rtate with or without Hamilton county, Foraker's re-election is assured. The Republican figures conservatively stated range from fifteen thousand to twenty thousand. A close approximation is seventeen thousand. In the little betting that is going on Democrats concede Foraker's majority at ten thousand.

One reason of the abandonment of Democratic confidence is the strong belief that the foolish onslaught of the liquor league against Republicans, but particularly against Foraker, has reacted against the Damocrats. The Damocrtic saloon circular has not Mr. Neil said he had not. This was said courteously, but certainly despondently. He added that "Things were all right." It is to be presumed that Mr. Neil meant to be understood that things were all right for the Democratp, but the addendum was mode sadly and listlessly. Sitting right next to Mr. Neil was one of the working officials of the Democratic state committee, and he SDoke up and said that Foraker would undoubtedly be reelected. The remark was made inadvertantly, and not from any disloyalty to Mr. Campbell, but it undoubtedly voiced the belief of the Democratic state committee.

This tone of concession of Republican victory is in forcible contrast to the bombastic Democratic claims of a week or ten days ago. Then the word went out that Campbell had only aroused the dormant ^publican sentiment of the rural districts, and especially of the Western reserve, but it has positively proved a boomerang in Hamilton county. This is the information received here both from Democratic and Republican sources. Republicans claim the legislature in both branches, no matter what Hamilton county does, and the latest information from that corner of the state is now in favor of the Republicans.

Both headquarters closed up comparatively early to night, and the campaign of 1889 is practically closed, and the balance ready to be struck next Tuesday.

J. B.

STILLING THE SKA WITH OIL-

Throe Tints of Oil Will Keep Old Neptune Ouietfor Two Hour*.

A competition, the result of which will prove of great interest to the shipping community at large, has been instituted this year by the Dunkirk chamber of commerce, who had iu view a practical trial of the utility of oil in aiding a ship to weather a Btorm. The competitors were the masters of the schooners engaged in the Iceland fisheries, of which Dunkirk equips no fewer than a hundred every year. The fishing season lasts six months, and, owing to the frequency of boisterous weather, affords ample opportunities for experimenting upon any means of lessening the dacgrr:

The first prize (four pounds) has been awarded t.o Captain Bruxelles, of the schooner Perle, who reports as follows: "On April 21, while off Portland, we encountered an east southeasterly gale, attended with snow. We endeavored to stand out to sea with closely-reefed sails, but were unuble to clear the Westman Isles. We then resolved to attempt to pass between these isles and the mainland. The tempest was 'then at its height, the sea was making a clean breach over the ship, fore and aft, and we were in great danger of foundering. I directed two bags containing tow, saturated with oil, to be placed astern on port and starboard quarters. Almost instantaneously the seu moderated, and, although the swell was still heavy, no waves broke over the ship. I am in a position to state that a pint and a half of oil per bag is sufficient to calm the sea for about two hours."

Similar accounts are given by other masters who have handed in reports on the subject to the chamber of commerce.

SUING THE THOMSOX-HOUSTOX COMPANY.

A Stockholder Alleges That the Directors Have Exceeded Their Authority.

Patrick L3nnox, of Lyno, has filed a bill in equity, at Boston, in behalf of himself and other stockholders of the Thomson-Houston electric li^ht company against the directors,charging that In organizing the electric light company as a distinct organization they were guilty of an injustice to the plaintiffs. The case involves between §2,000,000 and 83,000,000. Mr. Lennox maintains that the electric light patents taken out by Professor Elihu Thomson really belonged to the Thomson company. The directors, however, allowed the professor to form separate corporations for the management of these. The American company has a capital of 8500.000, and its stock sells at making it worth over a million dollars. The European electric lighting company ha?sold its patents in England for 81,200,000, and expects to do equally as well in France and Germany. Mr. Lennox is one of the largest individual holders in Thomson-Houston, and feels that in being deprived of sharing in these profits he has been unjustly treated. The BCtion will probably be compromised.

Another Broken Friendship.

Miss Effie Ancee (just engaged)—What do you think Edwin said last night! That if he had to choose either me or a million dollars, he wouldn't even look at the million.

Mies May Tour (still waiting) —Daar, loyal fellow! I suppose he didn't !ike to risk the temptation.—[Time.

Blackballed and Killed.

CHEROKEE, Kas., November 3.—Last night, at a meeting of the Farmers' alliance, Charles North was stabbed in the stomach with a knife by George Hall. North died a few minutes after the stab­

bing. North bad endeavored to join the alliance, but was blackballed. He suspected Charles Hall and John Wilkins of opposing his membership to the alliance, and at the close of the meeting knocked down Wilkins. He then assailed Hall, who drew a knife and stabbed him. The deputy sheriff was obliged to take Hall to Columbus, a town a few miles distant, to protect him from a mob which had organized to lynch him.

THE BENDERS.

A Failu to Id'ntify the Women Arrested In Michigan. KANSAS CITY, November 3.—H. A.

Lewis, ex-assistant attorney general of the state of Kansas, at present a resident of this city, was in command of the vigilance committee which, in 1878, wa9 organized in Parsons, Kan., to bring the Benders to justice. In an interview he tells the story of the vigilantee' fruitless chase after the murderers from the scene of their crimes, throughout the surrounding country to Cherryvale, Kan., near the Indian Territory line. From Cherryvale the committee returned in a body to Parsons, and there disbanded without having even seen the Benders, much less lynched them. Mr. Lewis says another committee continued the search from Cherryvale. Some say tl\ey lynched the murderers, others that they did not. In the light of these conflicting statements it may be that the members of the Bender family still live, and that the two women arrested in Michigan are old Mrs. Bender and Kate. Oa the latter point a special to the Journal from Oswego says: A large number of persons were here to-day to identify the prisoners. The majority were from Parsons and the vicinity of the Benders' home. Out nf twelve persons who had known the Benders only four couid see any resemblance between them and the Benders, and could make no positive identification. The others were positive that the prisoners were not the Benders. There is no excitement here over the presence of the suspects, as was expected, and the extraordinary vigilance exercised by the officers to prevent violence is wholly needless.

A special to the Times says: Mrs. McCann, who caused the arrest of the eupposed Bendere, is about the only person here who has any confidence of holding the prisoners to the grand jury. She is as positive as ever that she has caught the right person, but she is regarded here as a "crank" by those who know her. Her mesmeric power over Mrs. Davie is regarded as the means by Which she procured tbo alleged confession. Interest in the prisoners has about died out, and will not be revived until the day set for the preliminary examination, November 18.

THE CHEROKEE L\N1)S.

The Council to Assemble To-Morro\v ami Consider the Question* KANSAS CITY. Mo., November 3.—A

special to the Times from Tahlequah, I. T., says: The Cherokee council assembles in its annual session here to-morrow. The*first thing to be done will be swearing in the new members chosen at the election of last summer. Most of the new memoers are adherents of Chief Mayes, and theie is no doubt but that he will be re elected his own successor as president of the council. When this preliminary work has been completed there will come up for consideration the most momentous question ever brought before this council, viz, what disposition to make of the Che okee lands. The Indian commission, appointed by President Harrison to negotiate for the purchase of the lands at 8125 per acre, is expected to be preFent on Tuesday to make its formal proposition. At that time Secretary Nobie's letter to the commission containing instructions and a statement of the facts regarding treaties, etc.. as well as a statement of the government's intention, will be presented to the council in their endeavor to persuade the Indians that the best thing they can do is to accept the government's offer. Two other propositions will be presented to the council—one is an offer from Blair, Williamson & Co., of Independence, to lease the lands for ten years for 8400,000 a year for the first five and $720,000 a year for the next five. The other is similar offer from an eastern syndicate to be made through N. R. French, of Kansas City. The lobby will also number among its members a delegation from the Cherokee live stock association, the present lessee of the lands. This delegation will remind the council that the lease over the lands does not expire for five years yet, and that no disposition should be made of the lands until that time. No prediction can-be made as to the council's action. A great dear depends upon Chief Mayes' recommendations.

A Fi»h Story.

C. H. Warner and C. M. Keoch, of Gloucester,R. I., are mighty smart at pulling in the queer horned fish called pout. They work steadily at this industry, and old "Bowditch" pond is the field of their endeavor. They have taken from that lake this season just 21,570 pout and sold 1,400 pounds of the fish in that village alone. The rest of the catch went to Providence. They are expert at catching pickerel through the ice, too. Last year they took 1.200 fish and had tons of fun besides.

Forest Fires in Spain.

Extensive forest fires have recently been raging in Spain. Although the country has fewer trees than any other in Europe, the government does nothing to restore burned forests by planting young trees.

The Population of Europe.

Since 1800 the population of Europe has just doubled itself. Then it was 175,000,000 in 1S30, 216,000,000 in 1SG0, 2S9,000,000 in 1880, 331,000,000 in 1888, 550,000,000.

The Biggest Man in Congress.

Congressman Reed, of Maine, is the biggest man physically in the house. He is an omnivorous reader, and devours French novels. He is also well up in the classics.

An Improvement in Diseases.

"Dyspepsia used to be the national failing," observed a physician, "and now catarrh is getting to be the national disease."—[Cincinnati

Times-Star.

Another Monument Tar Posterity.

A movement is afoot to erect a join memorial to Fulton and Ericsson in Trinity churchyard, New York.

"A friend in need is a friend indeed." Such a friend is Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, which should be in every family. It costs only 25 cents. Give it a trial, mm

EXPRESS PACKAGES.'

A SOCIETY SOCIALIST.

She talked with me, In manner sage. Of sundry problems of the age With •'Looking Backward" for her theme

She was entrancing

But all at once, with rapturous sigh And much more brightening up of eye She asked, with dimpled, smiling gleam: "Don't you love dancing?" I was astonished bj the maid. Who ever and anon betrayed •. f-

Her frantic efforts to be wise By some sweet folly. VA "Social Problem class," jnst coined' By sundry other girls, sne'd joined.

Yet Henry George, to her bright eyes. Seemed "just too jolly!" "Progress and Poverty" I took. DescanUng long upon the book

She listened without any jest, Much interest showing "Talk'ng of progress," then iiuoth she. "I think that you'll agree with me ..

Progressive pedro is the beat Of all games going." The whole village of Powelton, Centre county, Pa., is advertised for sale.

Admission to the French exhibition costs only 5 sous during its closing daye. During the last eighteen months the Russian government has expelled 35,000 Jews from the empire.

There were strange signs in the skies Wednesday. At Ithaca, N. Y., and at Pittsfield, Mass, rainbows were seen in cloudless heavens.

An Ohio youth, who is said to be a college graduate, wrote a short business letter the other day in which seventeen words were misspelled.

Judge Simrall, of Louisville, says that the lawyer who cannot argue an ordinary case in thirty minutes either has very little in his case or he does not understand it.

A jilted Mexican^ damsel is said to have gathered her false lover's letters in a heap, sat upon them and tired them, and stoically burned to death upon the unique funeral pyre.

At West Harwich, Mass., little Sylvia Lathrop, eleven years old, recently picked 104 quarts of cranberries iu a single day. Her picking this year has brought her in nearly $20.

The baby giraffe which was born at the Cincinnati ZDO a few days ago has since died, the mother having refused it sustenace from the time of its birth. II* was 5 feet 5 inches tall, and weighed 125 pounds.

George West-, of Fulton county, Pennsylvania, went into his cellar the other morning and was surprised to find a large owl there. When and how the bird got in is a mystery, as both doors and windows were fastened.

Senator Stanford, of Californio, has finished with Chinamen in his vineyard. The superintendent says that white labor is much more profitable than Chinese, even at far higher wages. He declines to pay low wages, as, he soys, the other system is much the most productive.

Clay county, West Virginia, has a hydrophobia scare. The disease has broken out on Peters Creek, and dogs are shot down on sight. Tnree persons have been bitten so far, and a child named Williams died in horrible convulsions'. A great many cattle have been bitten.

According to a calculation made at the United States learation at Paris, it is estimated that 50,000 Americans have visited the exhibition. The Matin, reckoning the expenses at Paris of each of these visitors at 5,000 francs, calculates that the total sum they must nave ppent there cannot be less than 250,000,000 francs.

Men and horses for the wo ids are in good demand and are being sent to camp in considerable numbers in Michigan and Wisconsin. The best

horseB

to be

obtained are also secured, some of the teams running as high as 6000 each. Several teams have been sold recently at that figure.

In the race with automatic machines Paris has put herself in the lead with a machine exhibited the oth«r day in the Place de la Repubiique. You brought with you a penny and a cup. You parted with your penny, dropping it into the occistomed slot, aud your cup was full of steaming black coffee, judiciously sugared.

In Holland a lady is expected to retire immediately if sheshould.enter a store or restaurant where men are congregated. She waits till they hove left before reentering. LadieB seldom arise in Spain to receive a male visitor, and they rarely accompany him to the door. A gentleman does not offer to shake a Spanish lady's hand.

The town of L^ipsig ha-3 produced a boy whose precocity in crime has led him, at the age of 13, fo kill his mother with an ax while she lay in bed asleep, bpcause she had boxed his ears. A girl of 14 has also been arrested by the police for administering pins and needles and oil paint to the infant iu her charge in order to get rid of it.

A Harvard graduate was ftiven a detail recently on the Virginia City Enterprise. His copy wound up thus: "As the sun threw its struggling beams athwart our hazy atmosphere last evening, in kissing Mt. Davidson good-night, a few straggling rays revealed to Virginia's inhabitants that the Como range would sleep with a snow-cap last night."

The Hotchkiss cannon used in light draft steam launches has been making mighty havoc among the Tonquin pirates, who were becoming a source of great danger and damage to the French colonial commerce. The French papers guardedly announce that "the resistance of the pirates was feeble," but it is understood that there was a great slaughter of the Chinese bravos.

At Burlington, N. J., a valuable dog that had escaped from its owner's kennel was caught by a policeman, who locked it in the mayor's private office for safe keeping. Returning to the office a short time afterward the officer discovered the dig had caused sad havoc. Six policemen's helmets hud been completely demolished, and the mayor's court Bible, a copy of the city charter and ordinances and other public documents reduced to pulp. The mayor has issued strict orders prohibiting, in the future, the locking of stray dogs in his office.

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THE GREAT

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AT DBCOOISTS AND DEALERS.

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We have them, that is. TOP (JAKWENTS of aH the late styles and materials ill newmarkets. jackets. English coats, short wraps, misses'cloaks, children's cloaks, infants' cloaks.

Our Flush Sacques

are better for the prlees than ever before. We can show you qualities that cannot be duplicated at our prices. See our leaders at t'Jtl and $i. and better ones at $311. $:Ci. $40 and $45 No house In tbe state can show you as good value for the money. All we ask Is for you to come and see.

Oar Fur Department.

We bought this season almost two carloads of fur#, and can show you about everything In that line. Capes In all lurs, muffs Iti all furs, neck pieces in all turs. ehlldren's,sefs, seal s'ioiues, seal newmarkets. seal walking coats, mink sanpies, etc.. etc.

Shawls.

Everything for house wear, street wear, evening, party and opera wear. In

Our Underwear Department

We have the Basket Knit Shirts, which are the only sensible imnnents in the market. Come and see what we have In our store.

L. S. AYRKS ft CO,

.Indianapolis, Ind.

Agents for Butteriek's Patterns.

NAYLOK'S 0FERA. HOUSF,

WILSON XAYLOH, MANAHKU.

Tuesday, November 5.

The (ireat iletropolltan Success,

LOST At Mil I

One of thegreaf-st realistic comedy dramas ever presented In Terre llaute The entire stage tiansfoimed into A KIVKIl OF UKW, IVATI- It

WITH AN AOHJAI, STK HO AT

Running at full speed. An Knt're Carload of new Scenery, Including The (ireat Kast ltiver Scene,

New York City Illuminated. Ward's Island Insane Asylum. (Jrammercy Park. etc. etc. Seats on sale at Button's Monday. I'suai |U Ices. 'J5, 50 and 70 cents.

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AYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE, WILSON NAYI.OU M*NA(iKK ONE NIGHT ONLY,

Wednesday, Nov, 6th,

The lienoAiieii American Act'T,

LKYVLS MO KlSON,

Tile greatest JlKi'iusro known In the history of the stiiae In his sublime scenic and drama !c production of Wiethe's Immortal

Wonderful Klectrfo ftMeets!

Advance sale opens Monday. November 1th. Prices— *!k-. 5Uc. 75c and *1.

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ONK NKiHT ONLY,

Friday, November 9th,

TIi« Kliti Opemlii: Kvcnt!

Cooreid's Comic Opera Co.

Presenting Adolph Mueller's beautiful romantic opera,

THE KING'S FOOL! 5i!

Colored Electric Lights! Cascade and Hlver of Kunning Water! Marches of Kalediascoplc Beauty!

Beautiful Lady Fencers! Augmented Orchestra!

Eighty-seven Artists,

INCLCDI.NC

He'en Bertram, Delia Fox, "Ada Glasca, Jennie Rtiflurtb, Maym Kelso, Lewis Hartrnan,

J. Aid Libby, Edw. S. Grsnt and Cliarles P. Lang, :£"-*3ale of seats opens Tuesday.

Look at This Array 1

EMILE ZOLA, ERNEST KENAN', GUV ir. MAUPASSANT.

THEODORE

OK

BANVILLIO,

FREDERICK HARRISON, ERNEST ECKSTKIN, and 1IEN KIK I US EN

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