Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 December 1889 — Page 2

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The Express does notundertaketoretur rejected manuscript, No communication will be published unless the full name and plu of residence the writer la far ulshcd, not necessarily for publication, but an a guarantee of (food faith.

The president's message will be sent to congress at noon to-day. It will be printed in full in Tin: EXPRESS to-mor-row morning.

The president's present intention is to leave Washington on,Friday nest for Indianapolis, where he will remain over Sunday, going to Chicago to be pressnt at the opening of the auditorium, but the serious illneas of Mrs. Lord, Mrs Harrison's sister, may cause a change in the plans.

North Dakota is a great state. When it has a blizzard word is sent out that was just the thing needed for the crops During last winter we were frequently informed as to the mild and delightful climate out there and cow when we are t,old that more snow fell yesterday th8n in all of last winter it is added that snow is the thing above all others needed just now to moisten the ground.

Mr, Cheadle of Indiana, managed to defeat his party in the house -yesterday in the election of a chaplain. The caucus had chosen one clergyman but Mr Cheadle and two other Republicans gave their votes to the Democrats, re electing the Rev. Mr. Milburn, the blind clergyman. Mr. Ciieadle has a faculty of doing this sort of thing frequently lie ought to represent a district where the majority is not so big for a while and learn to be a good party man.

MR. WANAMAKER'S RECO.MMsND-UTONS.

Postmaster Gsneral Wanamaker's re commendations are meeting with hearty approval from all who are cot prejudiced against him because his hobby is Sun day school work. But hio ideas meet the approval of those who look upon the postal service as a public conven ience. The only just criticism of his recommendations is, perhaps that he is in favor of extensions of the service too elaborate and compre henaive for the present time. As much was said when each reduction was made in letter postage, and with each exten sion of the railway mail service, but in time the steps taken, at first expensive, were not only justified by the increased revenue and expedited service, but improvements were extended and are be ing exteuded constantly.

Mr. Wanamaker's suggestions as to a postal telegraph service, the department uniting with the telegraph company, is criticised on the ground that "there would be forty thousand additional tele graph offices, and not 1 per cent, of them would pay for years, if ever." As well might it have been said when the free de livery system was inaugurated that there would be an outlay for carriers at forty thousand offices. Mr. Wanomaker is a little ahead of time, we think, but -he ought not to be misrepresented in this manner. His suggestion is to Uogin the postal-telegraph service as an experiment, as the free delivery system was lirat put in operation. His belief is that in time it will be extended as has been the latter which began only with cities of the first class and now is found to be profitable in cities of less than 10,000 population.

SECRETARY NUBLE'S REPORT.

The report of Secretary Noble is an admirable document. The secretary is, perhaps, without a superior as a cabinet officer in the present administration. He knows the la.v and has the courage to obey and enforce it. Ilia treatment of the pension question is likely to cause much comment. Ha will be criticized by the Democracy, which imagined they had an ally in him in their opposition to a liberal pension policy, because he refused to let Tanner ride rough shod over the law. The secretary, referring to the rerat-ings which caused t-he split-between the commissioner and himself, says: ''Such increase is not a matter of sentiment, it is a question of law." His own sentiments, however, are as creditable to his sympathy for the soldier as were Tanner's, as will be seen from the following extract from his report:

A due regard to Its own dignity and character should prevent the government from allowing any ot the men who fought to maintain the I'nion to •sufter from want, when they have become so Incapacitated. It is well known to all our people that many who were never disabled in the light or the service were yet those who met the greatest dangers of the war and who served continuously and faithfully. ThV Providence saved them from wounds or disease, and that their strong constitutions withstood the hardships of the field, give no reason why they should be left disregarded and unsnpporteiTnow. The pension is paid by the government in reward for past services to those who fought to maintain its existence. It has the sanction of the law of self-pres-ervation, which no government in the treatment ef its veterans can safely ignore. The preservation of the nation for which these men fought and endured so much to secure, has given to all our peoplea wonderful degree of prosperity, and an almost unlimited ability to pay any obligations honor imposes,

I am not disposed to confer on all who may ask the money ot the people, and would have confined to well ascertained limits the claims of those who demand a pension. Nevertheless, a disregard of

those of the service named whose disability has become since the war so great as to make them dependent would be both unjust to them and unworthy of our country.

The secretary asks for $97,210,252 for the next fiscal year, which is 317,000,000 more than the appropriation for the present year.

c. o. o.

The Small Boy's Faith.

Do not Imagine that the boy who joins church about this time Is concerned about the future. It Is the present he has an eye to.

I„ikely He Would.

She—You do not use profane language, do you, darling? He—No, I do not. I suppose I can learn, though, after we are married.

Squelching a Bore.

De Lunay—For the Lord's sake, how long does It take you to read a page of that novel? When are you going to turn the next leaf

Bllllngs-Whenever you get tired of looking over iny shoulder.

The Late Mr. Tupper.

Long biographies ot Martin Farquahar Tupper. proverbial philosopher, are now appearing In the papers. From the extracts with which they are Interlarded, it is evident that Mr. Tupper was perhnps the greatest prose poet ever existing.

Tougli Grub.

ilartin Ericson, ot North Dakota, stumbled and fell while walking across a piece of

which

land

from

some underbrush had just been

cut-

falling he opened Ills mouth and felion a s)harp grub ten inches high. The point entered brain and he died almost instantly.

And yet here in Terre Haute men are openin their mouths and falling on their grub every da and nobody gets hurt but the grub.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Indianapolis Journal: The filibustering crowd do not relish the selection of Reed tor speaker. It Is

said

but there are times when a Democratic minority cannot be gratiiied. Baltimore American: Alibis, as a rule, cannot be well cooked unless truth and perjury are mixed to a proper consistency. Without great care in tills respect tne solid facts are apt to sink to the bottom of the alibi and knock it out.

Peoria Tranecrlpt: Over In Iowa the other day a

newiv-elected

member of the legislature. who got

into a row, had bis ear chewed off. The prospect lor saloons In Iowa Is pretty bright, but the people stem to be forcing the free touch season.

Albany Journal: By way of Chicago word comes that the Sprlngvaitey coal company, upon reopening Its mines, refused employment to min­

ers

who took food, clothing and medicine to the cuflering during the memorable lockout. If the Hon. William L. Scott perseveres lie will noon achieve, as a philanthropist, a reputation no less enviable than his reputation as an enemy of corporations.

Indlauvpolls News: Governor Gordon's whole speech unconsciously reveals a state or mind analogous to that which prevailed at the bouth dur Ing slavery, and which, broably stated. Is, (1) rh.i

the

condition of the blacks mere is the best ol

any class

of laborers in the world {all talk about

their suppression and denial of rights now as similar talk about slavery to be disbelieved U) That the oly people who have any concern In the premises are the blacks and the Southern whites, and we of the North and the rest of the world are to shut up and stand off ami leave the .Southern whites to settle the status. Patriotic as Governor Gordon's speech was In its devotion to the Hag, wo fear that he has not yet caught the spirit or modern times, to say nothing of the real lesson which the war read: namely, that a wrong to one Is the concern of all.

Chicago Herald: Mrs. Hannah Southworth, the woman who murdered Stephen L. l'ettus at New York a few days ago, defends her act by suiting that the man she killed induced her to go to a bouse wi'h him, where he engaged a private room and ordered drugged wine, which she drank, became stupeMed and lost control ot her mind and person. A great many persons will believe this story, A strong efTort'wtll be made by the lawyers who will detend her at her trial to make the jury believe It. Tills story about the etTect of some mysterious drug has been told so long, so often and in so many places that it Is almost universally believed. As often as once a month It is repeated with slight variations in some Chicago court, and ttie magistrate or jury believes it. In every penitentiary In the Cnlted States are men who have been sent there tor a long term of years on this sort of testimony. The story of drugged wine Is always on the Hps of every girl who leaves her home and is found In a place she should not enter It is strange iiow many females know tills story by heart who cannot repeat the Lord's i'rayer.

Olio of tho Perils of Poverty. A colored man who was evidently in poor circumstances called at a Gratiot avenue hardware store the other day and asked for a door lock, and while he was looking nt a line of them the meichant said:

Vou can't be afraid of burglars?'' "But I ar\" was the reply. "Have you got anything to be stolen?" "No, sah. Hain't got 820 worth of stuff in de house." "Then why do you fear burglars?" "It hain't 'cause 1 'epect dey would steal anything, but because I doan' want to be woke up in the night and see a burglar at de foot of de bed au' hear him say: 'Now, Reuben, you hand over dat bag of gold or I'll put six bullets into ye!'" "But you have no gold." "Dat's jist it. He'd think 1 was lyin' an' shute me."—[Detroit Free Press.

About Men.

A man who attempts to flatter you takes you for a fool. Man, like the tire, is apt to torment woman by going out at night.

A good many are unable to prove that the world owes them a living. A lucky man—a man who marries a widow whose tirst husband was mean to her.

The poorer a man is the more apt be is to refuse the pennies you give him in change.

There is always something for a man to do when everything'else fails he can worry.—[Atchison Globe.

A Popular Keception to Gov. Gordon. CHICAGO, December 2.—Gov. Gordon, of Georgia, was given a popular reception to-night at the Palmer house. Fully 2,000 citizens shook hands with him in the course of little over an hour. At Gov. Gordon's right hand stood Mr. N K. Fairbanks, Bnd on the left Gen. Crook. Among the notables who came to make the governor's acquaintance were many such as Judge Walter Gresham, P. E. Studebaker and exSenator Lyman Trumbull.

Deliberate Attempt to Commit Murder. KAI.AMAZOO, Mich., December 2.—Dr. Morris Gibbs walked into the American house this afternoon and, coolly placing a pistol at the side of F. E. Michener, tired. A 6tub book in Michener's side pocket- prevented serious results. The doctor tried to shoot again, but was prevented. Dr. Gibbs alleges that Michener induced Mrs. Gibba to abandon her husband two mouths ago. Michener denies the charge.

The L.uHe Aid Socicty.

The regular monthly meeting of the Ladies' aid society will be held at the residence of Mrs. C. M. Warren to-day, December 3d, at 2 o'clock.

E. W. PARKER, Secretary pro tem. Additional donations: Montrose school, 35 cents. Union ihurches (ctl ), $27.4?. J. L. Champer, fifty pounds of Hour. H. Hulman, one barre: of canned fruit. J. V. Koedel, order for groceries. $3. W. M. llertfelder, order for groceries, $5.

Au Appropriate Name.

Jones—Say, Browne, why do you call your eldest boy Telephone? Browne—Because he never works.— [Epoch

A VANISHING OIL TOWN.

special Correspondence of the

Globe-Democrat.

PETROLEUM CENTER, Pa., November 28.—There is ncrcity here now, but there was once a busy, rushing crowd of oil men located at this spot. The stream which flows by the side of this almost vanished town is Oil creek. The fabled river Pactolus "rjlled golden sands," and every farm washed by Oil creek in the seventeen miles between Titusville and Oil City has been a veritable gold mine. Petroleum Center, du^g the Hash days "on the creek," seemed to be the geographical center of the petroleum pool. Hence its name.

Tne

town, which

to-day contains about twenty houses— not all of them occupied—has had in its day a population estimated by oil men all the way -from 15,000 to 30,000. The population to-day must be less than one hundred. A few of the houses have been built since the oil excitement, but most of them have been here since the oleaginous wave rolled down Oil creek after the striking of the first well on the Watson

Flats, near Titusville. Petroleum Center

has

the reputation

of being the wickedest oil town. The thousands of people who made up its wonderful population were attracted here from all parts of the world. Almost every city in the Union contributed to this mass of humanity. People came here to get riph, and almost every sentiment had to give way to the greed for money. The banditti-ridden regions ot France and Italy were no more dangerous for tho belated traveler than were the roads leading over the hills and through the valleys adjacent to Petroleum Center. Garroting and highway robbery were common occurrences. Vice in every form prevailed in the town. For along time religious services were not held, because buildings were too profitable for other purposes to allow their use for church meetings. Ben Hogan, the ex-pugilist who fought Tom Allen, ana who is now an evangelist, had a dive in Petroleum Center, which old residents describe as something horrify ing to look back upon.

This was one side of the social picture. The business meti who were engaged in the hunt for oil are remembered for their integrity. Transactions involving many thousands of dollars were often made with no scrap of writing between the parties. A man's word was supposed to be as good as his bond, and usually it was. This sense of honor ond fair play was it counterbalance to the element of wickedness in the town. At one time .only the roughs seemed to be in the ascendont, and the establishing of a vigi lence committee, with power to act anywhere on the creek from

Oil City to Titusville had the effect to restore law and order. The vigilance committee grew out of a murder that was committed on the creek a short distance above Oil City, where a man resembling one of the rich Mc Clintocks was found murdered and his pockets rifled. "Ham" McClintock one of the old farmers who had suddenly been made rich, had re-turned from New York with a carpet-sack full of money and he it was, undoubtedly, whom the murderers thought they waylaid.

This crime, and several robberies that had preceded it, aroused the people to an extraordinary degree, and a strong vigilance committee was the result. While robberies were frequent, this seems to have been the only murder ever committed in the oil country for money —a remarkable fact, in view of the laxity of laws and the condition of oil-region society at that time.

The first oil well to flow its rich product was struck in June, 18G1, on the McElhenny farm, a short distance above Petroleum Center. The Drake well, which was the first oil well drilled, and all that had followed it up to June 1SG1 had been pumped in order to get their oil up to the surfrce. This llowing well was called the Fountain well, and Tor fifteen months it poured forth its greasy treasure in a copious stream. The Fountain was the first well drilled to what oil men coll the "third sand," or oil bearing rock proper, and as the drill tupped a vein that poured out 300 barrels" a day for a long time the strange Dhenomenon created great excitement. This was the tirst sensational oil strike that the country had been treated to.

The Drake well, and the half-dozen which followed it on Upper Oil creek, had no spectacular features. When the Fountain well came in with its rush and roar of gas, shooting a stream of oil 100 feet into' the air, the whole country was quickly wrought into a fever of excitement. This may be regarded as the beginning of the actual "oil excitement," and it grew by subsequent strikes of a similar nature until its inlluence was felt throughout the commercial world. If this 300-barrel well created an excitement, the state of things may be imagined when, shortly afterwards, the Phillips well came in with a daily yield of 3,000 barrels! This well was located on the Tarr farm. Then came the Empire well, near the Fountain, with a production likewise of 3,000 barrels every twenty-four hours. The town of Petroleum Center is built upon the farm of J. W. McClintock, and at the time of these strikes there was no village here.

These great wells, however, quickly made tbia the center of attraction, and the town sprung into existence in an incredibly short time. It was Aladdin in real life. In a few weeks the population was numbered by the thousands. Of course, houses were built hurriedly and cheaply. They were all wooden structures. Many of them were -built in a d8y and a night-. There was a great flood of people to be fed and housed, and no airs w£re put on in building. A mile or two below the town is still standing, on the left bank of Oil creek, a little weather-beated wooden office that could be built for $50, in which business to the extent of millions of dollars was transacted. It has not been occupied in many years. The large Equare building in the center of the town is of brick, and the only brick house the town ever afforded. It was built for a hotel when the place seemed to put on a substantial and permanent aspect, but it could be bought very cheap to-day.

The McCray farm, which was the subject of a former letter, lies a short distance from here. The J. W. McClintock farm, upon which the town was built-, contained 207 acres, every foot of whioh was good oil territory. The town itself was built over a literal lake of oil, as wts proved by the large and long-continued production of the wells immediately surrounding the town. Two or three hundred wells have been drilled in sight ot the town, and about SO per cen'. of them were productive. Wild Cat hollow is a circular ravine to the left of the town, and this was also a wonderfully prolific piece of territory.

In 1S65, a bonus of §100,000 was offered and refused for ten leases on the J. W. McClintock farm. The farm is credited with a yield of §3,000,000 worth of oil, which, added to the ground rents for

,'«. THE TERRE HAUfE EXPRESS., TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1889.

buildings in the town of Petroleum Cen ter, made it one of the greatest bonanza farms of Oil creek. The Maple Shade and Coquette wella were near this place, on the Hyde and Egbert farms, on the opposite side of the creek skirting the foot of the famous McCray bill. The Maple Shade weil was struck August 1863, One of its owners Dr. A. G. Egbert, residing at Franklin, Penn., says it produced $1,500,000 worth of oil. The Coquette well, close by, WBB almost as profitable. One-half the working interest in this well waa ownpd by E. B. Grandin, now of Tidionte, Pa., and A. C. Kepler. It cost them $2,500, and this interest thpy afterward sold to Frank Allen, of New

York, for $145,000. The first 10,000 barrels of oil sold from the Coquette brought $9 a barrel, or $90,000. This WBS the basis of a vast fortune which Mr. Grandin has since accumulated. The largest stock farm in the world is the property of Mr. Grandin and his brother, J. D. Grandin. They are still largely interested in oilj and are among the few men who made big fortunes in oil and held on to their pioney*

The great wells of Oil creek that poured out such copious streams of wealth, making men and companies rich in a few weeks, can only be found now by the aid of some old resident familiar with the locality. The

Globe-Democrat,

correspondent, accompanied by a guide visited the sites of the Maple Shade, Coquette, Sherman, Fountain, Phillips, Crocker, Davis and Wheelock, Reed, Densmore, and a dozen wells, each of which produced oil to the value 3f $1,000,000 and over,.and no traces of them remain, not even a hole in the ground. The location of the wells is determined most by conjecture. There may be indications of a wagon road leading to a spot, or perhaps the uncertain marks where a derrick or ap engine has stood. By such signs only are these old fountains of wealth pointed out to the tourist of to-day.

Petroleum Center profited by the sudden decline of Pithole. Great wells were being struck on Oil creek, when the declino came upon the Pithole wells, and people flocked to Petroleum Center in crowds. The distance between the two towns is about eight miles, and the people who had turned their back upon the fickle Pithole lined the road over thehills day and night. Petroleum Center received a new life. Scores of houses were torn down at Pithole and hauled on wagons to Petroleum Center, where they were re-erected. A hotel capable of accommodating several hundred guests was brought from Pithole to Petroleum Center, and after doing duty here for several years, was again torn down and taken to Oil City where it waa occupied several years as a tenement house. When it came Petroleum Center's turn to be dismantled, as was the town of Pithole, the majority of the houses went to wlmt is known as the "lower oil regions," in Clarion and Butler counties. This is fifty miles down the Allegheny river from Oil City. The houses were mostly hauled there on wagons, as no railroad was then built into the interior of Clarion and Butler counties. The Western New ork fc Pennsylvania railway passes through the town, and this is the only sign of life about this once wonderful metropolis of oil.

THE CENSUS AND THE SCHOOLS.

The Desire of the Department To Gather Keporti. DKI'AKT.MF..NT or THE INTERIOR,

CENSUS OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C. December 1,1S89.

Tii the Editor of the Ernrcag: DEAR SIR: This oflice desires to secure the best results possible regarding the schools of the country with a few salient inquiries.

James H. Blodgett, A. M., of Iiockford, 111., a gentleman of long experience in educational work and in public affairs, has been appointed a special agent for the collection of statistics of educa tion for the United States.

Public schools are so related to sys tems of public record that their statistics are obtainable through established methods.

Incorporated private schools have a place in public records. Parochial schools generally render stated reports to some controlling body.

Unincorporated private schools form a considerable element of usefulness hitherto unmeasured. It is desirable to gather reports of the number of teachers and pupils in such schools, without troubling them for the financial statements that schools supported by public funds owe to the taxpayers.

The enumerators of population will re port each person who has attended school within the year, and whether at a public or at a private school and. for all persons ten years of age or over, those who can read and write. This will be more than ha9 been done heretofore. Other educational statistics must be reached by different methods, in which every one interested may render some aid.

Any lists of private schools no matter how brief, or names of single schools, no matter how humble, open in any part of the present school year, with the address of the principal teacher of each, will be of assistance to this oflice.

Very respectfully, RODERT P. PORTER, Superintendent of Census

HORSES' FEET

AND

HOT SHOEING.

A prominent English veterinary surgeon, Woodroffe Hill, is very decided in his disapproval of applying a hot iron to a horse's hoof. Inn letter to the Live Stock Journal he says:

Possibly the outcome of shoeless horses, or the advertisements of particular shoes, that hud origin in the evils attributable to the general practice adopted in English forges. It has been urged that, to fit a shoe properly, the level and necessary bearing can only be obtained by the heated shoe, ergc, the frizzling of the horn to encourage the lazy attributes of the shoeing smith. I have little hesitation, after years of forge experience. in asserting thnt more abnormal conditions of equine feet arise from hot-fitting than probably any other cause. Whais the structure of horn? Has it vitality, or does it exist through vital encouragement? Would human beings frizze the tips of their nails? Where does the chief bearing of the shoe lie? On the crust, whioh can not be too firm and sound. Is its lower part, that has to meet the resistance of iron, strengthened or deadened by the application of redhot iron? Seedy toes, rimmed hoofs, and shelly feet owe more of their condition to hot-shoe fitting than is suspectcd. Better work a horse unshod than badly shoe. Better a horse with a natural foot, however ugly, than a foot frizzled and cut to shape by an unscientific and misnamed artistic smith.

Men and women prematurely gray and whose hair was falling, are enthusiastic in praising Hall's Hair Renewer for restoring the color and preventing bald nees.

IN THE STORM'S TRACK.

The Worst Northeaster In »n Old Salt's Recollection. CHICAGO, December 2.—The Owego, one of the Union line boats, reached Chicago yesterday, having weathered the storm that swept the lakes Thanksgiving day. "It was by far the worst dieaster I ever experienced during the twenty-seven years I have been running on the lakes," said Captain Robinson yesterday. "The gale struck us Wednesday night shortly after 9 o'clock. We were on Lake Huron, and during the entire storm it was impossible to see a thing three boat lengths ahead. It blew all the time. The wind carried away the pilot house and cabin windows and wrenched the railings off the pilot house as if they were pipe s'.ems."

MACKINAW CITV, Mich., December 2.— The steamship Tioga, which went ashore on Frey's reef last Wednesday, has been released. Her deck-load, consisting chiefly of H^ur, and amounting to about a thousand tons, was all jsttisoned. It is being picked up by the fishermen and half-breed Indians along the shore.

The tug Leviathan is here waiting for the wind and sea to die away in order to resume work on the Iron Queen. Nothing could be done for her yesterday on account of the heavy wind on Lake Michigan. Captain Millen, of the Iron Queen, states that with twenty-four hours of good weather she CBH be released with slight damage.

INDIAN CORN.

irly estimates of the agricultural department placed the corn crop of this year at 2 000,000,000 bushels, but according to the Louisville Courier-Journal, later calculations made by those who have bestowed laborious investigation »T»on the subject-, raise the figures to 2,207,292,000 bushels. If the latter be correct, the Indian corn yield of 1889 will be considerably the largest ever known. Indian corn is really our most important crdp, although there is less said about it than wheat, since it is not used in foreign countries, being consumed entirely at home, principally by the farmers who raise it. Wheat is aised for exchange and produces a money circulation, while corn does not to a great extent. Should all the wheat raised this year be placed in the market, its salable value, at present prices, would be nearly $100,000,000, but that of corn would be $700,000,000. The center of corn production is moving Westward almost as rapidly as that of wheat. This is due to two causes. The first, apparent to all, is the recent settlement of the Western prairies, and the other is the failure of the corn yield to increase in the Eastern states of the Mississippi valley. The latter is produced by causes perfectly natural, since as a state becomes thickly populated the farmers no longer confine their attention to one or two great agricultural staples, but diversify their crops, and conduct a varied and extensive tillage. They find it more profitable to raise vegetables and fruits for the great cities, grow vineyards, establish dairies, plant orchards, and by producing many small things, acquire more of wealth than they could from one great crop. Because a state is the first in the produc tion of wheat, cotton and corn, does not prove that it is more prosperous than a neighbor which is first in nothing, but second or third in many things.

IMMENSE SCHOOL POPULATION

And Stiitintieul Factftbhowiiig JEurollinent Ktc. -New Ituokn lrsed. Deputy State Superintendent Geeting has been preparing statistics for the annual report. In Indiana's public schools there were, in the year ending July 31, were 1S89, 0,770 rnaie teachers, of whom 00 colored, and 0,477 female teachers, of whom 55 were colored. This is a total of 13,253 teachers in the public schools of the -state. There were 9,928 school houses, of which S5 are stone, 3,691 brick, (5,137 frame and 15 log.

The enumeration of pupils for that year show white males, 3S(,82^ colored malep. U,S93 a total number of males, 390,715 white females, 364,527 colored females, 9,633 total number of females, 37-1,160, total enumeration of children'of school age, 770,875. The enrollment lig ures fall far short of the enumeration. During the year the enrollment of male pupils in the school was 269,786, and of f-mal» pupilp, 253,361, a grand total of 523,147. The report shows that the averngo number of pupils in attendance upon the school was but 350,752, less than half the enumeration.

In round numbers, 900,009 of the new Indiana series of school books have been distributed through the state. This would average almost two books for each pupil enrolled during the last year, and almost three books for-each pupil in attendance.

RAILROAD NEWS NOTES.

General and Personal Mention of GouorHl aud Ltcal Interest. Messrs. W. S. Jordan and C. S. Blackman, of the Big Four, were here yesterday.

H. E Felton has been appointed assistant general freight agent of the C. A- E. I., the appointment to take effect at once.

The Reilley A: Wood variety company passed through the city Sunday, ou the Big Four, en route from Cincinnati to St. Louis.

Engine 107 resumed its run on the Logan division yesterday after being in the shops some time undergoing a general overhauling.

A. B. Stickney has bsen appointed chief train dispatcher on the E. & T. H. Mr. Ebret, the former trnin dtspatcher, his been appoinfed a dispatcher on the day turn.

Conductor George House, of the Yandalin, was stricken with paralysis Sunday morning while at Effiogham. One entire 6ide was affected. He was brought to his home in this city.

Of the 1,776 stockholders of the Chicago & Alton road, holding an aggregate of $17,500,000 of stuck, over one-half are women. The road has paid annual dividends of 8 per cent, for fifteen years.

Fred Kelley was transferred yesterday from the machine to the erecting shop and Charles Barnett to the machine shop from the erecting shop, Doth transfers being in the line of promotion.

Marshall Lafferty, recently cleared in the court9 at Cincinnati of charges preferred by the O. A M., has been appointed a freight conductor on the E. & T. and made his initial trip yesterday.

List week railroad detectives recovered at Champaign a lot of plunder stolen from cars in Dacatur, Danville, Mattoon and Bioomington, by thieves who made their headquarters at Chnapaign.

To day the Evansville A. Richmond company put on trains on the new

DrBnch

between Evansville & Seymour. For the present the E-IR. will use the J., M. & I. depot at Seymour for its passenger and freight station.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

SORHY F0K THK COLD SORK. She was a seminary maiden, ... .-With a brain that's knowledge laden.

You can bet.

She has gowns, and not a few, S Giddy hats and Jewels too, f|p She'sapet.

have kissed her In the gloaming. """When alone we boath were roaming. I have kissed her forty 'leven times or more:

But those very self-same kisses. Better than a world of Misses, I'll take back when I get rUlof this cold sore. —f Kearney Enterprise. Chinese matches are competing sharply with the Swedish product in Europe.

Geneva is said to be the cheapest city in Europe for a permanent residence. The United Stntes bought over $2,000,000 worth of eggs from Canada last year.

According to the propaganda in Rome, there are 21S,000,000 Catholics in the world.

A house at Gold Hill, New, that cost $2,000 a few years ago was sold the other day for $300.

An oflicial of the Michignn Central railway figures out that the steam whistles cost the companv $18,000 a year.

At present prices it is estimated thnt the ivory collected by Emin Pasha would be worth a million sterling.

Only 26.66S squirrels were killed in San Louis, Obispo couniy, last month, for which the countv paid a bounty of $1,060.72.

In Clearwater Harbor, Fla., is a spriDg of delicious water, bubbling up through the mass of salt water in the briny deep.

Foreign engineers report that at the present rate of sinking the northern coast of France will in few centuries be completely submerged.

Prince Bismarck, in consequence of r. recent illness, has lost the few hairs that were on the top of his skull, which is now as smooth as a billiard ball.

By the resurvey of the boundary line between Nevada and California the latter gains a strip over 200 miles long and three quarters of a mile wide.

A farmer in Holmes county, Ohio, has got plucky roosteis. Two of them fought a prowling fox a few nights ago, and, having picked out his eyes, beat him till he died.

Copies of rare books and editions are now manufactured in Germany and France by means of a chemical process. The fac-simtles are good, but their durability is uncertain.

A spring of ps-troleum hos been discovered on the iron range in Wisconsin, by a well-known explorer, who found it a few days ago. It has been tested in Ashland and found genuine.

It is announced that the electric light companies in New York City are string ing new wires overhead. They evidently mean to fight the subway busines?, in spite of the people's declaration against wires above ground.

Harry Bates, of East Saginaw, owns an active and able bodied steer which has only three legs, one of its front legs being the absentee. The animal was born that way, and moves about as read ily as anybody's steer.

George Coulter, of Charleston, \V. Va., while sound asleep, got out'of bed at night, and swam across the river and back again. He was carried home by some gentlemen who had seen him per form this remarkable feat.

Artificial gems at the Paris exposition are said to have surpassed anything ever before shown, some of the speci mens puzzling even dealers and experts. The artificial pearls were especially successful, no meaua being found to dis tinguish the genuine from the artificial, except by the use of a tile.

News has been received at St. Louis from the government expedition for the survey of Alaska. The letter is dated August 21, and says there are luxuriant forests, the grass WBS green, lloweis in bloom and the weather very warm, but ten inches below the surface the ground is frozen hard, even as deep as twenty five feet.

Waller Haynes, of Brimtield, Msss., recently celebrated his one hundredth birthduy. He is in good health, and does not look more than seventy-live. Mr. Haynes is a carpenter ttnd .worked on the first block of houses erected in Syracuse, N. Y. He has never used any liquor or tobacco, and attributes Lis longevity to .boiled food and-"johnny cake."

Oa the Soo line, near the Menominee river, a train struck a deer and broke its leg the other day, and the entire train crew abandoned business onthe«potand set about catching the game, which was finally accomplished by the parlor car porter, who sprang upon the deer's back and

cuts its

throat afte.r riding it through

the woods for half a mile. Washington is certain to have one piece of statuary which will be thoroughly representative of the best French talent in sculpture, and that is the statue of Lafayette, on which the sculptors Mercie and Falquiere have lavished their best pkill. Mercie is a man of genius, aud Fa'quiere is considered as certain to be one ot the glories of French art.

St. Louis is the only city in the Union in which the tenant of a rented house is required to furnish his own gas fixtures. Formerly St. Louis house builders did not even equip dwellings with service pipe, but they do now generally. The consequence is that thousands of people use oil who would prefer gas if they didn't hove to pay for the fixtures,

They have an effective way of dealing with habitual drunkards in Norway and Sweden. They put them in jail and feed them entirely on bread Bud wine. The bread is steeped in wine an hour before it is served. The first d«v a man will take it, but before many more ho will hate the sight of it. After

Bn

incarcera­

tion of his sort many become total abstainers.

The most remarkable cures of scrofula on record have been accomplished by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Try it. Sold by all druggists.

RO'ALMi

Absolutely Pure.

This powder never varies. A marvel or strength and wholeaomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold In competition with the muIUtude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in caw/.

Rotxl BAJUNO P«WDKK CO.,106 Wall St., N. Y.

watarrh

la a constitutional and not a local dlseaM, and therefore it cannot be curcd by local applications. It requires a constitutional remedy like Hood's Sarsaparilla, which, working through the blood, eradicates the Impurity which causes and promotes the disease, and

Catarrh

effects a permanent cure. Thousands of people testify to the success of Hood's Sarsa-1 parilia as a remedy for catarrh when other preparations had failed. Hood's Sarsaparilla also builds up tho whole system, and make* you feel renewed in health and strength.

Catarrh

For several years I have been troubled with that terribly disagreeable disease, catarrh. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla with the vary best results. It cured me of that continual dropping in my throat, and stuffed-up feeling. It has also helped my mother, who has taken it for run down state of health and kidney trouble." MRS. S. D. HEATH, Putnam.

Ct.

Hood's Sarsaparilla

Bold by all druggists, gl slxfor?5. ITepareiiouly bj C. I. IIOOD & CO., Apolhecarle#, Lowell, Jiui

IOO Doses One Dollar

GREAT CLOAK CUT!

We have closed out a manufacturers' line of ladies' newmarkets, children and

misses' cloaks at about fifty cents on the dollar, and everyone a choice 'garment, and of good style. Ont of this we shall make ohe of the best bargains ever of­

fered here, as we shall sell the goods at nbout prices we "paid for them. Call

and see them before buying. When you do that the question of buying will set­

tle itself. A full line of gentlemen's 6moking

jackets.

S. AY RES & CO.,

Indianapolis, Ind.

Agents for Buttettck's Patterns.

TVTAYLOR S OPERA HOUSE, -L™ WILSON NAYLOK M«NAI)KR

NAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE,

WILSON NAYLOK, MAN.UIKII.

Tuesday, December 3d.

L'nder the auspices ol the Terre Haute CONCERT ASSOCIATION.

I BOSTON: QUINTETTE I Hi

Mil. ,lon.s K. lUionRn Solo Violin IlKRH lJAl'L 11KNIIK Late Solo Violin of 1'attl's Concerts llEHH AlWLPH UUKObE flute Virtuoso from Berlin Mu.

AHMIN

UI

-KKK 'oio

Viola and Violoncello

Jlu. LOLIS BLU-Mknhkki The great American Violoncellist Mis* ANNIE CAHPK.NTEU Soprano £5£~Advanee sale commences at Button's Saturday. I'rices-23, 50 and 75 cents.

Thursday, December 5,

W.W.TILLOTSOFSCOMEDY CO..

In the great musical farce comedy,

ZIG-ZAG

I'retty (ilrls:

Funny Comedians: Elegant Costumr.

fUNNIEi AND BETTER THAS E7SH. Sale opens Tuesday at Button's. L'aual prlcro, 75, 50 and 25 cents,

NAYLOR'S ©"SPECIAL

FRIDAY AJID S4.TUE.DAI, DEC. 6 & 7.

Tlie Kmlnent I'rejildlgltateur

E A N N

Assls'ed by ilrs, Herrmann and others In a performance or

Mirth, Magic and Mystery.

Worth Traveling Miles to see.

C&-Advance sale opens Wednesday, December 1.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus denote Parlor Car at tachfid. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Bull«t Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dully. All other tralm run dally Snndays exospted.

VANDALIA LINE.

T. H. 4 I. DIVISION. LKAVB FOR THK W*ST.

No. No. No. No. No.

9 Western Kxpres* (S1V) 5 Mall Train 1 lfast Line (PAV)

1.4K b. in. 10.21 a. m. 1. (I D. m. 3 10 p. in.

V.U4 (I. III.

LXAVK FOB THK HAST.

No. No. N'o. No. No.

VI Cincinnati Express (31 6 New York Ki press (d.tV) 4 Mall and Accommodation

1.30 a. in. 1 51 a. in. 7.)5 a. HI. 1H7 p. iu. 'J :i' p. in 1.U5 p. in.

Atlantic Express (PAV) Kant Line

AKRIVSS FHOM THK XAST.

No. No. No No. No. No.

9 Weptern Express (34V) 6 Mall Train Fast Line (P&V)

No. No. No. No. No.

1..VI8. 111 10.15 a. in. 2.mp. in. 3.05 p. ni. 6.4ft p. in.

a Mali and Accommodation 7 "«t Mali •. AKRIVK FROM THK WKST. 12 Cincinnati Express (SI 8 New Y«rk Express »(3AV) 20 Atlantic Express J•&'.') a Fast Line

U.Ot' p. in.

1.20 a. m. 1.4-! a. in. IV 42 p. m. 'i 1" p. m. 5.00p. ui.

T. H. & H. DIVISION.

lJtAVK FOB Tin: HOBTU.

No. 53 South Bend Mali 6.(0 a. m. No. 64 Boath Bend Express 4.00 p.m. AKRIVK iHOM THK 50BTH No. 51 Terre Haute Express 1100 noon No. 53 South Bend Mall 7.80 p.

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