Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 December 1889 — Page 2

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What will Policy Sam's council do for the people of Terre Haute to-night.'

Trial by jury is failure when fourfifths of a jury are either forced to report a diengeement or agree on a compromise verdict.

The reception of the verdict by the Cronin murderers, like their conduct and defense during the trial, i3 good proof of their guilt. If you believe in capital punishment on circumstantial evidence, you must believe that these men deserved hanging.

The periodical raid of houses of illfame haB been made, the periodical fines imposed and fees collected. This is part of the same policj by which the hightoned gambling houses are compelled to pay money for what is in reality a license, but the city receives none of the license money.

The intluenza that siarted in Uussifl, went to Germany, then France and England is in New York. It is said to be more annoying than serious, although Prof, von L^yden, of the Berlin university, saya that the situation is not unattended by danger, as the advices from Charktow declare the epidemicof typhus fever there followed closely upon the heels of the influenza.

Our esteemed contemporary, the Gazette, announces that Air. Lamb, while in Washington last week, prevailed upon the treasury department to allot enough of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for our federal building to change the entrance, which is not what it should be. As we remember the facts in this concoction, Postmaster Greiner some time ago, acting upon instructions, sent on two plans for the supervising architect's consideration, it having already been decided to make the change. However that may be, we would rise to illquire as the part E. Voorhees Urookshire is taking in the matier? Why should ex-congressman Lamb be called into service? He is no longer the representative from this district. To be sure he is naturally interested in all that is for the good of Terre lluute people, but ns he gracefully stepped aside for El'jah V. Urookshire it wduldseem that the latter being on tne ground, possessed of all the importance of a representative in congress, should have stepped up to the treasury department to attend to this matter of our postottioa steps.

C. 0. D.

Oiio Exception.

Wlbblc—WL'11. time miikes alt things even. Wabble-Except the fellow that plays poker regularly.

On K.itUc MleliIran's Shore. Judge-Are you a married man'.' Prisoner I don't know. I haven't been home for ten days.

1 tut ween Two Fires.

Wlekars .still on the Hally Bazoo, YleUars'.' Vlek-irs -No, 1 bad to quit. My wife's rich aunt took to wilting poetry, which she expects me to have published.

A Laudable Ambition.

Cholly--How I wish I was your little dog! Miss 1'lyppe- That Is a very laudable ambition, Mr. Sophlelgh and does you credit, but 1 am afraid you will have to be content with the position nature has assigned you.

In Self-Defense.

Mr. llanlup--Why don't you pay more attention to the cooking'-' You know you can do ilrst-rate cooking when you try.

Mrs. llardup- I know 1 can, but whenever 1 set up any particular!)' nice dish you eat It all your #»lt.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

lloston Advertiser: tirover Cleveland Is .striving, with every prospect of success, to secure for a third time the Democratic nomination to the presidency- He Is unalterably determined to make his third campaign, like his second, chli lly an assault upon the grand pr'nclple of protection to home im'.ustry. We are *l ul to be forewarned. We are already "forearmed.

Philadelphia Inquirer: If suffrage was a natural right, as so manv claim there ought to be absolutely no restrktlon.-- ol age or sex place.! upon it. In tills country we have gone too far. Ketrenchment will be dilUentl and must apply to nituro voters only, tuit there can certainly be no honest objection to restricting tho exercise of power to those possessed of a minimum of education.

Minneapolis Tribune: So far as trusts are fostered by the tariff, they might be effectually attacked by a provision of law authorizing the pre.-l-dent to suspend the tariff upon any article or class ol articles production of which had been monopolized by an artificial combination. Such an arrangement would te perfectly feasible, and It would go along wnv towatds showing the country that the Republican party Is sincere In Its avowed opposition to trusts. 1'hlladelphla Record: The president has done well, and has given a gratifying surprise to the country. In nominating David J. Brewer, of Kansas, lor associate Justice of the supreme court. I'ndoubtedly If the president had selected Judge iJresham there would have been a wider assent to the excellence of bis choice. But the nominee Is a man or probity, learning and experience, lie will satisfy ihe general public judgment, and we do not doubt will ac iuit himself with honor In his great office.

St. Louis tilobe Democrat: Mr. Cleveland's address at the banquet of the Boston merchants Is notable on'v for its characteristic disparagement of existing conditions, and Its assumption of a superior scolding privilege. In his philosophy, the times are always out of joint and In his Immeasurable self-conceit, he is always born to the cruel spite of setting them right. If we were to accept his estimate of prevailing operations and Intiueuees. it would be necessary to conclude that this Is the most unfortunate country under the sun. with only the one alleviating feature that It possesses tn him a man of perfect wisdom and purity.

"Women Don't Help Sweepers. The London crossing sweepers soy thnt women are not charitable. It is of no use sskiug ladies for a gratuity, as they will never give.

GARTERS GIVE TROUBLI

"Honi soit qui mal pense," said the gallant English monarch Edward III. as he picked up a silken band of blue, clasped with silver, which the beautiful countess of Salisbury lost as she stepped a stately measure with his majesty at the great court ball more than 5O0 years Bgo. '•Honi Eoit qui mal pense," and he clasped the ribbon about his left leg just below the kcee, thus creating himself the first knight of the Order of the Garter, whose emblem, a dark blue, goldbordered band with a buckle and pendant of silver, bearing the old motto, has been and is still worn by all the great knights and famous men in Ecgland.

A woman's garter seems indeed trivia), says the New York Sun, and unworthy for a symbol and seal of chivalry and nobility, and the modest woman is inclined to be horrified at the idea of dragging from behind the voil of silence the useful but unmentionable little article upon which so much of her comfort and happiness depends, but it must be re membered that in those days garters were not so hidden and sacred. But now the garter must be delicately shrouded in mystery, shielded by common consent in the secret realms of womanhood, where it is the most important as well as most thoroughly depraved and treacherous bit of the gearing wherewith modern women secures the complicated toggery which conventionality compels her to harness herself into.

There is a certain unwritten law in the woman's code which counts the wearing of a wrinkled stocking as among the unpardonable vices. Men judge a woman's neatness by the buttons on her shoes and the tidiness of her gloves. Women have a surer test—the trimneBS and neatness of her hose—and an inherent pride in the tasty dressing of her ankles seems to be among the traditions handed down unconsciously from mothers to daughters. The tinest little maiden will stop in the midst of the merriest game to straighten and smooth the twisted stocking that a little boy would never notice, and the premiere danseuse of the ballet smoothes on and secures the silken garments which form the chief part of her costume with little more caution and vigilance than doea the stately lady whose well-disci-plined petticoats never dare flutter above her instep.

But the interesting thing about it is the individuality and ingenuity girls display in bringing about this great purpose of their lives. There are the decided, aggressive girls, who do not believe in trifling and who wear a baud of 6iastic buckled tightly around the stocking by means of leather strap?, with which the elastic is terminated at either end. The buckle is finished in the color of the leather, but is an unyielding, reliable piece of property that never plays anyfalse trickB with its owner and never shirks its duty. The elastic must match or hatmoni/.'i with the color of the costume worn, or life is not worth living to its wearer. Now, this garter, like the knitted ones worn by our grandmothers, and wound round aLd round the leg tightly, is a wicked little bit. of torture, which hinders the circulation and really disfigures the limb it is supposed to adorn. Consequently the esthetic maiden smooths her stocking up over the knee, and fastens it there with an octupus arrangement of straps and buckles which encircles tho waist and sends down some bisected autennn' to grapple the hem of tho stocking and hold it firmly in place. The belt at the waist mu.st be in the shape of a yoke, or extended on the 6ide, that the weight be adjusted to the hip, or the ell'ect is said to be injurious as well as uncomfortable. Little girls who are not supposed to have any waist fasten themselves into a kind of harness that goes over the shoulder, with enough straps and bauds to fasten an unbroken colt to a cart, and hold up their stockings with their collar bonee. Shortwaisted girls fasten the hose straps to tho corsets with a double purpose—to hold down the ambitious waist and hold up the stocking. Now one would think nothing could be more reliable and absolute'y to be depended upou than these complicated affairs, which in no stress of circumstances could be induced to do anything so unconventional and bad form as the countess' garter did eo long ago.

Tho romance is all taken out of these evoluted garters, but the depravity isn't. Don't they turn and twist at most inconvenient times as servants leave on moving day? Doesn't some wicked little buckle slip its moorings and go clicking down against one's shoe buttons, while the stocking, seemingly inoculated with its immorality, wrinkles down and down like a Bernhardt giove just as one walks up the aisle at church? And doesn't some strap dissolve partnership with its associates just as one is climbing on top of a coach or mounting one's horse? They are innocent, dainty, demure little inventions with satin girdle, silverclasps, and silken straps in exquisitely faint colors, but their tendencies are vicious, thair motives most mischievous. One lady endeavors to get the better of them by wearing a fancy garter below the knee and the straps above, but even then at times they elude her. And the only reul happy girl who can quite have a soul above her stockings is the luxurious girl who can afford to buy the exquisite silken woven stockings that smooth on the feet upward over the body as tight and close as a glove to tie at last securely around the shoulders with a tiny ribbon.

Another fashionable way of gartering one's stockings is to strap them about the waist tightly. The stockings in this case are divided at the feet but one in purpose at the waist, and remind one vaguely of tulle and tinEel and the charm of "woven paces and waving hauls," but our conventional proper young women are ^wearing them if they can afford it, all the same, with the tinest, sheerest and daintiest of muslin trunks over them, edged with frills of filmy lace.

Now that most people have adopted the side straps because a congress of doctors decided that the old fashioned round garter was injurious, along comes another congress of doctors arguing that the side elastics are harmful and only a spiral wire affair should be worn, claspcd above the knee, not below it. Probably about five women in fifty could keep these squirming, wriggling garters on.

But the yellow garter is the garter par excellence now—the yellow garter with its true lover's knot of soft ribbon. The girls are all wearing them. Just one, you know, above the left knee. "Some are in rags and some are in shags" because they've been worn ever since last Easter, but we can't take them off until the next E&stereve. lest the mystic charm be broken. We mustn't wear two, we muEn't lose the lover's knot, and we must have them given to us by some unknown friend if we would weara symbolic ring on the left hand in the near future, and then if there is as much as a shred left of them and a grain of humanity in our make up we must twist

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them about our bridal flowers and give them to our best girl friend to don the day cf the wedding.

4 MILLIONAIRE FOR A DAY.

Pathetic Story of the Hl:e and Fall of a Faro I'anker. Special Dispatch to the i.lobe-Democrat.

NEW PHILADELPHIA,O, December 15.— George Sluthour, born and raised in this place, a poor boy, determined to make hia fortune. He embarked in the faro businees and from the very 6tart luck was with him. In an incredibly short space of time he was worth £500,000. His associates were congressmen, leading politicians and all the rich nabobs of the day. Slautour was anxious to be worth a million before returning to his old home, and one night when the room was tilled with well known sporting men, many of them worth their half million, he determined to try for a big strike. Luck again favored him, and by o'clock in the morning he had broken the bank, and raked in enough to make his fortune count a cool million. He would have done wisely to have stopped there, but he thought that in his run of good luck he could double it. The very next night he began loEing, and before morning every dollar he had won the night before had vanished. He WEB a millionaire, however, for one 6hort day. Even with this lo6s he was still possessed of an ample fortune, but he began playing a desperate game, iisking thousands of dollars at a time, but luck was against him. His princely fortune entirely disappeared. The sad sequel to the case is that he has been brought home hopelessly insane. It was thought that the scenes and faces of his childhood days would restore his shattered mind in a degree, but he grew worse. The past few weeks he has wandered aimlessly about the streets, scarcely recognizing his best friends. Finally it was found necessary to take htm to the county infirmary, where he is now confined iu one of the wards, with his mind shattered and the hope of ultimate recovery almost impossible.

THE LIGHT WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP.

tlimipy Carroll Cliiiius It -lit* itiul McAt* lifVe Will ITIgUt. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., December 16.— Oa

Thursday

last President Fuldo, of

the California athletic club, telographed to Jack McAuliffe, the light weight champion of America, that Jimmy Carroll, the club's boxing instructor, was ready to sign articles for a fight for the championship at l.'ili pounds,or if McAuliffe would forfeit the championship he (Carroll) would itight McAuliffe at 13) pounds for purse, and a side bet of $5,000. Today Piosident Fulda received a dispatch stating that McAuliffe would accept Carroll's proposition to tight at 137 pounds. Carroll states he will therefore claim the lightweight championship. The fight will take place in the California club rooms probably in February.

The date for the Dempsey-McCartby fight has been fixed at January 29th. It is now stated the fight between Ike Weir and Billy Murphy for the featherweight championship will have to be declared off as Weir accidently shot himself through the hand recently and the wound has not begun to heal.

AMUSEMENTS.

To-night Kiraify's big spectacular compauy will appear at Naylor's in the ro mantic melo drama "Lagardere." The piece is spoken of as one of the best the Kiralfy's have ever brought out. It will be given on the local stage with a large amount of special scenery, properties, etc. Among the many features may be mentioned the two ballets led by M'lle. De K'jsn, one of the greatest premiers of the present day. "Lfigardere" is a great success and will no doubt attract a large audience.

Peck it Fursman's company, in the historic drama, "Daniel Boone," will be the attraction on Thursday eveniDg. This company carry their own band and orchestra, eight genuine Pawnee Indians, trained horses, etc. The engagement will be at popular prices.

THE RIFLE SHOOT.

The rriie.liei! of Company It, sit tl»- KHIIK« Vesterday. Company B's rifle team had rifle practice in their range west of the river Sunday. Private Thomas, who has been a good marksman, shot wild Sunday for some reason unexplained and his comrades accused him of shooting at rabbits instead of the mark. The following is the score. Distance, -00 yards: Private llarry Ironsmlth 3 3 I :i -lti

Henry llaller 4 8 (I 4 4--1S Capt. J. W. Kbel I» 4 3 4 2-13 Private Alfred Boare 3 3 3 2 J—13 Lieut. J. T. Trlche 3 2 2 2 3-J2 1'rlvatc Chas. Septer 4 3 (I 2 3—12 Sergt. Chas. Telchman 2 3 2 3 0-12 Private Win. Klchelberger (I 0 4 0 -in (i. 11. Dtckhout 4 0 I) 4 0 8

Chas. I'oths 2 il 3 0 3- 8 Corp. R. J. Fulton 3 0 0 0 3- li Private Ed. Thomas I) 2 0 0 2- I

Frightful Suicide of Convict. JKI*KP KSO.N CITY, MO., December 10.— John Welch, a convict at the penitentiary, committed suicide to-day in a frightful manner. During the Sabbath services, held in the dining-room on the fourth lloor of the penitentiary, he arose suddenly from his seat and went to an open window and jumped out. He alighted on the third-story balcony below, but recovering himself threw himself over the railing and fell headlong to the pavement below, killing himself instantly.

A Young Spi'iidlIn !It's Criminal Aft. Bur PALO, N. Y., December 10.— Charles Farwell, r» son of the late Judge Farwell,of Medina, pleaded guilty today to the charge of stealing 810 from a Chinese laundryman, and was sentenced to imprisonment for thirty days. Young Farwell had *'-0,000 left him a fewmonths ago and has squandered it nil. He has a $00,000 legacy due him in a short time.

New* iu the Eeveuue Departmi-ut. Mr. Uerbert Madison went to New Albany yesterday to make the transfer of stamp collector and traveling deputy for that district from the old to the new officials. Mr. Alfred L. Maple, gauger, has been tranufered from this to the sixth district, whence he came to succeed S. Scott.

Obituary.

PHILADELPHIA, December 10.—Dr. Seth Pancoast, a well-known homeopathist, died at his residence here this morniucr, aged 00 years. He was a descendent of one of the three Pancoast brothers who came to this country with Wm. Penn.

Go and do likewise. If your whiskers are grizzly and unbecoming use Buckingham's Dye and they will look as when you were younger.

THE TERRE HATJTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1889.

RAILROAD NEWS NOTES.

General and Pergonal Mention of General and Local Interest. The pay car on the Big Four is out on its rounds

W. S. Jordan, of the Big Four, was here yesterday. The new signal system went into effect on the C. & E. I. Sunday.

Master Mechanic Frank Boatman, of the O. A M., was in the city yesterday. The Evansville Journal recommends Captain Gramm8r for manager of the new car assosiation.

Engineer Strickland, who was injured in the wreck at Danville the day Fireman Shane lost his life, is able to be out on crutchee.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen of Danville are making arrange ments for a grand ball on the evening of December 31st.

No. 117 was turned out cf the erectin shop yesterday. It was one of the engines damaged in the wreck on the Logan a week ago.

Two freight cars were thrown from the tracks of the Big Four at Sandford, yesterday afternoon by a split rail and slightly damaged. No one was hurt.

G. B. Russell, yardmaster of the Wabash at Danville, resigned Saturday that he might accept the position of trainmaster on the Pittsburg & Wester rail road.

It is stated that the Lehigh Valley is having constructed in its Eastern shops a steam fire engine upon truck?, so that the apparatus may be quickly transported to put out fires originating from sparks along the line.

Division No. 9'2, O. K. C., held its annual meeting Sunday, and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Lon Lee, chief conductor Frank Campbell, assistant Lee llelmer, delegate to the convention in May, 1890: Charles II, Arthur, alternate.

The two electric headlights in use upon the Vandalia road have proved so thoroughly satisfactory thatseveral more engines will be fitted with them. They give such a powerful light that a rabbit hopping across the track half a mile ahead can be 6een distinctly.

The shipments of flour, grain and provisions from Chicago to the seaboard by the lines in the Central traffic association last week aggregated GO,821 tons, against 47,701 for the week previoup. an increase of 10,1*20 tons, and against 77,125 for the corresponding week last year, decrease of 10,301 tone. The Vanderbilt lines carried -14 5 per cent, of the business, the Pennsylvania line 2*2.3 per cent., the Chicago A- Grand Trunk 10.3 and the Baltimore it Ohio 101).

IN THE COURTS.

Tbe Suit of Murjiliy Against the City Grows Interesting—A Divorce Suit. The second trial of the suit of Murphy against the city for damages for propertydestroyed last February on south Third street occupied the day in the circuit court. Evidence for the defense will be concluded this morning, and the plaintiff will offer evidence in rebuttal, concerning the value of the building. Coneid erable inteiest is being shown in the suit, and the jurors, attorneys and the court ply the witnesses with questions and the attorneys present objections to the court for decision with sufficient rapidity and vim to keep matters continually interest ing. Judge Mack said last evening while urging the defense to have wit nesses ready and thereby to make haste rapidly that he would make up for time lost by holding court later last evening and commencing earlier to-day.

Mary A. Bolinger has sued J. F. Bolinger in the superior court for di vorce, alleging that he cursed her, threatened to kill her, would not provide for her and that she was compelled to make her living by washing.

IN POLICE COURT.

Women of ICasy Virtue Contribute Their Share to tho Fund. Nellie Davis was fined $10 for keeping a house of ill-fame Lizzie Toole, Ida Miller and Anna Campbell were fiaed $c each for being inmates of a house of ill fame. Harry Burns, John Donald anti William Rogers were lined 6o each for visiting a house of ill-fame. These comprised the crowd arrested on north Second street Saturday night. Flora Harrison and Dixie Fleming were fined 83 each as lewd women. They were arrested on Sunday night in their rooms in th9 "Brick Kow"at Fourth and Chestnut streets. Among the other cases in court was that of James O'Doa nell for drunk and fighting. The olliuers caught him before he had time to show his hand as a slugger. He "'stayed" his own fine.

Dr. Mc( r:i\v-KxonfcniW l.

The attachment suit against Dr. -McGraw was dismissed yesterday morning, R. J. Sparks having explained matters satisfactorily to all concerned. Mr. Sparke collected tbe rents fcr the county and explained that although D:. McGraw had agreed to rent tho property until March 1st and had moved away before that timp, yet he had acted the part of the gentleman by paying rent to Jauuary 1st and leased his show to Messrs." R. S. in and John Morris, who would continue to occupy the hall until March let. Dr. McGraw took his bsars with him but leased to Lhe present proprietors other attractions. The coun is all right, financially speaking, in relation to the show.

State Convention of Miner*. President Penna has officially called the annual convention of District 11, Miners' national progressive union, at Terre Haute, January l-l, 1SD0. Indiana comprises the district. During this meeting it may be necessary to adopt some measure for carrying out of such policy as may be agreed upou by the national convention in Indianapolis or at, Columbus, the latttr in January. Nominations for officers must 16 in the hands of Secretary Bolser by the "20.h inot. Each local union is entitled to one delegate for every fifty members or mBjo ity fraction thereof^

Supreme K.of I\ Headquarter}*. The Indianapolis members of the order of Knights of Pythias are urging that this city be made the permanent headquarters for the supreme officers of the order. If the desire of the local members is realized the new K. of P. temple to be erected here next year will be made large enough to accommodate the supreme offisers of the order. Indianapolis, on account of its central location, i3 regarded as the proper place for the national headquarters of the order. [Indianapolis News.

Do you suffer with catarrh? You can be cured if you take Hood's Saisaparilla, the great blood purifier. Sold by all druggists.

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

l'ATTI IS DYKI.Vr.

The papers have dulj lDformed us That Patti has lately come back With hair of a wonderful auburn.

That once was a beautiful black: And we shudder at this Information. And exclaim, with a heart-rending cry. "That, although every life has an endint:,

We never thorght Pattl would dye."

We know that to wed Is a failure, That men are not Just what they seem. That Mciilnty Is proving a chestnut.

And that life Is a mere empty dream Yet all these distressing disclosures Have never compelled us to sigh. But now we are weeping and walling—

We never thought Pattl would die.

Now. Pattl, dear lady, I pray you To whisper a while In iny ear. And tell me hew long you've been dyeing.

And whether 't»lll last thr ugh the year? And ere we have changed this grave subject, Oh. teach me the way to renew The color of youth to mu tresses. And then, perhaps, shall dye. too

Boston Transcript.

Headquarters— Pillows. One of the visitors at Fortress Monroe last week was sixty feet long. It was a whale.

An Albany, Vt., man has shipped to Western markets this year 8.000 ton3 of maple sugar, valued at 307,000.

Four men recently killed 1,000 geese on Noman island, Colusa county, Cal., when tneir ammunition gave out.

George Ledicker caught a monster spotted snake near Bellefontaine, Ohio. It is seven feet long, and playful and harmless as a kitten.

The loan collection of paintings exhibited at the Hebrew institute fair, which opened in New York the other evening, is worth $1,000,000.

General Grant's old farm, just out of St. Louis, has been sold, but the log house built by him in 18.77 will be removed and preserved as a relic.

A wealthy man who has been convicted of shooting partridges near Laurel, Del., and shipping them out of the state contrary to law, will have to pay ?1S0 in lines.

Isaac Harris captured a large bald eagle near the Lewistwon, Ohio, reservoir. The bird is a noble one, and evinces no fear, but fought bravely and viciously. It is on exhibition.

The dogs in Birdsboro, Pa., are all mad. As everybody want6 a revolver, dealers in weapons are reaping a great harvest. The citizens have determined on completely exterminating the canine population.

A Minnesota scboolma'am reported devoured by wolves, came up smiling a week after her bones were picked, and explains she simply took a week's vacation to get married in, says the Detroit Free Pi ess.

A California paper relates that after the recent rainstorm many people 'of Angles Camp, Calaveras county, got money enough for their Thanksgiving dinner by picking up gold in the streets and in the shallow streams.

The device of a lad, Herbert Price, has caught six chicken hawks in seven days. It, is a steel spring trap on a pole, and after it is set he lays a chicken at the end of the pole. The hawk will seethe chicuen, but will invariably settle on the pole before alighting on its intended victim.

A remarkable spot in Vermont is the farming town of Waltham, which contains 9,700 acres of land and haa 2-13 inhabitants. It has no postollice, church, town house, poor house, store, lawyer, doctor, blacksmith shop, nor even a brigde, and yet it j^is one of the thriving towns of Addison county. Its taxes are merely nominal.

A horse employed in a lumber mill at Guernvill*, Cal., for the last twelve years to haul away the sawdust has become so well acquainted with bis work t.hat ho goes from one hopper to another, through the intricate passage ways without a driver and never strikes a post. He begins and quits work by the whistle.

Of the 000 hundred sailors now on board the receiving ship Vermont at Brooalyn all but about forty tire said to be Americans. They are distined for the new cruisers, (Baltimore and Char ieston and the gunboat Petrel. The Vermont's oflicers are delighted at tbe quality of the seamon. No such crew has been seen at the Brooklyn navy yard since the war.

In Germantown lives a noble Nimrod who shot for one of his female friends crow, and from the day she received it, stuffed and mounted, she has been followed by misfortune. She linally gave it away and the spell was removed. An other girl who moves in the "set" religiously carries an umbrella of anf/qm de sign, and she says it is her mascot.

Robert H. Coleman, president of the Cornwall A Lebanon railroad company, is having a large L-shaped iron mansim erected at Cornwall, near Reading. It will be one of the most novel and costly residences in the state. The roof will cost alone about ^'50,000. The entire building will be fire-proof and will have no counterpart in the East.

Tbe Lswiston Journal says the woman who bought a paper of ueedles when she was married and set up housekeep ing, and forty years after had used only half of them, may have been a relative of an Aroostook man who moved to Massachuset.s a while ago. Ha sent back the other day for his cap, which is •l-l years old, and which he had left behind. Ho said he felt lonesome without it.

Edison's phonograph has found anew application at the Milwaukee colleg-*, where it will be used as an assistant in teaching the French and other foreign languages. Tbe phonograph, of course, never gets tired, and can be made to repeat the same sentence or the same word hundreds of times. In giving a lesson the teacher reads it oefore the phonograph, at the same time addressing the pupils, and the leEson is reproduced whenever wanted.

A notorious Buenos Ayera bandit named Ippolito Andre has been captured in Genoa, to which plBcehe had escaped. His recent robbsries are said to amount to 1,000,000 francs. He was taken on board the steamer on which he arrived. In his possession were found 110,000 francs in gold, two receipts for large eurns of money lodged in a v'rench bank and a box containing articles of jewelry of great value. He was accompanied by his wife and children.

One feature of the French republic Eeems to have been the thiDning out of the coulisses of the opera. They have lost all their old-time splendor snd they are no longer the rendezvous for statesmen and men of fashion. The ballet dancers also have become more reserved. Inetead of congregating in the foyer de la danse they stay in their dressingrooms, where they receive a few very particular friends. Those who still are addicted to the coulisses are called tompins. The tompins are rather a second-class Rommeux.

"What's the matter. Tommy?" Papa, my po-po pony has cu cu-cut his foot." "Pahawl don't fret, papa has got a bot tie of Salvation Oil.

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FURS

SACRIFICED.

At &T10, one London dyed Alaska Seal Newmarket, "S inches long bust i(i.

At S2S.", one London dyed Alaska Seal Newmarket, 5S inches long bust .'50.

These garments are worth 6500 each, but they are the last two we have and inny go at the prices natued.

At ••yo, one London dyed Alaska Seal Wrap, trimmed in black lynx. The regular price was J"200.

All our Seal Coats and Sacques at cost.

We are selling any Cloak in our house at coat, and a good many at less.

L. S. AYRKS A CO.,

Indianapolis, Ind.

Hf"Agents for Butterlck's Patterns.

XTAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE, JL^WILSON NAYLOR.^^.,.

TOESDAT EVE. DECEMBER 11 KIKALFV'sl

Orand Spectacular Company in the beauttlul romantic spectacle,

jLAGARDERE]

Or the Umichlmck of »rlH. Scened. staged and costumed In the most nr.igiiilicent manner. 57 People! Grand ISiilltti '. Advance sale opens Patui'day.

.iristmasPresents

Don't fail to see the price?. It will pay you.

Gentlemen'6 tine gloves, Boys'fine gloves. Silk umbrellas,

Plain and fancy shirts, Dress shirts, Silk hats and smoking caps,

Prices *1, 75, 50 and 25 cents.

NAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE,

WILSON NAY LOU, MANAI.KI:.

Thursday,December 18

PECK & MSMAFS COMPANY

In the historic drama.

DAN'L BOONE

Introducing

Eight Pawnee Indians, Six Trained Iiorses AND

Our Own Band and Orchestra.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (I'l denote Parlor Car at Uehed. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote D'iftet Cars attiv.hed. Trains marked that can dally. All other tralru run dally Sundays excepted

VANDALIA LINE.

T. H. A I. DIVISION. LKAVJC lfOK THB WkLT.

No. 9 Western KJ press (8*V) No. 5 Hal! Train No. 1 Vast Line (P4V) No. 21 No. 1 Kaat Mall

No. 9 Western Express (SAV) Ne. 5 Mall Tr-iln No. 1 Hast LUie (I'AV)

Gentlemen's overcoats. Gentlemen's tine suits, I Joys' overcoats,

3.10 p. III. U.04 p. m.

LKAVH FOB TUX KA3T.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (SI No. 0 New York Ei press (H-tV) No. 4 Mall and Accommodation No. !M Atlantic Eiprew (PAV) No. Vast Llue No. 2

1.30 a. m. 1.51 a. m. 7.15 a. in. VIA! p. m. 'J. if p. in 5.05 p. m.

AKKiVK FMliS THK KAST.

1.80 a. m. 10.15 a. m. 2.00p. in. 3.1)5 I), in. 6.46 p. ID. 9.0J p. m.

No. S iiail and Accommodation N'o. 7 I'aEt Midi AIIRIVK FHOM TI1K WK3T. No. 12 Cincinnati Express (SI No. 6 New «rk Exprais (SAY) No. 30 Atlantic Express (PAV) No. HKaat Line*

1.20 a. m. 1.4V a. m. 12.42 p. m. 2 10 p. ro. 5.00 p. m.

T. H. A L. DIVISION.

LKAVlt FOB THK SOUTH.

No. SI South rlend SJall 6.00 a. m. No.

64

South Bend Express

4.00

p. in.

ARRIVE FROM THK HOBTH

No. 51 Terre Haute Express 12.03 noon No. 58 South Becd M?.H 7.30 p.

CHOICE BOOKS

For the Ho I'd \ys

And Standard Books at the Opera House Book Store. The public is invited to call at our store and see the

CHRISTM A.S OFFERINGS.

E. L. G0DECKE,

BOOKSELLER and STATI05ER.

40G Wabash Ave.

'-s&Hv

Boys'suits, Children's overcoats Children's suits,

Children's shirt waists, Linen collars and cuffs, Soft and stiff hats,

Fine silk neckwear.

REMLMBER IT IS NO TR0UKL1: TO SHOW GOODS.

PIXLEY&CO.

Linen handkerchiefs,' Silk mufllers, Caesitnere mulllers,

Winter Clips.

TIME TABLE.

SIXTH STREET DEPOT.

CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO ST. LOUIS RAILWAY.

BIG ROUTE.

On an after October 10th, 1880, trains will arrive and depart from Sixth street depot as follows:

UOINO EAST

No. \2 N. Y. and Boston Kxpress 8... 1.31 a. in. No. 2 Indianapolis and Cleveland H.K2 a. m. No. IS N. Y. and lloston Limited 1'sCV 1 p. in. No. 8 Day Express and Mall

a.

17 p. m.

(JOtSli WVSST—

No. 5 Southwestern Express aV l.'Jla in. No. Day Express and Mall Iti.irj a. in. No. Ill Southwestern Limited 1'SCV.. liM p. in. No. aMattoon Express 7.27 p. in.

Trains marked thus (Pi Parlor Car. Trains marked thus (til S'.eeplnu Car. Trains marked thus (C) Cafe Car. Trains marked thus (V) Vestibule Cars. Trains marked thus (,*) run Dally. All other trains Daily. Sunday excepted. Train No. IS. the Vestibuled Limited, lias through Sleepers for New York and Boston and Cafe Dining Car.

No. 12 has through Sleepeis to New York, also Combination Sleeper and I'arlor Car for Cincinnati.

No. 5 has Sleepers and I'arlor Car for St. I.oul.i. No. 19 has Sleepers, I'arlor Car and Cale Car for St. Louis.

E. E. SOUTH, Agent.

NOVELTIES

il liul

We have the agency of some now

Roods in the line uf labor-envin^ in kitchen work. Look lit our show win­

dows and see if anything there will in­

terest you. Silver's Patent I'^'tf Beater and Cream Whipper is the best on earth.

Marion llarland's Collee Potp, with receipts. Egg Poachers and Timers.

L-'ruit Strainers and Potato Mashere. Glass Uolling Pins for chopped ice.

Little Hustler Potato Pealer. Stoves for gas jets and lamp?.

Braas Fire Sets and Ken dors. Kancy Tea and Colfee Pots.

Carvers. Tile hearths.

Toy Stoves, etc.

1.4'J a. m. l'J.21 ft. m.

a. 10

p. m.

TOWNLKY STOVE CO.,

609 Wa basil Avonuo.

FIR I IXSl'RAXCH!

ALLE,

KiiLLEY & CO.,

665 Wabash Avnue, Terre Kaute. Ind. —KM'KiMKtrri.Ni: Commercial Union, of London

Michigan F. A M.,of Detroit London it Lancashire, of Liverpool Lancashire, of Manchester

British America, of Toronto

Western Assurance, of Toronto Union Insurance Co., of California Traders'Insurance Co.. of Chicago

Sun Insurance Co., of California Manufacturers', of Indianapolis. Besides the above reliable lire companies we represent the largest company In the ITnlted States dolnii an Accident. Plate (ilasB, Steam Boiler and Employers' Liability business,

THE FIDELITY A5D CASUALTY OF NEW I0EK.

Also the best and lamest Live Stock Insurance company In the United States, the

INDIANA LI7E STOCK CO., CF C2AWMDS7ILLE

This company has paid JI30.000.00 lor dead stock since organization In lSbo.

TOTAL ASSETTS REPR2SE8TED OVER $153,000,000.

Kates reasonable. Losses adjusted and paid promptly.

FEBSH JEW MKASD BALTIMORE OYSTERS

E. "W. Johnson's

CIS MAIN STKEBT.

ROBXBT H. BLACK. JAM ICS A. N1SI1JCT. vi BLACK & NISHKT, f:

Undertakers and Embalmers,

North Fourth street, Terre Haute, lniL Warerooms 25th st. and Washington ave. All calls will ecelve prompt attention. Open day and night.