Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 December 1889 — Page 2

DAILY EXPRESS.

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What are taxpayers here for? To pay the way of ward politicians.

The summary of the city clerk's tax duplicates makes good and instructive reading this morning in connection with the non-action of the city council.

It is time to quit scheming for personal or small pecuniary advantages in the matter of a base ball clnb for nest season. Terre Haute wants a winning place in the league composed of cities of a like siz9 or no place at all.

The Washington, Ind.,- Gazette remarks that inasmuch as the authoritios do not enforce the law in that place and the wide-open policy prevails that it is no more than fair that those who make money thereby should be called upon to pay the salaries of the city officials. There is logic in that suggestion.

The Cromn verdict will have a decided influence in favor of a chaDge of the jury system by which a majority, twothirds or three-fourths vote of a jury shall answer ail purposes in returning a verdict. The practically unanimous .ver diet of eleven men should not be thwarted by one man, though the one man's conclusions are honest. A crack juror is as dangerous to justice a3 a bribed juror.

If our Democrtic friends could point to a single instance where the alleged advice to buy blocks of live voters was act6d upon, or in any way a part of the .Republican campaign, there would be Bome truth in their assertion that the blocks of five letter was an authority in the campaign management in this state. But the truth is that the publication of the letter served the purpose of in structing the Democratic bribers all over the state. Mr. Andrew Grime?, candidate for Senator from this county, paid £50 to five men. The testimony to that effact is a part of the record in the contest case and it has never been disputed. If Dudley is to be prosecuted Andrew Grimes deserves a prison cell.

THE SAME THE WORLD OVER.

Incompetent, and worse, municipal government seems to be the prevailing evil in this country. The fact that every citizen is more directly interested in the wise administration of municipal affaire than of the general government is being called to the attention of people who live in cities with most disagreeable emphasis. The aggregate of city debts in this country makes the national debt pale into insignificance by comparison. The waste aud stealings in many of the large cities exceeds that of the government. As showing the similarity of these legislative bodies the following extracts from the Chicago News are submitted to the Terre Haute taxpayers who are now so thoroughly disgusted with the present council.

The record of the present council as to timeserving and shilly-shallying methods Is almost without precedent In local municipal history.

There are several important ordinances before the council, with absolutely no excuse for delaying their passage except that conveyed In the Vanderblltlau expression of contempt lor the public.

The record of the present council Is nearly ax bad as It could have been made. What legislation has been accomplished has been largely of a vicious character, and has called forth the repeated exercise of the mayor's voto privilege. There is a gloomy satisfaction to the people in knowing that a goodly number of the present aldermen have dug their own political graves.

Between now and next April the public-spirited aldermen the council have an opportunity to overcome Uie machinations of the "gang." Those of the latter who propose to oiler themselves for re-election cannot afford too many suicidal voteagainst ordinances demanded by the people.

C. 0. D.

"Vino£'»r Never Catches Flies." Mrs. Wlekwlre-1 heard to-day that Mrs.

called me a vinegar-raced old thine. The Idea: Jlr. Wiekwire (soothingly)—Oh. well, she simply meant that your face had no tiles on It.

l'obitive 1'ruot.

Brlggs—Young Smlthers Is a friend of yours, is he not? Brnggs—Oli, yes.

Hrlggs—Does lie ever recite any of his poetry to you Hraggs—Certainly not. Didn't 1 just tell you he is a friend of mine.

I- Children of Larger Crowtli. Easterner—What do you pay your policemen out here?

Westerner—Kight dollars a week. Easterner—Can you get good men for that money

Westerner—Oh, yes. You see there are six rows of brass buttons on the uniform.

In the Kiirly Morulnjr.

Mrs. Jason—What Is the use of swearing that way? It won't make the fire start any better, and besides, what do you think will become of you in the hereafter?

Mr. Jason—I don't know and I don't care. There won't be any tires to build, If I should happen to meet the fate you are hinting at.

A New Thine in Ejfjpt.

Egypt is a very old country, but has just reached that stage of civilization where enforced labor on the roads is replaced by taxation to provide the money to pay for such work.—[Philadelphia "lodger.

V* I THE BIGGEST OIL WELLS.

Special Correspondent of the Globe-Democrat. OIL CITY, Pa., December 12.—Some account of the phenomenally big oil wells of the country will be interesting. The three largest wells ever struck on Oil creek during the early development were the Maple Sba3e, Pnillips and Isoble wells. It is not known exactly which one of these wells was tha largest. The production of each of them at the fctirt was not less than 3,000 barrels day. The' Noble well did this much by actual gauge after it had been turned into the tanks, and after it had been flowing ch the jrround for some time. This was one of the sensational wells of the day. Orange Noble, of Erie, and George B. Delemater owned one half of the working interest. W. JH. Abott of Titusville, L. L. Lamb, Rev. L. Reed, Charle3 and Thomas Delemater, Salmon Noble, father of Orange Noble, were also partners in the great well. It was located on the Farrel farm, a small tract on Oil creek, owned by James and Nelson Farrel, of Titusville. The well was struck May 27, 1863, and the value of the oil actually sold and sbippsd from the well was 82,800,000. The "Caldwell well" was finished on the same farm a short time before the ''Noble."

It was (lowing 300 barrels a day when the latter was struck. The owners of the Noble, fearing that the Caldwell would untimately hurt their big spouter, purchased the former for $145,000. This money was all realized from the Noble well within forty-live days, the period in which all the payments, three in number, were to be made. The Caldwell flowed regularly for two months and then dried up completely.

The Maple Shade well was struck August 5, 1SG3, on the Hyde & Egbert tract near Petroleum Center, seven miles above Oil City. The net earnings of this well are given by Dr. A. G. Egbert,^of Franklin, Pa., one of the owners, as $1,500,000. The Phillips well was located on the Tarr farm, Oil creek, and was struck November 11, lStil. It commenced to flow at the rate of 3,000 barrels a day. The total production of the well is estimated to be between 750,000 and 1,000,000 barrels.

The Empire well on the McElhenny farm, near Rouseville, flowed 2,200 barrels a day for some months. Bradley & Son, of Cleveland, had a contract by which they were to receive a month's product of this well for 3500. They received the oil according to contract, and it was a fortune purchased for 8500.

The Sherman well, on the Foster farm, Oil creek, was struck in March, 1SG2 It started off at 1,300 barrels, and pio duced 31,700,000 worth of oil in three years. J. W. Sherman, of Cleveland, O, was the principal owner. He was obliged to sell an interest in the well to get enough money to complete it. These comprise the largest "gushers" of Oil creek, but they have been eclipsed bywells struck since in other territory.

The largest well ever struck in the Pennsylvania regions is undoubtedly the Semple, Boyd & Armstrong, at Thorn creek, Butler county. Its production for fa few days was equal to the combined production of the three largest wells found on Oil creek, or nearly 10,000 barrels a day. This well was opened up October 27,18S4. Two days prior to this it had been reported through the oil sand and dry. But when the well wa3 torpedoed on the 27th, it began flowing at un extraordinary rate, flooding all the adjacent lands. The gas and oil burst from the^vell with a roar that was heard for several miles. While this great well was unbridled and flowing into the air to the height of over 100 feet the scene was one of the grandest ever witnessed in the oil country. AB sosn as possible,but after a great deal of difficulty and danger to the workmen, the well was got under control and the oil turned into tanks. This hazardous work was done by William Gardner, Patrick Connor, Mark Larkins and Edward Clark, all experienced oil-well workmen. They accomplished it in an hour or two, and were paid 8300 for the work. After the well had been flowing on the ground for some time, its actual guage in the tanks was at the rate of '.),(00 barrels a day. The total yield o! this well was not so large as many others, but it stands unchallenged as the largest well in Pennsylvania for a single day's production.

The Boss well, on the Parker farm, between Petrolia and Brady's bend, Butler county, was struck July 18,1871. Its production for the first day or two is estimated at 1,000 a day. After it was turned into the tanks it gauged 3.0C0 barrels a day. The Boss was owned by Criswell Brothers and II. L. Taylor & Co. The Lady Hunter was located near the Boss, and had a daily record of 1,500 barrels. It produced longer than its big neighbor, and was the better well of the two. Washington county has produced some phenomenal wells. John McKeowu has opened up several that flowed from 1,500 to 5,000 barrels a day. Mr. McKaown'a income from his wells at one time wa3 as high as 655,000 a month, more than the president pf the United States receives in a year. He has three farms in Washington county that have yielded him $3,000,000. McKeown landed at Castle Garden a poor emigrant, about the time the oil excitement broke out on Oil creek.

Ohio has produced some very large wells, three or four having records of from 5,000 to 10,000 barrels a day. These hardly count against the Pennsylvania wells, as the oil is worth but 15 cents a barrel. The wells at 1'ithole were not exceptionally large as oil wells go, but they created a furor that has never had a parallel in the oil country. The United States well, the first struck at Pithole, January, 18G5, never did over S00 barrels a day. Then followed the Grant well, with a product of 1,200 barrels a day. This was Pithole's largest well.

'A Child Causes Ills Mother's I)\ith. LOUISVILLE, Ky., December 17.—Mrs. Charles Kiefer, wife of a cornet player, was fatally burned here last night. She was sitting beside a work table, when her two-years old boy, Ernest, pulled the cover off the table bringing the lamp down also. The lamp exploded throwing burning oil over the mother and boy and two other children. The mother died of the injuries to-day and Ernest is verylow. The other children wiil recover.

Foolish Girl aud Her Money Soon Parted, LOUISVILLE, Ky., December 17.—'Vasco D. Browne, formerly business manager of the Mayfield Democrat, recently eloped with Miss Novella Landrum. of that plBce, and married her. The girl had SI,000 in cash. Browne had already a wife living at Lssington, of whom Miss Landrum had never heard. Yesterday the girl returned from St. Louie, saying Browne had deserted her, taking all the money.

A Building Association Defalcation. CHICAGO, December 17.—A. E. Mack, lfct© secretary of the Arcanum building,

loan and homestead association, is mtsa ing with about $7,500 of the association's money. He is supposed to be in Canada.

Y-I PEOPLE ARE NOT DRUGGED

Doctors Befute an Old and Familiar Story of How People Fall. The drugged wine story has been repeated so many thousand times that the majority of people have come to believe that it is founded on fact, says the Indianapolis News. Many newspapers do not hesitate to give it credence. It is not an uncommon thing to see in print sensational 6tories of how households nave been wrecked through the medium of "drugged wine," and every few days" tales are given to the public of men or women being "drugged." Not-, withstanding the currency the story has been given, no one has ever been able to find a person who could give any information as to the ingredients of the supposed drug. More than that, one might inquire of a thousand druggists and never be able to find a drug that would produce the effect credited to the mythical one that has been given so much notoriety.

Druggist George Sloan says there is no drug in existence that accomplishes what romance has so often talked about. Chloroform that would put a sleeping man under its influence would first awaken him. A News reporter asked Dr. J. N. Hurty, analytical chemist, if he had any knowledge of any such drug. His renly was: "Whenever a female leaves her home and iB found in a place she never should have entered, in tears, she explains her disgrace by saying, 'they gave me drugged wine.' Close interrogation discovers that the unfortunate has not been under the influence of such a drug as opium or morphine or other hypnotic. She claims to have been stupified and to have lost-self-control. This drug seems to be easily gotten. It appears to be procurable wherever wine can be had. Especially can it be found in company with champagne. "If a drug exists that can at once stupify the moral sense and excite appetite it is more dangerous than dynamite, and its sale should be as positively interdicted as murder. As a matter of foct, however, Materia Medica knows of no such drug. Physicians, chemists, pharmacists, all deny any knowledge of it, and its exis'.encs therefore must be a myth. The real reason of the downfall is not hard to find. Trace out the history of the fallen one. As a girl she lacked circumspection she was forward, not delicate, but yet -modest enough.' 'Too foil of life,' carelessly 6aid those who knew her. Given to excess in dresF, ever ready to flirt. In an evil hour she fell into the tempter's hands. Champagne is ordered. The story is old. '1 was drugged," she afterward pleads."

RUSSIAN INFLUENZA

The Dii-oase Possibly Bronght Across in Letters—The Symptoms. NEW YORK, December 17.—Sanitary Inspector Guetrae, who investigated the report that Russian influenza had arrived in town, reported to-day to Dr. Ed son, of the board of health. The matter was brought to the attention of the board by Dr. Carl Lellman, who notified it that seven out of thirteen members of the family of Albert Klamroth, of 133 east Forty-Bixth street, were suffering from tfhat he be lievad to be Russian influenza. In his report the inspector says:

The ages of those attacked range from 50 yenrs, all but two little children being over 21 years. No cause of the attack was apparent none of the family have recently arrived from Europe, or associated, or been thrown in contact with recent arrivals or any one suffering from the disease. Certain ones recently received letters from Europe. The young lady who was the first one attacked received a letter from Bsrlin the day before the attack came on. The first case occurred December lltb, the second on l.he following day and the third on the 13th. The fourth and fifth cases occurred on December lltb, and the sixth and seventh on the 15tb. The first symptoms were sudden faintness, chili and marked prostration. Then succeeded headache and a general feeling of malaise, followed by acute corzza, pharyngitis and slight laryngitis, winding up with bronchitis. Temperature from 100 to 105. "An examination showed the patients to be about as sick as persons with a bad cold. The duration of the attack was two days aud upward, two of the familyhaving resumed work, while the first one attacked is.as yet confined to the house. The patients state that the catarrhal symptoms are nothing in comparison with the great feeling of prostration, etc."

Dr. Edson said he had no doubt Dr. Lellmanwas correct in his diagnosis, and that it is the real Russian influenza.

AMUSEMENTS.

One of the Kiralfy companies presented in showy style the "Duke's Motto," one of John Brougham's plays, under the title of "Lagardere," with changes to suit the times. The drops and scenes were fine, the costumes elegant, the dancing attractive and the acting tolerable. The play, like a few chapters from Dumas, is quite an absorbing story of plot and fighting, in which the accomplished hero easily disposes of any number of bravos and assassins in his care for a persecuted heiress. Ttie melodrama will please an audience, and many of the sensational incidents wake the gods. Maurice F. Drew's Lagardere is a spirited and appropriate chnructer. Carrick Fergus, a modern Irishman in a two century old story, as given by J. II. Bunn, seemed to please and amuse, although some of his wit was out of place. What has Pans, of the regency, to do with Evansville and "in the soup." The dancing in the gipsy revels and the musical dance were very pretty, and the Jersey light guards attractive and amusing. M'lle. de Rosa, the premier danseuse, exhibited the muscular vigor and pirouetting which are all that distinguish the premiers of the ballet grace and beauty do not necessarily accompany their tours de force. The audience, though not very large, was unexpectedly good, for a seaeon so play ridden.

Arrangements were made lost night for the appearance of Louis James in "Julius L'3ar" next Monday, the 23d. The opening sale of seats is set for Friday.

A Mysterious Disappearance. LOUISVILLE, Ky., December 17.— John R. Myrover, formerly press agent of the Commercial club here, but later in the insurance business in Indianapolis, running a branch of a business here, has disappeared. Letters sent to him with considerable sums of moneywere returned, and investigation from here only discovered his boarding house, where it was known that he was ill and it had been reported that he was dead.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPB&SS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18, 1889.

The Trial of the Murphy Damage Salt— The Hay Press Salt. The suit of Murphy against the city for damages, in condemning and destroying his house, occupied almost all of the day in the circuit court yesterday. All of the evidence was offered and the jury visited the scene of destruction. The jury waa discharged until 10 a. m. on Friday. The case will be argued then and given to the jury for decision. The suit of Fleury F. Keith and Pleasant Bledsoe vs. the E. & T. H. company had been set for trial yesterday and all of the witnesses and attorneys were present. The evidence having been completed in the Murphy case, there could be but little inconvenience in continuing the case. Mr. Murphy was on the witness stand yesterday aud exhibited a piece of the timber to the court and the juryjand accompanied the exhibition with cursory remarks intended to impress the jury with the fact that the timber was sound. Mr. E. S. Erney was also a witness and during the cross examination by the plaintiff's attorneys, McNutt A McNutt, he excepted to the qtjestion as to whether he were not a professional witness, and only the commanding order of Judge Mack prevented a personal encounter.

The esse of Keith & Bledsoe against the E & T. H. railway company was commenced by impaneling a struck jury. The plaintiffs and defendant stated their cases to the jury and the trial will oe resumed this morning. The suit is for damages for the burning of 102 tons of hay belonging to the plaintiffsin Pimento in 1887. The plaintiffs allege that the fire WHS caused by a spark from an engine belonging to the defendant, and tbathad said engine been in proper repair a spark large enough to cause the fire could not have escaped from the smoke Etack. The trial will take at least two days. The plaintiffs are represented by McNutt McNutt and the defense by Davis & Davis and 'Judge Iglehart, of Evansville. The jurors are John Hark ness, Riley Albert L. Sherman, Honey Creek, James Harlan, Prairieton W. C. Kirkendall, Sugar Creek Martin Beal, Otter Creek VV. D. JohnBon, Otter Creek Patrick Kelley, Sugar Creek L. D. Scott, Fayette Phillip H. K-idel city Carl Moon," Lost Creek David Hall, Sugar Creek, and M. H. Piety, Prairie Creek.

Richard Forster and Kittie ForBter have sued David Branson and the city of Terre Haute to have a nuisance abated and for damages. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff, being husband and wife, our and occupy resident property on the northwest corner of Twentieth and Chestnut streets that the city has a sewer which commences near their property, and rura wrstwt ri cn Chestnut street, emptying into the river that de fendant Brocsoa owns an artesian well on Chestnut street, west of plaintiffs' property that a great amount of water comes from this well, and flows into the Chestnut street sewer that the city council, by resolution, granted to said defendant the right to turn this wuter into said sewer that the water is foul smelling and generates in the sewer obnoxiouB gases that said gaee6 escape through the manholes of the sewer very near to plaintiffs' property that the gases thus escaping are unpleasant to the plaintiffs and their fam ily, and are injurious to their health that the gases have corroded th9 rnetal appurtenances of the property and the paint on the buildings and fences, and formed a film of slimy scum upon the ground and grass, Hence plaintiffs demand an abatement of the nuisance and damages in the following sums: Injury to health .$2,000 Injury to buildings 500 Injury by depreciation of lot BOO

Total $3,000 Sadie Cook has sued Eilert Harmes for slander, and demands damages in the sum of §5,000. She complains that she recently sued him for damages, that she was a witness in her own behalf and was 6worn to tell."the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth that she did so, that after the trial was over the defendant addressed her as follows in the presence of several persons: "You are a nice woman. You swore to a damned lie," and that defendant thereby slandered her, and did so with malicious intent. In a recent suit against Harmes, the plaintiff obtained judgment for damages in the sum of 8800.

RAILROAD NEWS NOTES.

General and Personal Mention of General and Local Interest. Master Mechanic Cooke, of the C. .t E I., was here yesterday.

Monday Charles Davis w»3 given a position as helper in the blacksmith shop.

L?ster Lawton, lately of Parker's foundry, began work in the erecting shop yesterday.

The O. it M. has contracted with the Rhode Island locomotive works for six new locomotives, the heaviest made.

Engineer Mike Lynch, of the E Jb T. H., has about recovored from the injury to his arm aud expects to return to work Monday.

Kiralfy'e "Lagardere" company came up from Vincennes yesterday on the E. & T. H., and left for the north last night on the C. & E. I.

The E. it T. H. pay car disbursed funds here Monday and on the E. & I. yeeterday. The pay car on the Big Four will arrive here to-morrow.

The following E. & T. officials are in the city attending the Keith-Biedsoe trial: Traffic Manager Grammer, Master Mechanic Torrence and Car Accountant J. H. Hedden.

The B. & O. railroad ha9 purchased five acres of ground at Berlin, Md., and will at once begin .the erection of a mammoth freight distributing depot, the tracks and building to occupy the whole five acree.

The crew of Conductor Lon Lee'a train captured a-three-foot biack snake at Marshall Crossing yesterday and brought it to this city to show to their friends. After being displayed it was given to Howard Lloyd, whose liking for snakes is well-known.

Superintendent Wilson and Trainmaster Cummine, who lost their lives in the wreck on the I. B. it W. Monday, were well and favorably known in this city, and the news of their death caused much sorrow. Mr. South, of the Big Four, was at one time the night operator in$the office in which Mr. Wilson was the day operator, and speaks highly of him as a man in every sense of the word.

Serioug Fire Lois at Vlncennra. VINCENNES, Ind., December 17.—The Bell-Armistead sewer pipe works burned this morning. Lses, 827,000 insurance, 87,000.

Hood's Sarsaparilla is a purely vegetable preparation,being free from injur!* ous ingredients. It is peculiar in its curative power.

Now the misanthropic plumber, looking glummer and glummer. Wonders It the plague? summer will pack up Its duds and go. Hear him muttering and growling, see him petulantly scowling.

List his wild despairing howling: "Ob! for ten degrees below!" —("Exchange.

Forty hogs and eighty sheep have been eaten by a lynx in Stark county, Ohio. A Philadelnhia merchant has put out the sign: "Esculent Repository." The establishment is a grocery store.

The condition of agriculture in England is improving, and a more hopeful feeling prlvails among farmers.

So many clergymen have now homes in the streets west of Boston common that thn facetious refer to old Beacon Hill as Mount Zion.

A bright silver dollar is lying temptingly on the bottom of a big tank of water at a Chester fair and bazaar for the person who can take it out. The tank is electrified.

A tramp six feet and ten inches in height was locked up in the Auburn, N. Y., jail for ten days recently. He gave his name as John Winar, but would tell nothing cf his paet history.

Five hundred people engaged in a bear hunt near Uniontown, W. Va, the other day, and succeeded, after a long chase, in killing the brute. Fifteen dollars was offered for the skin.

Compressed air is being used as a motive power in some of the cities of France, according to the Sanitary News. It has started a new industry in the manufacture of plant for the purpose.

While Henry G. L9ssig, supervisor of Douglass township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, was killing a porker last week, the animal caught his left thumb in bis mouth and bit it off near the first joint.

John Fisher, a painter at Roach's ship yard, Chester, Pa., went home the other day to find himself the father of twins. Mrs. Fisher is one of a family of thirteen, aid ten of them were born twine.

Three well-known London publishing houses, Messrs. Kegan, Paul fc Co., Trubner St Co., and George Redway & Co., propose to amalgamate into. one limited liability company with a joint share capital of half a million dollars, and half as much more debenture capital.

At the recent fire in Boston one firm was entirely cleaned out, not even a penholder left, and added to this the papers in their safe were also destroyed. Since the great Boston tire many firms have a duplicate of their monthly trial balance kept at the residence of some member of the firm. •'Uncle" Robert Pinkerton.of McConnelsville, Ohio, has sold out his undertaking business after having followed it for sixty-seven years. He removed from Washington county, Pensylvania, to Ohio in 18.22. He has attended over four thousand funerals. He WBB SI years old last month.

Canadian commerce appears to be increasing rapidly. The exports for the first four months of the current fiscal year were $16,815,401 corresponding pwiod last year, S33,G20,G96 increase. $S,195,768 imports for the four months this year, $11.613,171 same period last year, ?39,055,985 increase, §2,587,389.

The cremation furnace in Pera-la-Chaise cemetery, in- Paris, is now complete, and the prefect of the Seine has approved the scale of charge to be enforced thereat. The charge for the use of the cremation furuace is to be 50 francs, which sum includes the keeping in the columbarium of the funeral urn containing the ashes for a period of five years.

Habitual drunkards in Norway and Sweden are imprisoned, and have to submit to a plan of treatment which is 6aid to produce most satisfactory results, says the London Lancet. The delinquents are fed only with bread steeped in wine for an hour before the meal is served. Experience shows that a period from eight to ten day-B of this regimen is generally sufficient to make a man evince the greatest aversion to anything in the shope of wine.

FASHION NOTES.

Fricged sashes are fushionable. Feather trimmings are very popular. The lithe and little girl is favored by the styles of dress now in vogue.

Short, jaunty jackets of sealskin are now fitted as closely u6 cloth garments. Violet and other purple shades are among the favorite colors in dress fab rics.

Epaulets of an exaggerated character are seen on dresses for home nnd evening wear.

Thsy say that Astrakhan is going out of favor in Paris. But it is not in New York.

Surplice dreperiee, sash belts 8nd buckles have developed into proportions too immense for fat girls.

French neck rutching, very wide and scalloped on the edge with colored silk, make stylish accessories.

Both high and low coiffures are worn, but the most fashionable girls drees their locks low and band them with fiilets of ribbon, or Bilver or gold a la Grecque.

Minerver or fine gray 6quirrel fur is again worn fashionably in Paris. But the gray hairs are slightly tipped with ruddy brown, which makes this old favorite of forty years ago a very, becoming fur.

Charming afternoon dresses of IndiB cashmere or French camel's hair are made very effective by the liberal use of velvet or heavy satin ribbons, three and four inches in width, these being now more favored than fancy ribbons of anv sort.

Bfackfish net makes an excellent underskirt for a black tulle ball gown composed cf many skirts of black tuelle falling one over the .other, the topmost one illuminated with silver or steel tinsel, or with gold or copper tinsel, if the wearer is a dark brunette.

Governor Porter at Rome.

George T. Porter reached home from Rome Saturday night. He says he had an exceedingly pleasant trip, and left his father, the United States minister to Italy, and sister in excellent health and 'enjoying life in Rome.

Tin* Prohibition Utopia.

There is Eot a town in Kansas of 3,000 inhabitants or upward where liquor is not sold and with the cognizance of the authorities.—[Kansas City Times.

An Unfortuimte Pause.

'•I've hall a ralnd," said Brown, and then he paused And brushed some dust from off his hat "Indeed?" quoth Bronson with a smile, "I'd not

Have thought you had as much as that." -[Life.

Business dilemmft—A man suffering with a cough obliged to keep his room a note to pay, no money in bank, and not a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup to be had for ten milee.

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FURS

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At $310, one London dyed Alaska Seal Newmarket, 58 inches long bust 36.

At S285, one London dyed Alaska Seal Newmarket, 58 inches long bust 36.

These garments are worth $500 each, but they are the last two we have and may go at the prices named.

At $80, one London dyed Alaska Seal Wrap, trimmed in black Jynx. The regular price was $200.

All our Seal Coats and Sacques at cost.

We ore selling any Cloak in our houGe at cost, and a good many at less.

S AYRES & CO.,

Indianapolis, Ind.

WAgents for Buttertck's Patterns.

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Pleasure Is taken in announcing the engagement of the eminent tragedian, Jlr.

Louis ames,

Assisted by his excellent legitimate company, in Bhakspeare's grand tragedy In six acts,

Julius Cassar

Costumes Rich and Historically Correct! Scenery Appropriate! Advance sale opens Friday.

Prices $1. 75, 50 and 25 cents.

THE MILKMEN

Of this City will give their

FIFTH i- ANNUAL BALL

December luth, 183!), at (iermanla Hall.

ES^iflusic by Ringgold Orchestra.

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

CHRISTMAS OFFERINGS.

E. L. G0DECKE,

BOOKSELLER and STATIOSffi.

406 Wabash Ave.

NOVELTIES

We have the agency of some new goods in the line of labor-saving in

kitchen work. Iiook at our show windows and see if anything there will interest you.

Silver's Patent Egg Beater and Cream Whipper is the best on earth.

Marion Harland's Coffee Pots, with receipts.

Egg Poachers and Egg Timers. Fruit Strainers and Potato Mashers.

Glass Rolling PinB for chopped ice. Little Hustler Potato l'esler. Stoves for gas jets and lamps. -i» •,

Brass Fire Sets and Fenders. Fancy Tea and Coffee Pots. Carvers.

Tile hearths. 1 Toy Stoves, etc.

im^Y STOVE

609 Wabash Avenue.

TIME TABLE.

SIXTH STREET DEPOT.

CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS KAILWAY.

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On an after October 10th, 18S9, trains will arrive and depart from Sixth street depot as follows: —GOIMU EAST— N'0.12 N*. Y. and Boston Express S... 1.20 a. in. Xo. 2 Indianapolis and Cleveland 8.(8 a. HI. No. 18 N. Y. and Boston Limited• PaCV 1 02 p. in. No. 8 Day Express and Hall 8.47 p. m.

No. 5 Southwestern Express SV J.'20ain. No. 9 Day Expres-t and Mall in.(0 a. in. No. 19Southwestern Limited PriCY.. 1-.55 p. m. No. 3 Mattoon Express 7.27 p. ni.

Trains marked thus (PI Parlor Car. Trains marked thus (rij Sleeping Car. Trains marked thus (O) Cafe Car. Trains marked thu3 (V) Vestibule Cars. Trains marked thus run Dally. All other trains Daily. Sunday excepted. Train No. 18. tiie Vestllmled Umlted, has through Siecpeis for New York and Boston and Cafe Dining Car.

No. 11! has through Sleepers to New York, also Combination Sleeper and Parlor Car for Cincinnati

N'o. 5 has Sleepers and Parlor Car for St. I,mils. No. I'J has Sleepers, Parlor Car and Giie Car for St. Louis.

i. E. SOUTH, Agent.

TIMESTABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car at wchod. Trains'narked t-'ius (S denote tfleopinis* Cars attached daily. Trains maricsd thus (B) denote Buffet Cars attached. Trains marked thus. run dally, All other train* tun ditHy Sundays excepted.

VANDALIA LINE,

T. H. & 1. DIVISION. LKAS'K FOR T11K WU8T,

No. 9 Western Express (81V) 1.42 a. m. No. 6 Mall Train l'J.2l R. m. No. 1 Kast Line (P&V) 'J.'O p. n\ No. 21 3.10 p.m. No. 7 Jfa»t Mall U.W p. m.

I.XAVK FOR THE OAST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.30 a. rcv No. fl New York Express CS.tV) 1.61 a. in. No. 4 Mai' and Accommodation 7.In a. ci. No. Atlantic Kipresa (P&V) ia.17 p. m. No. ifast Line *. 3"1 P. TO No. 2 SK. 5.05 p.m.

AKKIVI FROM T3I3 KAST.

No. 9 Western Express (9jV) l.sii a. in. No. 5 Mali Train *. J0.J5 a. m. No. 1 Vast Line (PAY) 2.MJ p. in. No. 21 a.lfi p. in. No. 3 Mall »nd AcconunosialMn...., K.45p. ui. No. 7 Jfaat Mall U.W p. IO.

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No. 12Cincinnati Eipress* (S) 1.20a. m. No. 6 New Y«rk Express (S&V) 1.42 a.m. No. 30 Atlantic Express (PJtVJ 12.42 p. m. No. (i Kast Line 2 l(J p. m. No. 2 6.00 p. ui.

T. H. & L. DIVISION.

LKAVK JfOli THE KOBTU.

No. 63 South Bend Mall 8.U0 a. m. No. 64 South Bond Express 4.00 p.m. ABnrVK FROM THK HdHTH No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. S3 cfoath Bend Mall 7.30 p.

FIRE INSURANCE!

AJLLEX, KELLEY & CO.

£65 Wabash Avonne, Terra Haute, Ind. ltKl'KKSKNTlNU

Commercial Union, of London Michigan F. & M.,of Detroit London & 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 w« represent the largest company in the United States doing Accident, Plate Klass, Steam Boiler aud Employers' Liability business,

THE FIDELITY ASD CASUALTY OF SEW TORK.

Also the best and largest Live Stock insurance company In the United States, the

1SDIABA LIVE STOCK CO., 07 CRAWKRDSVILLE

This company has paid §130,OOO.CO for dead stock since organization In l&ti.

TOTAL ASSSTTS EEfRSSMTED OVER $153,000,000.

Rates reasonable. Losses adjusted and paid promptly.

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615 MAIN STKKBT.

BOBXIiT 11. BLACK. JAJTCS A. HISBiT. BLACK & NISBKT,

Undertakers and Embalmers, 26 North Fourth street, Terre Haute, Ind. Warerooms 25th st. and Washington ave. All calls will eoelve prompt attention. Open day and night.