Evansville Journal, Volume 17, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 2 August 1866 — Page 3

THE EVANSVILLE DAILY JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1866.

HARDWARE.

Geo. Jloimtag ; & Co. IMPORTERS OF HARDWARE and CJJTLERY, -AND No. 31. - - No. 31, 9 - . -V MJGST STREET" ' . :..:. ''I-- ' ; . r . . ; ' ..,.''-; 1 ' ',:..!. E YA.3TS VI LLE, INDIANA. 18 G6. . 13 ''First Street, SIGN OF THE BIG PADLOOK ! WELLf , KELLOGG & CO., IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN , HAR DWARE " and , " CUTL ER Y! NO. 13 ".', FIRST STREET, - "','' v :' : . (SIGN OF THE BIG PADLOCK.) INSURANCE. -General Insurance Agency. W. J. LOWBY A CO., General Insurance Agents, No.i, North First Street, ' , Evamsvllle, Ind. W .j. Lownr co. have established, in connection with their Banking business, an INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, and have placed Mr. Henry S. Bennett in charge of the same as Secretary, and are now fully preprred to five prompt and efficient attention to Fire, larine, Accident, and Life Insurance. The Companies represented by them are among the very strongest in the country, and well known for their liberality in adjustment and prompt payment of losses. Policies will be Issued in any and all of them upon the most favorable terms. These Companies are the following, representing, aggregate Assets amounting to $38,000,000 OO. p underwriters' Agency, 01 new iwr, ' Assets, $3,120,823 32. .- - . - - LlTerpool and London and Globe Insurance Co., ,'.-',.-.. ;' k tts c,n u $1R rtnn non on. ; (Invested iu this'coant'ry, 81,611,850 13.) Enterprise Insurance Co., of Cin cinnati, u., . Assets, $1,000,000 00, ; ,: Eome Insurance Co., New naten, : Assets, $1,000,000. ; nion Insurance Co., of Indianapolis, Assets,-$207,5O5 72. ' Jew England Insurance Company, of . uartrora. Assets, $227,155 45. ' :or Syracuse, aew lorK, Assets, $200,000 00. Mutual Life Insurance Company, of

sew lorK, . - Assets; $16,000,000 00. North American Life Insurance Co. of New York4 '

MILLERS.

Itricliai't Bros., MILLERS, Wholesale & Retail Dealers in iTTL.OTXK, o..2r s 5 g (S3 S ' u W. fi Hi! Hi i H 3 meal; i . .v ; 1 1 .t. . hi fee r. M c s w I ..' ' .a ; g. "ST - Corner Locust and Canal Sts. ap!8 -: BOOTS AND SHOES. W 0 0 o a o w o 3 o 35 9 P. , tt I ft i f. 0 8 o G-0 It' 5 v (5. 0 & a- Ov a-. ; J ' ' B -9 . s ; o If : 0 , o W . -. 14 ., - 3 .. ,' H . ; .,: M .; s H ; 0 o".v;'-."-, . , . : i 1 : . 0 , p .. B . , . 3 -. .- -- so e, T " O J. : 9 a - , p o, n n I 3 M ' B - m B ' W . O ' s ..... O - P CO (6 a O a o 4 a is B" 2. P P Q, P i9 ; B 'SB"' ft P. o ' :8 s p. - 51 1 ;S a o w w s P B B o B. w 93 O . tr tr P B 3 ft 2. o1 S 2 p ; B , sr 3 S er a 5? i 3 . p Si P B & p ' B- . a. 3. , a p 05 ST B B a 05 o o p. B B W ' a B p o 3 o 3. 3. S B a s; b - SQ P 1 o p BC c f '2 CD 8" ? 7 COAL. nODIAJI t O il. MINES. OFFICK ON WATER STREET,.' BE. tween Main and Locnst Streets. A constant supply, and orders prompt-

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SEXTIMEXT -AXD FUN. NO BABT IJf THE HOUSE. :

BY PAUL.No baby in the house I know 'Tis far too nice and clean; No toys, by careless fingers strewn, Upon the floors are seen ; No finger marks are on the panes, No scratches on the chairs. No wooden men set up in rows, Or marshaled off in pairs; No little stockings to be darned, All ragged at the toes ; ; . No pile of mending to be done, Made up of baby clothes; No little troubles to be soothed, No little hands to fold, No grimy fingers to be washed '.' No stories to be told ; ' -No nicknames,-" Clove," and " Mouse;". No merry frolics after tea . , , No baby in the house. . ,: -epigram:. , '- i u.-. A fool and knave with diflTerent views, For Julia's hand apply; - ,, -The knave to mend his fortune sues, The fool to please his eye. Ask you how Julia will behave? Now. take it for a rule, If she a fool, she '11 wed the knave, n If she ' a knave, the fool. r a j Recompense, i : "la that Gldtown church yonder, if you please sir?" 1 "' , ! l v .. A girl spoke to me. lhere are wo men of sixteen,,' and children of sixteen. This 0ne !ras a ' child. She wore the scantiest of cotton dresses. belted at the waista pair of leather boots, arid a;' white apron. In her hand she earned a sun-bonnet; and her hair, cropped' close like a , boy's, curled in black rings about her head. The face was a baby's face in sweetness and in innocence, the little brown hands the hands of toil. No young' lady this, yet there was nothing coarse and vulgar about her unless it were those hands. ; ,. " That is Oldtown church, my dear '.' I said. " Are you going there?" " Yes; Sir, to see the. wedding.. Are you 9" I was, 1 more fool, I, though I did not say so to this child. The bride for whom the bells were ringing was to have been mine once, and would have been but for the accident whieh had crippled me and changed her heart. , She had done nothing openly treacherous, but I saw the truth and set her free.- She took her freedom gladly, and we were two. She had quite forgotten me, no doubt. I be lieved then 1 never could torget her. 1 knew exactly how she would look in snowy silk and lace and coronet of pearls. 1 had dreamed ot her in bridal robes so oftra. , I nodded to the little thing beside me trudeine over the meadoV Dath with the tall grass almost to her waist, and looking at me wisttully. . : I never saw a wedding," she said. "No?" , .' : " No, sir. Grandfather said I might come. He didn't care himself. It's a long walk, too, from the tavern, and he is very old. ' Does your grandiather keep the tavern?'" I asked. - " No, Sir I wish he did !" said the child. " He has only his fiddle and people half the time don't care for tune. ' What else can he do though? To-night there's a dance and he's to play for them. That's why we stopped."; . . r A poor fiddler's untaught grandchild as poor as decent poverty could be yet her presence somehow cheered me. ; Half child, half woman, and child at heart. :. Innocent, and beautiful, and kindly. I encouraged her to linger at my side. ... I said to he : ? " I will show you a place where you can see the bride well. It is in the gallery. Will y6u like that?" ' - "I don't- know'- she said. "I haven't ..often been to church. We pray together in, lonely places, grandfather and I. Will you be . there, Sir?" ' ' " Yes." - '' -: "I know I should like it." "Come with me, then," I said; and she followed me. ; .s . I had meant to hide myself in the gallery and see my lost, fove married quite unseen. . This companionship had not been in my roh at all. ' But t liked, it No friend, no. relation, not my own Sister, would I have had beside me; but the elfish thing was too innocent to fear. I led the way up the dark stairs, and toward a spot quite sheltered from the public view. There I sat down, and she stood leaning over the balustrade. 1 ' The chureh was full of bonnets; here and there only a masculine head. The miuister was in his seat, reading, in a position taken for effect. He was a handsome man, and knew it perfectly well. J Girls whispered and giggled, matrons fanned themselves, and men yawned. Soon the soft roll of carriages on the gravel path was heard, and the bridal party entered. I saw her at last. : Aletta.- " Is that the bride? " half sobbed the girl's voice at my side. " Is it a real lady? She looks like wax. Oh, how pretty, how beautiful ! Look ! lookr She touched me with her little brown hand, and looked at me, her eyes sparkling : " . -. " Did you ever see her before? she a'sked. " Is she like that in everyday clothes? Oh, how pretty I how pretty!"': v.. , . . ' Men have no right to weep. 1 put my head down on the cushion of the pew and hid my eyes. Lielt the child creep close beside me. "Poor thing, he's tired! " I heard her whisper, and, put her little hand out and pat me softly by stealth. Soon 1 looked down into the church again,' and saw 'Grant Stockton kiss his bride". , . . "Is it over? " asked the girl. " Yes, chtld,'k I said ; " all over." "Then I must ; go," she said. " Thank you for being so kind to me, sir. Good by." "Good by," I said; and her little

leather "shoes pattered over the aisle and down the stairs, and I had seen, as I thought, the last of her. When she had gone I missed her strangely. ,1 went home when the ehurch was quite empty. It had not been as hard, to bear as I : had feared, and oddly enough I found myself thinking of that little child's gipsy head, and those beautiful long fringed eye lashes. I wondered at myself, but it was SO: ' f .i,:-:-' - .;"!' "I should like to see, the1 child again," I said, 'and as I spoke I spied a crowd near a tavern door, upon the road. 1 -' i '"'- ' It wa3 a poor place, and poor rough people made up the group.; But it was. plainly no common quarrel or drinking bout which had brought them there, for their ! faces were all grave and their voices suppressed. I crossed the road. . ., ' , "What has happened, friend?" I asked of a tinker near by. " Only a . blind fiddler dropped dead," he said. il But .there's agal there wild about it." :) " ' , ; f! And -then' ;I passed him and went iu. An old man lay, upon1 the: floor, and across his.body; a, girl had flung herself. .1 knew' the gip?yhair and the 'brpwri neck,' the'. scant dqtton dress and theirunbonnet, flufig with a handful of wild flowers upon the floor; and I . bent, over her,,, touching her little dispairing head. . : " My1 child," I said,! he is happier

than we are." " :' ,:!"' . And she looked upJ !; .:!. . " He was all I had' she said ; " all, ain" ,;; . , ' - '' So had I thought when Aletta gave me back' our betrothal ring: My heart ached for her. I said no other word, but I led her to an inner room, while; two men bore the dead man up stairs. She wept wildly, but my presence seemed to comfort her.! ; ' After awhile she drew closer to me, and, sitting on a low stool, leaned her head on my knee. Soon my ,shand rested on it, and in an hour she had sobbed herself to sleep. ' . ' I said a few words to the lady when I arose to leave, and she promised to attend to my orders, enforced by the contents of my pocket book. - r. "This girl sha'nt go until I' hear from you, Sir," she said. -"Indeed, I don t know where she would go. She seems friendless, and such a child for her age. Thank you, Sir!" And I went on my way again, thinking not of Alleta, but of the dead fiddler's grandchild. This sun-browned waif, so simple and so ignorant, so friendless and alone. I was young yet not five-and-twen-ty a bachelor'and likely to be one my life long. I had no proper home to take her to, and no friend to aid me. Atlast, in my extremity, I thought of Betty old Betty, who had once been my nurse, and who loved me as Ishe might her own son--and in the T 1 T 1. 3 gloaming x maae my wayio ner gooa home. I found her trimming her vines in the bit of garden-ground, and had my usual kiss acros3 the fence even before the gate was opened, i " I've been thinking of ; you," she said. " I knew it was you as soon as I heard some one coming., 'Tisn't every young gentleman that would weary himself to see an old body like me. Sit down, honey, and rest.'.' ; ', . " I came to ask a favorr Betty," I said. ' . "Just name it,' Master Bertie." 44 Will you take a boarder, Betty?" " Bless me! In my two rooms?" ' 44 Only a child, Betty." V " A child! Master Albert!" 'W. I told her of the fiddler's death, and of the girl." ' r "I have money enough," ' I said, "but no female relatives.. I can only come to you." .' . ).; V :s " You . always were kind-hearted from a boy," she said. k 44 I'll take the little girl, Maste Bertiel" ' , ;i ' Then she put ! both, hands on my shoulders. , ; ; .' : .1 1 41 You haven't fretted,1 have you?"she asked. . ' , '. ; 44 Fretted? " I replied, " u Why ?. " ' 44 Nay, why indeed ! " said old Betty. Better .'fish -'in the sea than were ever caughtjet.' " Then in a moment more she added:' "I've been to j see a wedding."1 ' ' ' '' ' ' I felt my face flush: 44 Shall I bring the girl to-morrow, after her grandfather's funeral?" .tasked. . .: 4lLWhen you please," said Betty. " But, Master Albert,' what do you mean to do with her? You are doing all this in a hurry Just think a bit."5 44 1 mean to adopt the child," I said. " It will make me happy to have a young thing to care for." Betty laughed. 44 You'll have young things of your own. please God, some day,' she said. ' Why, at your age life is before you.", "I shall never marry, Betty," I said. .' v ;-.;. -. She caught my fingers in , a close clasp with her hofny hard working hand. ' , ' ". , '" . 44 1 wish you was back again a baby on rov knee, Master Bertie,", she said. "I'd like to sing -you to sleep as I did then. Ah ! it's a grief to us old women to see the young we've nursed grow up so tall and old, with their troubles so shut up in their own ' hearts that we can't comfort them. Going? Well, then, good night ! I'm ready rfor the child when you will. I'm ready for anything that will cheer you. Master Bertie. I ought to Say Master Abert always now,! suppose; but the old times do come back so!" CONCLUDED IN OCR NEXT. Indianapolis Female Institute THE EIGHTH ACADEMIC YEAR of this institution will open on WEDNESDAY, Septembkr 5th. For Catalogues, or other information respecting the Institute, address, until September ath, : Cf V. HEWES, Presfcfent, : Jy25 dim ' ludianapolis, Indiana.

GROCERIES.

OLD lOISHEEH GROCERY, ; . ,i v ; ?'" - 'i' i v!Nal 82' MAIN"? STREET. - ; ; J.' IV Elliotf & Son HAVE OX HAVi AXD.ARE 03fstantly receiving, a choice assortment of STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES, purchased for cash, and at the lowest figures, consisting of . .. Choice Green and Black Teas, " v.- !"- t'- Coffees, Sugars, -E.R. Durkee & Co.'s Spices (which are war- . ranted pure), Syrups, j, CoalOil, h ;,;; . "Wooden and Willow Ware, Canned Fruit such as Oysters, Lobsters -, ; Crabs, Peaches, Quinces, Whortleber- , ., ,ries, Pears, Pineapples, &c, Bottled Goods such as Pickles, Jellies, or! J it- iT-.-i Sauces, &c ...', Also, 200,000 9m. Plain and Canvased Hams, Shoulders, Ribbed and Clear Sides. , Agents for Duponfa and Miami Powder Companies, and for Johnson's Union Wash-ing-Machlne and Clothes-Wringer; . Cull and examine pursttock and prices, at - No: 82 MAIN STREET. ' Itmayl i-:!i .,'. ;i .a-.i..-:-s'i XEW GHOCEM STORE, -.li . - -. ' - V;i (cr- , ; on ! ,r;i'- ' SICAM0RE, bet. Fourth and Fifth, '- ,'1 . .;' ? by-r-i J'f... I r . EEDDERICH & LAUER. J LARGE ASD WELW4ELECTED )': i BtOCk. Of ' ' Groceries- ; - ' -.' .; v ', Provisions,' ' , ;"'' ' j'; v-S'i. ,.'T-.. uV,!, ' 'Hops.&c., Just opened, and at the lowest rates, to which the attention of the public Is invited. . . .:..,. ' All kinds of Country Produce taken In exchange for goods, and the highest market price paid. In connection with the Store, there is a large and commodious WAGON YARD, for the accommodation of countiy dealers. ma.-18 d3m , ; . ' R. S. BUSTOW. JOHN O. RTJSTON. i . ' U. fi. KiLslon & Co., Wholesale and Retail Dealers la GROCERIES, PRODUCE, ': , AND - ,' - . ' v JPRINTINO paper, No. 30 Water Street, bet. Sycamore & Vine, ! 1 ETAN 3VIt..B..l.....:........lNDtAN.. ' B- The highest market price paid for all tinda Of Produce and Rags. f NEW SUPPLIES JUST RECEIVED: ' 200 Bags Michigan Oats, superior article. ; 10 Tons Ricb Country Bran. 500 Bushels Iowa Potatoes. , , ' 100 Bags Rich Ground Screenings excellent cow feed. . : j.. . In store and for sale at : -i R. S. RtTSTON & CO., - aprl8 No. 30 Water St. FOR THE HANDKERCHIEF. PBM.8J A !ttoC Exqniile, Delicate nnil FrnKrant ' Prrfnmf, ' Vistilled from the Rare and Beantiful ' Flower frni which it takes its name. Manufactured only by PIIAI-Of A: SOW. a Beware of Counterfeits. ,; , Ask for Phalon'tt Tak ta other, i' ( Sold by, drngglets generallyMilk! Milk! Milk ham & riggs WOULD INFORM THE CITIZEWS of Evansviile that they have started a Milk Wagon, and are prepared to supply them with - GOOD FRESH MILK, : warranted pure. .All orders left at CROSS & CROFTS' will meet with prompt attention. may7 d3m

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DRY GOODS. Gll,I30N KA6HEK, X. X. GOODLETT Gr. MAGHEE Sc CO., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PLAIN AND FANCY FIRST STREET, EVANSVILLE, IND jan29. " ' " NEW 7- '

Wholesale House! CARPENTER, .WHITE & BAKER, .f ....-'...-. i ' WHOLESALE DBAT.RK3JtN DRY GOODSrJ -?.-: NOTIONS,.? FANCY GOODS, FIRST STREET, Corner Sycamore, . :, " ' ' " ' EVANSVILLE. Hoop-Skirts, Corsets, and Nets . . . ' We make a specialty, and are not undersold In, or out of, New Y ork. apr!8 WTCOLESAEE ' NOTIONS, &c. "smxtii: .---i-.ii"a5 co:, . . .. . i -' ( .. ' ' '. Having Bought the Interest of JAUUESS, FREXCII & CO., J", IN THEIR DRY GOODS HOUSE, WOITED INFORM" THEIR OLD Customers and the Trade generally, that, with increased facilities for carrying on the business, and with a determination to sell at the LOWEST PRICES for CASH, we trust . that we shall be successful in pleasing, and greatly increasing our trade. ..' - Our Stoclc , Will be full In aW the lines that are found In a Wholesale DRY OOODS and NOTION House. :.';' i . . ..... . . , HUDSPETH, SMITH fe CO., - ' No. 10 First Street, feb22 Evansviile, Ind. PATENT MEDICINES. DR. ARMISTEAD-S TO STIC SVRtP is the most nleasant remedy for Chills and Fever ever discovered, and is warranted to cure. It Is purely vegetable, and contains neither arsenic, auinine, nor anything else which can atlect the patient injuri ously. , Read! Read!: Read I Read the fol- ' lowing Certificates: Henderson. Kt.. Feb. 28. 1866. - Dr. R: A. Armistead, of Evansviile, Ind., resided for many years in this city. We know him intimatelv. He is a regular Physician, and during his residence here he enjoyed an extensive practice, and was regarded as a skillful practitioner of medicine. He is a gentleman of strict Integrity and elevated moral worth. i i .)... . . l. w. ruwnuu, . ARCH'D DIXON. '. PADtTCAH, KY Sept. 2, 1854. Armistad. In Trigg county, Ky.. for some ..!.,,. th.i on a thl-sinfftn. hestood hiffh. and enjoyed a large pract ce ; whilst, as a gentleman, in bearing, and a marl of honor, in the strictest sense of those terms, no . man maintained a more enviable reputation.In a word, he lived among us without reproach, and left s wUh unsullied Character., ALFRED BOYD. Inquire of your Druggist, . . . For sale by all Druggists. . cfLOUD,,& AKIN.v aprl8 General Agento, No. 5 Main St. Yanderbnrgli Agricultural and Hor- ; ticrutiiral AssociatioiL . THE STOCKHOLDERS ARE RE quested to meet at the Court-Honse on Monday next, July SO, for the purpose, of determining whether we will hold a Fair this Fall or not. - '. By order of the President. P. HORN BROOK. Secretary. july28dtd Union copy, and present bill to Secretary.