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SPECIAL,. Black Silks. We have just placed on sale three full lines of BLACK GROS GRAIN SILK, of the celebrated manufacture of Alexander Giraud, Lyons. They are know as the “Cachemire Alexandre,” “Cachemire Egyptian” AND “Cachemire Princesse,” And are particularly recommendod for their unsurpassed durability and great beauty of finish. All qualities, from SI.OO to $3.00 per yard. Also, the largest and finest stock of Rich Novelties in the West. L. S. AYRES & CO., INDIANAPOLIS. N. B.—Our Dress makers are now sending out daily their beautiful costumes, and ladies who wish work done for Easter should leave their orders at once. BROWNING & SLOAN, DEALERS IN Fine Perfumes and Toilet Articles; Hair, Cloth, Tooth and Nail Brushes; Combs, Dressing Cases, Nail Sets, Fine Cologne Bottles, Fancy Goods, and all Articles Wanted for the Toilet. APOTHECARIES’ HALL, Nos. 7 and 9 E. Washington street. FINE BOOTS. Just received for spring trade one fine lot of Ladies’ French Kid Button Boots, hand-sewed, the finest ever brought to the city. Ladies call and see them. L. SIEKSDORFER No. 41 E. Washington St., Fletcher & Sharpe’s Block. HAINES BROTHERS' CELEBRATED PIANOS Are used and indorsed by the very best operetic and concert companies, artiste, musicians and the public Generally throughout the United tates. We invite special inspection of a fine lot of these beautiful Uprights, which we have just received. D. H. BALDWIN & CO.. Wholesale and Retail Dealers, M 95,91 and 99 North Pennsjlvania Street 236 Fourth avenue, 158 W. Fourth street, Louisville. Cincinnati. rSP’Special Bargains in Second-hand Pianos and Organs. THENEWYORKSTORE (ESTABLISHED 1853.) millineryßepartmet WE ARE SHOWING THE NEWEST STYLES IN MILLINERY. The Newest Shapes and Colors in Hats, Flowers, Feathers xnd Ribbons. PRICES ALWAYS IN PLAIN FIGURES. Pettis, Bassett & Cos. Among the Medical Men. At the meeting of the Marion County Medical Society the following delegates to the American Medical Association, which meets in June, were re-elected: Dr. J. L. Thompson, Dr. Carson, Dr. L. L. Todd, Dr. Jno. Chambers, Dr. Barnes, Dr. G. V. Woolen, Dr. Sutcliffe and W. B. McDonad. Papers were read by Drs. Brayton and Haughton. At the annual meeting of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, held yesterday. Professor J. O. Stillson A. M., M. D., of the Evansville Medical College, was elected to the chair of diseases of the eye and ear. He will remove to this city to practice. Dr. Samuel E. Karp, M. S., M. D., was elected to the ehair of chemistry. Dr. G. C. Smythe was elected dean, Dr. Joseph Eastman secretary and Dr. J. A. Sutcliffe, treasurer. The college is in a prosperous condition. Nkw patterns in bed-room sets at King & Elder's.

REV. M. W. REED S DEPARTURE. The Final Handshaking Over and the Pastor on His Way to Denver. Rev. Myron W. Reed. Mrs. Reed and tlicir threee children left last night at 11 o'clock for Denver, Col., where Mr. Reed will, on next Sunday, enter upon his new pastorate, that of the First Congregational Church of that city. For the past four days they have been stopping at the Denison House and numerous have been the callers to bid them good bye and God speed. Mrs. Reed, as well as Mr. Reed, felt grieved to leave this city where she has made many friends, and the parting on all hands was far from being a joyful one. No minister who has ever been in Indianapolis has taken hold upon the people, upon people of all sorts, as Mr. Reed has, and he has left a vacancy that no man can fill, as in his methods and his manner he is like no other. With him religion and the church have not been things indissoluble, and for that reason, which is the beginning of his liberal thought, he has attracted to him and to his church a following that no other minister here has ever had, and which it is doubtful if any other can ever obtain. He had not intended to leave until to-day, but, his arrangements all being complete, and being anxious to get to Denver in time to have a little rest before beginning his labors, he anticipated his departure by a dozen hours or more. George H. Thomas Post Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is a member, expected Comrade Reed to be with them, last evening, for a few minutes, in order to bid him good-bye, but the preparations for leaving and the great number of callers upon him at the hotel did not admit of his being present. Among those who called to give Mr. Reed a parting word and a last grasp of the hand, a few minutes before train time, was an Irishman —a hard-working mechanic with the ineradicable grime of honest labor in his sineway hands, and his wife, a comely, matronly woman. What they said to Mr. Reed, or he to them cannot be told here. Very little of it was in words, hut eye spoke to eye and hand to hand. Mr. Reed was greatly affected, and as the moisture gathered in his eye the reporter thought of the words in his last sermon here, and acknowledged their truth: “For some reason or other I have been able to help the people—people who, as a rule, find little in a preacher to be desired, and little in a church to attract. I have associated more with mechanics than with ministers and perhaps that accounts for things that are seen.” PERSONAE MENTION. A. A. Wells, of Delphi, is at English’s. E. J. Huber, of Columbus, is at English’s. K. W. Shore, of Rochester, is at the Bates. I. P. Watts, of Winchester, is at the Denison. H. L. Milward, of Richmond, is at the Bates. P. B. Severson, of Lafayette, is at the Denison. E. A. Worrall, of Richmond, is at the Grand Hotel. R. R. Stephenson, of Noblesville, is at the Bates. Hon. C. F. McNutt, of Terre Haute, is at the Bates. Wm. Businger, of Michigan City, is at English’s. Hon. Inman H. Fowler, of Spencer, is at the Denison. Judge J. M. Rabb, of Williamsport, is at the Denison. Henry A. Reed, of Orleans, Ind., is at the Denison. Wallace McPherson, of Atlanta, Ga., is at the Denison. A. P. Brown and wife, of Columbus, are at the Bates. C. E. J. McFarlan, of Connersville, is at the Grand Hotel. Judge Charles S. Grubbs, of Louisville, Ky., is at the Bates. Judge L. J. Monks, of Winchester, is at the Grand Hotel. J. W. Willis and F. Walter, of Vernon, are at the Occidental. Mrs. Milligan and daughter, of Muncie, are at the Grand Hotel. Gen. George S. Fowler, of Fort Wayne, is at the Grand Hotel. Col. Thomas Powers, of Washington, D. C., is at the Denison. Hon. H. H. Boudinot, of Terre Haute, was at the Bates yesterday. Dr. T. F. Dreyden and John H. Hall, of Clayton, are at the Grand Hotel. Judge J. L. Caldwell and wife, of Terre Haute, were at the Bates yesterday. Joseph E. Henley and W. B. Baker, of Bloomington, are at the Bates House. Rev. G. Haines, of Indianapolis, has become the proprietor of the Temperance Evangelist. Samuel Hazelton, of Hazelton Bros., manufacturers of the celebrated piano of the same name, is visiting their agent, Mr. George C. Pearson, of this city. George D. Gibbons, of Zanesville, O.; S. C. Prevo, Marshville, 111.; G. M. Foster, Rushville, Ed S. Sherridan, Greencastle; F. H. Young, Michigan City; Levi Scott, Fairmount, and J W. Carwm, Rushville, are late arrivals at the Grand Hotel. Chaplain H. B. Hibben, who is a member of the Indiana conference, received orders on the 27th ult, from the Secretary of the Navy, detaching him from duty at the United States Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, where he has been laboring for the past three years and a quarter, and directing him to report on the 15th inst. for duty at the receiving ship Colorado, New York navy yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. By a late law of Congress, which credits naval officers with any previous army service they may have rendered during the civil war, “the same as if it had been continued naval service,” he becomes the "oldest service chaplain” on the active list of the navy fi'om this time until he is retired. The Building Boom. A summarized statement of the building permits issued from Jan. 1 to April 1 is as follows: Additions and repairs, 65 permits for $26,225 Cottage houses, brick and frame, 78 permits for 65,725 Frame dwellings, two stories. 18 permits for 40.700 Brick dwellings, two stories, 3 permits for.. 17,700 Business houses, 30 permits for 163,950 Total permits for three months $314,300 Permits for same period last year $208,300 Gain for present year $106,000 Building permits were issued yesterday as fol lows: Matthew Perry, frame cottage, 25 Corliss street, $350; George Heidt, frame business house, College avenue and Seventh street, $1,800; Patrick Burns, frame house, Missouri and California streets. $1,100; E. Stingier, frame cottage, Ash, near Seventh, $1,200: Jacob Huber, brick addition, Washington, near New Jersey, S4OO. Condition of the Comity Finances. A Journal reporter looked through the county auditor's ledger yesterday and made the following footings of county expenses: For the first six months of 1883, $134,230.36; for the second six months, $227,000 42; for January and February, 1884, $59,880.57; total, $121,783.35. From this total must be deducted $77,281.21 paid in the second half of 1883 as interest on county bonds, and $12,000 from the present year paid for the purchase of the work-house property,

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which would leave current expenses for the past fourteen mouths, $343,490.14. It must also he taken into account that the expenses for the two months of 1884 here given are larger than they would have been had the board not been left by their predecessors with a number of large bridge contracts on hand, which are now being completed and paid for. The bonded debt of the county is $900,000, and the temporary loan SIOO,OOO, and there you are —an even million. THE MINES OF INDIANA. Some Interesting Information Contained in Inspector Wilson's Annual Report. The annual report of the State Inspector of Mines, Thomas Wilson, jr., was filed with the Governor yesterday. There are 206 mines in the State, employing 5,403 men, and operated upon a capital investment of $1,600,000. The production of coal during the last year is estimated at 2,560,000 tons, which is a large increase over previous years. The completion of the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis railroad has given an accessible market to the coal region of Southwestern Indiana, and has been the means of largely increasing the production. The mines are distributed as fol tows: Clay county, 34; Daviess, 27; Dubois, 10; Fountain, 10; Greene, 6; Gibson, 1; Knox, 6; Martin, 5; Owen. 3; Parke, 15; Pike, 15; Perry, 8; Sullivan, 12; Spencer, 15; Vermillion, 5; Vigo, 11; Vanderburg, 5; Warrick, 16; Warren, 2. During the year there were only eleven fatal accidents. A revision of the mining laws is advised by the inspector, and he recommends that no operator should be permitted to employ more than ten persons in twenty four hours after five thousand square yards have been mined, which, he believes, would bring about a better system than where a large number of men are crowded together in a small space. There should also be some person to act as a judge of the competency of engineers. A large part of the report is devoted to the subject of ventilating mines, and he gives it as his opinion that a fan driven by steam is the cheapest and most reliable means of ventilation. A LOVER S MISFORTUNE. A Quarrel at a Baguio Results in the Shooting of Isaac Hays. Isaac Hays, a commercial traveler from Rochester, N. Y., was wounded in the leg, yesterday morning, in a fight at Nellie Ogden’s house of prostitution on West Georgia street, by a negro named Fred. Williams, who is employed about the place as a servant. It has been the misfor tune of Hays to he in the favor of the Ogden siren as a lover, and in her fascinating way she has made life very interesting to him. Early yesterday morning they quarreled, and, in high rage, she ordered the devoted Isaac to leave the house. He lingered in the yard to give utterance to his disturbed feelings, and the negro undertook to drive him away. Hays struck at him, and the negro shot, the bullet striking Hays in the leg, above the knee. He walked to the Grand Hotel, and from there sent a note to his loved one, reading: “Nellie—l am shot. Room 24. Come at once. Ike.” She responded promptly, and devoted herself to soothing the suffering lover. Williams was arrested during the morning, and after waiving preliminary examination, was sent to jail in default of bail. AMUSEMENT NOTES. . The first play Mr. Mantell will star in will bo “Clipt Wings,” by Messrs. Thompson and Marshall. The fancy-dress carnival will take place at the Park rink this evening, and elaborate preparations have been made for the event. The Philadelphia Call states that Gerster says she does not see any harm in the Governor of Missouri kissing a woman old enough to be his mother. The Mmnnerchor will give their fifth regular entertainment next Wednesday evening, and on the 23d inst they will present the two-act comedietta, “Master Tutenbach.” Though Fanny Davenport has been on the stage for twenty-five years, she is now but thirty-two years old. Her first appearance was at the Howard Athenajum, Boston, when she was aged seven years. Miss May Henry, of this city, has made quite a hit in Robson & Crane's new comedy, “Motlier-in-law.” The company is now playing in Chicago, and the Inter Ocean, of yesterday, says: "Miss Henry seems to be developing some talent as an actress, and does her part in a praiseworthy manner, quite creditable to her limited experience. ” "Gabriel Conroy” drew well again last night at the Grand, and the excellent acting of Mr. and Mrs. Rankin and Mr. Bryton met with an enthusiastic reception. The play is a very interesting one. It will he repeated tliis afternoon, to-night and to morrow night, with Mestayer & Barton’s "Wanted, a Partner,” as the attraction for the remainder of the week. Edwin Booth writes to a New York playwriter: "It is not my intention to add to my repertoire, and, therefore, cannot encourage you to write a play for me. My health is far from good, and every fresh exertion seems to prostrate me. Henceforth I hope to limit my engagements to a few weeks each year, and to the few roles which thepublic seem to prefer.” Mr. Frank Mayo will produce liis new play, "Nordeck,” in Chicago on May 22. The plot is laid in Germany 1,000 years ago, and founded upon the legend of Venita, the sunken city beneath the sea. The play was written by John G. Wilson, of Chicago, and Mr. Mayo, and the latter's part is that of a rough and ragged sort of barbarian at the first, who becomes softer and more refined in the last act. The Cincinnati dramatic festival will begin on the 21st inst., and continue a week. The stars engaged are Fanny Davenport, Madame Modjeska. Agnes Booth. Marie Prescott, J. W. Keen, Frederick Warde. Robson and Crane, John Jack and Robert Mantell. The repertoire is as follows: Monday, “Julius Csesar;” Tuesday, "Twelfth Night;” Wednesday matinee, "Rome, and Juliet.;” evening, "Comedy of Errors;” Thursday, “As You Like It;” Friday, "Othello;” Saturday matinee, "As You Like It;” night. “Henry IV." Tickets for the season are sold at sl4. Henry E. Dixey, the comedian, made his first appearance on the stage at the age of nine. It was in Boston, and he was cast for the part of Peanuts, the newsboy, in “Under the Gaslight.” After that there was an interval of school until Mr. Dixey again mails his appearance before the public in the role of a hind leg of the heifer in "Evangeline.” He must have received at the time $lO or sl2 a week, and he continued in Mr. Rice's employ until that salary had been ad vaneed to $l5O a week. Now he gets $250, and next season will go starring in anew play, of which he has great expectations. Changing Voting Precincts. The question has been asked Attorney-genera Hord, “If there can be any valid change of voting precincts between the June session of the Board of Commissioners and the April election in 1884.” The Attorney-general, in answer, states that the commissioners “cannot lawfully change the boundaries of any voting precinct after the June term, 1883, so as to lawfully affect the voter at the April election in 1884, and each voter at the coming April election will vote in the precinct as it lawfully existed at the close of the June term, 1883,” Mrs. Dkitrich, of 16 Hudson street, New Haven, Conn., walked the floor all night, suffering indescribable neuralgic pains in her head and face. “As soon as it was light in the morning," she writes, "my daughter started out to get something to relieve me. The doctor told her that Athlopboros was the best thing known. She got a bottle. After taking two doses the pain all left me as if by magic. I shall always keep Atlilophoros in the house."

THE COMMISSIONERS' CONVENTION. Some of the Abuses Which the Commissioners Are Expected to Correct. The call has been issued for a county commissioners’ convention, to meet here on the 15th of this mouth, and it is hoped that each one of the ninety-two counties of the State will be represented in this convention. The objects to be accomplished by this organization are numerous and important. As the State has grown in population and wealth, many abuses and extravagances have crept in, and it is advisable for county commissioners to take counsel together and devise the best means of lopping off some of these excrescences. One' thing mentioned to the reporter yesterday was the necessity of the counties in the State that have the most miles of railroads in them—and over twenty counties are directly interested, and many more indirectly—being represented at the meetings of the State Board of Equalization. The railroads are always represented at the meetings of the board, and as there is never any one to look after the interests of counties, the Board of Equalization depends on the statements made by the railroads, and no adverse . showing is made. In the matter of track exemption, the reporter is told there are cases in which exemption is claimed for property four miles away from the track. In this county the railroads have it nearly all their own way. A case is cited where a farm in Wayne township belonging to a railroad is exempt because that load cuts timber from it for the road. They certify off almost everything placed against them on the tax duplicate in this county—property three or four hundred feet from the track, claiming it as right of way. These things are approved by the State Board of Equalization, have been under all administrations, and there is no one to protest. In this city property that never was used for railroad purposes is certified off the duplicate and goes untaxed. Some of this property consists of vacant lots, while other pieces have houses built upon them, from which the railroads get rents, and all included in their right of way. Owners of small properties, farmers, mechanics, laboring men, merchants, etc., pay the bulk of the taxes, and the wealthy corporations escape with paying an exceedingly small part of what they justly owe. Yesterday afternoon County Commissioners Ostermeyer and Wharton said that hereafter it would be seen that everything got on the tax duplicate, and that if possible the work of “certifying off” would be made somewhat more difficult. THE CITY IN BRIEF. Robert Brock and Margaret Wood were licensed to marry yesterday. The Court-house gas bill for the three months ending yesterday was $1,075, which is rather steep. Sarah Winkle was yesterday granted a divorce from David Winkle, to whom she was married last August, the complaint being abandonment. A spring festival will be given to-night by the Mayflower Church. The features of the occasion will be a sugar camp, fancy bazaars and musical exercises. The young ladies of the Sixth Christian Church will give a Chinese social at the church, corner of Elm and Pine streets, this evening. A cordial invitation is extended to all. The Vigo Building, Loan Fund and Savings Association, of Terre Haute, with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO, filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State yesterday. During the month of March Mayor McMaster collected fines and fees amounting to $462.98. The clerk reports that during the month he draw orders on the treasury amounting to $44, - 452.07. The First Avenue Coal Mining company, of Evansville, was incorporated under State laws yesterday. The capital stock is $25,000. and the directors are William H. Wood, John P. Wood. Robert H. Kellogg and C. C. Thomas. Andrew J. Smith has applied for a divorce from Amanda K. Smith, to whom he was married in 1866. He alleges that in 1882 she sold all their household furniture, kept the money and went to California, since when he has not heard from her. About twenty abandoned women of Cincinnati, driven from home by fears of the mob, arrived in this city yesterday, and are thinking of taking up a permanent residence. 1 hey will be sent back, as the demi-monde is sufficiently well represented here now. In Judge Tuylor’s court, yesterday, John W. Murphy et al., trustees of the Tinker estate, were given judgment on foreclosure against Mrs. Mary Morrison for $25,450.70. The mortgage is on property adjoining Fletcher & Churchman’s bank, and was given to the plaintiffs shortly after the failure of the Indiana Banking Company. _ An Enterprising Chicken Thief. On Monday night Alonzo McClure, a negro, stole nineteen large chickens from John L. B rown, at Lawrence, and carried them to the city, a distance of nine miles. Officer Thornton, who was on the lookout for chicken thieves, corralled him, and in twelve hours he was sent to the penitentiary for two years. McClure is an old offender. He is the man who was tried and acquitted of the murder of John Williams and his wife, at Lawrence, about four years ago. The New Work-House. Architect Bolilen yesterday submitted to the county commissioners a draft of the proposed plans for the new work-house, which will be displayed in the court during the present session, with a view of receiving any suggestions as to changes or improvements. The contracts for the work will probably be let at the June meeting. 0 The Work ol Relief. The Board of Trade relief committee yesterday sent about $2,500 to the Ohio liver towns, to aid in the work of rebuilding houses. The following were favored: Vevay, Troy, Tell City, Cannelton, Grandview, Tobinsport, Enterprise, Clarksburg, and $750 was sent to Floyd county, below New Albany. Last Night’s Fire. Two stables, belonging to Herman J. Ray and H. T. Matthews, corner of West and Third streets, bunted last night about 11 o'clock. It is supposed to have been an incendiary fire. The loss is estimated at about S6OO. The stable owned by Matthews was insured. Qualified to Interview Tilden. Brooklyn Engle. “Do you know the difference between palsy and the jim-jams?” said the city editor to the new reporter. “Well, 1 should twitter,” esoterically responded the latter. “If a man were old, and lame, and halt, and blind, do you think you would mistake him for a youthful Apollo?” “Not if 1 were sober.” “If he had one foot in the grave and were holding on to the other to keep from falling over the brink, and you were instructed to give a true account of his condition, would you come back and lie about it?” “The blood of Washington flows in my veins.” “Then take this letter of introduction and go and interview Mr. Tilden.” Inteui]erance in Washington. National Republican. I “An inebriate asylum is much needed in this v.ity,” said a prominent temperance advocate yesterday, “and we intend to urge the passage of the bill now’ before Congress. It is estimated that there are 5,000 confirmed drunkards in Washington at this time. Many of them were previously men of good character. They are arrested now’ and then and compelled to work in the chuin-gang on the public streets. This does

not reform or cure them. It drives them deeper into the meshes, and is a source of degradation. What is needed is a cure, and the District inebriate asylum bill before Congress is a curative measure.” Beyoiul the Scope of Human Knowledge. Rev. Dr. Philip Sohaff. God only knows when the revised Old Testament will he published, but wo hope before the end of this year. Our American company will finish their work during the spring and summer, but we cannot tell how long it may take the University presses of Oxford and Cambridge to manufacture the book, which, of course, must be done with the utmost care. Buy the popular $1 shirt, at Parker’s Decorative Art. The walls and ceilings of W. G. Sherman's refectory, Nos. IS and 20 South Meridian street, which have just been decorated by A. L. Wright <fc Cos., impressively illustrate the beautifying capabilities of this branch of decorative art. Messrs. Wright & Co.’s designer has. in this piece of work, most felicitously combined figures, designs and colors to produce an harmonious effect throughout. The work is worthy of critical study by all who care to realize what a comparatively small expenditure will accomplish in transforming a plain and expressionless expanse of wall and ceiling into a scene of artistic beauty and tastefulness. The wainscoting effects produced by the Lincrusta Walton ia very meritorious novelty, introduced into this city this season by Messrs. Wright <fc Cos., and not kept in stock by any other Indianapolis house. ) are shown to great advantage in this work. The effect as that of walnut wainscoting, elaborately and richly carved. and can here be seen and studied to good advantage. Paper Social. Go to the ladies’ paper social, at Roberts Park Church, this evening, and have a good time. To Roller Skatists. The unprecedented sale of the Henley Roller Rink Skate and the continued demand for it is sufficient evidence of its superioritv over all other skates. It is easy running, light, neat, durable and handsome. For sale by the pair, or quantitv for rink purposes at manufacturers’ prices, by Hildebrand & Fugate, Agents Henley Roller Skate, 35 South Meridian street. ELECTRIC-LIGHT SOAP Prepared by an entirely new method. Composed of the purest material: will not injure the fabric; will cleanse fabrics without rubbing. ELECTRIC SOAP MANUFACTORY CO. Manufacturers of “Electric-Light Soap,” and other popular brands, No. 206 S. Illinois Street, South and Eddy Streets, Indianapolis, Iml. J ’Sold’by all Grocers.

WINDOWSHADES. We have received our new Spring patterns of DADO WINDOW SHADES, and they are beauties. The prices are so low that any person of ordinary means can afford to beautify their homes with them. Prices always the lowest. W. 11. ROLL, 30, 32 and 34 S. Illinois Street. JAMES R. BOSS & CO., Wholesale Whisky Merchants, No. 184 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis. spalnn' & co.’s WOODLAWN ADDITION On English, Spann, Fletcher, Hoyt anil Lexington Axes., hot, Dillon and Reid Sts. The BEST LOTS in the City for the price, as they combine more advantages than any others. 1. The streets, and most of the alleys, are graded and graveled. 2. The street cars jjass on the north line of the addition. 3. The drainage is well provided for, by the South street and Fletcher avenue sewers on the west, and by the Reid street sewer on the east. 4. There are brick sidewalks and stone curbs and gas lamps, city water and fire cistern on the plat, and a city school-house near enough. 5. The finest shade trees in the country are here, and the purest water. 6. Afore than two hundred of the lots have been sold to people who have neat and attractive houses upon them. The whole neighborhood is clean, and there are no nuisances near. It has a home-look, and is growing more attractive every year. We will sell some lots on weekly or monthly payments, and in case of sickness or misfortune will make liberal terms for surrender of contract. Price for 30 feet lots, $500; larger lots in porportion. See plat. JOHN S. SPANN & CO., 11 Bates Block. GET THE BEST. In decorating the walls and ceilings of your home, your office, your place of business, you naturally desire the best effects that are consistent with utility, propriety, good taste, and, of course, the amount you wish to expend for such embellishments. By the word “best” we do not mean, in all cases, the most elegant and costly, but the best for your purpose that the skill and progress of the present day affords—the best that your money will buy. Accordingly, our stocks are suited to all wants, to all tastes, to all purses, and comprise every variety of fabric, style, or design, every desirable novelty, at the lowest prices quoted in this market. Our patrons have the benefit of the services of the best designer in this city, who personally superintends all work done by us; and we save you the trouble of taking up carpets, which we protect from soiling or injury of any kind while decorating the walls and ceilings of rooms. A. L. WRIGHT & CO., Nos. 47 and 49 8. Meridian Street

POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. • A marvel of purity, strength ami wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. ROYAL BAKING POWDKRCO.. 106 VVall street, New York. FRENCH AND AMERICAN CLOCKS. *4 and L-hour strike on Cathedral Bells. Marble, Bronze and Polished Brass. We have a large variety at very low prices. BINGHAM & WALK, No. 12 E. Washington St. 17 OR SALE—ONLY ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR, the Weekly Indiana State Journal. Send for it.