Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1887 — Page 7

THE XNDIAAPOIilS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1887 PAGES.

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A PIONEER'S BECOLLECTIONS

lir. J. H. B. Rowland Talks About Incidents and Events Sixty Years Ago. A Disagreeable Experience with the Delaware Indians The Survey of Indianapolis and the First Sale of Town Lots. Mr. J. H. B. Nowland, who celebrated his seventy-fourth birthday on last Wednesday, is credited with bavinc seen more of Indianapolis than any other living person. He came here, as he himself says, "when solitude reigned supreme, and its silence was only disturbed by the occasional report and echo of the Indian rifle." A few days ago he read before the Tippecanoe Club a paper, giving: some of his reminces, the last, he says, that he expects to W aiue to write. In this paper he 3aid: "I was Iters at a time when yon conld count the cabins of the settlers upon the fingers of your bsnd. Those cabins were scattered over a radian of three or four miles and their locations were only known to the weary traveler as he journeyed along the lonely Indian trail, by the lazily and lowly curling wreaths of blue smoke that here and there rose above the dense forest. This was all that indicated the presence of man. "The subject of pioneer life ha3 almost been worn thread-bare at the many old-settler meetings that have been held within a few years. I have bad something to say of it myself. It has been truly described as ono of hardship, toil, and privation. True it was ameliorated by the reflec tion and consolation of having kept most of the commandments; there was but little opportunity to violate, although one fellow without the fear of God beforajm eyes and instigated by the devil did most violently on trace the eighth commandment 'Thou shalt not steal.' He stole bis. neighbor 'a wife. This was no great steal, according to the husband's estimate of . her. It would hardly amount to petty iarceny; but he also stole the husband's cice little fast sailing poplar canoe, with which to transport her down the river. The husband advertised that if be would bring back the canoe he might keep the woman." 44 March, 1821, my father learned that Jacob WhetzeL, who lived near the bluffs of White river, sixteen miles below, had some young hogs ie would probably sell. He mounted me on an Indian pony and he on another horse with his gun, set out in quest of "hog-meat." We reached Mr. Whetzel's in the evening and learned that he had no hogs. He informed us that a man about four miles below him bad some. The next morning we went to this man's cabin. My father was not long in dickering for two of the bogs that would brobably weigh about eighty pounds each when dressed. The hogs were killed that evening and hung up to cooL The next morning their feet were tied together and they were put on the back of the pony that I rode, one resting on each side of the horse. I was then mounted on top of them, the feet of ' the hogs between me and the saddle. We came back to Wbetzel's and crossed the river, as Mr. WhetZv - told my father that the trace on the west side of the river was better than on the east and more frequently traveled. When about half way between Wbetzel's and our borne we came to an encampment of Delawares. It turned out to be the band of 'Little Duck.' The chief seemed rery glad to see my father, whom he called 'Keotuck.' 'Little Duck' was not slow in making a proposition to trade for the hogs. He offered bear meat, turkeys, venison and skins of different kinds, and finally offered to pledge his silver hat-bands, all of which my father rejected. He then said if my father would not trade some of his young men would follow us and take the hogs from us. Just at this time an old squaw brought up a little Indian girl about my size and age, and proposed to trade her for the hogs for a squaw for me, patting her on the head and saving, 'Pappoose plenty.' This put the Indians in a titter of laughter. My father, taking advantage of their merriment, moved on. I noticed him frequently look back over his honlders, as if apprehensive that the chief might carry out his threat, but we were not disturbed. When we came to the . high ground west of the river, and where the village of Belmont is now situated, my father said to me: 'I am afraid the smell of the fresh meat will attract the attention of th.it panther,' alluding to one that was known to be in the river bottom the winter before. 'We had better eo up to tne mouth of Fall creek,' he said, 'and cross the river there.' When we arrived at home he cut no the bogs, sending a portion to each of the 'settlers.' One of the Hardings, who had just returned from the 'settlement,' sent in return for the pork some turnips, which were thankfully received by my father. My father remarked it . would be the first mess of turnips and pork they bad in the 'new purchase.' The next day my mother had prepared the pork and turnips and put it on to cook, and was busy about her domestic duties. She was attracted to the door of the cabin by one of the familiar salutatfbns of the Indians. The front cabin door was filled with dusky Delawares. This was enough for her. She took up her babe and fled to the woods, where my father with his men were at work. They hastened to the cabin, where tbey found that the Indians bad emptied the half-cooked dinner on the floor, and were Bitting aroand devouring it like wolves. These proved to be the same Indians that were so importunate to trade for the hogs the day before. They knew where our cabin was, and determined to have a share of the pork. My father did not, nor dare murmur, but intimated to the Indians that it was all right. This was the first fresh pork introduced into what is now one of . the great pork metropolises of the West "About the 1st of May, 1821. Alexander Ralston, as surveyor, and Christopher Harrison, one of the commission to superintend survey, came to my father's cabin to begin the work of laying out the capital in wards. Those two gentlemen had been connected with the expedition of Aaron JUurr. and, when that expedition was broken up. in lalo. tbey sought a home in the wilds of Indiana Territory Mr. Ralston at Saiem. Washington county. Mr. Harrison livd the life of a hermit on the right bank of the Ohio river, just below Madison, and was known as the recluse of the Ohio. He was then eleoted first Lieutenant-governor of the. State, with Jonathan Jennings as Governor. Mr. Ralston was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and had assisted in laying out the citv of Washington, which accounts for tbe similarity in the two cities in their avenues and public squares. Mr. Hnlston had prepared a diagram of what he intended to survey. . It was one mile square in the center of the four sections which had been donated by Congress for a seat of government. This diagram showed the survey to extend from Eat to West and from North to South streets. When the old gentleman was exhibiting, his diagram he remarked 'If half of this survey Is ever built on what a beautiful town it will make.' Could the worthy old Scotchman awake to-day from his threo score years of tbe sleep of death how he would be astonished to see the village or hamlet he left transformed into a city of as least one hundred thousand inhabitants. The survey was partially stopped by the sickness, of that year, but h afore tbe Agent of State left he' appointed James Blake, Daniel Shaffer and MatbiasR. Nowland, the latter my father, to select a suitable place for Jhe burial of the dead. In a few days they met and performed the duty by selecting the western part of what Is known as Greenlawn. Just one week from that day Mr. Shaffer, one of the three, -was buried in it. This was the first white man buried In the 'new purchase.' The survey was resumed and finished early in the fall. "The sale of lots, which commenced at my father's cabin on the 9th of October, brought together a great multitude of people. Tbe whole woods seemed alive with people the staid old Quaker from North Cardina was here, the broad shouldered old Dutchman from Pennsylvania was here, the shrewd Yankee from Vermont was here, the high-toned, loud-sounding Kectuckian was here indeed, nearly all sections of the country were represented, nearly all of whom camped out, and,' strange to say, not a loss of money was sustained nor a disturbance of any kind occurred, although there was not a judicial officer on the ground for the county had not been organized Hervey Gregg, a lawyer of Kentucky, afterwards a citizen of this place, missed his money, about $150 in gold. He thought he bad dropped it out of his pocket in the woods, for people were not suspected then of stealing at any rate not such as attended that sale. He returned beat satisfied in his own mind that he bad lost r wne woods. Sometime after, when my mother was removing the carpet of the cabin in h slept she found the gold just as he had aeftctioen it My father wrote to him that his money was found and he then remembered havtpg piaee It thre himself. In the spring of l22 Governor Jenning appointed William W. Wick judge of the circuit court and Hervey Bites sheriff. The latter was authorized to organize the county and order an election for tbe different Judicial offices. I have already named who wr elected in my history of the city. Lismond Baysey was a candidate and was elected justice of tbe peace. Before tbe election Nathaniel Cox, a well-known wag. went to Baysey and said that he wished to

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best Qualified and wished Mr. Baysey to answerone question, which would govern his vote. Said Cox, 'If you are elected and a man should be brought before you charged with burglary, what would you do with hiraf The would-be 'squire removed the spectacles from his nose, looked wise, and said: 'Mr. Cox, if he was proven guilty beyond a doubt, I would fine him one hundred dollars and compel him to marry the woman. "Calvin Fletcher, when prosecuting attorney, brought a man before Baysey, charged with horse-stealing. The man was proven guilty, Baysey proceeded to sentence him to the penitentiary for two years. He was remonstrated with by Mr. Fietcber, who told he had exceeded his authority. All he could do would be to remand the man to the custody of the officer for safe keeping until the higher court met. Said Baysey: 'The law i3 plain; two years is the shortest time by law, and I think he should be sent to the penitentiary at once.' " In concluding his address to the club, Mr. Nowland said: I hope you will pardon me for saying something of myself. One bright sunny July morning, in that ever memorable year, 1840. 1 passed down the valley of White river, the happiest man in the 'new purchase;' I had drawn that morning in the matrimonial lottery what I considered a capital prize. She who was with me that morning is with me here to-day, and I exclaim in the language of the celebrated Scotch poet: ' "We ha' been friends together Through many changing years; We ha' shared each other's pleasures, We ha' dried each other's tears." COMPLETION OF THE STOCKYARDS. They Are Now the Most Extensive and Eest Arranged in the Country. The original plan of the stockyards has been completed within a week, and Indianapolis bas now the best arranged and most amply provided, as well as one of the most extensive, stockyards in the United States. Previous to the fall of 1877, nearly ten years ago, an imperfectly constructed and insufficient yard was maintained for some years east of tbe city, on the north side of the Panhandle railroad, and for a couple or three years a small but well arranged yard, called the "Exchange," was established on the south bank of the river at the Vincennes railway bridge, where stock of various kinds was slaughtered for market, as well as kept for sale and shipmeut. This remained for a short time after the opening of tbe "Indianopolis Stockyards" on the old "Bayou Farm," adjacant to the Belt railway, both of these latter the work of the same company, and were held together till the leas of tbe "Belt" by the Union Railway Company some half dozen years ago. Tbe original design was to cover tbe whole area north of tbe bluff of the river to the bluff of the bayou bottom with stock stables or sheds, but at first only a ranee of four stables was built by Sbover & Christian in tbe summer and fall of '77, extending from east to west about one thousand feet, and about 450 south; each was about two hundred feet wide, separated from tha next by a space of fifty feet, with a wide passage down the middle, and pens on each side. Some years later the east and west sheds were joined by additions of equal extent, leaving vacant the area for two others between. These have now been filled by the first builders, half with a shed or stable of the original dimensions and half with a series of uncovered pens for the temporary care of stock awaiting immediate shipment. The whole area now contained in the stock stables and pens is about one thousand feet square, inclosing six hundred pens, each amply provided with water and all necessary appliances for the proper care of the stock. Mr. Ernest, the superintendent, says that twenty thousand hogs can be easily and fully bandied and cared for every day, and a proportionate amount of cattle, sheep and horses as well provided for. Besides the stock stables proper, there are extensive sale stables for horses, and store houses for feed of all kinds, while water is supplied by steam power from a huge well near the machine shops. About twenty-five acres are under roof in this hog and horse palace. A notable feature of the recently-completed stable is the arrangement for separating such portions of tbe stock as the owner desires to retain from those intended for sbiDine.it or slaughter. This consists of .large pens terminating in narrow passages through which but one "head" of stock can pass, closed by a gate which can be opened for one and shut for another, the latter being thns forced to go through a return passage to its former place. All tbe "drive-ways" are so arranged that the gates ODeninginto tbe pens beside them will completely close them, leaving the stock no alternative but to go into the pen designed for it. Mr. Ernest has devised and tbe builders constructed a very novel convenience in the new stable, in the shape of an elevated or "suspension" bridge or walk about ten feet above tbe ground, and traversing some three hundred feet of the stable from north to houth, and then turning and running four hundred or five hundred feet out to the went side, over the landing platform. Tnis affords 'an inspector a better chance to see the stock in a full pen than a walk along the driveway could do, and keeps him out of the dust and chance dirt on the ground walk. A PIONEER CHURCH. A EnildingrThat Was Regarded for Many Years as the Finest Structure in Indiana. Christ Episcopal Church, the semi-centennial of which was recently celebrated, was for many years regarded as the finest religious structure in Indiana. The original idea of the building came from Tbe Missionary, an Episcopalian paper published at Burlington, N. J., in which was given a roughly executed outline of a cheap church. This was enlarged with an ordinary quill pen and eounting-hase ruler, and a pair of common dividers or carpenter's compasses, designated tbe pews on a ground plan from which was sold in a single afternoon, at public outcry, $3,200 worth of pews. This sale toot place in tbe second story of a wooden building on Washington street, about where Talbott'a jewelry store now stands. "This start was so encouraging," Mr. Isaao Kiersted says, "that we immediaiely employed Elder & Colestock, a firm of carpenters, to put the plan in better shape, Mr. Elder being a draughtsman, but tbe ground plan was necessarily adhered to as many of the purchasers had chosen the pews with reference to the locality .of the windows and we were determined scrupulously to observe good faith. The vestibule was an after thought, erected during the progress of tbe work for the purpose of securing more room by bringing tbo stairway outside of the nave. This prefix to the church I allude to the vestibule, for, though an after thought, it is certainly a prefix probably has no authority in any system of architecture, ancient or modern. The style of architecture originated in Indianapolis in the nineteenth century. The church in Lafayette was built Defore this, yet Christ Church, Indianapolis, may, with great propriety, be regarded as the pioneer church of the diocese of Indiana. It was considered a great affair in early times." MISSING ELECTION RETURNS. Valuable Records That State Secretary Myers Allowed to be Taken from the Office. Mr. Griffin was not long in office as Secretary of State before inquiry was made of him for the State election returns between 1816 and 1855. Since then the inquiries have been numerous from persons here and elsewhere who want to examine them. A search was made of the office in which every nook and corner underwent a

thorough cleaning, without finding the lost election records. A gentleman called one day to examine them, and when told that the returns were not to be found in the office, said: "Ob, I remember now. When Mr. Myers was Secretary be allowed a distinguished Democrat to take them to his home, as be had use for them in compiling matter for publication. It is strange though, that he should retain tbe returns. It was many months ago when he procured them." Secretary Griffin at once wrote to the distinguished Democrat to return the State's records that should not have been taken from tbe office where the law says they shall be kept at all tiroes for public inspection. He received no reply, and wrote again with no batter result. He wrote the third time, and the distinguished Democrat has not responded. Yesterday a messenger was sent after him, but he could not be found. It is possible this Democrat has not the lost papers, but they got away from tbe late Democratic Secretary of State, as - other papers have done, and which, like the election returns, are still missing. Of these missing documents Mr. Griffin's predecessor left him ho memoranda as to what they were or where tbey could be found.

STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP

Only Two Attractions at the Local Amusement Houses This Week. "Our Irish Visitors" at English's and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at the Museum Notes About People of the Stage. Tbe Grand will be "closed all this week. English's will be open to-morrow, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and Wednesday matinee, the attraction being the popular comedians, Murray and Murphy, who played a successful engagement there late last season. "Our Irish Visitors," which they present, is designated by the press as an "original absurdity," and perhaps this describes it as well as anything else could. It is only intended to make people laugh and to give two very clever character comedians an opportunity to be very amusing. At tbe opening of their recent engagement at the Union-square Theater, New York, the Herald said of it: "A larger, more enthusiastic audience never gathered in a theater. Every bit of fun, and there is any amount of it, was laughed, nay, screamed at." The Sun said: "The piece has been considered rather noisy, but it was silence itself, compared to the laughter and applause of the audience." In the company are such favorably-known performers as James Riley ("Papa's Baby Boy"), Miss Marie Louise Day, and others. There is much music and Numerous specialties in the piece. There will be no advance in prices. Mr. E. M. Gotthold has revived that old-time drama, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," on a very elaborate scale, this season, and is playing to very large business with it The piece seems to be as popular as ever. His company, which will ' present it at the Museum, every afternoon and evening this week, includes fifty people, among them Miss Sallie Partington, the be6t "Topsy" on tbe stage; W. J. Mayer, Jennie Gilbert and other well-known performers. They give the piece an elaborate and realistic production, with special scenery and effects throughout, the coneluding transformation. "The Gates Ajar," be ing particularly Deautiim. in tne company are tbe usual contingent of jubilee singers, blood hounds, donkeys, etc., and the original and com plete version will be given. A street parade will oe given by tbe company to-morrow morn ing. Notes of the Stage. James O'Neil will present "Monte Christo" at tbe Grand next week. Joseph Haworth could not make "Rosedalo" a go, and tbe season is closed. Manager Harry Miner proposes to shortly dis band his "Allan Uare combination. The Booth-Barrett company will play to about $su,uuu in tbe three weeks in Chicago. Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and company have sailed from Liverpool for this country. Ethel Spragne, the granddaughter of the lata Chief -justice .Chase, is going on the stage. Panlns, the favorite tenor Finger of the CafeLbantant, of Pans, bas made a fortune singing ,n itevenant ae la itevue." Jeffrey Hawley, stage name of Hawley Chap man, of Joseph J e Hereon s company, has fallen heir to half a million by the recent death of an ancle. The Municipal Council at Vienna, learning of the extreme poverty of a niece of Mozart, has voted the munificent sum of six francs as a monthly pension. Verona Jarbeau's new musical comedy "Starlight" ia a great success and so is her starring tour, bhe bas at last succeeded in getting sometning mat suits tier. Wilson Barrett denies the report of a contemplated marriage with Miss Eastlake. Mr. Barrett among other reasons, says, "it would offend the Queen, who sent me a very sympathetic letter of condolence after the recent death of my wife." M. d'Ennery, the whilom playwright and novelist, is seventy-two years old. Although au indefatigable worker having produced over 200 works, to which he now adds one feuilleton daily he now looks as young and as active as if he were but thirty. In the new eomic opera "The Smith Family" lately produced in Philadelphia, tbe fun is pro-' voked by tbo mishaps and adventures of the Smiths at their family reanion, while the serious portion of the play is the search of . the heroine for a lost father. The ushers in the Detroit Opera-house have been uniformed in white flannel coats and caps, with brass buttons, as under the full-dress system near-sighted old ladies were continually pestering dudes in swallow-tail coats and pasteboard shirts to take their checks and show them to their seats. George H. Jessup and Horace Townsend, the latter of the New York Tribune, have been commissioned by Mrs. Lane try to write a play for her on an historical subject, which she will produce as soon as the run of "As in a Lookingglass" is ended. This may not be until next season, but the play is to be delivered in December. The Chicago City Council proposes to pass an ordinance to prohibit the eale of theater tickets outside of the regular box-office. It provides that any person buying a ticket for the purpose of selling it again at a higher price, or whoever shall sell a ticket outside the regular box-office shall be fined not less thau $20 nor more than $200. Tbe citizens are urging the passage of this ordinance as a great public boon. Marinelli. the great contortionist, has a new act. From tbe stage rises a large rostrum, covered with a carpet of green velvet, dotted with beds of beautiful flowers. At one end of the rostrum appears a "set" tree with a papiermache trunk and branches covered with heavy foliage. Marinelli, clad in a serpent dress, is discovered in the branches of the tree, and gradually descends, winding in and out tbe branches until he reaches the rostrum, where be concludes his miraculous feats. It is related of Edwin Booth that when in school under a private tutor, together with John S. Clark, the two boys enacted or recited with appropriate gestures the quarrel scene between Brutus and Carssius. Both of the boys were in their teens, and during the recital the elder Booth is said to have entered the room unobserved and enjoyed the performance of bis beardlees son with a keen relish. This was the first time that the name of Edwin Booth was ever associated with the character of . Brutus, a character which he has since made peculiarly his own. PARDON OF TWO CONVICTS. Channcey Lames, Who Mnrdered His Sweetheart in 1871, Released on Parole. In the Attorney-general's office, yesterday, the duties of the Secretary of State in relation to the pardon and parole of prisoners by the Governor, was the topic of conversation. The general opinion was that no pardon or parole papers were complete in form until they had been attested by the Secretary and sealed with the seal of the . State by him and filed in his office. In support of this position item first under Section 5591, of the Statutes, is accepted as the law in this matter. It says the Secretary "shall keep a fair register of and attest all the official acts and proceedings of the Governor and affix the seal of the State, with such attestation to all. commissions, pardons and other public instruments to which the signature of the Governor is required." It appears that the tGoveroor also construes the statute as it reads, as since the controversy arose over two or three paroles of which the Secretary says he has no record, the Governor bas sent to that officer the papers in recent cases of executive clemency. The pardon of Chauncey S. Barnes was one of those. It came to the Secretary yesterday, and behind tbe dull official form of pardon and the conditions upon which it was granted are the details of a love tragedy that sixteen years ago caused an intense excitement throuchout the north part of tbe State. Barnes and Miss Dwight. both of Lagrange county, were engaged to be married, but the young lady's mother bitterly opposed them in their purpose. Barnes ad sweetheart were one day talking over their troubles, when tbe young lady remarked: "It is far better to be dead than to live in this way." The lover, driven to desperation in an instant, drew his revolver and ehot her. She died within a few minutes. After shooting Miss Dwight, he fired two balls into his brain, one of which has never been extracted. For weeks he lay at the point of death, and it was months after the occurrence before be was able to appear for trial. The jury convicted bim of murder in the second eeeree, and in 1871 he went to the penitentiary to serve a life sentence. Since then there have been persistent efforts on the part of his friends to secure his pardon. Barnes himself has written to the succeeding Governors since that time,

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Open Monday appeal after appeal, but without hope until the judge and jurors who tried him Bigned the peti tion for the Uoveruor s clemency, lie, it is said. has been a good prisoner, and his case interested many gentlemen, who nnited in the recent appeals to tbe Governor for bis release. While at tbe northern prison, any before yesterday, the Governor issued tbo pardon on the condition that Barnes's conduct continues Rood, of which the Governor is to be the sole judge. If he vio lates the condition the p.irdon is to ba revoked. Robert McKee, a leading citizen of Randolph countv. was thoroughly interested in tbe plausi ble representations made to him by a Bohemianoats swindler from Ohio that he consented to become the vice-president of a company engaged in selling seeds to farmers. The purchasers. who got nothing of value for their money, had McKee indicted for conspiracy, of which he was convicted last March. His sentence was two years in tne northern rison. Dut this tne Gov ernor has lessened by paroling him on condition. of good cono.net and that he refrains from in toxication. SURPRISING A NEW YORKER. Indianapolis Ladies Show a Visitor Through a Large Establishment of This City. Mrs. J. B. G., of New York city, is visiting friends here. She is a lady of wealth and refinement and an art amateur of considerable reputation. "What elegant goods and what large and beautiful windows!" she exclaimed yesterday, as, with two lady friends she stopped in front of the great plate-glass windows of Albert Gall's car pet-house. 'Have you never been inside Mr. Gall's store" was asked by one of the Indianapolis ladies. "Never," replied the visitor. "Let us go in then," said her friend. "I take great delight in going through the establishment. The clerks are always polite, and take so much pleasure in showing goods, whether one wishes to buy or not" Tbev entered. The draperies and laces dis played inside were even finer than those they had seen in tbe show windows. I he visitor re marked that she was greatly surprised. "Why," said she, "you have as fine goods here as are kept anywhere in the East" 'That is no news to us here " said one of the j Indianapolis ladies, "and further than that, we know that Mr. Gall employs tbe best workmen in all branches of his business." In plushes they found that this establishment carried no less than fifty different colors and qualities. In the wall-paper department tbey found Mr. Gall to be wido awake and fully up with tbe times. From there tbey went to the carpet-room, where tbey were shown a lot of new patterns in Moquettes, Wiltons, body Brussels, and a great variety of inerains three rows deep showing by far the largest carpet stock in this city. After that a line of rugs unexcelled anywhere. Coming down stairs ca the left-hand side, tbey were attracted by the elegant new patterns of window shades. These have crowded out old-fashioned styles; and when they asked the prices they were surprised to find them so cheap. There were choice shades at fifty cents, and at sixty-fire cents elegant shades with fixtures complete. The ladies declared their approbation of everything, mingled with surprise at the low prices, and they announced their determination to call again at an early day and make purchases of some of the many desirable goods they had seen. Great sale of spectacles and eye-glasses this week at Marcy's, "The" Jeweler. INDIANAPOLIS WATER GO 23 South Pennsylvania St., INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Is prepared to furnish excellent water for drinking, cooking, laundry, bathing and steam boilers at a cost very trfling for such a necessity, convenience and luxury.

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9 1 A I OIL CLOTHS. A complete line, at all prices, both in the roll and stovo patterns. MATTINGS. We have the finest line of Straw Mattings to be found in t the city. Sold on Easy Payments OR CASH. assortment of goods to be found Washington St. Until 9 o'clock. Do Not Buy Ml Tm See the "Ventilator" This stove takes pure, fresh air-from the. the outside, heats and passes it into the . room; takes the foul air from the room . by means of a flue connecting with the smoke-pipe, thus ventilating tue. room at tbe same time it heats . it. The only Base Burner in. the world that will do this. MANTELS. GRATES, and TILE HEARTHS, HAPPY THOUGHT" "We repair Stoves RANGES, for coal, wood and natural gas. all kinds. "QUICK MEAL" Gasoline Stoves, RANGES COOKING and HEATING STOVES at bottom prices. W . H. BENNETT k SON, 3S South Meridian Street Write for Cireular. PROVE OUR ASSERTIONS By Accepting a Free Test. It Absolutely Cures Catarrh, Hay Fever, Sore Throat, Neuralgia, Headache, Croup Asthma, etc. GARBOLIG BALL, (Used by inhalation), always ready: lasts for months. takes effect instantly: does not disappoint. Complete Jy: does not disappoint. Complete treatment (Smoke Ball for head, throat and lunsra. and Debellator for the blood) by mail for $3. GO. FOR SALE BY ILL DRUGGISTS. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co., Parlors, 36 W. Washington St., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. AND ISTEW YORK CITY. 1ST. Y. ROOFING, BUILDING AND SHEATHING FELTS. Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar. Roof Paints, 2 and 3-ply Coal Tar, and 2 and 3-ply Asphalt Ready Roofing, Asbestos Fire-proof Feit, Moth proof Felt, etc., etc H. C. SMI.THER, (Successor to Sims Sa Smither), 169 West Maryland St., Indianapolis, Ind. (Telephone 861.) 0 Indiana State Journal:

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