Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1876 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY NEWS: i ‘WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY

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§nn Umbrellas Over 1,300 bow in stock, In all sizes, styles, qwllties, colors and Mine, of Cotton, Ginphams, 35£m , S I 3

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ONE lot Ot $4.00—mosufactDren’ oo« .’.....$4.79 Tho oboro ore choice tty lea, all Introluced thia aaaaoa. bat belag purehaaed at «uch atartUn# reduatiooi (om real valae. *ear»enabVed looffer the* at Ote above remarkably low figuree.

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I2C3>I A.3N A FOXtIB ®AVIlVOW BA WKw EXXOVED to NO-« a Market at Net earn* Um oolQSC to DepcaMoab Open Mondaye till 7 7 “• rro-doat. JOHN w. bat, SeenSty.

O. H. FQRBY, WHouaiAUt And retail TRUNK Aud Tratelinf Btc Factory, 115 8. Ullnoi* St. . ■ ' — —- ; THE HOWE SEWING MACHINE Is too well known to need “palling” In this space. Its friends are “lizOIOIf and all well regulated fanslileff have or will have one. Office and Salesroom, Ho. 70 W. Washington street. The DAILY NE ws WEDNESDAY. JULY 5. 1»76. / ' V CITY the: ws. Tho office of ^e Evening News has been removed from No. 66 North Pennsylvania street to No. 32 East Market street, Journal building.

The office of The Evening News has been removed from No. 65 North Pennsylvania street to No. 32 East Market street, Journal building. t

The Ctrenlatlon of The Oaf Mews. The nfurther of copies of The News printed’ 1 during the month of June was 204,100. There wer# twenty-six publication days. The average daily circulation

was ■ T'.eso.

The number printed in May was 198,• 460. Number of publication days, 27. Daily average, 7,860. Tho number printed in April was 178,060. Number of publication days, 25. Daily average, 7,122. ♦> " Fbask Bird, Bookkeeper. Ikdiakanub, • Marios County, J

July 3, 1876.

Personally appeared before me, a notary public in and for said county, Frank Bird, bookkeeper of The Evening Nows, who, being duly sworn, deposeth that tba above statement is correct, as shown by the books and pressman’s returns of the said EyeniagNeira. J. Kiarhky Graham,

r - • Notary Public.

Tho price of bricks has dropped to $5 per

1,000.

Dr. Merit Wells has suffered from bur-

glars.

Burials in Greonlawn are numerous.

The Surgical Institute had little to do

yesterday. The prison* month, 173.

aers in the county jail last

The Petar Funk watch auction shops did a big boainess yesterday. Big Eagle meek, at Traders’ Point, is being spanned by an iron bridge. Judge Samuel A. Huff is said to have independent aepirations for congress. The Emmett Guards ball last night was a success, the State Guards per contra. Rev. Joaeph Brown started to-day for the seashore, for the benefit of his health. A company of riflemen -have been organized from members of the Hibernian eociety. The Evening News has the largest circulation of any daily paper in the state and Is the beat advertising medium for reaching all classes. , ^^Whila tha three-inch stream was being thygn yesterday by the water-works, tome fellow t«Ked his hat against the up ward cturent, and was astonished to see it whirled rapidly out of sight \ The Anderson cornet band Monday evening serenaded several of the newsAA^BgBm^ind yesterday joined in the * PIFIfi*. '1 he bearing of the members was fine and their music good. Yesterday Robert Fertlg, son of the painter, accidentally discharged a pietol which be was handling, the ballet Darning through hla hand and lodging in the Arm of hia playmate, Prank, aon of £. li. Richarda. A gtri, five years old, daughter of Timwards. < „ The matinee this afternoon and the performance to-night closer tha regular season at the Metropolitan. - Saturday night the theatre will open for tha benefit < omplimentary benefit tendered , Ham Wharfe, stage manager.

centennial rouktu.

(i'«utiu<»ed fromseeetul pa#u J

The value of the real and personal property in tha county, at different periods. The wages of labor and the prioea of

provisions at different periods.

Population taxation and revenues at

different periods.

Public improvements, railroads, canals

and telegraph linen.

Benevpjent i

iqstitutio.rt and charitable

incociations.

Banks and bankers, insurance oompa-

niea.

Fire department, express companies. Water-works, gas-works. Boards of Trade. Manufacturers’ and Real Estate Ex-

change.

Popular excitements, military opera-

tions, sanitary commission

Politics and

political parties of

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county since its formation

Biographical notes of pioneer sefttlem and other citix»na of Marion county, etc. It U hardly necessary to aay that useful historical statements in reference to these different subjects can not be embodied in a brief ynidrese. Many of the most interesting particulars of the growth of Marion county, from its origin to the present time, are recorded in works which have been published. Among thtss are: • An Indian* Gazetteer, by Samuel Merrill. Era , formerly treasurer of state. A brief hut very valuable history of Indianapolis, by Ignatius Brown, Keq An interesting and useful volume, entitled “A Historical and Statistical Sketch of Indianapolis," by W. R. Holloway, Esq An address delivered at a meeting of tho “Old Settlen’ association,” by Nathaniel Bolton, Esq , who was one of the editors of the first newspaper published

in Indianapolis.

Biographical Sketches of Pioneer Settlers and Others, by J. H. B. Nowland, lieporta and Statistics published by the Manufacturers' and Real Estate Exchange

of Indianapolis.

A copy of each of these publications, with other documents relating to the history of Marion County, may be used for the purpose of carrying into effect the recommendation of the joint resolution of

congrats.

As an introduction to the documents which I have mentioned, it may not be improper on this centennial anniversary of our national independence to refer briefly to the trials, perseverance, courage and self-reliance of those historic people who are known as the pioneer settlers of the central region which lies between the Allegheny mountains and the Missis-

sippi river.

The rapid and marvelous growth of communities, states, Christian civi lization and civil and religious liberty in this vast region seems to be almost miraculous. When men and women, who are now living in the union, were little children; old enough to lisp the child’s prsyer, the beautiful Ohio river, throughout its long course of about one thousand miles, Bowed through an unbroken wilderness. There was no civilized settlement on its borders. Kentucky was a wilderness without one white inhabitant. Vincennes, Kaakaakia, Cahokia, Detroit and Mackinaw were small French villages; but to the English colonies in America these places were known, imperfectly, as missionary stations and Indian trading posts. At a period not far off in the coming, time the immense,, attractive and genial region that lies between the Alleghany mountains and the* Mississippi river, on account of the number and character of ^ils population, its wealth, its inexhansti'ble resources and its mora’ and intellectual power, will be distinguished as the chief stronghold of the greatest nation in

the world.

In 1760, about one hundred and twentyfive years ago, the English cokmies in North America contained a civilized population amounting to about one million and fifty thousand. At the same time the number of French colonists, including all their settlements in Canada, those planted in the regions lying westward of the Alleghany mountains, and those in different parts of Louisiana, amounted to only about fifty-two thou-

sand.

The war in which the English forces nnder the command of General Edward Braddock were defeated, in 1756, on their march to the site of Fort Du tjuesne, was commenced and carried on between Great Britain and France^ in order to settle tbeir conflicting claims to vast regions lying westward of the Alleghany mountains. At the close of this war France, by a treaty concluded in 1703, ceded to Great Britain the province of Canada, and all that part of Louisiana which was situated east of the river Mississippi and north of the 31st degree of north latitude. By the terms of a proclamation issued by the king of Great Britain on the 7th of < Hstober, 1763, “all the lands and territories lying to the westward of the sources of the riven which fall into the sea from the weet and northwest” were reserved under “the sovereignty, protection and dominion'’ of the crown, for the use of the Indian tribes. All the subjects of Great Britain were strictly prohibited from making any settlements' on the lands thus set apart, westward of the Ailegbany mountains, for the occupancy and use of the Indians.

Borne time before Canada was ceded to Great Britain, a French officer, the Marquis Du Quesne, held a secret conference at Montreal with Indian deputies of the Six Nations, and reproached them for their willingness to surrender the control ol the valley of the Ohio to the English rather than to the French. “Are you ignorant,” be said to them, “of the difference between the king of France and the English ? Look $t the forts which the Ling of France has built! You will find that under the very shadow of their walls the beasts of the forests are bunted and slain; that they (the forts) ara in fact fixed in the places most frequented by you merely to gratify more conveniently your necessities. The English, on the contrary, no sooner occupy a poet than tbe woods fall before their hands, the earth is subjected to cultivation, the game disappears, and your people are speedily reduced to combatktarvation.” No permanent English settlements were established on the western side of tbe Alleghany mountains before the year 1765. The names of the founders of early civilized settlements in these regions show that those pioneers or their ancestors were, with a few exceptions, emigrants from England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany,

Holland and France.

Among the early settlers around’ the site of old Redstone Fort, on the river Monongabela, were those who bore the names of Wiseman, Prisser, Lynn, Colvin. Vervalson, Tygart, Brown. Swartz, Donter, McClean, Delong, Crawford, Hooter,

Peters, McCoy, etc.

Among the first settlers at Pittsburg, at the head of the river Ohio, were the McKays, Ornasbys, Butlers, Craigs, Nevilles, O’Haras, Evansea, Eckleys, Kyles, Harveys, Worfs, Hnffnagles, Mullalys, Cavanaghs, McKenzies, ;Lavoyers, Lorrsmiss, Cierehorns, Wesauers, McClellands, Pipers, Denneys, Wilkinaaa, etc. Tbe McCnliochs, Leillers, Biggses, Swereegers, Spriggses. Shepherds, Mitcheils, Millers and Kellers were among the early settlers at "Wheeling, in West Virginia. The Boons, Kentons, Harrods, Anderaons, McAfees, McCallas, McClungs, Gordons, Giegera, McGarys, Lanes, Higginses, Montgomerys, Dunns, LaCassaignes, BeaubiensrCoburns and Joices, werg among the pioaeer settlers of Kentucky.

McGuflys, were among the pioneers who settled at the mouth of the river Muskiagnm, and laid the foundations of the ^The^iSr&arda, Bowman* Cor by s/ aletea, Meeks, Doaks, McNails, McTeers,

among the pioneer sattlers

Nutts, Me Parian, Morells, were an

otTennesaee.

A list of prisoners among the northwestern Indian tribes in 1783 contains the names of Gray, Stewart, Falks, Me Fall,

William*. Dandaa. Jonas, Burke, Morgan, Wilson, Brown, Polke, Leek, Coyle, McCormick, KUlmao, Malone, Delong, Vmgordor, Bhull. Newiqsn, Smith, Dobsrty Herflturand Patterson. Among tbe names of tbe early sttlers of Marion county are three of Pogue, Shank, Yandes. Corbaly. Myers, Shaeffer, Orunibaugh, Vandergrifi[;Van Blarieum. Smock, Kcoker, Seodder, Bussel, Ambrozene, Fletcher, Wilkins, Linton, Maxwell, Coe, Blake, Coburn, Sulgrove, Nowland, Norwood, Wilaon, Bates, Bplton, Sharpe, Brown. Hanna, Holmaa. Merrill, Harding, Ray, Holliday, Anderson, Harrison, Henderson, Morris, Morrison, Patterson, Dancan, Douglas*, Dunlap, Walpole, Reagan, Kellnm. Q’Neil, McCormick,McCarty/MoClnng.JMagalrc, Mcllvaine, McOuatt and A list of the names of the pioneer settlers of the several towns and cities of the •vaat regions lying westward of the Allegheny mountain* wonld no doukt si$pw a similar remarkabls mingling of people of different races. Tbe first settlers of the New England colonies were generally emigrants from Old England; yet among tbe early settlers

Concord, Mass, tha British forces burned ^ibe bouse, barn and shop of Mrs. Lydia A writer in the North British Review fays: “Remarkable as ara many of the phenomena presented to ns in the new world, the most remarkable, as it seems to Us. is tbe extraordinary commingling of diverse races which is beteg accomplished on tbia soil. Navigation ns now so bridged the ocean that from every do an try in Europe settlers have reached the American Chores, and railways have so facilitated locomotion by land, and so quickened the movements of social life, that these diverse peoples from Europe are shaken together and amalgamated in the new world till the original distinctions disappear and a new national type is formed.” Between the beginning of tbe year 1766 and the dose of the year 1799, different parties of that hardy and adventurous clese of people who were called western pioneers, founded eettlaments in the western parts ot Virginia, in western Pennsylvania, in Kentucky, and in the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio. Settlements were established— AtfRedstone OldJFort, now Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1765. At Wheeling, (now Weet Virginia), in 1770. ’ ? . s . At Harrod’a station, in Kentucky, 1774. At the mouth of the Great Kanawha river, id Virginia, in 1775. At Boones borough, in Kentucky, in 1775. At tne mouth of Big Beaver creek, in Pennsylvania, in 1776. At Bryant’s Station, near the site of Lexington, in Kentucky, in:1779. At the site of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1779. ' A great number of settlements were established in the western wilderness, by

ed by them vrithin that period, Washing-1 ton, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1782; Danville, Kentucky, in 1783; Limestone, now Maysville, in Kentucky, in 1784; Washington,in Kentucky, in 1785; Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1786; Marietta, at the mouth of the river Muskingum, in 1788; Charlestown, now Wellsburg, was laid out in 1789; Cincinnati in 1789; Paris, in Kentucky, 1789; Galllpolis, in Ohio, in 1792; Shelbyville, Kentucky, in 1793; Dayton, in Ohio, in 1795; Cleveland, in 1796; Chillicothe, in 1796; Steubenville, in 1793: Zanesville, in 1799. Before the close of the revolutionary war, and after tbe capture of the posts of Kaskaskia and Vincennes, by Col. George Rogers Clark, emigrants in considerable numbers from the eastern states passed over tb* Alleghany mountains and founded pioneer settlements in the west. In the spring of 1780 three hundred‘ family boats ’ arrived at the falls of the river Ohio. Prior to the year 1800,-in Western Pennsylvania, in Western Virginia, in Kentucky, and in the territory of the United States northwest of the riverOhio, a small number of the inhabitants were colored persona, and these, with the exception of a few, were slaves. ‘ Tbe hardy adventurers who passed westwardly over the Alleghany mountains, between the years of 1765 and 1800, to lay the foundations of civilized settlements in a vast wilderness, were strong-hearted and strong-handed men and women. They were not learned in letters, nor skilful in the practice of the mechanic arts. Specimens of their clothing, arms, agricultural implements and household furniture have been, in many instances, preserved till the present time, and are exhibited as carious and interesting memorials of early western manners and customs. Tbe pioneer settlers of “tbe west" carried with them, severally, eome contribution to the general store of pioneer knowledge. Some were good scouts and soldiers in timss Of Indian warfare. Some knew how to mend guns, and to make wardenivea. Some were good hunters, successful trappers, and skillful in the use of the ride. Some were good‘ corner-men,’’ whose services were very useful in building log cabins. Some knew how to tan hides, dress deer skiiA and make hunting-shuts and moccasins. Some could make cqnoes, and others cawld build, skiffs, keel-boats, fiatboats and barge* The arts of making sugar, salt, and distilled liquors, were known and practiced. Plows,Loes, horseshoes, flax-brakes, spinning-wheels, reels and looms were made with some degree of skill, ritome one in every family knew bow to spin, and to weave linen and woolen fabrics. Hominy-blooks, corn-graters, band-mills,tub-mills and horse-mills were in use. Pretty good sifters were made by punching small holes in deer-skin parchment- Some were skillful in the manufacture of churns, buckets, wooden bowls, baskets and brooms. Every pioneer knew how to make hominy, johnny-cake, pone, koe-cake, ash-cake, sas^a/ras-tea and spice-wood-tea. No pioneer was ignorant of certain rude methods of cultivating field crops and garden vegetables. In a word, either by physical strength, or moral courage, or tbe exercise of military talents, or the employment of skill in the practice of some useful art, or by the exempliary observance of Christian duties, the early western pioneers, as individuals, were able to contribute something either for the support or for the defense, or for the comfort and convenience, or for the moral and religious improvement of the several settlements in which they lived. Shooting at marks, hunting, fishing, trapping, running foot races, hopping, jumping, wrestling, pitching quoits, horst racing, dancing, playing old plays, singing old ballads and merry-makings at log rollings, house raisings, corn huakings and quiltings were arffong the amusements, pastimes, sports and employments ot the early western pioneers. Among the articles which they used foi food were venison, tbe meat of wild turkeys, wild ‘ geese, wild ducks, wild pigeons, bears, ■ raccoons, squirrels, fish, hominy, pune, corn boiled or roasted, mush and milk or mush and sweetened water, potatoes, pumpkins, squashes, beaus, cabbage, onions, wild honey, wild grapes, wild plnms, paw-paws, blackberries, walnuts, bickorynuta, chestnuts, hazelnuts, sassafras tea, epicewood tea, etc. In 1785, General'Richafd Butler, one of the commissioners appointed by the congress of the United States to negotiate a treaty with the nhrthwestem Indian tribes, left Pittsburg, and with a small detachment of soldiers, moved down the Ohio in boats to the mouth of the river Miami. In a journal that was kept by General Butler, under date of October 16, 1785, (when he had arrived at a point about tan milee below the mouth of Big Sandy river) >he following passage appears: “I can not help describing the amazing plenty and variety of this night’s supper. We had fine roast buffalo beef, soup of buffalo beef, and turkeys; fried catfish, fresh caught; roast ducks, good and nbey are all cheerful and generally in perfect health, and enjoying the bounties of heaven, the land and the

water. The Industry and jadgmenlof on# man could certainly aupply many families. Mr. Zane killed, this dty, on the lowest computation, 3,000 weight of as fine beef (buffalo) as need be used, all in about four hours banting ” John Filson, m his History of Kentucky, which waa written in 1784. says: “I have beard a banter assert be saw above os* thousand buffalo#* at tbe Blue Licks

at once.” r

An early western pioneer, when he was well armed, carried a rifla, powder horn, powder, bullet* bullet moulds, lead, hunting knife sad tomahawk. Caps or coverings for the head wera made out of tbe skins of foxes or other wild animals; pantaloons were made either of coarse tow linen ®r a mixture of wool and flax* or tanned dee* akin* Moccasins were in common nse. The women, akys Dr. Doddridge, “went bare-footed in warm weather, and in cold tbeir feet were covered with moccasins, cowee shoes, or shoe pack* * • • Insteadof the toilet, they had to handle the distaff or shuttle, the sickle or weeding koe—content if they could obtain tb«r linsey clothing and cover their heads with a sun bonnet made

of ei^ or seven hundred linen."

In s period of twenty one yean, commencing in 1774, and ©toeing in 1794, there were fifteen years of war between the Indians and the western pioneer* Yet in every pioneer settlement daring this time there were some men who stepped on ward in tbe rough and bloody path over which they were moving, and, with strung faith, looked on it as the only way through a wilderness of barbarism to a happy state of peace and prosperity. Bach men were the leaders in the work* of building the first rude trhool houses, organizing the first churches, opening the first farms, planting tbe first orchards, erecting the first miffs, laying out the first towns and

establishing the first printing offices.

Tbe western pioneer settlers were not, f ae a dam, distinguiahed for their piety,

ions

regularity by them; yet they did notneg-

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leot the practice of Christian virtues, the sick they gave personal attention; and to tbe poor and helpless among them they gave.shelter and food and raiment, kindly and liberally, according to their mean* They helped on# another in the work of building cabins and block house* in clearing land for cultivation^ and in planting end gathering their annual crop* The moet popular men among them were those who had ted successful expeditions jgainat hostile Indian* and those who were good scoots; those who werA good

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of the psalmist, “a man waa famous according as be had lifted up axes npon tbe thick tree*”. * >J On tbe 29th of July, 1786, John Scull and Joseph Hall published the first number of the PiUsbnrg Gazette, which was tbe first newspaper printed In the regions lying westward of the Alleghany mountain* On the 11th of August, 1787, the first number of tbe Kentncky Gazette was printed at Lexington by John Bradford

and Fielding Bradford.'

On the 9th of November, 1793, the first newspaper printed northwest of the river Ohio was issued at Cincinnati by William Maxwell. It was called the Sentinel of the

Northwestern Territory.

At Vincennes, on the 4th of July, 1804, Mr. Elihn Stontcommenced the pnhlioation of the first newspaper in|the Indiana Territory. Mr. Slont’s motto was, printed on the first page of his pkuer: “Independence is my happinesa, and, I relate- things as they are, without respect to place or

persona.”

In 1770 the village of Pittsburg was composed of about twenty log houses, inhabited principally by Indian traders; and the garrison of Fort Pi tt consisted of two companies of Royal Irish, command-

ed by Captain Edmonson.

The Pittsburg Gazette of tbe 26th of August, 1786, say?: “Frcm the 6th of July last to the 10th instant (a period of thirtyfive days) the following peltry was bought up by one trader In this place, and mostly paid for in whisky and flour: 3,173 summer deer skins, 74 fall deer skins, 48 fawn skins, 94 bearskins, 37 elk sains, 84 beaver skin* 887 raccoon skins, 29 fox skins, 14 marten skins, 15 wild cat skins, 17 wolf skins, 16 panther skins, afid 67 pair of

moccasins.”

The value of furs and peltries exported from Canada in 1785, as rated in the custom house, amounted to 225,997 pounds

sterling.

Before the year 1776 and for many yesn afterwards, articles of merchandise, such as salt, iron, steel, iron pots and ovens, petwer dishes, knives and forks, etc., were carried on pack horses over the Alleghany mountains, and obtained by pioneer settlers on the borders of the river Ohio in

exchange for furs.and peltries. In 1784 John Filson, who

~/8t history of Kentucky, said: „„ know by experience that forty tons of goods can not be taken to the falls of the Ohio frcm Philadelphia under one thousand six hundred pounds expense. • • * From NewOrleans to tbe falls of the Ohio, battesux, carrying about forty tons, have been rowed by eigh' -en or twenty men in eight or ten weeks, which at the extent will net amount to more than five hundred pounds expense, which experience has proved to be about one-third of that

from Philadelphia.” .

The journal of a tourist, who visited Pittsburg in April, 1803, says: “Most of the articles of merchandise bronght in wagons over tbe mountains in the summer sesron, and destined for the trade down tbe river (Ohio) are stored at this place to be ready for embarkation. With these a great many trading boats are laden, which float down the river, stopping at the towns on its banks to vend the articles. In a country so remote from commerce, and of so great extent, where each one resides on bis own farm, and has neither opportunity nor convenience for visiting a market, these -trading-boats contribute very much to the accommodation of .life, by bringing to every man’s honse those little necessaries which it would be very troublesome to go a great distance to procure.” Before communicatione were opened between the eastern states and the Ohio valley by means of canals and railways, the somewhat famous Conestoga wagons, each drawn by six large Conestoga horses, carried merchandise from Philadelphia and from Baltimore to I’ittaburg and to Wheeling. About the year LS20 a regular line of these wagons was established by a company ot Philadelphia. It was called “The Regular Line to Pittsburg—through in fifteen days;’’ and the public were notified that a team would leave Market and Twelfth streets, Philadelphia, every morn-

ing at 8 o’clock.

The class of pack horsemen among the pioneer settlers were opposed to the introduction and nse of wagons, and the wagoners vtere. generally unfriendly to the construction of cauals and railroads. The first steamboat built westward of the Alleghany mountains waa celled the “Sew Orleans” It left Pittaburg in October, 1811, and, lifter a voyage of seventy

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If the land and on the sea in trade, in commerce, in manufaetnres and in arts. At the present time the United States of America constitute a nation, great among ations of the earth. Its form of govfit 1* in its theory, perhaps the best r _ , be devised by human wisdom. Bat | the people of this great nation, who have! the power to control the practical administration of public affairs, should never forget that no good theory of government, no inarvelons national growth, no vast territorial possessions, nor any high degree | of commercial activity among the population, nor inexhaustible fields of mineral wealth, nor all of these things united, will be sufficient to keep the nation pn a condition Of true prosperity, if a majority of the citizens shall become indifferent about the great interests of Christianity, civil and religions liberty, good; morals, patriotism, popular education,; and an honest administration of the affairs of the national and state govern-

ment

Mr, President, ladies and gentlemen, it would be a sublime example for the en-

couragement of the friends of civil and

religious liberty in all tha nations of the if there should npw in the <*omiment of the second century of our lal life, arise among the people ie great republic of America a of peace, gently subduing all partisan strife and sectional titles; protecting life, liberty and [rty, and all the rights of citizenship . where in the nation, and showing favorionly to that kind of friendly and

fair political controversy which has its origip in the adverse opinions of patriotic

men. “Let ns have peace.”

After the benediction by the Rev. Mr. Holliday the assembly dispersed, and the formality of the day’s proceedings was

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35 Ch'roaic congestions and*eruption*, vials, m 50 cent* lewwpta* «2, and fe)

FAMILY CASES:

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k, morocco, with above » large rials and

manual of direction*' $10,00.

Caae^niorocej* of twea y large vials and

single boxes and vials as above,

ate These remedies are sent by the case or single box to any part of the country on receipt

ol price, ad dree*

A or; imi a* iNniAwapoux—W. 1. Haskftt A Co, Browning A Sionn, K. A. Cobb, L. H. Muller. Hill A Neal, F. A. Beagan, W. A. A J. H. PaUlson; J. C. France* Joseph R. Perry, D. P.

Dougherty, Sami. C. AaUey.

HEmiilircys’s Hmsopatluc Kedn Co. Office and Depot, No562 Broadway, d-WAw _ New York,. _.L I,, • M...,.<sa i, si ii * .i i. Saie’cf Mates Extra Mm OFFICE OF ADAMS BXPRESS CO., \ No. 19 North Meridian St. f

Is hereby given that the uned to the following ig in the office of the A' r, at Indianapolis, ttoclfl

ms of o', E

GATolas#... 4:1$am Ft WTAD ex.. 9:1? a ■ JAFtW.GALK xfisdQpia

Mail A Ca! .00 a m Mixed Train 6 f i a m I Mixed Tarin 5:20 pm Vincennes ac. 8:11 pm I MallACal ax. 5:40pm - Indian* mite, Peru A Chicago.

Mall TAD ox.. 7:1 5am C A Fora ex..12:1) p m FtWTAMCex 4:! ipm ChiAKowtOs.Ilti Ipm |

Jeffersonvilie Madison A Indianapoll* Morningex_ t 4: iam | Colombo* aoo «:«>am Mail, daffy. .. 7:; ia m I Mail U.00 m ( olnmbusac. 4:1 "p m 1 Day ex — 8.19 p m Evcnlngexrc 8: )pm |Nlghtex d...Jl:I0pm Trains marked tl ns, B. C„ reel into* chair oar Trains marked bn* S, Indicate deeper.

Thus, F, parlor aua.

■aWCTBOf 0UTAN THEATER IF I Cor. Wa hington and Tennessee St* ate open eve ry Evening with a HUur Specialty Con ipaoy. ADMISSION—ll 25, 85. 50 and TStteete. UNDERTAKER S)

Notice

ages eon

remaining in

company, at Indianapolis,! told at tne Auction Rooms of'

Express Pack- : person* and dams Express claimed, will be E. Feathersmn,

LYONS, fcHAW & OO.

71 Bmuiti lillnolM Stmt.

No 179 West Washington street, on Wednesday, July 2f<th, 187* SaJe to commence at 16 o'clock

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JOHN H. OHK, Agent. W. E. Feathexstton. Auctioneer.

1 pkg Adsms Jftmei 1 pkg American Ex Co 1 j kg A Ida* Charles 1 hdie Ag’t Tenuesaee-

1 pkg Pyram, Cornelius aus

l pkg Bunnell Miss C 1 pkg Ballman IT 1 cox Bowman A Co 1 pkg Benuedict A M 1 pkg Brewster A Hall 1 cau Brade P 1 pkg Beard V LC 1 box BiDer C S 1 bblBiseell J'hn 1 box BroWn Bros A Co 1 pkg Buffer H‘ 1 box Hk odgood O D 1 pkg Blakelee Chas 1 coll Butterueld J . . I pkg Baker, Schmidlap I pe Bradisto \Y H A to * 1 bbag Brown Gus 1 pkg Brown C H I pa Bruce GW

... 74 8 cl indy

... 60 S fair ... 76 8VV Dir

2 cans Boyd F A

: pkg Caldwell A King Powell 1 box Clay L B

1 box Cammings DrT J

3 pkg Caldwell

1 pkg Cooper A .. . . 1 sack Ooc ners J 1 pkg Cook G B 1 pkg Clerk of A-sem-1 pkgCcolley A K bly Ip.box Churchill Mrs 1 box Cahill M .lb bag Crawford Mi

X pkg Craighead Dr KD

1 t>. x Chls ett V W

1 pkg Craig J H

Varlonn Accident*.

Joliet, July 4.-^A vfcry serious accident happened at the Joliet iron and steel mills 'Baturday afternoon. A hammer useddio cut defective iron pieces from the steel wt tbe steam hammer broke-and the iron parted from the handle of tne hammer apd passed through the body of a

workman named McCartiey.

Several persons of two ot the first fami-

ia <

eatn

1 box Dick J S A Co •

1 hdl Davidson Jno l pkg JQrennan W F 1 pkg Dorian Jno 1 pkg Dix Robert 1 pkg Durfee Samuel 1 pkg Dougherty D F 1 trunk Engle George

2 pk ■» Eagle Machine

Vtirks

1 pkg Kliiott Mrs F F 2 pkg* Finch M PF 1 box Frey H 1 pkg Freeman G M 1 pk Greculeal Machine

wont

nla

1 box Clark W A W H 1 pkg Dynes, Smodk A

Co »

1 pkg Durand R M 1 box Diamond Jno

1 pkg Dunn J H 1 box Prison C

1 desk Dickenson O 1 trank Dowilag J

lies of this city were recently poisoned by in ,7* John MH1 who th.

fiwt history of Kentucky Mid: ‘‘Now, we ' were quite »ick fora while, but not seri-

.1 pkg Gerrish F L

1 hf bbl Eagle G B 1 box Fuller H M

1 pkg Fltagerald N W

1 pkg GriffinCE 1 pkg Gettler W J

1 pkg (Bore Miss Ella

X pkg Gibson T M X b Ink* Gouby J 1 bdlGulaey J C

ously.i

Military men at Paris think a decisive encounter must take place in a week in the neighborhood of Mitsch. The Turks have 30.000 men Well fortified there. A dispatch to the Standard, dated Constantinople, July 1, announces that Hobart ' Pasha had failed for Smyrna with a fleet Of eig^t first-rate iron-clada, four wooden frigates and two dispatch boats. It is supposed that the Turkish government appiehend disturbances in Crete, and with to have a fleet near the island. A Lor.don dispatch from Widden reports that the Turks have captured some Servian intrdnehments near Zenicir, and the Servians fled, losing 2,000 killed, wounded and prisoners. A telegram from Paris denies the truth of the report.

x Greene Chas W

1 pkg Grey A Beyshlag

1 casting Hill D I* 1 pkg Heffman W T

1 pkg Houck, Greene A

to* 1 pkg Hunt W M X pkg Hon-on J X pkg Ball Minnie

pkg Healy Mrs Molly 1 pkg ~

Pkg Healy Mrs Molly

1 pkg Hanley J M ■ 1 Hopkirs H C ; Hadley, w HCo

k Henshot J

1 pkg Harlan G W

u bdi*

kg Hsuly R

I pkg Hopkins J O 1 pfef Hay wood A Co 1 pkg Hudson P C

X pkg Hollenback A Co

castings Indianapolis M&leable Iron

Woiks

IX plus lad’s Printing and Pub House 1 casting Johnson Bros 1 b bag JewelLSM iElfi&CS* •telnvr.Y^O.

1 tkg

leg Kidd WS 1 box Kerrick J H

Ml**

1 pkg Kattenhorn J

l pkg Decline

L box Lindsay James [T pkg Lynn John

1 pkg Lindsey W A X box Lewis Allred

1 pkg Lee G S

X pkg Lam; s tale K

X keg Ung J

1 p box Dyoui H 1 box long G W

1 pi g McCormack J H 1 box Mathews C E

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y and Night.

DR. J. PHYSICIAN, SCI Office and Resid second floor, roon

E. LOCK RIDGE, UBON AND ACCOUCHEUR, nee, 87 WaM Washington at., 11 and 18. tt U

^ ! ATTORNEY AT ruptcy. Office 14, Indianapolis, 1ml,

W. BERRY, LAW and Solicitor in Rankin Sharpe A Fletcher's Block,

COMINGOR OFFICES—19m SG Union Depo)]. and

k MARS EE, Surgeong. 07H ILLINOIS (rr. (South Of 74 EA81’MICHIGAN 6T. •

JA1U: Attorney At Law, Block, PeuusylvanJ

S K. JONES, , Room 3. Talbott A New'* a street, south oi Port Office. M. BULLARD, Forth A'abanui street.

DR. W. Orncrf-107 )

DR. F, ReeidcnCe—27 Co Office—City Dtept

M. KEffCHAM, »urn streirt, Iisary.

HEROD ATTORf Office, Rooms 17 an

& WINTER, EYfl AT LAW, 119 Thorpa Block, lud’pYs.

DR. Office, 25 Virgin!*

f. A. GALE. ave., Room6,2dlloojr. n ts

For One eight-horse I Boiler, complete ot ia warranted In per It left the shop, ami ▲ CriKJKA tt ° 82 E. G

Sale asking Vertical Engine and oua bed plate. Tuiaouttt ect order, as good as when dan be pnrehteed at F BABIflAlH. UTJIjIj & CO., ()orgls stteet, Indianapolis.

I pkg loss® H E

1

pkg LuCe H C box Lewis A F

England has proposed a meeting of repre- i p»g MelvaroeCol JE lOjpkgs Martin dale

tba^nfu!tin Twites Exchange

RTIES

the conflict m Turkey. L’Moniteur gives the direct contradiction to a Vienna dispatch of yesterday to tbe effect that France had taken the first step towards action on the part of the European powers to. restrain Servia. Le Temps expresses the opinion that the great powers will obeerve neutrality for the present, but.it appears probable that they will appoint commissioners, who, after the first encounter, will endeavor to induce the com baton ts to susnbnd hostilities. L'Union reports that the Hungarian general, K!apks. be.*- undertaken a reorganization of the

Turkish army.

INKW 130OWLS. ~ TTseorhllus and Others, by Mary Mapes| Dooge.....— fl 50 Words, their Use and Abuse, by Mathew*. 2 00 Two Yeatsin California, by Cone l 75 Lewtons from Nature, by Mivart 2 00 Dsnvm’S Animals and Plants under domestication 6 00 The Atonement of Leam Dun'das 1 50 Brei eant, by Julian Hawthorne. 75 The Watfar# of Science, by Andrew D. tt hi te 60 Plato's BS ?J rhoL A h n t. drfcW D - ' VhUe o ^ The Ministry ol Angel* by T. A. Goodwin.. 10 Hand Book of American Cltias 50 Guide to Pbiladelphl...a —.w... 1 50 Men and Manners 100 Years Ago 1 50 CATHCABT A CLELAND, 26 E. Washington at

1 pkg Nofaluger F 1 keg Nichols A (

B

coat

1 bdl Meaflck S W l bx McKahoe J M 1 rkg McCullough H C 1 pkg Moore C W 1 box Mtoeba t Mrs J 1 b» Morrison E 1 box Marsh E G 1 b bag Move re Thos P 1 i.kg McPherson A P 2 pkgs McNamee W M 1 box Mi.rgaa & P X pkg Moore J pkg Martindale I-aw 1 D bag Mitchell A

A»souaUou ■

1 box Moyer John 1 pkg Manning J H 1 pkg tecPberaoaMifcsL

1 pkg Nevtn J 1 pkg N ixon C F

I pkg Newton G C

1 pkg Ogbona F

1 pkit Purcell J K 1 pkg Pickett T H 1 pka Palmer F A

1 machine Rea A White 1 bx Boa t M 1 b beg Raferty F 4 cast Hiot D A Co X pk* Bothweli Kate . l pkg Bindall O N

1 bdl Rickaby J

1 tkg btewaiti Morgan 1 cast finkcr.Dtrl* ACo 1 box Sht eta Mm H 1 pkg bmlih • H E 1 bdl Sinker, Davis A 5 odls Secretary State

to

1 casting Sullivan W B 1 box Pannders G 1 box Smith T F 1 wheel Siukv-r. Davis

1 pkg M elton John W A Co

1 pkg Smith RH 1 box, Sec R E Exchg 1 pkg Sec State Bd Ag 1 box St Clair Cnas H

i pgg Steele’. B L

l pkg Snyder J E

nAMMur. ii

tureiroaa

Can obtain at *«V

and 16 1.. nt Noutli atreel, one aquar the Union Depot! alull aupply of Roll* Bun* Home-made Biacari* Bnap*, ixmghnuta, Cracker*, Bread and aiil kind* of Cake* and everything in tbe line Mr Picnic Excursionist* end Travelers. To avoid disappoln'mcnt, orders ahonld be seat in aUeaet one day prevtou* 1 XIBfeOlJKl MTATK L01TK6UZ8

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1 pkg Phoenix rach wka 3 bxs Pratz Josephine E

Draws daily. 1'j

$1,000, and

of '■*

•TICKETS. •tebinffieNu Capital Prize, fan, circular and Ttcke MUM. fjn] v ? Aw

ng from $50,000 to

yminber '

4.......: $i to »io. Bt>x ,416, fit. Loaia.

1866

1876,

THE

• 1 pkg Sochner Chas X bdi Stone D E A C F X (leak Smith B W

1 box State AgT Society i 1 pkg Savage A L 1

1 pkg Spencer W J

1 pkg Seviere Mrs K

1 bdl and 2 boxes Tay- a pki

lor Mrs E X box Thomas Mr

X pkg btelu J M 1 box Strong W Ibox Stump a J B

1 pkg Stoddard U M

1 bdl Schmidt 1 A kg Stevens Eddie

ttatt nnna

courts of tbe river, is about seven huu- JU-JuLJwJLJ

cource of the river,

dred mile*!*

A. letter pnbiished before the year 1815,1 by Oiivfer Evans, of Pennsylvania, contains the following passages: “The time will cohne when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines, at fifteen to twenty miles an hour. * • * Acarriage will leave Washington ia the morning, breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Phit■delphia, an-’, tup at New York on the same day.” • • * “Poeterity wjll not be able to discover," ttys Mr. Evans, “why the legislature or congress did not grant tha inventor such protaction as might have enabled him to put in operation these great improvements sooner,

he having asked

’mpoiy of m

ugh HHHPHHHH ing into the fixture far beyond the range of the mental vision of the public men who lived in his days, made this remarkable prediction, yet it ia probable that ha did not behold, even dimly, tbe wonderful power of atoam aa It now appears on

Have Removed to 43 and 45 Massachusetts avenue, near Delaware

street

FOLDING BED LOUNGES n>d Npriiis Mattresses LOWER THAN EVER. MRS. A. J. SHELLEY,

2 pigs Troutman J B I pkg Thy lor Leonai ‘

5 bdlh Thome Max 1 pkg Trewe Mr 2 boxes C 6 Ex Co

(Late of New York City,)

HAA OteEBEIk A FUMT-CAAM

1 trunk Tyson F W X pkg TuuU B F 1 pkg Thomae D A X chert Thorn A Eng-

lish

X box Vance TP 1 pkg D aion Farnltoro

1 bdl A chr Willi nr‘■JC Co

X box Wilson Ben 1 box A pkg Van Wle

I pkg West’s M’fg Co . D D

1 pkg Waite BF X box Wilson W O 1 box Wilson Mrs D H 1 box WagglesuofthJno 6 pkgs Wallace Geo h 1 pkg Wltoeraa J T , 1 pkg Wage man T I b bag WliUaftu Geo 1 pkg Wiley X 1 bra WhiteAOo A R 1 pkgWharfe A Lipman 1 box Workman J B 1 wheel Ac WilaonJ no* 2 pkgs Wallace W W

] I i J T 1 pkg Wilson J C

X box Zeph Chas IbdlYMGA

any^the above packages

mmh LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF INDI4NAPOLI8, tNfi. The Only Home “jJ^Luberal.

X wneei ac w uson j no« z pigs 1 pkg Whltridge Wm 2 pkgs 1 1 ^gYoung A Dries- 1 box t

Persons calling for any

will please ask for advertteec

Indianapolis, May 2* 1876.

> ha vie g asked neither money nor mo- “*• A FiMr-CAAW U v-th. o u.l,nh,te,te7n,m.ne

Su 1 ,“ou"fi'.™"f;„ w , 0 ! lrgK . c® aii CM laiioj Store

good*

txKrcttuy: A rj W, E. Har-

Drteixfihesfdte!

Mm. Shelley has had numv years' experience and waa formerly forewomaa for A. T. Mewart, and will guarantee a perfect fit In all cause*. Prices reasonable. Also, Branch Office of the titoger Sewing Machine. e

Admitted

Omcx**—A

tilxcie. Vice Pi W. MeMahon, vey, Actuary: Frea: DrascToas—W. 8. Jan.e* A.

Hanna, N. Petti bone*

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