Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 February 1871 — Page 4

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THE MAIL.

O.J.SMITH,

3SDITOR AND I'KOIMUKTOR. "T*

Office, 14*2 Main Street.

wrongly

directed, they have

push"d on resistlessiy to their own ruin and destruction, is well known to all who Invo studied mankind to any purpose.

France is now a crushed and prostrated country. The invader has possession of her capital and his resistless armies are ready to devastate her provinces. Her soldiery are scattered or demoralized. An unhappy clash of authority between the two branches of the Committee of Safety indices the people todistrust both. They are without government and without leaders. The influence of the conquering emperor whose will is law in Franco now is all on the side of mon uehy. The insidious agents of different aspirants to the throne are usii every expedient developed by lives devoted to diplomacy and scheming to secure the re-estab-lishment of royalty. The unhappy people look abroad for sympathy and find ll»at their honest, heroic struggle for freedom awakes no answering enthusiasm even in republican America. ('ivili/. itiou seems to disown them and to discountenance their effort8. What wonder that, under such circumstances, there appears to be an apathy in regard to the fulujrt. which may result in the return of delegates to the National Assembly favorable to monarchy?

The man who asserts that

the

people

of France are at heart more favorable to esarism than to republicanism allows his own prejudice* to color his estimate of others. The empire went down in infamy a®H disgrace on the 2d of September, and from that day until the armistice the people of France voted constantly nnd unceasingly on the question of government, ami there WHS but one voice timing those heroic days, and that voice demanded the sacrifice of everything save liberty, lieside the unanimous and triumphant endorsement of the republic made by the men who rallied without solicitation or iiitl .eneo to the support of its banner, the result of the elections of this wevk will dwindle into insiguiHcance and nothingness. The people of France voted when thov sent a million men in arum, with no dissenting voice, to tight tor the republic. The infamous crime of Germany is that sh" throttled thf government of the people and opened the way for a rest oral ion.

The outlook ti Franco is dark enough to please the most insatiate imperialist of the Old World. Through bad faith of William and BlNmifek flic ro»victualling of Pa**is is delayed and starvation confront# the population. A terrible discontent Is working amid the substratum of the people. It may .... went v-hv« cents burst forth at any hour in Mftdenno of1 wrath and fury. Already a maniacal mob has cheered the declaration that France demands Robespierre and the guillotine. The plans of the modern Kichcllt work well. He has driven an nnhappy people to the verge of precipice whor*" sheer desperation may impel them to take the final leap and welcome destruction.

There ip agony and suffering and swaying to-and-fro throughout France. We trust that this ia but the travail preceding the birth of a child which will be noble and pure and lovely to look upon, aud whoso star of destiny will lead to a career of grandeur and glory such has not been known l»efore. It in In harmony with this great nnd good age that something purer and better will grow out from the ruin, the injustice and the horrors which envelop France, That Something will be the Republic, and itafcU«nd»»ita,mUl« Peaos, Fraternity and Equality.

fCini administration wenmfo be troubled good deal about our Kngitah relnMftWI. Th#v teem to worry President Omt almost a* much aa his poor rel#tkxMu "V*

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THK OA M&orjWA"

TEH E- HA UTK. FEB. 11, 1K71.

•"SECOND EDITION.

77/h. FUTUliE OF FRANCE. Tli imp^ri 'HKU of Europe and America rcjoi«e with exceeding great joy tlnit there i» a clash in authority between the Parks government of Favre and the Bordeaux government ofOanibctta, that the intrigue's of the Orlcanists and Bon apart ists are bearing fruit, that monarchists encouraged and fostered by German success, hope to triumph in the Assembly, and that chaos reigns in France. What do you •'think of your republic now? Don't "yon f»"« thtt the people or France at "heart prefer the empire? Won't you admit that they are ineapapie of self«'government?" Such are the sneers Of the wise men who doubt the people, who luck faith in civilization, in progress, in .til things save in the divinity and woi-shipfulness of kings. We answer that we have not lost faith in the republic, or in the people of France. If they vote for the restoration of the empire, or of the Orleans regime, they will only prove themselves to be as weak, and as easily influenced by the pomj) and grandeur of monarchy, as the American citizens who have rejoiced so recently over the triumph of kingly power in Europe. The aspirations of the masses of the people are cons.antiy toward something better and hitrher. But. how often they have mistaken the cause which leads to their elevation and improvement, and bow often when

M«. Livermore, in her masterly ar- dition, writes from Paya, in lie interior, gument concerning the Woman Ques-

press gain nay or deny, when she eh a god that no single ntfwlpuper in this, country which is the opponent of Woman SufI frage, ever meets this question with argument, or combats it with reasonsami that the opposition pre** invariably greets this great issue of the future with sneers for its friends, with ridicule for its merits, or with calumny and insult for its leaders and champions.

The power inherent in ridicule has long since beeu felt and acknowledged. There is in it a sort of influence not easy to resist, keen, subtle, penetrating, it goes through almost every armor, wounding him, even, who is insensible to any other weapo Ridiculo is not argument, but it is a most powerful substitute for it and sophisms which, clothed in serioas language, would he apparent to the most obtuse intellect readily accomplish the desired effect when saturated with a due portion of tills insidious element. The thrusts of logical argument maybe met and turned aside ridicule is not thus to be baffled. It can wound, but cannot be wounded—can convince, but cannot bs proven false. Who cun refute a "sneer?" was the significant query of an acute divine, when referring to the efforts of some sophistical infidel to cover the scriptures with ridicule.

Such a magical weapon cannot be expected long to lie idle, and wo ougU' not to be surprised that it is continually in the hands of him who finds it both easier and mere effective to laugh at, than to oppose by solid argument. Against all new measures and movements ridiculc is especially effective, and thus it happens that often a whole phalanx of unquestionable truths, marshalled in defense of a new idea, are levelled by a single shaft of welldirected ridicule.

Mrs. l-ivermore voraciously charges that tin newspapers of America opposed to the Woman Suffrage movement, led by the X. V. Tribune, meet this issue with sneers and not with arguments. Now this conduct on the part of the u"wsp :pers in question argues one of two things either that the movement looking to the enfranchisement of the women of America is beneath the notice of serious argument, or else that the newspapers referred to are in pitiable need of material wherewith to manufacture this same sort of persuasion. Now, which is it, O potent Tribune Is it tjie first? And that when every periodical in the land is compelled to say something either in favor or disfavor of this measure, when public conventions and legislative bodies are discussing it, and when it forms the theme of fireside conversation in every eoftimnhUy! Hardly'dan this be so we imagine. Tt must, then, be the second which is true. And indeed we do not blame Mr. »rceloy, or any other journalist, for not having on In.nd a supply of irrel'ragible arguments against Woman Suffrage, for indeed they are hard to find but surely the apostle of truth should not, with his irresistible pleasantries, demolish that which even he himself cannot demonstrate to be false.

Hut it will require more sneers and ridicule than the press of the country is capable of producing to cheek this new and increasing action in the political system of our republic. The Tribune will learn, when perhaps too late, that women are not to be laughed out of their

just

)„,«•

tion nt the Opera House on Monday covered a ront« for a canal, tho summit night, uttered truth concerning the

rights, nor the inquiring

spirit of the present age to be batlled by an empty sneer. Meantime let every one who knows by intuition, rather than by anj- course of demonstrative argument, (for we have always held the question of Woman Suffrage in the light of an axiomatic truth.) regardless of sneers or ridicule, continue to "persuade men,"jis did Paul, by the sheer force of unanswerable argument, how true it is that woman should vote and nt length all donbt on the subject will bo as impossible as to dispute the (. opetnican system of astronomy.

TM Illinois Legislature is considering the dog question. A bill has been introduced whick provides that even' muh having a dog must go to the Town Clerk and buy a collar, as well as a license. For th»»collar which is numbered. he pays one dollar, and a fee of

Any dog without a

eoliajr is esteemed an abandoned dog. aod Is to be killed. If a dog dies the collar must be returned to the Clerk under penalty. Any man forging a collar is punished. Any dog biting a »hM»p or man to be puuished. The dog that would survive a fortnight under such a law would bo deserving of peculiar honors. The next persecution that the Illinois Legislators will hurl at the canine race will probably be to deprive them of the right of trial by jury, or to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in solar as they are concerned.

ot the Atrato Rirer. If he is not deceived as to the practicability of the route ho has at length discovered, the country, and mankind generally, onght to celebrate the fortunate result of the arduous labors and investigations of the naval surveying parly of which he is th' chief. Americans will rejoice that tho two oceans are to bo united by a canal built under our auspices and control, and all the world besides will have reason to thanlc American cnlct prise for havingdiscovered a practicable route for a canal of a hundred told greater importance than that whose opening last year drew the representatives of the great powers of the earth

to Suez. The previous surveys of tho Isthmus have been so barren of results that the announcement of tinai success will be received with natural distrust. All the expeditions that have hitherto been sent out have discovered a succession of obstacles to the building of a ship canal such as have appalled the most enterprising men. ^vSo vast and insuperable have been the engineering difficulties disclosed by all previous surveying parties that the enlightened public had despaired of connecting the two oceans by that route. eshallaw.dt with anxiety the full intelligence concerning ('apt. Selfridge's reported success, lor we cannot at once accept as true a statement so unexpected and so important.

Up to noon yesterday, no intelligence had been received at the Navy Department concerning the steamer Tennessee. It is suggested that, perhaps, the Commission after they got to sea resolved to commence their examination in a part of the Island distant from the Capital of San Domingo, intending to visit President Baez. This is given as the only reasonable explanation for not hearing from the Commission, as the naval authorities have faith in the strength of the vessel. ,. mmm

Tun main buildingof tho Howe Sewing Machine Works, at Peru, was^destroyed yesterday morning. The saw mill and foundry were not injured. Loss estimated at $7"),000 insurance§20,0(H). Two attaches of the work, named John Cummins and E. P. Loveland were killed cr burned to death, and several others were injured by jumping from the second story.

ANNA A cons went IK* ore Justice Curtis vestcnlay, and complained tliat Augustus Worm bad beaten her. A warrant was issued for his arrest.—rndiminixtlis Journal.

Anna should have ^erushes^' that Worm. :y

Mosny, the ex-rebel guerilla, has made\an application to establish a Na tional Bank at Walyoulon,

THK Chicago Republican is per—it is ahead of the Time.s.

What did the old Egyptian know about the oldest of the arts, about farming? He. knew how to manage his great river—the one source of moisture and fertility in that climate—so as to turn the desert beyond its banks into a garden, and make Egypt a storehouse and granary for the surrounding nations. He 'built reservoirs so huge as to retain sufficient water from the overflowing river to feed it when it subsubsided—a lake four hundred and fifty miles around and three hundred feet deep—and this fitted tip with a skillful system of floodgates, dams, and locks. These were water works on a stupendous scale, truly.

As to what he know about building, who has not heard of his pyramids, those vast masses some ot which were old in the the time of Abraham, and yet built with such faithfulness and skill that the masonry is still porfect? He knew how to quarry and move hugo blocks of stone, uinoty feet in length, and then cover them with accurate and beautiful chlsellUg. The whole land was full ofthose wonderful statues, obelisks, tombs, and teinpi^ jf

About manufacturing, h^JpilfW now to weave linen so fine that each Separate thread was composed of fhifte hundred aud sixty-five SQ.all Sure ads twisted together. lio knew how to dye it in purple, blue, and acarli|, and now to exbroidev it. He kuew jb$^ to get iron ami coppor from mines at Sinai, and how to make useful tools of them when obtained.

Hut what did be know about science? He understood geometry welt enough, at least, for land .surveying. He understood the rotundity of the earth, tho sun's central place in the solar syatem, the obliquity of the ecliptic. He couln foretell eclipses of tho planets, the true length of the year. He had fbtind out a method of notations—two of them, indeed, the decimal and the duodecimal. As for chemistry, its very name (from Cherai, which means Egypt), tell us where It was first studied" No wonder that the Egyptlnns got the reputation, among their mora ignormitt nofghlfeoca, of being magidans. As for books? UkO

TKK Republican editors down South told Fgvptiaps MADE paper and wrote have evidently learned from the chival-1

things. Thor*. set HI* to JLU{

something ii* the air of the cotton building*. hi*o!«e!wks.4vp!] his coffins, states, and of Mississippi in

particular,

which ilerclops tt« I. IUprrti. 1 *he Pol-1 inn*, all hts» octaipation* ai|d"

pie in quill-drivers. Wltn lowing wrathful "Wt take from tho Jackson, (Miss.» PUof

lowing wrathful denunciation which hope* and fear*. Oiu asks in wonder where he got all knowledge. Anetea* Gre*» went to A BLACKOr.VRD, A UAH. ASH A COW .i ARDt! "P ran trace XH« germs,

TT hramJ rtr Brandam^ flrp+b* at least, of our sciencw *tHt art to nabut!

noi Uke up, Wn from This a itx ia*t wo IMTO to Mkjr of ar t« Were then* of nMStht Ant tod •UW. Wrnsaaa,

Jbstlor if no*.

SMfl

IllJiR

TKRKK-HAUTK SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. FEBRUARY 11. 1871

the 13th of January, that he has dis-

of whlch

of Aiueeca which ue oue c»u The route commcnces nour th* mouth

is but 300 feet above tile ocean,

fast pa-

T1IK WISDOM OF THK ISO 11'TIANS. The moderns are accustomed to poohpooh a good deal at people so unfortunate as to live before tbis nineteenth century but just think what some of these remote people and times did manage to find out and accomplish for themselves. There was Egypt—oldest and wisest of the nations—what a record for her is deciphered, in the last fifty years, of her past.

*u* we liave now papyrus rolls

Thnr., hi the tinyi oftbe early Pharaohs

,n{ on further to turn his

*#to book*, iueribing the in with histo

him for it. jus: as the American goes to Cfemanv. We can trace th» germs, at least, or our ac*ww» and art to •jjtkma removed fruut us bv ages hi

««rt#olliibf Did *»»jted«ut

tod#tbe]

to such a marvttowi

inal observation what has been tranamltted to us? And through what remote antiquity were they slowly accumulating tneexpcrienco which qualifiw)' them to establsah such stable institutions, such settled traditions, such attainments in science and art

No one can tolL At a point beyond our furthest tradition her Vecords show her to us rich, powerftll, cultivated, skillful. Of the long ages before she was able to record her changes, time has long obliterated all traces. The world had long forgotten all about her, till the researches of the hist half-centu-ry brought to light her long-buried life. Strange enough it. is to bo brought face to face with tho monuments of the civilisation compared to which all European history is but of yesterday—which was old in the days of Abraham—and to find there so much in common with our own

A HUNGARIAN LEGEND.—American cit lzens, enjoying their almost unbounded liberty, can hardly realize the horrors of European tyranny. A currious legend, in connection with this state of things, is told of a brooch worn a Hungarian Countess, which is compos-, sed of four crooked brass pins, set richly in the centre of a cluster of twenty diamonds upon a lapls-lnzuligrand,and protected by a glass point. The count, ner husband, found these pins on his coat after having been taken to his solitary cell, undercondemnation for some

foss

iolitical misdemeanor, and to prevent of reason he scattered the pins on the ground of the cell, and thus hunted for them in the ravless darkness till they were found, only to scatter them again and resume the search thus preserving his reason from the dangerous torture of thought. In memory of this, the lady wears the bent pins as her choicest, jewel.

ST. ANTHONY'S NOSE, that picturesque bluff on the Hudson River, is being sacrificed to the genius of the age. Its rock abounds in sulphtirious pyrites, and the oil of vitriol manufacturers are blowing St. Anthony's Nose in a way no nose can stand. Extensive sulphuric aci^J works occupy an island near, to roast the ore on the spot.

City News.

Subscription*.—The S.vri? an AY EVENING MALII is delivered to eily subscribers at TWENTY CKNTS a month, payable at the end of every four weeks, or at TWO DOLLARS a year in advance. The MAIL will le furnished by post, or ni this ofliee, at the following rates: One Year, $2,00 .Six Months, $1,00 Three Months, 50 Cents—invariably in advance.

NEW AD VER TISEMENTS. Silver Ware at Cost—Riddle. Art. Emporium—R. liagg. Insurance Agents—1Grimos & Royse. Nilsson Concert. Wanted—Machine Agentsf*" Settlement—Oral ia Ann McPherron. Application for License. House and Lot For Sale. Cigars and Tobacco—Cltas. Weide!. Planet Saloon—Bryan A McHenry. Millinery Good., Ac S. L. St raus. Boots and Shoes—Clatfelter & Magncr. Farm for sale. Sold out—Jerry Voris. Hyee's Carpet Hall. Business CliariKe—W. C. Buntin it Co. Land and Horses for sale—

L. KHsner.

TIIERE id a sorosis in town.

THE city gas bill for the month of January footed up £592.20.

THE Eureka mills at Newport are being tho|-oughly roAlted.

TITE sales of Messrs. Bowser it Johnston amounted to over §12,000 during the month of January.

A DEBATING society in town is discussing tho question, Which is the butt end of a goat?"

FORTY marriage licenses were issued by the Clerk of Vigo county during tho month of January.

Ai.i, hopes of an east and west road through Perrvsville, in Vermillion county, have been abandoned.

A NEW street, to be called Extension street,is to be opened from the Newport Court House to the depot.

THE Mayor's Convention which was to have been held at Indianapolis last week, has been indefinitely postponed.

CHANCE IT Co., of Rockville, propose to remove their large planing mill and lumber business to this city.

IT is understood that there is still a slight prospect that a Union Depot may be built in town.

No ORGANIZATION of the Terre-Haute and Bloomfield Railroad was effected at tho meeting in this city on Wednesday.

THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers have fitted up a handsome hall in the third floor of Dr. Baar's new building, corner Main and Seventh,

THE pay of tho police force for the inoulii of January amounted to $840 the fire department for the same tlfno was paid $780.88.

Prnur hogs are scratching the faco ofthecitv. They should l»e impounded. Nothing personal is intended by this item.

AT the sale of delinquent lands and lots on Monday ami Tuesday thirty-eight pieces of property were sold, and about one hundred were taken by the State.

KUI'i'ENHKtMKB& BRO. will remove to the room now occupied by L. Goodman, second door east from the Opera House, on the, first of March.

A 3ftTL.lt died at a wagon yard in towri a few nights ago while trying to "make both ends meet." It was found with its head donbled under its body.

8TRASOK PHENOMENA

The Devil to Ftiyin Clark County, Illinois! At this age of the world the public is not expected to give credence to every ghost story and haunted boose report In circulation but we have just received from a reliable source^ the details of some very ugular manifestatiomgthat have been witnessed for some time past in the neighborhood of Mill Creek, about four miles north from York, Illinois. Those who are Inclined to doubt the truth of these statements have only to consult fifteen or twenty families in that vicinity, or open a correspondence with some of the parties named, fbr additional proof of the validity of this story. The first manifestation of this chain of supernatural events look place several days ago at tho house of John Haddox, and after many strange and apparently impossible phenomena had been witnessed, a series of liko performances was opened at the residence ot the Widow Haddox, a sister-in-law and neighbor of John Haddox. Tables, chairs, beds and all articles of furniture were tumbled about in tho most reckless manner. Dishes, fruit jars and all articles capablo of being moved wero misplaced and often broken and destroyed. Members of the family frequently received severe blows from dying articles, and everything was kept in a constant state of agitation. On one occasion the head of a little boy terminated the flight of a small article which inflicted a very severe and painful wound. Knivesand forks flew out ot the cupboard drawer, the drawer remaining closed. Rocks, clubs, pieces of mud and all kinds of movable articles were hurled about by sonic unseen and mysterious power. Some parties carried away the marks of clubs and rocks thrown by his (or her) ghostship. A lady's shawl was picked up in a remotepartof tho house,thrown into the fire and burned up. A number of eggs had been stored away in a small drawer for several days, aud on opening the drawer, were found to be all broken to pieces. Everything capable of being injured or removed is reported unsafe. These are only a few of the results of these strange manifestations, which differ from thoso usually related, in the fayt that they have actually been seen in daylight as is testified by numerous reliable witnesse5'.

Persons from all parts of the country go to Mill Creek to see the "ghosts" and numerous efforts hrwe been made to ascertain the causes of the wonderful phenomena, and a certain old lady of the neighborhood was at one time decided to bo a witch and responsible for all the excitement. Certain parties talked of lynching and hanging the unfortunate creature but she stoutly denied all knowledge of the disturbance, and was not molested. Further developments are feared but not specially desired.

It seems, according to reports current in the neighborhood that tho Wifit of John lladdox diet^&bont a-year ago and that on her death bod she declared that she would return and haunt him, if spirits were permitted to return to earth, in case he ever employed a certain woman in the neighborhood to keep hoUse for him. A few days since he took this woman to his use, and then tho strange performances mentioned above began.

THE rOw among tho tenmstoflfat tho wharf on Wednesday was occasioned by tho agreement of fonr different teamsters to haul a consignment of pork from tho steamer Z.tnesvillo to tho depot, at a price which other teamsters claimed was below the regular rates. The toamsters employed arrived at the wharf early in the mdhiing, but before they had commenced hauling found fhemselvcs surrounded'

Aand

THK nexftSttate Convention of the Indiana Sunday School Union will be held In this city, commencing on Tumd-iy evening, June 13tb.—

THK Odd FWlowa have leased the entiro third floor of the new Gilbert building, on Main, between 6th a.id 7th, for a term of five years, and will proceed immediately to lit It up as a handsome h#ll ^r the meetings of their order.

block

aded, by some fifteen or twenty other teamsters who refused to allow them to pass, also claiming, that one or two of them had no .icense for hauling. The proprietors of the boat were unable So effoct a ••ceonciliation, ^nd finally summoned the City Marshal who went down with one or two policemen and succeeded in quieting tho disturbance and Inducing the refractory teamsters to give way without any fighting or blood shed.

Dn. d. C. SMYTHE, of Greeneastlo, performed in that city one day last week, a very fare air! difficult surgical operation name'ty, the removal of an eyeball for tho disease called Staphyloma. The patient, a Miss King, bad suffered with the disease from childhood the sight of the diseased eve was destroyed and the operation became necessary in order to save the remaining eye from blindness. The difficulty of removing the diseased eye was greatly increased by the stubborn adherence of the inflamed ball to its socket but tho operation was performed with entire success, and tho patient is rapidly resovering. Dr. S's rare surgical skill iu the case, deserves the highest conimendation.

THE legislature, in the interests of pnblic safety, has taken up ihe subject of what should constitute drag clerk. This Is rend*mi necessary by the practice of penurious druggists in haviug cheap assistants—instead of qualified ones—although the cheap man may innocently mistake drugs of the same color, and thus make things lively for the Coroner. It isn't the thing, however. When you take salts—you know how It is yourself—you don't wfnt arsenic. .v

A yi*)V KM BNT IS on foot smong the teamster* of the city, to obtain a credit on their tux duplicates for the amount paid for license nt the beginning of the year, since the council has decided the ordinance requiring such lioenae of no

sate my sta-

v,°splou*,'d

premiums^VvfcV^^njaninfx

THK Cherry street artesian IKK ing driven Chinaward.

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THB Cooper's Ball last night was a very great success.

KIBTH A FAIRBANKS have received three steamboat loads of grsin during the week.

IT is reported that the eight lmnr system will soon be adopted in somo of the machine shops of tho city.,

THE over-the-river coal strike haa been settled, and the miners have gon^ to work at reduccd wages,

the tri-

THAT enterprising newspaper, Mattoon Journal, is now issued weekly. Success!

WHARTOI A KBBXJBR made trahsffers of real estate amounting to $67,000 on Thursday.

JOHN H. WOOD'S establishmftit, adjoining tho Opera House, has boon clos* ed. |t

TITE revenue assessments upon Hulman's distillery for the month ot Janu-^ ary amount to $4,117,56.

REVENUE collections in this district have fallen off largely within the post month.

COAL dealers complain that they arest furnishing fuel to the people o! the city" at cost, '.

IT is said that tho Pennsylvania Rail-' road is whetting its anaconda appetite, I preparatory to swallowing all compoling lines in the West.

SEATU TT HAOKK liave cast 117 car] wheels thu week, buying increased their capacity for work fifty per cent. I They employ 85 Luuuls.

THE aggregate rate of taxation ior State, County and City purposes, amounts to two dollars and forlv onO cents on a hundred dollars.

Puiv ATE parties arc about to contract for tho management of ono day of tho next county air. Some novel and amusing features will bo introduced.

THE Stevens case is set fbr Tuesday next, but will probably not como to trial on account of tho illness of I Col. Baird and the unavoidable absence of Mr. Mack at Jndiiinapolb

TIIEeloquent and well known preacher, Rev. B. F. Foster, will proach at tho Universalist Church to-morrow morning, at 11 o'clock, and in tho ovoning at 7 o'clock. The public are invited seats free. *•,

THE monthly Teachers Institute was fe in session to-day at the Normal school oiTiding. -fce^h^ns were present. A very interesting paper was read ly Mrs. !S. E. Mou|q and Misfc Sallio Knapp. 1

THERE will be services at tho usual hours at tiie Congregational Clmreh morning and evening, fijiibjecf. of the morning Hormon: Indifference and Indecision in Religion. in the even-

:'\g

the subject will be: Christian principle in relation to political duty. Seats are free.

A NVMBER of tnds are now employed in depositing large rocks around tho abutments of tho Vandal ia Railroad bridge across the river to prevent tho current from washing away the foundation. The rocks are brought down in a small barge from Pottsville about seven miles up the river. About forty loads will be required to complete .tho work-

INTERMENTS.—Tho following is listof interments for the week ending this* mornlug:

Feb. 6.—Mr*. Mary It. Pierce, age 18 yearsand

rnonilis-Inllainmatoiy lllieiiinaUHiu. Feb. 9.—Brock Anderson, aye V,i yearn—# Typhoid Fever.

Feb. 7.—C. A. f'ii'ju«, age years—Ileinorrbngcof

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Fcb. 10.—Jmiic* K. fczrey, axeiiywirs and 1 inonth—CoiiKiiinptlon.

AUSTIN, SIIUYKK CO., hnve PIIIV' chased C. (i. I'eiper A Co.'HMtock of hubs and spokes, and are filling fheir largostore, from celhir to Mansard with anil immepse stock of wood work and hard-*? ware, having received sevtri ear loads, of new goods on Thursday. Tln*y ship--*ped one car load of goo ls to Alton yesterday. They liavv-a and in creasing trade in that city. ij

THE following table ber of bogs packed neighboring points as last season:

*!iows the num:i this city and compared with

F''

)*7!-7l. Tl !.»*»

Terre-HantC. Kuten«*..„.J§E Newport Vinwiinw Carlisle Cn»wfo«l«vlMe Bloomfngion Oosport Armiesburg Covington IMontesnrna Hutsonvlllc, III

IHW-70. 17,!?07 suo

.....

17^XW :t,710 ~ifi~ 1^10

11,714

a,va

15,708 1,130

...... i&*> ..i». ii» l.t« ......

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THB past week lets l»een (tfccidedfly favorable to ghosts. A very reliable lady on north 5tb street is prepared to give any one who doubts tiie existence of ghost*, a full and graphic description of one which she lr»d the courage to meet and closely scrutinize as it made its unwelcome appearance in her back yard on Monday night. Of course it was tall, slender and 1 refsed in white. After facing it for some time site br eame fearful that she was laboring under some delusion, and '-ailed a young lady from the .*.ou«e, wl.o also testifies to the Mppearanoeof this strange object. It finally disappeared in an unusually quiet and peaceful manner.