Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 February 1872 — Page 4

OB SALE OR EXCHANGE- FOR CITY property,

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7OR BAI^^-EfOH-pV Timbered Lrftnd, conveniently located miles west of city and half ft mile from »t. Mary Station. It Is de.^-ribed a* the north half nontln-a-st quarter 6,12, 7. It ',a8.a"J**" eel lent bed of COAI of easy

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decided inducement* to parties wIHhine to purchase. For further particulars address J. McG., Lock Box 1.KW, or inmiire Of W. A. RYAS, corner Fourih and Ohio.

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south Seventh street. A central location, within ten minutes walk of po*tofflce contain* six rooms, kitchen and pantry, also well, cistern,

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shed. Hi" property will be sold cheap. Applv immediately to O. P. C00KKRLY, Real Estate Agent, or on premises. 32-tf

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7OR SALE—500 COItDH OF WOOD-ON line of T. H. A C. Railroad Apply to MATTHEWS, Clinton, Ind.

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SALE VALUABLE FARMS. —I will sell at private sale 30 acres off north side southeast quarter, section 26, township 13, range 9, west. Also the northwest quarter of section 25, 13, 9. These are valuable tracts of as good farming lands as there is on Otter Creek prairie. Upon one of the tracts there is one hundred and twenty acres now in wheat, which I will sell with the land. The tracts are all in good repair— under good fence, and first-rate land. Inquire of A. M. OSTRANDER, or at this office. 26-2t

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SALE-BEES-A LIMITED NUMber of colonic*, T. Hulman, near the hospital, Terre-Haute. 29-3t

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SALE-SEVERAL PURE-BRED and very fine Short-Horn Bulls, 1 and .j years For particulars, add res CLALDE MATTHEWS, "Hazel Bluff Farm," Clinton, Vermillion County, Ind. 32-21

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SALE-OLD PAPERS FOR WRAPpifig paper,for sale at 50 cents a hundred at tne MAIL office. *OR SALE.—AT A BARGAIN 26 ACRES i. of Land, 4 miles South-east of Terre,iaute. The most commanding building site in Vigo county. The land Is peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of vegetables or fruits, being dry, sandy and productive. Terms one-sixth cash, balance In five annual payments.

For further particulars apply to Editor of MAIL. 18-tf.

Wanted.

WANTED-LOCAL

AGENTS IN EVERY

town in the State, to sell the Sewing Machine Attachments of every description. R. E. STEPHENS, 3 Bates House Block, Indianapolis. Indiana. :i3-3t

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ANTED AT Til E NATIONAL HOUSE 2 good girls. Apply lmmediately. 32-2t

WANTED—PERSONSCollege,

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ing the (lay to Improve the night He* slon at the Commercial corner ol 6tli and Main streets, from 7 to 9 o'clock. Book-keeping, Arithmetic, Penmanship, Telegraphing and German all taught In a thorough manner. Send for College Paper, Garvin A Helnlj.

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ANTED-A FEW BOARDERS.—NICE rooms, well furnished. J. W. MATLOCK,

Poplar, between flth and 7th streets.

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ANTED-ALL TO KNOW THAT THE has a larger circulation than any newspaper published outside of Indianapolis, In this State. Also that It Is carefully and thoroughly read In the homesof Its patrons, and that it Is the very best advertising medium in Western Indiana

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7»OUND—NEAR McKKKN A MINSHALL Bank, 72 Main street, that candles, nuts, oranges, lemons and apples, are constantly kept on hand, and sell them cheap. Also the finest cigars and tobaccos In the cit y, at R. L. Black's. ao-3m.

XJ10UND-TITAT THE CHEAPEST AND best advertising In the city can be obtained by investing in the wanted, For Bale, For Rent, Lost and Found column ol

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I JENS IONS.—Dr. SALTER (LATE MEDI cal Referee of the Pension Bureau), prosecutes claims for Invalid and widows' pen •ions—original or increase, rejected or sus pended. Oilier, 010 Loulslana-avc., Wash fngton.D. ('. 2-tf.

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Of the Vigo Iron Com puny

Vigo Iron Co np'y—Capital Stock...Slij,lW0 00 Assessment made and paid In actuulij tl2f,000 00

f125,000 00 125,000 00 158,12(1 00 53,364 07

Personal Assets Liabilities..... Overplus S 7rl OS

A. L. CRAWFORD, President, A.J. CR A WFO RD. Secretary, l. W. MINSHALL,

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Refore me, W. K. Hend rich, a Notary Public in and for said county, personally au nearitl A. ('rnwford, President, and A.J. Craw lord. Secretary, Alexander McGregor and I. W Mtnahall, Ptreetors. of the Vigo Iron Company, aud upon their oatlus say that the aiove and foregoing is a true and correct statement of the condition of said Company on January 1st. 1S?2.

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Wholesale and Retail. Also, Toys and Fancy Good*, iu great variety. Exclusive Agent* for "LupionHi Silver Burner." and "Family Kavo*ite Burning Fluid." Agents wanted in surrounding counties.

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TERRE-HAUTE. FEB. 17, 1872, r'it

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONH

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has a large circulation among farmers and others living outside of the city. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city. Every Week's Issue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In wl ich all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE.

WHY NOT GRANT?

Our county convention last Saturday declined to instruct delegates in favor of Grant's re-nomination, notwithstanding that a fair majority of the assemblage was in favor of his candidacy. This action has caused some enemies of the administration to hope that there may be such disaffection in the minds of the people generally, as to make it impossible for the present incumbent to again be the standard bearer of the party.

Vigojcounty, immense as it ip, can have little influence upon the policy of the Republicans of the whole natioo, yetjthree Republicans out of every four of the rank and file of the party here are for Grant. Notwithstanding this, however, the action of the convention of Saturday has been trumpeted over the country as a rebuke to the administration.

It is usually a safe Ihing for a purty to select as candidates the persons tr.ost feared by the opposition. Just now.the Democratic press of the nation is doing its utmost to make Republicansibelieve that Grant is the weakest man they can nominate. Now, if Democratic papers believed this honestly, they wculd pat Ulysses on the back and try to induce Republicans to put him on the track again.

Instead of bemoaning that Grant's renomination seems probable, Republicans should rejoice that they have a candidate BO available whose re election seems so fully assured.

Let us look at the terrible arraignment of Grant. He has appointed relatives to ollice. IIo has taken good care of all his friends. This is rather a recommendation than otherwise. The man who never goes back on his friends cannot be very bad

IIo has accepted presents. Yes and he has earned them. Every citizen owes to General Grant a very great debt, and some having expressed their gratitude by substantial tokens, he did well to accept them. Ilis pay as an army ollioer and as President has been poor and meagre in proportion to the outlay required by such positions. We rejoice that his experience has proved that Republics anil Republicans are not ungrateful.

He favored the mmexation of San Domingo. Yes and he gave up the project when ho found that tho nation *waa opposed to it, thus redeeming his pledge that he should have nopolicy in opposition to tho will of the people.

Ho schemes to bo re-nominated through the agency of an army of officeholders. This is a charge unsupported bv fact. His enemies have ceased to call him fool, and yet he would be a fool if he supposed (hat such a scheme could bear truit at this period in (he country's progress,

And then come charges like these: He is too fond of horses. He owns a sore-tailed coft. He spends too much time at Long Branch in-tho' summer. His father's name is Jesse. His own baptismal name was Hiram. He smokes. His conversational powers are limited. His son has gone to Europe. Ho has been known to make grammatical errors. And so on to the end of the category.

The plain Tact is, and history will bear us out in tho assertion, that Grant as a President has been great. Only one Bdroinist ration, that of Mr. Lincoln, carried the nation safely through more stormy times than that of the present executive, t'nder Grant the nation has secured ieaee and quietude. It has never before stood so high among the lowers of the earth as it does to-day. It has become really free. Tho sanguinary issues of tho past have been burled, and there can be for them no resurrection.

It is rare fortune forther.at!on that she is iKMwessed of a citixon, tried and true like Grant, whose hold upon the heart» of the people is such that there can be no' doubt of his remaining at the helm through another term. He was first in the war, he ia now first in peace, and the elections of November next will ahow that he stands well in the hearts of hiseootitrymeiu 1

IlKKtrroFOBR it has been supposed that dissolution by explosion waa only attainable through the ministrations of thoroughiv tested steam boilers, harmless nitro-glyerine, warranted nonexplosive burning fluids and gunpowder. Another detonating agency baa been discovered. Violent death lurks beneath the placid surface of the mince pie—leastwise a little boy in Minnesota has been Maided to destfh by the explosion of one. This deceitful engine Of destruction doe* not generally work In such an opt at bovt -board maner.

THE NA VY.

The discussion of the naval appropriation bill ip the Hoiyse

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revealed aotae ratbei'iaito'nitfhingflgures. It seems that the number of men to which the navy is limited is eight thousand five hundred, while the British navy has sixty-four thousand men. If the two nations were to go to war, it would be impossible for our nation to send out three additional vessels fully armed with the present torce to which the navy is limited. During the war a sum amountingto five hundred millions of dollars was appropriated for the navy. An investigation shows badly for the use of the money. The government now. possesses, of six hundred and fifty ships that belonged to it during the war, but one hundred and seventy-nine vessels of all classes. The remainder have vanished and faded away no record of them can beiound. Of the one hundred and seventy-nine vessels now belonging to us only fifty are fit for service.

It seems, then, that we are not ready for war on the water. Congress is asked for a large appropriation to put the navj' upon a war footing. The nation should protest. It is unfortunate that we have lost the immense naval property accumulated during the rebellion, but it is useless to throw away again vast sums preparing for the improbable event of hostilities with England. America has achieved some triumphs ol late she has taken an advanced position in respect to many questions, aud has maintained herself. She must now step up still higher. She must affirm that vast armaments maintained during times olf peace as a preparation for war are useless. Our geography is such that we are isolated from all the powerful nations of the earth we are in no danger from them, and are well prepared to take the exalted moral stand that war is useless, and that the nation shall not engage in sanguinary contests save in self-defence. If this position be cowardly it is a noble kind of paltroonery.

It is time for the people of civilization to comprehend the fact that war is infamous, and that the heroism which leads to wholesale slaughter of humanity is purely barbarous.

We have no navy. So much the better we need none. The nations of the earth will probably let us alone. If they do not we shall be able to take care of ousrelves when attacked.

LAST Friday night Theodore Tilton delivered before the Student's Association at Bloomington, Indiana, his well known lecture, "Home, Sweet Home." At the close of the discourse Rev. Prof. J. L. Gay, known to lame as the author of a lecture of pyrotechnic brilliancy called "The Great Fires of the World," mounted the rostrum, and said he lelt that he could not go down to his grave in peace without entering his protest against what he considered the dangerous heresy of the lecture. He said that the speaker had made gross misrepresentations, called him a chronic grumbler, and wound up by saying that the lecture was tho most inappropriate one for the audience he had ever heard. Prof. Gay's remarks we^e met with tokens of strong disapprokatiou by the audiencc. The following morning the students met in the chapel, where, by request, Mr. Tilton delivered his lecture ou "The Training of the Mind." At its conclusion the students adopted the following resolutions:

Jirsoh cd, That we, the students of the Indiana State University, return our most sincere thanks to Theodore Tilton for his able and eloquent address on the evening of February 9, M72. jKe-iolrrd, that we disapprove the course taken by Pro lessor Gay, that Mr. Tilton has the sympathy of the students.

TitEUKis a good deal of original American humor in the Kentuckian of Aoday. Your native Corncracker likes to play his little practical joke occasionally. They had a funny time down in Sacramento, McLean county, last Sunday. A tobacco factory containing aboHt 60,000 pounds of the \Veed that cheefs without inebriation was burned by an incendiary^ One Clark, who had quarreled with the owner of the factory some time before, was arrested on suspicion and put under guard. During the night a masked party broke into the room, overpowered the guard, and took the prisoner out. The next morning Clark was found dead at the foot of a tree. The coroner satisfied himself that Clark had been hung by a per&on or persons unknown, which state of affairs was quite unfortunate for Mr. C.

THE Chinese workmen at North Adams, Mass., celebrated their new year last wtek. Tney spent the time in visiting one another in a friendly way, and having their pictures taken to send home, a custom quite as social and sensible as any observed in this country. It is said that they have improved greatly in personal appearance in the atmosphere of Massachusetts. A large proportion have assumed the American dress, most of them have learned to read and write in the English language and attend Sabbath School regularly. In fact no class of our foreign population can be found more well behaved and respectable. They do honor to their celestial breeding.

PROF. JOHN C. RIDPATH, of Asbury University, baa been suggested as a candidate on the Republican ticket for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Prof. It. ia a man ot vast energy and oapaetty. We believe him capable of more effective literary#labor than any otber man in Indiana. He is modern in all his views and theories. Under bis management the educational system of the State would become the peculiar pride of the whele nation.

W. A. W MITBUTI IC*.

SHALL A WOMAN PREACH The Presbvterv^gj^Brooklyn spent nearly aURjfr two days ^8t yreek discussing the question-implicating Rev. Theodo|§jer ©ujrler lor which we have before relerred. This minister, it will be remembei|3clf admitted to his pulpit a Quaker preacher,Sarah F. Smiley. It is not denied that what she preached was orthodox and edifying, but it is held by many that it is contrary to Scripture and to the.

law of the Presby-

feriatj Church to admit unordained persons, especially women, to the pulpit. The following resolution was finally adopted by the Presbytery referred to, with but one dissenting vote: "The Presbytery having been Informed that a woman has preached in one of our churches on a Sabbath, at the request of the pastor, and with the consent of the session therelore

Resolved, That the Presbytery feel constrained to enjoin upon our churches strict regard to the following deliverence of the General Assembly of 18J2: "Mee.ings of pious women by themselves for conversation and prayer we utterly approve but let not the inspired prohibition of the great Apostle, as iound In his epistles to the Corinthians and to Timothy, be violated. To teach and to exhort or to lead us in prayer in public and promiscuous assemblies is clearly forbidden to women in the Holy Oracles."

There is no question that the Presbytery has properly estimated the lesson of Paul. In the First Epistle to Timothy he says: "But I suffer Dot a wo man to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." Again he says: "Let the woman come in silence with all subjection." Now if our Presbyterian friends object to woman as a preacher because of Paul's lesson, they must object to her as a teacher in the schools.

And they must accept other consequences in following the Apostle literally. The deacens, he says, must be husbands, and they must not be greedy of filthy lucre. We fear that there are, in the church, wifeless and avaricious deacons. And then Paul gives advice which will not be relished by the teetotallers Drink no longer Water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and lor thine often infirniities."

But Paul's first letter to Timothy is most remarkable in the advice given to the church at Ephesus concerning widows Let not a widow under three "score years be taken into the number," says the Apostle. But the "younger widows refuse for they will marry. And withal they learn "to be idle, wandering about from "house to house: and not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not." The Presbytery must find that church membership is "clearly forbidden" to widows under sixty by "the "inspired prohibition of the great

Apostle." /i 1 'l A' We like Paul better when he taught (Galat. iii 28) "there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in "Christ Jesus."

Among the Pagans, women were not allowed to take part in public religious ceremonies. Among the Jews, on civil and religious occasions, men only were actors. Neither in civil offices nor in the priesthood could a female have a part. Thrice a year were all the free men to appear in the temple tradition excluded wotneu and slaves. The ancient Hebrew men prided themselves that they were Israelites, not Pagans free men, not slaves males, not females. Christianity, if it mean anything, disallows this distinction of sex. Many women followed Jesus from Gallilee,ministering unto hiin." They were his truest supporters. "Woman was last at the cross and first at "the sepulchre."^:,, ,« a

Mrs. Livermore speaks wisely'when she says that her sphere is to do what she can do well. She can preach well, aud it is her duty to give cool fort to weary souls. The cause of Christ will not be injured by her ministrations in this city to-morrow

IK the Woman Suffrage movement be no reform, how shall we explain the tact that its advocated are only numerous in highly-enlightend communities, and that the more ignorant portions ol the country are entirely opposed to it? The cause of Woman's Enfranchisement is formidable in the New England States and in all the Northern States where the people afe enlightened, and it is weak in tho South where the common schools have qgt, yet t^one their work. ........

A KOUNiNO dispatch from Jamaica says a revolution is expected there as soon as the coffee crop has been gathered in. They are only waiting for the brief harvesting season to be over to return to their usual occupation. If industry were a continual necessity in those tropical islands there would be some hope of keeping the people's hands from each other's throats by giving Ihem something else to busy themselves with.

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THE South is getting to be very sharp in a business way. She is not to be outdone by the land of wooden nutmegs any more. According to the statement of a Nashville (Tenn-X paper there are some enterprising persons in that city who carry on a regular traffic in dead bodies, robbing the grave-yards and sending the proceeds to the medical students in Cincinnati and Ann Arbor. This would seem to be a nice, light and profitable business, which can be run without large capital, and is calculated to build tip a town very rapidlyv

A PHILADBTHIA hatter lately established at Madr s, haa written for a large consignment of second-hand stove-pipe hats for the use of the idols of the natives. It will be well to save all dilapidated "plugs" tereafW to send to th? beath°n.

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THB Republican county convention lASt S&t^dy did itself nb hoiior #lien it resolved to exclude government officials from the delegation to the State convention. It was an unnecessary affront to put upon sterling, active and zealous Republicans. This action shows fear in the minds of some that two or three men may be able to control the action of the, party in this county. This is complimentary to the sagacity of Messrs. Burnett, Magill and Hamilton, but it is not laudatory of the ability of the gentlemen who supported the resolution. We hardly think that officeholding is the most exalted vocation known, and neither do we think that it should necessarily be a mark of opprobium.

THE more liberal spirit which has got abroad in our American colleges is having a salutary effect even in the most conservative institutions. Several important changes are announced in the coutse of study at Amherst. Mathe matics is to be optional after the first year, and parallel courses in modern languages and natural science are so arranged that either can be pursued at the will of the student. Every change that makes education more directly preparatory for practical life is good, and training in the the direction of the natural talents and tastes of tho student is the most efficient.

W. B. STOKES of Tennessee an exmember of Congress and a leading Re publican of that State, has been sentenced to the penetentiary by the Criminal Court of the District ol Columbia, for participation in frauds upon the Treasury. How the great thieves are being brought down

MR. BROWNLOW in the Senate, and Mr. Beck in the House,have been slinging blackguardism at each other in the old Bully Brooks style. The latest re' port shows Mr. Beck to be a little ahead. The Tennessee parson is sure to get even with him in that kind of contest, however.

THE New Testament revisers will be about six years longer at their work. They are now on the second chapter of Luke.

MissS. J. Williams has been elected City Physician of Springfield, Mass. The coming woman is marching on.

THERE are many ways of meeting a note as it falls due. When Wilkins Micawber was presented with one of his I. O. U.s he would give a new one for the old one, and say—"There, thank the Lord! that's paid, and off my mind." This is perhapsthe easiest way to settle—if the other man thinks so too. An Iowa merchant, however, adopted a different plan. For along time he "took no notice" of the dunning creditors, but finally replied by mail: "You say you are holding my note yet. That is all right—perfectly right. Just keep holding on to it, and if you liud your hands slipping, spit on 'em and try It again." These plans have their weak points so, in that hotbed of talent which wo vaguely call "out West," still another method has been developed. At Mineral Point,'Wis., last week, a stranger called at tho bunk and requested to see a note held against him. Receiving the slip, he remarked that he could not see without his spectacles, and walked toward the door, when it was discovered that he was energetically chewing up the note. All these are noteworthy stylos, as showing tho ingenious expedients to which those poetic fellows who soar after the jntinite, dive for the unfathomable, and never pnv cash, are compelled to resort when bothered by dun-colored practical people.

A WORI) FOR THE BALLET Ginr.s.—A writer, referring to the plays of the spectacular order, says that tho tired youth in the audience rush out every five minutes for a drink but there IS no rest'for the weary legs on the stage. Men niny come and men may go, but the ballet girls go on forever. Thei. he refers to the habit of slurring and sneering at the girls themselves. Do not these poor, painted, unlovely girls earn in a weary way their wages? Is not their work hard and their pay small And who knows hcfW mariy mouths are fed by that wearisomelyearned money! How hard it is to live, too, with food and fuel up to such liightful rates! You wouldn't like to 8tand all night with nothing but a ribbon tied round your waist, for dress, and balance yourself on one leg, or prance round the stage swinging a red silk flag over your head like a merman, for the sake of earning money enough to buy yourself and your children a breakfast, would you Oh, no that's different, yob kuOw. But, then, pity them a little, and do not sneer at them. All ways of life are weary enough, and mercy is like the gentle rain from heaven—and very sweet to a tired soul.

AN American now travelling in England says the drinking habits of her people are enough to shock even the moderate drinker of the United States, and drive him, if anything can a belief in total abstinence. At concert, in theatre, and in the railway carriage, it is no uncommbn, but very usual sight, to see the well dressed lady to take a bottle of brandy or sherry from her pocket or her bag, and suck it quite unblushingly. it takes considerable brass, and indifference to social degradation, for a man to dare to do that with us. Clergymen tipple the noble and the ignoble are equally addicted to drink, and beggars think more of a dram than a dinner.—[Golden Age.

MB. CONWAV draws a striking picture of the congregation that assembles in the Little Portland Chapel, London, to hear James Martineau, in contrast to the thousands who go to hear the Gospel of Nonsense elsewhere. The place will hardly seat five hundred persons, but is seldfom full. But then here the tine head of Sir Charles Lyell is seen moving up the aisle: the beaming face of Anna nwanwicb is observed, or the clear, pure eye of intelligence which, in the noble brow of Frances Power Cobbe, serves as a divining gilt that can detect the true living watei% though hid in the unsunned alleys of Portland district. Each head that goes to hear James Martineau ought to count for twenty that go elsewhere.—[Golden Age, _rnmrnm

SDOT and red paint ar* the most fashionable cosmetics in Alask*, and coal oil is the fkvorite perfume.

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SUGAR-MAKING season is imminent.

THE oil well pays fifty per cent, profit on cost.

LET your lungs take air of themselves.

LITTLE GIRLS—Have your dolls been vaccinated?"

ONE-HALF of the past week has been lost, and the other one-half Lent.

Stockings are now darned by machinery, and they are darned nice,

BUILDERS are already beginning to contract for early spring work.^t

T. H. BARR & Co. advertise in 900 different newspapers.!

WHEN does rain become too familiar with a lady? When it begins to patter on the back.'

A EIGHT among the bootblacks on the National House corner last evenings came near being a polish insuriection.

WATCH the button-hole on your overcoat and you'll see how the garment and the season are wearing away.r

EVERY ice house in town is full. It will be difficult to get up a corner in aquatic frigidity next summer.

WHAT a simple thing it is for an unsophisticated drug clerk to make things lively for the coroner.

DASHING young drivers should not kill old women in our streets. Such conduct is very unbecoming.

HE says (does the oldest inhabitant) that this winter is a little the most remarkable one that ho ever seed.

THE hogs running at large around' town should be killed or impounded. Bog pardon we moan nothing personal.

IT will bo well during this season of fast to revive and burnish up old jokes like this If any one wants to borrow an article from yon, say that it's Lent,

NOTHING proves so conclusively that man is the noblest work of God as to see a male person ejaculato a colossal quid of tobacco from his mouth. s'.

OUR Irish editor is off duty this woek consequently wo are not ablo to tell just how many Democratic olllcors the Hibernian political association will bos ablo to monopolize.

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DID it ever occur to the reader to himself where lie will be a hundred' years from now? Let hint try lor ft moment to grasp that thought, and then tell us if he can,, what ho is butting at so frantically here. ''i"" ''f"

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THE election in Fairbanks township, Sullivan county, on Monday, resulted in favor of a tax for a subscription of* ten thousand dollars to tho Southwestern Railroad. The majorit j' was about, jjqvonty-flve votes.

OUR special river reporter slode down the ice-bound Wabash from Durkee'sFerry on a shovel under tho pressure of the strong nor-nor-wost wind last Wednesday. If you don't believe this, he has the shovel to show for it.

A STORY of a mad dog in the Fourth Ward was circulated yosterdny. They did say that the denizens ol that locality were marching around with their legs enc wed in stove-pipos. Tho story was a lie. Our spccial hydropbobiac reporter was not able to find any infuriated canine,nor any stove-pipo pantalooned gentlemen.

A ped(JU#r lrotn the rurat 'ilsfricts,'! with a load of tropical fruits (turnips and taters) stopped at a privato house on 5th street the otherday, and tried to play on the little rotary gong on t&e front door. He fastened to the crank handle, but instead of turning, pulled' straight out on it. He came near pulling the whole panel out of the door, but couldn't make the old thing work. *. There are so many new-fangled inventions now-a-days that ittakesanengin-r eer to keep up with 'em all.

WE are Informed by our dry goods? reporter that an elegant and stylish young lady got a set of fine furs of a gallant young clerk in this city the other day, and took them borne to see it the folks liked them before purchasing. The next day she left town, but didn't leave the furs, having concluded to embrace the golden oportunity to take them along with her. Cold weather hangs on late with ladies who have nice furs and we once knew a mam who wore a fur cap on the 4th of July? —but all this is nothing to the clerk who wants to know, you know, who is* to pay the bill We offer this as a connndrum. He remembers now that she bad a sort of fur-tive look. This Is getting to be such a real lively old place that you can't tell what's going to come next any more until after it has happened, and a man mustn't believe half be hears now-a-days—and not over1 two-thirds of what be says himself but speaking about furs, a buffalo in a store is worth two out on the prairie.