Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 April 1872 — Page 4

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dlttoa to Terra-Haute, on reasonable terms. For particular* enquire of W. E. Hendrieh,

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Piano, will sell for tlflO, one half its real value. A bargain. Call at thin office, or at libido's Music Store.

8ALK-L0T8-I WILL SELL 8FAeral Lot* for building parpcmem, fronting on Third and Fourth street". In the northern part of the city. They will be sold on long time to those who improve them. aa3t.

who Improve THOS. DOW LING.

XJK)R SALE OR RENT-FIVE HOUSES and lots in this city containing from Are to seven rooms each, will also exchange a good farm for city property. Enquire of WILLfAM JOAB, turner 14th and Sycamore streets. m.KMt.

For Rent„

Tentertainment

O YOU.-l'ARTIEH.KCHOOLS, OR

cieties, wishing to get up a good scientific For Rent—An excellent powerful Lime Llgh' Htereoptlcon and over one hundred appliances lor a practical, useuseful entertalnrm nt. Hell, rent, use, or exchange, apply to R. R.. Box 689, TerreHaute. a20-tf

Wanted.

WANTED-EIGHT

BOARDERS, AT

the corner of Tliird and Poplar streets. Terms 1 week. ai!0-2t

ANTED-A FEiV HOARDERS.—NICE rooms, well furnished. J. W.MATLOCK,

Poplar, between 6th and 7th streets.

Lost.

I OKT-EITHEH ON FOURTH OR MAIN I streets, half of a I^ady's Gold Watch Owe. The finder will lie rewarded by leav

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the same at this olttcc.

OHT—LARGE HUMS OF MONEY ARE 1 lost every week by persons who should ad vrt-rtlse I11 this column of the MAIL.

E. HOSFORD,

Attorney at Law,

COIL FOURTH AND MAIN STS.

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.100 intXKS LA NO ti str.ti

DAMASK NAPKINS

At $i.r0 per Dozen,

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Warrea, Hoberg A Ct.

White Astrachan!

Abr Lmtiiey nnd Ckildrm'* SOcqnet,

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WarVen, Hoberg & Co*s.

•pent Home Cvraer.

PMINISTRATOR*8 SALE.

Notie« is hereby given that I will sell at publie sncUoti ou Saturday, April 37, IKK, at the late residence of Charles K. Bentiey, late of PnUrteton township, Vim county deceased, all his persons] property not taken by the widow, eonsWUnn or horn*, boss, ostUe. farmtna Implements, oue reaper, on* two horse wacon, crowing wheat, corn In the cribs, household and kitchen tnralture, and other articles to aameroas to mention. A credit of eight months will be given on all earns ovsr three dollars, the purchaser giving his note with approved security waiving valoatloa and appraisement laws. Sams, three dollars and noder, cash.

WILLIAM R. BK5TLBY, AdaalnJatrattr.

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CLARIDGE, 1 Walnut au, op*, bnnr Market,

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TKRRE-H

THE. MAIL.

Office, 142 Main Street. P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE-HAUTE. APRIL 20,1872.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITlVti*.. ..

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

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisement? appear for ONE CHARGE.

Contents of Inside Pages.

The following are the contents of the inside pa«es, the 2d, 3d, 6th, and 7th, of today's Saturday Evening Mall. We think they will be found rich In variety and in-

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SECOND PAVE.

THE HOUSEKEEPER'S TRAGEDY. NEWS AND NOTINGH. AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTUR

AL ITEMS.

ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN. CONNITBIALITIEH. THE LITTLE PEOPLE.? A NOBLE REVENGE. SERVED HIM RIGHT. IMITATION.

IE GREAT ONKDIA BROTIIEL. OPERA IN AJMKUICA. PITH AND POINTS. TOO MUCH FOR THE DEVIL. DISMALISMS.

THIRD PAGE.

WELCOME LITTLE STRANGER. SAMPLE CLERK WANTED. HINTS TO TRAVELERS.

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BORROHOOLA GUA. HOME. PLACF'R—By Mrs. James Neall. LIFE IN WASHINGTON. A JAPANESE EXECUTION.

SEVENTH PAUE.

THE POLE AT—Josh Billings. HOW TO CONTIIUCT A FASHIONABLE LADY. HEAVY FEES FOR A DIVORCE. WIT AND HUMOR.

THE PRESIDENTIAL YEAR.

Some time since one of tbe oldest newspaper publishers in this city observed to us in private conversation that it was bis experience to make less money during the presidential election year than in the ottaor years. Without intending it as a croak, or a prognostication of evil, we add, that such has been'our observation,and the probabilities aro that this will not be a successful business year. The Cleveland Herald of a recent date says that some three or four years sinco a convention of manufacturers and other business men was held in that city, at which were gathered the business talent and business experience of the country. One of tbe most intelligent delegates to that convention, a man of great experience and of tbe closest observation, made the remark that, invariably the Presidential election yoar was, if not a disastrous business year, at least a very dull year. The reason is obvious. The intense political agitation, going down to the very depths of Federal affairs, and involving in tho issues the entire country, must, during tbe trial of those issues, affect the business interests of tho country, and necessarily, more or less, derange business matters. That delegate gavo it as his experience through along business career, that there bad boen no exception to that rule of derangoment on overy fourth year.

Such being the caso,tno question Arises whether it wohld not be for the best interests of the country to extend tbe Presidential term to at least six years Of courso tho term should not be exextended unless the one term princi pie lo engrafted upon our Coustitu lion.

T1TK COLLECTION OF DEBTS.

Tho Journal of Commerce gives the weight of its testimony in favor of an idea which has been advocated for many years when it says: We have grave doubts if the laws for the forcible collection of ordinary debts have not worked more harm than good ever since the first experiment. We would be glad to see every such statute abolished throughoat the world. There would be more debt paying and fewer losses from bad debts overy year that such legislation was omitted. We would punish tbe fraudulent contraction of debts as a crime, but leave debt honestly incurred to be settled by mutual agreement between the parties to the contract. When this great reform shall have been accomplished, credit will stand on a higher and firmer basis, overtrading and speculation will be discouraged, and business of all kinds will be safe.

RiCHJioKv is the first city in the State to take action in reference to the Cincinnati Convention. A call for a public meeting, signed by seventy citixetts has been issued, and the nv-eting will be held this afternoon. None bat those who voted for Grant and Colfax are asked to take any part In it.

DIVORCE-M?XTKITS will please prepare ibr a begira to New York. The ueneral Assembly of that State have made the divoroe laws remarkably accommodating and elastic. Indiana and Cktosgo will now loss much of lbs foreign divorce business.

Nsw* from Mexico is fit vorable to the t. The RsvoluUooists have up into snail bauds aad their practices are degenerating into guerrilla wtrflt*.

HUSBANDS AND WIVES. It ia painfully apparent to ewy one who goes through the world with hla eyes open, that m&rrisge and the pretended love between husband and wile is nearly as often a mockery of disappointed hopes and thwarted anticipation as it is a realisation of either or both. The love which is quickened into life by thegalvanio action of streaming moons, and fostered into still more tangible existence by the help ot deceitful paint, and the general appliances of fashion and cunning tact, generally faded out with the flowers in the wreath of the bride, and upon the ashes of its ruins is established a family altar which seems only to mouument the misery of those who are so unfortunately chained to it. The girl who makes up her ideas of tbe future from the silvered descriptions of novel writers, and expects to enter upon a life whose pathway leads through garlanded arches, and herself leaning upon the arm of one of those those "noble heroes" of love tales (who are always romantically poor in purse—but mysteriously wonderful in ever being able to dress in the plumes and velvets of a Knight, and to make their "lady loves" daily presents ot flashing diamonds and glittering souvenirs), generally sees her gay dream-work perish under the stern frost of actual life, before her feet have danced out ot the life of the honeymoon. Poetry and novels make a poetical institution out of a man— when%he is in fact the veriest piece of prosaicness which any workshop can hammer out. my a Juliet has opened her eyes wido with astonishment and pursed up her lips in disgust when the curtain of the matrimonial drama reveals to her the form of her adored Romeo, lounging around the room in his stocking feet, with his suspenders hanging very unpoetically down his back, and clipping his heei at every step, while he is, man-like, raving around because an awkward "flat-iron" has knocked some of the buttons off his shirt!

Many a beautiful net which the hand of fancy weaves for a drama, goes rattling out of the loom with a dreadful clang when tbe shuttle is thrown down by the stern hand of truth. Disappointment is not the only cause of loveless families. Neglect will come when you are scarcely aware of its approach and many a husband unconsciously allows inattention and carelessuess to build up a wall which no wife will attempt to scale. We have written ten times as much on this subject as we intended to for we only wanted to make a little introduction to the following sensible paragraph which some sensi ble man has written

Some husbands never leave home in the morning without kissing thei wives and bidding then "good by," in the tones of unwearied love and whether it be policy or fact, it has the effect of fact, and these homes re al ways pleasant ones, providing always that the wives are appreciative and welcome the discipline in a kindly spirit. We know an old gentleman who lived with his wife over fifty years and never left home without the kiss and "good by, dear." Some husbands before leaving home ask very tenderly "What would you like for dinner, my dear?" knowing all the while that she will select something for his particular palate, and of he goes. Some husbands will leave home without saying any thing at all. but thinking a good deal, as evinced by their turning around at the last point of observation and wav ing adieu at the pleasant lace or faces at the window. Some husbands never say a word, rising from the breakfast table with tbe lofly indifference of lord, and going out with a heartless disregard of those left behind hiui. It is a fortunate thing for their wives that they can find sympathy elsewhere Some husbands never leave home with out some unkind word or look, appar ently thinking that suah a course will keep things straight in their absence. Then 011 returning, some husbands come home jolly and happy, unsoured by the world some sulky and surly with disappointments. Some husbands bring home a newspaper or a book and bury themselves for the evening in its contents. Some husbands are called away every evening by business or so cial engagements, some doze in speechless stupidity on a sofa until bea-time. Some husbands are curious to learn of their wives what has transpired during the day others attracted by nothing short of a child falling down or a house taking fire. "Depend upon it," says Dr. Spooner, "that home ia the happiest where kindness, interest, politeness and attention is shown of course all of the respsnsibilities rest with them, snd temptation finds no footing there.

THERS is no greater mistake than that which so many housekeepers make in their purchase of provisions, fuel, and olothing. The best is always the cheapest. Tawdy finery and flimsy but showy goods are dear at almost any price, and are really never becoming. Far better have but one dress, and that of good material than half a docen of the cheaper or more inferior kind, which cost nearly as much to make and trim as tbe better article and never look nearly so well. It is a great error to suppose that sensible people estimate a young lady, or an old one either, in proportion to tbe number of dresses she owns and displays. Those whose good opinion is worth having are not slow to appreciate tbe difference between a substantial good dress and a more pretentious and showy but: decidedly interior one. Buy the best, whether it be clothing, coal, or provisions.

iTisssid that a petition to Congress to prohibit the calling of any more children by tbe name of Georgs" Washington" is la circulation oat West. Soros! Ing like this Is due to the ory of tho gi est Virginian. srn Qsorgs Washington liss outrageously, sad Is already to jail la dlfltersat parts of the esaal«7«

A TTF SATURDAY P.VVNFNG MAIL APRIL»20, 1W2.

NOW.

Now Spring ia here and all nature hi preparing to clothe herself In a garb of beauty—green leaves and flowers and humans are contributing to render tbe change most oomplete. Now the fields are being plowed grains and vegetables planted the windows are left open to admit the balmy air of Spring and house-wives are preparing beds for garden truck and flowers. Now the birds hop about tbe newly turned up ground, and uab the unexpectedly unearthed worm, and the wild docks glide in procession on tbe river, and the crows squabble in the woods, while a walk in the country starts a whirring crowd of birds, who fly before you at every step. Now the hardware and stove men take in their coal scuttles and skates and sleds, and put out refrigerators and bathing-tubs and hoes and rakes. Now oyster and cigar stands give place to ice cream and soda water. Now the seedsmen and the nurserymen are in their glory. Now the dear female sex cotne out as one man in the jauntiest of spring dresses, the roses of June in their cheeks, and the voilets of May in their eyes, and the gold of the sun in their hair. Now the milliners are exhibiting fresh attractions, and new bonnets aro to bo bought, and new styles of spring dress goods appear in tho windows, and the sun will dance with joy at the beauty of the new fashions, aud the inventiveness of the female mind will be apparent. Now the school girls aro getting tired of their books and the teachers are getting tired of the school girls, and the boys hate to go in wh tho bell rings after recess, and tho teacher wishes that there was 110 bell to ring. Now all the boys are dying for fishhooks and lines and sinkers, tho men and women are planning excursions, against the finny tribe, and the fish are uneasy in their little minds about it. Now rents are raised and house hunters are aghast, and painters aro busy or pretend to be, and carpenters and masons are so busy in getting jobs secured that they have no time lor immediate calls on little jobs. Yes, Spring has come, and winter has gone, and the heart is renewed, and life is quickened. Now, we stop!

A NEW ACCUSA TION.

The first national characteristic noticed by all the Englishmen who visit this country for the purpose of spending a fortnight, and writing a book about us, is that we live in a hurry. We work, they say, from early dawn to dewy eve, and are consumed with a desire to get rich ae soon as possible. It is, therefore, somewhat of a relief to have one ff these gentlemen call us lazy, and assert that we take much time to do little. This is tho position taken by a correspondent of tho London Conformist, republished in the Philadelphia Post, and it is not impossible that lie is partially right, llis particular grievance is that in the city we rise too early, and work too late, while in the country we rise as early but go to bed too soon. Neither of these extremes suit this gentleman, and be makes a bold raid on us for practising tbem. Oar hours of business he considers absurd, and asserts that an English tradesman, does as much from 10 o'clock to 4t as an American in his long day. We like, be thinks, to go to our business early, to stay late, to foel as if wo we»*e doing something of importance, and then takefime to "dawdle."

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Now, if a man's business is tbe object of his life, instead of a means of securing comfort and independence during it, there is no better place for him than his store or office, and the longer he can make his day, the more busy he can make it, tbe better it will bo for him. But if tbe claims of family and social life, if his own mental growth and physical recreation are of any importance, it would be well 0 try to condense our hours of labor, to estimate how much time we givo to work and how. mucn to lounging, and so see if it is not possible to procure some for higher purposes.

As for the country habits of early rising and oarly retiring, they are de testable to all city people. It is not the morning hours that thsy object to, for the citizens keenly appreciates the cool, dewy hours of dswn, tbe long shsdows, the pesco and repose of the morning, ss few country people do, but is the "early to bed" part of the

it maxim that is so aggravating. We have been used to making the most of our evenings we have counted on them, and to he sent to bed with the chickens may do for the farmer, but it doee not do for tbe city people. In this we agree with the Englishman, and it is so possible that be is as right about business bouni that his remarks are worth consideration.

AT the close ol one of Mrs. Swisshelm's orations she asked if any male citizen was present who was opposed to woman suflhsge if so sho would like to have him atand up and give bis reasons. To tbe surprise or nearly every one present tbe chaplain of tbe Ohio penitentiary arose. Some one hinted to Mrs. Swisshelm his calling and position, when Mrs. Swisshelm inquired if be had any women in the penitentiary. "Yes," responded tbe chaplain, we have twelve, and they make more trouble than a hundred men."

I* an attachment suit before Kaquire Smock, the notice to the non-resident defendant was advertised the usual aumbsr of times in the People. The oass was called for trial two or three days sgtL sod was dismiss sd on motion efdsMdawt's attorney, for tbe isason that legal notice eouM not made In a paper Msoed on tbe Sabbath.—[Indiana polls Sentinel.

WASHING DA T.

BBQULAR FAMILY DISTUBBkirCtiDAY

THE INGENUITY OP MAN.

If we go back into ancient Terse we find it manifest that labor-saving machinery for household work waa then not much, if at all, in vogue. The gentler sex lost their temper on occasions that called for an extra expenditure of muscles, and ye ancient poets sympathised with them in rhyme so expressive that tbe versified wail was treasured up by the, household drudge as a pearl of price.

Washing-day was particularly poetised upon, and some genius who had caught the situation to a dot thus pertinently ambled: oh 'tis thump, thump, scold, scold,

Tliutnp, thump away A de'it a bit of eomlort have Upon a washing day."

This was doubtless penned a century ago, and it intimates that the washingday was a dread in the household calendar, and that it did not improve the gude wives' temper.

The masculinities of that age, far, from endeavoring to ameliorate their trials, were such barbarians as to punish the good women for scolding for we find by the old English cnronicles of that day a statute law enacted in order to toach women to curb their tempers, the penalty of which was the ducking-stool. When a woman unbridled her tongue and scolded violently, the town ducking stool was rolled up to her door, as a warnitig. If the admonition passed unheeded, she was taken to the pond, tied on tho chair and dipped in*" proportion to the obsti nnoy of her case.

It is said by those who know that this practice of sousing scolding wo men was continued until the present century—a woman having been dipp* in this manner in Liverpool in 1803. If anything is calculated to try a woman' temper it is tho washing-day, and probably these unfortunate victims of the immersing process found it so to their sorrow. Ourgrandmoihers, how ever, as a general thing, did not find the task so liarrassing, for we often hear them exulting tell of the famous hard day's work they could accomplish in their youth. Plunging their stout plump arms into the snowy suds, they wont to work gleefully, singing,

Merrily in the suds we dash, Singing cheerily as we wasli Rubbing, wriuKing, rinsing, oh We'll make our clothes as white as snow.

Rut the feminines of the present gen eration are of a different style. From lack of proper girlhood, from wearing tight dresses and thin shoes they are fragile beings, with insufficient strength and muscle to accomplish the labors of the laundry. It is an intruder. It tyms the head topsy tnrvy, aud is tho cause of many a wretched dinner, dis appointing to tho hungry husband as he returns, weary, froin office or shop, Now washing, being purely a mechan ical process, its labor has been im tnensely lessened by the application of machinery. This is illustrated daily.

New patent washing and wringing machines are almost without number, and so far has progress been made in this line that even the soap has been improved. One inventor of this arti cle sincerely declares that all you have to do is to put tbe clothes in cold water, throw in his soap, and return to the parlor, where for an hour you can enjoy yourself if yon desire in reading or piano-playing, and then return and to the clothes perfectly cleaned aud ready for the wringing machine.

A lady also has the advantage of going into her wash-room in her best bouse dress, and have tho satisfaction of seeing her washing and lronitgcom pleted, in a few hours, nnd in time to turn her attention to preparing the noon meal.

Such 119s tho inventive genius of the age done, and no more do wives or husbands exclaim—

Oh, 'tis thump, tlinmj), scold, scold, Thump, thump away, A de'll a bit of comfort have

Upon the washiugjlay.

But, on the contrary, benisons are heaped upon the head of the inventors who have robbed washing-day of its terrors, and "gude" wives are as happy as sunflowers, and sing gaily to tbe accompaniment of the machinery "upon the washing-day."

AN exchange says: A son of Brigham Young, in response to a Gentile inquiry, admitted that the young Mormon women undoubtedly objected to the fractional husbsnd system but, be said, "they have to marry somebody, and it they choose a married man, they save themselves tbe pang which they would afterward experience if they took a single roan and ne married again." There is enough of feminine human nature in that brief way of putting it to supply tbe text for a volume of analysis and philosophical reflection. It most be ever so much nicer to mske another woman wild

with jeaioosy andVumiliation than for

process herself. There isn't much difference in feminine snd masculine nature in this particular. We have yet fo see the insn who doesn't prefer the boll being oa some other fellow.

WHHK Chicago burned down last fall some of our wholesale merchants made a little spirit of enterprise, and tried to secure Chicago trade. They advertised a little, and from all reports were venr successful, but with tbe first dash their energy oooled, and they concluded that money spent for advertising was money thrown away. Now they must look to their own home trade and let alone Chicago's, for tbe enemy has carried the war into Africa. John B. Farwell A Co., of Chicsgo, oae of tbe iMjpsst houses In theoouatij,is lor the Indiana

EYIDBNCBaccumulates that a way being sought, with good prospeet of success, for a settlement ol the vexatious question of "indirect damsgss' without either great Britain or the United States losing self-respect. Saggestions ss to the wisdom of submitting the propriety of such claims, with limitations ss to the amount of dama-i ges to be awarded if the claims are considered proper, have been put forth ii» England in quasi-official shape, so that the prospect of the matter being referAd to Ueneva ia now good.

THIS alligator sesson has opened tin Florida, and the absorption of the pensive angler or confiding bather is a matter of daily record.

The City and Vicinity.

KirtMcrlBtion*.—'THE SATURDAY KVSKING MAIL is delivered to city subscribers at TWENTY CENTS a mouth, payable at the »ml of every four weeks, or at TWO DOLLARS a year in advance. The MAIL will be furnish-: ed by post, or at this ofllee, at the following rates: One Year, $2.00 8lx Months,$1,00 Three Months, 50 Cents—invariably'in advance

To Mail Subscriber!*.—Watch the date on your direction label. It indicates the time when your subscription expires, at which time the paper will, invariably, be discontinued without further notification.

NEW AD VER TISEMENTS^ Sewing Machine Hales.

For Kent—Stcopticon. Dry Goods— Warren, Hoberg it Co. Announcement Win. Patrick. Oily Election Notice. Opera House—Mr. Sothern. Lust Night, of Fanny U. Price. Wanted—Boarder*.

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For Mile—Lots In People's Addition. Divorce— C. E. Ilosford, Attorney. Lost—Half ol" watch case. Patent Smooihlnjj Iron—J. Oook A Son. Animal Poke—J Ook Sjn. Boar«llng—J9l Main street. opera House isaar— A. 11 err, dt-Co. Insurance—llauer it McKeen. •11 Lubiu's Extracts—"•». it. linker A Co.

SABBATH Schools are opening up throughout the Mirrounditm country-

A DRUG firm of this city sold $2,5(R worth of drugs to a druggist of Illinois, on Monday.

Fouu men are at work on the chaingang,and get thieir slumbers and sustenance at the Station House.

W. II. HAWKINS is preparing an elegant croquet sround in the rear of the Terrc-IIaute US".

SEVERAL dwellin^sand business houses ar goinu up on th Bloomiugtonreadeisto he- l.

THE total revenue col ections in this district for March were $3U,025.&7. Ol" this amount, H. Hulman paid $29,010.0( on whisky.

TnK Friendly sons of St. Patrick had a successful and happy time with their third anniversary ball at Dow ling ll,aU. on Thursday evening.

SAMUEL MAQILL, collector of Internal Revenue, has just received three thousand dollar's worth of Revenue stamps for use in this district.

THE total amount of gas burned by the city.during tho month of March was 1,405,400 cubic feet. The revenue tax on this at 20 cents per foot was I293.Q8.

WK will publish next week an Original story founded on fact, entitled "The Old Printer's Story," written expressly lor Tbe Mail. The loading figure in tho narrative is a "tramp printer" well known to most of the typographical fraternity.

Lu. O. IIAOER'S gorgeous temple ot nsurance, on Sixth just north of Main, is rapidly approaching completion and will "blow in" with a big "blow ont'.' the first of May. It will be an exceedingly neat and cozy aflair inside, and in the wa)' ef signs and outside adornments will be absolutely stunning..

RAILROAD EXCURSION.— One week from Monday the Paris and Decatur railroad will be completed to Areola, the crossing of the Illinois Central road, affording another direct connection with Chicago. On the Tuesday following an excursion train will be run to this city, bringing some three hundred Illinois people from 'slong the line. Something should be done to properly receive these visitors.

PLEASE give me ten cents and then. 11 have enough to buy me a shirt." These words were addressed by a forlorn aud shirtless youth to several ladies living on Ohio snd Seventh stroet* on Thursday. lie received the coveted dime in each instance and the natural supposition is that he is still in pursniu of tbe "last ten cents."

WK saw a seventh street man "Bw«ar-| mad" this morning on discoveringthat a voracious and destructive bovine

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any dear creature to experience the ate a bushel of corn, a barrel of bran, emptied the slop barrel, broken down fine pine tree—the seventh one he had

•atnr, is mshing trade aad tosd-

sad If oar dsalsra am aot tive the Chicsgo boase will gst a good d«al of It too,—[lad. Neva.

during tbe night entered his yard,

planted and nursed on the same spot— and committed other depredations. Cannot something be done to prevent cows from running at large in tho night time, to prey npon their neigh-? bors

"ECHOES from Round Top—tbe Story of a Great Battle,"— is the tittle of a lecture that will be delivered in the Centenary Church, on Tuesday evening by Rev. Jesse B. Young, A. M., whowas an officer in the battle of Gettysburg and is now Pastor of tbe M. E. Church in that town. The leoture constitutes a series of life-scenes in the campaign of Oeitysbarg, embracing vivid descrlptkmsof bivoaac and battle,, and thrllliag sketches of iht work saMofc the woaodid