Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 April 1872 — Page 4

For Sale.

FOBSALE—90

LARS IN PEOPLE'S AD-

dittos to Terre-Haute, on reasonable terms. Kor particulars enquire of W. E. Hendrlch, over Prairie City Bank, or E. Ohm's shoe store, on Main street, between 4tb and 6th. a20-2t TT70R SALE—A GOOD SECOND-HAND

Piano, will sell for $100, one half its real value. A bargain. Call at thin office, or at {{hide's Music 8 to re.

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SALE—LOTS—I WILL SELL SEV eral Lots for building purposes, fronting :on Third and Fourth street*, in the northern part of tbe city. They will be sold on 1 lone time 10 those who Improve them. a6-3t. THO8. DOWLING

VndToU in this city containing from five to seven rooms each, will also exchange sf a good farm for city property. Enquire of

WILLIAM JOAB, Corner 14th and Hycamore streets. m30-4t.

Wanted.

WANTED-PLAINgo

SEWING OR DRESS-

making. Will oat by the day or week. Please apply to MRS. M. E. 3AN.DERS, Strawberry Hill, or through the /poutorace, care of Box 1906.

N E E N E 8 I N E wishes to correspond with a lady of Intelligence, and accustomed to good society, about the age of 85, of good personal appearance, who would like a home in a small, healthy, southern city, pleasantly located. None need apply that cannot make home pleasant and agreeable. All correspondence strictly confidential. Address, Box ItH, Fernandina, Florida. ap27.

WANTED-EIGHT

BOARDERS, AT

the corner of Third and Poplar streets. Terms ii a week. a20-21

WANTED-A

FEW BOARDERS.—NICE

rooms, well furnished. J. W. MATLOCK, Poplar, between 6th and 7th streets.

Lost.

STRAYED-FROM

THE UNDERSIGN

ed, a cow, white and pale red. with a white stripe on the forehead, straight horns

and

a 81 rap around the horns, with a ring In it. Any give any

strap... She has been gone since the 18th Inst.

Any

person findlng'the same, or who can Information of her whereabouts will be "suitably rewarded. LER, old postoffi

IOST-LARGEcolumn

FOUND-IN

SUMS OF MONEY ARE

lost every week by persons who should advertise In this of the MAIL.

Found.

TERRE-HAUTE A STERK-

optlcon with lime light, and good Illustrations on Geology, Astronomy, Zoology, pe, etc., suitable audiences, old ana

tour through Europe, etc., suitable for large ijroung. to be for hire, sale or exchange. For particulars, address 8. R. R., box 689, Terre-Haute, Ind. a27-lt.

J10UND—THAT ENERGETIC MEN CAN secure permanent and profitable employment bv calling at the HOWE SKWINQ MACIIINK office, on Ohio street, between '6th and 6th streets. SIDNEY SPEED, Mnn-

E. HOSFOKD,

Attorney at Law,

COR. FOURTH AND MAIN ST8.

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mERRE-HAUTE OMNIBUS

5 TiMHftrMMl B^gagt Lla*. OSM Ifl Main street, will attend to all calls

left la esll-bom, prwpllj, tor Depot*. Balls *r Picnlas. and convey p—na«w to any mA of UM elty at rMMonabt* ratea. Aim.

im any P^rtpf 0»«^ kaiiHw. 00 HMMfl UM onWiter between Cherry and MoliMrry. OidaiSwt at will be I™.!*"* OBI,

THE MAIL.

Office, 142 Main Street.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE-HAUTE.

APRIL 27, 1872.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening, baa a large circulation among fanners and others living ontside of the city. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Even lng, goes into the bands of nearly every reading person in the city. Every Week's Issue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for ONECHARGE.

Contents of Inside Pages.

The following are the contents of the inside pages, the 2d, 3d, 6th, and 7th, of to day's Saturday Evening Mail. We think they will be found rich in variety and in terest.

SECOND PAGE.

THE OLD PRINTER'S STORY-Original. ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN. CONNUBIALIT1E8. THE LITTLE PEOPLE. HOW A DISCOVERY WAS MADE. DREARY HOMES. WIFE, LADY-MISTRESS.

THIRD PAGE.

WHAT THE CHOIR SANG ABOUT THE NEW BONNET. STORY OF THE SONGS.

SIXTH PAGE.

MOTHERS-IN-LAW. DIVORCED-By A. F. Hill. COLORED MEETING IN FLORIDA—A

Graphic Sketch.

PETER MIL-

ce building. ap27-lfc.

INTERESTING FACTS. THE POOR CUSTOMER. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. COMPOSITION UPON A ELEPHANT81 lent Men—Anecdote of Tom Corwln

Everybody has Influence-Physicians' Fees—Etc., Etc. SEVENTH PAGE. MEN WANTED. NEWS AND NOTINGS.

THE PRESIDENTIAL YEAR Last week we reminded our readers of the fact that this being Presidential year the effect upon business would be depressing, all interests being affected by the National straggle involved in the coming political contest. The same cause is producing like effect upon Congressional matters. Business is, and will be, postponed io electioneering sober discussiou upon the material inteiests of the country is silenced by the wrangling ot politicians,and the personal quarrels of those bent upon elevating this Presidential candidate,or in breaking down that Presidential aspirant. It is so every presidential year. One session of Congress is worse than thrown away in the miserable selfishness that controls the politicians. And herein is offered another argument in fuvor of a longer Presidential term, so that only one year in six, instead of one year in four, may be lost to the business interests of the country.

PHILANTHROPIC BEQ UESTS. It seems strange that so many persons who make bequests to philanthropic and benevolent purposes deny themselves the pleasure Of presenting them in person and directing now they shall be employed, or supervising their disbursements. In the majority of cases these gifts become of effect only after the death of the donor, who is thus deprived of the pleasure which is always presumed to follow the performance of a voluntary praiseworthy action. There are cases in which benenefactlons are necessarily delayed until the decease of the party making them, as in instances were the interest of the amount bequeathed is necessry to the support of the bequeather. But in many others this cannot be urged aa an obstacle, and we repeat that it Is surprising how fow persons permit their benefactions to be made available during their lives. Recently there seems to be a disposition to abandon this unwise custom, and hence we more fivquently now than ever before» have accounts of liberality on the part of living wealthy men In almost every part of the country.

CINCIXNA TI CONVENTION. The much talked of Cincinnati Convention convenes in Cincinnati on Wednesday of next week. It is the first instance, within our memory that a Mom Convention haa been aasembled to nominate a candidate for the Presidency. From a little speck in the political sky, the movement has assumed considerable proportions, and the proceedings of the Convention will be received with no little Interest. The Cincinnati Commercial of Wednesday, says: "There will be more excitement and feeling about the proceedings of this Convention thin there has been in regard to any popular ssaeinblage or representative body since the war. The gathering here Itkelv to be prodigiously large. Already the town is being made lively by strangers. The correspondents of manv of the leading jour nala are already on the spot, and prominent politicians are dropping in to see na. Before the close of this week there will be a crowd, and next week a great multitude,"

R» KXTTT a thief became interested In religion under the preaching of Mr. Hammond, at Kansas City, Mo., and his first act was to restore $380 and Interest, amounting to 1450, to Dr. Jennings, from whom he bad stolen it, accompanied woth a note expressing deep contrittoa tor his theft. As a matter of justice It seems to its Dr. Jennings ought to pay Mr. H. tor his service* in enabling him to regain bts money.

TlSftRE-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. APRIL 27. 1872.

SETTLING PEOPLE.

It ia not easy briefly and completely to convey what is meant by the term settUng. Yon may settle a person when yon silence him when yon crash his importunities with sarcasm, when yoa shame him in the midst of his bombast by the consciousness of yonr intellectual superiority, which you force upon him by the very might of your self-containednesa, your self-ap-preciation. You may be physieally very weak, and your antagonist may be physically very strong, but in spite of his bluster and bravado, you stagger him most completely when you devlope to him unsuspected strengths of soul, unguessed intellectual antagonisms to the prowess which in him proceeds from a happy and harmonious physical nature. The soul, with no other resources at hand than its own bravery, triumphs at such times over all bodily weakness, and towers the more grandly from the very consciousness ot hav lng itselt alone to depend upon. To go away from a contest of this kind, with the knowledge that you are more than even with your antagonist, and that your strength has been forced upon bis recognition, is enough solace for many of the small bitternesses of life.

Some people are so easily settled that one forbears to do it out of mere pity and commis8eration. Breaking a but terfly is very poor fun. It is only when there can be some resistance, or where some harm is to be averted or good gained, that this act assumes the semblance of a natural virtue. A word, a look, a jjesture, or the absence of either Is cpiite sufficient to silence and confuse the poor creatures who have neither pungency of tongue, nor brilliancy ot brain, nor audacity of execu tlon. There is no triumph in settling people like these. The worthy antagonist must possess all these gifts, and be settled In spite of them.

One class of people is found whose importance it is extremely difficult to settle. Perhaps they never can be set tied, for when you think you have silenced and annihilated them complete ly, their subtle minds fasten like momentary fangs, upon vulnerable points in us which we thought unknown. Minds like these are intellectual quicksands, forever shifting and evasive. You are never on firm footing with them you are always slipping when you least suspect a slip. A mind likes this may be very beautiful, and sweet, and poetic it may be blended with an emotional nature which intensely loves and remains true to the objects of that love but it is a mind In which one cannot take perpetual re pose and delight. With all its sweet and good qualities it is guilty of meannesses and small suspicions, and when the moment for settling it comes, for giving the final blow to all its duplicity and false convlctioas, it evades us by the repetition of fresh meannesses, wholly at contradiction with the greatness of which we have experienced it to be capable. But a mind like this, joined to a large physical nature, is probably the best in the world tor be' lng ready for any occasion and to set tling anybody or anything.

MINISTERS.

A somewhat occasional attendance at church qualifies tr.any people to give an opinion "about ministers." About sormons, everybody differs. We have our ecelesiastlcal chemical affinities. Have not decided yet whether the soothing syrup or the highly vulcanite doctrine is right. But concerning ministers people can easily agree. That "editor out West"—who is always heard from—has ventured to give expression to

his

ideas thereon, which

perhaps furnish the needed explanation as to why he didn't .."study for the ministry:"

A minister, like the National Government, is not expected to notice very closely a man with less than a $2,000 income. This habit of thought is not confined to the clergy. Ot the occupant of the pulpit It Is also required that his children be absolutely perfect. For the sins of the children shall be visited on the father to the third and fourth generation. If the children are not up to the best standard, It is expected of the pastor that he should at once see that thoy are killed, that theirexainple may not bo pernicious. It is aieo expected that a clergyman will be able to keepopen house for every tract distributor, missionary, canvasser for religions werks, Ac., to clothe the family ins highly respectable gurb,give them a liberal educatlon^and save money for "old age" out of a $700 salary, a small donation and large faith.

He must not be too common with poor people, for that is demeaning, nor loo stuck up, for that is not christian. He must be sociable with the young— an old woman among old women—and above all things never express a political opinion or vote. A minister In becoming such abdicates hi* citizenship, and is an alien and a sojourner. In fact he must not be a man, but merely the response to a chant.

There are many rocks on which cler-

Sergymen

pinen split or rather there are many on whom congregations split. We know one that was divided because the divine drank beer, (prescribed by his physician). Some, also, because the clergyman worked in his

Sivine

ard en too much. Some because the gesticulated too much, it being considered unchristian to gesticulate. Soine because the minister was infatuated with "correct English."

In fact we alnnst despair of getting one with all the modern lmproveinenta, one that will soothe and scare, and administer the bitterness of the law properly secreted Ins ooatlng of sugar.

THB Iowa Legialature adjourned on Tuesday of this week. One of the principal laws passed during the session wss that abolishing capital punishment in that State. The immediate otyect of Its adoption seams to have been to save the life of the murderer Stanley, who was under the sentence ofdeeth*

THE LA UQBTER CUBE. The New York Dispatch last week contained an item in whioh was related the fact of a man being recovered from imminent bodily ailment by a fit of laughter. Now. in these days of all eorts of pathies and of "doctors" without diplomss, of quacks, patent medicine advertisers, why not have a Laughter Cure? Sueh a "school" would be acceptable to persons of a skeletonian frame of body, for they can "laugh and grow At." Here is a case In point: Once on a time a priest, while passing along a road, was accosted by a woman, wno said her cow was choking to death, and that the priest must save her. The priest, unwilling to shatter her faith, walked slowly round the suffering bovine three times, repeating, "If she lives she lives, and if she dies she dies." Faith triumphed the cow recovered, living for years as a milk dispenser. Not long after the priest tell ill, his disease a sort of membranous croup, and the priest was in great danger. The grateful woman rushed to his bedside, shouting that she could cure him. As the physician could do nothing further, she was allowed to proceed. Ordering the bed to be placed in the middle of the room, she seized the clergyman's cane, and, flourishing it frantically, walked around the bed, shrieking, "If he lives he lives, and if he dies he dies." Three times she circled the choking priest, when suddenly an explosion of laughter broke the forming membrane, and the danger was passed. The recollection of the treatment of the cow was too much. Faith again triumphed—the Laughter cure proved as good for the clergy as it had for the cow.

Why not, then, have anew college established, provided with clowns to please, straws to tickle, jokers to tell laughable yarns, etc. Laughing Is a good thing it's healthy. Who will open the campaign? Who will write "What I Know About Laughter?-'

BUILD A HOUSE.

Horace Greeley used to say aoout once a month, "buy land." The ad vice is good for those who want land. The farm laborers and the renters, the starving professionals, the store clerks and the seedy strivers after bread at the hundreds of occupations that ought to be filled by women, should every one take the advice of the white-coated philosopher and buy land in the West, where the investment of a few hundred dollars in money will in the time otherwise misspent, certainly grow into a competency. But the mechanic who can earn his eighteen or twenty dollars a week, and who is certain of steady employment, does not want land that Is, not more than enough to set a house upon, with space for a snug little garden. This every laboring man ought to have—this every laboring man is entitled to, and this every laboring man in Terre-Haute, at least, may have. To this class, instead of saying buy land, we say, "build a House."

THE work of butchery continues in Mexico. At Matamoras a regiment of cavalry revolted and made an attempt on the life of General Cortina, their commander. This attempt was- frustrated by another regiment coming to his rescue. The result of this emeule was a number of men killed on both sides, and a large number of deserters. Six men engaged In the revolt were summarily shot by order ot Cortina. The revolutionists are said to be marching on Matamoras with three thousand men. The city is said to be well fortified and prepared for successsful resistence. This will bring us intelligence of further slaughters and assassination, with the revolution no nearer a close than ever. Would it not be an act of humanity for the United States Government to put an end to this bloody devastation by assuming a protectorate over this unhappy country.

THE proceedings in the trial of Stokes for the murder of Fisk, are slowly dragging along. All interest in this matter, not only in New York, but throughout the country, has strongly subsided. His counsel are moving heaven and earth to gain time, and will stubbornly ttontest every inch of the trial. On yesterday the prosecution filed an answer to the bill ot exceptions filed by Stokes's counsel. The popular belief is that tho criminal will not be convicted in tho first degree, for when a person is so rich that he can transform a cell in the Tombs into the luxurious semblance of a chambei* on the Fifth Avenne, and feast on champagne and rare dellcaeies with bis jailor, Justice is very apt to drop her blind and smilo accommodatingly.

COUHT VALMASKDA IS one of the most successful of the Spanish Captain-Gen-eralx of Cuba. The late news from that island gives the result of the patriots to disobey his famous order to lav down their arms. The conduct of the soldiery was simply horrible. Children's brains dashed out, maids and matrons violated and pot to death, hospitals filled with the sick and dying, set on fire, and most any other atrocity the the imagination can supply, constitute the bloody and infamous record. Our government, actuated by motives ot "prudence," will not Interfere with these terrible barbarities.

THAT was a nice hanging at 8umter, N. C., the other day. One negro was to be executed for the murder of snother, and the sheriff thought to ease matters, by arranging an anvil so as to drop and raise the victim. It woi ked badly and raised him only slowly. He struggled, got one arm free, and grasped the rope over Us head, when the fertile minded aheriff stepped forward and held his arms down till he ceased to struggle.

A writer in the Golden Age gives some queer statements in relation to the way oats are neld in esteem la different parts of the world. In most parts of Germany the domestic oat is almost unknown. In Turkey and Egypt they are always excluded from harems, In Asia Minor they have roving propensities, are treated no better than dogs without masters. No household cats are to be seen while crossing the Isthmus of Panamsa. The whole region about the Red Sea is infested by rats, but the natives will not suffer Europeans to introduce cats to kill them. They think the remedy would be worse than the disease. They say a cat's hair communicates the plngue, that she sucks away the breath of children, that she is more liable to go mad than dogs, and that her wail is the sure sign of bad luck. In many parts of India, nurses will not allow a oat to enter the apartment of children. Cats are not objects of fear in Spain but the people have a custom of always cuttingoff their ears and tails. The only reason they give for this cruelty Is that it is a custom in in Spain. In new England the household cats foretell the weather if she washes her whiskers, it will rain if she is verv sportive, there will be high winds if she indulges in sluggish sleep, there will be good weather. As in old witchcraft times,her cry predicts misfortune. Sailors consult the actions of a cat almost as much as they do the appearance of the barometer, In order to know what the weather is to be.

IN an article on "Lunacy and Drunkenness" tbe New York World takes the novel ground that insanity may sometimes be the cause rather than the consequence of dissipated habits. In examining a report as to the "probable causes of lunacy,"* It finds that of 1603 insane persons 766 were Methodists, 497 Catholics, 326 Baptists, 10 Atheists, and 4 Spiritualists. Just as the cancerous taint is called forth by a blow which in a healthy person would produce only a trifling bruise, says the World, so the mind, already prone to madness, will be easily thrown off its balance by stimulants, religious excitement, domestic worry, business cares, or any one of a score of other things which are impotent to derange a sounder brain. It believes that when we have abolished religion, marriage, and child-birth, and thus elevated the entire community to the Bostonian standard, then we may properly take up the less frequ9nt causes of insanity, and endeavor to make men sober and women virtuous by act of Legislature—for there will be nothing else to make them so. Will (fur local savans of the A. A. A. S. look into this matter and report the result of their investigations to The Mail.

THERE is so much political corruption in these days, so much shameless bribery, so much trickery with the ballot, that some good men really begin to doubt the expediency of tbe liberal suffrage of this country, and even to predict tb»n In a few years it will be found necessary to confine the right of suffrage within narrower limits. One thing is certain—something must be done. We do not think, however, that a contraction of franchise will be the remedy resorted to: it would be going backward instead of forward. We hope that a thorough reform will be effected through proper legislation— that severer penalties will be provided for those who tamper with the free exercise of the ballot and a rigorous system of voting established so as to render the many abuses of the present day impossible. Our hope is in Reform, not in Retrogression.

TUB late reported difficulties between Germany and France call attention to tbe fact that Europe is at present little less than a vast camp. No less than six millions ot trained men are ready to spring to arms upon that continent at the .call of tbe bugle, and to set vigorously to work at cutting each other's throats. Even Italy, the least exposed of nations, has a "peace establishment" of over half a million of men under arms. The Germans are simply all soldiers, with 1.900 pieces of artillery. France's new army is to include 1,600,000 men and 2,700 field guns. England, not to be behind, thinks half a million of all arms is not too much, with 1,500 guns. At the present rate of increase, the continent will contain over eight millions of soldiers in 1880. And this in tbe face of the fact that tbe late terrible war is spoken of as tbe harbinger of universal peace.

THE author of "Other Worlds than Ours will have to enlarge his book. Another planet has been discovered. Dr. Peters of Hamilton College being tbe lucky finder. All the telescopes and spectroscopes of the astronomers will be turned on this late comer to ascertain its character and habits, wbenoe it came and wbltber it is going, and what detained It so long on tbe way. The advent of anew style bonnet In church does not create more stir among tbe women in tbe congregation than the appearance of a new plauet does among tbe astronomers—and that comparison, we think, is putting it strongly.

THE scientinc people tell us that man is the only creature endowed with tbe power of laughter. Is he not also tbe only one who deserves to be laughed at? There Is delight and eqjoyment without laughter, but there Is only fiendish laughter without delight or enjoyment. Tbe ripple of a merry laugh Is like sunshine to the soul or starlight to tbe summer sky. Worse even than the one who haa "no music in his soul" Is the man who has no laughter in his heart. Take him not to your bosom In the way of loving friendship,for he will sorely deceive yon.

The City and Vicinity.

NEW AD VERTISEMENTS. Farm Machinery—8. Wolf. Harvesting Machine*—T. H. Parvin. Great Eastern Menagerie, Ac. Strayed Cow—Peter Miller. Wanted—A wife. j,(, Fonnd—A Stereoptloon.

Mlieited

Found—ESmploymenU ts Dissolution—O. J. Smith A Co. Copartnership—Seaman, English A Co. Notlons-U. R. Jeflfers A Co. Figures and Facts—W. 8. Ryce A Co. Wante*—Reliable Men. Binding—Jos. Kasberg. Peerless Potato—J. A. Foote. ,f Grover A Baker Sewing Machines. Bill Poster—J. M. Dishon. Spectacles—W. Stats, Optician. Terre-Haute Coach Works—Scott, Oren A Co.

Removal—M. A. Raridon. Ice Chesta^dc.—9. R. Henderson A Co. Books-C. D. Denlo. Dolly Varden Hats—Yates. Novelties for Ladies—Her* A CO. Wanted—Sewing to do. ,, Boots and Shoes, Ac.—G. A. Hay ward A Co.

THE lady who advertised in The Mail, the loss of half of a gold watch case will find it at this office. t.

A DOLLY VARDEN picnic wouldn't be bad to show the new style, when the weather becomes favorable.

DR. Jos. RICHARDSON is confined to his bed by a serious and dangerous attack of inflamatory rheumatism. ,%

BUSINESS men appreciate the value of The Mail, as the many new and

tin-

advertisements each week,

plainly indicate. N. S. PATTON, the new proprietor oi the National House is improving tbe Interior appearance of that popular htmtelry.

OUR whitewash artists are now engaged in their annual spring harvest. It is hurrying time with them, but we guess they will brush through.

IT is not probable that any very large business blocks will be erected this season. What we want now is manufacturing enterprises and facilities.

A LONG felt want is to be supplied. The store room vacated by Louis Rothschild. on Main street, east of the Beach Block, has been leased for a saloon.

A CHURCH stands on the line dividing Vigo and Parke counties, so that the minister stands in this county and discourses to a congregation in Parke.

THE next meeting of tbe Terre-Hauttf Horticultural Society will be held at the residence of Theodore Hal man, near the Providence Hospital,on Thursday of next week. vs,

THE Sullivan saloon-keepers are in distress. The menagerie will be there on railroad election day, and the law requiring the saloons to be closed, the owners will miss afield day.

A NEW case of small-pox has been developed on Eleventh street, near Main. A red flag denotes tbe locality. Several families in that vicinity have removed to other parts of the city until the danger of contagion is passed.

THE City Council should insist or the people laying down good pavements this spring and summer. The Council has already passed some resolutions, but the people must act. Our sidewalks cannot be paved with good resolutions

GET your change ready. Thirty^ono' circus companies will start out from New York within a month—each accompanied by the fat woman and tho living skeleton ("extremes meat"), tho trained horse, prize packages, old jokes and other "novelties."

MARRIAGE LICENSES.—The following marriage licenses have been issued by tbe County Clerk since our last report

Spencer S. Compton and Mary M. Hane. Joseph Schwartz and Mariah Felloon. Francis Hollis and Rebecca Ann Miers. Daniel W. Harris a ad Luocetta J. Hall. Henry G. Bradshaw and Joan Holwlck, Jos. H. McMullen and Phebe Adams.

THE remarkable amount of three thousand bushels of tbe Early Rose potatoes have been sold In this city this spring—all for planting, of course. We believe the credit of introducing this and all of the new varieties of potatoes, is due to Mr. J. A. Foote, tbe enterprising seedsman of this city, and in connection with this we desire to refer farmers, gardeners and all to his advertisement ot another candidate for favor in this line.

RAILROAD EXCURSIONISTS.—On Tuesday next tbe Paris and Decatur Railroad—now completed to Arcola, the crossing of tbe Illinois Central road will be formally opened by an excursion to this city. The party will consist of some three hundred ladies and gentlemen, and it has been determined to receive them with that hospitality for which our citv has an enviable reputation. The exercises, including dinner, will be at Dowling Hall. L. Ryce, Esq., has been selected to make the reception speech. The following committees have been appointed to make proper arrangements:

On Finance*— R. S.Cox, F. C. Crawforl, U. R. Jeffers, G. W. Bement, and John Berry.

On Music.—W. E. Hendrich Max Hoberg, and Elisha Havens. On Dinner.—P. E. Tuttle, E.B. Allen and R.S.Cox.

On Reception and Programme.—G. W. Bement, W. K. Edwards, Mayor Thomas, Patrick Shannon, Thomas Dowling, Geo. Rugan, C. H. Allen, J. B. Edmunds, P. S. Westfall, R. N. Hudson, W. B. Tuell, John, S. Beach, L. Ryce. C. H. Bindley, Henry Robinson, Jam Johnson,David Dick,Thos. Gist, Louis Cook, Herman Hulman, Geo. F. Ripley,R. L. Ball.D. N. Foster, Phil Schloss, W. H. Ryce, A. Herz, J. Langford,Chauncey Warren, Max Hoberg, John O'Boyle, N. Katzenbach, Alex McGregor, W. H. Scudder, J. B. Hager. A. J. Crawford, W. B. Warren, F. Nippert, O. Bartlett, D. Deming, Preston Hussey, D. W. Minshall, W. R. Mc-

keen,

W. H. Slaughter, Fred. Ross, S. Cory, A. G. Austin, J. G. Shryer, Joseph Strong,

Owen Tuller, John P. Baird, Charles Cruff,

Wm. Mack, B. W. Hanna,R. W. Thompson,

T.B. Long, J. T. Scott, C. Y. Paterson, Geo. E. Brokaw, S. R. Henderson, C. W. Trader John B. Meyer, Samuel Royse, G. F. Cook-

erly,

erly, A. Fabricius, Herman Schweitzer, L. S. Cash, L. M.

Rose,

and W.H. Danald- son.

and W. H. Donald