Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 June 1872 — Page 4
J" TcrrtHulcMarket. Tnif-Eitm. Jon* X. The following figure* «n paid to farmers qnd others by dealers In this city:
BEESWAX—Yellow, 25990c. BUG All-Maple 11013c. BYBUP—
135
,r
per gal.
BUTTER—Best, lO015e. CORN MEAL—65c. BOOS- Fresh, 10$llc FEATHERS—Live Oeese. 55@80c.
Old lOtiMOc.
FLOUR— Fancy bnuids. WOO. FRUIT—Oreen Apples, tl 25® 1 80.
Dried Apples, 6®?c. ,~i Dried Peaches, 9910c.
GRAIN—Coru. 43343c. Oats, 27c. Kye, 0S-a70c.
White Wheat,*185. Alabama, $1 30 Mediterranean, 91 25
GINSENG—50c. UREASE-Brown, 8@«c. HIDES—Often Trimmed. 0H@8%c.
Salted, 96c.
Dry 14015c. Flint. 18c. Sheepskins 20 @52 30.
TALLOW—7}$c. PROVISIONS?—Hams &§9c.
4
Sides 6^7c. Shoulders 596c.
LARD— Conntry, 7A8c. POTATOE8-«X§»100. POULTRY—Tut kevn, alive per lb &@10c
Dressed 10@llc
Ducks per dozen, (2 OOQ3 00. Geese t8 60. Chickens, *ld, per dozen. 13 00. young. |2003260.
8EEDS—Flax. 91 45. Clover tyaiOc. RAGS—Cotton, 3«8Kc. :•.*« WOOLr-Tub-washed, «5a67J^c.
IFlcece &">@80c. Unwashed, 4^46c.
PERA HOUSE CORNER.
FOR HUnnEM WEAR,
NiRREN, UOBERG I CO.
Desire to call the Ladies attention to their large stock of
THIN DRESS GOODS
Plain and Striped, Iron frame Black Grena tlines, some now styles Ju*t opened. Handsome Worsted Grenadines. ....v..*
Satin Stripe Grenadines. Figured Grenadines. French Lawns and Percales. Buff nnrl Brown Chinese Grass Cloth. Buff and Brown Drew Linens. A large lot of New Style American Per calos at greatly reduced price*.
American and French Lawns. Newfctyles Just received. A large xtock of Summer I)ress_Goods ranging In piieo from
10
cent# to ~-j cents
per yard. I, f* TUV? 4.llS •V"iv
MOUKN1NG GOODS.
GRENADINES, BKHEGES. TRENT CLOTHS.
Warren, Hoberg & Co.,
FOR
Opera House Corner.
E. HOSFORD,
Attorney at Law,
COIt. FOUJtTll AND MAI.V STS.
81-ty
Married.
McKEEN-GILM AN-On the 6th Inst., at Arkansas Hot Springs, Mr. H. C. McKeento Miss L. B. Oilman, both of this city.
rioCTODKR ELECTION.
C1.KKX.
We are authorised to announce the name or Martin Hollluger as a candidate lorreetcctlon to the oHlce of County Clerk, mityeot to the decision of the Democratic nominating convention.
For Rent.
ti»llofInRKNT-ROOMS
jiOK INSECONDSTORY
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No*. II ami U, Secoud street, also third sU rj. Enquire of J. A B. W. ROSS. Juneil-St.
RRNT-T»\VELLINO-O.V SOUTH Sixth slreti—four room*, cellar—stable, well and cistern. Enquire of H. M. Pound, on south Sixth strevt. helow Strawberry HUL, or T. B. Carr, at Kupenhelmer's. T?OR RRNT-THK HUICK HOUSE 01 JT Cherry *tnM»t, now Occupied by F. F.
E«q. punne«"iioii given about middle
I1iORRALB-A
Stored
J.O.JONES.
For Sale.
I^OR SALE-A FINK t\VELLING HOtlSE und lot, *m»U o« Ohio street. For ftartiter particulars enquire of Hendrlen A WllUams,oitlc«ov«r PialrteClty Bank,next door to PostoAire, -nR SALR—Idol's IN VRLY'S ADDItlon. Apply at the nfflir of 8wn#«l S. K&rly, Early Block, 2nd ftmU Jnneli 2m.
FARM OF 81 ACRES OF
good land In Bartholomew county, 4 tUu* north of Columbus, on the railroad— woond bottom land-U In good cultivation, and has 00 It a frame house, containing nine rooms. Orchard, nod barn snd outwde buiKiing*. all under feuoe. ill be •old on fSwrabU terms etsy property. Koqulw of N. H. ULKmOE. Grow A Baker Sewing Machine offic^M Main street.
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THE MAIL.
Office, 3 South 5th Street.
P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERRE-HAUTE. JUNE ZI, 1872.
FIRST EDITION.
TH'U EDIT IONO
Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening, has a large circulation among farmers and others living outside of the city. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the bands of nearly every reading person in the city. ,f Every Week's Issue Is, In fact,
TWO NEWSPAPERS,
in which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE.
Contents of Inside Pages.
The following are the contents or the inside pages, the 2d, 8d, 6th, and 7th, of today's Saturday Evening Mall. We think they will be found rich In variety and intereat. SECOND PAGE. THE OLD FENCE RAIL-Poetry.
PERANCE LECTURE. CHICAGO PLUCK. THE LITTLE PEOPLE.
THE
BYZANTINE,
HAIR CLOTH. ENGLISH MERINO, LAWNS, .* +*,1 PERCALES, Ac
E A A E S IT S
Brown and BuT Linen and Grass Cloth. Heersucker, Percale and White Lawn in all the new styles.
Ready made Suits for Misses, from 10 to 15 years of age. Very uent aud stylish.
WHITE GOODS.
flntln Striped Victoria Lawns, Plain Victoria Lawns, Nalnaooks, Jaconets, Swisses. French Muslins, Tarleton's Satin Striped Piques and Yosemlte Stripes, all in a groet variety of styles and prices.
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CIRCUS CON VERSATION. MURDER—The Mysterieaof New York. 1 ROMANIC 8T0RY. y„ HANGING A MAN TWICE. LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. MR. GREELEY'S FIRST GREAT TEM
HOUSEHOLD-Useful Recipes. HOW TO GET RID OF SUPERFLUOUS FLESH.
THIRD PAGE. -r
CONNUBIALITIE=*. SIXTH AND SEVENTH PAGES. THE OLD MAN IN THE STYLISH
CHURCH—Poetry. HARKER AND BLIND—Selected story,
THE ILLINOIS LIQUOR LA IP". On Monday next our neighbors on the other side of the Wabash will begin to take their liquor under the operation ot the law parsed by the Legislature last winter. It is 110 half-way measure. It provides that the seller of intoxicating driuks, and the landlords of whom they are tenants shall be liable for the support of persons who become intoxicated on their premises, or for injury done to or by such persons. A wide door is thus opened to fraud, for what is to prevent a wife, whose husband may have become aocldontally injured, to inculpate any liquor dealer? Every dealer must be lioensed, to obtain which he must give a bond for $3,000, with two sureties conditioned for tho payment of all damages either ia person or property. The premises whereon the liquor has been sold may be auctioned and sold to pay property recovered on the bond, if the sale of the liquor in question was with the consent of the owner of the premises.
We fear that this gun to be fired at the liquor sellers has been loaded too too heavily, and that, like the old man's blunderbuss^ the recoil will be the only startling feature. The principle of all such measuros is to be disapproved. The Illinois law ,is only another form of the Maine liquor law. Theoretically, it would be delightful to imagine'that the omnipotence ot a statute could chango drunkards into sober persons, and rogues into honest men. But statutes can have no such effect, be the provisions ever so stringent, and the penalties ever so severe. The result of such heavy legislation as this is, that it recoils on the framers, and is nugatory. Juries will not act upon its manifest unfairness to innocent parties and thus the offender easily gets off scot free.
To the attorneys of Illinois this law is a great boon. It will bring up the questions, What constitutes intoxication How long and freely may an individual indulge in drink before its effects can no longor be considered medicinal
These and other similar questions, now acquire lresh interest in Illinois. The old story of an English attorney is recalled: A lawyer was once rebuked by a client for the length of his bill of oosts especially did this seem proper as the client always kept open house fbr the attorney during the pendency of a suit. The practitioner informed tho simple layman that he was willing to pay for the victuals and drink which he had consumed, on presentation of a bill. This account, *00n forthcoming, left a small balance due from the lawyer to the client. The dodges of law then came in the lawyer informed against his client, stating that be was in the habit of selling wines and liquors on his premises without license. The penalty ior this was 9600, half of which went to the informer so the attorney was too much for hU client at last. By some oversight in the Illinois statute, no provision for paying the Informer has been made. Perhaps this is the loophole through which it is Intended to make the law inopera
OXBof
s^\t
Wanted.
W
"ANTED—A FEW BOARDERS.—NICE noniL well furnished. J. W. MATIXKTv.
Ptplar, bttWMD Ah and 7th streets. ANTED-AGENTS TOCAN A^S FpR several books of Itwtrinsle merit, that must pro** W pwfltsble. A rare %ang^ J. A. Pxtblteher^i Agent, 65 Main stree^^ed
Lost.
office.
the moat important and disa
greeable phases of the German emigrant movement, to the Government, Is the fact that the old And infirm, and such as unable to support themselves are left behind. In one district con* taining about fifty thousand inhabitants, fifteen hundred hare stampeded to America this spring.
Tax national game of base ball has oeaeed to be a metropolitan amusement and Is now only occasionally heard of tn the rural districts.
BOSTON IS
r«3
atnsr
getting all torn up with
jubilees and things, last think of a "sacred concert" bein# jim at the Coliseum last Sunday.
THE NORMAL SCHOOL-ITS SUCCESS. The Rubicon to passed. The future of the Indiana State Normal School looks brighter to day than ever before. The commencement exercises which hare been held during the week, have done more to enlighten the publio in relation to the plan upon which the school is conducted, and the value and success of that plan, than anything which has heretofore been done. It may safely be said that more public opluion favorable to the school has been created during the week now ending than during any previous six months of the school's history. This publio opinion is a healthful one, too, for It is based upon results. Five pupils have appeared before the public au/ given a practical illustration of Vost this institution is doing for one hundred and fifty pupils, and what it proposes doing for the thousands of pupils who are to come here during the future years. The results shown are satisfactory to the public. It is felt that the institution is doing thorough, practical work. Said a Superintendent ol Public Schools in a certain city of this State, at the close of the exercises of the graduating class, "I wish I had twenty such teachers to put into my schools." The results are satisfactory, and hence the public opinion which has been created, is healthful, and it will increase. It is of the kind which grows.
So quietly has this institution pushed its way to its present position that few among us have known what success it was attaining.
Little more than two years since it drew its first breath of life. There were but twenty-one pupils, and oven but a small part of these intended to teach. Tho Intermediate Model school was an entire failure, and the teacher employed for it, left after a few days. The Primary Model School came so near being a failure that it was only saved by admitting children free, and even then there was difficulty in getting the desired number. For more than a year, in both these departments, not only has every seat been occupied on a paying basis, but constantly there are more applicants than can be admitted. In the Normal School proper, instead of a handful of pupils, gathered at hap-hazard, and not intending to labor in the profession to prepare for which the school was established, there are over one hundred and fifty pupils, every one of whom is pledged to teach in the public schools of the State at least twice as long as ho attends the school. Of these,over one hundred purpose taking the full course prescribed. This is probably a larger per cent, than can be shown by any other school. These pupils, as the catalogue shows, represent forty different counties in this state. Now it must be borno in in mind constantly that this is a professional school. In this rcspect it differs from every other literary institution in the State. It is to the profession of Teaching, what the Law School is to the bar, and tho Theological Soruinary to the pulpit. Therefore one hundred and fifty pupils, all pledged to enter the profession of Toaching, and over hundred of this number purposing to take the full course prescribed, represent a far greater success than five hundred pupils called together by ftic titious means, who do not intend to teach, or who are unwilling to prepare themselves thoroughly for the work It is a grand success that so many many real teachers havq been called to gether, and a grander success that after coming here and getting a taste, so large a portion of them decide to stay and get all that the institution can give. This is a complote answer to those who, measuring success by noise and number, havo been disposed to growl that no more noiso was made and no more students came. The school has been held strictly to the purpose for which the Legislature founded and endowed it—to preparo toachers for work In the public schools.
But while it has been quietly press ing its way to public iavor iu this State, it has drawn to itselt some of the best educators of the country, to examine into its plan of operation. Prof. Win. T. Harris, Superintendent of Public Instruction in St. Louis stands among the first thinkers of this country, and after a visit to this school, he said to a company of educators at Indianapolis, that the Indiana Normal School is upon the highest plane of any Normal School is the United States. And he has since written a letter, which in due time will be made public, in which he gives reasons for this bold assertion. A few weeks after Professor Harris was here. Prof. Daniel S. Wentworth, principal of tho Normal School at Chicago, made a vieit. He had visited all the boat Normal Schools in the country, East and West, and he also said In Indianapolis, that the Indiana Normal School was projected upon a better plan, and better sustained itself on that plan than any other Normal School in thtscountry. This unsolicited, unprejudiced testimony to the high character of this public institution Is flattering to the pride of our State and dtr. It is no mean feather in our cap that it should be said that Indiana has the youngest and the best Normal School in the country. Gradually this will bring other educators to examine into the workings of our institution and so the good name and the Influence of Jour State and city will spread abroad.
It is gratifying to know thai President Jones, to whom, more than to any other individual, the sueeees of this echool Is due, is to remain at its heed. The entire Faculty which to unit in sentiment and in methods of work, is
entitled to the honor and gratitude of every citlsen of the State, and especially of the inhabitants of this oity. The Stato must be generous to this institution, and the citixeng of this community must, and will oontlnue to give it their hearty sympathy and co-opera-tion. 3
ITis
A SCIENTIST has at last solved the ancient conundrum," Can an Elhoplan "change his skin?" This is the wsy be proposes to do it: The candidate will bo first subjected to a bath of alkaline water. Having been well cleansed, he Is placed In a room where a reliable thermometer indicates 120 degrees of Fahrenheit. After fifteen minutes' baking the partially cooked victim is conducted to a bath of chlorine water at the ordinary temperature. The heat has opened all the pores, so that the chlorine flows in and reaches the coloring matter, ^o keep it in, the pores must be closed. To close the pores the subject must be introduced into an ioe cellar, where he spends ten minutes in absolute agony, but rolative bliss, for the next step is to drop his exhausted form into water heated to 180 degrees. In this the pores open, the chlorine grapples tho coloring matter and departs with it, and oar colored brother is colored no more.
GEOLOGISTS now contend that the Colorado desert was once the bod of a sea whose waters have disappeared by evaporation. Between the San Gorgonio Pass and the San Diego and Fort Yuma wagon-road, a distance of fifty miles, the surface is said to be far below the sea level, Some of the depressions are 215 feet below the surface of San Francisco !*ay. Other parts are 300 ieet below the Pacific level. European geologists in like nnnner contend that the vast African desert of Sahara was covered with water. Were it not that this water evaporated or disappeared In some oonvulsion of nature, it is assorted by tbetn that a large portion of Europe would not now bo habitable on account of the presence of ice and snow. It is tho hot winds of Africa which are said to be gradually melting the Swiss glaciers, which, after a timo will entirely disappoar.
THE RAILROAD HOQ," Braylogle," who has recently been traveling to St. Louis, over tho Vandalia, thus pbotograplis tho railroad hog in a letter to the Cincinnati Commercial "This seat is taken, sir," All of the Commercial readers who have trav eled to any considerable extent are fa miliar with this formula. It tells the story of the railroad hog—the small souled, mean, selfish brute who pays grudgingly for one seat arid strains his small wit to hold two. This particular hog wore a plug hat shiny with the genuine Boston gloss an enameled shirt and closelv cropped iron gray beard. I know his kind. He is an eminently respectable beast who always pays his debts promptly, takes an interest in Sunday Schools, administrates his deceased brother's childron out of their patrimony, is the President of joint stock companies and has biographical eulogies published in tho newspapers when he finally kicks the bucket. I knew tho hog lied whon be said "this seat is taken,sir," but I found one "that was not taken, sir," and watched him to see how many times he would reproduce the falsehood. The coach was rather full, and, would you believe it, that miserable hog told sixteen separate and distinct lies in order to gratify his mean selfishness—enough to have sunk a healthier seul to perdition. He varied the formula one time it was a wave of tho hand and a look to the rear of the car to indicate that the holder of the seat had gone for a drink of water and would be back soon. Another time, to the inquiry of a mild-mannerod and timid questioner, he replied by a stolid stare, and then, spreading himself a little wider, he resumed the perusal of his newspaper. I was tempted to crawl up behind him and hiss Into his ear, "You're an awful liar." But I had my revenge. A big rtd-Haccd two hundrod-pounder, in a dirty linen coat, came in at away station. He was sweaty to a fearful degree. His feet smelt like valerianate of ammonia and rotten fish, and his breath wss a hot^tin king sirocco, based on bad whisky and onions. This fiery and fragrant behemoth preferred to settle himself in the seat that was taken. "This seat is" began the bog. "Well. gu«» I'll take It till the other fellow comes," returned the sweet smelling heavy-weight, and down be plumped, partially crushing the hog in his dooeut. The latter frowned and began to bluster, but the red-faced ruffian soon took that out of him with a threat to swallow him whole—to chaw him up and spit him out—to pitch him out of the window—to go through him like a doee of salts, and to make various other dispositions of bim in am* he didn't simmer down. Our porcine friend simmered, and then the barbarian grew good humored. He told funny anecdotes, end poked the hog in the ribs. He wanted to know where be came from and where he was going. He spit quarts of tobacco Juice across him out of the window, spattering his shirt front, between his boots, on his valise, all around. He oftwd him a "chaw" every time he took out bis »lug ef navy. The ho« perspired free,y, and shivered with dtogost. Finally he crawled out and stood up for forty miles, until another seat was vacated.
ON
coming to be belived that we did
not make such fools of ourselves, after all, by the annexation of Alaska, whose very climate has undergone a perceptible improvement since that event.— Any quantity of iron is found along on the lakes, and it thought is that we have got the worth of our purchase in thnt single article. Gold is found likewise in quartz formations, and the natlvea bring out trinkets In almost every form to prove the existenoe of untold mineral wealth. The seal fisheries are a taking business, panning out flt'r better than was anticipated. Amber is also found in large quantities, but of its previous value the natives who freely bring it in have little idea. If we can see the way to making ourselves good on our purchase by such means as these it will have proved an annexation to some purpose indeed. 9
the 1st day of July the women of Illinois will be eligible to hold appointive offices in that State, under the aot passed by the legislature last winter. Seetion one enacts that no person shall be precluded from any occupation, profession or employment (except milltaary) on account ot sex. The only other exception is that women cannotbeeligible to elective offloes and nothing in the act shall be construed as to cause any female to work on the streets or roads, or serve on juries.
A PLEASANT QA THJCRINQ.
MB. EDITOR.—I
was much amused at
a little Incident that came nnder my observation last Saturday. The army of bright aud lively newsboys of the Mail, quartered in noisy and impatient detachmeuts, in the vicinity of the office, waiting for their papers. One group was more quiet than the others, and wero discussing some subject with great gravity. On approaching the embryo conclave, it appeared that the all absorbing theme ofSunday School attendance was under consideration. A little pilgrim related that he had miss ed only "two Sundays In a whole year." This was the best report offered. One bright-eyod little fellow, whose appearanco indicated more than the average appetite for fuB, said he made (t a rule to attend every ether Sunday. Such disregard of plain duty was denounced as sacreigious, and the discussion continued until the delivery of their pa pers broke up this session of tender moralists. News-boys are generally (especially in Eastern cities) not prone to trouble their young heads with any. thing connected in the remotest degree with Sunday Schools, or anything that smacks of morality and it is pleasant to know that the boys of Terre Haute have not yet become contaminated by carrying newspapers.' It occurs to the writer of this, that possibly the character of tho papers vended msy possibly havo some influenoe for weal or woe, upon the life and chsssoter of yonng literary merchants. This hypothesis may be correct, or It may not but If it is, the incidept alluded to speaks volumes for the moral tone and general excellence ef the Saturday Evening Mail. A
PATRON,
The City and Vicinity,
Sabserlptieas.—The
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SATURDAY JLVKX-
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TUB
Prairio City Guards will go to
Martinsville on the Fourth.
Tho farmers are now in tho midst "of their wheat harvest, and a magnificent harvest it is.
OUR
people leaving the city for a sum
mor trip invariably order The Mail sent after them.
HALF
hour trains will be run from
Main street to the Providence Hospital -to-morrow afternoon.
HUNDREDS
THE
of people will bathe In the
river this evening. Have a care for deep holes and cramps.
SEATOR MORTON
VISITORS,
THE
speaks at the Wig
wam next Wednesday evening, tbo be or he
HON. OKOROB
W.
JULIAN
addresses
the people of this city Irrespective of party on Friday evening of next week,
prompted by Idle curiosity,
are not permitted at the small-pox hospital. This fact should bo generally known.
music of the violin, the harp,the
flute, the Italian girl's and the clinking of beer mugs fill the air of east Main street these summer evenings.
THK
Republican voters of Harrison
township are in session at the Court House this afternoon to select a candidate for Township Trustee and other township offices.
MBSCORIJW
THE
of the narrow gauge war
were revived last Monday by two splendid coaches for the Denver sad Rio Grande narrow guage road passing through the city.
TUBSt.
Andrews Society, of Brazil,
will celebrate the Fourth at onr Fair Grounds, Introducing their Highland Scottish Games. An admission fee ot twenty-five cents ^^^.tibaised ^to the grounds. £,
THE
man whe says It doesn't pay to
advertise in the Mail, is, in the lsngnageof H. G. a "liar and a horse-thief," Last week Warren, Hoberg A Co. received an order from Tennessee for goods, which the lady sending said she aaw advertised in the Mail.
Normal School closed its year's
work lsat Tueedsy, after conferring gradaating honors on Misses Susie Barbour, Belle Powner, Hattlo Scott, Mr. W. it. Parsons and Mr. Howard Sandison. There have been during the year one hundred and fifty-three students in the school, forty oountles in this State being represented. Of thrfSrork of the school and Its suooees we speak at more length in another column.
VIGO COUNTY FAIR.
The Seventh Annual Exhibition.
We print in this issue the list of special premiums offered by our business men to exhibitors at tho coming County Fair of the Vigo Agricultural Society. It will be remembered that these special premiums added greatly to the interest of last year's exhibition. This year the business men have shown great liberality, and the value of the premiums foots up about $1,300, and embraces nearly every article manufactured or raised in this locality. The Society offers 97,000 in premiums, and promise that every effort will be made to cause this Fair to be the most successful ever held on our beautilul fair grounds.
The premiums on fast horses are quite liberal, one being a purse of $1,000 for a running raoe.
The Fair will commence on Tuesday, Sept. 17th and continue five days. While the officers and directors are at work to make the fair a success, the farmer, tho mechanic, the artist, the housewife, the young ladies, should lend a helping band by preparing articles for exhibition. Properly conducted, much real benefit and valuable information can be derived from these annual gatherings of town and country people. Agricultural and mechanioal Fairs disseminate real,practical khowlodge^uch as may bo required for everyday use throughout the year. Aud that is the only kind that is of real value in building up fortunes and beautiful homesteads. Philosophy and theory sorve good purposes as auxlllarlos, but it is plain practical common-sense ideas—a knowledge of what is to do, and how to do it—that go to make up "the tide in the affairs ot men that lead on to fortune." This knowledge can be more readily obtained by all bringing together their horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, their farm and garden produots, tholr farming Implements, their choice fruits, their bread, cake, butter and preserves, their manufactured articles, needle-work, and the many articles which go to make up an enterprising collection from the farm, the household and the workshop. The premium list in pamphlet form will be distributed next week, and to it we invite the attention of every farmer, mechanic, merchant, trader—every worker in the oounty. A
THE
thirty-first annual commence
ment of St. Mary's of the Woods, on Thursday, was attended by a large number of ladies and gentlemen from tills city and abroad, who were well pleased with the interesting exercises of this occasion. The graduating class wasoomposed of Misses Emma'Bell, CloMlda Pllard, Anna Jordan, Julia Hickox, Alico Baugh and Cragle Gunn, who acquitted themaelves with marked honor in the part they took in literary and musloal exercises of the programme, which was too long to admit of our making individual moptlcn.
The rooms devoted to needle work and to painting, showed some most excellent and artistic work. In the former the needle work of Misses Emma Bell, Mary Bauer and Belle Johns, of this oity wero greatly admired. In tho rooms devoted to fine arts, Miss Julia Hickox and Miss Belle Johns, of this city, showed some very flue pictures.
A ramble through St. Marys cannot fell to most favorably impress tho visitor. The spacious grounds, large, roomy and well ventilated buildings, and the neat and tidy air, go to make up conditions that must be heartily enjoyed by those who teach and the interesting young ladlts who receive instruction.
Tnm
Presidential campaign opens
dull, notwithstanding the many candidates already nominated. Alter the Baltimore convention wo hope for more lively times.
FOURTH
OF
JULY EXCURSION.—
We direct attention to the advertisement of the excursion to Grcandyke's Grove, on the ITourth. It promises to be a monster affair. The gentlemen who have it in hand are sparing no effort to make it a success, and they desire us to say thst they intend to donate the entire proceeds to the Soldiers' Mounmont Association, having no pecuniary personal interest in tbo matter, boyond a dosire to benefit a good cause. With this object in view and the fact that no public celebration of tbo Fourth will be had at this point, the Grcendyke excursion must naturally attract the most of our people.!
A WONDERFUL SFRINO.—An enthusiastic owner of a mineral spring in Spencer county has writton to the State Geologist that "brass, Iron, lead, quicksilver, gold, copper, silver, etc., with some oil" could bo seen floating on the surface of the water. Further, that one of his springs would "raise a man's breakfast," and another one would "settle it." A "wonderful feature" about these springs was, in bis estimation, that their location bad been entirely discovered by dreams, and it bad taken blm "nigh unto thirty year" to dream all this. Some rest is needed in that quarter.
THB
Pythian Knights at thefr semi
annual election this week re-elected T. H. Riddle Worthy Chancellor. John Selbert was elected Vice Chancellor, John W. Wade, Trustee,W. M. Slaughter Representative, and Charles E. Lightnor, Alternate Representative to the Grand Lodge.
The Regular meetings of Occidental Lodge are held in the Gilbert Block on each Monday evening The Lodge is prospering finely, the membership already numbering near fifty, and new additions ap made at almost every meeting. ?*-.
JAMBS CALDWKLL,
1
died of small-pox
at the hospital on Tuesday, S