Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 1, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 July 1872 — Page 4

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For Rent.

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KENT-SMALL DWELLING TWO squares south of Vandalia railroad on 2nd street. Enquire at Terre-Haute Coach Works.

For Sale.

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SALE—A HOUSE WITH THREE rooms, cellar and cistern, and lot 42x182 feet will be sold on very reasonable teims, call at corner of 9th and Spruce streets or of A. C. MATTOX. June29-2t

FOR8ALE-A

1Bowser

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FINE DWELLING HOUSE

and lot, east, on Ohio street. For farther particulars enquire of Hendrich A Williams,office over Prairie City Bank, next door to Postofflce.

FOR

SALE-LOTS IN E \RLY'S ADDItion. Apply at the office of Samuel S. Early, Early's Block, 2nd btreet. junel-5 2m.

FIOR

SALE—OLD PAPERS FOR WRAP ping paper,for sale at 50 cents a hundred •t the MAIL office.

Wanted.

ANTED-BY RYAN, Fourth and Ohio:

CORNER OF

Good people all to know it well That goods at auction still I sell I do a business on commission And sell for all on one condition That I get my Just per centage To pay my gaslight, clerks, and ratage. For favors shown I'll thankful be When you wish to sell remember me

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

Poplar, between 6th and 7th streets,

ANTED-AGENTS TO CANVASS FOR several books of instrlnsic merit, that

must prove very saleable and consequently profitable. A rare chance. J. A. *OOTE, Publisher's Agent, Store.

A rare chance. J. A. 65 Main street. (Seed June22-3t.

WSATURDAYEvKNiwoMAiii

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 Indt&na.

Lost.

LOST-LARGE

MIE STATE OF INDIANA, VIGOCOUNty. In the Vigo Circuit Court. Samuel and James Johnston vs. David D. Sobdell and John Brooks. In attachment. No. 3716. Be it known that on the 5tli day of July, 1873, said Plaintiff filed an Affidavit in due form, showing that said David D. Sobdell aud John Brooks are non-reslde»ts of the State of Indiana.

Said non-resiaent defendants are hereby notified of the pendency of said action against them, and that the same will stand for trial at the September term of said Court the year 1872.

Attest: MARTIN HOLLINGER, Clerk. HENDHICH & WILLIAMS, Atty'sfor PifTs. Jolyfl-St.

E. IIOSFORD,

Attorney at Law,

COR. FOURTH AND MAIN STS.

81- ly

PERA HOUSE CORNER.

FOR SUMMER WEAR,

WJIRREH, HOBERGI CO.

LkMiro to call tho Lidles attention to their huge stock of yV"'-" "rV. it

THIN DRESS GOODS

Plain and Striped, Iron frame Black Grenadines, somo new styles lust opened. Handsome Worsted Grenadines.

Satin Stripe Grenadines. Figured Grenadines.

MOU UN !NG GOODS.

HAIR CLOTII, ENGLISH MERINO, LAWNS,

THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. -^r TERRE-HAUTE. JULY 0, 1872.

SECOND EDITION.

riFD EDITIONS

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 hands of nearly every reading person in the city. Every Week's Issue is, in fact,

feelings

French Lawns and Percales. Buff and Brown Chinese Grass Cloth. Buff and Brown Dress Lineus. A large lot of New Style American Percales at greatly reduced prices.

A merlcan and 1* rench Lawns. N cw stj Its

JUA Tnrae

Cstock

of Summer Dress Goods

ranging In price from 10 cents to cents per yard.

VI.-

•GKKNADINKS, BEKKGES, TRENT CLOTHS,

BYZANTINE,

PERCALES, Ac.

HEADY MADE SUITS.

Brown and Buff Linen fthd Grass Cloth, Seersucker, Percale aud White Lawn al

thReady

made Suits for Misses, trom 10 to 15

years of age. Very neat and stylish..

WHITE GOODS.

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8»tln Stnped.vicx.ru toria^wnfc N^n^*^ ,g striped French Muslins, Tarie greet Piques and Yosemlte Stripes, an in variety of styles and prices.

Warren, Hoberg & Co.,

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TWO NEWSPAPERS.

In which all Advertisements appeal for ONE CHARGE.

Contents of Inside Pages.

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

SECOND PAGE.

THERE COMES A TIME-Poetry. $ HAPPY-GO-LUCKY—Poetry. A MUTUAL RUNAWAY. WIT AND HUMOR. THE LITTLE PEOPLE. S'MU CHIPS AND SPLINTERS. THE HOUSEHOLD—Useful Recipes. THE KEY OF DEATH—A Tradition of

Venice..

SUMS OF MONEY ARE

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

Found.

FOUND—THAT

c?t

THE CHEAPEST AND

best advertising in the city can be obtained by investing in the Wanted, For Sale, For Rent, Lost and Found column of the MAIL.

•Legal.

ORIGIN OF MOSQUITOES—An Indian Legend. ANEW ORLEANS MYSTERY—Laws for the Million-Death's

Valley—Why Don't

You Respond—The Turkle—Eduoate the Left Hand, Ac., &c. THIRD PAGE. CONNUBIALITIE^.

SIXTH PAGE.

THE OLD HOMESTEAD—Original Poetry. WHAT THEY TOLD ME AT WILSON'S BAR. THE NEW ENGLAND WOMAN. GOLDEN PARAGRAPHS. .V A WORD ABOUT WATER, Ac., Ac.

SEVENTH PAUE.

BUDGET FOR BOYS—Marbles, now Made —Letters of Recommendation—What Smoking Does for Boys—Savings, Ac.

THE MURDER MANIA. There is entirely too much murder in the air. The hot season always fires the blood, causing men to easily disagree, but the present heated term has become alarmingly slaughtery. The telegraph in the morning papers tells us with each rising ol the sun of some fresh deed of blood. Now it is at a public gathering, then upon tho street again in some gambling hell or houso of bad character—by day and by night —for cause and causelessly—men and women are shot, stabbed and brutally assaulted, until murderous attempts have come to bo looked upon as mere pleasant incidents of everyday life, With July, August and September before us, with a Presidential campaign when men get unusually heated, the out look is not calculated to establish

of general serenity. There is a

cause for all this, and it is the uncertainty with which punishment follows crime. This laxity is developing murderors of every shape and form,from the brutal ku-klux who, like a cowardly assassin as ho is, skulks into the cabin of the negro in disguise to do his hellish work, to the representative syren of the sex in the person of Mrs. Laura Fair. But tho most brazen-faced and impudent murderer wo have ever hoard of is William H. Oskins, of Philadelphia. This diabolical rufllan maltreated his wite, drove her from his house, and, when she took shelter in that of a relative, followed and deliberately blow out her brains. lie was arrested with the weapon in his hand. He was brought to trial, but the proofof his guilt being conclusive, ot course his counsel set up tho well-worn plea of insanity. It was proved that ho sometimes brought himself to that condition known as '-crazy drunk," and this was the insanity. The jury returned tho preposterous verdict of "guilty, but insane," He was then sent back to prison, as too dangerous a person to boat largo. But now comes the farce of this terrible tragedy. He is again brought before the court, and the prison physician testifies that ho is perfectly sane at a habeas corpus hearing. But the judges, feeling some twinges of shame, in that they chargod favorably to the insanity theory of the dofense, he is remanded until they consider the case more fully. We think the verdict of that jury would havo been more honest one if it had road, "Not guilt}', but drunk." This trilling with law and evidence must cease, or society will rush to swift destruction.

THE cauons of Southern I. tah abound in Ar.tec picture writing. For nearly three miles, in one of them, rudely outlined pictures' extend, representing human beings, little, big, of all shapes, and with brief costumes. Thero aro animals, reptiles, and queer devices, cheerfully mixed, painted with black and red ochrcs. In all tho history of Indian nations, it is said, there is no more interesting account than that relating to the sad story of this peaceful, but much persecuted race. In Peru and Mexico, I hey suffered from tho tyranny of Pisarro and Cortez

fiercer

tribes into mountain fastnesses

and obscurecanons^^^^^

CALEDUA, in norhern Chile, is a nice nlace to live in. The soil is so sandy and dry that no vegetation thrive, an tho aridity of the region attested by the fact that all the wa^ of the town is distilled

fom

Where

TERRE-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, JULY 6, 1872.

THE FUTURE MOTOR—WHAT SHALL IT BE. Manifestly steam is becoming too slow for our fast age. We are constantly increasing in rapidity the small cars of thirty years ago are now succeeded by the heavy sleeping coaches. Our rivers are gradually wasting away —a certain result ef the general clearing up of the land surrounding the mountain sources.' The canals are supplied for carrying purposes only with great difficulty. The carrying trade inland will soon be done overland instead of by water. The locomotive of average weight is eight tons one Pullman sleeping car weighs fully that. The locomotive is therefore coming to be insufficient in power for the draughts expected of it. What then shall succeed it

is the force in Nature

which shall be made subservient to the carrying wants of man Every person who has at all studied electricity, its laws and workings,must see that our present use of this elemental power is yet in its infancy. It has proved extremely serviceable as a messenger—it has far outdone the fabled Mercury. This fairy-like Puck has put a girdle round the world in less than the promised forty minutes. Intelligence on tip-toe dances on a thousand wires, and over thousands of miles, annihilating distance. All great commercial marts flash in telegraphic sympathy. The thought of St. Petersburgh is recorded in more mysterious ways than spiritual rappings at San Francisco, absolutely distancing time as recorded by the unerring [sun. When and how shall we make this subtle agency oui horse, our hired laborer, our stationary and locomotive engine?

The untamed lightning tells us in repeated destructive doings that the power to work, to draw heaviest loads, is an inherent one. Tutored by Morse, it carries the subtle thought—untamed it rends the stoutest oak. Surely the day will come when the power controlled and manageable will subserve the in creasing wants ol life as a valuable, economical and regulated motor. Many minds have been long engaged in the effort to control the lightning— the earth is a huge electric battery and whenever human knowledge shall learn to compass what has hitherto eluded human grasp, then in some strong but simple apparatus, the problem will be solved.

But if this potent agent lails us—if mankind does not discover how to control it, then wo have the winds of heaven. By the present signal system as established in this country, we are told from day to day the kind of weather we are likely to experience at any given locality, WhenthisSystem shall have become general, the world will be meteorologically picketed, so that the long tried mode of travel by balloons will bo made available for locomotive purposes. On the sea, advantage has long been taken of the trade winds and gulf stream currents. When tho mysteries of the air currents shall be similarly worked out, then we shall have a system of rcrial locomotion, long dreamed of, but as yet not realized. Within thof present century one or the other of these agents will be trained to the service of man, and steam, with its danger of explosion, will pass into thew realms of the forgotten.

THE destruction of American forests is becoming a subject of alarm among intelligent writers lor the press. There is no question but that, if the wholesale destruction is permitted to continue, large tracts of the Continent would in time become sterile wastes. To show how this vandalism is carried on in Chappaqua, we print from tho New York World the following: "Arriving "at the spot where ho [Mr. Greeley] intended to commence operations, ho divested himself of his coat, vest and hat, and went to work chopping down "an immense maple tree. Having "finished this he went to tho xt, and "so on until he had felled no less than four. By this time the temperature was getting very warm, and in order to be in better trim for climbing trees he peeled off his white shirt,and with nothing on but his pants and undershirt went to work trimming branches." Mr. G. should be waited on by a committee of agriculturists to protest against his wanton course. Since his nomination for the Presidency ho has, according to the newspapers, cut down several acres of trees. Between now and election day there is time for him to work incalculable mischief with that

Cincinnati Axe."

ut*h

and Arizona, they weie driven by tho

soa water

and sold at five cents a bucket. It

would

good plac to sun

beer saloon.

Opera House Comer,

THE City Council of Salt Lake City has lately adopted an ordinance that carries one back to the ancient days of Conucticut wheu a man was fined for reading a secular book or kissing his wife OH Sunday. These ascetic gentlemen are determined that if the Mormon people are are not wholly virtuous it shall not be their fault. Tho ordinance referred to forbids skating, hunting, fishing, walking about, unnecessary work, participation in any public amusement, and tho givingaway ofauy distilled or fermented liquor on Sunday, within the limits of the city. A great deal of that shutting down is right and proper, but the idea that a man must not "walk about" on Sunday, save to and from church, is rather too much for these days. We apprehend it won't be long before the honorable member from somo ward will movo tor the rescinding of the law.

A Jersey city paper has some commendatory notes of an idiot teacher, something new and wonderful Idiot teachers are too common in this region to excite our special wonder.

AFTER recounting the "Dangers "menacing the Republic," Senator Thurman estimates that in a half century henoe the United States will contain 160,000,000 inhabitants, which is certainly a gratifying increase for a na

tion

begirt with so many possible disasters as the eloquent Senator from Ohio sees threatening our roomy coun

try,

While the perils enumerated are exaggerated, the predicted increase of population certainly is not. The figures are moderate but they suggest great changes none the less. How many States will there be in the Union then?

How

many Senators and Rep

resentatives in Congress And how formidable will be the figures of election returns? How inadequate the present great railroad and telegraph systems? But all these things in the ftiture, as in the past, will gradually grow to accommodate themselves to the wants of the 160,000,000. There is no danger of the population outstripping the enterprise of the American people, and the other dangers will doubtless be averted, for has not Senator Thurman given the note of warning,

THE trial of Edwin S. Stokes the dandy assassin, is progresssing. The counsel for the defense are now judiciously interweaving pleas of insanity and self-defense. The jury can have the privilege of either or both to acquit the murderer. The attorneys on both sides are evidently disposed to oontest every inch, and it will be as hard to follow the many turns and quibbles as it is to lorm a clear idea of what is to become of our "claims" at the hands of the arbitrators. These law yers must worry the poor jurors, especially if the first juror selected is a sample of the panel, as described by a Now York paper: He is all that could be wished for, if blissful ignorance is the thing desired. He had no sure knowledge of Fisk, Gould, Tweed had heard of Fisk having been killed "on tho stairs somewhere," but thought little of it, and did not speak of it except, perhaps, to his own family. This remarkable man is a foreigner by birth, and probably has no conscientious scruples. _____

THE work of Presidential candidate making goes on as the days glide by. It is hardly probable that the action of the Baltimore convention, next week, will close the lists for in case Greeley is indorsed, the Bourbon Democracy thieaten to have a candidate of their own faith. The list of candidates brought out to date is as follows

CINCINNATI. ".IF

President, Horace Greeley, 1 Vice President, B. Gratz Brown. PHILADELPHIA. President! Ulysses S. Grant, Vice President, Henry Wilson.

REVENUE REFORM.

President, William S. Groesbeck, Vice President, Fred. Law Olmsted. LABON REFORM. President, David Davis, Vice President, Joel Parker,

TEMPERANCE.

President, James Black,

Vice President, John Russell. I ANTI-MASONIC. President, Charles Francis Adams, Vice President, C. II. Howard.

NONDESCRIPT. I

President. Victoria C. Woodhull. Vice President, Frederick Douglass

AN Austrian savant is said to have discovered, by means of a microscope, in a stone taken from the pyramid of Dashour, many interesting particulars connected with tho life of the accicnt Egyptians. Tho brick itsell is made of the mud of the Nile, chopped straw and sand, thus confirming what tho bible and Herodotus have banded down to us as to the Egyptian method of brickmaking. Besides these materials, the microscope has brought other things to light—the debris cf river shells, of fish and of insects seeds of wild and cultivated flowers, of corn and barley, the field pea and the common flax, cultivated probably lor both food and textile purposes, and the radish, with many others known to science.

MODERN discovery and travel is gradually robbing history of its most poetic fictions. One of them is that tho vicinity of the Dead Sea. in Palestine, is a scene of utter desolation but a Now England clergyman, who has been traveling in tho Holy Land, writes that the waters of the lake are salt and heavy, but they are rippled and lively to look upon, the banks aro verdant, and altogether it is not an unpleasant place.

A CORRESPONDENT of the San Francisco Bulletin indulges in the following pot very complimentary account of somo of tho* things they do at Vassar College, and of tho sort of girls th% do •. f\ them: -4 f.

There is a gymnasium attached to Vassar. Into this we also entered,took our seats in a small gallery, and witnessed tho evolutions of a hundred young women, armed with billiard cues and dressed in short gray gowns and red sashes. They marched, countermarched, clapped their hands, stamped struck out straight from the left, turned, twisted, get mixed up in an apparently inextricable whirl,got mixed out again, and aimed their billiard cues at us in tho gallery, Said my companion to me: Those are not a healthy looking lot of girls," and they were not,and their drill-miatress, who stood directing their motions from a sort of pulpit in front, was as poor in flesh and sallow in complexion as any of her company. I think they needed more exercise in the open air, and need, aay 3 per cent of young men among them as a means of healthy stimulation. They should be mounted occasionally upon a "bucking" Mexican mustang,and turned loose on the beautiful and expansive grounds of Vassar College. That would bring the right sort of color to their cheeks and incite their sluggish livers to more healthy action. There is a riding school attached to the establishment, and when I entered it three or four sedate looking young ladies were cantering around the ring on three or four late appearing hones, who looked as if their entire lives had been passed in the study of the higher mathematics.

[Special Correspondence of The Mail.]

THE BOSTON JUBILEE.

f* Letter from a Terre-Hautean. 1

SWAMPSCOTT, June 28,1872.

EDITOR MAIL We have been in a constant bustle since we left home, rushing from one scene to another, with little or no time for thought or repose. The weather has been remarkably cool since we arrived too cool for the ladies. They never go out without their shawls, and at night we require as many bed clothes as.we generally use at home in October or November. After we get settled down and the weather becomes a little warmer I have no doubt we shall find it very satisfactory, and derive all the benefits we anticipated. Of course the great Jubilee is the only absorbing topic just now. Scarcely anything else is talked about or thought of. It has congregated in nnd around Boston a larger population than has ever been attracted by any transient event to any other city on the continent. The like probably will never be witnessed again, The Coliseum is avast structure covering about five acres of ground it is well proportioned, and has a gorgeous appearance inside. It is well lighted, well ventilated and well arranged lor seeing and hearing. 7T

The second concert we attended was on the 25th, which was the greatest day of the jubilee, as yet. The attendance of the President and suite, with the excellence ot the programme which was made up with especial reference to his coming, would naturally draw an immense crowd. Special trains were provided to bring in all who would come from the surrounding towns. Every seat was sold before noon. Had I been an hour later we should have failed to get seats as it was wo had poor ones, too far back to see or hear well. We went early and watched with interest the filling up of the coliseum. Every avenue was crowded for nearly an hour, pouring in immense throngs. As they came in they would scatter, and you would see them in squads all over the building, with wideopen spaces between, which would gradually fill up, till the whole area became a solid, compact mass of human beings, heaving and surging like tho roar of Niagara. Thousands and thousands stood crowded behind the seats in the galleries, waiting with fretful impatience lor tho ushers to announce that the reserved seats were all filled, and they could pitch in wherever they could find a seat when down they came, pell-mell, treading each other down, tumbling over the backs of those occupying seats, and filling to suffocation every space in the aisles. That scene absolutely beggars description, and I will not attempt it any further suffice it to say, that after awhile the police and ushers cleared out the gorge, and restored comparative order and quiet, and the concert went on. The programme contained more instrumental than vocal pieces. The English band bore off the palm at the first concert we attended, but the French won the laurels at this. Their playing was exquisite. After executing several very fine elaborate selections, which elicited unbounded applause, they pealed forth the thrilling strains of "John Brown," which was frantically encored and in response they rang out old "Yankee Doodle," which fairly crazed the audience. Then the "Marseillaise" was loudly called lor they gave that and gave.way to other performers.

Xsti

Now as to tho character of the music of such ponderous combinations while it is noblo and grand, to me it is not as enjoyable and satisfactory as that of less massive numbers. A great majority of the voices go to make up sound, but not music. It is difficult to keep the movement in exact time, many ot the singers being so widely apart. Still, on tho whole, the effort is sublime and well worth witnessing. Gilmore deserves great credit for so successfully accomplishing so great an undertaking.

Thero are 110 outward signs of much excitement in political affairs about here but indications of under-work-ings that will burst forth after the jubilee furore has passed off. Grant had an enthusiastic reception, and the Republicans have had a grand ratificatioji meeting at old Faneuil Hall. It promises to bo lively by and by. Our County convention resulted about as I expected, except as to the nominee for Sheriff. The ticket is a good one. I can harldly realize that the weather haq been so hot at Terre-Haute, as the papers represent. We made a timely escape, but I fancy I hear you cry stop, and I yieft. When I have leisure, and feel like it I may write to you again.

Boston is a queer place. It sees no impropriety in the holding of a grand concert in the Jubilee building on Sunday evening, but vetoes, through its Mayor, the opening of tho public library on Sundays, because it would conflict with State enactments in regard to Sabbath observances. This looks like straining at a literary gnat and swallowing a musical camel.

Spiritualism is hereafter to be treat1 a disease. One eminent physician says that it can be cured by tincture of Iron and strichnine. It given in the right quantities, strichnine will cure the worst case without a drop of iron. These doctor?jire always. mixing their drinks.-

Eight thousand gallons of wine and a trifle of brandy will be squeezed out of California this year.

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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Budded Peaches—James Cockcroft. Knabe Pianos—L. Kissner. Marble Works— M. Maurahan. Legal—Hendrich A Williams^ Atty's. Bargains

Harness—Geo. Kramer.

Piano Tuning—L. Kissner. Removal—A. Shide. Owner Wanted—Wolfe & McClung.' Wanted—Ryan, cor. 4th aud Ohio. Summer Prices—W. S. Ryce & Oo. m.-

How is this for high"—Ryan's.

THE mosquitoes and business men are presenting their little bills this week.

THE minister who preaches tho shortest sermon is the most popular this weather.

THE Horticultural Society will hold its monthly meeting at Col. R. W. Thompson's residence 011 Thursday

next.

THEGrand Jury found but litti ilment to take cognizance o| month, and after returning bills dictment for larceny against Shuck and Alfred Doran, now adjourned to t'^e first Monday

THE new City Directory will be outj in about two weeks. It promises tal be a very complete and interesting work. A

TnB annoying fly-time is here. W| have black flies, blue flies, horse flie candle flies, bottle flies, big flies, litt flits, and—time flies.

MRS. YOUNO, opposite the Marlfil House, has recovered from tho smal* 11 pox. The disease did not extendllo other members of the family. I I

DURING the month ot June one dred and four persons were confine^ the station house, at an expense ta city of fifty-nine dollars for victim

BY resolution ol Councilman gan, the City Attorney has been ofl ed to prepare an ordinance licef saloons in the city and closing loons on Sunday.

PEOPLE who havo empty cig«bo*es on hand may be interested know that a late decision makes anvene liable to a fine of fifty dollars f* not destroying the box after the ciflPsre havo been taken from it.

THE first number of tA "Terro Haute Reform," the new Gwuian paper, was issued on WednesAf. It advocates the election of Gwley and Brown and will support tho|Democratic candidates for State ancU.county offices. Jr

A LAROE number of laqlps and paraphernalia of the last ^Presidential campaign, belonging to nbth political parties, are safely stored In this city, and will soon be put to uve. The mottoes on theso in most cateawill do for the Republicans but tli# Democratic legends will need revision. •—tt—

SPIUNO chicken" is^lhe name of a very small feathered &l>titstion now in market at sixty centfi ptir. They are brought to this city^it very tender age by people from the rani districts whose ideas ot values seem to bo crude. Formerly, wlfon people were considered as honest as rural, twentycents a pair was thought a powerful high price. J'

NEW ROUTE TO YHI NORTH.—On Monday last the Lograaport, Crawfordsville and Sou threaten! Company took charge of tho ]$ockville Division of the E. AC. railroad, and trains aro now run through to witbin five miles ot Logansport, without change ot cars. The mail train loaves here at 4:45 a. m. allowing our people to go to Rockville and Crawfordaville and return tho same day.

OUR farmers cottplain of their hard lot, but their annoyances are few compared to some other localities. Out in Iowa, for inctaneo, the sons of toil aro fighting the potato-bag, chinch-bug, out-worm, grub-worm,gophers, ground squirrel, mice, rats, meadow-mole, caterpillar, cu^enlfo, blackbirds, mischievous neighbors and rambling stock.

WITH a little energy and some liberality the public library enterprise will be successful. Some very liberal subscriptions have already been made— among which maybe mentioned, W. R. McKeen, D. W. Minshall, W. B. Tuoll and 0wen Toller, five hundred dollars eac|L while many others are putting down one hundred, fifty, twen-ty-five audjten dollars, making something over half |h« required amount.

MAD DeGfe-4 physician sends the following sensible suggestion: "The season for mad dogs is at hand. All dogs are not abld, though any dog irritated and wonted may bite persons who come in |t« Wfty

In casoany

per

son is bitten bj not known certainly to be ithid, the dog should by no means be Instantly killed, but confined until it fc

deter0)ined

beyond a

doubt whether or not the dog is rabid. If it should torn out that tho dog was not ratla, bnt only irritated, a great deal of terrible anxiety bo avoided."