Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 October 1872 — Page 4

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For Sale.

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FXNEDWELLIKO HOUSE

lot, e»«t, on Ohio wtreet. For far

ther D»rUcul«in ennitire of Hendrlcxi WilliamH.ofU'-e over Prairie City Bank, next door to Potfofllce.

For Rent.

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RENT-Store Boom-On Main street between 3d and 4th streets. Rent low, Koquire of FL L. BALL.

FOB

RENT-BOOMS IN SECOND AND third stories of 182 Main street. Enquire of Mias M. A. Baridon. &tf

Wanted.

WANTED-OIRL-ENQUIBE

PRESIDENTIAL

Warren, Hoberg

MB8.

J. F. GULICK, 34 South Fifth street.

WANTED-AN

EXPERIENCEDDBESS

Maker, address giving references to I'. o. Box 1380, city poMoffloe.

t&Ex fn, ^9A PER DAT! AGENTS UJ wanted! All classes .ot working people, of either sex, young or old, make more money at work lor as in their spare moments, or all the time, than at anything else. Particulars free. Address G.STIN3ON A

CO.,

Portland, Malije. *7-ly

ANTED-AOENTS-MAJLE AND FE- ,, male.—Business pleasant, and pays belter than any enterplse In the field. Agents make from W to per day. Send stamp lor sample and particular*. Address J. LATHAMS CO., 282 Washington street, Boston, Mass. a31-8f.

"Ijrr ANTKD—AGENT8—$75 TO $15 ff month everywhere, male and to Introduce the Grnuine Improved. I

ANTED—AOENTH—$75 TO $150 PER female, __ ommcn Hewn Family Hewing Machine. This machine will stitch, hem, fell, tuck,quilt,cord, bind, braid and embroider In a moEt superior manner. Price, onlv $15. Fully licensed and warranted for five years. We will pay $1,000 for any machine that will »ew a Htronger, more beautiful, or more elastic xeam than ours. It makes the "Elastic Lock Stitch." Every second stitch can be cut, and still the cloth cannot be pulled apart without tearing it. We pay agents from $75 to 1250 per month and expenses, or a commission Irom which twice that amount can be made. Address SECOMB A CO., Chicago 111. al0 3m.

Election 1872.

The qualified electors, of the county of Vigo, In the State of Indiana, are herbv notified that there shall, on Tuesday, following the first Monday In November. A. D. 1 wn, (5th November 1872) be elected fifteen Electors for President and Vice President of the United States. Vis Four of such Electors shall be for said State at large one sach Elector for each Congressional Districts of said State.

WILLIAM H. STEWART,

Oct. 4,1872. Sheriff Vigo Co., Ind.

Mrs. A. L. Wilson, M. D.,

Offers her services to the

AW» CHILDREN

TEBRFHAVTE.

Office and Residence,

45 South Seventh street

PJSHA HOUSE CO.KN.RU.

WINTER

UNDERWEAIL

tli! St 'J I'

Co.

Have now open (at rcduccd prioce) a complete suortmcnt ol Merino Underwear, adapted to iho present and coining season, for Ladies, (lentloinen, Misnos, Hoys and Infants all regular made and well finished go»ds.

GKNTLKMEN'H Merino Shirts and Drawers, Sites—34, 36, 38, 40, 42. 44 inch. „f.

LADIEH'

Merino Vest* and Drawers,

Siier-26, 28, 30, 32, 34 inch. ')*r, MIH8KH»

Merino Vests and Drawers,

Sises—20. 22. 24 26 inches.

Also now open a complete aslorlmenl'or Winter Hosiery and 0loves! Of ©very description, for Gentlemen's, Ladies' and Children's wear. Aleo a large and fresh Kail assortment of celebrated

vn "Porinot" Kid Glores, In 1 and 2 Buttons, which we guarantee superior in perfection ef Fit, Durability and Choice Colorings, to any Ulove retailed in Amcrica. ..

Special attention i.« arlted from persons about to purchase, to our magnificent assortment ol

Pall and Winter Dress Goods,

Comprising the newwt and mort defirable Fabrics of the season, in cloth and ordinary colorings.

French Cashmerw.

Kepp French Foplins.

French Merinos, Colored Dress Silks,

AI «o an immense variety of

Cheap and Metiium Priced JJrcss Goods Z, At 20. 25,90. 5ft, 40. and 50 teoti per yanl.

Al#t» our celebrated

"Horse Sho**' Black Al"l paean A125. 30. 0. »nl cent* per vard.

THIS WEEK! Iiamrn**' arrival* ff Water Proof*. Blankets. Flaniwi#, Cloth^ Heui*. kecpinaXincn*. C-otton1annrl!«. Toilet QuUtvTablc Linen*,

V.sViiii. Cotton mtlllit. (*n»l

Cloiki. etc., rtt.

A.11 At Popular Prioen, WumiBelwsiCat 9s*n HwCm

'ssssssmsaim

ELKCTIONH

HOYH'

Merino Vest* and Drawers,

S 2 4 2 6 2 8 3 0 3 2 in INFANTS'

Merino Vests and Drawers,

Sites-16. IS, 20. 22 inch.

Ladies' White Merino Under Skirta. Children's White Kerino Union

Dresses.

Children's White Merino Pantaletts.

Dark Japanese Silks, .r airipn Velours, Black Dress Silks,

Drocade Velonrs, French Satines, Citpf flolhs.

TKK.RE-HAUTE

THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South jth Street. P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE-HAUTE. OCT. 5,1872.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

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

TWO NEW8PAPEBS,

In which all Advertisements appear ONE CHARGE.

for

THE St. Louis Fair, which commenced on Thursday, will continue all of next week. a

IT will pleasant a month bene© to find in the newspapers something «lM than politics.

THE State Fair this has been a magnificent success, notwithstanding the counter attractions and excitement® of the campaign.

THE Democrats have carried Geor gia—somewhat like the Dutch took Hoi ]an(j—by a majority of about 40,000 The election was held

Wednesday

THIS is a geasen of the year in which people should take moie than ordinary care of themselves. The sudden changes ih temperature, unless closely guarded, are apt to produce disease.

THE campaign has been at its height throughout the State this week. Every county has been filled with speakers, and an incessant fire has been going on along the whole line. The dead will not be removed until after next Tuesday evening.

MRS. LAURA FAIR shot a man tor kissing his wife. A jury of twelve men said she should be hung. She got a second trial, before another jury, and these twelve men last Monday morn ing said "not guilty." Mrs. Fair is free, but we presume men will go on kissing their wjves as usual.

ALMOST all of the political meetings that we hear ol now-a-davs are said to be the largest of the campaign. Each succeeding gathering is

will be held on Tuesday

of next week in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska. Dakota and the District of Columbia will select on the same day a Delegate in Congress. The returns of the vote cast on Tuesday next will be awaited with much anxiety, as the result will, doubtless, determine the fate of the two Presidential parties in the November contest.

CALIFORNIA wivos who have worthless men for husbands have just found out that thp homestead law of that State is a nice thing. According to that law ft wife alene can make a homestead of the property which she and her husband own, and on which they reside. The husband's consent is not requisite, the law stating that "the homestead land and house, not exceeding in value |5,000, can be selected by the husband and wife, or either of them.".

A WRITER in the October Scribner tries to speak a good word for the typical New York woman as she is seen by foreigners and the travelling public. That she is arrogant, extravagant, and often vulgar, he oes not attempt to deny, but mnch of this is excused by the fact that ahe is prone to live in hotels and boarding houses, and in the atmosphere of enforced idleness rapidly develops into the creature who generally figures in the descriptions which Englishmen especially write home to their friends of the people and customs of our country. He thinks if she were transplanted to a home of her own, no matter how lowly, she woold soon regain her womanliness in finding herself in a natural sphete.

TRR Congregationalist, In an article on "Religion in All Things,*1 reasons as follows ofthe iranchise.

To vote is one of the most solemn duties resting upon the American citisen. It is the only way in Whioh he ean discharge himself or bis share of responsibility to have this a land of iustice, freedom, and godliness. It is as realIv a solemn act as it would be— would be felt to be—if the question were wholly left to him and his one voice settle the matter. To say, then, that politics lieont of the plane of piety is tosiy that in one of the most solemn departments of the activities of manhood God has no choice, or man no duty of pleasing (Jod.

IT patriotism is a great thing, and religion applies to all sitings, even the lfraat, it must apptv to tbat.

Lei, then. Christian people feel their responsibility to vote, and to vota as they nrav. If all wholOTS floa wottld so ote the result would be safe.

In 1857, a party of one hundred and twenty American emigrants, men, women and children, stopped for one night at Salt Lake City, on their way from Arkansas to California. They were fairly supplied with mining and farming implements, wagons, stock, etc., and had passed Cedar City a few miles, and had reached a place known as Mountain Meadow, it here they were attacked and massacred. The revolting mutilation of the bodies and other atrocities connected with the horrible affair, at first directed public attention to the Indians as the perpetrators of the wholesale slaughter, but gradually the Mormons became implicated in the general suspicion, which charge, however, was vehemently and indignantly denied. Sinco that time, fifteen years ago, suspicion has gradually grown into circumstantial certainty through the statements made from time to time by apostate Mcrmons, and from evidence gathered little by little by Gentile residents ol the Salt Lake region.

Light has unexpectedly been thrown on the dreadful business from an official Mormon source—no less than Phillip Klingon Smith, a bishop of the Mormon Church, in good standing at the time, who makes a clean breast of it in an affidavit, setting lorth that the massacre was planned and ordered by Brigham Young and the leaders of the Mormon Church. In this statement we learn that the emigrants had reached Mountain Meadow, two hundred and fifty miles south of Salt Lake, where they were overtaken by the Mormon militia, disguised as Indians and accompanied by real Indians, scarcely less bloody and brutal than themselves. They attacked the camp, bat were repulsed by the travelers,who

and

}argtr

than its

predecessor. If the campaign was to continue for six months more, and this enthusiasm continued to grow, what would be the proportions of the crowds?

A WESTERN prophet predicts that the fall season will be an unpleasant one and that winter will set in early. What he bases this on we don't know, but if his prophesies are realized the year will have been a remarkable one. A very oold winter and backward spring, a hot summer and a cold, unpleasant All, make variety no one will care to see repeated. iS«Pl

THERE was on exhibition in Paris not long since, a mugnificent piano, sent as a wedding gift to the future Empress of China. It is completely oovered with gold and lacquer, and the keys are ctmposcd of motber-of pearl. It is as useless as it is elegant, however, owing to the fact that the young lady's musical education has been entirely neglected, and it will have to be played by machinery, an attachment accompanying it which works on the plan of a band-organ, and beyond half a dozen tunes will be silent.

POOR old Ireland has every prospect of often goin' hungry to bed this winter, was

supposed to be trifling In its eflects

has developed itself to an alarming ex-

tent. The vast fields upon which the £thi

masses of Ireland had looked for their

troat. The universal blight Is attrlbu-

ted to the continued toga though tbe

latter part of July.

"A OOOU thing comes out of Florida besides oranges and Havana cigars. There is a young ladies'seminary there in which tbe pupils are dressed in plain uniform, dark green being used in winter and pink in summer. Thus their thoughts and aspirations are diverted from dresses and bonnets, and it is to be bo^ed, directed into higher channels. ...'*J •, ,*..j

SATURDAY EVE1MING \1AII,. OCTOBER

YANKEE INVENTION.

Yankee inventions, for peculiarity of construction and oddity of purpose, have long been unrivalled by the inventions of the people of sny other nation or portion of any other nation throughout the world. That we are quite warranted in this statement is shown by a list of New England patents, compiled for and published in a recent issue of the Boston Journal. In this somewhat remakable list, we first notice an invention of one Archelus C. Wyman, of Boston, for "detachable heels for boots and shoes." This is so eminently "Yankee," that we cannot but ruminate over it in admiration. Of course its rationale is evident. The heel is so arranged, probably by clockwork, that after—if the bootmaker has some little conscience—a month's wear, it will quietly "detach" itself from the boot, when anew heel will be needed, which, of course can only be obtained for a reasonable consideration, and which also, of course, will ifi due time follow its predecessor. The story of the French bootblack who trained a learned poodle to first get himself muddy in the Seine and then to take the shine out of people's boots by rubbing against them, so that he—the bootblack, not the poodle—might turn an honest

expected assistance from white settlersi distinction made by the patentee in fa

No relief came, however, and on the second day they surrendered on the best terms they could, life included, al though the secret orders from Brigham Young were "to kill all but the young enough in pursuit of their regular trade children." What then occurred is best told in the affidavit of the man Smith as follows:— 'They accordingly laid down their tirely unreasonable, and we leel per-

4 li At on nH

arms, came out from their camp, and delivered themselves up. The women and children were then separated Irom

them down. The emigrants were then justably" howling. We pass

there shot down, except seventeen little children, which I immediately took into my charge. I do not know the total number of said company as did not stop to count the dead. I im mediately put the little children in bag gage wagons belonging to the regiment ana took them to Hamlin's Ranch, and from there to Cedar City, and procured them homes among the people."

Inconceivably horrible as this is, it is not all. Of these seventeen children as has been elicited from another source than Smith, two only were taken to Salt Lake the other innocents shared the awful fate of their parents and friends. The two children saved, it is said, are women grown, and now in the Mormon city. It will be remembered that indictments were found in the Federal Court In Utah against Brigham Young and some of his miscreant agents for these murders, and that for some time he eluded the vigilance of the U. S. authorities. He is now a prisoner under a heavy bail, and will be tried, although conviction under the cironmstances will, it is thought, be found difficult, as the prisoner will demand to be tried by a mixed jury of Mormons and Gentiles, the former not being very likely to coucur in a verdict against their chief. The affidavit of the Morman Bishop Smith, confessedly one of the murderers of the emigrant party, is doubtless brimful of the blackest lies, to give bis story the best coloring for himself, and was, in all probability made in the character of State's evidence to save his own carcass from the hangman. The mere relation of such crime is fUirly sickening in its horrible details, and is not even matched by the similar massacre of the U. S. engineering party in the same region, and doubtless by the same organization of Thugs. A fair trial is what the country should demand, and on convictionshort shrift and stout ropes.

class-distinguishing"howl

O O seat SuSUiiilj JVU W JWUI The potato blight, which at first joarnej»8 end.

other

principal support show nothing but population, which changes black wilted st^s killed by

sou

by reblacking them, is vividly recalled by this ingenious contrivance of the Boston man but, as is very natural the Boston man "sees" his French rival and "raises" on him. A Maine man, Matthew Moriarty, has, however, invented something odder than his Massachusetts contemporary. This queer genius has, probably after along and severe course of study ot the human organs of speech, patented an article which is neither more nor less than "an adjustable howel for coopers." We object to this on account ol the invidious

vor of the manufacturers of tubs and barrels. Why should coopers alone be gifted with an "adjustable" mode of howling? Surely they produce noise

without having any means added thereto whereby they can make addi tional disturbance. The thing is en

_. it..

fectly justified in demanding of tl»e General Government that Mr. Moriar-

BDQ enuureu were wou Iiuu. the men, and were marched ahead of ty's patent be either repealed, or else the men. After said emigrants had lt8

purpose be so extended that other

es "j-*

::da

over

patent, taken out by Hilon Bump, of Wallingford, Vermont, for a "tumbler for polishing forks," as being but the product of a diseased brain, for no sane man or woman would for a moment think of trying to polish a fork, or anything else with a tumbler oreven a goblet, still less pay a fancy price for a patented article wherewith to attempt such an absurd and idiotic undertaking. Charles Tappan, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, however, in point of queerness of inventive genius, may be regarded as heading the list, for Be has patented a "process for treating articles to render them waterproof." There is a broad humanity in this product of of inventive genius that contrasts very favorably with the narrow-minded,

for coopers"

ot Mr. Moriarity. A large percentage of'political humanity desires and demands to be treated, frequently and in large measure, and if by the patented process the treating can be accomplished more economically than under the present system, Tappan will become a subject for the loud and long-continued praise of each and every one of the politicians who now and for years to come will months to gather around them the support and obtain the promise of the votes of their free and enlightened constituencies. Nor will politicians alone have cause to bless tbo name of this benefactor ot his race for the wretched thousands at present wailing in almost every section ol our fair land for that "treat" which is now to them denied, will doubtless club their scanty funds together, and, purchasing the right to use Tappan's process," be happy in a blissful multiplicity of treats throughout all coming time. The "waterproof portion of the patent is a secondary consideration, but at the same time an inevitable result of the "process," for it is a wellknown fact that the more a man is treated" the more thoroughly and entirely does he become "waterproof." We might extend our article to almost any length, for the columns of the Journal furnish ample matter for our consideration, but we believe that we have mentioned a sufficient number of Yankee inventions to more than establish the truth of the statement with which we started out^^^^^ 'SOCIETY in a drawing-room car,'» says a certain traveler, "is very dull. When you have taken an inventory of the human cargo there is nothing more for you to do. The occupants of the seat susually accompany you to your

The same faces confront

y(Ju at every o{ the

journev. The

tbe car is fixed, and offers

ofnoveltyand

variety. On tbe

^and, the ordinary carriage has

or at

,UUon.

bid a gUent farewell

A-v*

5. 1872.

HnMcrip»(|«Ms.—The SATURDAY WBTINQ AII. la delivered to city aubocribera at TWKirry CENTS a month, payable at the end of every four weeks, or at TWO DOLLARS a yoar in advano*. The MAIL will be furnished by post, or at this offlee, at the following rates: One Year, 12,00: six Months.ll,00 Thro* Months, 60 Cents towftiMy tn advanc.ti

THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL is on sale each Saturday afternoon by A. H. Dooley, ..Opera House8. R. Baker A 6)., P. O. LobbyM. P. Craft*, -Opp. Poit Office. Will B. Sheriff, ParUs IllsWalter Cole,_ ..Marshall, Ills* Harry Hill, „8ulllvan, IndJames Allen, Clinton, Ind. J. B. Dowd, Rockvllie, Ind. James Klbbe, Braxll, Ind. C. V. Decker Mattoon, Ills.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,

Adam Forepaagh'a Show. The Last Grand Rally. Saw Mills—Chandler A Taylor. Urand Open log—N. R. Smith A Ay res. Professional—Mrs. A. L. Wilson, M. D. Musical—W. Paige A Co. Wholesale Notions— U. R. Jeffers ft Ce. St. Louis Fair—Vandal la Line. Binding—Charles L. Warner. ,, Boots and Shoes—W. A. Ryan. Hardware—A. G. Austin 4 Co. New Goods at Riddle's. Notice—Presidential Election. Winter Underwear—Warren, Hoberg &Co. Insurance—* E. Hosford. Milliners*—Miss M. A. Raridon. Oysters—Alexander A Johuson.

ADVERTISERS crowd upon our reading matter space this week.

THE Minstrels and Forepaugh's show will be hereon the samo night. -7

THE "tiger" has not been entirely subdued in this moral municipality.

THE result next Tnesday will place boots and hats upon many pedals and caputs. t' f,

PILE driving has commenced lor the bridge of the Southwestern road across the Wabash, at Cbenoweth's Ferry.

THE Republicans the past week have been unfortunate in speakers, for good reasons, failing to fill appointments.

ABOUT this time of year, insurance men get very solicitious about our property.

ON which side of Fifth street will the printing offices be illuminated after the electiou

THE City Council has ordered that the bogs be not allowed to run at large. Did the speech found by Town Talk do the business

THE Vandalia is selling round trip tickets to the St. Louis Fair for 93.00, good all of next week. This fair closer the season, and is

the

AM WE

fair of fairs of the

Western world. H.1

go to press there are indica

tions of large and imposing demonstrations by the Democracy this afternoon and evening. The speaking this afternoon is at the Early Grove.

THE Terre Haute delegation at Jeffersonville will soon be clad in cloth of home manufacture—the Vigo Woolen Mills being engaged in the manufacture of a lot of the striped goods.

A MAN named Murphy, while in an intoxicated condition, was run over and killed near Montezuma station, on the E., T. H.

Yoa

to the old friend,

accompaaied you on a ride

ten miles, and make new and unrecognized acquaintances for tbe next twenty. Bustle and excitement are continuous. Society never stagnates in an ordinary as it does in a drawingroom

IT has been ascertained that more than 100,000 men, women and children have perished in tbe Persian capital from famine and plague, and that tbe nnmber of victims tbrougboot the country is not less than 3,000,000.

C. R. R., Monday even

ing. This, we believe, is the first man killed on that road.

TERRE HAUTE Commercial College, Garvin A Heinly proprietors, wins the red ribbon on collection of business penmanship over all competition at our State Fair. Also on card-writing. So we learn from the Indianapolis JonrnSl. r''

A CITY pastor advertises in the morning papers a sermon to-morrow night from Second Samuel 10:13, which reads in this way "It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction, and tbat tbe Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day." Is tbe sermon intended to comfort the politicians, who are getting pretty soundly cursed abopt these times?

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

Isaac Petti ford and Elizabeth Pettlford. James W. Klgens and Addle Hunter. Adam Smith and Mao* A. Bally.

James W. Reed and Harriet Keaton. Hugh Williams and Mary Broadliurnt. Winis H. Pulllam and Florence A. Hlltabidle.

Cornelius 8. CronliTand Ellen E. Kenan. Arthur Messacar and Arvllla Lesuer. Watson M. Burns and Laura E. Blller. Lafayette Dlx and Eunice E. Kester.

INTERMENTS.—The following is a list of interments in thecemetery since our last report:

Sept. 21—Infant of George Kadle, age 8 months-Whooping cough. Sept, 20—Infant of W7 E. Bllby, age 11 months and 11 days—Inflammation of the

^Sept. 2?—Infant of Louis Bushy, 1 year and 2 month*. Sejjt. 28—Mrs. Cloe Chadwlck, age 83 years

Sepufo—Miss Mary Newman, age 17years

~8ep**30—Infant of Joshua Davis (Colored.)

age

2 years, 2 months and 7 daya—Whooping cough. Oct. 1—D. B. Otis, age 3l-Con*amptlon.

Oct. 1-Infant of Sovni Andrews, a#e I ear—Summer complaint. year-^Summer oompla.....

Oct. 2—Adopted child of Thbmas Whaller, age 11 years—lyphold fever. Oct. 2—Infant of James O. Adams, age 6 week*—Erysl pelas.

Oct. 3—Infant of C. R. Bern hard, age 1 year—Summer complaint. Oct, 4—InXant ofF rank Honsman, aged Is days.

THE NEW STAMP LAW—I'nder the amended law governing the use of internal revenue stamp*, which went into effect October 1st, no instruments of writing are subject to stamp duty, except checks and orders or drafts for the payment of money on demand or on sight, which must still have affixed a two cent stamp. The stamp duty on notes, bills of exchange, except those payable on sight or demand, deeds, leases, agreements,

Ae.t

TEACHXBS INSTITUTE.—Next week*' Judge J. W. Jones, the County Examiner, will bold a Teachers Institute in this city, and that all teachers may be free to attend, the schools of the city and county will be suspended. The law of the State provides that there," shall be annually held in every county in the State, a Teachers Institute. The object of the

Institute is to throw teach

ers together, in order tbat they may compare notes and interchange views* as to the best methods of conducting a» school, and much good has resulted' from these meetings wherever they ./ have been held. Heretofore the meetings in this county have I em held during the Summer vacation of the city schools. In consequence of the absence of teachers and the extreme hot weather, tho attendance has not been as large as desired. This year tbe county examiner tf:er consultation with some of our leading educators. has thought it best to hold the Institute in Ootober. He has secured the' co-operation of Prof. Jonos of the Normal School, and Prof. Wiley of the High School, who with their assistants1 will render the present meeting more--interesting and instructive than anjv ever held in this section of the State. As these meetings are for the special! benefit of teachers, it is important that every teacher In the county should, attend and in order to enable them todo so, the law provides that where schools have beon commenced they shall be discontinued during the session of the Institute. We hope to see a general attendance on the part of teachers, as we aro satisfied from the character of those having tho matter in charge that the exercises will be both interesting and instructive.

NEW PARCEL POST.—By the new postal law, which went into effect July 1st,, packages of dry goods and other merchandise, except liquid drugs, weighing not over twelve ounces, may b, mailed to any part ot the Union at the rate of two cents for each two ounces or fraction thereof, if not connected with any written matter except the address. When this provision of the law comes to be generally known, express companies will miss their now heavy receipts from such light packages.

snags In

is repealed.

This is a considerable relief to tbe taxpaying community. V-'

Hr*f

*\j

THE STOVE-PIPE SEASON.—Get out. your stove and stove-pipes, and prepare yourself to discover that the blamed things won't fit like they did last year at all for verily the time that tries men's souls is again at hand. The only way tokeepaslove-plpefrom growing shorted after you put it into the coal shed, is to keep them standing in the room all year. If you don't do this you will have to thump the pipe out of all respectability of appearance, and in some cases whale your wife before you can get it up properly. [j

THE fishing party tbat left Vandalia bridge in tbo six-oared boat "Mattie,'* Wednesday morning at half past four o'clock, consisting of Geo. Haywaril, Frank Crawford, Ed. Ross, Frank Meyers and your correspondent, made a landing a few hundred yards below the mouth of Sugar Creek, on the west* bank of the Wabash just as the sun was gilding tbe oastern skies. The boat was piloted 1-y Hayward with great skill and. success. The daring navigators of Hell Gate and Lacbifle rapids must look to their laurels after this nautical performance of George's. To his skill and accurate knowledge o%tbe channel we were saved a calamitous shipwreck oti a fearful sand-bar,, where we saw tbe bones and bodies ol'p numerous hogs tbat perished in their attempts to escape from Hulman's distillery. Formidable and gigantic snagN obtruded themselves ominously out of the placid depths of the Wabash. There were sunken stumps ef trees and half-, burled debris of unfortunate river cralt to be avoided, and George did it nobly f,bv and heroically. The day broke splendidly. The party was jubilant withe high hopes and expectations but alas, bass fishing In the Wabash is quite n* unreliable and deceptive as tho gol I and stock market in Wall street. Tinweather, the water and the wind may be most propitious. You may have tbe best of creek minnows, tackle o^ the most perfect make and pattern, and in the bands of a skillful gentleman who would not, under tho most aggravating circumstances, make use of a profaneword, yet, with all these favorable advantages, you may watch the cork on the surface from hour to hour, in tU«broiling hot sun or drenching rain, ami after all go home drenched to tho skin & or with a blistered face, wearied in body, out of humor, and without a fisl. At high noon our party was joined by Crawford Scott, and Ilayward, our gallant pilot, retuned to town, being ad-, visod that a party living near Darwin was waiting to negotiate a last year'n coon skin lor a pair of brogans. Although George had broke two of his best poles and loft sotno half a dozen books and lines fastened to old roots and

the Wabash, yet he was

disposed to acknowledge tbe force and truth or tbat arbitrary old saying, "business before pleasure."

Just before sundown we cast ioo*e our moorings for a return home. Your correspondent was voted the responsible place vacated by Hayward. At 8 o'clock he swung the Mattie gracefully op to ber pier under tne Vandalia

bridge, having run her only three times on the sand-bars and bumped her nose against one of the piers of tbe Vandalia bridge. The two Franks proved to be the luckiest, if not the most expert of tbe party. Crawford caught a jack salmon and a line string of bas*. Ed. Ross, the most faithful and persistent fisherman I ever saw, caught but one bass. Hayward, who is considered the fisherman

par

excellence ot the

town,

caught but one bass, and that the most diminutive of the race. Scott did noth-

badly hooked bass that was floundering on tbe shore, Frank got into the water first, but lost the bass. Your correspondent caught one ",ck,Jr famished base of if in sions. a bad

cold,

i(,!

inc to increase bis piscatorial reputation. Frank Movers, coming fresh from his recent Missouri experience and training, did exceedingly well: however, in his struggles to «ecuj:«

a pain in tbe back,

lost two bites, one nibble and an overcoat. 4