Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 October 1872 — Page 4

For Sale.

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JOR BALK—IN CONSEQUENCE OF continued ill health 1 have concluded to tnslDen entirely, and therefore otter for sale my Drug Store, located on Sixth street, opposite the PaOofflce. The stock 1* itmall and in good order, and the store doing a fair business, which can be verv much increased by an energetic man.

Terms

reasonable. THOMAS 11. BARB.

FWBALE^A

FINE DWELLING HOUHt

and lot, east, on Ohio street. For further particulars enquire of Hendrich ft Willlams,ofl!ceover Prairie City Bank, next door to Postofllce.

For Rent.

t1JOR

RENT—Store Room—On Main street between 3d and 4th streets. Rent low, r.oqulre of R. L. BALL. t?Ott KKN1-1WOM8 IN HKCUN'I) AND J7 third stories of 182 Main street. Enquire I of Miss M. A. Rarldon. 2»tf

Wanted.

WANTED-TOconvenient

RENT-HOUSE OF 8, 1

or 5 rooms, to Main street, or to street car*. I»y an A 1 tenant. Address HOUSE, Dally Express Office.

WANTED-

WOOD ABOUT SEVEN

cords of good wood. Apply to J. JULICK, at Gullck A Berry's.

ft PER DAY! AOENT8

*0)0 lO wanted! All classes of working people, of either sex, young or old, make more money at work for us in their spare moments, or all the time, than at anything else. Particulars free. Address O. STINBON A CO.. Portland, Maine. s7-ly

WANTED—AGENTS—MALE

AND FE-

male.—Business pleasant, and payr better than any enterplse in the field Agents make from Sfl to $8 per day. Send stamp for sample and particulars. Address J. LATHAM 4c CO., 292 Washington street Boston, Mass. a31-6t.

WANTED—AUENT»-»75

TO $150 PER

month eveiy where, male and female, to Introduce the Genuine Improved tomnion Hen*r Family Sewing Machine. Thismachine will stitch, hem, fell, tuck, quilt,cord, bind, braid and embroider In a mop.t superior manner. Price, only 115. Fully licensed and warranted for five years. We will pay 11,000 for any machine that will sew a stronger, more beautiful, or more elastic seam 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 175 to t250 per month and expenses, or a commission Irora wlilch twice that amount can be made. Address SECOMB ft CO., Chicago 111. al0 8m

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

"-h Offers her services to the J' I

LADIES AND CHILDREN

TEBBF-IIAUTE.

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Office and Residence,

South Heven tli Rtreet

E. IIOSFORD,

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Attorney at Law,

COS. FOURTH AND MAIN ST8.

81-ly

PERA HOUSE CORNER.

WINTER

Underwear.

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Warren, Hoberg & Co.,

Have now open (at reduoed prices) a complete assortment of Merino Underwear, adapted to the present and coming season, for Ladles, Gentlemen. Misses, Boys and Infants all regular made and well finished goods. «KKTLEMEX*ft

Fall MMI Wlatrr

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Merino Milrts and Itrawers, SUes-84,86,88, 40.42, 44 Inch. I. A DIES* Merino Vesta sM Drawer*, 28, 80, 82, 84 Inch.

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Nerlat Vcsls Drawtrs, «Uq8—30, 22, 21,26 lnchcs.

BOTH' vf^.v

MsrlM ViHla and Drawers, 81*08—24, 26, 28, 30, 82 luchcs.

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Merlna VmIiand Drawer*, Hlsce—18,18, 20,22 inch.

I kilos' White Merino Under Skirts. Children's White Merino Union Dresses. -i. Children's White Merino Pantalotta.-

A)no now open a

COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF

Winter Hosiery and Gloves!

Of every description, for Gentlemen's, ladles' and Children's wear. Also a large and Afresh Fall assortment of celebrated

Peri not" Kid Gl©ve»,

In 1 and 2 Buttons, which we guarantee superlor In perfection of Fit, Durability and Is Choice Colorings, to any Glove retailed in

America. Special attention is asked from persons About to purchase, to our magnificent assortment Of

Drew

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a Comprising the newest and most deelrable Fabrics of The season, In cloth and erdinary colorings.

French Caabmerea, Mepp Fresffc !!•*, Dark Japaneae Mike, Is Stripe Velanre, Black

Preaa Hllka, BrsfMe Ve» rl?

lear«, French tstlsfts,

-1 Crepe riofks, Preaek Xerliw,

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Celored Press Alike,

Alodin Immense Variety of Cheap and Medium Priced Drees Goods At 3ft.«, 80, as, 40 and SO cents per yard.

Also oar celebrated "Horse Shoe" Blade AlpftCAA* A125, att, 40, SO,00,75 and 8S cents per yard.

TH18 WEEK

1 MMnense arrivals of Water Proolfe, Blankets Flannels, Cloths, Ossslmerea, Jeans, Hnoaekttaping Unens, Bleached and Brown Mm IWfc Cotton Flannel*. Toilet On tits. Table Linens, Toweling*, Napkin*, Cotton Batting, Osrpet Chain, Cotton Yarns, New Km broideries. Laces, Fancr Goods, Notions, Shawls. Hear*, Cloaks, etc,

AU aft Pepnlar rrtcea. WARREN, HOBKRG Jfc CO.,

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•pen Manse CWMT.

«T 08T-LAR0R 8ITMS OP MONEY ABK I lost every week by persons who sboald JBErartiM la Tu Mau.

THE MAIL?

Office, 3 South

5th

Street.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR

TERRE-HAUTE. OCT. 26,1872.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO 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 Sntnrday Eveningf goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city. Every Week's Issue is, in fart,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE.

Gov. BAKER has called a special Session of the Legislature, to convene on the 13th of November.

THB Congress of Peru has degreed the abolition of the death penalty, and fifteen years is te be the 'maximum of all punishment in that republic.

iffy:

THE present season is said to be one of the most sickly ever known in the Northwest. In some localities almost every person, old or young, has or has bad a fever of some kind.

THE noble red man of the forest in his struggle for equal rights is placed at a decided disadvantage by not being supplied by the government, the same as the soldiers, with the latest pattern of breech loaders.

THE repeal of the capital punishment law in Iowa last winter is arousing the religious feeling in t£e State, and the more especially since the recent decision of Judge Tracy, of Burlington, that murder is a bailable alienee.

THE Courier-Journal is urging the Kentucky Legislature, which meets two weeks before the English Parliament, to be in advance of that body in abolishing the barbarism of whipping as a punishment for crime. Parliament proposes to repeal its law upon its first meeting. *1 A

IT is not improbable that the State Temperance Alliance cansed the defeat of Tom Browne, for Govenor. This organization is sufficiently numerous to hold the balance of power, and can by the silent and mysterous ballot say who shall and who shall not be elected to the State offices,

SINCE the days of Adam, and Eve his wife, people have been as apt to die on Fridays and Saturdays as any other days. Corpses are very unreasonable things. They will insist on prompt burial. And yet the clergymen of Washington City held a meeting the other day and passed a series of resolutions against Sunday funerals.

THE motion for a new trial of the poor besotted wretch, William Cluck, who took it into his addlled head one day to kill his wife, has been overruled, and he has been sentenced to be hanged on the 20th of December. Would it not be well, now that sentenoe is passed, with hardly possibility of its being revoked, that the Indianapolis papers cease their ill-timed wit and levity in connection with the tragedy, the trial and the doomed man.

ONB of the three Communists lately executed at Paris waa engaged in the murder of the Archbishop, who was shot while in the act of bleeslng the assassin. These condemned men were, as usual, tied to stakes, blindfolded and shot. The whole proceeding was conducted in the most stolid and businesslike manner. They died bravely, which, it is satf, is the more remarkable, as they did not expect to be executed, and wore wakened oat of a sound sleep only two hours before they were shot.

THR official vote of all the oounties in tho State has at last reached the Secretary of State, and foots op tho following majorities: Governor—T. A. Heno iicks......«-. 1 |I48 Lt. Governor—Sexton...— J80 See. State -Curry —........ Auditor-Wlldman 278 Treasurer—G lover— 7H Attorney Genl-Denny.. Sup. Pub. Inst.—Hopkins CI. Sup Ct.—8choil Reporter.—Black Cong, at Large—Orth —Williams. ~.~-

957

1,806 427 lfti 958

All Republicans except Governor and Superintendent of Pnblic Instruction.

CHICAGO is experimenting with the enforcement of the Sunday liquor law, and so for the'most encouraging results aw reported. A few weeks ago when the saloons were in full blast, not a Sonday passed without one mrrder and on some there were two or three. Matters finally reached each a pass that public meetings were held, and the result was a strong demand on Major Medili to enforce the Sunday law and shot up the drinking places. A week ago las* Sunday the law was only partially enforced, and there were but forty-one arrests, a considerable diminution. Last Sunday every saloon, but two or three that openly disregarded the notice, waa closed and the eflfect is told in a dispatch, which say*: •There waa a marked absence of drnnkennesa and disorder on the street, aud the total number of arrests in the city during the day, up to eleven o'clock to-night, was nine." The saloon keepers gen»erally were the first to acqnieace in the demand for the enforcement of the law.

ALL countries andjpeoples have their own way of inflicting the death penalty. Here we hang them, and think that a very

Christianlike way of making a man fit for burial. In Cuba they use the garote, in France the guillotine, in Turkey the bow-string, and in other countries other modes. Ithaca, an island in the Adriatic Sea, has about the most cruel way of all. The victim is placed in a wooden box and tied down. The executioner then takes him by the hair, sticks a knife in bis throat as he would into that of a sheep, and twists and turns the head until death ensues. Then the lid is nailed on and the body is dispatched to be buried. Two priests, named Deotrozzi and Maturo, were recently tried and convicted for repeated robberies and murders. Maturo was executed in the way described above, to the extreme gratification of the cruel spectators. It will please all people with any feeling to learn that Deotrozri was rescued by J* band of armed Greek brigands, and that he will probably take revenge for the cruelties inflicted on his companion in crime.

THHRE is a revolution going on among the widows of India. For manyt many years the Government has contented itself with their figurative burial with the husband, only resigning them to perfect seclusion and perpetual mourning* This leniency has caused in time a progressive spirit which, of course, cannot too strongly be deplored to grow up among them, and it lately took shape in a petition to the Ameer, by the harem of a distinguished Indian Alzu Khan, lately deceased, demanding that they might be allowed to return to their own homes, from which to marry again if they cared to. There were so many of them and they were so forminable that he could not refuse, and so granted them permission, and their example will be followed by many others.

ALLUDING to lady dentists, the Cincinnati Commercial does not want the honor of being the first lady graduate of a dental college to be carried of! by a Russian Countess, but claims that honor for a Cincinnati lady, Miss Lucy B. Hobbs, who graduated in 1865. Another graduate from the same institution was Mrs. Marie Grubert, of Berlin, in 1870, who was almost immediately elected Vice President of the Mississippi Valley Dental Association. So Russia is not ahead of America alter all, in enterprising women.

THE paper collar wearing commnnity will be interested in the assertion of a Troy manufacturer that uot one grain of arsenic has been used in the manufacture of paper collars since the hue and cry was raised about it some years ago. He says that the gloss on collars is produced in the laundries of that city by the use of starch, white wax, gum arabic, blueing, and sometimes spermaceti.

CO-OPERATIVE associations soem to flourish better in Scotland than ia any other country, while in Ireland they are extremely unpopular. In Scotland the "funeral" and "friendly" societies continually increase in membership. Of those devoted exclusively to business, grocery, provision and baking societies pay a v^ry nice dividend.

A lame £irl, who had not, for 14 years, once left the third story back room in which she lived, was among those who participated in the late children's excursion in Philadelphia. When carried into the park she asked what the grass and trees were, and had to be told the names of the most common objects.

IT is difficult to tell these days when you are getting genuine tea. The British consul at Shanghai recently made the statement that 53,000 pounds of willow leaves were in prooess of preparation at one port of China to be mixed with tea tor shipment. From ten to twenty per oent. of willow is the general rate of mixture.

IT Is aaid that when the Pope heard of Pere Hyacinthe's marriage, ho gavo expression to his feelings and surprise after this fashion: "The saints be praised lithe renegade has taken his punishment into his own hands. The ways of Providence are inscrutable."

THAT suit of Tweed wears very well in the New York conrts, but the child yet unborn will n«ver live to aee it legitimately worn out.

GOLD dollars are gravely announced aa a legal tender in San Francisco by papers there.

BEST 80CIETY."

The Journal and Sentinel are at loggerheads about good society—the latter claiming that 8enator Morton ia not received into the beat society of our city. We know nothing about this and care leaa, bat it ia very questionable to us whether our so-called "beat society" is not our worst. It Is among those arrayed in purple and fine linen, and who fere aomploously every day that the most corruption exists, or this class is moat wofolly helled. It is in the closets of Ux rich that the grinning skeleton is most frequently discovered. It is in Vanity Fair that debaochery and rottenness most abound. It we were desirous of mingling in our "best society," we sboald go among the middle rlrrnt. neither rich nor poor—not rich enough In this world's goods to minister to every lost and passion of humanity, and not poor enough to be compelled to perpetrate fraud and population in order to eke out a miserable existence. Our so-called"best society" Is like onto whited sepulchre—fn 11 of rottenness and dead mens hones.—[Ind.

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DENVER AND ITS 8VRR0UNDINGS.

Special Correspondence of The Mall. CENTRAL CITY,OCT.,1872. On reaching Denver, that -romantic little city of the Plains, the first impression made on the mind of the traveller is, that he has known almost nothing of Denver or its surroundings. This is true, in spite of the fact that a great many writers have undertaken to tell all about the city and untry, but have lailed simply bcceause it is utterly impossible in a newspaper article to give an adequate idea of this wonderftil country. Therefore no attempt is here made at any thing like an adequate description, but simply to indicate a few things that strike the causal observer on his first visit. It is indeed difficult for any one who has been reared more than a thousand miles away, to realize the fact that right under the shadow of the rocky mountains, and in sight of eternal snows, there is a regulsrly laid out city, of over twelve thousand inhabitants, with its water works costing hundreds of thousands, its gas lighted streets, beautiful fountains, splendid drives, costly churches, street cars, and many other improvements too tedious to mention here, including her railroads, all" combining to make her the great city of the Plains, for such she certainly must be.

It was from an elevated spot just east ot the city that my friend B. and myself obtained a splendid view just before sunset ot the snow range on the mountains, and which he remarked at the time "was a big thing on ice." or as a Dutchman would say, "a big thing mit ice on."

Here is seen in full view Long's peak over seventy miles away, rising 14,056 feet above the sea level and there is Lilly mountain 12,000 feet high with its bold front looking frowningly at Long's Peak, as if angry because that mountain dared to raise its head 2000 feet higher. Gray's Peak south of this is 14,250 feet high opposite and west of the city are the beautiful pine clad foot hills, and above and beyond the everlasting snow line of the peaks, and to the Southward Pike's Peak seventy miles distant towering over 14,000 feet above tide water, all plainly visible on account of the wonderful clearness of the atmosphere.

Much more might be said of this beautiful little aristocratic city, but time and space will not permit. But I will now say Mr. Editor if you have any desire to expand your chest with the champagne air of the rocky mountains, drink mineral water, grow fat, and see the most magnificent scenery in the world, I say by all means take the advice of Horace "and go west" to Denver.

L-1' GOLDEN..-!*

Twelvo miles from Denver, on the Colorado Central Railway, and just at the foot of the mountains is the little city of Golden, a place I should think of about one thousand inhabitants. Here almost every house in the city is castle rock, frotn-whose summit the view is enchanting. To tho northwest and southeast run the mountains eastward lie the plains, green and gray, stretching on and on till the plain and horizon blend together. Denver is in full view the Piatt River* winds likes silver thread thro' this vast panorama. Away eastward, in the boane of the Buffalo, is seen the smoke from the engine of the Kansas and Pacific Railway train, which causes the beholder to stand amazed at the wonderful feats of human energy.

Up Clear Creek Canon from Golden runs the narrow guage railroad destined for Blackhawk, Central City, Idaho, and Georgetown, all mountain towns of considerable notoriety aud importance on account of their proximity to the Colorado gold and silver mines. This narrow guage road is already in operation to within six miles of Central City, where it connecta with a line of stage coaches to other points in the mountains, and is being pushed forward with great energy, and at a vast expense by its enterprising President, Mr. Teller, whose acquaintance we made during our stay here, and found him to be the prince of good fellows, and reputation says one of Colorado's best lawyers. No man that haa a particle of soul in him can stand on this narrow track with a grade of over two hundred feet to the mile, and cut a great portion of the way through solid rocks, with cliffs of massive rock lowering on cither side to the heighth of seven hundred feet, without being struck with the marvelous feats which are being accomplished every day through man's skill and energy. In leaa than one year, it is aaid, the ears will run on this road to Georgetown, nine thousand feet above the aea. I will just here ssy, least I msy forget It, that it was whilst we were making the ascent up the mountain that my Invalid companion, Beauchamp, began to show signs of improvement. His hitherto contracted chest suddenly began to expand as he inhaled the pore mountain atmosphere his blood seemed to circulate with increased rapidity digestion and asslmulation promptly responded to the increased demand the billioosness seemed to ooze out from every pore of his skin his sppetite increased to an alarming extent, and lo, and behold, he suddenly became a new being. "Bo stoat he'd grown with the air and good

Thatthe

Wr.

conductor was afraid of the

sprinsi.

And when to see Baffl»lo,on« side be ran to. He was balanced on t'other with a heavy portmanteau."

We are stopping at the Teller Hotel, a large four story brick building, built and owned by Mr.

Teller, the President

of the narrow guage, or narraw gouge, as it is called here, and is decidedly the best kept house we have stopped at since wo left Terre-Haute.

We go from here to Colorado springs, when you msy hear from us again. J« Me A«

The City and Vicinity.

T* Hall Safeaerl fee re.—Watch the date on your direction label. It Indicates the time when your subscription expires, at which time the paper "will, invariably, be discontinued without further notification.

THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL is on sale each Saturday afternoon by A. H. Dooley, Opera Boose. 8. It. Baker ft Co., P. O. Lobby. M. P. Crafts, Opp. Post Office. Will B. Sheriff, Paris, Ills. Waller Cole,- .............. ..—.Marshall, Ills. Harry Hill, ..JSulllvan, Ind. James Allen,....™ Clinton, Ind. J. B. Dowd. Rockvllle, Ind. James Kihbe, Brazil, Ind. C. Decker Mattoon, Ills.

E W A I 8 E E N S

Wanted—Wood—J. F. Gullck. Dry Goods—W. 8. Ryce A Co. Notice to Shippers—Keith ft Fairbanks. Divorce—Wauule vs. Waudle. Spectacles—^W.Statz. xv,„ Dissolution—Seott, Oren ft Co. Wanted—To Rent—House. Wholesale Notions—U. R. Jeffers ft Co. Oyslere— Alexander ft Johnson. Hats and Furs—Yates, The Hatter, Bird Cages, etc.—J. A. Foote. -r Rally Democrats—Hon. W. F.

Sherrod.

Wanted to Sell-Furniture. Houses and Lots for Bale—Grimes ft Royse. Insurar ce—Hager ft McKeen. 1 ress Making—Klntz ft scanlon. You are not going to Miss Laura Keene. Free Exhibition-Oil Paintings. Books—Central Bookstore. Meeting—Carpenters', Coopers and Machinists.

THE Presidential election occurs one week from next Tuesday.

ANOTHER newspaper change in this city is current upon the street.

THE police complain of dull times— the result of their own efficiency.

THE EXPRESS,after next week will be issued on Sunday morning instead of Monday.

HEINIO'S Bakery narrowly escaped est met von by fire on Wednesday morning.

CITY MILK is oftei^ more like vegetable than animal fogd, because it is some pump-kin.

THE "camp fires" seem to have gone out in this, locality. Light them up, Messrs Filbeck and Gilbert.

THE country people in this vicinity are gratified at the fact that tbey now have schools about equal to those of the city

THE reports early in the season o^ plenty of nuts" were a delusion and a snare to get town people out in the woods.

THE firm of Scott, Oren Co., has been disolved. George M. Scott retires, and W. R. Mercer and David Oren will continue the business.

THE Opera House was booked yes terday for the Strakosch Concert* Troupe, with Carlotta Patti, Miss Cary and others, on the evening of the 6th of December. -?xr-

FOUR thousand torches belonging to the two political parties, are missingscattered up and down Fort Harrison prairie. They were taken by light-fin-gered people, who made light of the petty theft.

WE ask the kind indulgence of the readers of The Mail, tor this a^d two or three weeks past for any short comings in the way ot reading matter, crowded out by advertisements. We dislike to refuse an advertisement—for there's money in it. Live business men won't be refused the uso of the columns of The Mail, forthat brings them money. Should the pressure continue we will add two or more pages each week. This we desire to avoid, as The Mail is now in a compact and handy form._

HENRY LAYMAN, a shoemaker on Lafayette street, a poor but industrious workman, unable to pay bis little bills, and jealous of his wife, cowardly ran away from both and went where he was not invited, on Wednesday morning, by putting a rope around his neck and jumping into eternity. He died as the fool dies. It would have been more sensible, if compelled to ran away from hie troubles, to have sovgbt some other locality in this wide world, and there waited for his invitation to come from the other world.

THB County Commissioners have stirred up the people and called attention to their recent actions. Last week twenty thousand dollars worth of bridge contracts Were let without notice, snd in the same way a contract was let to pot down #1.200 worth of stone pavement, and for building coal vaults at the ooort boose. We do not know at what rates these contracts were let, but one mechanic stated that he got a "d—d good prloe!"

All this the people could have borne with, hot when, on Monday morning, notioe appeared in the morning papers, that on the following Wednesday—less thsn three days notice—the court house boilding snd lot, the jail building and lot, and one hundred acres of the poor boose form woold be sold to the high est bidder, lt raised such a breeze that the order was recalled. About this time it was discovered thst all the foregoing action of the Board, inclodlng the bridge contracts, were void in consequence of some technical defect in the call for the meeting.

The members of the Board are all well-known dtisens, and few would •eeose them of knowingly doing a dishonest act, but without proper explanation, their recent actions look suspieous of Jobbery snd to command the respect of their constituents, the Commissioners would do well in the future to transact their business in an open, lawfol manner and before saddling the county with a heavier load of debt, consult with our leading dtisens and heaviest taxpayers.

THE fIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH. This aid to our Fire Department in now in operation. The first test was made on Thursday afternoon with tho most satisfactory results. Tho alarm was sounded at box 15, corner of Seventh and Eagle streets. Instantly the bell on the Congregational steeple told the location, and in three minutes the hose reel from- the engine house on Ninth street was on the ground. The Fourth street engine came half a minute later, and in four minutes the Lafayette street engine reported for duty. The test showed not only the valuable aid of the fire alarm, but the thorough efficiency of our Fire Department. From the Journal we copy a statement of the cost, the manner of working and the location of the alarm loxes.

The total cost ot the Telegraph is |3,500. Six miles of wire has been put up in the city, connecting nine boxos. The bell on the Congregational Church will be used for sounding the alarm. A box has been put up at each engine House, and a small alarm in the house of the Chief. The location of the other boxes are "''iU*'

No. 3 cor. 11th and Poplar.No. 5 cor. 7th and Oak.

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No. 7 cor. 2nd and Vine. No. 13 cor. Lafayette and Locust. No. 15 cor. 7th and Eagle. No. 17 cor. ot 13th and Sycamerc. Though the machinery composing Fire Alarm is ol a scientific and complicated kind, its operation is of the simplest sort. To understand'it, imagiue you are looking at the iron box suspended on the lamp post at the Postofllce. That the door has on it tho wordH

Fire Alarm Telegraph," and a number, say 15. On opening the box you will find in it a sort of telegraph instrument, and a second box, through tho door of which protrudes a hook just large enough to fit your linger. From the top ot the box you see a wire running like & telegraph wire. Suppose now the box is closed and locked, and the key at a house in the neighborhood. Some one cries "lire," whon the person holding the key goes to the box, unlocks it, takes hold and pults tho hook downward. By that the machinery is set in motion, and the electricity passing along the wire sets hef striker to work on the church bell. The striker gives one blow, then at a short interval five more. At the satno time a small bell at each engine house in struck in the same way. Tho alarm on the ohuroh bell tells the peoplo that the fire is near Box 1G, and the smaller alarms tell those at the engino house. Pulling the hook in *ny box causes tho number on the box to be struck, so that when an alarm is sounded, by counting the strokes, its location is at once kndwn—provided of course you know the location of the boxes.

GLAD TO GET BACK!—A short time since two boys, seventeen yours of age, pupils of the high school, and sons of two of our roost prominent citizens, growing tired of study, took it into their silly heads lo cut loose from school and home, and seek thoir fortune in the wide, wide world. They wout. A week or so after a lady of this city attending the Cincinnati Exposition, saw them upon the streets of that city, looking quite forlorn and pitiable. The next week they were heard of at St. Louis, where they had enlisted in the Regulars and were about to be sent out upon the plains. Their fathers went over, visited them at the barracks, kindly bid them adieu, when the thoroughly repentant prodigals begged their fathers to procure their release. This was found no easy task, as the boys had sworn they were of age, but it was finally accomplished, and they are now at home completely cured el their folly. They are out two good suits of clothes, which tbey sold when they enlisted, but have learned, with sad experience, that "there is no placo like home."

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HOW TO PBBMBRVfi AUTUMN LEAVKH. —The leaves of autumn are beginning to assume the most beautiful tints— crimson, russet, orange, gold and variegated colors, and the question now presents itself, which is the best method of preserving them Of late years the preparing and shipping of rare specimens of leaves from American forests to Europe, in boxes, has assumed the form of trade, to a considerable extent, and the fancy shops in the large cities are each fall supplied with the finest varieties that can be found. The process of preservation is simple A few thick blotting pads, some sheet* of drawing paper, a camels hair brush and some amber varnish are all the necessary appliances, save a thick book to press the leaves between the blotting pads so as to extract the moisture before tbey are varnished and placed upon the paper. Already the leaves are turning, and tho ivy especially i« in proper condition. The poisonous plant makes the prettiest leaves, and i? not so dangerous but that most people can handle it in the fall.

MARRIAOB LicBJfsEs.—The following marriage licensee have been issued by the Coonty Clerk aince our last report:

Samuel L. Hall and Mary J. Anderson. Zed Morgan and Amanda Mapps. John H. C. F. Paes and Mary Krcuzig. James A. Holland and Catherine Curley. Miller Ward and Harriet A. White James H. Powell and Catharine C.

Smith.

William M. Stevenson and Zorllda Stunkard. John G. Williams and Florence G. Turner

John Jefltom and Sarah A. Btaggs. Henry H. Hawlett and Ellen B. Shewmaker. ijrrBiOtEirES.—'The following is a lift of interments in the cemetery siuce our

^OcuaR^Initont of F. Battanbrock age

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year and 7 months. Oct. 21—Mrs. H. J. McCauJey age years lypbold fever.

Oct. 28—Mrs. JSelMMi. Oct. 23—Intent o! Conrad Meyer, age 1 month scrofula.