Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 February 1873 — Page 4

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Has these Advantages:

1. It Is a "Weekly Newspaper only, therefore It is read the more carefully and fully.

-II, It is published on Saturday Evening, .w .and read on Sunday when husband and fe -wife are together to plan the purchases vr the coming week.

.III. The most important fact is that it has a vastly larger circulation than any paper in this eity—larger than all three of the

Daily papers combined.

JLV. It goes into nearly every household in this city, and is distributed by Newsboys *in the surrounding towns. V. Although only a weekly paper, itusual'4 ]y remains about the house the entire week, and is not thrown carelessly aside after thu flrst readiDg.

VI. The rates of advertising are so reasonable that advertisers by using the col-r-rrins ofTiiK MAIX. can get more for lh€ftr money than through any other sou roe.

For Rent.

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ItENT—DWELLING HOUSE--8even room A nearly new—good out buildings, located corner Llghtli and Third Avenue. For particulars enquire of C. C. BELT, at Belt's Photograph Gullery. Reference required.

Wanted.

WANTED-A

FEW MORE RELIABLE

men to sell the Howe dewing Machine this and adjoining counties. The only •machine without a mult. Call on, or address The Howe Machine Company. Office, 51 Milln street. Janll

PKR DAY! AGENTS 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. STIN80N & CO., Portland, Maine. s7-ly

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%70UND—'THAT THE CHEAPEST AND best advertising In the city can be obtained by investing in the Wanted, tor Bale, For Rent, Lost and Found column of tbe MAIL.

•J. P. Worrell, M. D.,

filxtli 81., Bantb »f Ohio.

'OFFICK FIOCRS—8 to 9 o'clock A. X. 2 to 4 and 7 and ft o'clock r. M., and all other hours night or day when net abssnt professionally.

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R. KESTER, Attorney at Law,

AND GENERAL COLLECTING A REAL ESTATE AGENT, I ll Mala Street, Terre-llante.

Money advanood on good notes. [feb8-6m

E. HOSFORD,

Attorney at La\v,

COR. FOURTH AND MAIN 8T8.

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PERA HOUSE CORNER.

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At Extremely law Prices.

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Skirts,

iNubias,

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'Scarfs, Gloves,

Hosiery,

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THE MAIL.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Office, 3 South 5 th Street.

TERRE-HAUTE, FEB. 8,1873.

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 Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city. Every Week's Issue Is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE.

THE UNKNO WN.

The tracts upon oar school geographies lablod "unknown territory" are

yearly

becoming less. The anxiety of

the human race to leave no part of this globe unexplored seems at a higher pressure this year than ever before. Expeditions are manning at all points, and the only trouble is the very limited extent of the unknown territory. It would naturally have been supposed that when the surface of the globe was finished with, the travelers would havo got down to weep for other worlds, or else undertaken a voyage to them. Their indefatigable curiosity is not thus to be restrained, and the earth being finished, save a little and rath' ool circle round the poles, their attention is transferred to the waters under the earth and the heavens above.

Touching the latter, two expeditions depart with the opening spring—Donaldson, of America, for a balloon trip across the Atlantic, and M. Pasquier, of France, for a balloon trip across Asia. The latter claims to have discovered a method of raising and depressing his balloon without any corresponding loss of gas or ballast. If this be so the secret of su essful aerial navigation is within reach.

Concerning waters under the earth, her Britannic Majesty's ship Challenger will soon start on a journey round the world, exploring the botton ot old Ocean as she goes.

There are plenty ot other expeditions on foot, but rather "onery" afiuirs after these three. Among them are two new excursions to North Pole, an exploration of Australia and two ol Central Africa, and still anotn which has for its objects a more complete survey and mapping of the myraid Isles of Polynesia.

THE YO UNO MEN OF THE SO VTH. The social upheaving of the South by the emancipation of the slaves has taught that people some useful if bitter lessons. Not the least of these is the dignity of labor. Under the old regime the wealthy planter reared his sons at home in idleness and ignorance, or sent them elsewhere to improve their miuds and gain a knowledge of government, to be applied in after life to tho defence of a system of society that tolerated a large non-productive element and degraded all its labor. The '*poor white" youth, to maintain a social rank one degree above the negro, was permitted to imitate the example of his rich naighbor as regards abstinence from work and study, and, without his refinement, to develop into the Ku Klux raider, Naturally enough, undorsuch conditions as these a false pride wus stimulated among all classes, and a hatred of honest, manly toil engendered. Tho war has taught a different creed, and the lesson, although a compulsory one, seems to be generally acceptable. If pride falls belore any thing, it is an empty stomach. Relentless poverty compelled a resort to work and thousands of the young men of the South, who before the war never raised their arm to do a stroke of labor, manual or clerical, have since found a new montal as well as physical health, if not wealth, in the tillage of the soil, or as clerks and mechanics.

SOME prosaic, and perhaps crusty medical savant has attacked the holy estate of matrimony in a novel but dis gusting manner. He would not abolish or materially modify the institution, but would knock all the romance out by establishing times and soasons for matrimony, as though it were a vegetable show, or an eclipe. The Idea of this original genius is that the chief end of matrimony to replenish the earth, and that marriages at certain seasons of the year are most uniformly productive, besides giving the parents tho best opportunities for rearing their offspring. This is all very well, but young lovers, sig ng like a furnace, are not likely to relish the idea of waiting two or three months, or more, for a conjunction of time and season. There will be marrying and giving in marriage right along, no doubt, |nst as thoi gh one day was as good as another—or a good deal better.

govs writer for a New York paper, who makes the unnecessary remark that his views may be considered as bordering on insanity, suggests that perhaps Napoleon isn't dead that he haw feigned death »nd permitted a funeral in order to command sympathy for the Km pre** and th« Prince Imperial, and that he will appear at tke proper peried, prepared to astonish the world more than ever before and to reassume the reins ot government. The writer says this view "may seem bordering on insanity."

DIVORCE.

The "use and abuse" of our altogether too loose divorce laws was quite forcibly portrayed by the company playing at the Opera House this week. The genuine satire of the piece is concentrated in the character of Jitt, the divorce lawyer, and although Jitt, of the stage, is an unpardonable insult even to a divorce lawyer, his manner and mode of proceedure are too painfully near a true mirror of the dry, bare statements of legal phraseology heard at every term of our courts. And this divorce business is constantly on the increase, not only here in Indiana, but all over the Union. It is a melancholy cendition of marital affairs, and one naturally asks for a solution ol the domestic enigma.

It may not be far from t&e truth to sav that in the majority of cases there has been no marriage at all. Whom God joined together no man can put asunder, but whom man has joined together can be easily put asunder. Male and female really married do not desire to be separated, even for a short time, much less finally and irrevocably. Confine a man truly married in a prison in San Francisco and his wife in a similar institution in New York, and they will be unhappy until both are free to rejoin each other. They fly together as positive and negative magnets, and stick as closely as those inanimate exemplars of genuine married life. Vf.-- 4

The troubles usually ansiug among husbands and wives, and which bring both before the courts, result from a violation of those sexual laws which punish the violators. Some men are easily fascinated with beauty and stop not to see whether a fair form encloses an angel or a devil. There is a continual masquerade. All the follies, all the vices ot both parties are carefully concealed. The real man and the real woman are only found out after it is too late. Then again, women love ease and luxury. Cash advances, hat in hand, and Cash conquers, for the nonce^ all disgust, and subdues all opposition. Age, too, comes with houses and lands, and princely appointments, and young womanhood, made to unite only with young manhood and so reproduce itself, is borne to the altar by arms tremulous with fast-coming decay. Parents and relatives and friends are not slow to call such matches excellent, when they are only accursed Lucifer matches lighted in hell.

Separation ensues, with all its attendant scandal, lawyers are employed to wring the neck of reputation, the dockets of courts are filled with divorce cases, and children left to euduro the shame and the misery of a disunited household.

The young of both sexes, freely intermingling and unbiased by either their own or selfish motives of others, marry and seldom bother the courts with divorce cases. .. In persons of much world experience and in a condition of sanity, mistakes eught scarcely to occur at all.

The very fact that the marriage tie can be easily broken superinduces recklessness in subsequent domestic life. And for these and other reasons which we do not choose to embody in a brief article, the land is disgraced by shameless exposures of marital difficulties within the sacred precincts of homes in an annual array ot divorce cases which would have startled, perplexed and dismayed our good old fathers of the earlier days of the Republic..,

IOWA has a liquor law similar is character to those ot Illinos, Ohio, and several others ef the States. A test suit is now in progress at the instance of parties in Des Moines. The wife of a drunkard of that city brought suit, laying damages at $5,000, against a seller ofliquor for incapacitating her husband for business, and depriving his family of his care and social companionship. She has been sustained in her suit by the People's Temperance Association of that city. This Association, by the way, is composed largely of reformed whisky drinkers, who fully appreciate the awful position of tho drunkard and his family. The case appeared in the district court, and was defended by some of the ablest lawyers of the Iowa bar. The woman won and was awarded $2,500 by the jury. A motion fbra new trial was introduced, and will, probably be granted, but it is the general impression that the verdict will be sustained.

SEVERE WEATHER.

A private letter from our former townsman Martin E. Hogsn, First Lieutenant 22d Infantry, dated at Fort Randall, Dakota, Jan. 27th, says:

A fearful cold wind and snow storm is now raging ho re. It commenced last night. After It ceases I expect to hear of some more unfortunate beings froten to death in the Scandinavian settlement between hero and Sioux City, and ,Northern Nebraska. The last storm a couple of weeks ago, some thfrty or forty people were found frozen stiff in the immediate vicinity of their own door-yards. It is said that more people have been frozen to death along the Missouri river this winter than any previous since settled. Stock of all kinds suffer terribly and die by hundreds. This can be attributed to the settlement being new, and most of the farmers being too poor to have proper shelter prepared for wintering their animals.

The Epi*ootic'' g»ve us a tfbod tassel but baa now disappeared. At one time oxen carried the mail and such passengers as bad to travel a distance of two hundred miles.

It most be pleasant np in Northern Minnesota, on the line of the Winona & St. Peter Railroad, the snow having drifted to snah a depth that the telegraph poles ar3 completely covered.

THB Philadelphia Star haa the temerity to predict that a phrenological revival will sweep over the land.

THBRB is to be an extra effort made in New York this month to hurry up the waiting murder trials. At the present rate, the cases are getting far ahead of the courts.

THE franking privilege is actually abolished, root and branch. The House concurred in the Senate bill Monday, by a large majority. It will be approved by the President as soon as he gets the bill before him. The act takes effect on the 1st of July next.

THE Iowa Legislature, which will go into session this week will probaDly do much more than enact the code and examine the Rankin defalcation. It is likely that attempts will be made to restore capital punishment, grant women the right to vote, and enact compulsory education.

THE New York Herald has brought together a list of expressions from the lips of famous New York murderers within the last twto years, and heads them "Quotation from the Murderers.'' It is remarkable to see the similarity in them. Indifference for the crime they have committed and utter contempt for the law characterize all but one or two.

ROBINSON'S circus and menagerie has concluded a successful season at New Orleans, and is now "doing" the lower rivers on steamboats. Three steamboats are used in transporting the institution. It is the intention of the management to visit the Western waters next seeson in a mammoth ark, modeled according to the generally accepted idea of Noah's cra t. This will be a novel sensation. To see specimens of all the animals in a venerable ark will, in all probability, awaken retniiniscences in the minds of the oldest of us.

No story of heathen mythology (savs a writer in Appleton's Journal) which tells of the transformation of human or celestial beings into plants or trees is so beautiful as that one in which the North American Indians give the origin of their maize, which is, in substance, that a beautiful girl, pursued by a river god, took refuge among the reeds, twining them about her to save herself, upon which her slender form was changed into a graceful stalk, her teeth into milk-white kernels, and her lovely, Uoating hair into silk and in place of reeds and maiden there stood only a tall, bending stalk of Indian corn so that ever after in the rustle of a waving cornfield the red man could haar the stirring of a company of timid girls.

A SUCCESSFUL DODGE, We had a visit from a book-peddling female last week. She wished to dispose of a book. She was alone in this world, and had no one to whom she could turn for sympathy or assistance, hence we should buy her book. She was unmarried, and had no manly heart in which she could pour her sutferings therefore we ought to invest in her book. She had received aliberal education and could talk French like a native we could not in consequence refuse to pay her two dollars for a book. She wanted to take lessons in music lrom a learned German professor consequently we must not decline buying a book. We had listeued attentively, and here broke in with, "What do you say? We're deaf." She started in a loud voice and went through her rigmarole. When she had finished we went and got a roll of paper and made it into a speaking trumpet, placed one end in our exr, and told her proceed. She nearlv burst a blood vessel in her lrantic eliorts to make herself beard She commenced "I am alone in the world." "It doesn't make the slightest difference to us. We are not alone in fact, we are a husband and a father. Although this is leap year, bigamy is not allowed in this State. We are not eligible to proposals," "Oh! what a fool this man is," she said in a low tone then at the top of her voice, "I don't want to marry you. I want—to —sell—a—b 1" This last sentence was howled. "Wo don't want a cook," we blandly remarked "our wife does the cooking, and she wouldn't allow as good looking a woman as you are to stay in the bouse five minutes. She's very jealous." She looked at us in despair. Gathering her robes about her, giving us a glance of contempt, and exclaiming, "I do believe if a three-hun-dred pounder were let off along side that blamed old deaf fool's head he'd think so me bod was knocking at the door," she slung herself out and slammed the door with a vehemence that awakened our office boy, who can sleep sound enough for a whole family. When she was gone we indulged in a demoniac laugh. She isn't likely to try to sell us a book any more.

WB do not justify theft of any kind on the contrary, the slightest deviation from the path of strict honesty and integrity cannot be too strongly condemned. We have no means of knowIn

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S£S? know, but w. n»po?llollT .ug-

geat that they never will abate tne evil of which they complain until they

ooen

—[Germaiitown Chronicle.

CONFESSIONS OF A BARTENDER. Col. Montgommery of the Logan, (O.) Republican, recently Interviewed a bartender. He says:

We meta very pleasant gentleman last week, who has been a bartender for a number of years and he talked freely of the business. He says that for a clean profit there is nothing like It in the world. That the best whisky furnished costs $1,80 a galloh a gallon averages one hundred drinks at ten cents each, or $10,00. The business is good every day of the week and every hour of the twenty-four. That a saloon opened early on Sunday morning will take in $15,00 before the Sunday School bells ring. That as a rule a bar-room opening into a hotel is best because customers enter the hotel without notice from the street, Especially in this the case on Sundays. Such a bar will pick up many a dime from those going to Church, while half the congregation will come when Church is out. Then this crowd being a little uncertain as to where they will spend the afternoon will each take two drinks for fear they may not get back.

He then detailed to us how liquors are "doctored" until very little of the original goes into the mouth of the drinker. This makes the business nearly all profit.

A Billiard table or something of that kind retains the customers ana brings the second drink but then it encourages loafing, and that your true bartender dispises. The model customer is your well-dressed man who walks right in, calls for what he wants, asks the bartender to "join him," lays down the money, picks up a coffee grain and walks out. The "social glass" where three or four men stand and talk, though profitable, as each will treat before leaving, is nevertheless a nuisance, because one or more of them is sure to become boisterous and liable to iniure the reputation of the house.

That where the bar is connected with a hotel ladies can be accommodated. They walk up to the parlor, ring the bell, and sena the servant. Ladies always want hot whisky, or whisky straight. Drinks sent out are charged 15 cents.

Drunsen men are an abomination. A man who gets drunk at one bar and then reels into another gets very shabby treatment. Of course a gentleman wants to go on a blow once in a while. The gentle way to do this is to take a room at the hotel with three beds and three companions and order up 15 cent drinks until all three are completely drunk and then go to bed and sleep it off.

AN Italian, styling himself "nerve tuner," has made the discovery that people get out of tune just as easily as violins or other musical instruments, would oe Kept up as ioug as umo and he claims to have a method by endured and had no patience with the which he can make the most irritable people in harmony, not only with themselves, but those around them. The first is no great discovery, but if this noblest of philanthropist has really found a way of banishing from the world those awful days known as blue days," when one don't "feel right," let him at once shout the glad tidings from pole to pole.

Our friend was confident that drinking would be kept up as long as time

talk about ragged children, suffering wives, agonized parents and dying drunkards. He thought when a man had enough he should quit, and if be made a fool of himself it was none of the bartender's business.

WITH A HURRAH.

The editor of the St. Louis Globe goes for women with a hurrah. Hear him. We love women—old or youiig— simply because they are wemen. Our mothers spank us our sweetheats spoil our joys by flirting with our rivals our wives read us a genuine or moderate Caudle lecture, which we usually deserve. Women nave laughed at our woes when indulging in the tender passions, riddled our heart with Erosiam arrows, depleted our pocket-book, disturbed our Blumbers, spoiled our coffee, rumbled our starched linen bosoms, hung to our arm with her whole precious weight when our corns hurt us most, danced us into a perspiration, and caused us to buy lozenges for a cold but, in spite of all these things, we love her. We set her up as an idol and prostrate ouselves before her as before some divinity. We don't care a copper what dry goods cost, so she looks sweet. W*e will fight for her like a Prussian soldier. Let Mr. Holland say what he will to derogate from the sex, we shall "hang our banners on the outer wall" and cry, "Hurrah for womeo

ABOUT CABINET ORGANS. It may not be generally understood, even by those tolerably well versed in musical arts, that the vast difference in quality of tone developed in the different makes ol Cabinet Organs, is owing, in a great measure, to the different modes of bending the tongue of the reed, a slight variation in the style of bend making quite a perceptible difference in the quality of tone produced, as well as in the speaking capacity of the reed.

So difficult and peculiar is this department of work as to render it necessary for a person to have a natural gift or tact in handling the delioate tools used, and even then it sometimes requires years of practice to enable one to become proficient in this art.

There ate only two or three of tho leading makers in this country who understand the application of what is called the new and improved bend in the reed, and among them the house of Simmons A Clough Organ Co., of Detroit, Mich., have made their instruments deservedly popular, and are taking the lead in way of the more desirable improvements, having secured the valuable "Scribner Patent," an application of tubes to reeds, which materially increase the volume of tone, and at the same time destroy the wirey, metalic sound of the reed. This firm also make use of tho celebrated "Vox Humana," or "FAN tremolo," and also the famous "Vox Celeste" stop, tho use of which has created such an outcry among older manufacturers, who find it impossible, with their style ol bend and voicing to make a good job of it.

It is comparatively but a brief period since this firm began to make instruments upon a large scale, and offer them to the public at large through dealers,—tne home demand having taken their entire production heretofore,—but we are informed that the experience of this house dates back to the year 1850, and it is these years of careful study and experiment which combine to make their Organs, in many respects, superior to tho®© of other makers.

The musical editor of the Superior (Wis.) Times makes mention of them as follows: "We are impressed with all we read and know of the 'Simmons & Clough Cabinet Organ.' Contrary to the practice of many other establishments, this firm have first made a reputation for their nobie instruments, and then advertised them. It is a mystery

MEO. NE UU UI»*U» WI IUUW that conductors are dishonest above to us outsiders what they are advert Is otSer men. Railway companies, how- ing iorx aa the demand for *ke»eOrgans ever, take it for granted that they are now exceeds the supply. The great deforced to steal in order to live, and act- mand for them, in fact,

*Ltlia Prtmnnnv fn nnt tin A DOW HIflnU"

..jg upon this supposition, set them- the Company to put up a new manu selves to work to block the game are tell

block

r*a to work to DIOCK me game. T»O factory at a cost of nearly not win enouBh rappoM we en Tb«i» in only

thrwj

tbe long headed miuitiiol rack Cblnet Org«n CIIIM nAd"*""•«

of wbicn tney complain uum can render all styles of music^,fron» the

their.hearts and purses and give

thunders

a^^days's wages for a fair day's work, the strains of a fine military band.or

in.irinn^ts ol lbe

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orer.rtb.ln.lra-

of the three we far prefer the instru^ ment made by Simmons A Clough.

of church organ diapason to

the strains of a fine military band, or the exquisite tremolo of fairy bells.

[For the Saturday Evening Mail.] FRIEND WBSTFAIX:—In your issue of Saturday the 25th, you published tho following: "William Patrick, at the recent election of directors of the Vigo Agricultural Society, cast thirty votes for that number of absent stockholders. Of course, he had it pretty much his own way, and he will in a great measure be held responsible for the success or failure of the year's management."

I desire to make some correction in regard to the above statement. You state that I east thirty votes for that number of absent stockholders in that statement you are wrong—on two points—first, I only cast twenty-seven votes for other parties. Secondly, those votes were owned by only eleven stockholders—most of them owning three 'shares each—entitling them to as many votes. The owners of those shares were men who had their business to attend to and could not be at the election. Among that number was our Vice-President and according to all rules of Stock Companies they were entitled to be represented as they saw proper. I don't know who gave you your information, but is so worded as to imply a reflection on me in tho part I took in the election of the new Itoard. Now as to the new board there is a general expression of satisfaction at the result. It may not be satisfactory to a few, and always is the case. Wo have five of the old board re-elected, aud seven new ones—all farmers and in that number all the Townships are represented, that own shares in the Society, except Otter Creek and they only own one share. For my part I would like it if every Township in tho County would take stock and take au interest in the fairs, and when the lime comes that they do, I shall do as I did at the last meeting, cast m.v votes so as to have all represented on liio l»»nl. My desire and motto is, to satisfy and do the most good to the largest number, and in trying to do so, if I tail, it will be in the head, not in the heart. Now as to my responsibility for the failure or success of the years management, I would say there is full as good, if not abetter prospect for making a success as there nas been heretofore. Ten out of the twelve on the new board are practical agriculturists all of whom have come forward and shown their good will to assist in the good course by taking from one to three twenty-five dollar shares of stock, and I have no doubt there are more good men who have not been on the Board of Directors who are capable of managing a Fair aa successfully as those who have done it in the past at least I am willing to try them. And if the present Board prove a failure in the management, yours truly, will be found ready to try new men casting my votes tor that purpose be they three or thirty.

I would say in conclusion there are three things required to make an agricultural society successful. First, must be the finances second, no partiality shown to one exhibitor over an other third, the officers and members of the Board should be active, courteous and gentlemanly to all.

WM.

PATRICK.

The City and Vicinity.

To Mail Subscribers.—^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. Donley, Opera House. 8. R. Baker A Co., F. O. Lwbby. M. P. Craft* Opp. Post Office. Will B. Sheriff, ParlH, Ills. Walter Cole, Marshall, Ills. Harry Hill Sullivan, lnd. James Allen, Clinton, lnd. J. B. Dowd, Rockvllle, lnd. Frank Smead Brazil, lnd. C. V. Decker Mattoon, Ills. H. J. Feltus Ureeiicastle, lnd. John W. Collins Kansas. Ills.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

.AStna Fire Ins—C. P. Mllllgnn. Opera Houte— Edwin Adams. Dowllng Hall—McEvoy's Hlbernlcon. Kelloitg at Rockvllle. Card—J. P. Worrell, M. D. Watch Repairing— LI«htnor. Centaur Liniment—J. B. Rose 4 Co. Pitcher's Castorla. Vegetlne-H. R. Htovens & Co. Sale of Dry Goods—R. H. Balding & Co. News lor All—R. L. Black. Hlnger Sewing Machine. Photographs— J. W. Hueher. Spring Supplies—W. H. Rvee A Co. Attorney at Law—J. R. Heater. Agricultural ImplementM-Jesaup&Gauze. Boots and Hhoes—N. Boland. For Rent—Dwelling House.

LENT

sets in on th* 20th.

NBXT

Friday St. Valentine's Day.

TJTE weather is becoming quite childlike and bland.

A LITTLE more of this weather will start the sugar water. CAL

WAONER'S Minstrels are established favorites in this community, and propose to come often.

THREE interesting stories will bo found on tbe inside pages, besides much other interesting and useful matter.

THE local columns of the papers havo been somewhat dull this week, but it was no fault of the editors. They, but mirrored tbe city. •i.

KEEP in mind the fifth annual ball of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, at Dowling Hall, on tho evening of tbe 20tb inst."

THB farmers have little else to do now but to haul in hay and straw, judging from tbe glutted condition of the Third street market yesterday.

THE Railway Company have negotiated for tbe purchase of a one-horse car, of a new pattern, and contemplate extending their line north and south.

THE Lidies Aid Society desire to ex press thanks for tho receipt of |20.C0, intended for tho "Home" fiom the "Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Socicty."

A CUT lemon kept on the wash stand and rubbed over the hands daily, after washing, and not wiped off for sorao minutes, is an excellent remedy for chapped hands.