Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 August 1873 — Page 4

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QPEKA HOUSE CORNER.

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100 Pieces Ne1

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At Greatly Redaced

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CHEAP. I

OtXR STOCK OF

Summer Dress Goods,

Grass Cloth Suitings,

Grenadines, Dress Linens,

Japanese Poplins, "fc

Japanese Silks,

Seersucker Stripes,

Lace Points and Sacques,*

Ladies and Children's Suits,

Ladies Scarfs,

supposed to nave a fine vein lying a decided bargain.

Foil

Skirts, Shawls, &c., &c.

HOBERU, ROOT & CO., I %\, w- Opera Honsc.

For Sale.

FOR

SALE—One of the bast located, most desirable farms In Vlgt County—109 acre#—fteven tulle* *uith a railroad station

.. I «ll A Matn/1'

on adjoining land rlcli country all around osed to Imveft fine vein or coal underF. A. HOBS. 509 Ohio street.

8ALE-A neat, convenient frame house of four rooms, lot ltd by 142 feet, on Kagle street, east of Fifteenth street.

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F. A. ROHo,

Price 11.600. 200 Ohio street.

T?Or BALE.-A HMALL FIRE PROOF Hnfe nt a bnTgfrin. Call at "Central Book Htore," 625 Main street.

HA LK— PORTABLE RAW MILLthree miles below M^xvllle. Also one «»x team—three yoke, wagou, chains,,etc.

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^rtloujarti^onalre ofA,.

Term* B« WILLI*, •oft- north «evc»nth street, near Locust mill, all In B°od order,

The mill Is a number one, Eagle augD-2t

I1^OR'Thecomfortable73x182

8 A LK—T11 AT BEAUTIFUL LOT, with a dwelling of 0 looms, goad collar, closets, W°U« cistern, •l11ne^ barn. lot In large, feet, will sell very cheup, and give possession immediately. FRED A. ROBS, Ileal Estate Broker, /WO Ohio street,

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HALSf-WOOtf! WOOD! «1J» PER load for my choice summer wood, delivered to any part of the ettv. Leave orders at Erlanger Co., Opera 1 louse building, at Stave Factory, or with the .driver, who Is nuthoraed to collect. V. M. GILMAN.

EiOR HALE-ONE HUNDRED ACRES OF nation, y, adJoining Markle's Mill. Hns a gooti frame dwelling House of thrsp rooms. For partlonlni'H Inquliv of WM. D. MAllKLL.

g^l"F«rm"nnd all under cultivation, In Otter Creek Township, Vigo Couuty, adtng Markle's Mill. Hns a good nr

For Trade.

"tf)RTRADE-«A HPLENDID FARM 400 acres, nor Ctwcy, Illluols—a flne orchard flnl-raUl timber-productive landIOI)acrew cleared—will exchange tor desirable city property. FlltCD A, RQ.!j3t..Heal K«tate Broker, fiw Oh lo street.

fj'Olt TRADE—A UOOt) PIECEOF PROPJP arty in •tire reora,

in U)« cliy, lot 7iVxl4U feet, frume j«, two Story -dwelling, and »mall

whop hereon, In a gosd location lor lu\l ne»—wJll exchange for a small Improved farm. FRKD A. HUSH, Real Estate Broker, 60* Ohio street,

Wanted.

117 ANTED—IMMEDIATELY, FIFT YV |poti steady bricklayers—steady ntovment and good wages given. Apj ROCK \VO0! CO., Terre-Haute.

WANTKD-A

-Kcil Estate Broker,

N TOE OHIO

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FTEEH em ply lo

FEW MORE lUiLIABLE

men to sell the Howe Sewlug Machine lu thl* and adjoin lug count lew. The only machine wlthnnt a molt. C*ll twi, «r »ddrew The ll«we MachlneCompaoy. Office, VI Main street. lanU

JpiJKI). A. ROS8, rT

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-.ble property northwe»t corner

A rcry ir*t and CUi7 room*, iwd barnjjot eeoantoft^

fi'ntaikdCWystr«*u, lot ilixlU llowe, liy aenirablo on 15,600. e«l«»(rhey and en

ftt lot ©•I'vywll

ktaa. stlsaS-rery

Two

loaebV Was. St 3SS&-reiT

CHT*P.

Tea *fr«ea lllo»«la«ton Road, *e^r desirable. 5M.00Q

em e*Jo»ure. I^rlee Vaeaetlo! 5-1x112 corner Fourth tsdl'wk re «Vseaat Iftt 42xl«, nn »o«th Third rtrett, adjeininc Third Ward sehoel home. jpjo 11 o, on oak »trr«t, tm wtfMbfr p»yaisi ^sJ-".

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Mand

IW. corner.Firtt sod

Mnlberry very denlrablc ftetttriar parpwer. Ten acres .r sere. jfe ^-!ek h^i*e efs |0 feet of icrM»nd. wjf ^irfnitbii on MtUi iiw itmt, at it front fbot, *.

for tttana*

fc?rk*fwtl» 9lotf4.«»

id north of eit^ W Hfr

A bit (avltlnilil tt*: fftiM If UBPtored nr«\|»r

8e*«r*l t$l«ua4 fara* In Vlg« Coattty. well lrapf»TM-~»Hl ejeehange for city pro^erty.

A ia*g« brkk veiling, corner of Fir»t and Molberry. .v 13» acre# of -.1 land* BMf %kwtt thort di»tance :a the C. f- H- «». fo^d tiwlwrsoc vt

de»hr»We—a g»od tiwi#

WilltMC^v ii A very i. «rJ,ye fam.am aem. near »e city—wil nge fbtr a farm of CW #1

1 E*tat« Broker, 6® Ohto rtfrtt.

^TAVELAND,

Collegiate Institute,

Ii«csted a

WnvHaad. XealgaiMrf Caaaijr, lad.,

Will open ftr twroty-tlfih

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day, sea. S, JHT*. For pattkrolar* a«ldrew the Prlncn al. july«»-2«n J. M. NAYLOIL, A. 34.

TEfiRB-ftAUTlS

I THE-MAIL,

Office, 3 South 5th Street*

TKERK-HAUTE, AUG. Id, 187».

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

SECOND EDITION

I-: SVICIDK.

The suicidal mioU §00019 to prevail throughout lbs country to an extent that Is absolutely alarming. The morning paper is never oomplete without its one or more suicides, and the telegraph seldom fails to bring in at least one item every twenty-four hours for this department. Our own city has furnished its full quota. A perfectly healthy mind cannot conceive how any other mind can contemplate suicide. Perfect health and thoughts of death in any shape are not congenial. When tho mind broods continually on death, it is not in a healthy state, whether or not it contemplates selfdestruction. That unhealthy brooding is the route to suicide, and the fancies which it gives rise ou the way, are often very curious, There Js something grotesque in the careful preparation many suicides make for leaving the world gracefully. There is a sort of ghastly humor in their farewell, which, while it may not provoke a sinile at the time, leaves a sort of impression of burlesque on tho memory. The man who killed himself in New York laBt Saturday, and left a will giving his head to the faculty for dissection displayed more method in his madness than most suicides, and his devotion to science atoned in some degree for his foHy. f\

SuicideHfr differed nationalfties dSthibit various methods and traits. Americans have a fancy for hanging, but they often shoot the French take poison, either in the stomach or lungs the English rather/avor drowning the Germans are rather undecided about the best way to do it they are the most sensational, and furnish instances of the most curious suicides on record, There is always something extraordinary about a German's cp^tUod of helpf ing himself out of the world. He shows more deliberation and active prepara* tion for the event, and ho usually succeeds. He looks upon &ilurc|.M^ntlrely inexoasable. when, tii|jthiiMci»u be made so sure. —1•---•!»'• \-/W

All cases of suicides „aj successful robberies, nnd the robber 16ates himself confessed in the hands of society and the law to do with him what they like. Tho suicide robs misfortune and time of their lawful prey and mocks at punishment aqd retribution. He thinks to suspend the laws of nature by dying before his time and probably rejoices while in the act of proving himself an exception to the majority of mankind. Some suicides seem to take particular pains to work up their cases into sonsations, and leave just enough doubt and mystery to make their mournful stories intensely interesting. The difTereut modes of gettiug out of the world conceived by their minds, often show ingenuity worthy of encouragement, If directed toward some cause in life. Their last words, when they leave any, are intended to make their friends feel most miserable and wish above all things they had lived. This is an unfair advantqgo to take of the living, and sometimes s&ggests that it might have been the sOTe object of the sulcido to make the world feel

GUANOES.

The new secret society of the "©ranges of the Patrons of Hosbandry" Jjas developed itself with a suddenness and strength whish is very remarkable. In this State it has not had that rapid growth of some of the other western States—especially Illinois and Iowa, where the order has become an Immense power in the land. John Wier, of Hotte? Creek township, this county, is Grand Master of this State, and the farmers of this county Intend ttoi^uve a Wrong grange in operatiott lA fcvery township before tho winter season comes on. The general idea of the or dnr ~*s originally suggested by a com tnuiutjr Of Scotch termers in Js'orti Carolina, clubbed together for The purchase of ail needed supplies from hands, and nt wholesale prices, ^t not until Lsfituhmi ttie tfiougkt of Ing an extensire organisation upon this model ^tgac to mck« headway among farmers of tho West. Grad ually the thought was developed into action, and the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry became the wide-spread and powerful league which we now find it. Wot*e*, well as men, are aduiiUod to the privileges of the granges. Members cdmi^ted to the first degree are khown respectively as laborer jfciui majd) to the qpoogd degree as cultivator and shepherdess to the third degree as harfester and gleaner and to the fburih degree as hssbaadman and matron. The fifth degree is confferrrod only in the State grangvs,which are composed ,of masters and paat-mast-ers of the subordinate granges and their wives, who are matrons. Those admitted to this degree an members or the Pomona or Hope grange. The sixth degree is conferred only upon members of the council of the National grange, which is composed of master* and past-masters of State granges and their wives, who have taken the degreo of Pomona. The emblem of this degree is Flora (charity.) The seventh and highest degree is confarAd Only upon members of the national senate,- whjeh comprises members of the council who have served one year in that body. The

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a first

TURliAY EVENIN

members of this degree are charged with the secret work of the order. It is said that the work of the seventh-de-gree members will include the execution of whatever political plana may for carrying out the general qf tbeorder.

BEN. BUTLER AND BACK PAY. Ben. Butler'a. defence of the "Salary Grab" has at lsat come to the light. The modest msn delayed his deftnee bectkuse he did "not wish to appear anxious to forestall public opinion on that subject, or to rnah to the defence of a irieesure that ought not to have been attacked." Bntler la a lawyer, and who ever knew a lawyer who dealred to try a case while honest public indignation waa warm against his client? "It is always desirable in such oases to find some plauaible excuse ior putting the case over. Bntler is a sufficiently shrewd lawyer to get np a high sounding pretext. Bat, alter all may not be only pretext. He doea seem to delight in defying publiq sentiment, and His very possible that he did not wish to lorestall or change publio sentiment on this subject* Perhaph he, enjoyed the disgrace. Some men, we are told, "glory in their shame."

But the defence, like every* euienatlojp of its antbor, is mighty interesting jrtSding. Nothing stale b^-common-place in what Ben. Butler says or write*. Tfiere ia a largo#e&ment of trtftix ik tJW» only^ difficulty £bdut this truth is that it has nothing to do with the point at issue.He punches Minister Washburn in the ribs in a most amusing manner, that is, it is amusing to tho general reader, not to the man punched, Thero probably is more truth than fiction in bis assertion that, of those returning the 6ack pay, many were Influenced more by fear than conscience. He hits SenatorMorton a delightful rap with a club furnished by the Indiana Senator himself. He shows up Vice President Wilson's theory of a "contract" in a most amusing manner, and puts the second oAlcer in the predicament of not only violating what he calls a "contract" in the past,but shows thateven while be is unwilling to violate his contract as Senator, ho does violate Tils conlractad^Vlce PFeslHfefnt.,' It was an 'ViiWtuii&i alfp of the pen that wrote a flimsy excusg for doing a right act. The doughty General "goes for" th^ ^eajatoj-s and Representatives who are toO eonsCientVua,to feqepi the money and so give it to charitable and educational institutions, in a most interesting and warlike manner, as he does also for those institutions which have besought him to bestow his back pay upon them. Poor fools ^9 believe that Ben. Butler would give up any lunds upon which he had pneelsid hlB bands they richly deserve the lashing which be gives them for their credulity, as well us for eagerness to sanctify illgotten gains by applying tbem to holy uses. He hits them where they deserve it when he reminds them that "the receiver is as bad as the thier." As We said there is a great deal of truth here, but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the question whether the Salary Grab was right or wrong. What if the Vice Presidents theory, is silly, and his own past and present action is Inconsistent with it? What if those returning tho back pay were frightened into it? What if "buying glory" with the money is just as bad as "buying meat" with it? What if charitablej educational and religiWus institutions asking for, or taking a share of the plunder are as bad as the plunderers?

These are^aU true pseertions, bat they do not touch the question whether the increase of salary for services already performed "was right or wrong.

There are but two arguments in this deienop.wbioh really touch, the matter at i&tbi and ibtei* dfestriyieaeh other. The defence begius with the assertion that the "bill has been entirely misunderstood and iui»represa«ted."' He clams that it does not increase the salary of members, or increases the salary but little, Jat only ^aaii^es After deducting from the additional pay what has heretofore been psid as mileage, which is now so modified as only lo cover actual expenses, snd what It will cost to pay. postage on account of the abolition of the franking privilege, be claims that there is an average increase miy tm* off-fi,ooo. After elaborating the argument to prove that there is no increase, or very little, be goes savagely for Ministers, Vice President,

Senators and Represen

tatives who returned their pay, those who gave it fbr charitabte purposes, the institutions eager to get It,the press Ac., in which general attack the truths before alluded to, and some things not trua, are altered, all Of which in no way concern the case. Finally ho comes to the real defence again, urging that the increase is neeesaary because mepberf wopot live ftpon their" salaried. Iii the outset he claima that there is no increase, or none worth naming, and at the end hi claims that he "voted for, engineered, and made himself responsible fer an inereaae of sslary" not because ho needed it, but because be wanted for the "poor man" the privilege of representing the people, which be coold not do, or could only do at great sacrifice under the former salary. The real defence Is twbfold. I. There has been no increase. 2. The increase was necessary.

That we do not misrepresent this astute lawyer, honorable members of Congress, and would-be Governor, take two extract* fipom thedeftece. Extract No. 1:

tm. prsscnt hill aboiltfce* all nutate.

"Si"—-

'and thus reduces the pay of some members oulte 00 per eent. while raises that of others alike amount. Again, heretofore, 41veis allowances weve puds to members of Congress in the shape of newspapers, stationery, franking privilege, and other matters, wfoleh in the past have teen.overj

avs" fr.s:

no such addition to the pay as has been pretended in the publie Journals, It being

usually

stated therein that eveiv Congress-

man voted himself «6,000 addition si pay, whereas the deduction of ™tleaf® these allowances being made, there has not really, on an average more than 11,000 ,r added if so much but bow much »UHot exactly be known, except by theMj perienceof the results to members in the 'expenseof carrying on their correspondence anu doing Uie business of their constituents the member now paying Ms own even when addressing the Presldct United States in the publie service.

"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now," readers ot The Mail, while yon trace the terrible sufferings

Desiring and intending a poem man shall have the opportunity to represent the peoJJle.'in

C6bgresin!

A worthy successor is here, of that well known and oft quotod legal gentleman w'ho argued that his client did not borrow the kettle, and that it was cracked when he borrowed it.

MARSHALL. ifjondent of the Pittsburg

Commercial abuses our neighbor town of Marshall in this outrageous mannor:

West of Terre Hante the first place of Importance is Marshall. This is the Marshalltown of olden times and it Is barely safe to call it an enterprising villsge. Its trade is entirely in agricultural products, it being tbe centre of a large scope of tine farming country. Here for the first time since we leit home were we impressed with the idea that we were "out West," and this impression was produced by the primitive costumes and manners of its people. Ox teams stood chewing the cud at the' Cofcrt'Houso ftnce, while the lank, froway, tobacco chewing, loud swearing native lounged about talking of matters which were an index of their ignorance. There are pleuty of "Gran gera" here, nottbnt there is a lodge and a large membership, but the denisensof tbe neighborhood round pbodt have from some source Imbibed the idea tbat tbe railroad and the mechanics and the "storekeepers" are about to attempt tbe extermination of the-farmers, ana they propose dying in that famoua "last ditch," if they can only get someone to4lg it for them. The Court Honse 'here would be a prise for Major Burneil, if he-uouId only get it to his Museum. It is of briok nnd looks pretty well outside, bnt a description of lis internal belongings would never be believed. The old-fashioned wood fireplaces, tbe red brick floors, tbe nnplsstered walls, innocent of whitewash even to these many years, the entire lack of accom modations for the several officers of the county, make up a scene essily appreciated. The officers hold on well, bowever, even in such rude offices. Tbe clerk has been in office about twenty years snd others have had terms so long as to make tbem almost expects life office. They have a Democratic paper, and it has some pnbscribers who pay their bills, though to look st the -x*-— of the editor (who, by tho wAy,

lUGUSTT8.l873.aj

Greene,™

of those

men whom the pnbllodrives reluctantly to the halls of Congress, snd, if there be left one psrticle of that noble mahhood which is' touched and moved by heroic devotion to the rights of the oppressed, let It throb while yon look In upon the secret motivee of that breast thrown open to your inspection, the breast of Mm who voted fbr, engineered.and made himfcelf responsible "for that increase of salary for these under paid and much abused Congressmen, whksh wss to relieve their terrible sufferings, sn Increase which, as we bsve seen WHS not "so much an increase as an equalization." Extract No. 2: "I saw in Congrdw many faithful efficient Representative*, honest, temperate, economical men, unable to bring their families to Washington ,or it effectlon and duty Induced them to do *o, they llvtd in the third story of some second or third rate boarding house, in a single room, combln. ing office, parlor, slltlng-room, aud bed room In one, so that the rest of ihelr menus could be used In educating their children, or keeping op the homestead, that they might return to it at the end of their term of service. I knew that some of the men of whont I have spoken were obliged to Borrow money and pledge their salaries in advance to pay their way and support their families. I saw them exposed, day by day, to the pressing temptations of whosoever should offer them other means of getting money to supply their wants, and I knew that some of them had yielded, and disgraced themselves, their colleagues and iheir country by so doing. I pitied the needs and the struggle for the means of 11 Ing which Mad induced them to It, and felt from my soul that snch ought not to be the condition of a Representative of the American people in its Congress.

Now for afire works.

either' lwase, and be so

paid, turft he can stand erect among bis fellows, and feel hlmsell entirely independent L«6~fera4an adequate support is concernedI

to remove

all wish or desire to get perqui

sites or to overdraw stationery or allowances to enable him to employ a clerk to aid him in doing the business and in answering tbe correspondence of his constituents—not an unonerous burden, which, as you may well guess, In my own case, and doubtless in many others, amounts tor more thai! l(J,OOOletter* a yent-1 voted for, ftdvocat«l, "engineered/' and made myself re-

sponslblfefor—however

the same may be

phrasetl—an Increase of salary to the President, Judges, members of Cabinet and of Congress, to every decree in «iy power, and am glad that I was able to bring It about to the extent charged upon me. It Is a responsibility from which do not shrink, and I shall neither falsify my arts, or. preyericate myself In palliation or excuse

Dei

a very good fellow lor a yon would nei never believe it.

imocfht,)

POOR DAN.

(From andnnaUJ Satarday Xlght.] A few dSays ago Da id Voorhees was sentenced for thirty days to the Workbouse on a charge of vagrancy. A few .minutes after belad been uken to bis Scell below, prior 'a his departure for tbst institution, an old Democrat from

Indlaua, standing in front of tbe building, and hearing the naoe mentions* by some or the crowd, rusb4Ki down and demanded his release, drawing a well-filled pocket-book, ana declaring, most emphatically, that he "knowea, Dan ever since he waa a boy, and he'd be deggoded if they should imprison him Just for being Democrat."

He wss Mb glad and end when be •aw the prisoner and discovered that he wasn't Indiana Dan. .m.

CLASSICAL EXPN&SSIOYS.

iCoorter-Jotmal.]

log days I consider this re

quest decidedly cool?" "what sauce tor the goossissaooe for tbe gander "this is to my mind piling it on pretty fltoep." Tbes* classical expressions appear la an official letter from Lolled States Treasurer Spinner to a New England banc. If Great didn't write lettars and speeches and things confoundedly well himself, we would: advise hltn'always to £et Spinner to do it for him.

The City and Vicinity.

TKB SATURDAY EVEJIUNGf MAIL Is Saturday afternoon by era House. .O.Leobjr.

A. HLDooK,. fe lt. Baker ACo^.... M, P. Crafts, Will B. (Sheriff, Walter Oole,-.~. Harry HIM,... James Allen J. B. Dowdt —. Pranets A.lCldd C. V. Decker H. J. Fellas John W. Oolllns. Harris Ward,. O.

HuhkU,lUv

^—Sullivan, Ind. .^...Clinton, Ind. Bockville, Ind.

Braail, Ind.

...Mattoon, His.

„Ureenensile, Ind. Kansas. Ills. -.Kulghuville, Ind .......^Wavetand, Ind.

NEW ADVERTI&KMEN1.

Gone Back-H. F. Relnera. Plows—P. H. Newhart. Dissolution—Foster Bros. County Atlas-A. T. Andrew. Wanted—Bricklayers-Rockwood a Co. nSfSSSIr&TSW.J.*.o.00«. Tarrant*' tseltaer Aperient. Smolander's Buebu. Can't You See It—R. L. Balk Singer Sewing Machine. Lamson's Penmanship—J. M. Olcott. Pianos—Anton 8hide. Flour, Meal. Feed—Kern's Mill. Boots and Shoes—E. Ohm. The Cent Store-H. Feehheimer. For Sale—House-F. A. Ross. For Hale— Farm—F. A. Ross. Attention—F. A. Ross. Printing—C. W. Brown. Figures Won't Lie-Mossier Bros. Groceries—Geo. W. Newman. Legal—Sheriff's Sale. For Sole—Small Safe-Central Bookstore. Hie Last Chance-Foster Bros. Hooks and Stationery—Denlo Bros. Talk About your Comets!—A. Hers A Co. —and— Many Local and Personal Notices.

to test the new water

WAKNKR'S dregs ie to be here en the 25thinst. .« a. v, THK cholera scare depresses the watermelon trado.

THE sandbar between the river bridges has come to the surface.

TRIM your shade trees. Let there be light from the street gas lampa,

FKW people can peel onions without experiencing orbicular humidity. m^mm

LEMONS are so high that many lemonade drinkers have to fall back on beer.

HUMANITY generally, It ia hoped, aio grateful for the present clear, oool and bracing weather.

LAST Saturday afternoon seven permits te launch into matrimony were Issued by the County Clerk.

THEprairie bbicken can now be shot with impunity—and a shotgun—the game law expiring yesterday.

THK Daily Journal was nineteen years old last Tuesday, and the present editor helped get out the first numbe*.

POSTAL cards coat one cent, but there is nothing in the statutes to prevents man's paying two cents if he wants two.

AM oid-faahiooed camp-meeting will be commenced in a grove one mile west or Prairieton next Thursday and oontinue for ten days. let

ALL petitions for the free bridge that are now baing circulated, are requested to be handed in at J. A. Foote's store by the first day of September.

TAKEI* altogether this has bedfi DID of the. pleaaanteat summers that we have enjoyed in this locality for many years—and yet some of the people will grumble.

NIOHTLV, right in the heart or vnia beautiful olty, in one of its handsomest business blocks, old men andyonng men struggle over the green cloth against tbe spottcd tnonstei ofTtJie jangle! -.»•*

WHKTHKR there has been a real case of cholera in the city la a disputed question. Nevertheless it will do no harm to scare the people into a pru dent cleaning np of cellars, yards, outhouses, streets sod ailleyt.

AN excursion train will be run on the Logans port road to-morrow morning, to Jefferson roads, this side of Frankfort, where tbe Baptists are holding an open sir meeting. The train will leave here at six o'clock.

J-.

A MO SO the big real estate transactions of tbe past week was the sale of Hon. H. D. Scott's eighty acre farm, one mile east of the corporation line, to C. J. Braekebttsh for $48,000. It is a part of the old "Gordon Farm," and was purchased by Mr. Scott only a few years ago for about one third that sum.

To VAKI our wholesale trade oomplete we want a* large qaeeniware and bat and cap bouse, selling exclusively at wholesale. All other branches of trade are rc^fesented by hdoaes, second to none in the west.

THE business prospect /or oar fell

and

winter trade is extremely bopefnl and reassuring. Onr merchants feel confident of pfe&r lively business this fell *qd winter, *nd judging from the premises upon which their antidpations are founded, we are iaelined lo coincide with them.

TBB popular verdict is that the water works area success sfbee the exhibition on Main street Thursday evening,when six streams were thrown onetime, In a space of two squares. Tbe water was thrown an average of eighty feet in height, one stream going over tbe Opera House dome, one hundred feet high

TMM

UwroimJN AT**.—During the

past two yearn in this city eight women of the town have committed suicide or attempted to destroy their lives. Tbe last was a young woman named Cora Davis, who on Sundsy afternoon Isst, at the Stewart House, swallowed sufficient morphine to cause death in five hoars.

ONE MINUTE LATE.

Tbe instant frensy that seises an individual when he realises thai the train be desires to take is nnder motion andlikely te leave him behind, has often been obeerved. He may be a man of ooolnees and moderation under all other ehreametanoee, hat when he finds his train slipping away from him, he is transformed at once into another being. He grabs whstever baggage he may. have,-and runs at the top of his speed, shooting for somebody to stop the' train. If he overtakee it, he precipitatee himeelf upon tbe platform with atter reekleesnees as to life and limb, being possessed of but one idea—get aboard at any riak.

This wss quite amuaiugly illuatrated at the depot Thursday morning. As the train was alowly starting, an old,, gentleman waa seen running towards the depot, ehouting with all bia might. Into the depot he went and in a twinkling was tearing out again, with a gal4 Ion jug filled with some liquid—molas-j| probably—in one hand, a long-tall-T ed linen duster in tbe other. He ran after the train, yelling like a lunatic. The conductor saw him and pulled the* bell-rope, bpt tbe old man didn't wait for the train to atop. Overtaking it, l)«f attempted to throw himself with hi# jng of vinegar, coat and umbrella upon the rear platform. He struck it, of oourse, but bounded of! again In thoifcj wildest disorder. Ho seemed to stand on his head for a moment, his legs? forming an animated in the air. Hi* jug of burning-lluid rolled along the depot platform as if determined not to give np tbe pursuit of tho trsin, even if the old man did, His linen duster whipped around his heels and the umbrella went off after the jug of buttermilk in a serie? of flip-flaps. Wheiv those who ran to his assistance reached him he had subaided iuto a sitting posture and was about as bewildored looking old gentleman as it has often been our lot to see. He bad lost his hat In the tilt with tbe car and his spectaclos had alao disappeared.

The train was stopped, when the by-* standers proceeded to put tbe old man togetbor again aa quickly as possible and get him aboard, for the conductor was impatient and not disposed to tarry long. In the hurry his bat was jammed down over one eye in a very rakish way. His umbrella was poked under his arm, and the coat wrapped around the jug of lubricating ojl. Then the spectacles were adjusted under his nose, in the hurry and confusion of the moment, and tbe old man with his luggsge shoved upon the oar just as it waa moving away. Exhausted and terribly demoralized he sat down on tho rear of the platform, with his arm around tho jug of pure Kentuoky whiakoy, presenting each a grotesque spectacle that all about the depot set nip an uncontrolable roar of laughter that might have been beard down on Main street. Thero lq doubt about bis ever fully recovering a serene equilibrium agaiu, all owing to being ia minute to* late.

BuaiKHM CHANGE.—A card elsewhere announces that D. N. Foster retires from the dry goods house of Foster Brothers, and is succeeded by Wallaoe Payne as manager. There will be no obange in tbe manner of doing busineas. Mr. Payne entered the bouse eometwo and a half years ago, in an homble position, at a salary which msde him feel still more humble, snd by strict attention to business won the confidence of his employers, rising step by step to his present position at the head of one of tbe most prosperous dry goods houses in tbe city.

Mr. 1\ N. Foster retires to gratify a long cherished desl re to enter t,he field of journsllsm. AteltherQuiocy, ininoiw, or Grand Rapids, Michigan, ho will immediately establish a Saturday evening paper slmilsrto Tho Mail, adopting the same form, typographical appearance and leading feature which have gained for this paper a success seldom attained by weekly paper in tbe west. By education, tasto, ability and business tact he is eminently fitted for such an undertaking and we predict for him the fullest success. As a citizen we part with him with much regret, and our best iWiabea go with him.

jjjBAHLY a quarter of a century MeGuffey's Readers have been need in our schools. They have had their day. At tbe opening of the city schools next month Harper's Readers will take their place, the Trustees having so decided. An arrangement has been made with J. M. Olcott, who represents the Harpers In this State,by which the exchange will be made at a slight cost to each pupil. An effort is being made to introduce these readers into all tbe schools of thfroonnty• It is certainly best tbat all tbe schools of the several townships use tbe same text books, and while the opportunity is presented to make the «xehange at ae small a coat it should receive tbe attention of those who have obarga of the schools. We direct attention to Mr. Olcott's card in another colnmn nnder tbe head of "Uniformity of text books." In this connection we deelre to call attention to an advertisement elsewhere of Lamson's system of penmanship. It strike* as as sn improvement over tbe systems in vogue, which require pupils to buy eight or ten books in order to complete the-sys-tem. If three books will answer tbe purpose it will be a great saving of expense to the patrons of the schools#

GOOD EVERY WEEK.

(From tbe Crawford**111* Journal.] The model weekly newspaper of Indiana to tbe Terr© Haute Mail. It has a department which is presided over by a mysterious personage know °a'TownTalk." He has something good every week. .. ,1 -4

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