Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 March 1874 — Page 4

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'ANTED-A FEW GOOD CANVA88ing agents in Terrt-Hiiute and surKHBodloK town*. Surinam light, pleasant and profitable. Just the thing (or any man Or woman dwlrlag employment. Apply at 601 north 4th street, between Chestnut and Canal (streets.

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know that the Improvements will be Pat on the old style Whee£r A Wilson Sewing Machine on a»llca office, on Sixth atreet, oftxwi Oflee.

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For Sale.

8ALE-HAY-ABOUT 15 OR Tons of Hay In the stack or delivered, will be nold at a bargain. Apply

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SALE-ADVERTISING SPACE IN TaaS*TVBBAY EVKSIWO MAIL at reasonable rates.

Strayed.

OTRAYBO OB aWLENj-FROM THE premtoea of the subscriber, lim honae Sorth of Montrose school house, a five year aid bay mare, medium size* alight tag aiarfcaoo aide* a knot tied la the mane, no ~*rhite*n any part of btdy or H^b, and with a (somewhat long and bosh tail. Any information of her whereabouts will be IttaakfBlly received. Address IRA G. MuRRILL, Box «M, city.

INDIANA,

marriage licenses have been toned by the County Clerk since our last report: Wm. H. Serfboer to Fannie P. Davis, s. j. rromai Hoghea to Mary Jameg.

Joseph Blanchard to Ludnda Edward*. ^ohn White to Julia Hickman. The®. W. Knight to Virginia A. Purdue. John W. Hamilton and Safeddah E. *3m Wallaoe and Elisabeth Shumard. (jottttodoct TboopKiB and Emma* is* ISaxW*

Robert W. Lefctster andJ alia BMrer. t. uk Thomas 8. GlaMterook and Hettle MeKean. ___

VI-

OO COUNTY.—In the Vigo Circuit court-Henry F. Keith vs. Frederick H. Kennedy, William *. Kennedy, A. if. Marshall and H. p. Kattnn. In Attacbjfcu'kooVD that on the 7th day of March, tB4. "lrf Plaintiff filed an Affidavit ia due Jorrn, showing that said Frederick H. Kennedy. William M. Kennedy, A. M. Maritoan and D. Marshall are non-resident* of the Htate of Indiana.

Said non-resident defendants are hereby notitted of the pendency of aald action against them, and that the same will aland jsrtrial at the April Term of said Court in

in the least inconsistent with his past political record.

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EDITOR A»l PROPRIETOR.

TKHIU5-HAUTE, MAR. 7,1874.

SECOND EDITION.

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\QJSB TAVOHT JIYPM\ BUTLER. ML

It will be remembered that the wise and good old woman assured her eon that something good could be learned of every creatnre, and that, when he asked for the good taaght by the devil, she replied, "My son may you ever imitate his industry." In the minds of a large portion of the American people Ben Butler is regarded as the equal, and in some respects the superior, of the devil in things evil. Yet has seemed to us that there are some points in which he could be profitably imitated.

He is a man of pluck. No citizen is probably more intensely hated iu his own State, by a majority of the people, than this same man. But he has made up his mind to be Governor of that State. He tried two years since, and though he worked like a beaver, and as unscrupulously as is possible for a politician, more unscrupulously than is possible for almost any other politician, yet he waslgnominiously defeated. The next year he tried again. He had the administration to back him. He was beaten again, and strong resolutions were passed condemning the federal offloe holders for using their official position to control local politics. Any man of less pluck than Butler would have been utterly vanquished by this defeat and disgrace. But now he comes up smiling again, evident preparing to enter the lists for the Governorship at the next election. He has succeeded, in the "way of preparation, in getting the very office bolder who was the most officious and offensive in the last election, and at whom the condemning resolutions of the convention were particularly aimed, appointed to one of the most prominent and influential offices in the State. He had the appointment made so unexpectedly as to surprise his enemies, and then be went to work to manipulate the senate, and had his man Friday confirmed in spite of the protest of both senators, Sumner and Boutwell, from his State. If that is'nt pluck what Is it? Consider how many good causes have been lost just for the lack of pluck. If there has been courage to attempt the difficult thing, one good sound defeat, has settled the matter. Or, if now and then there has been courage for a second effort, the second defeat has put an end to effort. There is hardly a point in morals that could not be carried if its friends had Ben Butler's pluck. There Li nothing worth having that any young man pilght not attain, if he would go for it,

^fBen. The great trouble with ninetenths of the people is, that, after a few M. Crceffortl'*°

morroe

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dosired end, they set-

it that the fates are against them,

Sunday*0* l*161*Bit down and whine about it. ted to jjWhining never did any good. Plucky st ofcfi8bting will win in niae oases out of ...ten, sooner or later. We fully expect ^to live to see Ben Butler Governor of

Massachusetts, not because the people ^of that State want him for Governor— 7°°® they don't want him—but because he

has the pinck to fight for the place till Cent! he gets it. He will be Governor, not, Brakejf as the old proclamations used to say, "by the grace of God^' but by unconquerable pluck,

Another of t's man's strong points, is the ability .* take defeat in good nature. Whoa be was first defeated for th« nomination for Governor, he at onoe wheeled Into line and worked good na~ taredly for his opponent. When he saw that defaat was inevitable the second time, he gracefully withdrew, and then, with a good nature and impudence perfectly sublime, assumed the leadership ef the very oonvention that hated him worse than "platen." He even made a speech, and voted in favor of the resolutions, though they were framed to denounce the oourse of himself and his friends, lie claimed that there was much in the resolutions that suited htm, and as a half loaf was better than no bread, he accepted the very platform in whieh his anemias gns«hed their teeth at him. Never mind the motive to all thi% It won, and It will win every time. Any number of people make final anocaas impossible beeaase they get mad over some defeat in the c«nt*st. It is not the opposition that kills tfaemofT, bat their own temper. Baa Butler, no matter how badly be gees threshed, comes oat smiling, and geta half hb enemies to smiling, and walks smiling right Into the midst of the fight lite very next time it is renewed. However badly a man is beaten, if be can keep his temper, he has a good start for another battle*

Piataneas of speech is another of the striking and tiaefol characteristics of this man. Why, Butler has already won no small share of the press of the country to his side, by telling the pnb-

*4LFE f»UU*y Jm* what bm tWnkaof Of newspapers. One of hi* last speeches la Congress was In dtrisfon of the idea that the newspaper press Is an educator, and be did whack the papers right eoundly. And he managed to etam an iwoMKtse amount of troth tato that speech too. Of oour*e It was one aide of the story, and exaggerated at thai, trat aside which tow public men wonld have dared to toll* As said before, in these days of flunkeyism, some of the paper* are getting to admire Butler's plainness of speech. Public men, and private too, have so long been toadying the press and been so ready to do any thing to oarrytnewepaper favor, that it

Is a luxury to the editors to hear one old fellow cry out "Ge to thunder with your old ark, there Is'nt going to be much ot a shower." It is a pity that it is so difficult to learn that plainness of speech, real Independence, suits people generally far bettor than tosdying. This good—lord—and—good devil" policy is the poorest policy in the world. Good square honest talking is better than palvaer any time and any where.

We do not admire Gen. Butler. We believe him to be one of the most corrupt men to be found in the political circles of this Isnd, and it is difficult to say any thing worse. We also believe him to be a dangerous man. We expect to see him Governor. We expect to see him in the United States Senate, And we should not be surprised to *ee him a candidate for President, and not much surprised to see him installed In the White House. And we are sorry to be compelled to expect all this. But the strong points in his course which we have indicated, however bad and dangerous he may be, are wertby of imitation, as the ends for which bo uses these, and his vices are worthy to be most carefully shunned.

WE arc not sufficiently familiar with the manner in which the polioe and prosecution have managed the o&se dl the Ward murderers, to pronounce judgment thereon. But It would be a very strange thing If a false theory was worked up, as to who committed this murder, and how it was done, which should satisfy three juries. We must confess that it seems somewhat of a strange proceeding for the counsel of the one to be tried last, to attempt to create public opinion In favor of bis client by means of anonymous communications in the newspapers. We hope the report en tho streets that, these ooipmuqioations are written by the eouusel for the defense, is not true. By all means, let the poor fellow have the benefit ot'eyery honorable means ofesoape. Wo are neither bloodthirsty, nor prison-tlirsty. But as every prisoner is entitled to a fair trinl, without having his cause prejudiced beforehand by the press, so the publio bave a right to demand a fair trial without an effort through the press to create publio opinion in favor of one charged with crime. Is this practice allowed by the bar? We think there must be some mistake in the ourrent rumor as to the authorship of letters which have appeared in the Journal lately,

HORSB-CARS are getting too slow for the American people, or better perhaps, the people are getting too fast for horse cars. A prominent business man, H. G. Eastman, who is mayor of the city of Pougbkeepsle, has Introduced a bill Into the legislature of New York, for the appointment of a paid commission to consider plans for more rapid transit, with power to adopt and carry out the best one they find. It is a tedious ride from the business part of the city of N, Y., to the Central Depot. It takes at least an hour, or hour and a half to make the trip from the Astor House to this depot, even when there is no detention.

THB fir»t~Prohibitory Law was promulgated early in history, The exact letter of that law was, "But of the tree of Knowledge of good and evil, thou •halt not eat," "for In the day thou eatest thereof thou shnlt surely die," A Mr. Richardson has made a speech before the legislature of Massachusetts against a prohibitory liquor law, founding his argument upon the conceded fact that this first law was violated and great evil followed. It probably was too far advanoe of public sentiment.

TIME isthe greatest teacher known and it may yet learn the editors of the Terre Haute Mail and Marshall Herald to cease barking at Maraball Splinters, for every bark causes him to burl a splinter that brings tho blood,"-{Ex-

There are aome very dtagreeable animals which dcoent dogs and respactable people generally turn out of their way to avoid. The Expreas keeps a pat of this sort In Marshall. "TIMS is the greatest teacher known, and it may yet learn the aditora of The Terra Haute Mall, and Marshall Herald, Ac. "—[Express.

Evan the Normal Toaoher iu the Marshall High School, about whom Splinters has made such a row,oould "/corn" •jbe young man to avoid such a blunder

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Maa. FoMTan—Abbey Kelley—wh&se form In Worcester, Mass., baa bean sold to pay taxes which she refused to pay bee*use she cannot vote, or is not representedftbrastenstheman who bought the fhrm with "some trouble" whan ha attempts to take possession. He Is evidently specu I a ting under difficulties.

THB Temperance Women are not tired out yet. But aome of tba saloonkeeper* are getting tired waiting for

*»OW OVF

the storm to bl over. seaas TusCrusaders against Whiwky don't soar* worth a cent.

CASPBfi&R, the Cuban insurgent leader, was killed this weak,

£«*F*asuMut» FUUMOAS, atrlakaa with paralysis, is lying at bis home in Bnflalo, without tba alighte* hope of readvaiy.

THAT was a queer dispatch that cssae ovar the wires a few days ago: ity Church will not rent any «fira of its buildings for dram shops."

JOBV BBOWN'S soul will march on Chicago next June, the occasion being a reunion of the old abolitionist*. It will be an interesting gathering.

THIT have a ''republican farmer" candidate for Governor in New Hampahlre, with good prospects of sleeting him. Granvcr stock is xiatng np.

Raw H. W. BEECKBR has espoused the woman's crusade against intemperance, He says it is a legitimate outgrowth of the wuman's rights agitation, and he rejoicea in it.

RBUOIWAOE of our dirty legal tenders," ia what Charles Francis Adatns calls his plan for doctoring the currency. But as there is nc "expansion" iu the plan it is net adapted to our cllmate.p

MBH. WOODHULL, MISS Clafflin and Col. Blood are In jail sgain. They were consigned to the Tombs, New York, on Thnrsdsyfcin default of ball iu the Challis slander case. The way of the transgressor is hard.

NEWS AND NOTES.

The amount required for carrying on the schools of Boston for the next year Is 11,400,000.

New York brides are introducing the London fashion of wearing bonnets at the ceremony *n church.

Mr. Proctor says that this earth of ours at the end of two thousand years will be behind time about three minutes. How shall we regulate our watches then

The Indianapolis Seutlnel says that a son of an officiating clergyman of that city, is now, and has been for some time, one of the attractions at the Metropolitan theater."

On Saturday ni^ht last, says the Lafayette Journal, Lauramie Grange held a harvest-feast. Over two hundred took supper, and seventy-seven received the degrees of the order.

An Ohio paper thus salutes in verse the womau's movement: Obio'6 ransom speeds apace-*

Is daily growing surer,

»"fis Since woman's dulcet voice essayed The praise of AQUA PURA.

A man named Decker was sent from Sullivan county to the Utioa asylum because be thought he was God Almighty. "If people should be sent from Ulster for holding such sentimentB,"says the Rondout Freeman, "the emigration would be fearfnl." Ditto out here In the Prairie City.

Ind. Journal: Victoria JWoodhull's agent thought he had secured Masonio Hall jr the appearance of his principal, Saturday and Sunday nights, but Grand Secretary Bramwell, discovering for whom the ball was intended, telegraphed him th'at "Vic. Woodhull cannot leoture at Masonic Hall for any price."

A case of circumstantial evidence has just failed at Greenbush, N. Y. Three men saw the prisoner pursue, catch and violently strike a man on coming up they found th man stabhed to the heart but they had seen no knife in the prisoner's hand. The jury considered the "clroumstanoes" ine fficient to prove the accused a murderer.

An unsigned bank bill, which some time ago slipped out of a Troy bank, underneath a signed one,which it stuck to, got back recently, with the surprising signatures of Wm. M. Tweed as President, and Jay Gould as Vice President. The Bank offloers thought it conterfeit, but it was sent to Washington, pronounced genuine, and had to be redeemed.

Palmyra, Missouri, is divided on the question whether Ambrose Coe shall or shall not be hanged. He murdered hie sweetheart, was convicted and sentenced, but the Governor Is afraid to order the sentence carried out, because Coo's friends threaten a riot. One young woman wants to be a vicarious sacrifice. It would appear to be a good field for the fool-killer^

Much baa been written of the coat of living at the preaent day, but itia sometimes the caso that it is exceeded by the expense of dying. In£a recent cage in Hartford, Conn., aioknass of seven weeks and the subsequent burial cost 91,600. Of this two hundred ware for the undertaker, two hundred and fifty for medical attendance, and the remainder waa divided between two nurses.

The gossipy Washington correspondent of the Lonlsvilla Courier-Journal writee: Mr. Nartoria, Miss Grant's lover, la staying at the Arlington Ho tel, He is a blonde who part* his hair In the middle and looks Intensely English. Lsat night, in company with the President, he attended tba Illinois Sociable. The President waa quite communicative about the prospective relationship..^ ... .•

Oaa of tie editorial fiends of the 8t. Louis Journal has reaetly indulged ill matrimony, and here la a eecap of his philoeopby growing out of one of the resulta:

The flrit really startling experience of a newly married man la probably aa a rule wtifn he eees his bride combing her hair, one end of the hair being held in her hand «ndl the other end attached to a hook on the bureau.

of such strong prqjudicee that be needs to be sworn oft the beeeh qtrite so often, lent awMhodf trsapaaaiog a. little upon hie welt known good naterre? If our erimteal court and Vigo Cbanty are getting too hat tor criminal* we hardly think It te because of ustdoe INfMNaPICiV tfcere aettea little too much honesty here for rogues

THB French Prince Imperial will be*f oS'me of age on the 18th Inst, and apprehensions are evidently felt that a Bonapartist reaction in the Empire will culminate on that day. The prefeota have therefore been Instructed to keep a watch upon people who leave their departments for Chiselborst for the purpose of doing homage to the Prince.

Jcnoa Lo«daoea not look like a aaan^ Insanely risks his situation in ber behalf but, for aome mysterious reason,, the women sbeurdiy hate her. She seldom, if ever, aaks for subscripUona—' they rush on her in inky torrente.

This crisis once past the Republic will breathe freer.

If women who own property are to be taxed, they ought, without doubt, to bave some voice in deciding questions involving taxation. There would be no difficulty in enfranchising women to this extent at leaat. This could be done almoat without opposition. Perhaps the laat step of granting full enfranchisement would be all the easier for taking this first. At all events women owning property should be permitted to vote in all matters pertaining to taxation.

the Indianapolis Uakxt.)

TUB little daughter of a well-known citizen died a few nights since, after a lingering and painful illness. After bidding all farewell, and Joining In prayer, she said "Papa, say amen I" This touching incident has called out the following beautiful impromptu lines from a friend. "PAPA, SAY AMKN."

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Dying, she asked Her stricken father tliere To say "amen" To her laat little prayer

That they should meet again. Amen," be said, A sorrow-laden ward That broke Ills heart .. And yet with Joy ahe heard

Her papa say "amen."

THE PROFESSION A LADY CANVA68BR ,V Before this middleman and, therefore, enemy of our agricultural Interests, is swept away by the granger tidal wave, we hasten to embalm her in print, so that the future untiquary may be enabled readily te distinguish her gentle mission from that of the sewing-machine and the lightning-rod man—of whom, more anon.

If we view the subject of oar paper with a critical eye, we plainly see that she is but a portion of an harmonious whole. For it would be ridiculous even to imagine that one small bead could carry the enormous amount of engineering talent required, to induce men of every shade of character, grade of intellect, and variety of taste to patronize its fair owner. The lady agent, for instance, who wonld, deservedly enough, win golden opinions and greenbacks in a moral and religious community—say that of Terre Haute and vicinity,—would be wholly unappreciated in Indianapolis while the Indianapolltan favorite would be as utterly out of place iu Chicago, as honesty in the soul of the professional politician. There are feur representative lady canvassers, and they may be distinguished as follows:

THB GIRLISH AGKNT. 1

She is generally a blonde of the ivyclinging and gushing type. She fascinates the youthful spoon by her srtless ideas of business, asks his opinion as to woman's engaging in such an occupation, entreats him to count her money for her. In fact, she bares her Innocent heart to his sympathizing gise, and eventually carries of! in triumph his pocket-money and undying affection. Young ladies call her a designing creature, and cruelly criticise the style of her hat but the obdurate express-man stretches a point in her favor, and permits her to take oat some books before he collects his dues. The enraptured fellow-boarder, who carries her baaket and band-box to the depot, is left behind in a pitiable state of hopeless idiocy. She has a dear sister to support and educate*

TH*

STROKO-*lS15ltI

IftlCST.

This is the old bachelor's delight and the friend of the hen-peaked. She Is very reticent as regards her busineas, writee in large, masculine characters, aaks no flavors ot the express-man, and, in getting rid of ragged abinplaaters equals Barnum's lightning ticket-sel-ler. Her subscribers are generally old* fashioned business men and and disappointed politicians, with whom—artful being that she is!—she discusses the dead issues of the day to their entire satisfaction. She demands their name aa though waa her property, and then marches off, leaving her admirers to form on the table of their memory, fresh paving material never more to listen to the honeyed voice of the charmer. Timid and brow-beaten wivea deteet her. She haa her slater's children, or a husband, to support, Is always in time for the train, earrlea her own baaket and band-box, and wears thick-soled boots,

THB LON8 AKD tORf AOKKT. Mr. Waller's bog-bear la the moat euccsaaful in the buslncaa. Her very appearance appeala to the finer feelings of a gaaeroua public. Preachers, young husbands, and professional men are

her

stan nohest supporters. She la attired In weeds and a white handker chief and the tremor in her voice la painfully suggestive of urus and weep-ing-wlito

JITS.

Country editors, partic

ularly, are as wax In her slender hand end an experienced eye will readily deteet In hla next editorial, the exact point when ahe entered the sanctum, and arrested the movement of trenchant sciasors. The

his

Dignified pillars of the church amble away to anticipate her slightest wlah and envied la the happy he, that oarrlea her glorified baaket and band-box to the depot. She haa two interesting children to maintain, and haa seen better days.

With such an array of business talent hurled against as, can It be a matter of surprise that we are a reading people? Ifaith, the only wonder ia, that our libraries do not increase, as the ghost did in theOastloof Otranto^o as to crowd us out of doors!— ||y rata vmvmwtira AoxirxV

Sad Indeed Is the fate of this victtaa to man's inhumanity. The male biped gruffly repels her and though, aa matter of courae, hia wife am ilea on herr yet the business is, to- say the least,

Munremunerative."

Hie expreee-man

snarls at her, in the legitimate manner, and demands hie pound of flesh in advance. Even the editor—the most charitable of men—grews restive beneath her dampening influenoe. Her fellow-boarders ignore her altogether, and she invariably carries her own basket end band-box to the depot, Sho is generally in poor health, is the mother of ten, and has a claim in the Third Auditor'a Office from which, as she tells everybody, she has great expectations.

COKCLUSIOX.

One curious fact in connection with this business, is that a lady agent makes no prophet and therefore no profit in her own country. For though she be nstive here and to the business born, yet her specimen hook will always show a beggarly account of empty columns. Though she be aa Mr as a Illy, as amiable as a saint, and as deserving ss patient Grissel, yet, save whero the preacher inks the virgin sheet, with the exprese understanding that he ia to be 8upplied at cost, she will be left perfectly destitute of subscribers. She will not do. Man is a strange bundle of contradiations and requires novelty. With a bursting heart, basket and band-box, "he 1* eompelled to leave the home of her childhood and eeek, in the land of the stranger,willing pens to do her bidding. And tbese very men, who looked so coldly on her subscriberless condition, will make rampant asses of themselves in behalf of some dark-eyed stranger, in every respect her inferior.

BRUCK.

The City and Vicinity.

THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL la on sale each Saturday afternoon by A. H. Dooley Opera House. S. B. Baker A Co., ~x~-P«^-.I££.by' M. P. CvaflR, Opp. Post Office. Elyn Conner. Walter Cole, Marshall, Ilia. ?"k«r.4DU, 1^' Ren. Allen, J. B. Dowd, —.— Geo. L. Cooke C. V. Decker.. H. J. Feltus G. W. Greene,

...Clinton, Ind.

,._JElockvllle, Ind. ...Braiill, Ind. Mattoon, Ills. .Greencastle, Ind. ....Waveland, Ind.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,

Legal Notice-John T. Scott, Att*y._ Funeral Notice-Child of Silas Prlot. Latest Styles-Cent Store. Spring Good*—Felsenheld A Jaurlet. Cigars—Buntin A Armstrong. Furniture for Sale—R. Foster. Strayed—Mare—Ira Morrill.. Legal Notioe—8oott A Duv, Atty's. Fruits,Vegetables, Seeds- Haney ft Haupt New Arrivals—A. Hent & Co.

Drv Goods—Hoberg, Root A Co. Administrator's Sale—D. C. Cooper. Wanted—Canvassing Agents. Card—Kester Wheeler. For Sale-Hay—J W. Shield*. ***, Real Estate Dealer-E. Ohm. Catarrh Remedy—Dr. R. V. Pierce. jj. Druggists—Cook & Bell. Spring Dress Goods—W. 8. Ryoe^A Co. Spring Overcoats—Mossler*s. IIams--J. L. Humaston. —and—

Many Local and Personal Notice** MARCHY, this morning. THB gooseberry bushes already show the green.

THB coming wheat crop is generally reported one of great promise. OSfcK'

THB Democracy bave settled upon the 6th of June as the time to nominate esndidates for county officers,

THB city local who wrote that hail as large as hen eggs fell during tho storm on Tuesday night, we believe, exaggerated.

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amount of live stock haa

been shipped eaat on the I. &. St. L. R. R. the past week. Freighting generally aeema to be livtniag up.

THB Baptist Social, which was to have occurred laat Tuesday evening, and was postponed on account of the Inclemency of the weather, will occur next Thursday evening. ,? fc*

AT the north end rolling mill tha machinery haa been satisfactorily tested this week. Six of tha pnddling furnaces have been started. Next week the entire thirteen will be fired up, and buaincea will commence.

THB temperance meeting at tba United Brethren church hat night was luge and enthuslaatic. Rev. Chaa. R. Henderaon made the addresaand tba Davis family made sweet harmony. The next meeting will be held in &°w~ ling Hall.

Ta* County Commissioners to«lay are considering the purchase of tha river bridge, and the indication* are that the prayer of over four thou*nd petitioners will be reap half of the Bridge Company, D. W. Ml£ shall appeared before the Board thto morning and proposed to fU for «8^000 and take In payment ten year bonda at eight per cent interest. The Board la Inqulriog into tho condition of the bridge,

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arrived at anttloextweek.