Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 April 1874 — Page 8

Ifcey are unveiling a statute of Lady Oodiva, in Boston, tor people to took at. Anfl yet a poor wight who once peeped through an auger-hole got fits fbr it.

Gen. Lewis Wallace, author of "Ti Fair God," has made a contract with a Boston lecture bureau to lecture next season on "An hour with the Mexicans,

Dr. Brown-Sequard says the application of the moxa, to which Senator Sumner submitted six times without chloroform, isibe most excruciating suffering which anybody can undergo.

The Rev. Horatio Stebbins, af San Francisco, said, in a recent lecture, that a man who to simply honeat because "honesty la the bes' policy," ia a hawker and peddler of religion for its accidental results.

The Rev. E. E. Hale's Society at Boa«ton had a dance the other evening, and, Htm He was unable to be present, heconnoied the pairty by sending a little poem, •which appeared on the back of the programme of dance*.

Marl*, nay you win have mo, or HI -I'll squeew the Ufo out of your pnp.1

People and Things.

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If thy enemy wrong the®—why, and bear it. Chas. A. Dana, of the New York Sun, a "creaiattot."

Pullman i» building a £73,000 cottag® at Long Branch. Admirable Porter's ctiaeaae is cancer of th© stomach. His death may occur at any moment.

Speaker lWataio says that the present la the laziest House within his Congressional memory.

A Georgian who is to lie hung in May has had tickets of invitation printed and mailed to his friends.

A Hoboken editor, being challenged, sent word in reply: "When I want to die, I can mhoot myself."

Senator Logan has a Western wife, who help* him largely in affaire of state by her counsel and advice,

All people should read the illustrated story of "A Life in the Balancc," commenced in this week's Mail.

The Supreme Court of Ixmislana has adopted a rule limiting the arguments of lawyers to fifteen minutes.

The other day a landlord wouldn't let hi« house unless the tenant would promtoe never to cook any cabbage In it.

The Minnesota tinners are holding competitions. One of them out make a doom six-quart pans in thirty-three minutes.

Emerson says: "The way to make the world better is by reforming number on% then there ia surely one less villain in the world."

An Indianapolis fiatber shot six times at a supposed burglar, and was astonished to hear the fellow ask: "Wharzer maaeer, fiuoeer? whazzer doing?'

A man's hypocrisy i» often detected by the largeness of his religous profession, even as boj: Ave cent nicked ?re discovered by "U.c feet that their o, "In God wa trust," h# larger in the counterfeit than in the genuine.

The music publisher* are catering to the popular excitement on temper *, among the latest «*mgs published b,—gi "Throw your wi. -*y out," "Papa, stay home," sell my Mher ram," "fiftay home with me to-night," and ©then of similar character.

It to a singular feet that when the funeral of the late Senator Humner was passing thmttgh tlie at reels of Boston, some obstruction in tl* way compelled U» hearse to remain standing br about ten mimitra 4lro-

frvnt

of tv*

tmi-

d«ao» of the lad wi* once v_n tba dead man's wife. The man who answered an advertl»jnrat to the following effect had W» Corioait miinAed ••Ifytm woald learn to make home happy send Ally to portage stamp* to A. 8., etc." I j« receipt of po«iage stempa, A. H. re^pile«l, •«'Yow home would be happy if yon were leas frequently there.9

Mr. Oalfem baa Iw^rfrrht down tl..

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h««d by aotemnly ar.i mjnf ti-,*t the etatte&k* ahow that tint

mi.t

of woman la

opposed to and that fcerenninuuMflng Hasnw !ti Wet.T Is t'w m^ns of v-ang (i.^oltogtfcei'i: "«*. 7'^ ?. nabopObiMM bm wvfit^tta i"?4«rt» a Meml In »nd oh i^Qrff^allW'' wbiah be aa "I "r bound to say 1 have no wb-.r.«.

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lion# *jirilu sl: ui. I K» many good do believe f# ttMk« ##l gmneauior.i: lUjJT ivr» fn-i.tfv '.f «rable uic I pwwer. I afifcu nothing „.4over to warant me in ad-

vising yon to pay any attention to three new doe* trine*.'

Feminitems.

A Maine woman has hair seven feet five inches long—too long to be available tor use in butter.

The Cincinnati Wealeyan college made very attractive by the attendance of 160 young ladies.

No elub handled parasols next summer, but pretty, useless, little sun-shades, covered with Cluny lace,

Some of our young ladies display their worst temper in their best clothes—when they are dreadfully rufiled.

The women have just started a paper in New York City called the "Crusader" aud devoted to (temperanoe.

A young woman in Geneva, Ills., received a gift of $100 from her mother for reading the Bible through in six days. "Sales-ladies" now advertise in the newspapers. "'Washerlady," "charlady," "lady Of all work," will follow in due course.

She don't know enough to boil water," is the latest estimate of the capacity for domestic duties of the girl of tlie period.

Artificial flowers sewed on a wide band of black velvet' are worn about the throat by the fashionable belles as a necklace.

Annette McKee, of Pittsburg, Penn., is the wealthiest young lady in America. She has §2,000,000 in her own right. She is single.

Miss Belle Murray, who has been acting as deputy clerk in the Circuit Court of an Illinois county is on trial lor embezzlement.

The orange blossom was originally worn by brides because it is an emblem of fruitfulness* Are modern brides aware of this?

When you see a veung woman winding her watch in public places you may make up your mind that she has not had a watch very long.

The Brooklyn Argus commends the Illinois wjomen who, when her husband was bitten by a man drew a pistol and promptly shot the man.

The ladies will be pleased with the fascinating story of "A Life in the Balance," the firat cbaptere of which are given in Hie Mall this week.

Michigan votes upon the woman suffrage question at the next state election. The question la also being agitated In the legislatures of Iowa mid Ohio.

The season is getting so fer advanced tfeat Susan B. Anthony can get along without hot bricks, and she ought to make a induction In priee*.—[Detroit Free Frew.

Another conoeeslon to women's righto. The Secretary of the Treasury decides that whore a woman is owner of a yacht she may be named In papers as the master of the same.

The vomitr WN of Sacramento, California, haw a detective society for out the habits ot the young men. Every unmarried lady in the place lea member, of course.

Two rival Wife* meeting at a ft&hionablo party, one to the other: "llow well you look UJi «r the mmlic light!" "How very charming yon are In tlie iferA f" retorted the other*

Senator IJorsey4*wife'seyes, according to a COM ndent, "rest upon you and go with u." The feeble conundrum of an over-Ut'-m! 11wK "How dv«* a§*» do without then* orb# f"

You may talk yourself into a bronchial nil'toot jwaiitt'l convince a \'n mout woman that ttte*« wont be a Amiu In the femily if «te ahenv klagapiekrttene^ f",

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his pow

A ywtng Gwman §Si| lately **hred In Milwaukeeftwnthe fethe»^«d, and-u turrtlnm Tirr MnHwd «t the atatknt mumiatmm that she died

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*B11* a matte# mtprim ami who ha*» *wng Sunday alMw»and«y,»SwwiHHirofPmyW."and -.me eftbe ottMf batter known of oar i.AMino, ttrit (Ht author, Mrs. Fanny UvtL',y\ i« ik ««M Hwr"*tfkirlth' Iter husband under the triple disadvantage of extreme poverty, blindness and advanced age.

Connubialities.

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aaked how tttBi to be little bride. 11 in pretty 1 With

OSM pretty pretty •mepren.i

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Of this pretty

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Now women's thoughts turn to style of spring hat. Getting ready. Miss Nellie (irantftnd mamma are shopping in New York.

It is a grave feet that there are a score ol woman undertakers in the country, Three newspapers in Iowa are edited by ladies, and are as full of puife as their dinner dresses.

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ThU pwttv llttla ladT Al"t ii• pi' iiy 11:r!1 Met tin- iti itv UU.U i-ai

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Uiui.il tin :.i life, A p.«. Uuiv uu^hand And a pretty little wife. Connubial bliss is like raspberry jam will keep along time if preperly preserved. .An exchange says woman's sphere is marriage. We never saw one yet that had any fear about it

It has been decided in Iowa that jilting doeant damage a man a cent's ^v orth. In feet, it does him good

The wave on which many a poor fellow has been carried away lathe wave of a lace-edged cambric handkerchief.

Husbands and wives should read tlie illustrated story of "A Life in the Bal ance," commenced in this week's Mall.

Cooing is well enough before marriage, but tho billing doesn't come till after, and then it comes from the tradesmen.

An Iowa jury recently decided that when a marriage engagement is broken off the parties must return all presents or their value in money.

Two brothers in Wayne county named Allen recently married. One married Miss Snow and the other a Mis#} Ice, The two Aliens are now frigid.

A Stillwater, (Minn.) man had a dream that his aunt was dead, and it came true. The next night be tried to dream that his mother-in-law was dead, bttt the game wouldn't work. "Did you execute this instrument without fear or compulsion ffoin your husband?" blandly asked the Judge.

Fear! Compulsion! He compel me! You don't know me, Judge." At no other time does a man see the beauties of tho system of easy divorces so clearly as when compelled to carry a band-box in one hand and a boquet in the other through the principal thoroughfare.

Never marry for wealth but remember that it is just as easy to love a girl who has a brick house with a mansard roof and a silver-plated door-bell, as one who hasn't anything but an auburn head and amiable disposition.

A young lady engaged to be married, but getting sick of her bargain, applied to a friend to help her untie the knot before it was too late. "Oh! certainly," he replied, "it's very easy to untie It now, while it is only a beau-knoc."

A Delaware man committed suicide a day or two ago because some one left a baby on his doorstep. He was too frail for this cold world if he couldn't look his wife in the eye and deliberately declare that it was a put-up job to make trouble.

An Iowa engineer married a young lady while waiting lor a late train last week." That's no great shakes. A couple might marry and raise a large family of children while waiting for a train in some of the Indiana depots.— [Exchange.

A poor femily rcsiding in Fond du Lac, Wis., consisting of a inan, his wife, and eleven children, recently had one hundred dollars left them, and the poor over-worked woman bought a seventy dollar silk dress and has gone to taking music lessons.

To persons about to marry, the following stanm upon the signification of the days of the week may prot%of service:

Monday f«r wenlthi Tu«i*slay fer health,

Wednewtsy ttus be*tr«Sarof all Thursday for crosses, Friday fer lo-^ (Moniajr rn «ek at ail. A couple were recently married in Hardin County, Iowa, and after the ceremonies the bride asked the hustiand his name. They had been ^acquainted only a few hours when lie proposed and she accepted. This franknoss on the part of the bride, stowing a desire to know her husband's name, is auspicious of a happy future*

According to Hue Burlington Hawk Kya, a woman «f that town, who haa looked nnder tier bed every night for twelve years to find a man, found him the other ft**ht. ft was her affectionate htwband, who bad went home too drank to Himb into bed, and was snoring the happy hours away down In the hold. mm ittiaved him with a flftt-liwi, and 'Atwtr a map of the street «:i his alabaster »row with her taper tin *. He say# •now that death has no terrors for him, and life eiiarttw tttrttl court-plaster gets cheaper.

A Baltimore woman has taken time by the l«r. lock. A

day* rime abe

brought to the register of will* in that city a will made by her busliand. and which ahe desiml to file fov probate.

When did be dlef Inqulml the sympathetic clerk to whom the document was handed. "Why, bless you," re* ponded tbe wonmn, *be ain't dead yet, but he jwve ine that (jioiuting to the wiD,) and fce drinks a quart of liquor every day, and 1 g*eaa," con(inu«l she wltb a laugh, "betl play out tn about thi«e montiw." The officer had no more to say, and quietly filed the will

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TKHHE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

OME OF THE THINGS

TO B8 FOUND AT J*** 1

J. A. FOOTJ5'S„

Herd MeNb

RUSTIC BAJSKSTB, finest aaaoitnient yet exhibited. Rrarr STASOS, large \"ariety. dou) Fsan. Fwh and AQiTAttirM*. CKYOT X, FOIKTAIN, a splendid orrui ment for the pari or—Bel f-aeti ng. OKRMA* CAKAFTTRS, Ijeautiftil singers. CiOI.DFINOIIBM. PABBODS. PiMijrrs of all kind*. 300 vari tii« of Garden Heed* from the beet seed growers of Ruropo and

America, fresh and pnre, for sale in quantities lacge wad small. FuWKR Bkkdn and Br Las of the best varieties, NHW VAHrrriKHof POTATOES. New Varieties of Melons. Hungarian and Millet Seed*. Seeds of all descriptions in their amson. Catalogues given or sent ft***.

Tuesday, April 14th, 1874.

ONE XIGIffT OKI.Y.

JONKPII

JEFFERSON!!

—•AS—

Rip Van Winkle!

Admission Reserved Seats Ciollery

ABASH

EXCHANGED FOR WOOL OR CASH ON THE MOST LIBERAL TERMS.

Highest Market Price Paid In Cash for

WOOL.

Office and Mill on First Street, Between Ohio and Walnnt. l)r. J. C. Wilson

n. a

J.A.Footn, 65 Main street.

QPERA HOUSE.

•1 00 1 50 50

Beats to be sold at BUTTON & HA M11 TON'S Book Store. Sale commences April 9th, at 9 A.M. apr4-2teed

Woolen Mills,

Established In 1894,

GEORGE F. ELLIS, Proprietor,

WOOL DEALER,

And Wholesale Manufacturer of

WOOLEN GOODS.

flannels, Blankets, Coverlet#, Cassimere*, Jeans and Yarns,

Dr. J. J. Smith,

OCULISTS and AUIUSTS, Recently from San Franctsc tnbllsned an EYF. and KA

Uah, haveesINFIRMA

RY, nt 620 Main street, in Mnrble Block, Terr® Hante, Ind. leal

recent and neientlflc methods. We desire to cnll tlie attention of the DUIJ11c to the fact that we ha^vesuperior and safer remeHes for the cure of Umnulated Eyelids, ami. all forms of Inflammation of the Ej*e and Ear, than those in common use, and that we can cure many cases who are considered incurable.

Our remedies are vegetable, and were discovered and used with great stieeess in California, and we enn refer to several liundml of the most difficult cases cumthv ns there, many of whom were considered Incurable.

We Invite all who have Chronic Diseases of the Kye and Ear to corns and try our treatment. Those who do not receive permanent benefit will not be required to pay ttor treatment.

We treat Catarrh, Cstarral Deafness, Roaring In the Ears and Chronic Discharges very sucoeasfully. No charge fbr examination. c. n. nn.sroitit.

AKERY

QUO. A. MAVWAHD

—AND—

SEW STORE! HEW GOODS! Atid^Ewrmi!

0. H? GttiMOSfi & CO.,

Have taken the large Store Room ne*t to 1rrtner% Hooslw Ktrnv,

Corner of Fourth and Ohio Ste.,

and remoddled Usf»as to make It themort f)niplc«e itadtery and C^tfrctlonew Establish mt-tit In the city. They expeet to be ooen sHcKit Uu* MRU of the month, and they ^rtll nuuiufaeture alLtbe candles wwd, and

Will manufacture

the city and

"i.vITrlL'

monit can rely on THEIR I AN 1)1 AM BKINCI PtTRET Tticy willnl*do th. trown bakta*, taav"

T«kinx, having thc lar. a competent Ba no hwiitwicy la aayfat thnt

Ovtn» In

Bilk i. thoy ImVc !ht*y can mtt

iticlr cti*tooi«a. C. H. Milnimv hit* tmn in tl»e employ of W. H^,

SSS5IS tli« city, «*h1tlwy will kMp a» kind* of —MOX, VA-

^r,!SSJrK{SS.yMJK,*"tewf»cr»

Orders by Mail Carefully Filled. GOODS KENT BY EXl ItEHSS 81TB-

JK TO AI'PKOV A

TRY OUE KID GLOVES. A F»:W hundred things to mention If we bad the space!

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Ttwy

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MliB or f!A TbW Will atao hiivr* ttoi* twrt »l)A in the Hty, tog^hwr with Fruit* of nil kind*. Olv«*

ihim

a call a«a you can

iada«* fbr ifoowlm Hmieni'- the ptow, tv»ni^ of 4(1: unci Ohio *trw fli»t d*»or w(*tot

OrelBor'*.

C. II. OII.MOHK* X).

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For Information of the above College send for College Paper. Address liARVIY A IIEIXI.Y, I'rincipalK.

Any one sending us the names of twenty re»i, that would be likely to attend Conn

PofOol:. add in Coiiiiuerelal Off-hand Flourishing and Pentnansliip.

Clothiers and Merchants!!

HAVE THE

Nobbiest Line of Ready-Made Clothing,

AXI THE HANDSOMEST LINE OF

MERCHANT TAILORING,

Both ENGLLsII, FRENCH and AMERICAN GOODS in the beat Styles, and at such prices that cannot help bnt satisfy everv one. BEST CUTTERS,

It is a well known fact that Merchants in order to make up the loss on many lines of Domestic Goods, add the extra Per Centage on Dress Goods, Cassimeres, Fancy Goods, &c. (No Merchant will pretend to deny this.) We propose during the coming year to inaugurate a newjystem, namely, to

LARGELY REDUCE

the usual per centage on such Goods, believing that in the increased trade which we hope to receive we will in the end be the gainer.

Our Buyer is now in the Eastern Market sending us large invoices of choice and desirable Goods. We shall open the Spring Campaign with an INCREASED LINE OF DRESS GOODS,

COMPRISING Mr FART,

Black attdC«tlerrlMilkn,iu Plain, C'lienw. Nlpipcu.^ LakNt Ntlesai»l Coloring Raven Blat k. Pare Mohulr*. tinea

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v%,

And Alparaw. *„y I CSrenadine*. Plain, l1"

Striped and llgaperf^

Which

renty young persona, with their I Commercial College or interested

1 Education, we will by return mail enclose them a fine specimen ot

BRILLIiNT OPEHING!

—OF—

SFRIXU TRADE. AT THE

BEE HIVE,

flreatly I ucreaxeil Stock of Ladies Furnishing Goods. Xo Bfttc-r Asmirtmrnt of Ladies Muslin Underwear,

In the Htatc!

FOCKD! AT LAST,

rt To (It every body!

For HAMBURG EMBROIDERIES,

Come to the BEE HIVE.

FOR PARASOLS!—Cute Parasols for Children Snn Umbrellas for comfort Stylish Sunshades. Come to the B££ 111 YE, 163 Main St., National Hotel Block.

MILLER & COX,

Corsets! »Torta

All tho »w Thing.!

Ball Cuflf nntl C'ollnr Buttons —Ball Heart Ring*—Spanish Corabn— White Hilk Tics, Silk

IlandkerchlefH.

Oold Plate and Frrarh GUI Jewelry, beautiful style* wear for ears.

Remember^ wc have one of tho

At \o. 522 .Kaia St^ Xorth aide, near Sixth, Torre Haute.

"A NEW DEPARTURE!"

Oouhle fared Poplins. Soltair Stripes. Xoyara Cloth. Satine Stripe®. Plain I*u»l re#. Crepe I^natres. IjawnN) Gingham* l*iqueif. Cretonew. IJnen SoltlnK»».s,

propose to place on our Counters oh

the above plan. We shall continue to sell our Prints, Muslim, &c., at our usual popular prices. ***»,' wn£0N BROS. & HUNLEI,

Cor.

and Wain Street®.