Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 July 1875 — Page 4

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AT COST! AT COST!

LADIES'LINEN SUITS. LADIES' GRASS CLOTH SUITS. LADIES'WHITE LAWN SUITS. LADIES'POPLIN surra All marked down to cost and below, to close them out.

1,000

PARASOLS and SUN SHADES in all the NEW STYLES, BONE, IVORY and i4 PEARL HANDLES, to close at oost.

DRESS GOODS! & DRESS GOODS

PERCALES, LAWNS, GRENADINES, WASH POPLINS, MOHAIRS, PONGEES, SUMMER PLAIDS, SUMMER SILKS, WHITE GOODS, PIQUES, 'MARSEILLES, FRENCH CHINTZS,

FRENCH ORGANDIES, Ac. A11 these will be sold at a great sacrifice to close 'them out.

I0BERG. ROBT & U..

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r^BCNTIN A ARMSTRONG, it*, and Dr

ngclatii, and Dealers In Fino Perfkimery Ml Toilet ArUelcf. Lu bin's, Rlmmel'm, Atkinson's, Crown, Sundtx-rg's and Basin's Fine Extracts Genuine rarina and German Cologne Lavender Water Fin® TolJ^t and Fancy Articles: Cosmetics, Soaps. Pomades, Combs, c!Hair, Clotli, Tooth and Nail Brushes, Ck'iloans Set*, Dieaslng Cases, and all articles wanted for tho Toilet, at lowest figures.

Ho. 600, r«rs«r till as4 lsis Bis.

Wanted.

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ANTED—THE FARMERS AND ALL Wee-miser* to know tliat I have a perfect protection for Bee Hives. Call at

WHEAT MBRRir.I., Office between 4th and 6th streets, on Ohlo-or address Past office box 1810, Terre Haute, Ind. SLITANTED-ALL TO KNOW THAT THE

W SATURDAY EVENXWO MAIL has a tare0f circulation than any newspaper published In the State, outside of Indianapolis. Also that It is carefully and thoroughly read in the homes of lta patrons, and that HIs the very beat advertising medium In Western In/lana.

For Sale.

)R SALS—A GOOD CARPET NEARLY new, lit yards—call at WILSON'S SEC-_U)-H AND STORE, and get a bargain, No. 20 north Fonrth street. JjlOIt SALK--PHAETON—HAS THREE springs, is in good condition,and will be sold cheap. Enquire at WILSON'S SEC-OND-HAND STORE, Ne. 20 north Fourth street. Jull7-tf

T70R SALE—A HOUSE J? Ch and

AND LOT ON

Chestnut street, south side, between 6th 6th streets, will be sold in whale or t« suit purchaser. Apply to C. may29-3m TOR SALE-HOUSE AND LOT ON south J? Second street., east side, between Wlllow and Grover—the property must bo sold. Apply to MRS. LOU1HE WETKR MEYER or H. Holmkamp, cornet of Ohio and 4th street*. ma.v23-8m

For Rent.

TOR RENT-TWO NEW HOUSES OF Jp Ave rooms each—new, never b^en seenpled, corner 1st and Chestnut streets. En quire first house north.

To Loan.^

mo LO AN-ONK HUN" 'RED THOUSAND I DOLLARS—For particulars apply to the undersigned. J. H. DOUGLASS. [mar27-tf

Found.

)UND—THAT THE SATURDAY KV Fining Mali is the mast widely circulated newspaper in thoStateoulsldeof Iudlanap•11s.

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lUND-THAT WITH ONE STROKE OF pen you ean reach, with an advertisement in the Saturday Evening Mall, almost every reading family in this city, as well as the residents of the towns and country surrounding Terrs Haute.

FULL STOCK AND LOWER PRICES.

FANS!

N1I.K, LL\L\ and PAPER.

Ruches, Collar* And Cifflu

4 Spanish Combs, Belts,

Buckles.

PANNIERS,

Lm«m4 •rgandte Tie*.

Children's DrMsea—Sun Bonnets —Striped Hosiery, &e., Jfee.

BEEHIVE!!

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IOSTLN ft ARMSTRONG**, Twrtw •ad get a sample bottle nuw.

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THE MAIL"

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, tDlTOB AND PROPRIETOR. TERRE HAUTE, JULY 24,1875.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper axe published. The FIRST EDITION,

Friday Evening

has a large circulation in the surrounding town*, where it is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Even ing, goes Into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city, and the Jarm er» of tills immediate vicinity.

Ev*ry Week's Issue is, In tact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, in Which all Advertisements appear for

ONE CHARGE

A NEW SERIAL STORY.

"BEFORE I DIE"

Is the title of a new story commenced in this issue of The Mall, by permission of the publishers of "Hearth and Home," and it Is a title under which no less of the humors than the sterner emotions of life are vividly delineated for the delight of the imagination. Miss Hartweil knows bow to alternate from tragic Intensity to the most pungent wit, and her fictions never pall for lack of variety. In short, the peculiar

EXCELLENCE OF STYLE

Characterising this fresh and bright young writer's work—Its terse vigor,epigrammatic sparkle, and magnetic earnestness—will charm and enchain the reader from the opening to the closing chapter.

The Story, while domestic In its general nature, deals dramatically with the universal elements of the highest order of Romance, and is formed of elmractcrs, scencs, and situations of

THE MOST DRAMA TIC INTEREST. Beginning, brightly and picturesquely, In a stirring American village, it Introduces the reader at once to a scene of characteristic vivacity and alternately eccentric and pathetic effect A Traveling

Circus, with all

Its lively and bizarre surroundings and aduncts, opens the drama of the tale, and from A STARTLING EPISODE Of the performance therein is begun the evolution of tho novel and thrilling plot. A character new to flrst-cluss A erlcan Action is presented In the person of the strange, wild, subtle young

WAIF OF THE ARENA,

Whose eventiul history is destined to hold the interest of the reader in admiring and curious expectation to the very last chapter.

In the hero ot the Story—another strikingly original character—there is a brilliant and profonnd study of a type of genius peculiar to

ART-LIFE-,

And his career in the assiinilatloii Or a livIng woman's soul—almost of his own crea lion—with his realised ideal of a woman of marble, will be found one of the most ab sorbing delineations of modern Action.

Yet another element of this unique Story Is supplied by characters, masculine and feminine, who illustrate, in a kind of loveIdyl, the vicissitudes-dramatic, humorous, despairing, exulting—of youthful

WORKERS IN LITERATURE," Whose avocation is so often a mystery and a wonder to the moro practical and prosperous people around them.

In short, the readorsof THE MAIL, old and young, lively and severe, may confidently expect from this delightful NEW STORY, by th»j author of A WOMAN IN ARMOR, the freshest and most FASCINATING LITERARY TREAT possible to lie secured.

BIUOHAM YOUNG IS a widower.

Sxow fell at Louisa Court House, Va., last Tuesday.

LOKDBR'S ball has been reduced to 12500. Ills trial will take place in September. rggrngggggggSBS^

A CONTRACT has been made with Mr. Beecher to lecture twenty nights in the West st |500 a night.

THEWS is a very material advance In wheat and flour in Europe and t|)e supply la reported abort.

THE returns to the department of agriculture show that the average In corn is about eight per cent, greater than last year. ,% -^-—--3^—=-

IT is a lamentable fact that there are people in this country yet who seem disposed to encourage the base ball idiocy.

IT IS said that rates of interest were never so low in this country as now. It may be true but there is no oomplalpt of that kind in this region.

KmtAKo is now suffering mm Aeavy rains and consoc uent floods some of the riven having overflowed their banks and covered the land Ibr a distance of thirty miles.

If begins to look very much as If Morton and Hendricks would be the rival candidates ibr the Presidency. Suoh a state of things would make it decidedly lively in Indiana during campaign times.

JtnxHl W*. D. KBXST has written a long letter to the Expresn of this city to prove that inflation is not inflation. It Is published in Thursday's edition of paper and Lbcee who are curious regarding the subject a» referred thereto. ^SKSSS^SBSSSSSS

CtncctABS are being seat all over the State to formers and others, proposing to loan money at nine per cent, interest on fin* mortgage real estate security. The amount of property already nndet tnortgsgeisfeartal. Staroorsespeeialiy, should be shy ofincraaalog it

CAJLDtsloA, an ambitions little town in has gone into the wholesale rseoneiliation boelnees, and invited Jet fern* Davis, Alexander H. Stephens, and all the office**, soldiers and aaOots of the lale Oonltedeiafce fcws generally, to be present at the National Reunion of ex-Federals soon to be held there. Rodtville should hare thought or thia.

IT is abopefot sign that the sutyeel of improving the publio roadaisat lastTeceiving attention in different parts of the SUte. Friends of the movement eontemplate holding a convention st Indianapolis some time in September, to work up some practical plan to lay betae the legislature at its next session, for securing suitable legislation to carry out the desired object. It is hoped that the matter can be kept warm tmiil that otyect is achieved.

ABOUT the thinnest piece of chesp demagoguery that we have seen lately la the attempt of the Indianapolis Courier and some other papers to get up a feeling against the proposed soldiers reunion to be held at Indianapolis this foil, bocause on tho committee of arrangements there Is no man who ranked low er than a captain. Suppose there is not are the gentlemen named any less com yetent to mako arrangements for the meeting? The assertion that one-third of them are played out politicians and men of no character is a gratuitous insult, and the editor of the Cornier knows very well he dare not give names when he makes it. The fact is he imagines that there is a chance to make a little capital for himself and paper by working on the prejudices of the private soldiers. That is all there 1s of it.

Tint Indianapolis Sentinel of Wednesday publishes a table showing the assessment of all the real and personal property of each county in the state as returned to the board of equalization. By this table it appears that the total valne of taxables in Vigo county is greater than infiny other county in the State with the exception oi Marion. Vigo is put down at 924,218,855. Vanderburg is next at 923,577,052. Then Wayne at f23,379,913 and then Tippacanoe 922,157,324. Mariofa county has not yet made her returns, though it is safe to say she is the richeet county, while Starke is the poor est, having only 91,154,765 worth of taxa ble property of all sorts. The total taxables of the State foot up 9761,180,346, be ing about 950,000,000 less than in 1873, or a decrease of per cent. The total number of polls for the State is 266,766. There are in the State 21,840,350,17 acres of land, Jasper standing at the head of the list with 374,354,04, and Ohio at tho foot with 54,742,78.

THE Journal finds fault with a story entitled "Kinman fe Denson," concluded in this issuo of The Mail. It affects to see in it an attack on farmers as a class, and a desire on the part of the writer to ventilate his personal contempt for them. Now we have no desire to make any defence against this absurd charge. What is writ is writ. The story is complete, And the farmers themselves can see whether there is anything in it that the respectable ones have reason to complain of. Perhaps if the editor of the Journal will take the trouble to read the concluding chapters, he may even change his own opinion respecting it. The Mail has never been in the habit of publishing anything merely for the purpose of flattering the vanity of any particular class. It selects its articles because of tbeir general interest or of'some supposed literary merit. It holds that its readers have common sense, and are capable of forming tbeir opinions. Whenevor they are dissatisfied with tbe-oourse of the paper, thoy will probably stop reading it without any advice from outside parties. They are at liberty to stop at any time. The stoppage will not oome from Mr. Denson's class lor the very sufficient reason that they never read it or any other paper. When they do read, the necessity for depicting such characters will have passed away.

POLITICS have thrown in ooqjunction many very opposing characters and wrought strange combination. If there ever was a stranger combinations than that of Bill Allen and Sam Carey on the same ticket for Governor and Lieut. Governor of Ohio, we have yet to hear of it. The Madison Courier tells of a speech which Sam Carey made in Ohio in 1863—Sam was then a red-hot Republican, and was stumping the State for Brongb. When he arose he said: "Pel low citisetis: The Governor [be pointed to Brougb] is handling men with his gloves on. I am going to take mine off, and call men and things by their right names, and I am going to commence on that d—d old scoundrel of a Bill Allen, of Chillicothe." And then he proceeded to deliver a tirade against Allen, which, if one-tenth of what he said was true, proved that the present Governor of Ohio ought to have been serving the State In a prison. Now, Sam speaks in the most eulogistic terms of the "d—d old scoundrel." What a difference It makes with some men If a candidate belongs to their party or the other,

But, while Bill Allen is a pretty decent man—not a man with the grasp of a statesman, nor the sentences of a maneuvering politician—a man with an honest record, and a man who tries to do right so Car ss be knows how, Shim Carey to without a characteristic which entitles him to respect. He has no talent bat that of an nnscropukwis schemer and lobbyist, no trade but that of oOee hunter. When Andy Jdhnson apostatised, in 1866, Carey held sofee Federal office. Thinking more of his office than he did of principle, be followed Andy, and landed In the Democratic party. We should be sorry to

see

TfATrrE SATURDAY "EVKN'ING MAIL

the Demo n* ata

ssfttl In Ohio on their Inflation platform, hut we would regard It as disgraced to the State should dispeople eject a peddling eaallawag politician like Ctoey to the second plses in tbdr gift.

FIXDUCO that exposure I*«einevitable, delimiting deputy collector of Internal Revenue at Loalsvilie committed suidkle. The deficit Is upward of fNUXXL

T«* preliminary exsmiaatkm of Emmons and Cochrane, two of thesufpected Long Point criminals, took pises al Greenup, Illinois, on Thursday. Them aeetns little doubt of their complicity in the crime charged. Theywere oommltted without bail, one of them being Bent to the Effingham jail and the other to that in Praire City.

JAXBS MAUBICB THOMPSON will have anew volume of sketches out between the middle and last of August. The title of the book will be "Indiana Mosaics." It will be published by B. J. Hale A Son, 17 Murray street, New York. It will doubtless have a very huge sale, as Mr. Thompson is well known an a humorous writer of rare power. Ills "Songs of Fair Weather" will be published later in the season by tbeOsgoods.

THAT was most extraordinary streak of lightning that visited Alton last week It entered ahouse at one end, passed between a mother and son who were sitting together at a table, into a pantry, where it pierced holes in tho top of a coffee-pot, jarred a dipper into a tin water pail and soldered them firmly together. A cat was singed as smoothly as though she had been shaved, without otherwise injuring her. The man who reported it would be in an awful fix if it was a lie.

PRKPABATIONS are in progress for a grand re-union of soldiers of the late war, to be held at Roekville on the ,6th and 7th of September. A camp Will be formed and rations issued free to all. It is expected that soldiers from all parts of Indiana and Eastern Illinois will participate. Senator Morton and General Sherman have premised to attend. The plans are all first rate and it can hardly fail to be a most enjoyable occasion Every old soldier who possibly can should attend. -j

THE information respecting the crop prospects throughout the country is rather more fbyorable tban friw expected. Ia some localities great injury has been done certain crops by the excessive rains, while other crops have profited by it. The wet weather has been favorable to grass and the prospect is favorable for the largest hay crop ever gathered, and this is a crop of immense value. The corn crop of Indiana will be the largest ever raised, considering the area planted Oats will also turn out well. Potatoes are unusually abundant. The wheat of course has suffered most, but there will bo considerably moro than half a crop In other parts of the country, the prospects arc equally encouraging. The heavy rains, while thoy damaged certain things, destroyed the grasshoppers and drowned out the potato bugs and the potato and wheat crop throughout the county will In the aggregate, exceed the average. Indeed it is predicted of the latter that the surplus product of the year will exceed that of any previous crop. The Southern States have planted, and will produce more corn this year, than ever before—probably nearly onough for home consumption. The crop is very large as Is also thst of tobacco. In short the general prospect is good throughout the county for crops of fall average value, the shortcomings of one locality or section being fully msde up by the abundance of others and the partial failure of one crop, by a gain in something else. When once they begin to move, we may look for more activity in all branches of business and a gradually increasing prosperity throughout all parts of the country.

IN connection with art nutters, we frequently see In Chicago papers the most pleasant and complimentary references to "our artist," Mr. James F. Gookins," and his work. These men tlons are always gratifying to Terre Haute people, for the reason that we are very proud of Mr. Gookins, and have unbounded confidence In his genius. The following is clipped from the Times of the 18th: "From the snperb collection of paintings in the gallery of the Academy of Design, one pssses up stain into the studio of Mr. J. F. Gookins. This genial artist is busy in finishing a portrait (or rather picture, for it has all the elements of one,) of Mr. Murison, on which be has been engaged for some time. It is not only a perfect likeness, but a really artistic production, snd one that will reflect much credit on its author. The head Is vigorous 1 and strong in color, while the accessories of an elegantly furnished chair, on which Mr. M. Is seated, elaborately worked out, and a background of tapestry, add greatly to the general effect. Mr. Gookins' idea la that the surround lags and background of a portrait should be something more tban a monotonous space of canvas, and that it should be judiciously filled up, always, of course, subservient and in reference to the tones that are to come agisinst it,"

Vow that Robert Dale Owen has gone to a lunatic asylum, says the Baltimore Bulletin, "he has afforded us another evidence of the value of modern spiritualism in Its practical manifestations. Mr. Owen was a sincere, honest and honorable gentleman and of whom tt may be Jwrtly said, that he has laid down hu life for his convictions. A conviction that we hold to very strenuously is that spiritualists may be safely divided into two classes, tools and knaves, the former in a great many instancies partaking unoonsdously of the worst qualities of the latter. Between the two many woitby people like Mr. Owen gat ensnared and make themselves objects of pity on the part of peoplee of common sense. No one is so essly duped by arUflce and the most vulgar expedients of fraud as the man of science and tetters. He is always so sincere that be is wholly gnlpbed. We hope that sttcb men sa Mr. Crookas and Mr. Wi London, may discover tbeir whereabouts i* seas 00 to preserve the their intellects. There are and

Integrity of 0D0Q ttulltfi

very tncomprenenai uie thlnga to nature that spiritualism(encompasses In a measure, but the staff that is served at the ordinary lyeeum l» a swindle and a fraud without the merit of sttaloingj to the dignity of a

IK anotber eobunn reference ia made to-an investigation In refersnoe to the prloe paid by the city for a Mdi ftr tlw clerk's office. It Is believed that all that will be necessary In the matter will be to make a plain statement of the Acta in the esse to the manufacturers, and they will return to the city the amount of the overehargfe Tbey are known as a very honorable firm, and if their agent lit St. Louis has swindled the City In their name, he will be Ukely to suffer for it. It is not at all likely that Mr. Hager profited by it. It la modi his style of doing business to pay what Is asked for an article, when he believes he to dealing with a responsible firm.

THE part which received the most marked applause at the recent Bowdoin commencement, the Lswiston (Me.) Journal says, waa the plea for "A Shortened Yardstick." As the speaker showed the innumerable blessings which would flow from an act of oongress declaring that hereafter a measure thirty inches in length should be held to be the legal yardstick, the keen sstJre of the production struck every one with ludicrous force. It was "conclusively shown" that by this policy of shortening the yardstick oongress would at once add immensely to the productions and wealth of the country, would start the wheels of business, provide labor for the unemployed, give cbeap cloth to the poor, and. In general promote virtue and godliness. Indeed, the speaker thought that the advocatea of the depreciated paper currency would farther their cause much better by demanding a shortened yardstick, tban by spending their time in the less important work of perpetuating a shortened dollar.

The City and Vicinity

PEACHES are plenty.

THE Wabash Is booming.

MINSTRELS Thursday evening.

THE rain it raineth every day."

Now where shall the work house be located? a,

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THE nailworks are running on fall time again^ THIS has not been a favorable season for briekmakers.

THE work of curbing and paving sidewalks goes on lively. FELONY cases will come up in Criminal court on Monday next.

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THE steamboats will have business now moving the new crop of wheat. PASSENGER agents' exen rsion to Green wood, ten miles south of Indianapolis, to-day. r^

ANOTHER 95,000 loan for general city expenses was authorized by the council Thursday nigbt.

THE foundation of the Bank building and Vandalla railroad offices will be completed next week.

THE County Commissioner havo ad journed sine die, after doing much important and very good work.

THE excavations are about completed for the new Deming block on Sixth street, next to the Congregational churck.

THE aggregate cost ol the three buildings now in process of erection on Sixth street, between Main and Cherry, will be over 950,000«

EXTENSIVE improvements are to be made in the cemetery. The streets and alleys are to be re-graded and graveled, and things fixed up generally

THE Koopman block on Sixth, adjoining Dowling Hall, is rapidly approaching completion. It makes an exceedingly handsome appearance,

WOULDN'T the town present a lively appearance if there was as much build ing going on on every square, as there is now on Sixth street, between Main and Cherry?

IT IS reported .again that negotiations are pending which will throw the Illinois Midland into the bands of the Van'

I«H« company bat the report Is not gen erally credited. THE grading and graveling of Eagle street, between Sixth and seventh, in eluding the grading and curbing of side walks, has been let to Lawrence Butler, at 91.43 per lineal foot.

THE Criminal COurt was in session on Thursday, and transacted quite a large amount of business. Ten saloonkeepers were tried for selling without license and fined, in the aggregate, |250. The court will convene again on Monday.

A MOTION to have the city ordinances revised, and published in pamphlet form, was referred to the Judiciary Committee at the council meeting Thursday night. It would be an expensive ob and might well tie pat off at least another year.

MABRIAOE LKOQcsaa,—The following marriage licenses have been Issued by the County Clerk since our last report:

Jacob Ml I Wand Millie Boctor. Ulster LIute aud Maw ISayleg. Gmm Blockaom and Sarali Hayworth. Elijah F.Creech and Mary K.Censor. Ifteqlamln Bugles and Mcffiw O Jacob W. Hasher and Mary Juoob Stark and Ella»beUi Mol

and Maggie OatnJbdi. Fleming. Moloch.

PIMMBA» Meustaaay and Jaae White. William S. Oaooand Mary Jackson. ^, tax experiment of draining the water frem the old bed of Lost creek by of sink holes, or wells, baa proven a fhllare. One well was put down to a depth of twelve feet, but instead of coming to a bed of gravel, as wss expected, the workman struck a bed of quicksand, and the work was abandon-

Auothar well will probably be on the west side of the canal in the hope of finding a bed of gravel there, and if uttsueceiwfn} some other means of will have to be settled upM).

CocitcgLitAN ScHLoes, chairman of the Fire Committee, effected a saving of 9M£0 en the twenty-two feet of rubber aaotto* boss purohassd by him this week. It is^ 4 inches in diameter and ususlly oosts 16.50 per foot. By close trading he got it Ibr 95-25, making the bill 9115.50, instead of $150. The hose is known as the "Patent CarboUxed, smooth bore** and possesses many and peculiar advantages as oompared with ordinary suction hose the galvanised iron coll being securely enclosed in rubber walls, so that it is preserved from the action of the water passing through it, and cannot be displaced by any foroe that may be applied. The ordinary snotlon hose having the rings or colls exposed, much friction Is thereby occasioned and it is liable to clog both these defficulties are obviated by this hose. It is also effectually preserved from decay by the use of carbolic acid in its manufacture.

AT the last meeting of the Council, Mr. Roedell, Chairman of the Finance Committee, called attention to the price that had been paid by the city for a safe recently purchased for the city dork's office. He stated his belief that one might have been bought for seventy per cent, less than the amount paid, and thought the matter should be looked into. He called upon the members of the old Finanoe committee for an explanation. Mr. Schloss responded by saying that the safe in question had been purchased by the ohalrmanof the old finance Committee, without any consultation with (he other members of that committee, and that the first he knew of It was when he saw the bill. That he considered the prloe paid, 9721, too much. He had written to the manufacturers of the safe for prices, and had received a letter in reply, which he would read, offering to sell two safes of the same kind for 9740, or 919 more than had been paid for this single one. Mr. Henderson confirmed this statement. The Finanoe Committee was thon directed to investigate the matter.

The price paid for the safe is precisely the one published by the manufacturers, MoNeale A Urban, In their catalogue and price-list. It is not unusual for them to make larg? discounts, sometimes as much as forty per cent. Mr. Hager did not probably know this, but contracted for the safe at the list price. Nc one who is .acquainted with him would think of charging that he profited by the sale. If the agent charged more than the customary price, that should have been looked into beforo tho money was paid. It is too late now to make a fuss about it. Of coune if there was any fraud on the part of the finanoe Committee, it should be promptly ventilatod, but none Is charged or even suspected, and therefore the investigation is unnecessary and unfortunate.

PUT-IN-BAY.

With the exception ef thoso who availed themselves of the low excursion rates to reach other and moro distant points, about all of tho Niagara and Put-In-Bay excursionists have arrived at homo and have settled down to the cares and realities of life. All are loud in their praises of Put-in-Bay and the Erie Islands. These praises .will no doubt start many others of our people in that direction before the season closes. To such we wish to direct attention to a more direct, quicker and more comfortable route than that over which the two excursions passed. This Is by way of Indianapolis, Bellefontalne and Sandusky.

The best time to start is at two o'clook iu the morning. This will put you on Put-in-Bay Island at 6:45 in the evening. Returning leave there at 5:80 A. M. and arrive homo at 10:40 v. M.

Ifyouwishto take a sleeping ooacb, yon should start on the Indianapolis and 8t. Louis road—Sixth street depot. You will occupy this car until 10 o'clock, exchanging at Bellefontalne for a seat in the magnificent day parlor coaches of Cincinnati and Sandusky road.

It will'bo observed that tho route Is by the Indianapolis and St. Louis, tho "Bee Line" and the Cincinnati and Sandusky—all three among the best operated roads in the country, running promptly on tbeir time tables and sur? of their connections.

At Sandusky, the popular passenger steamer Jay Cooke takes you over the sixteen miles of lake—a lovely evening ride—in less than two hours, arriving at Put-in-Bay, as before mentioned, a few minutes before seven o'clock—the most bewitching time to approach this enchanting spot.

Here the Invalid or the pleasure-seek-cr can eqjoy either perfect qniet and rest, or exercise to the fullest extent, including boating—row-hosts, fleet sail boats or the little pUisure steamers— bsthing on a flno beach, ten-pins, billiards, dancing, fishing, Ac. In all these, Including bowling and billiards, the ladles take part, and exhibit entliu" siasm and endurance equal to most of the gentlemen. The hotels are flrstclsan thft Put-in-Bay House, one ot the largest summer hotels In tho country, having accommodations for one thousand guests.

Taken all In all, there Is no more de* Stable place to spend a few weeks of the summer heats tban at Put-in-Bay, and even those who can afford to snatch only a few davs from home and business will etrfoy a'visit to this lovely cluster of Erie Islands.

DR. Mncsacix has removed hi* office to 8tb street, third door south of Main, near the Terre Haute, and just, south of the enrvo in the street railroad. Residence as before, first door northeast of the Normal School, on Eagle street. All calls either in the city or country will be promptly attended to. Office hours FFOM 7 to 13 A. M. and 1 to P. M.