Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 October 1875 — Page 4

New Goods

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LOUVER PRICES

HOBERG, SHOOT & CO.,

OPERA HOl'NK.

The leading house for cheap Dry Cioods, eouUDoci to offer exirslflduoemfiili toeaib buyers

ITHIS WEEK

HEW BKAYKB CLOAKS

Well made ut 17 M, $S.OO,

jwrfi^ct flitine, at S5.C0, 96.00, 110.00 and upwards.

SEW FAIL AXnWISTEERHAWM.

Stripe*. Plaids and Plain Colors, New Hhadai, KM, *S», M-00, tlSO, tf-W*"

urgrdi. New Plain, Striped and Plaid VV»terproofs, &jc, 75c, 90r, 11.25 and S1.M. N(w CawiimTr*, Cloth#, lHx-*kln*, Dels, Blanket*, Balmoral Bklrta, elt Ski its, tc., etc.

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Black Oros Grain «uks. flXO, ',"®' $1J50,11.75,12.00 and tip ward*, olo red Divas and brimming hUks in all the New hh»dtw 11X10, %l3a, 11.50, fl.65, f2.W and upmards.

Dress Goods

Elegant All Wool Diagonals, Cashmeres, Empniw Cloths, Merino*. sntU^ii Clfiths. Hllk and Wool Ponge***. Irish Poplins, Alpaca* and

Mohairs,

all In large assortment.

HOBERG. ROOT & CO., OPERA. HOI »E.

rpHK MOST

Seasonable Goods!

GenuineTurkish. Rnwlan andl Cash Bathing Towel*, Prince of Wales and Sandrlngham Bath Gloves, also rrlctlon Gloves and Broabea for dry use. Fragrant Magnolia and Florida Waters for the toilet and baths, and Cologne* of the best Imported brands and their own unexcelled ''™*n£ H.pi.VL and "Hedyosmla." The English 1 late Clotha" for cleaning china and removing tarnish from Sliver plate, gilt ornaments, «to., etc.

BCNTIN & ARMSTRONG, Dranlidi for. 6th and Main «trf»t»

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.Cor. Main and 5th St.. Second Hoor. Ina Business first Thursday evenns

ln£chmonth.

Pmyer meeting every

day atl3 M., evei? Monday evening and every Sunday at 4.30r. m.

Wanted.

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to that the

Saturday Evening

MAiLtmsft ftrK-which

a- circulation than newspaper published In

tbe

State,outside of Indlananolls. Also

that It Is carefully and thoroughly readIn the home* of Its patrons, and that It Is the •e»7 best advertising medium in Western Indiana. (SOA Per Day at home. Terms tZU free. Address G. $5 T° Co., Portland, Maine.

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ANTED—THE FARMERS AND ALL Uee raisers to know- that I have'a per-n-ct Moth protection for Bee Hives, taunt WHEAT* MERRILL. Office 4tli ami 5th street*, on Ohio—or address I #st•mce box 1810. TVrre Haute, Ind.

For Sale.

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)R8ALE-ATA BAROUN-A FARM 63 acros, nearTerre Haute, lnd., mllessouthoMlieCourt House,at Old Terre

IX)R SAUC—VERY

LOW-DC))RS,SASH,

piyinds, Wagon and Boggy Hubs.Spokc* and Felloes, fully seasoned. llarnww, Hnrlmc Wagon, Desks, Show Cases, Tabfea, *onnters. Drawers, Scales, ExtSL Step ladders and other im JAMES M. LYONS' Haod ware Store, No.130 in iirwt, Terr* H»nlf Ino-

For Rent.

r»m HF.NT-PAHT OF store room, on main street. Price fft.00 per year. Address P. O. box lf76.

Strayed.

OTRAY~ED OR STOLEN-FROM TIIF. rmstnre of Mr. Fox, on U»e Bloomtngton ?4avon the night of «be mh of September, one Wt mare, ab5ut 14^ baads high, four nan old, small lump onder the chin, rattier small neck and short tall, and shod all roattd. I will give tt *r then»tum of the horse. JOHN STOF near t'nt»»n ivpot

To Loan.

mo UV\N AT PER CENT I from BjW "pw And Improved farri to BOriHNOTA BROW

mOliOAN—ONE HUNBREDTHOCHAND 1 DLl^Ra^Foroi^la«applytothe unders^raed. J. II. DOUOLA8B. fmartT-tf

Found.

w^Ot SlWTIIATTHB SATURDAY KVKBlna Mall Is the mast widely circulated newspaper la Um State outside of Indlanapolla.

FlrNDtbeyon

-TlIAT WITH ON STROKE OF tbe pen ran reaeb. with an advertlse•teot In Saturday Evening Mail, almost «verr re*dlng family In this city, aa well as Um rwcHteata of the towns and sounlry aar •aaadlng Terr* Haota.

jyjONNINGER'8 TIVOLI

Xortii ftovemtfc Mmt, Is now pre, I tea, socket who wish and lights. fr-e of charge.

Ctupper. WlnetcaiMl eatable* e»n be famtalMd on these SewasloDS. or at aay other time, if Wtnr«l.

of wine per botUe wui be in future NAB, 7S u4 it cent* For one or one thousand galtotM, and |wr gallon. All wtnea to be pur*. Any ebemist ««u isyUw^Uwrn, Call and ttytlMO.

THE MAIL

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—, .. should look further into national affaire, *od weJfSng^portles snd be able to discover tbe object editors to give ttuls or Cooesrta with bail jn teaching doctrines so utterly without foundation. Tbe country has paased through a terrible financial panic depras* to this country. From a variety of canaea,

Tb«^* ar- sl»i three doe Browrwlek bUllard and a

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Win*iaiSals'Baiii?Ejxmi.

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Pboi'LE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TEKRE IIAl'TE,

(XT. 30, 1H75.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening haa j» Urge circulation In the surrounding towim, where It sold by newsboys and agents. Tbe SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goca Into the hands of nearly every reading person In tbe city, and the farm era of this Immediate vicinity.

Every Week's Isaue Is, In fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, la which all Advertisement!! appear for

ONE CHARGE

STOP THE SLA NDEJt!

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it not about timo for the newspajcns in this portion of the country least, to cease their mischievous howling about hard times and doleful predictions of worse times coming? Can they not see that they are doing more to dlscour

age trade, demoralize business, and give on this Continent, and tho buidingsare worth visiting on their own account, so handsome and so extensive are they.

us a bad name abroad, than all the other causes combined Who wants to buy goods of a man who is always whining about his high rents and heavy expenses eating him up, and who constantly as Vntilif) uuii ii«****• »*v

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uuau'iuiw —V tune as a rare pelce of good news, and start tho thing, for it to break out'ali over the country.

the knowing comment, reduced to a single sentence, is always, "Didn't I tell you so?"

A few weeks ago the writer was in Cincinnati and in going about from one businem house to another,-where he had acquaintances, tbe almost invariable question asked him was, "What is the matter with Terre Haute this year? she seems to be getting behind tho other towns In ville: Evansville is worse if anything —tho merchant® all seem to have tho 'dumps are "all down in the mouth, Terre Haute used to be a live, go-ahead, pushing town, but she's not like herself this year she's losing ground. Tbe merchants seem worse demoralized

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ardis«n «ttjr real estate Apply Immediately 'X, Opera House.

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Germany is suffering more scutely than we at*. England barely eaoaped a panic in the summer and baa not yet recover* en from the effecta of startling failures and tbe paralysis that eaoeed them. Austria has not yet recovered from ber panic, and Belgium l» suffering, and Fnnce, though steadily recovering from Um

terrible strain of tbe most destnio-

the terrible strain of u»e una

'IERRU HAUTE SATURDAY I'] E NrIKG MA J.

troubles, and it is time to say so. Our general financial soundness Is unquestioned. Our people have put their last dollar, let us hope, in wild-cat railways and bottomless oil wells, and real business cannot long be depressed in a nation whose resources are so vast, whose people aro so industrious and enterprising, and whose position is so favorable ss our own. Tbeconsuption of civilized nations is immense and does not cease when productive industry and commerce) stops. The world is too large, its interests are too varied and ita demands are too urgent to be long embarrassed by local derangements. Let tis cease grumbling now and loek on tho bright side of things. Let us go to work cheerfully and with a will to recover what wo have lost and above all, let ua not tolerate tbe individual or tbe newspaper that works systematically to convlnco tho world that wo are ruined.

THE CENTENNIAL.

Tbe success of tho Centennial is no longer a matter of donbt. It is certain that tho Exhibition will bo a grand one. The grounds on which it will bo held are conceeded to be tho most beautiful

Almost every foot of available space within them has already been applied for. Every fore'gn nation will bo rep-'

sures us with the same lugubrious sighs resented and it will, without doubt, be 1 1 1 it.

and groans, that he expects to be sold out by tho sheriff next week? Who wanta to move into a neighborhood where the house are all painted a som ber black and tho inhabitants gs deject edly about with long faces and down cast eyes, clad in the deepest mourning, and where everybody keeps an open coffin on ttye front st®op? Who wants to bo constaHtly reminded that tbe small pox is in the next street and that tho whole city is doomed—especially when there is no truth in it And there is no truth, or very little at this time, in this incessant and pernicious cry of hard times. At least there is little truth in it as it applies to this portion of the West. We venture tho opinion that, with a few exceptions, and those attributable to causes quite aside from those which influence trade generally, such as bad management and tho like, the merchants and manufacturers of this city are doing full as much business as they ever did. In other words that their sales for the month of October, 1875, will bo found by actual comparison of figures, equal to their sales for tho same month in any year since 1870, or oven further back than that. And what is true of this city is true of the towns surrounding it. Times are not hard. Money is not scarce. Even confidence, we have all talked so much about, is not lacking in legitimate business operations. Farmers have had abundant crops and have .received good prices for what they have sold. They are out of debt and have money. In tho town, this fall, nobody has been idle who wanted to work. In fact wo have every element and condition of a prosperous season save and except tho mischievous croakings of a set of political shysters who depend for an existence on the alarm they can excite among the ignorant and unthinking by predicting speedy financial and commercial bankruptcy and ruin to the country as a direct result of an honest desire on the part of tho masses to pay their honest debts in honest money. Notice how dilligently they publish the report of every failure in this country or Europe, and with what eagarness and delight they seem to gloat over it. Jubilant howl-linos proclaim the man's mlsfor-

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the largest, the best arranged, nnd tbe completest international exhibition the world has ever seen. The Centennial feeling all over the couutry is visibly increasing from weak to week, and tho magnitude of tho undertaking and the certainty of its complete success, impressing themselves more deeply on the public mind. People are beginning to feel that the government can well afford to give a hearty support to it, even if the outlay should exceod tho receipts, as was the case at Vienna, the ultimate result of a great exhibition, full in all its departments and worthy of the nation, being certain to bo amply repaid by tho development of industry in succeeding years. Individual interest in its success is growing and will continue to grow, and it is now quite certain that Indiana does not intend to be behind other states. This is most gratifying, and wo can say heartily, Hurrah for the Centennial!

The New York papers of Monday contained very full accounts of the opening religious services held in Brooklyn on Sunday last by the great revivalists, Messrs. Moody and Sankey. From the amount of space and the conspicuousnessgiven to their reports of tho meeting, it is quite evident that all the city papers regard the event as one of signal interest and one quite likely to be followed by a general excitation of the public mind. The Herald devotes nearly six columns to a detailed account of the proceedings, giving verbatim reports of the prayers, hymns, and adadresses and says the attendance both afternoon and evening was immense, estimating the afternoon audience at fully 15,000, while thousands of others, it says, were turned away unable to gain admission. The rush was such that the police, of whom forty or fifty were on hand to preserve order, wore carried off their feet and within the rink by the pressure. All the papers devote a large amount of space to reports and editorial comments on "the awakening." It is believed by those who have closely watched the course of events that a general religious revival is impending, that it only needed some one like Messrs. Mooky and Sankey to

Thk Indianapolis Herald thinks "it la the misfortune of American politics that nobody can do anything even remotely approaching sucoeeaful sensationalism without an army of fools clamoring for bis election to the Presidency. Old Bill Allen was elected Gov-

ernorof Ohio as Joke. The Joke was

Indiana—all except Evans- go good he was pot up as a candidate for a aeeond term, and if he had been elected it was a forgone conclusion that he was to be Democratic candidate for tbe

Presidency. Only think of it! Bill Allen for President. Fish! Civet 1 Skank cabbage! But he wasn't elected Mr. Hays waa. And now tbe fools are

there and do more grumbling, than in nominating Hayes for tbe Presidency any town in the State, except It maybe Evansville." It waa in vain that the em-

Mr. Hays is a good enough man for A a President he would be Governor.

barraMed Terre Hautean endeavored to fifty per cent, more respectable than .. ... Ark far Mm fn Alien. Bat it wouldn't do for him to overcrop" himself. He woijld spread out thin in tbe Presidential chair. Fbr

assure them that we had had the usual summer trade, that there had been about the usual amount of building— all fltrte, be it observed—they could not believe It tbey had the merchants' word that it had been "the dullest summer ever known," and tbe town bad a bad name in consequence. Now such chronic grumblings and unfounded assertions as tbeee on the part of a merchant are simply disgraceful. Just now it is tbe businem of certain newspapers to persuade people that things are in a very bad way, but intelligent merchants

President we want a man of national reputation—a man of brains, judgment, firmness." —s==s=^====s

Lxwxs of tbe Detroit Free Press has been working on that psper seven years. Ilia was not a case of early appreciation. He only struck his peculiar velp aoout two years ago: previous to that he was regarded by tbe few who know anything ef him, as an ordinary plodder with no force of character, and received pay corresponding with this estimate of bis abilities. Tbe court sketches, which have given him his reputation, sre based on fccu gleaned by actual visits to the justice's court on Saturdays. He is regular member of tho Press staff bat furniahes weekly articles to the Graphic and one or two other papers.

Tits London Times says that a Manobceter Arm has commenced importing calicoes from tbe United States, on the ground that tbey aro of better quality and cheaper than can be made in Bngbmd. If this is so. His a very slgnill-

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Ut. ol «««.» Kuropwn wm 'UH pH^. poor. We are in a measure orer I very graUfyour

And now what is the matter with the Keeley moter?

THEY have commenced finding Char-1 ley Roes in England.

Thk tax rate In New York City this year is {2.04 on the hundred dollars.

Fort Waynk modestly estimates her population at 40,000 What forbearance. It would have been so easy to have said 75,00°

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the Vineland editor who Was

shot by Land is last March and has been carrying the bullet around in bis bead ever since, has finally petered out.

Formebly, when a man got tired of the world, he went into a cave and dwelt alone now he accomplishes the same results by opening a store and neglecting to advertise.

Thk late destructive fire at Virgin! City, Nevada, was tho most disastrous that has ever occurred on the Pacific coast. The total loss will amount to between seven and eight million dollars.

Unless there is a grout falling off in tho next two months, the yield of gold and silver this year will reach the enormous sum of one hundred millions of dollars. The quantity mined has been increasing rapidly for about fifteen months, having before that averaged about sixty-fivo millions a year.

The statistics of tho failures in business during tho nine months ending September 30th, 1875, show a large increase in numbers, but a very small excess in liabilities, over a corresponding period for last year. Tbeso failures are largely the result of previous misfortune and not chargeable to tho trade of the past nine months eniirely. Men heavily in debt havo gone on as long as it was possible to go on, increasing their obligations and endeavoring to postpone tho evil day in the hope of something turning up which would save them. The limit was at last reached, and that i§ all there is of it.

Gkn. N. V. Boynton, with free ac cess to the War Department papers, has prepared and published a book to show that General Sherman is a very unreliable historian. It is a companion volume to Sherman's memoirs and is entitled, "Sherman's Historical Raid." Tho preface says: "This book is a criticism upon Sherman as a general, only so far as the official records presented furnish such criticism. There is no attempt to contradict them. Wherever these show that he has done grave injustice both to the living and to the dead, they are produced with as little comment as is needed to set them in connected order, and point out tho refutations which they contain." General Boynton complains that the points which Gen. Sherman should have elucidated, it seems to have been his object to keep more obscure than before. The reader turns, he says, but in vain, for "explanations of the surprise and attending disgrace at Shiloh the ill-judg-ed and fatal assault at Chickasaw Bayou tho protest against tho move by whioh Vicksburg was captured his failure to carry the point assigned him at tho battle of Chattanooga the escape of Johnston from Dalton and Resaca the terrible mistake of the assault on Kenesaw the plunging of his army, marching by the flank, into Hood's line of battle under the supposition that Atlanta was evacuated the escape of the rebel army from Savannah the careless and inexcusable periling and narrow escape of his own army at Bentenville and the political surrendor to Johnson at, Ra-

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Shows Show People.

4, One of the best pleased andiences we have ever seen in the Opera House was that gathered to hear the Tennessee Jubilee Singers, on Saturday evening. Nearly every piece sung received sn enthusiastic encore which In each case was pleasantly responded to. The class sang at a matinee Saturday afternoon, and gave concerts on both Saturday and Sunday evenings. The Tennesseeans are deserving of better bouses than thev have ever yet had in this city.

Mrs. Woodhull spewed her filth Saturday evening upon an audience that contributed thirty-six dollars at the ticket offioe of Dowling Hall. She went out of town poorer than she came In unless she settled all her bills ss she did with The Mail. A reduction wss voluntarily msde of one-third of tbe advertising bill. She put up a poor mouth and demanded a reduction of two-thirds and finally settled with tbe collector at fifty cents on tbe dollar. Mrs. Woodhull is making a business of lecturing. If she is to be believed she has good audiences in most places, and makes money. She ought to pay ber bills like a roan.

The lecture of Wong Chinfoo at Dowling Hall, Sunday night, was well attended and was listened to with profound attention. The lecturer, though a native of tbe "Flowery Kingdom," speaks the English language quite fluently and with very little of the foreign accent. His lecture was exceedingly Interesting and a desire to bear him again was quite freely expressed.

Tbe "TwoOrphans" drew fine audien­

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to the Opera House Monday and Tuesday evenings, snd, as a piece of effective acting, gave tbe most unbounded satisfaction. Tbe cast of character has been changed somewhat since tbey were hero before, and a marked improvement is easily noticed. So much has already been said about the play and

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that further comment on either would mem superfluous yet tbe following,

which we find in the "Town Crier" column of tbe Indianapolis Herald so nearly expresses our own opinion of the scting of McKee Rankin, that we canpot refrain from quoting it though we must be understood ss not endorsing anything ssid against his acting of the character of Rip Van Winkle, for that we believe, in certain parts, to be as good as Jefferson's:

TIIB PERFECTION OK ACTINO. McKee Rankin's impersonation of Jacques Frochard, in the "Two Orphans" is entitled to rank with Jefferson's Rip Van Winkle as a piece of acting. If the Crier designed to simply puff Mr. Rankin the mention of Rip Van Winkle would be exceedingly inopportune, as the public still remember, with unassuaged indignation and disgust, his damnable travesty of Jefferson's great specialty, in which he substitutes a squirrel for a rabbit and calls his version original. But all who have seen the

Two Orphans" (and such as havo not deserve to forfeit the privileges of American citizenship) can almost forgive Rankin the atroaities of his Rip Van Winkle in remembering the hideous excellence of his personation of Jacques Frochard. This Crier has never witnessed a creation so utterly detestable. In all other characters of tho kind, either through failure of tho author or incapacity of tho actor, there has been mixed with what was hateful something to admire or respect. The villian was either gallant, brave, witty, dashing, or else so diabolically wicked as to entitle him to respect but in Jacques Frochard there is absolutely nothing to relieve the loathing, which begins with his first appearance, and increases geometrically to the end. Ho is a creature thoroughly base, heartless, dowardly, utterly selfish, low, groveling, mean, cruel. The audience begin to detest nim with his first appearance. The vulgar swagger of his walk, and the harsh, brutal "cackle" which serves in place of a laugh, jar more unpleasantly upon refined taste than evoi. his wickeder characteristics. Tho effect is absolutely painful in its intensity. Mr. Rankin's acting is so awfully realistic that wo find" it hard to draw the lino between the man and the actor.

Wc have soldom seen a more indulgent and good-natured audienco than that assembled at tho Opera House, Thursday evening, to witness the play of Hamlet as rendered by Mr. James P. Voorhees and his company of amatours. Nor do wo remember any company of amateurs which, taken as a whole, did better acting. The. cast,of characters was as follows: Hamlet James P. Vooorhees. King of Denmark Thomas Don ham. Ghost of Hamlet's Father C.S. Voorhees. Lrertts C. 8. Voorhees. Horatio Charles Gould. Polonlus, First Grave Digger, C. S. Anderson. Rosencrantz Harry SterretL Guildenstern..... R. H. Voorhees. Osrlck CharlesT. Appleby. Marcel I us Paul Jones. Bernardo -Fon Oilman. Francisco Kd Smltli. First Actor Will Robinson. Second Actor JamesClark. Second Grave Digger R. H. Voorhees. Queen of Denmark Miss Belle Smith. Ophelia Miss May McEwan. Actress Miss Nettle Trlsche.

Mr. Voorhees, as Hamlet, did very well indeed, considering his youth, and opportunities for studying the. character. Of course If there were a«y who went there expecting to see a Booth, they were disappointed. On tbe other hand, if any went with the expectation of witnessing a failure, tbey too wore disappointed. Mr. C. 8. Anderson, as "Polonius," and afterwards as the

Grave Digger," was excellent, in make up" and in the rendition of the characters. Others did well, very wellnotably C. S. Voorhees, as "Laertes," Chas. Gould, as "Horatio," and Miss May McEwan as "Ophelia." With perhaps only two exceptions the other characters were rendered as well aa could be expected of amateurs. Indeed, ss an amateur performance it was first-rate. This much can be said with truthfulness, and without criticising or "Slopping over," and we do not care to indulge in either.

Tho heavy rain storm last evening, just at tho time for the people to gather was unfortunato for the Centennial Tea Party, and yet such was tbe interest taken that there was quite a large attendance, and tbe entertainment greatly enjoyed. The ladies who have been active in preparing this Tea Party are deserving of much praise—and aro entitled to more extended mention than we have space to give. We aro glad to learn that the Tea Party is to be repeated this evening, and we advise all to go and take a cup of tea, eat a hearty supper, leok at tbe relics, the good looking ladies, and last, though not least, Mrs. Jarley's wax works. The latter are immense.

The Miennerchor gave a concert last night—tbe first of tbe season. Owing to tbe rain, tbe attendance was not large, but an excellent programme was carried out to tbe entire satisfaction of those present. At tbe conclusion of the concert, dsnclag began and w*i kept up till a late hour.

Tbe Hutchinson Family of singers have tbe Opera House engaged for next Saturday evening*

One week from Monday evening— that's tbe timo lively Lotta lets loose at tbe Opera House.

Cai. Wagner's la the next minstrel ithow. Tbey come one week from Thursday.

Madame Rente's Female Minstrels com* on the 28th of November. Is this fan-can ooocera.4 h.

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The Beaton Quintette Club, will render the very quintessence of music, accompanied by Miss Fanny J. Kellogg, on the evenings of tbe 3rd and 4th of December.

The next big dramatic performance, now on tbe books of tbe Opera House is that of tbe Fifth Avenue Combination, for oae week, commencing December Oth.

Money and Misery" is the name of a pleoe now being played at one of the Philadelphia places of amusement. Asa general thing lucre and unbappiness are not supposed to go together, but if the

true inwardness of tbe wealthy ytere fully comprehended it would bo been that money and misery are more ft®-* quently twin companions than is goner* ally credited.

Theodore Thomas will give six qym-' phony concerts in Boston, beginning November 3.

Tbe theater ushers might supply cloves to save tho rush out botwocn acts.' Mra. Lander's new play is entitled 'Edge Tools."

OE XO OONSEQ UENCIl. (From the Cincinnati Commercial.} President Grant told General Sherman that before reading his book, h« was greatly prejudiced against it, from what he had neard. When he procured: it he sat down to read it, pencil in hand, intending to mark any passages which ho disapproved of. To his surprise, when he had finished the perusal of tho work, he found that ho had not used his, pencil once. Ho ox pressed himself much pleased with tho work."—[Chicago Tribune.

What of all that? Boynton doesn't liko it.

The City and Vicinity.

Low—the poor Wabash.

Sltpkr by lamp light now.

Oh, say gimme a drink!'»

What howho comes there?''

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acres of tin roof went last

Sions wore extensively circulated lastt night. The Quintette Club is coming noxu* month.

Next Monday is tho last day for pay ing taxes.

The cry of the potatoopeddler is hoard in tho land.

The Barly pork house was utterly demolished by the storm last night.

Broad soles and low boels for boots are tonish as well as comfortable.

The steamer Prairio City was turned upsldo down by the wind last night.

The consumption of lager boor docreases as the warm woatber recedes.

Thirty-one wires enter the Western Union Telegraph office, corner of Sixth and Main.

In the Fall a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of oyster on the half shell.

After leaving here, tho McKee Rankin combination finished out the week: in Evansville.

Eleven hundred dollars has been contributed towards tho building of Montroso church anJ the work wiJl begin at once.

The approach of the storm last night was proceeded by a noise resembling tho rapid moving of several heavy trains on tho Vandalia railroad.

Paper is preferablo to straw beneath, carpets, since it is thinner, warmer and noiseless. A few hundred newspapers are on sale at Tho Mail office.

The annual ball of tho Hebrew Ladies Aid Society took place at Dowling Hall, Wednesday evening. It was a big success financially and otherwise.

WHY is it that no one has evor started a store for the complete and cxclusivo sale of ladies ready-mado clothing? Such an establishment ought to pay.

THEY feel sorry for tramps in this town and aro going to put 'em in a work bouse to keep 'em away from mad dogs and from being stolen by tho wicked gipsies.

IF you miss hearing the only Chinese lecturer who ever visited America, you miss tbe greatest intellectual feast of the dsy. Wong Chinfoo at the Opera House to-morrow evening.

THE "noble red man" may be a glittering, gilt edged fraud—a humbug of purest ray serene—but all mu*J. admit that bis summer Is tho best one in the business. Tho past week has boon rnof»t delightful weather.

Taxpayino is lively at tbe offlco of tbo county treasurer. Tbe office is opened, early and kept open late, and Mr. Sankey and bis efficient corps of deputies are doing all In tbelr ]power to wait on tbe people promptly and courteously.

AUTUMN leaf parties" are now tbe rage in certain portions of tbe State, and they don't seem to be bad kinds of parties either, judging froth tbe reports received. Of course tbey include a trip to tbe woods. This custom originated,' with Kve, who gathered leaves very? early In the Fall.

Most destructive fires have taken place st various points, this week, as always happens at this season of tbe yoar. Wo may avoid such a misfortune here by seeing to it that all our flues sre In a safe condition, and that sabes are emptied int a -t* place. These and other precautions against fire, which will readily suggest themselves to a thoughtful person, may save uincb loss and suffering to tbe town.

-Tec gunsmith shop of J. It. Armstrong was broken Into this week, and a old chisel, a saw for cutting iron, and on oil can taken. Tbe articles were afterwards discovered in tbe po*aK*«ion of the prisoners In tbe ounty Jail. An attempt to cut tbeir way out through, the rool by means of tbe tools bad siready been commenced, and would, In a few hours mere, have probably been

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