Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 November 1875 — Page 4

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New Shawls.

Elegant display of Fall and Winter Shawls. New Stylo* and f^®®:

$Z50,

13.00, H00, 5-00, fS.OO, 17.50,|10,00 and upwards.

CLOAKS! CLOAKS!

Well-made and perfect fiWnff.B"menta. H«». I600

912M,

1I0BERG, BOOT & CO., OPERA HOINE.

BUNTIN & ARMSTRONG, Dr«ffffl*s, Cor. flth and Main streets THE PLACE TO GET

pure Drug**,

Flu© Toilet Goods,

Amusements.

PER A HOUSE.

LECTURE OX

Great Britain and Germany,

-BY-

Rev. K. FBAXK HOHE, FOB THE BENEFIT OF PLYMOITH €H A PEL,

Tuesday Evening, Nor. 23,1*75.

IU»v Mr- How® will dewnrtbc the interratlns Incident* and »cenn observed during hi* tour In the Britl*h Iiliw and ticwany! Mtne of which »\r* given Inflow.

IRCI, tp. Qwsenstown, Klliaraey, IkK*am,ctc.

HCOTUl 0,-Homs of BumR, Glasgow. ilnbwrg, cus. ES«I.A*».-0*tord. Westminster

THCMKAT EVMISI®«

"V tru' S«Mffisi®4

f7£0,18.50,f10.00,

115.00, and upward*. Also,

SEALSKIN and ASTRACIIAN Cloaks, •very cheap.

Choice Dress Goods!

All wool CASHMERES, new shades at 75c, 90c, ?t.00, »1.25. EMPRESS CLOTHS, HATINE CLOTHS. CREPF CLOTHS, ENGLISH MERINOS, MO HA IKS, BRILLIANTINES, ALPACAS POFLII&8, CAMELS HAIR SUITINGS, BEIGE HIBERIA, PLAIDS in bright mod grave color*, for Suits and Overdresses, PLAIDS for Children's Wear, eta, ctc., nil in great variety of styles and color* and at low prices.

ProcrlptlonH,

Ac., A'o., Ac

And the OWI.Y PLACE where you can get

TIIK CLEAR IIA VAX A FILLED

"LA riCADUBA,"

lioHN 5 or-lit Cigar.

For Rent.

I.HR

RENT-PART OF A I'KSIUAHLF. 1 more room, on mnln Ktn^t. Price JoOU jmT yriir. Adiln-KM P. O. Iwx lK7H.

To Loan.

10 LOA N-AT PER C.*ENT., ANY HUM from $2,000 upwards, on city renl estate and Improve*! farms. Apply immediately to UoUfJlNOTA IJROWN, Opera House.

M. C. A. »for. Main and f»th Bt.. Sccond Floor. Ah elluii for UiiMlnoMt ttrnt ihuraday evenng In each month. Prayer meeting every iy at 12 M., every Monday evening and *v e.-y Sunday at 4,80 P. M.

jyjONNrNOER'S TIVOLT,

Worth Seventh Street,

errf-lUnte,

lu now prepared to tarnish respectable parties, Kocleile*. club*. and weddlDg parties •who wish to give ltnlls or Concerts with hall and light*, free of charge.

Hupper, wines, and eatables can be fhmlnhcd on these occasions, or at any other time, If deal red.

Then' ar- al»o three fine Brunswick billiard T.iblesi, for ladles or gentlemen to play upon. Anil In accordance with the times, the price of wine per bottle will be in future 51.00,7o nnri SO cont*. For one or one thousand gallon*, «l.i'», 81.50,11.75,13.00 and I2J0 per gallon. All wine* guaranteed to be pure. Any chemist can anyllse them. Call and try them. P- H. MONNIXOKB.

Ab-

bey, York Minuter, ete. ADfY.—Drraden Art Galleries, The Rhine, lh*r t1artUsna,etc.

Tickets now on sale

Button

Usmll-

lon "s Ilookstwnv Admission. Ad alts, *«*». Children 2cl*. Family tickets for live IIJO.

PERA HOUSE.

Ir-aSN

TMODSRE TIITOII

m*it.t. tjsnrraaos*

"The Problem of Life,"

AT OPKRA HOUSE. .*«»* *t

SSlfel.

AHMiaKION: «,»and«iems.

Half bains oa Vandal la, Lo*a*wpo«"t aad K. T. II C. r*llroa«a.

IIOU8E.

5Q' KUA

SKNDKLfWHON

aUINTETTE CLUB! —ANI-

ilSSHNNIEJ. KEIiBCG

AT Til*

OPERA HOUSE,

DeeemlKT Sid M4 **•», 1876.

THE MAIL

A PAPER

FOR THE

PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TKRRE HAUTE, NOV. 20, 1876.

TWO EDITIONS a

Of this Paper are published. 3The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, ou Saturday Eventog, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city, and the farm era of this Immediate vicinity.

Every Week's Issue Is. In fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, la which all Advertisements appear for

ONE CHARGE. s_===ss^==-==se' MOODY doesn't believe in church fairs.

SPAIN is said to be worse mortgaged than Chicago.

three weeks from

CONNRESS meets next Monday.

CRAWTORDSVILLE is clamoring for gas lamps in Dogleg alley.

THE Gazette's little joke about "the wicked Mail" has petered out.

POOI^-SEIXJSO on the election of Speakers has already commenced in Washington.

FIVE Dead Men I Have Known," was tho quaint title «f Bradlaugh's lecture, delivered in Philadelphia, Sunday n'ghi«* ____________

GuiBOitn's remains were gotten safely into the ground Tuosdny, and now it is to be hoped that we'll hear no more on that subject.

Do roir know that there is not a city in Indiana than can boast of as many flno business blocks as Lafayette?—[Lalayette Sunday Leader.

No do you?

IT is said that Jlurnum never knew how hard it really was to manage a circus until ho was elected Mayor of Bridgeport and called upon to preside over tho Town Council.

A KNOWLEDGE of languages will come handy next summer, during Centennial times. A hotel clerk who can snub every guest in his original lingo will be an invaluable man.

THE Philadelphia Star has its own ideas about "the eternal fitness of things." It says: "During tho Centennial our papers should omit all wife-beating iteniH, for the city's crodit."

184 out of the 292 members of the next House of Representatives are "green hands," this being their first appearance in any Congress. The proportion of new members is unusually large.

BAYARD TAYLOR corrugates his massive brow and profoundly remarks that Mark Twain's wit is wholly superficial. Alas poor Mark! he'll bo very much discouraged when he hears of this.

IT is being demonstrated daily in Iowa that a horse thief can mix his neck up with the noosed end of a rope, and fall seventeen feet from a tree without injuring either the tree or the rope. Tho discovery is thought to be a very valuable one.

DR. BENJAMIN LEE, of Philadelphia, in a remarkable calculation of the cost of epidemics, estimates that the small-pox in that city in 1871-2 cost $16.363, 364. If they are so expenslvo as nil that we'd better try and get along.witheut one for a year ©r two.

A MISSOCRI criminal on trial for larceny, being asked if he wanted legal assistance, solemnly replied, "In all Christ's troubles he never hired a lawyer, and I guess I kin get along as well as he could without*one. Now If you're are ready, sail In."

Tnis Pittsburg Loader makes the magnificent prediction that "when the canal In completed through the Isthmus the ialand of Caba will bo the key that all nations of tho globe must use In the voyage the great Western world. It will be the supyly station for the merchant fleets of the universe."

THE crooked whlaky men, under the vigorous action of Secretary Bristow are having a rough time of it. The Secretary appears to be determined not to let go his bold apon them and If he but persists in that determination, the national revenues will be considerably enlarged within the next twelve months.

Tim Fanner's Home Journal says: "There is nothing which the Orange movement now needs so mooh leaders." Well our advertising aolnmm are open to prompt-paying ad vert ISMS, no matter if they are Grangers and in this portion of Indiana, lenders are abundant this season. There's no use suffering fbr lenders!

SOMEBODY wants to know whether It will not be possible to nominate a President for 1070 without the Intervention of the politicians. 8oeh a thing is of coarse pawl hie, because It has frequently been done, but all such experiments have proved dismal feilwrea, notwithstanding the earnestness, honesty and raspectnbility with whtah they were inaugurated Party spirit rales supreme In the United Statw, and will continue to do so ss long •s our preeent form of Government eon. tintwe. The sovereignty lodged in the people will not be surrendered, and we shall have good bad and indifferent candidates for all offices until politicians become horn**, wire* will be about the time of the miU*nniim,

REV. K. F. HOWB baa consented to give a public lecture nextTueedayevening for the benefit of Plymouth chapel and, at the solicitation of those having the matter in charge, will make "Great Britain and Germany" the subject of the lecture. To tboee who have heard Mr. Howe and are familiar with his vigorous snd piquant way of handling even the least interesting subject,—taking it to pieces and pointing out its unthougbtof peculiarities and unnoticed beauties, gracefully putting the parte together again, and clothing tho whole with the charm and sparkle of his nervous eloquence till it beoomee to his audience a new thing in which thenceforth they never lose Interest—no commendatory words are necessary. To those who have not heard him, we say go and do so, and our word for it you will not be disappointed. The lecture on Great Britain and Germany, at this time, will donbtles8 be more than ordinarily entertaining from the fact that Mr. Howe but a few weeks sgo returned from Europe, snd the scenes and impressions of which he will speak, are still Iresh in his miHd. By nature a close observer of men and things, and having a mind well trained to retain facts and impressions, his observations regarding the social life and customs of England, Ireland, Scotland and Germany, must be of peculiar interest, and especially so to those of our fellow-citizens who have lived in the countries mentioned for itishnman nature to be curious about how our old home appears in the eyes of a stranger. For a German or an Irishman to look once at his native land, through American eyes, can be no less than a pleasant experience, however much ho may object to tho eyes. As for tho descriptions of scenery, public buildings, !fcc., we know enough of Mr. Howe's poetic eloquence to promise that that part of the entertainment shall be a rare trr-at, and we sincerely hope that ho will have a house worthy of both lecture and lecturer.

WHATEVER may be the rdsillt of the Brooklyn revival, it must be acknowledged that Mr. Moody has pro von himself not only an earnest worker, but a man of eminent good sense and freedom from sectarian prejudices. When an enthusiastic gentleman the other day solicited prayer for the thousands of people in New York and Brooklyn who regularly failed to observe the Sabbath day in the Orthodox way, Mr. Mood3' replied that he was engaged in a different work and didn't want the "Sunday question" mixed up with it. Another over-zealous Christian gentleman asked him to pray for tho conversion of "thirteen friends who were Roman Catholics," the Evangelist promptly declined, saying there was as many Catholics who were Christians as Protestants, and that the Catholic road to Heaven was as sure as any other, if peoplo only kept in it.

A number of like incidents have occurred. He discourages expansive talks and long-winded prayers by pompous old church membors.and will not tolerato shouting or other manifestations of undue excitement. The rosult will be lookod for with interest, as it will serve to indicate whother the religious feeling so largely aroused is due to the presence of Messrs. Moody and Sankey, or whether it will continue with the same fervor when they have transferred their efforts to another looality. It is early yet to give the movement an unqualified indorsement and certainly there is visible reason for condemning or making light of it. When tho rather unnatural excitoment has passed away, it will be easier than now to define the work and estimate its value. Wo are of those who believe that it will be attended with beneficent results.

THE New York Herald says the pressent Is not a good time to risk money In Wall street. That is an opinion quite prevalent in this locality—especially among those confiding loonies who, during the past twelve months, have listened to the song of the shysters now flooding the country with circulars and advertisements headed, "000 per oent. Profit has been real lied from Investments in Stock Privileges! flOto foO may lead to a Fortuno in Wall Street I" and the like. There is of course no means of knowing how much money 'has been sent to TumbridgeA Co., John

Hickling & Co., and tho dozens of other "bankers and brokers" who have been running the boalneas, bat the swindle must have been an immensely profitable one to the men engaged In it, else they would not have advertised it as they havo. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of dollars (who knows?) have been sent from this city and vicinity, and the victims will never be known except aa they put off the payment of a past due bill, or blush si a sudden mention ol Wall street. As a successful and safe mode of stealing, the "stock privilege" bnslneas Is years and years ahead of the lottery.

THE privilege of printing and selling the official catalogue of the Oeatennial International Exhibition has been sold to a responsible firm in Philadelphia for 1100,000. The catalogue will occupy four volumes of three hundred pages each, and It la agreed that not more than twsnty-flve pages, all together, shall be devoted to advertising. It is also stipulated that the volumes shall be sold for twenty-five cents a-piece, so that the whole work may be bought for one dollar. The publisher* may see money In It somewhere, but if we had that contract, we'd be trying mighty hard to get it off our band*.

THE atory of that new fifty dollar countcrfrlt Mil bring in circulation, exdlea universal consternation among the repnrt»r» of Indianapolis pepere, who never draw their «alari^» now without a ahadder.

TBRKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

THE presence of small-pox in Cincinnati and Indianapolis should prompt every one to pay immediate attention to tho important matter of vaccination.

TANGIBLE SPIRITS.

THE SPIRITUAL PHENOMENA AT TERRE HAUTE—MATERIZATION AN DEMATERIAL1ZATION.

(From the Chicago Times.]

TKRRK HAUTB, Ind., Nov. 12.—"The age in which we live is one of progress the banner under which we march is one of light."

Away down in the valley of the Wabash, midway between its source and its confluence with the Ohio, and about 00 miles westward from the heart of the Hoosier State, thrives the prairie city of Terre Haute, numbering, all told, 25,000, souls. The baptismal name is French,and when put into English, means "high ground." There is nothing in the gen oral appearance of the city to attract the attention of the stranger, unless it be the State Normal school bnilding, the new city market, or the Terre Haute opera house. And should the resident Terre llauter be asked what were the alluring features of the place, he would probably have to stop and think the subject over before he could make answer. And yet this same Terre Haute is just now the theater of some of the most startling phenomena of the age The average resident doesn't know it, or knowing it, passes it lightly by. He has his bread and butter to get, and that absorbs him. In locking down to mother earth for a return of his labor, he forgets to also look upward to heaven where, through the night of ignorance, the eternal stars are shining. He takes no interest apparently in the fact that the gates of the angel world are nightly left ajar, not a stone's throw from the principal street of tho city, and that th§ loved and lost come back and hold commwuon once more with their dear ones still in the thraldom of the-ilesh. But the outside reading world is net in such ignorance. Strangers from all points of the compass,—from the shores of California to the Atlantic coast—led by a spirit of inquiry, come to Terre Haute to test the mediumship of Mrs. Stewart. They find it all and more than all that had been anticipated.

It is well impossible to give a correct idea of tho manifestations which nightly occur at the seance rooms of Dr. Pence, but as a personal narrative alwaj*s possesses moro interest than any amount ol glittering generalities, I will tell j*ou what I have seen.

To begin with, there is absolutely no fraud about the cabinet or the seance room, and as to tho committee who manage Mrs. Stewart's circles. I would as soon suspect tho angel Gabriel of dishonesty as these men. They are men of recognized worth and standing in the community where they reside, and if there is such a thing as incorruptible integrity of character, they possess it in an eminent degree. In making this statement, I do not use simply a personal estimate or speak from an individual stand point. I give their genoral reputation as citizens. Said an old resident, a lawver of rep ate, to me, "I have known Mr. Hook for twenty years, and I consider him one of our solid men a man of excellent intellect and sound character."

How about Dr. Pence said I. He is just as good a man," replied this astute lawyer "nobody can say a word against him, except that he is a Spiritualist."

Mr. Connor, the third member of tho committee, ranks side by side in point of reputation with the other two.

The inevitable conclusion, then, Is that if Mrs. Stewart is a humbug, these three men have been most lamentably humbugged for the last three years.

My first experience at these seances was in the dark circle, and although I was astonished at tho evidences I then received of materialised spirits, my astonishment was destined to be eclipsed by the phenomena of the succeeding six evenings as exhibited In the light circle.

The medium remains seated in the cabinet for the Bpace of fifteen or twenty minutes before becoming entranced, and at the end of that time, the cabinet doors are usually thrown wide open, and the immortals stand before us In visible form. The medium and the materialised spirit are displayed at the same time.

One night, a dear little child-spirit stood nodding his bead at us between the medium and tho spirit-form of a lady dressed In black. Afterward, this lady brought the child out on the rostrum in her arms, whilo behind her in the cabinet sat tho medium in a death-like trance. Belle Purvia—a leading spirit of Mrs. Stewart's band—cpme* out nearly every night, dressed In lovely white robes, and gives us many convincing proofs of spirit-power and of life beyond the grave. 1 nave seen her get on the scales and vary her weight from twenty to thirty or forty pounds by simply stepping on and off. I have seen her sit up and knit to completion woolen stockings and mittens in an incredibly short time, while the ball was held by a member of the circle. I have seen ner perform her wonderful hair trick—if you please to call it such—which I will describe more minutely. One night she oarae to the front of the platform and asked a gentleman who sat at my right if he would cut off a lock of her hair. She bent forward, and divided a thick lock from the crown of her head, which was severed by the scissors. It appeared to be about six inches in length, and half an inch thick, and when examined, felt like genuine hair. A handkerchief was then spread upon the rostrum, and Belle placed the hair upon It.

I guess It will stay there," she remarked, as she folded the handkerchief over it and stepped back to the cabinet door.

In another moment, the hair coiled lteeifnp like a anake, and, leaping forward, dragged the handkerchief partly along, and swiftly made its way to Belle's head.

Did the hair go back to the place from which it wss clipped I Inquired. Yea," she replied, "and is Jost as firm as ever."

She saked lor the soisso«« again, sad walked to the front of the rortrum to take them from my hand. I saw bar foatur JS distinctly ss she came near me, and I positively assert that they were entirely unlike tboae of the medium.

Khind

aides, the cabinet door* were opened her. leaving Mrs. Stewart In full sight. B*Ue saked os if we would like a piera of her draes, and suiting the aclltn to the word, she cot several long strips from the front of her white skirt,

sign of being cut. The pieces were given to several members or the circle, and I have one in my poeseeslon now.

A certain doctor and his wife arrived in Terre Haute a few days slnoe, from a distant city. Five moatns ago they buried a loved son—a young man of eighteen—and in order to receive as strong a test as possible, came here incog. No one knew their name nor whence they came. They did not oven disclose the fact that they had lost a son. But en the second night of their arrival, their trembling hopes were rewarded by the sight of their boy, Willie. The recognition was perfect, and the mother was well nigh overcome with mingled joy and grief. Since then he has been out every night, and judging from bis appearance, must have been while in this life, a very promisiug and handsome young man. Last night, by request he brought a roee with him, and allowed us to Inhale its fragrance. Sometimes he wears boots, which, to judge by the noise they make, must be new, and sometimes he comes softly in his stocking feet.

Twice since I have been here, Charlie Smith, the leader of the band, has made his appearance and talked to us concerning the science of these phenomena. It is simply impossible that the medium could have used the language he used, or talked in the same way. She is a

f»retty

eigl or 1

little brunette of only average

ntelligence, and is utterly incapable of talking science after the manner of Charlie Smith. On the night I saw him first, be promised to try the experiment of dematerialization, and the next evening he fulfilled his promise. I was incredulous until the phenomenon actually took place before my eyes. This occurred on tho night of Nov. 5. Charlie made his appearance at the beginning ot the seance, and throwing the doors wide open, displayed himself and the medium in plain view of all. The doors wore then closed, and after the lapse of eight or ten minutes, were again thrown open. There stood Charlie, but where was the medium? Her empty obair was beside him, and he set it out on the platform. We could badly believe the evidence of our sonses, but it was nevertheless a fact that the medium bad entirely disappeared! She had been mysteriously spirited away, or, to use the current phrase, dematerialized

Where did she go There is absolutely no way of leaving the cabinet except by the doors, which open 011 the platform in plain view of the sitters. Yet, it is certain that no one passed out. Let tho skeptics come forward and explain this manifestation.

While we were still lost in wonderment, Charlie stepped out on the platform, drew the chair back into tho cabinet, and closed the doors. Alter a short interval, the doors were oneo more opened wide, and the medium was seen sitting in her accustomed place, while Charlie stood at her side.

Explain this who can. Large bouquets have frequently been given to spirit friends, and through the process of dsmaterialization, taken to their abodes in the unseen world. Apples and candy also disappear in the same mysterious way. It cannot be explained on the ground that the medium secretes these various articles about her person, for the she has been repeatedly soarched immediately after the seance, and not a vestige of these things can DO found. Commtttoes of ladies have dressed her in dark clothes throughout, from the unmentionable garment which a lady is supposed to wear next her person, to the outside apher to her to seanoe was over, there to go through a ro-cxamin-atlon, and they report that she was In the same habiliments as when entering the cabinet. But this did not prevent the shadowy company of the Immortals from appearing, clothed in lovely white robes,—sometimes with gossamer veils of filmy lace floating from their heads sometimes wearing nats with long gray veils attached. On an average, from ht to ten materialized spirits appear an evening, and these are of both sexes, and all sizes and heights. They come out and shake hands

with us, and the light is sufficiently strong to detect fraud if fraud existed. When it is taken into consideration that the managing committee of Mrs. Stewart's seances are as anxious to punish humbug snd trickery ss the outside wsrld could possibly be, it Is unreasonable to suppose that she oonld have successfully deceived these men for a period of three successive years.

It is utterly impossible for her to give the phenomena which are nightly witnessed here without the aid of confederates, and it is equally certain that she is entirely unaided by help of any kind, except that of her spirit band. Let the problem of this spiritual chemistry rest where it belongs—with the angel world. For "now wo see through a glass darkly," but by and by, perhaps, wo shall be able to seo "face to Caoe.

MAUDE L. B.

The City and Vicinity,

WILL you have turkey or Tllton for Thanksgiving?—or both

TRAMPS *n the suburbs are making free with the turnip patches.

THE Gazette is the only paper In Terre Haute that tells tho truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

THE Little Shoe Store Around The Corner" Is the sign of a new establishment on Fburth street, between Main and Ohio.

A VERY successful festival and fair, conducted by the ladles of St. Joseph's Catholic church, has been in progn at Howling Hall sine* Thursday. It will close to-night.

THE air is thick with rumors of prospective marriages, and young men with limited salaries and still more limited credit, are oh-lng for a dollar store that will sell silverware. ...

WHAT has become of the gentle

uln-

eendiary" that need to be the pet of the papers? He hasn't tarnished an Item for months. Has be been dlsoouraged by the water worka, and oeased to born?

Til observant Qaaette notices that **on the northeast corner of Sixth and Ohio street are the posters of Tl lion's lecture, snd on the sentheast o6rner those oi

Victoria Woodbull, only a mud

dy street between them."

ViPCKtXBs had a gUt-adged darkey wedding Wednesday. There wae the usual paranymphs and four ushers in spike-tails and white kida. The bride was too "lubly" for anything, attired In 41k, with veil and no hat.

SOMETHING like two hundred and fifty flakes of snow were distributed over the city on Tuesday afterneen, causing the weather-wise to exclaim with one acoord, "There'll be sixteen snows this winter because this happen-

ed on the 16th day of the month.'* THE Early slaughter house and packing establishment is to be repaired and operated one mere season, provided the Board of Health don't turn up their noees about it but if they do, and the city council finds out that offal la being thrown in the river above the water worka, or a smell raised which shall bo offensive to tbe sturdy burghers of Happy Hollow, it is just as like as anyway they'll rise in their might and demolish the whole institution.

MR. WILLIAM COATS died at his resi-* dence in this city, Tueeday night, the 16th inst. For many years ho had been afflicted with asthma, and for the past two years, st least, hss been entirely unable to attend to business of any kind. Since his return from Florida, last spring, he has been confined to his bed most of the time. The deceased was an excellent and honored citizen, and his death will be sincerely mourned. He was born in Pennsylvania 1823, arid was consequently in tho fifty-socond year of his age.

OCCASIONALLY, barbo* get hold of a*t poor quality of bay rum, and when such is applied to tho face of a man just shaved, it will smart like fire for a few moments.. A case of this kind occurred in a Fourth street barber ahop, Saturday. "Whoop! hold! Holy Moses!" yelled the man, springing wildly from the ohalr and clasping his burning cheeks with both hands "you may skin me—that's all right—but I'll be essentially cussed if I'm a-goln' to havo pep-per-sauce rubbed ou it afterwards! Now you hear ine!"

THOSE who failed to attend the enter tainment at the Congregational church Tuesday evening, at which Mrs. Fred Wright read, and a number of penons sang, missed one of the rarest of intellectual treats. One halfoflho proceeds were for tho benefit of tho Ladies Aid Society, the other half for Mrs. Wright. We regret to say that neither party wero made very rich. No bettor illustrations of the bent of public tasto in litis city is needed, than a comparison of this entertainment at twenty-live cents ad-! mission, with tho one on tho opposite sido of the street at ono dollar. Full twice as many pcpplo paid tho latter sum merely to soo tho dancing and tho crowd at Dowling Ilall, without "shaking a leg" themselves, as paid to hour the reading and music at tho church whilo If wo count tho wholo number of, people who attended the polico ba!lr Mrs. Wright and tho Ladies Aid Society' are left clear out of. sight. Tho conclutJ sion is more apparent than over, thatt legs, and not brains, shape the reputalion and destiny of Terre Haute. Bring on your femalq,variety, and ,negro minstrol shows!

THEODORE T1LTOX.

Theodore Tilton will deliver his lecture on "The Problem of Life," at the Opera House next Thursday evening, (Nov. 25th.) Reserved seats will bo sold at Button A Hamilton's without extra charge, beginning Tuesday morning next at nine o'clock. Tbe following is from tho New York Sun, Sept. 30, 1876

The reception of Theodore Tllton last evening by an audienco which lammed the large ball of Cooper Institute was more than he would have received merely as a popular lecturer. It was plain that the people bad the great sandal suit in their minds, and were In a great majority friendly to tho plaintiff. Thov applauded him long and heartily upon his entranoe, the clappingof hands and stamping of feet stopping several times only to bo renewed. The gathering was good In quality as well as In numbers—not a rabble—but in looks about like the congregation of a prosperous church. The womon outnumbered the men. The seats had nearly all been sold at soventy-fivo ccnts each before night, and speculators did a lucrative business later. His delivery was certainly excellent. His voice wss strong and musical, his elocution skllftil,and his gestures gracefully effective. The audience was tirelessly attentive during the hour and a half that tho lecture lasted, and very free, with applause. A moro congenial andi* ence is seldom met by any lecturer."

THE Express of Friday morning tells It as well ss we could possibly have done it, consequently we oopy tbe following.'

A social event was the double wedding of last evening, so long looked for in this dty. At five o'clock, at tho bride's home at Creel's mills, Mr. Fred Phillips and Miss Cornelia Adams wero married by Elder J. W. Greene, ol this dty. Samuel M. Adams and Miss JLinnie F. Surrell. John M. Adams snd Miss Lizzie F. BUCK Ingham standing up with them. The fcir bride wss the recipient of many mod wishes and kind congratulations, and a large list af handsome presents, some of them being very valuable. After a magnificent supper had been partaken of, the entire party camo to tbe dty, to the residence of Mm. Buckingham, on south Fifth street, snd st nine o'clock Mr. Adams and Miss Buckingham were married by tbe Rev. Dr J. C. Read.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Philllpa, Mr. Adame and Miss Surrell Stanley atood op with them. Tbe marriage *fremony, as

The happy couples lett at 1:45 "Friday morning to spend a few days in ClndnTbe Mall extends tbe heartiest congratulations and good wishoe.

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used by Dr. very ImpiWve. and after a brief prayer congratulations were profussly tendered tbe lovely brido always a favorite, and one of tho moat worthy young ladies of our otty. The* parlors were full lo overflowing with intra, personal friends snd Invited •meets, who eidoyed tbe occasion to the utmost. An elegant teble was spread for the wedding In the center was an orange pyramid, more than tbreo feet high, surmounted with tbe emblematic pair of white doves. The bride's cake, a very elaborate aflhir, was snr1 with a rainature toy bride, drem, white veil and orange blossoms. Tbe supper, with ioe cream and confections, was elegant and abundant.

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