Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 December 1875 — Page 4

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Holiday Trade!

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HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

OPERA HOUSE.

Elegant Variety

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NEW AND CHOICE

DretM (aood*, Sllkft, Khawl*, Cloak*. Fur*,

Woolen Cxooli«, Lace Goods, Hearfn, ^uMhn,

Ties, Kibbops,

Gloves

IIoNier)',i.

Huurii'lk,

Suitable for Presents

DALLY.

OaU Early jvr the Heat Selection.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.,

BI NTIN & ARMSTRONG, Dragglats, Cor. Olhaad Main THE PLACK TO UKT Pure Drug**.

Flue Toilet (*ooU, Proscription*, A-„ «&e~, A«

And Ute ONLY PLACE whereyoo can get

TUE LK.IIt HAVANA FIIX.F.D

"LA PICA DURA BOM 5 rent Cigar.

Wanted.

WANTKD-ANwho

KNKIIUBTIC, MORA!,

young man, would bn willing to travel tbe me*t of tho time asd devote hi* entire attention to the business, to take a half Interest In an cntemrlse that will pay from two to fiv«\ hundred dollar* per month. Will sell or trade a hnlf Interest. To the

Ikhi man a good chance will lie given. A man from the country preferred. Ulv«- your name and place of residence. For full particular*, address KNTKltl'Itl^K, 1*. O. Box l13t, Terre llaute, I ml.

ANTED—ALL TO KNOW THAT THE Hatphday Evrjung MAit.hn.Ha lanjer elreniatkml than any new*papi •d In theHlete,out*ldeor Indlananol carefully and thoroughly loiun enr ndlana.

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lly nml thoroughly read In patron*, and that It 1* the

very best advertising medium In Western

WANTED—THE

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Fnlng

FARMKRH AND ALL

Wee raisers to know that I have a perfect Moth protection for Ree Hive*. ("nil at WIlKATil MKKlillX, office between 4th and 6th streets, on Ohio—or address P«stofflce bo* ISIS, Terre

Haute,

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For Rent.

*)R HF.NT-A COMFORTABLE ON»-

and-a-half story house, In thesouth part of town, with good cistern, well, shutters, stable and large Wat. Ptwseaslon given Im-maritaU-ly. Address BOX 1381, postofllce.

RENT

PART OF A DKKIltARLE Prlco f.vio Address P. O. ttox lfOU.

store room, on main *lreet per year.

To Loan.

LOA AT PER CENT., ANY »VM from 13400 upward*, nn rliy real estate and Improved farm*. Apply immediately toHOtiiuNOTA HROWN, Opera House.

Found.

FUmlapm

lUND—THAT WITH ONE 8TROKEOF yon can reaoh, with an advertisement the hatnrday Evening Mall, almost «very reading family In thl* rlty, a* well a« ths resident* of the towna and eonntry iror•ouuxllag T«rre Haute.

UTND THAT THE HATt'RDA KVEMall l« the iu«U widely clrrulat^d n« wa pa per la ib«HtaU o«Wd« of ledlanap-

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('or. and 5th HL. Second Floor, lag f«r Bualneaa f»r*t Thoraday evea* a« la month. Prwyer meeting every day at 13 a.. vr*rr Monday evening and «v ary Hunday at 1.30 r. *.

Strayed.

LJTRAYKD- A RAY MARR-FROMTH* farm ofOwrp I*. Wood,ten mile* north of Tern llante.and oa^ mlie eaat of the Ia/» »yet(e maii.oaHataniay mornlog. Nor. 27th. a dark hay mare, fonr year* old, part with white mark on t*»e tower part of fteea and ooe ahoohler a little Miaken from tweeny. A liberal reward will be paid for her retnrn to the form of OKOHtIK b. WOOI», dtnaMI a« tBWtlnnwl abrve.

(AXDY.

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CANDIE*.

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Amusements.

QPERA HOUSE.

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QUINTETTE CLUB!

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MISS FMIIE J. KEL16EG

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OPERA HOUSE,

Beeember 3rd and 4th, 1876.

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, DEC. 4, 1875.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRHT EDITION, on Friday Evening hm a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where It told by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes Into the hand* of nearly every reading person In the city, and the farm era of thl* Immediate vicinity.

Every Week's I**ae 1*, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, la which all Advertisements appear far

ONE CHARGE.

GKN. SHERMAN wax the author of Che phrase '"Hold the fort."

The length of deep sea cable laid in the world is 70,000 miloa.

IT IS said that Ida Lewis practices every Monday on a sevon-octave washboard. ___________

IT BAN been discovered that contennarisns are almost invariably short of stature.

Comet Ac.,Ac.,

coolness seems to be raging between the Now York Times and the Graphic. _____________

An exchange names Murnt llalstcad for President "if he will limit himself to two terms."

Tun Philadelphia Turngemelnde, whatever that is, has issued a protest against the closing of tho Centennial on Sundays.

The corpse of the late editor Carruth was forwarded from Vlneland to Cam•lem on the railroad pass that be held during his life. That was a "deadhead" and no mistake.

The Indianapolis Journal thinks General McDonald, of the St. Ixmis Whisky Iting, rather overdid tho thing when he remarked, on being confined in the County Jail, "I am perfectly at home helre."

The Forty-fourth Congress will assemble at the Capitol, for its tirst session, on next Monday, the tith day of Decembor. Its proceedings will be watched with unusual interest by all the world and the groat importance to this country of its acting wisely, can scarcely be estimated.

This is the way tho Forty-fourth Congress figures op at present Senate: Republicans, 44 Democrats, 28 Independents, 2.

House: Republicans, 107 Democrats, 178 Independents, 6. Twenty-one seats In the House, chiefly Republican, will be contested.

Nevada is suffering from a rabbit plague. Largo armies of them visit the different ranches early in the morning and rnako a general raid through the grain and vegetable crops, davouring and destroying everything. Some of tho farmers are using poisoned wheat freely, in tho hopo of killing them off.

The Philadelphia Star gravely announces, In a two-line paragraph, that "the whole face of nature looks brighter after a blue pill," which is an important discovery, If true. Wo are acquainted with a number of low-spirited individuals who can sae nothing but bankruptcy and ruin anywhere about them, and who are unceasingly tortured by gloomy anticipations respecting specie resumption and a third term. We wish each one of these persons would try a blue pill.

Mr. Rrikih Is extending hts work in behalf of the better treatment of dumb animals to Brooklyn, where ho Is promised the co-operation of a number of leading citizen*. Mr. Bergh has bis faults, and who has not, but the cause of humanity owes him a heavy debt of obligation fr»r his untiring efforts in behalf of the brata creation. At times be is impnlsive and occasionally unreasonable, but taken altogether be Is a true philanthropist, wbeae name posterity will not willingly let die.

MR. Stninrr B. Mrxna, ol Chicago, addressed a small audience—which the Journal, seeing double, perhaps, estlmstes at "about one hundred and a dosen men*—at the court boose, Tuesday night, on the subject of IntergreenTortlback *6S Bonds. Mr. Myws lietongs to the Jim Boebaaan aohool of dnuMtenk Bo m*y manage a Ctoioago bank rory wall, as wo aro told bo does, but ho 'II never distinguish himself greatly aa an orator. He'd better lot the currency atooo and attend to bis discount*.

W« njokw to boar that there Is a good prospect of Mr. Linus A. Burnett receiving the Republican nomination for Treasurer at Stale. A better man for that important position could searrely ho naased. Mr. Burnett la one of oar solid burins— men upright and conedentious in all bis dealings, an honored eitisea, a thorough gentleman, and a Republican without reproaeb. His nomiaatkm would g?vo asauraaee to thousands of people throughout the mate that tho Republican party, In making its selection of candidates tor the ootnlng etaettona, looked to ootaetliing worthier in the mea than mere party fealty, Of Mr. Burnett's strength there van he no doubt. Hie influence In this district with the intelligent mtmn of Ma party exceeds that of almost any other man, and there Is no question aa to Ms drawing largely from the opposition.

lku ow/iirm Yxnsrm.

Ir I oould arrange for my death," said Vioe-President Wilson to one of hia attendants a few days ago, "I would die quietly in my homo, and have the privilege of saying good-bye to my friends, and be laid quietly away. But 1 have a premonition that I shall die suddenly be snuffed out like a candle without an opportunity to say good-bye to any one."

How different from this expressed wish hasbe«n the courso taken with his body. Lying in state at the Capital from Monday morning till Friday in the Vloe-President's room, Is a catafalque which occupies tho place where the writing table stood where he did all bis work, and exposed to the gate of the curions for four days taken thence to the rotunda, removed afterwards to the Senate Chambor with great ceremoay and received with all imaginable dra matic effect taken thenco to the depot through a cold drizzling rain but ac companied by officers, soldiers, bands of music, and everything that could make the prooession Impresslvo ^and imposing. Received in Baltimore with similar demonstrations and exposed to public view for one hour and a half in the City Hall thenceon to Philadelphia to lie in Independence Hall for another day a repetition of all the proceeding mummery at Jersey City, New York Boston and Natick, his native place, and buried Wednesday, ten days after his death, his face, notwithstanding the embalming, so decomposed as not to be recognizable by his most intimate friends, and bis body stinking. Thus was he "laid quietly away." Vice President Wilson was a great and good man —much too great and good to have al most his last words so wilfully disregarded—but his death afforded too good an apportunity fur a large number of conceited dead beats and political dem agogues to render themselves conspicu ous. It was too great an opportunity for these gentlemen to loose. The helpless dead lion bad to be sacrificed to the personal vanity of the contemptible living jackasses, and so he was carted around till the smell of his decaying flesh compelled a burial.

But, says one, these were appropriate honors and could not with any propriety have been either omitted or abridged It is right, we cheerfully confess, to show our respect for the nation's illustrious dead, but it is also right to respect their dying wishes. Tho idea of such a burial was distasteful to VicePresident Wilson, for he knew ite worth. For, as a matter of fact, was it grief, or curiosity, that caused thousands and thousands of people to crowd their way iifto Independence Hall to look upon his face? With the large majority it was undoubtedly the latter feeling. Living, not a hundreth part of theni would have gone to the samo inconvenience to see him or hoar him speak. They would rather have jeered and mocked at him as a man who was suspected of a desiro to be President and many of the men most conspicuous as mourners at his funeral would have set the example in reviling hitn.

ANOTHER effort is in progress to oom pleto tho Washington monument, that huge pile so long standing unfinished, at the national capitol. The monumental association have undertaken tho work in earnest. Appeals sent forth to va rious societies have meta generous response. With the |20,000 on hand the enterprise is to be rosumed after twentyyear's suspension. The sbalt is now 174 feet high. The completed obelisk will measure 486 feet, to be surmounted by a statute of Washington, sixty feet in height. In 1792 oongress appropriated 9200,000 for monument to tho general, but not a cent was ever paid This winter an attempt will be made to rovivo the bill and secure the money. Virginia avenue passes through the grounds, and is being opened from the navy yard to Georgetown. For the credit of the country let us hope that, some way or another, tho enterprise may be carried through speedily. Its completion would bo some credit, Standing ss it now does it is only a re proacb. _________

SBCRKTARY BRWTOW in a telegram addressed to D. P. Dyer, U. & Dlstriot Attorney at St. Louis, denounces the rumor mentioned by witness in the Amy trial, Friday, that he was intereaUd In a distillery or liquor bouse in Louisville, as abi*olutoly and unqualifiedly (Slse. After requesting that the mattor be probod to tho bottom, and every move of the ring followed from beginning to end, and that no one having connection with, or a guilty knowledge of, Its operations, he allowed to escape, he doses by saying: "So fkr ss this department is coaoerned, I ssk that every allegation against any officer of it, from its head to its humblest employe, be thoroughly and vigorously prosecuted, if any ground exists therefor. I have read this to the president, who repeats his injunction, "Let no guilty man escape."

THK one hundreth performance of the "Mighty Dollar" at the Park Theatsr, New York, is announced for the 17th of this month—one performance for every cent In a dollar. On that Interesting occasion every Isdy present will receives silver medal of the sine and weight of the trade dollar, and the members of the dramatis company will be pnwmted with a bronse medal. A new play by ex-Mayor A. Oakey Hall and other aathors, to be called "Crodble," will follow the "Mighty Dollar." Mr. Hall will take the principal character In this play himsatf, he tuning abandoned the law and taken to the stage, aa be says, "for good." rwf

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

JOHN SWIKTOH makea an innovation in poetical fashions, in his narrative piece, "The Sign of tho Croes," published in Harper's for December. Hero is sample, which may be called the poetry of the future, aud will remind the reader of tho measures of Walt Whitman

leaving our uhlps In the bay, We advanced (clearing onr pathway,day by day,) Far through theforeatcand Jungles of ventral America.

II.

In time, (twas toward nightfall,) After along day'* Journey, A day of toll and danger, of hope and forlorn hopes, We reached a savanna, And Hi the dialance saw signs of life and of

hi.

Our coming stirred a group of Indiana, The ancient red native, wild and naked, Who never yet had seen the white man's

Who knew not of his wn.vs or power: The white man, whose mysterious apparition Vr Rnised wonder, etc.

THE St. Louis whisky conspiracy casos grow more and more interesting overy day. Tho developments are decidedly rich, and withal immensely important, Already a number of prominent persons liavo been implicated, several of whom have been tried and convicted, with others hanging on the ragged edges of despair awaiting their turn. This prompt and decisive method of treating these cases of fraud elicits general approval, and the peoplo will be pleased to have the good work continue until the entire crooked whisky gang, head centre, rank and file pnd all, are brought to justice. There is no other course so well calculated to abolish these wrongs upon the revenue and teach people the important lesson that a thief is a thief under any circumstances, and that stealing from tho Gevernment is just as much a crime as stealing from the individual.

IIowell's Newspaper Reporter says with great tr*fth that, as a rule, a newspaper is valuable to an advertiser in ex act proportion to its circulation but this rulo is modified in several ways. For instance, a paper with but little advertising gives that little greater prominence a well-printed paper naturally gives greater prominence to its contents tlian one badly printed. The influence of a paper has something to do with its value as an advertising medium, and a paper which is purchased because it is wanted, is much more likely to benefit an advertiser than ono which is given away this is the reason why experienced advertisers look with so little favor upon mere advertising sheets, intended for gratuitous distribution

Tiie Republican State Convention, to nominato candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Auditor and Treasurer of State, Attorney General, four Judges of the Supremo Court, Reporter of the Supreme Court and Superintendent of Public Instruction, will meet at the Academy of Music in Indianapolis, on the 22d day of February. The basis of representation has been fixed at ono delogate for every one hundred votes, and one for each fraction over fifty votes, cast for Curry at the general election in October, 1872.

Mr. Sam Wood, of New York, proposes to establish a college of music in Central Park and to endow it with five millions of dollars. This makes the donation of Mr. Reuben Springer of Cincinnati seem small by comparison, tbough the latter amounts to one hundred and forty-five thousand and is really a magnlficcntgift. Tho subscription books to the Springer Musio Hall were closed last Saturday. The subscriptions amounted to $106,381.'

THE important feature ol the grange proceedings at Louisville, last woek, was the report of the finance committee, recommending that the salaries of officers be Increased to the following figures, which was so ordered: Master, f1,200 per annum, and expenses Treasurer, 9000 per annum, and expenses Secretary, f2,000 per annum, and ex penses. Tho bond of the Secretary was fixed at $10,000, and tho bond of the Treasurer at 95,000.

ACCORDING to the World, nearly half tbo stores along tbe principal thoroughfares of New York and Brooklyn are now using kerosene oil Ismps instead of gas. They stood tbo extortions of tho gas companies as long as they could, and then sought relief as stated. The average asving reported by those who have mads tbe change is from fifty to asvsntyfive per cent, month.

WASHINGTON as usual at the opening of Congress la over ran with sppttaante for office. The pressure has become so great at tbe interior department that Secretary Chandler has posted the following orders: "Tbe secretary dodines to receive an applicant for appointment in tho department they must apply to appointment elsrk in room 36."

Thk Supreme Court hat deddod thst the government can only withhold onehalf of the pay due the Union Pacific Railroad Company for public service, to be applied upon the interest account of the road. The decision is greatly In fcvor of tbe corporation, and against the ruling snd action of the Treasury Department.

Hknky Wiunti lived frugally and died poor, sad tbe foot ought to be engraved on his monument for with his opportunities snd sutong so«b sssoetetions, it argues no small virtue toitMio a poor man.

THK latest news from Washington makes it pretty certain that tbe eontest for Speaker lies between Kerr and Ran

MR. Wtt*o*'s brain weighed forty- dall, the friends of each being confident nine ounces. erf success.

srorrOT

CENTENNIAL FACTS AND FIGURES. There is a groat deal of doubt concerning the time of opening and closing the Philadelphia Centennial buildings, and there is some inquiry and curioaity to know what will be the charge for entrance tickets. We have the tacts from the Director General: The Exhibition will be opened on May 10,1878, and remain open every day, except Sunday until November 10. There v~ill be a fix ed price of fifty cents for admission to all the buildings snd grounds.

Tbe calculations thus far made as to the probable attendance at tbe Exhibi tion have figured the daily arrivals In Philadelphia at 20,000. With an average often days for a visit and a dally outlay for each visitor of 95, there will be one million dollars expended there each day, a total of two hundred million dollars during the Centennial season. Con aiderable anxiety has been felt as to Philadelphia's ability to feed snd lodge the immense throngs of people that will bo oertaln to find their way there next summer, but a careful canvass, now about half oompleted, by the Centennial Lodging-House Agency, settles the fact that at least ono hundred and twenty five thousand people can be comfortably lodged in tho city—that is, thirty five thousand in the hotels, and ninety thousand In private houses. As for the feeding, there can hardly be any dim culty. Dealers and producers all over the country have an eye open to that. Philadelphia is so located that a large section of country can be drainod at comparatively little cost and farmers, gardeners, dairymen and others, are generally preparing to meet tbe in creased demand. As an instance of this it is stated that one firm that has gener ally packed 50,000 dozen eggs and kept them in good condition for years by a patent process, has this year packed 500,000 dozen. Another sample of tbe enterprise which has been manifested in preparing for the Centennial can be found in the projeet of a party of capi talists who have invested upwards of 9200,000 in poultry. This they have packed in a frozen condition in a storehouse on the White Mountains, and propose delivering next year in refrigerator cars. None of tbe world's fairs yet held have paid expenses. It is not only promised that the Philadelphia Exhibition will excel all others in the character of exhibits, but tho Centennial Board ofFinanco say now that it will undoubtedly be a financial success which, for tho credit of tho country, let us all hope may be case.

Tub case of J. W. and Gordon B, Bingham was called in the United States district court at Indianapolis on Tuesday, and tbe joint appearanco bond for 925.000 forfeited. G. B. Bingham at home in Evansvllle sick, and John W. is at St. Louis where he was surrendered by hia securities on another indictment. Tbe following parties who also aro under indictment for fraudulent whisky transactions, withdrew tho plea of not guilty, and entered tho plna of guilty: Phillip V. Eberwine, Ool. Geo. T. Simonson, John E. Phillips, Harrison Miller, David M. LowU,Geo Hogan, John F. Crisp, Christopher Cocbonor, Wm. Monfort and Dennis Rellly. Judge Gresham will suspend sentence on theso members of the whisky ring until tho presentation of evidence showing the nature and extent of their frauds snd their comparative degrees of guilt. —Since writing tho above, John W. Bingham has appeared at Indianapo lis snd put in a plea of guilty. He also made a full confession before the Grand Jury, implicating, it is said, a number of other persons. Tbe nature of bis testimony can only bo guessed at, but it will no doubt bo interesting. Ho was released Thursday, on hi« own rocog nizanne, and returned to his home in Evaasvillo to await sentence.

THR President on Monday msdo a change in tho recent order consolidating internal revenue districts, so far as Indiana was affected. Thn original order consolidated the Sixth, Seventh snd Eighth Districts, retaining Collector Bagga, and dropping Collector White, of ths Torre Haute district. Tuesday this order was changed, conaolldating the Sixth and Eighth, retaining Baggs as Collector, and consolidating the First and Seventh, retaining White. The new order leaves out Collector Veatch, of Evansvills. Congressman Hunter, who wsa in Washington last week, succeeded in having White retained. Baggs saw tho President and arranged for his district. Tbe entire arrangement was the work of the President, Commissioner Pratt declining to take part in tbe controversy. Tbe present arrangement la final, and will not be disturbed. The collector's office, with Gen. Frank White aa collector, will remain at this place.

Oou Hrnso* has sold ths Daily and Wsskly Journal to a stock company composed of Messrs. Shannon, Havana, Grimes and other leading Democrats, and tbe formal transfer only awaits tbe preparation of tbe necessary papers. The price paid Is 912.000. This does not includs the job printing office, so thst now there is not an English newspaper sstsblishment in this dty that owns Job printing office. "s

A orockr was detected yesterday in keeping ahot under the receptacle of hie aoalsa. It wsss femsls customer who asde the startling discovery. It is unnecessary to state thst she told him what she thought of him,—[Express of Wed needsy.

Would the Express have sny olyeotions to give us the name of that groeerf or Is the Item merely one of those exquisite little flutdes so often Indulged in by imaginative writers who have an aching void of space to fill snd haven't the foots st hsnd to dump into It

THE CITY ENGINEER. &

MB. RICHARDSTROUT RKPUKSTO T. T's' "STIUCTCRXS nt LAST WKKX'S Majmt

An Interefting Statement vhieh is Commended to the Careful Attention o/ Property Owners and Tax-jtayers. Editor of Tbe Mall:} •, 1 have reed tbe comments of T. T. tn your paper of Nov. JTVh upon the City Engineers wherein he fays this: "The fact that twos Engineers are employed, at nn aggregate •alary or 13300, is in his opiuion a scrieo.% eaose of dissatisfaction. When ho last one! was employed il wus understood, oatslde ol the Council at least, that lib was only en-, gaged for a certain work which would not' ocoupy to exceed six months."

Asa reply to this 1 wish to refer to some of the causes of complslnt, snd more particularly to the causcs of delay In com-

grades (the old grade book not vxteudiog over more than onc-tblnl of tlio rivje

of th-

slty.) which would require SO miles of sor-f veying for levels, and a map to work out' the appropriate drainage, showing tbo propercuts and ails, with the calculations of cross streets so tlmt a practical grade might be established, and tne transfer oi the samo be made to a book of mnn.. Also the survey of the entire city, requiring not less than one hundred mile* af survey, and the tracing up of lines, and Adjusting corners. aud paUlngiu stouoinonuments from which the true lines of the strvets nml corners of lots ol the entire city might bo fixed. and perpttUHted for all times.

The Inaccuracy, hfivlotore, of surveys, and almost eutlre absuueeof tnonumeutv defining the lines of streets, and corners ot lots, have sul^ected prn|crt owners to erroneous lines, as in the c»i»e of Frturth, Fifth, Sixth, Chestnut, Poplar, Demlng. and many other streets which arc In some places from two to fix feot narrower than their recorded widths. This has Ihxsu great source of complaint. It has placed the Engineer In an unenviable position, each man believing that the line on hlsshle of the street Is correct, and that his neighbor, on the other side, is the Intruder upon the street. Thy fence, not mine, must b«v moved, has been the ery. However the contest Is not between hitn and his neighbor It Is the Engineer who lias set tho suikcs. "lie would throw my Inside trees out upon the sidewalk, and my shade trees In tho gutter exclaims one. This i*a hardship.'. But men should treat it practically. They should examine the work of thv present Engineer and they would Und in every ease that his surveys and lines, give to all, their full si«e lot, according to tho records. They should also learn that the Occupation of ground for twenty years or more, wilt give no right to an infringement upon the highway,and that a correct survey will sooner or later straighten up and give full width to every street in Torre llautc. is far tatter to have the work done now than after the ground Is covered with buildings.

This isa work of great interest to property owners. In doing work an Englnecr nitist have good help, the lines must be run skilfully, the measurement uiado with care, and the work must bo tested and adjusted with the records before setting In stone monuments. The amount of surveying required in doing this work has exceeded my estimate. I will refer to some of the causes, vlx: Some of tho Government corners, which aflbct the lines and corner* of the entire city, have two or three stone monuments varying from tlve to twenty foci, while the majority of corners from which the lines and corners of the city are governerned have no monuments or evidence of comers whatever. This required outside surveying of rot less than twenty miles to establish and test the corners of the outline of the present city limits. Heretofore a lew feet made little difference In surveys, but now we must ruu to an inch. The great, uumberof omissions of records, errors or record and dlsereponcies tat wfceu out lots, and the subdivisions or mid it Ions thereof, has required double the time estimated, to ascertain the tnn* records, and adjust them to tlic true measurement of lines and lots In Terre Haute.

We have made a survey of the out line of the city, and of slniut one-third of the city lines, and have placed In the ground about, thirty stones from two to three feet long, as monuments defining the lines of streets and oorners of lots and nave In process of completion a Held book and a book of maps, showlngthe government survey, the In and out lots, and the lots of every addition and subdivision in Terre Haute. They will also Show the errors of record and th«* difference of measurements, as comnapHl with the records, of lines a»d lots in the city.

The new city grade,which comprises more than two-thirds of the area of the elly, lias been given to Uils work or the surveying of lines as atave mention's]. We have nearly completed the surveys for levels of the city grade, as well as the Maps, and book of maps. This is a work of vast Importance to tlio property owners In Terre Haute. Though more fortunate than some other cities, the change of old grades haO cost. Tern* Haute the price of a good ICnglnoer for a number of years salaiy.

It Is a source of pleasure to

to look

hack upon a service uf neatly ten years, as City Engineer,snd to be able to say, that no exjcnsc to tho city has occurred from errors of inlne upon this most, dlttlcult work, and hope to present to Terns Haute a city grade, which If curried out, will never itieurexpense rorchaugiug the grade, and work that will be

adapUtl to the prop

erty generally, as to meet wllh general fav r. It will be remembered that eighteen months ago we had a sewer In processor construction and that I devoted inv

entire

time to that work. I am able to say that It was a faithfully executed oloee of work, as time has proven. During all thetlms

wra

talng built, my assistant was engaged upon the streets. There was a large amount of grading and curbing of streets and sidewalks, laving of brick pavements, and preparing of maps, Ac., for opening struts.

As soon as relieved from the careof the sewers we need more than ordinary diligence In surveying for the city (trade and lines, applying every day to

office

work

when the weather was too severe for surveying. Again, last spring, the work ol Improvements an streetsexri-eded anything known In a city of this size. There has been about twenty-live miles of Staking off for cuiliiiiK and paring sidewalks, and from ten to fifteen contracts going on during Lhe season. The work has required my time is the extent, that I have not been able to give contract work the attention 1 desired, At tbe same lime, I have furnished the help of sn axman without eharge to the city. I mention this s*an evidence that have desired the early oom pie tion of the work assigned me.

The experience of other cities has taught them to keep the services of sn Englneerst a respeetable standard, varying frum fi/WO to t&Jwo, and assttants from lljOOO to 14XKI0. The services of an Engineer Is generally considered to be very valuable to a city or oorpsrstlon. No officer, however, Is expected to perform more actual labor in eold or heat -early snd late. Tbe work of oostrscts press upon him not only in prewarIns plans bat In giving ear* and promptings to securesoou work. Betting stakes,running tines and measurement of work, often involve a conflict between Engineer snd contractor or property owners, and must be done with accuracy.

Very respectfully, Ku-tiAxriHrnorT, City Engineer.

BKJK HKH has been sabprensed SN a witness In tbe Bowen-Bagie libel suit. saaBBnaseeaHeae:

MASRIAOS LICK*ke*.—The following msrriage licensee have been Issued by tbe County Clerk si nee our last report:

Henry McBnou and Matilda McPhearHenrjr Keys and JlatlM* Illll. Edward Hlnghon* and Martha M. r.ane. Florence A. Crowley sad Lottie it, Hkll-

Maraats Uwsm and Elmira Cooper. Jacob Neimeyer and Belle Nelmeyt r. fruiiel Htark mod Nancy Payne. BlUis C. Prall and Jennie w«u Thomas Nesl and Addis Melnter. David P. Or»x and Msttle W. Turner. Oeorge W. Morstand and Catharine It. Brown.

Koberil. Brown and Clara E. Wy'tli. Jehn W. Farrand and Nsncy K. llsrrison. Frank Lesand Mary Roby. William J. Lake and Nancy J. L«wto. IMPORTANT improvements are still going on at tbe National Houao and tbe proprietors evince a praiseworthy disposition to make it in every res poets flrstelaas hotel.