Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 February 1876 — Page 5

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REAT CLOSING SALE

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Illlfll DRT MIPS I

The Lowest Priws in 15 Years!

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.,

OPERA HOUSE,

Being determined to Increase their thin year's business, and make tt the laixwt in tbe history of tnelr exlK»»*neo, will from this date until their annual Invcntonr in February, offer at an linmeiu* nacrlnoe for cash their entire stock of

Silk Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Furs, Telrets, Cloaking

Blankets, Woollens,

Waterproof**, Cassimeres, Flannels, etc.

All these goods will bo sold without regard to oost, as we wish to close them out. In consequences of the continued "shrinkage of values" our buyer has by some very favorable purchases for ca*h enabled us to offer the following unheard of low prices on

Domestic Cotton (Joods.

Lonsdale yard wfde soft tlulsh bleached muslin. 10c per yartL .,

the homes of its

Var ntfcana.

The oelebrated Stmper Idem shirting muslin 10«*. The best WnmsuttA, l'2\±c.

The finest New York Mills 12'^c, aud

many others in same propertion. Also, 19,000 vards best calico at'ic peryard. A big lotSprague prints, new styles, at tf'iC

Theee are bottom prices and we would advise all to purchase at mice. Look at our Cheap counter. Piles of desirable goods will be sold on this counter at half price.

Hoborg, Root & Co.,

OPERA HOUSE.

DENTIN & ARMSTRONG,

Dnfflsto, Cor. Otband KnJn slreels

THB PLACK TO GET

Pure Drugs, fiue Toilet Goods, Prescriptions,

Ac., Ac., Ac

the OKLT 1LA('E where you can get

THB CLEAR HAVANA FILLED

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PICADURA"

Boss 5 cent Cigar.

REMEMBER

Sensational Prices 011 Embroideries and all Notions to day at Prairie City Emporium

KIDGLOVES

Largest Stock Lowest Prices in Ladle*'*Childreus' and Gents' I{id8 atPrafrieCity Emporium.

GREAT SLAUGHTER

In Cloaks, Shawls, Suits, and Winter Iloslrry, to.flay, at tho Prairie City Entporinm.

Wanted.

WANTED—ALL.anyKNOW

TO THAT THE

SATURDAY EVKNING MAIL has a larger circulation than newspaper published In theBtate,outside of Indianapolis. Also that It Is carefuHy and thorough\y read in lomesof its patrons, and that it is the best advertising medium In Western

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For Rent.

f^OR RENT-PART OK A DKSIKAKLK 1 store room, on main street. Pricc 9600 per vear. Address P. O. box 1*7H.

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HJNIV-THAT WITH ONKKTROKEOF pen you can reach, with an advertisement In the Saturday Evening Mail, almost every reading family In this city, as well as the residents of the towns and country sur sounding Torre Haute.

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lUND—THAT THK 8ATURDAY EVEMall la the inest widely circulated newspaper la the State outside of Indianapolis.

CANDY.

AMNIOMB-M\I)R CANDIES. iiifll A II If

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for the Holiday Trade.—

"Jail |l Fine Mixtures, put up in Villi

Fancy Boxes, suitable for

"Presenta. A Specialty. B. R. BAKER A CO IP. O. Lobby, Terro-Haote, Ind.

M. C. A.

Oor. Main and 5th St., Second Floor, ialeetlng for Business first Thursday even* ng In each month. Prayer meeting every day at 13 eveITT Monday evening and "T ery Sunday at 4J9i».

Befere A. H. SPAKKS. J. Otter Creek Township

OTICE OF ATTACHMENT N A N IS E E S at In ntm. Vli?- county. Proceedings in attachment and gjimlsnee before A. Spar as, J. P.. Otter Creek towiwhip. In said cnonty. W m. 11. lteinlMi vs. Wn».

Bryant, Iavid

Jr»*ek, .Itiines Kersey, J. D. Miirey, R. A IAWSOII, llubcrtKvanJi, garnlshe.-.*. Be it known that on the 19th day of Jantury, said plnlat Iff commenced iroc«*d.:lng in attuchinrnt and gamIsnevment WiUnst HMWI defendants and appearing from affidavit* filed, that William C. *Hryant non-rmident Of the State of Indiana, he Is hereby notified of the pendency said action against him, •that the same will be h«ard and determine led before me at my ofhoe in Otter Creek township ou the lllf* day of Krtruary. 1 3W» iatlOa'Oocfc A. *.of said day.

Oiven under my hand and seal the 90th H. HPAHK*. J. I'.

ORSK SHOEING

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JOB WORK!!

KIZEE A CO*8 New Hkop,

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desire to form the dtlsens

and sniroandlng wnntiyUftWWWWJg iy prwpaml to promptly and sdiwork in our line on terma

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city. Oar wnri tor over fifteen |«w»fMtu Torre Haute, warrants In "ay|Mthirfor Khoelme JoW cannot be excelled, and to «very Inatanee

have

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FOR TUB^PEOPLE.'

P. S. WESTFALL,

KDITOR AND PROPBIKTOE.

TKRRE HAUTE,

FEB. 5, 1876.

TWO editions

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening has a large circulation lu the surrounding town*, where It Is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Even

lng,

goes Into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city, and the farm ers of this immediate vicinity. fivery Week's Issue Is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

ONE CHARGE.

in whloh all Advertisement app^r

for

THE cash receipts at the Palate Hotel San Francisco, for one (Jay's business were $22,683.

PETERED OUT."

If the Horticultural Society will not object too seriously, we must be permitted once more to use tho term "pe tered out" in reference to the issue of that grandiloquent onslaught of the Express upon Rev. E. Frank Howe. Under most circumstances "petered out" is "an ill phrase—a vile phrase"—we freely ac}mit it. But we submit that no other term does justice to the tiny mouse which, after all the noisy labor of the mountain, has been brought forth. Last week we preferred to let the matter go to the public without note or comment. We now propose a brief review.

Mr. Howe took occasion some two weeks ago, to express his approval of the tone and spirit of certain criticisms which the Journal bad made upon what seemed to it, to be an indecency upon the stage and on account of which criticisms, the Kxpress had, in its superior way, joked lie Journal about its squeamishness, quoting to it the saying: "To the pure all things are pure." In giving tho Journal this friendly pat upon the back, Mr. Howe said ,s

Of course, writers who enjoy the in decency, und judge the public by their own taste, will laugh and say "To the pure all things are pure but their sneer is a higher commendation than even words of praise from the lovers of purity."

At this the editor of the Express Jlew into a towering passion, denouncing the note of Mr. Howe as "villainous" and charging him amr ng other things with falsehood in reference to his connection with articles in the Town Talk column of this paper. The attack was made on Friday, alter the first edition of The Mail had been sont out, and, not deeming the matter of any great importance, the Express being frequently subject to such spells, no notice was taken of it by us. Mr. Ilowe also maintained silence, probably supposing as we did, that it was only one of that erratic sheet's tantrums from which, as heretofore, it would soon recover. But enraged by a charge on the part of the Journal of unfairness in obtaining and using the name of its correspondent, and emboldened by the silence of The Mail and Mr. Howe, the Express came out Sunday morning with another articlo still more abusive than the first. It was "hopping mad" and no mistake. It said: "If the Journal thinks it can publish a villainous communication in regard to us, and that we will sit still sacking our thumbs, when we know its author, that newspaper is mistaken." now that his own vicious trans-

ressions come home to him for answer, is dumb and says not a word." It renewed the charge of falsehood and said, "If it (The Journal) wishes to3efond Mr. Howe in writing the "Town Talk" articles, let it say so if it desires to defend him in liis solemn falsehoods concerning the authorship, lot it say so."

"Repeatedly to members of his own congregation and to other citizens he solemnly denied the authorship of those articles, thus adding falsehood to his other sins. Mr. Howe dares not deny one word of this."

In last Saturday's issue of Tho Mail, the whole relation of Mr. Howe to this paper, and especially to the T. T. column, was candidly and truthful!}' stated. And despite the assertion of the Express that Mr. Hewe "dare not deny," and the assumption that its editor was just full of information and positive proof, the little parson had the temerity to make a full, explicit and unequivocal denial of the charge of the Kxpross.

Everybody waited breath lossy, for the thunderbolt that was the next morning to demolish the preacher. The suspense was awful. Howe had denied. Smith had the proof and now it was coming.

But it didn't come! Instead of it, was a confession by tho redoubtable warrior of the Express that his attaok was prompted by revengo for editorial work done by Mr* Howe, as Mr. II. had charged in his card. Bearing in inind the feet that the Express, makes no complaints against T. T. lor attacks upon it, it will readily be seen that Una following admiinlons of a purpose to revenge itaelf could only relate to articles in the editorial colnmns. M^jor Smith

ys: I am not sure lint that the demon Revenge lurked in my heart. Being only an ordinary heathen, and In no sense a special mouth-piece of God* I sometimes give way to natural pasalona and feelings. I think It was on Sunday that the devil got the better of me and made me threaten The Mall and Its meak-correspondent. I promised my* self at tjbe time, however, that If I ever found the ahalke of Hurt skulking foe pointing my way again Iehould expnae him to this people, and I have kept thai PT

Sot still the pent up flooda of damning tfvidenae wete not permitted to flow. The long personal statement was nad eagerly. The first column was finished and no evidence! But the article

cloaad with the following sharp snap, charging Mr. Howe with writing an article attacking Dr. Read: "I charge also that Mr. Howe solemnly and with uplifted hand denied the authorship of that particular article. The gentleman upon whose evidence I am prepared to substantiate this fact prefers not to be brought into this controversy, but he willl not fail to speak to maintain tho truth if Mr. Howe asks for the testimony. Mr. Howe need not wait for a week or a day to ask this witness to speak. A HOB to this office, or to any or the city papers will unseal bis lipe." P*

It is true tftat this was quite a "come down" from the charge that, "Repeatedly to numerous members of his own church and congregation and to other citizens he solemnly deuied the authorship of these articles, Ac." To pass by the host, and select one single witness, seemed strange. Perhaps the "cards" had put the matter in a different light from what be had expected. But why not out with his proof? Sir. Howe had denied and this was tho time for evidence. Was the delay made in order to impress the public with the fearfulness of tho blow that was about to fall Or was it a ruse to frighten the man charg ed with falsohood and awe him into silence—a silence which would by the public be construed as a confession of guilt? Or was it because the evidence was so flimsy that, after all this bluster he was ashamed to produce it? If it was to terrify the culprit, it was a most miserable failure, for before the issue of the next number of tho Express, though there was no obligation Hpon Mr. IIowo to make anew denial, he sends his card to the editor, repeating his denial and saying "Any testimony which you have, or think you have, to contradict this, you hiust use in any way you choose. All I have to say to it is this: that, whether one or five hundred men testify that I have denied writing any article which I did write, whether 'solemnlv and with uplifted hand,' or in any other way, he or they who give the testimony are mistaken, or else testify intentionally to what is not trne. E. HOWE."

And now it comes out that this man so big with information and so perfectly familiar with all the secrets of the T. T. column, did not oven know that Mr. Howe was the author of the article which he charged him with falsely denying, for he camo to The Mail office to ask if such was not the fact, accompanying his request with the assertion, "Of course I know he was." The information being denied him, he brought Dr. Read in, and got him, as an aggrieved party, to make the inquiry. Now he was fully armed and equipped.

It is to be remembered that the charge was of numerous "solemn falsehoods that "repeatedly to numerous members of his own congregation, and other citizens, he solemnly denied and that "solemnly and with uplifted hand he denied the authorship of that particular article." /"A:

The fatal day' arrives at last. The popular preacher is to step "down and out." When the paper id issued it contains Mr. Howe's bold defiance and this is followed by a card which tells how its author was once suspicioned with having written that article, and what he did under the circumstances, and then let the breath be held without one word abeut "solemnity," without one werd about 'uplifted hand," without naming any miKrtant circumstance connected with the conversation held in the street al mostfour years ago, without repeating a single word that Mr. Howe uttered, he simply says: "Meeting Mr. Howeshortafter near tho National House, spoke of the 'Town Talk' article on Dr. Bigblow, and said I had been told he was the author of it. He assured me be was not"—all of whiehjwas signed, R. S. Ten nan t.

The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse—''petered out!

MR. HOWE in his card to O.J. Smith, published in the Express last Tuesday, said, "If any man, or five hundred men testify that I have denied the authorship of any article of which I am tho author, he or they are either mistaken, or inten tionally testify to what is false." We are authorized by him to say that this is all the answer he has to make to Mr. R. S. Tennant's statement. And it is all that indefinite and weak statement needs. We must add that it seems very strange to UH, as it does to the public generally, that any man should permit himself to be used by a man confessedly actuated by malice, to destroy character, and that too, when all his testimony is based upon a casual conversation upon the street Which took place four years ago, and about which it is so easy to be mistaken, and when he cannot, or does not, report one word that Mr. Howe nttered during that conversation. We leave Mr. Tennant to be judged by his own oonsciencc and by the public. ___________

TERRE. HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

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I* another column we print from Rev. K. F. Howe giving his reasons for writing the "Dr. Bigblow" article. It was our purpose to print along with it, the article as it originally appeared in this paper. This wo thought due to all parties. The article did appear In our first edition this week. Yesterday we bad a very pleasant interview with Dr. Read. While, of couas, he speaks of the article as offensive,he doea not regard It aa the dreadful thing some of the papers have endeavored to make it appear, and regrets that It has been dragged from a burial of near four yearn. It la his desire that the matter be dropped from the papeia aa soon as possible, and in accordance, with his wlahea we bave withdrawn the article from thla Mae*

Wn vr has become of that "up-lifted f* it still up? "Give It a rest!** Orvu• calf pieiitywf rope and It will hang itaelf.

Niw Oiuum has strawberries.

SEXATOS DOBSKT, of Arkansas, tea failed liabilities, *188,000.

CALKS GUSHING la a hero of seventysix. At least that is his age.

EX-COMSCTOR MCQUIRK'S trial follows that of McKee, and after McQuire will come Baboock, On with the dance.

DUMITNHAIX, the evangelist, began a series of meeting* at Ylncennes on Monday and is meeting with much encouragement.

MRS. MYRA CLARK GAINES is now In the forty-second year of legal combat for the possession of a few million dollars worth of property in Now Orleans.

IT is now generally believed that Thomasson, tho dynamite fiead, was great traveler, and had become Insane on the subject of baggage smashers.

AT Jacksonville, Illinois, Mary Smith, aged 80 years, has just been led to the altar, a blushing bride, by John Partridge, aged 106. Partridge is said to be a lively old bird and still game.

IT is stated that the new Senator from Iowa first won distinction by wearing a red flannel shirt at a dinner party. He was an object of deferential interest, the other guests supposing him to be a poet from the Pacific.

THE jury in the McKee case, at St. Louis, brought iu a verdict at ten o'elock Tuesday night, declaring the defendant guilty. The verdict occasioned great surprise, as it was generally believed that be would be acquitted.

FOR a man 68 years old (he was born on the 4th of July, 1807) Garibaldi holds his own well, considering what he has done and been. One day last week he presided over a meeting of veteran soldiers, in Rome, and favored the formation of an organization similar to our Grand Army.

ON Wednesday last, at a nitro-glyeer-ine factory iu North Adams, Masd., a workman endeavored to loosen a frozen plug by pounding it. The attempt was quite successful. The plug came out. We may also remark that two men and the whole factory disappeared at about that time and have not been heard of

TIIK proposed appropriation for the Centennial exposition comes to something less than four cents for every inhabitant of the United States, aad what's four cents? Why, rather than be mean about this thing, we.'d give a nickel ourselves and we know a number of other wealthy individuals who would be equally liberal and patriotic. Let the show go on.

TIIE latest bit of gossip in England is a rumor to the effect that upon the return of the Prince of Wales from India, the Queen intends abdicating in his favor. England will get along in about the same fashion, whether it is Victoria I, or Edward VII but the tradesmen and the courtiers would certainly be better pleased with a gayer monarch than tho present one.

MR. ROP.KRT DAT.E OWEN wrilsa la. the Secretary of the British National Association of Spiritualists that his late illness was due to overwork, and adds: "For two years and a half previous to my illness in May last I had been a sufferer from dyspepsia, causing weakness and depression. These, by rest, water cure, and milk diet, have been entirely removed, and I am now in excellent health, bettor than I have been for five years past.

SENATOR MORTON'S health is undoubtedly one ef the greatest stumblingblocks in his road to the PresMeaey. This opinion having been generally expressed, the Indianapolis Journal feels moved to say: "There is a good deal? of misunderstanding and misrepresentation in regard to Senator Morton's health. The Journal has no object in misstating the facta, and it can assure the country that Senator Morton's general health is not infirm, but good, and steadily improving. He is fifty-one years old and hale and hearty, except as to his lower limbs. This difficulty puts him at a disadvantage in getting about.'

CoNflttli&s is talking of reducing our diplomatic service, and some of the papers are asking why it wouldn't be

good idea to wipe it out altogether. There doesn't really seem to be ihuch necessity for keeping highly-paid ministers at Foreign courts any more. Since tho invention of tho telegraph and the rapidity with which tho ocean can be crossed, there is little danger of complications arising which cannot "be as intelligently discussed by the Secretary of State at one end of the wires and the Ministers of Foreign Aflkirs at the other, as by a couple of gentlemen sitting In a room in London, Paris, or Berlin. Our Consuls can attend, aa they do at present, to all commercial matters. The country would save hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, and would lose nothing by destroying the diplomatic system—a system which comes to us from a time when traveling was slow, the means of communication uncertain, and the telegraph unknown.

TKBIndianapolisJouraalsav*: "The Importation ofVoorhees and Manna did notwork welL We begin to fear that the vista of fata re glory In St. Louis anted oat to their ravished gase may prove delusive after all a mirage, as it

Despite the ranKM* that Mr. Voorbeee aa to remove to St. Louis and lesp nto practice and politics the back McKee, there la a ehanoe that he will sadlv and ailently return to Terre Haute and take up the thread of his life again ontbe claa& bank* of the Wabeah

ONE result of hard timerf la lesa of extravagance in connection with balls, parties and receptions, the best of it Is that the participants find that they can have just aagood a time aa ever they ,did*

To WALK through the avenues laid out in each of the regular centennial buildings at Philadelphia, is a little trip of jnst fifty-two miles. If you wish to inspect both sides of each avenue, or pas-sage-way you must walk one hundred and four miles. Ladies from a distance who expect to do the exhibition in one day will see the advisability of an early start and—of leaving the baby at home.

CAPTAIN PAUL BQYTON swam down tho Mississippi river from Alton to St. Ixrais the other day, a distance of twen ly-two miles in his life saving apparatus. Me left Alton at 5:30 A. M. and arrived in St. Louis at 3 P. M. A large excursion party on the steamer Desmet met him ten miles above St. Louis and accompanied blm in. Tho crowd on*the bridge and levee vto witness his arrival was immense.

SPEAKER KERR has written a letter to a Delaware editor, in which, noticing an article in which there was a reference to himself, he says it is not his desire in any degree whatever that his name should be used in connection with the National ticket this year, and that Indiana Democrats will present the name of Governor Hendricks as a candidate for the Presidency, in whose advocacy he will stand with them iu hearty cooperation.

IN a paper read in Boston last week on Personal Purity, A. Bronson Alcott said he could conceive of a life that would lead down to that of the ape. Intemperance and its attendant evils, and vice in various forms, lead downward to a condition little if any better than that of the ape. Thus could be seen the effect of vice on the countenance. Impure literature wassappingthe life of young men. In olden times mothers made a practice •f reading books before they were put into the bauds of their children. It was not safe to allow the young to read all that was put in the newspapers—there were portions to be omitted. It was necessary to the attainment of personal purity to practice restraiut, which was religion. Parents, in requiring obedience of their children, should do so by example and kindness. Oftentimes tho parent needed punishment as much as the child.

THE following named parties were sentenced Tuesday in the United States court at Indianapolis for complicity in tho whisky frauds: George T. Simpson, David M. Lewis, Harrison Miller, Wm. Man ford, llyram B. Snyder, Alfred M. McGriff and John Phillips, each two years in the southern Indiana penitentiary and a fine of $1,000 each. James K. Hill, three years in the penitentiary and a fine of one thousand dollars Thomas Robb, one year in the Gibson county jail and a fine of one thousand dollars Henry Jaques, Christopher Cocanour, John F. Crisp and Dennis Reilley, each six months in the Gibson county jail and a fine of five thousand dollars. George Hogan, six months ia the Vanderburg county jail and a fine of five thousand dollars.

The only remaining case is that of J. W. Bingham. Col. Trusler stated to the court that he had two affidavits, showing that Binghains' wife is in a critical condition, and that a sudden shock to her nervous system might prove fatal, and as further fact that the government officers in New York, wished Binghams' affidavit in other cases, therefore he asked delay in passing sentence. The judge replied since theee facts had come to his knowledge, bo had thought much about what was best to do, that although there will be a popular clamor for Binghams' sentence, he thought as a question of humanity, the sentence ought to be deferred, that Bingham had recently lost a brother, who had no doubt died of remorse, that tho govern could afford to wait a few weeks before passing the sentence, and that be was perfectly willing to take the responsibility of postponing it for the present, and the sentence was therefore postpon ed. The prisoners were given into custody of the United States marshal, and on Wednesday taken to their several destinations.

GEN. SHERMAN ON THE PRESIDENCY. Representative James L. Dalzell, of Ohio, has received the following letter from Gen. W. T. Sherman

ST. LOUIS. MO., Feb. 2.1876.

DEAR SIR: Your kind letter just received. I thought everybodv knew my general opinion on the points of your inquiry. I cannot hesitate to answer vou in such a way as to admit of no misconstruction. I never have been, am not now, and never will be a candidate for the high office of President before any convention or the people. I Khali always prefer to see that office filled by one of the millions who in the civil war stood by the Union firmly and unequivocally, and of those I notice the names of many who are willing and capable. Prominent is that of General Hayea, now Governor of Ohio, whom we know as a fine officer and a gentleman In every sense. I do not, however, wish to he misunderstood aa presuming to advise anybody in the choioe of the man. My wifo and family are strong Catholics, but I am not. That, however, la nobody's business. I believe In the common schools, and don't atop to consider the little matters that seem to he exaggerated by the preen in some quarters. However, these schools are extravagant, and indulge In cosily bulldinss expensive teachers, se as to he tuo heavy a^urden on the tax-j*ysrs. Thin tendency ought to be checked, which may easily be done wltbout making It a political question. JlalMntereat will nmilate thla. and make theee free

X3eiHll/ai»d capable of Imparting the rudiments of a good Engllah education. Yours truly,

THE following is, perhaps, About as robust a Contenuial lie as any now traveling

The owners of the bonanaxa at Virginia City will send one hundred and fifty tons of silver bullion to the Centennial, to be piled up in one pyramid worth #10,000,000. Five millions of tho bullion is now boxed up for shipment."

IT Is reported from Washington that Secretary Bristow has determined to withdraw from the contest for the Presidency, and support Mr. Blaine. It i* also rumored that there will shortly be 'J a change in the editorial management of the New York Tribune, and that Mr. if Blaine will be indorsed by that journal.

THE jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi are progressing encouragingly. Capt. Eads writes to the president of the South Pass Jetty Co., that the almost complete control of the river discferge has been accomplished through a distance of about one and a half miles from & the land's end, and within 2,600 feet of the crest of the bar. 4 ^¥^1 1776.

What They Did One Hundred Years Ago.

In 1770 wedding toura were not fiish-5 ionable. In 1776 there was no Confederate Generals in Congress.

In 1776 farmers did not cut their legs off with mowing machines. In 1776 our mothers did not worry over disordered sewing machines, i.

In 1776 horses which could trot a Ifiilo in 2:14 were somewhat scarce. In 1776 it took several days to procure a divorce and find a congenial spirit.

In 1776 "crooked" wbiskv was not known. Our forefather took theirs straight.

In 1776 every young man was not an applicant for a position as clerk or bookkeeper.

In 1776 kerosene lamps did not explode and assist women to shuffle otr their mortal coil.

In 1776 there were no Turkish bareniK at Salt Lake, and no Ann Elizas suing for tho nineteenth part of a divQrco.

In 1776 England was not very far behind the United States in all that, goes to make a Nation powerful and pregressive.

In 1776 the Dutch had taken Holland. but they had not made France "come down" with a handsome pile of "smart money."

In 1776 a young woman did not loso cabte by wetting her hands in dish water, or rubbing the skin olF her knuckles I on a a washboard.

In 1776 a physician who could not draw every form of disease from tho system by tapping a large vein in the arm was not much of a doctor.

In 1776 wounded patriots Were fii.it" driven from the public soup houses to make room for men who took up arms against the Nation's life.

In 1776 men were not running about over the country with millions of fish eggs to'be hatched to order. Fish su-

Says.

erintended their own batching inthp^v

In 1776 the condition of the wealber on the 1st of January was not telegraphed all over the continent on the evening of December 31. Things have changed.

In 1776 people die not worry about rapid transit and cheap transportation, but threw their grain crojis across tbo backs of their horses and uncomplainingly "went to mill."

In 1776 every man cut his coat according to his cloth, every m*n was estimated at his real value, shoddy was not known, nobody had struck "ile," and 5 true nieri- and honest worth were tho only grounds fer promotion.

ITEMS FOR SUNDAY CONTEMPLATION. s'.N Men

shoot

are

gir

W.T. SHBKMA*.

and women stick pins into

each other. Truth can wait, but a lio is always in a great hurry.

Arrows dipped in honey are just as fatal as thoso dipped in gall. If you are poor, you must expect to bo watched and suspected.

It is verv difficult to find a man that is above hfs condition in life. Our vanity is so great that we had rather be hated than not kcown at all.

Without curiosity man would be but one peg higher than the bugs and fishes, If a person has no passions he cannot have anything moro than hybrid virtues.

Two-thirds of the people iu this world have no characteroutsiae ef thoirhablts. Sudden wit is generally as much surprise to the author of it as to any ono else.

Take the laziness out of the world and vou would take most of the sin with ft.

Married life, that hasTfb flip-flops in it, is like lemonade with the lemon left out.

Fortune lovos to be assaulted she never gave a whining cuss mnch of anything yet.

Wild rve and wild wheat grow i®h some places spontaneously. Wild oats are always sown. ,}

If wo can keep our conscience all right wo

a match for any thing on earth,

and equal to anything in heaven. A mail with much wealth and no pedigree should do as the bob-tailed cats do, sit down on himself and keep still. a

THE FIR UEI'JN"

fBpecial Telegmm

The

ilrltualiat ef the better sort, offered 0 to the Fire Queen if she wonld hold thumb in the flaxie of a lamp for forty seconds. A number of others m«X the same offer, but the abashed "Fire Oueen" would not accept. Then ensued a metaphorical Donnybrook, such as is rarely witnessed in a public hall, and in which a large number took part.,

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An Exciting Scene at a Spiritualist Meeting in Rockford.

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R'* KKOJU». III., Jan. 30.—An exciting scene took place at a Spiritualist ma** meeting to-night, at Brown's Hall. The vocal speaking and character reading by E. V. Wilson, of Chicago, had concluded, and the grand fire tent by the Chicago Fire Queen, Mrs. Suydam, bad commenced. 1 laving bathed heraelf in fire while under spirit influence she sat down amid Uio applause of the immense audience that crowded everv portion of the hall. Dr. J. Philips, of Belvidere, then aroee and said be would repeat the teat without any influence whateoever. Thla the Doctor did amid the cheers of the skeptics and the hisses of the Splritnallate. Then Mr. James Chalmers, of Rockford, arese and did likewise. lr. Dunn, of this city, who claims to be a