Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 March 1876 — Page 4

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BCNTIN & ARMSTRONG,

No. WO Main, Cor. 6th Ktx,

Prairie City Emporium,

Among the attractions for the Ladies to-day we offer: Additions to our superb line ©f Embroideries.

Beautifnl Crppe Lisse Ruch

f^ie new Tucked Collars and Cuffs. Cashmere Nett for Yells-

Cashmere Lace Ties and Bows. Kid Gloves in the desirable shade*.

School Hats, 25 to o() cents. Spring Styles in liat$r and Frames.

Beautiful Line Spring Flow-

PRAIRiE CITY EMPORIUM.

Wanted.

TO THAT THE

HATUIUJAY KVKNINO MAJL has a lare"lr elroQlatloo. than newspaper publish* ed in th»-Btate, outride of Iudiananolls. Also that it is carefully and thoroughly read in the boinee ef iu patrons, and that It Is the tftpftt •ei7 best adveruslog medlntn In Western ntfians.

COn Per Dav at home. Terms VZU free. Addrew G. HTIKSOV

SvxUUl Foi Sale.—

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HVLE-A COTTAOS TFOTME

Thursday, March 23,1876.

Eleven head of work hortoa throo ^. heavy mule* two firat-claaa brood mret, heavy in foal one fine thoroifh-hrod 3 year old stallion oot of the GoMflndor five head of fht stem foor fat hoifera •ix milk oowa. inclodlafl a fell-Mood Aldoraey twenty teven head of koto two

Comhinrd Reapora and Newer* two twohorse wagoaa MO ho My wheat. driH corn planter com ahener. eatttn) box •too oeta ofhamooo two broaklai plow* dooMe and alaflo ahoveU »hovfl*,f»rka,

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hatM and hooothold 90oda. Alto,three hsaholo wheat, throe hondrod ha!hela com live hondrod boaheta pou

toea ten ton of bay twenty bwheia whit* boana: a atock of MOM aai lard cord wood fence poote and olu-bMrda.

Two pastaro lob

THE MAIL

A PAPER »OH THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, fmrron AND PROPRIETOR.

ERRE HAUTE, MARCH 18, 1878.,

TWO EDITIONS

Paper are published.

rhe FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening haa a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where It Is sold by newsboys and acenta. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Eve nlng» goes into the hand* of yearly every reading person in thetliy, and Hie tfurm en of this immediate vicinity.

Every Week's Iasue la, In fuel, TWO NEWSPA PERM, la which all Advertisement* appear for (WBCHAIWE \\f

ROBERT DALE OWEN expects to sail for Europe about June 1st.

BRKT IIARTE'S stories bave been translated into the Russian language.

IT is now recorded that Marsh came In like a lion and went out like a lamb.

TITK present is not so much an era of fraud as it is an era of getting found out.

PENBIETO^ is probably the highest priced railroad attorney in tho United States.

IT is just possible that Mr. Heister Clymer teretbejfskk of the investigating business.

TXIE Turkish government is offering eighteen per cent, for money. If that don't floor them, what will

A geod deal of opiwsition Is being mado to the appointment of I». II. Dana as Minister to England, and hisnouiina tion will probably be withdrawn.

IT IS believed that tho Attorney General several days ago sent a man to Canada after Marsh with a promise that he should not be prosecuted, and that bo will be back in a day or two.

TirCitE soeius to bo a pretty fair prospect now that silvor "change" will very shortly begin to take tho place of the

postals" iw a circulating medium. No use holding on to that "pocket piece any longer. it

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WANTED-AbLanyKNOW

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Twill sen fhr «jr rtb^t. Tliey oonths and are

Pil»op^ In IWkvMo, In abmit iWo-thirds *U*t have be«nin uiwalH»H« row rurutlrttQii WtlAJma. For torBis drrHS IMA A *cfA inn N, Rockvllle, rfld

mom*, wfll, «*terti, wlald-hou!»e and stat)k rorriT lotj irttl srt with fttflt tijn, Ac. Bothi«tr^i» a»d ^vged This property iA wortn hut can be bonirtit lor »2,«W) if applied for JmiM»djat»ly #UK» down, orwirfifrt thi»y«%r• tiafhtiee Ave years 11 me, at" per cent. IntereeU if desired. Also a liou*« of fi rooms wl 1 Uonni^ly eiu-np. (nillf) A. wA

For Rent.

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e^-nbdv«1i the l"ei*t Store.

Tho fWfewl«f dMerifeed property will he told at public taction, at my reoidence tlx niifs south east of Terre^ Haate.aear th« Lockport road,

SAKOEJJT was about right

when he said, on Tuesday, that ho thought it would bo ineffable meanness on the part of this government to pay its President a salary far below what is paid the representatives of the British government residing in Washington.

-JP.RKSPONDKNT

of the Chicago

Times protwvbly gets very near the truth, when he defines Babcock's real relation with the Ring as that of a conspirator "criminal to the extent of receiving gifts and imparting information which he knew he had no business to give, but not concerned to tho extent of being a regular beneficiary and possessed of the real scope and extent of the frauds.":

MB. HAMILTON FJSH is deubtless a rory nblo and efficient Secretary of State and an honest man, bat it is an unfortunate thing for the country that be is rich and chooses to live in the magnificent style be does. He may be able to spend 170,000 a year and do it honestly, bat his example is terribly demoralizing on officials of less wealth, and has been tbo rain of more men than Belk

HK President haa been charged with disregarding protests and complaints from high officers oonoerning extortions and overohargea by. post traders. It is now state* 'that President Grant had never seen tho protests or complaints, but that they had all been concealed from him by his trusted secretary, Bab000k, who. banded them all to Belknap. Thertr is iertalnly no American, no matter hia pa)-ty, but hopes that this statement may prove true. Surely no A merIcan is so base as to wish that the Proeldent of the United States could be proven to have been in leagup with the miserable plunderers of our soldiers

Tk* smell of th^ African is having a bad effect on the health of Congressmen thisseason. Mr. Kelly in the oourse of his remarks Tuesday in relation to the bad ventilation ef the House, suggested as a temporary expedient, the opening of some of the doors of the gallery—not the diplomatic gallerf, fior the ladies' gallery, nor the reporters' gallery, but of the main gallery, which was at tho time crowded principally with colored people, as be understood the poisoned air dropped from there to the floor and was inhaled by tho mem bora." Mr. WUaon, of West Virginia, said bO understood that no leas than thirteen members of the House wero detained from it by illness.

Miss MARY

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each to let far tbo eeaaoa.

TERMS OF SALE.

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dollam, a crodlt of *!*o meat** wtU be fiven, tbo porebwer fWinf not* with approTMl a«caiity, wlthoot relief valaatloa or appraiooaeat-laws, with iatomt froai date.

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THK Democrats," Says the Graphic, "do not suaceed well in the role of reformers. It dees not salt tfietr tsateo, habita, or inolinationa, hnd they got on at it something as an old toper who should undertake to lecture on temperance, wetting hla whistle with blackstrap or brandy after every pause. They seem to bave been so tiokled at the dlsoovery of a mare'a neat In the War Department which they could uae for political capital that they kept tbe matter ftwn the knowledge of the Republican members of the committee as long as possible, and only reluctantly admittod them into tbe secret at last. But they blundered fatally at the business. They let Marsh, tho most important witness against Belknap they had, escape from their hands and from the country i« spite of the warning of Mr. Bass, and now the impeachment business over which they mado such a demonstration hangs in mid-air, a mortifying exhibition of Democratic incompetency. They accused the Cabinet of scaring Marsh away but the Cabinet did not bold its meeting till that raBcal, who had been dismissed by Clymer, was crossing tbe Canada line. Thoy raved bccause the civil court asked the members of the oommittee to furnish the data for a suit against Belknap to tho Grand Jury, when they were already under the pro tection of the IIouso and could not have been taken out of it by force. In short, they havo bungled and blundered through the whole business from the outset by trying to use a public misfortune for a private partisan end, and squeeze political eapital out of a nation^ al calamity, Every move they make in tbo investigation business shows thsir ignorance and incompetency, and their unwillingness to go to the bottom of tho matter and propose a real remedy in a thorough reform of the civil service proves thoir lack of earnestness. It begins to look as though there wero a Democratic cat under tho meal which they aro afraid of exposing, for it is hard to beliovo a set of Congressional politicians are half as stupid aB these Doi|io cratic managers appear to be." ',

WHILE it is true that a large majority of tbo Republican newspapers havo steadily denounced the Belknap infamy as it deserves, there tfre a few who recently have been drawing it exceedingly mild, and seem now to bs trying to awaken sympathy for him. It there was anything in the world to show that he was guiltless of the crime charged, this would all be well enough, but nobody doubts in the least that he did everything that Mareh says he did, while there is every reason for believing that ho did a hundred times more than that that was disgraceful. It will not do to rave and storm about Marsh's escape from the country. That is mere bluster —on a par with that other buncome about holding Clyner and Blackburn responsible for the eventual miscarriage of the prosecution against the ex-Secre-tary of War. These Democratic Congressmen may be very awkward and bungling feUows and |here is only too much, reason to believe that they thought they could make capital for their party oat of Belknap's disgrace, (which nobody can Very much blame them for), but that is no palliation for the latter, and Republican newspapers would do weU to bgar in mind that the path of honor, and at tbe same time the path of safety for their party, is to speak out in tones of thunder against the aristocratic scoundrels who have traded in the honor of the nation, and for whom no punishment, no disgrace that may be in store for them is an adequate retribu tion. Let tbe thieves be driven out of office and tbe grand old Republican party will live. The party which would attempt, even In tbe

tbo peoplk

Knotrr, the charming

CrawfOrdsrille poetess, who should be and doubtless 1% remembered affectionately by reading people the coantry over as the author of "little Brown Handa," as exquisite a Utile gera as over was written, has, it appears, in addition to her other aacetnpU&bmenta developed dramatic taisnt of a high order. She has recently Completed a new oomedy entitled "Tbo Widow Selby," and, at tbo request of a number of prominent dtiaena of Crawfordsville, ind tiding meh names ss Hon. Henry a I*ne, General Low Wallsoe and others equally dintingaiabed, haa eonoented to appear In tbe title rate, en Friday evening, tbo Slot Inst, A termor production of ben In the same lino, entitled

Man in the House" was exceedingly popular daring the winter^ and aba barself played a leading pari In it both at Crawfordeville and at Indianapolis.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING- MAIL.

slightest particular,

to cover np such infamy as that of Belknap, Robeson and Babcock—for there is no longer any doubt that all three are guilty—in

unworthy

the oonftdonce of

IN a conversation with a friend, Henry Wilson when he lay on his sick bed at the capitol, lamonted the change in the style of Uving of our public men, and said it would soon be impossible for a poor man to hold any important offloe He said: "When I came here, I foctnd Mr. Chase and General QMS boarding at the little Exchange Hotel, on Third street. Chase was a man in independent circumstances, and Cass was worth millions, but they felt that they must not set an example which would tempt the families of poor members into extravagsnces which the salary of a mem ber would not warrant, as that would lead directly to corruption, or to an undue increase of salaries." And they were* right. Mr. Wilson himself always remained at the modest quarters of tbo Washington House, a hotel of the same grade as tbe one patronised by Cass and Chase. He enjoyed himself too, fhr better than Belknap has done with all his costly magnificence, and left reputation which tbe latter by this time thinks would not be dear at any prioe. But there is little use in preaching on the demoralization of the times.

THK good old Daniel Drew, tbe Wall street saint, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Hia liabilities are iu the neighborhood of $1,508,000, the most of which la secured by mortgages on his farms. He has been operating in Wall street for thirty years. He was caught in a 44 corner" a year or two ago and suffered fearfully.

MR. PKKPLKTON, when examined before tbe Committee, on Tuesday, was uncertain whether It was $80,000 or $00,000 be got for collecting the $148,000 claim of the Kentucky Central Railroad Company against tbe (Jorernment. Gentlemen, George does not burden his mM with small matters like that.

TUB Republican majority in New Hampshire at the reoent election io about 8,000. •BSBHBMBaaa .SfV

THK Cincinnati Commercial gives the ollowing recipe for demolishing a Dem ocratic a ta teaman: First catch your Republican.

STOVB-LJD currency" is what they bitterly osll silver dollara 1m San Fran* eiaco. Nothing but gold is good enough for a Call torn an.

TITJENS makes but little fuss when she takej cold.

good big lump of

butter In a glass of hot rum is about her notion of a remedy.

THKODOBU TILTON now travels on his lecture tours accomjanied by his daughters, Florence and Allpe, Miss Lovejoy has another situation.^

'AMOirrt Daniel Drew's list of published assets, under the head of personal property, aro the following: Watch and chain, $150 one sealskin coat, $150 wearing apparel, ?1G0 Bible, liyinn books, etc., $130.

TUB Centennial managers in Iowa employed two ladies to travel and solicit subscriptions. The ladies collected $3, 407,40, drew 92,608,68 for salaries, and expended in one way and another $428, 06, leaving a balance of $438,16 to help on tho Centennial appropriations.

THE late John Forster owned the orig inal manuscripts of all Charles Dickens novels, except that of "Our Mutual Friend." The latter was presented by Dickens to Dallas, the critic, author of "The Gay Science," and is now in the possession of George W. Childs, of Phil adelphla.

THE Graphic is authority for the slate ment that a manufacturer of boots and shoes on Broadway, New York, is now engaged in preparing two pairs of shoes for the Exhibition from the skin of a human being, a pair from the skin of an anaconda, a pair from a rattlesnake skin, a pair from tho hide of a kangaaoo, and another pair from tho skin of a catfish. The leather of tbe last named is equal in its texttiro to the finest silk and of those of tho skin of a human being tbe quality would be rated any where, perhaps, if wo did not know what it was, as superfine. "^1.

WHAT A COMMOTION IT Tl'O I LD MAKE! .w [From the Observer.] ,.

Whata commotion would be made to-morrow in this city or any other

1lave

)1 ace, if all the men and women who done injustice to others in business or in speech, made restitution at once 1 What sudden exchange of balances in bank accounts! What hurrying to and fro, from house to bouse, to own up and take back and "beg your forgiveness!""

A THIRD PARTY. [From theN.Y.SUD.]

There is some twaddle about starting a third party for the Presidential election. It can't be done, and won't be tried. In a short time tbe main issue will be joined between tbe two exist in parties, and into them will be whirle* all the political forces of the couutry, In the eatnpaign of this year, no third party could do anything but guerrilla skirmishing and blackmailing, and no such business can be tolerated under present circumstances. One of tbe twaddlers about a third party savs the "people are tnad enough" just now to rush into it. There are some people who are often mad enough ana pilly enough to make fools of themselves but even these will keep clear of the folly of a third party this year. Two parties are sufficient for tbe present.

THE CENTENNIAL ADMISSION FEE. The price of admission to the exhibition in Philsdelpbia will be fifty centsl payable in one note. Tbe receiver at tbe recording turnstiles will bave noth iug to do with the nqtes, except to decide whether they aro good or bad, and to drop them into tbe boxes, whore each one will register itself. An exchange office of the Centennial National bank will be established near each entrance, to change money for visitors not having fifty cent notes. This money-changer win be expected to bave no more and no less money when his work is done than when he began. Tbe Centennial commission, after much inquiry and careful consideration, cor.cludcd that the whole system—absence of season tickets and all—was cheaper and more secure against fraud than any other

fraud

known.

order that the cash in the

boxes may correspond with the indicators, adollar note will not be received at any gate for the admission of two persons, nor two twenty-five cent ao»e«/er that of one person. No Intelligent visitor, however, with tbe facilities afford ed, need get into the "cue," an arrangement to keep in single file those about to enter unprovided with the reauired note. In the event of a resumption of specie payments prior to or during tbe exhibition, tbe rule will be amended to meet the demande. ,/,/

SECOB nonEsows RICHER [Fjjbm the Patttrnore Son.] It is reported in Wall street that when Secretary iUAeson went into offlcc, he borrowed $1,000 to make a presentable appearance, and that to-day he is worth notlees than $2,000,00%

It is tbe firm belief or those who know what they are talking about, that mil lions upon millions have been squandered upon ftfvorlteo by the Navy Depart ment ever since he commencement of the war, and that the squandering or plundering is still in pleasant operation

Let mo ate briefly one case: A con tractor who has had hold of tbe navy tfat for years, and who, two years ago, lived in a $7,000 residence, now lives in one that cost, with ita surroundings, $250,000.

The palace was built for himself by days' work, snd was nearly three years in course of erection. Tbe furniture In it came partly from Paris, and cost $50,000. Tbe stable, bnilt near tbe residence, is valued at $20,000.

But this is not all. Said contractor, in addition to tbe above, has become the owner, since his oonnection with tbe Navy Department, of hundreda of acres of land and valuable boildings and stores, which he hat either erected or purchased. Indeed, be is ranked aa the wealthiest man in tbe country in which he reside*, and that is not an bour*a distance from the city. These are the factt, and they carry tbejr owo comments.

SPIRITS!

MR&. STEWART, THE MEDIUM.

WHAT WOOD HULL ACL A FUN SAY OF HER MKDIUMSH1P.

THE CHIC A QO EXPOSURE 'f~* 1 The last lasue ef Wood hull «k Ciatlin'a Weekly is pretty well filled with a csrd from "One of tho Committee," which wo presume Is Mr. James Hook, and a three and a half column editorial in relation to Mrs. Stewart, the Pence Hall medium and her exposure at Chicago. Life is too short and space is too valuable to give both or either entire. The latter seetns to have been a private letler, and not iu tended for publication. The following embraces tbe substauce of tbe editorial:

But fray tbo committee through this letter, "I admit on tho surface at that time (in Chicago) it looked as though all was not right." We should think so, for what was there on tbe surface at that time Why, there wero false faces, false hair, false moustaches, rings,bracelets, laces, and whatever else or ''properties" far "make up" that wero required to present a goodly number of spirits and to have successful materializations. We think there was quite enough on the surface to show pretty conclusively that there was little mediumship under the surface. "But," tho letter goes on to say, "are you prepared to say that at that time some 'Diakka' may not have had the control, or that some cause that wo cannot account for, governed on that occasion?" Well, No I We are not prepared to say this. On the contrary, we are rather inclined to affirm It, but whether tho "Diakka" wero spirit* from tbe other sphere, or btill living in the forms of those on earth, is another question. We do not believe that all the "Diakka" are out of the body. Again. "Or &npposo she did on that occasion do a

great

wrong, aud which sho repented

of and never uid again, are yeu prepared to crush ber for that one act?" As Messrs. Pence, Hook and Connor are going to defend her at all hazards, and at whatever cost, hew can she be crushed We have no desire to crush her or anybody. But we shall speak the truth about her, and draw tho logical deductions from that truth, let it fall where it may, on htr or on thoso who aro determined to uphold ber.

That "ono ooeasjpn!" Now isn't that rather pre^umptious? One occasion, only Hadn't she been giving the same materializations days before that ono occasion Do the committee vrish it to be understood that, while on that occasion the manifestations were fraudulent, tho same manifestations upon the preceding days were genuine? Wherefore all that paraphanalia? Why were they there on that occasion, if they had not been there previously? And why were they there at all. if she had not resorted to them before she went to Chicago Or will the committee assume, that on that occasion, as the spirits themselves,t»uW not appear they iratsrialized these things so that their absence might not be missed But if this were the case, why should tbo inedinm have made such efforts to hastily conceal her "properties" when the cabinet was pat aside? Now doesn't tbe committee know that Mrs. Stewart was provided with all these things before she went to Chicago, and that it was with them that sbe had, in Terre Haute, previously deceived even tbe committee, lor we wiU not do them the injustice to believe even, that they wero aware of tbe fraud before It was exposed in Chicago? Where did she get them and why did she get them and why conceal tbeui iu and upon her person, if it were not for fraudulent purposes? And when did she obtain them? Not for that one occasion surely. The committee assume that she did, but if tbey do, it will speak little for their gooi sense nor will the public bo likely to see with their eyes in this business. Isn't it clear that Mrs. Stewart went to that aeanoo provldod with those things with the deliberate intention of using tbem to perpetrate a fraud upon those whom her false professions should entice into paying her a dollar in the hope of realizing the most sacred experiences of life And if she did do so, when, will the committee assume that sbe her genuine mediumistic

go!changed

jwer for this tbin and wicked pretense? The action of Mrs. Stewart was that of a practiced, an expert, actress. She came to that seance with all her "mediumistio properties^, so carefully concealed that a thorough search failed to discover what her after-haste betrayed. Think of it Spiritualists of the country, a medium with moustaches and curls braided into her own hair and false faces concealed In her person where uone but a woman can conoeal tbem, and then road the committee's lame attempt to excuse such trickery aa the work or "diakka," upon that one oocasiou,and blush for yonr defenders blush for your cause if it need sncb defense I

But here wo touch upon a tender spot in tbe captiCBltteef To substantially prove, at least to logically show, that Mrs. Stewards (rapdttlenf materializations begun when sbe began to give 111aterialirtlion seances, is to show that this committee were themselves humbugged by her frauds, or else that they were privy to them. They sre no more oertaitt now of the genuineness of the materialisations pow than they were then. Indeed, not so certain, since Mr. Pence does not now offer $1,000 for her expo •are. But if they were deceived before, why may they not be deceived now? Wecredit the member of the oommittee when at Chicago with an honest faith In Mrs. Stewart, because be was certain sbe could not be exposed, although we were certain that she could be, and that she would be, if tbe right method were pursued. Had he had any doubts be would have objected to our having everything as we wished, and the exposures would not have been made.

But doesn't this member of tbe committee remember the admission ef Mrs Stewart, that all ber mani If stations had been made in tbe sane way and that she had never had a genuine materialization? When, will the oommittee please tell the public, did Mrs. Stewart's genuine mediumship begin? Wss it after the exposure of her previous frauds? And if so, how long after? And does be also remember that sbe gave a romiae never to repoat ber frauds?

?or

a year or more, so far ss we know,

abe made no public attempt to ro eatablisbher mediumship which fell at Chi cagoj but abe is now more prominently in ft than before the exposure. Ca^Hie possible that she has succeeded in convincing tbe committee, whom sbe deceived before, that abe is genuine now? If so bow were tbey convinced Have roved her as abe was tested positive test to apply, and having been deceived once tbey bave no right to go be lore the public and vouch for ber unless sbe cau stand the teat that exposed her there.

tbey ever proved uer as sne wi at Chicago There is no other

It Is the most improbable fraud that is practiced upon people when It is attempted to make them believe that a spirit that can appear, clad in garments oommon to man, cannot be touched and handled and held until a light can reveal of what stuff It Is composed a fraud to aay that tho medium in contact with material things cannot be known to be in her place, while the spirit is in another place, without disturbing tbe conditions and endangering the medium. The only thing that can be disturbed by such tests is the fraud, and the only danger to the medium is that of exposure, and it is tbe fear of these tnat makes the itnpositi of conditions which preclude positive tej-ts, necessary. Under the llghtof the exposition of materializing frauds that havo been made, we do not hesitate to say that an audience which will sit quietly and accept what the medium may havo to offer, wit host the application of positive tests, is for that audience to pretty surely be humbugged. The only test is to secure the medium while the* spirit is present, and to secure tho spirit s-o that a "eonfederate" is impossible. Let this be done with Anna Stewart, and we havo no hesitation in asserting our most persistent belief that she would be found to be the same fraud that she confessed herself as being at Chicago, or else that a confederate will be caught and more, that within a year she will be proven to be such, in spite of all the spiritualists whom she has mad*', and all to whom she lias discovered, as they suppose, their dead friends. Let fire*, determined persons, who will not be frightened or bullied, attend Mrs. Stewart's seance, and upon a signal seize the spirit, and they will, as we firmly believe, capture" either Mrs. Stewart or a confederate. When tho spirit walks about tho room again with ono of the audience, as related in tho Banner by Mr. Pence, let it be invited to a seat with tho audience, and lot it demaUrializo from tho seat, or remain with them permanently. Why retire to the cabinet to depArt

A TRUE WORD FOR MRS. (.'RANT. [From

the Philadelphia Titiic?-.

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cratic.)

The public will not take kindly to reflections .or innuendoes against Mrs. President Grant. She may nave accepted a watch from Gen. Iugalls, and if so, committed what proves to bo an indiscretion, as it is judged bv tho light of present events but in ail tho flood of debauchery that hns been surging about tho administration. Mrs. Grant has borne herself with truo womanly dignity and propriety. (Considering tho shoddy social surroundings ol power, and the reign of gieed that has mado tbo highest authority ibe plaything of its purposes, the rare prudence's and entirely blameless demeanor of Mrs. Grant is just cause for tbe sincere eongratulation of the coantry. It is evident that neither General Ingal's nor auy other person has over complicated tho wifo of the President in any interference to advance speculative or political interest", and it is most unjust to assume that an intendod or actual present to her by ari old comrade in arms of her husband, was either given or receivod with any corrupt purpose. For seven years Mrs. Grant has been mistress of "the White House, and ber name has uniformly and justly escaped tho scandals which have spared so low in their sweep. She has been a model of a modest, sensible woman for the women of her country, and commanus tbo universal respect of tbe nation.

City and Vicinity.

WE mav have summer vet.

THE button boles catch it now.'

Forirrrrcx prisoners in tho county jail.

THE Wabash is on the rampage again.

CRIMINAL COVRT will be In session Monday. HAVE you felt any symptomsof spring fever yet.

THAT Library Association—is it dead or sleeping?

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WOMAN'S leap year motto—Let no jilty man escape.

AGAIN the air is filled with rumored newspaper ehangop.

ItKGt'LAR meeting of tho city council next Tuesday evening. PIZK and hot cofey will probably tako the prize as a restaurant sign.

Tuu girl of the period is looking anxiously for the spring fashions.

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A LITTLE of that "etherial" mildness would be acceptable just now.

A "Yorxci Peoples Literary Society" Is being organized in tbe East end.

XKW awnings are making their appearance in different parts of tbe city.

Tn« Grand Jury adjourned Monday after returningthlrty-slx indictments.

J.\f 'Ai)Khas never been played ill fills city. It was one of Kdwin Forrest's great personations.

THERE'S one satisfaction to liverymen: sleighs and cutters wont need much varnish next season.

ICE goes down the E.

C. railroad at

the rate of fifty cars a day—at least it went down at that rate Thursday.

E.J. KINO IS now running his stovo foundry on full time and finding ready sale for all the stoves he isablo to makr.

Grwrs of tbe Terre Hantc House aro still taking their meals in the parlors, the dining room not being ready for occupancy. V.

THE following legal appointments bave been made this week. UeoreeD. Wood, administrator of the estate of Kdwin A. Wanlfn. Hood ftlJO".

Noah W. Try on was appointed -on»table to 1111 a vacancy In HIley township.

FRANK SAUNDERS, a son of Asa Saunders, a former living near Sandforu, was killed Tuesday morning by the Calling of a tree which bis father was chopping down.

JOURNAL: The number of persons in Terre Haute that pay taxes on from ono to ton thousand dollars is 1650 those, that pay on ten to thirty thoussnd is 155 those on thirty to sixty thousand 93 on sixty to ono hundred thousand 25 and there are fifteen tax payers who pay on property exceeding $100,600 in a no: n*.