Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 May 1876 — Page 4

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DESIRABLE arm! SUMMER

.«rtfr?su-

GOODS.

Hoberg, Root & Co.,

OPERA HOUSE. Offer elegant lines ot WHITE GOODS,*1 [i

LAWNS

(LINENS.

PERCALES. -yr .* ORGANDIES, GRENADINES,

SUMMER SILKS,

Summer Dress Goods,

At lower prices tlian tlie goods were ever sold at before. Also in great variety. Ladies' ReadyMade Suits, in Linen, Grass Cloth, Percale, Calico, etc., at prices ranging from $1.50 to $20.00.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

OPERA HOUSE.

IjpHE MOST

Seasonable Goods!

Genuine Turkish, Russian and Cosh Bathing Towels, Prince of Wales and Sandrlngham Bath Gloven, also Friction Glover and Brushes for dry use. Fragrant Mag

nolia

and'Florida waters for the toilet and baths, and Colognes of the best imported brands, and their own unexcelled "Ihlang Ihlang" and "Hedyosinia." The bullish "Plate Cloths" for cleaning china and removing tarnish from silver plate, gilt ornaments, etc., etc.

BUNTIN & ARMSTRONG, Drnsgrfat*, Cor. Oth and Main streets.

Prairie City Emporium,

IS THE PLACE TO BUY

FANS, PARASOLS, EMBROIDERIES, KID GLOVES, TIES, CORSETS, HOSIERY,

FINE MUSLIN ,, UNDERWEAR, LINEN SUITS, &c. The handsomest line of FLOWERS and cheapest RIBBONS in Terre Haute.

Millinery Goods AT WHOLESALE.

1000 pieces Gros Grain Ribbon in all the new shades. 200 dozen latest styles hats from the cheapest school hat to the finest imported chip.

Cashmeru laces and nettings, real and imitation, the largest assortment in the city at lower prices than elsewhere, at

S. L, STRAUS, 149 Main Street,

Wanted.

WANTKD-TO

TRADE CITY PROPEU-

tv on Ohio street, worth $8,000, for pro port In Cincinnati. Call on M. M. H'KOX, No. ,V Ohio street.

WANTED-ALLTO

KNOW THAT THE

SATURDAY EVENING MAIL has a lanj«r circulation than any newspaper publtsh•i in the state, outside of Indianapolis. Also that It is carefully and thoroughly read In Ihetiomcsof its patrons, and that it Is the very boat advertising medium in Western nritAn*.

For Sale.

MRSALK-TWO LARGK WATER COOUrs—six and eight gallons—will be sold i-heap to get them out of the way, at A. G. AC

ST IN A COX.

,)R SALE—A DURHAM BULL-I)KEI R««d. C. W. BAIiBOUR. (13-3U

TOR SALB-ONK OF THE PLEASANT EST

VMAI.L

II0ME8 IN THE CITY

Rev. E. F. Howe oflers for sale his residence on ributh 7tli street, between IVmlng and Parke. The situation is unsurpassed for beaitty of locat Ion, convenient,and health being sufficiently near the buslnew* portion of the city tor convenience and far enough «nt for pure air. The house is a two story brick, with eight rooms, and cellar under entire house. The lot Is 75x17-2 feet., good woodshed, coU house iuid «Istcm W) pench tree^ piHir trees, grapo vlno% apricot, quinces, apple and plum trees, blackberry and raspberry bushef, Ac. All the fruit is of tue

UtTIV uunurt^ "V. V— .. choicest varieties, and the trees are bearing. Prloe very reasonable ana terms ea«y

FR8ALBRockvllle,

-FOUNDRY AND MACHINE

shops, in Ind. I will sell for about two-thirds what !ley cost. They have been In use about 18 months and are now runaingon hill time. terms address 18 VAC McFADIHN, Rockvllle, Ind

For Rent.

f)RRENT-THK ROOMS ON THK jBEOJr ond and Thin I floors, over Scnddert Confectionery—vtry dmtrab'e location for boarding hon*. Apply to W. H. SCUDDER.

Strayed.

iHTRAYED-A OOW-FROM THE UNdendgned, on Sunday, tht MtU. a young lie cow, with a little red about her head and neck, and very sharp horas-abont three years old—supposed to have -a young «a!f. A suitable reward will frailer return or information. A. B. 1*A RT»N, No. 40 north *th street.

Found.

UND-THAT WITH ONRHTROKEOF

SewrtdenUdf the tewn«and ooonUysur•onndinc Terre Haute.

NOT1CH

hereby given that

Barbara Reldler, has left By bed and boardt and I hereby warn all perams not to harbor or trust her oo mtr account.»»I

w'n

not be responsible for debts of her contract,22 JOHN Znm.KR. Tcrrr Haute, May 20,1*7*. t«w)

THE MAIL

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, MAT 20, 1876

THE New York Herald calls W. Howells, editor

the

the Atlantic,

amateur angel with a big mustache."

ANIMATED art is the rage at Indianap olis now. Matt Morgan has been there a week with bis "living classic statu ary." -——-—a—-—*

THERE is on® thing about Dom I*eJr that must astonish railroad men: he will accept no railroad passes, but insists on paying his way.

BRIGHAM YOUNG is in poor health and the doctors say he cannot live long. It is appalling to think of the poor widows that would be thrown upon the world by his death.

FITZHUOH, tne Confederate doorkeeper of the House, has been bounced. The gushing letter to his Texas friend, which brought him to grief, will be found on the third page. It is rich reading.

IT looks very much as though some of those Massillian coal mine rioters who had a thirst for human blood and took delight in burning coal mines, machinery and such, might get their just deserts after all.

THE new Police Board at Indianapolis waded through no less than twelve hundred petitions and applications for appointments on the police force, last week, and it wasn't a very good week for petitions either.^

IT turns out that the lirstday's attendance at the Centennial Exhibition was about 250,000, of whom 75,000 paid their way, and 175,000 were dead heads. It is to be hoped that that proportion is not to continue six months.

IT is not likely that any description, however graphic and minute, of the Centennial Exposition, the grounds, the vast extent of the buildings and the innumerable articles on exhibition, will convey an adequate idea of the grandeur of the scene. It must be seen, and that leisurely, to be appreciated.

THE Inflation platform upon which Col. W. E. McLean was nominated Thursday, is calculated to complicate things among the newspapers. The Express (Republican) will be obliged to support the Colonel, and the Gazette (Democrat) to oppose him. Still, there is no telling what these independent papers will do.

COMPLAINTS are beginning to be heard of extortionate charges by Philadelphia hotel men, lodgiug-house keepers and restauranters. The most outrageous figures have been charged in some instances for very ordinary accommodations, both in the city and upon the exhibition grounds. The managers owe it to themselves and the country at large to look into this matter and promptly put an end to the robbery.

IT seems probable that the Democratic Stato Central Committee will meet at an early day to investigate the charges against Judge Buskirk and the other candidates for judge of the Supreme court, and if the said charges prove to bo well founded, to force them off the ticket and fill their places with honest men. Such action would do much to strengthen the ticket and inspire confidence in Democratic reform.. ssE=se=v\

So MUCH has been said during the past year about Mrs. Fitch's diamonds that we are certain it will be a relief to every one to hear that something definite is at last to be done with them. Mrs. Fitch is a daughter of General Sherman. About a year ago, when she was married, the Khedive of Egypt sent her a magnificent set of diamonds. In consequence, however, of the heavy duty and of the failure of Congress to remit the same, she has never come into possession of the diamonds, and they have remained in the custody of the Customhouse authorities. It has now been decided to send them to Europe, where they are to be retained till Mrs. Fitch herself goes abroad, which she intends doing soon, when she will take possession of them. On her return sho can bring them with her as personal property, thus evading the payment ef doty altogether. The saving of duty will far more than cover the expenses of her Europewi

BL9A ORHOVBNINCA TTLK Daring the past few week*, or since grass came, a number of cattle have been affected with the above, and some have died. The disorder is a temporary one, and remits from turning the cattle from abort pasture upon wet and luxuriant clover or other suoculent food. It is not the clover that causes it, but too much herbage being thrown into the stomach It heats and swells before it can be thrown back, and when the weight presses upon the arteries or blood vessels, it causes a stagnation or stoppage of the blood, and unless relief be soon obtained the animal dies of suffocation. Symptoms—Great difficulty of breathing, the paunch is immoderately swollen, the animal exhibits signs of great pain, in the latter stages the tongue protrudes out of the mouth, then trembling succeeds, and the animal dies of soffocatlsn. Remedy—the only safe remedy, is said—pour cold water from vessel bald one or two feet from the animal's back, along the spinal oolamn in slow, steady stream. A cow ordinanoe well enforced would be beneficial in dties.

NEWSPAPER PERSONALS. There is perhaps no column in a newspaper for which its editor has so great a contempt, and certainly none, as he well knows, which will be so generally read, as the column entitled "Personal." He knows that nine-tenths of the people who geft the paper, share the. Contempt, and yet, he knows as truly, that it will be the first thing in it that any of them will read, and that without it his paper would go to the demnitlon bowwows soon enough. It is a melancholy acknowledgment but the result of all experience proves it to be a fact. People delight in no kind of reading so much as that about each other, aud of that kind none is so racy and so greodi ly devoured as the scandalous. Indeed a paper would almost as well have no "personal" column at all as to have no items of tho latter character in it. And yet, for all this, it would be very hard to find any person who does not, when questioned, seriously disapprove of the entire "personal" business, and wonder, iu genuine surprise, how editors and publishers can get down to that kind of thing. As a rule, men do not edit or conduct newspapers out of charitable, or. benevolent, or even generous motives Their purpose I* to make money, and there is no way to do that except to furnish that Tor which there is adequate public demand. There is scarcely a paper one can pick up, from the huge dailies of New York to the newest fledgeling on the confines of Nobfaska, which docs not contain many, often very many, items of personal gossip or report or guess which the public has no right to know because it can have no possible interest in knowing, and which are silly, ridiculous, unimportant, impudent or meddlesome, as the case may happen to be, and which, too often, inflict a gratuitous wound on somebody's feelings. In ordinary life no gentleman discusses in public and before his face the private affairs of a gentleman with whom he has no acquaintance and to whom it is doubtful if he could obtain an introduction. In ordinary life no gentleman causelessly wounds the feelings, much less insults, another, and no man of any sort ever does so without knowing that he will most probably be called to personal account for it, but in the newspaper, the editor and the reporter and the correspondent do both with an iMouciancc that might be amazing if it were not sickening. The causes are multiform. One has been hinted at. The public requires these personalities while at the same time it condemns them, and whether they are true or false makes little difference so long as they are spicy. The best that any paper can do that wants to live, is to make them as unobjectionable as may be and pay no attention to the sneers they may occasion. Nobody will ever be so grievously offended at what a conscientious paper saj's about him, as these people whose names, by accidcnt or design, are omitted entirely from the list of "personalsand that is the quarter from which the loudest denunciations always come.

COACHING AS A FINE ART Colonel Dalancey Kane, a wealthy New York gentleman, in emulation of the example of a noble English duke and sundry well-to-do commoners, has revived ooaching as a fine art in New York. Every morning his coach leaves the Brunswick Hotel for Pelham, on the Sound, sixteen miles distant. He bandies the ribbons himself, and he has genuine English guard imported for the purpose, who winds regulation toots on a regular English stage-horn. The fare is $1.50 and tho coach is regularly advertised, hail, rain or shine, as the

New Rochelle and Pelham coach," 85 pounds of baggage to each passenger, free parcels carried .at moderate rates and punctually delivered." The sixteen miles is made in an hour and a half, sharp to the minute and the coach is a handsome yellow "mail," seating four inside and eleven outside, with a charge of fifty cents extra for the seat of honor, next tho driver. All the seats are engaged ahead up to Juno 20th, and the New York Tribune estimates a profit on tho season, allowing for all expenses, bouquets on the horses'left ears, eta, of $2,500. Fashionable New York has taken hold of the enterprise, and a gay party goes out every day te lunch at the old Lorillard Mansion, now a hotel, at Pelham, returning through the Park and down Fifth Avenue at a full run. Other lines are contemplated, and a great deal of public interest is manifested, and a decayed and obsolete industry bids fair to be revived.

If we had roads that were worth a oent and any place to go to, such an enterprise might be made both pleasant and profitable here. As wo have neither, perhaps it is not worth while talking about it. However, the matter might be referred to Mr. Samuel McDonald for his consideration.

Lowell wrote these lines years ago, but be wrote it for these times as woll as for those:

Hsrk! that rustle of a ii roes Stiff with lavish rirstlinpss Here come* oue whom* cheek would flash But to have her garment brash 'Gainst the girl whose Angerslliln Wove the weary 'broidery In, And In midnight chill and murk Stitched her life Into her work Bending backward from her toll Lest her tears the silk might soil Shaping from her bitter thought ise and forget .«„9r her despair nth the emblems woven there!

A GROWL.

[From the Indianapolis Herald.] In an elaborate article In the Popular Science Monthly a writer endeavors to

Ersvs

that dogs have conscience.—[Sennel. If that fact can be established how would if do to elect dogs to positions on onr Supreme Bench Any respectable deg would be satiated with less hair than it takes to appease the savage greed of the ornate Buskirk.

FOR a fine mixture of humor and sarcasm, read "lie be rend Quako Strong," on the second page.

THB name he goes by now, is "Bigger-man-than-old-Grant" Fitzhugh. Seo his letter on the third page.

UQBJg!PBe=K5S=9H=S

FiftY-oNE sociDties, associations and oonventions have appointed Philadelphia ss a .place of meeting this Summer.

AN Iowa court has decided that if a man engages himself to be married and then commits suicide, the defrauded party can proceed against the estate for breach of promise.

THB thirteen girls who graduate at the Tilden (N. H.) Seminary next month will graduate in calico. An exchange remarks that it will look odd to seo girl in a five-dollar dress picking up twelve-dollar boquet.

A BALTIMORE woman boldly ad vertis es medical attendance by Dr. Benjamin Rush, who died in that city several years ago.

She is a professed spiritual medi um, acting as the earthly spokesman for the dead physician and she collects the pay, too.

THE popular idea that the Gypsies go up and down the country like a lot of tramps or vagrants, is dispelled by the fact that at an annual convention of these people at Joliet, Ills., recently the chief laid out the route to be pur sued by each band during the year.

PROFESSOR J. LAWRENCE SMITH, of I xmisville, having abandoned his original theory regarding the Kentucky shower of flesh, now advances the theory that the falling particles were really mutton and that they came from a flock of buzzards disgorging themselves of feast. ..

A PARIS fashion journal declares that in less than five years knee-breeches and six-inch skirts will be the fashionable street dress for ladies. Five years That's along time to wait for such an exhibition on our streets. And then it will probably be a year more before this latest Parision fashion reaches tho Prai rie Citj. ________

A BALTIMORE man while cleaning his toe-nails in an open window a few days ago, fell to the ground and was instantly killed. And yet, notwithstanding this terrible accident there are people who will go right on in the face of the facts, cleaning their toe-nails, in utter heedlessness of their danger, and in de fiance of the warning of Providence.

THREE hundred Knights Templar and their fcfamilies

had made arrangements to attend the Centennial in a body, but being umtble to obtain a reduction on the present railroad rates, decided to abandon their trip. There will doubtless be plenty of incidents of this kind, and it is difficult to see just where the railroads are to profit by killing the Centennial goose.

THE Indianapolis Journal says that heavy contractor in the street and building line in that city, claims that he can hire all the laborers he can give work to at from $1 to $1.25 a day, and that scores of men, every day, beg employment at these figures to keep their families from starving. Well, suppose he can hire them for that! Has be any right to do it? Has he a right to take contracts based on starvation wages, even though scores

of poor miserable men do beg him for work at any price that will keep soul and body together? He can get them for fl a day: we do not doubt it possibly he could get them for even less than that, for men and women and children must have bread and shelter,^and a father can not look tamely on and see his loved ones starve but the wretch who asks them to accept su«h wages is too contemptible and debased a scoundrel to merit any decent man's notice. No man who has tho first principle of manhood or honor about him Is going to bid on work with a view to hiring it done at wages like these. Largo contractors have the power to keep wages at something like what they should be. If they fail to do it, an indignant public should visit them with such scorn as will not be misunderstood.

MONEY THAT JINGOES. There is some complaint of a growing scarcity of small change. This scarcity is not felt here very seriously yet, though in the East it is causing great inconvenience, and in New York, especially, has amounted almost to a "small change famine." Theopponcntsof hard money, with about as much reason as they have usually shown in their arguments, are trying to make it appear that the issuo of silver was a grave mistako, and that hard times and nothing but hard times will follow any movement in the direction of specie payments, bucii nonsense is becoming offensively stale, and though crazy enthusiasts here and there over the country oontinue to give expression to their flighty notions regarding the blessings of a currency founded on paper and faith, it is Incredible that many persons are to be found now so stupid as not to vslue such expressions st what they are worth. Indeed, nothing oould prove more clearly which kind of money the people like best than the present scarcity of silver. Throughout the country there is scarcely parson who has oome into possession »f a bright, new silver coin that didn't receive it with a alight quickening of the pulse and a little bit of the feeling with which he would have received pleasant and unexpected news and if in a short time afterwards, one of these persons had to pay ont twenty-five or fifty cents and he bad In his, pocket a piece of scrip of that value and a coin ot the same denomination, didn't be pay out the scrip in preference and leave the oein to Jingle musi

cally in his pocket jrith his bunch of keys or other "pocket pieces Of oourse he did, or he would be no true man. And if be had a wife and children he carried home to them the first of the shining coins he got, as a present, to be looked at, admired and put as a memento of the first speole payments after the war. And for days still ho treasured up all that came to blm, perhaps disposing of them in about the Mime manner as be did the first. Everybody has done it—even the most radical of the rag baby apostles—and that is why silver small change la "scarce."

But in a little while the novelty will have worn off. The children—large and small—will find that silver is to be a large part of the currency of the country and not a rarity, and they will begin to spend what before they have hoarded as a curiosity. When this begins, though the aggregate amount in circulation may not be large, it will be felt sensibly. It will circulate more freely and the sight of it will give confidence and be a satisfaction that the filthy scrip never was and never could be. It will make times easier, business better and the people honcster. Speed the day when the dirty and mutilated currency shall not be seen in all the length and breadth of the land!

THE CENTENNIAL SHO W. Ed. M. Walmsley, on yesterday, received from bis brother, Joe, a letter written upon three postal cards. As giving the observations and impressions of one of our own people, the extract below has more interest than any labored description from an unknown writer. He says:

MAIN BUILDING, CENTENNIAL GROUND, 1 May 16, i87«. Nearly all of my time since arrival, has been spent here, and although mainly occupied with the particular exhibits we have in charge. I consider myself already a walking guide book to the Exhibition. No one probably has an intimate acquaintance with the 180 (and over) buildings within tho enclosure—so impossible is it to keep pace with rapid work of so many thousands of hands— but, about 75 per cent, of one's time patience, muscle and shoe ieather can be saved by the pilotage of one fairly posted in the topography of the place, and the relative locations of the important buildings, the countries exhibiting and the classes of goods to be seen. I have not had the time (to say nothing of ....

of Columbus, Ohio,

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ability) to spread myself on the "big «i"»» have read plenty of that will confirm all

show. sort of thing. But I that has been said of its exceeding grandeur extent and variety. It is immense—so much is conceded by all. Some say not so "brilliant" as Paris or Vienna, but it certainly does not lack in showy qualities, and day by day it is growing in beauty and attractiveness. It will be two or three weeks yet before everything is properly arranged within the buildings. A great deal has been said about the Americans not being ready—but on the opening day it was

apparent that they were much urtber advanced than any other nation, and the general effect of their exhibit more striking and novel. Germany and notably Russia and Portugal are behind hand, but they are working like "Turks" to get even with their neighbors. It must be said, however, that the Turks themselves have very much to do before they will care to receive calls. Japan makes a magnificent show, especiallv in bronzes, lacquered ware, etc., and China, next door, is her peer in expert and variety, but the two are as unlike as English and Dutch. It is very inspiring right here in the "center" of the world, listening to the rush of the eager throng, the plash of fountains and the music of Gilmore's band, but my three "postals" eivinsr out, and no more at hand, I desist. J. T. W.

THE SIL VSR UESTION.[From the Cincinnati Commercial.] This is the question of tho day. It is a question that will make and unmake parties, Congresses and Presidents. We propose toprelsit upon the people.

What is the silver question? The main point is the restoration of the double standard. Sliver coined iu dollars of specified weight and fineness was legal tender in all sums from 1792 to 1874. By a stealthy act of legislation, the silver dollar was eliminated from our coinage, and its legal-tender quality abolished, years after the vast war debt was made, and when there had been secured a distinct Congressional affirmation that the faith of the Government had been pledged to the payment of tho principal and interest of the debt in coia.

Look at that closely. When tho Na tional debt was made, it was, under the most rigid hard-money interpretation, payable in the two precious metals. Without the consultation of a single Congressional constituency on the subject, the people were deprived of the use of one of these metals in the payment ot the debt. The right of the people of which they were thus deprived, must be restored. The old American silver dollar which for eighty years was Jegal tender in all sums throughout this country, must again be legal tender in all sums.

It is not often that a greater public wrong is done thau that of tho demonetization of silver, after the war, when the country, burdened with debt, was graduallv moving toward a sound currency. It was at the moment that the auspicious abundance of silver was beooming apparent to far-sighted observers, that on tbo pretense that the silver dollsr was worth more than the gold dollar it was sbolisned.

If the people had not been stupid and dazed with the greenback drunkenness, this would not nave happened without debate and remonstrance^ If the fall of silver had been so marked as to oommsnd the attention of the world, and to permit the redemption of fractional currency in subsidiary silvecoins. perhsps the loss of the silver dol lar might not have been observed. The country has been befogged in paper money delusions, and mired in the irredeemable trash, so tbst the immense fact that the silver dollsr bss been taken from the people hss passed unchallenged and unsung.

Now th& silver is before our eyes again, we begin to inquire for oar old •Over dollar-Snd lo, it^s gon»-and we are coolly told that we have the gold standara only: that silver hi* been demonetised. »nce when? Whr, sinee the adoption of the Revised Statutes, in 1874. ten years after the great mass of

/indebtedness was incurred. We shall aee about that. We shall see who snstched from the American people the silver dollar just when there was the dawn of a prospect of its vsst oasfal-

°^nie American people rub their eyes snd find the silver standard abolished— only one precious metal to psy with,

when there were two when we heaped up our debts. We are struggling toward specie payments, and more than, half the specie basis is taken from us,by Congresslonsl legislstion as silent as 'thef currrent that cuts a sand bank in the.' ninht, ii thdre any politician so grossly idn capable of measuring Influences as to' suppose that this can endure? Is there anybody of tolerable understanding who« dees not know the moment this esse is stated, that as soon as the people are educated up te see the facts and their rights, a Congress will bo elected torestore the silver dollar? Silver is the poor man's true money. The old silver1 dollar was the almighty dollar of Amer-' lea. With this dollar the Government lands were paid for. With this dollar the Government bonds, with C9mparatively unimportant exceptions, were payable when tbey were issued.

The simple thing to do is to amend Sherman's Bill tor the coinage of the old silver. dollar, by striking out the legal-tender limitation. The States have the right, by the express terms of tho Constitution, to make sliver a legal tender, and this is aright of which they can not be deprived by Congress. That which ip needful is the direction of public attention to this subject.

The silver question is the growing question of the day, and presently it will be the burning question of the period.

THE TIME REQUIRED TO SEE IT. [Exposition Letter.] I heard it stated as a fact this morning that if one gave five minutes attention to each article exhibited, it would

take sixty years to do the exposition.

City and Vicinity.

Mr. L. Felsenheld went East for more goods yesterday.

Miss Sallie Warren returned Thursday from a visit to Aurora. /.

Miss Jennie Thompson is confined to the house through sickness.

Septer Patrick was last night appointed Station-house keeper, by the Council. THE Normal School sent an excursion down the river to-day by the Prairie City. -a

COL. DOWLING and Mayor Edmunds sat down on each other several times last night.

The Democratic members of t)ie City Council still persist in refusing to serve on the committees.

THE ordinance of Mr. Oilman re ducing the salaries of the city offices was last night adopted by the council.

THE last move with reference to the cow ordinance was to refer it to the Judiciary committee. It seems difficult to kill.

A PRIVATE picnic party of some twen-ty-five families, will go to-morrow on the steamer Prairio City to Greenfield Bayou, fishing.

THE next meeting of the Horticultural society will be at the residence of Col. R. W. Thompson, at Spring Hill, on the 8th of June.

Col. Hudson proposes to train with the Republican party, in this summer's campaign—that is, if Bristow is nominated for the Presidency. •, I

OLD newspapers are much better and cheaper than straw for putting under carpets. These can be had at The Mail office.

THERE are about eighty forms of Centennial tickets at the Union depot. One can go to Philadelphia by the extreme south, and comeback along the borders of Canada.

Mr. J. J. Reltham, of Denver," "Colorado, President of the German National Bank at that city, is in town with his family, tho guest, for a few days, of Postmaster N. Filbeok, to wliom he is related. Mr. R. is enroute for Europe, where ho intends to remain lor two years.

Postmaster Filbeck proposes to call a meeting of the Republican Executive Committee—after the County Convention—to investigate the charge of the Express that he appropriated money from the campaign fund in the purchase of a saloon to be used in the recent Fourth Ward election. The charge be pronounces false. _____

THE polioe board met last evening and made the following report of appointments for the ensuing year: Isaac S. Calvert, H. D. Smith, Adolph Meyer,Eleazor Gibson, James Ilogan, Chas. H. Reagan, Hugh O'Donald, George Otterman, Zack Ross, Chas. E. Vanderver, Cal Harris, Joseph Staley, Charles Taylor, Wm. Lutz, E.W. Piper, Jas. Bishop.

This drops Brown, Powney and C. Meyer, of the night force, and Stewart of the day.

THE

Gazefte astonished the frienus of

Mr. Thos. E. Knox, yesterday, by reporting that that popular gentleman was a married man and had been imposing on this people since the 23d of February last. The story is that he was married on the date mentioned, at Toledo, Ohio, to Miss Lena A. Corbin, ot" South Hero, Vermont. Mrs.% Knox has been visiting st Ann Arbor, Michigan, and joined^|i|rs husband in this city Thursday. $ —Go to Sheap's for the best Soda Water, Ginger Ale, Seltzer Water, Aeolian Spray, Ice Cream and Strawberrie® Bananas, Oranges and Lemon*. Sunday he will have Lemon, Vanilla and Chocolate Ioe Cream and Strawberries and Strawberry Syrup made from the fruit/ also Chocolate Cream 8yrup. Go try his Soda Water and Ice Cream, you will find It the best In the city.

-WHO EVER HEARD OF LADIES' WRAPPERS SOLD FOR fl. PLEATED SKIRTS 60c. FANS, PARASOLS, RIBBONS, LACES, TRIMMINGS AND NOTIONS, AT YOUR OWN PRICE* CENT STORE FOR BARGAINS.