Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 July 1876 — Page 4

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H0BER%2»

Offer from this dat6, Kie remainder of their

5 IN E N S IT S

.sjfr AND VERDRBSSE S

GRASS CLOTH SUITS and Overdresses, PERCALE SUITS, CALICO SUITS, WASH P0PLLJF SUITS, -FL 0 HAIR SUITS, and their entire stock of

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

|I4» Main

W»elsik*s

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SUITS THE MAIL'

SUMMER DRESS

GOODS, GRENADINES, LAWNS, ETC., AT COST, TO CLOSE THEM OUT.

H0BER6, ROOT & CO,

OPERA HOCHE.

rpHE MOST

Seasonable Goods!

Gennlnc Turkish, Russian tad Cadi Bathing Towel*. Prince of Wales and Bandrtngbam Bath Glove*, al*o Friction Glove* and BraWeB for dry one. Fragrant Magnolia and Florida Waters for the toilet ami Erath*. and olognes of the bast imported brmud*, and their own unexcelled "Uhlan* Itilanic" and "Hedyownia." The English

Plate Cloth*" for cleaning china and removing laralfb from silver plate, gilt ornament*, etc., etc.

BINT IN & ARMSTRONG# Unifgiita, Cmr. Sth and Mala alrceta.

Millinery Goods AT WHOLESALE.

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

fttrepf.

Wanted,

Wasted

gvggmoor. v*. k*vw~

Umta* Hmrtm AS»« Ctow is Aebe* ynriteiMintfHeeeeasuy, llgfoeejfcelgs» UMKtieo«r*v imtniAmaA tettto land* TIT TT It •«**. twtd«. ManmtertwHl MOUBJET, T«» aeeoidiag toestef OwgH«. Mew*

WAJTTED

S«|Mtaa MMfcms* *4 w*r.b«A s«wu MWtWm life.

For Sale.

& HALE—ISOOWE ^AKDtOT- 0»

•smntrfr rT"*1 »fiM|sla»ja tte*

F°« Err.

_r!fcrT^yaSra»rsa»eMs P?1las •o rnrnthjm t*mh*jma4 PaHw. Tbe (Ms to nmuiif imsS fm imMrty or kwtiee. Mai wameirnntif mmmr tbe Msm portUm ofUMcttjr jar a— vyhwawi mmd 9a* ^Uof pwv air. Tb* Ikmm to atwoatory

ruMhi. sod tto trmm mm tosr-

For Rent.

NTR RETT-HOCWE «JT

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Strayecft

UisTRAyKD-oeirwuNE

bam «tock. heavy body and ibort ly, white face, right bora •better MM audlong teato. A rewardof rive Poltori will bipwn for rcpwti of tbecow or maUon^wlUcb she may betoaad. UEO.

Found.

Fthefen

rtJND-THAT WITH ON*OTROKEOF yon can reach, with anadverU*mm* in the Saturday Kvaaina Mall, almost •very reading fbmlljr la thlTSty, aa well as "hsnsldentsof tbs\owaiand eountry »oreonttdtngTem mute. -*qr

JUNB-TBATTHB SATURDAY EVEninm Mall Is the mast widely circulated ««r in tbeState outsideof Indlanap*

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SEWTNO

MACHINES

SCTAISSt AW® AWUITED

THE conference committee on Sundry Civil Appropriation bill reached a final agreement Wednesday, by tbe House conferees acquiescing in tbe Senate amendment striking out tbe clause by W-BFEB lite BOOM proposed to repeal the registration law.

PJSOPUB are beginning to understand tw it is impossible for one-half of a country to go to war with the other half make money by tbe operation, it looked very much tbe other ty a few yean ago. After the bard aprce to suv to come tbe headache and fgmmaX laasWnrte.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. IJgRRB^HAPTE, JULY 22, 1876.

EDITIONS

"»«ttfc j&Mf are pobllahed. «..« JTkA TaUR^^DITlON, on Friday Evening

Every Week's Issue is, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, in which all Advertisements appear for

OWE CHARGE

JOHK BBIOHT will be the next British lion at tbe Centennial. S

CALIFORNIA is threatened with another panic in mining stocks.

to HICA being Sultan, and wants to abdi cate. THERE is au editor in Catskill, New York, who would rather be cool than be President.

TAKE him all in all Dotn Pedro is the most sensible Emperor we ever got oo-. qua in ted with, 1

BBISTOW is not going to tell the Com mittees any Cabinet secrets and the President can't make him, and there an end on't.

NONE

|t0

of the platforms say a

about reforming Old Probabilities. Thus do they all bow down before tbe power fnl Weather Rings!

THEY didn't light up the capitol this Fourth of July—didn't even illuminate tbe dome. Holman and "Blue Jeans sat down on the gas metre.

GEX. CEOOK

is waiting for reinforce

ments, and when be gets them, proposes to finish tbe Indians with "one crushing blow." It is to be hoped be will make no mistake about it.

THE convention in this judicial district to nominate a man to take the place of Judge Buskirk on tbe tbe Democratic ticket, takes place at Crawfordsville on the 27th, next Thursday.

IT is now told that General Sitting Bull is a French scholar and reads poetry. Perhaps he has been reading some of Walt Whitman's, which might account for his antipathy to the white race.

Fnerut eee beginning to discover that

To KJWW WHY irotJ MMK gjj ftmrr*4-1 sad commercial His of tf* "***7

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AWTED-AIXTO aucowTfATTax ftATUMtu.r EMUW JUUHW* «r «j xtmmpaj id ts itosWacs.'asasiSss that tt Is eaMtoUr .HI

tbe past three yean.,

sttribotableto tbe agita-

tkmettbe mtmoey question. Unlimit«4 greenbacks to tbe United States weald hardly make times good in Brl 1Mb India, for instance.

THE Green backers went through the totm at nominating a candidate for Congress Wednesday, and seemed to eofoy tfcemeeives very heartily. Mr. O. f, Darie, of Vermillion county, was dedared tbe nominee by acslamatlon. Mr. Devfe to a very respectable man, and will fftffr* tbe canvas with as much dignity *s any man could under suchdisemusfflsg dmunstenees, and take hie inevitable defeat aa gracefully.

THE Cincinnati Commercial reminds etnitenls of the silver dollar question tfcct no informed jndkiens person proto nsake tbe snbeidiary silver coin -4he dimes, qusrteni and halves—legal tender to an unlimited amount. The unlimited legal-tender quality belongs to and mat be confined to tbe silver dollar containing 371K gnhw pozeail*

The subsidiary coin to lighter thaa the dollar oetn,and nerer waa aad never siMMOd be unUmlted legal tender. —_—-,m.

lunalmoai the country Is in isvor of honeet money and reform in the public

are entirely respeeMbto. Tbe oouUsSto

Hi $k fmTT finances^ WHiWiMd with much interest the report of the Finance Committee of the Fjty pnqncil reoommending the funding of the floating debt of the city by the issue of seven per cent, coupon bonds to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, payable twenty yean alter date or redeemable any time alter ten years, at the cityt option, interest paytble •end-annually in New York. We say we have read it with much interest, and

we mnat

jHNalacge circulation in the anrrounding i^ve the utmost confidence in the finantowna, where it la sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Even lag, goes Into the hands of nearly every reading person In the city, and the farm fa»r»f thla Imni'HlUllV*

with great surprise. We

have the utmost confidence in the finan cial ability of the gentlemen composing that committee and we feel certain that in this matter they have acted hastily and without that deliberation so important a matter deserves. An addition of ant a matter aeserves. ANWUMVUVI HON. FRANK LANDERS has been nomi-

rate of Interest which will seem exorbitant in less than five,-and that too, to pay a debt of lorty thousand dollars which can easily be cleared off in two years without increasing the present taxes one mill, we could not regard as etituent parts closely unltod-cfmp

THE new Turkey gobbler doesn't seem anything less than a calamity. much matter in a sm spaces^ en

ay thing less than a calamity. \r~ It Is true tbat In tbe next nine months

tbe city will b»ve to bes borrower to a V""*"*considerable extent. Yet there Is no the l.tter audIt Ul^e. the form of lnta reason why more money shonld be bor- "on, as nwowe «n 8nd ootfrom rowed than was borrowed In theoorre- speeches «o the .ponding period last year. There onght Congressional district. But he will ro not to be so much. Tbe Interest account

for the last fiscal year was thirty-nine hundred dollars. If these bonds are is sued it cannot be less tfcan seven thou sand this year.. As was stated by Mr.

Scbloss to the council, the proposed issue

What the Finance Committee want particularly to do, if tbey will pardon us for making the suggestion, is to give more attention to getting tbelraccom modation loans for longer time than sixty or ninety da/s, and at a less rate of interest than ten per cent, per annum payable in advance. We know tbat tbe old finance committee got mosffof the money borrowed by them, on longer time and at eight per cent, interest pay able when tbe notes matured and there is now, at tbe present time, fourteen thousand, six hundred dollars of these notes outstanding, tbe holders of which do not want either tbe principal or interest ss long ss the city is willing to retain the money. There is no use of having a five thousand dollar note at three months time discounted at bank at ten per cept., when tbe samo money can be bad for nine months, or the full time it may be needed, at a much smaller rate and with tbe use of tbe interest besides. It wss a rule with the old committee, as we understand it, never to pay interest in advance. It was a very good one and is respectfully recommended.

WITY IT WAS HOT ACCEPTED. In an article on tbe subject of public parks, tbe Express said, tbe other day: "Not long since, Mr. Curtis Gilbert offered ground in the east portion of tbe city, if toe council would only take it and Improve and use it. Tbe offer was allowed' to lie without recognition. This should not bare been."

Without understanding the conditions tbat accompanied Mr. Gilbert's offer, it certainly might appear that tbe council waa in some manner culpable for not accepting it. As a matter of justice some explanation ia necessary.

Tbe otter referred to was made something like three years ago, at tbe time tbat real estate speculations were rite. Mr. Gilbert bad just platted and turned out a portion of bis form adjoining the city, on tbe south side of tbe National road. No houses bad then been built on it we believe, and very few, if anr, have been built since. Mr. Gilbert designated oue square, of tbe usual size, in a remote part of this addition to tbe city, which be desired to donate to tbe city for park purposes, upon tbe condition that it should be immediately improved in a manner oonformlog with tbe specifications contained in bto written offer. Tbe time allowed for tbe aceept* ance of tbe proposition was limited to one yeftr. One requirement, we fvaetn* ber, wss an Iron fence upon a atone foundation, which It wse estimated would coat at least twenty tboneend dollam. Other "improvement*" would probably have swelled tbe amount to twenty-five thousand. In

the lead hid not then any parttotUer

fm* Inispsnilent GreenbadMi* pro- peered to tbtm nngntfftd rmmU wk»f *ft4 8Mi»o*4, and to derive much comfort from tbe wOt leek »glJt hone in tbe BHNith io be afeotti I e'e&fWfe Terence existing between the rather a Aitwd dodge Mfc ttUbert HgCeciHN^ lWV# about forauiot tbe two great parties on to tnfcMMe the value !l* tiMit 'fW##«Witon Ml tbe uinsncy question. We fell to see property at the expenee of Wm mf, the 1 4^ fmrptm ef ettabUfif MmA vein UMTS to any reason for these oouneil, very wisely, ee we thin*, r#» ytosgtrtliapf rrf 1sflt«ri to tondsr Wiel' tm babyra*»Wppeis to odr^gratulate fused to soeept, what seemed, no onyjfsltiteilfffl to Uielr o^Hes for tM tbemeslvec' To a reasoning mind it ftom Mr. CHlhtrt't «tM»dpe^ $, ,PfM4m0 •»& Vies I'rssi4»tvy *f ibe might

cover.

the contrary show how nearly llbj^nd MdfMftMW t/r*tted Hisim, Uiwmutr It ii Hs/es ._ 'i" to, tod am W, A WlmUtr, ^heewMr-

Ml fltO 11 6XMiBg MDttllMDt Which Old tMllifMMNVtf W0 Wlff# lIMl of |hjf fl(f MA Will U$ sboukl enoourage everybody but them, truthfully be eaid Ihet Urn present Ma*. |^yerBiiW Mayes m4 Mr agers of tbe Terra lleute /OOfMi Sff tTliffflif St Itif fflrtr jfmifft with wMt

THE cordial and friendly feeling exia- n^JDNG ft abetter end mhm totoweWnf \m o*§ o( tH* Ur«sst ting between the two parties, in this |,ewi|)cp«rtksB it ever wes before# lis (jfimrtntlriflirfti the eampsljuttf 'fbe region, and the almost entire absence of general aad Jedl wwn e# eWdl tt tu^nmm tor ssd Viet l'resl» tbat Wtterneas and pweonal hortlllty gives a large qpientKy, to errenpMf Ises their weepttos In tbat usually chaxaeteiinesa Presidential and XSdtil» Hkqp, m$ the C4pitoi, White tbe campaign, la indeed most gratifying, ^utorfsl mstt«r fMMfftuiMe 4Nf' tbe heanM' Tbe meet pronounced paitieansare wil- candor aad sMtttjT* Wl iff |#sd jgj fy'jmg miwli, flu Ihre for Ungand do cheerfully concede to tbdr to learn tbet It Is «M«lvfal« SShatoirttSl Mto trf* fmm IndlMMpetts end opponents the possesion of principles 0ncoamtimmai,f

which are In the main enred, or at even by lie petHtoil |f|ti he probably five doilm least, deftosiible, and eaodidates which

Hom

regn

ooaragecneot toboDest men everywhere, eoefirmed,

to be a foir and square fight forpai^r we e«ftol wrthwl^d toflfieelt fosftlveT» rsioor th« Mtlfng K)tl wwMtP tf. w. would

JTVMAHFFWXITT.

IT wiH be a good deal like pulling teeth, but "Our Daniel'* will make

INSTEAD of terming their buildings "Wigwams" this year, it is suggested that the Republicans might give theirs

thfl tlt

crftta

of bonds would involve an increase of propriety, call theirs Tll-dons. There taxation, for at least ten years, of nearly word seventeen thousand dollars per annum

"Hayestack8 and Demo-

could, we presume, with equal

oould also be "Cooper-shops" for tbe rag baby champions to "stave" around in, wherever there happened to be any of these unfortunates.

A DISPATCH from Bismarck, D. T., in* tlmates that Sitting Bull's force is greatly underestimated by Generals Sberman and Sheridan. Before it was augmented by Crasy Horse's band it was thought to number six thousand, and Colonel Burke, tbe agent at Standing Rock, estimates tbe* Indians in tbe Big Horn country at ten thousand warriors. If this be tbe case, tbe combined forces of Generals Terry, Crook, and Gibbon will scarcely bo a match for the savages.

A COBBESPOKDENT of the Cincinnati Commercial takes the ground that it is not particularly important whether tbe legal'teuder clause relating to silver dollars is re-enacted or not, because tbe great maw of public and private debts were made prior to tbe act of 1873, and as to those debts, the contract to pay dollars, means dollars composed of 871K grains of pure silver, with sufficient copper alloy to make tbe whole weight 412yA grains—bence when tbat quantity of silver (duly coined, of course,) is tendered as the peformance of contracts (prior to 1S73) it is a performance of tbe obligation. Admitting this view to be correct, it follows tbat tbe legal-tender qualification is unimportant.

BUSINESS FAILURES. "On tbe I4tb Inst,, Messrs, Dun, Barlow A Co., issued tbelr tabular statement of tbe mercantile failures for tbe second quarter of tbe current calendar year. A comparison shows a greater number of failures during tbe last quarter than tbe average for any equal period since relis* ble records of failures nave been made, exoept in 1876."—[Express.

Wrong. Tbe total number of failures during tbe second quarter of 1876, ss reported by tbe mercantile agency mentioned above, waa 1,794, with liabilities amounting to |48,771,27S. Tbe total of failures during tbe first quarter of tbe

ha Yt» Avd ^nxKLxn ntsoKP-

A "fTiyu* fcrtd Wbeelsr reeeptton to

twenvy-nve A "IfSf «8 *rtd "Wbeeler reeeptwn to 'M

value and would not have the near Tbe "Oentenfbtww, except aa money weewpimded cspe* si fed trtlfi upon It for "Impiwcmettsr mA It £»l'»*.l!*»dt# road frem f»dl«»wae not either In lowttoa or whet /Mttrntms, OMir, ««d Ntttrs, would have hem 4mm frf mpm IwMsnsppm

fe4ton

WITHOOT any dlep^geetojl i« tt» AawHttormlfrirtMmtmtoyU*

)taf*)blU4t*' Announced for

mintaa^ *ad not have Im the near 1 h/imuh. be emotoved on tbe street, olesnlng up,

MThmW. Mi,

a«Mi thfttttle well |M4^ *iU t*tfcl«e4e!i«#ft, Kromthis

bers of vW« toll# llie pSfMf d^liar ee^h way between tbto

|JUiy baesnseofth* ipso ^4 fthl« pelnt

MB. B. W. HANXA, attorney of the Indianapolis and St. Louis railroad

number of Tllden speeches in Indiana company ha* achieved a legal victory which will place him at the very head

ttris fell. He will bea kind of Til-dent ist, as it were.

one hundred thousand dollara to the nated fof reflection by «b® democrats lature of Illinois for taxing the capital bonded debt of the city at this time, to r: TMnrfmn atock of forelrm nornnrattona. The court run at the very least ten years and at nominations when he is not present at

DENSITY consists in having the con-

mtTqnltasdlBbrent

tkln(-H«leMt ln

of the list ot successful railroad lawyera. The United States Circuit Court, sitting at Springfield, Illinois, Mr. Justice Davis, of the Supreme Court of the United

IT la the generally received opinion that Mr. Edwards Pierpont, American Miniater to the Court of St. Jame^ gtates occupying tbe bench with Judge made an ass of himself before he had Treat.of the United States District Court, dissolved the railroad tax injunctions

BAYABD TATWJR'8 National Ode, TO- ef every road in Illinoia exoept tbat of cited by him at tbe Centennial celebra- the I. A 8t. L. At tbe laat moment, betion in Philadelphia, July Fourth, waa f°*« the court adjourned, Mr. Hanna, published at length by the London Times, amnng its cable dispatches, on the morning of July 5.

the company's solicitor, amended his bill, claiming that tbe I. A St. L. was a foreign corporation operating leased lines of railroad in Illinois, and that no

provision had been made by the legis-

of the Seteiath District."* Mr. Landers stock of foreign corporations. The court seems to be mote successful in securing sustained tbe position, and at once made an order for a perpetual injunction, conventions than when be Is. Hestayed which will relieve the company of payaway from the Thursday convention.

lng something near 980,000. It was con sidered a great victory and Mr. Hanna received tbe hearty congratulations ol Justice Davis and all the other dlstin guisbed lawyers present**

it*

THE modesty and good taste displayed in the "call" addressed to Colonel Thompson—to be found in another part of thia paper—is in striking contrast with' tbe enunciations of tbe rag baby financiers. Tbe first paragraph reads:

In times of trial and doubt In tbe publio mind as to State and National affairs, the mass of the people look to their experienced, sagacious and honored statesmen and citizens to lead them by the safret and truest way to, and within the line of their duty."

The men who sign the call do not profess to believe tbat all wisdom and all honesty will die with them. They are willing to listen to resson, and are open to 4obviction.

COL. COOKEIU.Y has safely passed the period of Til-dentition.

City and Vicinity.

THE Ilaverly's next Friday evening.

TALK about your "melting momenta!" These be 'em. SOME of tbe mills are grinding away on new wbeat.

II I I

RoAfmtro'EABS from tbe oornflelds are now ooming In.

SKVEBAL horses have been prostrated by tbe beat this week. 11 1

A BARBEL, of sweat to tbe game, Is now tbe base-ball estimate.

A NEW plate glass front will Improve tbe appearance of Fred. Sesl'9 dgsr store, inn 1 1 1 1

THE brick work on tbe new Seventh ward school bouse was completed this week.

THE |20 Centennial Excursion will be tbe big thing In tbe excursion line this season.

TICKET* to Grand Haven and return, good for 80 days, are sold at tbe Union Depot for 916,

TALK about extravagance Thousands of people in thia city oat bread wbo do not knead it.

TALK about hot weather I How do yon expect to endure tbe long six weeks of August

All busineaa is languishing, all Industry Is depressed," exoept tbe traffic in ice and tbe pushing of palm-leaf fens

Minn, during will be put upon the .Ug. In good style same year, was 2,800, with liabilities of

in tbe Uwt three months were leas In number by on* thousuwl tban in tbe

uwusfws ... rest all suspicions persona found wanprscediog three montha of thia year, dering about tbe streets after midnight while the liabilities show a decline of and lock them up. 920,000,000, both iteme showing an improvement 0( ow forty per cent, Thia variatton I* creator than ever before In titoSMto pmod, and happily in this In* rtiftfff tbf variation ia in the right dimtiap. Tb*r9 la really seme little enoours|emel»t in the report, and It would bea pity to have it misstated even seal' dentally,

THE fsmous play of "The Long Strike"

|M,644,1*6. In other words, to use tbe Monday night and played bygoedac language of tbe report itself, tbe failures

tor9,

THE poliee have been Instructed to sr-

Tim city eoundl has finally concluded to allow tbe clerk 9200 with which to employ tbe neoessary help to ^oonplfto the

tax

duplicate, (it

FOE putting wilder oarpets there ia nothing bettor tban newspapers. These in good order, in paokagea of one hundred for sale at Tbe Mall office, at fifty eenta*

HMUVAirrsfifnala prisoners sent to tbe

out W,U

be employed on tbe street, cleaning up, under tbe direction of the marshal or other ootfipeUfat ofttcar,

(,'**1, of a good quality, and In snfll» etont qnsntity to ntakeltsmlulng profitable, has been discovered under the town of Meitoon, The cittsww of that lively municipality are greatly elated.

M'ASsmw* iMwsa^rhe-foltowlng HMryfage tWsaaa have hasn laased by the Cwiniy Clerk alne» our laat report»

T. 9lynn snd icsepntne Maton#y,

Tns iRepnbliean Wigwam on Sixth street, to «0xS0 feet, liieestimatsd that 800 people may be comfortably sealed on Hi* benebse, and on the stand. In addition, there fa atoodisg room tor MO peopta In the aisles snd l^oo eutetde where they aim bear and ess well j. malt' lug the entire accommodations good for an audienas of four thousand persons,

THE PULPITS TO'VOnnOW. Quarterly meeting et the Centenary M* K, Obewrb to'morrow, Mar vices conducted meming end evening by the Presiding Elder, Itev, J, W. Green, tUrrUm this evening at o'clock. gervices at tbe baptist ehureti 11 *. m. and 7*4fl p. m. Theme, "Tbe Trinity," sad Heeding Wto^i?«n#i|»}Jws." a. It Hendemon, pastor.

ApofSB ran away with a bufgy,M which favMrs, J.B. RWbsrdfm* T«#» day, near the Terro Haute fionlflr throwing Mrs. R, out and very atriotia* ly Injuring her. She waa taken to bw home, near Fort Harrison Thursday* but isstlU in a critical condition.

A NUMBER of young gentlemen have organised a "Prairie City Boat Club" and are having constructed a small steamer, ten by thirty feet, in which to make hunting and fishing cxourslona tbe coming season. Mossrs. Charles Sykes, Frank Roderua, Burnett, Watson and others compose the club.

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,vo—

SHE IS five feet eight In her stocking feet, her back bono ia as straight aa a poplar tree, is 46 years old, she never was married and never will be, there ian't enough fat on her to grease tbe hinges of a butterfly's wing, and sbe sits amid the fermentatlon*of humanity and tbe crash of thermometers, and laughsthe boiling meroury to scorn.

MRS. WILUELMINA SCHMIDT, ol Clinton, attempted to commit suicide at that pl&oe this morning by taking poison. A few days ago sbe went to some point near St. Louia, and brought home her buaband, a drunken, worthless wretob, who this morning packed up bis things for the purpose of leaving again. He went off fer a drink before 1 starting, and upon his return found tbat

bis wife had poisoned hersolf. It is bo* lleved tbat she will die.

THE centennial service at tbe Congregational church laat Sunday evening, warn of the most pleasing and enter? ialnlng character. The interior of the church waa bandaomely decorated with the national colors and every description of flowers and plants, snd was a spectacle well worth going a long distance to see. The responsive readings, addresses and musio were all in good taste and made up an entertainment very gratifying to all preaent and creditable to those wbo had bad tbe mAtter iu charge.

IT IS believed that there la a regularly organized band of housebreakers operating in this olty at present and plying tbolr neferlous trade with perfoct system, and It Is further said tbat Chief of Police Jobnsou is spreading bis toils so tbat tbe capture of tbe entiro lot may be expected at any moment In tbe meantime it will stand citizens In hand to use tbe ordinary precautions against loss, and not raise any srjust outcry agaiust an Inefficient police force in case they should, as the dlroct result of their own carelessness, suffer liy a visit from these knights of the dark lantorn.

AXEEKTCUMMIXOS, a young man twenty years of age, Mia had been working on the farm of Mr. Hugh Brown, two and a half milea east of Iiartford, was drowned Thursday in one of tbe ponds which border tbe National road, half mile west of tbo city. It appears that ho came to Terre Haute, Wednesday, to attend the funeral of bis brother's child, the brother living on tbo cornor of Second and Walnut streets, and on Thursday, In company with a boy named George Watson, visited tbo locality named for the purpose of bathing, He oould not awlm, and got beyoud his depth, with the above melanobolly result. The coroners Jury returned a ver* dlot of death from aooldental drowning.

A VIBE Tueaday morning, Just aftor midnight, partially destroyed a twostory frame bouse on the oorner of Main and Fourteenth streets. The building was ocoupled below as a grocery store by Mr. II. H. Pbelon, and above by a family by the name of Coflfinan. Tlie goods In the grocery store were greatly damaged by the water, as was aUo tbe household goods of the family up stairs. The property is owned by Mr. George Meyers, a gardener living a short distance east of the city, and wss Insured. Mr, Pbelon's stock was insured for 91,000 whioh will perhaps Indemnify him for his loss. The building was Insured for 9000. It is believed that tbe fire was tbe work of an Inoendlary, ss, so fer as can be ascertained, no fire was In use about tbe bouse for the twelve hours preoedlng the alarm.

Loci* HUSTKE, a boy about sixteen years of age, tbe son of Frederick Ifnstor wbo keeps a grocery store, on south Jtocond street, waa run over by a train on tbe Cincinnati and Terre Haute road Monday morning, and received Injuries turn which he died In a little less tban one hour afterwards, Prom tbe evl* dsnee developed et tbe coroner's inquest, which was held In Iks sfternoon, it appears tbat young Hnstor started bleekberryfng with snofher boy by tle name of Willie Krederiehs, and in erossIng from the nerth to tbe south side of the raliroad track at the Msventh street eroaelng, fluster stumbled and fell acroes the track at the moment when an approaehlng train, running at the ueual apaed, waa mi more than half a square distant, Frodericb* succeeded in pulling blm off of tha traek and got him on bis feel but not fer enough from tbe track to miss ffce oars. The engine snd tender peiwed without touching him, but the car following struck his sboul* der and whirled him und«r the wheels, Tbe train was stopped ss quickly as poaeible bnt too late to save his life, No, blame attaches to the men running tbe train, it is a very sad case, The uufcr* tamete boy wss a great fsvoriie with those wbo knew him, and his sffHeted parents are entitled to atneere sympathy,

THERE are eleven briik«yard*in Terre Haute, employing an aggregate of alxiut irtie hundred and sixty men. All of these men have been idle for the l«et five weeks, owimr to the fact that the water Is upon (tie bottoms, and ''ley as not be had. They all e*pect to go to work again next week.—[HnrMUi.