Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 October 1876 — Page 3

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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it two had hardly resumed their interoouise of early days, when tne quarrel occasioned by Captain Treverton inar1. riage broke Jt off forever. From ihat ft time, for all social 'nteresta and pur1

posew, Andrew watt a lost man. From 1 that time, be met tbe last remonstrances that were tnado to liim by tbe last friends who took any interest in his forI tunea, alw%y* with tne name bitter and hopeless rm of reply: "My dearest friend forsook and cheated me," he would "My on'y brother has quarts reled w.i'n me for the Rake of a piny actre*». What aui I tnroxpectof the rist of mankind alter that? I have fullered twice lor my Lelief in others—I will never fcufler a third time. The wise man is the man who does not disturb his heart at its natural occupation of pumping blood through his body. I have gathered uiy experience abroad and at home and have learned enough to see through the deluaioiift of life which look like realities to other men's eyes, but which have betrayed thorn I. selves years ago to mine. My business in this world Is to eat, drink, sleep and die. Every thing else is supertluity-r-1 and 1 have*done with it."

The few people who ever cared to I inquiro about him again, after being ^repulsed by such an uvowal as this, heard of him, turee or four years after bis brother's marriage, in the* neighborhood of IJayswatcr. Local r«|orts described him as having bought the first cottagf he foil id tind, which was out off from other houses by a wall all around it. It was further rumored that he was living like a miser that he had got an old man servant, named Shrowl, who was even a greater enemy to mankind than himself that he allowed no living sonl, not even an occasional char woman to enter the house that he was letting bis beard grow, and that he had ordered his »ei vant Shrowl to follow his example. In the year eighteen hundred and forty-four the fact of a man's not shaving was regarded by the enlightened majority of the Euglish nation as a proof of unsoundness of intellect. At the present tlmo Mr. Treverton's beard would only have Interfered with his reputation for respectability. Thirteen years ago it was aocepted as so much additional evidence in support of the old theory that his intellects were deranged. Me was at that very tiiye, as his stock broker could have testified, one of the sharpest men ot business in London he could argue on the wrong side of any question with an aeutenessof sophistry and sarca.-m that Doctor Johnson himaolf might have envied he kept bis household accounts right to a farthing his manner was never disturbed In the slightest degree front morning to night his eve*' were all quleknets and intelligence but what did these advantages avail him, in the estimation of ni.n nelghbois, wnen he presumed to live on another plan than theirs, and when he wor» a hairy certificate of lunacy on the lower pait of his face? Wo have advanced a little In the matter of partial toleration of beards since that time, but we have still a great deal of ground to get over, In the present year of progre«« eighteen hundred and fifty seven,woi 1! the immt triiNtworthy banker's clerk

the who'e metropolis have the slightest chance of keeping bis situation if he loft off shaving his chlu

Common report, which calumlnatod Mr. Treveitm as mad, had another error to answer for In describing him as« miser. Me saved more than two thirds of the income derived from his comfortable fortune, not beeauso he liked hoarding up mon«*v, but because he had no enjoyment or the comforts and luxuries which money is spent in procuring. To do him justice, nis contempt for his own wealth Was quite as hearty as his contempt for the wealth of his neighbors. Thus characteristically wrong on both points, in endeavoring to delineate his character, report was uevortheh**, for once in a way, lnconalsteutly right in describing his manner of llfo. It was true that he h«d bought the find cottage he could find that was secluded wlthm its own walls truo that nobody was allowed, on any prepense whatever, to enter his doors and true that he had met with a servaut, who was even bitterer against all mankind than himself, In the person of Mr. Shrowl.

The life these two led approached as nearly to the existence of the primitive man (or savage) as the surrounding conditions of civilization would allow. Admitting tho necessity of eating and •m drinking, tbe first object of Mr. Troverton's ambition lyus to sustain life with the least possible dependence on tbe race of men who professed to supply their neighbors' bodily wants, and who, as he conceived, cheated them infamously cn the strength of their profession. Having garden at the back of the house,

Titnon of London dispensed with the jV green urooer altogether by cultivating his own vegetables. There was no room tor growing wheat, or be would have

turned former also on his own account but he could outwit tho miller and the baker, at any rate, by buyiug a sack of coru, grinding it in his own hand will,' and giving tbe flour to Shrowl to make into nread. On tbe same principle, the meat for the boose was bought wbolesale of tbe City laleeman—the master and servant eating as much of it in tbe firesb state as they .could, salting tbe rest, and setting out*, hers at defiance.

As fbr drink, neither brewer nor puhlloan ever had the chance of extorting a forth! ng from Mr. Treverton's pocket. He and Shrowl were satisfied wiu» beer, and they brewed fbr thetnselvea. With bread, vegetables, meat, and malt liquor these two hermits of modern days achieved the great double purpose of keeping 11% In, and keeping the tradesmen out. voting like primitive men, they lived In alletber respects like primitive men also. They had pota, pans and pipkin* two deal tables, two chain, two old softs, two short pipes, and two long cloaks. They bad no stated meal Umw, no oarpeta and bedsteads, no cabin eta, bookcases, or ornamental nick knack* of any kind, no laundress, and no char iwoman. When either of the two want to eat and drink, he cut off his cru*t of bread, cooked hiablte of mcat, drew bis drop of beer, wltbont U»«lightest reference to the other. When either of the two thought he wanted a clean shirt, which was very seldom, he wwt and washed one fbr himself. When either of the two discovered that any ^P*J[t of the house was getting very ditty Indeed, he took a bucket of water khneh broom, and washed tbe place out 11 ke a dog kennel. And lastly, wbeneUhorof

the two wanted to go to staffs ."'•P tied himself up in his cloak, and laid down on one of the sufss and took www repose he wanted, early in the evening or late In the morning, just he h10W(HJ«

When there was no baking, WtwttfJr, gardcblntr. or cleaning to be done. tbe two sat urn opposite each her and!

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for hours, generally without word. Whenever they did

smoked uttering a word. speak they qnarreled. Their ordinary dialogue was a species of conversational prize fight, beginning with a sarcastic affectation of good will on either side, and ending In hearty exchanges of violent abuse—just as tbe boxers go through tbe feeble formality of shaking bands before they enter on tbe serious practical business of beating each other's faces out of all likeness to the imsge of man. Not having so many disadvantages of earlv refinement ami education to contend against as his master Shrowl generally won the victory in these en gagements of tbe tongue. Indeed, though nominally the servant, be was really the ruling spirit in the house— acquiting unbounded influence over bis matter by diut of outmarching Mr. Treverton In every direction on his own ground. Sbrowl's was the harshest voice Shrowl'a were tho bitterest say ings, and Shrowl'a was the longest beard. If any one had accused Mr. Trevt-rton of secretly deferring to his servant's opinions, and secretly fear in his servant's displeasure, he woul. have repudiated their imputation with the utmost bitterness and wrath. But it was not the less true that Sbrowl's was the upper hand in the bouse, and that his decision on any important mattepwas, sooner or later, certain to be tbe decision at which his master arrived. The surest of all retributions la tbe retribution that lies in wait for a man who boasts. Mr. Treverton was rashly given to boasting of his independence, and when retribution overtook bitn it assumed a personal form, and bore tho name of Shrowl.

On a certain morning, about three weeks after Mrs. Frankland had written to the housekeeper at Porthgenna Tower to mention the period at which her husband and herself might be expected there, Mr. Treverton descended, witb his sourest face and bis surliest manner from the upper regions of the cottage to one of the rooms on tho ground floor, which civilized tenants would probablj* have called the parlor. Like his elder brother, be was a tall, well built man but his bony, haggard, sallow face bore not the slightest resemblance to the handsome, open, sun -bnrned face of the Captain. No one seeing them together could possibly have guessed that they were brothers, so completely did they differ in expression as well as in feature. Tho heartaches that be had suffered in youth the reckless, wandering, dissipated life that he led in manhood the petulance, tbe disappointment, and the physical exbaustiou of bis later da nad so wasted and worn him away that he looked his brother's elder by almost twenty ye^rs. With unbrusbed hair and unwashed face, with a tangled gray beard, and an old patched, dirty flannel dressing gown that hung about him like a sack, this descendant bf a wealthy and ancient family looked as if hitbirthplace had been tbe workhouse, aud his vocation in life tbe selling of cast ofl clothes.

It was breakfast time with Mr. Trev erton—that is to say, it was the time at which ho felt hungrv enough to think about eating something. In the same position over the mantle piece in which a looking glass vould have been placed in a household of ordinary refinement, there hung in the cottage of Union oi London a side of bacon. Ou tho dea! table by the firo stood half a loafot heavy looklug brown bread in a corner of the room was a barrwi of beer with two battered pewter pots hitched on to nails in tho wall above it and under th grate lay a smoky old gridiron, left just as it ad been thrown down when last used and done with. Mr. Treverton took a greasy clasp knife out of the pocket of his'dressing gown, cut off a rasher of bacon, jerked the gridiron on to the fire, and began to cook bis breakfast. llo had just turned the rasher, when the door opened and Shrowl entered the rooiu, with his pipe In his mouth, bent on the same eating errand as bis master.

In personal appeurance Shrowl was short, fat, flabby, and perfectly bald, except at the back of bis bead, where a ring of bristly, iron gray hair projected like a collar that had got hitched out of its place. To make amends for tbe scantiness of his hair, the beard which do had cultivated by his master's desire grew far over his cheeks and dropped down on his chest in two thick, jagged peaks. He wore a very old long tailed dress coat, which he had picked up at a bargain in Petticoat Lane, a faded yellow sbirt, with a large torn frill, velveteen trowsers, turned up at the ankles and Blutcher boots that had never been blacked since tbe day when they last left the cobbler's stall. His color was unhealthily florid, bis thick lips curled upward with a malicious grin, and his eyes wero the nearest approach, in form and expression, to tbe eyes of a bull terrier which those features are capable of achieving when they are placed in the countenance of a man. Any painter wanting to express strength, insolence, ugliness, coarseness, and cunning in the face and figure of one and the same individual could have discovered no better model for the purpose, all tbe world over, tbsn he might have found in the person of Mr. Shrowl.

Neither master nor servant exchanged word or took the smallest notice of each other on the first meeting. Shrowl stood stolidly contemplative, witb hihands in bis pockets, walling fbr bis tira at tbe gridiron. Mr. Treverton finished bis cooking, took his bacon to the table, and cutting himself a crust of bread, began to eat his breakfast. When be had disponed of the first mouthful he condescended to look up at Shrowl, who was at that moment opening bis clasp knife and approaching the side of baoon with slouching steps snd sleepily greedy eyes.

What do you mean by that asked Mr. Treverton, pointing with Indignant surprise at Sbrowl's breast. "Yon ugly brute, you've got a clean shirt on 1"

Thankee, Sir, fur noticing it," said Shrowl, with a sarcastic affectation of extreme humility. 'This Is a joyful occasion, this is. *1 couldnt do less than put a clean shirt on when it's my master's birthday. Many happy returns, Sir. Perhaps you thought I should not remember that to-day was your birthday? Lord btaM your sweet foce, I wouldn't have forgot it on any account. How old are you to-day, Sir? Long time ago. Sir, since you was a plutnp. smiling lUtle hoy, with a frill round your neck, ard marbles in your pocket, and trowsers and waistcoat all in one, and kisses and prwents from Fa and Ma and uncle ana aunt, on your birthday. Don*t you be afraid of me wearing out this shirt by too much washing. I mean to pat it away in lavender agains* your next birtbdav or against your funeral, which is just likely at your tlms oriife-fcnt It, Sir?"

Don't waste a clean shirt on my finneral," retorted Mr- Treverton., ha vent teft yon any money in my will, Shrowl. You'll be o« your way to the Worlt hooeo, when I'm ©n my way to the grave."

Have yon really made your will, at test. Sir?" inquired Shrowl, pausing, with an appearance of the frr«t««t interest, in tow act of catting of bis slice ot teoon. huatbiy beg pardon, bat I a] ways thought you was afraid to do it."

The servant had evidently touobed intentionally on one of the maater's sore points. Mr. Treverton thumped bis crust of bread on the table, and looked op angrily at Shrowl of naking 'I don't ma make it, on principle.

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"Afraid of nalclng my will,you fool," said he. "I don't make it, and I won't

Shrowl slowly sawed off his slice of baoon, and began to whistle a tune. On principle," repeated Mr. Treverton. "Rich men who leave money behind them are the farmers who raise the crop of human wickedness. When a man baa any apark of generosity in bis uature, if you want to put it out, leave him a legacy. When a man is bad, if you waut to make him worse, leave him a legacy. If you want collect a number of men together for the purpose of perpetuating corruption a id oppression on a large scale, leave them a legacy under the form of endowing a public charity. If you want to give a woman the best chance in the world of getting a bad husband, leave her a legacy. If you want to send yonng men to perdition if you want to make old men loadstones fOr attracting all tho basest qualities of mankind If yqu want to set parents and children, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, all together by the ears, leave them money. Make my will! I hnve a pretty strong dislike of'my species, Shrowl but I don't quite hate mankind enough yet to do such mischief among them as that!" Ending hisdiatribe in these words, Mr. Trevorton took down one of the battered pewter pots, and refreshed himself with a pint of beer.

Shrowl shifted tho gridiron to a clear place in the fire, ana chuckled sarcas ticall}.

Who the devil would you have me leave my money to?" cried Mr. Trevt-r-ton, overhearing him. ''To my brother, who thinks me a brute now who would think me a fool then and who would encourage swindling, anyhow, by spending all mv money among doxies and strolling players To the child' of that player woman, whom I have never set eyes on, who lias been brought up to bate me, and who would turn hypocrite directly by pretendiug, for decency's sake, to i»e worry for iny death 1* To you, you human baboon you who would set up an usury office directly, and prey upon the widow, the fatherle.is, and tne unfortunate, generally, all over the world? Your good health, Mr. Shrowl! I can l.\ughas well asyou—especially when know I'm not going to leave you sixpence."

Shrowl, in his turn, began to get a little irritated now. The jeering civility which ho had chosen to assume on first entering the room, gave place to his habitual surliness of manner and his natural growlii intonation of voicv. "You just let me alone—will yon?" said, sitting down sulkily io his breakfost. "I've done joking for to-day, suppose you fiuish too. What's the use of talking nousense about your money? You must leave it to somebody."

Yes, I will," said Mr. Treverton. "I will leave it. as I have told you over and over again, to the first Somebociy I can tind who honestly despises money, and who can't be made the worse, therefore, oy haviug it." "That means nobody," grunted Shrowl.

I know it does!" retorted his master. But you can't leave it to nobody," persisted Shrowl. "You must leave it to somebody. You can't help yourself." "Can't 1?" said Mr. Treverton. "I rather think I ?an do what I please with it. *t can turn it all into bank notes, if like, and make a bonfire with them in the brow house before I die. I should go out of the world then, knowing that I hadn't left materials behind me for making it worse than it is—and that would be a precious comfort to m9 I can tell you!"

Before Shrowl could utter a word of rejoinder, there was a ring at the gate bell of the cottage.

Go out," said Mr. Treverton, "and see what that is. "If it's a woman visitor show her what a scarecrow you are, and frighten her away. If it's a man visitor—" "If it's a man vistor," interposed Shrowl, "I'll punch his head £r interrupting me at my breakfast."

Mr. Treverton filled and lit his pipe during his servant's absence. Before tbe tobacco was well a light, Shrowl returned, and reported a man visitor.

Did you punch his head asked Mr. Treverton. No," said Shrowl, "I picked up his letter. He poked it under the gate, and went away. Here it is."

The letter was written on foolscap paper, superscribed in a round legal hand. As Mr. Treverton opened it, two slips cut from newspapers dropped out. One fell on the table before which he was sitting the other fluttered to the floor. This last slip Shrowl pioked up, and lookedcover its contents, without troubling himself to go through the retnony ot first asking leave.

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uffing out again one mouthful of tosmoke, Mr. Treverton began to read the letter. As hi* eye fell on the linos bis Hps began to work round the mouth piece of the pipe in a manner that was very unusual with him. Th* letter was not long enough to require him to turn over the first leaf of it—it ended at tbe bottom of the opening •beet. He read it down to the signature —then looked up to the address, and went through it again from the beginning. His Tips still continued to work round the mouthpiece of the pipe, but he smoked no more. When be had finished tbe second reading, be set the letter down very gently on tbe fable, looked at bis servant with an unaccustomed vacancy In tbe expression of his eyes, and took tbe pipe out of his mouth with a hand that trembled a little.

Shrowl." he said, very quietly, "my brother is drowned." I know be is," answered Shrowl, without looking np from tbe newspaper slip. "I'm. reaalngabout it here." "The last words he said to me when we quarreled about tbe player woman," continued Mr. Treverton, speaking aa much to himself aa to his servant, "were, that I should die without one kind feeling In my heart toward any Itvlng sonl."

So you will," muttered Shrowl, turning the slip over to see if there was any thing worth readingat the back of it. wonder what he thought about me when he was dying?" said Mr. Treverton, abstractedly taking np tbe Ictte* again from tbe table.

He didn't waste a thought on yon or any body else," remarked Shrowl. "If be thought at all. he thought about bow he could save his life. When be had done thinking about that be had done

Damn thai player woman muttered Mr. Treverton. As be said these words his Cut darkened and his lips closed firmly. He smoothed the letter out on the table. There aeemed to be eome doubt In his mind whether be bad maatarsd all its content* yet—«omc idea that there was more in it—r ibat tbf»re ought to be more in it—tb4n hfe h*d ft* !!«wvered.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. a

third time, be read it to himaeJf aloud and very slowly, as If he wss determined to fix every separate word firmly in his memory. "SIR (he read)—Aa the old legal adviser and faithful Jiimid of rour family, I am desired by Mrs. Frank! ... Treverton, to as

and, formerly Mi-«

ualnt you with uie nod

newauf your brother's death. Thladeplor able event occurred on board the ship of which he was captain,durlngagdeof wind lu which the veaaei waa loat on a reef of rockti off the island of Antigna. I Inolom a detailed account of the Klilpwruck extracted from the Tlnus, by which you will sen that your brother died nobly in the performance of hia duly toward the officers and men whoin lie commanded. I aUo send a slip tmiii the local ornisb paper, oont4iini!ig a memoir of the deceased gentleman. lieforo cloning thl* communication I miiht add that no will has been found, alter the most rigorous search, among the papers of the late Captain Treverton. 11aving diaprmed,

you know,of Porthgenna, the ouly

property ot which he was possessed at I ho ilino of his death was personal property, derived from the Hale «f hia estate and tills, In consequence of his dying Intestate, will go in due course of law to his daughter as hu neareatof klu.

I am. Sir, Your tied lent servant. Nix "ALKXAXOEH NIXON.

The newspaper-blip, which bad fallen on tho table, contained a paragraph from tho Times. Tho slip from the Coinish pa-

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per, which had dropped to the floor, Shrowl poked undec his master's eyes In a fit of temporary civility, as soon as he Imd done reading it. Mr. Troveton took not tho slightest notlcc either of the one paragraph or the other. He still sat looking at the letter, even after ne had read it for tho third time.

Why don't you give tho strip of print a turn, as well as tho sheet of writing?''asked Shrowl. "Why done you read about what a gr^at man your brother was, and what a good life led, and what a wonderful handsome daughter he's lcfibeliiud him, and what a cap ital uiarriuge she's matte along with the man thats owner of your old family es tate, i*hc don't want your money now, at any rato! Tho ill wind that blowed her father's ship on the rocks has blowed forty ihousand-s pounds of gold into hor lap. Why don't you read about it? She and hor husband'have got abetter house in Cornwall than you «ve got here. Ain't you glad of that? They were going to have repaired the place from top to bottom for your brother to go ana live along with 'em in clover when he cauie back from sea. Who will ever repair a place for you I wonder whether your nieco would knock tho old house about for 3'our sake, now, if you was to clean yourself up and go and ask her?"

At that last question, Shrowl paused In the work of aggravation—not for want of more words, but for want of encouragement to uttor them. For the first time since they had kept house together, he had tried to provoke his master and had failed. Mr. Treverton listened, or appeared to list9n, without moving a muscle—without tho faintest change to anger in his face. The only words ho said when Shrowl had done, were these two— "Go out!"

Snrowl was not an easy man to move, but he absolutely changed color when he heard that unprecedented and uncompromising command. Alter leading his master, from the first days of thejr sojourn together in the house, just as ho pleased, could he believe his ears when ho beard himself suddenly ordeiel to leave tho room "Go out!" reiterated Mr. Treverton. "And bold your tonuue henceforth and forever about my brother and Miy brother's daughter. I never have sot eyes upon thd player-woman's child, and I never will. Hold your tongue—leave me alono—go out!"

I'll be even with him for this," thougiit Shrowl, as he slowly withdrew from the room. When he had closed the door, ho listen-kl outside it, and heard Mr. Treverton push aside bis chair, and walk up and down, talking to himself. Judging by the confused words that escaped bitn, Shrowl concluded that his thoughts were still running on the "player-woman"' who had fret his brother and himself at variance. He seemed to leel a barbarous sense of relief in venting bis dissatisfaction with himself, after the news of Captain Treverton's death, on the memory of the woman whom he hated so bitterly, and on the child whom she had left behind her. After a while, the low rumbling tones of his voice ceased altogether. Shrowl peeped through the keyhole, and saw that he was reading the newspaper slips which contained the account of the shipwreck and the Memoir of his brother. Tho latter adverted to some of those family particulars which the vicar of Long Beckley had mentioned to bis guest and tbe writer of the Memoir concluded by expressing a hope that the bereave ment which Mr. and Mrs. Frankland had suffered would not ultimately interfere with their project for repairing Portbgenua Tower, after they bad gone the length already of sending a builder to survey tbe place. Something in the wording of that paragraph seemed to take Mr. Treverton's memory back to his youth-time, when tbe old family house had been his homo. He whispered a few words to himself which gloomily referred to tbe days that were gone, rose from bis chair impatiently, threw both the newspaper slips into the fire, watched them while they were burning, and sighed when tbe black gossamer ashes floated upward on the draught, and were lost In the chimney.

The sound of that sign startled Shrowl as the sound of a pistol shot might

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MR. FRAZIKU: Dear sir. Kor several months I have been afflicted with fever and ague. Kor weeks at a time I was confined to the house, and my sufferings were Intense. I could find no cure until I heard oi your Root lutu-rs, which were recommended to me as having cured no many persous 1 have taken the Iioot Bitters about twr weeks, and they have restored mo to mj former health. With every feeling of gratitude for your ostimahle discovery. I am. our respectfully, JOHN ROLAND,

Price

IIB-S. MH8. M. MARTW^-i!!

r„7 jf, Cleveland, O.

Dearbir: "beelng a notice

of your wonderful medicine Hltt^rO in tho HV:HI«-*bloodMessenger,(Root UOJI1 I had our druggist at this place order a few hot? tli-s. Mysi-ifaii'l daugh'.er have used yonj Bitters with greatest satisfaction. I lutvbeen afflicted a long time with saltrheuw and erysipelas. I tried almost every medicine recommended without benefit, ontil 1 used your Root BitU-rs. I feel like a new man. Knclosd find 8. Hena sis many bottles as you can for tho money. A number of my neighbors want the Bitters. Write at once and let me know how many bottle* you can Sfcnd me for #25.00. yyi

JACOB LERCH, Belle Plain, Iowa.

Pimples oil the Face.

Cleveland, 0

How Kont Hitter* Nell at Home.

DR.KRAKIKK: Dear Sir: Please send mt another gross of Root Bitters. The demand for your bitters seems to bo Increasing. Thh will make the seventh gross (overone thousand bottles) I have ordered since May 2nd. 1874 Yours truly, H.P.CHURCHILL,

Hept.8,1875. Retail Druggist,Cleveland,O.

The above wonderful medicine is, as lttname indicates, a Bitters made from RoeU accidentally discovered while experimentlngor doctoring myself for Weakness of tht Lungs, Catarrh, and a Scrofulous Dlseas* which appeared on my face iu Pimples and Blotches, aud after trying Physicians, anC many advertised remedies, the Root Bitten effected a radical cure, and is now doing marvelous work for thousands of others Root Bitters are sold by Druggists and at Country Stores at $1.00 per bottle, or six bottles for f5 00. I intend to publish more certificates of wonderful cures in this paper.

DR.C1.W.F1AIIBR, Cleveland. Ohio.

CAbreath,

T1 A "D I 1 you would avoid be A 1 flitlin I ing unfitted to mlngU In refined society by a horridwickenln and nrom loathsome discharge from tlv* head and throat, of scabs aud pa rulent matter,

Use Dr. Detchon's Unfailing OtreJ and CONTROL for CATARRH In the hlad It will immediately arrest lh progress the hideous destroyer. It will do you mon thi dy will In one relieve the dull headache, neuralgia and de

good in one month than any remedy will In one year. It will soon re

billty of the brdln, heal ihe foul ulcers, pre vent deafoeee and gangrene in tbe bonet o' the ear and head, and will secure yot against the ravages of consumption and premature death. This great cure will aavi every life threatened by the monster malady. Oo to BUNTIN ARMHTRONUV drugstore, Tern Haute, Ind.,and getasam pie bottle.

SEWING

MACHINES

BErAIRED AlfD ADJITdTID in the very best ttfanner and warranted 1* work, by JOHEPII POLK, No. KB «afi street, north side, between Srd and 4ti streets up stairs. Don't condemn your tot

ehtnennt Mr. FOLK, baa bad a look at IUK ebea

for the real trouble may be very light ant toe C(si repairing a mere trtne. Th needles and

oil count

Ssrat's A CCE Scwt CRE.—For the cure qf Ague or Chills snd fever. As remedy fof ho medicine stand*» higher, ft t. prompt, certain cad sale, only 60 cent*

For Salcby

fn going oter it Kfrr UmJrseptlS-dwlin. J.J.

constantly on hand.

JaneHMJ

FOUNDRY,

ItS Tina Ktrrrt, Clmrinnmtl, Ohio, Milton, Sim J0HHS0N. fro,

WHOOPING 00UGH.

DOLMAN'S

AOUZ

IAND

LIVER

A Curious Good Thing

-4 A Tkatronrti InTettlcation *, a

That oppoiitlon Tb*t conquers prejudice. I'lTB 1M.

IT CURBS AU.

F«v*r tuitf Aaae. A ••ct Dx«P«|mIs.T*rpM Ura, Nmralfia, RhranaUiM, HpadaHw, M»«r Co«cbi Heart Dlaeaae, Patina In WI4, Bmi Ntvawfh. r«.

TkvwaMBMBjr more |iroeec4 tVeaa Tarpl Lhcraid IndtcMllon. MspSualaiasSb^MnvlSMd.

Thorn

I* m*d!cat*'t with effort I compound*. CvrM by absorption, acting«u ibo liver and atomach immediately, taking from tho »}«tem cY«rjr parttee of Malaria and Billon* poftoo 1 esushjr eircacioua sjid lure prnventlte in all di»oa»c« crow.ng otit of a dirordered Ihrar,

MARTIN HOLMNOER, Clerk.

T. E. KNOX, p. p. 2FT-dw8w f'£

T. E. KHOX, Attorney,

Ohio Street,

\vv. i.

mill

THESTATEOF

Sept. 33,1^«.

Vt. iMHebon

srchtW dt« at whooping eoosh «ba(ont qiMt|eof thiaMpeoifie wiilcureit. It rtiodemSPSalf tiif »»Vetwr «}'m»toras wf hin hf flM»twe»*j»cmr |Murs. For sale, ZIS-& .UiiWJliO^U, Tern BpnieTlttdt sMW&

who try thom ara wild witb de

light over their tpeody relene from *u0eria(. It afford* mo rreat t* add my testimony forthfb»n»(lt I have racelvtd from Holmaa'i A*u» and Liver Pad. for over t»»ntyy«ar« I bars endured tad dr»etc. tbeaelons endured Ilia left me and ArrrTirs srsroaKn. I feare

ana urarrat. lor ever ivdDijr rwri the horror* jrowine out of a torpid liver and popaia, accompanied with Tiolent beadaooe, VVithlo a few freeke aft'r living the Tad all tbeae mined twenty-ihree pound* In two month*, and feel fully rantored to ho^lth. for which I fcel iodtbMd to Holman'* invaluable Pad.

Of Thompson, Goodrich 4 Co HatBouM,01noiBnatl.

if,

'$4

C\i.vis Prm.*,

and t3. Will **nd by mail when draniit*

do not keep them. Bead for book rontaimax much valuable i&foraaation about thi* wondarfui curative.

Dr. D. T. FaircMM, Prop., Cincinnati, 0.

Y. E. KITOX, Attorney.

Onio Street, between Third and jfourth.

TCOUNTY

HE STATE OP INDIANA,

OF ViOO, In the Vino Circuit

t'wwrt. Elizabeth Oilman vs. Jonathan Oilman, iu divorce, No. 7.WI. Uo it known, that on the 27th day of September, itrtfjIt wits orders! b\' the Court lint fhe l*lerk notify by publication siid Jonathan (jilman HH

non-resident defendant of the pendency of this action a sains: him. Sold defeudanli* therefore hereby notified of the pendency of wild action against liim and that the .same will Ktaiul for trial Ht the November term of said Court in thq_ yea* 1870.

MARTIN IIOLLINGER Clerk.

T. E. KNOX, p. p. 29-dw8w R|^HESTATEOF

INDIANA. VI-

'i£0

ltiirt, Louis* W. lineman vs. 'Thorn:usE. Knox.et ul., to quiet title to real v*late. No. S-J88. Be It known that on tiie SSKli dayof s«»pt-mb»r, t«.t5,said i'lalntilT filed an Aflilavit In duo form, showing that said Henry

Hoaemxn, JlatJlda A. K»*lly, L.vdla A. -oiMers, Jacob Hinltli, Andrew J. Boineis, Kebecca A. Mason, Jennie Hays, Ida llays, K'izabefh A. Smith, Lyman Kelly, Su-mma Hays, and I'crry Mason are non-resident® of ihcKUMeof Indiana.

hold non-resident defendants are hereby notified of the pendency of said uetion igalnst them, and that the

satne

will

stand

trial "t ttv -veinbor Term ol' said

Court In the year 1876.

Aue*i: .ii.vuii .• itOI.iLINGF.fi, Clerk.

HKNMilieu fc WILLIAMS, 11AIKI & uuw,

for plaintiff. w*w

*J'. K. K.N'OX. Attorney.

Ohio Street, l"'t w." Third and frourtb.

T10

Itliemiiatism. *.j

HE STATE W INDIAN A, VI-

COUNTY. In the VIpep Circuit. Court.

Eiisa Edlngtun vs. L\indef Edintfton, in Divorce, No. 77111 lie it known, that on the J7th day of Sepeinber, 1870,it was ordered by ihe Court that the Clerk notify hy puhllcaion said l-ieander Edlnglon as non-resi-dent defni'^nt of the pendency of thlH action against him. rtai deieIHI.mi is therefore hereby netltled of the pendency of said action auain»t liim and that the same will stand for trial at the November term of said Court In tho year 1870.

OUrth.

I^IIE STATE OF INDIANA, VI-

JL GO COUNTY. In the Vigo Circuit Court, James P. Murray, Benjamin Murray vs James A. (Jibscn, *eo. (Jfbson, et ai, In partition. No.7917. Beit known, that on the ^7tli day of September, 1K70, it was ordered by the Court that the C'erk uotlfy by publication mid George Ulb&on as nonresident defendant of the pendency of this action against hi in.

Said defendant in therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action against him and that, the same will sUind for irlal at tho November Term of naid Court In the year 1876. MAUTIN HOLLINOEH Clerk.

T. E. KNOX', pp. St»-w8w /,.•

W. K. llESTDRICH, Attorney, Oflice—Over Prairie City Bank, Hlx^ str«et.

INDIANA, VI-

GO COUNTY. In tho Vigo Circuit uurt- Terte Haute Building, l^oan Fund and Savings Association, No. 1, v*. Ferdinand Plgail, etal.ln foreclosure. No. 8192. Be it known that on the 30th day of September, 187(1. said I'lalntilf filed an Affidavit In due form, showing that Rale Elua Patterson and William D. Patterson arenon residents of the Htateof Indiana.

Kald non-resldeut defendants are hereby notified of the pendency of «ald sction against them, and that the name will stand for trial at the November Term of said Court in the year 1*711.

MARTIN HOLLINOEH, Clerk.

W. E. HitsnRirir, pp. JW-wSw

JftOTIi'E.

VfOTICli is HEBEBY OIVEN THAT j| the underslgmvl has been apiolnted mlmInintrator of the estate of John E. Kelley, late of Vigo county, Indiana, deceased. The said estate is suppo*ed to »»ol vent.

JACKHON COX,

Administrator of John E. Keiley.

DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. —Notice is hereby given that I will at Public Auction, on Tuesday, the 2lth day of October, 1870, at the residence of Mary Kelty. late residence of John V. Kelly, late of Vigo county, deceased, all the personal property of the said John E. Kelly, oonKlstingot farm implements, cow, horse, hf gs, wheat, etc.

sell a

A credit of twelve months will be given on all rams of three dollars and over, the purchaser giving note wli approved aecn-

30-w8w Admioistratnr of John K, ic elly.

Notice of Appointment.

Notice la hereby given that the underiilgned ha*been appointed Executor orthe last will of Lissle Is. Hudson, late of Vigo co ml)*, deceased. Maid eatate is solvent.

J. O.CRAlN, Executor.

N. R-Thepersonal property wUl'lfr» «ioid at privatenale for a time. J. O. CRA IN. Hepiember X7tb. 26-3w

^«ln Bankruptcy.

TTIpS IS TOOIVE NOTICBT that On the *5ih day of Bepttmber, A. D. 1««, a warrant in bankrtiptoy fras Issued again»t the estate W John KUMnfen, of Terre HanU\ in tbe county of Vigo, and State of Indiana, who ha* b»*en adjudged a bankrupt on his own petition: iW the payment of any debts fpdddiVfnf of atnr rroperty belonging tq ttita bankivmt, «n[ him of his use, and the transfer of any properly by hftn is for* bidden by lav that a meeting of the Credl* tors of a^d BenkrufK, to prove their debtt and CIVOUM one or wire ASKlgnetx of his e*. iat» will be botden at a Court of Bankrupt* to be heklen atW East Market-afreet. beforo John W. Ray,

f».-1st

October, A. I).

r.^POONER, let of Iftdlsna, KTSSXSOCB. tr