Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 November 1876 — Page 4

ATTENTION!

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Is invited to oar Urge tod well (elected stock oi fashionable

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FALL

AND

WINTER

DRESS GOODs!!

Comprising assortments fully equal Jto anj found in the large stores of Cincinnati, Chicago or St. Louis, and at prices ... as low as any in the country. ».,,

CLOAKS, SHAWLS AND

MEW STYLES OPENING DAILY! Rlack Hearer Cloaks,

Far Beaver Cloaks, Cloth Hattelasse Cloaks, Satin Lined Silk Cloaks.

Far IJne«l Silk Cloaks* All very Elegant Goods and to be found, only at

H0BERG,R00T&C0., "OPERA HOUSE.

FINE PERFUMERY.

Labin'a BSmmeU's, Atkinson,Crown, Lundborg Potato's and Bazia's

Fine EilrRct* for flie llsndkerehief

Genuine Imported Farina and German Co Fine Toilet and Fancy Articles, Fine Moans, CoHnit'lics, Tooth, Hair, Cloth and Nail Brushes, Combs. Dressing Cases, Cologne Set*, Finest of Toilet Powders, Diamond, HUver and Uolden Powders for the Hair, and all articles wanted for the toilet.

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BUNTIN & ARMSTRONG, 1 DrnKiclHtx, Cor. etliaiid Main street*.

Lost.

TOSr-A GOLD PADLOCK WATCH I Charm, on Thursday evening, In the Tty or at the Opera House. The finder will be .-warded by leaving It at 8. Swopo'sJewelry Ktorc. 't)

Wanted.

WANTED—AT.I,

KINDH OF SECOND

HANI* FUBNITUBE, Stoves and •Clothing, for which the highest cash prices will bo paid at

Fourth street, south of Ohio.

WANTED-MII/VEB

MOUNTED SHOW

Case, eight or nine feot long. Also, a •round imhi counter, suitable f»r clgxr ntand Enquire of CABB A WHITE, corner of Fourth ami Walnut streets, or address same, P. O. box 008, city. (18-lt)

WANTED—H0RSE8—A

FEW TO WIN-

TEB—can give ilu-in stabling and good care. Charges modfrnto. Refer by permission, Messrs. B«'aucbami, Miller and fed. Bryant. Enquire of or address J. V. PBK8TON. Postomce Box 587.

ANTED EVEBYBODY TO KNOWthat. the Swiss Ague Cure is a medleli.e that never fails. It gives the best satisfaction of any ever introduced in this land. Try it! It costs only 60 •entA iw bott!»». Manufactured only by JULEH HOUBIKT, Terre Haute, Ind., and entered according to act of Congress, March 7, 1876.

For Sale.

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,BHALE-FABM OF EIGHTY ACBE8 two miles northeast from Markle's Mill. acres clear, orchard, good fraims dwelling —all to be sold cheap on account of owners

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V. BlCliOWSKY,

death. street.

Enquire

No. 663 Swan (w-2t)

TOR SALE—BANGE—ONE OF ANN'S JT celebrated six griddle Ranges, with Broiler attachment, will be sold at a great bargain. W. 11. BCUDDEB. TJORHALK—A VEBY LABOR AND8Uperior FIRE PROOF SAFE with burglar box Inside—suitable for a bank, or county oflices Will be sold at a bargain. MrKREN A MINBHLALL. »-Wtf TORHALE-HORHE-A LABOR BLACK I? Horse—stout, healthy, and of good appearance—suitable tor carriage or draught bono. Enquire of P. S. WBSTFALL, at

Mall office dwtf

PORK HOUSE

FOR BALE OR FOR RENT. The com mod ins rOBK HOU8R of Wm. J. Hitman A Sons, is for sale, and if not sold, will be rented for the approaching «*won. Apply to T. C. BUNTIN.

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Walnut, West of «th Street,

TERRE HAUTE, IND

DOCK BOTTOM PRICES!

-AT THE

WESTERN BAZAAR,

White Flannel, 14c^ 18c. and

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14c.

Red Flannel, all wool, 18c., 22

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2oc. and 86c.

Opera Flannel*, all shades, 40c., 46c. and 50c. Shirting Flannel, all wool, 35f* 40c. and 60c. Dress Flannels, latest shades and patterns, 40c., 60., 60c. and 75c. ___

BUCK CASHMERE!

J, latest uu-ohtatio*. 88 laefc«w|d«, TOe. W.rtt 85e.

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BLACK ALAPACA!

25c. worth 85c40c. worth 45c.

Oar Ma. Alp*** eity. Its shade, iustts and durability «{QSI to Me. Alp®**-

WESTERN BAZAAR,

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRE HAUTE, NOV. 18,1876.

P.

s. WESTFALL

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIB8T EDITION, on Friday Evening has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city, and the farm en of this immediate vicinity.

Avery Week's Issue Is, in fact, TWO NEW8PAPEB8, In which all Advertisements appear for

OWE CHARGE.

SUITS.

IT is pretty generally conceded that the Republicans will continue to Hold the Fort.

THK situation in Europe is growing more complicated, and it now looks as if there would be war sure enough.

THB claims that Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina had gone for Tllden seems to have been only a game of Democratic bluff.

IN times of war prepare for peace. Things will settle down in this country before Spring. The Democrats are not half so mad as they let on.

THE Associated Press dispatches still oontain, occasionally, a short reference to the Moulton-Beecher trouble, but the great reading public has pretty nearly lost its Interest in the matter. The last is that Mr. Moulton has refused to submit to the removal of the trial of his case to Delaware county, and in pursuance of this determination the suit against Mr. Beecher has been dismissed at Mr. Moulton's cost. ,,

THE other day, a New York Herald correspondent interviewed President Qrant in regard to the situation in the South. Among other things he asked the President if he anticipated trouble in that section of the country. The reply was characteristic of the man, and contains much good sound philosophy which will apply to other things besides the political situation. It was: "Oh, no I have made it a rule through life never to anticipate trouble. I never look for it until is comes, but I believe in being prepared for it and having the means at command to check it." In that sentence lies the key to much of bis wonderiul success in overcoming obstacles which to many brilliant and able men would have been insurmountable.

IIA YES OR TILDEN.

The situation is not materially chang ed from what it was last week. Mr. Tilden, it appears, has 184 votes certain. If Mr. Hayes is elected it must be by carrying the three doubtful States, Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina. That be has carried the State last named there is scarcely any doubt. It may be weeks before the result in the others is positively known. The charges of in timidation will be investigated. All sorts of evidence will be taken, and much time consumed. Eminent. Republicans now in the South give it as their opinion that Hayes is firirly elected. It is still claimed, though not very oonfidently, by Democrats, that Tllden is the man, but that there is danger that he will be defrauded of the election. One thing is evident, the first dispatches received from the South were, based on mere guesswork, and much too highly colored by partisan feeling. The Democrats believed they had elected a Presi dent and went mad over it.

AS AN IN VESTMENT.

Some of the eastern papers have been giving their views as to the probable amount of money spent for political purposes daring the campaign Just ended. The New York Herald estimates that the two committees have spent not leas a million and a half dollars. Other papers claim that that sum does not represent anything like the amount spent by the two parties, some of them placing It as high as fifteen millions. And when one thinks of the thousand ways In which money has been spent, for club expenses, speakers, parades, music, meetings, advertising, printing, postage, traveling, etc., it does seem that the latter figure must be nearer the troth. But a million and a half dollars la a good deal of money more undoubtedly than many of us realise. It would be about three dollars per head for every voter in the United States. And when one gets down in this way to actual figarea, he is apt to conclude that fifteen millions Is mooh too large an estimate. Bat the most Interesting question connected with it is, whether this mofley has been thrown away whether the general effect of its disbursement has been bad or good, Meet of the papers Mom to tlnk it squandered to no good purpose that the effect produced has been bad and only bad. The Toledo Blade, however, takes a different view, and perhaps after all it lathe correct one. It says: "Its disbursement may not always have been wise, bat the general effect prodocM bin bMn worth all cwt It oan be properly oharged to the *dncation and Moral Impiovement Fund. The country gets all the money back attain, with Interest, in the awakening of the people, In having them study and »millnl» the operations of government, and In their instruction in tne principles and prscUoe of Slate craft. No matter bow the contest shal" finally result, the people at large are much better for Its navfng taken place they have got new Ideiw, and are the better dthens for it* These periodical awakenings are among

the best feature* of our form of govern-1

OUR SEW YORK LETTER.

Froiii The Mall's Own Correspondent.] NEW YORK, Nov. 16,1878.

We are still suffering from the Intermittent fever which attacked every one a week ago, So great has been the excitement of the past few months oulmin ating as it does now in what one may call the "political intermittent" that physicians are inclined to prophesy Berious illness for tho many and a rich harvest for themselves. In the first plaoe every one felt obliged to go to the Centennial, to be worried by tho crowd, fatigued with sight-seeing and get a touch of malarial fever there. Then came the political excitement, with the close contest and uncertain results. Add to this the prospective war in Europe, which while it will put money in the purse of the American, is not a sedative, and the fact of the threatened water famine which we have barely escaped, but the effects of which were positive, in the escape of the noxious gases from the sewers, and it will set that this prophesy may easily be fulfilled.

New York has never been io so feverish and unsettled astate as it has during the past week. The feeling has pervaded a 1 classes of society, and even the few social entertaiumonts that have been given, have partaken of the general heightened and nervous temperature.

The streets, especially in the vicinity of the bulletin boards, have been filled with a surging crowd, now jocular, anon lowering, as the returns pleased or annoyed them. Caricatures have been numerous and occasionally made the vehicle of advertising dodges. A saloon in Fu'ton street has a pen and ink sketch in a large poster, representing a steep hillside cevered with spiked points, up which the candidates for the White House are climbing, the longed for residence being visible in the distance, while the whole situation is described by the quotation, "ON THE RAGGED EDGE."

That reminds me of the fact that every one, who has expressed an opin ion upon the subject, is delighted at the change of venue in the Beecher and Moulton case. We do not know how much our friends in Delaware county can stand without being nauseated, but one thing is certain we have swallowed all we can in the matter, and are glad another dose is not to be forcod down our throats.

SPIRITUALISTS

here are extremely indignant over Slade'j imprisonment, and are raising funds for his benefit, all the exposures have nothing to do with the case, they argue. They are still right, and spirits do commune with the living by raps and when one is good enough, by act uaily appearing in a visible but etherial form but there are those dieadful Diakkas who are filled with mischievous propensities, and, being perfectly free agents, take possession of the mediums and occasionally confuse, bewilder or betray them. hope this settles the 'disputed matter and that every one will now be convinced that the one stick bracket under the centre of tho flap of tho "spirit table" made specially for Dr. Slade had nothing to do with it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes has taken up the subject and is investigating, so that when he publishes what he knows about spiritualism we may look for something decidedly readable. From the author of "Elsie Venner," and the man who believes in mental and physical inheritances we shall certainly get some new ideas upon the subject.

THERE ARE SEVEN STRINGS

(that is what they look like) stretched from tower to tower across the East river. Three of these are heavy cables and are a portion of the foot-bridge, which is soon to be completed. Whether it is te be fenoed in when finished "they" do not say, but it Is not to be opened to th( public. Happy public, fer at such an altitude it would probably be as provocative to suicide in humanity as it now is to the birds. Still after climbing to the top, prior to starting dther for the city of Churches, or the city of Congregations, I am not certain that any one would have any "breath" to be "weary of," and however "raahly unfortunate" they might have felt at the bottom of the seventeen flights of stairs, by the lime they bad reached the top they would be deeddedly sobered down,. ,f

I»ADIBB' DOGS.

The Spits dog which has been such a favorite la rapidly losing caste, and the man who vends them on the streets is decreasing the price. They are such pretty, silky looking, little creatures when young that they attract everyone, especially children, and one could hardly reaist buying the playiul, Innocent little creatures, especially when a child's petition was added to one's own inclination. But the fiat has gone forth against them, not so much because they seem to have proven dangeroas, but that frshion no longer sanations them. ,'J

THE BO PER THISO KOW

for a teshloaable belle Is to be accompanied by a pair of loves of Skye terriers. Tbeee mast be silver gray on the back with tawny sides and lege. A gold oolp lar in fhncy links, with a plate upon which the dog's name is engraved, encircles the neck. Pink or blue ribbons, whichever harmonise beet with the lady's toilette are in the ears and form the leMh with which she holds them. pair of these dogs, a feather muff, a cardinal red parasol, the last new novel, her dress tied back a la Orec, and tight boots with French heels Me about all* even aNew York girl can manage in a crowded etnwt,

THK rawtcH HSCI

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ment, and will tend as much a* anything appeaml and as ma»er or to preserve aud improve It." coarse the OndW bend and the decid­

TERRE "W A UTE SATURDAY EVENIIN'G' MAIL.

matter of

edly un-Grecian hobble will soon follow. Here, for the benefit of those who will wear French heels, let me indulge in a reminiscence. Twenty years ago a thick soled shoe was rarely seen on an American girl never unless she had been abroad. Winter and summer they sore the same light foot oovering, Sometimes it was supplemented by an overshoe, the lightest of which were cumbrous and made the gait more or less elephantine. A beautiful girl whom I knew, one of the traveled onee, had learned the comfort of thick soles while climbing tho S^lss mountains. She had great difficulty however in getting them made here after her return, but she persisted and I think was the first whoever wore them in New York, was with her late one afternoon and we were hurrying up South street ta catch a ferry boat, when we were stopped by a rough looking ^sailor who addressed my companion.

Taking off his bat he said in tho most respectful and admiring tone,—"I beg jour pardon, but yal're the finest stepping lady I've seen in America, and I couldn't help saying so," and he stood aside and let us pass. "So much for my thick boots," laughed my companion How many young ladies who limp in French heels will be apt to recoive such a spontaneous compliment?

THE WALK

between Miss Von Hillem and Miss Marshall has attracted considerable attention. It goes far to show what women can do if properly trained, and if it stimulates active exercise among our fashionable belles, even if they confine their promenades to the avenue, it will not have been without its uses. "It's vulgar to be seen walking," was a re mark I heard the other day from a very much over-Iresded young woman whose mother prior to the war was better aoquainted with the aeatlid qualities of soap and water used as a detergent for soiled linen, than with the beauties of a Cabanel, a Gerome or a Meissonier. When photographers first introduced vignettes, she informed her friends she was having some "mignonettes" taken and she also attended a party of "extinguished" individuals. Her husbands name was Pat Dillon, and if he once belonged to that class of gentlemen who carry the little box up to the man who does all the work, knew tho value of a contract and how to make it pay. Mrs Pat, according to her own words afterwards, had her name "corroborated into Mrs. Patrice Deelyon,"—and of such is a portion of New York.

PERSONAL.

Miss May Alcott will go to London this winter to pursue her art studies. According to her father, she is his harmonious daughter, having fair hair and blue eyes. The authoress he says, is less so, not having the proper complex ion.

Miss Duncan's marriage at Grace Church has been the society event. The happy man was Mr. William Wilton Phipps, of Dilton Court, Chalcot, Wiltshire, England. Mrs. Raymond, daughter of Dr. Marcy, is soon to marry Sir Rose Price, and Miss Rose Sartoris is to become Lady Cardross. "At this rate," said a lively New York belle "we shall all soon be peers of the realm."

City and Vicinity.

THE hog cholera is prevailing in the southern and southeastern part of the °°nnly

THE hat men are rubbing their hands impatiently. It makes little difference to them which wins but they would like to have the business settled and |he paying up of bets begin.

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INDIANPOLJS News: Joshua M. Hull, of Yigo county baa filed his voluntary petlton to be adjudged bankrupt, which was referred to Register Ray, and by him so adjudged. ,^ j'

THE Sullivan county counterfeiters, Dr. Saunders et al, were sentenced last week, in the United States Court at Indianapolis, the former to four years in the penitentiary and the two others to one year eaoh. s'wa

A BARN in the rear of Mrs. Wm. M. Rarr's reeidenoe, ooraer of Fourth and Crawford streets, was burned Sunday morning last. A small stable on the oppositeside of the alley was also burn ed. Total loss not more than two bun re do a

THE three men, Gregg, Bolan and French, held for the murder of Botta Rudenberg, on the night of October 7th, were released from custody Saturday, the grand jury failing to find an indictment against them. Gregg baa been in all ever sinoe the oocurrenoe, Hie others were out on |S,000 bail.

LADIES AID SOCIETY. The annual entertainment of this noble society will take plaoe at Dowling Hall next week, commencing Thursday evening and dosing with lunch si noon the following day. The entertainment will consist of maato, tableaux, etc., in which all the best musical and dramatic talent in the city will assist. Several new features have been decided upon which will render the festival one of unusual intents*. It is to be hoped that it will be largely attended. Everybody in the city who oan abomld make it a point to be present. Nothing will encourage the ladies in their good work more than this mark of popular approval. Every dtlaen should regard the matter of going aa a oonoeientioaa doty not to be neglected. And no one should overlook the lunch, on Friday. Let every merchant, business man, mechanic and laborer who can raise fifty cent*, go there to dinner.

THE tin CEIEM

Where Heaves the Turf Many a Mouldering ,, Heap.

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A NOVEMBER FORENOON IN OUR CITY OF THE DEAD.

HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE CITY CEMETERY.

QUITE A QUANTITY OF THE QUEER, QUAINT AND CUBI0U8. fj

NO NAME.

The spot of ground in which sleep the dead of this community, has no name. Among the people, when reference is made to it, it is usually mentioned as "the city cemetery." That part of it which, by Catholics, is alone considered "consecrated ground," and in which are buried those who die }n thefait^i of that church, is distinguished by the supplemental though unauthorized title of "the Catholic graije yard." As a burying ground it is apparently considered public property pn which no individual can have furtlier interest than in the improvement ahd preservation of his own small "lot" Its adornment or improvement as a whole is a matter about which he does ijot concern himself in the least. He seemingly, content that all such matters should be le/t entirely with the c|ty council, or anybody else who will can sent to attend to them or pretend to ao so. Privately he may deplore its lack of a name, its beggarly extent and general sbabbiness, but publicly he makes ho sign and suffers the years, one after another, to slip by, still leaving Tefre Haute with the most disgraceful locking old cemetery of its size in the w4»t. 2 HISTORICAL. I

Sixteen acres of the present cemetery, the "south half," was purchased in 18B9. The four acres in the southeast corner was subdivided into "lots" and first used as a buryin^-ground in 1840. Pre vious to this two burying grounds had been used by the citizens of Terre Haute one of them on the river bank, jast south of the Vandalia railroad bridge, and the other on the Lockport road near where it crosses tho Wabash and Erie canal. The latter was known as the "lone tree" grave-yard. After the new cemetery was established many of $e bodies were taken up from the old plaoes and removed to the new. This will account for the frequency with which one comes across old tomb stones dating back ahalf a century or more— some of them, we remember, as far back as 1819. When the sixteen acres of ground was first purchased it was covered by a dense growth of forest trees and hazel-brush. The four acres was cleared up of the under-growth and the remainder of the tract left in its natural state for several years, until an extremely smart town oouncil signalized its administration by ordering the ground cleared "smack smooth" of everything. The order was obeyed literally and a growth of trees sacrificed of which the value cannot now be computed. The forest trees now standing have all come up since from sprouts, left in after years when mowing, and carefully gaarded, by the Superintendent, Mr. H. D. Milns.

MR. MILNS ».'•**»

became Superintendent of the cemetery in March, 1845, and served as such till December 1862, a period of almost eighteen years. He has very kindly furnished us some figures showing the number of dead people be buried during that time, and he assures us that with the possible exception of as many as three, he dug every grave himself. For this service he was allowed from one dollar to one dollar and a quarter In eftph case, the price being regulated by the size of the grave. These are the figures: Year ending March, 1 (M8 8# 1847 W 1848 126 1849 87 1M0 109

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Total— 2,778. It will be observed," says Mr. Milns, Mthat the deaths during my term of servioe, did not increase with the population. This point may interest the paollc in deciding upon tho health of this locality, and kindred questions."

THE riBST HEARSE.

We are indebted to Mr. Kilns for a number of Interesting foots regarding toe management of the cemetery in those early days. Among other things he telle ns that the city, or town as It then, owned the first hearse that was seen in these parts. It was made by Tbos. C. Clayton, and is described as a wonderful piece of architecture. It was under the Superintendent's care and waa rented to individuals at one dollar for each time used. The money received was paid into the city treasury. If horse was tarnished with the hearse fifty centa extra waa charged. Tbess prices look at this day

very

reasonable, yet he sssurss us thst very few persons were able to pay them and that consequently the hearse was very seldom need. In the course of time Messrs. Hook & Ganier, cabinetmakers, bought or built tbemselvee a hearse and went regularly into the un­

dertaking trade. But the city did not fiud business improve even with competition. The following copy jot air official document will show the disposition made of the old hearse: .. TO n. DAM MILKS, ISO.

SIR: At a meeting of the Common Council of the City of Terre Haute, held this evening, April 16, 1855 on mot Jon at Mr, Fairbanks, said Council, by an unanimous, vote, donated to you »he

OLD HKABSX,

Asa token of appreciation of your long and faithful services as 8ext on of the City Cemetery, and directed the City Clerk to transmit to you through their Committee, a oopy of this proceeding, under seal.

A true copy from tho record. Witness my hand and the corporate seal of the elty of Terre Un ute. I.N. OOLTBIN. Clerk.

ENLARGING.

In 1852, the northeast quarter of the original sixteen acres was subdivided and began to be used, and in 1882 the subdivision of the rejoaining west half took place. Mr. C. N. Demenwt did the engineering on both occasion?. Some years after that, probably about 1870— we have not the exact date of the purchase—fourteen acres was added to the ceme.ery grounds, making in all thirty acres, its present size. .,

REPORTS.

Terre Haute was incorporated*as a city in May 1853. Previous to that time there was no system of making reports of interments. Except by application to those who owned lots aud kept their deeds, it could net be ascertained where any one ^as buried. Mr. Milns says that upon tbo occasion of his making his first report to the council after the town had beoome a city, Col, W. K. Edwards, then Mayor, suggested to the council the necessity of some better system of keeping the cemetery records and the propriety of mora specific reports from the Superintendent as to the buria'.s. This resulted in the preparation of an accurate map of the cemetery grounds, and a form for reports which would show in detail all the interments, causes of death, location of graves and such other particulars as were thought necessary. These reports were to bo made monthly and filed in the offlco of the city treasurer. They aro kept up to this dale.

THE APFROACHK8. #»-.*

The casual visitor will not, we fancy, be remarkably prepossessed l»y his first visit to the "City" Cemetery. As ho walks up Third street be will seo beyond him, on the left, a small grove of leafless and untrlmmed trees, chiefly jack oaks, hut with a sprinkling ef evergreens and willows and through these, here and there, will distinguish tho usual array of unpretending "headstones" which in all this land marks tho country grave-yard. A high picket fence, frail looking but substantial enough of the kind, we presume, and dazzlingly white, bounds tho two sides of the enclosure which the visitor is able to see. The sidewalk leading to tho gate is neatly curbed and graveled. The gate itself is in keeping with the fence, very plain and cheap. Over it, on a circular board, appears in largo letters— not the name of the Cemetery—but the warning: "Ten dollars fine for riding or driving faster than a walk." This is the only entrance. On tho left is the old part of the oeraetery—the original sixteen acres—on the right the new, including the Cat hollo burying ground, which was a part of the original purchase.

SEEING rr.

Wishing to see the whole place ind to do it with some kind of system we began our explorations in the southeast corner, among the oldest graves. The sculpture here is of the most primitive order, many of the stones being plain slabs of oommon sandstone. The favorite design seems to be the conventional "weeping willow," the semblanoe of which no man in the world ever saw except on a tombstone. In these willows all the branches are precisely the same length, grow up to precisely the same bight, curve over in precisely the same way— precisely half of them on eaoh side—descend to precisely the same point, and altogether, look more prim and precise than it is possible anything in this world can look except a tombstone willow. As we examine the workmanahip and spelling on many of these curiously wrought and wonderfully designed monuments, we are forcibly reminded of the lines in "Gray's Elegy

Yet e'en these benes from insult to protect, Home frail memorial atlll, erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapoluufi eeulptars deck'd,

Implore the pasting tribute of a sigh Their name, their yearn, spelt by the unletter'4 inner.

The plaee of fame and elegy supply And many a ho'y text around she atrewa, Toteaoh the rustic moralist to die."

And if, In the oourae of this article we shall call attention to some

of

the amus­

ing peculiarities to be seen in our bury-ing-ground, we expressly desire it understood that we do not do so through lireveranoe for the memory of tbo dead or the feelings of the living. We would not knowingly In this respect wound anyone not even tho ambitious sod egotistical

TOMB STONE BUTCH EM

who In ao many cases have chiseled their own names upon tho stones their lgnoranoe and lack of taste bad made ridiculous, to show the world who did it. But the wretched bad taste of some of these raaoals is more than matched by their wretched bad spelling and diagraorful grammer. The "weeping willow" as a prominent feature of tombstone decoration, seems to have passed out of feshion about twelve years ago. The latest specimen we could find was dated 1964, but It was much less luxuriant than those of earlier date—in fact bore aome resemblance to a real tree. Tbe "weeping willow" flourished best, perbapa, about 1840. Soon after that tbe •beep began to play a prominent part and we find him in all sorts of impossible plaoes and under all sorts of circumstances. Open books, clssped bands,