Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 August 1877 — Page 5

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE

City and Vicinity.

CHURCH attendance is failing off.

Doo days—Now every dog ba3 forty '.days. NKVV roofe are spreading out in tbe distillery stock yards..

NEXT Wednesday is the last day of grace for the prairie chicken.

THOSE who are wise will deal gently with the ice pitcher these days.

A FLYIJJO trip—rushing back from a visit through fear of another strike.

THE right time to take the census would have been while Barnum's show was in town.

THERE isn't any such thing any more as aside show. Since tbe Centennial it is an "annex."

TOTAL eclipse of the moon the 23rd inst. Secure your seats for this great moral exhibition.

IT is natural for any lady to "strike" with her parasol when joorboot heel stops her "train."

FOB Tennant & Royse's excursion 220 tickets were sold instead o/130, as incorrectly stated last week.

THE name of Smith occurs eighty* seven times on tbe Inst county tax duplicate for the city alone.

THE mill of R. L. Thompson has resumed, and now all tbe grain mills are at work on the new crop.

THE cigar store on the corne# 6t Ohio and Fourth streets has been sold by Mr.

Dueaweg to H. L. Breinig.

ONE purchase recently by Halman & Cox was that of one thousand kegs of soda from an eastern manufacturer.

TOTY. M. C. A. will hold their regular meetings to-morrow at the nail works and at Association Rooms at 4:15 p. m.

AN angry canine quadruped (pigeon English for mad dog) excited the West Side this week. Officer Pat Joyce gave tbe beast a dose of cold lead.

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THE volubility of that lecturing chiropodist would Indicate that a corns-talk would be a more appropriate emblem than an alligator.

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THE schools of Hairison and Honey Creek townships will begin the first week in September, at the same time as the city schools.

A MAN named Perkins wasarrested by the officers oarly this week on suspicion of being tbe one who murdered A. C. Mattox. After full examination be was released. ii

THE room recently vacated by H. Richardson on the north side of Wabash street is beitig handsomely deoorated and will be shortly opened as a tea store by J. F. Rlffner & Son, of Cincinnati.

SOME little laok oi harmony among a few of those who serve the interests of tho city was shown at the Council meeting on Tuesday evening. It is not of a nature to load to much unpleasantness.

THE Paris Republican has made a dlscovory. It finds that there Is one man who spends all summer at a watering plaoe, and yet is not an aristocrat. It is the man who attends to the railroad water tank. ^,

THERE are prospeots for another ooal war. The miners of Clay oounty, at least representatives from most of the mines, held a large meeting at Brazil yesterday, and are considering the queetion of striking tor an advance of 20 per cent, on wages

ANOTHER balloon ascension Is to be made by Mrs. Light, whose fame as a suooessful female aeronaut is test spreading. This time she goes up during the fWr, from Harrison Park. The balloon is to be filled from pipes on east Wabash street, and towed out to the Park.

IT has been discovered that The Mall was entirely mistaken In regard to tbe ownership of the best horse in town. That animal belongs to J. a Jordon. It is not any of your overgrown or supsrfluooaly large horses, but a little fallow full of muscle and compact in build. It is a descendant of the Arabian steed on 1 which Mohammed rode to Mecca. It is the color of a singed mouse, and It climbs up into the loft when wants more hay.

THIS week a large FTNW of men under the supervision of Capt. Jabes Smith fcave been reconstructing the draw or the lower river bridge. It la a ticklish Job, made so more particularly by the constant stream of vehicles passing each way. At times a grand blockade would accumulate at each end. Only one ride of the bridge could be used, and only one team at a time was allowed to crows. More cuss words were uttered in that vicinity than ten thousand million bumble bees oould have caused. Why some one did not start a terry tea mystery.

MARR1AQM LICENSES, The following marriage Uosnses have been issued slnoe our last report:

Jwdm P. RomiM MdBojyC. GU*y. James Daily and Bridget MeMahou. JOML. Mali and lUwUHodma. Joseph Weitlnger and Maty flagdatena Pleasant F. Howk and Loostta Mont*omTaa W. Brown and Laura J. Vaaeleave*

Will E. Roberta and Jane Moran. Frederick Oraefo and Phllbptne Wei a* j£d. tManhall Nottand MarthaM.Beemer.__

William Klesherand Manr A.Uark-l Levi Sprlu^er and Lulu K, Plud^r^

ANOTHER VICTIM.

Tbe indignation of the dtlseoa of Tier re Haute in regard to the series of lawless crimes which have been perpetrated Id this community during the last few months, was raised to the highest pitch of exasperation on Wednesday morning by the intelligence, which flew over the city even before the daily advent of the news boy, to the effect that dnring tbe night Dr. James B. Armstroag, one of our most prominent and highly esteemed phydcans, had been murdered during the night. Tbe deed was committed about 9 o'clock on Tuesday evening, on the road which leads from tbe Petri grocery on tbe Lafayette road, eastward past the county asylum. Shortly after nine o'clock that night the Doctor's horse, sweating and excited, galloped home with the empty bu^y, the seat of which was considerably broken. Dr. William Armstrong thereby filled with apprehension, started in immediate search for his brother. The missing physician had gone to visit George F. King, tbe well kbown farmer and former dairyman, northeast of the city. lie therefore went in that direction, and soon found that the Doctor's body had been discovered in the road a few hundred yards west of tbe crossing of the I. fc St. L. railroad. H's bat was near the track, and his body was stretched at full length, face upward, in the middle of tbe road, where he had fallen backward off tbe open seat of his buggy on his return from Mr. King's. A bullet was found to have entered tbe right side and ranged downward through both lungs to tbe heart. The fall had also bruised tbe head, and blood was flowing out of the mouth.

There are many theories in regard to the murder, the course of the wound bhowing that either the assassin must have stood at a higher elevation or that tbe Doctor leaned over to avoid an attack from the other side. Two pistol shots were heard shortly before tbe finding of the body, by parties in the neighborhood, which strengthens tbe idea that there were two robbers, one on each side of him. At any rate there is no clue to the mnrder, except toe fact that thirty dollars were abstracted that same night by burglars from the Early farm house, within a quarter of a mile of the scene of the murder, taken from under tbe head ol Miss Burgan, who was asleep. This shows that there were thieves in tbe neighborhood that nigbt, and tends to co firm tbe impression that the murder was done for robbery.

That tbe doctor's body was not robbed of money is doubtless owing to tbe horse ranning away, carrying tbe wounded man a distance of one fourth of a mile, and that a man on horseback followed him immediately after, going to Petri's grocery for ioe.

Dr. Armstrong was born at Bloomington, Ind., in 1829. He graduated at tbe Louisville Medical College. He was in tbe service of tbe government two years as surgeon during the war. He was married to Miss Hedrick of Cincinnati, eight years ago. The doctor was a skillful phystoian, a prominent and respected member of the community, the commander of the the Knights Templar, a man who had very many friends. Resolutions of respect were passed by the physicians of the city and the Knights Templar. These formal resolutions however, fail to express the deep sorrow and universal sympathy pervading the community. An only son, a bright boy of sx years is left with the widow. The shock to the latter, of course is terrible and almost unbearable, and yet we can hardly believe that It falls with so great force as upon.hls twin brother, Dr. Will Armstrong. They have grown up together from childhood, been engaged in the same profession, and until their recent marriages, have lived together, sharing the same joys, troubles, cares and duties of loving brothers, dutiful sons, faithful and consistent church members and good oitizens. The wife, the ohild, the brother, and the aged mother who ever looked with a mother's pride upon her noble pair of boys, indeed have the deep sympathy of an outraged community, in this hour of intense affliction.

No effort should be spared to bring to justioe the perpetrators of this damning deed, so hellish in ita nature that only devils oould have conceived It.

LAST OBSEQUIES.

The funeral of the late Dr. J. B. Armstrong took place yesterday morning at the Christian charch. The pastor. ROT. O. P. Peale, was in Ohio, but was telegraphed to oome and conduct the funeral services, and accordingly returned to tbe city. The Masonlo fraternity and the Kuights Templar attended the ceremonies In regalia, with a band of music.

Though Rev. Peale was present, the memorial sermon was preaobed by El der Tyler, former pastor of that church, now of Louisville, he having been an old flrlend and acquaintance of the family. The eulogy by the Elder was ear* nest and touching.

The aermon was followed by the memorial aer||ces of the Masons, and the reading of fhe Templars' Record, showing the progress of the deoeaaed through tbe varioua degreee or masonry up to the position of Grand Commander of tbe Knights the esteem in which be wsa heSd, and the loss of their brother from among them.

Theoorpse was then borne to the cemetery, followed by a very kmgpcoces-

don

of the frisodsof thia widely known and respected man.

FXxm vslusbte gold watches were dyly abstracted from one of the ahow cases In the jewelry stomof O, Traak, on Monday, by some cunning sneak thlet No due was left by be discovered.

THE balloon and the horae race will be attractive features of the ooming county fair.

CHAPMAN, the famous Fourth street caterer, gave a thousand people their dinners on Wednesday.

THE sod is to be peeled off oi the entire Base Ball Park, and tbe ground made as level as Whitehouse's coat tail.

THE annual "retreat" of the Sisters of Providence is in session at St. Mary's Academy. It continues until tbe 16th inst,-

TIMBERS and irons are being prepared near the I. A

St. L. river bridge, and tbe

work of building a new draw will be commenced shortly..

THE Light Guards drill twice each week, at Dowiing flail. They were out on tbe streets last evening in fall dress and attracted much attention.

THE dty jrostoffica Is about to be "all tore up", soon, by an extension of tbe msillng room to the rear of the lot, and other extensive Improvements.

THE City and County together offer a reward of f500 for tbe apprehension of tbe murderer of Dr. J. B. Armstrong, and the brother of the deceased offera 12,000. This makes a !a*-ge inducement.

THE largest one day's street cat-busi-ness ever done in this ci-y was last Wednesday, when the receipts of 178 showed that three thousand five hundred and sixty passengers had deposited their nickels.

THE Red Men, of this dty, have planned tbe next excursion to Chicago—going up next Saturday—morning and evening trains—only four dollars the round trip Tickets good to return on until the 28tb.

THE Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Milwaukee, represented in this city by J. T. Wiley, is the fiist company to pay Mrs. A. C. Mattox the insurance on her husband's life—the amount'being |13,000.

THE suit of Willard Staley, the aero bat, against Mills, of Ridge Farm, for pulling a rope on which he was performing and thereby causing him to break an arm, was compromised this week by the payment to Staley of |300.

THIS week was organized "Tbe Terre Haute Base Ball Association^" with Mr. J. M. Haas as President, and Horace M. Smith as manager. The design is to have professional clubs visit this place, by organizing a first class nine here.

THE monthly business meeting of the Y. M. C. A. was held on Thursday evening. Messrs. C. I. Ripley, T. W. Parker and W. W. Byers were elected delegates to the State Y. M. C. A. convention to be held at Indianapolis next week, from the 16th to the 20th.

THE biggest lot of cases brought into tbe police court In one day for several years occupied the attention of Mayor Fairbanks on Thursday. The prison era were 89 in number, mostly countrymen, who had oome to see tbe show on tbe previous day and seen also the interior of the station house.

THE six strikers sentenced by Judge Drummond last week were divided among the jails of three different counties for imprisonment for three months. A petition to have them brought home where they would be In reach of their families and friends was made up in the city and sent to the Capital, in the hands of Judge Carlton, but as yet without effect, owing to the absence of Judge Gresham.

EARLY this week Mayor Fairbanks Issueda call for a meeting of citizens to take some action In regard to the large number of unemployed persons in tbe dty, and to take time by the forelock in aiding tbe destitute who will be among us next winter. The notice called forth oritldsms from tbe daily papers, and was not well received. Tbe main argument against suob meeting was that if these men know that they are to be provided for they will not spend much effbrt in work. The meeting was to have been held last night but as only a limited number attended, the Mayor decided that it waa not a fair showing of tbe tax payers, and atjjourned the meeting.

O. P. DAVIS* big cornfield haa been mentioned in the papers—been much mentioned—and yet there la no mention of Aqullla Laforty, of Parke oounty, whoae farm thia year, according to the Rockvlle Tribune, has grown not leas than 20,000 bushels of wheat and on which there is now growing L800 acres of corn, the fineet prospect ever known. At 50 buahels peraore, it will make 66,OOObusbels, and there is hardly a doubt ofita yielding 60 baahela per acre. This will make, the yield 78,003 bushels, against O. P. Davis' estimated cxp of 60,000 bushels. Tben there is O. P. Brown, of Reserve township, Parks county, who haa raised 15,000 bushels of wheat and has not less thst 40,000 bushels of corn growing^m his Ihrm.

HELIOTYPE 'ENGMA VINO. Button St Hamilton bave bscome the apodal retail agents in thia dty for the new Helktfype engravings, published by J. Osgood Cbn of Boston. Heliotype engravings sn choice prod notions of the most sttrsetive European works of art, and ttetr bssuty sod cheapness most osussarapid sals. They are ss poifcct sod beautllhl aa graving and as telthffal ass photograph* Sold si ths low pries of oosdollsr will csrtslnly gain far thssa ui slteled populsrity, for you get lor this ^•lietanitalvonMoyNttlNaM five or ten dollars or mom. Gall and ass tbe attractive collection at Button A Hamilton**.

SB0W-8H0W-1TES.

ft T, Bsrnum*s ooloasal drq-soolodon In ita over-shadowing vastnese (vide the bills) descended upon this unprotected collection of domiciles last Wednesday.

The moat interesting feature left us to examine is the wide diversity of opinion in regard to P. T. and the show and everything connected therewith.

The average small boy pronounced it "just splendid," and aays "the elephant turned tbe grind-organ just as well as I could o' done it," sud "the little wee bit o' man played Mocking Bird on a totj o' rocks." &

The opinion of tbe average small girl was expressed by one little toddler, who on her father'a shoulder made an inspection of the rhinoceros. She sweetly said "Papa, take me away. I'M aPaid." Another small girl, a black one, oould not on any consideration be induced by her elder sisters to approsch within two rods of the rope in front of the lions' csge, seeming to have sn antipathy inherited with the blood of fsr away Africa, the home of both her and the lions.

One man The Mall's Tramp in his wanderings overheard to say that the automatic figures were "tbe worst fraud of tbe whole shebang," and that they were nothing but a lot of dummies with a barrel-organ behind them. Another person, a lady, was heard by the Tramp to say that she thought the automatons were the most remarkable things she had 'ever seen.

One man was positive nothing like this show had ever been here before, and that it waa grand beyond imagination. Another went on in a tirade about it, characterizing it as an immense humbug. Snapping his fingers, he said that except for one or two things he "would not give that" for the whole affair. ^.

The lady who managed the-two horses tandem was admired by all the visitors who were of her sex while the men all deolared her performance was "thin, awfully thin."

In regard to tbe Japs, there was not so much diversity of opinion, most of the show goers allowing that their exhibition was firat rate. Especially, they thought It amazing that the boy should have climbed out of that wooden jar after being all doubled up In It, and then get Into it again. Moreover, gossip ran concerning Little All-Right that he had grown several inohes since he was here before, and that he would soon be too big to climb the pole.

Lowande and his boy and his seven white horses also won admiration, but the dissatisfied critic who is never pleased, vowed that except for them the circus was no better than many a second rate show offers. Then in regard to the six black "Trakenes," the Dissatisfied Critique complained that even they belonged to tbe Prussian government, and were not the property of Barnum at all.

The D. C. went on t6aay that Barnum had a bully show four years ago, and, had been travelling on the memory of that ons ever sinoe that instead of two rings he hss now only one thst tbe tent wss not half big enough to scoommodate tbe people, so that he did not see how they could do in the largerdties at all.

Tbe tattooed man was a great wonder till the whisper ran round that he was only a sailor off the lakes, and was tat tooed at Detroit, Michigan.

These opinions show how great minds will direr. In fact, it is pretty generally conceded that in consideration of these hard times it was good show sad that Barnum has ons merit which few other circus men have, and that ift^UipFl may always be depended upon to Intro duce something new.

THE OLD SETTLERS. ORGANIZATION EFFECTED.

At a meeting of the board of directors of the Old Settlers association of the Wabash Valley, held in the city of Terre Haute, on the 7th day of August, 1877, the following basinets was transacted, viz:

Ordered—That Major Chas. O. Wood be appointed recording and corresponding secretary.

Ordered—That Tuesday, the 11th day of September,, be the da^ upon which the next re-uoion and pic-nfc be held, sod be court houae park in the city of Terre Haute, be the place where it shall be held.

Ordered—That tbe following committees be announced: On Finance—T. GL Bantin, J. H. 0*Boyle, L. A. Burnett.

On Music—L. A. Ryes, Warren Davis, Mrs. A. Gould. On Reception—8. B. Gooltins, W. Voorhees, T. H. Nelson, B. W. Hanna.

On Management—H. Fairbanks. Alfred Pegg, James Modesitt, Joe. Gilbert, F. C. Crawford.

Msnhall of lbs 0*y—Geosral Chas. Crnfi. Ordered—That the committees meet st the oousdl chsmber in ths city sf Terre Hsnte, on the evening of the 22nd dsy of August, st 8 o'clock p. si. Also that all person taking aa iaterest in the amocia tion be invitad to be preeest at tbe meeting of the eoseaiu***.

It is announced to the members and frieod* of the association that a small assount oi money will be reqnired to defray the expenses stteadsit apon the reunion sad pie aie,aad they are requested the treasurer, 1L W. Will to psy to at the offics of the Gas Company, such •cms as they see fit.

It is also snsounced that the register el the saaoetstioB is to be found at the oSce of Uw Gas Company, in the dty erf Terre Haste, where all who are entitled to be, and desire to hweems members, can call and register their asaasn.

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FOUR PERSONS ARRESTED.

Aside from sense of their duty, the lsrge rewards for tlM assassins of Dr. Armstrong are' causing our officers to seek for every possible due that may lead to their detection. The dty and oounty promptly oflered a reward of $500, and the twin brother, Dr. W. P. Armstrong offers |2,006. Of course many Innocent persona will doubtless be arrested on suspldon, but it is to bo hoped that tbe guilty partiee will be sifted out and that puniahment may swiftly follow Four suspected persons hsve been plsccd In jsil. The Express this morning gives the following particulars of the an oats:

Night before last Chief Stack arrested Jack Clark and Mike Cadden on suspicion of the crime. He thinks he has a good case agsinat them. They were arrested on Thirteenth street, and locked up in different cells. Cadden is a young man of twenty-three or four, and was at one time employed on the Vandalia as fireman. He was discharged and was a few weeks ago arrested at Brazil, having stolen some castings, and attempted to get out of the way by going there. He has not herelofore been regarded as a dangerous man. One peculiarity of his personal appearance is the lack of an ear, one of these uaeiul organs having been cut off in an accident upon the road. The other, Clarke, is a man pretty well known about town.

CABIOO'S AEEE8T8.

Sheriff Carico yesterday arrested John and Charles Horn, young men aged respectively twenty and seventeen. They are the sons of Peter Horn, a well-known butcher, who for some years has been in the business, and has made a good name as a business man and citizen. Carico arrested tbe boys at their home, and made quick work of securing everything they had about then that might lead to the discovery of a point. They were locked in different ctflls, and allowed to communicate with no one. The evidence against them seems to be pretty strong. The esse is as nearly as can be learned fron various sources, the officers seeming disinclined to give any news, ss fellows:

The King family states that the Horn boys were in the orchard of the King farm that evening just before tbe arrival of Dr. Armstrong, whom they were cursing loudly. They were endeavoring to persuade Mr. King not to employ Dr. Armstrong. They gave as their reason, that the doctor had eet the leg of the eldest when it was broken, and had made a cripple of him for life by failing to give the proper treatment. Toe family were about to drive thorn off, by letting the dogs loose when they weht off through orchard of their own, will. A little later the doctor came to the house. The tracks fthich were discovered on the other aide of the road in the cornfield correspond to those of the lame boy iu tbe orchard, as he had a shoe prepared expressly to accommodate his sliert limb. The spoke and hub factory watchman

SAW THEM SUNNING

fast, later in the evening. Two pistols were found by tbe officers, one of them single bored shooter, holding the pistol ball, taken from ths wound, excellently. The ot her, seven-shooter, was also examined closely, and one shot found gone

Coupling these bits together, and adding to the stock, the officers think they have a pretty good case, especially as the Horn boys have, it is said, often threatened the life of Dr. Armstrong, IO that he made no charge for the work that is, be did not present hie bill on account of this animosity wnich they had against him

EVIDENCE FOR THE AOCCJED There it a good deal of rumor flying about, and among other reports is one thst a farmer living in that vicinity says one of the Horn boys was at his house until after 10 o'clock that night.

THE DEAD.

Tho following interments were made in the dty cemetery during tbe month of July: 5, Mary A. Koach age 21 year#: consumption. 3, Infant of Wm. McMinimy, age 8 mos. congestion of brain. 3, Child of E.Gloaaen, age 2 years congestion. 3, Child of George Greenup, age 8 years and 0 months measles. 4,

Inlantof Mi.ttUsel,agel year whoop 4, lnfanu$ Jamea Harris, age 1 year and 5 months: measles. 4, Inliantof r.L. tUckmaft,age2months cholera infantum. 4, Wm. T. Walker, aje

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years conges­

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age 1 year

Jes. age 11 mos.

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6, Infant of John Knntz, age 8 mos. congestion. 7, Chile of John Bauer, age 3 years tu mor. 9, e. D. Barret, age 31 years dropsy. 9, Jallns BchaabTln, age 52 years suldoe. 19, John Davy, age 74 years congestion, 11, uhlidofB.il. Cox, age 3 years dysentery. 12. infant of O. Llndeman, age 1 month and21 days summer complaint. 12, Infant or Lawaon Sanders, age 7 mos. summer complaint. 18, Rachel Bunclv age years he mor13, intan^ofjUina^emble, age 1 year aad months sn aimer compl'nt. 18, infant of Wm. Lan-irom age 1 year and 6 months consumption. 14, Intent of C. B. Lee, age 11 months brain fever. U, Infant of Mary A. Osborne, age 4 moe. scrotals. 16, Infant of John Legglt, age 1 year measles. 18, intent of Cornelia Brobrapr,age 1 mo. and 7 days scrofula. 17, Intent of oTw. Austin, age 5 months,

Inflammation of bowela.

90, Mrs. Mary A. West, age 33years consumption 21,1 Cantor Thomas L.Perry,age7 mos. cholera Infantum. 23, Chid of T.J. Patton, age 1 year and mmitln' fconflMtkMi. 2S, Rssa Degtacher, age 11 yeanand 6 mo^ beart disease. 29, Aaron 8p)aty, age 42 years, typhoid fe•ef. 27, Catherine Smeade, af» lyear^caneer 27, Lofd-M. Barnes, age 32 years typhoid Mb Intent of Thomas MarUn, agsU moa^ lnto^» .p-

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SUBTERRANEAN BLESSEDNESS. Many bchemes hsve of late years been talked and written about in regard to furnishing to small towns, and to neighborhoods of dwellers in dties, more convenient srrangements in some departments of the household economy. Among these, one idea is that of the

Village Caterer," who shall cook the meals tor the whole town, delivering them already prepared, thus avoiding the necessity of kitchens, with their stoves and all tbe manifold utensils and apparatus. used in the preparation of food, At other idea, written upon in a late edition of Scribner, is that of "Farm Villages," by which rural residents may enjoy some of the conveniences of a neighborhood in schools churches, stores and shops, yet st the same time cultivate their farms. Many other similar notions have been ventilated, and in some plaoes have been practically realised. Tbe objection that they tend toward centralisation and mutual dependence does not hold, for they enable families of moderate means to avoid the nuisance of "boarding," by keeping house at less expense and with less of dependence than is usually the case. •Now, The Mall's Tramp has an Idea connected with such matters, which he wishes to spread before the readers of this valuable sheet. It 1s this Why not have a public cellar?

Tbe Tramp remembers a visit which he once made to the Shelburn coal mine. It was during midwinter. The weather bitterly cold, sleet and crusted snow jvere everywhere, and the face ot nature was a freezing misery. From suoh bleak and disagreeable scenery the visitor, by a rapid and easy descent wss mhered into the wonderfully comfortable atmosphere of the mine, two hundred feet below the level of the windswept Adds. In these dark channels, carved between dry lsyers of solid blue talc, tho temperature is always the same. Boreas msy howl overhead, but here in the bosom of mother earth Jack Frost can never come. The sun may shine with tropical fervor, but can neyer lor fluence to the extent of a single degree of variation this moderate temperature. One who has not tried it imagines a mine the most dissgreesble of all places

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yet no other workman than the miner performs his labor in a place where he neither sweats nor chills.

These things have suggested to the Tramp that it would be a fine thing for some one in every town to excavate very deep and capacious cellar, so fsr down that nothing in it ever could freeze, and with part of It arranged for summer use with refrigerating, applicants Here, by paying a few cent each member of the community could keep his potatoes, apples, canned a1Td green rrults, vinegar, dder, and everything of tbe sort. Tben in summer the whole village could store therein butter, meat, fruit, snd tbe thoussnd edibles snd drinkables which hest snd insects spoil. In our smsller towns, almost every bouse is built over a cellar, at considerable expense yet not more thtfta one out of a dosen of those cellars Is frost-proof. It does seem thst it wouTd be better for the residents to have one big cellar for tbe whole town, and hate a good one. At any rate it is ridiculous tbst people should in winter suffer all the ills of Greenland, and in summer endure sll tbe annoyances of Panama, while within thirty feet or them—downward—is a temperature which neither winter or summer vsristions ever afteeL

People seek mutusl combinations Ita such things as drculatlng libraries, bosrdlng dubs, rowing snd shooting clubs, building and loan associations, mutual insurance companies, and a hundred other convenient organizations. Then why not oomblne to secure the delightful conveniences sbove set forthT This matter might even be pmhed until tbe tourist need not travel hundredth of miles northward to finds oool slid equsble temperature In summer, or go to Florids in tbe »itit*r, lut merely doscendby the China Short L4net to some sequestered end pleasant subterranean grotto artificially liptiUM'? and ventilated'*' where be may bid defiance to tbe rigors of these upper airs.

ANOTHEE old retki^iK died yesterday,. Lewis Ortb, at hit r^jidenoe In Otter Creek township. Mr. 0 sh was born at Wittenberg, Qerui4ny, ltisa April, 1S94. He came to tiiis country In 1832 aud lived in Pennsylvania two years. From there he removed to Ohio, and finally came to this oounty in April, 18C6. He bsd msrried Miss Catharine Stann in 1889, who still survives him, together with eleven children. All these are still In this oounty except the oldest daughter, Mis. Mary Coppsge, now of Grind Haven, Michigan. Tbe latter wasinsttendsnoesttbedesth bed of her father. Mr. Orth was one of our substantisl, respected and wdl known people. He was a member of tbe Lutheran Church In the dty, the pastor of which will officiate at the funeral to-morrow. Mr. Orth in all these twenty one yean haa except in a very few instances made strip to town regularly every Saturday. He never wss sick in hi* life until last

Tsm Grand Jury returned Marly two score indictments this week. la Criminal Coujrt, Frank Stewart/ wbo stole Dick Tternsn'b sraieivwss sentenced to four years. George Aakln, for stealing dotting from Mossier, was sentenced to two yesm. Morta, harness thief, got two earn.

T—John Clttk arrested on suspicion of ths Armstrong murder Is not the Clark who was formerly employed A the Op—House. ,,

Moat of our deslers hsg a big day's trade on Wednesday—the day of Bar-

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