Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 August 1877 — Page 2

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRB

HAUTE, AUGUST

VV-# 3-m

Its agony.

86,1877.

LIVE ASD WORK.

Why live, when life 1# sad,

Death only sweet? when do defeat? Wby pray. when purest prayer

Why tight, when closest fight Ends in

DarlTyiopgirts assail? 'Why strive, and strive again Only to fall? .Vi

Why hope, when life has provea Oar best hopes vain? Why 'ove, wbsn love la fraught

''•W

W 1th so much patn? by n*t cool heart ai in the deep wave?

and brain

Why not lie down and rest In the still grave? t«

Live—There are many retina Needing thy care Pray—There is one at hand

Helping tbv prayer. Fight—Tor the love of God, Not for renown. Strive—bat in His great strength

Not in thy own.

Hope—there is heaven's joy Laid up for thee. Love-»-for true love outlives

Fight, pray, and wrestle on, -.f Loving God best Then, when thy work is done,

Lie down and rest.

Elam's Advent®^'

''Can't you tell us some of your adventures*' I asked of my friend Elam, who had returned from bis many years' travels in the bush and other outlandish plAces, and was sitting with me and my •wife. And, though absent so long, he was, so to say, a young man yet. •Adventures? Well, I had plenty. Rough ones, some of them.* 'Please tell us one,' chimed in Mary.

Elam laughed. 'I can tell you of a curious one that I met with in the moantains.' •Ob! yes. do. Which mountains?' 'In California, up in one of its wild is •That will be the very thing.' 'Well,' said Elam, running his taperins fingers through his hair and smiling at my wife. 'I'll soften down things in the telling as well as my blunt speech and uncivilized modes of thought will allow of, you must exouse the rest.' 'Ob, I'll excuse anything^ Please begin.' 'When I started from home 0 settle in unfrequented districts,' began Elam, 'I set up a theory that no young man should ask agiri to marry him until he had prepared a home for her. It is surprising now much you begin to think of a wife over yonder, arising, I suppose from the extreme loneliness oi existence. I was no exception. The land I took up was in the Rogue River Valley, and after I got it bit ship-shape I worked away with that object in view—to bring home a wife.' 'But. Elam, had youselectoda wife?' I asked. •No. I intended to do that as soon a? I could, though you may say I was full young to be tninking of it. 1 worked on, and was pretty successful. I built me a house, got a considerable quantity of stock, made a flower garden for my wife: even put up the pegs and nails she would want to hang her dresses on. I intended that same autumn to get on my horse, ride through the Wallamet Valley, and find me my wife, marry her, and bring her home.'

At the notion of courting in that offhand style, we laughed a little. Elam laughed too, as if the recollection pleased him. 'You think it strange, I see. It was not so strange over there in those days, where girls were as scarce as angels. There was not a girl within forty miles of me: and I assure you that the very thought of one, as I drove in those naifa for £er garments to hang on, went through me like a thrill. You don't bc^ lleve? Go out, yourself, and try it.' 'But I do believe.' 'I had about two hundred and fifty head cattle, a good house, with a garden, a young orchard, vegetables growing, sweet-scented flowers—all in readiness for the wife I hoped to bring borne to bless me and take care of this, my possession. And what do you think hap^We could not tell. 'There came such a plague of grasshoppers upon the valley that everything perished. Crops, orchard, flowers, grass, every green and delightful and promising thing the grasshoppers destroyed all. You remember the seoond chapter of Joel?' .• »*N

I nodded. '. •The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind theua a desolate wilderness.' I was ruined. My stock died at least, the greater portion: they had nothing to feed upon. Yes, it was complete and absolute ruin.'

Elam paused a moment, muntally looking at the past. •I considered myself disappointed to love, too,' lie resumed in the quaintest of tones. 'Though I had not yet been out to find my girl, I knew she was somewhere in that other valley waiting

now to think of those useless pegs on which my Imagination had so often seen a girl's pink cotton dress and a white sun bonnet.*

Elam gave a great sigh. He was an eooentrie fellow. 'I became misanthropic said to myself that between fate and the grasshoppers I had been used hardly. Packing other books and a few traps

:are.

igupmy j, I oade

adieu to the Roane River Valley forever. It was a longish Journey, as I had to drive

before' me the stock 1 had left. In the mountains, I settled down

again, built myself a fort and played hermit. No jilting girls should come near me now.' •Afortt' •A regular fori. A stockade eigbtwen feet high, with an embankment four feet high around it, and a strong gate in the mid die. My tent was in the midst of the incloaure, with my books and household goods, rearms, and all the rest of my property stowed away in it.' •were TOO afraid of the Indians?* 'Indians and while men. Yea, I saw a good many Indiana at fixat within the range of my rifle. They learned to keep away from my fort, finding it did not pay to atetmpt to invade it. Down In the valley below there were mining campat and yon perhaps know what some of the hangers-on of such camps

I sold beef—that is, heads of oatue to the miners and as Ihad sometime* 1 tidv son of money by me, It wsa nee-

Msalrjr to be oarefoJ? 'What a strange life for a young man. For you, Klam!

I herded my cattle, drove them to ked, studied, wrote, and inmisanthropy, combined with .nwticeTlly the time that I •mm upon the second sammerln the mountains I Ml qniteatbojasand was getting rich. J^tUa all, the llfo had ita charm*. A man cannot quite tire of it when he Is but a few years out of his teens.'

market, cooked, dulged in misant some rifle practice* bad entered noon t)

'And the girl-wife?' »mlng to th forget my Ul-u«sge, set in, you see, anal thought,after §11*

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I must'tide to ihe Wallamet to see after my girl. But I was not in tbe hurry over it that I had been before. This la all very dull, you will say, but ther'll be some stir presently^ 'It is not at all dum' •One Sunday aftwnoen—how did know it waa Sunday, you ask? Because I had kept a count of the days all along kept my diary regularly. One Sunday afternoon I was sitting outside writing, when a shadow fell across the paper and, looking up, there stood a skeleton Accustomed as I was to lonely encounters with strapge men of all kinds, my hair stood on end asl stated at the tre before me. He was the merest boy in years, pretty and delioate by nature and evidently reduced to his shadowy state by starvation. His story was soon told. He bad left Boston on board a vessel bound for the northwest coast, had been wrecked at the mouth of the Umpaqua, and been wandering about in the mountains ever since, subsisting on roots and berries.' 'He was—' 'No, I assure you,' interrupted Elam, with an amused look at my wife, 'the boy was not a young woman In disguise, if that's what you are thinking. He was just a poor, weak, half starved lad, named Edwards. I fed and nursed him until he was able to work for himself, and then I got Sam Chong Sung to let him take up a claim alongside a Chinese camp, promising to favor the Chinamen in a beef contract if he would be good to the boy. I still continued to see a great deal of him.' 'Anddid he succeed?' •Yes, be got on. One day two Chinamen stole some of Sam Chong Sung's horses and he offered four hundred dollars to Edwards if he would go after the thieves and track them. Edwards asked my advice, ana I encouraged him to go, telling him where I fancied ho would find the men". So he started in pursuit and I confess I missed him.'

Again Elam paused. We did not in terrupt him. 'A man came to my fort one day who was naked and starving. He was a bad looking fellow, very but you will say a man naturally does look bad when his clothes are nowhere and his bones protrude through his skin. I clothed him, fed him, cared for him kindly until he was able to travel, and then he went away. The next Sunday I was sitting outside my fort, as customary on that leisure day, reading some translations from the Greek poets—for I daresay you remember I could never make much of Greek itself—when, chancing to look off my book, I beheld a vision.' 'A what?' •A vision. A vision of a lovely woman. And I can tell you I should as soon have expected to see a vision there as a woman. I had seen neither for a year or two. She was riding up the approach to my fort on a fine horse riding gracefully and very slowly, as if to give me time to get over my surprise ana I believe I needed it. The picture she made is in my mind now I seethe very flickerof the shadow and the sunlight across the road and the glitter of some steel that fastened her horse's trappings as he arched his neck in impatience of her restraining hand. Are yoti tired, old Mend?' •Never less so in my life.' 'You see I had been alone so long and I think I must be susceptible. That vision breaking in suddenly, as it did, upon my solitude, gave me the queerest sensations. I was just spell bound. Not so she. Reining in her horse at my gate, she squared round on her saddle and looked at me, silently asking my assistance to dismount. I helped her down— what else could I do?—and then, at her request, gently preferred, went to put up and feealier horse. Had she dropped from the clouds? I did not know.' •Well?' •If you believe me, when I returned indoors, my guest had got her habit off. Evidently she meant to make herself at home. A tall, young, beautiful, well dressed woman! Just a goddess she looked to me. Her eyes were large, black and melting, her hair grand, her manner easy. She was hungry, she said would I give her something to eat? And while I was making preparations to give her of my best, she read aloud one of the Greek translations, an ode to Diana commenting upon it herself. That she was a woman of oulture and education,whatever might have brought her into her present strange position, was obvious. Well, now,' continued Elam, 'you can guess whether a young man, isolated on the mountains, ruined by the grasshoppers, and jilted by the girl of the Wallamet Valley, was bewildered or not. Entertaining a goddess was not in my line.' •How longdid she stay?' •Wait a bit. What with reading and eating, our acquaintance Improved fast. She ottered to sing a song, and gave mc She ottered to sing a song, and gave me

Kate Kearney.' I might have lost my head to her, perhaps, to say nothing of my heart, but for a certain Inward latent doubt. I did not care that my girl should ride about, elegantly attired, on prancing hones, ana drop down unexpectedly upon hermits. Still it was a pleasant feeling to find oneself near her, and certainly a novel one. I asked her her history. and she told it to me. Sho was of a good New England family, reared in affluence, wel 1 educated and accomplished. but by a freak of fortune she became reaused to poverty and to be an exile from home—* •What waa the freak of fortune, Elam?' 'Ah, what Indeed? The old story, I suppose but I did not ask her. Shenad made her way to California, resolved to get on and get money—and she bad got It, She went about from camp to camp of the miners, and other*, with stationery and various other articles needed by them sold them these things, wrote letters for them, sang to them, nursed them when sick,and carried their letters express to San Francisco to be posted. For all these services she received large payment*—money is not much valued, yon know, over there and she had also had a good deal of rough gold given her as specimens. Did she Uke that kind of a life, I asked her, so contrary to her early habits, and she answered me quickly 'It la not what we choose that we do In this world, but what Fate chooses for us. I have made a competency, and gained a rloti and varied experience: life may net be what I once pictured It would be, but I am content.* She sighed is abaaald it, and I didn't believe in the •content." •Bat what had brought ber to you that dayr 2

'She had net told m» herself then. Presently asked her aaked her why •became to eee me. I never shall forget the

smile

with whidi she turned to salt pretty nigh disarmed ma. We ritttng somewhat cloee, too her ut aUk gown toadied my knee*. «*ber, I Degan to think of thoa* peaatn my hooae down in Roga* \\3eV. Bat what ahe said polled vrandaring Uxtaghta, and turned to pceeetit talon. 'Shall yea be isadto hear that! have come to do you a great ssrvieaT she said. Aadshe wanton to reUtetbat, having to pass the previous night at a place not may mtieeaway,ina

J. JILTCJLVJDJ XLELUX-DJ OAX

Having bad a reaction

are thin, ahe bad chanced to overheat a

starved and nakew wretch whom 1 nd sheltered and sei$ away rejoicing iftpt

problem of gratitude, a fancy came over me that she might not be telling the

wTth subjects like these, nor deceive when she goes out of her way to do aaervfbe,' she answered. 'I rode off from that house the other way this morning, made a detour, and came here to warn you. And, now that I have done it, if you will please to get my horse, I will ride away again.' All fair, that. I, full of thanks and repentence, asked her to stay longer If she was not perfectly rested but she declined, and I brougLt the steed round and helped her to mount him. Onoe in the saddle her humor changed she smiled, and reminded me that I bad not been polite enough to Invite her to return. A week of reading, talking, riding, trout fishing, and romancing up in those splendid moan tains would be very charmlnp perhaps abe might come if 1 asked her?' •And did you ask her?' •I did not. A young man, with a reputation to sustain up there in the mountains, oouldnt invite a young lady to stay a week with him, could be now?' cried Elam quaintly, which set us both lau

I parried the^cyiestlon as easily as I could, and she: away. In goln slowly down the trail, she tamed an kissed her hand to me with a gracious sweetness. I assure ybu the struggle within my own mind Was great at that moment, and I don't know whether I have forgiven mvbelf yet for what happened atterward.' »f 'What did happen?' 'She came back again. he came Hack again and I drove her away That is, I made the best excuses 1 could for not readmitting her, saying we should perhaps bave fighting and murder—and what not—In my fort that night, and it would be no place for a delicately bred womsn. The pretty and modest girl, who was to come from Wallamet Valley and hang up her pink garmentson my pegs, bad rushed into my mind, you see —but I never like to confess to this part of the story, because I get laughed at. But don't you think I did right?—having my reputation to keep up?'

While

Erow

we bad our laugb on Elam was

ushmg his soft, fine light hair off bis with those slender fingers, that looked as if no rough work nad ever come near them—and what must they have been before it did come?

He went on thoughtfully. 'She finally rode away, not having been invited to get off her horse, leaving mo in anything but a pleasant frame of mind. From telling myself I was a bear, I turned to the other subject—my promised robbery and murder Had she simply invented that little fable, or was it a true bill? I felt inclined to believe it the latter. Any way, I determined it well to be prepared forall contingencies, barring and bolting my fort against intruders, and sitting up late over the fire. This was Sunday night. On the Tuesday morning three or lour mounted men rode up, one of whom was the traitor, my former naked and hungry protege. He no longer attempted to conceal his true character from me, but said he and his comrades were intending to 'clean out' the Chinese camp, and he asked me to join them in the raid. I was on my guard in answering bim, simply saying that I would have nothing to do witn robbing the Chinese, that they were my friends and customers, ana I thought they had best be let alone. With that he went off. That same afternoon Edwards came in, having recaptured some of the horses. He was very tired and asked leave to stay with the horses at my place till next day. I said nothing to Edwards of the gang juat gone away, or that (what I suspected) they had talked of making a raid on the Chinese only to throw me off my guard, that it was my fort on which the attack was to be, and I hoped the fellows did not know of the arrival of the horses, as they would be an additional temptation for them.' 'I'd not live in those wild, lawless reions for the whole world,' cried out ary. •Dusk came on. I sent Edwards, dead tired to bed made a great lire in the tent, and sat by It facing the window. My expected visitor came, the villain. He made believe to bave been drlnklog and put that forward as a plea for asking shelter until the morning. The instant be was inside, I made the gate fast, driving the big wooden pin home with an axe. I caught agleam from his eyea as I was doing this, which—' •But why hot have made thla gate fast before he entered?*

Because he was safer Inside than out. A eon victkra had come over me that this man was some desperate character. His comrades were no doubt waiting near, and his plan had been quietly 19 open the gate to them.* •Had you no arms but your rifle?' 'I wanted none, for we understand each Other ^—my rifle and I. This villain understood us, too. I don't think, either, he liked to see Edward* sleeping In the tent. The lad was not good for much: but still he was somebody. Yt would now be a contest of skill between the fellow and me. He waa waiting bis opity, and so was Of iking men, he was the wont. Tall, y, black bearded with a hard

portuni onslook swarthy, Black bearded with foce that must have been handsome once, and fierce black eyes gleaming with evil. He eat on one side of the hearth, Ion the other, ourfeye* fixed on one anotben'

Elam paused. I wondered what waa coming. •You guess, 1 dare say, that I hare a quick ear, for you know what my temperament is—«ll sensitive oonaclousness. My good hearing had been cultivated too. by listening for the Indiana. By and by I detected a very atealthy movement outside the fort, and then a fklnt chirrup, such as a young squirrel might make. Up sprang the man. but I covered him with my rifle, cocked. He saw the movement, showed his teeth, and draw out a pistol bat not before I ordered bim to throw down hia arms or di*. He hesitated he aaw that In my eye and aspect Chat mad* him quail. With th* rifle leveled, and my linger on the trigger, be threw down hia arms pistol and knifo-witha dreadful oath. Ihad the beet of him, and ha knew it tar before beoonld have put his pistol into form, or rushed on with his knife, the ball from my rifle would have been in bim.

Hia language waa awfal *nd wa are not nice in that respect, you know, a California. The foam lay on hia lip*. He demanded to be let out of thabovse, d*dng me as a robber and a murder-

To all hia ravings

and I had been the first man eve* to get the better of him, ,he loved-malike a brother. Ailtbe eu*e,IPv6 Or no love, be had to alt wjfcere be was, abd I In front of him, with tiyr rifle on my kneea. There was a long niglftbaforen* he could bave no liberty loft, andlhe traint was horrible to bim. One moment be Isughed uneasily the next cursed the next cried, jipw| a strange experience, wssitnSlT *vo pans away the time, I aaked bim to repeat the history of bis life. He said ho wonld but would first of aUjattsUake band/, for tbe^rapict he bora me. Touching my rifle aignlficantly, I pointed to the stick lying across the hearth place between us. your boundary line, my man,' •dou't go stretching your band

•That's said I over that.' aullenness.' •What came of it?' •We must have remained in this position till midnight. Several times I beard slight sounds outsids the fort, to which be listened but he dared not respond to them, he could do nothing. After awhile they ceased his associates, rightly judging that something or other bad gone wrong and spoiled the scheme, no doubt made off^ tired of waiting. Tbe fellow's head was bent, his chin rested on his breast, his shaggy beard spreading over it like a mantle. He coffered martyrdom. He waa like a hyena caged, though he showed it only by Involuntary nervous starlings and furtive glances. Finally he could bear it no longer, and entreated me piteously, abjectly, to give him his freedom or blow out bis brains. He could not have bis freedom just yet, I quietly told him but be knew how to got bis brains blown out if be desired it. Which brought forth some more of bis choice language. And tbe lad Edwards, slept through it all!' •What a situation! What a night!' •Ay, it was. By and by we got to talking I not relaxing my vigilance for an Instant. Once started on his own history, tbe subject seemed to have a fascination for him. He had been honestly "raised," he said, by good and loving parents, in tbe State of Missouri, had passionately loved a young girl in tbe town where he lived—and his description of her was so pretty and vivid that I declare it brought Into my mind the other girl waiting for me down in the Wallamet Valley. To enable him to marry her he resolved to go to California and make in some honest way the requisite money. He went, and did make it, and, full of joyful anticipations, returned to find that she had married another. The man—the husband—had played them false, told the girl that her lover was dead, and married her himself. When he came out of the brain fever which this news gave him, he was invited to an evening party in the town, one given in honor of him. To this party came bis love and her husband when he put out his hand to welcome her their eyes met, and each knew then and for the first time, how they bad been betrayed. From that hour tbe man took to evil courses, and bis first vctim was the false husband. His hand was against every man's, and every man's against bim and be became a desperate outlaw. Once again he saw his'love meeting her In tbe streets of Sacramento she was married again, and she turned from him with a cry of aversion. Yes, be might be desperate now, he added, but be bad had bis trials. I asked bim what his true name was. Hiram Creddin, he answered but the one be was'known by was Boone Helm. That made me start.' 'Why did it?' 'Because I had heard of Boone Helm before—and knew be was the greatest terror of the time. I suppose I should have done society a benefit had I shot bim as be sat there but I did not. Per haps you won'C believe that I felt a sort of pity for tbe poor fellow—but I dlJ. Well, morning came at last. I sent Edwards te get the gate open, and escorted my visitor out, telling him that there was not room for him and for me in that irt of the country, and that he had jtter quit it for another.' •And did he?' •I suppose so. He never attempted to molest me again. Not long after I heard of his death. He met his fate up east of the •qountains.' •And what of that pretty Amazon. Elam? I'm sure she wt.s almost as good to you as a guardian angel! Coming on horseback to give you warning?' •Was she not? And I returned it by behaving so unhandsomely to her! But now, I just ask you—Would it have been proper to have let her come on that week's visit?—and I a young man with a reputation!'

And I sent him into a fit of

Again we burst out laughing. Elanvs appeal to us was put with the most unsophisticated air possible. •At any rate, you did not.' •1Jo,' said be, 'I did not. And, taking all things into consideration, I think 1 did right.' you ever see her again?* •Onoe. It was at San Francisco. She was married and staying at the same hotel that I was. Her husband was a fine, tall, dashing man, what with you would be called a gentleman,wad very wealthy. She had been lucky, you see. I knew ber as soon aa she came Into tbe drawlug room, and in a few minutes I saw that abe recognised me but she did not take any notice, neither did I. She told me with ber eyea that ahe remembered but there was an appealing glance in them, which I interpreted rightly. After dinner ahe went to the piano and sang •Kate Kearney.* We had got into conversation before that, tbe three of us. just as strangers will do In a hotel, and I found the husband a very Intelligent, educated, welt Informed man. In parting I got just a word aside with her. 'I am glad to meet you again, and thus 'Hush!' she answered. 'Ithankyoufor your reticence. In the past of a life that has been oompoeed of upa and downs, then* la generally something or .other lying on tbe memory that we don't care to recall or proclaim to tbe world/* •And abont that young girl In Wallamet Valley?* ,. •I never found her.* replied Elam, ehaking hia head thoughtfully. Truth to sayTl never started fairly to look for

If it be true that hardahip la a good sebool for development, then from a physical standpoint, babtea ahould have a growth aa symmetrical aa it la eurpris log. It would be eo were they kept free from the disorders of baby-hood by safe and judicious treatment. Every one who baa oasd It jpronouneee Dr. Bull's

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bad but one

to be quiet, to obey me, and he

ahould live dare to diaobay me. and be ahould die. He sat there cowed, on th* opposite aide of the fllre, not daring to •oakeevenadoubttalmotion. Than

toldhim whatl knew—that 1 had heard what ha waa, and what he meant to do. With that he broke down utterly—or pretended at It, howled like a child, declaring that now b* knew my pluck,

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Professional Cards.

THOMAS H. NK LSOJI. ISAAC N. PXEHGK

NELSON

& PIERCE,

ASA M. BLACK. KDWIJf

AUorBejrs «t Law, TERRE HAUTE,

IND.

Office, north side Main st. near Thlid.

BLACK

LACK & BLACK.

ATTORKEYS AT LAW,

N. O. BUFF.

818,4 Main street. O »1

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

S. It. BKKG1IKR

UFF & LIIIIJEIUNJIIK, $

ATTOMJVEYC* AT LA!

OFFICE—No. 320 Obio Street, bet. Third and Fourth, north side.

TTTILEY, WORKS CO., INSURANCE AGENTS,

623% Main Street,

TfcaiuB HAUTE,

INS

Com pan lea Represented (F1KK INSURANCE.)

Ins. Co. North America, Phila. $8,606,000 Niagara Fire Ins Co. ofN.Y. 1,506,000 Penn Jrire Insurance Co. 1,675,90(1 Scottish Commercial, Ulasgow, 6,000,000 (LIFE INSURANCE.) Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee 119,000,000

Loaucd in Indiana, over 2/}00,000. paid in Indiana, over 900,000. Losses paid In Terre Haute during past tlx years, over 41,000.

R. J. P. WORRISLL,

Office, LINTON HAWSION, Southwest corner 6th and Ohio Streets. Office hours from 8 a. m. te 1 p. m. and from

to«p.m.

Pracllco now' limited to diseases of the SYK and EAR,

OSEPH RICHARDSON, M. I)

OOiee on Ohio St, Bet. 3rd ric Ztl».

TERRE

HAUTE,

IND.

O. LINCOLN,

p-m

Office, 221 Main Btreet, near Seventh. Extracting and artificial teeth specialties. All work warranted. (d&w-ti)

R. J.MILLS

would most respectfully announce to tne citizens of Terre Haute and vicinity, that he has opened, on the corner of 18th and Chestnut streets, a Medical Office, where he will trfeat all classes of Chronic and acute diseases, of both sexes, in the most scientific and successful manner, either with or without electricity.

Offlco and residence on corner of 18th and Chestnut streets, three streets east of Vanda11a depot. VisitB made to the country, if required. (febl7-ly)

DR.

L. H. BARTHOLOMEW,

Surgeon and Mechanical ,•

DENTIST,

Dental Boom, 157 Main Street, near 6th, TKKKK HAUTE, IND. j.. 0*-^^

Nitrous Oxide Gas administered lor pan ess Tooth Extraction.

GW.

BALLEW, DENTIST,

Office, 119 Haln Street, over Suge'i old confectionery stand. TERRE HAUTE, IND. $j

Can be found in office night anu day,

Business Cards.

CAL

THOMAS,

Optician and Watchmaker For the trade, Main street, near Sixth, sign of big man with watch.

WP.

MYER,

Tinware and Job Shop,

114 south Fourth st. opp. Market House. A full stock of Tinware. Special attention given to Job Work.

RW.

RIPPETOE

Gene vl Dealer in

GROCERIES, ..w VISIONS AND PRODUCE, National Block, 166 Main street

KISSNER,

Wholesale and Retail Sealer In

Pianos, JNelodeons, Organs,

Musical Instruments, kc., Palace of Music, 48 Ohio Bt

STOVE DEALERS. HEELER A SELLERS,

Street, between Eighth and Ninth, TERRE HAUTE, IND.,

Keep on hand at their place of business

large and well selected slock of

-Lt and Dealer in

8 at

fib 00

sa»

19 IN

iSTOVES, TIN AND HARDWARE, And ask the public to call and price their goods before buying elsewhere and be benefitted thereby.

Produce and Commission OS. H. BRIGG8, PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MER-

CHANT,

HIDES,* ^ELTS, RAGS, BUTTER, EGGS, AV., Corner of Fourthand^hewstreets,

TERRE HAUTE, IND,

RESTAURANTS.

H. ROUSER'S

610 00 BOO in

MONTHLIES.

GRAND

Restaurant and Dining Booms,/

No. 610 MAIN STREET,

North Side, TERRE HAUTE,

1KB.

OWnr'DAY AKD MIGHT.

HOTELS.

ENDERSON HOD8E.

8 00

Ctafe*"* Book, priee M, and Matt

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4 25 SIS

fit

F- P. NICHOLS, Prop'r.

South Fourth St, Bet Walnut and Poplar, TERRE HAUTE, IND. First

Class Boarding by the week, Day or Meal. Best wagon yard in the city. "Bleat be the art that can immortalize, The art that baffles Time's tyrannic claims to quench 1U"

A DORN YOUR HOMES.^ iTou Can do so Chetfp,^

At 802 MAIN ST.

CHR0H0S, ENGRAVINGS

v«

Copying From Old Miniatures^

In India Ink end Water Colors, in the A .finest style, also MOULDINGS

AKD

FRAMES AT THE

VERY LOWEST RATES.

Call

and eee. Good agent* wanted