Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 September 1877 — Page 2
TH F. MAIL
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
TERKE HAUTE, SEPT. 1,1877.
THE OLD-TIME REVERIE.
BT S. A* KtTKSOH*
-^4In the firelight I am sitting. Where I've oft lmes Rat before,
When a youthful group was round me, ID the olden time of yore When the echo of their voices f-
In a merry laugh ran ou\ Till the chorus of their blending Bant into a happy shoot.
I remember how the footfalls Bounded lightly 'cross the floor, While I listened to the sighlags
Of the night wind oui tTie door How the lamplight cast their figuresIn dim shadowstn the wall, As ey started lor the doorway
And they vanished in the hall.
Bat that circle now Is wanting, With their happy faces bright, Fori miss them—sadly miss them—
As I loneiy mnse to-night. But the old time I remember, Which I londly used to know, And in happy dreams I wancer
To the Isty long ago.
A Collector's Story.
'Good-by, dear,' I said, after I bad pat on nay coat and gathered up the reins. She took hold of my wrist and de tained me. 'Wait a moment, John.'
Then she called to Mack, my great Newfoundland dog, and be came oat of the house and at a motion from ber, jumped into the sleigh, and curled himself at my feet.
He was a noble fellow, my brave Mack, I really think there never was such another dog. I bad broagbt him all the way from New Hampshire, and we bad grown to feel perfectly secure in the house with him. so watchful and faithful was the noble dog but it never occurred to me to take bim on this, trip in a sleigb. 'Belle,' I said, 'you are a silly girl. The dog will only be a botheration to me, and ten to one you'll want him here before I get back.' •Now, John, please do take him—for me! Please do take bim—take bim just because your silly little wife is afraid to have you go without him." 01 coarse, the girl had ber way. I was never able to understand how a man can
resiBt
Saveand
this kind of persuasion.
I never could, and never expect to. So I kissed her, chirruped to Chevalier, and he boundea away through the settlement like an arrow.
It was the dead of winter, and an unusually heavy snow bad fallen, filling in the roadway to the depth of four feet. There bad been travel enough to pack it bard, so that I found the sleighing excellent. Chevalier's hoof# glanced nimbly over the snow, and in two hours I bad made more than twenty miles, and had reached the log cabin of one of our best and most intelligent customers. He received me with a hearty welcome, and when I told bim what my mission was, be invited me to make bis cabin my headquarters while I remained in the neighborhood. I thankfully accepted the invitation, stayed all night, and the next morning, under the gaidance of Dick, my host's youngest son, a olever boy of thirteen, I started out to make my first expeiiment in collecting. It does not concern my story to describe everything that happened to me during my stay with our fnend, which lasted rather more than a week.
When I began to realize that I had collected about as much money as my employer expected from this trip, I sat down tooount it up. I had been out all day, and it was now just at the edge of the evening. Supper was almost ready, and I made up my mind that if my portmanteau contained as much as I thought, I would only wait to appease my hunger before returning to the settlement. I poured out the money on the floor, ana oounted it. It was all in
old silver, for bank notes would been despised among us then, and there was the sum of eleven hundred and seventy-three, dollars. They were all sorry to let me go, and made me promise to come again and bring my wife before the winter was gone. I put on my coat and muffled up my ears, and started.
The sleighing was still excellent the night was clear and oold, and the full moon made it as bright as day. We skimmed along for a mile or two. my thoughts all the time on Belle and the happy meeting we would have in a little time, when the extraordinary conduct of Mack attracted my attention. He had been lying quietly at my feet, with the rug which enveloped them also covering him. He suddenly shook It •ff, growled savagely and began to smell around the bottom of the sleigh.
Had it been summer time, I really believe I should have thought the animal was going mad. Never before bad I seen him behave thus, and hie conduct troubled me so that I shouted to Chevalier, and we skimmed away faster. About sixty rods ahead I saw a tall, blasted tree, which I had been told was half way from the stttiement to Mr. Selkirk's, and pulling out my watch, to observe the time, 1 saw to my surprise that I had been an hour and three-quar-ters coming twelve miles. I think I was never so astonished in my life. The capacities of Chevalier were so well known to me, and I was so sure that bis ordinary gait, without the frequent urging I had given him, would carry Mack and me a mile in six minutes, mile after mile, that I could not comprehend that be had been so slow, while apparently traveling
fast.
I called to bim
again, and he stepped off smartly the dog growled, and. I am heartily ashamed to say It, I kicked him hard in my unreasonable anger. I had cause to repent of the*e
Kicks
before another ten
minute* had gone. I passed the blasted tree, and entered nponthelast half of the way. Before me now lay a long, level stretch of road, without an obstruction or turn tor several miles, and one dassling white surface of snow upon it, I looked out ahead, and just as far as 1 could see to disunguiah anything from the snow, probably not less than a mile away, 1 saw a black speck. It did not hold my attention when I first saw it but as Chevalier sped on, rapidly devouring the distance, it took form ai*d aisa, until when within thirty rods ol it I could plainly ace that it was a man. There be stood, upright in the middle of the toad, without speech or motion, apparently wslting 1
Waa be waiting for me Did he know that I was coming with eleven hundred dollars in cash in a portmanteau at on feet? And, If *o« what would he do? Ft»r the fin* aince my absence
them ready. —, overcoat pocket, and
right-band
in
.vttnd
nothing I
felt in the left one and found nothing. They had both been reaoved, ud at Selkirk's. I was certain I had tbem fliea I returned there at night.
A horrible suspicion of intended murder and robbery flashed upon me and here I was stripped of my weapons and defenceless. Tne horse was now within four rods of the motionless Agure in the road, and bearing down rapidly upon him. I shouted to Chevalier, and lashed bim with the ends of the reins. He bounded like a bolt up to tb: manstopped in his fright, swerved, and was instantly seised by the bit, ana bis head brought down by the powerful ruffian. Before I bad time to think, there was a shout which I distinctly heard, "Your money, quick!" and then came two pistol shots, in such rapid succession that I could not have oounted two between them. One ball passed through my hat, as I afterwards discovered, within an inch of my bead the other went between my right arm and my body, cutting the skin in its passage. Almost at the Instant Maek gave a ferocious growl, and dove under the seat on which I waq sitting. I heard him snapping and growling, and heard a bumau voice, balf-8c.ffocated, try to say, "O God! 0 God and then I thoroughly realized the aiti^ation. The man who bad stopped me was struggling with Chevalier, desperately striving to keep bi« bead down, when a happy thought came to my deliverance, and I quickh jerked the lines, one after the other Qu ck as thought the noble brute broke away from the ruffians grasp, and reared straight up in the air above his bead, coming down again instantly. I saw that the man was lying motionless beneath Chevalier's hoofs, and at a word from me, the animal flew onward, while I lashed bim into greater speed. The growls of Mack underneath me bad ceased, as well as the cries of the miserable being who was suffering in bis jaws and in a few moments the glorious dog came out again and put his bloody paws on my knees, while he whined as if requesting some recognition of what he had done. I was terribly excited—I could n«^t kelp it the awful trial I had just passed through was enough to work upon stronger nerves than mine but I put my arm around the noble fellows neck, and hugged bim as if he had been a woman. The last half of the way was passed lather quicker than the first and the gallant Chevalier was covered with sweat when he stopped at the door of my employer's house.
I tumbled in upon my wife and her parents sitting around the fire, and I was just about speechless from cold and the reaction of my excitement. I found voice after a while to say that I wasn't hurt at all, and to ask my father-in-law to look under the seat of the sleigh. What he found there all of you know by this time. The man was stone dead, Maok's teeth having torn and mangled his neck frightfully. Selkirk came to the settlement next day, and with bis help the web of villiany was completely unraveled. Both men had been at bis house the afternoon previous to my return, but had left about an hour before I came. Both might easily know that I had a large sum of money with me. for no secret had been made of my business, and it bad been talked over in tteir hearing. After talking with Mr.
Selkirk,
I remembered for the first time that I had left my overcoat in the sleigh after coming back to the house that afternoon. Here, then, .was the opportunity which the intended robbers and murderers embraced to steal my piBtols. and for oue of tbem to seorete nimself under the sleigb seat. In the wocds, near the scene of the encounter, Mr. Selkirk found one of their horses, saddled and bridled, and hitched to a tree and he had no doubt that it had been ridden there that evening by the man whom Chevalier had killed.
Little Mabel at Long Branch,
WEDNESDA Y, LONG BRANCH.
Dear
Newspaper.—I am a little girl
just nine years old. My Mama is a Dutiful lady she is the lovliest woman in the world I beard a gentleman tell her so and mama sent me away to play on the beech. We have got a baby a pretty big Baby two years old he is a dear little fellow. Marie takes care of him. Marie is the bonne. Marie is pretty cross she slaps us both.
The Baby has great big blue eyes and little cnnnin yellow curlsall over his head.
I have a big sash A blue shoes on every afternoon but I love the baby best, his name is Robby. Pa loves the baby too A he loves me. He comes here sometimes on Sunday. I have a Pony here but I like my papa best. Bathing is go or re
Mama sends Mario to bath me in the sea. She undresses me A the oathing man dips me and I screagb baby screagbes in a little tub in the bath house.
I hate the sea. But I love the Sand I dig in it and make houses. It won't make you dirty. My name is Mabel but the children here at the hotel call me Runaway dear. That is not because I am like a horse but because my Mama who is most I'utiful and wears butiful dresses and shiney rings say to me all the time runaway dear. And the gen tleman with the black moustash that says my mama is the loviwt woman in the world says runaway too, so I run-
a*Mv*
Papa's moustash is gray I like
that best. It is only five o'clock bat mama is out driving A Marie will slap roe if I don't go to bed. It is very light I don't want to go to bed. Marie says in french but I cant write it down In French Your Mama is out with hiui she says him hard so HIM.. And she wont he in till ten she never is. Go to sleep.
Marie is cross Mama Is a butiful lady. I bate that gentleman with a black moustash- I wont go to sleep. Your affectionate friend. MABBL. 4 THURSDAY. LOSO BRANCH.
Dear ewspaper.—My papa is here He saw the letter I wrote yon only for fun. He says I must write you more and be will send It to be printed because it may do somebody good. I don know what be means. 1 oan't write so good ss I did yesterday or spell so good for I feel bad Last night when mama was out driving with the gentleman with black moustash Marie put me to bed when the sun was shining she
was
going
to put Robby to bed two but Robby is only a baby and he yeld Mama Mama. Marie said Uas toi petit diable and she tooked him hard. The waiter that kisses Marie on tbe beech when I alnt looking oame to the door and said she most hurry up if she expected to go with bim and have any fun at tbe dance. She said this petit diable wont 20 to sleep she rocked him bard and Robby cried load all UM time. He waant steepfr
I told Marie so and she »ski be was thirtatv and gave him someting to drink out ofa «nd then be went to
"^T^went to sleep two A when It was dark In the night1 woke up. Tbers was a Mg moon but the corners sll black and I saw the big wolf that Maria tells me about standing in a black oorner. I dident scratch because my throat hurt me so I couldent but covered up
my hesd and prayed. I prayed now I lay me down to sleep because that was all I could think of but theres nothing about a wolf in it. I guess God knew I meant about the wolf.
In a rood while Marie came In softly and when I said O Msrie the wolf was here she said quickly dW Robby wake up. I said no. A I clung to her drew when she went to Robhy's crib she had a light. .j
Robby was fast ssleep and Marie tried to wake bim up. I said what makes you wako him up? Marie dident "lap be looked at me most awful me to my bed and put cuvered me up and said if
me then and she dra me in and I dident go to sleep with my face to the wall ste would bring the wolf so I lied very still. Maries voice was queer as if she had a cold and she kept shaking lifm Robby and trying to wake she mid Sainse Vi
up then
j'erare
and she told me
not to stir or she would bring tbe wolf and I beard her open ber trunk andI take things out of it quick and softly and sbe said if I wasent still devils would eat me. I screagbed and sbe put ber band over my mouth and said sbe would keep tbe wolf A the devels away if I was as still as a mouse A shut my eyes and put my fingers in my ears. I did that fcr about a good while and I went to sleep.
When I woke up again it was dark almost and I couldn't see the moon 1 called Marie and tben I crept over to ber bed. It was all white and Marie wasent 111 it I cried out very loud and fell on the floor tben I climbed into little Robby's crib and laid down by bim. Robby was all cold and I covered bim up and said now I lay me twice. Once for him be cause hes a baby and can't say his prayers. And I put my arms around him to make him warm and I went to sleep. When I woke up to-day it was sunshiny it was children's dinner time. A great many people all the waiters and chainbermaids and geiitlemen and ladies were all around our crib.
A lady said O poor little thing take her away. They lifted me out on tbe floor and a gentleman said O no she may tell us about it. I said where is Marie Robby must get up and De dressed and a lady stood before tbe crib and I said is he asleep. She said yes he is asleep where is Marie I told them perhaps the wolf had eaten her up but I don believe that much when the sun shines, I told them all that happened in the night like I have told you Everybody looked strange and said Marie would be tryed and hunged if they caught her I laughed and saidl was glad shohad gone because sbe slapped us and I hoped nobody wouldent catch her. I said I could dress my little brother.
All the ladies said no no And a lady cried and kissed me and said she was going to dress him but I must be good and go to Mama's room I told the lady not to cry because Marie went away. I wont cry for her I'm glad But that lady said she would dress Robby so I went to Maya's room. A strange gentleman was there who looked ery sorry and more people too and he said something to mama.
I saw my mama fall down on the flo°r all white and she said I'm punished I'm punished O my Baby. I said Mama don't cry that lady will dress the baby. That strange gentleman gave mamy something out of a little bottle and he made Bridget tbe chambermaid tike me down on the beech.
Bridget rocked herself and cried and told me stories and was good to me. She dident slap me like Marie. Bridget said Marie was a frinch divil and she had gone away in the night and nobody wont find her any more. I am glad of that Papa came down to the beech for
mBridttet
Papa's eyes are all red I showed him the letter I wrote yesterday to make him laugh, he doesent laugh. He says write my little girl, write all you can think of tben you shall kiss your little brother.
Pa says to the strsnge man Are there no mothers nowadays doctor am' papa cried more. Hush the doctor says she is to be pittied this blow has almost killed her*
Papa says write my
darling
write.
Doctor this child shall write all this as a lesson to some other gay mother. My hair is all wet papa cries so. Excuse my bsd writing 1 never wrote suob along letter before pspa will take me to Robby now. He says for the last time for the last time. My little boy 0 my little boy. I feel bsd too but I don see what papa means because Robby is ssleep on Mama's bed. Good bv Your affecshnnate friend.
Good by MABEL.
Catching Whales*
HOW THE ORE AT MONSTERS ARE CAUGHT., *,
The Bomb-Lance-KiUing JPAa^—^4 Dangero Enterprise— Trying the Blubber/or OH—The Yield.
With the exception of a brief narration of Mr. Jonah's marvelous voyage in the belly of a whale, we believe that Holy Writ is silent regarding this monster of the deep, and we therefore infer that tbe followre loiiou
the
nth century of the Christian era does it appear that persons engaged in kin dred pursuits to those whom Christ beckoned to follow him, that be might make them "fishers of men," realised or understood thst there was such value in the carcass of the mighty wbale as would justify the peril In which they must mace themselves to overcome and capture him. During that century, however, the Norwegians, afterexhausting tbe nearest fisheries, extended their whaling expeditions to tbe ice-burdened ooasts of Greenland, with much success. For tbe five centuries succeeding, this profitable enterprise seems to have been a nation, when
oped tbe Industry to great proportions. In the latter part of the sixteenth century the English, Dutch aad Danish fleets oame in for a share In the sport and spoils. And here we have an instance of the mercenary disposition of our mother country, for no sooner bad she discovered tbe importance of UM Arctic whale fisheries than
A KOYAI, CHART**
Was granted to tbe English Maseovy company, giving It the exclusive right to allthe fisheries on tbe Spitaenbergen ffirtrr* Bat the Dutch having the anterior claim by right of disoovery, would not submit to this rolirg, and their Ms contested the right, even at the
harpoon's point, coming out of tbe fray with a full cargo of blubber in their vessels' holds, as well ss the trophies of victory flsnnting from their mainmasts. A few years after, however, those fisheries were declsred open to all nations. In America, the New En{ land colonies, soon sfter their formation, gave attention to the enterprise by establishing stations on tbfeir own coast and prosecuting their work by means of smsJl boats, so long as whales were found In sufficient numbers to be profitable after which they fitted out large fleets and pursued the business with great vigor at all the important Arctio fisheries. They thus monopolized tbe business, ana soon the competition from other nations slmost entirely left the whsling waters. New Bedford, Mass., now controls nearly the whole whaling business— bavin# fleets plying constantly between her oil warehouses and nearly all the more important whale fisheries, although the fate of the New Bedford fleet in tbe Pacific-Arctic waters last October or November—eleven vessels with their cargoes and implements being destroyed in an ice goige, and some of the crew having perishea from fatigue and exposure—greatly interrupted the business of the companies to which they belonged, and peihaps deterred others from engaging in so perilous an enterprise.
WHALE
FISHING
Is a taxing as well as exciting and per Hons pursuit, and, like persons under taking any other business, the angler for whales muit lata rough knowledge of his duties, gained from practical experience if he would be successful. Every one who has cast his baited hook will offer voluntary testimony that the silent waiting and watching they must of necessity endure, ere they are rewarded by even a "nibble" of recognition, is mighty trying to the patience, and does somewhat disrobe the sport of its keen relish. But this experience is luxurions idling, compared to the mo uoionous watching of the whale fisher, whether the prospect upon which be gazes from outlook be an Arctic landscape, or the variegated the Santa Cruz mountains on the one band, and the broad expanse ©f the Pa
FT
said the telegraph had brought
him from New York quick, he kissed me but he was so white and his lips were white and his hands were cold. I ran to our room to see Robby. The strange man that looked sorry was there. My Papa cried out loud.
I ran to my mamas room she was .in a chair all still like a picture. Her eyes were big and her hair was sll over her butiful dress.
I said mama and she threw up her armsand said O so loud O my baby my baby. Then some people seut me away but Robby was asleep on Mama's bed but they wouldent let me kiss him or go near him Robby was all white.
^"oror?hr»Si.^d',S»lo«
bbis
landscape, the
cific,
with its rippling waters sparkling and gleaming under the glowing California sun, on the other. He will be satisfied if his season's catch be but tbreeor four big, fat whales—but alack aday! his disappointment is sad to look upon, and his cursesof luck and weather are rasping iudeed, if he is forced to give over and return at the close of tbe season with empty casks, empty provision box and a vivid insurance of empty pockets for a few months followdlng. The old fashioned harpoon an barbed lance that were used In whale fishing for centuries,are now supplanted by the swivel harpoon and bomb lance, tbe former is so constructed that its shaft can be inserted Into a swivel gun, plsced iu Its proper position at the boat's bow, and when a whale comes within range, it is discharged, and seeks its mark with tremendous velocity and considerable accuracy, considering that it carries with it a strong cable, one end remaining attached to the boat,by which, if the shot is suooessful, the animal may be checked in his frenzied flight or, if be escapes unhsrmed, tbe harpoon may be recovered.
THE BOMB IiANOK
Is an explosive iron cartridge, about an inch in diameter and ten inches in length, with a barbless point. It is shot from a short thick gun, with sufficient force to drive it well into the body of the whale, where It explodes and Its deadly work is accomplished. The explosive material in the bomb is ignited by a fuse which takes fire from the combustion of the powder in the gun. This gun, although it is very heavy and Its recoil powerful, is fired "off hand" as your woodman would say—that is, from the shoulder—and not unfrequently he who takes aim and pulls trigger must need nursed tenderly for half an hour or so and have his deadened spirits revived by few draughts of artificial spirits before be is able to comprehend whether his aim is true or not. If the shot hss been fstal the animal flounders but a few moments in bis death agonies, when he rises to tbe surface, turns over on his back and floats a resistless prey to the fisherman's avarice. He Is then towed ashore to the station, or taken alongside the large whaling ship, as the case may be. when his semi-cremation takes place not amidst weeping and mourning, but under the sound of voices whose tones are exceedingly gleeful.
TB MOSWTER'S CUNNING.
The whale sometimes shows a good deal of cunning when he is attacked, and were it not that he is forced to rise to the surface at intervals of ten minutes to breathe, he would have but little difficulty in eluding his pursuers. Often when they are struck with a harpoon tbey will dive to a great depth, tnaking the rope windlass smok« from its rapid revolution as fathom after fathom of cable Is drawn out of the boat at the demand 01 tbe giant strength before it. Again, when attacked in close quartera, they will sometimes dive beneath the boat and rise longitudinally with and beneath it. so that the boat is Interposed between tnem and dangeir. In an instance like this, a Captain of a fisher's boat at San Simeon on tbe Pacific coast, not to be outdone by tbo monster, fired tbe fatal bomb lance directly through the bottom of the boat with the desired fleet.
THE BLUBBER.
This is the substance which contains the oil and is the most sought after. It lies just beneath the skin completely envel oping tbe body from head to tail. It is a fatty substance varying in thickness from 1 to feet, and serves thfc triple purpose to the animal while living of keeping him warm, rendering the specific gravity of the whole body lighter, and resisting tbe powerful pressure of tbe water In the great depth to which be often descends. By means of a blubber* spade tbe blubber is removed from tbe body in large sections. It is then placed In the try-vats or kettles and reduced to cracknels and oil by tbe ordinary boiling process—tbe cracknels from tbe batch serving as fuel for redncing tbe next, the whole of the blubber thereby being utilised. In the polar regions the natives use the blnbber of tbe whale for food and burning, and also eat the fl«»b while the whalebone and large boo* are used in tbe construction tents, sledges, bsrpoons and spears, its sinews for twine and thread, ana its membranes —which, when
properly
dried, are
almost transparent—for windows instead of glass, thus putting the whole of tbe monster animal to practicable use. But at tbe wbale fisheries of civilised men the bulkier part of the careaas Is out loose to drift oat to sea, where its quickdecaying parts become food for sea fowl and fish, wbiletbs bones «dnk Into the mysterious depths of ocean, and for aught we know, strve as sportive srebes and galleries for mermen and maidens. The whalebone Is a heavy, fibrous substance, very elastic and durable. This supplies in the whale's mouth the plans or teeth In moat animals it is suspended from the upper Jaw or roof of we mouth, and its weight in Urge whalea sometimes exceeds two tons.
The lateral edge of tbe bone is fringed with loose fibers or pliant bristles tLrough which the water that is taken into tbe animal's mouth in feeding may be easily ejected, while tbe small fish and sea insects upon which it feeds are retained within by this network nature has provided.
Babies cry because they suffer and tbe most reliable remedy for the relief of their discomfort is Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup. Only 25 cents per bottle.
New York Bath Hotel.
Tke Plsec fl»r Western People to Stop—Central, heap, Com* fortablc,« oniiiioalous.-
Many western people visit New YoM, and the question of a hotel to stop at is an important one. Millers's Ba^h Hotel, 37, 39 and 41 west Twenty-sixth street, exactly fills the demands of uine out of ten of our people. Its location is unsurpassed, in tbe midst of the up town hotel center, it being from one to four squares from the Fifth Avenue, the Hoffman, the St. James, Delmonic's, the Sturtivant, the Hotel Brunswick, the Coleman, the Gilsey and the Grand. The Broadway line of cars is ou one side and tbe Sixth avenue line is on the other. It is also in the immediate vicinity of Booth's theatre, sud tbe Fifth Avenue, the Broadway and the Eagle
Connected with MillerV Bath Hotel is the Chief Turkish, Roman and Electrical Bath Establishment of New York. Guests of this botel get their baths at reduced rates. The bathing list comprises upward of four hundred different baths and water applications, varying from the most thorough I ath known, to the mildest and most delicate application. These are carefully adapted to the condition of each patient, and are applied in a judicious and skillful manner.
This hotel is a model of quiet and
of S?b«^hmSke«lX^llei"tohI^
cojor ronize(j by
the very best class of people.
It provides entertainment in most respects more acceptable than the largest hotels and at much more reasonable
rates. Business men going from the west to stop in New Yorlt lor a few days will find it a most desirable place, and persons contemplating a lengthy say in the city can do so well nowhere else as at tbe Bath Hotel. It has become quite a resort for Indiana people, particularly for citizens of Indianapolis, Evanaville and Terre Haute.
Board is given with or without rooms and rooms with or without board. Tran sient boarders or lodgers received at all times, day or night. Price for board per week, from flO up, according to size and location of rooms. By the aay $2.50, in single rooms.
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Address E. P. MKLI.BR,
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If all ±^iminniiiiniT Mim Ameriean Agriadtml*, price tLM and /teMoreaft1 Memi/Uit','" price fS/W, and
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THOMAS H. NELSON. ISAAC N. PIKKCK.
NELSON
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The M*11 (Jodev't Ijody'i Book, pries S&00, and rpuZ IMUe Corporal, price IL60 and The Mail Beribner'* Mtmdfa, prloe UM, and The
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and'fhe
lull* XI yantener'i Monthly, price 8JOO-and The H«ll «HMMI Yomna'tbUU Sural, and The Mail..-.™-1%tJPwr*ery,price*1.50, and The Mali tit
IN t«
mchoku, price UM, and The Mall AU the pi SMIIMH offered by the aosve pob llniloni srs Included In Uils stabbing ar xangemsnt.
Address W. ft. WWffAU, rabUaner Saturday Evening Mali TKRRJCH AUTB. 1
& PIEKCE,
Attorneys at IJIW, TERRE HAUTE, 1ND.
Office, rorth side Main st. near Thi d. fi
ASA M. BLACK.
EDWIN W. BLACK)
LACK A BLACK.
ATIOR&EYS AT'LAW, 313% Main street. TERRE HAUTE, IND.
N. G. BCFF.
BUFF
S. M. BKKCHEK
& BEECHER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OFFICE—No 320 Ohio Street, bet. Third and Fourth, north side.
T1TILEY, WORKS & CO., INSURANCE AGENTS,
523% Main Street. TKKRK HAUTE, IND
Companies Repre csted. (KIKE INSURASCK.)
Ins. Co. North .\meiica,Phila. Niagara Fire Ins to. oiN.Y. P.nn r'ire Insurance Co. Scottish Commercial Glasgow. (LIFE INSURANCE.) wauke
96,606,000 1,500,000 1,675,900 6,000,000
Northwestern Mutual, Mi waukee 519,000,000 Loaned in Indiana, over 2,600,000. Losses aid in Indiana, over 500,000. Lo*ses paid in Terre Haute uuring past six years, over 41,000.
R. J. P. WORRELL,
1
Office, LIKTON MANSION, Southwest cornel- ttth and Ohio Streets. Office hours frym 9 a. m.te 1 m, and from 4 totip. m. Practice now limited to diseases of the
EYE aad EAR,
OSEPH RICHARDSON, M. I)
Us
WHlce on Oblo SU, Ret. Srd A Ilk. TERRU HAUTE, IND.
O. LINCOLN,
JR
Offlce, 221 Main street, near Seventh. Extracting and artificial teeth specialties. All work warranted. idAw-tf)
R. J. MILLS
would most respectfully announce to tne citlieens of Terre Hautt and vicinity, that he has opened, on the corncr of 13th and Chestnut streets, a Medical Office, where he will treat all classes of Chronic and acute diseases, of both sexes, in the most scientific and successful manner, either with or without electricity.
Office and residence ou corner of 13th and Chestnut streets, three streets east of Vandalia depot. Visits made to the country, if required. (febl7-ly)
DR.
L. H. BARTHOLOMEW,,
Sargsoa aad Mechaalcal
DENTIST,
Dental Kooin, 157 Main Street,, near ttth,
TKKRK HAUTE, IND.
Nitrous Oxide Uas administered lor pai* ess Tooth Extraction.
W. BALLEW, DENTIST,
ll» Mala Street, aver B«|t1 •Id Mafrrtioncry staad. TERRE HAUTE, IND. Can be found in office night anu day,
Business Cards.
(1AL
THOMAS,
Optlciaa aad Watchmaker For the tradq, Main street, near Sixth, sign of big man with watch.
P. MYER,
a
Tinware and Jab Shop,
114 south Fourth st. opp, Market House.
lt
full stock of Tinware. Special attention given to Job Work. it
RW.
RIPPETOE
Gene H1 Dealer in
GROCERIES, -.^VISIONS AND PRO' DUCE, National Block. 186 Main strsst
KISSNER,
Jm Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Pianos, Melodoona, Organ* Musical Instruments, Ac.,
Palace of Music, 48 Ohio ft
STOVE DEALERS.
in**
HEELER & SELLERS,
in Street, between Eighth and Nlntlv TERRE HAUTE, IND., Keep on hand at their place of business a large and well selected stock of
STOVES, TIN AND HARDWARE. And ask the public to call and price their goods before buying elsewhere and be benefitted thereby.
Produce and Commission 08. H. BB1QGB, RIODUCE
AND COMMISSION MEFTCHANT,
and Dealer In 1
HIDES, PELTS, RAOS, BL ITER, EGGS, AC., 1|
Corner of Fourth and, herry streets, TERRE HAUl'E.lNl).
HOTELS.
HENDERSON
vff
HOUSE.
F. P. NICHOLS,
500 6 U0 9
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.
"Blest be the ait thai can immortalize, The art that baffies Times tyrannic claims to quench
it."
^DORN YOUR HOMES.
XF
4
You Can do so Cheap,
At 802 MAIN ST.
CHROMOS, ENGRAVINGS
Copyiiig From Old Miniatures, In India Ink and Water Colors, in the'-* finest style, also MOULDINGS A9D FRAMES AT THE
VERY LOWEST RATES.
Call aad ice. C—d ag«a«» wanted.
HOGS.
HENRY
BROWN,
HMUBirPEB, TERRE HAUTE, IND.
Boys hogs every dayln the year/'esshnn ami no grumbling." Office on south Fourth str wt, one half square south of the market In use, one door south of H* nden*. house. All 1 ssk is to try me. Trade with me onct ndyou will trade with me again.