Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 January 1878 — Page 8
THE MAI I-
A Paper
for the
People.
Personal.
W. H. Fisk is getting the better of an attack of rheumatism. Charley Chapman his taken the steW' ardsbip of the Terre Hante House.
A. G, Austin, in another column tells how to solve the financial problem. W. H. Bannister has accepted a position iu Miller A Cox's clothing house,
Herbert Madison started in the new year as book keeper inJIU. S. Revenue office.
Harry Thompson, who has been visiting his brother in Texas, joined his father her® on Thursday.
I cannot afford to miss a single issue of The Mail," says A. L. Gardner, Chambersbarg, Penn, as he renews,
Can't do without it," says I. L. Mahan, the Indian Agent, at Bayfield, Wisconsin, in renewing bis subscription to The Mail.
Rufus E. Stevens and wife, who spent the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Chadwick, have returned to their In dianapolis home.
Our former townsman,'Ed ward Hitchcock, editor of the Casey Exponent, has been appointed postmaster at Casey. We congratulate him on his good fortune.
A party of friends celebrated the twenty-first anniversary of Mrs. and .Mrs. Francis Steverson, at their south Fourth etreet residence, New Year's evening.
Fred Fiedler, on north Fourth street was just a half century old the last day of the old year, and that was the occasion of the large and pleasant party at his house the night the year ended.
Hon. M. C. Hunter drew into Dowling Hall, on Thursday evening, an audience beyond the seating capacity of the hall, and made a very able and exhaustive speech on the silver question.
The wives and daughters of Secretary Thompson and Senator Voorhees united in keeping "open house," in Washington, on New Year's day, which was fitting and proper, and-showed true neighborly spirit.
Wm. Br°nnan has purchased an interest in Geo. H. Hebb's job printing house. This combination makes an excellent firm, uniting, industry, skill energy aud a spirit of accommodation rarely found.
Miss Lou Freeman has recently finished a landaoapfc in oil that elicits general admiration. It may be seen at the Central Bookstore. Miss Freeman gives promise to take a front rank in oil painting as well as crayon drawing.
Miss Viola Hunter, of Paris, Ills., has on exhibition at the Central Bookstore, a large, very fine painting—a view on the Rhine—which is attracting much attention. It is to be disposed of by ehance—one hundred and fifty tickets at one dollar each.
The Turk has gained a victory. We reffer te our amiable young friend Charley Turk, of the postofflce, who was married on New Year's evening to the accomplished Miss Eva Ash, daughter of I. N. Ash. Rev. G. P. Peale was master of ceremonies.
Ed. W. Johnson invites his friends to call on him, at his well-known headquarters, when they want good, fresh and sweet oysters. People in the surrounding towns deal with him because of his known promptness and reliability.
R. Forster A Son, on Fourth street, JUst north of Cherry, have a nice line of well made and stylish furniture, and •reselling the same at surprisingly low prices. If you want anything in this Ifne it will be to your advantage to give them a call.
This weather and the terrible roads are hard on harness, and cause many readers of The Mail to go to F. O. Froeb's for repairs or for a new set. They go there because, from past experience, they know thai they will be honorably dealt with and that they will get the full value of their money.
W. n. PhIro it Co., in counting up tbeir sales, And that the year 1877 has besn the best since they have been in business. That Is, they have sold more instruments. Whether their profits have been so large is a question, on account of the low prices they have given, and will continue to give customers.
Somebody says "It is human to fall in sin, devilish to remain iu it, angelic to rise abovo it, aud that J. P. Brenuan is the best merchant tailor in the city. And by tho way, our readers should know that slno© the first of January, and until he receives his springstock, he will make to order and sell suits or single garments at ten per cent, less than his usual low prices. You can get a suit BOW at lower prices than ever before, at Brennan's, on Main street, east of Sixth street.
Button A Oo., at the Central Bookstore, are clearing away the debris of the holiday trade, and in the goods they are selling at a sacrifice are many beautiful household ornaments, pictures, frames, albums and such like. .Look in there as you pass and perhaps you may pick up a desirable bargain. Aa heretofore, they intend to hold the lead in stationery goods. Have you seen their new style tailing cards They are new and startling in shape. If you contemplate getting married go there for your wedding outfit, and for your correspondence use the nobby stationery of which they ahow so many styles.
Col. W. Thompson, secretary of the navy, accompanied by Miss Mary Thompson, Mrs. Capt. Law and Pay Inspector Looker, arrived here Thurs day afternoon. The party came in special coach of the Pennsylvania road and passed down the E. fe C. from the Vandalia to Col. Thompson's home at Spring Hill. The Colonel will remain here about a week.
Joe Reagan, for eight years employed in various capacities—but not as a pris oner—at Jefferson vil!e, returned here yesterday and will make this his home for the future. He reports our colony at the penitentiary doing well, and Terre Haute still carrying the banner for the greatest number of delegates at the State institution.
C. C. Genung, of Evansville, as he re news, remarks: "I need hardly say to you that consider your paper indispensable to a well regulated family, and hope to pay you many more two dol Inns" $ WIare*
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Rev. N. L. Brakeman, the former pop ular pastor of Centenary church, was in the city on New Years
day.
We are
sorry that he selected a time when we. were out for bis call,
People and Things.
A churph in Covington, ky., has gone into bankruptcy. The next Georgia Legislature will have but one colored member.
The "love of money is the root of all evil," but how all the world loves to root.
Mrs. Partington says few persons nowadays sufier from suggestions of the brain.
Of all the bad ways of beginning a new year, getting tipsy is one of the very worst.
Chicago has had a baby show swindle, too. The managers promised 93,000 in prizes, but gave none.
This is a seasoa when a man who wants to remember the poor, can sit down and think of himself the whole day long.
Forty prominent citizens of Lexington, ICy., all married men, have been indicted by the Fayette county Jury for card playing. ,,
If you were "as willing to be pleasant and as anxious to pleas9 in your own home as you are in the company of your neighbors you would have the happiest home in the world.
New York Commercial. 'Is there any Hell?' asks Canon Farrar. Well, Canon, just you get home from the lodge about 1 a. m. without a latchkey, and see for yourself."
Professor Gunning says that after a million years glaciers will cover Ohio. Then as now we suppose everybody out there will be trying to get off-ice.—New York Commercial Advertiser^
Judge Jere Black has a great dislike to ordering from a bill of fare when at dinner, and bis usualj direction to an attendant is "Bring nie anything that is proper for a civilized being to eat."
T. S. Arthur is writing another instructive story for married folks. It is frightful to think what divorce statistics would be to-day but for the labors of this amiable historian of impossible people.
Why is it that when a newspaper maa wants to know anything about the hereafter he sends somebody to interview Col. Bob Ingersoll? Don't they know that the Co'onel has never held foreign missions
Now that you have called on the young ladies and renewed your acquaintance, go to work, like a good fellow, and see if you can't get a home in which one of them shall do the honors next New Year's day.
The Kokomo Tribune tells of a preacher and his wife of that city, who have lived under the same roof for twelve years, but have not spoken to each other in that time. A suit for divorce has at last been filed.
Dr. Dio Lewis is now astride a new hobby horse. In feather pillows the Doctor has discovered the Herod of our modern civilization. He attributes the majority of deaths among children to overheated brains,'the result of lyingon feather pillows.
A Brooklyn doctor said dn the witness stand, the other day: "Many of my patients are in love with me, but I can not help that for it is a common experience among medioal men." Now let so ire of the handsome physicians of this city stand up and pour out the secrets of thoir sealed souls.
La&t week was a famous one for marriages in Salt Lake City. Sixty-five polygamous marriages were solemnized on Thursday, and as many more on Friday and Saturday. The people gathered in the Endowment House, and the weddings were reeled off at the rate of one every four minutes, i#
Out in Dakota the other day a stage load of passengers were compelled to hold their hands above their heads while a gang of highwaymen robbed them. One of the victi tns, who remarked: "This is a high handed piece of business," was allowed to keep his watch as a reward for his humor. Pons must be rare in the light atmosphere of the mountains.
The spirit of compromise is abroad among the freed men. A Florida negro, who had been a member of the State Senate, recently went to Washington and demanded the mission to Belgium as a recognition of the loyalty of his race. Failing in that effort, he asked tor the Consulship to Liverpool as afield for his personal genius. Again disap-
pointed, he recommended himself for clerkship in the departments. He has at last gratefully accepted a watchman's berth at |60 per month.
His wife caught him with his arms around the hired girl's neck, bat his ooarage even in this trying extremity never forsook him. "I suspected some one of stealing tho whiskey on the preserves, Jane, for some time, and of course ycu know her breath would have told if she was the guilty party."— Baltimore Sun.
In one of Murphy's temperance meetings in Troy, a "terrible example" was introduced to the audience. He bad beon brought irom the jail for the pur pose, having been sentenced to impris onment, with the alternative of fine, for drunkenness. He was recognized as a sot who had once been a respected and prosperous merchant. He told the story of his downward course, and so affected his hearers that they immediately con tributed the money to pay his fine.
A Kentucky preacher arose to speak and opened the Bible. The first verse that met his eye happened to be, "The voice of the turtle shall be heard in the land." "Brethering," said he, "at first sight one would not think there was much in this text but on a little consideration you will see there's a great deal in it. Now, you all know what a turtle is. If you've been along by a pond you' have seen them on a log sunning themselves. Now, it is said, 'The voice of the turtle shall be heard in the land.' Bat the turtle hasn't any voice that anybody ever heard so it must be the noise be makes in plunging off the log into the water. Hence, we conclude that immersion is meant, and that immersion will become universal."
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Feminitems
Decoration of pottery, the new mania, grows in favor with the ladies. Never write letters to a widow. She alway takes down the old box and compares yours with the other man's.
A Lockport woman tried to shoot herself because her husband, in asocial game at a party, kissed the girls with too much apparent pleasure.
The paramount question in the great minds of the day is, whether the ladies will attempt to skate this winter in the small pillow cases that encompass them and, if so, what will be the result of a fall?
A diver into the past says that the dress of our women of to-day is an exact copy of that worn by Diana \)f the Ephesians. That is the lady that Paul so disliked. Perhaps her dress "set him i."
New York Mall: There will be a marked change in the tendency of things or our stylish young ladies will get to wearing their bats so far back that they will have to lift them when they sit down, y,* fe
It is a bad strike that doesn't benefit somebody. The strikes of the cigarmakers in New York gave places to a large number of girls, who learned so quickly, and did the work so well, that they hold their places against the influence of the old workmen.
A St. Louis woman, cursed with the opiam habit, went to the insane asylum, and after treatment for a short time, has come forth entirely cured. It was hard discipline, she said, but she would endure ten timea as much for the liberty she now enjoys.
A benevolent woman residing in Tiffin, Ohio, being recently moved with pity for a destitute tramp, gave him a hearty meal and some old clothes. The thankful tramp sought to show his gratitude, and finding that the benevolent woman's husband lay sick of colic, prescribed a dose ot jimaon-weed tea. The hasband took It, and, unless it is mortgaged, there is now no enoumberance on the widow's farm.
Hooker, then
The late Mrs. General Miss Groesbeck, of Cincinnati, was once at an evening party in that city, when a young dandy was aaked If he would like to be presented to her. "O, yes," said he, iangnidly, "trot her out." The lady overheard the remark, and when he was presented she adjusted her eye glasses deliberately and slowly scanned his clothing from boot to collar. The survey finished, she waved her hand carelessly and said: "Trot him back I have seen all there Is of him." .Great doubts have often been thrown on alleged cases of burial alive, but the London Lancet mentions a recent most undoubted case at Naples. The grave in which a woman had been interred having been opened for the reception of another body, revealed the clearest proof of this dreadful circumstance. The poor creature had torn her clothes toplecea, and even fractured her limbs in her efforts to release herself. The doctor who signed the certificate and the municipal officer who sanctioned the interment have been sent to jail for three months for "involuntary manslaughter."
Mrs. Haweis divides the girls into two classes—the visible and the invisible and as there are many thousands mors women than men In the country, the importance of being visible, and consequently self supporting, cannot be exaggerated. The authoress Is very plain-spoken, and rightly so, when she says (in expressing her wonder that people should be surprised at women not marrying in the present day), "Girls are so seldom taught to be of any use whatever to a man, thai I am only astonished at the number of men who do marry." Alas for the girls who are not good look at, agreeable to live with, nor able to take care of themselves.
NBEDHA3TS MUSICAL CABINET. A novelty in musical instruments is the musical cabinet, a new invention which has been lately patented by E. P. Needham, manufacturer of the celebrated organs bearing his name. Several specimens of the new instrument were received Friday by Mr. L. Kussner of the Palace of Music. The cabinet is designed to take the place of the organs in churches, schools or families where the latter instrument is considered too expensive to purchase, or where practiced musicians cannot be found From the great simplicity of its construction, its cheapness and freedom from liability of getting out of order, it will probably come into general favor. Its simplicity is remarkable. There are no keys, no stops, no "valves nothing in fact but a bellows and a reed board. The music intended to be played is cut in stiff paper, instead of being printed on the paper. A small piece is cut out of the paper for each note. The paper is made to pass over the reed board by turning a crank, and the paper acting as a valve, of course when the openings in it pass over the reeds the proper note is produced. The bellows are worked and the paper moved by turning the same crank. The instrument will play both sacred and operatic music readily. Five pieces of music go with each instrument, and any other piece wanted can be ordered in the same manner and at the same expense as sheet musiG. A whole opera can be thus cnt in paper and played. It is said that Mr. Needham is now preparing an opera for it and, that when finished, the paper will be sixty feet long. The sound produced is very sweet and pleasant,' and compares favorably with that of the standard organs. We advise all to go to the Palace of Music and inspect the new machine for producing sweet melodies. .. 1H Jli
Financial Problem Solved!
SILVER AND GREENBACK DOLLARS PREFERRED TO QOLD5- EN PROMISES.
J5.000 DOLLAR DISTRIBUTION To the people yearly! Result of Strictly Cash Business, adopted for 1878 by
A. G. AUSTIN A CO.
Prices offered will Shake the Dry Bones of the Credit System! 10 per cent, saved to your families withheld from tramps of Credit System! Hardware sold at true value. &
CLOAKS.
Riddle & Hunsaker hare about Fifty Cloaks left, which Uhey will close out at a sacrifice. Ladies, now is your chance to get a Cloak cheap.
BEAUTIFUL PAINTING
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Last Moments of Mary, Queen of Scots
Will be given to the party holding the lucky number, January 26th
Nov person connected with our establishment will hold any tickets,
and the drawing will be under the management of
Disinterested Parties.
Everyone buying
FIVE DOLLARS
it.** worth of goods for.
a CASH
at our store before the drawing takes place will be entitled to a ticket.
J. F. JAURIET & CO., Marble Palace.
—A. RIEF, Gas and Steam fitter, No. 505 Ohio etreet, bet. 5th and 6th, remember,has a big assortment of Gas Fixtures, Plumbing Good3, Ac., which be is selling at very low pricee. Rebronzing of old gas fixtures is also very carefnlly done. Remember at 505 Ohio street, he holds forth. Guarded front by B. W. Morgan's two big guns.
ASSIGNEE'S SALE. See the bankrupt prices at the 99c store, 19Scts down to 160cts. 99cts down to SOcts. 49 etsdown to40cts.
MILLINERY.
Mrs. E. B. Cole is selling her millinery goods at bankrupt prices, in order to close out the winter stock, but proposes to continue the business.
Youladies, beware of the injurious effects of face powders. All such remedios close up tne pores of the skin, and in a short time destroy the complexion. If you would have a fresh, healthy and youthful appearance, use DR. HARTER'S IRON TONIC, and LIVER PILLS. For sale by all druggists.
J.
F. PROBST, -Dealer In-
MOULDINGS,
PICTURE FRAMES
Frames of heavy polished walnut and it any size from 8x10 to 24x80 at prices ranging from 50 c^nts to $100. „. ear.NO AGENTS! ":WJU&V
TTACHMENT NOTICE.
William O'Colllngs vs. Francis M. Cox, before Bluford Steele. Justice of the Peac of Linton towa^h p.Vigo countv, Indiana.
Said defendant, is hereby notified that on the 22d day of December, 1877, an ord of attachment for the sum of one hnndred and forty dollars was issued by me, the above named Justice ot the Peace, Against his goods in the above entitled action, and that said canse will be heard on the 29th day of January, 1878. at 1 o'clock p. m. of said day. BLUFORD STEELE. J. P. 5-4t
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Each purchafer of $5.00 worth of go numbered ticket, and on January 15tn, a disinterested committee will draw the tickets. The number drawn corresponding with the number of the prize, draws the $50.00 Shaw], which will beon exhibition in my show window until that date.
213 Ohio Street.
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New Orleans Sugar.
TOE FIRST
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N.O. SUGAR
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Just Received
At
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Pictures of every description framed in the moi tapproved manner, and at the low «st rates.
W. W. OLIVER'S!
Northwest cor. 4th and Cherry sts.
The first Mew Orleans Sugar of the season, and selling
Pounds
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$1.00.
for
gMITH & BURNETT ,. Are on the CORNER OF FOURTH AND WALNUT
With a full and fresh stock of
FAMILY GROCERIES
Comprising everything calculated to make the hungry feel happy, by selling them at snch .,
LOW PRICES
Thai all who call cannot fail to btiy. We are going to work up a trade if goods
MUST BE SOLD AT COST
To establish it. Come and see us and we will try to satisfy your wants. Wo will always guarantee low prices and fair weights.
Send your address to INDIANA" POLIS SKKD AND TEA COMPANY,
SEEDS AND TEAS Indianapolis. Indiana, and receive GIVEN by return mail samples of Seeds A WAT aud Tea FREE. Send town and county address. ja5 3m
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Remember that in renting either of tho above Instruments, for six months, and then buying a Piano or Organ, the rent paid .will be applied as part purchase money. Parents ifyCj
Give Your Children a Chance
This winter,' by renting an Instrument for them, and if they show talent and taate for music, buy them a piano or organ at the end of six months. Don't forget that
THE PALACE OP MUSIC,
No. 313 OHIO STREET,
Is the place where a good selection of renting Instruments can be seen and selected from.
GULICK & BERRY,
GENERAL DEALERS IN
DRUGS and MEDICINES
HEADQUARTERS FOR
PAINTS, WINDOW GLASS, OILS, &c.
MANUFACTURERS OF
OIL OF ARUICA I'
The best known remedy for chapped hands, face and lips. N.W. Cor. 4th & Main, terre haute, ind.
'OLD BELIHEl' DRUG STODE!
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