Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 April 1878 — Page 2

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PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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But week is so long! he said, 3 With a tossoir his early head. One, two, three, four, Are, six. seven Seven whole days! Why, in six, yon know (Ton said It yoonwlf—yon told me so), The great God np in heaven Made all the earth and the and skies, The treesC^nd the birds and the butterflies I How can I wait for my eeetla to grow •But a month is so long I" he said,

With a toss of his boyish head. Hear me count—one, two, three, four— Four whole weeks, and three days more Thirty-one days and each will creep As the shadows crawl over yonder steep Thirty-one nights, and 1 shall He Watching the stars climb op the sky! How can I wait till a m«nth is o'er

Bot a yeir lsso long!" he said, Uplifting bis brightyoang head, -t "All the seasons must oome and go Over the hills with footsteps slow— Aatamn and winter, sum'merand spring Oh, for a bridge of gold to fling Over the chasm—deep and wide, That 1 might cross to the other side, Where she is waiting-my love, my bride!" "Ten years m*y be Ion*," he said,

Blow raising his stately head. "But there's much to win, there smuch to Am must labor, a man ir nst choose, And be must be strong to wait! The years may be long, but who would wear The crown of honor, must do and dare! No time has he to toy with fate Who would climb to manhood's high estate!" "Ah! life is not long he said,

Bowing his grand white head. "One, two, three, four, live, six, seven !—,. Seven times ten are seventy. •. Seventy years! As swift their flight As swallows cleaving the morning lljbt, Or golden gleams at even. Life is thort as a summer night— -n, How

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O God, is eternity!"

From Scribner—April.

Two Saints of Foot-Hills.

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BRET ARTE.

It never was clearly ascertained how long they bad been there, Tbe first settler ol Rough-and-Ready—one Low, playfully known to his familiars as 'The Poor Indian'—declared that the saints were afore bis time, and occupied a cabin in tbe brash when be 'blazed' his way to the North Fork. It is certain that tbe two were present when the water was first turned on the Union Ditob, and then and there received the designation of Daddy Downey and Matnrty Downey, which they kept to the last. As they tottered toward the refreshment tent, they were welcomed with the greatest enthusiam by tbe boys or, to borrow tbe more refined language of tbe Union Recorder,—'Their gray hairs and bent figures, recalling as they did, tbe happy paternal eastern homes of the spectators, and tb9 blessings that fell from venerable lips when they left those homes to journey in quest of tbe Golden Fleece on Occidental Slopes, caused many to burst into tears.' The nearer fact that many of these spectators were orphans, that a few were unable to establish any legal parentage whatever, that others had enjoyed a state's guardianship and discipline, and that a majority had left their parental roof without any embarrassing preliminary formula, were mere passing clouds that did not dim the golden imagery of the writer. From that day the Saints were adopted as historical lay figures, and entered at onoe into possession of aninterrupted gratuities and endowment.

It was not strange that, in a oountry largely made up of ambitious and reckless youth, these two—types of conservative and settled forms—should be thus celebrated. Apart from any sentiment or veneration, they were admirable foils to the community's youthful progress and energy. They were put forward at every social gathering, occupied prominent s«ats on the platform at every public meeting, walked first in every procession, were conspicuous at the frequent funeral and rarer wedding, and were godfather and godmother to the first baby born in Rough-and-Ready. At the first poll opened In that precinct, Daddy Downy cast the first vote, and, as was his custom, on all momentoas occasions, became volubly reminiscent. •The first vote I ever cast,' said Daddy^ 'was for Andrew Jackson the lather some ou you peart young chaps wasn't born then, he! he!—that was 'way long In '83, wasn't it? I disremember now, but if Mammy was hear, she bein' a schoolgal at the time, she oould say. But my memory's failin' me. I'm an old man, boys yet I likes to see the young ones go ahead. 1 reoklect that thar vote from a suckumstance. Squire Adams was present, and seoin* it was *my first vote, he put a gold piece into my hand, and, sex he,set Squire Adams, "let that always be a reminder or tbe exerciaoofa glorious freeman's privilege!" He did he! he! Lord, boys! I feel so proud of ye, that I wish I bad a hundred votes to cast for ye all.'

It is hardly necessary to say that the memorial tribute of Squire Adams was Increased tenfold by the judges, Inspectors and clerks, and that the old man tottered baok to Mammy, considerable heavier than he came. As both of tbe candidates were equally sure of his vote, and each had called apen him and offered a conveyance, it is but lair to presume they were equally beneficent. But Daddy insisted upon walking to tbe polls—a distance of two miles—aa a moral example, and a text for the California paragraphera, who hastened to record that such was the influence of the foot hill climate, that 'a citizen of Rough-and-Ready, aged eighty-four, rose at six o'clock, and, alter milking two cows, walked a distance of twelve mi lee to the polls, and returned in time to chop a com of wood before dinner.' Slightly exaggerated as tbia statement may have beeu, tbe fact that Daddy was always found by tbe visitor to be engaged at his wood pile, which seemed neither to Increase nor diminish tinder his ax—a fact, doubt lews owing to tbe activity of Mamrav, who was always at tbe same time making plea, seemed to give some credence to the storv. Indeed, the wood pll® of Daddy Downey was a standing reproof to tbe indolent and sluggish miner. «Ole D«!dy must use op a pow'fnl

sight of wood: every time I've passed by his shanty he* been tnakin' the chips fly. Hut what gel's me l*» that tbe pile don't seem to some down,' said Whisky to is or 'Well, yen denied tool!' growled his neighbor Vpoes some chap happens to pass by thar, and sees tbe old man doln' a mans work at eighty, and slouches like yoa snd me iv ing *rouA# drunk, and that chap, feelin' Kinder humped, gnee up a*mwdark night and heave* a load oi cut pine over bis fence, who's got anvthing to say *ho«t it? Say?* Oertainly not tke* speaker, who had done the set suggested, nor tbe penitent and remorseful bearer, who repeated it next day.

1 he pie* and cakea made by tbe 'old woman were, I thiols,remarkable ritber for their inducing tbe same loyal and generous spirit than for thehr Intrinsic excellence, and it may be said appealed more strong)^ to tbe nobler aspirations of bu ma nity (ban its vulgar appetite. How belt, everybody ate Mammy Downev's pies, and thought of bis tshildbood •fake 'em, dear boys,' tbe old lady woaid say 'it.doea me good to see you

eat 'em reminda me kinder of my pddr Sammy, that, ef he'd lived, would bev been ei strong and big as yon be, but was taken down with long fever, at Sweetwater. I kin see him yet that's forty year ago, dear! comin' out o' tbe lot to tbe bake boose, and smilin' such a beautiful smile, like yoora, dear boy, aa I banded him a mince or a lemming turnover. Dear, dear, bow I do run on! and those days is past! bnt I seems to live in yoo again!' Tbe wife of tbe hotel keeper, actuated by a low jealousy, bad suggested that she 'seemed to live off them,' bat as thafr person tried. to demonstrate tbe truth of ber statement by reference to tbe cost of tbe raw material used by tbe old lady, it was considered by the camp as too practical and economical for consideration. 'Besides,' added Cy Perkins, «ef old Mammy wants to turn an honest penny in ber old age, let ber do it. How would you like your old mother to make pies on grab wages? eh' A suggestion that so affected nia bearer (who bad no mother) that he bought three on the apot. The quality of tbeae pies bad never been discussed but once. It is related that a

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roung lawyer from San Francisco, dinat tbe Palmetto reataurant, pushed away one of Mammy Downey'a pies with every expression of disgust and dissatisfaction. Atthis janoture, Whisky Dick, considerably affected by bis favorite stimulant, approached the stranger's table, and, a rawing up a chair, sat uninvited before him. 'Mebbee, young man' he began grave ly, 'ye don't like Mammy Downey'a pies?'

Tbe stranger replied curtly, and in some astonishment, that be did not as a rule 'eat pie.' 'Young man,' continued Dick, with drunken gravity, 'mebbe you're accustomed to Charlotte rusks and blue mange mebbe ye can't eat unleas your gaub is got up 6y one o' them French eooks? Yet we—us boys yar in this camp—calls that pie— a good—a com pe-tent pie!'

Tbe stranger sgain disclaimed anything but a general dislike of that form ot pastry. 'Young man,' continued Dick, utterly unheeding the explanation 'young man, mebbe you onct bad an ole—a very ole mother, who, tottering down tbe vale o' years, made pies. Mebbe, and it's like your blank epicurean soul, ye turned up your nose on tbe ole woman, and went back on tbe pies, and on her! She that dandled ye when ye woz a baby! Mebbe ye went back on ber, and siiook her, and played off on ber, and gave her away—dead away! And now, mebbe, young man—I wouldn't hurt ye for tbe world, but mebbe, afore ye leave this yar table, YB'LL HAT THAT PIE!'

The stranger rose to his feet, but the muzzle of a dragoon revolver in the unsteady bands of Whisky Dick, caused him to sit down again. He ate the pie, and lost bis case likewise, before a Rougb-and-Ready jury.

Indeed, far from exhibiting tbe cynical doubts and distrusts oX age, Daddy Downey received always with child-like delight ihe progress of modern improvement and energy. 'In my day, long back in tbe twenties, it took us nigh a week—a week, boys—to get up a barn, and all the young ones—I was one then —for miles 'round at the raisin' .and yer you boys—rascals.ye are,too—run9 up this yer shanty for Mammy and me 'twixt sun-up and dark! Eh, eh, you're teacbin' the old folka new trioks, are ye? Ah, get along, yon!' and in playful simulation of anger be would shake his white hair snd his hickory staff at tbe 'rascals.' Tbe only Indication of the conservative tendencies of age was visible in his continual protest against tbe extravagance of the boys. Why,' he

would say, 'a family, a hull family— leavin' alone me and the old womanmight be supported on what you young rascals throw away in a single spree. Ah, you young dogs, didn't I bear about your scattering half dollars on tbe stags the other night when that Eyetallan Papist was singin'. And that money goes out of Ameriky—ivry cent!'

There was little doubt that the old couple were saving, if not avaricious. But when it was known, through the Indiscreet volubility of Mammy Downey, that Pappy Downey sent the bulk of their savings, gratuitiea, and ifts to a dissipated and prodigal son in east—whose photograph the old man always carried with him—it rather elevated him in their regard. 'When ye write to that gay and festive son o' yourn, Daddy,' said Joe Robinson, 'send him this here specimen. Give him my compliments, and tell him, if he kin spend money faster than I can, I call him! Tell him, ef be wants a firstclass jamboree, to kem out here, and me and tbe boys will show him what a square drunk is!' In vain would the old man continue to protest against the spirit of the gift the miner generally returned with his pockets that much the lighter, and it is not improbable a little less intoxicated than he otherwise might have been. It may be premi led that Daddy Downey was strictly temperate. The only way he managed to avoid hurting the feelings of the camp was by accepting the frequent donations of whisky to be used for the purposes of liniment. 'Next to snake oil, my son.' be would say, 'and dilberry-juice—ana ye don't seem to produce 'em hereabouts—whisky te good. for rubbin' onto old bones to make'em limber. But pure oold water, 'sparklln' and bright in its liquid light,' and, so to speak, reflectin' ot God's own linymenta on its surfiss, is the best, onlees, like poor ole Mammy and me, ye gits the dumb agnr from over-use

Tbe fame of tbe Downe? couple was not confined to the foot hi 11a. The Rev. Henry Gushington. D. D., of Boaton, making a bronchial tonr of California, wrote to tbe Christian Pathfinder an affecting account of bis visit to them, placed Daddy Downey's age at 102, and attributed the recent conversions in Hough and-Ready to their influence. That rifted literarv Hessian, Bill 8mith, traveling in tbe interests of various capitalists, and the trustworthy correspondent of four 'only independent American journal*,' quoted him as an evidence of tbe longevity superinduced by tbe climate, offered him as an example of tbe security of helpless life and property in the mountains, used him as an advertise men of tbe Union Ditob. and, it ia sald,in some vague way cited bim aa proving tbe collateral facta of a timber and ore producing region existing in tbe foot bills worthy tbe attention of eastern capitalist*.

Praised thus by tbe lips of distinguished report, fostered by tbe care and auetained by tbe pecuniary offerings of tbe fellow eitisrn*, the Saints led for UIV I WIIWW IMI two years a peaceful life of gentle ab sorption. Tto relieve them from tbe embarrassing appearance of eleemosynary receipts-an embarrassment felt

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by the givers thsn the recipiente-^the postmaatership of Rough-and-Ready was procured for Daddy, and tbe duty of reoeivimc and delivering United States mails performed by bim with the advice and assistance of the boys. If a few letters went astray at tbia time, it was easily attributed to this undisciplined aid, and the boys themselves were always ready to make up the value of a missing money letter and 'keep tbe old man's accounts square.' To tbeae functions presently were added the treasarersbipeof tbe Masons' and Odd Fellows' charitable funda—the old man being far advanced in their respective degrees— and even the position of almoner of their bounties were superadded. Here, unfortunately, Daddy's habits of economy and avaricious propensity came near making bim unpopular, and very often needy Drothera were forced to ~ob-

ect the quantity ahd quality of the extended. They alwaya met with more generous relief from the private bands of tbe brothers themselves, and tbe remark 'that the ole man was trying to set aq example—.that be meant well/ —and that they would yet be thankful for his zealous care ahd economy. A few, I think suffered in noble bil^nitn, rather than bring the old man's iutit-m-icy to tbe public notice.

And so with this honor oi luddy and Mammy, tbe days of tbe miners were long snd profitable in the land of tbe foot-hills. Tbe mines yielded tbeir abundance, the winters were singularly open, and yet there was no drouth nor lack of water, and peace and plenty smiled on the Sierrean foot hills, from their highest sunny upland to tbe trailing 'falda* of wild oats and poppies. If a certain superstition got abroad among tbe other camps,connecting tbe fortunes of Rough-snd-Resdy with Daddy aud Mammy, it was a gentle, harmless fancv, aud was not, I think, altogether rejected by the old peojle. A certain large, patriarchal, bountiful manner, of late visible in Daddy, and the increase oft

the by —j, body's fairy godmother. An attempt was made by a rival camp to emulate these paying virtues of reverence, and an aged mariner was procured from the Sailor's Snug Harbor in San Franc sco, on trial. But tbe unfornate seamen was more or less diseased, was not always presentable, through a weakness for ardent spirits, and finally, to use the powerful idiom of one ef his disappointed foster ohildren, 'up and died in a week, without alinging ary blessin'.'

But vicissitude reaches young and old alike. Youthful Rough-and-Ready aud the Saints had climbed to their meridian together, and it seemed fit that they should together decline. Tbe first shadow fell with the immigration to Rough-and-Ready of a second aged pair. The landlady of the Independence Hotel bad not abated ber malevolence toward the Saints, and had imported at considerable expense ber grand aunt and grand uncle, who had been enjoying for some years a retirement in the poorhou&e of East Macbias.

Tbey were indeed very old. By what miracle, even as anatomical specimens, tbey bad been preserved during tbeir long journey was a mystery totbe camp. In some respects they had superior memories and reminiscences. The old man—Abner Trix—bad shouldered a musket in the war of 1812 bis wife, Abigail, bad seen Lady Washington. She could sing hymns she knew every text between 'the leds' of a Bible. There is little doubt but that in many respects, to the superficial and giddy crowd of youthful spectators, they were the more nterestlng spectacle.

Whether it was jealousy, distrust or timidity that overcame the Saints, was never known? but they studiously declined to meet the strangers. When directly approached upon the subject, Daddy Downey pleaded illness, kept himself in close seclusion, snd the Sunday that the Trixes attended church in tbe school bouse on tbe bill, the triumph of tbe Trlx party was mitigated by toe fact that tbe Downevs were not in tbeir accustomed pew. 'You bet that Daddy and Mammy is lying low jest to ketch tbem old mummies yet,' explained a Downeyite. For by this time schism and division had crept into the camp the younger and later members of the settlement adhering to tbe Trixes, while tbe older pioneers stood not only loyaL to their own favorites, but even, in tbe true spirit of partisanship, began to seek for a principle underlying their personal fe6llns9» •I tell ye what, boys,' observed Sweetwater Joe, 'if this yer camp is goin' to be run by greenhorns, ana old pioneers, like Daddyjand the rest of us must take back seata, it's time we emigrated and Bhoved out, and tuk Daddy with us. Why, they're talkin' of rotation In offlss and of putting that skeleton that Ma'am Decker sets np at tbe table to take ber boarders' appetites away—into the postoffice in place o' Daddy.' And, indeed, there were some fears of such a conclusion tbe newer men of Rough-and- Ready were in tbe majority, and wielded a more than equal influence of wealth and outside enterprise. 'Frisco,' as a Downeyite bitterly remarked, 'already owned half tbe town.'

Tbe old friends that rallied around Daddy and Mammy were, like most loyal friends in adveraity, in bad case themselves, and were beginning to look and act, it was observed, not unlike tbeir old favorites.

At this janoture Mammy died. Tbe sudden blow for a few days seemed to reunite dissevered Rmgh-and-Ready. Both factions hsstened to the bereaved Daddy with condolements, and offers of aid and assistance. But the old man received tbem aternly. A change had come over tbe weak and yielding octogenarian. Those who expected to find him maudlin, helpless, disconsolate, shrank from the cold bard eyes and truculent voice that bade them 'begone,' and 'leave bim with bia dead.' Even bia own frienda foiled to make him respond to their sympathy, and were fain to content themselves with his cold intimation that both the wishes of his dead wife and bia own instincts were asainat any display, or tbe reoeption of any favor from the camp tbat migbt tend to keep up tbe divisions tbey bad Innocently created. Tbe refusal of Daddy to accept an service offered was so unlike bim as to have but one dreadful meaning! The sudden abode bad turned his Drain!

Yet so impressed were tbey with bis resolution tbat tbey permitted bim to perform tbe last aad offlcee himself, and only a select few of his nearer netgbbors assisted bim in carrying the plain deal coffin from bia looefy cabin in tbe woods to tbe still lonelier oemetery on tbe hill top. When tbe shallow grave was filled be dismissed even these curtly, ahut himself up in bis cabin, and for daya remained unseen. It wss evident tbat he was no longer in bia right mind.

His barmlees aberration was accepted and treated with a degree of intelligent delicacy hardly to hs believed of so

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a community. During bis wife's sudden snd severe illness, tbe safe containing tbe funds intrusted to his care by tbe various benevolent associations, was broken into and robbed, and although tbe act waa clearly attributable to bis carelessness and preoccupation,

all allusion to tbe feet was withheld from bits in his severe affliction. When be appeared again before tbe camp, and the circumstances were ton* siderstely explained to him with the remark that 'the boys had made it all right,' tb* vacant, hopeless, uuintelllgent eye tbat he turned upon tbe speaker showed too plainly that be bad forgotten all about ft. 'Don't trouble the old man,' said Whisky Dick, with a borst of boneat poetry. "Don't ye see his memory's dead, and lying there in tbe coffin with Mammy.' Perhaps the speaker was nearer than he imagined.

Failing in religious consolation, tbey took various mesns of diverting bis mind with worldly smusements, and one was a visit to a traveling variety troupe, then performing 'n the town. The result of the visit wss briefly told by Whisky Dick. 'Well, sir, we went in, and I sot tbe old man down in a front sest, and kinder propped him up with some other of tbe feirers round bim, and there be sot ss silent and awful ei the grave. And then that fancy dancer Miss Grace Somerset, comes in, and dern my skin, if tbe old man didn't git to trembling and fidgeting all over, as she cut them pidgin wings. I tell ye what, boys, men is men, way down to their boots, whether they're crazy or not! Weil, he took on so, that I'm blamed ii at last tbat gal herself didn't notice bim!—and she ups, suddenly, and blows him a kiss—so! with ber fingers!'

Whether this narration werb exaggerated or not, it is certain tbat old man Downey every succeeding night of tbe performance was a spectator. That he may have aspired to be more than tbat was suggested a day or two later in the following incident. A number of tbe boys were sitting around thestovein the Magnolia saloon, listening to the onset of a winter storm against tbe windows, when Whisky Dick, tremulous* excited and bristling with rain dropa and infor (nation, broke in upon tbem. •Well, boys, I've got just the biggest thing out. Ef I hadn't seed it myself, I wouldn't bev believed it!' •Itaint thet ghost ag'in?' growled Robinson, from tbe depths of his arm chair •thet ghost's about played.' •Wos ghost?'asked a new comer. •Why, ole Mammy's ghost, that every feller about yer sees when he's half fail and out late o' nights.' •Where?' •Where? Why, where should a gbrat be? Meanderiu' round her grave on tbe hill, yander, in course.' 'It'ssutbln bigger nor thet, pard,'said Dick confidently 'no ghost kin rake down the pot ag'in tbe keerds I've got here. This aint no blufl 'Well, go ou!' said a dozsn excited voices.

Dick paused a moment, diffidently, with tbe hesitation of an artistic raconteur 'Well,' be said, with affected deliberation, 'let's see! It's nigh onto an hour ago ez I was down thar at the variety show. When the curtaia wss down betwixt the ax, I looks round fer Daddy. No Daddy thar! I goes out and asks some o' the boys. 'Daddy was there a minnit ago,' tbey say 'must bev gone home.' Bein' kinder responsible for tbe old man, I bangs around, and goes out in the hill ana Bees a passage leadin' behind the scenes. Now the" queer thing about this, boys..?z that suthin in my bones tells me the old man is thar. I pushes in, and, sure a gun. I hears his voice. Kinder pathetic, kinder pleadin', kinder 'Lovetnakin'!' broke in the impatient Robinson. •You've bit it, pard,— you've rung tbe bell every time! But x'le says, 'I wants thet money down, or I'll and here I couldn't get to bear the rest. And then he kilider waxes, snd she says, sorter sassy, but listenin' all tbe time—women like, ye know, Eve and the sarpint!— and she says, 'I'll see to morrow.' And he says, 'You wont blow on me?' and I gets excited and peeps in, and may I be teetotally durned ef I didn't see 'What?'yelled the crowd. •Why, Daddy on his knees to that there fancy dancer, Grace Somerset! Now, if Mammy'a ghost is meanderin' round, why, et'3 about time sbe left tbe cemeterv ahd put in an appearance in Jackson's Hall. Thetsalf!" 'Look yar, boys,' said Robison, rising, 'I don't know ez it's the square thing to spile Daddy's fun. I don't object to it, provided she aint takin' in tbe old man and givin' him dead away. But ez we're bis guardeens, I propose tbat we go down tbar and see tbe lady, and find out ef her intentions is honorable If she means marry, and the old man persists, why, I reckon we kin give the young oouple a send off tbet wont disgrace this yer camp! Hey, boys?'

It is unnecessary to say tbat the proposition was received with acnlamatlon, and the crowd at once departed on their discreet mission. But lbe result was never known, for the next morning brought a »h wk to Rough and Ready before which ail other interest paled to nothingness.

The grave of Mammy Diwney was found violated and despoiled tbe coffin opened, and ball" tilled with tbe papers and accounts of the robbed benevolent assoc ations but tbe body of Mammy was gone! Nor, on examination, did it appear tbat tbe sucred and ancient form of tbat female bad ever reposed in its recesses!

Daddy Dowtiey was not to be found, nor is it nece«ary to say tbat the ingenuous Grace Somerset was also missing.

For three days the reason of Rough-and-Ready trembled In tbe balance. No work was done in the ditches, in the flume, nor in tbe mills. Groups of men stood bv the grave of the lamented relict ofDadcfy Downey, aa open mouthed and vacant as tbst sepulchre. Never since ths great earthquake of '52 bad Roughand Ready been so stirred to its deepest foundations.

Ou the third day the aheriff of Calaveras—a quiet, gentle,t tbougbfal man,— arrived in town, and passed from one to the other of excited groupe, dropping here and there detocbei bot concise snd practical information. 'Yes, gentlemen, you are right, Mrs. Downey is not desd, because there never was any Mrs. Downev! Her part was played by George F. Fenwick, of Sydn*y_a ticket-of-leave-man,' who wss, tbey say, a good aotor. Downey? Ob yes! Downey waa Jem Flauigan, bo, in '62 used to run tbe variety troupe in Australia, where Miss Somerset made ber debut- Stand back a little, bovs. Steady! 'The money?' Ob, yea, they've got awsv wijb that, sure! How are ye, Joe? Why, vou're looking well and hearty! I rather expected ye, court week. How's things your way?' •Then tbey were only play actors, Jos Hail broke in a dozen voices. •I reckon!' returned tbe sheriff foolly. •And for a matter o* five blank years, said Whisky Dick, aadly, 'tbey played tbia camp!*

A BLESSING TO AN OVERWORKED CLASS. Boston Transcript.

Wh«t a blessing the phonojtraph wlll be to editors. The bores can alip right ioto the phonograph room and plead with tbe instrument, and tbe editor eta grind it out afterward—If b* wants to.

rrantn Piano and Organ Makers. As we, as irell as scores of otir readers, have been flooded-with the circulars of pretended organ and piano maters in the east, which, in reality, do not exist at all, we give, for the benefit of our readers, also in justice to our' own home dealers who have labored heartily to introduce instruments of all known makers, only, who are not manufacturing nameless instruments to take in the unsuspecting, an article from the New York Musical Monitor for April, to which we invite careful attention:

The question is asked how makers of worthless instruments venture to warrant them so boldly for five, six, or seven years and whether such warranty, from a pecuniarily responsible party, does not make it safe to buy of him.

The answer to the last question is clearly that it does not, as many can teitify who have bought worthless instruments and failed to get any reparation from those who sold them.

How much such warrants are worth, and how are rendered void, is ing co which was, in substance, held with one who had for along time been a salesman in a house selling these poor instruments largely.

Inquirer. How do you get along with your warrants for six or seven years do you not have to take back a great many instruments?

Salesman. Oh! no we rarely have to take back one, or make any reparation.

Inauirer. But do you not have many complaints? fy&i Salesman. Yes, lots of them have them all the time, about nearly all we send out.

IIow do you get along withto take instruments back,

Inquirer,

out having then. Salesman. In varioue ways. When complaint is made, we write, first, perhaps, that it is a little thing which all instruments are liable to, and he can easily fix himself or, that it is some damage done the instrument in transportation for which we are not responsible, orthatsome one has been tampering with the instrument or that it has been wrongly used or kept in an improper place. We can find excuses enough.

Inquirer. But are they satisfied with such excuses Salesman. Oh no! not often they write again and we renly again and so again and again if need be.

Inquirer. But do they not force you to make goo^ your warrant? Salesman. Scarcely ever. They often get angry, and scold, and threaten. Then we are virtuously indignant and say our reputation and character are too well known to be injured that if it was any thing for whicn we were really responsible, we should be glad to make it right, &c., &c.

Inquirer. But do they not take legal steps bring snit against you? Salesman No! Almost never. They get tired of the thing after a while. Sometimes one goes to a lawyer, and the lawyer writes to us but we are not frightened. Even if the thing should come to trial we could bring testimony that the organ was all right when it left us, and must have been damaged since. But scarcely any one ever brings suit. If a lawyer is consulted, he tells them it will cost a good deal to come here and bring the suit that there will be a lot of trouble, and a good deal of risk that we shall get out of it somehow or .that if he did get his case, we should only be forced to repair the organ. They often get very angry, and fret and scold a good deal but in the end conclude it won't pay to gb to law about it.

Oh! a warrant's nothing!' I would not be afraid to warrant the poorest thing ever stuck together. If had to make good all the poor organs he has sold, it would break him twenty times over.

Inquirer. But do not persons who get such poor instruments tell their neighbors about it., .and ruin your sales in that neighborhood?

Salesman. Nofoftcn^ Dint's one of the funnv things about it. When one gets a poor t&ing, he is ashamed to let his neighbors know he has got humbugged, ana so holds his tongue, or says it's very good. We have actually sold instruments on the recommendations of persons who had poor ones, which they had bought of us, and were trying to get us to take back.

Inquired Well! It seems to me a mean business. Salesman. So it is, and I am glad I am out of it. I told my employer that he would have to be accountable for a great many sins I had committed in his benalf. But he said it was all right in trade and he is a very sanctimonious man.

It is eaty to be seen, therefore, that a warrant is not of much value unless from one who can be depended Upon to make it good voluntarily, if there is occasion. In nineteen cai«es out of twenty it would eost more to enforce it than could be gained by so doing.

It is crnel lor parents to let their children mtfer with cmipb* snd colds, whifh in so nistty owe* lead to consumption nnd premature death. Give Dr. Bull's Cougb Syrup.

J^IMNESS CHANGE.

PHCENIX FOUNDRY

AND

MACHINE WORKS,

'le re Haute. Ind.

SUCCESSORS TO F. H. MoELFRESH.

The undersigned having snceeetled to tbe business of F. H. McElrresh, are now pro pared to receive orders for team Engines^^^ gt*fl!ftg and Pulleys,

Gearing of all kinds, Bolting Chests, Reels (iron or wood). Curbs or Hoops. Elevator Heads aad FVet,C ooveyor Plights,

Floor Mill Saw Mill «nd Coal Bbsft Machinery, Iron conveyor Sptrtl and Wooden Cogs of *,orown maoafactore.

We have also secured tbe sgercr for the best quality of French Burr Mill Htones, Mfour*Oo% Dateh Anchor B«ltlK uloth, a variety of Grata Cleaning Machinery, Mldlings Purifiers, Floor Packer*, fccales. Corn HmijlOT. Wire Rope. Ac.

The well-known exo. llence of tne matbinery and eastings manofsetumi toy ttie Pkmix Vssairr sa4 Xscalas W«rk* will be fuliy maintained, and «he cipadtjr or the works to.saeb that we can guarantee prompt shipment of any orders wi which we may be fcvorea. Wje woold ruspeetfbUy solicit a continuance of the trade to liberally beatowed upon the eatablishmeni heivt*»fwe, which shall always receive nroinot attention, at the lowest market ate* for standard quality.

MC ELFRKWH OIL BERT. in cqAifr rwS«.ji»Ga,io»ti *o£7ch*»m.

Professional Cards, AMUELMAGILL,

ATTOBXEY AT LAW:

Office with N. G. BnflT. north side Ohio street, between Third and Fourth. 8peclal attention to collections, probate business and bankiupt practice. K. G. BUFF. S. M. BKKCHKR.

UFF A BEECHER,

ATTORNEYS AT LAW,

OFFICE—No. 836 Ohio Btreet, bet. Third and Fourth, north side.

,K- J. P. WORRELL,

Treats exclusively Diseases of the

EYE AKD EAR!

vae*i Xo. 5311 Otalo Street, j/« JTEREE HAUTE, IND.. Office ltbdrs from 9 a. m. te 1 p. m. and from itotp. m.

JOSEPH RICHARDSON,

a LINCOLN,

Office on Ohio St^ Bet. Srd A life* TERRE HAUTE, IND.

II. DE PUY, M. D.,

PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,

Office, Cor. 6th A Sain sta. (Over Drugstore.) Calls In the city or country answered promptly from my office uri tig thw day, and atnighlfrom ttiy residence 13JI North centerstreet:

:PDEMTisT.

Office, 821 Main street, near Seventh. Extracting and artificial teeth specialties. All work warranted. (d&w-tf)

L. H. BARTHOLOMEW.

Surgeon and Hlfrlisnieal "CEMiBlP

r? DENTIST,

Denial Kooiu, 157 Jlaiu Street, near 6U», TXKKK HAUTE, IND. Nitrous Oxide Gas administered tor pan ess Tooth Extraction.

GW.

BALLEW,

DENTIST,

Office, 119 Main Street, over Snyet »l«l confectionery atand. vf TERRE HAUTE, IND.

Can be fonnd In office night and day,

VH Business Cards.

CAL

THOMAS,

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

RW.

RIPPETOE [-U*

Gene Hi Dealer in

GROCERIES, VISIONS AND FRO DUCE, fv National Block, 183 Main stree r'flfit ii.

LKISSNER,

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Pianos, Melodeons, Organs. Musical Instruments, Ac.,

JOS.

Palace ot Music, 48 Ohio

H. BRIGGS,

PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MKKCHANT,. and Dealer in

HIDES. PELTS, RAGS, BUTTER, EGGS, AO., Corner of Fourth and berry streets,

TERItE HAUTE, IN'V

AGNER A RIPLEY,

Importers and workers of

•eoteb Granite and Italian Marble

MONUMENTS,

S A A N S

4C.

No. 416 Cherry St., bet. 4th and 6th. TEURK HAUTE, IND.

rpERRE HAUTE BLEACHERY

No. 201, corner of 4th and Mulberty Sts.

Conducted by

ti ikJfeiit* tkf V. ..

MRS. M. A. GIBARD.

Straw Hats snd Bonnets bleached altered, colored and finished in a superior manner. Millinery work done at trade prices, and on short notice. Patronage respectfoliy solicited.

FULTON ^MARKET 0YSTERi®r HOUSE,

«10 MAIN STREET.

•VTTHERK the best brand of OYSTERS are told by the case, can. gallon or barrelwholesale and retail. Will not be undersold the season through. fjllt

RAFFERTY

F. PROBST,

CO.

.•Wholesale and Retail Dealer in

MOULDINGS,

A.XD

PICTURE FRAMES!

623% MAIN STREET.

Pictures of eveiy description framed in the moil approved manner, nnl at the lowat rates. ••-NO AGENTS

Dealers In the surrounding country,supplied at Cincinnati ra es.

SEWING

MACHINES

REPAIRED AHD ADJUSTED in tbe very best manner and warranted Ut nrff|r by JOSEPH POLK, No. 222 Main street, north side, between 8rd aad 4th streets, up stairs. Don't condemn your aoa* chineonii Mr. KOLK ha« had a look at it for the real trouble may be very light ana tne cost of repairing a mere trine. Tbe best needles and oil constantly on hand.

Janel»-U

ARMERS' GRIST MILL.

Lower End ef Third street.

JO»EPJi ABBOTT, Proprietor. THIS new mill 1» now in full blast, maklag No. 1 artlc.e of

FLOUR AND MEAL!

It Is being run exclusively on custom work, and Uie talent satisfaction is guaranteed. A farmer bringing his own wheat to the mill can rely ot getting flour from hlsowa grain, and by thns doing afce a great saving over selling the wheat at one place and ouylng floor at Mother.

OPIUM

Kepbhw HeWtelwkiidy eW sewffl: i.wji. Frisian MpMUty. SmdiMo)

nAl/l Any worker can make 112 a day VlOlUat home. Costly outfit tree. Address TRUE A CO., Angfteta, Maine.