Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 August 1878 — Page 4

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,THE MAIL

PAPER

FOR THE

P. S.

NOVELTY

PEOPLE.

WESTFALLr

EDITOR AND PROPRIEIoll/*

TXBBE HAUTE. AUGUST 19,1878

TWO EDITIONS

Of tbis Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, oa Friday Evening kas a large circulation in the surrounding law, when it la sold by newsboys and agants. She SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Even^.lng, goes into the hands of nearly every reading persdn In the city, and theXann an of this immediate vicinity.

Every Week's Issue la, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, Ja whieh all Advertisements appear for

ONE CHARGE

in Indianapolis polities ia

tbe formation, of an Irish Republican clnb, which starts oat with a membership of about one hundred and fifty. None but Irish need apply.

CAPTAIH BOGABDUS won the £1,000 rifle match at London against Mr. Aubrey Coventry, the famous English marksman. Bogardas killed 79, and Coventry 78 birds out of tbe hundred.

GENERAL GRANT is reported as saying that he has served his country long enough to be given a complete rest. Nevertheless we arfe of opinion that he could be prevailed on to serve as President for another term if the people pressed the office on him.

SPBUILLB BRADEN, a son of William Braden, of Indianapolis, took the first prize at tbe annual examination of naval cadets at Greenhithe, England, a few days ago. The class numbered 100. Master Braden is the first boy ever admitted to tbe school from the United States.

THE value of tbe exported articles for the fiscal year just closed is $694,900,000, while for the preceding year they were 1002,500,000, and for the year preceding that, 1540,400,000. This shows an increase of nearly 29 per cent in two years and is a healthy sign.

THE total value of exports from the United States for tbe last fiscal year exceeded tbe value of imports by $261,744,000. This is tbe largest balance of trade in favor of the United States that we we have ever bad in any one year and is a sure sign that tbe country is returning to prosperity.

THE City Council and tbe gas company of Indianapolis have settled the difference between them by compromise, the gas company agreeing to light 2,160 lamps upon a 2,600 hour basis for |55,000 for one year. An agreed case will be submitted to tbe court for its opinion as to the validity of tbe old contract. ,t-\

HON. GODLOVE S. ORTH of Lafayette, was nominated for Congress by the Republicans of tbe Ninth District on Wednesday. The contest between him and Hon. M. D. White was very spirited and it was not until tbe 26tb ballot that Mr. Orth received the requisite number of votes to nominate him.

THE journeymen shoemakers of Chicago, numbering about 1,000, have struck for an advance o( wages frem 99 to |12 per week. Their employers offered a compromise of 10.50 per week but the men would not accept it. Both sides seem determined not to yield and the strike promises to be along one.

THE Prairie Farmer closes an editorial on tho crops outlook as follows: "To sum up, the prospect now is that on account of ibe great acreage the crop of wheat will be one of the largest ever grown in tbe United States. Spring wheat will grade principally No. 2 and below. Winter wheat will grade No. 1 and No. 2. Oats will be a full crop, and or an a a on

TWENTY

FIVE

THE London Speotator is authority for the statement that a block of ice placed in a tab of water standing in a room will lower the temperature six or eight degrees in half an hour, while a blanket or rug fastened ^across an open window and drenched with water, will lower the temperature of the room to nearly that of the water in five minutes. Also that water iced to the temperature of a cool apring is perfectly harmless when used in moderate quantities. _____________

Tax New York Bulletin, a high authority in such matters, has compiled a table which contrasts the products of the United States for the year 1873 with those of 1977. This comparison reveals the following facta: iucreaee in the acreage of wheat, 5,456,000 acres increase in acreage of corn, 9,886,000 acres oats, 8,607,000 acres hay, 3,433,000 sores increase in cotton consumed, SK&OOO bales increase In wool, 34,O0O,OC) pounds increase in rolled iron and steel, ISSt&l tons increase in railroads, miles. In thirty of the leading utteles of export, tbe Increase is even more marked, each one showing a lege gain. Aro tb^te facta indications that the ooontry ia on the downward road to ruin, or on the upward way io solid and permanent prosperity

A STRANQE CASE.

few dajra ago the telegraph brought from New York a singular stotf about the chloforming of a yoang lady Miss Heuser by name) who was foand lying on the floor, stripped jf bn dotting, wben her married sistefr and her husband returned home. The dispatch is printed in fall—elsewhere in this paper,

MJ» Heusert own account of the occurrence was that on entering the house she sat down at the piano and atrnek a few' notes, when ahe heard a voice. She tamed around to the door There stood two men. They were masked. Great black cloths were tied aronttd their heads. She Was too frightened to scream, but tried to reach the window. One of tbe two men, whom she describes as "the tall man," came toward her. She dodged behind the table. He attempted Co catch her, and soon succeeded. Setaingberby tbeann, he held her, with her back toward him and put a sponge to her face. She could not say what was on the sponge. She pushed it away twice, when she became dreamy "and unconscious like/' and bad the same feeling a person has who goes to sleep against her will. She remembered being lifted from the floor, and that was the last she remembered until she came to.

Tbe strange affair excited many curl ous conjectures but was involved in the deepest mystery until, nearly two months afterward, Miss Heuser was sitting at the window and saw a man pnrrfrg whom she recognized as one of the men that bad assaulted her, and pointed him out to her sister. Tbe man proved to be a Dr. Millar, a foreigner, wbo had practiced medicine for a short time in Milton, but had quit tbe practice and was boarding at a private bouse near the village.

Mr. Millar was arrested and arraigned before a Justice of the Peace at Milton, charged with assault with intent to violate the person. At the trial Miss Heu ser swore to the identity of the prisoner and was confirmed by her sister as to her first recognition ot Dr. Millar in the street, when suddenly, for some unex plained reason, the testimony for the prosecution was brought to a close.

The Justice thereupon discharged Dr, Millar, on the ground that the evidence that Miss Heuser bad been found on the floor, with her clothes stripped off, had not been put in, and the prosecution refused to put it in. The counsel for Dr. Millar made the point that the bind ingand chloroforming of a woman was no evidence of an intent to violate the person, as these might have been done for the purpese of robbery, and tbe Jus tice considered the point well taken Dr. Millar himself denounced tbe whole thing as a conspiracy to ruin him, and professed to have ample evidence to establish an alibi.

Thus the case rested at last accounts and, taken all together, it is certainly a strange affair. If the original outrage was mysterious, the refusal of the prosecution to put in evidence the condition in which Miss Heuser was fonnd, which they could easily have done and thus made out their case, is quite as great a mystery. It ia to be hoped that a satis factory explanation of tbe matter will be forthcoming. $

States have Insolvency

laws which become operative by the repeal of the United States bankrupt law. These are California, Connecticut, Dakota, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Obio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont and Wisconsin.

S9RS9ES9HBSS5S

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

A shocking accident oocurred on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St.JLeuis rail road, Wednesday night, near Mingo Junction, Ohio. The test line going west and running at fiill speed suddenly collided with a freight train eastwsrd bound. Both the engines were smashed to atoms and several of the oars badly broken up and thrown from the track The work of removing the dead, dying and wounded from the debria went on but slowly in the darkness and the sufferings of the injured during the night was terrible. Thirteen persons were killed outright and several others died afterwards. The wounded numbered forty or more. None of the passengers in the sleeping cars were injured.

The cause of the aocident is said to have been the criminal carelessness of the oonductor of the freight train, whose watch was twenty minutes alow and instead of waiting at Alexandria Roads for the passenger train, which bad the right of way, he attempted to make Mingo on the latter's time, supposing he had plenty of margin to go on. Tbe company will certainly make a rigid investigation of the affair and ahould It be proven that the freight oonductor was guilty ef the negligence charged upon him, we trust he will be punished to tbe fullest extent of the law.

WORKTNQMKN should be the last to clamor for an inflation of the currency. Inflation always means higher prices for the things he consumes and only a probable increase in his wages. The history of inflation is that all articles of food and clothing go up with abound while wages follow tbem very tardily and far in the rear. It is easy to see how speculators, railroad corporations and men loaded with mortgaged real estate would be benefitted by inflation with a depredated currency, made a legal tender, they could wipe out their indebtedness and pay the wages of their workmen and be the gainers thereby but in what way would the laboring classes be benefitted?

Wi want no communism in this country. We want the right to possess and enjoy property sacredly preserved. Let the Congressional committee which is investigating the labor question give a patient and respectfni hearing to all sober and reasonable workingmen, but the wild ravings of such foreign born fenabes as Kearney, who imagine that the evils of society can only be cured by tearing the whole fabric of society are unworthy of any notice. *1*

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TERHE HAUTE 9ATOEIDAY J3V-EN1NG MAIL.

WHILI we have been harvestlng per* A DETECT1

hapathe largeatcropa with which our country has ever been hisses a, and gramtding all the time, tenifio droughts and famines have prevailed in other parts of the world, carrying starvation and death- to millions of people. For about a year now terrible $unlne has been scourging densely populated provinces of China, with little to check ita devastating pi ogress.

The eeat of the famine ia inthenoitheaatern provincea of tho empire, the impoveriabed country consisting of tho greater part of tbe Province of Shansf, parts of aouthwestern Chill, weetera Shantung, and the northern districts of Honan, comprising an are* variously estimated at from seventy thousand to a hundred thousand square miles, inhabited by from fifty million^ to a bandied millions of people. The details of the famine are heartrending. Thehodieaof the desd .were eaten to' support the living and when the dead werb not at band to eat, the living were butchered to appease the insatiable appetite of the starving and maddened people. The Chinese newspapers give the number of those who have died of starvation, or were killed to appease the hunger of the living, at over five millions. In one district a popultaion of over 1,000,600 wss reduced to 160,000.

MR. VOORHEES tslks wildly about millions of workingmen being out of employment. He, in company with many others who speak upon fhla subject, is guilty of gross exaggeration. Tbe Bureau of Statistics of Labor, in Massachusetts, has been carefully gathering statistics touching the number of unemployed men in that State. The census will soon be completed and the results indicate that in the entire State, with a population of 1,680,000, there are not more than 14,000 men and women unwillingly without remunerative work, But estimating tbe number at 10,000 for every million of population (a liberal estimate) and supposing the ratio to be tbe same in the.other States, then, on a basis of 42,000,000 of population in the whole country we have 420,000 men and women wbo are out of employment, This number is large enough, to be sure, but it is a good deal less than "millions," and even these figures prto-r bably exceed the real number of en forced idlers in the country to-day. Enforced idlers, we say, for it must not be forgotten that there are many men always wbo prefer Idleness to work.

I TAKING A BATH. Brown, of the Republican, took tbe first bath of his life last Tuesday, and as might be expected, the effect on him was exhilarating in tbe extreme. Under tbe inspiratipn of the moment he penned the following account of his experiment: "Well, the editor has gone and done it—though he baa been seeking an opportunity for years past, yet the opportunity has never been convenient until this morning. The operation was hot, it was perspiring, it was cremation in a slight degree, it was cleanly to tbe full* est extent. We fairly boiled in this cremation room, and thought of tbe Infernal regions, but as Beecher and Ingersoll have denounced that as a myth, there waa little or no trouble on our mind as to the future comfort of an edi tor. From this cremation room we, were taken to a dissecting room, where, tbe process of finding out what a person had been wearing for tbe past ten years was thoroughly tested. Two old undershirts, four pairs of drawers and six pairs of socks were found and removed, leaving us free for recognition. This

gave us a good opinion of Turkish baths, and we can now say that any man who will refuse to give the price of sueh a bath should be compelled t6 sleep in a bog-wallow two nights. They are a benefit to the rich man, medicine to the poor, and would be a God-send to the tramp, as It would give him the reputa tion of a cleanly traveler. Go try itr— you who value health and eomfort.

THE large wholesale grocery house of R. M. Bishop & Co., of Cincinnati, foiled last Saturday and filed a petition in bankruptcy. The firm has been in business for thirty years and was one of the largest houses in the west. Shrinkage in tbe value of real estate and tbe failure of their customers to meet their obligations, are assigned as tbe principal causes of the bankruptcy. The creditors of the house rejected an offer to pay forty cents on the dollar and re* solved to accept Bishop's offer of the surrender of all the aaseta of the firm and the individual members thereof, and grant tbe aame a fail discharge in consideration. A committee will be appointed to take eharge of the assets snd wind up the whole eoncet-n.

TBTBRMT afternoon about

o'clock*

the village of Wallingford, Connecticut, was struck by a tornado which blew over houses, uprooted trees, and caused the greatest consternation. More than forty dwellings and fifty barns were demolished. Some twenty people were killed and many more wounded. The damage to property is estimated at fl0O,« 000. The tornado was about a quarter of a mile wide and two miles long, and came with the suddenness of a thunderbolt. Tbe work was accomplished in a moment. The storm did much damage in other parts of the State, and also in New Hampshire.

THE rather alarming activity of the socialists In Germany ought not to excite surprise wben the (acts are known. The truth is, the condition of tin workingmen in that country ia pitiable in tbe extreme. The privations of the laboring ol asses in this oquntry do not compare with theirs. They have to live in large cities whet* bouse Tents are exorbitant and provisions exaeedingly dear, and support their families on a mere pittance* Tbere is no great West with its millions of acres of unoccupied lands for them to emigrato to. The government should see whether some sort of relief is not possible for them.

VPS THEOEpt.

A Beautiful Young Lady Chloroformed

for

the Dissecting Table. a

^EW YORK, August L—On the evening of the 4th of July a handsome young lady, Miss Louise Heuser, of Brooklyn, who has been spending the summer at her brother-in-law's. Dr. Haabrouck, at Milton, on the Hudson, waa aeisedby two masked men, chloroformed and her clothing removed. She was found on tbe floor of the hall with her feet against the frontdoor.

After acareful inveatigation it was re-

jealous of

Heuser: and that it waa done to disgrace her. Dr. Haabrouck employed New York detectives to clear up the case, and now tbe dtiaena of the village are greatly exdted over the arrest of an EhgUah physician named Dr. Miller, charged with being the perpetrator of theoutrage.

Tbreata of summary vengeance are in feW instances even made. He is tall, effeminate in build, haa a quiet voice, and hands aa fine1 as a woman's, and aged .forty years. Last Fridsy, when lua Heuser was sitting at the window, she saw a man jump out of a wagon, and aa he walked ^toward the.sidewslk she cried out te her sister, Mrs. Dr. Hasbroucki "Ob dear, there goes one of tbe men who assaulted me. I know hlnf by Ids build. Look at hii feet, they are exactly like those of the tallest of the two who stripped me Sn that fearful night."

The detective^ theory is that all, of Miss Heuser^ clothing wSs removed, so that there should be nothing to identify tbe girl by. She was to have been rolled in sheets tbat men outside had, and at once carried away. The chloroform on tbe Sponge would' have been renewed, and the body been sold for medical purposes. A body like hers, he said, would nave been worth much money. Tbey were already carrying her out, when they heard persons on ibe piazm. l9ie neighbors beard the HOuffling in the hall, and. tried, the dQor. Then tbe scuffling ceased, ana the tried to open the door, but coald not. Tbe reason was Miss Heuser'a feet were against It. The ruffians heard some one coming and left her in that position to delay pursuit. The detectives think the ether man or men were roughs hired by Dr, Miller to help hlm carry her off. Miller is a graduate of Edtnbui'g University, and has practiced medicine in England He came to this country ten years ago, and settled in New Hamburg.

WHAT WORKINGMEN SHOULD DO. j, {Boston Herald

And now our advice to all workingmen, is to try to become capitalists last as rapidly as they can, by honest industry, economy and temperance, instead of spending their time and money in attempts to show tbat sodety is wrong side up. This is tbe Amerioan ides, and, in spite of hard times, America is the best country in the world for tbe workingmsn. There is an abundance of land here, and political and social freedom such as exists nowhere else on the earth. Every man is at liberty to make the most of the talents God has given him. Our institutions were created by workingmen, and we recognise the ract tbat nine-tenths of the people of the country are workingmen. None of the rubbish of the dark ages—that divine right of kings, hereditary titles, caste, class—has been used in constructing ovtr political system. The Idea here is that the government is made for man, not man for the government. Even capital is less powerful here thsn in Europe. It is forced to submit to strong Competition, snd to deal with industry, to which a hundred avenues are open. Any mechanic who is dissatisfied with the price bis labor commands in the market can become the proprietor of fertile acres and turn his own labor into money. Capital is ss profitless without labor as labor without capital. This mutual interdependence never ceases. Tbe idea that a couflict between capital and labor would help the workingmen is as idiotic as a contest between two members of tbe same body. There are evila enough to combat, and tbe workingmen should unlte in favor of honest money, economical government and freedom of exohange. The cost of government is only a fraction at the best. It is the price we pay for pesce, order and security, ft cannot make us rich, band some or hsppy. Tbe best thing we csn ask of it is to leave us free to do for ourselves at tbe least possible cost the least we can ask of it is thst it will not cheat us by issuing false money or by unnecessarily increasing our burdens. What have the sodal quaeks to offer unless it be that quart pots shall holu three pints, and that two times two can be made five by act of congress. Tbey do not deserve attention—they are lgnerant of the simplest rudiments of political economy—and though some of tbem may be honest In their delusions, as a rule they are only seeking to mske a living without either labor or capital.

WESTWARD, HOt Prairie Farmer.

Some very interesting figures are obtained from tbe records of the general land office, Washington, relative to the disposition made or public lands from June 80,1877, to tbe same date the present year. These statistics prove most conclusively tbat a grand movement has been made westward during that time. The statement, as made public, shows that, taking Dakota alone, the rales show an increase of 1,243,423 acres in one year. The same figuring for Kansas shows an increase of l,3o6,478.68 acres for Minnesota, 761,356.10 acres, and for Nebraska, 363,268.83 acres making a grand total in these four localities alone of 3,724,572.29 acres. Reports show that this business is going on, and that the settlers are doing well. Tbe colonies tbat went to Kansas and Dakota from New York, through tbe instrumentality of John Kelly, about 4,003 strong, and those that went from Baltimore and Philadelphia, Indianapolis and Boston, are prospering beyoad their expectations."

GRAIN BURNEB&.Z St. Louis Republican.

The

discovery of what appears to be traces of an organized conspiracy in California to burn the grain stacks in certain regions has created intense exdtement in that atate. Threats were made as long ago as last winter that as soon as tbe present crop In Santa Clam waa harvested it would be destroyed, but st the time little attention was paid tot hem. About ten days ago afire broke out in a grain field near San Jose, which burned stacks worth about 9600. It was regarded as an aoddent. A few days afterwards a grain dipper covered with straw and standing in afield in the same neighborhood was fired and burned. Two hours later tbe stubble in tbe vicinity of tbe threshing machine on the same form caught fire, but,the flames tirer« extinguiMbul much damage was done. A few days afterward, about eigbt oclotk in the moruiog, the work-

men on a farm in the aame neighborhood saw afire flaah up in a diatant quarter of tbe field they hastened to tbe spot and began to extinguiah the flames, and while doing so three other lires broke out at different points in tbe field. But for the prompt exertions of the laborers, who finally pot the fires out, they would have extended to a district miles in length covered with uncut but ripe grain. On making aa invest!tion it waa found tbat each fire had caused by a lighted candle stuck oh a stiff wire thrust In the ground in the midst of a heap of dry straw. The apparatus bad evidently been set at jht, and trimmed so that the candlea would burn down to a certain point and set the field afire about the same instant, the ineendiarv making his escape in the meanwhile. The farmers of Santa Clara are greatly exasperated at tbeee plots, and nave organised to detect the inoendiaries, if possible. If one should be found he would be lynched on tbe spot.

LIMITED

Mr,

ISHOO."

Ntuby Develops a New Ifinancial Scheme, in Whim He Shows How the Issues Demanded by the Nationals are fo be Got Into Circulation.

CONFEDRIT ROADS,

(Wlch is in the Btate of Kentucky,) JopiiY 29,1878. Yesterday! wus perplexed. I bed bin argooin with my yooeual ability in favor uv an onlimited ishoouv greenbacks with a view uv makin money easier and givin every man wich wantid it al be wantid, when Issaker Gavitt staggered be by askin' wat good that wus goln to do him? "Yoo promised us," sed Issaker, "money in plenty when we got the ailver bill passed, but I never got hold uv a dollar uv it, onlesa I earned it, and tbat I cood do before silver wus made legle-tender. There's money enuff now for themes is so degradid es to work for it, but tbat ain't wat finanaeerin is for. Wat I want is money that I don't work /er—money furnisht by a paternal gov ernment, as it were, money that comes uv itself, you see. Don't talk to me oqtil yoo kin come in that shape."

I laid awake a whole nite' ponderin this subjict. I saw to-wunst the force uv Issaker's objeckshun, and Tfelt that •utbin must be done to solve this problem.

At precisely three o'dock in the mornin I hit it. It oome to me as a revelashen, and I went to sleep, satisfied that I bed solved the problem uv finance.

This is my idee. Money wuz plenty doorin the late onpleasantnees beoos the Goverment wuz a borrylu uv evrybody. It was plentyer in the Confedraoy than it wus in the Fedrel States liecoz the Confedraoy wus the biggest borryer. The Northern farmer wicn bed a bos that afore tne war, owin to ita bein, blind and spavined wuz wuth $50, foun that boss wuth $300 doorin the war beoox the Government bed to hev it, and hed nothin but ita greenbax to pay tar it in. Hence thelionest farmer dlvvyed with tbe honeet contractor, and ther wuz 9300 put afloat, wich wus a good thing for the groseries and the photograffers. The wife uv that farmer never stopped till she bed a cake uv French toilet sope and a silk dress snd her photos raff, and tbe farmer hlssulf put on broadcloth and fine linen, and bota trottin sulky. Them wus prenperus dsys.

We can't, uv course, hev another war to git our new ishoointo serkelasben, but we kin hev wat will do jest es well. We kin hev internel improvmence. We kin complete all the kanals and raleroads Whatever wuz commenst, and we kin kommense jist ez many more ez we choose. For Instance, the Cross Rodes wants—

The slack- watrin uv Nigger Run to make it avaleable for side wheel steemere at all seasons uv the yeer.

The compleesben uv the Seccession ville Raleroad, to lower the frate on Ilk ker from Looisvllle.

The comple«hn uv tbe pike to Boregard, to cut off tbe trade uv Libertyvllle.

The establishment uv an arsenal at the Corners, and also a nashnel military academy.

Tbe imejit bildin uv a branch connectin the Corners with the Southern Pa eiflo Road.

The establishment here uv a nashnel obeervatory, to observe eclipses and diaklver planets and slcb, without wich ther can't be prosperity.

The bildin uv a plank-road over Davis' Hills, with a swing bridge over Niggerrun.

These improvements, all demanded by tbe general good, will cost not less than three millions uv dollars, all uv wich wood be divided among the honest perdoosers uv tbe Corners snd tbe honest contractors uv which I shood be one.

Thus tbe money wood git into drculation, and thus it wood go along way toward restoring prosperity. Es every other locality in the country wood want an ekal amount, there cood be at least thousand million put afloat to begin witb, wich cood be added from time to time, ez we needed it. "But it wood all hev to be paid agin?" objectid Bascom, wich hevin suthin is alius objectin to finansbel skeems for betterin tbe times.

Never," sed I, "never. This money ain't never to be redeemed. It will go on and on forever. When a bill gits old yoo kin go and exchange it for anew one, and tbat for another new one. The people will be obleeged to take it for it witibeJegle tender, and it can't help makin money plenty, wich is wat we want, now. Payl never! Ef we are a soin to pay we mite be benefitted lor a a *r. ..

money and a libral system uv internal improvements to git it into drkelashen is wat we want now.

Ifeaker wuz satisfied, and to-inorrow nite we mete to organize the "Onlimitid Ishoo and Internal Improvement Leage uv the Cross Roads."

Our rallying cry will be, "Our capasity for spendin money must be ekal to our capaaity for pTuousin it, and both must be onlimiio*." We sbel hev good times at the Corners ez soon ez the Nationals carry a Congress, and kin got to work. I hev developed tbe skeem for em.

PKIBOUCUX V. NA'BY, Finanseer.

DECORATE YOUR HOME. From the Keolrak Constitution. Jast as quick as former Jones painted Us barbed wire fence blue, plain blue, farmer Smith's wife swore she wasn't going to be outdone, and tbe fence around tbe Smith farm soon blossomed out red, picked with white. Mrs. Jones wasnt going to have any of the Smith family put on airs over her, and tbeir blue ience was soon trimmed witb gold leaf stripes. Smith trumped over by totting a gilt ball on every barb, and ones, when last heard from was planting weather vanes, gilt horses peacocks, and lightning rod tips all over his fence, and swearing be'd beat tbe Smith family if he had to put

cupola zed bay win

dow at every post aud bang a wrwno every twO'iee* aion*i tbe iine. VS* should a'iiI pay more aiteatJou

decoration of our homes.

the

Closing-Out Prices.

HOBERG. ROOT & CO.,

OPERA HOUSE.

Have made reductions in all departments and will offer from this date all Summer Goods at lower prices.

White corded Piques, 5c per yard worth 8c. 4-4 Percales, To per yard worth 10c. 500 yards Bourette Dress Goods, 6fe, 8 and 10c per yard former prioe, 12K and 15c. 100 pieces Grey Dress Linen, 15,20,25 and 30c per yard. 275 White Crochet Bed Spreads, large alse, fl.35 each. 500 Linen, Grass Cloth, Percsle and Calico Suits for ladies, misses and children at one-half .former price. SUMMER SILKS. r.,f,

SUMMER DRESS GOODS, V•SUMMER SHAWLS, I

SUMMER SKIRTS,

IAll Reduoed.

Housekeeping Goods.

Towels, Napkins, Doylies, Table Linens, Crashes, etc., at reduoed prices. 100 dozen Fripged Towels, large sizes, at 75c per dozen. s.ti:

Large size all Linen Napkins, fl per dozen, worth $1.50. Turkey Red Table Damask, 65c, 75o and $1 per yard.

Loom Table Linen, 25,35, 40 and 50c per yard. ^,v

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

OPERA HOUSE.

October Election.

We are authorized to announce Hon. JOHN T. GUNN, of Sullivan, Indiana, as a candidate for Judge of the 14th Judicial Circuit in the State of Indiana, at the ensuing October election. Mr. Gunn has only consented to the use of his name in connection with the Judgeship upon the urgent solicitation ef many mends in Vigo and Sullivan, without regard to party pontics.

For Rent.

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Ot B. W. ROOPMAN ft SON.

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DUNDAS DICK A OO.,

85 Wooster Street, New York.

Ten cent explanatory book mailed FBBB on application. Sold by D. P. COX, Druggist,

Jy2tay J. J. BAUR, Druggist.

Picture

Largest S to

MOULDINGS, I FRAMES, GLASS.

Bext Assortment', Lowest Prices,

At J. V. PROBST'S 528% Main street, between rlftb and Sixth. Have vour pictures framed before they are soiled. Prices far a below any ever given in Terre Haute.

PROVISIONS

WHOLESALE,^

In store and for sale in Job lots, at

118 MAIN STREET

Choice sugar cured hams, shoulders and breakfast bacon also heavy clear bacon aide* and shonlders, and kittle rendered, leaf lard In tleriesand bucket*. 4

SAMS. EARLY.

Never Failing Remedy THE EUROPEAN

KtEIUlE USE CIREL

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For Fever and Agu^ Intemittont Fever Dumb Ague. Remittent Fever, Bilious Fever, Dyxpeml*, Indigestion, Liver and Kidney Regulator, and Yellow Jaundice. Purely vegetable. Warranted a* here rep* meoted. orssle by all druggists.

PrtML "1 cents and SI per bouie. If your drngaJJr ba* not set it, I win send It to von Jrflcof charge on recelp of your enter, «:, «•».*.mil sLOO per boiUe. 1 ry

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