Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 August 1878 — Page 8
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.Personal.
T. J. Griffith went to Boston tfeif week. Mrs. JobitiPaddock ls'atthe Martin county springs.
DL C. Greiner went to Cincinnati, this week, to "stock up." Hon. H. D. Scott and wife went to an a is
Mi^s Ellen Gil more, of Chrisman, Ills is -visiting Kiss Mary Sibley. Mrs. Dr. Treat returned this week from «.-visit to Rochester, New York. -George Thomas of the post office, visiting friends in Dayton, Ohio.
A. Smock has removed bis bat store to 'the St. Clair buildiDg, corner of Main and Second street. r?
Mrs. J. H. Chapman started Thursday tor Pennsylvania, where a month will be passed among the mountains.
Sant C. Davis returned, Tuesday even tog, from Burlington, Kansas, where he was called by the fatal illness of his ,.
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mother. President Jones, of the State Normal School, has been in the northern part of the State this week, talking to teachers' .Institutes,
Charley Thompson, son of the Secretary, who has Just returned from a trip 4p Europe, came home on Saturday witt^ Itis parents. iLouis Baganl, tne popular salesman and show window artist, late with B. Khrlioh, has taken.8 position at Hoberg, Root A Co's.
Will Ripley returned from the east on Wednesday. Rev. Dunham, who went with him, will come home about the Xlrst of September. 7oba L. Gordon will teach in the Greenwood school. His place in the Cen(ral Bookstore will be filled by Norman .13. Turk, an old time clerk in that house.
Miss Fanny J. Kellogg, formerly, of our city, now Boston's pet vocalist will this season with the Whitney Concert Company, one of the best quartettes iarveling. .«TA,I .ft It *fi
Russell Teel will Bhortly return to this city and resume his old position of book deeper at II. Robinson A Co's, made vacant by .the removal to New York of iftr. Hammatt.
A little four year old ran to its mother one day this week exclaiming: "There's 3 cramp coining." A minute after the "cramp" appeared at the kitchen door and wanted something to eat.
Henry Green await came in on Wednesday, from a trip along the lakes, the Hudson an4 his old Pennsylvania home feeling in good condition, and ready for the school work of the coming year,
The Mall was the first paper in this city to make a feature of personal mention, and turn up your noses as you will, good people, it is the most interesting feature of any family paper. Any personal or social information, dropped us by postal card or otherwise, is always sthankfully received.
M. C. Hunter, Jr., has been Appointed assignee of the Fred Schlewing estate. Mr. Hunter is the poss assignee of this city. The Gazette states that he "has satisfactorily handled the complicated business of thirty-four bankrupt estates, and been attorney in a large number of others—a very flattering exhibit for his -reputation and ability,"^ I
Joseph H. Schell the chsmpoin card writer, on Tuesday evening tendered bis resignation of the office of Chief of the Fire Department. He seemed to be impressed with the fact that if he didn't resign, the council would serve him as it did the Street Commissioner. V. G. DickhoUt was elected to fill the vacancy —a very good selection. "Our Bayless," which is the Hon. B. W. Hanna, indignantly and emphatically denies the statement in the Indianapolis Journal that he is opposed to the ro-electlon of Mr. Voorhees to the Senate, and concludes his card with, the declaration that "Uu Dsmocratic party is next to the church of Christ in relation to humao happiness and citil progm** .feat
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|T. P. Brettnao tho merchant tailor—
you alt know his place* on east Main street—has had a lively time of it this week. Those hew pieo6 goods «re meniloued last week, so handsome and so cheap, weto snatched up eagerly. So many were the orders that a few had to be turned away—couldn't make up the •goods this week. But Mr. Breuuan is prepared to fit 1 ali orders ttcxt week. Oali earlv and the attractive goods
house ail in past y«ars the Headquarters far the faster trade. He received his trot lot this week, and from this on through the season will be able to supply all orders for city retail trade and dealers In all the surrouudlng country with the freshest and beet oysters to be bad, sad at the very lowest raise. He lass been to long fit the trade thai
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k«t&ws jaat where to gel them, how to gafc them here In good order, and his trig trade indicates that be knows how *td where to sell them.
A. B. Peggand wife have returned from their lake trip. Republican: T. KKnoxand wife for* merlyofthis city have returned from Europe.
Harry Graham and sister have return ed from a visit of seyeral weeks in Cincinnati. s&S
Paris Gazette: Miss Nellie Gist, of Terre Haute, is visiting Mrs. Jake Bell in this city.
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Paris Gazette: Miss Flora Gilman, of Terre Haute, is visiting Mrs. Levi Sisk EC. C. Gilbert and wife came home on Wednesday from Waukesha and other lake resorts. 'r.
Mrs. J. B. Lyne, whohasleen spenkfng a month at Danville, Ills. Jbftine Wednesday.
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Misses Lizzie Hamifl and Allie Buff go down to Sullivan, to-day, for a visit of two weeks.
Misses Fanrle W, Hamill and Mattie Evans, went over to Indianapolis, yesterday afternoon.
Perry Tuttle has a letter in to-day's Indianapolis Herald, and Harding beads it "From Fiatville!"
Miss Lena Priest returned to Terre Haute, last week, aiter visiting relatives here.—Greencsstle Banner.
W. E. Peck went to Terre Haute, Tuesday, to visit his daughter, Mrs. I. N. Pierce.—Greencastle Banner.
Mirs Mollie Morgan, of orado, is spending a few days with her uncle, Will Morgan, of th^Yandalia line.
Miss Belle Smith, of Terre Haute, one of the most charming young ladies, 'is visiting Miss Carrie Hubbard, on Chestnut street.—Paris Gazette./
The Misses Iou and Carrie Owens, of Terre Haute, who have been visiting Miss Jennie James, returned to their home on Monday last.—Clinton Indianian.
Mrs. T. H. Riddle and Mre. E. B. Cole, were among the excursionists to Chicago, last night. They will combine business with pleasure by selecting.novelties for the ladies
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Miss Mattie Wintermute and her little niece, Miss Mattie Tyler, of Terre Haute are in the city visiting. They are the guests of Misses Jennie and Welhelmine Anstead.—Clinton lndiananian.
J. R. Hall, formerly of this city, with U. R. Jeffers A Co., and a brother of J. W. Hall, of Keyes A Sykes' hub and spoke works, died in New Orleans on the 30th of July, of yellow fever. He was employed there in, the custom house. "K^v -C:
A large party of the friends of Miss Annie Conover, of North Seventh street, gave her a complete surprise last evening, it being her birthday. Refreshments were served and a most enjoyable time was spent, the "wee sma' houu" being well under way before the merry crowd dispersed.
Mrs. Herbert Madison and Mrs. George Fisher attended the Sunday School Jubilee at Gilbert's grove, on Thursday, and at onetime got out of their buggy with a suddenness and unexpectedness that was somewhat start ling. The buggy turned over as they were making a turn on the side of the hill. Only a few bruises.
C. E. Hosford camo in yesterday from three weeks trip thst included New York, Hartford, and away up in Ver-. mont, where, during that hot spell, he slept under a heavy blanket Well pulled up over the shoulders. He happened to strike New York at tho time when show people were arranging their routes for the doming season, and made a number of engagements of a superior clew of amusements.
John G. Shryercame over from Carllnvllle yesterday for a few days to start the work of remodeling his south Fifth street residence, which with the alterations and improvements determined on, will be one of the finest dwellings in the State. Clift «fe Williams have the work in hand and will commence on the first of September. Mr. 8. will return here with bis family about the first of December.
J. A. Foote, the dealer in seeds, and one of our most honorable and upright business men, was oompelled to file his petition in bankruptcy this week. He had obtained the consent of most of his creditors for a compromise, but the refusal of a fow compelled him to go into bankruptcy in order that all might Share alike. Mr. Foote's house has been of mo benefit and a great convenience, to farmers and gardeners, and we hope to see him in full blast next season.
A poor cup of coffee will spoil the best meal. All good cooks know thst it is Impossible to make good cotffee unless the berry is freshly roasted. Hence they buy at J. M. RifTner A Son's China Tea Store, 507 Main street, whose coffees are always freshly roasted. And in buying there you are always sure of pare coffee, of the best grades, because tbey do not use the gum arabio and molasses glaze to give poor coffee a good appearance.
Sunday is said to be a day of rest, but of late in many, ways there is less of peace and quiet about it than in years pas*. With picnicB and excursions and enrrfage UdiDg, what a stir there is upon tfcft streets. 4nd then there is the SunI day dinner. It has come4o be the bote weal of the week. This is because
Wright & Kinc, the popular grocery1 oa the ccrutf of Main and Seventh streets iuak* inch extra exertions
&e shows, JS% Wz Ed. NY* Joba-van la agkin th the deld trith the determination to keep his i»a Saturdays to hate good things to
eat. To-day tbey have exerted themselves more than ever to have something good, and as a result they have apples and peaches, watermelons, cantelopes, green com, vegetables fresh and In great aboadance, canned goods, fish, everything la the line of staple and fancy gncertes, hams, bre*kfe»t bacon and extra dried beef, spring chickens, Graham and St. Lonis Slills Patent Flour, erack0 wheat, Akron oatmeal, Hudnutls elean meal, grits and hominy, ami in feet everything needed fist thet#ble.
TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY' SErVENUTG: MAUk
B. Ehrlich, we are glad to learn, baa made a satis&ctory, compromise with his erediton, and willin a few days resume business at his old stand.
Mrs. C. C. Smith and her daughter Hattie returned, yesterday, from a visit at Paris. Mis. Ssndtoid, of Little Rock Arkansas, came over with them. ]s
Rev. Thorn. R. Bacon, the new minister for the Congregstional Church, will not come here until the 15th of September, instead of the 1st, as 1MS been stated.
Charles B. Rigney, a well known and popular young firmer, of Honey Craek township, and Miss Isabella DeBaun were married last night. Quite a number of in\ ited guests went, down from this city.
Rev. W. McK. Darwood is still mixing recreation with '"regeneration" at the Ocean Grove camp ground and seaside resort. He spoke to an audience of some ten thoussnd people, on the beaeh last Sunday evening.
Prof. Wiley, never does anything be halves, and he filled that corner stone lsst Saturdsy evening chock full of doc uments that will prove mighty intcxasting reading when it is opened say hundred years hence.
J. W. Pahmeyer, late of this city, is at Chattanooga, Tenn. This we know, because like every other good citizen who goes out from here in hope of bettering his fortune, he has just ordered The Mail sent to him for one year.
Fourth street is becoming quite rival to Main as a business street. It oir this street, just above Cherry, that is located Foster A Son's furniture house, which hss an enviable reputation for giving bargains in furniture.
In these days when there are so many worthless instruments.thrust upon the market, it absolutely necessary to buy of reputable dealers, such as W. H. Paige A Co., who deal only in the pianos and organs of the leading manufacturers, such as Cbickering, Mason A Hamlin, and others of thisclsss.
There never was a time when the necessity of economy was so apparent as now, and all who have to buy boots and shoes should-take advantage of the great elearance sale in progress for thirty days at J. P. Tutt's. in the Opera House block. He wants to mske room for fall and winter wear, and in bis stock are some leading styles of ladies' wesr, offered at veiy low prices to insure rapid sales. He hss a large stock and great variety of men's calf boots at very reasonable prices.
People and Things.
To be "easy to liye With" is a rare quality to possess. It is said that in his speeches Kearney has advised the workingmen to do every thing but one— work.
A sentimental Washington German gave his girl a flower which he called "Don't yon forget it." She didn't.
The worst thing about a mosquito is its long soliloquy as to where it had better settle down and bite.—New Haven Register. "Similia similibus curantur Whdn people are thoroughly tired, they can only become rested after they have retired.—Breakfast Table.
An expensive funeral is' said to be a sure sign of poverty in the family. The more flowers and carrisges the Worse off are those who hire them. *r ,5
Colonel Ingersoll'8 three new lectures for this flail will be, "Robert Bnrns," lit* erary "Tramp?," political, anl /'Some Mistakes or Moses,'.' religious.
A prominent religious paper refuseslo publish obituaries which are over three months old, and says that such things are of no value unless they are fresh.
A Ridgefield man has invented a chair which can be adjusted to 8,000 different positions. It is designed for a boy to sit in when having hisbair cut.—Danbury News. ur. a- i&w
Each of Brfgham' Young^s children will get £21,000 if they get anything. A hundred and fifty children tear a pretty big-hole in the estate of the most provident -f-
The Detroit Free Press notices that the Chinaman pays his debts, and is sober and Industrious, and wants to know the use of civiliz'ng and making a scoundrel of him.
Backward turn, backward, oh time, in your flight, the young man said, as he turned the clock the other way, just before the girl's old man came in to wind up for the night.
Railroads carry 8,000,000 passengers safoly where they kill one, but the trouble is to know when the 8,000,000 have been counted up and the killing is to begiu.—Free Press.
It is very noticeable that the chan who hasn't been inside of a church sinoe he was a boy is the one who howls the loudest because an overworked preacher goee away for a two weeks' vacation in August,—Burlington Hawkeye. "That Hnsband of Mine* Is now almost entirely forgotten, notwithstanding the immense hit it made on its first appearance," says an exchange. Well, to be forgotten soon is next door to what ought to have been—not to have been written at all.
Kearney denies that be Is an Orangeman or a Protestant. In his speech at Lowell be said: "I despfcse the Orangemen's Societies. My mother and father were Catholics and they made me a and I married a Catholic girl in California, and my children were christened In a Catholic Church."
John B. Gougb, who went to England to
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lectures. This ia. .tyke unto Artemus .Ward, who stopped in the midst gf his 'scientific discourse on, "The babes in the woods" to rest his voice, and while it was resting narrated an incident in hia career for the entertainment of hia audience..
So' many Ihighly" raspeb^d iiteti in places of trust have been caught stealing of late, that some foolish people -are trying in their hsste that honesty and honor are among the lost arts. They are altogether too hasty and Jump to an unwarranted conclusion. There are scores of thousands of men in this coun try who value clean hands and a clear conscience above money. "That man la a deiperado!" said Mr. Hiscox, of Leyden, Msss., when hia wife brought him out the crust of a pie which' had been eaten not long before by a stranger, and showed the "large and impatient bites" that the stranger had taken. So they pursued after the stranger and captured him, and found that he was a home thief who was very much ''wanted" by the authorities, a
Feminitems.
Some few seaside belles take their bracelets in to bathe. Snobbishness. A Minnesota woman has lost two husbands by lightning. She ought to marry a conductor. w-
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Many a sweetly fashioned mouth Is made hideous by the fiery and untamed tongue within it.
Some ladies when walking out, seem angry if they are gazed at, but are sadly disappointed if they are not.
Don't spank your children with the bootjack. It is too hard to hold, and is spt to make bunions on your thumbs.
The Harpers announce that tbey have in press "A Beautiful Woman." That shows what the literary world is coming
The la&ea^ h'aWat Newport" ire wltfh fore and aft, tipped up and down, wrong side out and foreside to, with crowns and withou^/^(i
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A married lady in giving a young man advice as to the kind of a wife he ought to get, said: "What profiteth a man if he gain the whole world and'can't get a square meal."
Ann Eliza Young has A new lecture on Mormouism, and will exhibit in connection with it six pictures, life size, of distinguished Mormons, including Brigham Young and his favorite wife.
There is a married woman named Ryerson in West Hoboken, N. J., who has given birth to twenty-six children at eleven accouchements, namely, eight times twins, twice triplets, once four at a birth.
Anciently great contempt was ex pressed for female cooks. Louis XIV would not eat pf a dish prepared by a woman. Louis XV held the same opinions until Madame DuBarry taught him better.
At the wharves of St. John's, Newfoundland, women do the work of longshoresmen. They carry hand barrows of fish to and fro, performing the same labor as men, but getting less pay. They also hire out for the fishing voyages to Labrador.
A schoolgirl in Ann Arbor took her lovers as a theme for an essay, which she read oh commencement day, much to the -astonishment of the assembly. She gave the names of the lovers, and described minutely their varied manner ofcourtship.
Said an orttor at the Woman's Rights Cfongress at Paris: "We were born naked and yet society makes us cover ourselves with olothes, to earn which we have to work and labor. Su6h anomalies as these will rapidly disappear when our rights are conceded."
An old lady passenger was so muob impressed by the polite attention she received from a railroad conductor in Connecticut, that she recently left him two thousand five hundred dollars by her will. But will this catch the eye and go to the hearts of Other conductors?
A late letter says that the women in the Oneida Community are, almost without exception, pale, haggard and sad faced. Any woman would be that whose baby was aken away from her at its birth and mixed in amoug a number oi: other babies so.that. she would never know her own child again.
At the Methodist church in Warping, Hartford county, Conn., August 4th, a streak* of lightning entered the audienoe room, took the back hair off a lady (the hair was some she-bought), twisted it out of place and sent it, a black mass, to the floor. The fluid ran down the young woman's back, scorching her somewhat and continued on until it reached the floor. The question naturally arises, waa it an act of Divine Providence for a a special purpose? Hsd the wearing of thai store hair anything to do with it? The ladies are ¥(117 anxious to understand the matter, as the dancing of lightning down a woman's back is a matter in which they feel a particular interact.
The prettiest girl in town uses paint. aheonly knew how dirty,and sallow it mkei the back of her neck look to the man who sits Immediately behind her in church, she would quit it. The line of demarcation between the lily white induced by cwme de 11a is pain* toiiy evident. It don't look well to see a girt all rosy and beeaUfulin front and all sallow or freckled behind.
WehavereeeiTed many ate Novelties, for September styles. Popular 3ent Store for Fi joods.
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THE FINEST LIN!E
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CALL AND «EE THE NOVELTIES
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WONDERFUL BARGAINS
BBBL & LANQBH.
GENERAL JOB PRINTERS
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At J. F. PROBST'S, m%. Main street, be* tween lftfi and Sixth. Have your pictures {tamed before they are soiled. Prices ikr below any ever given in Terre Haut|
MANTELS and ORATES. The largest and cheapest stock of Mantels, both Slate and Iron, ever offered in this city, at Ball's Store Store, Corner 3d and Main. "little Sore Oder Too."
Best line ot Cldsr Mills, at A.G. AUSTIN A CO'S.
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Men's Boots, #2X0. worth 94 00. Men's Harsome Gaiters, 92JS0. worth 95M. men naiviiuv vsiwn) ww»* MenM Calf Alexis. I2.S0, worth «.», Men's Calf Favorite, 12^0, worth W OO. Men's Calf Alexis, fLM. worth fifiO. Ladies' I Pebble Polish, fl#, worthll^O Ladles' I Pebble 8ide-laoe, 81.25, worth W 12X10
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Ladles' Lasting Slippers, ^. worttilliXO. Misses' Pebble Button, «l^.worth f&OO. Misses' Pebble Side-laee. #125, worthjaoo. MIMBS'Pebble Polish, fl.00, worth |1'75.
Children's Shoes at all prices. A large line of Boots, ShoeS and Slippers. In short, don't fall to call and see-
DANIEL B1SBOLD,
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Choice sugar cured hams, shoulders and breakfast bacon: also heavy clear baton skies and shoolders, and kittle rendered leaf lard in Uexces and buckets.
SAM 3. EABLT.