Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 August 1878 — Page 8
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Personal.
Hay fever affects Dlsbon, the bill «jjoster. s, B. Ebrlicb baa returned from strip northard.
Ellaba Havens returned on Monday from New York. Mima Tudie Beaaobamp spent this week in Chicago.
Miss Sarah B'inn ?s visiting Mi Seeley at Newp art.' \.?7 Mrs. Patrick Shannon and family are visiting in Chicago. 8. S. Allen, of the Hoosier Store, visited Chicago this week.
Dr. Robt. Van Valzah is at home from an enjoyable trip to the north. Mrs. C. O. Ebel went to Dayton. Ohio on Thursday to visit relatives.
Henry Robinson and wife returned this week from an Eastern trip. H. D. Scott and wife returned Wednesday event Dg from Waukesha.
Mrs. Dr. Young and daughter are visiting relatives at New Harmony. Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Warren are qf, home from their trip to the East.
Miss Siddie Wood bas been spending a few days with friends in Indianapolis. Mrs. Col. Hudson and her daughter KUza have returned from their Canada trip.
The mother-in-law of Hon. Emory P. jReauchamp died, at Cologne, on the 13th lust.
Speed Wilson succeeds W.A. Jordan as bookkeeper at U. R. Jeffers' woolen mill.
Engene Crafts has been called up from brakeman to baggage master on the Vandalia.
Alex. B. Crane, formerly of this city, lias joined the army of bankrupts in New York city.
William McCntcbeon, of Cannelton, this State, is visiting his brothers, JameB and Robert, in this city.
Mrs. Dr. Thompson who has been visiting Mrs. Claude Matthews, at Cllntan, returned Wednesday.
Chal C. Brown has removed his family from Peoria to this city and bas taken an interest in the Republican.
Mrs. and Miss Drury, relatives of Jos. f=). Jenckes, of this city, died in Memphis last week of yellow fever.
Miss Sadie and Lou Gilbert returned on Monday from a visit to their grandfather, Dr. Morgan, Crawfordsville.
Wm. Henderson and family, aiier a trial of Texas life, have gladly returned to this city to make it again their home.
W. P. Ijams and wife have been in the city a portion of this week. They have arranged set up housekeeping at Indianapolis.
Mrs. Charles Tyler and daughter Helen returned home this week from a visltof several weeks in the Lake Superior region.
Miss Kate Gfrorer, who for six months bas been amending the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music, roturned home on Thursday.
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The present postoffloe address of Thos. E. Knox, whose memory is held dear to some of our citizens, is Mount Auburn, Michigan.
Max Hoberg, Sheldon Swope and D. 12. Paddock ar off on an excursion that takes in Newport, Martha's Vineyard, Boston and New York. dpt. Wm. Barrick, whose life was at one time despaired of, now slowly improving, and his physicians say he bas good prospects for recovery.
Spenocr F. Ball has been doing Niagara Falls in a rational way, and in a letter to the Gazette this week gives aome good advioe to future visitors.
Mrs. Robert Jackson, wife of the proprietor of the Mount Pleasant dairy, died, on Monday morning, at the Indianapolis Insane Asylum, where she was taken on Thursday of last week.
Howard Saudlsonand W. W. Parsons returned from their European tour on Monday, a little bronzed and well satis dod with the trip. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Teunant, who went ever with them, will not return until the last of next month.
George F. Ripley, who bss made a inodol landlord, bas sold his interest in the Torre Haute House to W. B. Tuell, who is now "sole prop* ie tor." The management bas been placnd in the hands of Alphonso Shaw, for many years ohief clerk at the house, and an excellent man for the position. It is stated that Mr. Ripley received 152,000 for his share, and that after a brief rest he Will retnrn to the dry goods business.
The next time you want coffee, lea, spices or syrup, we advise a call on J. M. Riffner &
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Main street. They make these goods a specialty, and it Is reasos**ble to suppose that as is their sole iiepsudenoe for trade that they will give you bet*-r article and at lower prions than you .can get at a corner grocery,
There fat one business man in town who bas no complaint Tf dull times— especially for the past two weeks. That man is J. P. Drennan, the popular merchant tailor on er«t Main street. The floe piece goods we have spoken of on bis tables have been going so rapidly that he hits another lot on the road which he is now expecting every day. 'Gentlemen will do well to goods before ordering suits.
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W. A. Ryan tripped to Cincinnati this week. Mrs. Frank Crawford wilt vstrm home from Ohio this evening.
R. 8. Cox and family returned on Thursday from the lake oonntry. Miss On Crow came home -ferday from her visit Sslem, ilinoia.
John .Ebel, of Dayton. Ohio, is visiting his brother, C. O. Ebel, in this city. Mia. T. Brown, of Columbus, is visiting her parents and friends in tt'* city.
Mrs. D. 8. Dsnaldson went over to Indianapolis with Mrs. Ijams on Wednesday.
Mrs. S. S. Keith has returned from an extended visit to thd northern lake country. "Boss Joe" Nirdlinger and wills came in Thursday evening from New York and Cleveland.
Miss Liza Yates has returned from a two weel*s' visit in St. Louis, ready re
County Clerk Durkin Is enroute home from Ireland, and we are glad to learn is much improved in health.
Orange H. Smith, of the Express counting room, ia at his post again a*«er spending two weeks with his brother in St. Iouis. v/J ,:S-
Superintendent Wiley tells its be Will start the city schools on Monday with the best corps of teachers he b|MI. ever had onder his control.
The Chicago and Indianapolis excur sionists are coming in daily. In a few days more about all our summer flitters will be at their accustomed places.
Lee Goodman, Jr., returned iixun Philadelphia and New Tork this week, after an absence of one month. He brought hi wife and baby with him.
Many of our peoplo have had cause this season to bless Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Hervey for their generous hospitality at their lovely summer place on the river St. Lawrence.
Charles Gould steps from the amateur to the professional stage—having joined a dramatic company. Our city has done its full share in contributions to the dramatic force of the country,
Paul Dresser, another of Terre Haute's musical composers, hss just written a song and 'dance entitled: "Where the Orange Blossoms Grow," which is said to have much merit. Terre Haute bids fair to rival Cincinnati as a muaical center.
Among the petitioners in bankruptcy, this week, were Samuel M. Young, Samuel Daltonand Charles Robinson, Wm. Wallace Sibley, W. W. Davis, Charles H. Davis, Wm. A. Davis, Peter Y. Buskirk, Francis D. Crews, and Francis M. Pickens.
The many friends of A1 Lindsley, who married Miss Lou Hedden in this city, will be gratified to learn that hav ing been placed in a responsible position in the St. Louis Type Foundry, he is doing well, is snugly fixed in housekeeping, and the pair are as happy as mortals usually get. "Ux
Ed. W. Johnson is now getting, his oysters irom Falrhaven, Connecticut, and they are as list and nice as those brought from the more southern beds one month later. A nice fresh lot got In to-day. Try a can.
In these days when tbere 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 Chlokering, Mason A Hamlin, and others of this class.
Peter Miller doesn't believe in contraction—of business—and the increase of his trade has compelled him to work his force at night. He invites all who want flue or heavy harness, to call at his manufactory, on south Fourth street, and see his stock and learn his prices. Next week he will get in a superb lot of horse blankets and lap robes.
School commences on Mondsy, and the children must have new shoes. You should take advantage of the great clearance 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 atyles of children's wear, offered at veiy low prices to insure rapid sales. He has a large stock and great variety of men's calf boots at very reasonable prices.
If you want to see brisk trade drop in at Button A Co's Central Bookstore aad see the hundreds of boys and girls, parents and teachers, purchasing school books. There's where they mostly go, because for years it has been headquarters for school books and school supplies. Parents will be glad to learn that there has been a reduction from last year's prices. In this connection we mention that Button A Oo. have just got In an immense stock of blank books, Including •bout everything needed.
To-morrow mill be 8unday"nnd the question that agitates any good housewives about the time The Mail drops in*»their hands In: ''What shall I
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for dinner?" Wo wish to aay that Wright A King, the bung. ce. ^ofMsIn and Seventh, have to-day e^eiid themselves more than ever to have something good, and as a result they have apples and peaches, watermekma, cantelopea, green corn, vegetables fresh and in great abundance, canned goods, fish, everything in the line of staple snd fancy groceries, hams, break flsst bacon and extra dried beef, spring chickens, Graham and St. Louis Mills Patent Flour, cracked wheat, Akron oatmeal, Hudnut's dean meal, grits and hominy, and in feet everything needed
TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAJLfa.
D. P.Bissell'swell known fMttrotting mars Moos Rose died Tuesday right.
Mrs. Albert Gray, who bas been quite sei krasly 111, isnowuup jtsd, about the house.
S.C. Scott hss been reinstated S. ganger, but has not yet assign to duty.
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Oscar Rankin will next week take partnership interest with Jaoob White in the confectionery business.
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H. T. During, formerly of this city, are glad to learn from the, papers there, is doing (Ac dry goods trade of Msson City, Ills.
F. Jauriet is off for New York night. He gives our readers a parting shot in the way of an sivert'*ement another column.
Samuel Duncan, for three years with the American Express Company, takes Oscar Rankin's place as book keeper A. B. Mewhinney's.
Rev. C. R. Henderson brought his family down, om Lafayette this week and tbey have set op housekeeping in the flut house, "rothof the Vanda"a ro»l on Ninth street. The young people ef ft oted an entrance the other evening snd plac 1 upon the hall and stairway a r'ce carpet to match that of the parlor.
It takes only thirty-five dollsrs to get a parlor set of seven pieces, or tkbedioow set, consisting of drersing caae, wash stsnd and bedstead, if yon get them at Foster A Son's furniture house, on North Fourth street.
People and Things.
One of the necessaries of life—a ootn fortable income. An Yellow fever, like all other fevers, is the blossom of filth.
Did you ever look for dog and find the dog-gone dog gone People call a man a funny dog on socount of his waggish ways. &
Evangelist Sankey is going to Europe, He takes bis voioewith him. The force of habit made a Scranton barber ask, while shaving a corpse, "Does the rasor hurt?"
The cheeee makers are happy, Horatio Seymour having succeeded in getting cheese adopted as an army ration.}
Ex-Doorkeeper Fitzhugb is soon to reopen WiUard's Hotel in Washington This is a fact worth making a note of.
Patriots who are stump-speaking in Aroostook county, Maine, lesve marks on the trees, so they oan And their way out.
When a widower and a widow, both with children, get married nowadays they call it "pooling their issues.'VWash. Star. "Senator Booth, of California, owns the first silver certifieste struck off by the Government. It is marked "Series A, No. 1," and la indorsed.* "Good for twenty silver dollars."
The New Haven Register says, by way Of criticism on Kearney's profanity, it may be said that "Dennis sinned"— which is as true when read backwsrds as when read the usual way.
Six men and forty odd women took dinner at Hoggins* Hotel, on the Catskills, on Tuesday. This ia said to be the average proportion of the feminine to the masculine gender throughout the mountain region this summer. Jr
Religions papers are discussing the question: "How shall we interest the young at church Offer tickets, good for admission to the first circus of the season, to such boys ss are moat punctual and regular In attendanoe.
The coin examiner of the Treasury at Washington, can detect a counterfeit coin in a heap of money while blindfolded. He runs his fingers through the mass, and in a few moments each coin is tested. This remarkable power of touch bas been perfected only by the practice of many years.
Anew clerk in a drug store was discharged the other dsy because he did not know bow to look wise, roll his eyes, and say "seventy-five cents" without turning red in the face, as he handed out a little powder that had cost the firm about two cents ands fraction. Emotion and business don't jingle.
Hip pockets area comparatively modern invention. They were originally intended as convenient reoeptaclea for pocket or memorandum books, but when, during die war, revolvers came into fashion, and almost every man and boy felt it incumbent to go armed with a five or seven shooter, to those hip pockets were sssigned the special duty of containing the weapons.
An old resident of Oil City, Pa., says: "I have lived here sines, oil waa first discovered, and I can confidently ssy that over, ninety per cent, of those who have grown rich in oil production and oil speculation are now paupers. The discoverer of the oil In this dlstnct himself never realised anything from It This wasOoL Drake, near Tltosville, in I860. He is now living on charity in Vscmont,* poor old man."
The editor of tho Marshall (&HM| Statesman says that, a jer afadyiag the question all winter, te comas to the conclusion every sgtinc that the drcos
Immoral bat Ifcea the billposter comes along with the big ptetwsa sad mind changes as follows: As we gsss at the *tons, tigers, and asoakqrs, and think that nature made all of these, sate not so son. And wbeowe look thebeauOftd young lady, with nothon hot a blue ribbon round her waist, with one leg pointing to six o'clock and the other to high noon, and think that nature made her, too, just r* she was, except the ribbon, we begin to
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lean np to the circus. But when the brass band begins to play and the elephants go round, we rush fbr a front seat to get ahead of the minist e. who always wear stovepipe hate and won't sit down in utmt.
Feminitems.
Ida Lewis says it* awfol to be a hen ine and earn your bread and butter too. Using arsenic to improve the com plexion ends in making a good-looking corpse.
Ten of the seventeen contributions to the September Harper that are signed are by women.
Mrs. Lewis Shoffar, of Williamsport, has ahead of hair that measures six feet nine inches in length.
Evidently the most impo.*ant queetion with the dressmakers just now Is where to put the pocket.
There seems to be nothing a woman will not do in Paris—except behave herself.—Gideon, in Chisago Times.
Lady Carington, one of the richest brides of the day^Urted on her wedding tour in a simple print gown. Think of It, young ladies!
Every day since her birth esoh of the parents of a Flemingsburg (Ky.) girl have deposited ten cents for her benefit. She is now twenty.
Artificial flowers are now' sold in "sete" of four bunches. One little bunch is for the hair, one for the belt, another for the throat, and still snotber to hang from the chatelaine..
Boston girls say awt'ally mag for perfectly splendid. Now, for mercy's sake, let this thing stop right here. Don't let us have perfectly del, or perfectly scrum, or anything of that kind. Let the language have repose.
Eight Hartford girls, deeirlng something new in the way of a vacation, hired a house, at Old Hadley, Coon., and cooked their own meals, drove their own horses, fished in their own boats, and allowed no man to come about the house.
A Frenchwoman has been horrified at discovering the scull of her husband's first wife, which he was keeping as a relic of the loved one gone before. This is an awful warning to those women who seem determined to let no widower alone—Courier-Journal.
In the oourse of a ride on a St. Louis street car a drunken man vomited over the person of a lady passenger, ruining her drees snd shawl and making her sick. She sues the railway company for |75 for the dreee and ahawl, and for $5,000 for the sickness and injury to her feelings.
A few days ago one of Brigbam Young's disconsolate widows soothed her wounded heart by remarrying. Her present husband ia the general passenger sgent of the Utah Central railroad, and she Is his third wife, the two others being also the widows of Mormons of high lank. The bride was Brigham'a favorite wife, being known, even a.ter her marriage, as Amelia Folsom.
A gentlemau who was in Wyoming at the lsst election ssys: "I did not see a aingle mpeetable woman at the polls. On the contrary, they were all of the lowest description—performers in low vsriety halls, waiter gir.N in beer saloons and well-known women of the town. Tbey were driven to the polls in open wagons by blacklegs, gamblers and the worst characters of the town, generally the whole outfit being pretty well under the influence of 'tangle-foot.'"^
HORTICULTUBAL SOCIETY. Basket meeting on Thursday, Sept. 5th, at 11 o'clock, a. m., at the grove of Joa. Gilbert. Queetion for Dlsoussion: "Are Labor Saving Inventions Beneficial to the Laboring Classes." Essays inii reports will be resd, and Horticultural produota exhibited. All are invited. Omnlbusses will leave corner Otb and Ohio streets at 10% a. m. Round trip, 50 centa.
Joe.
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MRS.
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President.
WOWKKB,
Secretary.
BAB BED W1BE FENCING. A. G. Austin A Co., Sole Agents for Vigo, Parke, SulUvan, Green, and Clay counties. Tbey also make a specialty of Ornamental Wire Fencing.
PHOTOGRAPH FBAMB8. Wright, the Photographer, bas received a large lot of Frames for photographs, embracing many new and beautiful designs.
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E. D. HARVEY, the long established and reliable furniture man, ia now offering gooda in his line at astonishingly low prices. And ssit Is well known that he does not keep anything trashy, it surely Is to the sdvantage of all who wiah to get the moat good of their money to call on him after looking through other stocks. Good goods ss low js shoddy goads of poor styles.
United States Seilee.
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grain, wagon and wagon track.
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Latest Novelties and Fancy goods, Tisit Cent Store.
West's Liver Pilla core liver oompMnt
D. C. GREDTEB offers a large line of boots and shoes at very low prices, to-day.
Public Schools.
The nublic schools will open Monday Septemoer 1873. Pupils of the f**st district will go, for the pre lent, to Nos. 19 snd 21 norinShcth atr et, next door to the Congregational church, where comfortable rooms have been fitted up for their accommodation.
All those not belonging to the High school, will attend the same buildings as heretofore, except those promoted from No. 6 of the Fourth district, and No. 7 of the fifth district, who will go the nearest building in which the higher grades are taught lne teachers will furnish the pupils with lifts of booVs on the first aay of school.
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WIIJSY,
Superintendent.
BUCK CASHMERES
We open to-day a large and magnificent line of 40 inch Black Cashmeres. It will pay everybody in search of Bargains to examine them before purchasing.
J. F. JAURIET & CO.
New Novelties.
Exquisite Ties and Bows. Elegant Silk Mitts, evening shades. Black French Laces in
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BUY THE
PREMIUM PATENTED "ALL BIGHT'
CORSET!! WHY?
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1st. It Is a Perfect Fitting Corset, containing 80 bones. 2d. IT IS THOROUGHLY MADE. 3d. It is manufactuied i.-om the very best materials. 4th. IT IS EXCEEDINGLY SER VICEABLE. 5th. It is a most easy and comfortable Coreet to the wearer. 6th. IT IS BEAUTIFULLY ESI BROIDERED. 7tb. It is out "Ext. Long Waist," and is VERY STYLISH. 8th. It has the NEW AND RECENTLY PATENTED DOUBLE BUSK STEELS, whiob are made as NEVER to break, and yet are pliable and elastic, and exceedingly comfortable to the wearer.
9th. EVERY PAIR IS WARRANTED. 10th. Above all, it is the CHEAPEST CORSET, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, IN THE AMERICAN MARKET.
Jauriet & Oo.
MARBLE PALACE.
SUGARS:
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Choice sugar euml hams, shoulders and breakfast baoon: also hsavjr clear taoon sides and ahanldets, and kettle rendered b»f lard In tierces and bucket*.
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MANTELS and CHUTES. Tbe largest and cheapest stock of Mantels, both Slste and Iron, erer offered hi this city, at Ball's Store Store, Corner 3d and Main.
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