Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 January 1879 — Page 4

Till-: MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALU EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TfiRRE HAUTE,

JAN. 25, 1879

•«*•&*§ SMIRKS. f.| There are various kinds of tnem. There is the shirk in school who always skips the bard lessons and learns the easy and pleasant ones. His mind never gets down to a fair, steady, patient pull, but goes along by jumps—that is by jumping clear over all the rough and disagreeable places. He trusts to luck and to his ability to sponge eoough knowledge from his neighbors to tide bins over |be emergencies of the recitation room. He, continues to absorb a little smattering 41 knowledge during the years of his^flcbool life but as for any.real discipline ofv^ tnwital faculties, he is us destitute of it when he has finished as he was when he began. $

There are political shirks who are for ever complaining of the bad state of the government, the dishonesty and inca pacity of officials, the extravagant ex penditure of the public funds, etc., but who never seriously try to make things any.bettar. When a public meeting or a convention iscalled they do not attend it and use what influence thwy possess in putting forward good men and right principles, but shirk their duties and re sponeibilities fts citizens and stay at home. It is so much easier to grumble at what others have done or failed to do than to go and help do the right thing yourself. The shirk is always for the easiest way, and there is nothiug half so easy as to. put on one's gown and slippers and sit by a warm fire at home. It is pleasanter than spending half the night at a noisy, turbulent, smoky, beery convention, working with might and main to break up some dishonest combination and get good men on the ticket. Your political shirk likes amateur statesmanship much better than practical—the statesmanship of the drawing-room, rather than that of the stump and the primary. He may be ornamental, but is not very useful.

Then there are religious shirks. They are members in good standing of some church and are waiting to see the arm of the Lord revealed. They complain that their church is not very aggressive, that it seems to be losing ground rather than gaining any. They think brother Sparks, the pastor, is not "live enough," and Smith and Jones and ferown might do a good deal more than they do without hurting themselves. They profess to feel a deep interest in the church and would like to see it prosper, but it never seems to occur to them that they could or ought to do anything to bring about such a result. The fact is they have shirked so long that shirking has become a sort of second nature with them. It has come to be their normal condition and any departure from it would startle not only themselves, but their neighbors. Tf all the shirks were weeded out ol the church it would be far smaller than it now is, but it is by no means certain that it would not possess more vigor and do more good.

Ther| are shirks also in society. People who complain of the unsociability of their town or neighborhood and never make the least effart to cure it. If anyone gives a party they expect to be nvlted to.lt but there the matter ends. Tb«y give no parties iu return. They do nothing to stimulate or prompt hospitality only grumble because it does not exist. They shirk their social duties and thus contribute directly, by their influence and example, to the unsociability which exists. Perhaps they will say they are not able to give expensive parties. That may be very true but they have a house and chairs, and they could, at least, have their friends and neighbors come into their house occasionally and converse with them. The social shirk owes a debt to society, be it great or small which he does not pay.

There are shirks in business and professional life—men who systematically contrive to shift unpleasant duties upon the shoulders of others. They tcill not work if they can help it, or no more than they can help. By ingenious devices they manage to connect themselves with others who are made to bear the burden of the work, while they not unfrequently get the credit of it. Failing of any such fortunate arrangement, and obliged to depend upon themselves, they still shirk, by doing their work in a slip-shod, uqthorough manner, not Animated by any feeling of pride in it, but doing it simply to get it off their hands and receive their pay lot It.

There is yet another classofshlrks (a class that is steadily growingJarger year by year)—men who refusewltaarry and rear families because the married .state entails caree and responsibility. As a general rule the man who thinks he can't afford to marry commits a great mistake. True, married life has its burdens an3 drawbacks, but its blessings outweigh them a thousand fold. There is something peculiarly ennobling and refining in the associations of family life. No matter how humble the home may be,if there be in it those true and tender relations which ought to exist be* tween its infejatee.it becomes the most sacred spot on earth. The married state develops character and makes a man more manly and a woman more womanly. Care—trouble —responsibility? Yes, they are all there, indeed but they are not such terrible things after all. The compensations are so mauy, so rich, no delicate, that they far outweigh all the trials and sacrifices. Think of growing old without wife or child, or home. What can such a mau expect the years

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to bring him If they are full of ennui and loneliness, what wonder? If hiH life is aimless and desultory, what else could be expected? He has nothing to live for—nothing to work for —nothing to inspire bim. He may try to persuade himself that he is happy, but it is not true, and his heartjis filled with cold, dull thoughts. It wants something to possess it—a woman's love. Then it will kindle and glow and the warm pulses of affection will beat through it. Then there is something to look forward to in old age—the little ones grown up will keep him company and smooth the downward path of life.

The fact is, it don't pay to shirk anywhere or in anything. The honest, faithful doing of one's duty in business, in society, in the chureh, that is the only course that will bring satisfaction and independence.

AERIAL NAVIGATION Scribner's Monthly lor February contains an elaborate article by Edmund C. Stedman on the subject of the practical navigation of the air. The article is illustrated with designs for air-ships and is highly interesting and suggestive.

The writer's^theory is tbat the successful aerobat (as he calls it) must be modeled after the fish, and states that be came by this notion one summer day about twenty years ago whileifishing at .Greenwood Lake, from watching the easy and graceful movements of the perch and, sunfish in the clear water The id4a took a deep hold upon his mind, and he has thought upon it at intervals ever since.

After considering the causes of the failure of successful navigation of the air hitherto, such as the clumsy shape of the balloon which prevents its being guided, tbe defective covering which allows the gas to escape, the want of any scientific endeavors to solve the problem, commensurate with its difficulties, etc., the author goes on to point out the kind of air ship which he believes could be successfully operated. As we have said, the general form is to be that of a fish, and it is to be an integral structure, not two bodies joined by links. Like the fish, all its machinery, power, freight, etc., must be contained ivithin itself. It should be ballasted so as to float a short distance above tbe earth, and a3 to motive power, a steam engine might be used, but the danger from fire would be an objection and tbe electric engine, when sufficiently developed, would be better. The ship must be filled with pure hydrogen gas (not the coal gas now in use), which is 14% times lighter than air. Tbe materials used for tbe structure must be tbe lightest and strongest possible for the framework, steel and brass tubing the covering to be of some thin metallic substance. A plan must be devised which, in case of a sudden loss of buoyant power* will convert the structure itself into a parachute and enable it to reach tbe ground in safety. The ship is to be propelled by a screw propeller and guided by a stern rudder. An aetobat 200 feet long, 100 feet high and 66% wide, filled with gas one-sixth the v^eight of tommoa air, would carry about 50,000 pounds, or some 300 people of average weight. Imagine one of these monsters sailing through the air at the rate of fifty miles an hour! With a favorable wind Mr. Stedman thinks tbe air-ship would travel 80 miles an hour, and reach Europe in a day and a half. ..

The results of successful air navigation would be many and beneficient. The wealthy would have their "pleaiure yachts of the air and take hazardous and delightful cruises. Their vessels will differ from the cumbrous aerobats intended for freight and emigrant busi ness, will be christened with beautiful and suggestive names,—Iris, Aurora, Hebe, Gauymede, Hermes, Ariel, and tbe like,—and will vie with one another in grace, readiness and speed." But of far more consequence than this would be tbe breaking up of the great railroad monopolies. The air-ship would require no^rack and could sail where it pleased. All the capital needed would be the cost of constructing and manning the aerobat, and this field of enterprise would be open to all.

While all this may seem but a poet's dream, it must be confessed that it does not look more impracticable than many things that are now matters of every day business once looked to our ancestors, and who will take upon himself to say that aerial navigation may not some day become an accomplished fact?

DR. HOLLAND takes a sensible and therefore hopeful view of the ultimate effects of the materialistic furore whi jh has been running like wild-fire through this country and England during the past few years. Instead of uttering lamentations over thfe attacks of science upon th« church! as one of the greatest disasters that could befal it, he is of quite another opinion..* As Popery produced Luther, so, he thinks, has religion, in this age, called into life the skepticism of science to purify it of superstition and falsehood. "When science shall do its perfect work, and Christianity shall be shorn of that which does not belong to it, Quid of that which has brought it into cantempt with a world of bright men and women, then we shall have such a triumph for our religion as tbe world has never known." Such is Dr. Holland's opinion and the pendulum movement of society—now going to one extreme and then to the other—furnishes a substantial ground for the belief.

ACHBY, Guetig and Merrick will be hanged at Indianapolis next Wednesday, unless a change occurs in the present arrangements, which is not at all probable.

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ANOTHER of the old literary men has passed away. On Tuesday, George S. Hillard, of Boston, died at the age of seveuty. Although not so generally known as some others of our authors, he was a very distinguished man and an intimate friend of Longfellow, Hawthorne and Sumner. He gained distinction in law, literature and politics, and was one of the most widely learned men of his time. He is best known by

his book entitled "Six Months in Italy,"

A MAN by the name of Sackett, living

three separate occasions if he would at sent himself from the city when Warren Tate should be put upon his trial. Although a poor man, to whom the offer of such a sum of money, all in

If deal of honest, downright virtue in his make-up.

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SOCIBTT at the State Capital Is "all Ho*. D. W. VOORHEES was elected tore up" over the escapade of a young this week to both the unexpired and lawyer, Frank L. Blxby, with tbe wife next regular term as U. S. Senator from of Mr. George Dwinnell, a prominent this Slate. He bad enough votes and merchant of that city. A month or more some to spare—having no perceptible ago Mrs. Dwinnell, who Is a young and opposition in bis own party. He is now handsome woman, left her husband and comfortably fixed for tbe next half betook herself to California. The cause dozen years. With a salary of $5,000 of the flight was knawn only to a few of and perquisites, besides what be will the intimate friends of her husband. A pick up in his law practice, be can mancouple of weeks ago, however, Bixby age tQ.umkP a comfortable living was found missing and inquiry devel- ,,a a. oped the fact that he too had fled and THE postoffice department has decided was probably on his way to join the that senders of newspapers may simply faithless wife, whom it is now known write

that he sustained criminal relations either before or above it. Tbe words with.

Dwinnell was the mother of "gift of," "compliments of," "respects a little girl four of five years of age, and are not admissible any longer, and Bixby, who married five or six years letters and parcels discovered with the ago, a daughter of Mr. Edwin May, of above phrases on them, will be subject Indianapolis, also bad one or more chil- to letter postage. dren. As might be Imagined, the forsaken young wife is sadly crushed by the blow that has so suddenly and ruthlessly fallen upon her.

THE woman suffrage question yrta before the California Constitutional Con vention last week, and It evoked an interesting discussion. A motion to strike out the word "male" in the Buf frage clause was defeated. Among tbe other propositions considered were tbe following: To provide tbat unmarried

women owning property to the amount and small bills why, then, have a coin of ^1,000, and married women owning which is liable to be lost? The fact is, separate property to the amount of §2,000, may vote to provide that after the next census the question of woman suffrage shall be submitted to the women of the State, and if a majority vote in favor of it, all resident women over 21 years of age shall be entitled to vote at all elections thereafter. All were, rejected. One of the queerest objections to woman suffrage came from a Kearneyite. As women would rather play a piano than work, he argued that their aversion to work would cause them to vote against the workingmen. Therefore he opposed woman suffrage.

QNE of the "twin relics of barbarism" was killed by the war, and the other has received the same fate at the hands of the United States Supreme Court. Slavery is dead—polygamy muBt die. The decision of the Supreme Court that it is illegal will have tbe effect of destroying the system in Utah. No matter how1 much the Mormon gentlemen may feel like undergoing martyrdom for their lustful religion, they will shrink from the danger of undergoing a trial for bigamy or polygamy. So we can now say that the two crimes denounced by the first Republican National Convention as the "twin relics of barbarism"—polygamy and slavery—are both things of the past.

WE honor the democratic legislature* for one good aot this week. That was in selecting a woman for the position of State Librarian. There were several candidates, of both sexes, and Miss Maggie Fitzgibbon, a saleswoman in the employ of L. S. Ayres & Co., Indianapolis—"worthy and well qualified"— was elected. Tbe idea of selecting a woman, and leaving a man and a voter out in the cold, caused a variety of remarks in the caucus, ranging from the hearty-"I'm glad of .it," to the deep growl of the Podunk moss-back: "Hell, what are we a comin' to Are we goin' to be run by a passell of wimmin?.'V 11

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OUR rising young politician, John E. Lamb, had two triumphs at Iudianapolls this week. Besides takicg the lead in the grand df—that is to say, "blow out," over Voorhees' election, be championed the cause of Miss Maggie Fitzgibbon, the young lady selected for State Librarian.

TflJB gold dqllar is a, great nuisance, and there isn't tbe slightest reason for its existence. We have plenty of sliver

there should be no gold smaller than a five-dollar piece.

THE House Committee on Coinage Weights and Measures have decided to report favorably a bill to redeem trade dollars at par. and a bill to redeem subsidiary silver coin in legar tenders, and to reissue the same.

THE price of pork has turned in the scale and is now going up. The bottom has been reached in about all articles of food and wear, and a steady and general advance all along the line will no doubt occur. ____________

MARY had a little lamb—and so had Voorhees. Sing— "Voorhees had a great big Lamb,

Its face was all aglow, }.••• And when Dan for Senator ran Onr Lamb put in his "blow."

CONVICTION for murder OH circumstantial evidence entails only imprisonment for life in Georgia. The law is a wise and humane one.

INDIANA spends nine millions annually on her schools, and has school property worth twelve millions.

PETITIONS against polygamy are fairly raining down upon the Congressmen.

SUGGESTIONS ABOUT SERVING DINNER. We take the following from Mrs. S. W. Oakey's "Hints to Young Housekeepers," in the Midwinter Sdribner

The table should be carefully laid,-4-folds of the tablecloth in line, two large napkins placed at the head and foot of the table, with corners to the center, every plate wiped before being set upon the table, the glass clear, the silver polished, the salt cellars filled with fresh sifted salt. (A little stamp upon tbe salt improves the appearance.) When the plates are laid, two forks should be put on the left band, a knife aud a soup spoon on tbe right, large spoons crossed at each salt cellar, and salt spoons on the top tumblers and wine glasses on tbe right hand at each plate, a napkin folded with a piece of stale bread within its folds, the soup plates placed in the plate at the head of tbe table, and tbe napkin in the upper one. Soup ladle, gravy spoon, and carving knife and fork go before tbe mistress fish trowel (if there is fish for dinner), gravy spoon, and carving knife and fork before the master if there is no soup, no ladle if no fish, no trowel if but one dish of meat, but one carving knife and fork. If you have neither fruit nor flowers, a bowl with bits of ice makes a pretty center.

The side table should be laid with a white cloth, the silver, plates, finger bowls, that will be needed during dinner, arranged tastefully upon it the

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which has stood the test of a quarter of castors, a pat of butter with ice upon it, a ceotnry aod i. still popular. »d °,pki°8' When the soup is on the table, let the

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in Indianapolis, has told a reporter of i8 served." A good waitress makes no the Journal that he was offered $2,000 on noise. She will stand at tbe dining room door till the family has passed in, and then take her place by her mistress to hand the soup. When the soup course is over, the waitress takes off tbe plates, one in ea^h hand, and takes them to the

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cash, was a sore temptation, Sackett taken from the table, nor allow the scorned the proposition and resolved to soiled plates to be placed on the side .^.adgiv. hi, at lb. trial. the man tells the truth he has a good

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week. It is from the pen of J. W. Riley, and originally appeared In the Indianapolls 8unday Journal. Slnoe the edl» tion of that paper has' been exhausted there has been a very great demand for tbe paper containing it, and we gladly yield to a request to reproduce it. Such apiece of word-painting is rarely found in tbe English language, and we know the readers of Tbe Mall will thank us for spreading it before them.

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WITH the opening of the new year ID ancient colonial custom was abandoned In Boston. This was tbe ringing of tbe publlo bells in some twenty or thirty different localities in tbe city at 7 o'clock in the morning, at noon, and at 0 o'clock in tbe evening. This custom ended in this city some years ago, with the demolition of tbe old Court bouse. The nine o'clock bell was the signal pretty generally observed for going to bed.

THERE'S a little of the old devil in them yet. In the Arkansas 8tate Senate yesterday a resolution to remove tbe portraits of Lincoln and Grant and substitute Lee and Jackson received nine but eighteen voted against it aud changes were not ip.ade.

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before tbe diner, she removes the cold plate to the side table. Fish should be served alone—no vegetables. Salad is

the fish, unless fish sauce is preferred. With salmon, thinly cut slices of cucumber, dressed with pepper, salt, and vinegar, should be served. Before the fish Is removed, the fish trowel and spoon should be taken off on a tray or plate before the meat is removed, the carving knife and fork, and tbe gravy spoon should be carefully taken on a plate or tray. After the meat and plates are removed, tbe unused silver should be taken off, then tbe salt cellam. Tbe table being cleared, tbe crumbs should be tsken off with a crumb knffe or with a napkin upon a plate then tbe spread napkins should be taken off by the four corners.

Place upon the table tbe dessert plates and spoons, and forks, if for pudding or sweets of any kind if for fruit, a plate with a colored doily, a finger bowl, and a sliver knife and fork. If coffee is served, it should be placed on a tray, with coffee cups and sugar, at the head of tbe table. The old fashion of a polished and bare table for fruit is gone out, except where an elaborate table and men servants are kept.

SENSIBLE 1HOUGHT. Detroit Free Press. Suppose the hangman does bungle when be hangs a murderer. Did it ever occur to these sentimental howlers that the murderer Is not at all careful and tender and genteel when cutting some woman's throat, or smashing some old man's $kull.

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CONCERNING ENGLISH TEAS. We

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afternoon. Tbe lady met us at tbe gate, and, as I was an invalid, kindly assisted me up tbe winding walk that Jed from terrace to terrace, till we reached tbe bouse. Sbetook us right into tbediningroom, as there was a fire there, and tbe afternoon was chilly, it being the latter part of September. We bad a pleasant chatty time till about 5:30. Then tbe maid came in to lay the table. She spread the damask cloth, white as snow and polished like satin, laid out the napkins and set on* the china, and brought the cream and sugar, the plate of butter and a loaf of bread, first cutting off the crust to make a smooth slice, just as our mothers used to do for us children when we wanted "a piece" between meals. Then she cut each slice as tbin as possible, and piled tbem on a plate till she thought she had enough tbe butter and tbe loaf were left upon the table, with the fcnife, that more could be spread and cut if needed. The maid then brought in a part of a boiled bam, a small jar of plum preserves, a dish of buns, and a pot of tea—and that was all. But I assure you

I never relished a meal more than I did that simple one. Everything was delicious, and there was a plenty of each. And we all arose from the table without tbe fear of dyspepsia before our minds. "I suppose," said Mrs. Parker, as we went home, "it looked very odd to see such a simple tea-table, accustomed as you are to tbe luxurious, over laden teatables of America "It did look odd," said I, "but I liked it, and it has brought me to a letson I 6hall remember—that to have a good time with friends it is not necceesary to break all the forenoon over tbe baking table, or burn your cheeks to a blister over a hot oven."

Now, let me tell you of a tea-table in the United States. We had first fried chicken, mashed potatoes, stewed tomatoes, and hot biscuits. Following this were six kinds of preserves, jelly, honey, two kinds of peas, dried beef, cheese, two kinds of pickles, three kinds of iced cakes, doughnuts and cookies. It was utterly impossible to taste even of everything, much more to eat at all. And we all felt as though we bad be4n making tbe mistress and maid a great deal of trouble, as we had, for they must have worked bard and steadily all the forenoon toget up such a meal. How much wiser to have given a fourth part of the variety, and had a simple delicious tea out of the remainder.

I feel that we Americans add greatly to oar burdens by our luxurious teatables and we add greatly to our wastes, for there must be more or less waste where there is such a variety. And, besides this, we dread havine our friends come to see us, because of tne labor and expense. Shall we not have a less number of dishes, and more vivacity to our conversation And who can be very sparkling when they feel that their hostess is tired out with cooking, and' tbe guests in danger of dyspepsia ?—Mrs. C. A. Soule, in the Chicago Inter-Ocean.

JOSH BILLINGS' SAYINGS. I hav finally cum to the konklushun that if I kant prove a thing without betting 83 on it, the thing has got a dredphull weak spot sumwhere.

Almost enny phool kan prove that the Bible ain't true it takes a wise man to beleave it.

It iz a wise man who promts bi biz own experience—but it iz a good deal wizer one who lets the rattlesnake bite tbe other pbellow.

Yung man, set down, and keep still yu will hav plenty ov chances yet to make a phool ov yureself before yu die.

Take all the phools out of this world, and thare wouldn't be enny phun nor proffit living in it.

I would az soon think ov pulling the feathers out ov a peakok's tale az to interfere with inosent vanity ov a man.

Married life iz a little game, in which the woman, if she iz called, iz almost sure to have a strate flush.

The man who knows a thing, and can tell it in tbe fewest words, iz the hardest kind of a man to beat in a kross'examlnasbun.

The things that I kant prove beleave the most beleave that one apple is sour and another sweet, but will give enny highly eddikated man a span ov matched mules who will tell me what makes them so.

The smartest thing about enny man iz his conscience he may outargy hiz reason or stultify hiz faith, but he kant beat hiz conscience.

The best thing kno ov iz a fust rate wife, and the next best thing is a second rate one.

Thare ain't nothing that a man will thrive so well on az abuse that ain't merited.

Whenever yu cum akrost a man who distrusts everyboddy, yu hav found one whom it is safe for everybody to distrust.

It iz the surprizesov life that add most to our plezzures one man iz surprized with a legacy from aritch unkle, another that tbe old speckled kenhazjust cum off tbe nest with 27 chickens.

Gamblers nor infidels havn't faith enuff in their profeshions to teach It to their children.

Q.—What is the best religious kreed to hav? A.—Cbajlty. If a man will swop off all the religious kreed be has got on hand, and invest the proceeds in charity, he will al wus be proud ov the job. —Willyou pleze define an Enthusiast?

A.—An Enthusiast iz a party who believes about four times az mutcb as he kan prove, aod kan prove about four times az mutch az enny bod dy else beleaves.

NEVER SAW ONE OF THEM.

The Way a Fellow Was Shut tip.

A genuine Yankee, in San Francisco, having bored a new comer with every conceivable question relative to his object in visiting tbe gold country, his hopes, his means, ana his prospects, at length asked him if be had a family. 'Yes, sir I have a wife and six children, and I never saw one of them.'

After this reply the couple sat a few minutes in silence, then tbe interrogator

•No, sir.' 'Did you marry a widow, sir?* ,.rJ »No, sir.' Another interval of silence. 'Did I understand you to say, sir. that you bad a wife and six children living in New York and bad never seen one of them?' •Yes* slrjJLao stated it.'

Another and a longer pause Then the Interrogator again Inquired: •How can it be. sir, that you never saw one of them?' •Why,' was the response, 'one of them was born after I left/

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LOST-ONiSATURDAY,nine

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a black Setter, about months old, with name "G. Robinson" engraved on nickel-plated collar. I a formation concerning same may be left at622 Main street.

For Rent.

FOR

RENT-FOUR ROOMS ON FIRST floor in residence No. 212 north bixth street will be rented to a small family. Apply on the premises. Thehouseis pleasantly situated, cella', well and cistern all under cover

For Sale.

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EWR REST—A HOUSE OF 4 ROOMS, J: with good cellar, well and stable, altw one acre or ground, on the Lafayette road, one mile nortbeast of Terre Haute.

OOREY BARBOUR.

AFTER THIS DATE I will sell my stock of heating Stoves, including all styles of Base Burners, at Greatly Reduced Prices^ to close out. Call and see for yourself before you buy, at BALL'S.