Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 February 1879 — Page 4

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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERREH AUTEF,

FfiB. 15, 18T9

MXiT CARP«KT*K say* Jra«U» certain of tfeenoaaioation »»d J# like Only Republican who can be elected

la cheaper to buy your ride In the

yiri«n*oalT ofcaftoe in the to get the Pudency if tp buy lt^aA

Tji«:four bealthfe^ large^cltles ln the worXi a^, ^lwVukee, ,S«m Frawci*fco. Chicago and Cleveland.» We have the word of tbe Cleveland Voice for thia.

THE reports from Brazil tell us the mortality from smallpox in that country is nnprecedentediy large. The figures are placed as high as seventy thousand deaths & month.

AN international convention Is shortly to tor stopping Sunday trains on all the railroads in the world. Trains will be 4*°»gp rMveBftfnrf %Sf 'wqr taeAisftkiuflM®bailing powder. Really we're all in a pucker.

With alum ia bread, t*$oblo» in meat,

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IiLVieBdlilWfilSat tbe MoftMtli^uor

ties fcre afraid to adept iti If "there's ',i.i*illions In it? mbj pot lntftadce it here It might save our extravagaxit city council from borrrowing

BO muob

money. JL NBW YORK hotel proprietor says the principal business of country merchants coming to that city is to get drank. If be had added tbat tbe prindpal business of many New York merchants and "drummers" is to supply tbe liquor, tbe remark would have beep more complete.

THB Chicago fc Northwestern Railway Company has a rule worthy of imitation. It requires tbe written pledge of every employe to abstain from using intoxicating drinks, even ale, beer and wine, to keep out'of all places where sncb drinks are sold, and to refrain from profane and abusive language.

ALTHOUGH there are a few ten and fifteen thousand dollar a year pulpits, an article in last Sunday's New York Herald shows the preaching of tbe gospel is a rather poor business so far as earthly treasures go. Five hundred dollars a ye*r is said to be the average salary of clergymen of all denomina^ns—about tbe pay of a common day laborer.

ON Monday the old college building

«of Asbury University was completely _er80Q from holding the positions of .-destroyed by fire. The museum was

burned but tbe fine library, donated to

ing was erected in 1828, but was sue-

THE death of Thomas Lord, sr., of New York, last Saturday, reoalls tbe incidents of his marriage to Mrs. Hicks in December, 1877. Tbe bridegroom was £3 and the bride 48 and the marriage wss opposed by Mr. Lord's children, on the grotind tbat Mrs. Hicks was intriguing to secure possession of Mr. Lord's fortune of $2,000,000. Tbe matter finally ended in compromise. It is understood that tbe part of Mr. Lord's fortune undistributed will go to his widow.

|, THB City Of Mexioo is a lazy place, according to a Chicago Times correspondent, who aocompanled tbe visiting committee from tbeUnited States. "The hotels are languid," he says "so are the restaurants, the theaters, the public ofllces and tbe barber shops. The business bouses have an air of perpetual waiting upon Providence. Tbe clerks act like weary anglers looking patiently lor a 'rise.' A generation of American enterprise might revolutionize all this and arouse tbe metropolis from ber tranoe."

LAST week a boy named James Lipsi* cum, living in Randolph county, was stabbed by his brother, only ten years old, tbe latter's pocket-knife being tbe weapon used, from the effects of wbtah the boy died and on Tuesday of this week a couple of sohool-boys, at Indian* spoils, got into aqusTMl. tbem palled out Jiis l^n« wtbe other la the breast, dangeroaa, tf nofc fatal' incidents of this kind" wlfTKs •Sfficisct toYatoe a doubt whether a podbstknlfe ia the moaa»itabfo presentfee a boy?

""""A WLtis before tbe Illinois Legisla ture which provides that in all eivit ones three-fonrtbs of the jury may return a verdict. We believe the bill out to.become a la|r ind tbat tbe innovation should be followed by all tbe

States. Unani mity in |urie« li a rtlio of barbarism akin to the absurd and fictitious forms and pleadings of the old common law which have been generally

dent to defeat a vwdiit'and pile dp

endleaa eoate In every litigated ease

A PAPBR FOR Til E PEOPLE. Tbe jury abould alao FEE rednoed in numbers. fbere ia no f*a*ou why tlx men mlgbt not find a verdict as juat in every reapect aa twioe tbat imjnber.

Why 1a It tbat when man agree to submit |h*ic controversies to arbtyntfaimfor adjustment, thej invariably choose only tbrae pen for tlyft« pnrppef nnd permit two onVfcf ^w| t® make the award? Simply beoanae tify fj&pl.that three are aa competent to hear ancf de-

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nsnal w%y, instead of owning your own judg-nrtmfrof^wr ot t£*tbree ought looomotive. A good one now costs control. The drift of modern thought la in thfc dlractlon of simplifytng legal the processes as much aa possible, and the -Twff-Ckteago Tribune rentnree Opfnloh. and puta it in cold type, that jury system will unqueaUoR^bly gome U.'v

IL.future

_.t in «. (to hn

unrib*, and that the

tfiniiA nhi'nffAi snniifir

in for its share of these qhangerfi $ootm or later, .HAaU£ of

MESSRS. HAFT^RAP® New York, who are. alv^a/f f&repAcist*tb devising new scl\emes for popular recreation ain&t lttoi)tovement, have hit upon the Sappy tBougfct of getting up what they call "Tb^leo|iTjfrfiab«a»y^'P#^cb is to consist of one hundred volumes, uniform in site and binding, the whole to be furnished forfl'OO, being the all price of one dollar per volume.* The selections will be from tbe best authors among tbem, Gibbon, tiiime, MaCaiftay Guizot, Humboldt, Dickens, Thackeray George Elliott, ^Charlotte, ^Bronte »nd others of similar standing in tbe vptf^us departments of literature. This collec tion of one hundred books is Intoned to be what its name indioates, flfr gfeal library, covering, more or less fully, the different branches of knowledge ^n towns and villages where no puMic libraries exist this scheme ought to be especially popular, as a few persomk by clubbing together can, at small expense, thus serve the advantages of a wide range of reading.

A NEW YOAK -ocmrespondent, spe£kiug of the grevwth of art taste in ^at city, says that before Goupil fc Co., opened their gallery (about a quartM of a century ago) it was rare to see a $&00 picture, but it wasnofclong until men4of wealth began to make handsome (find costly collections. Among these is tbe gallery Of the late William H. As»plnwall, whicb contains a head of the Virgin, £y Murillo,- which cost |S0,(XK). Among the collection of Wiliam B16dgett was a Meisaonier, seven by nine inches, worth ?6,Q0P, and tbe Heartof the Andes, painted by Church, wfich cost 910,000. A. T. Stewart had a fine picture gallery, th^ Work4'being Jp4rchased by his agent at Paris, some oi them at fabulous prices., For Napoleon and his Marshals, tbe masterpiecfej of Meissonier, he paid the enormous sum of $60,000, and for Dubufe's Pro|tij al Son, {50,000, His entire collection dbst about a quarter of a million dollars. There are many other fine private galleries owned by wealthy New Yorkers.

MAJOR GORDON, OF Marion County, has offered a resolution in the Legislature, requesting our representative* in

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tually

Qf aQ act to proUibit tbe 8ame

clerk of both the District

Coarl8 of the

tfae college by Governor Wbitoomband ^.protebitiiig. any auch clerk bearing his name, was mostly saved by'

the efforts of the students. Tbe build-

cbBn^J

tb? #base

ceeded by a new and handsome edifice tfuhrlm&<tolTP*hicb would be ample for three. For instance

three or four years ago. The loss is to a great extent covered by insurance.

whicb nqw exists of Joadlng

tbe clerk of the United States courts at Indianapolis, who also holds the office of oiister In chancery, it is said receives an annual income from those sources of not much less than f15.000. This is certainly an excessive compebsatlon, being much more than the iaodtnbenttiould earn in any private employment but if one person can perform the services required, why not reduce the fees instead of multiplying the number of omeorsT !s

MENTION was made last week in these fcolumnB of the singular death of Cashier Barron, of the savings bank in Dexter, Maine, and of tbe recent discoveries wihcb! atlirfleit (&ibuik£» tot fbe belief tbat Barron had committed suicide instaHa dr. aw.Vib^ bee^: mardered^ The the theory of suicide, however, does not seem to be gaining favor, and later developments tend to disprove it. It is now thought that Barron was killed by burglat-s, as Drat supposed, and that the assassins had been conoealed in the Masonic Hall, over tbe bank, And thus effected an entrance from tbe interior of the bulldlng^^^^^,

going

vof

plague,

,and Circuit

united gtates, in any dis-

master in

11fo^2»dlb5oh "ik aitoed at

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WOMAN lawyers can now practice before tbe Supreme Court of tbe United States. This last and great prifilegp of the sex was chiefly won by Mrs. Belva Lock wood, Of Washington, #ho kaa refoaed admission to tbe bar of the Supreme Court a year or more ago. Not disposed to be put down eaails, leaver, ifid applied to Cdtigteai, afid succeeded in getting tbe bill p^saeiLby both houses.-*

Mpniftsn W0 b||lS ^di^Jt thepbeeM seidill*f *M Legislature, and so far less than half a dosen have been passed, though the session ia balf over. This Is a good record, and if it la kept up till UM end, the aesglon will prove one of tbe best tbat.we bare bad for years.

WUIU1UU abandoned by enlightened Christendom, judgments to draw tbe same rate as tbe instrument upon wbieb they are rendered. The bill basfnot yet passed

As a lawyer well said, "the party who can convince two men out of every three, PQgbt to b#ve a verdict.** As it is now.

THE State Senate baa passed a bill

fixing tbe legal rate of Intereat at 6 per cent, but allowing 8 per cent when specially contracted for In writing,

bv tbe Hoase.

T"®'been

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TT£"RT?Tfl "FTATTTTfl SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

TBB oiPHW qo/tttsaPONDB^eif. TbCough tbe investigations of tbe Obogressionsl sub committee in New York,

the true inwirdoew of tb»olpber dls-4«untry reeelvo simply fabulons in .. .. MA AAA »A MAA Aft patcfeea bai| been pfetty ftilly revealed Tbe real question was whether Mr. Til den bad any connection with, or complicity in the effotts to purchase presidential electors in tht South, and from what) hip appeared it la bard to answer tbe question In the negative. It Is true, celve such priyoeiy pay, the better cla* that Mn Tilden in his examination be- of stock 4ctors get oolj- /cum |&Q to |75 fore the committee, emphatically stales per week,

Carolloa, Florida and Louisiana.^ is more in a single month than tli* great

higb,

telegraphed an acceptance, on condition that the vote be delivered before the for-

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[en!

ie la

ed it, and refgsed toadvapce the money. Mr. Tilden himself says substantially tfW

kept these men in his confidence after discovering what thtfy were doing, does not tally well wiUi-tbe statement. It oextaiply.look? bad y^t qprrespondenoe Of thlS dbkractef^cbucbett in" daballstto language, should be carried on b^t^e«n Mr. THden's residence and confideniial friend's of his who hid gone to the Soutb. While it may be believed that be purposely Tenoned ignorant of the details of the •business, it ^enjs'.almost Incredible that be was nat in. re,ality .a party to tbese efforts to buy bis way Into the White House. However much opinions may differ on the Subject of MH Tilden's guilt, it may be stated with considerable confidence that CBfe ite^latlons of the cipher correspohdeii^'^illj effectually shelve blpa poljt{(|ili^' fbr all time to come. j-.« •.

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IN ROS'SIA. ,5.

Reports from Russia indicate an appalling condition of affairs in that country. The plague, known as "the black death," is desolating whole regions with a fatatality that, is almost incredible. Tbe lavages of the yellow fever in the Southern States during tbe pad summer pales Into insignificance when compared with th^e terrors of the black deat,b. It is stktedthat large towns have been utterly, depopulated, the dead lying by tbe hundreds unburiedIn the streets, while tbe, remaining inhabitants bavte fled fac and wide, carrying with them the seeds

the awful Infeotlon. The

whicb

was

probably contracted out ibem!

nage of the late war, is said to be eating its way np from the south, farther and farther into the heart of the empire. The sanitary condition of the country is bad, smallpox and fevers prevail,and with a general predisposition to an epidemic, there is no predicting when or where the ravages of the disease will be stayed. Other European countries are in dread of an invasion from it, and Germany in particular is considering the policy o£ guaad- of 80,000 soldiers along her borders to prevent people from the infected districts from coming in.. The disease first shows itself by a bard gathering in tbe side, which is followed by the breaking out of black spots on tbe bofly and the de&th of the victim in a few hours. It te the same disorder that bas depopulated Europe periodically in centuries past, and the description of which, by Defoe, when it

brute government. No doubt there are oMmteals WiM* des#rve 4t» bnt that Is queaMon, The question is, wbetbec.society can afford it. We think ^RodtuBster (N. Y.) Herald.

MXTQRMON,. ».

According to (iii New Yo^h Hera!d| the leading aotors and aetr«fi»es of the'

onmea, ranging from |50,00Q to f300,000 per year, |in 1 some of them ant playing more than thirty weeks In the yew at tbat. John E Owens, it la said, has smassed a fortune of 12,000,000 from his playing. But while tbe few stars re-

(bat bo knew nothjng of wb»t was go- TWa is extortion pare sua simple. ipkqgLbut hlsstory in tbis respect is There is no sense or reason in paying batdly credible. Ifc was khown Ty the these' eanrmous sums to actors and testimony of Pelton, Weed, and Marble, singers. It is ten tlnae9 more tb»9 they .—— tbat seeretagenta went from Tilden's can le^tinaMelv earn or the people book* by which tbe printers hive lost, residence to secure the votes of South afford to psy. ^Tbess people reeeive

$0longer deni«?K^ WM 0*We) fat-m of then in other professions p^p*,,metoory in tbe that tbe cipher dNpalcbea w#re spjbftfcn- aret lfe to earn in a whole year by the

tUl^oorrectly t^ifttated, aiid ttaM fcneb hardest application. The result of this ly dig there for It when at loss, nfltibtlatioos as tbey indicated. were.#oJ aystefti is itipl managers sre cupelled He most rise earljr. yea, not at all go

for the purohase of elec- to fix t(ie prices gf aclmlssiiop to tbe to bed, who wJU have every one's good tor^l yotea. Pelionj tbe nap|^fw of Til- theater and opera so high that people in

slon to tbe theaters are nearly if not quite aa high aa they were during tbe war times, while everything else bas fallen from fifty to a hundred per cent

stars, with poor companies, go by, and give a liberal patronage to tbe good eyenly balanced companies, like tbat for instance coming n6xt week, in which Maud Granger ia content with a salary sufficient to permit tbe manager to en gag6 other people of equal rank, and even have good men and women for the smallest parts. Managers are quick to learn'when tbe pocket is affected. If sbow-golng geople will do as we suggest tbe reform will come about remarkably tck. ,MVC FATSO UR B00KS10RE8. MS*

Mr. Dooliey—who, as a bookseller of many years' experience, knows whereof he-speaks— has some sensible remarks, in his Modern Argo, about bookstores— as applicable to this locality as the region in and about Col ambus. He says "the brightest spots in every city ougbt to be its bookstores. They furnish us our latest Intellectual food. Public libraries are desirable institutions. They cultivate a taste for reading, and supply reading to those who cannot afford* to buy it. They do their work and have their place in tbe cultivation of the people. But no city, however well supplied with these, should neglect their bookstores. They are the intellectual breathing places tbat should be kept open by liberal patronage. How dull would the gayest city be with-

People

from the-Turks and was fed by the car buy bpoks, pictures, statuettes and such

ascription o/ wblob, by Detoa, it aou.^£ M„ ravaged London, would have, gendered

his name immortal without the aid of

'Robinson Crusoe.'

THE^pfcfrS* iSute SltatL under the impulst^ $robai^jr, oC*on» espe«ally atrociotJi criminal Tevolatlon, advocates al Of tbeilvbtmdilg post. It is

not. ffbf in favor of the whipping UER otner insuiunoDs, ror sn# «WBOMfmMflra bbbishrdent to Wife b«at- tialiy poor, If tbe book marts are allowl»* MM I —J I M.aninU anr) 11 TV

suggested that it be tried—that the leg islatvre pasa the law at the present session, remarking tbat "if It falls to lessen this kind of brntality and ruffianism, it oan be repealed tbe next session. Nobody will regret tbe sound floggings in the meantime given Uie~men unfit to be callfett tfie head of toe'ranify. If It does not tell, It will oertalnly be a great blessing—and it will not fall." Tbe Herald says tbe whipping port belongs to tbe age of brute government. True. The man who will beat his wife ia a brute and abould be governed as a brute. What cares such a creature for a few days' imprisonment. Let's give blm some of his own medicine. Like cures like, we are told by tbe bomop jpathlsts, and a little homoeopathy, well laid on, may cause a wonderful cure. We tklnk "society can afford it I"

NOT satisfied with a debt of two and balf million dollars, city and county, tbe Marlon county commissioners are considering tbe project of building a $100,000 jail. There is a feeling of strong protest on the part of tbe taxpayers who tbink that enough money was spent on new court bouse in the way of extras to build a balf a dozen jails.

often say they can't

othei- good's as our bookstores keep In sfock* The majority of such people never were more mistaken. It is not that they can't buy, but tbey won't buy. It is a matter

taste more than of ability.

Some young ladles—not all—often slgb forth' iri bookstores, "What a nice little library'th^y would have!" if they could only afford it. Bojks of real merit—a completeShakspeare—stand on the shelf to be bad at seventy-five cents to two dollars. A tolerable plaster bust of Clytie, Minerva or Apoilo can be had for fiom one to two dollars. Tbey leave the store and leave tbe Impression that tbey are nearly heart-broken that they Can't buy just one book. The same parties will patronize tbe confectioners for sweet meats to the amount of four or five dollars a month. Yet ladies are tbe greatest book buyers, and it is to them that the bookstores owe their existence. ,Souae voung men go into bookstores and lament that tbey are not able to purchase books, yet these same young men go Into the billiard hall and spend five dollars, and then on their way home

tfa. would provide

wtth

Ign, good^fitlnftpp to have the the dial. The the age of

their homes

librairles if.tbey v^ete financially

*i »kln TUa nemA mart 1*7? 11 rrA hnmA AllH

able. The same men will po bomfe and build a five hundred dollar bay Window to their bouse. All things should move together, and our bookstores should not be neglected. They ought to be among the best sustained Institutions of the city. They offer you tbe latest thoughts from the greatest miads of the world. If you take pride in yourself or your city then do not slight tbe bookstores. Make tnem a place of resort. The money they make is not enormous In fact, it is not considered a lucrative business. A city that neglects to sustain its bookstores has no right to take pride in her other institutions, for she is essen-

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nBSFtraiT as a bhbishment to wire neat- tialiy poor, me OOOK marts www- .u® "^17.7 —. .. "7 ^/t'^i liilLtlllerflftorred to toerelv

ers.afld ^.ttia-«fti«le Columbus bas a class of enterprising shock tbe modesty of some who do not i_J iL.t t» Ua ^*IaH fhaf (ha la»_ _* a ik«l» ^1 kA««« Im triaaf a Inn

book merchants who cater to tbe Intel lectual tastes of ber people. It is nothing more than justice to tbem, to yourself, and to the city, tbat tbey be well sustained. ''.'"

THE pedestrian female is becoming Is great a nuisanoe as the female book peddler, the life insurance man, or tbe budding poet, who thinks be bas a mission in the world to murder sense

RANDOM REFLECTIONS,

^Jooldbegets labxeth.'ren hate '"•Qn\A in familte*, debate Uold does friendship separate

Oo!d doss civil wars create. U»e law and physic only for necessity. Steep is tbe child of silence, the image of death.

There is no wonder so wonderful tbat It sball not be realised. The flowers of sunset dreams are too frail for the herbarium.

Tbe American is always in a hurry, born with no time to live. A straight Una is the shortest in morals, as welt as In geometry.

There le no certain level of degradation beneath which we may not fall. Learning.bath gained most from those

Lai *UA lAflf

11 ls

klng wtthoal

baok

p«rt of the bead, and men natural

He is the true valiant man, that dares nothing but what he may, and fears nothing but what he ought.

There is only one better thing than to appear to be virtuous and happy, and

It is not easy to suggest a remedy for the that ia to really be so.. evil, but there ought to be one. The There Is very litte use making to-day

prices. Tbi* they never oan do as long in a man's face you ought to look a as actors and singers demand and re- seoond time to be sure that you do not celve the enormous salaries they do

now* FASHIONABLE HONESTY. The amusement-going people can cor- p.^.om

A HARTFORD bank treasurer writes to the Cpuraut in regard to the mysterious Barron case, and in scouting tbe idea or suicide, says: "One of tbe most suspicious links In tbe chain of evidence which tbe detectives wind around tbe character of the dead man is the fact that in the vault a screw driver and a lamp were found. Some time ago tbe bank with which the writer Is connected was ^thret|tened with burglars. The attempt to rob it was finally made, and one of tbe burglars was caught In tbe act and is now serving out bis term at Wdlhersfleld. At this time and for many months after It we kept secret In our vault a candle, monkey wrench, pud a screw driver, to the intent that if we were locked in the vault we should have the means at band of liberating ourselves. What damning evidence this, would have been if we bad been WftPM1" ... 003*1*

Hackensack Ropublican.

Gtosaip is always a personal confession either of malice "or imbecility, and tbe young should not only ahun it, but by tbe most thorough culture, relieve themselves from all temptation to Indulge in it. It ia low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a peat. Churches are split to pieces by it. Neighbors made enemies by it for lite. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease which is practically incurable. Let tbe young cure it wbile they may -:.-

IT IS A LITTLE FUNNY. Inter Ocean, Springfield, Mass., bas prohibited the blinds and screens from being placed before tbe door* and windows of drink

languish, and live on a sickly life, ing sajoons. This will no doubt gjea'ly

UkeDobend their elbows in view of the fttreet. It is a little funny that when a man shaves, and to all intents and purpose* is in a most uninteresting condition, be wants tbe whole front of tbe bsrbeisbop open but when be takes a nip, although tbe thermometer la among tbe nineties, be wants the blinds down and tho lattice door closely shut.

COULDN'T VNMESMERIZE BIM. At asocial party at Ottowa a guest

and torture tbe English language, pretended to be a mesmerist, and enterEvery paper one takes up bas a Aiming talne4 the company by mmmeridng a ...

aocount of the unheard of doings of

Madame This or Mademoiselle Tother,

victim, whom he compelled to make

b{mMl'r

and tbey are talked of as though tbey ouecees, tried to unmesmerize tbe sub-

.™B.NE!^REOFTB.BUN..N™»..2D only existed for tbe purpose of instruct- poa^d a libation of ink on tbe ing and elevating tbe world. mesmerist's shirt front, and only oondoacended to recover his senses when the

A DISGUSTED applicant for a pension terrified operotorjiadjfled^or a doctor, bas sent tbe following unique letter to tbe authorities at Washington "Dear Sir—You say in your Last Letter that iwould have toprove that Iwas in the Bsttleat Piatsburg on tbe lltb of Sept 1814. idont now remember But one that is now slive snd that Is the olmvta. idont think he ever gous to Wssbington, D. C. if he ever comes thair you can prove all Ibave ever said on tbe subject, itbink all tbeas Promseas of Pensions all gass. J. N. S. I am Poor as h—1 and must Dyso." -1 A ~V*

for an hour. But

W(MMQ

the mesmerist, surprised at bis

NOT TO, BE SEEN WITH NAKED EYE.

Fanny Davenport a year ago fell upon theetageln Detroit and broke her nose. It has been repaired as much as poasl-

.... ble, but It is said tbat Fanny nearly if be ever comes grieves herself to death over her defor- ...

mJt

Those who have opera glasses,

next Tuesday night, will be able to notice this feature about which the papers have had eo much to say.

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^wv-u ^y^s^^rtf^m^:

When you say you can dee tbe Villain

860

It by

tbe

rect* the evil if they will, bnt they won't. jf0t long ago in a neighboring city, Let the Fanny davenports and other one of theTjelies of society accepted the .. _• matr!mnnffl.1 nfnnoaitiAn of Worthy

j?ew y0rk Times and Messenger

matrimonial proposition Of a worthy young gentleman and was asked by him to npme the bappy day. She consulted ber parents-rWbo had previously given their consent to tbe match—and a family council Was held. Tbe decision reached was curious, as wpll as characteristic of YSOUntr^ lina^ge. The father and mother agreed that the social position of their daughter required, a grand wedding. The father, however, announced tbat misfortunes in business bad brought him to the Verge of bankruptcy that he was In fact.preparing to malce an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. To this the mother replied tbat tbe grand weddlog, being of primary Importance it must of course take precedence to the assignment, for pecuniary reasons easily understood. And it was so ordered. Tbe marriage occurred amid a blaze of glory, duly chronicled ih the newspapers, ana a few days afterwards Mr. Smith's paper werit to pretest and his creditors took possession of his limited assets. Not long ago, considerably neater home, a fond husband informed his, loving wife that his financial affairs Were in, that condition which indicates a speedy and disastrous collapse. Tbe vyife said little, but thought mucb. The result |of ber meditation was tbat tbe next day she went down town and bought a,seal-skin sacque and a set of diamonds. She told a female neighbor, WbP knew of the impending calamity, that the sacque and aiamonde, "would last ber a lite-time, tbat if she did not get tbem now'she never would, and so she .got them." The collapse came In due season audIt is hardly necessary to remark that the furrier and jeweler are whistling for their money. 7'

HOUSEKEEPERS TAKE NOTICE!

We are opening to-day «ome of the greatest bargains in

TABLE LINENS, Napkins, ^JQQYUES,

'V'".s?3r TRAY CLOTHS I

TOWELS, A «r»

TOWELINGS, --t

overact ng

SHEETINGS, PILLOW C'ASn/(5S,

!:"vV

CRASHES,

!f ?^HUCKABACKS, BATH TOWELS, fj'iftilht') '5U '.rf» WASHCLOTHS

'UNDERWEAR LINLN, LINEN DIAPERS,

O O N I A E S

TABLE COVERS, ^, STAND COTfflRS, 5

WALL SPLASHES, TOILET SETS, and

CHILDREN'S CARRIAGE RUGS, All in great variety and worthy the attention of the closest casb buyers.

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DAMASK TOWELS

The largest, best and cheapest line ever shown in the city, at 5c, 8c, 10c, 12Mc 15c, 20c, 25c, 30c, 40c, and 50c each and upwards. Please examine.

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HOBERG. ROOT & CO.,

OPERA HOUSE,

CARPETS!

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25 Per Cent Off!

put oh sale

Monday, January 27th,

Of New and £le^ant Patterns Just Reeelved: fs "lil,000 Yards

TAPESTRY BRUSSELS!

... at 75 cents per yard.

3,000 Yards

INGRAIN CARPETS!

from 30 to 50 cents,

Sold Last Year from 40 to 75e. There is no use in buying the OLD STOCK or REMNANTS now being sold at tbese prices, when new aad more desirable goods can be had for the same money: Call and teens.

BR0KAW BROS.,

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PRAIRIE CITY

COOK STOVES

i.W ,i"U vl' 1 MANOFACTCRED BY

E. J. KING, Terre Hante.

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They are plain, heavy and durable warranted to give

Perfect Satisfaction in Baking

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Use Fael Economically.

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Thousands of Them Sold

And in dally use in this and adjoining coanuwar.

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A Test to Their Merit

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"I By Baying the Prairie City

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Encoiirage Home Manufactnro' i0 (jfx' v" -AND—

Never Have Trouble to Get Repairs.

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Bfbomlngton 8onday Uye,"

For Sale, at Foundry Prices, by

T0WNLEY BROS.,

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y0t 515'Maln Street,'North Side.

For new Novelties and fancy Goods, Visit tha* CENT ST0TE.