Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 1, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 July 1879 — Page 8

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K* -S. Cox west to Washington this week. R*»NTtCVx, Jr., will return home from Switzerland, in August.

M--S -».* -Van Verbis, of Newmtu, lllun-x, i» vititiy^ ijcr relative* in this it

A. W. Helnlylstart* on Alouday with bis two children to visit relative# in Iowa.

Miss Etta Wilkes leav»» Monday for a visit to ber sister Mrs. Randietnan, at Car.'iale, Iowa.

Miss Tiliie Fe^bhienier started this morning on a vi»iv to ber 4»(er at Oshkosb, Winconsin.

R»t,S.'S. Martin starts neif WWk Oti a trip to New York, New Haven, and other points in the east. J.

Mivs Jear.ette McCutcbeon.of C'aunelton, Ind., is visiting ber brother*, James and John McCutcheon, in this cit\.

Mr*. Phiiip Sohloas^and children start* ed. oa Tuesday, lor Cleveland, Ohio, where the hot months will be spent.

Mrs. J. H. Williams, fcnd daughter, are off for

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tives and friends, in Elmyra, New York Capt. Isaac Mass and L. L. Watson, o( VincenBas, were in the city this week u,e guests of Heinly A Watson, of the National.

Mis. M. J. Christy, wife of S. K.Christy, compositor on the Express, died, at Indianapolis, last Friday evening, and was buried hore on Sunday.

Mi»s Luetta Hedges went to Parke county, this week, where she will spend a uple of months, with her former pupils at Rockville and Bloomingdale

AI Omaha, Nebraska, on Wednesday last, Mrs. Mary E. Carter, daughter of Mrs. S. E. Lockridge, formerly of this city, was married to Mr. John W. Bell.

Dr. Bartholomew has gone to Free* port, 111., where he will remain till the middle of the month, and he will spend

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rest of the month at Fort Atkinson, W iM-onsin. 1 he idea of calling a meeting to consider Vcorbees, and not allow prosecutor Kelley an opportunity to apeak for his friend, was an astonishing revelation to Albert J.

C. Ed. Vacderver, on Monday commences a term of service as special detective for the E., 7. H. fc C. R. R. Thieves and other evil doers will do well to keep clear of that road.

Capt. Payne and E. A. Storey have formed a partnership In the insurance and collection business. Their office is in Paige's music store. They are well known and energetic business men.

Joseph Gilbert, who was prosecuted In the Criminal court on charge of obstructing a highway, by building a fence over an unused road, has been acquitted, this week, a decision being rendered in bis favor.

The excursionists to Toledo are loud in tlielr praises of freight agent J. R. Kendall, of the E. T. A C., who went along and took care of them. At Chicago, they presented him with a $200 watch aud chain, as a token of their regard

Postmaster Filbeck, who used to know the politics of every man in the county, must be losing his grip. He said last Mond.ty, at the denouncing meeting, that be didn't know the political affiliations of Capt. J. W. Haley, who was called on to preside.

Express: Edward Probst, a young man of entorprfm ftnd experienced in the tinware business, has purchased the stove and tin store of W. P. Meyer, ob Fourth street, north of Ohio. The many friends of Mr. Meyer will regret that be, oolitem plates a removal from the «ity.

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wood, send them to John Paddock. He doesn't expect them to be faultless, but be wants thetn to do the work without a vault. This ii a pun. It needs Uooliug, and the additional explanation tbst the last pair bs hired threw about a et.rd into a vault, and got pay for sawing the same.

Charles U. Goodwin, one of ths proprietors of tbs Iledger, and Miss Lucia Miunkard, were married Tuesday afternoon, at the St. Charles Hotel. Rev. E. W. Abbey officiated, and only ths im mediate relatives of tbs parties wars present. Immediately after tbs ceremony these excellent and popular young people took tbs train tor a two week's trip In northern Iowa.

The Oratorio Society, on Monday evouiog last, eleoted tbs following offloere: Dr. J. P. Worrell, President W. S. Roney, Vies President: Miss Leora Bowyer, Recording Secretary Prof Greeuawalt, Financial Secretary Mr. John Wilkes, Librarian Mr. Charles McBride, treasurer Mrs. A. L. Gould, Mrs. Anton Shide, Mrs. C. R. Henderson, Miss SaUie McKeen, Dr. Elder, directors.

We are glad and we are sorry to bear of the promotion of Capt. D. D. Wheeler, of the artillery corps of the V, S. army, to the position of quartermaster, of which hs was apprissd on Thursday. Ws are glad to bear of a deserved promotion, bat sorry to know that tt will take him away just as our people were getting acquainted with agenial, courteous gentlemsn who waif rapidly identifyinff blmse'.f with Terrs Haute's institutions and Interests.

Charley Eppert extends a cordial invitation to all readers of the Mail to call at his newly fitted photograph gallery, at the old quarters, Main street, west of Fourth for pictures of every description.

Now that the Fourth of July is over, our people who want furniture at the very lowest prices will find it to their advantage to visit the popular furniture house of Foster & Son on north Fourth street.

Horses were terribly annoyed yesterday by flies, except those whose owners humanely covered them with fly nets Peter Miller, lit his south Fourth street harness factory, has a large stock of fly nets and lap dusters, and.i%aelltagMj&n at reasonable prices.

Tbe hotvdays bave oouie at last, and meu And relief from much of the uncomfortablHue&si by wearing the light straw and summer bats, light onderwearjtab&w&il tilting-,shirts, 'and ilegaut^iifru goods tfc be found at the well stocked store of S. Loeb A Co, ou the corner of Main and Fifth streets Go there for t|?ei latest styles and the lOMSl PfJ-Of, ~j

Button it Co. carry a large stock.of the latest publications aud standard bool^s, and anything not on their well $ll#d table^aAd shelves will bo promptly oKlerecf delivered in a few days At }be Central Bookstore can also be found a full .stock of arphery goods, croquet sets' and other games, and in hew and nobby stationery it is really a delight to look through the elegant styles, for the Central has long been rioted as headquarters in this line.

The duty of a family newspaper like The Mail is not only to record passing events, the coming and going of people, the collection of entertaining reading, but it is aiso a duty «ud a pleasure to teU our readers that they should buy their groceries and table supplies at the popular grocery bouse of Wiight & King, on the ootnei of Main and Seventh streets. Their sources of supply are of the best, and inexhaustible. What they haven't got in their big grocery house, it is useless to look elsewhere for. Farmers go there for their harvest supplies, picnicers go there for choice delicacies, and city folks go there for sll thst is good. a

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Usually It is cheaper to forgive ad injury than to hire a lawyer. Beau Brummel said that the finest perfume of the toilet was the perfume of clean linen. ii

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Four hundred thousand people, according to the Railway World, are employed on the railroads in this country, and five times that number depend uj on the roads for support.

The poet who wrote "Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November," etc., was a genius. The great mass ot mankind have to run over these lines to make sure when the months end and begin.

Every time the average citizen attends a circus he remarks in a disgusted manner, "When you see one circus you see all." And to prove the truth of the statement attends each succeding arenic exhibition with scrupulous regularity. —[Rome Sentinel.

Chicago has a Bald Men's Society. A requisite for membership is a bare spot on the top of bead not less than four square Inches in extent. The object of the organisation is .to discover a cure for baldness. The President has not a hair, and was elected for that reason.

At a funeral at Portland, Maine, the singing was so unsatisfactory that a prominent mourner arose with wrath on his face' and indignation in hii manner, and remar ked: "I am the corpse's brother, and I object to such singing as that." The chorister thereupon became silent. "My^dsi^" bald a ^onng? wife'to her busbaud, as she pfet up her mouth to be kissed, on his return from business, /'have you seen the magnificent set of walnut /aAituue which the Jenkinses hsve just bought?" Hem! no my love, but I've seen the bill, which quite satisfies me."

We it now there have been mercenary men. One of this sort bad the good fortune to accepted by an heiress. At the wedding, when be got to the part reading^ "With all my worldly goods I thee endow," "There goes his valise," said one of the bride's relatives, spitefully.

At each of the prominent hotels at Saratoga experienced deteetives are employed, an inportant part of whose doty it is to exclude questionable characters. Should one of these persons make his or er wsy into the hotel preeinots, be or she is immediately spotted, the detective steps up, smilingly shakes bands, and, after a few whispered words the obnoxious party invariably recollects an engagement elsewhere.

Mary Holt's father was wealthier than any other termer in Woodson Co., Kansas, and she received a more careful education than was usually bestowed upon the girls Of that part of the country Her parents intended that she should marry a professional man, but she preTersely fell in love with James Ash burn, a young termer, who was not at all the man tbey would hare chosen. Aahburn and Mary were married secretly. The secret got out, and Ashbnrn said they might as well confess ths truth to Mr. and Mrs. Holt, taking the consequence. Msry was terrified by the idea. She had si ways been obedient, and she knew that ber parents' grief and disappointment would be deep. Rather than go through the ordeal, she poisoned herself to death with strychnine. Ashbnrn de­

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clared that he would not survive ber, and his friends guarded him closely to prevent him committing suicide bet while bis wile's funeral procession was passing the house, he obtained a pistol and shot himself. His aim was wild, however, and the wound was not fatal.

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In the midst of life we may be called upon by a female book agent. Ladles' underwear has now become so elegant in material aud design as to be classed among the fine arts,.

Some one asks "what becomes of all the girl graduates?" Same answer as to "what becomes of all the pins?"

The man who, wanting a servant, advertised for a "middle aged single woman" doesn't understand why be hsa reoeived no applications for the position.

A young man in Nebraska sent an offer of marriage to a girl In Iowa whom he fancied, and in reply received this telegram: "Come on with your minister."

In aSpiritual'st meeting at Willimantic, Conn,, a man sat between two of his wives, and a third was just behind biro. There seemed to be no enmity in the party.

What a feeling of relief comes over a woman as she enters a church and discovers that her neighbor's wife has the same feather on ber spring hat that she wore last season. "No girl gets along well without a mother," says a moral exchange. This may be true but hereabouts girls work harder to get mothers in-law than they do to get mothers.

Several Vassar school girls were found fencing in the gymnasium with broomsticks. A professor told them that such an accomplishment would not help them to secure husbands.

Just as the neighbors had gathered around the body of Mrs. Weir, in Memphis, and begun to talk about the good qualities of the dead old lady, she sat up and joined in the conversation.

Cannot something be done to prevent young ladies from being insulted on the streets at night? asks an exchange. Why, yes. Have the old lady tuck them safely in bed at sundown and lock the door.

Lydla Thoqqgpoh grdWTQge^tremely fat, and unless soms meaus be used to to check this tendency to obesity, it is said^ star will soon he a sigat to beholdT^*hose famous tights she^fe| In a &

Wheh jtskW about her reported ftJftli'cominjt marriage with a Syracuse gentleman, Mary Anderson replied,: "I'm, not of flirtation kind, and I love mjr profession too well to divide the affection I feel for it." "^7'*' fkf

A Michigan lady1 Writes, %ith rare truth: "Under great sorrow or any great trial we can be calm and brave, but it is the thousand and one little vexations of daily life that start the fret, and we fret, fret until we" hardly*realize or measure how much."

New York brides are said to be complaining that they receive too many presents that look as if tbey emanated from the Decorative Art Society, and one indignant heauty alleges that one of her gilts was a screen worked by herself and sold to the Assodiation last winter.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The July meeting of the society will be at Lake Fluvanna, at 10 o'clock, Thursday, July 10th. It will be a basket meeting. All are invited, old and young. Question for discussion "Does Charity Increase Pauperism T" Essays, reports and readings.

Jos. Gilbert, President.

CtQSINO OUT Regardless of Cost, Our entire stock pf Lliien Suits,Linen Lawrts Grenadines, Organd and Domestic L§wns,

Parasols, Hosiery#®Lisle Thread Gloves and Pans. JAURIET & CO.,

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Will purchase a five octave, nine stops, new Mason A Hamlin Organ, warranted for five years. No^ntereet on deferred payments. W. H. PAIGE A CO., 607 Main street.

Green Wire Clotti at A. G. AUSTIN & CP'S.

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in carpets, 2 ply Ingrain Carpets 18, 25 and 28 cents. Best 2 ply Ingrain Carpete made 75 cents. Beautiful Brussels to cents, over SO new and elegant styles in Brussels at 75 cents, some choice designs in Body Brussels not to be had elsewhere. FOSTER BROTHERS.

ORGANDIES, LAWNS PARASOLS ANDFANS. All reduced in price to close for the season.

JAURIET & CO., Cor. Fifth and Main.

?This dress uv mine is not the very latest style uv cut, an' my shoes, to be in the fashion, ought to hsve some'st more heel to 'em. I wouldn't do for a pioter in a fashion magtzine—I'll acknowledge it. I don't set myself up for a model in that line, but es fur buyin uv groceries an* bein' a jedge uv 'em, an' knowin' when they're bnsp, I don't 'low. nobody to git away with honest a critter ez ever

lived, an* it's my natur' to be candid an* plain-spoken. I tell ye that ye can't find in town abetter grocery store, or

reater variety, or lower prices, than at "White Frunt," wnlch the same is on Mane strete. He has everything you want fur your table requirements, among which I may mention strawberries, red raspberries, blaok raspberries, cherries, gooseberries, peas, bananas, beets, onions, turnips, radishes* cabbage, chickens, green apples, choice hams, breakfast bacon, canned meats of all kinds, and everything else thst a body wants can be found at the White Frunt, 155 Mane strete. '1 )gp|

Horsemen, Attention! I have first class TROTTING SULKY'S at #80, ROAD WAGONS at 125 to |150, that excel anything ot the kind ipade in the United States for the price. First class goods in every respect. Come atod see them. Also, SPRING WAGONS for FARMERS and BUSINESS MEN at prices that defy competition for first gjass,work. C. A. POWER, 104 and 106 Main street.

TELE STAR MEAT MARKET: Charley Dorsch is constantly adding Hew customers, and he never loses any old ones, because he takes especial pains t6 serve them with the best meats to .be tfad in this market. iCT s*.

MONEY TO LOAN.

have money to loan on mortgage security on long time, on favorable tprms. ,C.

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Fall-leaf tables. 12.50. Kitchen safes, 1*250.

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itohen tables with drawer, I1.2& 122S.'$£ ,»*. Cane seat chairs, 13.75.1 Bedsteads, 12.00. Plain Wardrobes. $8.00. Parlor and chamber suites, and all otber grades of goods, sold at prices that have doubled our trade In the last week.

N.B.—We still have a few hundred pairs of boots and shoes left and are selling them at low figures.

Ladies* slippers, 25 oenta. ftm Ladles'ties, 75 cents. B^ys'Shoes, 50 and 75 cent i. Every article sold at the lowest possible* price.

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