Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 August 1879 — Page 8
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PAPEK FOR THE PEOPLE.,
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Miss May Hedges is in Chicago. H. 0. Davis and wife are in Ohlosgcc Willle Kadel hss gone to Wisoonsin. Max Ho berg and wile are in Chicago, MJse Ida Ensey is vial ting in Clncini?
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nati. Mt— Mary M. Barr was in town this week.''*
John Berry «u in New York thia week. Tom Jackaon has gone to Portland, Maine.
Mlae Joele Smock is |l|itlng tr|ei|lajn Colorado..
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Capt. J. B. Hager was in Indianapolis this week. John Paddock visited Indianapolis this week. i, -s- 4.
Henry Robinson went to New York this week. Mrs. J. D. Strout has returned from Charleston.
James Perry, Evansville, *M in the city this week. Jos. M, Wildy was in Cincinnati this week on business.
J. H. Beadle, Rockville Tribune, was in tbe city this week. James P. Voorhees paid the city a flying visit last Sunday.
Horace B. Jones is rusticating at Chicago and Qrand Haven. Dr. Van Valzah and Qen. Cruft visited tbe Capital this week.
Miss Fannie Hammill has gone to Pennsylvania upon a visit. Mrs. Matt. Henning, of Evansvllle", is in the city visiting Mrs. R. N. Hudson.
Judge Porter of the Philadelphia Criminal Court was in the city this week.
E. E. Sluss, of Bloomington, Internal revenue department, was In town yesterday.
O. W. Shaffer and family went north last night en route for Green Lake, Wisconsin.
Mimes Sue Beaoh and Margaret Patter eon have gone to Lake George to spend the summer.
Gertie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ed ward?, aged eighteen monts, died last Tuesday.
Miss Nannie Soott, Vinoennes, is visiting Mrs. T. B. Glare brook, south Eighth street.
J. J. Baur started yesterday morning for Waukesha, Wis., where be will remain a month.
F. V. BJschowsky and family start aaxt week for Waakesba, Wis., and other points north.
Mrs. V. A. Sparks and daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. Joel H. Keeter have gone So French Lick Springs.
Hon. Bayless W. Hanna has been astonishing the natives of Ohio with his samples of Wabash eloquenoe.
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Shannon, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fischer, and Prosecutor Kelley are going on a fishing excursion •to Muskegon, Michigan.
Jay Cummings went to CrawfordsVille on Thursday, at whloh point he mustered in a post of the G. •. R. oonalstiogof fl:ty members.
Cliff W. Ross has enrolled himself in -the'army of real estate agents, and is now canvassing for the Industrial Life -Association of Indianapolis.
Prof. Brennecke closes -his first term of dancing next week, and invitations are out for a Reception on Tuesday evening, when all tbe latest dances will be introduced. We are glad to learn that Prof. B. has been so encouraged as to decide to make this city bis permanent home.
Bessie Eagleefield, formerly of this oity, now practicing law at Grand Rapids, Michigan, will be married on the 12ih lust, lo a son of ex-Governor Ashley. The groom, *vbo, by the way, is said to be "a good catch," is as much larger tbau the average man as Bessie is smaller than the average woman.
Many of our people are out of town, at tbe seaside, up in the lake country, and at quiet places of rest. Their friend* hear from them frequently, because before they went away they supplied themselves with packages of the elegant stationery sold*by Button A Co., who have long kept the Central Bookstore in the lead for the newest and most fashionable styles of writing materials, besides commercial stationary of every description, and blank books in great variety. Go there also for the latest publications, base ball goods, arcnery, croquet, and other games.
The Monday evening concerts of the Ringgold Band drew immense assemblage* to the corner of Main and Seventh streets. It is sn attractive locality. Just acrtm tbe street from tbe neat music staud is tbe immense grooery house of Wright A King, filled to overflowing with everything the appetite oan crave. It is wonderful how tbey keep their store so well filled considering the constant drain upon their supplies. An extensive acquaintance throughout tbe country, enables them to get the beet and cheapest oountry produce, and in staple groceries tbey know how to buy at lowest figures, and give their customers tbe benefit of this knowledge. Drop in there this afternoon and evening and have your Sunday basket filled with good things.
J. G. Krets has returned from Colorado. Miss Lottie Schell has returned from Clinton.
Mrs. Virginia Wolf has gone to Milwsukee. Mrs. F. C. Crswford will return home to-night,
B. W. snd Albert Koopman are at Milwaukee. Judge Carleton paid tbe capital a vialt last Thursday.
Mis. E. P. Fairbanks is at Battle Creek, Michigan. $ Charles R*y has gone to Freneh Lick springs and Cairo, Ills.
James King, ot tbe firm of Wright A King, is seriously ill. Prof. J. C. Ridpatb, Green castle, was in the oity last Thursday.
Perry Huston, of Evanaville, paid the city a flying visit yesterday. Meesrs. Irs Smith and Hon. John G. Crain have gone to Green Bay.
Misaee Annie and Mamie McKeen have returned from Waukesha. Mrs. Fairbanks and daughter, Miss Carrie, are at present in Cinoinnsti.
Martin Kercheval is slowly recovering. He is able to leave the house now. D. C. Greiner has gone to Union City, Ind., to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Mary A. Thompson, who died yesterday morning.
Mrs. T. P. O'Boyle and Miss Ida Watson, who have been vlBlting in this city for some ten days, returned to their home in Vlncennes yesterday.
Drs. Russell fc Larkins have purchased the drug store at Lockport, this couuty. The latter will remove there from this city to engage in practice.
Senator Voorhees has reoeived a letter from Gen. Ewing, inviting him to participate in tbe Ohio oanvass. He will start about the middle of September.
Frank Armstrong, Fred Pfennig and Julius Thormsn are home from Mack iaaw. The remainder of the party are still in camp, fishing and bear shooting,
C. H. Reeves, auditor's office, Illinois Midland railroad, stsrts for Cleveland, Ohio, next week, when he will take a half interest in a large manufacturing establishment,
John 8. Jordan has returned from his sojourn upon the lakes. He reports fishing good and bears quite numerous. He is improved in health and don't look more delicate than usual.
Since his return from a ten months' tour of Europe, Ed. Baur oocupies his spare time in answering numerous questions pertaining to the sights and scenes which he witnessed in many lands.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Harper yesterday visited theShelburn coalmines, going several hundred feet under gronnd to see how they get the "dusky dia moads." They secured many beautiful foeail specimens,
W. W. Sibley returned yesterdsy from St. Paul, Minn. If you don't believe he was there ask him to show you his photograph, with the Minnehaha Falls for a background, and a fishing rod for an embellishment.
Senator Voorbess will deliver an address before the MoDonough county Agricultural society, August 18tb, At Macomb, Ills. He is receiving numerous invitations to deliver his lecture on Jefferson, which he will comply with as far as possible during vacation.
A pretty young lady stopped an entire stranger on the street yeeterday and told him that the place to buy all kinds of furnithre at the lowest prioee Is at R. Foster A Son's, on north Fourth street.
How the horses do suffer from flies at this season. Give them relief by covering them with one of thoee bandsome nets sold at suoh low prices at Peter Miller's harness establishment on south Fourth street.
Charles Eppert, the popular photographer, is turning out at his gallery, on Main street, between Third and Fourth, some of the finest specimens of photography ever seen in this vicinity, If you want anything in this line, go there and you will be surprised at the excellence of bis work, and the reasonsbleness of his rates. ^=ss=ssss=^ C, arJ
Other People.
David Davis is said to be getting thin. U.8. Grant, jr., has a cottage at Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Germans are but cnildren of a lager growth.—New York Mail. Thurlow Weed says he was scared when first offered the degree of LL. D.
Dean Stanley says that John Bright formed his style by reading good books. Prince Jerome Napoleon and M. Gambetta are indefatigable newapaper readers.
Mr. B. P. Shillaber, the jovial humorist, oelebrated bis jixty-fifth birthday the other day. -ff
It to nid that the will of Mrs. Dorsey, giving all her property to Jeff Davis, is to be contested.
Blond in has been performing in Brussels, and is going to Vienna. He must be getting Into yean.
A French Imperialist paper proposed carrying French earth to Cbleelhunfc for Prince Louis Napoleon to rest in.
President and Mia. Hayes will be the guests of John 8wayne at his elegant cottage at Newport the latter part of this month.
An African lion hunter contributes the following: "How to catoh lions. The deeert is composed of sand and lions. Take a sieve snd rift the desert
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Talmsge, who is traveling Europe, will have to ahut hia mouth 1.1 order to get it through the Mont Cental funnel.— Herald P. I. Man.
Speaker Randall la described as emphatic presiding officer. His deek has several times been smssbed in by the pounding it reoeived.
Scandal mongers may learn this lesson from the frog: Once overpsssed tbe season of his adolescence, he gives up tail bearing.—Yonkers Gazette.
The follow who dropped Into a obair containing a tack, has been uneasy ever since, snd now sits down o\i tbe instsll ment plan.—Owego Record.
As a rule thoee men who growl loudest about women'a extravagance are the very men who are fondest of a woman's waist.—Ssn Francisco Wasp. "Whoso findeth wife findeth a good thing," says Solomsn. If all acoounta may be believed, he practiced what he preached.—American Punch.
One of the advantages of a rest at tho sesshore is the foot thst you have to pay tbe highest price for the meanest whiskey.—Philadelphia Chronicle.
London is in a fever of excitement over Bernhardt. But how must Mr. Bernhardt fee), never once seeing his name in print 7—N. Y. Express.
Ho Ah How brings suit in San Francisco for 910,000 damages for his queue, which wss cut off by order of tbe Court, before whito he was convicted of some trifling offense.
The sea serpent hasn't yet made his appearance at any of tbe seashore resorts, and this proves that the hotel bars this year are dispensing a better brand of whiskey.—Phils. Kronicle Herald.
The man who made the first telegraph line has just died in England, but the man who made the first telegraph lie has increased snd multiplied in this oountry.—Boston Commercisl Bulletin.
A story is going the rounds of the press called "A son turns up sfter twen-ty-five years absence." We hsve seen a son turn up after an hour's absence often and never tnought anything of it. —Cincinnati Saturday Night.
Ex-Governor Hubbard of Connecticut still keenly feels the blow of the marriage of his dsughter to his ooach riian. With his family he will spend the summer st Newport, and then go to New York or South for the winter.
Professor Blsokie of Edinburgh put up a notice of regret that on a certain day he should not be sble to receive his clssBes. A student erased the "c" of the lsstword. Professor Blackie came along, saw what had been done, and struck out "1" too. V\
Charles Sumner's grave is to be marked by a handsome sarcophagus of white Conoord granite bought with the funds left over after paying all expenses connected with tbe statue of Sumner made by Ball and erected in the public Garden in Boston.
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The late Prince Imperial, in his early teens, read chiefly histories which treated of his great uncle's battles. No boy ever cared so little for novels. Beyond the historical romances of Alexsndre Dumss and Walter Scott he scarcely touched any works of fiction st sll.
When P. T. Barnum, a young man, poor and in debt, left Danbury, he said to Judge Whittlesey: "I will pay that bill when I get rich." The Judge drew down his judicial features and replied disdainfully: "That will be when a sieve holds water." In a few years tbe visionary young man was in a condition to pen the following brief letter to the Judge: "I have fixed that sieve."— Danbury News.
A San Francisco man named Howland has invented a machine that will tell to within a small amount the quantity of gold person has sbout blm. When tbe machine collides with an editor it is so hard worked that the perspiration rolls off its face in big drope, and it falls exhausted in two hours, The inventor should build one of forty-horse power for the especial use of newspaper men.—Ottawa Republican.
Mr. De Cordova is not only a good lecturer, but a good story teller. He wss*s fellow voysger or tbe Duke of Argyll, who has recently been so good ss to tresd our soil. Tbe duke is aooompanied by his piper, end during the voyage bagpipe music was indulged in. Mr. De Cordova detected it, and said so. It so happened that the duke overheard the remark, and calling his piper, said, "I want to introduce you to Mr. De Cordova. He has become enraptured with your playing. At nine o'clock thia evening you will report at the door of his state room and for one hour you are to play your liveliest airs." De Cordova pleasantly apologised for having been critical In the presence of the duke, and added: "If he comes let him oome armed."
0 First in the Field! 7/. J. P. Brennan, the enterprising and wide-awake merchant tailor on east Main street, reoeived thia morning his first Installment of new piece goods tor Autumn wear—ae pretty a loft as ever his patrons looked upon. Mr. Brennan proposes now to make up his summer goods at oosL This reduction, with his low prioss for making up will gtfe hls patrons some very cheap clothes.
SAVAOK!
We have made some savage reductions in Linen Suits sad Sun Umbrellas. All linen dusters 90 osnts, son umbrellas from 10 oents up.
FOSTER BROTHERS.
—Insure with Riddle A ,,,
Feminitems.
A 12-year old girl plays tbe cornet in Sooth church, PlttsAeld, Mass, A mirror is tbe only tolerated reflection upon the beanty of women,**
Yonng ladies wearing fashionable dressos now may be ssld Lo be in elothee confinement.
There sre 460 lady dentists in the United States, and three timee as many studying dentistry.
Tbirty-eight Isdies have already reoeived degrees in France as doctors and bachelors of art,
When he paid a heavy bill at the milliner's for spring bonnets, silks snd laces, he grosned: "There's a woman at the bought'em of thia!"
An Arab writer ssys: A woman will make as long snd as patient a tng ss a camel if you only give her a kind word and show her a bit of green ooafort at the end.
Green corn is making its appearance at the country hotels, snd the elegant young lady Is much disturbed by trying to decide whether or not it is proper to grain it from the cob.
It is said that oae of tbe prettiest young Isdies in Kentucky has, for no known cause, been given to nts of crying ever sinoe she wss a baby. She must now be the belle of the bawl.
A young lady pupil of a high sohool put on a mass of false hair, pencilled her eyebrows, roughed her cheeks, etc., and then went to the commencement and read her essay, entitled "Deception a Prevailing folly." "I would box your ears," said a young lady of Bellefast to her stupid and tiresome admirer, "if "If wbatf" he anxiously ssked. "If," she repeated, "I could get a box large enough for the purpose."
Tbe following was whispered the other evening at the Theatre des Varieties: "Do look at that lady! What a low-necked dress she wears!" "That's postal card costume." "How so?" "No envelope to it."
A religious old lady, when asked her opinion of the orgsn of a church the first time she had seen or heard one, said: "It's a very bonny kist fu' o' whistles bnt, oh, sirs, it's an awful way o' spending the Sabbath day."
When a young man in Patagonia wants a wife he rides out and lassoes one but in the more oivilized state of New York, when a young man wants a wife, but does not oome to time, tbe lsss sues him for bresch of promise.
Grandma went on board a modern steamer, and walking up to the pier glass she saw an old lady approaching. "I wonder if you are as tired as I am?" she said compassionately, and the kindly old face looked toward her in silent sympathy.
A careful housewife puts new wall paper on in the front room in the spring time rather than in the fall. Millie's yonng msn never leans his gressy back hair against the wall in the summer time, and tbe paper can consequently be kept clean.' The front gate, you know.
A correspondent wants to know if wearing a hat te\ids to make a person bald. We believe it does. Women don't wear hats and tbey sre not bald, at least they do not wear them on their heads, and so they are not bald there. Hats deetroy hair. A woman's hat la worn on the bsok of her hesd, and that is the reason why women have to buy so much bsck hair. „./•
Ladies ought to eqjoy reunions or banquets much better than men, because they can sit perfectly unconcerned and listen to all the good things that are being said without any danger of being called up unexpectedly to respond to a toast and being obliged to wish the toastmaster and all the rest of the company were at the bottom of tbe sea. And still some women grumble about tbe hard lot of feminine mortality.
A Paris beauty recently won a husband in three interviews, being, It Is understood, greatly assisted by her gowns. The first time that she saw him she wore a water-green mnslin with short skirt snd short sleeves tbe second time, short silk polonalsepver a frilled skirt of India mu«lln, and a straw bat trimmed with pink clover and a white feather, and the third, a gown of Wedgwood blue foulard and a Rubens hat.
A young lady graduate in a neighboring coanty read an essay entitled Employment of Time." Her composition wss based on the text, "Time wasted Is existence used, Is life." The next day she purchased eight ounces of sephyr of different shades snd commenced working a sky-blue dog with sea-green ears and a pink tall, on a pieoe of yellow canvas. She expects to have it done by next Christmas.
Old Madame Rothsohild, mother of the mighty capitalists, attained the age of ninety-eight years. Her wit, which was remarkable, and her Intellectual feoultiee, which were of no common order, were preserved to the end. In her last Illness, when surrounded by her family, her physician being present, ahe said in a suppliant tone to tbe latter, ••Dear doctor, try to do something tor me." "Madame, what can I do? I cant make yon yonng again." "No, doctor, Idont want to be yonng again, but I want to oontinue to grow old."
—A new line of Black Cashmeres and Black Alpaca, together with a beautiful line of Silks, ail marked In plain flguree and sold at ettiotly one price.
FOSTER BROTHERS.
—Get an aeokdent Inaurmooe ticket of Kiddle A Oo. before going on your excursion trips
'HOLD ON!
Six different new stylos of Hoop Skirts. £legant New Buttons. New Rubber Bracelets. A All the leading styles of Dr. Warner's Corsets. 7 Bortree's adjustable B^ip Corsets^ Big lot of New Embroideries. 7 7 New Lace Mitts and Glores. New Laces. 50 pieces new Torchon Laces. More Dusters, Suits, and Muslin Underwear7 Any amount of new and desirable goods opening dally.
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Fisbeck Bros'.,
212 Main st., north side Public Square, TERRE HAUTE, IND.
Remember we olaim the beet assortment of all kinds of Harness and Saddles to be hsd for the least money, in the city. CALL AND BE SATISFIED
A. C. COMBS. J. L. ROGERS,
COMBS & ROGERS
Dealers in all grades of
Hard and Soft Coal and Coke.
Block and Block Nut a Specialty
All orders from 25 oents upwards filled promptly. Offloe, 122 sooth Third street, at St. Cbarlee Hotel, Terre Haute, Ind. P. O. Box 12249.*
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ARTISTS' SUPPLIES,
PICTURES, FRAMES, MOULDINGS.
Picture Frames Hade to Order.
Central Bookatore, S24 Main atreet, North aide, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
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An old physician, retired from practice, having bad pUtoed In bis hands by an Bast India missionary the formula
throat and long affections, also a positive and radical cure for nervoua debility and all nervous oomplaints, after having tested ite wonderful curative powers In thousands of oases, hss felt it his duty to It known to bis suffering follows- Aetaated by this motive, and a desire to relieve human suffering, I will aend, free of charge, to all who desire it, this recipe, with fall directions for preparing Mad using, in German, French or gent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming thia paper, W. w. Sberar, 140 Powers' Block, Rochester, N.Y. (aug 2-eow4t)
$15 per quarter, Or $5 per month
Will pnrcbsee a five octave, nine stops, new Mason A Hamlin Organ, warranted for five yearn. No inter«et on deferred
W. HL PAIGE A CO., 007 Main street*.
THE STAB ME AT MARKET. Charley Domeh is constantly adding new customers, and he never loses uty old ones, because he takee especial pains toeervetbem with tbe beet meata to be bad In this market.
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Yigo Lodge, No. 27, A. 0. (J. W. —ON— i,t. I'vV/K Tuesday, August 12th,
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VAND ALIA LINE.
Fare $4 for the Bound Trip.
The train will leave Union Depot at 7 a. m. Tickets available to return by any train up to Friday evening, 15th. Tic to be had at the Unlen Dei
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of the members of Vigo Lodge No. 27, A. O. U. W. By order COMMITTEE.
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Fourteenth Annual Fair
Industrial Exhibition
TO BE HELD
Sept #,10, fnd. l2, 1§7»,
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TERRE HAUTE, IND
$4,000 IN PREMIUMS I
Racing each day. Speed premiums, flJOC. For best drilled military company, 1150. -''fx'.
All entries must be made by 2 o'clock p. m., Wednesdsy, Sept. 10th. Parties from a distance desiring to mske entries oan do so by letter, to the Secretary any time previous to the fair.
Premium lists can be hsd st the P. O. Lobby, Terre Hsute, the newspaper offices, or upon sppllcstion to tho Secretary, who will fnroish all Information required.
GEO. F. JENCKBS, Secretar 417X Main etreet, Terre Haute
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Adjustable Wagon and Boggy Seat Tops. These rope sre designed for use on any kind of wagons and buggl* as firom sun, win or snow, and have many advantages over an ooTered with heavy wat«rprc»f material-^rab wiored duck or blacs rubber cloth, if desired, and will last frmr time* be used in heavier winds cannot be turned In id 1 in the way either open or dosed, and will afftml much mora shelter than any urn•hrella. They can be adjusted to any de* sired angle, and ean be taken off in two minutes toey are light and pleasant either for summer or winter. The prloe I offer them at Is not half their value in comparison to any other article used for the same
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Nearly ten thousand Prairie Oity Obok Stoves are in use in this and adjoining counties. They sre tbe best kovestobuy. For sale by
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