Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 October 1879 — Page 4

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-THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE,

P. S. WESTFALL,

JCDXTOB AMD PROPRIETOR.

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FUBXJCATIOIf OFFICK,

No. 16 sooth 5th at., Piintlng House Square. fhe Mall 1bentered as second class matter, at the post office, at Terra Haute, Ind.

TERRE HAUTE, OCT. 11,1879

NEEDED REFORM.

Under the impression that the present .good times are going to continue an indefinite leBgtb of time, and being at a loss for something at which to grumble, the newspapers are seeking oat the faults and lollies of other nations with a view of reforming the whole world. At the present time the failure of crops in England has called public attention to that part of the £lobef and the British landed estates system is receiving more than its share of attention. That information on the subject is not in the least manner essential to talk about it i9 evident from the many false and foolish statements which are daily to be found in the papers upon this subject. But, granted that the land tenure system of Great Britain is a bad one, would it not be a good idea to investigate the causes from which it sprung, and guard against fostering the .possibility of the estab lishment of any such monopolies in America?

Reforms, like charity, should begin at home. This country is but in its youth, yet it has succeeded in establishing many monopolies with which those of ether countries pale in insignificance. Take, for example, the railroad and insurance interests of. the country. The business of this article is with the Matter interest. Insurance companies of the *eaat have enormous sums of money loaned oct all over the country. They have a great deal of it placed in Indiana, and a fair share of tit in Vigo county. At the.present time there are five companies doing this kind of business in this oounty, and the following table shows just what they are doing:

Mercantile TrnstCo J8 City mortgages 1 43,300 3 oounty 327. acres..... 3 509

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40,800 00

JEtna Insurance-Co.: 86 term mortgages, 10)880 acres -H6MI0 00 Atlas Insurance Co.: 7 mortgages on city property 41,000 00

Equitable TrnstCo.: ,40 City mo? tgages 4.-.93&500 9 farm ,78*aores 27,600

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Northwestern Mutual JLife: fi City mortgages ..$ 6.600 1 term, JOacrtsa 2,000 $ 8,500 00

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This makes a total of 166 mortgagee which .cover 11,962 acres. The interest en the principal is collected regularly and forwarded to the east. It is a continual drain upon the country from which it does not derive the least benevfit. These companies do not psy a dol larof taxes to either city or county. A few years of bad orops such as they are having in England this#ear, and this country would be at the mercy of these .companies. A failure to psy interest .and these mortgages would be foreclosed, alter which we would know something of the meaning of the term land lord and tenant. Besides these mortgages there are those held by private individuals which amount in round numbers to 12,800,000. This however is a part or the wealth of the covnty and bears its share of tbo taxes. By all means reform, but let it commence at •home.

KANSAS.

Nothing is more surprising than the recent wonderful development of that «ecUon of the country lying northwest of the Mississippi river. Col. John W. Forney, of Philadelphia, made a visit to Kansas, lately, and gives a glowing description of what he saw and beard there. After complimenting the people "the beauty of the woman, the manliness of the men, the domestic appearance or the homes," etc., he goes on to £iv« some statistics vf the State. The area in winter wheat for the present year ahowa an inoreaae of 223,104 acres over 1S7S, and during the last three years the wheat acreage has increased over 100 per cent. The corn area has inot-eased 60 per cent, during the same period. The total arei in farm crops aggregates 7,737,130 acres', an increase during the past year of 1,319,614 acres. Daring the year, 15,952 farm houses have been erected, at a ooet of nearly fS,000,090. On the 1st of March last, the population of the State waa 849,978, an increase of 141,491 during the previous year. Not less than 60,000 people have gone Into Kansas sinoe then, and it is believed the oensus of 1880 will give the Btate a million inhabitants. Nearly 500 miles of railway will be built this year which will ssske almost 3,000 miles of railway in the State. There are Mill some 46,000,000 acres of land open to occupancy, which can be bought at prioes ranging from $2.00 to 18.00 an sot. It must be remembered, however, that modi of this land lies in the western part of the State, and Is Car lees desirable for farming purposes than th« central and eastern portions.

The school system of Kansas is one of the finest in the Union. There are over £^000 school houses, with school property valued at §5,000,000, and the fsnd to support the schools will soon he over £10.000.000.

Col. Forney learned that, with a few exceptions, the colored people who have come into the State am at work earning good wages. Aid is needed, however, for those who will continue to come

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daring the fall, and who will not be able to obtain work in the winter, and an appeal is made to the people of the North and East to forward money for this cause. Funds may be sent to Gov. St, John, at Topeka, who, Col. Forney assures us, will faithfully and consclentionsly aceonnt for all that may cprae to Us hands.

THE BRONTE FAMIL Y. The pulling down of the old church at Haworth, recently, to make way for the erection of a new one, has called attention afresh to the Bronte family. It was in this chnrch that Patrick Bronte, the father, ministered for over forty years, and it has been the shrine to which the admirers of the Bronte sisters have been wont to make pilgrimages. The circumstances of its demolition do not appear very creditable to the church author! ties, as a large majority of the villagers were in favor of allowing the old church to stand, and of building a now one elsewhere. One wealthy citizen even offered to rebuild the church at his own oest on another site, but the small-souled rector was opposed to "Bronte worship," as he termed it, and so thf edict went forth to tear the old church down.

The Bronte family was one of siagu lar sadness and brilliancy. The four children who attained majority were Emily, Anne, Charlotte and Patrick Branwell. They were all gifted and all died young, Charlotte in her 39th year and all the rest at from 29 to 31. Though the fame of the family rests mainly on the novels written by Charlotte, it is certain that her sisters Anne and Emily possessed literary talents of a high order. The poems written by the three sisters disclose this fact, as well as a couple of novels produced by the two last mentioned members of the family, Doubtless had they lived longer their genius would have borne more fruit. In her biography of Charlotte, Mrs. Gssklll reflects harshly on the character of Patrick Branwell, charging that mueh of the sadness and misfortune of the family was attributable to bis misconduct and dissipated habits, though admitting him to have possessed intellectual gifts of the highest order. His old school friend, Mr. Franeis Grundy, in a late number of Appleton's Journal, defends young Bronte from the scandalous charges of Mrs. 'Qaskill and gives some interesting reminiscences of his life, Branwell, like -bis sisters, was almost insignificantly email and thin of person —one of his life's trials. "Brilliant, gay moody, moping, wildly excitable, poor," and consequently -miserable, it was poor Bronte's fortune to become a station master at a small place on the Man Chester and Leed's Bail way. Says Mr Grundy: "Theline was just opened. This station wa*.a rude wooden hut, and there was no village near at hand. Had a position been chosen for this strange creature for the express purpose of driv ing him several -steps to the bad, this must have been it. Alone in the wilds of Yorkshire, with few books, little to do,

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prospeots^and wretched pay, with

no sooiety congenial to his better tastes but plenty of wild, rollicking, hardheaded, half-educated, manufacturers, who would welcome him to their houses and drink with him as often as he chose to come—what was this morbid man, who couldn't bear to be alone, to do?"

Although but twenty-two at that time Branwell had already beejj an usher in a school, which he left in disgust, (tho lads ridiculed bis smallness), bad been a private tutor-and had achieved some success as a portrait painter, self-taught, He had no habits of business and his carelessness And dissolute manners soon lost him his situation, and barred the way to a new one. He went, from bad to worse, sought relief from his troubles in opium eating, and soon died, a physical and mental w*eck. Yet it is his friend's opinion that under more favora ble circumstances. Branwell Bronte "might have made the world of liters ture and art ring with the name of which he was so proud."

Patrick Bronte, the father, surviving his wife forty years and witnessing the death of all bis children, died in 1861, at the advanced age of 86. He was a bard, stern man, says Mr. Grundy, and little knew how to rear bis motherless children. "So the girls worked their own way to fame and death, the boy to death only."

THE action of the British government in excluding representatives of the press from executions hereafter, is a step in the right direction. The manner in Which the daily papers "spread" themselves whenever a criminal ia executed to lay before the public the minutest details of the loathsome affair, is productive of none but evil consequences. It is a waste of paper, Ink and enterprise that could well be spread and an infliction that the people have a right to be protected against.

Tan Northern Pacific railroad is carrying 90,000 bushels of wheat per day into Dnluth from the farming regions of Dakota and Minnesota along the line of taat road. A branch road running northwest through the great Dairy mple farm, which is to be in operation next spring, will open up still more of this wonderful wheat-growing country. «, mmmmmmmm I I n—m a* iyi jto-

CKRTAIJI female lecturers, whose only qualifications for the rostrum consist in having obtained a surreptitious notoriety by means of some scandalous occur renew, are not reaping a goraen har-

Thla is me of the favorable sign* the time.

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TIB beautiful Mrs. Langtry

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will the poor fellows do who expected an opportunity to rub her cheeks with a handkerchief to see If the roses on them weregenuine?

TERHE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

IT is both amusing and sad to hear the occasional plaints of the man who still insists that times are no better than they were, and never can be under the present financial system. It is in vain to potn: him to the universal revival of business throughout the country. He has not heard of it, and don't want hear. Whatever the facts may be, tbey cannot remove from hia mind the rooted conviction that "times can never get better under the present system." This species of the genus homo is rapidly disappearing from the earth, and will soon be entirely extinct, but a specimen still occasionally to be mat with.

THE Maine boy who can raise the most corn on an eighth of an acre ground is to have a prize of 100, the next best, |S0, and the third, $10. Mr. Allen, of Boston, will hand over the money in the interest of agriculture. There is a suggestion in this that the managers of our state fair might avail themselves of. We offer prizes in decla mation and oratory but it is at least open to question whether those arts need more eucouragement at present than the art of cultivating the soil.

THE telegraph this morning brings news of a fearful railroad aceident near Jackson, Mich. Through the carelessness of somebody, a switch engine was left standing on the main track. The express came along with the usual re suit—about twenty killed and as many wounded. The coroner's jury will doubtless say, "nobody to blame," while public opinion says somebody ought to be severely punished^ r*.*1

THE government has decided to make war on the lottery business, by forbid ding the transmission through the mails of letters addressed to lottery companies or their agents designated as such. This action of the postal authorities is com rnendable, but the lottery men will mosfr likely find some ingenious way of cir cumventing the government. The lottery business should be abated by legis lation in the several States.

DOUBLE murders seem to be the latest thing in the criminal line. A man kills his wife, and then saves the county the expense of trying and hanging him by dispatching himself. Sometimes the programme is varied by the murderer setting fire to the building before taking his own life. 1

THE election in Ohio occurs next Tuesday. Both parties claim the State, but there seems hardly room for doubt that the Republicans will carry it by a greater or less majority. The election of a United States Senator, however, depends upon the Legislature, and is involved in doubt. -mJ i&sSdS

THE Indianapolis law school has opened with forty students. Considering the present state of the l?gal practice it is questionable whether these schools ought not to be enjoined from seducing the youth of the land into a profession that is already overcrowded to starvation.

HARD times still prevail in England and is estimated that in eleven districts in England and Wales the number of paupers has increased to 800,000. It is said however that some Improvement in business is now manifest and better times are looked for.

PAUL HAYNE, the poet, is reported to be tired of the south which shows no appreciation of letters, and contemplates taking up his home in the north. If Mr. Hayne is prudent he will not talk that way until he gets safely over the border.

THE medical men have made one pleasant discovery—that the bicycle is an enemy of good health. The peculiar, going-upstairs motion required to pro pel it is wearing and Injurious to the heart.

PREPARATIONS have already coo menced in Philadelphia for the reception of General Grant, though it is not yet known when he will reach there. The affair will be very elaborate.

MRS CORNWAIXIS WEST, one of London's professional beauties, baa "fair, short hair, a small head and glorious eyes." She is the owner likewise of a husband and three children.

A THING OF BEA VTY.

ILLUSTRATING SCENES PROM LIFE OF BUFFALO BILL.

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One of the prettiest lithographs ever need to herald coming shows ia now displayed in the show windows. It ill ustrates scenes from the life of Hon. W. Cody (Buffalo Bill), the Chief of Scouts and Goide for the U. S. Army. He is thereon shown as a wagon master on the plains, as a pony express rider, trapping beavers, stage driver of the overland mail, a justice of the peace performing a marriage beremony, as a scout, then chased by Indians, killing the Cheyenne chief, Yellow Hand, the first scalp'to avenge Custer, then killlog 69 buffalo at one run without a saddle or bridle, etc. At the bottom is the scene where Gen. Sheridan appointed him Guide for the Grand Duke Alexis snd Royal cortege on their great American Buffalo Hunt In 1872. A good full length portrait of the hero in his camp costume occupies the center, while above is suspended a gold medal presented by "Congress to W.F.Cody (Buffalo Bill), Scout and Guide," and below are grouped a diamond pin and medal presented him by Duke Alexis, and a buffalo head with diamond eyes, "Presented to Buffalo Bill by Sir George Watts-Garland."

—Cloaks, Circulars and Dolman'?. Elegant line just opened at POSTER BROTHERS',

In order that yon may get the beat while the assortment is complete—I am pleased to inform yon that at the Star Notion House they have just received a new invoice of the moat handsome Jet and Plated Gooda ever shown in the city. Jet Hone Shoe Combe. Hair Pins, Braid Pine, Darts, Crosses Bracelets, Breast Pins, Chains,

SetaT Side Combs, Gilt Ball Hair Pina and Double Rolled Setts, Ear Rings, Scarf Pins and Ringa. Do not fail to see them while the assortment is full.

American Prinoess—Alfonso's proxy, indeed! I would just like to see any

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roxy come and ask for my hand. If oouldn't come himself I would —marry the proxy. Now while we greatly admire thla young lady's independence we invite you, if you cannot come yourself, to send a proxy to examine the elegant stock of new goods which we are daily reoeiving. Our Hosiery Stock cannot be excelled in quantity, quality, and low prices. We have now on band more than eight hundred dozan ladies', gentlemens* and cbildrens' hosiery just received See our black silk fringes, Passemci'aries headings, watered and striped satins, plain satins and black and cardinal satins for trimmings, with a fine assortment of dress buttons.

A New Jersey man put a mop on a long pole, saturated it with coal oil, set it on fire and then proceeded to dislodge some aggresive hornets that bad made a nest under the eaves of his barn. He dislodged them, also a horse and two cows, and all of his summer crops. No insurance. Now this reminds us that we have assurance that hot weather can not last always, and you had best go to the Star Notion House and purchase your fall and winter underwear. They nave the largest and best stock in the city, and their prices are lower than ever before do not fail to see their stock before purchasing 500 cloth cloaks and 100 elegant new Dolmans will be in stock in a few days with a complete assortment of winter shawls and felt skirts. —See the f9 silk velvet at $5.95 at Foster Bros. Also their fine silks and cash meres.

Moore & Haggerty

Invite you to call on them for all kinds of Plumbing. They have all the materials for completely fitting out dwellings or business houses, and with competent workmen will insure good work. They also guarantee satisfaction in prices. For quality of work they refer to numbers of citizens for whom plumbing has been done.,

—DWELLINGS AND FARM PROPERTY is a specialty of the Phoenix In surance Company, of Brooklyn.

RIDDLE fc CO., Agents.

BONNETS!

Ladies will find the largest and best selected stock of Millinery Goods at fa EMIL BAUER'S.

No 22 south 4th, st. bet. Main and Ohio. Sign of the Big Bonnet. Lowest prices .to wholesale buyers.

$15 per quarter, %p Or $5 per month

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

Ladies passing N. Boland's 509 Main st., do not fail to drop in and see his line of fine goods The best in the city and of every style.

DRS. BARTHOLOMEW fe HALL, DENTAL PARLORS, 518)£ Main street, Terre Haute, Indiana.

Custom Made Boots,?

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Boots Made to Order.

A. H. BOEGEMAN, the popular manufacturer and dealer, at No. 118 south Fourth street, carries a very complete stock of custom made boots, at very low prices, and is manufacturing to order the very latest styles of gentlemen's boots. Call on him for a nice fit

Wagon Material Wanted. 1 want, during the fall and winter months. HALF MILLION FEET of Oak and Hickory Wuon Timber in exchange for FISH BROS. RACINE WAGONS. Cut Axles, 3x4 and 4x6, 6 leet long, Shell-bark or Black Hickory. White Oak Reaches, 2x4,10 feet long. Bolster Stuff, 3x4, 3Kx4X, 8 feet 4 inches and 9 feet 4 inches IOUK* Nothing but first class, clear, tough timber will be received. Call at my Warehouse, 104 and 106 west JWtain street, for the Best Wagon on Wheels, and prices for timber In exchange. C. A. POWER, AGENT

FISH BROS. A CO.

-Rest Germantown wool 11c skein, usually sold at 15' and 20c. See gray twill and plaid flannels at 12% and 14c at /_ FOSTER BROS. —The most salable medicine in this untry is the Swiss Liver Compound It spesks for itself in every ftunily where it has been used.

ZEPHYRS.

The prettieet lot in town can be seen at Mis. T. H. Riddle's.

LOOK

For the best and see the New Mecla Base Heater for sale at PROBST'S 26 south 4th St. bet* Main and Ohio.

4 NEW HOSIERY. elegant designs, for ladies and children, and at very low prices at Mrs.

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H. Riddle's, 515 Main

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THE STAR MEAT MARKET. Charley Doxsch is constantly adding new customers, and be never loses any old ones, because he takes especial pains to serve them with the best meat* to be had In this market.

Gee whilllken! but if thla aint terrible bot weather for October? I 'never seed the like afore in my whole blessed life, an' I've lived a day or two. I've jest been a scratchin' around to save money enufi to get me a new kloak fur winter, but I guess I'll have to buy me a new linen duster. It's easy enuff fur me to save money, buying my groceries' and slch of Rippeto^ And what I

want to ssy is, that everybody could save money jist as easy as I do if they'd do as I do, and buy their groceries of R. W. Rinpetoe, the "White Front" grocer, on Main street. There ain't another place in this town where you can get everything in the way of vegetables and fruits in season at as reasonable prices as at Rippetoe's. Everybody that wants the best always goes to Rippetoe, and are never deceived in tbeii purchases. For your Sunday dinner supplies go to Rippetoe. ii i. "i »i •, —J. H. Simmons wants the public to know that he has opened a family groBry at 512 Main street, north side, between Fifth and Sixth streets, where he has on band the best brands of oysters in the market celery, apples, cranberries and every other description of vegetables. He nas on hand a very large and well selected stock embracing a full line of family groceries, all of which are new and fresh. Families desiring anything in bis line will find it to their advantage to give him a call.

$32,374 Worth of Awards To he distributed at Winchester, Indiana, October 30th, 1879, by the Soldiers Monument Association, during Concert ExerclfMW

Two Capital Presents, $8,000 each. Other presents ranging from $2,000 down to

Profits"arising from this enterprise are to be invested in Soldiers Monuments, to the memory of those who wore the blue.

Agents wanted in every tewn and village. For Circulars, and further information, address 20-4w

A St. Ahead of all

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only the best but very best base heaters in the city for sale by E. L. Probst.

IF you want ice at reasonable jpricas patronize the Prairie City Ice Company.

V, MONEY TO LOAN. I have money to loan on mortgage security on long time, on favorable terms. C. E. HOSFORD.

Office corner Fourth and Main street Terre Haute, Ind.

—Eight pound horse blankets $1.00 a big bargain gray blankett, 46c apiece, 95c a pair white wool blankets, fl.50 a pair. We have the finest stock of white, soarlet, silver gray, crimson and blue blankets ever shown in Terre Haute all under the usual prioes.

FOSTER BROS.

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LADIES' CLOAKS, MISSES' CLOAKS, CHILDREN'S CLOAKS

$2.50 to 140.00 each. These are all of the latest style and perfect fitting.

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For the very best and see the new Hecla Base Heaters for sale at PROBST'S 26 south 4th St. bet. Main and Ohio.

NO ADVANCE IN CARPETS

LADIES'

Colofed Silk Suits.

Come and see our new Dress Gooda, Velvets, Silks, Satins, Brocades, Pekin Stripes, etc., the handsomest gooda ever shown.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

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\VM. MOORE, Sec'y, Winchester, Indr

competition. Not

'OPERA HOUSE.

Wanted,

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RSALE—ONETW0 SPORT DOUBLE dwelling house on Chestnut street uear Seventh. Will be sold chean—half cash, balance on time. L. A. BURNETT, Agent.

The Arundel Tinted Spectacle*

For the relief and cure of

Dim, Weak and Failing Sight,.

Enabling the wearer to read and work either by day or night, with perfect ease and comfort. Protected by letters of itenfc granted by the government of tho United Mates, England and the United Kingdom. For sale by

8. R. FREEMAN, Agent»

LOOKING GLASSES.

Undoubtedly the 'finest line of choice' gdodfl fiver shown in the city..

Latest Patterns, Round Column, I "Queen Anne,"/t* 1 ""'.Polished Walnut, „vv.. Ebony and Gilt,

AT LOWEST CASH PRICES.

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THIS SEASON.

BROKAW BROS., •~5

Having anticipated an advance in the price of carpet* this season, bought largely during the months of June and July, for tbeir fall and winter trade. The advance baa been established, but they hold stock enough, with what tbey have received, together with tbeir contracts with manufacturers for present and future delivery, tolneet all the wants of this community. Therefore, the following grade of Carpete in the NEWEST AND MOST DESIRABLE PATTERNS, can be bought at this eatabiishment at any time during the fall and winter season at the old prices,

which ia many kinds of goods are cheaper than allotber bouse* can bny them now,

A Large and Elegant Line of Body Brussels..

BUY

HEINIG & VOELTZJBL'S

•NEW-

PATENT PROCESS BREAD

Manufactured at their

Union Steam Bakery,

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I?l% LADIES' hi,

Dolmans and Circulars

98 to |40 each.

SKIN SKIN CLOAKS

At New York Prices. Come and see them. No trouble to show goods.

LADIES' READY-MADE^

Fall and Winter Snits

|7 50, 9 00, 10 00, 12 00, 15 00, *20 00 each r- e*r-\ LADIES'

BLACK SILK SUITS.

ROOMflf SUITABLE

For light housekeeping aud dress making. Location must be# central und rent low. Prompt paying tetmut. Enquire at802% Main street, op stairs.

WANTED-AGENTS

IN EVERY COUN-

ty for the New Bra Life Association* Liberal Terms offered to live mea. Address. "VIGO INS. & OOL. AGENCY, P. i. Box 1259, Terre Haute, Ind.

For Sale.

CIOR SALE OR TRADE-A WELL EStabllshed business with a trade of ISO,COO a year. Location good trade permanent. A rare inducement to any one desirous of engaging in a good naying business. Will sell oheap. and time will be given on part of the purchase money, good security being required. Poor health the reason for felling. For further particulars inquire of L.S CALDER, Agent. N*. 19J4 south Sixth street, opposite postofllee.

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309 Main street.

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Lafayette St., between the^two railroads.

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