Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 22, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 November 1879 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

PtTBLICATIO** OFFICE,

-jNo. 16 south 5th St., Printing House Square. eMail is entered as second class matter, at the poet office, at Terre Haute, Ind.

TERRE HAUTE, NOV. 29, 1879

A CELESTIAL OUTPOST. We bear much concerning this world -And its affairs. The papers are filled daily with the doings or men in various parts of the earth. What with their warrlngs and peace makings, their building of railways and ship canals and tunneling of mountains, and laying of ^telegraphs under the seas, the achievements of men in the earth rise to such importance as almost to shut out the rest of the universe from our sight. But it is well to look out occasionally upon the broader scenes of nature and try to gain some faint notion of the vast domains which lie around and beyond us.

The effort produces a sort of healthy mental expansion which renders us more competent to deal with the affairs of life.

When we look at the sun through the misty atmosphere of Indian summer, when he sinks in the West a dull red thing, shorn of his brightness and power, and reflect that ail the vital forces at work upon the earth proceed from that Immense orb, 92 000,000 of miles away, and that the earth receives but an infinitesimal portion of »I1 the light and heat which he flings into *p8ce, we begin to obtain a dim con* ception of the grandeur of this great center of the solar system. But the astronomers tell us there are grander things than this.

In the southern part of the sky at the proper season of the year may be seen a beautiful star which is conspicuous for the oonstant changing of its color. Now it is red, then green, then sapphire blue and, in another Instant, white. It was the famous dog-star of the ancients, and the poets, from Homer down, have celebrated its changing lustre. It is Sirius, one of the fixed stars, and is so far away that in the most powerful telescopes it appears only as a meie point of light. Ho enormous is the quantity of l|ghtand beat which it emits that if it were placed where our sun is every creature on the earth would be consumed. The distance of Sirius from the earth is, according to Proctor, eighty millions of millions miles, or nearly a million times the sun's distance from the earth. Its volume is nearly five thousand times that of the sun, and It moves through space at tho rate of twenty miles per Becond. Thus it would travel some 630,000,000 of miles in a year. Yet so vast is its distance from us that in tho course of 1433 years Sirius traverses a space in the heavens only equal to the apparent diameter of the moon! That is, in the course of fourteen centuries wo oan perceive that it has passed over a space equal to the breadth of the moon. As to its composition, the spectroscope has revealed the presence of the four familiar elements of hydrogen, iron, magnesium and sodium, but farther than that the astronomers have not yet been able to go. This great orb, with five or six companion stars of proportionable else, though far Inferior in brilliancy, appear to circle round a common center in a period of fifty years.

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Here then is a system of worlds which for vusiness immeasurably exceeds the folar system, and yet this may bo but A tii$rd 6ttt-p0si in Ibfl wllderh6sa of worlds, for thefe are vast spaces which lie beyond the range of any telescopic power and they are not probably empty. For as Rlchter, in his "Dream upon the Universe," says: "The deserts and wastes of the creation were now filled with the sea of light, and in this sea the suns floated like ash-gray blossoms and the planets like grains of seed." When considered from this stand point the earth, with its tunnels and railroads and canals, is not so great an object after all.

HOMK things are getting settled in this country, and one Is, that when a Catholic priest, besides threatening to send bis hearers to perdition if they do not obey him, also attempts to destroy their business, he is liable for damages. In one of the manufacturing towns of Massachusetts a priest forbade the members ot his congregation patronising the keeper of a livery stable who refused to obey him in a certain matter. The stable keeper sued the prieat for damages, and won the suit, securing beween three and four thousand dollars. These priests may teach people what they bsllevo to be true, tbey may urge upon their people what seems to them to be duty, they may threaten hell or promise heaven, but must keep hands and tongues off their business. They may give or withhold spiritual food, but they must not touch a man's bread and bnrer. This Is a kind of bulldozing to w'*toh even intelligent Catholics will not submit in this country. It has been tried in several instances, snd every time the courts have decided against the priests,

Tax Gaxelte publishes the communication of some

4,smart

Aleck," le regard

to the serial stories now appearing in The Mall. The Oa*ette's contributor had better tarn his attention to the serial story now running through that paper. A more besstly, vulgar picture ot low UK#* was never pat in the type of respectable newspapsr than the story of "L'Awomwoir."

LEGAL ULLDOZINO. In his address before the State Bar Association at Indianapolis on Wednesday evening, Col. Hendricks commented in severe tones upon the indecent treatment of litigants and witnesses which is often seen in our courts and which, he said, caused both men and women of the highest character to shrink from entering a court of justice as tbey would from entering a den of wild beasts. "If," said the speaker, "the blindfolded goddess holding- the scales, painted on the walls, would sometimes pnll the bandage from her eyes and frown a stern rebnke upon the useless infliction of mental suffering, and the wanton and uncalled for destruction of private reputation that too often disgrace her temples, she would merit rich offerings as the patron goddess of justice."

The detestable practice referred to by Col. Hendricks has been the theme of many animadversions by the press. It has been denounced and ridiculed so often that it has become a standing repreach to the profession. It brings the courts into disrepute and renders the bar odious. It is a useless, vicious and inexcusable practice and it is not singular that the more cultivated and'able members of the profession should call for its suppression. So far as they themselves are concerned they never have been guilty of brow-beating witnesses and "slaughtering" character, and to be enforced spectators of these contemptible methods of the pettifoger is disgusting in the extreme. If they had to practice law in this manner they would leave the court house never to enter it again—and would never have entered it in the first place. They depead for their success on far different methods. The brains of the skillfull and learned attorney stand bim in stead of tbe brute force. What the one blunderingly attempts to accomplish by using the arts of tbe bully, the other easily does by tho exercise of his ingenuity and skill. There are lawyers who rant and roar and belUw until one almost trembles lest tbey shake down the very temple of justice itself there are others who go through with tbeir case in a quiet, business-like manner, bullying nobody and dealing in no course and vulgar epithets, and it is hardly necessary to say that it is not the former who stand as tbe foremost representatives of tbeir profession.

After all it cannot be doubted but that popular sentiment has something to do with perpetuating the bully type of lawyers. One of the popular conceptions of tbe lawyer still isjbat in order to be 8uccossful he must possess tbe faculty of "bulldozing" in a large degree that bis manner must be savage Snd terrifying and his voice pitched in the key of a bass-viol. This is the sort of man many people seek for tbetranaction of their law business and tbe attorney of quiet manner and gentlemanly demeanor finds it uphill work to gel a foothold in their confidence, no matter what his learning and ability may bo. Tbeir notion is that the law is a coarse business and that a coarse man will succeed best it, This certainly is far from being the case as many litigants have found out to their sorrow, and for this reason we may confidently expect that the bulldozing system of practicing law will eventually fall entirely into disuse as the standard of the profession advances. It is safe to say that there is less and less of this kind of thing as each year passes and we may hope ultimately to see tbe day when the idea that a man cannot be both lawyer and a gentleman at the samo time, will have a tradition of the past. It is in the power of the I ar, as a body, to hftsten very materially the coming of that day.

A POLITICAL QUESTION. Is Republican success next year to be made doubly sure by a persistent continuance in irretrievable blunders by the Democracy Judglbg from tho past and the present, it would seem that such is to be the case. For the last fifteen or twenty years the Republican party has owed its continued success in securing the nstional administration, quite as muoh to tbe folly of its opponents ss to its own wisdom and worth. There have been times when many of the best men who have usually acted with that party, but who care nothing for it or any other political organization, save as it Is an instrument with which to promote tbe interests of the Nation, have felt that Its mission was accomplished, and that It were better for it to die, or at least be purtified by defeat. It was this feeling that caused those Republican reverses in the Northern States which, with a solid South, gave the National Congress, In both branches, into the hands of the Democracy, and in the last Presidential compaign, came near giving the country a Democratic President. With ordinary prudence or with honest loyalty to the government as left by the war, Democratic success in 1880 was as sure ss any event in tbe future could possibly be. The Republicans were divided, the old factions being bitterly opposed to each other. The country had become tired of discussing tbe issues of the war, and the "bloody shirt" had lost Its power, cur worse, It bad oome to be exceedingly unpopular, and so a source of weakness to those who attempted to wave it. Bat QO soonet did tbe Democracy become reasonably sure of success than tbey adopted tbe very coarse which healed the breach In tbe Republican party, drew back tbe independent voters within the ranks and made them ss stalwart as stalwart could be and gave to the "bloody shirt" a popularity and powersuchaslt had not possessed lor years. In the campaign next year war teues will be discussed more than they weie In 1S76, and by the very men who

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then desired to ignore them. It is an egregrious blunder on the part of tbe Democracy not to accept fully snd heartily the results of the war. This tslk about "wiping out all the war legislation," starts the question in millions of hearts whether the sacrifices of the war have indeed been in vsin. The attempt to leave the polls free to the "shotgun policy" at the south, and to Tweedlsm in New York and other large cities, has aroused the profoundest distrust toward those who threatened and attempted to starve the government in order to succeed. And even if the Democracy coulu not accept the issues of the war, it was a blunder to proclaim the fact and their intentions so plainly and insolently as they did. Policy at leasl should have made them respectful toward those issues. But instead of this such a course was pursued at the South, and such a course in Congress, and especially during the extra session, that every patriotic sentiment born of the war, and transmitted to those who were children during the war, but are now voters, compelled a choice of Republicanism. As a result General Grant, whose last administration went out aimost in disgrace, is made the probable candidate of the Republican party, and if the same course is pursued during the next session of Congress as during the last he will be made the inevitible candidate, if he is not already, and he will sweep tbe entire North. The Damocracy is fast making converts to him, and hun dreds of thousands in the country who would not have voted for him a year since now advocate his renomination, and the same course, on the part of the Democrats, will make the party solid for him, and give hioa a popularity which

can withstand. Congress

assembles in a few days and we shall soon see whether the present bright prospects of Republican succsss are to be brighter still by continual Democratic blundering.

/. "PUSH!"

It is an open question whether more people fail through self conceit, or lack of self'assertion. The self conceited are conspicuous failures and very disagreeable people to haive about. But a very little thought will bring to mind many who have talents fitting them for success in one direction or another, and yet who fail simply because of a lack of self assertion, or "push." A wag of a clergyman said of a young man just entering the profession, "He lacks impudence." This may not be a general failing In that profession, and probably those who lecture on preaching at the theological seminaries do not lay very great stress en tae value of "impudence." Still there is in this, and in all professions and businesses and pursuits, great need of something that is not very far from impudence. Self confidence and self assertion, within proper limits, are just as necessary elements of success as ability to do, and because there are any number of disagreeable people with too much of these, we must not blink the fact that many fail who would succeed if they possessed more of these. And many, without special talent, succeed beoausa they think they oan, and push forward. It is not by any means the most talented who are surest to win the prizes, but it is quite a often those who, with fair ability, have sufficient confidence in themselves to enter tbe contest for them. It is a very nice point to settle where necessary self confidence passes the line so that the possessor answers the description, "Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit, there is more

hope of a

fool thf»n liioi." A man without self confidence is little better, so far as results are concerned, than one without talent.

THE question whether the candidates elected in Maine are to be counted out on mere technicalities, is not yet settled. So far, however, as the evil effect upon tbe Democratic and Greenback parties is concerned, it makes little difference what is finally done. If they do count out those who received a majority of the votes in the last hotly contested campaign, it will prove the most deadly boomerang that ever was thrown, and will not only affect the parties in Maine but will create a strong feeling against the National organisations, especially against the Democratic, which is tbe only one that has anything to lose nationally. But if they do not count them out it will be just about as bad, because tbe feeling will be left that they intended to do so and only failed to carry oat tbe intention because of lack of courage or skill. When this matter was first mooted tbey should have said, "We have no intention of cheating tbe voters

their expressed ohoioe. We acknowledge oar defeat." Bat failing either to say this, or to indicate it by their action, they mast now bear the fall responsibility of tbe deed even if it Is not done. According to tbe proverb, "We may as well be hang for an old sheep as a lamb," tbey may as well go forward and perpetuate tbe outrage so far as political conseqaenees are concerned.

THE economy of republican as com* pared with monarchical government is strikingly illustrated by the difference In official salaries. For instance the president of the United States receives about 137 per day, while the income of the King of tbe Belgians Is more than ten times that sum and the Income of other European monarcbs ranges all the way from 16,000 to fS,000 per day. And yet the United States Is a greater and richer nation than any of them. The wnnTlwl difference between tbe two systems is that in America the of-

IT is safe to predict that the next quarter of a century will witness the construction of engineering works in vsrious parts of the world, which, for magnitude and importance, will throw all previous achievements of this kind into the bsekground. In the old world tbe French and tbe English nations are projecting great lines of railway into Africa, and "the dark continent" (as it has been aptly named,) will undoubted ly be opened up ere long to the light modern civilization. Its deserts will be watered and made to blossom, and it will be added to the galaxy of nations. Northern and Southern Asia aro to be penetrated with railways, and the Alps are to be pierced with new tunnels. In the new world, Canada is pushing her through line to British Columbia, while the Rocky Mountain region of the United States presents a scene of engineering activity never before witnessed. Tbe nneling of the Hudson river has been commenced and the project of a ship csnal across tbe Isthmus of Panama will hardly abandoned until it has become an accomplished fact. Altogether we may expect to see considerable additional progress made towards subduing the earth by tbe opening of the twentieth =_= .!?•'

Oyster Sapper.

There will be an oyster supper in the basement of Asbury church, on Tuesday evening, December 2d, the proceeds of which will be for the benefit of the Sab bath school. Tbe ladies of the church will 'have also a table spread with an elegant supper at 5:30 p. continuing until 8 p. in., for those who cannot spare the entire evening, but desire to patron ize the dause and thus save the expense of cooking and the time of going home Admission fee of 5 cents at the door and supper for 20 cents. You cannot spend a quarter of a dollar in a better way, and the price is set so low that everybody can afford it. Come one, come all and enjoy a pleasant evening at Old Asbury.

CUT THIS OUT AND KEEP IT. A clock that keeps time for you during the day, wakes you in the morning then lights your fire, cooks your break' fast before you get up. On sale at JSoopman & Son's, corner Sixth and Cherry streets, opp. Congregational Church. ?#"»«*'Tiv si" VAftna 1 .NOILCTJ.

Persons holding tickets to the presentation fair and festival at the Third Baptist church Friday evening, December 5th, are hereby notified that the entertainment will be held at the dining room at Dowling Hall, Friday evening, Dec. 6th. if:

DRS. BARTHOLOMEW A HALL, DENTAL PARLORS, 13}4 Main street, Terre Haute, Indiana

Started Again:

Rifiner is again in business, on the east side of Fourth, just south of Ohio street—an excellent place for gathering in the best country produce, which will be found there in great abundance and low prices. A general stock of groceries is kept, a specialty being made of teas and coffees of the best grades—those which made the Main street house so popular.

LADIES QO

To No. 212 north Sixth street, for your Dress Making. Mrs. Mayfield has the latest patterns, guarantees good work and at the very lowest prices.

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s'pose ye enthanksgiving

Well, I

joyed yer dinners, an' are truly thankful that ye are all alive an' enjovin' life's blessings in this beauti ful city of so many happy homes tbsnkful that we have bad an abundant harvest, an' that store house an' barn stick out with fatness that pervlsbuns Is low sn'there's good times ahead that Iwe have so many enterprising merchants who

sell cheap thst our shoe stores are able to supply the demsnd and that we don have to go barefooted that our grocery stores are numerous sn' thst each has tbe largest and best selected stock, an' that Rippetoe, of tbe "White Front is the boss of them all an' I'm still thsnkful that the thanksgiving supplies didn't exhsust his stock, 'cause to-day

along

with other things he has dressed turkeys, chickens, ducks, oysters, in can and balk, spiced bog tongues, bsms, breakfast bacon, corned beef in csns, yellow Denver onions, choice Michigan jples, sweet potatoes, turnips, cabbage, Hubbard squash, pitted cherries, California plums ana dried peaches, buckwbest flour, Vermont maple syrup, sugar drips, California honey, mince

meat, apple bntter, and a choice selection of Kennedy's crackers and buscuit.

JAURIET & CO. Have surpassed all former efforts in their selections for the holidays—every department is overflowing with goods.

Cor. 5th. and Main

AMINE THE PHOTO cabinet at J. Fred Probst, 4th between tin and Ohio.

Choice Illinois buckwheat flour at DAN MILLER & SON'S, Main st. opposite Marble Block.

TTTTT HAVE BEST selection WW 1 I 1 of flint frames ever seen itUbe city, iboot^Dcc. 1st. It will

twu y»wi» pay not to purchase until seeing them at g«* ton

and the laboring

clams

more than they do in Europe. and Ohio.

J. Fred Probst, 4th stmt between Main

Sayings and Good Advice* As pnreasan angel, as neatu a pin,

As at as porpoise, as ugly as sin As dead asa door nail, as white as a

As flatas a pancake, as red asa beat As round as an apple, as black as your hat As brown aaa berry, as blind as a

As main as a miser, as full asa tick AS plump as a partridge, as raarp as a

slick

A8 fine as fiddle, asclear'taabell

aTdryasa

herring, as deep as a weJl.

Alight as a feather, as firm as & rock, As

stiff as

a poker, as calm as a c.odc,

As proud as a peacock, as sly asa fox As mad as a March bare, as strong as an ox, As lair as alily. as empty as air As rich asa crcesus, as cross as a bear. When down town you're shopping in search of

To pic^Vfor*Christinas, just Wee my advice: Buy your ribbons and kids, sleek and soft as a

Ties™stockings and fancy goods at the Star Notion House, Where they have an assortment, the largest you'll find, And every thing warranted the best of its una. They have zephyrs and crewels and all kinds of

To knit into mittens and mend np the dams With their elegant circulars, cloaks, dolmans and skirts. All styles of underwear, in drawers, suits and shirts, Zephyrs, shawls, scarfs and opera cloaks, large and small hoods While they challenge competition on all ol ttl€86 ((OOCiSi Go there,|where you'll'find them as brisk as a

Andnow I will stop lest you weary of me.

ZN TWO WAYS:%?

Customer.—"How much is this cloak?" Salesman.—"Twelve dollars."

Cust.—I will not pay that for it I will give you f8." Sales.—"We cannot afford to sell it less than 512 it cost over 10."

Cust.—"Very well, you may keep it then." (Customer starts to go out). Sales.—"Hold on a moment you can't buy as good an article for any less but as you area good customer of ours, if ou will take it for fll you may have yoc it."

Cust.—"I'll tell you what I will do I'll give $9 for the cloak, and I'll not give you another cent."

Sales.—"Impossible! Why I told you it cost over 510. We should lose money. Cust.—"Well then, I' will look around."

Sales.—See here, you had better buy this cloak. At 511 it's too cheap. I can't sell It for any less, but if you will take it for 510 I will ask the proprietor if I may sell it."

Cust.—"Well, if you will sell it for 510, I will take it." Sales.—"I will go and see. [Salesmap goes to the proprietor.] I have got an awful tight, mean customer back here in tbe cloak department. I asked her 512 for a 511 cloak, but she won't give me but 510. Of oourse we will sell it for that, for it only oost 57 but I made believe I would have to ask you about it."

Proprietor—"That was shrewd in you if you had offered it for 510 she wouldn't have taken it, and you would have to have taken 59 for it. Go back and tell her that It cost a little over 510, but our stook is large, and we want to cut it down, and so we'll let her have it." if fi rr

THE OTHER WAY. &

Customer—"How much is this cloak?" Salesman—"Seven dollars and ninety cents."

Cust.—Is that the lowest it can be afforded?" Sales.—"It' is. Six months ago this firm resolved never sgain to make a second price upon any article sold by them, not even if they remain in business in Terre Haute lor fifty years. On that account, of course, it is necessary to mark everything at the lowest figure we would take for Ft rather than to have a customer go out of our doors without buying."

Cust.—"That is tho kind of a store I like to trade in, for then I don't feel that because I will not biggie and haggle over the price of an article, I must needs pay more for it than the customer who is willing to descend tosuohundignifiod business. You may wrap that cloak up." -y MORAL.

The cloak the first customer bought at 510, and the one which the last customer bought at 57.90, cost exactly the same.

The last customer bought at Foster Bros'. Terre Haute One-Priced Store, the other bought at an establishment where no goods are marked in plain figures, and where the swindling, oontemptlble half-a-dozen -priced system still prevails.

Comment is unnecessary. '.«

The Barefooted

And all who need good, strong, serviceable Boots and Shoes, will do themselves an injustice If they do not call on W. H. Grelner southwest corner of Ohio and Fourth streets, before buying any article of foot wear. He boys only of the best manufacturers, guarantees the goods to be as represented, and will not be undersold by any dealer in the city.

5 Mooro & Haggerty Invite you to call on theta for all kinds of Plumbing. They have all the materials for completely fitting out dwellings or business houses, and with competent workmen will Insnre good work. Tbey also guarantee satisfaction in prices. For quality of work they refer to numbers of citizens for whom plnmblng has been done*

Tijnber Wanted!

Spoke and Axe-Handle Timber wanted, for which we will pay tbo best cash price, for the above kind, at our Factory on south Second street, formerly known as the

DRS. BARTHOLOMEW A HALL, DENTAL PARLORS, 8S»X Maim street, Terre Hante, Indiana.

$15 per quarter, Or

$5

per month

Will purchase a five octave, nine atom. Mason A Hamlin Organ, warranted

new for five years, payments.

No Interest en deferred W. H. PAJGEDT CO., 007 Main afreet.

H0BERG, ROOT & 00.

CONTINUE TO SELL AT THEIR UNIFORM LOW PRICES.

BLACK SILKS,

BLACK CASHMERES,

F^iIIONABLE WINTER DRESS GOODS,

CLOAKS,

SHAWLS,

SUITS,

BLANKETS,

FLANNELS,

AVATERPROOFS.

YARNS,

FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

We sliall open in our various departments a large and elegant assortment of goods suitable for presents.

H0BERG, ROOT & 00

OPERA HOUSE.

Wanted,

WANTED

FOR

GRAND CONCERT!

-'ONE NIGRT OWIJY,

MONDAY, DEC. 1, 1879.

AUGUST WILHELMJ,

The Greatest Living

•V* IOLINIST, Assisted by the Dramatic Prims Donna.

Sigua Marie Salvotti!

And the celebrated Young Hungarian Pianist,

MAX. VOGRICH.

Popular Prices, 76c and 50c, Reserved scats on sale at Button's without extra charge.

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R.L.BALL/

'At —SELLS THE-

Favorite Cook Stove

,GPA,b AND 5VOOD. 4),

BALL SELLS

j*®??* '-"V "THE"

Gold Ooin Base Burner

THE BEST IN USE.

Invincible Base Burner,

The handsomest and cheapest in the market

Call and Look at Them

And be convinced that BALL keeps the

BEST AND CHEAPEST

Corner Third and Main Streets,

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Terre Haute Furniture Factory. 8HRYER BROS.

Choice celery, dressed turkeys and chickens at D. MILLER & SON'S, opposite Marble Block.

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HORSES TO PASTUR

Good care taken of horses and satl faction guaranteed. Call on or addiess 8. W. MILLIGAN, Box 1801, P. O.

Resldenoe, one mile north of the Pair Ground. 22- tt.

WANTED-AGENTS

IN EVERY COUN-

ty for the Now Era Life Association* Liberal Terms offered to live mon. Address VIGO INS. & OOL. AGENCY, P. O. Box 1260, Terre Haute, Ind.

For Sale,

SALE-JERSEY FULL BLOODED bull calfO mos. old. also Golden Bpang Hamburg chickcns. T. HULMAN.WR. l-5t Near Providenoe Hospital.

FORSALE-ONETWOcheap—half

SrORY DOUBLE

dwelling houso on Chestnut Btrcet near Seventh, will be sold casH, balance on time. L. A. BURNETT, Agent.

0PERA HOUSE.

R. L. BALL,

"OHN G. HEINL,

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Offer* for this fall an unusually fine lot of

Winter Blooming Plants.

WKloWsr

f'ow, or rarj low. Alio

CHOICE CUT FLOWERS

Pot np on short notice in the twst and ^Averr choice lot ot Standard and Dwarf Pear trees, Cherry. Peach and Apple trees, and small fruits or all kinds.

Planting and laying oat of grounds at^Weepin'g Trees and Suitable Shrubs for Cemeteries a specialty.

Call and examine my stock at the

FLORAL HALL,

Cor. 8th and Cherry sis, Carre Haute, lad