Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 January 1880 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

SEDITOK AND PKOPB1BTOR.

PUBLICATION OFFICB,

Wo. 16 south 5th St., Printing House Square.

Jhe Mall is entered as second class matter, at the post office, at Terre Hante, Ind.I

TERRE HAUTE,

JAN. 24,1880

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening, has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Even ing, gwi lnt the hands of nearly every reading person wi the city, and the farmers of this immediate vicinity. Every Week's Issue is, in lact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for THE PRICE OF ONE ISSUE.

THE Greenbackers will also nominate their candidate for President at Chicago. Their national convention will be held there Jane the 9tb.

THE mercantile failures for the year 1879 were 6,658, as against 10,478 for the year previous. Not a bad showiDg for the first year after resumption.•*-

NEW tomatoes can now be had for eighty cents a pound, and Florida strawberries for fifty cents apiece, in the New York market. The sales are probably somewhat limited.

THE President has nominated James RaBsell Lowell aa minister to England, and Hon. John W. Foster of this State, and present minister to Mexico, for the Russian mission.

GRANT stock is declining, and several of the county conventions in Pennsylvania have instructed for Blaine. Even the Keystone State seems to be going back on the third term doctrine.

THE Memphis people with good sense and proper taste have reoelved tio omit the Mardi Gras festivities this year. The pageant last year seemed like dancing at a funeral to the outsiders who had sent down their money to relieve the horrors of the pestilence.

THE famous Hayden murder case, which was recently concluded at New Haven, Conn., cost ?30,0€0, and resulted in a hung jury. All the jurors but one were in favor of acquitting the prisoner, but this one could not be ^brought to agree with the majority.

GEO. C. HARDING, late of the Horald, has accepted editorial control of the Sunday issue of the Indianapolis Journal. It strikes us this is an excellent arrangement all around—for Mr. Harding, for the new Herald proprietors, and certainly for the Journal, ,.{^

WESLEY HOOVER, near Tipton, Indiana, attempted a novel method of committing suicide by trying to break his skull with an iron wedge. If young Hoover feels that he Is called upon to tako his own life he should at least try to do It in a civilized manner.

THE Indianapolis Journal of Thursday contained an exposure of cruel practice towards the£inmates of the Insane Hospital by thejattendants'jof that institution, which, for the sake of humanity, it is to be hoped was greatly exaggerated. Such publications ought not to be made unless the facta stated are susceptible of proof.

POOR Ireland, with all its other troubles, is on the brink of a famine. The crops have been falling for several years, and the hard times are steadily growing harder. The outlook for the ooming year is dismal indeed and there are grave fears that the spectacle of people dying of starvation In the publio highways, as they did in 1846 aad 1847, will be repeated.

AN unusual number of deaths from typhoid fever in Cincinnati has led to the discovery that they all occurred in the vicinity of sewers which were partially closed up by the backwater of the Ohio river, thus causing the imprisoned noxious gases to escape into the atmosphere and poison it. We shall come to believe by and by that filthineas has something to do with disease.

IF the state of the iron trade may be tak*?n as an indication of business improvement, the shewing is a highly satisfactory one. During the year 1879 the price of pig iron more than doubled, while the price of steel rails increased from $42 to |70 per ton and iron rails from $34 to (57. The production of pig iron reached about half a million tons over that of the yeai previous. Is

THE lower classes of English laborers have contributed a good many horrors to tbe world but none more revolting than the oharge that is made of parents negleoting their children and rejoicing over their death for tbe sake of the pittance—110 to $25—which is paid by the burial societies upon tbe death of a child. Tbe story seems too horrible for belief and yet there are Instances which appear tosupport it.

IT IS wonderful the varlou* uses that are made of paper. It is now wed to make buckets, "bronres," urns, asphalt roofing, water cans, carpet*, shirts, whole suits of clothes, jewelry, materials for garden walks, window curtains, lanterns, pocket handkerchief*, fire stoves, railway carnages and carriage wheels, chimney pots, floor barrels, cottage walls, roofing tiles, bricks, and •iZ&L dies for stamping and blankets.

A WORD FOR INDIANA. Much has been said and written of the climate of Indiana, and the impression prevails very widely 'that the Hoosier State is a country where ninetenths of all the inhabitants shake with the ague for nine months of the year, This notion, like a good many others that are entirely without foundation, had its origin in a state of things which existed here some thirty or forty years ago, when mncb of tbe land was covered with dense forests, the bottom lands along the rivers wet and uncultivated, when there were no railroads, and the wagon roads from place to place were almost impassible by reason of the mud. That ague and malarial fevers prevailed then to a distressing and alarming extent, no one will have the hardihood to deny. But all that is changed now. The forests have been subdued, thousands of acres of low, boggy land reclaimed and cultivated? splendid farms under excellent tillage cover the spaces between the towns and cities the wet, heavy soils have been undertiled and drained—a work that is going on with rapidly increasing energy onr farming population are adopting more intelligent and progressive methods of agriculture, and are bringing into use all the Improved machinery which, within the last few years, has produced a revolution in tbe science of agriculture the sbiftiess and unprogressive class ef farmers have to a great extent been crowded- out, and the soil is coming into the possession of those who know how to use it as God intended it should be used. Railroads inteisect the State in all directions, and beautiful towns and cities have sprung up in every county. Thus our State has come to rank among the very first in the Union for the extent and vaiiety of its agricultural productions, and is steadily and rapidly developing with each year.

Nor is Indiana behind her sister States in an intellectual and moral sense. The society of our towns and cities is up to the standard of that of other sections of the country, and some of our citizens have achieved national distinction in the field of letters.

And the climate of Indiana has undergone a corresponding change for tbe better. This is the universal testimony of druggists and physioians of long residence in the State. Daring the past few years there has been a notable decrease in sickness, especially of a malarious character, and this decrease may be confidently expected to continue as long as the agencies which have produced the change continue in operation. With the further clearing up of the forests, draining of the low lands, and tilling of the soil, there is no reason why the climate of Indiana a few years hence may not be as healthful as that of any other portion of the country. Let the slanders which have gone out concerning our State be confuted as they can and ought to be.

HOW THE WORMS GET IN. Doubtless many boys and girls have often wondered where the little worms which they find in nuts and apples come from and indeed It would seem that some older people are not aB enlightened on the subject as they might be, for not long ago the writer of this heard an intelligent and well informed gentleman vigorously contend that tbe worms come up out of the ground and go into the nuts and apples after the latter have fallen from the trees. But this is not the case and as the matter is one of

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interest and curiosity it is worth while to tell our young reeders how these little pests do get into the nuts and apples.

The apple worm was brought to this country from Europe, where it has long been known. In the moth state it is called the Carpocapsa Pomonella, and during the latter part of June and through the month of Jnly, these moths fly around the apple trees every .evening, and lay their eggs on the young fruit, dropping them, one by one, in the hollow at the blossom end of the apple, where the skin is most tender. In a few days the eggs hatch out and the little worms immediately burrow into the apple, making their way gradually towards the core. They are so small at first that their presence can only be detected by the brownish pewder which they throw out in eating their way in. In about three weeks the worm has come to its full size. The hole which we find in tbe fruit is not the one by which the worm entered but is made by it as an outlet for the refuse fragments of its focd, which it pushes through it. It also escapes from this hole after tbe fruit falls to the ground. Tbe injury which tbe insect does to the apple causes it to ripen and faU prematurely, often when half grown. When the apple fells, and sometimes before, the worm leaves ic and creeps into a chink in tbe bark of the tree, or some other sheltered place, which it hollows out to snlc its shape, and here it spins for itself a soft, silken cocoon, in whioh it lies dormant throughout the winter and the next summer changes to a moth, after which it repeats the history above given, As the worms leave the apples soon after they fall to the ground, fruit growers make it a practice to gather up all the wind-fallen apples daily and dispose of them in some way that will put an end to the worms before they have time to escape.

The worms found in nats belong to the beetle family and are called nut weevils. A writer on entomology thus describes it: "Its form is oval and its ground color dark brown bnt it 1b clothed with very short rust-yellow flattened hairs, which more or less conceal its original color, and are disposed in spots on its wing oovera. The snoot is brown and polished, longer than the

whole body, as slender as a bristle, of equal thickness from one end to tbe other, and slightly curved it bean the long elbowed attennse, which are as fine as a hair, just behind the middle. This beetle measures nearly three-tenths of an inch in length, exclusive of the snout." With this long, slender snout the female bores a hole into the nut while it is yet young and tender, and into this hole she drops a single egg. A little grub is soon batched from tbe egg and at once begins to feed upon the soft kernels. By the time the nut is ripe and ready to fall, the worm has reached its full growth and gnaws a hole through the shell, from which it escapes when the nut falls. It then barrows into tbe ground and remains there all winter. In the following summer it comes onto! tbe ground, as the beetle above described, and is ready to begin business for another season.

This, in brief, is the story of how the worms get into the nuts and apples, and it is a little piece of- natural history that is worth knowing.

THERE can no longer be any doabt that Mr. Edison is in serious tronble with his electric light. Whether the trouble be with the quality of the glass of which his lamps are made, as heclaims, or whether it be somethirfjaf else,* it is certain that he has not yet brought bis invention to a successful* issue. Meantime the announcement is made that the Brush electric light is successful, and tke proprietors of a large mill in Rhode Island publish a letter, in which they state that they were using seventyone of tbe Brush lamps in their factory, which take the place of five hundred and seventy-eight gas burners, at an estimated saving of $14,000 per annum. We seem, therefore, to be on the brink of the long sought discovery, and,from what has already been accomplished we have little doubt but that the new light will eventually be made a (complete success. It may be Edison that will find out how to do it, or it may be some other man but tbe secret is going to be discovered and the revolution in the art of illumination effected.'*:,

A SCOTCH advocate in a recent letter concerning his profession gives a curious instance of the conservatism of that country. All who practice his profession are compelled to wear a gown at the back of which is a little pocket, sewn shut. The history of that little pocket goes back more than 300 years, to the time before the Reformation, when the advocates were churchmen. No churchman was allowed to accept a fee for his services, but if a client wanted his case to receive special attention he was not prohibited from AlippUg a couple of gold pieces into the little b.ag at the back of his gown. And so tlie little bag remains- to this day as a souvenir of an age long past, and of a JJUStom long sinca forgotten.

GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN has been slandering General Boynton, Washingtori correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, saying that he was a man without character and that for a thousand dollars he would slander his own mother that he is energetic In manufacturing falsehoods, and much of the same purport, Boynton announces his intention of instituting a suit for libel against Sherman and giving him a chance to prove the truth of his statements, which, it is tbe belief of those who know Boynton best, he will not find it an easy thing to do.

IN this land of abundance it is difficult to realize that so many people in the old countries are crying for bread and dying for the laok of it. In the province of Seistan, Persia, parents are trying to barter their children for food in one district of Bosnia 8,000 people are on the verge of starvation in Silesia hunger is gnawing the life out of thousands and in Russia an area as large as four or five of our Western states is helplessly famine stricken. Tbe famine following the failure of crops has been rendered doubly severe by the intense and unprecedented cold weather.

IT is becoming common to send children by express, and a number of boys and girls in different parts of the country have been transferred safely in this novel way. The express agents care for their human freight, giving them meals at hotels along tbe road and accommodation in the express car. When a transfer is made from one line to another, the lad or lassie, properly billed, is banded over to the expressman of line.

IT IS BETTER TO BE

Out of debt than in jail.

A christian than a sinner. Handsome than ungainly.Ambitious than indifferent.

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A lawyer than a roustabout. A good man than a bad one. Poor but honest than rich and a thief. Buried on tbe hill top than in the bosom of the ocean.

Gay and lively than a sanctimonious bore and wet blanket. A man than a woman. This is a selfevident proposition, and needs no demonstration.

Blessed with a large family of children than to be a rambling bachelor with no home ties.

Born rich than lucky, tbe saying to the contrary notwithstanding. All tbe chances are in favor of the former.

Sober—absolutely, entirely, ridiculously sober—rather than "half seas over,'' even at a royal banquet or a bear fight.

A Superintendent of the Sabbath School than a dweller in the tents of tbe ungodly. There is more good in it, if not so much fan.

Meek and lowty than vain and imperiously. Tet the girls take more stock in the latter kind of fish than in the former strange, as it may seem.

•AY EVENING MALL:

THE BETTER WORLD.

PASTORS AND PEOPLE.

No good man is doubted or persecuted (Except by those who are condemned by his good spirit and deeds.

If a man's religion is pretentious on Sunday and obscure on week days, you had better do business with him on a cash basis.

The greatest enemy of religion is a cold heart in the man who professes it. And the great cause of a cold heart is a narrow head.

A Des Moines clergyman says that the business man who lies, cheats or deceives is not a Christian, and some folks feel considerably set back.

Men who complain that they kave much to bear from the faults of their fellow men should think how much others have to bear from them.

It is a bad sign to see in religious circles ,a way of talking and acting as if one setlof men (and a small set at that) bad all the theology worth having.

The great mass of people do not take kindly to a religious faith that consigns everybody to endless perdition because they do not believe as some others do.

When men' learn that a high reputation in a community is insufficient to cover acts of dishonesty, they will rely jSss on their standing, and more on truth and honor.

In Brantford, Ontario, a Congregational preacher and his chorister shouted unpleasant things at one another across the heads of the congregation until several of the sisters fainted/rem fright and in Hoboken a Methodist preacher got himself locked up by drawing a pistol on a jealous master cooper who had put him out of his house.

The question of "the Bible in the public schools" receives fresh interest from the light thrown upon it by a ten year old lad in the City of Churches. Said he: "Father, are you in favor of reading the Bible in the public schools Tbe father replied that he was most thoroughly. The youth continued: "Well, I thought so for you never read it at home." This ended the discussion of it in that family for the day.

Wr •. ABOUT MUSIC.

Peck, Home Missionary of the 'Milwaukee Sun, says: "Thirty years ago the singers of our country sang tunes. To-day the singers of our country sing surprises. We call them surprises, be cause to the uninitiated, the "air" of modern music, if it has any air, is a constant succession of surprises. A stranger goes to a church, or a high toned concert, or a private party, and listens to "classical" music for the first time with the profoundest astonishment. He is surprised to hear a person, ©r a dozen persons singing, and yet bears no tuna. He follows them, and wlfere he imagines they are about to go up, they go down, and stay down, down ever so long—as long as a duck can stay under water. Then they pop up, and for a few minutes everything clatters, rippity smash bang—and then comes a low and very mournful extract from a dirge, then another gallop and finally the thing gets hotter and hotter—there is a blare and a burst—a crash and a long, bloodcurdling rebel yell, and it is all over—all down but nine, and they set them up on the other alley. That is classical music, and people who do not know enough about music to make a fiddle string out of the raw material, will go into agonies over it and swear that it is 'perfectly splendid,' when they know in their hearts they are lying, and that they would really pive ten times as much to hear some good old tune of thirty years ago. Do we ever hear boys whistling extracts from II Trovatore or Beethoven's bobbery on the streets? Not a bit of it. But let anew tune come out, like Shoo Fly, Mollie Darling or Grandfather's Clock and you will hear it from Maine to San Francisco, whistled and sung by everybody, young and old, at all times and under all circumstances. Even tbe perpetrators of classical music will get hold of it, and while they ridicule it in public, they will feast on it in private—until the tune gets worn threadbare and

it, the same as they do tunes, and they wouldn't let go till they had worn it up to its shoulder blades. Tbe best musician in Milwaukee may execute, before a miscellaneous audience, the "finest" classical selection he may think of, and a girl that has got any sort of a voice for baked apples will come out and sing "The Last Rose of Summer," or "Swanee River," and she will get seventeen times tbe honest applause that the Insane person did. We will say here, In confidence, tbat we are no musiciad. We deem this explanation neeessary, because a great many, in reading this article, are liable to get tbe impression tbat we are. But we are not. That is honest."

40 Pounds. 40 Pounds of What?

Why, my man, Mr. Rippetoe is giving forty pounds of buckwheat flour for one dollar, at the White Frunt, and then he has such nice dressed tarkeys, chicken?, docks,

!, oyster, celery,cranberries, new hams, Breakfast bacon, choice Michigan apples, canned apples, choice California fruits, such as cherries, apricots, green gages, white heath cling peaches and then he has cabbage, turnips, parsnips, Hubbard squashes, yellow Danver onions, chew chow in bulk, mince meat, pickled pigs' feet, canned corn beef, tongnes and fillets in cans, dried fruits, California peeled peaches, Alden dried apples, home dried apples and peaches, California prunes. California pitted plums, dried pitted cherries, Liebig's extract beef, French peas, muahropiw, condensed milk, peerless vanilla chocolate, Baker's and German cbocolato, oranges, lemons and Malagna grapes, California and Michigan honey, ana a nice lot of new brooms that sweep dean.

To The Relatives And Fvtefjds of Deo* Soldiers. One of the primary objects of the Grand Army of the Republic is to perpetuate the memory and history of dead comrades—those who died in the service, as well as those since the dose the rebellion. To cany ont this provision the association, itis desired by Morton Post, No. 1, of Terre Hante, to have a complete record of the military history of all who may beburied in the vicinity of this city, and particularly those the city cemetery. The undersigned have been appointed by the Post a committee to compile and prepare such record, and we desire it to be as full and correct as possible, as itisdesigned for preservation as a permanent record. We therefore call on the relatives and friends of any soldier buried in this dty to furnish us the following information: Name in full where born age at time of death branch of service, as infantry, cavalry, artillery—company and regiment rank date and manner of death—if killed in action, give name of battle if wounded in service, when and where and any other information of interest as regards the soldier's military history. If convenient give the section and number of lot where buried in city cemetery which will aid us ia designating the grave by number on a map of the cemetery, so that our memorial day decoration service can be properly performed. It is to be hoped that this call will be responded to. The men of 1861-5 are rapidly passing away, and we, their survivors! can honor memory by preserving a record tof their services. The military history of every member of our organization is a part of the record of each Post, and we want to add that

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comrades who "went before." The information asked for can be given in erson to either of the committee, or sent through the a

FRANK SEAMAN, 501 Ohio street. M. C. RANKIN, 629 Chestnut street

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HON. S. S. COX.

The following letter was received from Mr, Cox, dated N. Y., Oct. 23, 1879. MY DEAB DOCTOR—Before this I ought to have tendered you my acknowledgments for your "Throat and Lung Lozenges." ,Hot because you sent them do 1 make the commendation they deserve though I am apt, being a politician, to do courtesy.

But their intrinsic value touches the spot where we speakers most do need physical, If not metaphysical, aid. to make the music of the "Chordas VoCftlss."

I have tried your loz9nges and found them invaluable. The other night when Florence was playing Hon. Bard well Slote, M. C. from Oshkosk, and was trying his best to harmonize, not his party, but his tones, he exclaimed: "Is there no honorable gentleman here who has a troche

Then honorable gentleman bad not then, as now,been provided with Moore's Lozenges. He Is now ready for such emergencies. Yours Truly,

DR. C. C. MOORE. S. S. COX. These Lozenges are on sale here by our druggists.

A Womlerlnl Record.

Myriads of so-called "specifics" and "cures" for Rheumatism have already been brought before the public, and many of them have even been endorsed by the certificates of respectable and

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romlnent citizens, who have derived from such preparations. There

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is no doubt tbat a great many of these "Liniments," "Oils," etc., so widely advertised and freely recommended for Rheumatism and painful complaints of a similar nature, have genuine merit

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Rheumatism and painful complaints of a similar nature, have genuine merit and will relieve certain types of the complaints named but when Rheumatism, Neuralgia, and kindred diseases have become chronic and threaten serious results, you may rest assured that they will help but very little. Although not recommended as "infallible," the peculiar qualities of St. Jacobs Oil especially adapt it to those cases which may be termed "chronic," and which have previously withstood all known "specifics," as well as the prescriptions of the best physicians.

We would mention, as an example, the cas of Mr. A. Heilman, editor of the Pittsburg Republican, who suffered with Rheumatism for two years. After vainly using all the best recommended remedies and exhausting the skill of the most experienced physicians without even temporary relief, it required only two bottleB of St. Jacobs Oil to effect a permanent care. Mr. C. Hanni, a well known citizen of Youngstown, Ohio, secured for his wife, who had been a constant sufferer from Neuralgia in tbe head, the services of the ablest physicians of the land, but they were unable to do anything for her half a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil cured her. Mr. Wm. Reinhardt, Elmore, Wis., reports the case of a neighbor who for twenty-four years had suffered so terribly with Rheumatism that, at times, he could hardly move around a few bottles of St. Jacobs Oil cured him. "To cap the climax," howover, Mr. A. Nelger, of Taylorville, Pa., writes that his mother, who bad been a continual sufferer with Rheumatism for the past thirty years, used one bottle of St. -Jacobs Oil and was Immediately relieved of all pain. These are results which truly deserve to be brought to public notice but they are not exceptions, as will be seen by the numerous other certificates from all parts of tbe United States. It should be tbe duty of every one to call the attention of his suffering friends and neighto this wonderfully efficacious preparation, especially as tbe low price of 50 cents a bottle places it within tbe reach ,of all persons, rich and poor.

THE Swiss Ague Care does not leave any bad feelings after taking it. It is tbe word all over the land.

The best Boasted and Ground Coffees, Ground and Grain spices at C. Alexander Mann's, S22 Main street between 3rd 4th, Red and Green front.

C. W CAEY. J. McCLINTOCK.

CAKY & McCLINTOCK,

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Groceries and Provisions

(Successors to J. W. Mand)

Ho. 11 West Hula st., Terre Hsnle. Country Produce and a full stock of Groceries and Table Supplies always on hand at tb2 lowest living prices. Givo us a call.

Jan. 24 6m

ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.

Notloe is hereby given that thundersigned has been appointed Administrator oittae estate of Emanuel Gormon, Sr., late of Vigo county, Indiana, deceased. The

WE COMMENCE

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NEW YEAR

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An Offering*

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Housekeeping Goods

Department

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MUSLINS, TABLE LINENS'" NAPKINS, TOWELS, CRASHES, |ED SPREADS,

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I ^|f,« The largest lines and lowest prices to be had anywhere

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

OPERA HOUSE.

Ven we look at the vorld ful 1 of bseple Und dinks of the rest init ourselves, Ven we look down our llguies so handsome

Een voHder we how it is rnit udtuer swells Dotkomes from Dutchland to bring good news.

So new we letdis udther feller writer* Und tell yon vat we've brought. ff $

NEW EMBROIDERIES

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Star Notion House.

DIRECT IMPORTATION

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St. Gatil, Switzerland.

Tbe largest and finest importation of HAMBURGH AND SWISS EMBROIDERIES ever brought to this city is just placed on sale at the STAR NOTION HOUSE. ,*

Having imported these goods direct from the agent at St. Gaul, Switzerland, we are enabled to Bell to our customers at fully 12P«r oflut below the prices tbat must be charged for the same goods when bought on this side of the Atlantic. Besides, those goods were bought in August of last year before the general rise in prices on all goods of this character. Remember the hosiery and handkerohiefli we advertised last week.

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THE

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IT SUBPASSES ALL IN WORKMANSHIP.

IT3 SIMPLICITY ffNEXCELLED.

ITS DURABILITY NEVEB QUESTIONED.^

IS ELEGANT 117 APPEARANCE.

IBS WORLD CHALLENGED TO PRODUCE ITS EQUAL.

W. H. FISK, Agent

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opposite Postoffice.