Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 February 1880 — Page 8
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5! A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
.Our People. j,
Wa'l Sibley is back at bis old plaoe on South Fifth street. Mrs, Mel Stewart returns to-day, from a visit to Rutland, Ills.
Frank Teel attended the Owl's party at Paris, Thursday night. Mrs. Samuel McKeen went Ann At bor, Miohigan, pn Wednesday.
Mits Helen Jeffeta returned this week to the Cincinnati College of Masio. Mrs. Dr. Young, who has been visiting her mother at New Harmony, returned home yesterday.
Herman Hulman has extended his posessessions across Fifth street, and taken in the Adelphia theatre property,
Paul Wilson went over to Paris on Thursday, and will leave there for his home in Pueblo, Colorado, on Monday.
Jos. Gilbert who wasjrecently appoin
eda member of the Normal School
Board oi Trustees, in the place of Judge
Scott, is now Secretary of the Board. Prof. J. T. Soovell has returned from quite a trip to New Orleans, Cuba and Mexico, greatly benefitted in body and mind by the visit to that sunny clime.
The father of* Capt.
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D. C. Greiner authorises the Express to say that he is not a candidate for oounty clerk or any other offloe. It is now in order for other patriots to step forward.
Most people in this city are now aware of the fact that nowhere can better bar gains be had in furniture of every de Bcription than atR. Foster & Sons, on north Fourth street. 1
Col. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy will lecture on his "Personal Recollec fcions of Distinguished Statesmen," in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, on Friday, February 20.
Tom J. Gist has sold his omnibus bus iness to C. P. Staub, and taken in trade a valuable farm near Greencastle. We hope this trade will not take Mr. Gist away from Terr© Haute.
C. B. King, lately with Wright A King moved bis family to Springfield, 111., this week, where he is established as purchasing agent for Kingan fcCo., the Indianapolis pork packers.
Garvin A Iabell are highly gratified with the boom with which their excellent Commercial College starts out with the new year. There is no better institution of the kind in the land. -t
Louis Baganz, Jr., has been added to tbe letter carrier foree, having charge of route No. 7, east of Ninth street. Postmaster Filbeck id constantly studying to make the delivery prompt and thorough.
Gazette: Cards are out for tbe marriage, on nest Thursday, February I2th, of Mr. W. E. Owens and Miss Tillie Ohm, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Fremont, 1003 south Seventh street
Peter Miller of Sooth Fourth street, wants us to tell the harness makers of the surrounding towns that be has a complete stock of collars, saddles, and saddlery hardware, at lowest wholesale prices.
Chief Dickhout, and Gus Amborn, James Dougherty, James Welch, B. W. Brown, James Fagan, Fred Conzman, Harry Schultz, and Wm. Morlock, of our lire department, Httended a fireman's dance at Evansville, Thursday night and report a happy ti me.
Their many friends here will be gratl-
Ind. Herald: The central figure at a North side ball this week, was the new member of the supreme bench. He threaded his way through the giddy maces of the waltz with an elegance and graoe of oarriage that exhibited tbe poetry of motion in the highest degree perfection. He appears as graceful on tbe ball floor as does another accomplished member of the same body, on bis fleet and fiery Pegassus.
It is quite tbe fashion now for ladies when out shopping to drop in at the Central Bookstore and take a leisurely stroll along the counters and shelves, tbe showcases«ni tables, filled with the haioest books, elegant table and mantel ornaments, pretty piotuwa, new and nobby stationery, blank books of every description and commercial stationery In great abundanoe.»It is headquarters for everything in the lines named. In many things bought partlculary for the holiday trade some rare bargains are beta offered.
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Miss Frankle Hill, of Charleston, Ills., is visiting Mrs. John Paddock. Mrs. Dr. Willien, and her sister Miss Mollie Fleming, are visiting in Chicago.
Samuel Royse has purchssed the insurance business of the late Judge Grain.
H. F. Sohmldt has now the contract for keeping in order the town clock, and is accountable for its correct timekeeping.
Policeman Lamb has been promoted to the position of Lieutenant of Police, and during Chief Stack's absence in the east is in charge of the police force.
Express: R. W. Rlppetoe, Frank Crawford, Frank Gulick, John Williams, Chaunoey Twaddell, Edward Bryant, Edward Ross, John Ross, Ward Haywood andU. R. offers, who compose the "Crumbs of Comfort Club" are getting ready to go down the river duck bunting. It will be the tenth excursion of the club.
Lamb, Kelly, and Yan Valzah returned this week from Washington, the latter stopping for a few^daystwith his folks, near Harrisburg Pa. They say
they testified before the exodus com
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but their testimony does no
mittee, but their testimony does not
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been of sufficient import
ance bfl pufc in tbe teiegraphio
that is daily sent out.
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died at Clinton, 111., on Thursday. He was eighty years of age and highly esteemed in tbe community in which he lived.
Miss Tillie Fecheimer, formerly of the Cent Store, will be pleased to meet her friends at the Half (14) Cent Store, 405 Main street, 3 doors east of Fourth street.
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jOther People,
Senator Blaine is fifty yeare old. It is a weighty faot that fat men com mit the least crime.
New York has half a dozen fashionable dress making places kept by men. A man can not be tried twice for the same crime of murder, unless he bap pens to be convicted] thej'firot time. In that case he can be tried nntil he is ac quited.
A young man sent twenty-five cents to a New York firm for the purpose of learning how to get along without blotter, and received this reply, "Write with a pencil."
The three proudest moments of man's life between the cradle and tbe grave are, when he gets his first pair of red top boots, when the girls ifirst call him "Mister," and when the doctors tells him it's a boy.
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Henry L. Clint8n*lthi^rinci^al cbun sel in the Vanderbilt willjcase, has sent in his bill to his client.^It amounts to {259,000. It is made up in items and each particular service is*specihed. Mr Vanderbilt has refused to pay it
Wendell Phillips says an Englishman is like a block of granite with the corners and edges all on, while an American is like a paving stone that has rolled on the beach for a hundred years, and is so slippery you can not hold it in your hand.
A Boston physician asserts that, when he takes a medicine hejmust be ignorant of the drue employed, or it will do no good. So, when sick, be gets a brother dootor to diagnose his case, and send a prescription to the druggist, in sealed envelope.
Some Norwich drunkards got hold of former companion who, for eight months, had kept a pledge of total abstinence, induced him to drink, and, when he was helplessly intoxicated, paraded him through the streets, labelled
A horrible example.'' A California boy stood an umbrella in public doorway during a religious meeting to this umbrella was attached a strong cord, an end of which the boy held in his hand. Eleven differnt people are said to have carried tho umbrella the length of the string.
Ind. Journal: At a leap year party given by some fashionable }'Oung ladies in Washington, a few nights ago, several of the gentlemen wore vests cut low in tho neck, had lace ruffles around their throats, and carried fans and bouquets. They must have looked too sweet for anything but pounding over the head with a club.
The cheapness of human life was again illustrated ithe other night, when a
fied to learn that Chas. H. Smith, for- Brooklyn liquor seller shot a customer who disputed the payment of ten cents. Tbe victim is not expeoted to reoover, and tbetliquor seller may lose his life tbe hands of the law. Two lives for ten cent* would seem to bring tbe market rate in the slums down very low indeed. I.
nierly or the Express, and his wife are doing well at their new home in Pueblo, Colorado. Mrs. S. is teaching in the public sotools at a,good salary, and Mr. Smith has a place iu a bank.
While Judge Patterson has under consideration a large number of unhappy people who want to be divorced, there *rs hundreds of happy families in this city enjoying the good eatiug daily
In a Norwich (Conn.) school, according the Bulletin, the teacher wrote the word sport upon the blackboard, and
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sent out from Wright & King's popular called for its definition, ard.there proved to be one juvenile mind that could separate the word from the idea of fun or playfulness. That one a little girl of less than 7 summers, astonished the teacher by saying: "Sport—a man that wears his hat on one side,"
grocery house, which is constantly supplied with every seasonable article in the way of table supplies, sold at tho lowest market prices.
A Boston mlniltef was badly "taken in" the other day by a young couple who caUed to get married. The charge bein*|$5 the (supposed bridegroom tendered a 950 bill and $45 in change was handed back.',Tbe bill was subsequently found to be counterfeit, and the clergymen now thinks that they were two young scamps, one dressed in girl's clothes, as the pretended bride never looked him in tbe face while he was performing tbe service.
They came awfuf near having another Freeman case at Judson, Minnesota, the other day. Evan L. Eavaos. an insane religionist, got up a little scriptural drama, In which he was to play the part of Abraham, while his eon sustained tbe role of Isaac. Having bound tbe boy to a chair he asked his wife for the buttsber knife she told bim that ft bad been borrowed by a neighbor, wtro lived a mile away, and while be was gone for
TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.
the knife she out Isaao's thongs, took him in her arms and lied. The recording angel took no note of the little prevarication by wbioh she saved her ohild'a life.—Ind. Journal.
The Hotel Mall has the mesnness to state that the highest saliry paid to a hotel olerk in New York is f3,000. Where do the $5,000.'diamond studs come from?—Philadelphia News,
The Chicago Saturday Herald remarks that with apologises for^Benediet Arnold, monuments for Andre and Paine, aBd a general disposition to "gush" over the name of every man who has lived a oon8piculously useless! life, the average individual is lost in wonder and amaze. Let us now ereot a monument of gratitude to Cain. He, doubtless, killed his brother in an amiable fit of free thinking.
About Women.
popular lobbyists in
Blondes are Washington. Franklin said that rich widows aire the only eeoond hand goods that sell at prime cost.
A bill is already before tho New York legislature to secure school suffrage for women.
At a party the other evening a young lady tripped and fell into, the lap of a gentleman sitting near, whereupon she remarked, "What a rapid trip to Lapland."
Pope says that beauty draws us with a single hair. It doesn't nowsdays. When a beauty gets so bald-headed that she baB but one bair left, she doesn't draw much.
The latest use to which the liberty|Of leap year has been put was when a Bridgeport, Conn., young lady proposed to her young man who had been keeping her up late nights that he should clear out and give somebody else a chance.
A young lady who came in to advertise for kitchen help, said with a sigh and a wring of her dainty gloved hands, "Ob, I do hopo we'll get one soon, for it docs almost break my heart te see mother wash, dishes, with her rheumatism, too I—Boston Herald.
Indiana women are net to be tiffied with by persons having burglarious designs. A plucky little speoimen at Seymour had her third experience Thursday night of last week, when she shot and wounded a man who w.as attempting to cut away the shutters. She has done this same thing twice before within the last two years. 5
A lady at a concert in Monte Carlo thought she felt a draught, and, opening her parasol laid it over her shoulder, entirely regardless of the people behind hef. Lady readers, that^was'.a dreadful thing to do, was it not but when you go to the theatre, ten chances $ «ne you wear a hig& hat equal as effeotpiaf as an open parasol in shutting off the View from everybody back of you.
Eureka C. Browne, a wealthy woman of Hoboken, was so fortunate as to get spattered and spotted by a mud machine not long ago—fortunate because her indignation at tbe oircuinstance set her wits at work and helped to invent anew street'cleaningjmachine that is said to be better than any now in use. Her hitherto somewhat odd Christian name now assumes a singular appropriateness.
Mrs. J. J. Astor has sent out recentl from the office of tbe Children's Aid Society a "New Year party" of 100 home less children to homes in the West and South, at an expense of $1,5C0. This makes during seven years a total number of 677 homeless children whom this generous friend of the poor has placed homes, mainly in the West, at an expense of $0,750. Many of these lads have now grown up, having farms of thei own and doing well in the world.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, the lecturer, says that the big fires which oook our breakfasts cook the women who stand over the stoves, and that there is a waste of wood and a waste of women. In the Bame lecture, she speaks of advances made in science, and tells how, being in the house of a friend, she heard through the telephone a message from the lady'd daughter, who wanted Ker mother to look out of the window while her darling was driving past the house with a beautiful new bonnet.
This item is respectfully referred to our society belles, every one of whom, of course, expects to be married and have a home of her own some day: "At the Iowa Agricultural college, ever girl in the junior class has learned to make good bread, weighing and measuring her ingredients, mixing, kneading, and baking, and regulating her fire. Each has also been taught to make yeast and biscuit, pudding, pies, and cakes of various kind.8." It is a good thing to know bow its done, even if you don't expect to do your own work after marriage.
Mrs, Livermore compares the women or the East with $
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Bankruptcy!
W. A. BY AN &CO., Auctioneers.
The stock of a New York Wholesale House at Auction.
Large Bankrupt Sale
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DEYGOODS
Important to the Trade and Public.
Over $108,000 Worth
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Foreign & Domestic Dry Goods
At auction, at the large and spacious store,
606 Main Street. Terre Haute,
(3d door east of 6th, Demlng Block)
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AJ large consignment of foreign and domestic dry geods, consisting of West of England, French aBd German broad and narrow woolen cloths, of all si ades and colors French, English and Scotch fancy Tweeds and cassimeres, Tnrback, Moscow and Esquimaux beavers, chinchillas, vestings, cioaklnss. etc. Also, Scotch, French and German Paisley, India, Cashmere, Queensland, Ottoman, real camel's hair and other fashionable and desirable shawls: Swiss, Nottingham and Tambour lace cur.
sateen cloths, cashmeres, serges, alpacas, empress cloths, etc.. etc. a very rich and rare assortment of Lyons silk velveteens and fine plush suitlbgs prints, bleached and unbleached cottons, from 1 to 3 yards wide a large line of English and American blankets, flannels, ladies', gents' and children's hosiery, carpets, rugs,etc. Marseilles and Turkish qollts, and a variety of other goods too numerous to mention.
The whole to be sold without reserve in lots to suit all, for cash. The above Targe and well selected stock mnst be sold regardless of price, in order to make prompt settlement with the creditors. Sales commence daily at 10 a. m. and 2 and 7:30 p. m.
The sale to continue from day to day until the entire stock is disposed of.
Special Accommodations for the Ladies.
C. W CARY.Vi J. McCLINTOCK.
CARY & McCLINTOCK,
DEALERS IN
Groceries and Provisions
(Successors to J. W. Mand)
No. 11 West Main St., Terre Haute. Country Produce
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"Tbe women of tbe East," she Is reported as saying, by.lThe Commercial, of Cincinnati, "study' harder. They dig and delve Intellectually. You find them studying advanced {chemistry, science in all branches studying under profeaaora. One woman I know la studying Sanscrlpt. I do not know just why, but I know ahe baa an aim. The women of West are more enthusiastic. When Mr. Alcott returns from a Western tour and we ask him what Western women are doing, he says: *0, you should see the enthusiasm they are so wide awake. It Is to the women of tbe West that we look," said Mia. Livermore, "for strong reinforcement and reliance. They are reaching out in so many way*.'"
For Sale.
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dwelling house on Chestnut street nesr Seventh. Will be sold oheap—half cash, balance on time. L. A. BURNETT, Agent.
For Rent.
FOR
RENT—HOUSE OF FIVE ROOMS
and a good sised lot, south 7th, street, at only 18.00 per month. Also 2 vacant lots by 85 X165 feet Enquire at L. KUSSNER'S Palace of Music, 213
Ohio street.
Wanted.
"\*TANTED—THE NAME AND PRESent residence and business of every person that has changed since Deo. 1st, to they veill appear correctly in the new city aire?tory. Call on or send name to Charles O. Ebel & Co., 620% Stain street, op stairs. OTANTED-TO BUY FOR CASH-A
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Saturday Eve. Feb. 7th Lecture on Astrono
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Admission,50 cents. Reserved seats with out exfra charge at Central Bookstore. Sale will commence Thursday morning.
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IRISH TRIMMINGS, .Wi
EVERLASTING TRIMMINGS, Etc., All at our Popular Low Prices.
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Great Semi-Annual .^Trade Sale
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OWEN, PIXLE & COS.
THEY ARE CLOSING OUT
THEIR IMMENSE STOCK OF
Men's, Youths', Boys' and Children's
WINTER CLOTHING
In order to make room for tho largo stock of Spring goods they are now manning for tho Spring trade. They mark their goods in plain selling figures, facturing
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KUSSNER'S PALACE O^* MUSIC.
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only prac leal workmen In this city,d lng worked both in Organ and Piano ufactories, with a fully equipped workj at our command, all repairs are exed the same as at manufactory. Call or (, for pamphlet giving list of references ai treatise on how to take proper care off piano. PARTICULAR NOTICE TO OUTSi
RESIDENTS.
No traveling agents or solicitors^ ployed. All calls promptly attendee either by myself or son Albert.
Respectfully,
L. KUSSNERj
Palaoe of Muslo, Terre, Had
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GEO. S. ZIMMERMij
Has removed to No. 648 Main street, Wi he has a full stock of STOVES AND TINWAL
He gives special attentiod to
ROOFING AND GUTTER^ And all oat door work, guaranteeing]
fullest satisfaction.
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