Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 April 1880 — Page 1

Vol. IO.—No.

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION. V,

GBNBBAL GRANT

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has uMbond safe

again in Galena. He will probably rest there awhile and await tidings from Chicago.

pedestrian lunacy to to prevail

again daring the coming rammer. They are arranging in New York for a six dayB'"goas-you-pleeee" lor fl0,000 a rido.ll _==_=!=iB, •'-'!»A SPBAKBR at a Young Republican meeting, where bald beads were aomewhat numerous, said he waa surprised to seeso many young Republicans who parted their hair with a towel,

yjCoL. SrwfioHT and the Indianapolis Journal do not get along happily togeth er. The Journal Is vigorously opposed to bis "bureau," aad the Colonel is just as vigorously opposed to the Journal.

DENNIS KBAKNKY

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waa on Monday

sent to the House o! Oorreotion, where he was properly cropped and uniformed. His last expiring cry as he left the dourt room was to know about the eight honr law as to work. The Judge told him the superintendent would see that he had sufficient work to do and not too much. Ta, ta, Dennis.

at first seemed only a oompli-

ment to our popular townsman ia developing into a decided boom to tan W. R. MoKeen for Governor. If the Vandalia road can spare him, Terre Haute is will ing to loan him to the State for a couple of years, and a better executive cannot be found in the State. The Mall throws up its hat for Riley MeKeenfor Governor.

the risk of losing good paying advertising, we must give it as onr candid opinion that a man, II he Is earnii*g fifty cents a day at aome good honest labor, had belter not strike for a political office. But if anybody will not take tuat advice, the next beat thing he can do is to allow The Mail to give his ^name to the pnblle. lather thing will satisfy na, though personally we prefer

OLIVER WEND*IA HOLMES, inMA

Autocrat at the breakfast table very prettily represents the work of years with tbf, beauties of his youth, in something like the following. First the years pelted them with red roses, and set their oheeks all aglow, and then with white roses then one year threw a snowball at their heads, and the suooeedlng ones threw more snowballs. Now and then an arrow waa let fly and one disappeared from the ranks, till but few nemain, and these are no longer called girls, but

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favorite amusement among the

Boston aristocracy at the present time ia celebrating "seventieth birthdays." Whlttler, Longfellow, Frank Bird, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, have been the moat oonspicious victims thus far, though there have been hosts of less notable ones. This is becoming so common and fashionable that probably the tramps will put on gray wigs, and announce that they are seventy, when they will be immediately seised and carried off in triumph to some first class hotel, fed, toasted, poeted, and publiahed in all the papers. The "highly respectable" people who are upwards of fifty are seriously debating the question whether they oannot discount their seventieth birthday before the fashion passes. But seriously, is not this new filedged custom getting about as stale and meaningless as flowers at funerals or wedding**presents. If the custom apreada westward, eenaitive people out here will be inclined to steal silently secretly into the seventies.

Aw exciting murder trial haa been in progress in Indianapolis dnrlng the preeent week. It is the case of Joeeph Wade, charged with the murder of John G. F. Brown, who lived south of Irvington and waa killed on the night of February 6,1880. The facts in the case, so far as kowu, are briefly these: Brown, the deceased, had heen In the peniteniary a year for larceny and returned home on New Year's eve. While he was absent Wade became Intimate with Mrs. Brown, who ia a woman of very bad character, and finally got to living with her as if Chey were man and wife. He did some work on the place and received no wages. He waa still there when Brown waa murdered. On the morning of February 7th the body of Brown waa found at a crossing on the Belt railroad, about three miles from his home, his head being badly bruised and beaten. His horse and buggy were also found, the latter having muoh blood in It. Blood waa found on the Brown premises, at the gate and on the boards leading to it and the door atep had been scrubbed off. Attempta had been made to conceal thees blood spots. It waa evident that Brown had been killed at

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home and hia body hanHrtl the boggy. Wade «ad MmlMrtgr* arreeted and jointly Iniih^lTiii the murder and Wade la the fii£ to1j§t tried. A few daya after their aneai)im. Brown made what she termed a eogjto£(on, In which ahe laid the ariose on-Wade and exonerated herself, bnt the ifttement ia not generally believed to be'true. The prospects seem to be very fefijf'that

exodua'eommittee

doea not appear to havee&afcfia muoh influence upon the migfttOfy movements of the blaoka. II isreported that the emigration thia apring frill be larger than ever, setting in the direction of New Mexico, Ariaona and Colorado. A company haa been formed in New York composed of business exGovernor Newell, of New^Mfeey as President, with avlfcw of tidying up large tracta otyjiiaMe land to.^e subdivided into small larmaand sold to the emigrants on mush mere reasonable terms than they could bny the same for In small lota.

Chicago Tribune publiahes

table- showing the decline which haa tiken plabe-in the leading commercial staples ana in tbe,prlndpel railroad stocks during the paib few weeks. Itia thus shown that the decline inetocka has ranged from 5 to 22X per share pig, iron from |6 toflO per ton wheat 28X cents per bushel corn SH cents and mess pork from #18.75 to 99.80 per barrel. Itia a healthy alya, for contemporaneous with thia decrease nearly all the railroads ahow an increase of earninge. The truth simply la that prioea were too high, were fictitious and speoulatiye and could not be aaStalned. It ia better forall ltettl^iliDld come down to a solid and eatartaptial basis.

QW&%OPLB.

"People are ao queer. When we first came to fltfrmgaute, we thought aome of the ptiftpptbtrifr the queerest specimens we lied met." 80 said an observing woman at the breakfast table the other moralngt And then ahe ran over a list namee, which, were it proper to name it here, would make the reader* of the Mill amlle, and draw forth the assent that, "there are qneer, ySure Snotagh." Probably some wouia ope that they should be thought queer, Possibly we are all queer, really BO, at least in the eyed of some very good judges. Dickens fills his pages with queer oharaoters, and as you read you think he exaggerates. But you lay down the book and go out into the world and almost Immediately find in real life a counterpart for hia queerest oharaoters. Paint a sunset in all its glory and brightness, and the critics would say it was unnatural, It was exaggerated. So they

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human nature In ita real oelors. People are so queer the word over that It will hardly do to represent them as they are and expeot general acceptance of your representations

ROME LIFE.

There Is something peculiarly refining in the associations of family life. No matter how bumble the home may be, If there exist in it those tender and affectionate relations whloh ought to be there, It Is productive of the best results. The msn who thinks be cannot afford to marry and support a family, or shrinks from the care and responsibility which suoh a mode of life entails, commits a great mistake. It Is true that married life has its drawbacks, and it is futile to try to make light of or to conoeal them, but Hs blessings outweigh these a thousand fold. It develops the better qualitiee of human nature, making men more manly and women more womanly. As the little ones grow up In this new-made world, home beoomee a aacred spot. There la care and trouble and responsibility there, true enough, but these are not such dreadful bugbears, after all. The compensations are so many and so bleesed that they almost hide the diaadvantagee ont of sight. Even if preeent happiness alone ta considered, the married lifoia the one to be deal red. But the preeent la not alone to be considered. Think of a man growing old without wife, or child, or home What can such a man expect the years to bring him If they are filled with loneliness and discontent, what wonder? If life becomes aimless and desultory, what else could be looked for. What has such a man to work for, or to live for? What is there to inspire him? He may try to make himself think he la gay and happy, but he knows hia heart la empty. It wants something In It—a woman's lore. Then It will kindle and the warm pulses of affection course through it» No man in good health ought to be afraid to marry. He haa a right to a home of hia own, and can have one if he wilt Let him chooee some woman of suitable station who will be tree to him, and if he la kind, sober and industrious, he will never see the day when he will beaorry that be married. j-

Tl^RE HAUTE, IND„ SATURDAY

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dianapolia will aoon enjoy the luxury of another hanging and that probably a donble one. -Vfe.

PIECE OF YOUR MIND. Giving people a pieee of your mind Is Tiny expend ve luxury many times. It ia very muoh like getting into a law suit over ton dollars, and paying a hundred dollars in costs. Not entirely unlike giving a bully, who doea not mind it, a sound threshing, and getting your beet suit ruined, |pd your flue badly battered, ia the pmceas. The oppoatte party at law had no right to the tea dollars, and the bully richly deserved a much sounder thrsahing than you gave him, but it did not pay you to give either of them their deaerU. Ditto giving a pieee of your mind, or giving people ffte beoauae they deserve it. No doubt they do deserve it Bnt will it pay you to give them their deserts? Did you ever attempt to drive a hog fester than he was willing to go, Mid have him shoot past you, or between your legs, and run a mile In the opposite direction If you have, you have teamed that the way to drive hogs is, not to make them go aa feat aa they ought to be willing to go, but ea feat aa they are tolerably willing to go. And oftea there Is wide difference between the two rates of Speed. So is it with these men who dsserve to be told what you think of them. If a blow will Pftke a holae balk, ho matter how muoh he deeervee the blow, the wiaer course is to think twice before striking, and then put then put the whip under the Beat, it cost five hundred dollars a few days ago for two or three men to give another a pieoe of their mind, or pieoes of their minds. That aum had heen subscribed, to b#paid on certain conditions The conditions were complied with, and the money ought to have been forthcoming. But it didn't oome quite as quickly aa it ought, and others whobad paid out their money felt, very Justly, that they were not dealt fairly with. They mid so, and said ao pretty eharply, though BO more eharply or plainly than they had a perfect right to aaylt,or than the old fellow deserved to have it said to him. The reeult was he would not pay at all. They gave him a pieoe of their mind, and then paid his subscription—because he wouldn't pay It. They would be glad to got back that fraction of their mind, and wait a few days or weeks for him to oome to time with his cash. It requires considerable skill to know when it will pay to express yourself, and a good deal of self

ere is another ispeet of thia subject beside the mercenary one, and it relates to influence. It ia easier to get people out of their faults and make them better by showing them respect and sympathy than by telling them what you think of them. The question is, not what they deeerve, but how can you best help them

Susan Perkins' Letter.

TBRRB HAUTB,

April 23,1880.

DBARBST JOSBPHIMB

The Carnival

is a thing of the past. Those of us who for a week held our heads high askings and queens, lords and ladles, have come baok to the level of ordinary humanity, and oondesoended again to the monotony of common occupations. Some of us wear calico dresses, and on Monday "helped" with the dishes, It being washday a few have returned to their novel reading and gossiping still others, the younger ones, are at sohool trying to make up for the time lost during Carnival Week. Henry VIII goee to the foundry every day, Pickwick devotes his whole attention to the selling of paper, Beatrice and one of the Egyptian queens still train the young idea, Ac., Ponoe de Leon writes funny squibs for his paper, and the gallant Feramorz pursues the unromantlo avocation of making out innumerable gas bills. Pharaoh, too, seema to have loet interest in his own mummery and contemplates a rise in ioe, and King Solomon haa returned to the extraction of jaw teeth, whloh is more profitable, financially, than wisdom. Romeo haa jilted all of hia aweetheaita for the sake of the county olerkship, while Falstaff measures off calico and oarpet.

To tell the truth 1 am not sorry that we are to have a breathing spell free from amateur entertainments. Not but what thoee in the past have been enjoyable, but it places one at suoh a disadvantage In the way of honest criticism. Much that we have seen in the pest month haa been good, and yet not at all has been perfect. If you think Miss X. looks better than Miss Y. you dare not say ao: some of Miss Y"s relatives or friends might hear you and it would create hard feeling. Perhaps you admire Mr. A'a acting more than Mr. B's. If so, keep the opinion to yourself remembering that it iafunkind to criticize amateurs. They can take your seventyfive cents, for a good cause of oouree, end give you injreturn good, bad, or indifferent acting, but whichever it is lift up your voice in praise. Never mind If yon lie a little, amateurs are aacred beings who deserve no censure. It ia all for a good cause, flatter them so they will keep on. Remember that you could do no better, if aa well, and forget the

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feet that you di your lack of a! Joes I had thing But Id relief in what I p] although aneered at rWitiggaui a at the Utile rdSevedasy next amateu ready, ticeia for the nami

Try OLI) DOMINION COFFEE. Best in the Market.

inflict others with

readily see that if above rate someuldjhave happened! mt up feelings found

I went and said (derided the clown, aghtjhim 'good. I iphants, criticised the looked with contempt

And |now having

'^charged'brain, let the ow, oome on! I am complimentary notion wlth*blank placea dates. with Its.blossomlng ery openings. I went to day—an opening, not a of other ladies were of whom doubtless was possibility of purobsslng bonnet that would pass dollar one, when enlovely head. Some of ere beautiful beyond deft chips adorned with rivaled nature In their ellcate ostrich tips and ded soft and becoming wonder that women rave bonnets. Men would too, for the loveliness^ under whioh monopoliz9| ^1 entirely. J*ng we attended 'the dedioes of the new Baptist |were fortunate enough to to get seats, and accordthose lucklessTmortals who walla and stood up in the oh' comfortable seats, too, high backs that are really a Indeed, thej whole ohuroh mfort with eleganoe In every

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trees and one the tree. there, each meditating an eight do! for an ahrined

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the boi ecrlptk#. blossom! brilliancy eoetly

about prei if it werei the bonn ad

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cation church, arrive in Ing pli lined

A hundred gas jets threw a light over all, so that eaoh deooration couldjbe seen die

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beauty

tlnotly.jThe beautifully freecoed walls, elegantvet substantial pillars, that supported^ne gallery,'the handsome windows ifth their convenient wire screens tside, and the lovely yet serlooklng carpets, each and all ur admiration. The pulpit and part immediately under the ere profusely decorated with ibaskets, vines and cut flowers, ibel played the voluntary in his asterly style. The organ, anew

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tAry^Mra^/natwrly took poaseesion ot the organ, anm wmuun4 4ha. exerdsee in afmanner pleasing to all The choirlwas composed of members of the Baptist church,'Assisted by members of the Preebyterian, Methodist and Congregational choirs, and numbered nearly forty. There were two anthems given and two soloa,. sung respectively by Mr. Dan Davis and Mrs. Robert Geddes. They both aoquitted themselves with credit, Mrs. Geddee especi ally. Her pure soprano voice never seemed sweeter than last evening, when It filled the new church with its clear cadences In "With Verdure Clad." After the reading of the twenty:fourth psalm by Rev. Mr. Husaey of Paris, and prayer by Rev. W. McK. Darwood, a hymn was sung and then came the sermon by Rev. G. C. Lorimer of Chloago. Mr. Lorlmer is a short, slightly built young man, whose style of preaching is forcible and carries with it the oonvlotion that he bellevee what he says. His text was, "He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." I shall not attempt to give a synopsis of the sermon as you will doubtless read It In the papero ere you get this, it was listened to with close attention during the entire time. His manner was energetic, his ideas vigorous and his illustrations pointed.

At the close of the sermon the announcement was made that donations for the purpose of paying off the church debt, amounting to eight thouaand dollars, would be received. Slips of paper were then distributed and donationa of five hundred dollars eaoh solicited. Not many of us were in the habit of carrying five hundred dollar notes around with us but a few promptly pledged themselves to that amount. Others promised four hundred, three, two, and a number of one hundred dollar pledges a welled the amount. About thia time a number of the audience became "tired," and left. We however remained until the close and when the contribution box waa passed putin our mites. It waa believed that something between four and five thousand dollars was raised, but the exact amount waa not made known. That however would lighten the debt considerably, and It la to be hoped the good work will goon. With a popular minister, an attractive church building, and hard working members, all of which attributes our Baptist friends possess, it will be strange if much good ia not acoompliahed. Write soon, to

Your devoted, Stms.

A Colorado girl only eighteen years old, on the death of her fether took charge of hia ftunily and farnr, and now manages tier mother and her brothers, and also her sisters, her cousins and herr anch*

G, APRIL 24,1880. Tenth Ycsir

ODDS AND ENDS.

iS TO!

No wine or kiss hath tasted, Will some day think in sooth. That half his joys were wasted.

-"WhatlsaklM? A toueh of the lip, A union of souls—

A time te skip. For the old man is oomlng.

Little Birdie Blue-eyes, Sitting in the suu, "While her older brother

Fooleth with a gun. Boon aloud explosion ., Wakes the echoing

All that's left of Blrale Is her worsted hood.

He trod on the plug of yellow soap That the girl had left on the topmost stair And what to him was love or hope

And what to him was Joy or care For his leet flew out like wild, fleroe things, And he struck every step with a noise like a drum: And the girl below, with the scrubbing

things.

a fiend to see him come.

Laughed lik

•'How's yonr father?" came the whisper Bashful Ned the silence breaking "Oh, he nioely," Annie murmured.

Smilingly the question taking. Conversation flagged a moment Hopeless, Ned essayed another "Annie 1—1—" then a coughing,

And the question: "How's your mother "Mother I oh, she's doing finely!" Fleeting last was all forbearance, When In low. despairing accents,

Game tne climax: "How's your parents

People and Things^

Talk ia cheap—unlese a lawyer does the talking. When a man gets tight the devil generally geta looee.

Great pianists are said usually to have broad, atubby'fingers. Anew fancy ahirting pattern embracee all the animala in the ciroua.

It is juat as aafe, says Professor Huxley, to marry on a three weeks courtship as to wait longer.

Don't remark^ that there's nothing new under the sun. There are sixty atylee of apring bonnets.

Size doesn't always count. A woman will jump twloe as high at the sight of a rat as she will on seeing an elephant.

It Is estimated that a handsome worn an weeping before a jury has more effect in fiVe minutes than two hour's talk.

Fred Busaer, a farmer 60 years old living in a remote corner of Vanderburg county, cut the veins of his wrist

Chas. Benning wiui indulilng ln Suhday fishing at Fort Wayne, had a fit, rolled off into the water ^and waal

drowned. From the suspension bridge whloh crossee the Ohio river at Wheeling, W Va., no less than ten girls have jumped to watery graves.

Chief Juatioe Park, of the Connecticut supreme oourt, ia ao muoh attached to the old cuatom of ringing a bell at the opening of oourt that at hia special request the bell of the Center church in New Haven ia rung every morning when he takee hia seat.

Two osnturies sgo not one in a hundred wore stockings. Fifty years ago not a boy In a thousand was allowed to run at large as night. Fifty years ago not a girl In a thousand made a waiting maid of her mother, ^y^onderful improvements in this age

John Merchant, of Hyde Park, Pa., and hia sister have been living in the same town and attending the same ohurch for the last ten years, and until last Saturday did not know of each other's whereabouts. She came from England nineteen years ago and be followed nine years later.

Many a public apeaker haa found himself in the oonditlon Artemus Ward said he waa on one oocaaion when about to begin a lecture, though few have bad the frankness to sdmlt It. "Ladies and gentleman," said Artemus, "I possess a gigantic intellect, but, unfortunately, I haven't it with me."

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We have rarely eeen ia more touching little Incident than thia told by a New Haven paper.—• widow'a child received a reward of merit in school and ran eagerly home to her mother, saying, aa ahe entered her humble dwelling, "I held it up to the aky all the way home, mamma, ao that papa might aee what agoodjglrl lam."

A minister of our acquaintance waa seated in his study one day, hud at work on his sermon, when his little boy entered and held up hia flngex, which he had just cut with his new jack knife. "Ob, don't bother me!" said his fether. "Don't you aee I'm busy?'. The youngster walked to the door, and looking back said: "I don't ^think it would have hurt you to aay, Oh!' "—Golden Days.

A Portmouth, N. H., clergyman, Rev. Mr. Round, haa devoted seven yean to cslcultalons regarding the second oomlng of Christ, or the end of the world, and by the aid of a chart two hundred and sixty feet long he has demonstrated that themllleniom will put in an appearance in September, 1881. A prsphet of thia kind always finds followers, notwithstanding the numeroua Inglorious failures of the half-crazy fanatics who have

have ao often predicted the end of all things and he la the leader of a oonsidSiy able number of enthusiasts. |f

Chiosgo hotels are preparing for the convention, and one hotel olerk haa purchased a diamond of a six hoiM power and ten inch focus. man living at Rimmeraburg, Pa.*» l| the fether of thirty four children, twenty of whom are living nine wen burned to death at one time. 4

A Georgia negro sharpshooter is In trouble beoauae he hit the mark but the mark was the finger of a little boy, who held it up and dared the man shoot at it. 3,

The way a London woman lndentlfied her solen parrot waa by bringing her huaband Into oourt court and scolding him. The bird soon called out: "Oh I wish you were dead, old woman

The reason why women have little or no success at fishing Is because but few of them possess nerve enough to hold the worm between their teeth at that they can else both hands Is getting the hook out of their back balr. Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.

How to manage hair-pins: "Stick all your hair-plna downward, then you will not be annoyed by their felling out by the way, neither will your frlenda be worried with mental calculations as to how long it will be before hair-pin fells, when it hanges out of your head more than half its length.

The wildeet dream never surpassed the romanoe of the widow of the third Napoleon Bailing from England to touoh at St. Helena on her way to look upon the apot In Zululand where fell thg fourth and last Napoleon. The Em* press ia said, aa ahe left, to have looked

aadly broken, and her hair haa turned

A man was once asked how he and hia wife got along with ao little frictl in the family machinery. "Well" he, "when we first married we both wanted onr own way. I wanted to sleep on linen sbeeta, my wife preferred cotton, and we oouldn't agree. Klnally talked the matter over, and camir' igatiUplciji tlial it waa unchristian tok« livelnoonstititticketing, we com*.. promised on linen, end have got along all right ever alnce."

New Bedford man Invented a fish pole eane whloh worked with a spring, and on the latter being touched the Inner roda would fly out and form a pole, and it waa a man who didn't understand the nature of the cane who waa oarryinglt, and while careleesly point-, ing at a gentleman some eight feet away aooidently touched the spring and the pole flew out and took the victim square on the nose. And when the letter got np he hsd to be reetrained by four men' while the fecte were explained to him* and even then he wasn't sstisfied.

OR A TOBIO SOCIETY CONCERT." The various entertainmente that have been given by amateurs during the past season have Indicated a high degree of talent among those who participated, and muoh pleasure has been given, but none have displayed the reaults of untiring labor and strict discipline that comes from permanent organizatlonSt In this respect the Oratorio Society Is an. example to our ehorus singers that will not be loat. An evening spent at the regular rehearsal ahow that the aociety haa much improved of late, the choruses being rendered with a precision and emphasia that nothing but hard 4 tloe will give. At the coming oonoert— on the evening of the 6th of May—our cltUene will have an opportunity of' hearing the society under more flavorable conditions than ever before. In addition to thia, the muaic selected hm been chooeen with special referenoe to the popular taate.

CHURCH NOTES.

Edward Cooper D. D. of Cincinnati^ will preach in the Central Presbyterian. Church to-morrow morning and even--ing.

Baptist Church. C. R. Henderson. paator. Services at 11 a. m. and VA p., m. Subjects ''Permlant Moral Forces,", and "Pamily Ties Sanctified." Sunday school at 9K s. m. ,,

At Asbury M. E. Church the pastor^ Rev. W. McK. Darwood will preaoh? to-morrow morning on "The service oft Love" and in the evening on "Why Dot Christians Have Binds, and the Remedy^ for Them."

St. Stephen's—Sunday school, 9:15 a." m. morning prayer, 10:15 a. ta. litany, sermon and holy communion, 11 a. m. evening prayer and sermon, 7:30 p. m. evening prayer on Wednesdays and® Fridays, 3:45 p. m. Confirmation, Whit* aunday, May lfith.

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gmy. new and eurious case of death froth •. 'J poisoning haa oocured In Philadelphia* A young woman who wore colored.^ stockings and shoes with copper nails, had her heel punctured by one of the latter. Inflamatlon Immediately set In, and In a few days she died. Phy- ,|g slclana do not know whether to attribute the poisoning to,the stocking or to the 'Jz nail, or to both.