Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 October 1880 — Page 8

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James McGregor la expected herefrom Utah next week. Mrs. Webster, of St. Louis, is visiting Mr?. F. C. Crawford.

Sheriff Jaek Stepp goes intojjffioe on tfae ISth of next month, J. D. Early, mother and sister return from Baltimore to-day. [Mac Ball, the undertaker, had charge •f five funerals one day this week

Senator Voordees is in the city and will remain here until alter the election

J. F. Probst Is framing three hundred pteturew of H. Mulmaa'a big grocery bouse.

W. A. Hamilton, of Riddle, Hamilton A returned from trip to Penn aylrania. .f,

Miim Alia B. Ash has returned from an extondod visit in Indianapolis and Richmond.

E. P. Rein hard and family moved hack, this week, to their former home in fltiampaign, Ills.

Coroner-elect Laughhood succeeded Mr. Bhrenhardt this week, and has bis •fflro at 608 north Fifth street.

Judge Scott retires from the Supreme Oourt next Monday, instead of the first ef January, as horetofore stated.

Miss Ella J. Hunt, of Chicago, who has been visiting her uncle, E. B. Ham ilton, will return home next week.

Mrs. J. 8. Jordon and son have re turned from an extended visit to rela tives in the northeastern part of tho tttate.

Nathaniel M. .Jones, one of tho oldest and most respected citizens of tho county died at his homo in Riley township, last Monday morning.

II. A. Ferguson, of Newcastle, Penn •ylvnnia, a former residont of this city will return h?ro next week to mako this eity Ms permanent homo.

C. E. llosford, J. McGregor and Mel Stewart aro in camp on the Kankakee, between Logannport and Chicago for a -ouplo of weeks' hunting and fishing.

Ixm ('. Duddleston, foreman of The Maii, and his cousin, Miss Julia Merry roturncd yestorday evening from four weoks' trip to various points in Ohio.

Councilman McCutcheon returned this week from Montreal, where he attended tho annual meeting of tho Brotherhood of fyocomotive Engineers of tho United States and Conadas.

Chas. 0. Foote has resigned tho position of chief onginoor at tho distillery He retires with a paper signed by Cox A Fairbanks, certifying that ho was in no way to blame for tho recent explosion.

Jeanne B. Reade is still pressing that broach of promise suit against our gay and fettivo townsman, Thomas P. Mur ray. Her papers wero filed with the clerk of tho U. S. Circuit Court on Thursday.

J. F. Downey, assistant train dispatcher at the Vandalia offices in this city, and Miss Kate L. Brady, of Mrs. Cronin's millinery house, wero married on Tuesday evening, and went oast 011 a bridal trip.

Engineer Nick Dodson Is able to got around a little, and one day this week walked down to tho Vandalia round house. There l« no more popular man an the road, and the lxys were mighty glmj to see him.

Tho dtisens composing the grand jury for the present term are J. M. Sankoy, chairman, Charles Moore, Alvedore Shores, Martin Kereheval, W. B. Cochran and K, A. Roberts. They have been in aesslon this week, but find little to do.

J. A. Myton, a former resident of this aitr, for a long time salesman in the Buckeye store, died at Casey, Ills., Tuesday night. The body was brought here In charge of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Oatrander, and buried in Otter Creek lownshlp.

Leslie l. Thomas and wife were the Victims of a surprise visit from their friends Thursday evening, the occasion being the wooden anniversary of their -wedding, Among the unexpected visitor's wore Charles and Mim Mary Wil Ham*, of Yaw fordsvilie, brother and •later of Mrs. Thomas.

Oasette: Will F. Barton has the agen ty of the Continental Line, and occujfas room5 in Beach's Block aa office. Ha eweeeda his brother Frank, who has been appointed freight agent of the I. A St, L., occupying the same oflfoeon Main atrret with his brother, Sdward Barton, who is the ticket agent for the I. A St. L. The three brothers are thus engaged in the railway interest, and are winning golden opinions among the fraternity for their business enterprise. "KtMtag," «ald she, "is like playing •aven-np. If yon beg, and I think I ran make point* in the game, I will give you one, but after we are married we must do like other aensihle people, boy ear table aupf*' at Wright A Kaufman Vi big gro.—jr house, on the corner of Main and Seventh streets, because that is the grand depot for everything good to cat—the hert and freshest—and at the lowest market price*.

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Our People.

D. Reibold baa returned from his trip cpst. 8. S. Early has been quite ill for several weeks.

Don't think of baying an article of furniture of any description until you see the styles and learn the prices at R. Foster fc Son's warerooms on Fourth street, north of Cherry.

Ladies, remember that Mrs. T. D. Olin is constantly receiving new goods, and this coming week will have a beautiful line of feathers. Come and see.

At Peter Miller's, on south Fourth steeet, saddle and harness manufacturers can always find, at the lowest wholesale prices, a full stoek of saddlery-bard-ware, home-made collars, whips, combs, Ac.

The epizootic is coming. It would be well to buy your horse a warm blanket and yourself a comfortable lap robe at Fisbeck Brother's Harness Manufactory, north of Court Park, where low prices prevail.

To-morrow will be Sunday—a day on which a better dinner than usual is ex pected—and the place to get those good things—the choicest groceries, fresh country produce, the best fruits, vegetables, canned goods of every description, and all kinds of table supplies, is at the popular grocery store of Richard Dahlen, on Fourth street, just south of Main.

No matter how the election may result on Tuesday, S. Loeb it Co., will be benefitted, and hundreds of persons who have hatsat atake are anxious for the result to be known so as to get one of the elegant head coverings to bo seen there in such great variety of styles. Loeb always has the latest out in hats and caps, and his stock of gent's furnish ing goods is selected with great care.

One of the most attractive places in the city—one in which an hour or two can be pleasantly passed—one where a person is always welcome—fa the Central Bookstore, with its table and shelvos filled with books, walls adorned with fino pictures, cases full of mantle and tablo ornaments, fine knivss and scissors, pocketbooks, photographs an the hundreds of articles usually found in a well stocked book store. In stationery, staple and fancy, their stock is large, varied and attractive. Blank Books of every description and all kinds of sohool supplies are to be found thero.

A shoemaker out West, with a literary turn of mind, has the following gem attached to his ahinglc: "Hero Uvea a man who never refuses,

To mend nil norta of lxx»ts and shoeceR." This reminds us that this issue of The Mail Is not complete without saying to our readers in town and our roaders out of town that if they would consult the interests of their pocket-books they will purchase their lioots and shoes and get their repairing done at A. H. Boegeman's, No 118 south Fourth street. He having a big run on the Lafayette boot, acknowledged tho best in the market. On home-made work ho employs the best boot-makers to be had, guarantees a perfect fit, and invariably gives satisfaction.

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President Hayes will return to Fro mont, Ohio, in time to vote. A Now Yorker is named Stealing, and ho hates the name but ho took tho curse off of it for his daughter by making jier Christian name "Worth."

One of the first things General Grant did when he sat down at the table for tho Middlesex Club dinner in Boston, to turn his wino glass upside down.

Tho beginning of the woman suffrage agitation was traced by one of tho speak ors at the recent anniversary meeting in Worcester to Mrs. Adams, not tho wife of tho first man, but tho wife of Presi dent Adams.

MayoifRose of Davenport, Iowa threw tho first shovelful of earth in tho work of oxcavating for a soldier's monumont in that city. "Twcnty-ono years ago," hesaid, in his address, "I was shoveling cry near this spot for a dollar a day,

A train on the Memphis and Charleston railroad was stopped by a man who gave a danger signal with a flag. Then he took deliberate aim with a gun at the engineer, and killed him. Ho subsequently explained that he was out hunt ing locomotives. He proved to be lunatic.

Among the gifts displayed at a San Francisco wedding was the bride's father's check for $100,000. The cashier of the bank on which the check was drawn was a guest. It was observed that he looked queerly at the document, then turned up his nose, and remarked: "Why, he hasnt$500to his credit in our bank."

Mrs. DeGroot who has built a church in Newark, New Jersey, at her own expense, has had a clause put in the deed to the effect that if fairs, festivals, or other entertainments be held therein, the property shall revert to the original owner. It is supposed that the benevolent lady had at some time wrestled with a church stew. 4

Some of the boys belonging to the moat respectable families of Peru, IlL, fitted up a cmve as a club boose. For every meeting night two of their number were appointed a burglary committee, and upon them devolved the task of providing refreshments. Cigar stores, saloons, and groceries were so frequently robbed than an investigation, waa made.

Traveling by stage coach in Nevada is enlivened frequently by incidents. For example, Freid and Moody sat in the same seat ofa crowded coach on the Bnfie line. Moody surlily saki that Freid was taking more than a fair share of the space, and when Freid replied thai he couldn't move any further, eoolly shot him. "I never take any nonsense,* he remarked, as Freid fell dead from t:.

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seat. The driver got down, from the box and told the murderer to get ont. A defiant refusal and a flourish of the weapon was the answer. The driver jumped up on the wheel, seized Moody by the collar, dragged him out through a window, and threw him to the ground so forcibly that his arm was broken. The passengers helped to tie him with a rope, and he was stowed away with the trunks behind along with the body of Freid, after which the journey was continued.

Dr. CochraiV, of Lottlsville WAS awakened in the night by a violent ring at the bell, and when he opened the door a man fell in. The symptoms of the prostrate and soon insensible caller indicated poisoning, and it was only after several hours of hard work that his life was saved. "My wife is unfaithful," he explained, "and I thought I wanted to die but when I felt that I was dying I changed my mind, and wondered why I'd been such a fool."

Johnny Mullens was an industrious highwayman in Nevada. Ho saved up $8,000 from his booty, and retired from business. Going to Colorado, where he was unknown, he married Elenora Perkins, the daughter of a herder, and settled down for a quiet life. His only fear was that his wife would leave him in disgust. The faet was that she had known the source of the fortune, and had married him for the sole purpose of getting it. Having attained this object, sho lately hired a man to murder him. Such, at least, is the charge on which she has been put in jail.

reconciled. A good story comes

from Madison,

Wis. A young man of that city who, cither through, .snobbery or laziness, will nevor carry a package through the street, made a purchase tho other day of six collars and a necktie^and, as usual ordered them to bov delivered at his residence. Soon afterwards a two-1 horse freight wagtyi was backed up to the door, and tho package laboriously placed on the steps by the driver and an assistant, who inquired wethor it should bo left in tho hall or carried up stairs. As tho yonng man'H sweetheart was a witness of tho scone, it is likely that ho appreciated the full force of the joke.

General Grant oxplained to some Hartford acquaintances how he became so attached to the clgarv He first tried smoking at West Point, but did not care

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gaged in the early contests of the war that he began to acqaire tho habit. He found a cigar of service in relieving mental strain, and during a battle he often had one in his'mouth—though even then ljfb was not an inveterate smoker. Newspaper correspondents, hoover, began to de^pribe him as smokt ing, and so. i$£ny befxes of excellent cigars came into his headquarters as gifts from all parts of the countrjr that he was soon confirmed in the habit.1,"

George Wheeler was in love with his wife's sister, in San Francisco, but could discover no pretext for getting rid of his wife. Delia Tilson, the sister, was made very unhappy by the complication, for she returned his passion, and also had a deep regard for his wife. At length she was fond dead in tho house. She had been choked to death by George. His cool account of the murder was as follows: "Sho asked me to cut her throat. I told her that I could not bear to see pier blood, but I told her that I could choke her. She said, 'Very well,' and sat in my lap, when I placed one hand on her mouth and with the other grasped her throat, and she, throwing her head back on my shoulder, died like child. She straggled but little. At first she looked into my eyes, and I. kissing them, told her to close them, which she did, and then passed away."

Dr. Ixuis Boss© of St. Louis was married last July. Now his wife is suing for a divorce, Her chief cause of complaint is given in her testimony as follows: "We bad a roast duck for dinner, with onion stuffing. When be saw the onions he got just like a wild man and threw down his knife and fork, cursed me and called me names, and asked me what kind of eating that was. He wouldn't sit down to the table then, but went and sat down in the kitchen. wasn't eating then, and he asked me why I didnt eat. I said to him, 'If you will not eat I will not eat either." He then said, 'If you don't sit down this very minute and eat I will show you who ia bosa in this house, jpo or I.' He forced me to go to the table and sit down, and I took some victuals on my plate jost to please him, but I couldn't est. He then went and got a stick and stood behind my chair and said to me: 'Here, do you see that stick? That ia foryoo, and if you will not eat now I will break this stick on your back. I will break every bone in your body. Fill up your plate and eat.' I then filled my plate for good, and he kept standing behind me till I bad the whole plate emptied."

Wholesale Produce Dealer.

Out. H. Goldsmith No. 29 north 4th street, to the place to order cabbage, Ooiona, Potatoes, Green Apple* by the Barrel, Dried Applea, Ptachea, Nary Ream, etc. All ordera fllitd promptly and acarket prtaea forniahad,

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Ladies' Matelasae and Beaver CLOAKS at 92,92.50, 93, 94, and $5 worth double. Ladies' All-Wool Cloaks, handsomely trimmed, at |6,50, |7, and |8.

Black Bearer and Diagonal.

CLOAKS and DOLMANS,

ALL-WOOL, and in great variety, at $9.00, $12.00, $15.50, and $20.00.

Also an elegant line of CLOAKS and DOLMAN'S (especially NEW), mana factured from the latest novelties in cloth, handsomely trimmed in plush, which we will sell at our usually low Prices.,,^,- J,-

Eugene and Ellen Gregory were the parties to a divorce suit in St. Louis The wife's counsel had introduced testimony against the husband, who was the defendant in the case, and then his counsel began to make counter allegations against her. She listened with increasing emotion, and finally, throwing up her arms, cried out in an agonized tone: "You will drive me crazy. My God! I cannot bear this. Eugene, my husband, save me! save me!" Ho went to her side and did his best to soothe her. The trial was adjourned, and on the !^|an#y ^oths, new affects, colored next day Mr. and Mrs. Gregory word f^inga, and eord and spike trimmings, at vary low prioes

ENGLISH WALKING,^ JACKETS,

In extra qualities, from $8 to $16.

ULSTERETTES,

fc, SHAWLS,

Beaver Shawls, Newest Stylee, at $2.50, $8, $8.60, $4, $6, $6, $8, and $10 special lot very aheap.

Children's Cloaks,

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Weare introducing in addition too the above and the celebrated "FOSTER GLOVES," a new seamless called the "JOSEPHINE price for 3 Buttons $1.38, 4 Buttons $1.50. This Glove climaxes everything heretofore shown for the money in the Kid Glove line." Please try a pair, we will guarantee you satisfaction.

CORSETS.^

W© have added several new Corsets to our al« ready very extensive stock. Dr. Warner's Cross Bone Corsets. Dr. Warner's double Hip Corsets, a good Cardinal Corset, good Brown Corset and several others. Nearly every Lady knows that we carry more Corsets and better values than any other three Stores combined and guarantee satisfaction in case or money refunded.

Do we need to say much about our Cloaks, Dolmans, Jackets, Circulars, and oar custom work In that line? Indeed not! They are town talk! Every garment we make or sell, proves to be a walking advertisement for us. Our prices are the lowest In the city, onr styles the best.

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8KB their Mammoth Stock of Gent's Fnrnifthing Good* that are being retailed at

JOBBING PRICES.

j. ALL SHADES AND GRADES OF

Underwear, Hosiery, White 8hirts, Colored Shirts, tfeckties, Scarft, Collars, Cuffs, Silk Handkerchief, etc.

J&AILY ADDITIONS BEING MADE TO THEIR ALREADY ATTRACTIVE anOCK AND THEY IN VIT* CAREFUL INSPECTION,

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Is simply immense. Never in the history of our business career, have we been as fortunate to secure for our patrons-as good a value in Kids as at present. ... "9:---

Our 3 Button for $100, 4 Button, $125J 6 Button, $150, are to well known to need much praise, and have done their own adver-

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