Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 January 1881 — Page 8
THE MAIL
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
OUR PEOPLE.
R. G. Hervey arrived this week at Queenstown, Ireland. Will Arnold says he is not a candidate lor the postmastership.
Mayor Havens looked upon the Bernhardt at St. Louis this week. Capt. D. D. Wheeler starts for Yankton, Dakota, to-morrow night.
John G. Williams has returned from a visit to his parents at Natchez, Miss. Senator Bichowsky's physician thinks he will be able to return to Indianapolis next week.
Mrs. Putnam, of St. Paul, Minnesota is visiting her brothers, General and Will Craft.
Henry C. Nevitt succeeds Hon. H. D. Scott' in his law practice, taking the office of the latter.
Elisha Havens and Henry Robinson were in the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, when it was partially burned Sunday morning.
Harvey Huston will start to-morrow night lor Yankton, Dakota, to take his place as cler«t in the Quartermaster's department under Capt. Wheeler.
Mrs. Cooper, who has purchased Sheap's confectionery, is fortunate in having such a clever and accommodating gentleman as W. H. Gilbert to take charge of it.
Buntin A Armstrong have purchased Robinson it Zimmerman's drug store, on Chestnut street, and have named it the Depot Drug Store. George Eldred, lor five years with J. E. Somes, is in charge.
Senator Yoorhees before returning to Washington promised to use his best endeavors—and he is of the opinion that he will succeed—in having the Wabash made navigable and an appropriation made for the erection of a government building in this city.
Will S. Hedges, of the Illinois Midland offices, has been appointed to a responsible position in the Auditor's office of tho Denver A Rio Grande Railroad, and leaves on Wednesday for Colorado Springs, where the general offices of the company are located.
Frank Barton retires from tho agency of tho I. A St. L. R. li.—where ho has lxsen so popular and efficient—next week, and contemplates going to Chicago. lie will be succeeded by John Landis, who was hero a short time as agent of the Merchants' Despatch.
Fred A. Ross and family by taking rooms at Mrs. Hedden's, have started a general movement. Joseph Strong will move into tho residence vacated by Mr. Ross, Max Hoborgwill take that vacated by Mr. Strong, and Simon Hirschler will go into Mr. Hoberg's vacated house.
Win. I). Brennan, recently of the firm of Hebb A Brennan, and for some time past holding a position in the government printing office at Washington, came home unexpectedly about a week since, in a delirious condition. He had no money, and cannot tell how he got here. His disease is that of the kidneys. It is a sad case.
Charley Kern, after an extensive handshaking with his friends here, returned to Chicago on Tuesday. The report which got into our city papers some time ago that he was working with tho Republican party was not true, lie still trains with the Democracy, but of late has withdrawn to a considerable extent from activo politico. He has a business which nets him about $1,000 a month, with which he is content—and ho ought to be.
When the legislature comes over to view the enterprise of our city it should not fail to call in a body at tho famous grocery house of Wright A Kaufman, corner of Main and Seventh streets, that great fountain head of table supplies. In the meantime, our people will continue to call there for all the good things in the oating iine, of which they have such great variety, all fresh, choice goods.
A man was found dead, with his head cut oil', but they recognized him by his boots, which were of exquisite workmanship, and could only have been made by A. H. Boegeman, No. 118 south Fourth street, who commands such a large custom by his low prices and the excellence of his Home-made Boots and Shoos. Get your boots of Boegeman and thus provide against similar accidents. He is selling all heavy work at' a great reduction to make room for spring goods.
While we are discussing who shall be postmaster, let us turn our step* a few doors Bouth of the postoffice, where T. W. Duvall has one of the neatest grocery houses in the city, well stocked with staple and fancy groceries of every description, choice canned goods, coun try produce, vegetables, game and everything to be found in a first class house, at the very lowest market prices. Our farmer readers will find that a good place to exchange their produce for groceries.
If you vtand on the Opera House corner, with your left hand to the east and your right to the west, your face will be in the direction of Richard Dahlen's snug grocery house, half a square south, filled full of the choicest table supplies, among which may bo mentioned dressed poultry, oysters, celery, cranberries, hams, breakfast bacon, buckwheat (lour, catsup in bulk, chowchow. pickles in bulk and bottles, choice canned syrups, coffee sittings at ten .cents a pounds, and a general line of choke staple groceries.
J. R. Gaston will take the post-office. Call on Deacon Cranket at the Opera House Monday evening.
Ed P. Fairbanks is dealing in coal on a large scale at Danville, Ills. I^??* Webb Casto would be a Silking figure in Buffalo Bill toggery as an Indian Agent.
Mary, Queen of Scots, visited the city, Sunday evening—so they said at the Pence Hall seance. 1
Leadvflle Henderson is in town again, and his name will figure in the daily papers for a few days.
E. R. Bagby, the colored school 'teacher, formerly of this city, has a clerkship in the State Legislature.
An attorney gives us an excellent and timely article on "Legal Bulldozing,' which is printed on the first page
W. H. Duncan, J. D. Early A. L. Wyeth and Harry Graham will listen to Italian Opera at Indianapolis to-night
Mrs. C. W. Mancourt went down to Frankfort, Kentucky, on Thursday, to keep her husband company for a fewweeks.
David H. Smith started this week for California to take charge of an estate valued at 83,000, recently left him by *a relative.
The wife of Conductor McMahon is not insane, as reported. She was only delirious from fever, from which she has recovered.
Ed Friend is going to open aboard of trade room across from the postoffice next week. We wish him success in the enterprise.
Miss Florence Hussey entertained about seventy of her young friends last night at her father's residence on Seventh street.
Sheriff Stepp took Louise Meyer to the State Insane Asylum on Tuesday, and brought back Mrs. Olivia Gray, who is pronounced cured.
Wm. C. Durham has taken an interest in the drug house of of W. E. McGrew A Co., and the firm name is now McGrew, Durham fc Co.
P. Gfroerer, editor of the Banner, was called to Stratford, Ontario, this week by the dangerous illness of his father, who is over eighty years of age.
William Baugh, for many years with Joe Erlanger, will go with W. E. Owens in his new clothing house, and W. H. Bannister takes the vacated position.
Duenweg A Newhart have been highly successful with their dancing academy. The social hop last Wednesday evening was largely attended and quite enjoyable.
Gazette: Prof. Wilson, of the Normal School faculty, has rented Mr. Henry Williams' house on Chestnut street. Mr. Williams and his daughter Clara will live with them.
Bob Hall who was sent to the penitentiary from this city some two years ago has been acquitted of the crime of killing a fellow convict it being shown that it was done in self defence.
A zealous lady worker in the temperance cause, wont to sleep during the meeting one evening this week, and fell from her chair, producing quite a commotion in the vicinity.
Perhaps you don't want any furniture just now, but when you do, don't fail to see the stock and learn the prices at R. Foster
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Son's, on north Fourth street.
This paragraph tells that Peter Miller, the veteran harness manufacturer will not be excelled or undersold in anything in his line. Call on him, on south Fourth street.
After two years' successful business, Fisbeck Brothers have started tho new year with a big stock of harness, of their own manufacture, at prices which will find ready sale.
One of our citizens walks four miles to and from his work, and has done this six days in the week for twenty years, making 24,960 miles. If you want a pair of boots or shoes go to No. 314 Main street and you will sec the man who has thus wuLtil the distance around the world.
If the members of the Legislature visit this city they will learn that at the Central Bookstore can be found a large and desirable collection of Btandardand miscellaneous books, and any book not in stock will be promptly ordered. The atock of blank books and commercial stationery is always full and complete, while in nobby stationery the Central is headquarters by a large majority.
—THE MASQUERADE BALL of the Terre Haute Msennerchor will excel this year in gorgeousness all his predecessors. Unusual efforts have been made this season. Mr. H. Duenweg has been himself in the east to select the costumes for the tableaux, and has succeeded beyond his expectations. This will be the ball of the season, and will excel all former entertainments of the Mennerchor.
—The room formerly used by Charles Auble, opposite the Postoffice, is now occupied by J. H. Wilkes.
Grand Bal Masque of the Terre Haute Maennerchor, Tuesday, February 1st.
REMOVAL,
JAMES T. MOORE has been compelled to seek more commodious quarters to accommodate his increasing business and has removed a few doors east in the new building erected especially for him by John G. Williams, where he will he pleased to see all wanting Tin, Sheet Iron or Galvanized Iron work, Furnaces, or Plumbing of any description.
OTHER PEOPLE. S
SAYS the WidderGrectt: "I cant go Into a neighbors yaw To say 'How be youf or borrow a pin,
Great Jerusalem! cant I stir Without a raisin* some feller's fur. There ain't no privacy, so they say, No more than if this was Judgment day.
A St. Louis physician says that the poisoning of guests at a Washington hotel at the time of Buchanan's inauguration was by quail, which, owing to the heavy snow, had been compelled to eat poisonous berries. He adds that the condition are the same this winter, and warns people not to eat quail. r?
Gov. Long of Massachusetts disapproves of capital punishment, but he despairs of inducing the Legislature to abolish it, and will endeavor Only to substitute some easier means of death for hanging. He thinks that morphine might be used, and will officially recommend its use in place of the noose. "I believe," oberved a western judge as he adjourned court to attend a convention before which his name was to be presented for nomination, "that office should seek the man, not the man the office. But when the office is seeking the man thero is no harm in a man being around where the office is likely to find him without any trouble."
A Philadelphia reporter has been looking into tho profits made by venders who sell coal to the poorer classes by the pail or tho "Dutch ton," as it is called in New York. Repulsed by a vender, he carefully measured a ton of coal and found it to contain ^168 pailfuls. The vender charges 8 cent§ per pail, and the poor buyer thus pays $13.44 for a ton which can bo bought at $5.
A western newspaper announced as follows: "Mi*. Maguire will wash himself before he assumes the office of sheriff." This made Maguire mad, and he demanded a retraction, which the paper made thus: "Mr. Maguire requests us to deny our statement that he will wash himself before he assumes the office of sheriff." Oddly enough,- this only enraged Maguire the more. Some people are too hard to please.
The New York World says editorially that "Bardwell Slote," the Congressman of Florence's "Mighty Dollar," was drawn from Philetus Sawyer, a Vermonter, who was in the lumber business at Qshkosh, Wis., and a Representative from the district in which that city is situated to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second and Fortythird Congresses. He was, a few days ago, elected to the United States Senate
A Philadelphia doctor is making a raid upon baby carriages. He says that a child who is carried in arms is constantly trained in balancing its head and shoulders, and that such infants are sooner able to sit alone and creep or walk more vigorous than those who in the continued supine posture of the baby carriage fail to get their muscular exercise. The doctor has never been a mother, and lugged a twenty pound baby daily for a year at a time.
General Grant was given a reception by Mr. Drexel, in Philadelphia, the other day, and among thoso who passed in to shake his hand was a veteran captain who fought under him in the early days of war. As. the soldier approached the General called him by name and said: "I remember, you lost your arm down in Mississippi. I am very glad to meet an old comrade." As the arm was lost nearly twenty years ago, and the two had not met since, General Grant's recognition, after the host of people he has met since, seemed almost miraculous.
Westervelt, just released from the Pennsylvania Penitentiary, expresses the opinion that Charlie Ross is alive. In elaboratng the point he said: "I have never heard of his death and neither have you. If the people who had him were unable to keep him for several months without being discovered, why couldn't they have ke]£ him for years just as safely? Why, lie might be in any of the foundling asylums in New York City, and who would be the wiser? The police have never searched there, and if they did they might riot find him,"
Maennerchor Masquerade Ball. Admission for gents $1.50 for ladies 75c.
TERPVE 11.Ar'lTS SATURDAY EVENING MAIL
Bat what the paper'll have it in— 'We're pleased to say the Widder Green Took dinner a Tuesday with Mrs. Keene. Or 'Our worthy friend, Mrs. Green, has gone Down to Barkhamstead to we her son.
James T. Fields thinks that there are too many novels in the hands of^the people.
A good deal, has been said about General Grant's home being in New York but we notice when he has occasion to register it he writes in plain letters, S. Grant, Galena, 111. I
There are few better epitaphs than this inscribed on a simple freestone slab at Cedar Grove, New London: "What sort of a man he was the resurrection morning will reveal."
A writer says that the majority of men, if they could have their own way, would not clean house oftener than once in ten years. There may be fellows as clean as that, but not many.
A Belfast, Me., man who has some fame as a microscopic writer, has surpassed himself by writing the whole of President Hayes' last message on one side of a postal oard. He sent it to the president, who returned him a letter of thanks.
The patriots who carried the electoral votes from the capitals of the several States to the capital of the country cost the government $8,600 for their mileage and per diem. John Jacob Astor, of New York, and the Michigan messenger are the only ones who did not call for their pay.
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"I shall never be happyjagain"—well, hardly— that is, it would add to 'mi sum uv happiness ef I cood prevale on everybody to stop throwing thare money away in these one-horse groceries, and go to Rippetoe A Miller's big White Frunt fur thare tabul supplies, which to-day consist in part ov geese, ducks, chickens an turkeys, spare ribs, park sausage and weaner wurst, meed
wurst, pickled pork, canned beef, pigs feet and tripe, oysters in bulk or can, cranberries and cellery. oranges anc lemons, canned and bottled goods of all kinds and of best branks, canned fish and meats of all kinds, condensed milk, chocolates of all kinds, white oats and white wheat, Saratoga chips, oat meal and Graham crackers, pretzels, mint drops, vanilla waters, jelly fingers and rifle nuts, mixed and fancy candies, taffy, peanut candy and butter scotch maple sugar and maple syrup, buck wheat, graham and rye flour, the best brands of tiour at bottom prices, hams, shoulders and brerkfast bacon, and fresh fish. ..
Where we Have the Advantage. Oar remote ancestors who dwelt cave* and dressed themselves in the skins ot wild beasts, led a very simple life, and wece free from a great many worries that belong to modern life. Yet we suppose there were social grades of distinction Families who possessed a cave consisting of two or three rooms didn't associate with folks who had a simple hole in the ground to crawl into. A man who had a big fine lion Bkin to wrap himself in didn't like to be seen with another who dressed himself in a yellow dog skin. It was only human nature. In tbeae modern davp, however, a man with only a moderate income can dress like a prince, if he will only buy his clothes of Owen, Pixley & Co.
A Rare Chance
Boot&. and Shoes Almost Given Away to Get Possession of a Store Room.
To (he People of Terre Haute: I have purchased the entire stock boots and shoes belonging to the store G. A. Rogers & Co., which has been heretofore on sale at No. 329 Main street, and been disposed of at manufacturer's sale. It is my purpose to use the store room where they now are, for the display of stoves and queensware, and it will therefore be necessary for me to close out the stock of boots and shoes. This I will do at once, as I want and must have the roooo. Having purchased them at a great bargain, and as a means of getting possession of the store room which I wanted, and could get in no other way, intend tS veil these boot* and shoes at prices never heard ol before in Terre Hante. The stock is a large one, and must and will be closed out in short order. There is thus offered to the people of Terre Haute aud Vigo county, an oppor tunity such as tbey never had before, for getting boots and shoes. All I ask of them is to call, examine goods and in quire the prices. They cannot help buying if they want goods cheaper than they can be bought anywhere else in the state. People wanting to buy must not delay in calling, for it will not be possible, at the prices the goods will be sold, for tne slock to last very long.
The pu bl ic's obed ien fierf in t. J. R. FJ8HER, 329 Main St.
Wright & Kaufman, grocers, corner of Seventh and Main streets, can supply all ye hungry with turkeys,chickens, quail rabbits, Sweitzer cheese, Michigan apples, mioce meats, chow-chow, cranberries, and a select lot of fruit and garnet* *They keep the best the market affords.
Trial Will Insure its Popularity Everywhere.
{"WHITB Shuttle Sewing Machine
When onee used will retain ItsCplace forever.
It is celebrated for Its advantages, la that it is one of the largest sewing machines. ana fee tared—adapted alike to the use of the family or the workshop, it has the largest shuttle, with a bobbin that holos almost a spool of thread.
The shuttle tenaion 1a adjustable without removlng-the shuttle from the machine. Tne great popularity of the White Is ttM moat convincing tribute to lta exeellenoe and superiority over other machines, and in submitting it to the trade we put It upon ita meritsjuid in no instanoe has it ever yet failed to satisfy any recommendation In ita favor.
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demand for the White has increased to such an extent that we are now
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Every machine Is warranted for 5 years, and sold for cash at liberal discounts, or upon easy payments, to salt the convenience of buyer*.
J. N. Hickman, Gen. Agt.
Main street, Terre Haute, led.
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We compare prices, patteri and quality with any house wof New York, and before we woul yield the lead in this, and other specialties, viz.:
HOSIERY, CORSETS, NECK WE
To any person living, we woull first quit the business.
HERZ' LAH DAZA1
The Boss Placd
FOR
Staple and Fancy G-roceriei
Is at the grocery house of
T.W.DUVALI
No. 30 South Sixth Street, near the P. O.
A Large Stock of FINE TEAS, ROASTF COFFEES and SPICES.
Country Froduce, Vegetables, and Fruits Every Description.
Goods delivered promptly to all parts of the cityj -free of charge.
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ITALIAN MARBLE AND GRANITE
MONUMENTS,
Htatnary, Yases, &e., &c., COR. FIFTH JAND WALNUT ST8. TERRS HAUTE, IND.
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Eldredge Sewing Machine Office
Has been changed to
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117 Sooth Third street, between Ohio and t, west
Walnut, west Me.
It is Warranted.-
It is the most complete, desirable machine era offered to the public. Being the latest, it has the advantage of having very desirable and new improvement*:
Don't boy until you see K. Harry Metzeker, late solicitor for the "White, will be glad tosee his old custoi»«*•
Office. 117 South Third street, second door north ol Fonts, Hunter fc Co' Livery Stable.
W. H. FISK, Agent.
BD 10 worth 96 free. Address STixwx Co., Portland, Maine.
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CHARLES J. KLOEJ
The attention of the east endent 1m called t4 the opening of a full and complete stock of
Chins, Glass and Queensware
Lamps of all styles, Toilet and Chamber Ht Fine vases, ana everything found in a fli. class queensware store, at the southwest cc ner of Main and Thirteenth street.
Coal Oil 20 Cents a Gallon.
A full stock of toys for children and arti cles suitable as Christmas presents. _j FIVl
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1 attention is called to the COUNTER. I have also a full line of PURE CANDlEg of every description. My cigar counter stocked with the most popular brands of
Cigars and Tobaccos
Low rent and economy enables me to a yon anything in the above lines cheaper th you can buy them in thenp-town stores. sure to call, and be convinced that yon wi find one of the neatest stores in the city.
Chas. J. Kloer.
GOAL
COMBS & ROGERS
Are prepared to fill owlets with prompting and dispatch for all grades of
Hard and Soft Coal and Coke,1
In any quantity, large or small. Send na' your orders by postal ainl, in person, by phone, or on horseback, and they will rec prompt attention, late and early. No ponement on account of the bad weather. Office, 122 South Third Street
St. Charles Hotel. Terro Haute, Ind
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f- All lance new CHROMO CARDS, tlut prettiest you ever saw, with name, 10c,
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