Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 January 1887 — Page 8

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PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

ILLINOIS PIONEERS.

MANNER OF LIVING BY THOSE WHO FIRST BROKE THE PRAIRIES.

The Building: of the hog Cabin—Furniture of the Interior—Mortar and "Sweep" for Grinding Corn—Going to

Mill-Clothing.

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Pioneer life takes its shape from the surroundings. Southern Illinois differed from the other western states in being distant from large towns, without public conveyance, having a climate neither cold nor warm, having a nearly even mixture of woodland and prairie, and being settled by emigrants from the south.

The houses were mostly round pole cabins, not the huge poplar logs they had used in the south, but such as they could get. Somotizaes the walls were "shelped down," or •very slightly hewn, and sometimes the walls were built of split logs smoothed a little on the face. Some of tho cracks in theso walls were chinked and daubed, while some were left open to admit light. Windows were nearly or quite unknown. Some of tho cabins had cracks all around "that a dog oould jump through.'' If the floor was anything else than bare ground it was made of puncheons, or slabs, split out and smoothed a little with a chopping axe, and fastened down with wooden pins or not fastened at all. Thero were but three "sleepers" to the floor, ono at cach end and ono in tho middle. Tho roof was not nailed and had no rafters. At tho eaves the end logs projected at each corner a foot or two Itoyond the walls, and on the ends of these rested logs, one on each side and theso were called "buttin' poles," because tho ends of tho first course of boards butted against them. Several courses of logs were then put up, tho gables, of course, upright, whilo the sido logs wera "drawn in to shape tho roof." On these logs clapboards •were laid, four foot boards being generally used, and held down by "weight poles." A polo was laid on each course of boards, and these poles were kept in place by blocks or sticks set up between them, called "knees."

Tho chimncy was of split logs below and small stickB higher up, with a stone, sometimes only a dirt, fireplace. Sometimes thero was a loft, made by laying clapboards 4m tho joists sometimes not and then the Joists—generally poles—were convenient for hanging up doer and deer skins, etc. Shelves Testing on long pins in tho walls answered for cupboard, pantry, bureau and wardrobe, as everything that might not as well be on the floor was stowod away on these shelves. There were but few Ixjdsteads in tho country. "Bed scaffolds" were made on two rails or pieces driven into the walls, ono for the sido and one for the end, in the corner of the cabin, the other ends of these rails being let into a post, the entire structure frequently having but ono bed post. Boards were laid across from the long rail to the wall, or from rail to rail, and on these the bod—if tho happy family had any—was laid. The table was either made of boards nailed to a rough, unwioldy framo, or it was made on stakes driven into the ground—i. e., the floor. Meat was plenty, but breadstuff was at first brought from tho older settlements on the Mississippi, Ohio or Wabash. Somo had little hgnd mills that would grind a bushel or twi of corn in a day, and they did well. But many had to beat this meal in a mortar. One family had a big kettle which they used for a mortar, but generally tho mortar was a stump with a basin burned out in the top of it. Over this was suspended on a "sweep" a huge billet of wood. This billet was brought down upon the grain in the mortar, the sweep raised it, and so, thump, thump, tho pounding went on till the grain was broken small enough to mako bread. Another style of mortar was made of a large block, and tho pestlo was a maul with an Iron wodge in tho end of it. This was used In bad weather, as it could bo brought indoors, and it cut tho grain rapidly. The meal was sifted through a sieve, made by punching a piece of deorskin full of holes with a hot spindle and stretching it over a hoop. In tho early autumn meal was grated, and the bread mado of this meal and baked an a bard or in the ashes was as delicious as heart could wish. But finer delicacies than theso woro sometimes prepared. Meal was

is, it was beaten very fine,

then it was put into a cloth of loose, open texture, and as much as possible sifted and beaten out through the cloth. This was

4*sarched"

meal, and it was nearly as fine as

flour. Most of tho lints or caps worn were mado of skins, often of tho most fantastic shapes, but in summer tho straw hat was common. Tho hats tho men brought to this country with thorn were worn on Sunday. As the original supply of clothing began to fail, the first resource was to mako clothes of deer •kins. Those in tho hands of tho Indians made excellent clothing: but our first settiers woro not such good tanners, and the clothes did not do so well. The breechcs •0011 got a tremendous knee thaf, was a permanent thing. When tho men or boys went out into tho grass while the dew was on, the breeches would soon bo dangling around their feet and then about 10 clock, or sooner, when they became dry again, they rustled and crackled about their knees as much too short. Moccasins were almost universally worn—often being made for winter uso of skins with the hair on. In warm weather all went barefoot.

Most of tho leisure timo was spent in visitlug or hunting, horse races and protracted meetings. Much timo was also spent in going to mill. A two bushel sack of corn was shelled long before daylight the next morning the bustlo of getting off "began, so aa to make the trip in ono day if possible the sack was thrown across a horse, man or boy mounted and jogged away, followed by many cautions about crossing the creeks and much anxiety was felt if the boys failed to get back the next night or tho following day.

I had better describe one of the mills. There is an open shed, open all around. In the middle a large post—say eighteen inches in diameter—turns on a pivot in a block set in the ground, and is stayed by cross beams at the top this post, eJbout two feet from the ground, a beam goes through and extends eight or ton feet out at cach end, and to these the horses are hitched. About six feci from the ground all round the post sticks five or six feet long with a natural fork at the end are driven into auger holes, and in these forks a raw hide round band or rope works. Some later mills had a tight wheel instead of these sticks. This band goes round a little trundle head that turns the millstone. The wholtf was out in the woods, sometimes without even a shed so being at mill was very much like being out of doors. —Cor. Chicago Herald.

1 Fashionablo ambition now leans towaird **writteg for the mags fines." An article to create talk (Ills aerate cups of happiness to the social brim,—-Chicafo HsrakL

THE STAGE "BACK FAIL"

A BUSINESS WHICH FEW ACTORS CARE TO UNDERTAKE.

The Terror of the Profession—A Genius Whom no Fear of Broken Bones Could Trammel—Exciting Incident—An Awful

Fall. "The business of the stage known to actors as the 'back fall,'" said a well known memlier of the theatrical profession, "has more terror to the actor and is attempted with more apprehension than any other mechanical necessity of the art There are few persons on the stage, no matter how long and arduous their experience has been, who can do it, or who will attempt it. I heard Will Stuart say once that a famous star actress had told him that she would give her month's receipts, and they were then among the thousands, if she was able to do tho back fall successfully, as its effect on an audicnce is tremendous. But the apparent certainty that to attempt it would result in a broken neck or back always deterred her, as it has every other actress, from making any effort to master the accomplishment—and not only every actrcss, but actor as welL "I never saw but one man on the stage who could do the back fall to perfection, and who wasn't afraid to do it, and that was Joe Nogle. I guess every old actor remembers 'Back Fall Joe.' His stamping ground was the untamed west, but he has played in this city, in the heaviest of heavy parts at the old Bowery theatre and later at Wood's museum. I can't say whether Joe is alive yet or not, but I never heard of his death, and dare say that he is delighting his particularly appreciative audiences somewhere in the west, where he was always an immense favorite in the lurid drama. Ho was way above the average melodramatic performers, and with the effective back fall to help him he always brought down the house.

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STIFF AS A FALLING TREE. 'A

"Joe Nagle was a man over six feet high, and his gigantic frame was splendidly filled out. He was as straight as an Indian, and to see that great form of his toppling over and falling backward, as stiff as a falling tree, and with no more apparent power of resistance to or consciousness of the fall than a tree would have, was something so startlingly realistic that it never failed to drive even the coldest audience frantic. He would come down with a thud that showed plainly there was no nonsense about the fall, but at the mtub time he caught all his weight on his bands, the same as an actor does in the ordinary every day fall on the stage. "Whenever Nagle was to play in a strange company he always rehearsed this back fall to the members, so that they might become used to it, as ho knew if he sprang it on'em without warning it would break them up for the whole performance. But even after the perilous acrobatic feat had been- done before tho company time and time again, actors on the stage with Nagle during the performance were still so frequently nervous and rattled when he came to do his fall that they would involuntarily start forward with outstretched hands as if to catch him, so real and 'unstagy' was the act, even to men and women used to, all the gymnastic and acrobatic business of "their art. Poor Frank Murdock, who, although a good actor, found his best road to famo as the author of 'Davy Crockett,' the piece that made Frank Mayo rich and celebrated, came near giving Nagle his last back fall once, through this nervousness and involuntary interference in the performance of the act. Nagle had noticed Frank's great nervousness on several occasionsiand had vfarned him to control himself, 'Fbr,' said Joe, 'if my mind is taken off of this fall for a second I wouldn't give much for my neck.'

UNDER EXCITING CIRCUMSTANCES.

"One night Joe stiffened himself for the fall under particularly exciting circumstances. Murdock stood near him, and, as he afterward said, when he saw that big form of Nagle's begin to tumble over backward, like the toppling of some great column, the sight was so real that he could not control himself, and he stepped quickly forward and stretched his arm out under the falling actor before he regained his composure. The arm touched Nagle, and, instead of coming down on the stage rigid and straight, ho fell all in a heap, and wos so badly hurt that he had to be carried off the stage. He was prostrated for a long timo and suffered intensely. But ho got well, and I saw him do the back fall with all his realism several times after that. "They tell a story about Joe and his back fall during a star engagement at the Cleveland theatre while Clara Morris was playing minor parts in the company there. I don't remember the play, but whatever it was Miss Morris was cast as tho daughter of the hero, which was Nagle's part. There came a crisis in his part where it was incumbent on him to introduce his great back fall, and although his hands were an important adjunct in the feat, he was seized by some strange whim, and as Miss Morris, as his daughter, was about to take leave of bim, according to the stage directions, he caught her hands and took her down with him in his awful fall. Miss Morris afterward said that it seemed to her as if she were falling from some great height, as she went down in ono grand sweep with the gigantic form of the actor. Nagle had not tho support of his hands in this fall, but he spread his length out on the stage without the relaxation of a muscle, and as the astonished and frightened daughter disentangled herself, safe and unhurt, from the awful wreck of her father, the audience went wild with enthusiasm, and Back Fall Nagle never before received such a recognition of his overtopping genius."—New York Sun.

A Specific Against

Hunger. "If

Talking about fasting men, the following recipe, according to the philosopher, Epimenides, who lived for fifty years in a cavern, with no apparent means of sustenance, is a specific against hunger: Cooked squills, or else onions, to be finely chopped up and mixed with a fifth part of oily grain sesamums and a fifteenth part of poppybeads. This compound to be ground up together with some honey and shaped into balls of about the size of a large olive, which is about equal to that of a small walnut. People cannot starve if they eat one ball at about 8 o'clock awl another at about 4. It may be added in this connection that a Paris comic paper learns that the government, i:i view of its financial straits, instead of, as usual, giving a sum at money on New Year's day to small officials, clerks and menials, should present them as a New Year's gift several flasks of SnccPs wonderful beverage.—Paris Cor. London Times.

His Mistake Paid Him Wall.

Sports in flowers sometimes bring their owner in good round prices in photography an amateur of Hartford, CI, has made a hicky mistake. He was taking the new mamortal arch erected in honor of the soldkn of the civil war wbeo the gelatine film slipped a little over the glass. The arch looks as if it were bulging to* on the sides and coming down. 1*1 rt a r.t"The Arch During Wiggins' Onessi be offered it for sale, and locxam of its curious look and in•xplicahleness, tho paLlie has bought so many copies that be has made a small financial hit.—Philadelphia Cafl. in

TEKRE TTATJTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

EFFECTS ON THE STAGE.

Floating Ice~A Raft

Scene—M^lnc

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fects—Moonlight Bipples—Cataracts. The old and much abused effect of floating ice shown in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," whoro Eliza crosses the Ohio and avoids her pursuers, was originally dono with set waters and old soap boxes that were mounted on rollers and pulled from side to side by means of ropes. Then the effect was bettered by covering theso boxes with a sea-cloth which is a piece of canvas painted in imitation of water. At last a platform hung on heavy bolts with two small rockers was substituted end is still in uso. The raft sceno in "The World" was produced by having a man at cach one of the entrances who kept shaking the sea cloth while the sceno was on. This was improved by having a number of boys kneel under the doth and givo it motion by raising and lowering their shoulders. Then the barrel roller came into use. This consists of a long cylindrical framo covered with irregular shaped pieces of wood painted to represent a sea. Several of these rollers used at one time are effective. "They are controlled by a man who sets them in motion by turning a crank. This idea is used in the sceno of the old sluice house in "Alone in London."

The best marine or water effect is secured by painting a sea and building a number of waves elipticcl in form and fastening them together by mean of elastic bands. These waves when set in motion from either side of the stage by means of a pulley are very delusive. The beach effect where the tide is seen to be in motion—that is, where the water comes up to the shore and then recedes only to return again in another wave —is done by covering the stage first with a sand cloth. The cloth is painted not only to look like sand ljut is sanded as well. Over this is spread the sea cloth attached to heavy sand bags that hang underneath the stage by means of ropes that run through the floor. When the cord holding the sea cloth is released the heavy

Band

bags draw it away

from the set rocks and bank, and as the under part of the sea cloth is also well sanded the swash of the water is very nicely imitated. When the cloth has been drawn as far as necessary the operator has but to pull it back again and then go over the same per formanoe until the scene is done. This effect is expensive.

For moonlight ripples and shadows slashes are cut in the painted waters behind which colored silken cloths are hung. These cloths are sometimes spangled. The silken sheen showing through these slashes produces a good effect. Waterfalls are produced by manna of an endless roller of canvas or by directing a stream of real water over a trestle filled in with real stones and ferns and mashed in on either side by set waters. The roller idea is seldom seen nowadays. The difference between these two systems can be appreciated by those who can remember the original production of "The Cataract of the Ganges" and the spectacle of the "Black Crook."—Philadelphia Item.

MINSTRELS IN PRIVATE PARLORS.

Hiring Professional Darkeys to Amuse Fashionable Guests—The Programme. Sixty expectant faedd, beaming eyed children sat close together in the large drawing room of a luxurious house in Thirty-sixth street, a minute's walk from Fifth avenue, one afternoon last week. Behind them stood and sat as many more of their elder brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers, the crowd winding itself out into the broad hall and even reaching up far on the wide staircase. All eyes were on the curtains concealing one end of the room. It was sunshine outside, but the great window curtains were dropped and the room was brtajjjtened from candelabra and chahdelier. f(r

The little men and women didn't know exactly what there was behind that mysterious curtain, nor did any of tho graver folk, except a few who had been let into the precious secret They guessed tlicro were to bo private theatricals, but when 4 o'clock was chimed and the curtains were drawn to either side all that was revealed was a crescent of seven empty chairs. A pianist in a corner struck a chord and in filed a line of black faced men in sombre evening dress, with Knickerbockers and black silk stockings and silver buckled shoes., "Minstrels," whispered a youngster, with a giggle, to a little girl by his side, and as he spoke the melody of "My Old Kentucky Home," in rich tenor tones, rose to confirm the youngster's surmise.

Minstrel entertainments in private houses are gotten up chiefly to anui the younger element, and incidentally they ::dd variety to the routine of those who are in the full rush of social life. The first private minstrel entertainment was given by a group of Dockstader's artists just before Christmas week, and since then nearly a dozen shows have been presented in houses in Madison and Fifth avenues and other homes of Murray hill. The programme begins with songs and dialogues, and "gags" touching society foibles are cleverly worked in. The first part ends with a comical "finish," and then some specialties in singing, dancing and banjo playing are given, followed by a pathetic recitation, the whole closing with a short burlesque. The oddity of a minstrel show in a private drawing room has been picked up as being far more entertaining than private theatricals, for private theatricals are getting to be almost a bore, and besides require so much preparation for t!.eir successful presentation. The progran::.io is specially prepared, and after it is all over the little ones are wild to go to the impromptu dressing room and see how the white men make themselves darkeys.—New York Tribune, ft

Modjeska's Power of Characterisation.

Count Bosenta tells an interesting story of the wonderful powers of character impersonation that his wife (the charming Modjeska) possesses. It was in Poland and an tho occasion of one of many hunting parties. At such times, according to custom, tho ladies joined tho gentlemen at noonday at a settled rendezvous. While all were waiting for Mme. Modjeska, who had been delayed, an old peasant woman, in clumsy sabots and with her hands rolled up timidly in her apron, came to the party and in a mournful tone related tho story of her woes. Her only pig had been put in tho pound for trespass on another's property. Sbo was so persistent in her demands for aid that the count's brother became angry and ordered the coachman to drag her away. Just as the man was about to carry out the order the old woman threw herself into her brother-in-law's arms and laughingly disclosed her identity. She had completely fooled every one in the party except her husband, who was in the secret, and he Mmarff isnt sure but that be would have been taken In had be been ignorant of the scheme.—Boston Journal •*•.**

,4, Those Russian

Cape.

The Russian stejghlng cap with long earpieces may be comfortable for the from creatures who need it, but it it painfully unbecoming. The truth is that any woman who is well enough to take a sleigh ride at all in this ciimato wiD not need to have ber ears tightly covered while she is doing it, and it is not persons compelled to take long drives who wear these Raton pieces at ugliness, but spoiled duifawi who do not remain out at the hoaas —Stonit Fm

The papers has a good deal to sav about us girls a wear in'"big hats to the the-ay-ter. Why don't they 'say sumthin'. about the boys after the the-ay-ter is oat. Just the other night, as I wus a comin' home frum Mr. Nailure's opery house 1 met two yung men, who move in the best society, out on a spree. They were already purty well under way, and one uv them said in an inebriated tone of

voice: "Let's bid each other good night, Bill." "Why, you ain't going home already? It's right in the shank of the evening," said Bill. "Of course I'm not goin' home now, but after awhile we won't know each ozser from a shide of sole leather, sho let's shay 'good night' right now before it sh too late." Now them yung fellers ought to settle down, git married and go to Ed. R. Wright's White Frunt fur:

Dressed Turkeys, Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Squirrel, Smoked Salmon, Eel, Celery, Cranberries, Oysters, White Clover Honey, Choice Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Maple Syrup, Sorghum, New Orleans Molasses, Buckwheat Flour, Bananas, Entire Wheat Flour, Graham Flour, English Plum Pudding, Peaches for Cream, California Wines, pure and cheap Choice Country and Jersey Butter, and many other thing too numerous to mention."^

Patton's Place

Is tile best. He don't expect to get tender beef out of tough .cattle. He slaughters the best.

Try his sausages.

THE DAY

Perfumers to the .Prairie Queens.

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OTICE TO NON-RESIDENT.

State of Indiann, In the Supreme Court. No. 13,550. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company vs. Nicholas Katzenbaeh and Charles L. Campbell. Appeal from

Vltfo Circuit Court. Whereas, It appears by affidavit filed In said cause, that the above named appellee, Charles L. Campbell, is a non-resident of the State of Indiana, and is a necessary party to said appeal,

Now, therefore, the said Charles L. Campbell is hereby notified that on the 13th day of January,'1887, the said ChicagoEastern Illinois Railroad Company filed In the office of Clerk of the Supreme Court of Indiana, a transcript of the record and proceedings In a certain suit, appealed from trie Vlco Circuit Court of said State, in which said Nicholas Katzenbach was plaintiff*, and said Chicago &

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appear at the State House, in Indianapolis, before said Supreme Court., and defend said appeal, on the 21st day of Maroh. 1887. else the same will be proceeded upon in his absence.

Witness, William T. Noble. Clerk of said Supreme Court, and the seal thereof, at Indianapolis, this 27th day of January, A. D. 18S7. [SEAL.] WM. T. NOBLE, Clerk S. C.

—CALL ON-

HAGrEB & STEWART

"THE BIG TWO,

fiii Fire, pjif e, *!'Accident

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iisrsuiR/j^isrcE! No. 11 North Sixth Street

I desire to Inform my former customers of MY REMOVAL

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Crawfordsville, Ind. This need not prevent their patronage for I Will Deliver Free of Charge Either by mall, express or freightjss the^urtlctes msy require* to &1I customer# In Terr©

Haute and vicinity,

All Vegetable and Flower Seeds, (Besides many other goods) 8eeds of value of 10c up to 8100. SPECIAL ATTENTION is called to my large assortment and superior stock of r*. A SIEZEJDSf Ta my very extensive stock, my own Importation, of

PLOWEB 8BBI)S, Splendid Aster*, Magnificent Pansies, Beautlfal Xarturtiums,etc^ansurpaiised inqnality in the U. & To some kinds of

SEEDS

which cannot be readily obtained so near as at my seed store. To my WIDE AWAKE OATS, the newest

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Seed Merchant,

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Of all the days of the week, I

SATURDAY!

It is the time to buy the supplies for THE DAY OF REST. Dressed Chickens,

Dressed Rabbits, --v Smoked Salmon, Spare Ribs, Tenderloins,

Finest Dcied Meats, .. -r Finest Patent Flour, Buckwheat Flour,

Bnlk Oysters, Can Oysters, Cranberries, Celery,

Oranges, Lemons, Grapes, Dried California Peaches, Select Apples, Ac., fec., Ac.

JOE MILLER.

."15 Wabash Avenue. K",

PSORIQUE cures Itch and Wabash Scratches in 20 minutes. For sale by all druggists.

3ft $ Why use a preparation .5.

quisite article can be found in

LETTUCE LOTION

For sensitve and roughened skin, Manufactured in the Laboratory of

JtOOB A CMRpUAUWiT

mmm

In season

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in MELON SKEW,

SWEET IWATOEB and FLRE STOCK SEED POTATOES in great variety. To know what I have thtsseMon.fend for MY HANDSOME CATALOGUE which shall be sent free.

J. A. FOOTE,

Orawford»vllle,

Ind.

HERZ' BULLETIN.

We have Completed Our Inventory and a Now Ready for Business.

WE WILL CONDUCT A In

SPECIAL'S A E

Embroideries and Muslin Trimmings,

FOR THRJSE DAYS^ .•*.*,

On Tuesday, Wednesday" and Thursday ,v Next, Week,'

To which occasion wo kindly invite tho liberal attendenee which our Special Sales are generally enjoying^

BIG LOT of MUSLIN UNDERWEAI ill. on the \\ay.

He Bazar-.

CGULICK & CO Druggists,

Manufacture and recommend

IDIR,. ZEiEZtsnRTE-'S COUGH SYRUP

as superior 1 all respects,

v' "A^ WM fft'FOR COLDS, COUGHS, HOARSENESS, ETC. sJv-i. p|ea8a111, Does not Constipate, and is the largest 25 cent bottle In the market.

EMBROIDERIES,

Special Prices for One /Week.

The Larg£|t Line in th'e City at the Lowest Prices. ,fv« r-

Carpenters Boston Store

15 lbs. Standard Granulated Sugar for $1. 16 lbs. Confectioner's A Sugar for 9L00. 17 lbs. Soft White Sugar for $1.00. 18 lbs. Nice Yellow Sugar for $1.00. Roasted Coffees.—We are exclusive wen to for Chase A Sanborn's following

Roasted Coffees, which for quality ana price are not equaled: Standard Java. 2 lb. cans Mocha and .Tava Combination. Our Blend. Golden Rio. Teas.—Come and boy a pound of our

Teas. You may be surprised. Jersey Buckwheat Flour. Schu maker's Akron Graham Flour. Maple Syrup. Table Syrup. 1$% New NewlOrleans Mollasses. Kingan's Hams. Kingan'a Miss Cut Shoulders per lb. 614c warranted. Kingan's English Cared Shoulders 8c. Pickled Pork. Kingan's Lard per lb. 10c. Just received a new lot of Mackerel. Cod Fish, Old Fashion. Cream Cod, Fish Dressed. Smoked Halibut in bricks. Yarmouth Bloaters. Evaporated Peeled Pears.

418 Main Street/

Wabash Seed Store!

29 North Fourth Street.

"Iflave'n fu'il line?of Clover Seed of Timothy. Red Top Bloi Grass and Lawn Grass. A full line of D. Landreth & Sons' Philadelphia seeds A. B. Clev& land & Co.'s seeds D. M. Ferry & Co's seeds Sibley & Go's and Hen derson's seeds.

Market Gardeners can get close prices on different seeds needed

a full line of Onion sets and original Jersey Yellow See S at 1 2000 Bushels of yellow Learning seed corn to wholesale and retato buyers. This is the earliest corn in the market.

Seeds sold at Wholesale and Retail, to suit the trade. A full line of General Seeds just arrived. Send for prices

^CHASm*GOLDSMITH, Wholesale Produce Dealer.

The Question of the Day

Bid?"®'

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IRJS^ID! .05%' 14 lbs. Choice New Turkish Prunes$1.00Will be higher.

Bear in mind that we claim to sell, and do sell you more goods for one dollar than any other house in the dtyf Goods delivered to any part of the city.

W. W. CLIVER,^

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French Prunes. New Valencia Raisins, per lb. 10c. New Dry Currants. White Clover Honey, in comb Choice per lb. 15c. Pure Strained Honey, per lb. 10a Preserves. Fruit Butters. 3 lb. Table Peaches, per can 16c. 2 lb. Table Peaches, per can 10c. V: Curtis Bros. String Beans. Curtis Bros. White Wax Beans. Curtis Bros. Marrow Fat Peas. Curtis Bros. Champion of England Peas. Extra Fine Canned Corn, per can 10c. 31b. Cans Tomatoes, per can 10c. Will advance price very soon. East Hamburg Tomatoes. Curtis Bros. Tomatoes. New York Cream Cheese. 9 Hoop Cedar Pails, Brass Bound, 35c. Frank Siddall's Soap. Stearic Acid Can^Llps, Wax Candles. Toilet Soaps. Mica Axle Grease. 1. per Shell Bark Hickory Nuts.

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