Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 October 1887 — Page 12

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

J'EIhSONAL MENTION.

Twelve pages of The Mail this week. Mrs. Will Morgan in visiting in Columbus, Irxl.

Mrs. J. C. Hidden is visiting friends near Louisville. Mrs. Dishon and Miss Stella have returned from Indianapolis.

A. J. Crawford went to Gadsden, Ala bama, this week, on business. A. ('. Combs will go to Chicago next week to engage in the coal business.

Miss Ollie Creager has gone to St. Louis to

visitr,

and see the exposition

Mrs. W. M. Slaughter and daughter, Miss Minnie are visiting in St. Louif*. Miss Lulu Morrill, of the Commercial college, has returned from Chicago.

Miss Ilattie Steinmehl has accepted position with Kspeuhain AAlbrecht. The serious illness of his father called R. S. Tennant to (ireencastle this week.

Mrs. L. A. Burnett has gone to Minneapolis to visit her (laughter, Mrs. Truesdale.

Mrs. B. L. Smith Has returned from Ohio, where slie made quite an extended visit.

Mrs. Caroline Wahler and Mrs. Geo. S. Zimmerman have gone to St. I^ouis on a visit.

Mr. Harry Glover has gone to Phila dolphin where he will enter the school of dentistry.

Mr. Thomas J. Meredith, of Atchinson, Kan., is the guest of his sister, Mrs. B. F. Boring.

Miss Laura Byers has returned from Lyons, Khs,, where she visited friends and relatives.

Harry Burgett has gone to Philadelphia where he will take a course in the College of Pharmacy.

Mrs. L. Solomon has returned from Indianapolis, whore she has been visiting friends mid relatives.

Miss- Florence llussey has been engaged to sing in the lOpiseopal church choir, beginning to-morrow.

Messrs. Ben and ('rawford McKeen liavo returned home after a month's tour tlirough the west and southwest.

W. H. Smith, manager of tho Denver Co-operative Cigar Co., Denver, Colorado, is here? on a visit to his old home.

Will F. Barton started on Thursday for Columbus, Ind., whore he will make his home and engage in business.

Miss Hannah Smith is in Vinconnes to be bridesmaid for MiasIrene Hibberd, who is to be married next Tuesday.

Dan Crowe stopped over hore to Hee the boys on his way back to Washington from the St. Louis encampment.

Mrs. W. A. Murphy, of south Third street, has returned home after a visit of seven weeks in Omaha and Chicago.

Mrs. M. K. Finch is in St. Louis vis iting friends and viewing tho wonders of the exposition and veiled prophets.

Mrs. Julia 15. Hosford, of this city, was married last week at Nashville, Tenn., to Mr. J. P. Mitchell, a lawyer of that city.

Mrs. A. II. Kildow has returned after a the months' visit in Kansas and Iowa. Her health is considerably improved by the trip.

The Presbyterian Church, of Miehi gan City, hits tendered a call to the Kev. Thomas IVrrv, formerly of the Central Presbyterian Church hore, now of Chi cago, and it is believed he will accept.

A. K. Cutting, who came near prccepitaling this country into a war with Mexico, is in the city, and will make this his headquarters, while delivering a lecture on Mexico in the neighboring towns.

Miss Nettie Rankin gave a very pleasant dancing party Tuesday night to about forty of her friends, in honor of her eighteenth birthday, at her residence on south Ninth street. Refreshments wer« nerved and Mi-n Rankin was the recipient of several beautiful presents.

Charles KoHey, the well known and popular young insurance agent, was united in tnarringe to Miss Lulu Riehle ut the home of the bride on south Fourth street Wednesday evening, the Rov. Dr. Pierce performing the ceremony. The young ronpie went immediately to house keeping In an elegant'.new home provided by Mr. Kellev on south Thirteenth street.

Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Wires, of West Potsdam, N. Y.. are visiting their son, Mr. Edward Wirt*s and brother-in-law, Mr. J. Irving Riddle. Mr. Wires was a soldier in the 14th X. Y. heavy artillery and is a cripple for life on account of rheamatism contracted in the service, yet he went with the Grand Army Post of .this city to St. Louis and remained until the fun was over, notwithstanding the stormy weather.

On Wednesday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bogard, southeast of the city, Mr. William F. Hall the well known carpenter at the ear works, was uniUsi in marriage to Miss Berth* Schmidt, the Rev. Smith, of this city, ofttriating. A large circle of friends and relay ve»» wore present* *nd a large nun*of elegant presents were received.

Mr. Oliver Glover, of this city, and Mi*» Stewart, daughter of exSheriff Wm. Stewart, were married by the Kev. Pr. I via Held, at Chicago, on last Tuesday evening. The ceremony oc en red at the resident?© of Mr. and Mm. J. K. ruinming*. Both pwrUon *re w«H known I»©re*mi their many friends will be pleaded to hear of llielr marriage.

Hon. John P. Usher, of Lawrence, Kan., is in the city spending a few days with his sister, Mrs. Sarah Deming.

Mrs. Dr. Wilson-Moore contributes an interesting talk aboat French Lick and its surroundings which should have appeared last week.

Mrs. L. Welch, formerly Mrs. Smith, who has been living among the Indians in Arizona for the last six years, is home visiting relatives.

Mr. A. P. Conant's daughter and her husband, Mr. C. S. Cobleigh, and children and Miss Ada Conant, of Loominster, Mass., are visiting A. P. Conant.

Mrs. A. M. Kellogg is here from Calfornia, on a trip of pleasure and business combined. She is at her daughter's, Mrs. Chas. Buckingham's, south Fourth.

At the recent County Fair the Wabash Manufacturing Company offered a premium for the best made half dozen overalls. The lady who took the premium made them on The WHITE Sewing Machine.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Some one has counted up seven brides who have been killed on their wedding day thus far this year.

There is an old gentleman in Athens, Ga., who has outlived all the life insur ance companies that he ever invested in.

The Swindell brothers have started a creamery in Plymouth, this state. That is a bad name to go into the butter business with.

A Philadelphia clergyman, a great athlete and a lover of sports, forgot himself once and said: "Here endeth the first inning let us pray."

The man who says he will be under everlasting obligations to you in case you accommodate him is not the man you want to loan money to.

Mr. Moody is reported assaying: "You can't pound a sermon into a man with a sledge-hammer after he has got through reading one of those Sunday papers."

Billy Florence used to say that he could remember fifty different instances when men had set up f5 worth of wine for him in order to get a dollar-pass into the theater.

They tell of a very cultured divine in .Boston who, instead of saying: "The collection will now b6 taken up," impressively remarks: "The accumulation will now ensue."

Harper's Magazine informs us that in Chili there are no stoves or fireplaces, and the millionaires sit around in cold palaces with their wraps on. No wonder that country is called Chili.

A sad-looking man has been visiting farmers in Ohio and asking them to sign a pledge not to kill any song birds for a year. Afterward these pledges are returned in the shape of promissory notes.

Frank James, the ex-bandit, is to close his corner grocery in Texas and become a traveling salesman for an Atlanta house. From his varied experience there is little doubt that Mr. James will prove a success "on tho road."

A German artist makes all his angels with the same clothes on that men women ftnd children wear on earth. He says he has no doubt that dress goods and broadcloths are just as plentiful in Heaven as muslin and bunting. "Did you ever," said one preacher to another, "stand at the door after your sermon and listen to what people said about it as they passed out?" The other replied: "I did once"—a pause and a sigh—"but I'll never do so again."

A clergyman in Carson, Nov., recently sent to a local paper a notice of the services at his church, in which the subject of his sermon, "How to Cure Hoodlumism," was given. It appeared in print, however, "How to Cure Rheumatism/' and the church was paoked.

Tho latest descriptive slang word is sklppy." It is the one thing people ambitious of fashionable distinction do not want applied to them. To say of a party it is "skippy" ought to break a hostess's heart. It probably would in certain lofty circles.

It is safer to ride than to olimb," said one of the loading builders of elevators in Xew York, the other day. "We carry over .too,000 passengers on our elevators in this city every day, and you can judge for yourself what per cenk'of them are killed as oompared with the number hurt in falling down stairs."

There is a citizen of San Bernardino Cal., says the Courier of that place, who years ago decided that kissing was wicked, because Christ was betrayed with a kiss. He has been married twenty years, and is the father of eleven children, but has never kissed his wife nor one of his offspring.

A cttisen of Newton, O., has an ailment which puxales the doctors. When he goes to sleep they have to pour water in his ears to awaken him, and when they get him awake they have to tickle the soles of his feet to pat him to sleep again It has never occured to them to leave ..him in one state or the other. •»-,

A White Mountain guide says: "When I am in the woods I never use a compass in fact, I don't need any. There are three sure ways that I have for finding the points of the oompaas. Yon will notice that three-thirds of the moss on trees grows on the nerth side: the heaviest boughs on spruce trees are always on the south side, and, thirdly, the topmost twig of every uninjured hemlock tips to the east. You just remember those things and you'll never be lost.

On the Canadian Pacific railroad the other day a young man who was crowing the continent economically brought, with him a bundle of four slats fastened three or four inches apart with broad tape in three bands. He took two seats whenever two were unoccupied, and,

laying this contrivance on both across the intervening space, made for himself a rest for his legs when sitting up and for his back when lying down. He was envied by all his fellow passengers, even in the parlor cars.

Milton G. Barlow, the minstrel, is still engaged in filling his long but unprofitable engagement at the Ludlow-street jail. When he was arrested) Feb. 12 last, on his wife's application for divorse, he didn't think he would be locked up long and was disposed to treat his imprisonment as a huge joke. "It's only a onenight stand," he replied to Warden Keating, "and this is one of the snuggist houses I ever played in.

The graves of three famous men have lately been visited by a Boston Transcript writer. "The pink-white rock," he says, "is the only memorial that marks the grave of Emerson. The little slab at the head of the long grave in the inclosure of arbor-vitse bears upon it the word 'Hawthorne'—that is all. The low head and

foots

tones have already grown

mossy and ancient in the shade on the hill-top. And the third gravestone bears upon it the name of Henry D. Thoreau and the brief record of the birth and death of the man whose wood-notes still so widely echo." '-}^k

At the recent County Fair the Wabash Manufacturing Company offered ft premium for the best made half ddittn overalls. The lady who drew the premium made them on The WHITE Sewing Machine.

You are now about to select a suit of clothes for fall. At one place you can find a pattern to suit but not a tailor at another the tailor is good enough but the stock isn't up to the mark. If you want to be thoroughly satisfied, with a splendid stock, including the finest imported and domestic woolens, and a tailor who can fit you perfectly, go to Phil. Schloss, corner Main and Fifth streets.

Night School.

Night school at the Terre HauU Commercial college will begin Monday evening, October 3. Arrangements should be made previous to that time. Tuition for the fall term (six months) $25, or $6 for a month.

Look Out!

For something new and gbf'geous at Dan Fasig's Health Office about the first of November.

Schnull & Krag's Fumas cigars have been well tried and tested and give universal satisfaction. For sale only at Baker fc Watson's.

At the recent County Fair the Wabash Manufacturing Company offered a prer mium for the best made half dozen overalls. The lady who took the premiunl made them on The WHITE Sewing Ma chine.

Extra Fine Oysters.

Although the season has little more than begun, E. W. Johnson is in daily receipt of some very fine oysters. If you want the best, go to headquarters, 615 Wabash avenue.

Why Pay Big Fees

to an oculist to have your eyes measured for glasses when you can have it done by an absolutely accurate machine at Kern's jewelry store?

Electric Lustre Starch will not stick to the iron. It is the best starch. 6-5t.

For the President's Reception. EVERGREEN WREATHIN'GS, BLOOMING and FOLIAGE PLANTS,

Make the Handsomest Decorations, TULIPS, HAACINTHS, Etc., For Fall Planting now ready.

WINTER BLOOMING PLANTS in great variety, very cheap at JOHN G. HEINL'S, Corner Eighth and

Cherry Streets.

POWDER

Absolutely Pure.

This powder never varies. A marvel of pnrlty. strength and wholesomenew. More economical than the ordinary kinds, ana cannot be sold in competition with the mult tltude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in ««».

hot ax.Baxisq

QHICAGO AND RETURN

VANSVILLE ROUTE.

TERRE TT AUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. /.-'^

K. \V. VANVALZAH, Successor to

RICHARDSON A VAX VALZAH, IDEZSTTIST. Office—Southwest corner-Fifth and Main Streets, over National State Bank (entrance on Fifth street.

B, E. A. GILLET., D. D. &

DENTIST.

Makes a specialty of fine gold fillings. 106 north Sixth first door north of Baptist church.

1NCOLN & HAYNES, JLJ DENTISTS Office 19% south 6th st., opposite post office.

All work warranted as represented.

H. C. PUGH. G- E. PUGH. pUGH &

i*UGH,

Attorneys at Law*

Supplies.

SO0 Ohio 8treet. Terre Haute, Ind.

JULIUS F. ERMISCH

STEAM DYE HOUSE,1

656 Main Street, McKeen's Klock, Cleaning and dyeing of all kinds of Ladle and Gents clothing. Gents garments at" neatly repaired. Write for price list.

I. H. C. KOYaK, Attorney,, Office—517 Ohio Street.

JpORECLQSUft^.. ,. -4

State of Indiana, County of Vigo, in the Superior Court'of Vigo County, September term, 1887.

No. 2419. Maurice Maxwell v«. Ricliard Dunnigan etal. Foreclosure. Be it known, that on the 17th day ol September, 1887, it. was ordered by the Court that the Clerk notify by publication said Richard Dunnigan and Maria Dunnigan as non-resi-dent defendants of the pendency of this action against them.

Ha id defendants are therefore hereby notified of'tlic pendency of said action against them and that the same will stand for trial November' 8th, the' same being September term of said Court in the year 1887.

All bids must be accompanied by a bond in the sum of #800, stgned by two disinterested sureties, as a guranlee that the contract will be entered into within five days after it is awarded.

The Common Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Common Council.

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Powder Co.. Wall rt. N. Y.

Via Chicago and Eastern Illinois

KACH

TUESDAY and FRIDAY Prom Oct. lsttoaoth, Good returning third day after date of aale.

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R. A. CAMPBKLL. General Agent.

Short and Direct Line

Prom Terr* Haute to Jktoobpomery, 'J JackaonriUe. *,

Nashville, New Orleans, (Savannah, Only one etinnge of emir. No Ferries. Me Transfer*. Passenger* eroan the Ohio river on the new Steel Bridie at Henderson.

For lnfornatlon|and ticket* call on R. A. CAMPBELL* General Aftot, Terre Haote, Ind.

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t. „t. 38Ohio Street.

Money to txian at Low Kates of Interest,

J. NUGENT.

M.J. BROPHY.

jsq-UGENT & CO., „:v.„

PLUMBING and GAS FITTING A dealer in Gas Fixtures, Globes and Engineer's

MERKILL N. SMITH, Clerk.

OTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

City Clerk'sOFKtcfe,'\

li .'.Teeke Hautb, Ind.,Sept.

21,1887.

Sealed proposals will be received by the Common Council of the city of Terre Haute' at the next regular meeting, Tuesday evening, October -1th,

1887,

for the erection of an

engine and reel house in the Sixth Ward in accordance with plans and specifications now on file In the City Clerk's office.

A LON ZO C. DUDDLESTON, City Clerk.

OTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Office of City Civit, Enginkf.h, TBKhB Haute, Ind., September

9,1887. I

Sealed proposals will be received by the Common Council of the city of Terre Haute, Ind., at their next Regular meeting, Tuesday evening, October 24,1884, fortheimprovement of Swan street from Water to Third streets, in accordance with plans and specifications now on file in the office of the City Clerk.

Proposals must be made on regular blank forms to be had at the office of the City Engineer or Clerk.

All proposals must be accompanied by a bond In the sum of two hundred ($200) dollars, signed by two disinterested sureties, as a guarantee that the bidder will enterintocontract within five (5) days after the award is made.

Envelopes must be endorsed with the name of the street for which the tender is made. The Common Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

By order of the Common Council. GEORGE R. GRIMES, City Engineer.

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OTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Ofkick of Street Commissioner. Terrk Haute, Ind.,September 22,1887: Sealed proposals will bo received bv the common council of the city of Terre Haute, Iud.,at their nqxt regular meeting, Tuesday evening, October 4th, 1887, for renewing all the wooded curbing throughout the city unthe direction of the trtroet commissioner, in accordancc NVith Kpecltlcations now oh file in said street commissioner's office. The work to commence as soon as possible after the contract is net, and cease after the 1st of December, or at the direction of the street commissioner. All bids must be made, on regular 'blank forms to be had of the street commissioner. must be accompanied by a bond of two hundred ('JIM)) dollars as a guarratatee that the bidder will enter into contract -within three (3) days after the award is made. Envelopes containing bldt» must bear the name of the bidder. The common council reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

order of common council. JOS. A.W.I MER, /J!j .* Street Commissioner.

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R. GAGG

DKALER IN

ARTISTS* SUPPME8 Picture Frames.

Moulding*

Picture .Framea to Order. McKeen's Block.'*'i 648 Main st,

6th ao 7th.

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HEEZ'r BULLETIN.

OUR CLOAK STOCK is now completing itself very rapidly and will be ready for inspec* ti0n next week.' We have taken great pains to select the most desirable and newest styles we could possibly procure and are safe in saying that you will find mostly anything in the way of novr' elties represented in our assortment. -J One of our greatfe specialties this season is our

Suit Goods Department.

which contains a "good many Novelties and a large variety in Toboggan Caps, Tam O' Shanter •. Hoods, Fascinators Infants Shirts and Crocket

Sacques, Bootees. Special attention is called to Knitted Skirts for Ladies, Misses and Children in different qualities of the very best make at our popular low prices. Our

Hosiery and Underwear Departm't

is now complete and can show everything frolii the cheapest to the very finest. Received this morning, [our own importation] 175 dozen Ladies Cashmere Gloves, Embroidered back, Black and Colors. Our

Dress Trimining Department

is pronounced the largest and finest in the city ... some more new Novelties,{added this week.

Belts, Girdles, &c

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Please call and see our elegant assortment of Oxidized Goods such as Belts, Girdles, Chatalins, Vinegarettes, Tablets, and different ornaments, BreastPins. Big line g^f Torchon and Medeis

Laces received this week.

HERZ' BAZAR.

To-day' Brings Great Crowds of Peo v: le to Our City.

Some are here to purchase Clothing as well as to see the President, a splendid opportunity to unite.business with pleasure.

WE ABE CONFIDENT

That good times are here and better in prospect. Already this early in the season the tide is turned to us. A sight to see the great preparation made for Fall and Winter business.

immense Piles of Clothing

Made from the very best domestic goods. Immense piles of clothing made from Irish, English, Scotch and German productions in Stripes, Checks, Rough and Smooth faced. We are determined that this fall business shall be away ahead of anything ever done in Terre Haute, and the only to do it is Low Prices. You'll be suited best at our store.

MYERS BROS.,

Leading Clothiers and Gents' Furnisher*. lia: S. W. corner 4th and Main Bts.

Parker, Colt and. L. C. Smith's

Hammer and Hammerlw*, also English Guns, Winchester and Spencer Magazine Shot Guns, Colt and Winchester Repeating Rifles, Winchecter, Ballard, Remington Single 8hot All the leading Revolvers. Chamberlain and Winchester Loaded Shells, or loaded to order. Cartridges all sizes. Powder and Shot. Sporting Goods.

/-, BAKER^&^ATSON,

.V Corner 6th and Main Streets, Terre Haute, Ind.

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