Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 April 1896 — Page 6

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(Copyright, 1896, by Stone and KlmbalL) SYN0PSI8. Adam Weir, Lord Hermlston, first the Lord-Advocate, and then the Lord JpsticeClark, of the Senators of the College of Justice at Edinburgh, has married Jean Rutherford, last heir of her line, upon whose estate at the Scottish village of Crossmichael he resides when court is not In session. He Is noted for his severity, and has become famous for the "hanging face" with which he confronts criminals—while his wife Is of a mildly religious type. Their son Archibald combines the qualities of the two, but has been brought up by his mother almost exclusively. She Inspires him with her religious views, so that unconsciously he grows to resent his father's severity and roughness. His mother having died, Archie continues his studies, having little In common with Lord Hermlston, with one of whose fellow justices and friends, however, a scholarly gentleman of the old school, he forms a close friendship. At the trial of one Jopp, for murder, Archie is especially offended by his father's coarse remarks, and, brooding over the exhibition of what seeims to him eavage cruelty, he attends the execution. As the man's body falls, he cries out: "1 denounce this God-defying murder." The safne evening, at his college debating society, he propounds the question "whether capital punishment be consistent with God's will or man's policy." A great scandal la aroused in the city by these actions of the son of Lord HermiBton. Archie meets the family doctor, who shows him by an anecdote that, under bis father's granite exterior, the latter has a great love for him. This creates a revulsion In Archie's feelings. His father soon hears of his son's performances, and reproaches him severely. Archie accepts the rebuke and submits hlhiself. Nevertheless, Lord Hermlston orders him to abandon the law, and assigns him to the care of the estate at Crossmichael. Archie goes the same evening to call on the old Justice, already mentioned, who comforts him and points out his father's great abilities, and together they drink the health of Lord Hermlston.

PART III.—(Chapter IV. Continued.) It was not easy to re-establish, after these emotional passages, the natural flow of conversation. But the Judge eked out what was wanting with kind looks, produced his snuff-box (which was very rarely seen) to fill in a pause, and at last, despairing of any further social success, was upon the point of getting down a book to read a favorite passage, when there came a rather startling summons at the front door,and Carstairs ushered in my lord Olenklndie, hot from a midnight supper. I am not aware that Olenklndie was e^er a beautiful obJeot, being short, and gross-bodied, and Yflth an expression of sensuality comparable to a bear's. At that moment, coming in hissing from many potations, with a flushed countenance and blurred eyes, he was strikingly contrasted with the tall, pale, kindly figure of Glenalmond. A rush of confused thought oame over Archie—of shame that this was one of his father's eleot friends of pride, that at the least of it Hermlston oould carry his liquor and last of all, of rago, that he should have here under his eyes the man that had betrayed him. And then that too passed away and he sat quiet, biding his opportuunity.

The tipsy senator plunged at once Into an explanation with Glenalmond. There was a point reserved yesterday, he had been able to make neither head nor tall of it, and seeing lights in the house, he had just dropped In for a gloss of porter—and at this point he became aware of the third person. Archie saw the ood's mouth and the blunt, lips of Olenklndie gape at him for a moment, and the recognition twinkle In his eyes. "Who's this?" said he. "What? Is this possibly you, Don Quickshot? And how are ye? And how's your father? And what's all this we hear of you? It seems you're a most extraordinary leveller, by all tales. No king, no parliaments, and your gorge rises at the macers, worthy men! Hoot, toot! Dear, dear me! Your father's son too! Mosrt rldeekulous!"

Archie was on his feet, flushing a little at the reappearance of his unhappy figure of speech, but perfectly self-possessed. "My lord—and you, Lord Glenalmond, my

HE WOULD MEET HER COMING WITH A LOOK OF RELIEF. dear friend," he began, "this Is a happy chance for me, that 1 can make my confession and offer my apologies to two of you at once." "Ah. but I don't know about that Confession? It'll be judeecial, my young friend." cried the jocular Qleskindle. "And I'm afraid to listen to ye. Think if ye were to make me a eoanvert!" "If you would allow me, my lord." returned Archie, "what I have to say is very serious to me and be pleased to be humorous after 1 am gone!" "Remember. I'll hear nothing against the tracers'" put In the incorrigible Glenkindle,

But Archie continued as though he had not spoken. "I have played, both yesterday and to-day, a part for which I can only offer the excuse of youth. I wu so unwise as to go to an execution It seems I mad«" a scene at the gallows not content with whloh. I spoke the same night la a college society against capliai punishment. This Is the extent of what I have done, and hi case you hear more alleged against me, I protect my Innocenoe, I have expressed my regret already to my father, who is to good as to pasa my conduct over —in a degree, and upon the conditio* that 1 am to leave my law studies.""

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CHAPTER V.

WINTER ON THE MOORS." I—AT HERMISTON. The road to Hermlston runs for a great part of the way up the valley of a stream, a favorite with the anglers and with midges,full of falls and pools, and shaded by willows and natural woods of birch. Here and there, but at great distances, a byway branches off, and a gaunt farmhouse may be descried above in a fold of the hill but the more part of the time, the road would be quite empty of passage and hills of habtation. Hermlston parish Is one of the least populous In Scotland and, by the time you came that length, you would scarce be surprised at the inimitable smallness of the kirk, a dwarfish, ancient place seated for fifty, and standing In a green by the burn-side among two score gravestones. The manse close by, although no more than a cottage, is surrounded by the brightness of a flower garden and the straw roofs of bees and the whole colony, kirk and manse, garden and graveyard, finds harborage In a grove of rowans, and is all the year round in a great silence broken only by the drone of the bees, the tinkle of the burn, and the bell on Sundays. A mile beyond the kirk the road leaves the valley by a precipitous ascent, and brings you a little after to the place of Hermlston, where It comes to an end in the backyard before the coach-house. All beyond and about is the great field of the hills the plover, the curlew, and the lark cry there the wind blows as It blows In a ship's rigging, hard and cold and pure and the hill-tops huddle one behind another like a herd of cattle into the sunset.

The house was sixty years old, unsightly, comfortable a farmyard and a kitchengarden on the left, with a fruit wall where little hard green pears came to their maturity about the end of October.

The policy (as who should say the park) was of some extent, but very 111 reclaimed heather and moor fowl had climbed the boundary wall and spread and roosted within, and it would have tasked a landscape gardener to say where policy ended and impolitic nature began. My lord had been led by the influence of Mr. Sheriff Scott into a considerable design of planting many acres were accordingly set out with fir, and the little feathery besoms gave a false scale and lent a strange air of a toy-shop to the moors. A great, rooty sweetness of bogs was In the air, and at all seasons an infinite melancholy piping o^ hill birds. Standing so high and with so little shelter, It was a cold, exposed house, splashed by showers, drenched by continuous rains that made the gutters to spout, beaten upon and buffeted by all the winds of heaven and the prospect would be often black with tempest, and often white with the snows of winter. But th house was wind and weather proof, the hearths were kept bright, and the rooms pleasant with live fires of peat and Archie might sit of an evening and hear th squalls bugle on the moor-land, and watch the fire prosper in the earthly fuel, and the smoke winding up the chimney, and drink deep of the pleasures of shelter.

Solitary as the place was, Archie did not want neighbors. Every night, If he chose, he might go down to the manse and share a "brewst" of toddy with the minister—a hare-brained ancient gentleman, long and light and still active, though his knees were loosened with age, and his voice broke continually In childish trebles—and his lady wife, a heavy, comely dame, without a word to say for herself beyond good even and good day. Harum-scarum, clodpols young lairds of the neighborhood paid him the compliment of a visit. Young Hay, of Romanes, rode down to call, on his cropeared pony: young Prlngle, of Drumanno, came up on his pony grey. Hay remained on the hospitable field, and must be carried to bed Pringle got somehow to his saddle about Sa.ni., and (as Archie stood with the lamp on the upper doorstep) lurched, uttered a senseless view halloa, and vanished out of the small circle of Illumination like a wraith. Yet a minute or two longer the clatter of his breakneck flight was audible, then It was cut off by the Intervening steepness of the hill and again, a great while after, the renewed beating of phantom horse-hoofs, far In the valley of the Hermlston, showed that the horse at least. If not his rider, was still on the homeward way.

There was a Tuesday club at the "Cross Keys" in Crossmichael where the young bloods of the country-side congregated and drank deep on a percentage of the expense. so that he was left gainer who should have drunk the most Archie had no great mind to this diversion, but he took it like a duty laid upon him, went with a decent regularity, did his manful!est with the liquor, held up his head in the local jests and got home again and was able to put up his horse, to the admiration of Kirstie and the lass that helped her. Re dined at Drlffel, supped at Wtndelaws. He went to the New Year's ball at Huntsfleld and was made welcome, and thereafter rode to hounds with my Lord Mulrfell, upon whose name, as that of a legitimate Lord of Parliament, In a work so full of Lords of Session, my pen should pause reverently. Yet the same fate attended him here as In Edinburgh. The habit of solitude tends to perpetuate Itself, and an austerity of which he was quite unconscious, and a pride which seemed arrogance, and perhaps was chiefly shyness, discouraged and offended his now companions. Hay did not return more twice, Pringle never at all, and there came a time when he even deefoted from tbe Tuesday club, and became In all things— what he had had the name of almost from the first—the Recluse of Hermlston. Highnosed Miss Pringle of Drumanno, aad high stepping Miss Marshall at the Malm, were understood to have had a dlfTerenoe of opinion about Archie the day after the ball—he was none the wiser, be could not suppose himself to be remarked by these entrancing lad lea. At the ball Itself my Lord Mutrfeirs daughter, the Lady Flora, spoke to him twice, and the second time with a touch of appeal. so that her color rose and her voice trembled a little la his ear, like a passing graoe In music. He stepped back with a heart oa Are, coldly aad not ungracefully trowed himself, and a little after watobs*

her dancing with young Dnnnaimo of" the empty laugh, and was harrowed at the sight, and raged to himself that this was a world In which It was given to Druman no to please, and to himself only to stand aside and envy. He seemed excluded, of right, from tbe favor of such societyseemed to extinguish mirth wherever he came, and was quick to feel the wAind, and desist, and retire into solitude. If he had but understood the figure he presented, and the Impression he made on these bright eyes and tender hearts If he had but gueeaed that the Recluse of Hermlston, young, graceful, well spoken, but* always cold, stirred the maidens of the county with the charm of Byroniam before Byron, it may be questioned whether his destiny might not even yet have been modified. It may be questioned, and I think it should be doubted. It was in his horoscope to be parsimonious ot pain to himself, or of the chance of pain, even to the avoidance of any opportunity of pleasure to have a Roman sense of duty, an instinctive aristocracy of manners aad taste to be the son of Adam Weir and Jean Rutherford.

II.—KIRSTIE.

Kirstie was now over fifty, and might have sat to a sculptor. Long of limb, and still light of foot, deep-breasted, rCbuatloined, her golden hair not yet mingled with any trace of silver, the years had but caressed and embellished her. By the Hn+« of a rich and vigorous maternity, she seemed destined to be the bride of heroes and the mother of their children and behold, by the iniquity of fate, she had passed through her youth alone, and draw near to the confines of age, a ohildless woman. The tender ambitions that she had received at birth had been, by time and disappointment, diverted Into a certain barren zeal of industry and fury of interference. She carried her thwarted ardors into housework, she washed floors with her empty heart. If she could not win the love of one with love, she must dominate all by her temper.

Her feeling partook of the loyalty of ft clanswoman, the hero-worship of a matden aunt, and the Idolatry due to a god. No matter what he had asked of her, ridiculous or tragic, she would have done It and Joyed to do it. Her passion, for it was nothing less, entirely filled her. It was a rich physical pleasure to make his bed or light his lamp for him when he was absent, to pull off his wet boots or wait on him at dinner when he returned. A young man who should have so doted on the idea, moral, and physical, of any woman, might be properly described as being In love, head and heels, and would have behaved hmlself accordingly. But Kirstie—though her heart leaped at bis craning footsteps— though, when he patted her shoulder, her face brightened for the day—had not a hope or thought beyond the present moment and Its perpetuation to the end of time. Till the end of time she would have bad nothing altered, but still continue delightedly to serve her Idol, and be repaid (say twice in the mouth) with a clap on the shoulder.

I have said that her heart leaped—It is the accepted phrase. But rather, when she was alone In any chamber of the house, and heard his foot passing on the corridors, something in her bosom rosa slowly until her breath was suspended, and as slowly fell again with a deep sigh, when the steps had passed and she was disappointed of her "eyes' desire. This perpetual hunger and thirst of his presence kept her all day on the alert. When he went forth at rmrning. she would stand and follow him with admiring looks. As it grew late and drew to the time of his return', she would steal forth to a corner of the policy wan and be seen standing there sometimes by the hour together, gasing with shaded eyes waiting the wqntslU and barren pleasure

TERREfHATJTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, APBTL.I4, 1896.

HE UTTERED THB SINGLE COMMAND «.y, woray, ana watchful, she hadj a drawn quarrel with most of her neighbors, and with the others not mych more than neutrality. The grleve's wife had been "sneiety the sister of the gardener who kepi house for him had shown herself "upsltten" and she wrote to Lord Hermlston about once a year demanding the discharge of the offenders, and justifying the demand by much wealth of detail. For It must not be supposed that the quarrel rested with the wife and did not take In the husband also or with the gardener's sister, and did not speedily Include the gardener himself. As the upshot of all this petty quarrelling and Intemperate speech, she was practically excluded (like a lightkeeper on his tower) from the comforts of human association except with her own indoor drudge, who, being but a lassie and entirely at her mercy, must submit to the shifty weather of "the mistress's" moods without complaint, and be willing to take buffets or caresses according to the temper of the hour. To Kirstie, thus situate and in the Indian summer of her heart, which was slow to submit to age, the gods sent this equivocal good thing of Archie's presence. She had known him in the bradie and paddled him when he misbehaved and yet, as she had not so much as set eyes on him since he was eleven and had his last serious illness, the tall, slender, refined and rather melancholy young gentleman of twenty came upon her with the shock of a new acquaintance. He was "Young Hermlston," "'the laird hlmsel' he had an air of distinctive superiority, a cold straight glance of his black eyes, that abashed the woman's tantrums In the beginning, and therefore the possibility of any quarrel was excluded. He was new, and therefore Immediately aroused her curiosity he was reticent and kept it awake. And lastly he was dark and she was fair, and he was male and she female, the everlasting fountains of Interest.

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ot his view a mile off on the mountain*.' When at night she had trimaied and gatii sred the fire, turned down his bed, and laid out his night-gear—when there was no mors to be done for the king's pleasure, but to remember him fervently In her usually very tepid prayers, and go to bed brooding upon his per fectionB, his future career, and what she should give him the next day for dinnerthere still remained before her one more opportunity she was still to take in the tray and say good-night. Sometimes Arch ie would glance up from his book with a pre-occupied nod and a perfunctory salu tatien which was in truth a dismissal sometimes,—and by degrees more often— the volume would be laid aside, he would meet her coming with a look of relief and the conversation would be engaged, last out the supper, and be prolonged till the small hours by the waning fire. It was no wonder that Archie was fond of company after his solitary days and Kirstie, upon her side, exerted all the arts of her vigorous nature to ensnare his attention. She would keep back some piece of news during dinner to be fired off with the entrance of the supper tray, and form as it were the lever de rideau of the evening's entertainment. Once he had heard her tongue wag, she made sure of the result. From one subject to another she moved by insidious transitions, fearing the least silence, fearing almost to .give him time for an answer lest it should slip Into a hint of separation. Like so many people of her class, she was a brave narrator her place was on the hearth-rug and she made it a rostrum, mlmeicg her stories as she told them, fitting them with vital detail, spinning them out with endless "quo' he's" and "quo' she's," her voice sinking into a whisper over the supernatural or the horrific until she would suddenly spring up in affected surprise, and pointing to the clock, "Mercy, Mr. Archie!" she she would say, "Whatten a time o' night it this of it! God forgive

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me lor a daft wife!" So l«( befell, Dy gooa management, that she was not only the first to begin these nocturnal conversations, but invariably the first to break them off so the managed to retire and not to be dismissed. i-4

III.—A BORDER FAMILY. Such an unequal intimacy has never been uncommon In Scotland, where the clan spirit survives where the servant tends to spend her life In the same service, a helpmeet at first, then a tyrant, and at last a pensioner where, besides, she la not necessarily destitute of the pride of birth, but is, perhaps, like Kirstie, a connection of her master's, and at least knows the legend of her own family, and may count kinship with some illustrious dead. For that is the mark of the Scot of all classes that he stands In an attitude towards the past unthinkable to Englishmen, and remembers and cherishes the memory of his forbears, good or bad and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation. No more characteristic Instance could be found than in the family of Kirstie Elliott. They were all, and Kirstie the first of all, ready and eager to pour forth the particulars of their genealogy, embellished with every detail that memory had handed down or fancy fabricated and, behold! from every ramification of that tree there dangled a halter. The Elliotts themselves have had a chequered history but these Elliotts deduced, besides, from three of the most unfortunate of the border clans—the Nicksons, the Ellwalds, and the Crozers. One ancestor after another might be seen appearing a moment out of the rain and the hill mist upon his furtive business, speeding home, perhaps, with a paltry booty of lame horses and lean kine, or squealing and dealing death in some moorland feud of the ferrets and the wild cats. One after another closed his obscure adventures in mid-air,triced up to the arm of the royal gibbet or the Baron's duletree. For the rusty blunderbuss of Scots criminal Justice, which usually hurt nobody but jurymen, became a weapon of proslsion for the Nicksons, the Ellwaylds. and the Crozers. The exhilaration of their expieiti seemed to haunt the memories of their descendants alone, and the shame to be forgotten. Pride glowed in their bosoms to publish their relationship to "Andrew Ellwald of the Lave rocks tan es. called 'Unchancy Dand,' who was justifeed wi' seeven raair of the same name at Jeddart In the days of King James the Sax." In all this tissue of crime and misfortune, the Elliotts of Cauldstaneslap bad one boast which must appear legitimate: the males were gallows-birds, born outlaws, petty thieves, and deadly brawlers but, according to the same tradition, the females were all chaste and faithful. The power of ancestry on the character is not limited to th# inheritance of cells. If I buy ancestors by the gross from the benevolence of Lion King at Arms, my grandson (If he is Scottish) will feel a quickening emulation of their deeds. Tbe men of the Elliotts were proud, law lest, violent as of light, cherishing and prolonging a tradition. In like manner with tbe women. And the women, essentially passionate aad reckless, who crouched on the rug. in the shine of tbe peat fire, telling these tales, aad cherished through life a wild Integrity of virtue.

Her father Gilbert had been deeply pious, a savage disciplinarian in the antique style, and withal a notorious smuggler. *1 mtnd when I was a btlrn getting menv a skelp aad being shoo'd to bed like pou'try," she would say. "That would he when ths lads and their hit kegs were on the road. We've had the riffraff of twothree counties la ear kitchen masy's tha

time, betwlx' the twelve and the three and their lanterns would be standing In the forecourt, ay, a score o' them at once But there was nae ungodly talk permitted at Cauldstaneslap my fHither was a consistent man in walk and conversation Just [CONTINUED OX SKVKNTH PAGE.]

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TO CONTRACTORS AND PROPERTY OWNERS.

Notice Is hereby given that on the 3d day of December, 1885, tho common council of the city of Terre Haute adopted a resolution declaring an existing necessity for the Improvement of Seventeenth street from the south curb of Poplar street to north curb ot Hulman street, by grading and paving the same, the full width thereof, the sidewalks to be 1354 feet wide and paved with cinder and top dressed with gravel screenings next to property line the width ot 6 feet, and curbed with hard limestone tlie roadway to bo 33 feet wide and paved with broken stone the said improvement to be made In all respects in accordance with the general plan of Improvement of said city and according to the plans and specifications on file In the office of the city engineer, the cost of the said Improvement to be assessed to the abutting property owners and become due and collectible Immediately on approval of the final estimate,,. unless the property owner shall have previously agreed in writing, to be filed with said plans, to waive all irregularity and ille-# gality of the proceedings and pay his assessments when due.

Sealed proposals will be received for the construction of said Improvements, at the office of the city clerk, on the 21st day of April, 1898, until five (5) o'clock, and not thereafter. Each proposal must be accompanied by a bond with good freehold securities or equivalent security In the sum of two hundred dollars, liquidated damages, conditioned that the bidder shall duly enter Into contract aud glvo bond within five days after the acceptance of the work. The city reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

Any property owner objecting to the necessity of such Improvement may file such objections In writing, at the office of the city clerk on the 30th day of April, 185)6, and be heard with referenco thereto at the next regular meeting of tho common council thereafter.

CHARLES II. GOODWIN. City Clerk.

QTREET IMPROVEMENT FINAL ESTI MATE. Notice Is hereby given that tho final estimate report of the cost of the Improvement of Chase street from east curb line of Thirteenth street to west curb line of Fourteent street, was on the 24th day of March, 1WK5. referred to the committee on streets and alleys, and any person aggrieved by such estimate may appear before said committee, on the 18th day of April. 18%. at the office of the city civil engineer in said city, and make objec tlons thereto, which objections will be reported by said committee to the common council of the cltv of Terre Haute at the next regular meeting of said council after tho said committee shall conclude the hearbig upon said objections and all persons Interested may be heard In reference to such objections before the council.

CHAS. H. GOODWIN. City Clerk.

^UTY TREASURER'S NOTICE TO NON\J RESIDENTS. To Maria L. Griffith, Lou E. Van Slyek. Henry 0. Meyer, and all whom it. may concern:

Whereas, it appears by a copy of the city commissioners' report, as certlilod to me by the city clerk under the date of January 7th, 189(5, said commissioners did in the matter of the opening of Fourteenth and One-half'14M). street from Eagle street to Wabash avenue In the city of Terre Haute. Indiana, assess benefits amounting to 183.30 against lot number 18. Humaston sub-division, owned by Maria L. Griffith, assess benefits amounting to $144.25 against a tract, of land commencing at northwest corner of lot number 138, Jowett's addition, thenco west 115 58-100 feet, thence south to the northwest. Hue of Wabash avenue, thence east 115 feet moro or less, thenco north to tho place of beginning, owned by Lou E. Van Slyek. assess benefits amounting to $60 against 33 feet off west shle of lot number 12, Humaston's sub, owned by Henry O. Meyer.

Sulci owners will take notice that demand Is hereby made, and in default of payment thereof within one mouth after tho last publication of this notice, am commanded to make said sum by sale of the premises herein before described.

Witness my hand this 2d day of April. 1806. CHARLES BALOH. City Treasurer.

L. I). LEVEQUK. Lawyer. No. 417V4 Wab. Avo. ^TTACHMENT NOTICE.

[No. 3937.1

Before A. B. Felsenthal. J. t\, Harrison township. VIpo county, Indiana. Ell II. Redman vs. A. W. Ment.zer, ot. til.

Whereas, it. appears by the affidavit of the plaintiff that the said defendants are nonresidents of the state of Indiana, and whereas also it appears from the return of the constable to the summons heroin Issued, that the said defendants were not. found In his bailiwick. It Is therefore ordered that due notice of the pendency of tills action be Riven to the said defendants by publication In a newspaper of

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circulation published in

said county. Snid non-resident defendants are therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action against them and that the same will stand for trial on the 19th day of May. 185X1. at 2 o'clock p. m.. at my office, 115 south Third street. Terre Haute. Indiana.

Witness my hand and seal this 37th day of March, 1896. [SEAI/J A. B. FELSENTHAL. J. P.

T. F. DONHAM, Plaintiff's Attorney. gllERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue of an order of sale Issued from the Vigo Superior court, to me directed and delivered. In favor of Joseph W. Harper arid against Maria J. McCoskey, Morton R. McCoskey and Charles O. Layer, I am orderod to self the following described real estate, situated in Vigo county, Indiana, to-wlt:

Twenty-five (35) acres more or less in tho west encf of the north half (V4) of the northeast quarter (H) of section thirteen (13), township ten (10) north, range eleven (11) west, In Vigo county, Indiana, and on SATURDAY, TIIK 1HTII DAY OF

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between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day. at lie north door of the court house, in Terre Haute,'I will offer the rents and profits of tho above described real estate, together with all privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, for a term not exceeding seven years, to the highest bidder for cash, and upon failure to realize a sum sufficient, to satisfy said judgment and costs. I will then and their offer the fee-simple In and to said real estate, to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy the same.

This 20th day of March. 1896. JOHN BUTLER. Printer's foe, $7.30, Sheriff.

H. J. BAKEH, Plaintiff's Attorney. JS^OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS.

State of Indiana, county of Vigo, in the Vigo Circuit court., February term. 1896. Clarissa Southern et al vs. Max Blumberg et al. qniet title.

Beit known that on the flth day of March 1896, said plaintiffs filed an affidavit in due form, showing that said Hannah Daniels. Boatman and Jacob Boatman are non-resi-dents of the state of Indiana.

Said non-resident defendants are hereby notified of the pendency of said action against them and that the same will stand for trial May 4th, 1096, the same being at the May term of said court In the year 1896. [SEAL] HUGH D. ROQUET. Clerk.

MARTIN HOI.LISGKB, Attorney for Plaintiff. j^OTICE TO NON-RESIDENT.

State of Indiana, County of Vigo, in the Vigo Circuit court, February term 1896. No. 18210. Lizzie Gibson vs. David L. Gibson. divorce.

Be it known, that on the 24th day of March, M86, It was ordered by the court that the clerk notify by publication said David L. Gibson as non-resident defendant of the pendency of this action against him.

Said defendant is therefore hereby notlfk-d of the pendency of said action against him and that the same will stand for trial May 20th, 1896. being at tbe May termof said court In the year 1898. UGH D. BOQUET. [SEAL.] Clerk.

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