Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 May 1896 — Page 6

(Copyright, 1896, by S. R. Crockett.)

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CHAPTER

THE COUNT'S DAISY CHAIN. The Count St. Polten-Vassima was walkIn* slowly along one of his forest paths. He waa not ia the least thinking where he wia going. He had quite recently and unexpectedly come into the title and the property, and he was, for the time being, stayin* in one of the smaller rooms of the great unfinished castle which his father had began and his brother had continued. The mw Count St. Polten was tall, dark, meditative—a soldier, yet nevertheless constitutionally inclined to a certain graceful melancholy. Even his dignities had not very obviously cheered him. It was now that still hour of the afternoon when Nature takes its summer siesta, and St. Polten walked along the woodland glade, sober as at a funeral to look upon, but nevertheless happily and conscientiously sad within. It pleased him to observe the absence of elation In himself. As he sauntered, his mind far away, he did not observe that he had approached one of the cottages of his people—that of Alt Karl, his ancient Jagdroelster, whom his father had ordained to teach lilm all the mysteries of the hunt and the of the wood, while yet he was but a wild younger son of the great house of the Counts of St. Polten. '-'Cuckoo! cuckoo!" called suddenly a bird-Voice above his head. Something whirled lightly through the air and settled about his neck. The Count looked up quickly and caught just one glimpse of a girl's laughing face vanishing at the window above him. Then he looked down and found a daisy-chain caught round his neck and hanging about his shoulders.

The Count St. Polten-Vassima stood awhile in wonder, not ill-pleased, fingering the ring of flowers, and smiling quietly to himself. Presently there came along the forest path towards him a stern-faced erect old man, carrying himself with a curious mixture of forest freedom and soldierly precision.

It was Alt Karl, the tenant of the house tinder which the Count stood. He looked curiously at the daisy-chain, but said nothing. The Count noticed the question in the old ma..'s eyes. i- "-Mo, Karl, do not wear one of these chaplets as a rule," he said "but the fact Is, either an angel from heaven crowned me with flowers, or else

And he paused and looked up. "It was my minx of a Trudchen!" cried Alt KsrL finishing his master's sentence "I saw her busy at the making of it. I cannot control her since her mother died. She will do nothing but play pranks and scour the hills with a gun, and boasts that she is as good a jajrer ni th-r Is In all the forest (which is a 111. most true), besides being as good a mountaineer as there is on the mountains, as if these were worthy ambitions for a young girl. But it is a good thing that she goes to-morrow to her aunt's school in Breslau: there of a surety she will learn something more befitting a modest maiden." "I trust." said the Count, pleasantly, ,"that ycu will convey to the young lady my ••Tise or the great honor she has done me by be«toWilig upon ra« this flowery token of her favor," "0!1 contrary," cried Alt Karl, "t •hall bestow upon her a great scolding when

I catch her, minx that she Is!" And .o with a mutual salute of military exactness th| Count and his old and privileged Jagdmetster parted, the nobleman to return to his vast lonely barracks, and Alt

Karl to enter angrily the cottage with the rpses crowding about the porch. "Gertrud!" Alt Karl called sternly, stamping his foot a little. He stopped to listen, standing Just within the door of the quiet dusky sitting-room.

No one answered to bis call. He could hear the two clocks ticking loudly, one on the wall of the salon and the other over the mantelpiece In the kitchen. "Cuckoo!" all suddenly cried a voice behind him.

Alt Carl could not restrain a violent start. The bird seemed so near him—at his very ear, In fact He looked up Just as the Count had done, and Instantly he found himself be pel te»1 from head to foot with a shower of ros^s which a tall brlght-fnced girl of thirteen or fourteen poured out of her apron upon his upturned face. She had been standing 011 tiptoe all the time upon a chair set behind the sitting-room door.

The maid clapped her hands and laughed merrily. "A forfeit! a forfeit!" she cried. "It Is the fete day of the flowers. And the new Count owes me a forfait also!" "I would have you understand that It Is not the custom"—began her father sternly. "A forfeit or a kiss, father!" she cried "and it you scold me a single word I dedfare I shall ask the Count for a kiss too!"

And launching a random salute at her father, which alighted on the top of his BO«e. she danced out among the sunlit summer Sowers as lightly and Irresponsibly as a gossamer blown by the winds,

CHAPTER H.

THE CONVICT GANG.

"HAJtr* It is Under-Offlcer Rlchter who speaks. And in war time this same stiff Alt Karl de«s not speak without reason. Never did the discipline of the Imperial White Coats show better than now, when, defeated and decimated, the weary remnants of the gr«*t army of the double empire stood at bay Just long enough to allow Feldseugmaster von lek to rally and reorganise his scatti forces under the guns of OtmuU and Vienna. "Halt! The enemy!" muttered UnderOflicer Alt Karl. *The brushwood Is good enough tor said his toionel the Count of 8L

Polten-Vasalma.

And with the alertnees

of a mouRtalaMt he betook Mmsetf to cover till the enemy should develop b'» strength. It was the Count's duty to profit the hill-rood which wo—m the

trlah Alps to Verona, to mask the weakness of the fortresses of Moelk and Neu stadt, to forward supplies from the Tyrol, and generally to retrieve an irretrievable misfortune with which he and his men had had nothing whatever to do. He had now but twenty-seven men to do all these things with. Also they were hungry men, for in the sullen retreat from the stricken field of Koniggratz there had been no time for more than a mouthful of wurst out of the knapsack, and the hasty draught of water as they passed over a brook.

The Count had commanded well nigh five hundred men when the big guns first spoke across the valley on the morning of the 3rd of July. Five hundred gallant fellows bad lain among the wet corn all night and arisen with hope in their hearts out of the crushed and muddy rye. Then first of all St. Polten's command had been flung out across the Prussian skirmish line, and the needle guqs had wrought him sore havoc. After that the grape-shot from the orchards of Sadowa had left many of his brave Tyrolers dead among the silent water-mills of the village. His five hun dred were barely three when Chlum was taken and when with the Field-marshal at their head the Imperial White Coats dashed at the Intrenched Prussian Guards of the army of the Crown Prince. There St. Polten left two out of his three hundred od the bare slopes, which were swept

LAUNCHING A RANDOM SALUTE, by the needle gun of the North, even as the broad Danube is swept by the slantwise western rain.

And when the pursuit quickened, and the retreat bade fair to become a rout, was it not the Count St. Polten-Vassima who pushed his war-worn hundred across and across the line of advance, and with the ammunition at his command dulled with desperate valor the edge of the victoryhunger of the 3rd Prussian Army Corps? For though their guns were but few, the aim of the Tyrolers was deadly. So now, with belts tightened and gray set faces, St. Polten's men kept the lonely hill-road to Verona with but twenty-five bayonets— and Under-Offlcer Ait Karl.

Already the remnant of the Imperial "White Coats had been forty-eight hours without food or sleep, and even the hardest old chamois-poaoher of the Inn valley 9WT9d blroselt done up.

From the dens* 6oV6rt of the brushwood the Count, with Alt Karl at his elbow, watched the road beneath. Certainly a large party of some kind was marching southward. A Jabber of voices rose through the still air. The Prussians must have risen betimes, thought the Count, to be here ere the dew was off the grass this morning in mid-July. Then a gun cracked. The sound came with a little Jar upon the party In the brushwood. They were discovered, so each man of them thought, and automatically he counted the scanty rounds of ammunition which remained to him. Then for a moment his heart went pitifully out to the lass away in the Tyrol village whose cheek, like so many others during the terrible seven weeks, would pale at the sight of the list posted at the village Rath-hau8.

But Under-OfRcer Alt Karl rose erect. "Dumm-Kopf! Convicts! Assassins!" he exclaimed, with the contempt of a soldier for the bands of criminals from the penal settlements whom the policy of weakening and withdrawing the military guards had encouraged to escape, and who now constituted at once a difficulty to the authorities and a danger to the inhabitants.

A loose-marching rabblement of men, carrying guns and slung wallets of various patterns, hurried southward along the road beneath the Tyrolers. Leaders there were manifestly none, for the quarrelling and noise were past telling. The nostril of Under-Officer Rlchter curled. "Shall we stop these swlne-cattle?" he said: "they are here for no good. Murderers. likely thieves certainly."

The Count nodded. "March!" said Alt Karl, hardly above his breath. And the command strung stealthily down the hilt, taking advantage of every scrap of cover, in order to reach the narrows of the pass before the head of the convict column should come up. Rollicking songs rose Joyously from the rascals beneath, lilting along the hillside with an abandon which spoke not of war but ofc win*. The nose of Alt Karl mounted ever higher and higher. "Calf-heads! Stupid kerls! Worse than scoundrels!" he muttered. "Would that 1 had them in the barrack-yard for three month*.

At last the twenty-live were In position. Of this Alt Karl Informed the Count with an upward movement of his head, somewhat like a duck giving thanks to a kind Provtdenee. Then up mm St Poltaa. he cried loudly to the men beneath. "To what penal establishment do you belong: and where Is the officer In charger*'

The convict*. In Austrian prison* wit-* (arm. stood wtth open mouths oa the mad beneath bnt so astonished were they tHat uo oae answered. Only from far back In their straggling ranks a rifts cracked, and

a twig spat close by the Count's ear. "Pigs of the city slums!'' said the UnderOfflcer undo- his breath. And he kept his eyes alert to catch the Count's every movement. "Shoot me that man who fired!" cried the Count "and those two at the head of the column—no more. We cannot afford to waste ammunition on rascals

Crack, crack, crack! rang out the three shots. The man with the smoking gun fell prone upon It The leader of the advance leaped into the air and collapsed in a heap on the ground, and a third man sudd Ally reeled and grasped his legas though a wasp had stung him.

The twenty-five White Coats rose from the brushwood. "Ready!" cried Under-Offlcer Alt Karl

The convicts from the settlements started to run, but the commanding voice of Under-Offlcer Karl suddenly brought them up all standing.

Halt! pigs, and eaters of pigs' meat! Put down the guns, which are the property of the Kaiser-like Apostolic Majesty! Ground arms! Pile arms!"

The rascalsSeneath, held by the threat enlng muzzles of the guns of the twentyfive veteran mirksmen, reluctantly piled their arms in obedience to the threatening accents of the voice which spoke as having authority. 5 1||

I was not ten years a guard of such scoundrels for nothing," said Alt Karl as he saluted stiffly.

The Count smiled. He tad hunted and campaigned too long with Alt Karl to take any offence at his abrupt speeches and dictatorial ways.

And now," said Alt Karl, "what does your Excellency wish done with these escaped thieves? Shall we shoot them and be done?" "God forbid!" cried the Count, who waa more tender of heart, and had seen enough killing of late, "even they may have those that love them. Even as you, Alt Karl, have the little Gertrud in the cottage by the pine-woods."

Wolves and swifte have "not Trudas," muttered Alt Karl rebelliously. "They had been safer shot, for they are the very spawn of death and full of the treachery of the devil!"

Speak to them," said the Count wearily, "and tell them that they are free to go to their homes. We have not force to hold them and do our duty to. The play is played. Let the supers go home."

So Alt Karl erected himself once more and bade the ex-prisoners dismiss to their homes and settlements and be grateful for the clemency of the commander. And right gladly the cowed rascals, who had doubtless their fears of Karl's solution of the matter, bent their heads to the ground gnd scoured away to the south. #*''•'.

CHAPTER M.

THE BIRD OF HOPE.

So day by day the Count* of St Polten-Vassima kept the road which leads to Verona, and day nor night none came near him. For all the peasant folk were fled, the bams were exhausted or plundered, and all the fields were desolate. It was not long before there came a day when the men wanted food. So the Count bade Under-Offlcer Rlchter, who was also Alt Karl, and his own Jagdraeister, to serve five rounds of ammunition to each of the five best shots and let them go out to kill wood-pigeons where a few corn patches were not quite trampled down and the wheat began to be Juicy.

It happened as the five soldiers set out to leave the camp that the note of the cuckoo came through the trees, rough and stammering now with the lateness of the season. Then first one, then another, and at hot half a dozen of the long, gray, ashenbreasted birds swooped noiselessly down, flying their short flights from tree to tree, and occasionally uttering the call which, though rough and raucous now, carried the eternal freshness of spring along with it. "Let us try if the 'kuck-kuck' is good eat. lng," cried Alt Karl. And one of the White Coats lifted his gun to fire at the bird as it flashed past. But the Count of St. PoltenVassima sprang to his feet His face had suddenly grown pale. &- "Down with your guns!" he cried, in a voice that had •nore of the war rasp In It

•DOWN WITH YOUR GUNS'" tltaui even that of Alt Karl. "If one of you so much as fires a shot at a cuckoo. I w»H give him the contents of my revolver!"

The men stopped, open-mouthed with wonderment Alt Karl was so kstonished that he forgot to put down his boot which he had been tying, and so held it for a long moment suspended In the air.

But the Colonel did not choose to give any explanation of his strange manifesta

tion

of temper, and the five White Co»ts saluted and betook themselves wonderingly to their several quests. Alt Karl also went about his business of gathering together a small cairn of stones for the camp kettle, and the cooking of the provision with which he expected tlx marksmen to return. But he collected the states and then the fuel mechanically, tor In his heart be was busily ooanlng reasons tor the strange behavior e( his officer and master the Count

For an hour St Polten sat on the trunk of a fallen ptne. deep In thought Then he summoned Alt Karl to him. "Karl." lw said, "do yon remember the Illness that brought you te a shadow and the gates of the dead?" "Remember!" said Alt Karl "do I forest ft for a day, *r your noat aoMt Uad-

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, MAT 2, 1896.

ness?" "And do you remember how, one mornl-g in the .spring when the leaves were greening, I came to you in the little chalet under the hill?" 'Ah.* you said, *it is over. Count Rudolph, all over I shall never hear the "kuck-uk" again.' Then at that moment the little Trudchen came running in. 'Father,' she said, with a voice like sleigh bells ringing over the snow, heard from the other side of a lake, 'father, I hear the "kuck-uk" calling.' So we two that were men listened like little children for the voice of the bird —ay, as it had been for the sentence of the Angel of Life and Death. But we could not hear the sound. So in my arms I took you up and carried you till I set you, all rolled in the blankets of the great bed-chair I had given you, blinking like a great white owl there in the sunshine of the morning. Then there came two cuckoos, courting the same mate to grant them her favors, and the gladsome cry of 'kuck-uk' went round the forest 'Now you know, father,' said your little Truda, 'that you will certainly get better. For to-day you have heard the "kuckuk," and the spring is here.' And that is the reason why I would not permit the shooting of a cuckoo. No, Karl, nor ever shall while I am Rudolph, Graf St PoltenVassima and colonel even of this broken regiment."

Alt Karl went and stood before his master. He bent his stiff gray head uncovered and took the Count's hand. He raised it to his lips and, as the manner of the Austrian Tyrolers is, he kissed devoutly the signet-ring upon it. "Master," he said, and the tears were not far from his eyes "master, God has given me a good pupil, in other things than the learning of the Jagd. Saving your great honor and high nobleness, I that am but a huntsman love you as a son for the gracious words spoken to Alt Karl this day."

1 CHAPTER IV..

A ROSEBUD OF TWENTY-ONE The war of the Seven Weeks was over and the twenty-five Tyrolers disbanded till the regiment should be reorganized. The sudden quarrel of South and North had been as suddenly made up. The Count went back to his corner of the great house of St. Polten. His heart was yet more heavy within him, for the pride of his nation had been trampled upon by ftie strong rude feet of the Invaders from the north—iron-cast Prussians, as he called them, bullocks from gray Pomerania.

But when the Count had taken one look at the gaunt unfinished mass of his chateau he turned away with genuine sadness, dragging at his moustache—fbr the third army-corps of the enemy had come that way on its swoop for Vienna. Horses had been stalled in the billiard-room and fieldguns stored in the chapel. In the dinlnghall the surgeons had done their abhorred divine work. The garden was a mero waste, and a wild pig was rooting there among the untended flowers even as he looked. The front door had been used as a target for the revolver bullets of the North-officers.

So the Count of St Polten turned away, he hardly knew whither. He was a lonely man, with no one in the world genuinely to love him, and it was much the same to him where he went. So at least he told himself. He woulfi see his lawyers, his land-agent, and then set out for Paris. This was his resolve as he strode awa from St. Polten with a sense of desojjatlon settling like lead about his heart.

His feet rather than his will carried him to a sunny south-looking glade, with a cottage that stood banked against the sheltering pine-wood. It was the chalet of Alt Peter, but how unlike the other chalets of the forest people! Roses over-clambered It, creepers dominated the walls and roof, a vine cast its tendrils round the chimney, the gravel walk was of hard-packed sand, and carefully swept "Cuckoo! cuckoo!" Z'.J*

It was the same bird's voice he had heard there years ago, but with a new elan, a new brightness in it. The Count paused a while in the shadow of the leafy porch, for it was pleasant there out of the heat. Suddenly there came a sort rustle as of wings or draperies, a patter down the

n*\\l»»»

stairs, a rush out of a door, and a voic& fit-' jlaiming. "Why don't you answer, you old curmudgeon of a father? Do you really think I cannot see you hiding there in •he porch?''

Two arms were thrown impulsively about the Count's neck, and then turning ht found himself closely face to face with the dismayed, terrified eyes of the fairest maid It had ever been his lot to see. The girl stood before him crimson from brow to bosom. Her hands had fallen from his shoulders to her sides, and had again been half-way lifted as if to cover her face from the shame. She took her breath short like a captured bird that fears mishandling. The Count St Polten was equally surprised. His heart certainly Jolted within him In a manner strange and unwonted. And when he awoke to himself he had his dirty campaigner's cap in bis hand, and was bowing c.vcr the girl's hand as though she had been the Empress—Queen herself.

But suddenly, with a sudden recognition of her tardy dutifulnesi, the girl knelt before him and set his hand to her lips, kissing the signet of the Count's ring as her fetbY had done. "The Count." she murmured. "I have been rude to the Count, my father's gracious lord."

Rudolph St Poiien raised the maid, and tor the first time In his life he felt unworthy of the homage which was bis unquestioned right as a grand seigneur. "Attl your' he said, as if he had answered a previous question of hers as to his own Identity. **1 am only little Gertrud Rlchter. daughter of y-ur Jagdmeister Karl." "Not little* Truda whom used to set on my knee and feed with sweetmeats and brown spiced biscuits! Not little Truda who eafled Irack-uk,' and threw the flowers

about my neck!" The Count looked at tht bright young girl from head to foot as if his mind could not compass the greatness of the change. "Even so," she said, blushing again, for the sense of his greatness was fresh upon

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Before A. B. J. P.. Harrison township. Vigo county. Indiana. Jacob Selllotterbeck vs. Richard Llttlefleld

In attachment and garnishee. Whereas, ft appears by the affidavit of the plaintiff that, the said defendant are nonresidents of the state of Indiana, and whereas also It appears from the return of the consta hie to the summons herein Issued, that the said defendant were not found in his bailiwick. it is therefore ordered that, due notice of the pendency Of this action lie given to the said defendant by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in said county. f»ald non-resident defendant are therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action against them and that the same will stand for trial on the 0th day of une. IWft. at 2 o'clock n. tn.. a- my office. 113 south Thiitl street. Terre Haute. Indiana.

Witness my band and seal thismfa day of A B. FEL8ENTH AL. J. P. Mabttx Homjhgsr* Attorney for Plaintiff. jgrOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT.

The State of Indiana. Vigo County, in the Vigo Circuit court. May term. MB6. So. 1H3L Elisabeth C. Tucker vs. George tTucker. In divorce. it known, that on the Slat day of April, 18B&. said plaintiff filed an affidavit tn due form, showing that said George K. Tucker ia. a non-resident of the State of Indiana.

Paid non-resident defendant Is hereby notified of the pendency of said action against him. and that the same will stand for trial Jane 15th. 1MM. the same being at the May

(Hulk) Clerk.

H. J. BAKER. Plaintiff's Attorney. gHERIFF'8 SALE.

By virtue of an order of sale issued from the Vigo Superior court, to me directed and delivered, in favor of Terre Haute Saving Bank and against Edward Green, Alvia R. Washington. John O'Nell, David L. Sutphem Samuel E. Armstrong, administrator or Thomas P. Murray, deceased, Charles TCreal. J. I. Case Thrashing Machine Co. (a corporation), Gaar. Scott & Co. (a corporation). Dixon Stewart. Josephus C. Davis, and Mcr chants' Natural Gas and Oil company (a cor poratlon). I am ordered to sell the followir described real estate, situated in Vigo count Indiana, to-wlt:

The northwest quarter (H) of the southeast quarter (M) of section three (3). and ten (10 acres off the south side of the southwest quarter (*4) of the northeast quarter (H) of section three (3) also twenty (20) acres off tlio north end of the following described tract.. to-wlt commencing at a point forty (40) rods west and thirty-eight and two-thirds (38«$) rods north of the south-east corner of section four (4). thence west fifty (30) rods, thence north one hundred and twenty-one and onethird (121

Vs) rods to the middle line of sal

section, thence east fifty (50) rods, thence* south to the place of beginning, all In town-' ship twelve (12) north of range eight (8) west, and containing in all seventy (TO) acres, situated in Vigo county. Indiana, and on MONDAY, THE 11TH DAY OF MAY, 1800, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day. at the north door of the court house, in Terre Haute. I will offer the rents and profits of the 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 reallie a sum sufficient to satisfy said judgment and costs. I will then and there offer the feeslmi'le in and to said real estate, to the highest. bidder for cash to satisfy the same.

This 17th day of,April. 1896,

Vf. $11.00.

JOHN BUTLER, Sheriff.

DAVIS, REYNOLDS & DAVIS, Plaintiff's Attorneys. "SHERIFF'S SALE. vl the Vigo Superior court to me directed and delivered, in favor of Indianapolis Brewing id against Charles W. McNiel ana Anna McNiel, I am ordered to sell the following described real estate, situated in Vigo county. Indiana ,to-wit:

Commencing four hundred and thirty-eight (438) feet and six (6) inches north of the southwest corner of the northwest quarter (J) of the southwest quarter of section eight (8). township thirteen (13) north, range seven (7) west, beginning and running thence north forty (40) feet, thence east one hundred and thirty-five (135) feet, thence south forty (40 feet thence west one hundred and thirty-fivo (135) feet to the place of beginning, said land being forty (40) feet across the north sl(Fe of lot number three (3) of the town of Webster, now called Coal Bluff, situated in Vigo county. Indiana, and on MONDAY, THE 18TII DAY OF MAY, 1890, between tho hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of said day, at the north door of the court house, in Terre Haute, I will offer the rents and profits of the above described real estate, together Vrlth all privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, for a term not exceeding seven years, to the highest. bidder for cash, ana upon failure to realize a sum sufficient to satisfy said Judgment. and costs. I will then and there offer the fee-simple in and to said real estate, to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy tho same.

This 21st day of April. 181HI JOHN BUTLER. Printer's feo, 18.40. Sheriff.

OTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND PROP. EKTY OWNERS. Not ice is hereby given that on the 3d day of March. 1MX, the common council of tho city of Terre Haute adopted a resolution declaring an existing necessity for the Improvement of Seabury avenue from east curb lino of Sixth street to west boundary line of Seventh street by grading and paving the same, the sidewalks to be twelve feet wldo and paved with cement, concrete next to property line the width of five feet, and curbed with sandstone five inches In thickness the roadway to be thirty-six feet wide and paved with broken stone and broken stone screenings: the said improvement to be niado 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 clerk, 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.

nless the property owner shall hnve progreen to her menfs when due. ...

in writing, to bo filed with Jve ail irregularity and Ille

gality of the proceedings and pay his ussess-

Sealed proposals will be received for tlio .onstruction of said improvements, at tho office of the city clerk, on the 5th day of May, 1896. until five (5) o'clock, and not thereafter. Each proposal must be accompanied by a lwnid 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 and give bond within five days after the acceptance of ills bid for the performance of the work. The city reserves the right.,,, to reject any and all bids.

Any property owner objecting to the neoes- j1 slty of such Improvement may file such ob-"*. lections in writing, at the office of the city clerk on the 2nd day of May, 18flfi, and be heard with reference thereto at the next, regular meeting of thti^ common council" tbmaftor.

J. R. CONNELLY. General Agent.

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City Clerk.

A. M. HIOOIKS. Attorney for Plaintiff. OTICE TO NON-RESIDENT.

State of Indiana, county of Viito. in the Superior court. Vigo county. March term. 1896. No. 4881. Tern- Haute Carriage and Buggy company vs. William MolMn'otoru fttid ElUtJl* McPheeters, attachment.

Be it known. Hint on the 11th day of April, 1806. it was ordered by the court that tho', clerk notify by publication said William McPheeters as non-resident, defendant of tho^,f pendency of this action against him.

Said defendant Is therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action against, hInl and that, the same will stand for trial June 2d. 1896, the samx! being June term of said court In the year 1896. [SKAlA Attest: HUGH D. ROQUET, Clerk.

M. Hoixiwgeu. Attorney tor Plaintiff. •^"OTIOE TO NON-RESIDENT.

State of Indiana, Vigo county, In the Vitfl a No, 17998. Sarah I. llaman vs. Jerry Hamun.l in divorce.

Beit, known that on the 10th day of April, 1896. said plaintiff filed an affidavit in due form, showing that said defendant Is lutlleved to be a non-resident of the state of Indiana.

Said non-resident defendant is hereby notlfl -d of the pendency of said action

against

him, and that the same will stand for trlat June 2nd. 1806. the same being at the May term of said court in the year Hw. [seat.] HUGH D. ROQUET, Clerk.

Wn. Fxior.KSTOS. Attorney for Plaintiff. OTICE TO NON-RESIDENT.

State of Indiana, county of Vigo. In the Superior court, of Vigo county. March term, 1896. No.

4*90.

Ada starkes vs. James Hturkes,

divorce. Be It known, that on the loth day of April, lf»ft. It was ordered by the court tbat the clerk notify by publication said James Slarkes as nou-resident defendant of the pendency of this action against him.

Said defendant Is therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action against him and that the same will stand for trial June 4th. 1806, the same being at the June term of said court in the year 1W6. ,,, [SEAJ]

IIUGH V. ROQUET. Clerk

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