Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 January 1897 — Page 7

BELOW SEVENTY-FIVE

WHEAT CLOSES AT ANOTHER DECLINE IN CHICAGO,

Peoria Corn Market Steady—Minneapolis VP heat Receipts—Money. Stocks and Bonds.

Dliicago, Jan. 2R-—Wheat got below 75 cents today for the first time In many weeks, and closed at a decline of l%a for the day. The news rather favored buying instead of selling, but liquidation and short selling was heavy nevertheless and brought about the .decline. Corn and oats were comparatively firm but declined about each. Provisions lost 2H @7V6o.

Wheat opened rather firmer than it closed yesterday, though at substantially unchanged prices, the additional strength coming from the first Liverpool cables, which quoted that market steady. A private cable said the previous decline had brought out buyers. Buying was pretty general at the start, May advancing in the first half hour's trading from 76%®76%c, the starting price, to 77a. Chicago and the northwest received 26 and 182 cars respectively. After the early buyers had been satisfied, however, the market turned weak.

New York reported some continental demand for wheat, and San Francisco reported sales of wheat for France and flour for Austrilia. One hundred and fifty thousand bushels No. 3 spring were sold here for prompt rail shipment to Baltimore and New York wired that 150,000 bushels Manitoba spring wheat had been sold there for export May-June shipment. In the face of this May steadily declined, reaching 76^4o about half an hour from the close. Then liquidation on a large scale set In. During the closing moments a number of stop loss orders were caught, depressing the price to 74%c, where It closed.

Trade la corn was comparatively heavy and a general covering of short lines held' the market In the face of the weakness in wheat. Exports from Atlantic ports were heavy, amounting to 696,769 bushels. May opened unchanged at 23%c. advanced to 24%c and declined to 23%@23%c, where it closed.

Oats were fairly active from start to finish.

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horta were urgent buyers during the early of the session, but the sharp slump la wheat changed the feeling and the early buyers became sellers. May opened unchanged a tl7%@17%c, sold to 177ic and dropped' off to 17^o, which was the closing price.

Provisions enjoyed a fair amount of business. Prices at the start were a shade firmer on the lighter receipts of hogs than expected. During tile last hour, however, liquidation on quite an extensive scale broke prices sharply. At the close May pork was 7%c lower at $7.77% May lard unchanged at $3.97& and May ribs unchanged at $4.00. to a OS

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Jan. 28. Jan. 27.

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14% 12K

July ... 73H 73 J® 719* 71H 73H CORN 14av.... 23X

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July.... MH 18H 18H 18H-« PORK. May.,.. 790 7 90 7 75 7 77 7 35 t.AHO, May.... 8

3 97-4 3 95 8 95-97 3 95-97

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08 4 02 3 97 3 97-4 4 00

MONEY, STOCKS AND BONDS.

Wall Street Developes Few Features—The Bond Market. New York, Jan. 28.—The stock market today developed little feature and there was a decided absence of news bearing upon the general situation, aside from the announcement that an agreement had been arrived by the Ohio soft coal roads to be operative for one year. The news did not exert as much influence as Its importance would appear to warrant, owing to the demoralization that has resulted from the s&vage and long continued cutting of rates'and prices. Hocking Valley scored decided improvement, however. The common rose 1%, and the general mortgage B's 4% per cent. The other securities of the road were not dealt In, but substantial advances occurred in the bid quotations. London prices came higher and foreigners exhibited a disposition to purchase small amounts of the low priced stocks, particularly Northern Pacific common and preferred, which were stronger and more active than for some time past. The trader appeared inclined toward the bull side in view of the assumed large proportions of the short Interest which has recently made a strong play against the coal stocks to facilitate covering purchases in the general list. Satisfaction was expressed by th'' bulls over the continued increases noted lr-* bank clearings and improvement in tho Yaffle earnings reported.

In the inactive spells occaslonaJ demonstra-. dons were made by the bears against the high priced specialties. Manhattan loomed into prominence in the late session and receded 1% per cent on the accumulation of rumors of the probability of a large issue of bonds. The grangers and high priced industrials closed heavy at unimportant fractional net changes.

The bond market displayed aggressive strength, and especially in the gilt edged issues. Th(movement was well distributed and advances were scored ranging from 1@1% per cent.

The total sales of stocks today were 84,506 shares, including American Sugar 11,100 Burlington 7,300: Northern Pacific preferred 9,600 St. Paul 9,100.

Money ou call nominally 1%@2 per cent prime mercantile paper 8@4 per cent sterling exchange firm with actual business in bankers' bills at [email protected] for demand and at [email protected] for sixty days silver certificates 69Vk@69^ bar silver 64 15-1G Mexican dollars 60%.

Government bonds strong, state bonds dull, railroad1 bonds firm. Clearings $87,809,543 balances $3,942,244. Atchison 3-Hi Adams Express 150 Alton and Terre Haute 56 American Express 109 Baltimore and Ohio 15 Canada Pacific 54% Canada Southern ... 45 Central Pacific 13 Chesapeage and Ohio ... 17^4 Chicago and Alton ..., 164 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 73% Chicago GaB 78 Consolidated Gas 149 C., C., C. and St. Louis 27 Colorado Coal and Iron Cotton Oil Certificates ll1^ Delaware and Hudson 106% Del., Lack, and Western ...153 JJenver and' Rio Grande, prefd 43^4 Erie 14% Erie, first prefd 34 Erie, second prefd 19 Fort Wayne 16® Great Northern, prefd 120^ Chicago and Eastern Illinois, prefd 90 Hocking Valley 9% Illinois Central 93Ms St. Paul and Dulutli 20 Kansas and Texas, prefd 304 Lake Erie and Western 16% Lake Erie and Western," prefd 67% Lake Shore 152% Lead Trust 25^4 Louisville and Nashville 50% Loulsvlllo and New Albany ^4 Manhattan Consolidated 90% Memphis and Charleston 15 Michigan Central 89 Missouri Pacific 21% Mobile and Ohio 21 Mobile and Ohio 21^ Nashville and Chattanooga 66 Mew Jersey Central 99% Norfolk and Western, prefd 17 North American Company 4^ Northern Pacific 14% Northern Pacific, prefd 34% U. P., Denver and Gulf j,— 2 Northwestern 104% Northwestern, prefd 152 New York Central 93 Mew York and New England 38 Dntarlo and Western 14% Oregon Navigation 13 Oregon Short Lino and Utah North 15 Pacific Mall 24% Peoria, Decatur and Evansvllie .. 2 Pittsburg Pullman Palace 157% 26% 64 45 13 40 67%

Reading Cotton Oil, prefd p., C., C. and St. L., prefd Rio Grande and Western RioGrando and Western, prefd' Rock Island St. Paul St. Paul, prefd 5t. Paul and Omaha 5t. Paul and Omaha, prefd Southern Pacific Jugar Refinery Tennessee/Goal and Iron Texas Taciflc Toledo and Ohio Central, prefd jTn4on Pacific United States Bspraes Wabash. St. Iiouis and PacificWabash, St. Louis and Pacific, prefd Weils Fargo Express ......... Western Union .... Wheeling and Lake Erie Wheeling smi Iake Brie, prefd Minn, and St. Louis Denver and Rio Grande

!!.'!!!.".i3i% 49% 133 14% 116% 29%

Colorado Fuel and Iron, prefd 80 American Spirit*.. ......... American Spirits, prefd 31 Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas Clt£ o% Toledo, St. L. and Kansas City, nrefd .... 10 Southern Railway JS. 9% Southern Railway, prefd 23% Tobacco °-f/« Tobacco, prefd f. ......102% American Tel. and Cable Compiny .... 85 Commercial Cable Company 160 Sugar, prefd 193% Leather, prefd »1% Rubber Rubber, prefd «4 O., R. and N., prefd1 United States 4's, (new), reg .\...122% United States 4's, (new) coupon 123% United States 4's, reg 'JJc United States 4's. coupon JJ® United States 4's, reg I™ United States 4's, 112% United States 2's, reg „9Jj„ Pacific 6's, of '95 Vi 103%

THE LIVE STOCK MfRKET./.

Cattle Steady—Hogs Opened Lfcwer—Small Sheep Supply.* Indianapolis, Jan. 28.—Cattlg^Recelpts 500 head. Shipments fair. There was a good supply of cattle, but the quality was only fair and prices were steady.

Export arid shipping cattle we quote: Choice to prime 1,400 to 1,800 pound steers 5 00 fat. well finished steers, 1.20U to 1,350 pounds Medium to good shipping steers... 3 85@ Common to fiir steers 3 50@ 8U Good to choice feeding steers .... 3 60@ 4 00 Fair to medium feeding steers.... 3 -5® ... 2 500 3 25

Common to good stockers Butchers cattle we quote: Good to choice heifers .. Fair to medium heifers Common light heifers Good to choice cows Fair to medium cows Common old cows Veal calves Heavy calves Prime to fancy export bulls ... Good to choice butoher bulls .. Common to fair bulls Good to choice cows and calves Common to medium cows and calves .15 00@25 00

3 50® 3 85 2 90® 3 40 2 35@ 2 80 2 85® 3 SO 2 40® 5 £5 1 00@ 2 20 4 00@ 5 50 3 00@ 5 00 3 25® 3 50 2 50@ S 00 1 50@ 2 35 .30 00@40 04

Hogs—Receipts 4,500 head. Shipments 1,000 head. The early hog market was 2%c lower, but with additional shipping orders the last arrivals sold at steady prices. All sold. We quote: Good to cboice medium heavy Mixed and heavy packing Good to choice lightweights Common lightweights Pigs ........ Roughs

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$3 50@3 55 3 40@3 50 3 50@8 55 3 40@3 50 2 50(5)3 50 2 50@3 15

Sheep—Receipts 200 head. There was a small supply of sheep and lambs, but enough to show that prices were slightly lower. Good to choice lambs $4 60(ffi5 00

Shipments fair.

Common to medium lambs Good to choice sheep Fair to medium sheep Common sheep Bucks', per head .....

3 00@4 50 3 25@3 60 2 60@3 10 1 50@2 40 1' 50@5 00

Minneapolis Wheat Market.

Minneapolis, Jan. 28.—Wheat receipts 152 cars. January and May 72%c July 73%c No. 1 hard 74%c No. 1 northern 72%c.

Peoria Corn Market,

Peoria, Jan. '28.1—Corn steady, new No. 19%c. Oats Inactive, 9r W1 20%c. Rye nominal.

irm. No. 2 white Whisky, steady, 1.17.

Coffee and Sugar Market.

New York, Jan. 28.—Coffee—Options ruled quiet and featureless, following unsatisfactory private cables and easier European markets. Closed quiet, unchanged to 5 net decline sales 3,500 bags, including March $9.35 spot Rio dull mild quiet cordova 15%@17.

Sugar—Raw steady refined quiet.

38 6% 15% ,08 83* 2* 10%

General Electric National Linseed Fatl aai lrea. uuu vuuu

11%

BIG FIRE AT CINCINNATI.

Goepper & Co.'a Malt fkoase Burned With a Loss of 8200,000. Cincinnati, Jan. 28.—At 2 o'clock this morning a fire alarm rang, followed Immediately by a ten-blow call, summoning the entire available forces of the fire-department to the big five-story bri$k malt house of Herman Goepper & Co./ between Vine and Race streets, and extending to Commerce street, a depth of 150 feet. This building, with its heavy stock and material, was wholly destroyed, except the walls. .This was formerly the Albert Schwill & Co. malt house, and was recently purchased by Herman Goepper &. Co. The loss on the building and stock is estimated at $200,OCH). Overman, Schroeder & Co.'s cordage warerooms, in the same buildings, ware destroyed with contents, and their loss is included in the above estimate The buildings belong to the Perin estate.

All the burned property was on the north sido of Commerce street. On the south side of Commerce street, extending to Front street, was another section of the malt house, equally as large and as well sujeked as the one destroyed. The fire caught in this, and it looked as if the block was doomed, including large groceries and tobacco houses, but the firemen got the mastery. The Overman Company is in the hands of a receiver. A power house, two doors north of the fire, in Second street, gave some alarm to spectators, and beat the police clearing the streets until the danger was practically over. Goepper & Co. are fullyinsured.

It required the best possible management by the fire department to prevent a spread1 of the flames among valuable and comparitlvely combustible property. Goepper & Co. estimate their loss on stock at $50,000. The building was valued at $30,000. It is practically a total loss. W. W. Blair & Co., commission merchants, say their stock was mostly consignments, and all Insured. Miller & Brown, also commission merchants, were wholly burned out, and their loss is estimated at $10,000 insured. The Overman & Schroeder Cordage Company suffered a total loss, estimated at $10,000, and fully insured. The furniture company also suffered a total loss, roughly estimated at $15,000 and insured. The other losses were caused by damage by water, which, in most instances, ran into cellars. The firms thus suffering ranged in loss from a few dollars to $2,000, and are Joh* Stonn & Co. Cincinnati Transfer Company, C. H. Relnhardt & Co., C. M. Holloway & Co., Polman, Hill & Co., A. E. Mante & Co.. W. G. Hill & Co., John J. Perkins & Co. and the Kerr Grocery Company. The total loss will be less than $200,000.

Ehrman Coal Co. has the best Brazil block in the city. Just try it once.

Tho Lord lias promised to come again when the world was in some need of held. Come and hear about His coming. Avenue Theater, Sunday night.

Adolph Schellschmidt, the 'cellist, play solo numbers.

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$1.60 will buy 2,000 pounds Lump Coal. Ehrman Coal Co., 605 North Seventh.

S. M. Dishon and no otlier Goe» forth in haste With bills and paste And proclaims to all creatlom

That men are wise Who advertise In the present generation.

Rheumatism Cured in

Day,

"Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in one to three days. Its action upon the system is remarkable and mysterious. It removc-s at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits. Sold by N. C. Baur, Cook, Bell & Black and all druggists in Terre Hautf.

For $1.60 spot cash we will sell a ton of good Lump Coal. Ehrman Coal Co.

The Express is the only Sunday paper in Terre Haute, 15 cents a week.

SAVE YOUR LIFE

By using "The New Great South American Kidney Cure." This new remedy is a great surprise on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain In the Kidneys, Bladder and Back In male or female. It relieves retention of water and pain in passing it almost immediately. Save yourselves by using this marvelous cure. It will prevent fatal consequences in almost all cases by its great alterative and healing powers. Sold by all wholesale and retail druggists in Terre Haute, Ind.

A ton good lump coal only $1.60 at Ehrman Coal Co. Spot. cash.

Professor Edmondson, the optician, will again be at Bigwood's jewelry store February 1st, 607 Wabash avenue. He tests all eyes free.

Oliver Wlilard Pierce emlneujL piuii£t jvill play sola -numbers*."--

TEKRE HAUTE

DANGER IN SODA.

Serious Besults Sometimes follow Its Excessive Use.

Common soda is allrigfht" in its place and Indispensable in the kitchen and for oooking and washing purposes, but it was never intended for medicine, and people who use it as such will some day regret it.

We refer to the common use of soda to relieve heartburn or sour stomach, a habit which thousands of people practice almost daily, and one which is fraught with danger moreover the soda only gives temporary relief and in the end the stomach trouble gets worse and worse.

The soda acts as a mechanical irritant to the walls of the stomach and bowels and cases are on record where it accumulated in the intestines, causing death by inflammation orperitonitis.

Dr. Harlandsou recommends as the safest and surest cure for sour stomach (acid dyspepsia) an excellent preparation sold by druggists under the name of Stuart's Dys- :_ Iawpa 'XI pepsia Tablets. These tablets are large 20 grain lozenges, very pleasant to taste and contain the natural acids, peptones, and digestive elements essential to good digestion, and when taken after meals they digest the food perfectly and promptly before it has time to ferment, sour and poison the blood and nervous system.

Dr. Wuerth states that he invariably uses Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets in all eases of stomach derangements and finds them a certain eure not only for sour stomach, but by promptly digesting the food they create a healthy appetite, increase flesh ana strengthen the action of the heart and liver. They are not a cathartic,.but intended only for stomach diseases and weakness and will be found reliable in any stomach trouble except cancer of the stomaeh.

All druggists sell Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets at 50 cts. per package. A little book describing all forms of stomach weakness and their cure mailed free by addressing the Stuart Co. of Marshall. Mich.

DON'T ADMIT YOU ARE OLD.

A* Traveling Man's Secret About One of the Secrets of Old Age. A New York traveling man, after due deliberation, has oouie to the conclusion that it is unwise for old people to tell how old they are and thereby gain fame if they want to live much longer. He cite* a number of oases where centenarians, nonogenarians and even octogenarians, had been hunted up by people who bad a fad for tljat particular thing and soon afterward died because of the effect) of notoriety upon their quiet lives.

The latest theory advanced In behalf of old age is therefore, "Don't think yourself old nor allow anybody else to tbink that you are old, and you'll live a good many years longer."

This particular New Yorker went about the country a good deal seeking for centenarians and persons whose years were approaching the century mark. "My oontaot with thetia was so frequent," said he, "that it was Surprising. Many of the people who had reached the age of 100 or over were sound of mind, and some persons at 90 were quite youthful. George La Barre, in Monroe County, Pa., who had passed his one hundred and sixth birthday, I found with a pipe in1 his mouth, a flask of whisky in his pocket, chopping cordwood for all he was wqfth. He had lived among the mountains all his lifo. His memory was fresh, and he could talk of things that had happened a century ago. He had chewed and smoked tobacco for 95 years and drunk whisky for more than 90. "Then there was Cook St. John of Walton, Delaware County, N. Y. He was 108 years old and remembered his mother carrying him in her arms when the British captured Norwich, Conn., during the Revolutionary war and flying with him to the woods to e3oape. He remembered when Greenwich street wag the water front of North river, and lie Worked on the wharfs along that street wlTen he was a boy. In Orange county I found a man who was 117 years old. He vms colored man, who had been a slave from the day of his birth until he was 70 years t)ld. "My investigation among old people,3* continues this hunter after human relics to a reporter, ''has cbnviiicgd me that it is not any triok at all to become an octogenarian, and I never took any note of people of that age unless there was something very remarkable about them, like my old friend, Captain Moses Benner of Ceres, Fa., who, at the age of 83, was the father of two children that were younger than his youngest great-grandchild, and his youngest great-grandchild was only 4 years old. At that age Captain Benner was able to put a rifle ball, with his gun held offhand and equipped with only the ordinary eights,, into a copper cent three times out of five at 40 rods, or such octogenarians as. the Bethany triplets—Mrs. Bushnall, Mrs. Lippencott and Mrs. Campbell—with only 20 minutes between the ages of the oldest and the youngest, and the three, at 85 years of age, in the enjoyment of the mest vigorous and robust health."—Exobange.

NANSEN'S THROWING STICK/

Its Discovery L«d Him to Undertake His Search For the Pole. It is not generally known that among the facts which induoed Dr. Naneen to undertake his expedition to the north pole was the discovery of a little piece of wood called the "throwing stick."

Professor J. Murdoch explains what a "throwing stick" is and how it led Dr. Nansen to believe that there was a steady current flowing across the pole. He defined a "throwing stlok" to be a oontrivanoe for casting a javelin or harpoon, which is employed by various savage races, such as the Australians, some South American tribes and especially by the Eskimos.

The patterns of different countries differ from one another, so that a connoisseur can say whether a particular "stick" belongs to Greenland or Hudson bay or Alaska. In 1886 a curator of a Norwegian scientific society found a "throwing stick" among tbe driftwood at Oodthaab, Greenland, different from those used in Greenland, but similar to those used in Alaska, and praotically identical with implements employed by natives living near Bering strait. The discoverer, Dr. Ring, set himself to the work of finding out how it reached Godthaab. It was evident it bad not drifted by way of the northwest passage, for that way ia barred by suoh a network of islands that the stlok would undoubtedly have stranded long before it reaohed Greenland.

The only reasonable explanation he could give was that the stick must have drifted with the current that sets north through Bering strait into the Arotio ocean. On the north of the strait the current moves steadily westward. There the stick mast have met the current that sweeps down between Iceland and Greenland, and then turned northward again around Cape Farewell. This theory appealed to Dr. Nansen, and ultimately led him to form bis adventurous plan of trusting his little vessel to the ourrent which he believed would cairy him over the pole. —New York Journal.

THE SWAN AND THE CRANE.

Mr. Moody Employe a Striking Fable to Illustrate His Teachings on Sin. The Ladies' Home Journal presents a paper of Dwight L. Moody, in "Mr. Moody's Bible Class'f series, in which the famous evangelist treats of the redemption from sin and employs tbe legend of the swan and the crane to emphasize his teaching: "It seeaM that a beautiful swan alighted by the banks of the water In which a crane was wading about seeking snails. For a few moments the crane viewed the swan in stupid wonder and then inquired, 'Where do yod come fro mi" "I oome from

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heaven,' asked the crane. 'Heaven,' said the swan, 'heaven! Have you never heard of heaven?' And the baautiful bird went on to describe tho grandeur of the eternal city. She told of streets of gold, and the gates and walls made erf precious stones, of the river of life, p^{]%crystal, and upon whose banks are tjwitrees whose leaves shall be for the healinj" of the' nations. In eloquent terms the swan sought to describe the hosts who live in the other world, but without arousing the slightest interest on the part of the crane: «.Finally the crane asked, 'Are thereiMiiy snaili therrf.' 'SnailsI' repeated the swan. 'No! Of course there are not/ 'Then,' said the crane as it oontinuedL its search along the slimy banks of the ^ool, 'you can have your heaven. I will/search for snails.' "This fable is but a mirror. How many a young person to Wjhjbm God has granted the advantages of aqCBristian home has turned bis baek upogp it and searched for snails. How many a mac will saorifioe bis home, his wife, his faxiiily, his all, for the snails of sin. How many a girl has deliberately turned from the love of parents and home to learn too late that heaven has been forfeited for snails."

*». 7~ *r^THE USE OF BURS.^ ,...ok A They Carry the Seeds of Plants Away From the Parent Stem.

After a stroll afield in the fall one is apt to wonder as he works away at the burs that cover his clothes what use. they can possibly be. Burs are a great nui•ance to men and animals, but the plapts they grow on find tbem very serviceable, for they are simply fruits covered with spines or priokles, and this is only another way plants have to distribute their seeds. That it is a scheme that works well any one ean see who has a hunting dog and keeps it in his yard. In the spring fine crops of Spanish needles and olot burs oome up as if by maglo where there were none before. They hate grown from the burs the dog brobgbt home In his ooat the autumn before. Around woolen mills in New England plants fronjilth** west spring up In a mysterious way, *nd nearly always these have bur friiits. They have grown from the burs taken from the fleece of sheep in cleaning and thrown'Out as waste. Some troublesome weeds have been introduced in this manner. On the prairies there are many plants with this kind of fruit In former days, when great herds of buffalo roamed the plains, their hair caught up these burs, which thus stole long rides, like the tramps they are. Even now in old buffalo wallows plants are found that do not 'grow elsewhere in the country round.

Some tyurs, like Spanish aoedles, hays only three or fear slender spines, or awns, as they are called, at the summit of the fruit. £f we look at them tbrCugh a magnifying glass, we find .them bearing (harp, downward pointing barbs like that of a fishhook. The sand spur, an ill weed that grows on sea beaohes and sandy river banks, has burs covered with sueh spines. The boy who has stepped on sand spurs with his bare feet knows this to his sorrow. The tiny barbs go lia easlly, but every attempt to draw them 'littt makes them tear into the flesh.

Often the spines or ibristles afd hooked instead of being b&rbed. The clct bur, or oocklebur, that grows abundantly ill waste ground and the agrimony of our woods are examples. Burdock has such hooked prickles on its fruits, and they stick so fast together that children make of them neat little baskets, handles and all. The tick trefoil has jointed pods, covered thickly with small hooked hairs that can hardly be seen without a magnifying glass. These are the small, flat, brown burs that cover the clothing after a walk through the woods in September. They are most annoying burs, worse than clot burs, they are so small "find stick so fast. —"How Plants Spread," by Thomas H. Kearney, Jr., in St. Nioholaa

Cured the Mule.

"I was riding alo&g-tt mountain road in eastern Kentucky," remarked a traveling salesman, "when 1 saw a mule running toward me with a singletree dangling at his heels. With great difficulty 1 succeeded in turning out of his way, and he continued to go down the mountain at a lively pace. "About a mile farther on I saw two front wheels of a spring wagon, and a short distance away the other wheels and the wagon box. I looked around to see ii the driver had been hurt, but finding no one I drove on. •"In a few minute^.I

FKIUAV MUKNIWQ. JANUARY 29,1807.

bmet

a man walk

ing down the road rather h&etily. Stranger,' he queried, 'did TO' see a ftiewl down thar?' "'Yes.' 'Did he hev a rsft|i§?er 'is year?' 'I didn't see Rof."'

'Waal, it's all ri&hfc.j I reckon '©'11 stop when 'o gits fiustefra -out, an I reckon 'e'scured.'

'What is he curtid bf?' I asked. ''Balkin. Yo' seeTlheerd thet a grasshopper put in th' yeikr'6' a hoss or mewl 'ed eure 'im from aarlkin so I tied a reg over th' critter's year so it couldn' git out, cotched a grasshopper/ put 'im in, a' stranger, it's th' bee' remedy I ever Seed. Th' mewl didn' giv xne time to git in th' wagon. I sever did see^a mewl so sprightly. I reckon th' hopper's got out now, an I'll goon an ootch th' mewl.' "—Washington Star.

The Discomforts of Warships. A well known admiral baa asserted that, even with a moderate gale and sea, an armor plated cruiser, if going against the wind, will flnd herself in conditions similar to those of a storm—at least the crew will have that impression.

The movements of tho stern of the ship are violent and very disagreeable. The waves, pushed by the advanoing prow, sweep continually over the ship from bow to stern. All windows and portholes must be closed, and air reaches the lower decks, when the her.t increases unbearably, only through artificial ventilators. With the exception of the specially protected oommand bridge, all the uncovered portions of the Bhip are impassable. Thus tbe whole crew must bear as well as they can the Inferno of tbe closed decks.

In such a ship no one can feel 00m for table, and when there Is a storm in which a sailing ship would feel comparatively et ease the crew of an armor plated sbip imagines itsolf to be In a heavy hurricane, which threatens destruction at every minute.

The long, narrow fore part of the ship— which is not borne lightly by the water and is rendered extremely heavy by the ram and the armored deck and the cannon and torpedoes—forces the ship in a high sea to pitohings and rollings which are of a kind that cannot be described.— Pearson's Weekly,

Changing Serpents Into Bods. The Egyptian cobra Is not unlike its Asiatio oousln except in the absenee of toe curious spectaelellke^.mark whiah distinguishes the latter. Although it Is the most poisonous reptile known to inhabit northern Africa, it is the favorite the snake charmer^. These conjurers know how to render this serpent rigidly unoonscious by preMing the nape of its neck with a linger. Thls aet appears to throw thi reptile infeb catalepsy, in which he J* as stiff as an Iron od.

Traces of something similar having been practiced in oMen tUrita may be found in the Bible—where Aafon made a serpent of his rod or staff.—St. Louis Republic.

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blacken her eyebrows, eat dainty food, sit at a window or view Iwsetf in a mirror during tbeabssMaof btr huabanA low him to diyowie bar If she has no aona, injures his property, acdlds Win, qua"®18 with another woman or presumes to eat before he has finished bis imeaL

Hear August Wey slag all the popular songs at "A Womanfg War," Avenue Theater, Friday, 29th.

2,000 pounds good lump coal for $143^ Cash only. Ehrman Coal Co.

PIED.

HEANKY—Frank E. yesterdayTJanuary 27. Funeral from his mother's late residence, 101 North Thirteenth street thia (Friday) morning at 9 o'clock.

Services at St Patricks Church. Friends are invited to attend.

ANNOUNCEMENTS*

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We don't stop for prices. If yoo want anything ia the hardware line it will pay Tou to come to the assignee's sale.

R. R. Teel A Bro., 326 Wabash Avenue.

H. D. Roquet, Assignee.

TBI TJBRRK HAUTE RICHMOND COMPANY AND THE TSRKE HAUTE ft INDIANAPOLIS RAILROAD COMPANY:

You and each of you are hereby notified that under the terms of an act of the general Assembly of the state of Indiana, entitled "An act to require tbe Terre Haute & Richmond Railroad Company and the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad Company, pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-three (28), of an act entitled, 'An aet to incorporate the Terre Haute & Richmond Railroad Company.* approved January 26, 1847, to furnish the legislature with a correct statement of the amount of expenditures and the amount of profits, after deducting all expenses of. the Terre Haute & Richmond Railroad Company and the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad Company from the 26th day of January, 1847, to the 17th day of January, 1873, and declaring an emergency," approved January 27, 1897, that you and each of you are hereby, required to make and file with me, as attorney general of the state of Indiana, for the use of the general assembly thereof, on or before the 6th day of February, 1897, a oiatn%eat under the oath of the president and secretary of your company and of each of said companies, which statement must show: 1. The amount of expenditures In the. construction and operation of eald roads from the 26t!h day of Jtfteuary, 1847, to the 17th day of January, 1873, Inclusive. 2. The total amount of receipts during said period. 3. The total amount of profits In the operation of said roads during said periods. 4. The details of the expenditures. (a) In the construction of said road. (b) In the operation thereof during the corresponding period. 5. What disposition has been made of the profits. (a) By way of dividends declared and paid from time to time. (b) By way of reinvestments or other dtS' position.

Tou are further notified that by said act it is made my duty, as such attorney general, to serve notice thereof upon you and demand the making and) furnishing of such statement

Pursuant to said acts, I now, on behalf of the general assembly of the state of Indiana, do hereby demand of you that you proceed to make and deliver to me, for the use of the general assembly,, the statement above described on or before the 6th day of February, 1S97, and of this demand anil of the requirements of said statue you will take notice and govern yourselves accordingly. i, William A. Ketcham,

Attorney General of. the State of Indiana, Indianapolis, Jan. 27, 1557.

JJELLO, 119.

Are you busy? Tes. .Well, I've broken my buggy. Can you fix It right away? Yes. Then I'll send it down to First and Wabash avenue. You say you have skilled men and only charge assignee prices.

A. M. HIGGINS, Lawyer. Over McKeen's Bank

Telephone 332

WANTED.

WANTED—Girl to do cooking or one to do general house work. Apply northeast corner First and Poplar.

WANTED—A situation in small family by a respectable girl from country. Reference furnished. Address R. S., Express office.

WANTED—Business people to consume those excellent 15 cent dinners at the Typo Restaurant, 422 Ohio street. Best coffee made in the city. Bell, proprietor.

WANTED—Situation as nurse girl or at light housework. Apply at Sixth and Locust, southeast corner.

FQR WENT'

FOR SALE—Two of the best building lots on South Sixth street, with east front. John J. Brake, 113 South Eighth street

FOR RENT—Store room, s. e. Cor. Lafayette and Locust. Apply to 521 Lafayette street.

FOR RENT—Two good office rooms for rent over Baur's drug store. Apply at store.

FOR 8ALE^

FOR SALE OR TRADES—Several farms of different sizes for sale or trade for city property. W. A. McFariand. B21 Ohio St.

261-2 HOurs to New Orleans, La. To Jacksonville, Fla. 29 Honrs.

E. & T. J. R.

The E. & T. H. R. R- »s selling TOURISTS TICKETT to the South, Southeast and Southwest. Two through traias to the south daily. One change of cam to Tampa and Jacksonville, through to New Orleans without change.

THE BEST TIME, THE BEST SERVICE.

HALF FARE one way tickets sold the first and third Tuesday of each month to points in Alabama, Mississippi Ten» nessce, Gcorgift* Florida* North and South Carolina,

Excursions

same days

same points at ONE FARE

PLUS for the ROUND TRIP. .'Vk#""'5"

i' I *,"•

For Further information apply to R. S. DIGGES, Ticket Agt. Union Station

J. R. CONNELLY, G«i'l Agent,

xotfewaWabtifcAve.

MONEY TO LOAN.

Ets/Ttmu Strict!* Prints

Property remains ia yra* possessioo.

Loans'made on furniture, pianos, organs, sewing machines, bl- i&r cycles, life insurance polices,is

f6v fixtures also on SfeM watches and diamonds. We loan .J Money for the interest wo do not want your goods or property, so S you need have no fear of toeing ..*£1 J®®1®-, Any part of the loan may at any time, thus r«duc»ng the cost. Tou can arrange to the loan by monthly payments or to suit your convenience. any amount from HO to «00. Business transacted privateJy and promptly. It will pay yo« nl to Bee. us. J.

THE PRAIRIE GUY LOAN CO.

Room

U. Gilbert Bldg., 628 1-2 Wabash Ave.

MONEY TO LOAN TERRE HAUTE-£===— MORTGAGE LOAN CO.

Loans money on furniture, pianos, organs, sewing machines, horses, cows and other "personal property on short notice and without removal, thus giving you the use of ootn money and property. We also lean money on

Watches

"®r rates are low and our terms easy for ,9*n Pay the money back in weekly or monthly installments and any part paid reouces the cost of carrying the loan. Tou receive the full amount of money you ask for

n°

taken out in advance. The trans

action is sure to be private. Call and get our rates* Terra Haute Mortgage Loan

Cof

665 Main Street, Up Stairs.

8 PER GENT LOANS

Money loaned at S per cent on household goods, planes, vehicles and other valuables without rei' moval or publicity. Household goods and merchandise taken oa storage, money advanced on same.

All, business confidential.

Blumberg's Collateral Bank,

320 MAIN STREET.

Security Loan Co.,

s. Do you ever need money, if so call and see us. We make loans of any size, large or small on houiehold goods, pianos, horses, vehicles, etc., at very low rates for any length of time desired. See us before borrowing elsewhere.

SECURITY LOAN COMPANY, 649 1-2 Main Street.

F.oom

1. UJJ,

stairs.

MONEY TO LOAN

On Improved Real Estate at low i' rate of Interest from two years to .ten years.

THOS. A. E. CANTWELL,

329^4 Ohio Street,

V-P

VanialiaPennsylvania

Meeting of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor.... BRAZIL, INDIANA.

Round Trip Rate, 65 Cents. Tickets on Sale for trains leaving Terre Haute at 11:20 a. m.,

12:46

January

and

28th

Haute

7:15

5:27

9:18

p. m.,

also.for trains leaving Terre

and 11:20 a. m.,

p. m., January

12:46

and

29th,

5:27

good returning on all

regular trains to and including train leaving Brazil

a. m. January

30th, 1897.

HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS at $2.00

Higher than one fare fqr the round trip to points in Western and Southern States also cheap rates for one-way tickets to points in the South and South-East, Tuesday, February

2nd.

TOURISTS' Round Trip Tickets to the South and West at cheap rates on sale every day.

For reliable information apply at City Ticket Office,

654

Wabash Ave telephone

37 or Union Station.

Ceo. E. Farrington,

General Agent.

"As&r for

THE ISSUE CIGAR. BEST FIVE GENT CIGAR

In The Market,

Hulman & Co.

TERRE HAUTE, IND. DISTRIBUTERS.

ATTENTION

Oyster Dealers! Measure Your Oysters when

You Buy.

Full gallon and fresh stock guaranteed at

E.W.

615

MAIN.

OYSTERS RECEIVED DAILY. By Adams Express. 26 Hours out of Bait.

Isaac Ball & Son

FUNERAL DIRECTORS

Can be found at all times-night or dayready to supply those in want of anything in bis line.

TELEPHONE 8C and 89.

3C North Third street Terre Haute. Ind.

I The delicious fragrance, refreshing coalpom and soft .beauty imparted to the tudii by Ponom's POWPSB» I ooaasenda it to all lai&iea.

TIME TABLES VAHDAIIU USE

East Boud-Hate Ida*

York

®*l"*«a....Lvl 1:26 a. m.

& ,£ Indtawpolis Mail Lv| T:1S a.

No. 13. South Bend Mail Ar No. 11. St. Joseph Express Ar

LvlililO a. m.

No. 20. Pennsylvania Spec ....LvilJ:4« 6. aa. No. *.'Past Line LvI:M p. m. No. 3. New York Uo LvJ 6:ST p. ou

West Bound—Mela LUe.

No. 7. Western Express Lv, C°' J"

Lonla

Limited ....Lv

m0, ?l*

1fuls

LtoUed Mail

1:40 a. m. 10:24 a. m, 2:49 p. a, 4:20 p. ni, 9:09 p. ow

Express Lt

No. 13. Effingham Local L» •Daily

.Lv

•Ochlfn DItIsIqb.-

ft. Joseph Mail ^.Lvi Sooth Bend Mail Lv

6:20 a. m, 4:20 p* m, 11:17 a. m, t:40 p. m,

Feorte Division

J* £eoria

No. No. No. No.

and Diamonds

N. W. Kx »...Lv|

S S* 2ecatur Express Lv No. 20. Fast Line Ar No. 6. Terra Haute Mall ..".'.[.Ar

8:00 a. nv, 3*30 p.

IOJ

11:80 a. 7:00 p.

EYAJC8YHJJB xnu MAUTJE

Arrlre From South.

Lim*

CVS) ....Arl 3:63 a. n, Ex.* ......Arfll:00a.m. m« a.

[VS) ....Arl 3:63 a. ......Ar(ll:00 a. Spl (VS)ArJ 3:20 p.: f&P) ...Ar[U:10 p.

8. New Orlns ft Fla Ch. A I. Ex.* (SAP)

**eava South.

No. No. No. No.

r£*

(VS) •—Ar! 12:01 a. m.

7 SL ,Ev-

Kx-'

'SAPl.Lvl 6:33 a. m.

7. Wew Orlns A Fla Spl (VS)Lv 3:40 p. na. Evansvllie & Ind. Mail*. .Lv| 3:20 p. m.

EYAySYTT.r.B UffllAMA ppi.tj.

Arrive From Soath.

Not 48. T. H. Mixed Ar No. 82. Mail and Express"!".'"Ar

n£

10:10 a. m, 3:00 p. mk

Leave For aovth.

BxPre"

Lvl 9:00 a. m.

No. 49. Worthlngton Mixed Lv] 8:50 p. m.

CMlGAao IAITIU ILLXNeU.

Arrive from North.

No. No. No. No. No.

®'ln»ftyi*«Pl(IVS)Ar| 3:35 p.

J?T'

(DV3) ....Ar 11:55 p. nu

Ex-*

W ••••Arl 3:30 a. m.

Passenger Arll0:45 a. m.

LCh. ft Ev. Ex. Ar 2:30 p. jn. Leave For North.

No. «. Ch. ft N. Um* (DVS) ..Lv| 4'00a. m. No. 2. T. H. ft Ch. Express ..Lv[ll:20a. m. No. 3. New Orlns ft Fla «pl No. 4. Ev. ft O. Ex.* (S) .. No. 10. T. H. ft Momence Local.

to ,.m| |:W a. 10^ •aa ..Lv[ll:20a. m. A (VS)I-Yl 3:26 p.

Lvj41:5o p. nv

«cal..Lv| 4:10 p. m^

'Dally. All other trains run dally except Sunday. Above trains arrive and leave Unloa Depot, Tenth and Sycamore streets.

CIdSYKLAHB, CIHOUrXATl, OHlOAttO fl n. LOUIS (BIS VOOB).

Arrive From th* Weak.

No. St. N. Y.t Bos., Cla. Kx.*.Arl 1:62 a. m. No. 4, Ind., Cln. Ex Arl 7:U a. No. 8. Day Ex. and Mall* Art 2:63 p. m. No. 18. Knickerbocker Spl* Ar| 4:28 p. nu

Leave for tk« bit.

No. 3$. N. Y.t Bos., Cla., Bx.*.Lv[ 1:56 a. m. No. 4. Ind., Cln. Ex Lv] 8:00 a. nv No. 8. Day Ex. and Mall* LvJ 2:66 p. No. 18. Knickerbocker Spl* Lv( 4:11 p.

Arrive From th« Zast.

No. 86. St. Loots Bx* Ar No. 9. Day Ex. and Mall*....Ar No. 11. Southwestern Lim* Ar No. 6. Mattoon Acc'n Ar

1:80 a. 9:68 a. nv 1:85 p. n* 28 p. n*

Lesv* for the West.

No. 35. St. Louis Express* ....Lv| No. 9. Day Ex. and Mail* Lv No. 11. Southwestern Lim* ....Lv No. 6. Mattoon' Acc'n Lv

l:3e a. nv 10:00 a. mr 1:37 p. m. «-30 p. mr

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