Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 September 1897 — Page 4

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THE SEMI-WEEKLY EXPRESS. One copy, six months.

Everything is going against the Popocrats the schools of the country are about to reopen.

Mr. WllHaan Harrity is beginning to realize that he actually landed outside the bredst. works.

If this country never gets prosperity until it extracts it from a cheap dollar it will never possess it.

President Faure is the cleverest bomb .dodger In Europe. He is the despair of the gentle anarchist.

•Arkansas Jones thinks the election of Mr. Bryan 1900 is so certain that the formality of an election would bea useless expense.

There were no revolutionary banners in yesterday's labor parade. The American flag was conspicuous among the marchers.

It Is almost two months since Herr Andree consigned himself to a balloon bound for the north pole. His fate remains a profound mystery

General Weyler says that many of the insurgents are "on the run." Yes they are after the Spaniards and have to run in order to keep in sight of 'the enemy.

Nothing could be more certain than the fact that level.headed, practical workingmen take very little stock in the social destructioniste.

An enthusiastic silverite declares that "many waters cannot quench the fire of our cause.'" Probably not. But another flood of votes will about do the business.

Senator Wellington will support the ticket nominated in Maryland contrary 'to his pleasure. The ticket will doubtless be duly grateful for this notable condescension.

President Ingalls says he believes prosperity is here and he proves that he is sincere in the statement by placing an order lor 2,000 box cars to cost $1,000,000.

It is popularly supposed that India is well to the front in affairs of the mind. This fact lends weight to the statement that that country wants to get on the gold basis.

Tillman and I.rby will come together some of these times to settle their differences and then there will be the most astonishing exhibition of Jaw-action that the country has yet seen.

The anarchists say they are going to make a deadly assault upon government. This announcement encounages the hope that sooner or later most of their friends will be pricing crape.

Senator Wellington has scored two great victories recently, one as boss of the administration and the other as boss of Maryland. He is sad now because there are no unconquered worlds lying around loose.

Before the election Mr. Bryan declared repeatedly that if McKinley should succeed there could be no prosperity. Now he is explaining why his prediotion was not verified. If his opinions were not reliable before the election who is going to have much confidence in them now

It is to be hoped that the delegate convention of coal miners to be held at Columbus Wednesday will see its way clear to accepting the compromise proposed by the Pittsburg operators. The miners have done themselves infinite credit by keeping their heads during the whole of this struggle and aiming straight at a satisfactory settlement instead of giving themselves to the idleness of lurid rhetoric.

LABOR'S HOLIDAY.

Yesterday the workingnien of the country celebrated their annual holiday The occasion was fittingly observed in this city and those who took part in the exercises thoroughly enjoyed them. The parade in the morning was a most creditable affair, not alone because of the large number of workingmen that took part in it, but because of the fact that the American flag was the principal banner in the procession and that there was an entire absence of sensational, flippant or unpatriotic inscriptions. The men in the parade were an intelligent, w»»Hdressed, conservative appearing body of laborers and they gave publication to no sentiments indicating a loss of faith in their government.

It seems to be a well established fact that the laboring men of t&is country do not propose to be led into griveous error by socialistic and revolutionary counsellors. They appear to realize that their chances for a fair de«l are quite as good under our present form of government as they could possibly be under any system set up by the would-be destroyers of what now exists. This being true they do not care to waste iiime with the blatant and Irrational apostles if doubtful reform. It has come to be a jonviction with them that the shortest distance between their present lot and the condition to which they aspire lies through Ihe meant offered them by this republic and not through any social and political upfceaval.

There does not seem to be a particle of •vidence that the would-be rovoiuticnista AT* gaining ground. Tbe great tiraie a ibe.t

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Some of the hottest things going nowadays are bicycle matches.

Colonel Abdul Hamid is fond of hiding his diplomatic light under a bushel.

This country has profited immensely by substituting for a William Wilson a Dingley bill.

When Pitchfork Tillman gets really roild he is more terrible than an army with banners.

coal miners has been, fought out with, extraordinary conservatism OD the part o£. the men and it promises to be-«ettled without having been affected in the least by the tirades of those who have taken advantage of it and the judicial incidents that have accompanied it to inveigh against government a,nd incite revolution. The fathers of the government of the United States laid a deep and strong foundation and the superstructure of a century and a quarter rests upon it in absolute security.

THE DISCRIMINATING DUTY. The question whether section 22 of the Dingley tariff law shall be construed as imposing a discriminating duty of 10 per cent on all goods not the product of Great Britain and its European territorial dependencies Imported in British vessels is of so much importance that no action will be taken until the opinion which the Attorney General is preparing has been submitted to and considered carefully by President McKinley and his cabinet, comments the Chicago Tribune.

It may be the opinion of the president and his constitutional advisers that if the interpretation mentioned above is put on the language of the law the benefits derived by this country may not be an equivalent for the injuries that may be inflicted on it by retaliatory measures on the part of Great Britain and other countries whose mercantile, marine may suffer by reason of tlie imposition of discriminating duties.

The New York Sun takes the ground that the imposition of such duties will be merely a carrying out of one of the planks in the platform upon which President McKinley was elected. That plank is as follows: "We favor restoring the early American policy of discriminating duties for the upbuilding of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so that American ships— the product of American labor employed in American shipyards, sailing, under the Stars and Stripes, and manned, officered, and owned by Americans—may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce."

The Sun calls also for the abrogation of all treaties, some of them over half a century old under which the vessels of some foreign nations will be allowed to bring in goods exempt from discriminaing duties, while those of other nations with which there are no such treaties will have :o pay those duties. Were that done all goods imported in foreign vessels from any part of the world would pay 10 per cent higher duties than if imported in American bottoms.

When "the early American policy of discriminating duties" was adopted it was by way of retaliation. Other countries had them and 'the United States did not relish such discriminaions. The commercial nations have abandoned their early policy which was so offensive. It is proposed now that the United States shall adopt it. If so, what will other countries do?

The general government cannot impose duties on exports. The constiution forbids that. So no preference can be given to American vessels engaged in the export trade. 'But supposing all goods brought to this country in British vessels from Great Britain or anywhere else or goods brought in German vessels from Germany or an other part of the world, are made to. pay 10 per cent more duty th.»^Jf those goods are imported in American vessels. It is claimed that in that event the American carrying trade will be restored.

But supposing Great Britain were to answer back by levying on American food stuffs and other American products, cotton included, when imported in American vessels taxes so high as practically to prohibit their importation in such vessels. Supposing all the other European countries were to resort to similar or more severe retaliatory measures.

The European nations might make a serious effort to exclude all American raw materials and manufactured goods which they can possibly get elsewhere than from the United States. They might shut out American petroleum, bread and meat stufts, iron, steel, copper etc. not merely from Europe but from India, the West Indies, Australia and Africa. The Chinese and Japanese markets might be closed to us.

Of course, if European nations were to adopt, such a policy they would injury their own people, but they would harm the United States also. What would the vesselowners of this country gain if they had to sail abroad in ballasts in order to get a cargo of goods They would have to charge more for their services than if they had cargoes both ways, and hence the goods: they brought would cost American consumers more than they do now.

This nation can inflict serious injury on the commerce and business of other nations. They can strike back in such a way as to damage the interests of the people of the United States. The damage done may be equal, probably it would be were there to be such a commercial "war" as the one described above.

When nothing can be gained by war, war is generally considered foolish. What will be the net gain—if any—of a war of discriminating duties? That is a question which President McKinley and his cabinet will consider carefully before they decide on the construction tc be put on section 22 of the Dingley law. They will consider it not so much from the point of view of the shipowners to oblige whom the plank quoted above was inserted in the St. Louis platform, but from the point of view of men whose duty it is to consult the best interests of the whole country.

It may be thav nothing will be done until congress mee-ts, and that the section will be referred back to it for interpretation.Prob ably not half a dozen men know that the existing law and practice might be changed by section 22. Their colleagues in both houses should be given an opportunity to state whether they desire a change

CURRENT EVENTS.

There Is no longer any doubt that the Star Pointer mile on Tuesday of race week here is regarded as the most interesting event in the harness horse world in the remainder of the season. While it is true that Indianapolis and Springfield each has a race between Pointer and Patchen, horsemen do not. look forward to these events as likely to result in anything sensational or that has not beeu discounted in the public mind. No one has any doubt that Pointer can win races from Patch en in one-two-three order, every day in the year and not be put to his top speed in any heat. Therefore a race is one horse gping around the track with another following him. But. with Pointer endeavoring to lower his record of 1:59^4 to s»y, 1:58, which is where his driver, McClary, says it will go if the conditions are right on the day he starts, there will be a country-wide interest, or curiosity, at least, to know if he succeeds. He has been called upon only once this year for his best steps, That was at Readville, outside of Boston, when he made the 1:59^4. record. His owner and driver bath say he was not sent to his limit of speed—that is, to the paint of exhaustion.

It is a thoroughly demonstrated fact that the Terre Haute track is the fastest of all, to wlnak Ia- Robert Buiiuer has juii tetii-

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fled. The number of world's records It has had credited to it leaves no doubt of it. It is to be placed in perfect condition for the races and if the weather Is right and Pointer is right there will be a new mark so far down that probably we will wait a fey years before it is equalled or lowered. That is what Mr. Murphy, the owner of the horse, wants. He is rich. He wants to own a. horse that is the fastest of all harness horses, not the fastest for a month or so, but for several years. He paid 15,000 for Star Pointer. No doubt the borne has earned that amount this season. Next year he is to be placed in the stud and there he will earn JlO.fiOO or more, easily more, if he geta a record of 1:58.

A Milwaukee letter in a Chicago newspaper says it hfts been decided to make the first fight for a Social Democracy ticket in the city election there pext spring. A municipal ticket will be put in the field for all the offices to be filled, both judicial and administrative. It is said in the letter "Milwaukee has for a number of years been inclined toward many of the socialistic doctrines, and there are few places in the country where Eugene V. Debs has enjoyed greater popularity among the trades unionists than in this city. He has never been invited to deliver an address here that it was not necessary to turn hundreds away from the hall at which he was advertised to speak, so great has been the desire on the part of Milwaukee workingmen to listen to the silver tongued and magnetic orator of the new political organization."

The John Woods case is to be famous inthe history of civil service. John Woods has gone into the courts to prevent the post-, master general from transferring him from the position of superintendent of mails of the Louisville postofllce to that of a railway mail clerk. He has asked the judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to enjoin the postmaster general from enforcing the order. The. postofllce department construes President McKinley's provision that no office holder of this class shall be removed without charges to mean that iie shall not be entirely removed from the department, but that it does not prevent his transfer to another position, although the transfer involves a reduction in salary, Mr. Woods makes the point that the removal from one. position to another without the consent of the holder of the position practically constitutes a "removal" according to Mr, McKinley's order, and cannot be made without filing charges against the office holder and giving him an opportunity refute them. In his petition Mr. Woods says that no cb-irges were filed against him and that n5 hearing was given him. If this contention is upheld by the courts it will give the department considerable trouble. as they co.uld not reduce, an officer of this class, as they have done heretofore, without question.

Another important question involved iswhether the civil service law throws aii^ safeguard around removals from office. There is now no question that it controls to a certain extent appointments to office, but the power of civil service commission to enforce the provisions of the orders is restricted to taking cognizance of violations and regulating the examinations and the certifying? of lists of those who are eligible to appointment. The commission holds that the questions in this case are wholly within the jurisdiction of the courts.

One report is that the postoffice department will suspend Woods pending the final decision so that he will have to fight his case from the outside. The department will, do this in self defense. If Woods should succeed in thwarting the orders of his superiors and hold office until the, court of last resort decided his case might be followed by every employe of the government, whose transfer would be for the good of the service. The worst feature of the affair is that it puts the administration in the attitude of getting around- the civil service law on technicalities, If the law is faulty in part or altogether the better way would seem to* be to say so. explain why it is faulty and correct the faults or repeal it.

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No Guest Under 75 Years and Their United Ages Were 1,303 Tears.

Theresa, N. Y.. Sept. 5.—A notable gathering has just otcurred at the home of B. D. Bullard, who gave a dinner to his men friends of 75 years of age and upward. The guests were John Roof, aged SO B. P. Cheeseman, 82 W. D. Chapman, 77 George Fox, 82 Franklin Parker. 77 Joseph Fayel, 75 Gideon Snell. 90 John Bates, 79 Alanson Cole. 75 Loren Stone, 77 I. L. Huntington. S7: C. G. Harper. 87 Abram Walradt, 76 Peter Schwartz, 75, and the Rev, oseph A. Canfleld, 84,

The total sum of their ages is 1,303 years and the average is 87.

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ABOUT PEOPLE.:'

V-erestchagin, the Russian battle pfttnter, will be the first recipient of the noble prize given for "Wile propagation of 'pacific ideas," it is said, as h4s pictures have brought out the true horrors of the war. Kaiser W'ilhelm calls them "the best assurance against war."

General Von Waldersee's mother-in-law celebrated the 95th. anniversary of her birth last week, and is in robust health. On t'he same day Dr, Wilhelm Sehrader, who served twenty-seven years as provincial srhool commissioner in Konlgslwrg, entered upon his Slst year, hale, hearty and vigorous.

Cardina! Di Rende's death, according to the London Tablet, has made the number of foreign cardinals greater than that of the Italian for the second time within twelve months. There are now tiiiirty-one of the. former to thirty of the latter, agtpte of things which until within a few years had not occurred for many centuries.

Dr. G. E. C. Weber, of.Cleveland, Ohio, has sailed for Europe, being on h's way to his post as consul at Nuremberg. Bavaria, to which he was lately appointed. Dr. Weber is a surgeon of distinction and at one wme was an intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln.

Max Haddad, who now lives inretlreinent in Worcester. Mass.. was formerly a favorite jockev of the king of Rotimania. H«s majesty had the-ambition, to hve in his bodyguard of skilled riders men of nearly every 'nation of the worth. Haddad. a" Syrian by birth, was one of these. The SAventfw rii"11*0 *1way= stcewtwuSed 'he kics on Ills oliici&l tours about Galatz.

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JUNIGK MEMBER OV S. SW OPK A CO I CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAIf.

Alrfo the Anniversary of His Marrlag*— Changes In Terre Haute Slnce Mr. ^Nehfs Fint Appearance

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Sunday Mr. Charles Nehf celebrated the 40th anniversary of his advent into this vale of tears and sorrow For that number of summers and winters has the popular jeweler been a citizen of Terre Haute. Sunday he stood on the porch of the house in which he was born and posed for a picture of his 6Miling self, which he will distribute among his relatives and friends as souvenir of the occasion.

The house in which Mr. Nehf was born is now owned by Hallorar!, and stands at the top of the hill just east of the water works .and at the southeast corner of the Big Four railroad and Water street. In 1857, when Chas. Nehf first saw tbe light, it was owned by W. Walker, the pork packer.

Many changes have taken place in this city since Mr. Nehf first saw th# light of day. that time the pork packing industry was the chief one of he little town, and the amount of dressed pork which went down the river was surprising. In the year 1857 49,151 hogs were packed. The river banks were lined with packing houses and the business was carried on by such men as W. B. Warren, Jacob D. Early, J. L. Humaston & Co., B. McKeen, Wilson & Co., H. D. Williams & Co., and Linn & Reed, which firm was in the business a few years later, and whose building is the only one still standing to show where once the largest industry of Terre Haute was carried on.

In those days a great deal of the pork was boated down the river at different points as for as New Orleans. Among the boat men was Chaunce-y Twaddle, wbose death was caused a few years ago by being struck with a train while acting in the capacity of he Vandialia, bridge watchman. Pork was 6'hipped also north and south on the Wabash and Erie canal then running north to Lake Erie and south to Evansville. The old tow paths are still visible, from the water works building north, through the. greater part of the state, and south of the V-indalia bridge just.back of the old Indian burying ground. The canal running'south to Evansville left the basin a little north east passing the warehouse of Ross & Moore, where the Hudnut hominy mill now, stands. At the intersection of Chestnut and Second streets there was a lock. Then just a little east of the old Oaptain Smith warehouse, later used as the Hudnut hominy mill, which was a few years ago torn down, was another basin in which canal boats centered for loading and unloading.

The canal course north can now be seen between the present Hudnut mill and the cooper shop near Second street clear up to the curve at Ninth and One-half or Canal street near the Union depot. Then it ran south through the city, passing on its course he district now occupied by sucb establishments., as Paddock's.flour mills, old Electric Light Works, Reese & Snyder's lumber yard, Blair's stave and heading factorj, Stack's, hotel, Briggs' lumber yards, Phoenix foundry, Clift & Williams' planing mills, oil wells, Goldsmith's commission house, Stahl & Urban's factory, and through the T, H. Brewing Co's building

The following is a list of the 1857 manufactures and the changes of jame since thc-n: Blaize's fiour mill at the foot of Chestnut and Canal (destroyed by fire in the later part of the sixties) the McGregor distillery at Water and Sheet, streets (destroyed by fire in the early eighties), the McGregor & Paddock pork packing house on Water street between Swan and Oak streets (afterwards the Hudnut hominy mills) destroyed by fire), the Grover's foundry at First and Walnut streets (now the Parker foundry), the R. L. Thompson Anchor Mills, 'corner First and Poplar streets (now the Jenckes mill), the Wabash woolen factory at First and Walnut streets, owned and run by G. F. Ellis, father of Edwin Ellis the Linn & Reed packing house, and T. il. Johns' saw mills. The rest of them were with three exceptions destroyed by fire Another old building was the hub and spoke factory, later King's stove foundry, on the corner of Firet and Eagle streets. This building was torn down about ten yearfs ago on account of being unsafe.

The Herman carriage factory occupies a remodeled building once a woolen mill of four stories. A big fire in the sixties destroyed the fourth story.

Of the railroad depots there were two, one the old Union depot a Chestnut and Railroad crossing. This building now stands which several years ago was vacated for depot purposes and recently refitted for offices connected wifh the Vandalia railroad. The other depot, long ago torn down, was at Wabash avenue, just about where the Smith's storage building stands near Tenth street. It was a small one-story frame building with a belfry. This depot was used by, the Evtnsville railroad. The freight houses then numbered two the larger one the Vandalia house at Tenth and Main street was built

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1855 the other one at

Sixh and Big Four railroad, where now stands the Big Four passenger depot. The freight house was a medium sized one-story frame building. Of the railroads then we had two, the Evansville & Crawfordsville road and the Terre Haute, Alton & St. Louis.

In 1857 we had no oublic schools, aJ -hough one was in process of construction at Fourth and Mulberry The schools then were private or seminary, one being located on the present site of the State Normal. The other school was at Market or Third and Oak, which is still standing and is used as one of the public schools. The third building was at Locust and Third, a story brick building which still stands with its small and numerous panes of lights in the window frames. The school building which was built in 1857 on Fourth and Mulberry had for. the lower basement a very large hall used for public gatherings, such as Sunday school conventions, and political meet ings, in which some of our most noted Terre Haute public men have spoken.

D. W Voorhees and T. Nelson debated there The silver tongued orator, Colonel Richard Thompson charme3 many an audience with iiis eloquence. On top of this building wis a large cu'oU, wiiie'J hung the ciy bell, which pealed forth its sounfl every morning and afternoon to the city school^ children, announcing to them the school hour. After this building was torn down the old bell, which had done such good service in an educational line, was left in idleness for a number of years and then placed again in service. It. now can be heard ringing out the noon hour. The bell is now hung in he tower of the fire department headquarters on Ninth street.

The other school building built in 1857 was the Western Female University, now the St. Anthony's hospital. The corner stone of the building was laid on July 4, 1857* and an eloquent address was delivered for he occasion by Hon. R. W. Thompson. The school was opened for pupils in September, 1868, .the site of the college was one of the most beautiful, that could have been selected, being a Utile south of the center of the city on a lot ^containing eigh. and onehalf acres ol land. The buildings constituting the college pVoper were five in number and accommodated about 309 pupils.

Among ih* churches at that time (whicii

numbered eleven and all of which now stand), are the old Asbury chapel at Fourth and Poplar, the Congregational at Sixth and Cherry (whose pasor then was -the Rov. M. A. Jewott), the German Methodist on Mulberry, between Fourth and Fifth streets (now used as a dwelling house), St Joseph's on Fifth, between Ohio and Walnut (which at present is considerably larger, the priest at that time being Rev. F. Dimaria), the Christian Church on Fourth, between Ohio and'Walnut (now being used as a commission house by F. J. Feldler). The other churches were the Universalis!, corner Ohio and Fourth, the Episcopal on Third, between Wabash and Cherry, the Presbyterian, corner Poplar and Fifth, and the Baldwin Pres byterian, corner Fifth and Ohio, the last named being torn down to make room for the Deming block.

A list of the mills standing in 1857 and of those built a few years later are given below. The M. C. Rankin planing mill, on the site of Paddock's flouring mill. In the Rankin mill a fatal accident occurred on October. 8, 1869, by which Peter Jacob's father of the letter carrier, Philip acobs, was killed by a planing machine. Another old tnill was he Telegraph mill, on Locust street, between Sixth and Lafayette, which was torn down a few years ago. In this mill about 28 years ago occurred a terrible bailer explosion, by which several men were killed. A father and son by the name of Denny lost their lives. The mill was terribly wrecked. The Imbery brewery was also a land mark. It was then on he site of the H. P. Townley residence on north Seventh. Another old landmark was the grocery store of Chauncey Rose at the corner .of Sixth and Chestnut.

In 1857 we also had two public market houses, where markets were held every other day One of the houses still stands and is being used as a livery stable by Jehu Lewis, at the corner of Ninth and herry. The other was torn down a number of year3 ago and was located where the city hall now stands.

The old court house, a two-story brick building, stood on the court house square, the tsquare being fenced in by an iron fence, which can now be seen around Collett's Park. The old jail at the corner of Market and Walnut, was torn down in the '70's. The stone from the jail was afterwards used in building the wall around tbe present jail yard. The civil engineering was then done by County Surveyor Harris, the father of the present county surveyor, W. H. Harris.

The river in 1857 was spanned by two bidges. One was the old Alton wooden bridge, partly covered, the open part being where the draw was. The iron piers were used for the present iron bridge. The other bridge was the old wagon and toll bridge which spanned the river commencing on the east side at Ohio street. This bridge was a wooden one, and was built on wooden piers, the abutments of which can be seen now at low water. Several accidents happened with the bridge on account of its faulty construction. One is particularlyclear in the minds of many citizens, and was in 1862 or '63, when a drove of cattle were being driven across the bridge. When on the draw the bridge gave way, sending the cattle into the. river with a number of people. Among those drowned were two daughters of the late Henry Miller. But one person escaped, Edward Dunn of Sibleytown (the north end), who was: a brother of George Dunn, a former mail carrier. After the accident a company was organized and built the present bridge. The civil engineer of the bridge was Henry Daniels, now of Rockville. It was a toll bridge until bought by the county.

One of the most amusing, incidents connected with, the completion of this bridge was one practiced by a great practical joker, Tom Grace, who had it heralded for miles around that on a certain afternoon Professor Gooseander would fly from the roof of the bridge. Everybody was anxious to witness as expected, a great crowd was attracted to the first attempt at a flying machine, and, the bridge and along the river and canal banks. When the performance was to commence Grace climbed on the top of the bridge and let loose a large white goose. When the fact dawned upon, the crowd that they had been fooled, it so enraged them that Grace had to take to the woods to escape bodily harm.

Among the hotels of 1857 were the following: Buntin House, conducted by T. C. Buntin the Terre Haute House, by Chauncey Rose the National Road House, by Mr. Seaman, father of the Seamon boys (the jhouse is still standing next to the Herman (Carriage factory on Wabash avenue between Tenth and Eleventh streets) the Stewart House, on Second between Wabash and Cherry, west side, run by J. W. Stewart the Eagle House, at Third and Mulberry a(large two-story white frame building which was torn down a few years ago) the Clark House, on First between Wabash and Ohio streets, run by James S. Clark (now being partly used for a wagon yard) the Cincinnati House, on Fourth between Wabash and Cherry, run by Peter Reglein, father of George Reglein.

A few of the old public halls were the Corinthian, cornet* of Main and Third, in the third floor, above D. Reibold's shoe store Carr's Hall, at Fourth and Walnut, owned by Moses C. Carr, father of M. Carr the Odd Fellows' Hall, on Third between Wabash and Cherry.

The groves for outdoor gatherings were Early's grove, opposite Woodlawn cemetery, on North Third street and running east to Sixth street, and the old fair grounds, near Collett Park.

Now comes the .fire department. Many a good run was made with the old hand engines pulled through the town by volunteers of all ages and sizes. Hose carts, hook and ladder wagon were managed by human hands and when they tired and exhausted the machine was tied to the first wagon which happened along notwithstanding the objections often made by the owner of the team. On the runs many a fence and tree box suffered in coming in contact with the engine along the sidewalks. The department then consisted of three hand engines of powerful make, capable of throwing streams 125 feet. In starting to work at the fires In those days the firemen met with great difficulties in getting water. When no fire cistern was near, it was no unusual thing to tear an adjoining property fenqe down to make room for working one of the hand engines.

The fire companies in 1857 were: Mohawk Co. No. 1 (engine house on Fourth street between Ohio and Walnut the president of this company was Joseph H. Blake. The second company was Vigo Engine & Hose Co. No. 2, in same building as No. 1, president, W. C. Lufton. Then the Northern Liberty Co., No. 3, engine house Lafayette and Linton street (the present sit® and house of the colored fire Company), its president then was W. A. Thomas. Then the Union Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1. in same house with Vigo No. 2, on South Fourth street, president being C. Relchert. The •officers of fireman's association were B. M. Harrison, president Joseph H. Blake, secretary chief engineer of Are department, R. S. Cox W. C. Lufton and T. H. Barr, assistant engineers. Captain John A. Bryant, later on chief of department, in 1857, issued a map of Terre Haute expressly for the

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department, each district colored so

as to locate them easily. We had for newspapers in 1857 the Terre Haute Journal (Democratic), daily and weekly, was edited and owned by G. F. Cookerly, afterwards mayor of the city from, 1866 to 1870. The Terre Haute Union, daily and weekly, was next, with I. M. Brown as editor and T. B. Long associate editor. Then the Wab«sh Express, daily and weekly, R. N. Hudson, editor and proprietor.

The city officers in 1857 were: Mayor, Chamber T. Patterson: marshal, C. sf. Brooke clerk, oceph H. Blake treasurer,

James B. Edmunds street commissioner, H. D. Miins assessor, I. M. Dawson civil engineer, B. B. Ebbitt. Councilmen: Ezra P.eed, T. C. Buntin, J. H. Kester, S. Conner, A. O. Hough, J. S. Beach, R. Touaey, Thomas Burton, C. N. Collwan, C. R. Pc-d» die. .. PI

The city offices were then in the old town hall, a two-story frame building now the site of the Warren block, on South' Third between Wabaeh and Ohio streets^ ,ri east side, about where S. Locke's papers house is located. IM

The township officers were TrustcaThomas Burton treasurer, D. Hartsoch clerk, William Paddock. ^Magistrates, Ll®-'" bert Duy, Zena Smith, Warren Harper,'. 4 John Sayre. Constables: L. Miller. Joh^ W. Dodson, Thomas Barr, E. Warfield.

County officers were: Judge of Circuit Court, Solomon Claypool county judge,, John W. ones county clerk. A Li row W1Ikins: county sherifT, W. H. Stewart dsputy sheriff, Charles M. Crooks treasurer, N. F. Cunningham auditor, Albert Lange re-' ecrder, David Bell surveyor. Robert Allen prosecuting attorney. Common Pleas Court, Thomas B. ong prosecuting attorney Circuit Court, M. A. Osborne commissioners, Jacob Jumper, Siaapawa Stark and Samuel W. Edmunds.

The following are some of the business men and the business they were in in 1857: Banks and bankers—Branch Dank of the state of Indiana, McKcen & Tou3ey, Prairie City Bank, Southern ank of Indiana, Watson & Shannon.

Barbers—H. Lang, H. Ehrcnbs.rdt. Architects—Ebbitt Benjamin, W. E. & J. T. Smith.

Attorneys—Baird & Basactt, C. W. Barbour, S. Claypool, Chas. Cruft, Win. E. Hnedricks, T. B. Long, T. Nelson, I. N, Pierce, V" Thompson, Voorhees & Hanna.

Dry goods—Edsall, McDougall, & Co, I Louis Leveque, Nippert & Bros., Tucll, Brokaw & Co., Henry Ross.

Grocers—Bement & Co, M. C. Carr, Cox» & Son., Daniel Debs, Philip Filbeck, F. T. Hulman, A. Mcregor.

Butchers—Michael Lamb, Thomas Wah•Ier. Ropemaker—-Joseph York.

Following are some of tbe men who were in business or engaged in a profession in.' 1867 and who are still with us:

Dr. Allen Pence, I. N. Pierce, Wm. Clark, C. C. Smith, saac Ball, Charles Eppert, U.} Shewmakeir, C. Hal ier, W. McKeen, W.4 E. McLean, R. w. Thompson, J. Halm, \f. Joseph, Daniel Decs, Henry Ehrenhardt, Jacob Kern, L. Houriet, Preston Hussey, D. W. Minshall.

Also the following men who were here in *1857 and have attained the age of 60 years and over: Harry Ross, E. B, Allen, A. Nehf, S. Neukom, F. Bichowsky, Joseph Bilby, G. W. Bement, J. S Beach, R. L. Ball, A. Arnold, P. Grubb, W.Thompson, W. E. McLean, Daniel Debs, J. W. Douglas, acob Doll, Wm. Fuhr, F. Goetz, A. J. Gosnell. J. F. Gulick, J. Hidden, W. Jnekins, C. C. Knapp, E. Meisel, D. W. Minshall, David Paddock, Geo Purdy, E. Reiman, W. Robbins, John Ross, H. Scherman, W. M^ Slaughter, H. Scheuerman, L. Teichman, U. Shewmaker, James Tolbert, G. F. Smith, A. Watson, S J. Young, G. F. Ripley.

Marriagre of the Governor'* l}»nght.er. An Indianapolis special about the forth* coming marriage of the Rpv. Harry Newland Mount, son of the governor, also contains the following paragraph: "The approaching marriage makes public" that during the coming year Miss Hallio Mount, his twin sister, will become the bride of Professor John T. Nicely, who is in,-., charge of the English department of the Protestant college at Beyroot, Syria, and she will go abroad to devote her life to ous-^ sionary work. Miss Hallie Mount is a graduate. of Coaites college. Her sister, now Mrs. Butler, was a student at Alexandria, college, Kentucky. The farm owned by her, husband adjoins that of the Mount homestead." (Miss Mount was a graduate at Coatea-' college two years ago.—Ed. iExpresa.

Marriage Llcenies.

Daniel M. Holland and Louise A. Walker. Frank M. Johnson and Estella Nora, Reed.

Friederich Jerger and A'lma Raabe. Charts A. Smith and Mattie R. Lewis. Harry Lee and Rosalia Stewart.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Boston Herald: The New York Surf quotes a clubman there as lamenting the fact that there is nobody in that city today who is now recognized as a leader of well dressed men. Perhaps it is just as well. It is gratifying evidence that New York is gradually outgrowing the atmosphere and habits of a country village.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The Paterson lawyer who has established the right of a passenger to sit in a Pullman car without paying extra until provided with a seat in some other car will be applauded by the travelihg public all over the country. Passengers on any sort of a railway do not pay tkelr money to stand. The standing-pas-" senger condition should pass away, and it' would do so everywhere but for the cs:nlne. patience of the public, which has allowed' Itself to become accustomed to imposition.

St. Louis Republic: Federated labor is a power in phe land, and with wise leadership it has no wrongs that can not be peaceably righted by the arbitrament of the ballot. A compact brotherhood of 2,000,000 men armed with the right of suffrage cannot be oppressed or downtrodden in the United States unless it places itself at the feet of its would-be oppressors by reason of a lack of sagacity on the part of its leaders, internal dissension within Its own ranks or a foolish surrender to the arguments of agitators.

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New York Sun: There seems to be no general suspiration of forc«i breath in expectation of a possible clash between the Hon. Ben Tillman and th-t Hon. John Lownes Manning Irby. formerly a senator in congress from South Carolina. Words of gall have been spoken. Clubs cf palmetto seem to be brandished, and the rattlesnake shown palpabre stgns of being rattled. Yet war is not looked for. There is a conventional political dialect in the South Carolina of today, a dialect of almost intolerable warmth. Apparently it has no meaning. It is simply a vehicle for the formal interchange or compliments between opposing candidates for office: Perhaps the use of it is felt to be a gentle relief to the user, a means of saving, instead of Imperiling Hfe.

Indianapolis Journal: That is a curios story which comes from 'Berlin to the effect that the black eye which the emperor received during his yachting trip along the coast of Norway was not due, as alleged, to the fall of a rope, but to a blow delivered in anger and passion by young Lieutenant Von Haiinke, and that the latter's mysterious death twenty-four hours later was attributed not, as ,+sserted, to a bicycle accident, but to suicide. The story has some color of credibility In the* fact that it is the unwritten law of Sucopa than an officer who offers a personal insult to a member of the royal family must atone for it with self-inflicted death. In. this country a man might spit in the president's face without incurring any other penalty than that attached to provoke or assault.

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