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20 Cases ol‘ Elgin Corn. 25 Cases of Bay View Tomatoes. New Calitornia Canned Peaches, Apricots and White Cherries. Also, Fine Line of New Java, Mocha, Golden Rio and Green Rio COIF 1 ZB -1 ill! .ES. C IE IE .A. IF* _ AT Darnall Bros. Go’s., Call ai9<l Sue

Brai ISte. P'veryone wanting a timepiece, one that can be relied on in every instance should buy a isw.vrriiN \vA/ron. Thon.-ands of them in use by Teachers Hailroad men. Farmers, Mechanics. Merchants and Professional men. Sold only by A. R. BRATTIN. Wholesale and retail dealer in WATCHES, ('LOCKS, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE and SPECTACLES, Greencastle. S|ienc°r and Danville, and i>. W. BRATTIN, BRAZIL, IND. w^-Anythina in the watch , clock or jewelry line made or repaired. BRATTIN

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water, ih« temperature of which is about 150°. ’Tis said that many receive great

Venice, Sept 28.—I left Munich Sunday morning, enveloped in a dense log, to which they are subject at certain seasons of ihe year, and which frequen ly

passed through numerous towns of more or less distinction, among which was Boulogne. ’Twas she that has proved such a blessing to the world at largo, by

court 190x90 yards, and is paved with marble and stone ; on three sides it is enclosed by imposing marble structures, which are blackened by ago and expos-

becomos so dense that it necessitates the 1 ure. These palaces were once the rcsi-, giving us bologna sausage unti 1 we can’t lighting of lamps at midday. It is c« r- dence of the nine Procurators, who were rest, for ’tis said she w r as the original tainly not a very healthy location fora the highest officials in the Republic after manufacturer of that conglomerated mixtown. | the Doge. This rquare is the favorite lure. I only stopped long enough to find

1 came through Western Austria and 1 resort of the Venieians, large numbers of over the Brenner pass, attaining an alti- whom congregate there of an evening to

tude of about five thousand feet above the sea. The seaswns are so backward upon those high mountains that the mountaineers were just cutting their little harvests. The scenery was varied and pleasing. Arriving late at trsiting I

out that they were still at it, and can bear witness that they turn out a good

promenade and enjoy the fresh sea article.

Florence is situated in a lovely valley on the River Arno, and with the picturesque Appcnincs in the distant north> and highly cultivated hills dotted with splendid villas, rising gradually just at sutiicient distance to enhance the scene,

breeze, sip wine and listen to the charming music of an Italian baud, which is engaged to play at the PiD/.a every alternate evening. i Tney make glorious good music and no mistake. On festive occa-

called a halt over night at Verona, an | sions this space is used to tiip the light

Italian town of some 60,000 inhabitants, I fantastic toe. On the east it is bounded ftn rt then to all these natural charms add sitcatcd on the Adige river, at the foot of j by St. Mark's Cathedral. He is the tu-! t), e vast treasures of art contained withthe Tyrol mountains, where the plot of jtelary saint of Venice. IBs remains are j,, ,t s marble palace and galleries, and one of Shakespeare’s plays was located, said to have been brought by Venician I we i lave a combination constituting It is not at all prepossessing in appear-j eitisens from Alexandria, Egypt, in the j i,’] orenci;) on( , 0 f the most attractive citance now, although once a favorite resort year 828. The story runs thus: Acer- i eg in all Italy. It has a population of of the nobility. 1 visited the ancient tain wise man of Venice had a vision, 123 000, and is the capital of the province amphitheatre, which is the only object which was to the effect that Venice j 0 f its own name. ’Tis claimed that the of interest. It was built in Ihe reign of would never prosper until they would | mo dern Italian language and literature Donistian and Trajan, about the end of send to Egypt and bring the martyred [ iay e emanated chiefly from Florence, the first century, and is kept in tolerable saint's remains, and so. after much difti-j^ th(j fine arts a]yo attainod tho zenilh

repair, though the outer walls have al- culty, they succeeded and Venice did bemost disappeared. Tho inner circle, i eoine an oppuleat city ; hut one, to see! 0 ' t ^ 0 ' r 6' or J b'n*.

high, well built, and many of them are handsome. The worst fault I have to find is tho narrowness and crookedness of a portion of the streets ; but they are all well praved with stone, but as I have already written at considerable length in regard to other points, 1 shall not occupy farther space with detail, and especially as I shall leave for Rome in a few minutes. I was very glad to receive letters from some of my many friends, which were forwarded to ma from London. Please continue in well-doing. Address as directed in my last, if written on receipt of this. D. C. B.

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Mrs. Corliss was arrested at South Action, Mass., on a suspicion that she bad stole .fRXJ; but, as she was old and highly respected, and the accuser was a commonplace blacksmith, she was promptly discharged. Much sympathy with her was manifested, and, as for the blacksmith, he was condemned as a reckless calumniator. There were several dissenters from these views, however, and they secretly set a watch upon Mrs. Corliss, by means of which she was caught taking the money from a

, —. say something in regard to the church in

roads, anyway.

Much of the lands in Belgium and Germany through which 1 have passed, are not unlike the prairie lands in the

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Saturday, Oct. 22,1881

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with :he concentric honchos, stair-cases the city now, would suppose the saint and parts about the arena are nearly((iit- had lost his best hold. But I must benefit by its use. Of course, thereK ect - It was calculated to accommodate were several places of more or less inter I 50,000 people, and as a structure it has est on the way at which I might have Teen grand, but its use an abomination, stopped had 1 had time, but being out on i 1 ’' roui t,i ere 1 passed through a delightas extensive a tour as we are, we would 1“* 'alley teeming with the Iruits of the not care about stopping at every cross- husbandman. Here I noticed the first

Indian corn that had arrived to anything like perfection since I left tho States, but it was aomparatively light. I also noticed a new mode of grape culture to

north of our State in appearance, but not! w b a t I had hitherto seen. They plant so productive, I should judge. They ap .lb 0 vines by the side of small trees pear to ho very well adapted to ihej w bich have been transplanted in rows growing of rye, oats, wheat and general | a bout 20 feet apart. The vine is trained root crops, and apples are larger and bet-: f r0II i one tree to another, and at this scaler matured through this section than 80,1 °f Rd-'year they form lucious looking elsewhere, and, of course, crapes grow festoons from tree to tree. 1 presume quite to perfection, as the Rhino wine is the trees are grown lor wood, considered equal if not su| orior to any in And now. as for Venice. I, like manv

the world. I have often l een amused to others 1 moot, scarcely know how to de- liro entir ely overlaid with beautiful Mossee the funny combination team in use scribe it in a readable manner. I do not aics. representing old Bible scenes. The! on the farm, both in lipjcr Swit2'Hand, suppose it would he anything specially ,ir *t is of the creation ; then was repre-|

Belgium and tttis country, si ch as three ; new to many of you, for me to state cows and a horse harnessed to a plow, that it is located on an island in the sometimes two oxen and a horse, and | Adriatic sea about two and a half miles quite frequently a cow hitched to a cart from the main land, and is connected

The buildings are generally five stories | place in which she had hidden it. LiiriiiUaiitn O O -A. X-j O I

which his remains rest, anyway, ft is in i the form of the Greek cross, and is handsomely decorated inside and out. <>v. r. the principal entmnee are four large bronzed horses live feet in height. They j are believed to be of Roman workmanship, probably in the time of Nero. Con-

stantine caused them to be conveyed toj ck rri A r T -, Tf~T - r\]—Cp LA "\7” Constantinople, and from then they * 7 wore brought to Venice in 1204, and HFUJHE),

when Napoleon I. conquered Venice (1797). he had them removed to 1’aris, there to occupy the summit of his triumphal arch in the Place do Carousal ; ■ ' hut in 1815 they were again brought

hack, by order of Emperor Francis, to

occupy their present position. The • _ it—. —

domes and arches of tho entrance hall

IPIEISrCILS, SL-A-TIES.

COI]IIS, HRUSHES, PERFUMES, TOILET

POWDERS, ETC.,

[Special Correspondence of This Star.] SiKliI-l’M't'iiiK in On* OM Wurlil. Muxun, Bavaria, Germany,!

September 24, 1881. ) Readers of The Star :

Although I have been resting up a little lor the last few days, yet 1 have also been observing the habits, customs and condition of the Germans in their own country, and must confess that I haven't found it of the most encouraging nature by* any means; though I presume their condition is somewhat dift'erent from the northern section. But ere I say anything on that point, I shall finish my jottings to the present from where I le'.t oil', which, I believe, was at Brussels, the capital of Belgium—population given at about ISO.i'OO. It dilfers materially from the other t iwr.s of Belgium which I have

and a woman in tho cart driving. I thought both looked very much out of place. The women do almost all kinds of farm w-ork, for which they receive about 50 cts. per week, working from 6 a. in. to 6 p. m. I have seen them mowing, raking and forking hay, plowing harrowing, digging potatoes, &c., on the farm, and almost all kinds of work in town, even to carrying the brick and mortar hod to the top of tall buildings.

with the land by a railway; that the principal streets are canals; that they use gondolas instead of cabs and carriages, and small boats to transfer merchandise from one part of the city to another—at any rate, such are a few of the little facts, and in this consists the striking contrast between this and any city 1 have seen or expect to see. On alighting from the car, instead of a ’bus I engaged a gondola, and was very soon glid-

Servants in private families gut from one ing smoothly and swiftly from canal to to three dollars per month. The women canal, and ere long drew up alongside the

of this country have a desperate hard lot, and no mistake. The peasantry here are poorly paid and necessarily poorly fed. |

steps of the Hotel Victoria, and alter luncheon 1 made a short stroll ofinspec tion. One is most singularly impressed

I have been out in the country for the j on entering Venice for tho first time, last three or four days, eating and sleep- The general appearance is that of a

ing with them (I don’t mean that I actually slept with the whole family though, for they generally gave me their best

sented the great deep, without form and void ; then God was represented as a venerable looking man, who was separating the earth from the water, and at another place, with wand in hand, causing the herbs, grapes, trees, etc., to spring forth out of tne earth. In another arch he was represented as forming Adam out of a lump of clay and breathing into him the breath of lile, and then, having caused a deep sleep to come over Adam, was extracting a rib, out of which ho brought forth a beautiful woman ; and again, the two are represented as plucking and eating the forbidden fruit, and afterward appear with aprons of fig leaves ; and while they arc out promenading in the garden, God. the Father, calls them to task, an 1 finally their expulsion from the garden. In other departments is represented Noah entering the ark, tho special incidents in the life of Moses, Joseph ir Egypt, &c, all of which forms a beauti lul and interesting study, and which

slightly submerged city, and you rather expect tho Hoods to cease soon and that

it will be left high and dry in a day or I mu8t h »vo required years of patient work,

bed ail to myself), and I therefore know two. There is so much water in every ! as they are all formed out of bits of variwhereof I speak. I stopped with a Ger-| direction you may go, and so little dry | ous 'y colored glass, and blended so as to

noticed, Trotn the fact that it has lost j man who had been to our country and | surface, that 1 had a kind of lingering fear ^ orm a beauti ul picture. The Mosaic

nu st of the primitive appearance which most of the others retain. Yet there arc many narrow dirty little streets that abound with ancient houses of the old Flemish type. It is noted for its lace industry, and is of considerable interest historically, but, with the exception of the Woirtz Gallery, which contains a large collection of oil work by that eccentric artist, there is not much of special interest to the average tourist. The next stopping point was Cologne, situated on the River Rhine, and noted only for its magnificent Cathedral. There I took steamer up the Rhine to Bingen, the scenery along which is perfectly grand and charming, quite beyond my power to do justice to in description. It has its source in tho Alps (St. Gothard), is 870 miles in length, and navigable for 570 miles, and therefore is very valuable as a channel of commerce. It flows through one of the most lovely, varigated vallej-s in the world ; but it is on account of its picturesque beauty, its numerous castles and fortresses, and for its historic legendary associations, that the Rhine has become so familiar to the rtader and attractive to the tourist. But so much has been written in regard to its beauty, and better than I could possibly Jo, that I shall say no more. I also visRed Weisbaden, one of the oldest and most aristocratic watering places in Germany. Thither thousands Hock annually, some seeking health from the mineral baths, and others for amusement. It is one of the prettiest as well as the gayest places I have seen on the continent Handsome, well-kept streets, splendid hotels, and pleasant proinenad 11 - abound; banqueting halls, ball rooms, reading rooms, gambling houses, beer gardens and gloriously good music—in short, almost everything to tickle the car, charm the eye and gratify the senses. The Germans certainly enjoy themselves as well as any people on tho globe. There is a most wonderful mineral spring at Weisbaden in all the land ; it supplies four large bath houses with steaming hot

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could speak broken English, and in that i all the while that 1 would likely very figures cover a space equal to about way I got at a good many little facts as soon break through and be submerged, 15,0.0 square yards. Behind the cento their condition. The men receive but myself. The island is about 25 miles in tral high altar is a smaller one, supported $1,80 per week for farm labor, and of length by 9 in width, and is divided and by four spiral columns, two ol which are course cannot stvc much, if anvlhing, on i subdivided inio over a hundred small semi-transparent alabaster, and are , such a meagre allowance, for provisions islands by 150 canals, the longest of claimed to have once belonged to Soloar< equally as dear here as in America, j which—the Grand—is but two miles, i Hian s temple. Of course, we are at libTbe outlook is anything but encouraging The city has a population of about 130,-1 erty and I feel disposed to doubt that for them, especially when wo consider ‘' 00. part of their story. There arc many inthat they are compelled to give at least Many of the buildings are situated on j resting objects contained in the church ^

three years of tho best of th'ir iiv s to' the verge of tho canals, the outer walls ihat I might mention, but this will sulficc. -| 1— —| j'l y*y | | I “j T s vl — ^ I j * y - r—N the government sirvice, having to join forming the canal walls. In some in- I was next shown through the Doge’s -J— 1 -J- ' v —J K— -1- s—^ V -L—J

the army at the age of twenty to drill for stances the houses are set back suflici-j Palace, and among the many departments |

Stevenson I loa

And examine the.r immense stock of

three years, and evvr after that be ready to bo called out to military duty at a moment’s notice. ’Tis no wonder they are flocking to our country by tho thousands in order to escape such tyranny and oppression. Another peculiar exaction of the government is that the men are not allowed to marry untill they have served the requisite time in the army. The consequence is there are a larger colleo-

ently to admit of a narrow sidewalk. 1 was shown the secret chambers of tbe Tho buildings are separated by narrow | hideous council of ten. and also of the streets or walks and are paved with flat inhuman council ol three, whoso terrible stone or brick, and are, in many places, j sentences were as irrevocable as the laws not over live to six feet in width. These : of the Meads and Persians, and by whose crooked lanes form a l.ibyrinth from | decisions thousan s were beheaded durwhioli a stranger frequently finds it diffi- ing the Inquisition. I was also shown cult to extricate himself, although a per- the Bridge of Sighs, through which the son can see the general features of the prisoners passed to appear before the city by taking a gondola and traversing dreaded council, and the dungeons in

tion of marriageable females here than I the principal canals ; yet none hut walk- ^ which they were afterward confined, and have seen anywhere. I am not dead cer-j ors can form a just conception of the the block on which they were beheaded, tsin that it wouldn't be a’’happy hit" for picturesque nooks and the characteristics It makes one shudder to stand in the

A!! styles and varieties at prices that defy competition.

The New Pattern (1881)

Crown Jewell and Invincible, I Hard Coal and Base-Heaters, are tho finest base-burners on earth. All nickel ornaments aro ventilated. The kettle attachment is neat and elfective. Anticlinker sliding and shaking grate. Every stove warranted as represented or no sale. Our line of wood and coal parlor'stoves embraces the

following leading patterns :

some of our Tloosier boys,’’ who have made such signal failures at home, to come over here and make a selection— for they are like the old song, “There is plenty and to spare ;” and I suppose, under the circumstacces, wouldn’t object to

emigrating.

Munich has a population of about 200,UUI. The buildings are generally of stucco, often in fine imitation of stone. It is an interesting old town. The art galleries are rich in the productions of such eminent artists as Rubins, Vandyke and Rembrandt. It is noted for art and music. There are at least 1 000 professional artists and many eminent musicians who reside here, and quite a number of American students are here receiving instructions. I find that many of the Germans are full of music and art, and that they are an exceedingly industrious people, by nature dictatorial, but often very kind and obliging. Mr. Bteele, the artist, and family were quite glad to see me, and treated me very kindly indeed.

of its denizens. Tho store-rooms are : midst of aR this and think of “man’s ir.usnally small, but they make quite a for- i humanity to man.’’ But I must hasten, tnidable display In the show-windows. ; Although Venice has a popultaion of Many of the buildings are of marble and | 30,003 now, yet she falls far short of behave jiresented a delightful appearance ing what she once was, at one time hav-

when Venice was

glory.

in tho hey-dey of its

ing 200.1XX) inhabitants, and was the 'mistress of tho seas,” and commanded

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ANTELOPE, OPEN FKANKLIN, KESEHA E, FAIKY CtUEEN,

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EJIBLENI.

The gondola is a small, canoe-shaped I the commerce of the East. Six hundred I boat, about it! feet in length, with a high years ago, says Clements, “Venice wa> ornamented prow. They are provided the autocrat of commerce. Her mart I with cushioned seats to accomodate from was the great commercial center, the dis J six to eight passengers, and can be hired tiibutin-house from whence the onorwith one rower at one lire (about 19c our mous trade of tho orient was spread money) per hour. Some of them have a I abroad over the Western world.” cab-shaped glass window covering and \ But alas ! her warehouses are empty | others have awnings. Tho only wheeled now, and her armies and navy's are pow-j vehicle I have seen here was a wheel- era of tbe past But still there is much harrow. They have no room for horses that is interesting at Venice, lor although and carriages in their little narrow lanes, she may mourn over her depaated pres’Tis said there have been people who ! tige and grandeur, yet ’tis pleasant and a

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call and see us.

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lived and died here and never sawn horse. The principal objects here to cn gage the attention of a tourist, are tho Ca thedral, the I’alace of the Doges, and St. Mark's Piaza. The 1’iaza is an open

novelty to glide through her numerous canals and visit her marble palaces where wealth and luxury once bold high carnival. Florence, Oct. 1.—In coming here I

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