Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 1, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 July 1870 — Page 1
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TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1H70
Republican Ticket.
SEf*:-.F.TAKV OF STATK.
MAX F. A. J/OI'KMA.N. At'nrroK
OK STATK,
JOHN IJ. KVA.VS.
TREASURER OF STATIO, HUBERT H. J1ILRO* 11'I)0KS OF SUI'KE.ME COL KT,
JKIH? T. K. ELLIOTT, K. C. GREGORY, CHARLES A. RAY, ANDREW L. OSHORNE.
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SH LE R.
SCI'KJIlNTKNhKN'T
OK 1THI.IC I NST1ICCTION,
BARNABAS C. HOBBS.
FOR CONORKSS, SIXTIT DIST.: MOSES F. DUNN.
COUNTY TICKET.
AUDITOR,
V,'ILLIAM J'A IJjJOCK. KHF.I:IFF, GORDON LEE.
TIIEA.srr.KI:,
MORTON* C. RANKIN.
RECORDER,
THE( )I i( )RE ARXEN.
SURVEYOR,
A EX AN E (.' JOPER.
COMMISSIONERS.
FIRST DIST.-WM.
CHIMIN A COURT,
.JOHN G. CRAIN.
PROSECUTING ATT'Y CRIMINAL COURT, F. M. MEREDITH. 1
I F. RR KS NT A TIV KS, B. WILSON SMITH,
II. H. BOUDINOT.
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Will address his fellow-citizens to-\vit: S 11 ii viin Coil it House, Saturday, illy 2, in the afiernoon.
Newport, Tucsilay, July o, at night. ('lin Ion, Wed nrsda.v, illy 6', at night, ltockville, Thursday, .July /, at night.
General M. Jeff. Thompson. Every soldier who served in Missouri during the war well remembers the "wiley fox" Jeff.—the man who could travel faster, and be in more places at once, than any other man in the Confederate army—and who was always noted for his kind treatment of prisoners who fell into his hands. He returned to his old home, St. Joseph, Missouri, a few days ago, after an absence of nine years, and
was
called upon for a speech. Be-
lo ,v we give an extract from it: "lie would like to talk a little politics if bo know how but he was never a politician and never would be. He always stuck to the old Whig doctrine. A man now would lit id it difficult to stiiko a line between existing parties. "When lie returned to ^o\v Orlcuins ttio X1 oclciiils him what he had been lighting for. lie told them for £-100,000,000 worth of niggers. IIe didn't, liko some who had never fought, go to cursing his captors. He had suffered in prison during the war—had been in half the famous prisons of the North, Gratiot Street, Johnson's Island, Fort La Fayette, Ac., and was one of those placed under lire
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Charleston Ilarbor
but he would say that throughout all he hacl not been badly treated, nor ever been insulted bv a soldier, lie had sometimes been hungry, had suffered from cold but ho was a soldier, and what was a soldier tit for if he couldn't .suffer? It was his business. His treatment had inspiied in hini' a pride in* the American character. "While at Johnson's Island, one day a band was hoard playing that beautiful Scotch air, "(lomin' thro' the Rye," and tho iollowing parody on it was the result.
If a soldier meet a soldier, 'mid the battle's din, And the soldier kills the soldier, surely tis no
But if a' soldier meet a soldier, when the light Is o'er, Ifu givi-s ins hand, and shares his can—,iue gallant men of yore.
There are some, sane soldiers, Christian soldiers, AVho seem to love the si rife, And the.se soldiers, of other soldiers, Gladlv lake their life Hut we good soldiers, patriot soldiers, Pray the strife to cease. Eaeh humbly asks, Great God ol I hee, Our Liberty and Peace.
But, as Grant says, "Let us have peaoe." The soldiers could advise tho old fellows who staved at home and didn't fight it out. lie had 'it all whipped out of him, and was now on a peace basis."
"\VK take the following from the telegraphic corresponence of the Cincinnati ICnquircr:
FUNDING BiliL PASSED.
The House to-day passed the bill to refund and consolidate the National debt. All amendments were "voted down, and the bill goes to the Senate about as it came from the Ways and Means Committee. Kven if it should pass, which is bv no means probable, the bill will not amount to much, as it is entirely discretionary with the Secretary of the Treasury whether lie will enforce it or not, and it is very well known that he is opposed to it. The bill provides lor the issue of a thousand millions thirty year four per cent, coin bonds, exempt trom all taxation, which the Treasury is authorized to sell at par for coin, and to apply the proceeds to the redemption of atiy o-iiO bonds at their par value, or the Secretary may exchange the new bonds for such 5-20 bonds for par.
The Secretary is further authorized, and in this respect is instructed, to use, in liis discretion, any coin that can be conveniently applied to that purpose, to pay at par and cancel any six per cent. United States bonds which have or may become redeemable by the terms of their issue. The remaining feature of the bill authorizes the Secretary to receive United States gold coin on deposit for not less than oi) days, and issue certificates of deposit at a rate not exceeding per cent, per annum, which coin may be withdrawn at 10 days notice. Not less than 25 per cent, of this deposited in the Treasury shall be retained there for the payment of said certiticatces, and the excess above 25 per cent, may be applied, at the discretion of the Secretary, to the redemption of such outstanding bonds as have matured.
To people who dream of the near approach of universal peace and disarmament, the following sentences from the Cologne Gazette may prove somewhat instructive "Germany is still surrounded by great military powers which viewed the'establishment of the unity of Germany with dislike, or endeavored to prevent it, and whose completion they will not favor. We shall require an efficient army in 1S71, just as much as we did in 1807, and neither militia systems nor proposals for a general disarmament can supply its place." As a comment on such sentiments, it is not surprising to find that the reorganization of the Prussian army, commenced in 1801, is only now in progress of maturity, that the landwchr will, next autuma, receive the accession of four annual levies of 60,000 men each and that since 18(50 about 570,000 men have been added to the reserve, wliiie only 180,000 have been discharged. "lving Honest Alan" as Garibaldi called Victor Emmanuel, lias been doing something to deserve his title. The Parisian journal, the Liberte, states that a subscription was lately opened in Italy to present the Iving with a new royal crown. The sum subscribed amounted to 45,000 francs, ($9,000 in gold,) and steps were being taken to apply the money to the purpose proposed, when Victor Emmanuel, hearing of the aliair sent for the originators of the scheme, thanked them for their generous intentions, told them to_expre33 hi gratitude to their fellow-
subscribers, but at the same time to assure them that he found his crown quite good enough, and that he begged them to spend the money in founding an hospital for the blind poor at Florence.
It is hard to tell what a day will bring forth. Now here is the way in which the Portland Argus, the leading Democratic paper in Maine, talked on Tuesday morning, before the meeting of the Democratic State Convention, which was marked throughout by disorder, and adjourned without making a nomination: "It is not likely to be a very full Convention, as there is no exciting controversy about candidates, such as brought together the large numbers afc Augusta week before last. Still we hope, and expect, there will be a good representation of the true and wise mea of our party, and we feel confident that their action will be on the broad guage, liberal and sagacious. There is not the least indication of any thing but harmony in our counsels."
The
T. PE ITINGER.
SECOND -JOS.
FKLLENZER.
THIRD
—PIIIUP RANDOLPH.
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Boston
Transcript publishes this
extract from a private letter from Jean Ingeiow: "You know by this time the loss we have sustained in the death of Charles Dickens. Literature seems to have lost her king and one to almost all were loyal. He was lord of laughter and of tears'. The old dress in which mortals used to be presented to us by authors had grown shabby, but he dressed human nature anew, showed it to us as we had never seen it before. He made what was homely and lowly draw near, to be looked at and loved.
The House of Representatives, in framing the Internal Revenue bill, inserted, for the first time, a tax on faro tables and other implements of gambling. Whether this was intended as a personal reflection upon Senators or not, we cannot say, but the Senate Committee on Finance have stricken that out, and put in the tariff a special tax on "gun wads used for sporting." This tax will reach all the pokerplayers in the county, including, of course, any who may be on the Ways and Means Committee.— Chicago Tribune.
Advantages of Advertising:. Among thorough business men the advantages of judicious advertising are well known and practiced.
If a man has got a good thing—an article of commerce needed by the people, and which lie wishes to dispose of, let him advertise it by all means. Don't think of waiting for buyers to make the discovery themselves. Thousands of persons don't know they are in want of an article until they read your advertisement in the papers.
They read, and they instantly discover that you have precisely what they need, and wonder that they "had never thought of the same thing themselves. This portion of the American public not only purchase your goods, but whether they express it verbally or not, in their hearts they are very grrateful to you for having made a part of your knowledge their property.
The nineteenth century is a busy one. People have little time to think of anything except their own immediate business. They want to read and learn as they run.
A man is suffering- perhaps from dyspepsia. In his daily paper he sees a remedy advertised he don't pause to debate and argue the point with the proprietor of that specific, but he proceeds to his druggist, buys and tries.
If he lias obtained a benefit, he is delighted and recommends the medicine to all of his suffering neighbors thus the advertisement is marching on with an hundred or a thousand fold velocity. The advertising proprietor is getting rich, because he has been wide awake made himself known and felt in the community and the public is thankful, for it has been benefitted. The journalist is happy—he has been made the channel of communicating useful knowledge, and at the same time you have added a few dimes and dollars to the usually scanty contents of his purse. For editors, like Methodist preachers, are generally poorly paid.
Some business men will say, "I know advertising is a good thing, but I can't afford to advertise." Better say you can't afford not to advertise.
Who are the men that have become millionaires in this country? Look about you and see who they are, what their "business and how they have succeeded.
The intelligent masses are familiar with their names without my cataloguing them here. Tliey have made their princely fortunes by catering to the wants of the public, and by convincing the public that these wants existed.
If you cannot advertise your goods and wares in all of the papers for want of the means, then select certain popular journals within your means, and go into them. Or fix' upon some district or State and go into it. Lay aside a fund every year with which to repeat the operation in another State. This continue until you have compassed the entire ground, fhis is what I call judicious advertising.
Remember the Scriptures, and don't put your light under a bushel. Cast your bread upon the waters, it will return
The press of America is the great medium through which the people talk to one another.
A
business
man can no moj-e hope to
succeed in this age without advertising than lie can without eating. The latter is food for your stomach—the former for your purse. 'There are various channels of advertising I have tried them all, and think the newspaper the best. It is read ami re-read by every member of the family, and by all the hired help on Saturday night and Sunday. Again, thousands of families bind up their papers into volumes, and years after you have ccased paying for the advertisement it will be giving you a benefit through the wants of the children, grandchildren, ami great-grandchildren. Advertiser's Gazette.
Senator Pratt.
1). 1). Pratt, one of the Indiana Senators, is gradually becoming reconciled to the arduous duties of his position, and he is growing rapidly in the appreciation of bis Senatorial colleagues. Quiet and unobtrusive in the Senate, a foe to all lobby rings and office-seekers, he will never be popular with that class, or with the Bohemians who write for the press in their interest. When Senator Pratt speaks, it is after careful examination of the subject as he would a lawyer's brief. Speaks directly to the question, without a word to the "galleries or to gain the applause of outsiders. Few new members have so soon acquired the influence Mr. Pratt wields on the floor of the Senate.
It is with pleasure we learn that Senator Pratt is looking for a residence in Washington, to which he will remove his family after the summer vacation.
Instead of squandering the bound books printed by Congress for distribution, among a few indviduals, Mr. Pratt sends them to the counties to be deposited in the county libraries.—Madison Courier.
LOTTA has signed a contract for an engagement at the St. Charles, New Orleans, and DeBar's, St. Louis, the next season.
IT is said two Philadelphia newspapers have lengthy obituaries of Edwin Forrest in type, awaiting the ^demise of the great tragedian.
IEYVS SUMMARY.
Mr. DePauw is to build a new and magnificent hotel in New Albany. The Jewish Messenger says that out of 200 Jewish congregations in this country, not more than 40 belong to the Jewish Reform party.
A Massachusetts man, who had never before seen the elephant, insisted, when a circus procession passed through his town last week, that the elephant was walking backward.
Eight women voted in one precinct in Washington Territory, and seven in another at the late election.
In New Orleans they are selling "native champagne" at $10 a dozen. Jackson, Louisiana, has a negro female postmaster. 2,000 barrels of flour have lately been shipped direct from Racine, Wisconsin, to London and Liverpool.
The Masonic Fraternity have been invited to lay the Corner-stone of the new Lunatic Asylum, on the 4th of July, at at Columbus, Ohio.
A Republican Congress has just declared that Whittemore is not a whit more competent or honest than he was before his re-election.
A petition is being argued at Paris asking that the Grand Rabbi Isidor should be nominated Senator—a dignity to which no member of the Hebrew persuasion has ever attained.
While excavating a cellar for a new church, in Iowa, a valuable vein of iron ore was struck, when the trustees concluded to put up with the old meetinghouse awhile longer.
The contract for bnilding the 10 miles of New Albany & St. Louis Railroad from Princeton to Mount Carmel, lias been awarded to Dr. Andrew Lewis, of Princeton, by the Board of Directors. Dr. Lewis is to build the road and lay the track complete, he also finding all the material needed. Immediately upon the completion of this section the city of Mount Carmel is to pay $50,000 to the Air-line.
Commodore Perry's last surviving man now lives in Iowa, and his name is John Dunkeson.
Ben Wade says he is tired of public life, and wants his pipe, cider and casvchair by the fire-side.
Suits have been brought against the bondsmen of ex-Collector Bailey for the recovery of the deficiency in his accounts, which is stated at $603,951.
Under the new postal treaty, in force, all unpaid or part-paid postage matter for the German States will not be forwarded from New York, as has heretofore been the custom. To insure the forwarding of such mail matter, all letters and papers must be prepaid.
In Queen Victoria's crown there are 1,803 brilliant diamonds, 1273 rose diamonds, and 147 table diamonds, 1 large ruby, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, 4 small rubies, and 277 pearls—a total of 2,180 precious stones.
John Morrissey has procured from the President and Secretary of the Treasury an order to the Collector at Burlington to admit horses from Canada coming to Saratoga and the Long Branch races free of duty.
A new Democratic paper to be called the Herald is to be started in Richmond on the 7th of July. James Eider is to bo the chief editor, and Colonel Johnson the local.
On Tuesday a human hand was found lying on the grass in the rear of the Southern State Prison, at Jeffersonville. It appeared to be the left hand. How or by what means it came there separate from the body, is a mystery.
The Madison Courier says that Hanover township has two pairs of twins in one family, six persons over 90 years of age, and one colored woman aged 102 years.
An amusing incident occurred recently at a rural school. The subject was the history of Samson, and the question,
What foolish thing did Samson once do?" Expectation was on tip-toe to ascertain his peculiar weakness, when from a front seat came the leply, given with a solemu preciseness and an irresistibly ludicrous acceut, "He went down among the Philistines and got a wife."
Bulwer secures an annual copyright of £450 from his German publishers, and about half that amount from his French publishers.
A belt of black crickets more than a mile wide, and of unknown length, can be seen near Elko, Nevada.
An Indian near Fort Scott recently traded two mules for a set of false teeth, ami proudly wore them necklace fashion.
There are 500,000 sheep on a Fort Tejon, C'al., sheep-rancli. Church, the New York artist, is dangerously ill.
The professional income of Dr. Nelaton, the celebrated French surgeon, last year, exceeded 400,030f.
Led ru Roll in, who it was thought had voluutarily resumed the life of an exile, has returned to Paris.
The city of Greensburg is to be lighted with gasoline street lamps. Jeffersonville was the county seat of Clark county as far back as 1820.
The legal heirs of the late Hugh Eraser, of Montreal, have taken measures to have his will broken, on the giound that his bequest for a public library was null and void, it being illegal for any bequest to be made to a future corporation, or one to be formed after the death of the testator.
Florida has two independent candidates for Congress—State Senator \V. H. Kendrick and Lemuel Wilson. The former has been a Democrat, but announces that lie will not be pledged to the support of any political party.
Cincinnati claims to be the fourth manufacturing city in the United States,
only
New York, Philadelphia and Boston excelling it. Last year the total manufactures in the city was 8119,140, 8C0, employing 59,354 mechanics.
Gen. Robert E. Lee has refused, on behalf of Mrs. Lee, to accept the annuity of
TERRE HAUTE, IND., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 5, 1870.
S3,000 settled upon her by the Trustees of Washington College. The Board, however, has, as delicately as possible, intimated to him that they must adhere to their original plan.
A Lynchburg man, arrested as a vagrant, protested that he had a regular trade, and that was, smoking glass for total eclipses of the sun. He remarked that as these occur so seldom it was not to be wondered at that he seemed out of employment a good deal.
A Connecticut legislator has recently remarked that, "with the waiters they have at the New Haven House for a sample of the average black vote, it wasn't strange that negro suffrage should be defeated. The Governor's term would expire before those fellows could get to the polls."
How and W3icn to Bathe.
The bathing season is at hand, and those who daily enjoy this luxury should be careful when and how to bathe. For the special benefit of those of our readers who believe in the recuperative effects of a bath, we present the following rules for bathing, which they will find worth regarding if they battle for health. A bath should never be taken within at least one hour before eating, or within two hours after, a longer period before and after is better. The head and face should be thoroughly bathed at the commencement of every bath to prevent the running of blood to the head, and ward off unpleasant sensations. A bath should never be taken while the body is exhausted or too greatly fatigued by exercise. Moderate exercise before and after bathing is beneficial. All general baths should be taken briskly, the body well rubbed and quickly dried, and warmth and reaction brought about. The observance of these rules will be found beneficial.
Dccay of Shingles.
The following is said to effectually prevent the decay of shingles: Take a potash kettle, or" large tub -and put into it one barrel of lye of wood ashes, five pounds of white vitriol, [five pounds of alum, and as much salt as will dissolve in the mixture. Make the liquor quite warm, and put as many fchingles in it as can be conveniently wet at once. Stir them up with a fork, And when well soaked, take them out aiid put in more, renewing the liquor as necessary. Then lay the shingles in the usual manner. After they are laid, take the liquor that was left, put lime enough into it to make whitewash, and if any coloring is desirable, add ochre, Spanish brown, lampblack, etc., and apply to the roof with a brush or an old broom. This wash may be .renewed from time to time. Salt and lye are excellent preservatives of wood. It is well known that leach tubs, troughs, and other articles used in the manufacture of potash, never rot. They become saturated with the alkali,, turn yellowish inside, and remain impervious to the weather.—Scientific American.
Perils of Cosmetics.
The Journal of Applied Chemistry lias an article on Professor Chandler's report on Cosmetics to the Board of Health. It contains what has so often been said of the exceeding danger of using indiscriminatingly the various cosmetics pressed upon the attention ofThe public. Sixteen hair tonics, washes and restoratives were examined. Only one of them was free from lead—a majority contained this metal as an essential constituent—some of them have as much as 10 grains of lead to the fluid ounce. The lotions and washes for the completxion were nearly all free from injurioun metals, and the probabilint is that the purhascr pays dearly for some dirty water to improve his skin. Pure water would be better and at the same time cheaper. The enamels for the skin consist of white powders suspended in clear liquids. This white powder is generally carbonate of lead in some cases iarbonateof lime and zinc are employed. It would thus appear that houses and faces are painted with the same material houses may endure, but complexions are ultimately ruined by such treatment.
The Journal repeats the advice given before, and says that the cosmetics now so universally used are not only hurtful by obstructing the natural pores of the skin, stopping up the mouths of the excretory ducts which are designed by nature to throw off, by sensible and insensible perspiration, the impurities of the blood, but also by presenting to the absorbent vessels a poison which is taken into the system and penetrates to every portion of the body. The effect of such cosmetics is to destroy the natural texture of the skin, causing it to become dry, wrinkled and impervious to the oxygen of the air, and, by depriving the blood of this life-giving principle, producing rapid decay. If the skin be kept in a clean and healthy condition by the frequent use of cold water, no cosmetic would ever be necessary.
Fossil Ivory in Alaska.
Among the resources of our new Territory of Alaska, its richness in fossil ivory is not the least in importance. Several localities are known to abound in this substance—the tusks of ti:e mammoth, or hairy fossil elephant. The ivory of which these are composed is of fine quality, and for many purposes equal, if not superior, to that of the living elephants. This substance is, however, better known as a product of Siberia, where trade in it lias been carried on for hundreds of years. The tusks obtained weigh from 100 to 450 pounds, becoming smaller to the northward, but increasing in number at the same time, so as to excite the ."profoundest astonishment. The surface of the ground of one of the many Locliow Islands is said to be completely covered with mammoth bones. Tusks have been brought thence for hundreds of years, without apparently reducing the supply in the least. About 40,000 pounds are collected annually in New Siberia, representing at least 300 mammoths, so that in the two hundred years of trade with that country, the tusks of 00,000 animals must have been collected.
Some of the tusks are so large as to render it impossible to remove them except in pieces. They are found lying either on the surface of the ground or beneath it, sometimes buried in bogs or heaped up along tho mouths of rivers, covered with sand, or frozen in the cliffs by the sea. Entire skeletons occur, sometimes single, at others aggregated, as if an entire herd had been suddenly destroyed. The country, in many places, is said to resemble, with its scattered, unburied skeletons and bones, some vast battlefield.
THERE.are 800,000 professional singers in France.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG is to study oratorio music this summer.
GOTTSCHALK'S sisters will appear in concert next winter.
BETTY and Emily Rigl, the danseuses are in New York. & msm an
LISA Weber's biondesare exhibiting at Detroit.
LATEST NEWS.
Unveiling of the Soldiers' Monument at Green castle.
The New Constitution of Illinois Adopted.
The Race between the Rofot. E. Lee and Natchez.
&c., &c., &c.
INDIANAPOLIS.
Nominations—Soldiers' Monument Unveiled at *reeiica^tle.j
INDIANAPOLIS, July 3. The Democrats and Reformers, in convention in this city, yesterday, nominated a ticket for County officers, with John W. Murphy, a prominent merchant, for State Senator.
The unveiling of the Soldiers' Monument, erected by the citizens of Putnam county, took place at Greencastle on Saturday. The Governor, State officers and many prominent citizens of the State were in attendance.
CHICAGO.
The Election—Adoption of the Xew Constitution.
CHICAGO, July 3.—From the election of this State, yesterday, only a few scattering returns have been received, but enough to make it certain that the Constitution, as a whole, and each of the eight propositions submitted to a separate vote, have been adopted by a large majority. If there be any exceptions to this statement, it is on the question of minority representation. At this hour there seems little or no doubt of the success of that proposition.
In this city about 20,000 votes were cast, and were nearly unanimous for the Constitution and separate provisions.
In this Judicial District Wm. K. McAllister, Independent, is probably elected Judge of the Supreme Court over Charles Hitchcock, the regular Republican nominee.
Booth and Farwell, Republicans, and Rogers, Democrat, are elected Circuit Judges in this circuit.
In the Second Judicial District, Anthony Thornton, Independent, is probably elected Judge of tho Supreme Court over the regular Democratic nominee.
In the Third Judicial District, lion. John M. Scott, regular Republican, is elected over E. W.Terry, Independent, and in the Seventh Judicial District. Hon. Benjamin R. Sheldon, Republican, without opposition.
THE RIYAL BOATS.
Tbe I.ce Still Aliead—Intense Excilomen tin all lliver Towns-Log of Itobevt K. L.ee.
Special telegram to the Commercial. CAIRO, July 3.—Owing to the fact that
neither the Lee nor Natchez landed here, your correspondent was so engaged making arrangements to get on board and get ashore again, that no regular river report can be sent you. Dropping on board the Lee 111 mid-river as though shot from a cannon, I managed to obtain the following items during a two miles' ride The Lee's officers report leaving New Orleans at 4:59 P. M., June 30. She arrived here at 5:50 this evening, (Xew Orleans time,) making three days one hour out between the" two cities. The Natchez was precisely one hour and twelve minutes behind the Lee at Cairo Point. The following is the time of the Lee as kept by her pilots and clerk, who'both agree From New Orleans to Carrol ton, 28 minutes to Harry Hills, 1 hour and 30 seconds to Red Church, 1 hour and 39 minutes College Point, 3 hours, 50 minutes, and 30 seconds Convent, 3:59: Donaldsonville, 4:59 Plaquemine, 7:05 Baton Rouge, 8:25 Fort Tunica Island, 11:56 Red River, 12:56 Natchez, 17:11 Rodney, 20:45 St. Joseph, 21 hours Grand Gulf, 22:o4 Warrenton, 24:04 Vicksburg, 1 day and 36 minutes Head of Pawpaw Island, 1 day, 2 hours and 15 minutes Napoleon, 1 day, 16 hours and 20 minutes White River, 1 day, 16 hours and 58 minutes Helena, 1 day, 23 hours and 20 minutes St. Francis River, 2 day and 2 minutes Memphis, 2 days, 6 hours and 9 minutes New Madrid, 2 days, 19 hours and 50 minutes Hickman, 2 days, 22 hours and 25 minutes Columbus, 2 days, 22 hours and 31 minutes Upper Tow-Head, above Columbus, 3 days Cairo, 3 days and 1 hour.
This is the fastest time ever made to any place named, except the Lee's run on'time from Memphis to Cairo, 1869, which was 16 hours and 37 minutes. The Lee ran under the disadvantage of a broken supply pump from a point 30 miles above New Orleans, and was compelled to keep two men constantly at work to keep the leak from becoming too large to allow a full supply of water to the boilers. The leak, in the pipe is so great that the bilge pumps are compelled to run to free the hull from water. She also lost some time on the way by riveting her steam drum, which was leaking badly, and was compelled to allow her steam to go down to ninety pounds to repair.
The Natclics lost considerable time also with her pump, but I could obtain no definite information of how much. The Lee's
progress
river
from New Orleans was a
long, continued ovation. Cannon were fired at many points, innumerable rockets sent up, and every day the banks of the great river showed groups and crowds of men, women and children, shouting and waiving handkerchiefs. At Natchez the famous horns of the Princess, whose time has not been beaten for fourteen years, were taken down and aie now on board of the Robert E. Lee, fairly and honorably won. The citizens of Cairo fired cannon many times while the Lee was passing, and the whole population turned out en masse,^ while over l,C0i) persons from Lousi\ ille, St. Louis, Evansville, Piiducah, and other places, were here or on board the steamers Odd Fellow, Idlewild, Armada, Rubicon and others, which went down the
several miles to see the
wonderful racers pass under full headway. The swift steamer Idlewild, the crack boat of the lower Ohio River, went alongside the Lee to obtain passengers, and
although
the Idlewild was at her
greatest speed, the Lee was passing so rapidly as to render it impossible to make a rope fast to the Idlewild until the Lee stopped her engines. During the greater part of the race, the competitors have been in sight of each other, adding greatly to the excitement and character of the race. Some Southern paper said the Lee ran into a chute and was compelled to back out. Her pilots contradict this report. About 8 miles above Cairo, the Lee seemed to touch bottom, and for some minutes she was turned crossways of the river, in full sight of Cairo. The Natchez ran the same course, and did precisely the same thing. Each boat lost about 4 minutes there. Reporters for the St. Louis Democrat and Republican went on board the Lee off Cairo. Both boats lost one hour, probably more, last night, by fog
and darkness.
mmsst
Grasshoppers Stop a Railroad Train. The Stockton (Caalifornia) Independent. of June 16th says:
Judge Underhill, who left this city on the 6th inst., writes under date of June 9th that a curious incident occurred as the train was going up a steep grade in Echo Canon. The cars gradually slowed until at last they came to a dead halt, Upon going out it was found that they were stopped by grasshoppers. The ground was perfectly alive with them and so many of them were crushed by the wheels of the engine, and the track was so greased, that the wheels would not take hold. Sand and brooms were brought into requisition, and when the hotel train overtook the other, and by dint of its pushing and men on the cowcatcher holding brooms on the rails in front, the cars got along, and thus left the grasshopper region.
HOUSE FURNISHING.^ Nmy FIRM WITH
NEW GOODS
•AT
PANIC PRICES!
I have associated with me iu'.tlie general
HOUSE FURNISHING BUSINESS, DAYID C. EAST,
wlio lias long been liead salesman in my Storo, and as our entire Stock has been purchased within the last thirty days, during the
Panic in Eastern Cities,
enables us to sell Goods at lower rates than was ever sold in this market, and we are determined to do business on the plan ot
"QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS."
In the mure do not think of Purchasing elsewhere any Crockery, Glassware, Knives, Forks, Spoons, Wood \nd Willow Ware, Gold Hand and White China, and House Furnishing Goods generally, until you call and see our Mammoth Stock ot the latest styles and patterns at lleduc ed Prices.
Id&\v2m HUDSON & EAST.
HATS.
THE CITY
HAT HOUSE!
Having closed out my Stock of Groceries and going into tiie
HAT AND CAP BUSINESS
exclusively, I am now prepared to sell the same at greatly
RXDl'C'ED PRICES!
Having purchased them recently at
A N I I E S
FOR CASH, which enables me to
SELL CHEAPER
Than the Cheapest. My stock is all new and fresh, comprising all the latest styles. Call and examine before purchasing elsewhere.
J. F. BABOLEY,
12, South Fourth Street,
ld&wGm erreHaute, Ind
LOCKS.
COHNELIl S, WALSH & SON,
Manufacturers and dealers in
CABINET & TRUNK LOCKS,
TRAVELING BAG FRAMES & TRUNK HARDWARE,
.Hamilton street, Corner Ithilroad Avenue,
Idly NEWARK, X.
GROCERIES^
BMJAMLY F. WEST,
DEALER IN
Groceries, Queensware, Provisions,
AND
COUNTRY PRODUCE, NO. 75 MAIN STREET, BET. 8th & 9th, Terre Haute, Ind KET
The Highest Cash price paid for Country Produce. 4dly
WATCHES.
AVATCHE S
$10 Oroide and Alininum. $15
BRONZE
Watches of Genuine Improved Oro
ide, with English, Swissand American movements, in Heavy Double Cases, equal to $100 to $250 Gold Watches.
Prices—Horizontal Watches, S8. equal in appearance and for time to Gold Watches worth S10 Full Jeweled Levers, S12, equal to 3150 Gold ones Full Jeweled Levers, extra fine and superior finish, S15 equal to 8200 Gold ones.
We have iust. commenced making a very fine American Watch, full Jeweled, lever, chronometer balance, adjusted to heat, cold and position, Heavy Double (!ases, equal in appearance and for time to a Gold Watch costing $250.
We charge only 825 for these magnificent watches All our watches in hunting cases, gent's and ladies' sizes. Chains, SI to S8. Also, all kinds of jewelry, equal to gold, at one-tenth the price.
We are now making jew«lry of the California Diamonds. These are real stones of great brilliancy and liardness.and can not be distinguishad from the genuine stones, even by good judges.
TO CLUBS—Where six Watches are ordered at one time, we will send a seventh Watch free. Goods sent bv express to lie paid for on delivery.
Call or address, OROIDE WATCH CO., No. 93 Washington street, Boston, United States. Price list sent free. ldlm
COFFEE POT.
THE CELEBRATED
FRENCH FILTER
COFFEE POT!
riHIE French Filter Coffee Pot is scientific..lb 1 arranged so as to extract the Ca^el."e' dense the aroma, and give you not oi erage pleasant to the taste, but healtli-promott if¥l^r£mple
thata cinwcanope-te
MANUFACTURED ONLY BY THE
Cincinnati Tin and Japan Mfg. Co., lf!0 RACE STREET,
Between Fourth and Fifth,
ldlm
CINCINNATI, OKIP.
DEEDS.
LANK DEEDS, ni atly printed, for sale
fcy
single one, orby the quire, at tlieDAJMT GAZETTE Office, North 5th street 2a
NO. 29.
msusAftcs.
1I.U1F.B & HcKEEN,
GF.NERAL
Insurance Agents,
OFFICE, DOWLING'S HALL.
HIE very best and most reliable Insurance Companies represented by this firm.
iETNA OK HARTFORD, S5.5W.5M HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE,
FRANKLIN OF PHILADELPHIA, SPRINGFIELD, MERCHANTS OF HARTFORD,
NORTH AMERICAN,
Policies written in
2,544,210
the
559,568
802,572
above named Companies
as cheap as in any first-class Companies represented in the city.
NEARLY #14,000.000.
IF YOU WAN'P
LIFE INSURANCE
Why not Get the Best!
[T does not cost any more, and you know you are in a sound Company.
THE
j:TNA LIFE INSURANCE CO.,
ASSETS $13,000,000,
Is represented' by L. G. IIAGER. Aget Ollice Dowling's Hall.
in the line.
PAINTERS^ meltok,
PAINTER,
Cor. 6th, La Fayette and Locust sts.,
Terre Haute, Ind.
OES GRAINING, PAPER HANGING, CALCIMINING, and everything usually done
20uwtiy
MANNING & MAGWIRE,
HOUSE & SIGN PAINTERS,
OHIO STREET,
ldOm Between 4tli & 5th street FRED. L. MYERS. W. H. DUDDLESTOH
MYERS & DUDDLESTON,
CARRIAGE AND WAGON.
A I N E S
CORNER OK FIFTH AND CHERRY STS.,
Terre Haute, Ind.
We profess to be musters of our trade, and do work when promised, and in the best style. 28d(5m.
PROFESSIONAL.
CURES GUARANTEED
IN ALL
CURABLE OASES
BY
DR. II1RL1ND,
1S8 SO UTIf FIRST STREET, Bet. Farrington and Vine, TERRE HAUTE, IND.
lie can be consulted from
every Saturday.
9 A. M.
SPECIALTY—Diseases
jyil. W. II. MAHEAN,
to
5 P.M.
of Women and Chil
dren Consultation free. 21d\vfly
MAGNETIC, ECLETIC AND
Clairvoyant Physician,
Wishes to announce to the sick and those who stand in need of his services that he has removed his office from the Buntin House to his rooms on
OHIO STREET,
Nearly Opposite the New Court House, Teire-Haute, Indiana, Where he will continue to treat all diseases, whether of an acute, chronic or private nature. The success which has followed his treatment or all diseases in this place as in others, will speak for his abilitv, as his estimonials will show. Do not fail to call on him if you are sick orsuffejing. He is frank and honest in his opinion and will not undertake your case if he thinks it hopeless, consequently lie guarantees all cases he takes for treatment.
Calls answered day and night. Consultation free.
WgivenEstates
)1"3ra-
DR. II. .J- TREAT,
OFFICE, OHIO STREET,
BETWEEN THIRD & FOURTH.
RESIDENCE—137 North 4th Street. Idly
E. P. BEAICHAMP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ml MAIN STREET,
Terre Haute, Indiana.
ESTERN Land Broker, Loans Negotiated and managed. Particular attention to collections. Correspondence solicited from non-residents. Id am
1}. HOLMES,
Notary Public, Heal Estate Agent,
AND
CONVEYANCER,
OFFICE, Second Floor, No. 115 Main St.,1 Uy Terre Haute, Ind.
SANT C. DAVIS. SYD. B. DAVIS.
DAVIS & DAVIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OFFICE, NO. 80 MAIN STREET,
Between 3rd & 4tli Streets,
W6xn Terre Haute, Ind.
GUNSMITH.
JOHIASSTRO]ITW,
Gunsmith, Stencil Cutter,
SAW FILER AND LOCKSMITH,
Third, street North of Main,
'--'-Hi mr, Terre Haute, Ind All work, done on short notice. Mly