Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 1, Number 55, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 August 1870 — Page 1
VOL. 1.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1870.
Republican Ticket.
SECRETAHY OF STATE.
MAX F. A. HOFFMAN.
AUDITOR OF STATE,
JOHN D. EVANS.
TREASURER OF STATE,
'ROBERT H. MILROV.
JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT,
JEIILJ T. K. ELLIOTT,5 R. C. GREGORY, CHARLES A. RAY, ANDREW L. O.SBORNE.
ATTORNKY GENERAL,
|NELSON TRUSSLER.
YU1*EUIN'TES1JENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,
BARM ABAS C. HOBBS.
FOR CONGRESS, SIXTH DIST.I
MOSES F. DUNN.
COUNTY TICKET.
AUDITOR,
WILLIAM PADDOCK..
SHERIFF,
GORDON LEE.'
TREASURER,
MORTON C. RANKIN.
RECORDER,
THEODORE MARXEN.
SURVEYOR,'
ALEXANDER COOPER.
COMMISSIONERS,
FIRST DIST.-WM. T. PETTTNGER.! SECOND —JOS. FELLENZER. ,THIRD —PHILIP RANDOLPH.
JUDGE CRIMINAL COURT,
JOHN G. GRAIN.
PROSECUTING ATT'Y CRIMINAL COURT,
F. M. MEREDITH.
KEPI! ESENT ATI VES,
J!. WILSON SMITH, II. II. BOriDINOT.
'EWS
SUMMARY.
California's richest tfolcl mine yielded a pro/it last year of $340,000. Both political parties in North Carolina profess to be confident of success to-day.
Within the last ten years Nova Scotia has produced nearly §4,400,000 "worth of gold.
Mr. Frelingliuyscn, the now Minister to England, and his son are staying at Long Branch.
It is reported that profanity is a distinguishing characteristic of the female clerks at Washington.
There is a man at Vermont, Til., who lives in a jet-black house, with bright vermillion "trimmings."
There are 287 incorporated colleges in tho United Statos, that annually turn out an aggregate of about 400 D. Ds.
A Geneva (N. Y.) editor offers to swollow a mule if that village does not exceed Canandaigua in population according to the new census.
A lady in Vicksburg, Miss., requested on her deathbed, that she might be buried In a Pompadous waist, cut "biased."
New Orleans wants some enterprising man who knows how to keep a hotel to take charge of tho St. Charles Hotel, which is now vacant.
Mile. Latour is tho prettiest woman in Paris, and her photographs sell by tho thousands at two francs, while Eugenie's are slow at one franc.
A visitor at Capo May recently missed his pillow in the morning, and after searching a while found it rolled up over his ear, like a bit of lead pencil.
Vassal- College has received the bequest of §32,000 from Jacob P. Girard, a wealthy citizen of New York, who has recently died.
The Republican Convention at Monroevillc, Ohio, yesterday, nominated Charles Foster, of Seneca county, for Congress from the Ninth Ohio District.
Newport boasts of three hundred cottages and villas, worth from §15,000 to §30,000 each, and one worth §300,000, which are occupied only in tho summer.
The King of Sweden is said to be an advocato of woman's rights, and has given overv facility to female students for the, study and practice of medicine.
Tho Thompson Planing Mills and a block of frame dwellings, in High Park, near Boston, Massachusetts, wcro destroyed by liro yesterday morning. Loss, §12,000.
Tho bark Nellie Fenwick was totally consumed by firo on the 2d inst., off Block Island. She was bound for Boston from Ilayti. Tho crew and passengers wore saved.
A negro was arrested at Memphis yesterday, supposed to be Charles Wilson, tho desperado who killed his wife and g'lot Mrs. Morton. It was not Wilson hjj is still at large.
Of tho amount of gold now exhumed, four thousand millions are estimated to be in coin and bullion, one million in watches, and tho remainder in jewelrj*, plate, Ac.
Flirting is known as "Bluffing" at Martha's Vineyard, tho benches which line the bluffs being tho rendezvous of young ladies and gentlemen who engage in tho amusement.
James Harrison, of tho firm of Chastaer, Harrison «fc Valte, owners of the Iron Mountain, Missouri, and very extensive iron miners and manufacturers, died at St. Louis Tuesday night.
Thorne, alias Comstock, leaped from an elevator at Buffalo, a distanco of 135 feet, into Buffalo Creek, and was seriousl}' injured. Ho was advertised to jump from the new suspension bridge at Niagara on the 13th.
A company of six Chinese, including a Celestial woman and two children, left New York Tuesday night, via tho Erie Railroad for St. Louis. They have procured employment at that point through the influence of tho Five Points House of Industry.
At tho Springfield armory tho orders for remodeling of Springfield muzzle-loaders into breech-loaders aro nearly fulfilled, but 2,4S2 to mako up the 50,000. From 300 to 350 per week is tho present rate of completion.
Tho London IFews says: During the last eight years the odious practice of painting the lace has been steadily growing, until, in the most conspicuous classes of society, t.ho practice has ceased to be the exception, and has become the rule.
A complete lexicon and vocablulary of of Martin Luther's works, for the use of theologians and philologists, is now in preparation, and is being issued at Leipsic, Germany, in parts, by subscription. Tho first volume, from A to -p., has just been completed.
A terrible accident occurred at Fortress Monroe yesterday afternoon. A party of men were handling some fixed shots in the laboratory outside the fort, when a shell exploded, firing the building and killing John Tomlinson, white, Joseph and Wm. Johnson and Henry Allen, colored,* and wounding Frank Chisman,.colored. The fire destroyed five other small buildings containing shell. The fire department rendered but little assistance on account ®of the bursting which fell in .every "direction. -v
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MORE AID.—Tho
German paper, the
Volclsblatt, threw" off its position as a neutral paper yesterday, and comes out boldly and squarely in favor of the Democrac\\ At the head of its editorial columns we find the mocratic State, District and County tickets, and its leading articles show a disposition to enter the fight against radicalism with a zeal worthy the great cause of Democracy. We welcome the Volksblatt as an able and desirable coworker, and look upon its aid as an auspicious omen for the Democratic party in this part of the State.—Journal.
Vve understand the facts in relation to the above case are, that the editor of the Volksblatt sold his paper to the Democratic Executive Committee for §500, with the condition, that after the election he is to have it back fur a nominal sum. It is a clean purchase of the office by the Democratic party in this county. Whether the editor's opinions can be' thus easily purchased, remains to be seen. That the Volksblatt came out "boldly and squarely in favor of the Democracy," we expect is true, for the Democracy bought, and paid for it. But the Volksblatt, and its editor, the Democratic Executive Committee, and the Democracy generally, will learn that it is quite another thing to get German Republican votes. You may buy a German newspaper, but you can't buy German votes. The Executive Committee have reckoned without their host, when they supposed that $500 expended in purchasing the Volksblatt, could at the same time change German Republicans to Democrats. Our German fellow citizens are men of too much personal honor to be influenced in this "way.
Does the Democratic party of Vigo county have so mean an opinion of the Germans here, to suppose they can be bought and sold like sheep in the shambles? Does it think that by purchasing the German paper here, they thus secure the German vote? If so, it will be deceived.
We understand further that one of the appliances brought to bear on the Editor of the Volksblatt to make him sell his paper as above stated, was the threat that if hedid not, a German Democratic paper would be started here. How men can expect to advance party ends by such means we are unable to see, and perhaps they will never be able to find out.
BECAUSE General Sheridan was sent to France, as an officer of our army, to learn the French manner of war, gain information in regard to their tactics &c., the Journal concluded this morning that the Government is in sympathy with France. This is about the silliest thing we have ever read. Aa CJcnoral Sbfiridan will probably visit Prussia before he returns to learn their tactics, the Journal will then of course arrive at the sage conclusion that the Government has changed front, and is in sympathy with the Prussians. The following from the New York Sun, is commended to the Journal for consideration. "Are the Democratic leaders determined that tho Republicans shall carry the next House of Representatives? If not, why aro they doing their best to drive the entire German vote away from tho Democratic part}'? The Irish undoubtedly sympathize with France in tho pending European war. But let the Democratic party pursue such a course as it may please on any subject whatever, and it wiil not alienate from it 10,000 Irishmen in the entire country who would otherwise vote for its ticket.
The Germans are swayed by the strongest of impulses in this war—love for their father land. They detest France, and have no friendship for those politicians in the United States who incline to the Bonaparte side of tho conflict. The drift of the Democratic press, and especially in this section of the Union, is against Prussia. If the Democracy succeed in repelling the great body of the German voters from them, it will certainly carry Connecticut and New Jersey over to tho Republicans, put to hazard Democratic ascendancy in New York, and leave that party a meagre l'ollowing*iii all tho Central and Western States."
The Sun is good Democratic authority. About the best, we believe.
THE railroad from here to Danville, 111., will be finished as far as Newport by October, and cars will be running over the same by that time. The iron for this road was landed at New York ten days ago, and is now on its way
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here.
Presi
dent Collett pushes the road forward as fast as it can be done, and when it is finished it will be a first-class road.
THE late Railroad meeting at Cresson springs, we understand that the company accepted the Vandalia Railroad fr»m the contractors, and that it was turned over to the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Cpmpany, under a perpetual lease. It is therefore now under the exclusive management of this old and most reliable company, which is the amplest guarantee that it will be managed as weil as any road in the country.
IN the book store of B. G. Cox & Co., on Main street, may be seen a book entitled the "Christian's Sacrifice," which was printed 200 years ago, and another entitled "Voyages and Travels," that was printed 101 years ago. Both were^prin ted in London and are quite a curiosity.
THE Dubuque Times tells a romantic story, the parties to which were former residents of Dubuque. The hero is Ralph Mason, who enlisted in the army of the union shortly after the breaking out of the "\Var, leaving behind him a young wife and prattling babe. At the battle of Corinth he was struck down by a rebel bullet and left for dead on the field, and the report of his death was conveyed to his wife. But Ralph was not dead—only wounded—and in attempting to eseape from the field, fell into the hands of the rebels, where he remained for several months, when he managed to regain his liberty. He did not rejoin his regiment but wandered through the South until the close of the war, when he went to Washington Territory, and there.succeeded in amassing quite a fortune. At last, tired of his wanderings, he concluded to join his wife, and set out for Dubuque, where he arrived on the 7th inst., only to find that his wife, laboring under the impression that his bones were bleaching under, the-Southern sun, had married a^Mr. Ed'son, arid' was living with him near Elkader, Clayton county. Ralph took it coolly, concluded to avert the unpleasant consequences sure to ensue upon his revealing himself, and therefore immediately retraced his steps to California, leaving his wife in blissful unconsciousness of his existence.
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-I ,'\ The Best Soldier in France. As Von Moltke was hardly knowii' to readers out of Pruasia anterior to the splendid campaign which ended at Sadowa, the man to whose brain will be due whatever of successful strategy shall characterize the French arms in the coming war is, as yet unnamed. Gen. Louis Jules Troonu is, to*day, undeniably the best soldier of France. He is now 55 years of age. A graduate of the stall school of St. Cyr, lie was made lieutenant in 1840, and promoted to a captaincy in 1743. His first staff services was with that fine soldier Bugeoudin Algeria. Chefd'ecadron and major in 1846, and lieutenant colonel in 1853, his first European service was in the Italian campaign. At the commencement of the Crimean war he was made chief of the general staff, and by reference to King-lake's history it will be seen that in all conferences with Lord Raglan, Trochu, rather than St. Arnaud or Canrobert, was sj^okesman on the part of France.
Throughout the campaign, having been made a General of a brigade in 1854, he occupied this position of confidential staff officer of the commander-in-chief, a position analagous to that of Gneisenau under Blucher, given in just recognition of his military ability and skill. In 1864 he reached his grade of General of division. Two years after lie was charged with the preparation of a plan to reorganize the army. Instead of, as has been suggested, lacking the Imperial confidence, he has it in the most flattering degree. His essay upon organization, "L'Armee Francaise," published in 1867, ran through ten editions. Trochu is well known to have anticipated the event of a war with Prussia. A recent pamphlet from his pen, which unfortunately cannot be obtained in this country, develops an immense deal of study of the Rhenish frontier as a fighting field, and palpably indicates the national impulse as occupying the strategist's mind. Should the war survive its first battle a fortnight, and promise, as seems very likely, to be along one, Trochu's name may chance to appear at the head of the French armies.—Army and Navy Journal.
The Highest Flight Ever Made by Man. The most remarkable balloon ascension on record was made in 1804, by Biot and GayLussac, in Paris. By this enterprise they endowed science with a series of new and important facts, questionable before that time, as they carried with them a complete set of suitable apparatus, and, moreover, an unsurpassed knowledge of observation and experiment. They ascended to a height of 13,000 feet, and observed that at 8,000 to 9,000 feet the animals they had taken with them, in order to observe the effect of the. rarifled air and cold upon them, did not appear to sutler any inconvenience. In the meantime the pulses of the two experimenters were much accelerated that of GayLussac, always slow, 62 beats per minute, was 80 and that of Biot, naturaily rapid, 79 beats per minute, was 111. At the height of 11,000 feet, a pigeon was liberated it dropped down whirling through the air as though it had been a stone. The air was too thin, too much raritied, to enable it to fly.
Three days later, Gay ljussac wont up alone and attained the height of 23,000 feet, four and one-sixth miles or 2,000 feet higher than the top of Chimborazo mountain. The barometer was only 13 inches high, the thermometer 18 degrees Fahrenheit below the freezing point, while at the surface of the ground it was 80°. He left the courtyard of the Conseratoirc des Arts -ct Metiers, in Paris, and, after an aerial voyage of six hours, descended near Rouen, 100 miles distant. The result of this ascension on Gay Lussac's health was very injurious, partially for the want of air for respiration, combined with the sudden cold, but chiefly by the absence of the accustomed pressure. At the extreme height of 22,000 feet, his lace and neck were swollen enormously, his eyes"protruded from his head, plood ran out from his eyelids, nose and ears, and also came from his lungs, by vomiting in short, his system received a shock from which lie never fully recovered the rest of his life.
In Statu Quo.
A friend in Wooster, Ohio, sends the following amusing instance of the simplicity of the African lad, as evinced in his first eflorts to attain a knowledge of the English vocabulary. The boy, some seven or eight years old, Dan by name, was set to learn words in an old spelling book that had been tossed about the house. He soon became interested in watching a race between a small boy and Time, as represented by an engraving in the book, and every spare moment of the day that he couid find was devoted to the contemplation of the (to him) exciting chase.
Night finally compelled the
yonng
Af
rican to lay asido tlie book which his ace at the present day manifest so much pleasure in studying, and to retreat to his pallet, where, no doubt he dreamed of "dat big fellow wid de mowin' scyve," as he called him, in pursuit of the poor frightened boy. Dan was up with the lark next morning, and the first thing he did was to get the speller and look for his heroes of the race. He gazed intently for an instant at the picture, and then with a wild scream of delight, exclaimed, as he danced all about the kitchen, "He ain't cotched 'im yit—Golly! he ain't cotched "im yit!"—Editor's drawer, in Harper's Magazine for August.
Lowner's Dog.
A correspondent of the New York Evening Mail, giving an account of a trip from this city to St. Louis says of a station on the way:
Here I saw Lowner, and was introduced to Lowner's dog. Lowner was a little, shock-haired, pug-nosed, darkcomplexioned, little-eyed Hoosier, and his dog was a fit companion for him. A more disreputable, mangy-looking cur I don't think I ever saw. Lowner turned to me as soon as I had comfortably located myself, and remarked: "I say, Mister, that's a sleepy looking purp, ain't it?"
I acquiesced at once. "Well, now, Mister, that 'ere's the spryest purp in this 'ere State."
Of course I was properly astonished, and asked what he could do. "Well, stranger, that's Lowner's dog," said he, "and he's spry, you jest bet. Look a-here." He caught a fly, put it in the dog's nose, let go the fly, and bebefore the insect could escape, the quadruped had devoured it. I expressed approval. "Oh, he's soun' on flies, you jest bet," said Lowner. ''Try it yourself, mister,'' and he handed me a fly. To oblige Lowner, I put the fly on Lowner's dog's
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but Lowner's dog was spry, for, before I could remove my fingers, the. dog was masticating them. However, finding they were fingers aud not flies, lie treated them mildly. Lowner laughed vigorously, and remarked "Now, I say, mister, ain't Lowner's dog spry?" That-kinJ of spryness I preferred at a distance sol returned to Mrs
TERRE HAUTE, IKD., THURSDAY AFTERNOON AUGUST 4, 1870.
TVill Lager Beer Intoxicatc I ,, In Syracuse a jury have recently decided the oft-mooted question, "Is lager beer intoxicating?" in the negative. One of the witnesses testified that he had drank lager beer since he was a child, and that, in his opinion, it was intoxicating if a man's stomach could be found large enough to contain sufficient. Another said he swallowed two gallons of it every day, and was never intoxicated. A third said •'When I feel first rate, I could drink about twenty glasess more than sixty before becoming intoxicated about eighty glasses makes me sleepy."
A lager-beer distiller gave a portion of his evidence as follows "Never saw a man get drunk on lager some men can bear more than others it makes some men-weak and sick, so that they cannot do their duty makes their system weak all over makes their legs weak don't know whether or not whiskey will make any one drunk know lager will make them weak."
A witness who swore that he had used lager daily for twenty-five years, averred that "since he commenced drinking, he had increased fifty pounds when he commenced drinking he was a boy if he had no lager, thiuks he would die.
So, on the strength of this array of testimony selling lager on Suuday
clared to be perfectly proper.
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Don't be Extravagant.
If the poorhouse has any terror for you never buy what you don't need. Before you pay three cents for a jewsharp, my boy, ascertain whether you don't make just as pleasant a noise by whistling, for which nature furnishes the machinery. And before you pay $75 for a coat, young man, find out whether your lady-love would not be just as glad to see you in one that would cost half the money. If she .would not, let her crack her own hazlenuts and buy her own clothes.
When you see a man spending two or three dollars a week foolishly, the chances are five to one he'll live long enough to know how many cents there are in a dollar, and if he don't, he's pretty sure to bequeath that privilege to his widow.
When a man asks you to buy that for which you have no use, no matter how cheap it is, don't say yes until you are sure some one else wants it in advance.
Money burns in some folk's pockets, and makes such a big hole that every thing that is put in drops through, past finding.
How Good Farmers Save Money. They take good papers, and read them. They keep account of farm operations. They do not leave their implements scattered over the farm, exposed to snow, rain and heat.
They repair their tools and buildings at a proper time, and do not suffer a subsequent three-fold expenditure of time and money. They use their money judiciously, and they do not attend auction sales to purchase all kinds of trumpery because it is cheap.
They see that their fences are well repaired, and their cattle are not grazing in the meadows or grain fields or orchards.
They do not refuse to make correct experiments in a small way of many new things. •.
They
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story of the woman who has hot
spoken to her husband for twenty years, which has been going the rounds of the papers of late has just received a satisfactory explanation. The woman has not had a husband for twenty years.
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Sleep and Death.
"To live without fearing death," said Hufeland, "is the only means of living happy and dying at a good old age. People who dread death seldom attain longevity. If death presents itself to us under a repulsive and terrifying aspect, it is solely owing to our habits and prejudices having perverted our feelings."
Montaigue justly said that it is the darkening room, the faces full of grief and desolation, the moaning and crying that makes death terrific. Civilization, by investing death with the most lugubrious associations that it can conjure up, 1ms also contributed to rendering it a hidous spectre. It is the reverse with the patient. Tn nine cases out of ten it is not only a relief, but almost a sense of voluptuousness.
Sleep daily teaches us the reality of death. "Sleep and death are twins," said the poets of antiquity. Why, then, should we fear death, when we daily invoke its brother as a friend and a consolation? "Life," said Buffon, "begins to faii long before it is utterly gone." Why, then, should we dread the last moment, when we are prepared for its advent by so many other moments of a similar character.
Death is as natural as life. Both come tous in the same way, without our consciousness, without our beiug able to determine the advent of either. No one knows the exact moment when he goes to sleep, none will know the exact moment of his death. It is certain that death is generally a pleasant feeling.
Leucan used to say that life would be insupportable to men if the god3 had not hidden from him the happiness he would experience in dying. Tullius Marcellinus, Francis Suarex and the philosopher La Mettrie, all spoke of the voluptuousness of their last moments. Such Wert the ooiieolations which philosophy presents to timid minds that dread death. We need not say what much higher and loftier consolations await the Christian who is firm and steadfast in his faith, and has before him the prospect of eternal life.
Revising the Bible.
The revisers of the authorized version of the New Testament met for the first time yesterday, at the Jerusalem Chamber, at twelve o'clock, and sat for upwards of five hours. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol acted as Chairman. The Holy Communion was administered at 11:30 by the Dean of Westminister, in Henry the Seventh's Chapel, and was attended'by all the members of the company, with the exception of three or four, including those unavoidably absent from London owing to illness engagements. Twenty were present, including the Bishop of Llandaff, the Chairman of the Old Testament Company. All preliminary arrangements connected with the form and carrying on of the work were discussed and agreed to, and some progress was made in the actual work. It would be premature to express any opinion on a first meeting, but it may be said that the whole time and cliaracter of the meeting was such as to suggest a well-grounded belief that this great and important Work will be carried on with harmony, promptitude and success. The company afterwards dined with the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, in Portland Place.—London Times, June 28.
plant their*Miik trees well, care
for them, and of course get good.crop3.
They practice economy by giving their stock good shelter during the winter also good food, taking all that is unsound, half rotten or mouldy out.
They do not keep tribes of cats or snarling dogs around their premises, who eat more in a month than they are worth in si Whole life-time.
Lastly,
they read the, advertisements,
knoW wllat iS 'going on and frequently save money by it. Successful farming is made by attention to little things. The farmer who does best, earns his money with best results. Such men are the salt of the earth.— Exchange.
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This Morning's News.
The Central Bank's Liabilities $1,000,000.
The Force at the Various Navy Yards Increased to 5,000 Men.
Indignation in England at the Vacillating Course of the Ministry.
Further Particulars of the Altai at Saarbruclf.
The Prussian Army of the Rhine 420,000 Strong.
itfew Yorlc.
NEW YORK, August 3.—The World has a very positive rumor from Washington that the Cabinet, which was at first reluctantly accepted by him, and only for a time, to release President Grant from some complications in which he had been involved.
There is considerable excitement in relation to the suspension of the Central Bank of Brooklyn, and much indignation expressed by heavy depositors that the cashier was appointed receiver. The neighborhood ot the bank is crowded with anxious inquirers, and as it was understood that the deposits made yesterday would be returned to-day, many availed themselves of the chance and drew their money.
Among the heaviest depositors were tiie city and county institutions. The city lias in bank $158,430, and the county Treasurer has deposited $105,000, which is mostly secured Brooklyn Water Department has a deposit of $23,000. As far as has been at present ascertained the liabilities reach $800,000, and perhaps, $1,000,000, against $200,000 capital, and a State deposit of only $5,000. As to collaterals, the bank officers refuse to give any information. President Pruin is understood to have turned nearly all his real estate, consisting of the Postoffice building, Commonwealth Hall, and lots on Adams street over to the bank as security.
Washington.
WASHINGTON, August 3.—Yesterday Secretary Robeson ordered 5,000 more men to be engaged at the various navy yards, and the work of repairing and remodelling of vessels on hand, and those being daily placed out of commission, is ordered to be vigorously carried out.
The commission appointed by Congress to investigate the charges against certain cadets at West Point for treating a colored cadet in an ungentlemanly manner have concluded their labors, and sentenced the offending cadets to be reprimanded by the authorities.
Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI,
August 3.—The Fifth An
nual Fair of the Tobacco Trade
To-day the people are no longer silent. Liberals and Conservatives complain bitterly that the Government fails to comprehend the determination of the people, and that Gladstone shrinks from war, and that this economical and sentimental shrinking from war threatens to precipitate England into the very conflict lie seeks to avert. The complaints of the German press on England's irresolute policy and imperfect neutrality are felt to be just.
It is understood that all war corre^pondents have been finally expelled from both armies.
The morning Standard, referring to i'uv Alabama question, hopes that in the
less ambiguous/*
neutrality
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England is freely exporting horses,. 1 fiprmonj-, -.vhiv.ii ure immediately forwarded to the seat of war.
The Vienna Post says the Grand Duko of Baden asserts that King William, in conversation with him, iu 1866, informed him that Bismark was eager to cede the region about the river Haas to France, but the King and his council declined.
The following details of the affair at Saarbruck have been received: The fight began at eleven o'clock yesterday morning. The French passed the frontier in force. The Prussians were driven from their strong position by the sharp artillery fire' of the French. The latter remained masters of the position which they had won without serious loss.
The Emperor and Prince Imperial witnessed the conflict, and returned to Metz to dinner.
Saarbruck was taken by the French this morning. The loss was slight on both sides.
A rumor is in circulation here to-day to the effect that Weisenburg, a town on the border, had been stormed by the French.
FRANCE.
PARIS, August 3.—It is positively asserted that Austria and Italy have entered into an alliance with France. The menacing attitude of England toward France, as exhibited by the English press, and the pressure in parliament for increased armament, seeming to suggest more than a possibility of England's cooperation witn Prussia, in which case the security of Austria might be endangered, is said to have hastened this alliance.
Treasury bonds to the amount of 500,000,000 francs have been issued in Paris. In
hourly
Later
anticipation of a great battle,
active preparations are being made for the reception and care of the wounded.
Twenty-four
thousand beds have already
been prepared. Twelve hundred men are especially employed in making bread, in Paris, for the French army.
Political irreconcilables in Paris pro
pose to
take advantage of the war aud
the absence of the army and Emperor to provoke a rising against the Empire. Rochefort opposes the movement and it is likely to be abandoned.
news from the frontier confirms
the announcement of the capture of Saarbruck. Paris is delighted and the enthusiasm respecting the war is greater than ever.
The advanced posta of Bazaine's corps had a brush to-day with the enemy's sharpshooters. Several of the latter were filled. The French suffered no loss.
VERSAILLES, August
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lic buildings of this city have lately been given up as:depositories for ammunition. Yesterday the city barely
damage had been done. A barrel of ammunition which was already enveloped in flames was dragged into the street where it immediately exploded-
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BERLIN, August 3.—The following is official: A reconnoissance was made yesterday by a body of Bouden Light Horseman and Prussian Huzzars. The force engaged a French scouting party near Stargenbrun, in which one officer was killed and several wounded, on the French side. Two Prussians were slightly wounded.
The Prussian Government has summoned the Landwher to defend the coast.
The army of the Rhine consists of the following bodies: 80,000 at Cogniac, under General Steinmetz 180,000 at the junction of the Maine with the Rhine, under Prince Frederick Charles and 160,000 along the Upper Rhine, under Prince Frederick William. The Chiefs of Staff arc Generals Moltke, Blumenthal, Sporling and Steklen.
THE home and tomb of Thomas Jefferson are said to be in a neglected and desolate condition. The gate of the burial enclosure has fallen from its hinges, long rass and foul weeds are growing in rank luxuriance around the graves and hogs fiud a browsing and grazing place over the very remains of the great apostle of Democracy and his consort.
THE MARKETS. TERRE HAUTE. TEUIIK HAUTE, AUG, 4, 1870.
RETAIL.
Flour, per barrel, Wheat, per bushel,
Potatoes, per bushel, Corn Meul, Butter, Eggs, per dozen, Chickens, per dozen Coffee, per pound,
^ugar •Salt, per barrel, Flams, per pound, Shoulders, per pound, .sides, Pork, pickled,
Green, cured, Green, Calf, Dry Flint Damaged,
Sheep Pelts,
Associa
tion took place to-day. The attendance way large and the number of entries up to previous fairs. Premiums were offered on thirteen classes.
Foreign.
GREAT BRITAIN.
disappointto make a
LONDON, August 3.—The ment at Gladstone's failure positive declaration to protect Belgium, on Monday night, seems far more general, and even indignant, than 3resterday described. Throughout this speech the House had an air of painful waiting, changing at its close to one of unsatisfied expectation.
100 MAIN STREET.
^^"ILL supply you with all
THE CHOICE NEW BOOKS
as they are issued. Will order Books on any catalogue at. publishers' prices. Will sell you Paper, Envelopes, Pens, Ink, Pencils, Pen Holders, Slates, School Books, Picture Frames, Mouldings, Gold Pens, Pocket Books,
BARTLETT Ac CO., AT 100 MAIN STREET, lUf Opposite the Opera House.
EDUCATIONAL.
WAVELAND
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE,
R.OCATKI) AT
W VELAXI), DTDIMA,
Will ent*'r upon its Twcnty-serond Year on
KKI»TI:JIRI:R 5,1S70.
For particulars, address,
.1. M. NAY LOR, A. M., Principal. [40d2w4"|
IV, MEDICAL. 'J
.sviioijE» coipijjSiv...
AND
CHRONIC DIARRHOEA.
Brunker's Carminative Balsatii NEVER
FAILS to cure Summer Complaint in children or Chronic Diarrhoea in adults. It is indispensable for infants. Physicians acknowledge it to be the best Carminative ever brought before the public. Sold, wholesale and retail, by
II. A. DAVIS & CO.,
Id56wl6
A. G. COES CO.,
ft? i%: {Successors to L. & A. G. Goes,) W O E 8 E A S S
I Manufacturers of the Genuine
COES SCREW WBMCHES,
With A. G. Coes' Patent Lock Ferule, Established in 1839. COES. ife Idly J. COF
DI3TIL1EBS.
WALSII IIROOKS A: ,i:/i Succcssorsto SAMUEL
M. MURPHY
'.'J CINCINNATI' -Jl'DISTILIiEBY, S. W. cor. Kilgour ..
1"1HE
So 00@7 50 1 10@1 15 1 00 5d(d} 60
SI 00@1 20 1 20
2 40@3 00 20@ 28 1 50@2 00 M@ 15 2 50@2 75 30 lf@ 18
CINCINNATI.
20
WHOLESALE PRICES.
Wheat—White, No 1, Wheat, Alabama, Wheat, Mediterranean, Oats,
Ti otliy Seed .7.7.7.7." Flax Seed, Clover, dull at Hay, per ton, Wool—Choice Tub washed
Unwashed Fleece washed
Bacon—Clear sides, Hams, country, Shoulders, Hides—Green Butchers,
Si 30@1 35 1 25 1 15 33@ 40 70 80@ 90 3 00 1 40 5 €0 1C@ 12
CINCINNATI,
Aug, 3, 1870.
FLOUR—Firm and in fair demaud at 8050@ 6 75. WHEAT—Lower Red at 81 50, other from SI 40 to gl 45@1 52.
CORN—Dull at 85@86c for ear and 87@88« for shelled. PROVISIONS—In better demand sales ot 400 barrels pork at $30 sugar cured hams 26 cents. Iiacou active auu lieiu liigliei siiuuiiicio
LARD—Hheld at 16^c. BUTTER—Steady at 26@2Sc. EGGS—Dull at 13c„ shippers' couut* GOLD—1 21% buying.
I42cts-
clear rib 17% clear sides 18%c bulk meats in good demand and firmly held. Shoulders 13%c sides 15V£c clear rib 16%c clear sides 16%c.
BOOKSELLERS.
BARTLETT & CO.,
Booksellers and Stationers,
ldtiui
Indelible Pencils,
or any thing else in the Stationery line at the lowest figures. .I.. ..
-1 CALL ON "i Ut
-. Vi•£*.£& UjT ./*
INSURANCE.
#13,221,104.
1I VUDR A- HcKEM,
GENEUAL
Insurance Agents,
OFFICE, DOWLING'S HALL.
very best and most reliable Insurance Companies represented by this firm.
./ETNA Oh' HA RTFORD. *5,549,501 HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE, 2,544,210 FRANKLIN OF PHILADELPHIA, 2,825,781 SPRINGFIELD, 939,609 MERCHANTS OF HARTFORD, 559,568 NORTH AMERICAN, 802,872
Policies written in the above named Companies as cheap as in any first-class Companies represented in the city. *d6
NEARLY jfijl4.000.000.
IF YOU WANT
LIFE INSURANCE
Wliy not'Gct the Best^i
IT
2offi io@ia
does not cost any more, and you know you are in a sound Company.
THE
JETNA
LIFE INSURANCE CO.,
ASSETS $13,000,000,
Is represented by L. Office Dowling's Hall.
2E@ 25@ 1«@ 17@ U@ 7@8 11 14@ 16 y3 off 25® 35
G. HAGER. Agen*.
Id 6m
HEAL ESTATE.
B. HOLMES,
Notary Public, Real Estate Agent,
AND
CONVEYANCER,
OFFICE, Second Floor, No. 115 Main St. ldy Terre Haute, Ind
PAINTERS.
WM. H. JlEI/niA.
PAINTER,
Cor. 61 h, La Fayette aud Locnst sts.,
DOES
jjTerrc Haute, Ind.
GRAINING, PAPER HANGING, CALCIMINING,
and everything usually doue
in the line. 20dwfly
MANNING & MAGWIRE, HOUSE & SIGN PAINTERS,
OHIO STREET, Between 4th «fc 5th street
FRED. H. MYERS. W. N. DUDDLKSTOST
MYERS & DUDDLESTON
CARRIAGE AND WAGON.
A I N E S
CORNER OF FIFTH AND CHERRY STS.,
Terre Haute, Ind.
I
ld6m
MAIN STREET, Sole Agents for Terre Haute.
WRENCHES.
& CO.,!
OFFICE A STOKES, 17 and 19 West Second street.
East Pearl sts -Distillers ot
,* Qnirits -Alcohol & Domestic Liquors Cologne Spirits,^
dealenJ ln
•4 Pure Bonrbon and Rye Whiskies. ,tV ld6m
CABDS.
CARDS
escaped
destruc
tion from explosion. Afire occurred in one of these powder warehouses, which was fortunately subdued before any great
of every description for Business, Visit inK. Wedding or Funital purposes, in any number from 100 to 100,000, expeditiously, neatly and ebeaply printed at the GAZETTE STEAM JOB OFFICE, Fifth street. We keep the largest assortment of card stock In the city—bought di ect from Eastern Mills ^toi '-rpMu'i
11
We profess to be masters of our trade, and do work when promised, aud in the best style. 28d6m
PROFESSIONAL.
Trial is Better than Report!
A 1 I
188 SOUTH FIRST STREET, Bet. Farrington aud Vine, TERRE HAUTE, IND.
WILL guarantee to cure all ACUTE AND CHRONIC CASES in less time, and with less Medicine than any other Physician in the city.
I aim to Care Tula Cilo el Jucundc." References in this city will prove it, HOURS OF CONSULTATION—From 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. 21dwfly
DR. H. J. TREAT,
OFFICE,.OHIOISTREET,
^BETWEEN THIRD & FOURTH.
RESIDENCE—137 North 4th Street. Idly
SANT C. DAVIS. SYS. B. DAVIS
DAVIS&DAYIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OFFICE, NO. 80 MAIN STREET,
Between 3rd & 4th Streets,
Terre Haute, Ind.
GROCERIES.
BMJAinO F. WEST,
DEALER IN
Groceries, Qucensware, Provisions,
AND
COUNTRY PRODUCE, NO. 75 MATN STREET, BET. 8th & 9th, Terre Haute, Ind USTThP Highest Cash price paid for Country Produce. 4dly
ARCHITECT.
J. A. VBYDAGH,
A I E
NORTHEAST CORNER OF ..
WABASH AND SIXTH STREETS, Idly
Terre Haute Indiana
BELTING.
CRAFTON & KNIGHT,
^Manufacturers *f if
Best Oak Tanned Stretched Leather Belts
'Mlao, Page's Patent Lacing,
....... 87 Front St., Harding's Block, Worcester, M»®f