Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 1, Number 59, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 August 1870 — Page 2

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1870.

Editorial Correspondence. SOUTHERN HOTEL, ST. LOUIS, Aug. 7,1870. A trip over the Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Vandalia road, to St. Louis, is really a delighlful one. The road passes through one^of the most beautiful regions of Illinois, and

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eler to see the richness and greatness of the Prairie State to an advantage. It is wonderful how smooth and complete this entire line of the road is. In riding over it, one would suppose it to be an old and long established road. It seems as level as a floor," and we could see no difference in the entire route from Terre Haute to St. Louis, than between Indianapoli3 and Terre Haute. The perfect manner in which the road is built is, perhaps, unparalleled in the history of roads anywhere. Every bridge is a most substantial one, every culvert a secure one, and the whole thing, from end to end, is most complete in every particular. The running stock is of the best models, and the passenger cars so elegant and well fashioned, that a few hours spent in them, are really hours of pleasure and rest, rather than discomfort and weariness. Not only is everything connected with the building and furnishing of the road the most complete, but the men who run it are all familiar with the business, and attentive and gentlemanly in their deportment. How there could be more accommodating and courteous conductors than Messrs. Knolton and Elliott, we are at a loss to know. Their greatest desire seems to be to make those under their charge as comfortable as possible. They are pleasant and

to every one, and punctiliously

attentive to their official duties. Take this road all in all, we have never traveled over a better one, or one more skillfully managed.

We arrived her« in a little over six hours after leaving Terre Haute. The "Southern" is the Hotel of this city. The old Planter's, is older than it was ten years ago. There arc few hotels out of New York better kept than the Southern, and few charge higher prices. They charge at the top of the list, but their bill of fare is good. We had not been in St. Louis before since our return from the Missouri campaign, under Gen. Fremont. Our last recollection, therefore, of the city was, its extreme dullness. Then there was not one steamboat lying at the wharf, and grass was growing all over it. No persons thronged the streets but men in uniform and shoulder-straps. Almost every other house was closed. Outside of the military, nothing was doing. Now the wharf is lined with splendid boats, and is crowded with wagons and men, all as busy as bees. The streets are alive Avith business, and every house is open and full of customers. Nine years, and what a change?

Having a little leisure, we looked through the city somewhat. There are but few fine houses in it. Fourth street, which is the principal business street, is not as well built as Wabash street in Terre Haute, and there are no private residences better than some on Sixth street. We visited the Mercantile Library. It is in decay. Looks dilapidated. Is hung around with third rate pictures. There is not one picture from one of our first Artists. In a country, where the best landscapes that have ever been painted by the pencil are produced, not one has a place in this collection. Most of the pieces are copies from European Artists, and"many of them bad ones at that, or if correct, the originals were not worth being copied. There are several pieces of statuary in the LiLray. A Daniel Webster, two thirds grown, and as stiff as though he had just been put in a straight jacket. Two pieces by Miss Hossmer, which are very passable, and several bronzes, make up the collection in this department. There is a statuette of antique bronze, with both arms and one foot broken off", but in other respects a splendid thing. As there was nothing said about it in the catalogue we went to the clerk, and asked him to tell us where its came from, and its his tory. His reply was entirely sat'sfac tory. Looking in the direction of the statuette, he said, "Now yoifvegotme I don't know anything about it." Then looking at the catalogue he pointed out the description o" a full-grown Venice and referring our attention to it, said "Here it is." We said, "No, this is not it we mean the small one the e. "Well," said he, "Isuppose they are both the same, for they look alike." We expressed ourself entirely satisfied—that the fellow thought the statuette was the child of the big Venice

The only pieces of art in which there is considerable merit, which we have seen in the city, are two pieces illustrative of some of Moseby's raids on Federal army trains. While the subject is not worthy the artist's pencil, still he has made a very spirited painting of them.

It. N. H.

THE latest literary sensation is the re ported discovery of a letter from Edgar A. Poe, found among the papefs of Mahlon Dickerson, in an old barn in New Jersey, iu which Poe made the confession that he did not write "The Raven," but that it was written by Samuel Fenwick, of New York, and sent to him for polishing and to secure its publication through his literary connection and influence that Fenwick soon died, and Poe published the poem as his own. We would not dare to dispute the genuineness of this pretended letter, because Poe was probably capable of any insane iniquity—even that of lyiug to slander himself. But he did leave it stated in writing that poem of "The Raven" was not his composition, but that he stole it from somebody else. We think he lied about it—that is all. He never could even swear the paternity of his literarv offspring jipon any other man.

A GOTTINGEX German letter says that' ladies there are surprised at woman's position in America, and quite shocked at the moder» idea of woman's rights. That a gentleman should give up to a lady his seat in a crowded house or public conveyance is an astonishment to them they never heard of such a thing in Germany, Wives carry garments and packages lbr thfeir husbands and not husbands for their wives.

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A LADY who wished some stuffing from a duck, which a gentleman was carving at a public table, requested him to transfer from the deceased fowl to'her plate some of its artificial intestines.

A SHOCKING TKAGEDY.

Mnrdcr of an Entire The Assassins Not Arrcstea. The following account of a fearful tragedv comes to us iu a recent issue of the. Buenos

Ayres Standard:

"The city was star tied

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THE New York Evening Post says "Crude petroleum is not only useful for painting buildings, but it is the best preservative for all manner of farm implements, wood or iron. As soon as it be comes dry, any tool may be handled without the least annoyance. For priming when other paint is to be used, petroleum is not only the cheapest, but the best material to be found. We have between three and four hundred sashes in use. A portion of these were painted two years ago with Prince's Mineral Paint and linseed oil. This is now so nearly gone that it has been necessary to oil the sashes to keep them from decaying, The others were oiled with petroleum when new, and afterwards received one coat of the same paint, which seems now as fresh and solid as when it was first put on. This oil costs from 25 cents to 30 cents per gallon, and the only precaution necessary in its use is to have no fire about it until it has beeu spread for a "ew hours, long enough for the most volatile and inflammable parts to have evaporated.

Pennyroyal for Fleas..

Tiie oil of pennyroyal will drive these insects off but a cheaper method, where the herd flourishes, is to throw your dogs and cats into a decoction of it once a week. Mow the herb and scatter it in beds of pigs once a month. I have seen this done for many years in succession. Where the herb cannot be got the oil may be procured. In this case, saturating strings with it, and tie them around the neck of dogs and cats pour a little on the neck and about the ears of hogs, which you can do while they are feeding, without touching them.

B.V repeating this application every 12 or 15 days, the fleas will flee from your quadrupeds, to their relief and improvement, and your relief and comfort in the house. Strings saturated with the oil of pennyroyal, and tied around the necks and tails of horses, will drive off lice the strings should be saturated once a day. Scientific American.

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ing by the announcement of a fearful murder that has been committed at Baradero, in this province. The victims comprise all the members of a family consisting of the husband,

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young children. In the hurried details to hand only the slightest motive can be discerned for this awful crime, and up to the present no trace of the perpetrators has been found.

This Baradero murder exceeds in atrocity any of the numerous crimes that for some time past have shocked society in this conntry, and fully equals in mystery and horror the worst ebullitions of moral depravity that so frequently break forth in the overcrowded centers of Europe or the States. It is unnecessary to remind the Government that some extraordinary effort on its part for the apprehension and punishment of the doers of this frightful deed is imperatively called for. Should the Baradero assassins go undetected and unpunished, the consequences will be most serious, as the rural population will become convinced that murder through private revenge or other motive, may at any time be their portion. Abroad, the effect will be still worse for the eyes of Europe have been attracted toward us of late by the frequency of an impunity for assassination among us and we may be said to be on our trial. We are happy to notice that the Justice of Peace and local authorities have done whatever lay in their power toward tracking the criminals, the former at once offering a reward of $10,000 for their apprehension. The following are the only particulars of the crime as yet known, and are contained in a letter addressed by a lady to a friend in town, and which was published yesterday morning by the Tribune. We translate it verbatim:

BAKADEOO, May 15,1870.

MY DEAR I write you this in a dreadful state of mind. ThePantin tragedy has been reproduced in this partido. Last night Don Fidel Diaz and all his family were assassinated. To enable you to understand the horror of the picture, I will give you the details that have reached me.' The Diaz family comprised four persons, the husband, an excellent man, still young, being only thirty-two years of age, and much liked by every one who knew him the wife twenty-five, nee Camana, her family being rich proproprietors in this partido. The latter in a few days would have been a mother. A child of seven years and another of three made up the household. The family occupied a good position the enjoyments and necessities of high society were unknwn to them, they lived happy and contented. To-day this is at an end, their house is tenanted by five corpses. Every one of them had their throats cut, and, in addition, the body of the husband exhibits no fewer than eighteen dagger thrusts, and that of the poor wife four. The assassins are not yet known, but they are believed to be persons who wee inlimate with the domestic affairs of the family, which probably induced them to kill tiie little boy, so that their names might not transpire. They Iroke open two boxes containioR plate and cash both were emptied. The motive for the crime is supposed to have been the acquisition of money, for it was known that Diaz had lately sold a flock of sheep but the murderers 'were disappointed, r.s the money had not been paid over and a "p'agare" for it was found in a desk. The crime must have been committed shortly after sundown, for all the victims were dressed—even the ch:ldren—and it was apparent that they had not supped, for the country people hereabouts sup at 6, and are in bed a 7 o'clock. The wife's sisters, who live tlr'ee squa es off, say that a little after sundown they heard the dogs at their sister's house barb'ng violently, and thinking that she had been taken in labor, went out with the intention of going to her, but they were afraid to go alone, and their brother had not returned from the town. If they went they would also have been killed. Au infant child of their sister's, only a year old, was saved through being sent with them, as it had been sent to them to be out of the way during the mother's confinement. Diaz could not defend himself, for he had broke one of his legs four months ago, and was on crutches, and his right arm was in a sling. There was no peon kept by the family, but a boy, who went everymorning to let out sheep, was astonished on going as usual the following day to find nobody about. On entering the horrible picture met his gaze, and he rushed out terrified to give the alarm. The impres sion produced by the deed is terrible The shops remained shut till yesterday evening at sundown, and many families have come into the town panic stricken. I give you these details in order to show the necessity of executing the assassins if caught, for \vo who live in the country where there are no police will otherwise be at the mercy of the murderers. It will not be difficult to catch the criminals, for they took away a waistcoat with gold buttons belonging to Diaz, and the little boy's boots, which they tore from his feet. The father, mother, and eldest child were murdered on the threshhold of the first room, which is filled with blood. The assassins placed the bodies lying on their faces, for there is a superstition among the peasantry, that if a murdered corpse be left on its back the assassins will be discovered. The little boy evidenty tried to run away, but they caught him at the door leading into the next room and dispatched him. Such are the details of this fearful crime, and it is the duty of our colleagues to keep it before the public and the authorities day by day until the perpetrators are hunted down.

INDIANA NilWS.

The debt of Harrison county is $32,000, A man named Joseph Riley was shot in Evansville on Saturday night by a rough

Colonel W. C. Wilson, of LaFayette, has sold his elegant residence to John R. Coffroth for §14,000.

Leonidag Napoleon Bro wn, of Jay county, has expatriated himself to avoid three eases of prospective pale, nal e3ponsibility.

On Saturday last, tii ee vi^oable cows belonging io ihe poor ''arm ofV.'^ococ died ve srJden.'j. li is supposed they were poisoned.

Henry Ward Beeclier, the d'stinguisued eacher, acd Jonathan Gieen, the cele--ated refo-med gambler, wero bo/n and raised at Law) enceburg, this State.

A sixteen year old youth, in Martin county, made a successful attempt to "shuffle off this mortal coil," last Monday, because his father slapped him for sitting up all nigbt wLh his enamorala, aged twelve.

The New A iba ay Ledger savs We are informed by bee raisers that the bees have been doing good work the present season and the y^d of honey 11 be very large Hoacy is now selling at ''om twenty-fire to thiruy-ftve ceits perpouod.

The g'-a-ve of Governor Jennings, tbe first governor of Jndiaaa, is on Wi

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S. Ferrier's farm near Charleston. C!a county, and it is suggested that his last resting place should be adorned with fitting monument to his worth.

Miss Amy Cathcart, Lagrange county, was chased by a mad buH, a few days ago, but succeeded in leaping over a high fence, thus escaping the monster. Not content with this, she immediately procured a gun and brought His Taurine Majesty to the ground at the fi~st shot.

It is stated that aT ie drawn from Leavenworth, on the Ooio, to Mitche:and thence following iheI:oeof tbe New A?bany & Chicago Railroad to the no -the -n pari of Montgomery county, and then turning west to Danv 'e, 111., will take in all tne coal lands in the Sta.e.

Miss Hetty Moore, of Marshall county, has been cowiiiding an insolent fellow named Snow for reporting malicious stories about her younger sister. Having no father or brother to defend the good name of the young lady, Miss Hetty took the matter in her own hands, and made the miscreant howl.

Mrs. Jabez Eilison, DeKalb county, thrashed Mr. Jabez Ellison last Monday night, so severely that medicai aid was re quired to preserve his valuable life. Jabez brought this chastisement upon himself by spitting on some fritters that his amiable spouse was preparing for his supper.

On last Tuesday night,1 about eleven o'clock, John Appel, ot Madison, was at tacked on the corner ofH'gh and JVTJt streets, and terribly beaten by some person or persons unknown. Ho was found insensible by some persons pass'-.igby, and carried home. Satu day mo ii'.?gho was still unconscious and insensible.

Forty-tour hogsheads of strips and C59 bundles of carriage spokes, each bundle containing thirty, were shipped East, Friday, by the Jeflersoaville Rai'road, and its connections, from New Albany. The carriage spokes are from Telt City, and consigned to a carriage factory at Rochester, New York.

There i3 a woman in the Evansville lockup, under sentence for d'linkeness, who converses equally well in Frenca, English, and Italian is said to have an elaborate education, yet she is now so degraded that she spends most of her time in confinement for drunkenness. So says the Journal of that city.

A ditch, three-quar 'e-s of a mi/e long, has been dug beside the track of tje Ohio and Mississippi Railroad from the o'd mineral spring near Jeffersonville, to tbe depot near the Ohio river. In this ditch pipes are to be laid to convey the chalybeate water to the depot for the use of locomotives and passenger cars. Tbis water, in hygienic qualities, is fu .Iy equal to that of Saratoga.

B. F. McCabe, of Columbus, a young gentleman of v, ealth, went to New York on businees, some tlireo weeks since. Letters were received from him by his friends announcing that he would start back on July 2Sth, since which time nothing has been heard of iiim. A dispatch from the hotel where he stopped states that he loft there on the 28th for home. As ho had a largo sum of money with him, it is feared that he has been foully dealt with.

Mr. Frank Knox, a druggist at Morgantown, committed suicide at his residence at Morgantown, last Friday night. For a number o" years past M'\ Knox has been suffe-ing from consump'ion, the disease tiually incapacitating him from business pursuits. On several occasions lately ho expressed a determination to rid himself by suicide of a lite which ho considered burthensomo to himself and family, a determination he put into execution Friday night, by taking three ounces of laudanum, from the effects of which ho died Saturday morning.

From the San Francisco Bulletin.

A Chinaman on the China Question. At a meeting of a society called the Liberal Club, in New York, onthel3thinst., the subject of coolie labor and Chinese immigration was discusseedpro and con Finally, after a strong anti-Chinese speech had been delivered, Ah King, a Chiuese doctor setttled in New York, rose and said: "I have left China eight year ago, but now I here. I lived in China—it is no such thing. They don't eat rat or mice They do eat dog, but I see Englishman eat dog, too. I have been all over the world—in Constantinople, Home, Paris, Peru, Panama except California I never been. I just go to see the nation. I see any nation ladie3—China, Turkey, French, Spain, American, every nation ladies—but I have not see Chinawomen not so bad as I see American and English ladies."

This curious speech was received with roars of laughter.

AMONG our European maii news will be found a statement, from a French source charging Prussia with reviving the use of that most barbarous of all known missiles—the explosive ball. It may be remembered that, at the Convention held last at St. Petersburg, for the purpose of taking measures to alleviate the horrors of war, the Governments ot both France and Prussia gave their adhesion to a reaction whereby the use of explosive balls was expressly disallowed in warfare. But it appears that the Grand Duchy of Baden refused to sign this article of the Convention, and its soldiers being now in the field with Prussia, and in possession of the missiles in question, France has been compelled to resort, in her turn, to their manufacture, and the ghastly catalogue of slaughter is, therefore, in a fair way to be largely increased. This statement is lso repeated by the correspondent of the Independence Beige, and Prussia certainly owes it to the civilized world to see that an invention so purely diabolical as the explosive ball should not, by any fault of hers, be brought to swell the horrors of war.,

FOSTER BROTHERS.

W I S I

That through this dull season of the year, when other Dry Goods' Stores are empty, and their Clerks down stairs asleep,

W I S I

WE ASK, THAT

IT IS BECAUSE WE ARE FULFILLING OUR PROMISE TO SELL

Goods as Low in Terre Haute as in N. T. City

It is because the people have found out for themselves that our priccs on many Goods are only about half those charged in other stores.

It is because our advertisements are not overdrawn, and so may.be cut out and brought to our store, and the exact article be obtained, at the price mentioned. People coming from a distance do so without any fear of not getting the goods advertised.

It is because one and all of the 75,000 customers who have already traded with us bear willing testimony to the reliability of our house and the quality of our Goods. We aim to make our store the most reliable place of business in the West. We want our customers to feel that achild can buy Goods of us just as safely as an experienced buyer.

THESE PRICES TELL THE STORY.

Good Quality Reel Flannel, 20c. Extra Heavy Factory Jeans, 50c—others charge 65c. A very good Unbleached Muslin, 6 and 7c a yard. Good yard wide Muslin, 9c a yard. The very heaviest and best Unbleached Muslin, 12 l-2c a yard—others charge 16 and 18c. Look at it. It hangs at the door. Coats' best Six Cord and Spool Cotton, 5c a spool. Extra fine and heavy Waterproof Cloth, 90c per yard. Heavy "A" Grain Bags, FULL SIZE, only 29c. Big lot of Sprague and other Prints at 8 cts a yard. OUR Prints have the tickets on them so that yoM can see whether they are the Best Goods or not. Beautiful Dress Goods at 12 l-2c, 15c, 18c, 20c, 25c, 30c, 40c, 50c. Lotof Best Delaines 11c, Double-width Alpacas 22c. Elegant Percales 14c, sold until recently for 25c.

NO ADVANCE IN OUR PRICES

BECAUSE OF THE RISE IN GOLD!

CARPETS of all kinds away down. Thirty cts. up.

Elegant lines of Black and Colored Silks. Poplins, Grenadines, Dag mar Cloths, Shawls, Lace Points, Hosiery and Underwear, Cloths, Jeans and Casslmeres, white Marseilles, Hickory, Denims and Checks, Table Linens and Napkins Parasols and Sun Umbrellas, Ac., &c., all new and bought with CASH since the great decline.

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FOSTER BROTH ERS'

GREAT NEW YORK CITY STORE

IS AS CROWDED AS EVER?

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That in spite of all the misrepresentations of Highpriced Merchants, and their combined attempts to prejudice the public against us, why is it that people still come through all the dust and heat, for more than fifty miles around, to trade at our store? It is

BECAUSE

WE HAVE WRITTEN UPON OUR BANNERS,

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CHEAP GOODS AST® XO DULL TRADE!

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