Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 1, Number 74, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 August 1870 — Page 1
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1870.
Republican Ticket.
SECRETABY OF STATE, MAX F.
A.
HOFFMAN.
AUDITOR OF STATE, JOHN D. EVANS. TKEASUBER OF STATE,
ROBERT H. MILROY.: J0DGES OF SUPREME COURT, JEIitr T. B. ELLIOTT,
It. C. GREGORY, CHARLES A. RAY, ANDREW L. OSBORNE.
ATTORNEY GENERAL, NELSON TRUSSLER.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, BARNABAS C. HOBBS.
.FOR CONGRESS, SIXTH DIST.: MOSES F. DUNN.
COUNTY TICKET. AUDITOR, WILLIAM PADDOCK.
SHERIFF,
GORDON LEE. TREASURER,
MORTON O. RANKIN. RECORDER, THEODORE MARXEN.
SURVEYOR,
ALEXANDER COOPER. 'COMMISSIONERS, FIRST DIST.- WM. T. PETTINGER. SECOND -JOS. FELLENZER.
THIRD —PHILIP RANDOLPH. JUDGE CRIMINAL COURT, JOHN G. CRAIN. PROSECUTING ATT'Y CRIMINAL COURT.
F. M. MEREDITH. REPRESENTATIVES, B. WILSON SMITH,
II. H. BOfTDINOT.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Liszt goo3 into retirement in Hungary tliis fall. Maj. Gen. TIazen is to visit Europe, and take observations of the war.
A 5,000 ton haystack is announced as an agricultural wonder in Illinois. The product of pins in Connecticut is estimated to be 19,719,000,000 annually.
New England complains greatly of a recent and unusual invasion of mosquitoes. American female authors are more shy of giving their ages than their transatlantic cousins.
The fifteenth of August was not a fete day for Napoleon, this year, as usual, but a fate day.
The steamer St. Andrew, from Quebec, arrived yesterday at Glasgow. F. C. Clark, a Tennessee planter, was killed by the kick of a horse on Saturday.
Tho withdrawal of British troops from Canada will necessitate an augmentation of the war appropriations of the Dominion to about $3,000,000 a year.
President Grant will review tho Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston at their camp in Boston on the 9th of September.
Some one lias made tho estiinato that there are twolve deaths from coal oil explosions each day, in the United States.
Mile. Olympe Audouard, the brilliant advocate of "woman's rights," has volunteered for the purposo of nursing the sick and wounded soldiers of the army of the Rhine.
The greatest length of New Fngland is about 550 miles, and its greatest breadth 300 miles. Its narrowest part is between Boston and West Stockbridge, 135 miles.
English sportsmen, instead of shooting in Scotland, where the privilege is dear, aro now going to Tunis and Tripoli, where gamo is plenty and shooting free.
A stranger lately went to tho villago of Storm Lake, Iowa, to inspect his purchase of a section of land, and found that it was located in the center of the Lake. He had paid §4,50 an acre.
There is a strange story afloat that Br. Livingston has been compelled to marry a native princess in the interior of South Africa, and is either ashamed to return home, or is not allowed by his fatlier-in-huv to leave.
Tho New Orleans police aro distributing poisoned meat among the dogs of that city. A special order prohibits them from "administering a sausage" to any dog who has paid the tax.
From statistics recently published it appears that, reducing curroncy to gold, the average rate of wages paid in the United States in 1869 was 24.36 per cent, greater than in Groat Britain.
The stockholders of tho Memphis fe Charlestown railroad have voted in favor of the issue of §3,000,000 of third mortgage bonds to liquidate the indebtedness of the road.
A certificate of authority was yesterday issued from the office of the Comptroller of the Currency to a National Bank of Maysvffie, Kentucky, to commence business on a capital of §300,000.
Larg46 sums were subscribed at Ottawa for tho relief of the sufferers in the late tires, and the goverment will probably grant assistance. A large number of people aro living under tents loaned by tho government.
Sixty of the heirs of Sir Francis Drake met in New York city yesterday, to take measures for the recovery of an estate of §125,000,000 in Engiand. The principal business was to provide for the payment of oxpenses already incurred.
Tho State Colored Convention yesterday, at Saratoga, elected Rev. Win. F. Bently, of New York, President, and requested all persons present, without distinction of race or color, to take part in the proceedings. Several committees were appointed, and an address delivered by Rev. H. II. Garnett.
Pennsylvania is vigorously enforcing tho law passed by its last Legislature prohibiting persons who have not graduated in tho degree of M. D., or who have fiiiled to take out a county license, from practicing medicine.
Hon. J. L. Miller, President of the LaFayette, Rockville & Terre Haute Railroad, has just returned from a tour along the line of the above named road. He informs us that the road is completed to Sugar Grove, ten miles this side of Rockville. The people along the line are enthusiastic at the prospect of a speedy completion of the road, and as an earnest of their deep interest in its construction, tender I _.L 41..'
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ance cannot be easily over estimated. The splendid market it will open for coal makes its construction a commercial necessity. Mr. Millo* ic pushing the work with much energy.—Lafayette Courier
WE learn from Dr. Thomas Bowman, President of Asbury University, that the building committee of that institution will hoW a meeting at Greencastle tomorrow, when the plans for the building wiJZ be submitted by Mr. Vrydagh, of TTene Haute, the architect. The work w*l he commenced at once, and the .building when completed will be an honor to the State and to the Board, which has encountered such great difficulties.—Indianapolis Journal.
PL&RTZF
Saving's Bank.
Up to the present time there are 6G1 persons holding deposits in the Savings Bank of this city. There have been deposited $37,981, and the daily deposits run from $3,072 down as low as twentyfive cents.
This money is all loaned on unquestionable security, at 10 per cent, per annum The business of the bank is increasing as fast as its most sanguine friends could expect, and everything is now so sys temized that the entire business is done in the most economical and exact man ner.
The time is not far in the distance when the Savings Bank of Terre Haute will be one of the most reliable and popular monied institutions of the city It is emphatically the people's bank, and is managed in their interest,
COMING across our old friend Solomon he of African descent—wo mildly observed to him "Well, Solomon, where are you living now?" "I am working for Judge he replied, and, con tinuing, said: "The Judge said tome the other day, 'Solomon, they may say what they please to you colored men, but your real friends are the Democrats. We are the men who give you work, and pay the money.'"
Well, said we, what did
37ousay
to that
Soloman? "Oil! I said that it was all right, they did give me work, and I got their money but thatdid not amount to anything. I asked the Judge—wha is your platform, Judge? I don't care anything about your money, but ivha your platform."
It struck us that our African friend understood the situation exactly—"Wha" is the Democratic platforms in relation to the men of color? That is the question.
BANKRUPT LAW.—For the benefit of those interested, we'publisli the following amendment to the Bankrupt Law, which was approved, July 14th 1870, and by which a discharge may be obtained from debts which were created prior to January 1st, 18G9: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the provisions of the 2d clause of the 3d section of said act, as amended by the first section of an act in amendment thereof, approved July 27, 1868, shall not apply to those debts from which the bankrupt seeks a discharge which were contracted prior to the first of January, 1869. "SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, that the clause in the 39th section of said act, which now reads, "OrAvho being a banker, merchant or trader, has fraudulently stopped or surrendered and not resumed payment of his commercial paper within a period of fourteen days," shall be amended so as to read as follows "Or who being a banker, broker, merchant, trader, manufacturer or miner, has fraudulently stopped payment, or who has stopped or suspended and not resumed payment of his commercial paper within a period of fourteen days."
GOOD.—Our correspondent from Sulli" van county attended a school meeting one day last week, and sends us the following as a specimen of the bare-footed Democracy of that God forgotten region. The following resolution was offered "Mr. Cheerman, I rise for to—that is to make a motion, which is as follows: Resolved that there are no need to build such costove school liousen as some of this ere board is proposin to 'rect. No, Mr. Cheerman, I'm 'posed to spendin money for more liousen. The old ones are pretty good yit, and for to go for to build a pretty slick house which will cost ten thousand dollars, or more yit, its no 'conomy to throw away money we don't need. Taxes cost money, and money has to go to pay taxes, and let us expense with any more school housen."
His township gives Voorhees a large majority.
SULLIVAN DEMOCRACY.—The Sullivan democracy can't be beaten. It is no use to try. The following we clip from the Sullivan Union. We fear that the Nnrval School is gone up: "McCormick, a candidate for Representative, said he 'would sell the Norval School at Terre Haute, at any cost, and divide the fund between the counties of the State. That he would repeal all laws and commence anew.
Amendments to tlie Bankrupt Law. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: lam in the receipt of a great many letters from attorneys and others desiring to know if a bankrupt, as the law now stands, can file his petition and obtain a discharge unless his assets are sufficient to pay fifty cents on the dollar of his debts
In answer to these inquiries I wish to say that on the 14th day of July last, the 33d section of the Bankrupt Act was so amended, that the second clause of that section does not apply to those debts contracted prior to January 1, 1869. As the law now stands a party may obtain a discharge in bankruptcy from any debts contracted prior to January 1, 1869, whether his estimate pays fifty cents on the dollar or not. Truly yours,
INDIANAPOLIS,
EDWJN A. DAVIS.
Aug. 22, 1S70.
Additional Local News.
THERE are throe radical members of the Council and they all voted for the Sunday law resolutions!—Journal.
And five Democratic member^ of the Council voted the same way. The vote was unanimous, all members of the Council, present voting for the adoption of the resolutions. Stick a pin there.
WE have heard frequent complaints of persons driving fast in the streets. The lives of children ar«s frequently endangered by reckless persons driving at such a rapid rate. The police officers should keep a look out for such chaps, and cause their punishment. Let all unusually fast drivers pay dearly for their fun.
THE City Clerk has completed the tax duplicate for the City Treasurer, except the footing of the taxes, which will be done in a few days, after which it will be handed over to the Treasurer. The payment of taxes will not commence until after the first of November.
THREE wagons loaded with movers, each containing the heads of families and about a dozen children passed through the city to-day going west. It was like removals in olden times.
PLANTATION MinetrelsFriday and Saturday evenings.
This Morning's News.
Marshal McMahon's Whereabouts Decidedly Uncertain.
French Report of the Prussian Killed and Wounded.
Bazaine and McMahon to Assume the Defensive.
[Special Dispatches to the Terre Haute Gazette.]
PARIS, August 24.—A dispatch from Mezziers 'dated yesterday morning contains the following:
The resistance of Marshal Bazaine with a small force under his command prevent ed the advance of the Prussians until the organization and preparations of McMahon's large army was entirely completed. McMahon and Bazaine are now ready to assume an offensive movement. They will attack the Prussians together. Lebut says the army of the Prince Royal which reached St. Dizzen some days ago, has not passed that place, but on the contrary has fallen back. The same Journal adds it knows from reliable source that the loss of the three Prussian armies thus far are as follows: Killed, 35,000 wounded, 85,000.
LONDON, August 24.—The following dispatches, which have just been received from Paris, contain the latest intelligence from the seat of war:
Metz is entirely isolated and the Prus sians are in a strong force west in the immediate vicinity of that place.
General Folley, who is in command at Chalons, is still thrown out by the new disposition, and will be superseded.
Marshal McMahon is strongly posted on the plain in front of Chalons, with heavy detachments at Verdon and Rheims.
McMahon has 175,000 men, well supplied and drilled. The tone of the army is excellent, and all are confident of ultimate success. Sharpshooters are hastening to Chalons.
Reports from French sources say that McMahon left Rheims for Montmedy, via Mezzen, with two divisions to join a portion of Bazaine's troops that escaped from Metz, and, with them, effecting the escape of the remainder of Bazaine's command.
BERLIN, August 24.—The leading citizens of Berlin held an audience to-day with the Qneen and congratulated her on the recent victories achieved by the Prussian armies. The Queen earnestly expressed herself as desiring peace.
A private letter has been received which states that the army unanimously demand a substantial guarantee for the future peace of the country, before the war be brought to a close.
PARIS, August 24.—The morning journals here publish dispatches announcing that the Prussians fired upon and killed some Belgians, soldiers on the frontier.
The Presse says the Ambassadors from Russia, Italy and Austria, in reply to their offers to negotiate for peace, have beed officially informed that peace is impossible so long as a single Prussian treads French soil.
A TALE OF HORROR.
Trial of a Girl of Fourteen, Charged with Cutting an Infant's Throat. A dispatch from Reading, Penn., says: At the session of Oyer and Terminer, held to-day in this city, Catharine Hummel was placed on trial for the murder of Reuben Francis Ludy. The defendant is a young girl fourteen years of age the victim of her crime was a child aged one year eleven months and six dajrs.
The history of the murder is as follows: On the 20th day of June last, in the township of Douglas, Berks county, the parents of the child proceeded to afield about a half a mile distant from the house for the purpose of curing hay. On leaving the house the parents intrusted the care of their three children to a young girl named Catharine Hummel. The eldest of the children was three years the next—the murdered child— "one year, eleven months and six days, and "the third and youngest five months old.
The parents had frequently left their children iii charge of Catharine, and on no occasion had they cause to fiud fault with her treatment of them in fact the children formed a strong attachment for their youthful guardian, and whenever occasion offered would seek her society.
About two o'clock P. M. on the above day, Catharine came to the meadow in which the parents were working, leading by the hand the youngest and eldest children she stated to the mother that the youngest child had become very troublesome and asked her to quiet it on being questioned by the mother, she further stated that she had left the^secondborn lying asleep in an out-house, near the main building.
At this statement the mother told her to go back immediately and carry the child into the house. Catharine obeyed, and in a very short time returned bearing the frightful news that the child lay on the floor, dead, with its throat cut. The parents rushed frantically to the house, and there found that the statement was but too true on the floor before them lay the child inanimate, with a deadly gash across its throat, extending from ear to ear the instrument, a heavy butcher knife, which effected the homicide, lay near the body, and around the head and shoulders of the corpse were collected clots and pools of hlood.
From the circumstances surrounding the tragedy, the parents drew the conclusion that Catharine Hummel had killed their child. Impressed with this conviction, the frenzied father beat the accused, after which she rushed to the neighboring woods and there hid herself. The next morning she was arrested while she was leisurely walking along the Boynton road towards Reading.
As she sits to-day calmly watching the twelve men who hold her earthly destiny on their tongues, she looks the picture of one of that class of pious children whom we weekly meet in our Sunday schools.
Instead of possessing the visage of the felon, she presents the features of the Christian, God-fearing child. Her trial will consume several days.
THE first glass in the glass factory was made at Indianapolis yesterday. In a short time we shall expect to announce the important fact that glass in large quantities is manufactured in this city.
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE has written that he will be at Gettysburg Springs the last of this or the first of next week.|
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TERRE HAUTE, IND., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 25, 1870.
More Particulars of the Battle of Thurs day. The following further particulars are telegraphed by the special correspondent of the Tribune, reporting the battle of the 18tli.
A reonnoisance, made the day previous, showed that the French army was retreating on Verdun. The column was cut in two by the advance of the German army, and the la««t part driven back between Gravelotte and Metz. It was resolved to attack them there as the retreat of the French to Verdun was cut off. The Germans were posted in both directions from Gravelotte, commanding the road from Briey to Metz. The Seventh Prussian corps formed the right of the line. Next came the Eighth, on the road to Gravelotte, then the Ninth and Twelfth. The Guards were on the ex treme left. The Third, First and Tenth corps were held in reserve. Fire was kept up along the whole line after eleven o'clock. The Prussian artillery seemed overpowering, and the French batteries were gradually driven back on a second line.
I pushed over to the left of the French line, thinking that their position was abandoned, but was surprised to find the enemy still there and myself a prisoner. Of what happened afterwards I can give but little account. The cannonading was renewed on both sides, lasting till nearly 10 o'clock, when the French appeared to be retiring, and the Prussian guns alone maintained their fire. I was treated kindly by iny captors, who went off through the woods and lost their way in the darkness. While they slept I ecpaped and reached St. Marne, which was in possession of the Germans. In this village many of the houses were battered down.
Evvery available spot is crowded with wounded men, and even the streets are covered with straw, and the French and German wounded are lying there together in masses for the night. Beyond Resonville thecountry is stripped bare. No conveyance nor food is to be had. Metz is completely surrounded by the Prussians, the fourth army corps having moved round from the east to the north. A Saxon corps of pioneers have been sent to the front. Four Prussian corps will be left about Metz to carry on the siege. The remainder of the army is to march towards Verdun.
The King's headquarters will be moved in a day ©r two to the southwest. THIRTY MILES OF GROUND COVERED
WITH DEAD AND "WOUNDED.
A correspondent describes the scene of battle of the 16th as one seldom equaled. Thirty miles of ground were covered with dead and wounded of both sides. The canonade from the German side and the rattle of needle guns were terrific. The defeat of the French was total, their long columns could be seen pouring toward the North in effort to evade pursuit by way of Briey.
The loss on both sides was immense. Many French prisoners were taken. The King himself was personally attentive to the Frencn wounded.
A French peasant, taken while killing the wounded, was hanged at Gerse. BUTCHERrNG OF SADOWA OUTDONE.
The battle of the 14th is described as bloodier than that of Sadowa. In the morning a party of Germans pushed forward upon the position of the French, who retired as they advanced. The French subsequently recovered the ground, received strong reinforcements and entrenched themselves behind the earthworks extending around the city at the distance of two or three miles in a circle, including the villages of Barney, Montey, Nosseville, Nouilly and Coloberg. On the side of the Germans, there were encamped in the immediate neighborhood, the Seventh and Fourteenth corps, which, with the Eighth, which was further to the rear along the highway from Lt. Avoid to Metz, formed the first army under General Von Steinmetz, which is the extreme right of the German combined armies.
The number of German troops actually in the battle was 45,000. The French had a great deal of artillery and cavalry. The Germans had but little eavalry or artillery, and carried all the breastworks, amid a terrible fire of the French, who were always compelled to retire before them, but the murderous fire of the Chassepot told severely upon the Germans, who lost many more in the engagement than the French.
It was the superior courage of the Germans, which compelled the enemy to retire. They did this slowly, contending inch by inch, until they were driven almost against the walls of Metz. Every account agreed that the battle was more sanguinary than any during the campaign of 1866. No unwounded prisoners were taken on either side.
From the British Whig (Canada),
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July 30.
England Preparing to Fight. For some weeks past the military authorities at point Frederick, Kingston, St. Helen's Island, Montreal, and the garrison of Quebeck and Toronto, have been busy preparing inventories of all the munitions of war which they contained. The serviceable portions, after being passed by a board of survey, have been, or are still being reshipped to England. The remainder, however, except the ordnance shot and shell, amounting to nearly 7,000 cwts, is to be sold by order of the Control Department for old metal. The removal of stores cannot be completed before October. The control officers had instructions to fulfill it next month. Within the last month or six weeks shipments to Quebeck and England have been extraordinary large. Over 500 tons of gunpowder have been carted
the magazine at Fort Henry to her Majesty's dock-yard and put on board vessells, in sufficient quantities at a time to have caused fearful destruction had any of the usual precautions been relaxed, and the powder by any accident exploded. It is stated that mounted and spare guns, together with adequate supplies of ammunition, will remain here, to be turned over shortly with the barracks and fortifications to the Government of Canada. The object of Sir George E. Carter's recent visit was officially, as Minister of Militia, to inspect this property before it was turned over.
It is stipulated by the imperial authorities, as a condition for turning over the fort and its supplies, that a garrison of twenty men shall be at Kingston. This shall have to be drawn from the militia of Canada, and we already see a partial provision made for its establishment in the organization there of two companies in connection with the Red River battalions.
The Gazette takes the earliest opportunity to protest against any attempt to establish a standing army for Canada at the cost of the dominion.
MR. VOORHEES is denying that the public debt was reduced during the last fiscal year. He must consider his case very desperate, or he would not resort to such easily disproved misstatements to further his interests. His hope is that he may get through the canvass before all his inaccuracies—(it is very bard to always use polite phrases—can be corrected.—Lafayette Journal.
BICHARD HALDEMAN has been renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania District.
LATEST NEWS.
AFTERXOOJT DISPATCHES
By the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph.
Expressly for the Daily Evening Gazette.
Prussia will Strictly Observe the Neutrality of Neighboring Powers.
McMahon's Encampment at Chalons Destroyed.
He Retreats with his Rheims.
Nominaiions for Congress in Ohio.
FOREIGN.
GREAT BRITAIN.
LONDON, August 25.—Paris dispatches state that the French set fire to and destroyed and abandoned the encampment of Marshal McMahon at Chalons.
A Paris correspondent of tho Times asserts that Marshal McMahon has gone to Rheims, being unable to encounter the army of the Crown Prince of Prussia.
PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, August 25.—It is announced that in consequence of the prospective complications that would ensue from an invasion of the neutrality of the Belgium Luxemborg railroad, the Prussian government has abandoned the idea of transporting their wounded by the Belgium and Luxemborg railroad route to Germany.
The neutrality of neutral Powers adjoining Prussia will be stringently observed.
The following official bulletins from the Prussian army headquarters have been received at the war office in this city
The Crown Prince of Prussia is near Chalons. The enemy has evacuated his camp at Chalons. The head of the Prussian columns has advanced beyond the camp, which was destroyed by the French.
The army is now continuing its onward march.
EYANSYILLE.
EVANSVILLE, August 25.—Geo. Rice, a negro boy, arrested for committing a rape on Miss Carson, has admitted that he assaulted her, but denies that he ravished her. •. «, ^Ile says that lie struck her on the back of the head with an axe, breaking her skull. The girl died from her injuries in great agony yesterday. The citizens are greatly excited, but no violence has yet been attempted.
OCEOLA, IOWA.
OSCEOLA IOWA, Aug. 25k—Col. Langdon, living near this place, was found murdered yesterday, in afield near his house. Owing to some family feud, his son-in-law, Samuel Rogers, was suspected of having committed the crime.
The son of Col. Langdon started immediately with Dr. Baker for his father's house to find him him a corpse. Finding his father dead, he went to his broth-er-in-law Samuel Roberts, and calling him out, shot him, saying to him, "you have killed my father, and now I will kill you."
Young Langdon came here and surrendered himself to the authorities and was held in $5000 bonds to await the result of Roberts' wounds. •.
V™ LEXINGTON.
LEXINGTON, KY., August 25.—The Republican Congressional Convention for the Seventh District met at Nicholasville yesterday, and nominated Mr. Brown, of Jessamine county, for Congress. Resolutions endorsing Grant's administration, and denouncing the Democratic Legislature for tho defeat of the Great Southern Railway, were adopted.
COLUMBUS. ,.?F
COLUMBUS, O., August 25.—The Directors of the Lake firie and Ohio River Railroad held a meeting at New Lexington last Monday, when encouraging reports from all aloug the proposed route were received. Nearly $150,000 have been subscribed and the Directors have resolved to commence the grading at several points between Toledo and Pomeroy immediately. \ni a
CINCINNATI. I
CINCINNATI, August 25.—In the course of a row between Patrick O'Brien, and John Cohill, last evening, the latter was stabbed six times by the former.^Cohill will probably die.
A O N
DAYTON, O., August 25.—A twelve year old boy was instantly killed by a fall from the third story of a house on Alice street last evening.
CIRCLEYILLE.
CIRCLEVTLLE, O., August 25.—Gen. Chas. J. Brown was nominated by the Republican Convention for the 12th district yesterday.
CAMBRID 3E,
CAMBRIDGE, O., August 25.—The Democratic Congressional Convention of the 16th District met here yesterday, and nominated R. E. Chamberst of Belmont county for Congress.
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The Army of the Crown Prince still on Hs Onward March.
A Negro Boy Kills a Young Lady at Evansrille.
A Son Revenges the Murder of his Father.
JANESYILLE.
JANESVILLE, WIS., August 25.—As some men were digging a foundation for a barn on the grounds of Mr. Stanley, in the town of Janesville, they unearth ed a human skeleton of an enormous size. v.i 4~ c-i
It was found in a sitting posture and is in a fair state of preservation. The skull measured 32J inches in circumferance, and the thigh bones 44t inches in length
Dr. Lowndrew examined the remains shortly after they were exhumed, and gave it as his opinion that, when living, the man must have been not less than 13 feet high.
PORTSMOUTH.
PORTSMOUTH, O., August 25.—The Democratic Convention for the Eleventh District yesterday nominated the Hon. Ralph Lute for Congress.
MANSFIELD.
MANSFIELD, O., August 25.—The Republican Convention nominated Hon. James Monroe of Lorraine county for Congress from the 14th district.
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GOOKINS, THE ARTIST. The New York Evening Post has the following with reference to our former townsman, Mr. J. F. Gookins:
F. Gookins, a young and brilliant painter of Chicago, accompanied by his wife, sails for Europe by the steamer City of Brussels, to-day. Mr. Gookins is the author of several very successful figurative subjects, among them "Love's Discovery," and "The Fairy Marauders," have been commended by the artists as works of merit. Mr. Gookins intends to be absent about one year."
A PENNSYLVANIA minister was recently given a donation party, at which the gifts were six rolling-pins, a pen-wiper and two quarts of dried apples, vintage of 1864. His flock all have good appetites, and they discouraged his next winter's stock of provisions severely.
AT Dayton, Ohio, on Monday, a young desperado named George Pendleton made an assault upon a cigar dealer named Christian Beckel with a bowie-knife, because the latter refused to give him credit for cigars.
IN the Vienna Central Stenographic Society, lately, at a trial of speed, thirty competitors were entered for 90 words in a minute, sixteen for 114 words in a minute, and only one tried to write 130 words in a minute.
THE hotels at Atlanta are crowded with delegates to the Georgia Democratic State Convention which meets to-day.
WILLIAM RULON, of Monmouth, Illinois, fell down an embankment on last Sunday night, and striking his head upon a heavy beam was so badly injured that he died in a few hours.
REAR ADMIRAL LEE, yesterday morning, relieved Rear Admiral Poor, in command of the North Atlantic fleet.
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1I AGER & McHEM,
Insurance Agents,
OFFICE, DOWLING'S HALL.
THE
verv beer and most reliable Insurance Companies represented by this Arm.
J&TNA OK HARTFORD, *5,549,5M HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE 2,544,210 FRANKLIN OF PHILADELPHIA 2,825,731 SPRINGFIELD, 939,609 MERCHANTS OF HARTFORD, IF' 559, NORTH AMERICAN, ,, 802,572
Policies written in the alovc named Companies as cheap as in any flrst-class Companies represented in the city. 4d6
IEABLY $14,000,000.
IF YOU WANT
LIFE INSURANCE
Why not Get the est
IT
does not cost any more, and you know you are in a sound Company.
THE
ET
A LIFE INSURANCE CO.,
ASSETS $13,000,000,
Is represented by L. Office Dowling's Hall.
HOUKS OF CONSULTATION—From 9 A. M. to P.M. 2ldwfly
DR. IT. J. TREAT, OFFICE, iOHIOiSTREET,
"BETWEEN THIRD &
S'Xl si
A vJti"
GENERAL
G. HAGER. A gen Id6m
SEAL ESTATE.
15. HOLMES,
Notary Public, Real Estate Agent, AND CONVEYANCER,
OFFICE, Second Floor, No. 115 Main St.
Idy Terre Haute, lnd
PROFESSIONAL.
Trial is Better than Report!
DB. HARLA1TD, 1SS SOUTH FIRST STREE1,
Bet. Farrington and Vine,
I
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 Tuio Cito et Jucundc." References in this city will prove it,
FOURTH.
RESIDEN CE—137 North 4th Street. Idly
SANT C. DAVIS. SYD. B. DAVIS
DAYIS & D-A/VTS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OFFICE, NO.
SO
Id Cm
MAIN STREET,
Between 3rd «fc 4tli Streets,
Terre Haute, lnd
MEDICAL.
SUMMER COMPI.AMTT
AND
S
1
i-
CHRONIC DIARRHOEA.
Brunker's Carminative Balsam
NEVER
FAILS to cure Summer Complaint in children or Chronic Diarrhcea in adults. It is indispensable for infants. Physicians acknowledge it to be tlie best Carminative ever brought before the public. Sold, wholesale and retail, by
II. A. DAVIS & CO., MAI STREET, Id50wl6
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Agents, Terre Haute,
GROCERIES.
BEMAMBT F. WEST,
DEALER IN
Groceries, Qiieensware, Provisions,
COUNTRY PRODUCE, NO. 75 MAIN STREET, BET. 8th & 0th, Terre Haute, lnd '/y: Kir The Iligliefet' Cash price paid for Country Produce. 4dly
ORDINANCES.
A3* ORDINANCE
In Relation Public Safety, Comfort ami Convenience. SEC.
1
.Beit ordained by the Common Council of the City of Terre Haute, That any person or persons who shall throw, or cause to be thrown, or deposit upon their premises, or upon any of the
squares,
Rwldv taking effect of this ordinance, allthe Mitfis hindering the same are hareby suspended Sd the same shall be in force firom and after
SSlUp. «.«
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streets or alleys of said city, or within
two miles of the corporate limits thereof, any vegetables, meat, filth, straw, melon rinds, or the carcases of any dead animals, or any other substance whereby any such premises, squares, streets or alleys shall be rendered filthy, or whereby, if outside of said limits, but within Vl two miles thereof, the safety, health or comfort $ of the citizens of said limits of said city, or of anv part thereof, shall, or may, in anywise be ,, imtaired, shall on conviction of each offence, before the Mayor, be lined in any sum not less than live or more than twenty-five dollars. *?EC 2 Be it further ordained that it shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner, whenever the premises of any person, or any of the souares, streets or alleys, bordering upon the ./ premises of any person in said city become nr. filthy, or In the opinion of the Street Commissioner the same shall need cleaning, that he shall notify the owner, if he he a resident of said citv, and if he be a non-resident of said city he shall notify the agent or occopant to clean the premises, or squares, or alleys, borderingu pin the premises of such owner, agent or occupant, and that if such owner, agent or occupant shall fall to clean said premises, squares, streets or aileys, within forty-eight hours after having been notified so to do by the Street Commissioner, ... then it shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner to forthwith clean *r cause to be cleaned, said premises, squares, streets or alleys, as aforesaid, and the owner, if he be a resident of said city, or if the owner be a non-resident of said city, then the agents or occupants shall be liable to said city for the costs of cleaning such premia^squares, streets, or alleys to be recovered in a civil action before any court of competent ju_ "^SEC^That all ordinances coming in cpntacf with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby "slc^Vhereas an emergency exists for the
pUb0°"!£coOKERLY,
Attest:
Mdyor.
DANIKII L. VIOKEBY,
Clerk.v «4