Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 2, Number 76, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 August 1871 — Page 2

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YOL. 2.

CITY POST OFFICE.

CLOSE. DAILY MAILS. OPKW. s-n a East Through..." and 11:30a. s*lo

5-30a. m.....

4:30 p.M

Way 4:30 p.

5:30 a'. m...Clucinnati & Washington.. 4:30 p. 3:10 p. 7oV?a'm 3:10 p. ra Chicago.... 4:30 p.

St. Liouis and West.

10:30 a. ra..Vla Alton Railroad 4:30 p. 5:00 a. m... Via Vandalla Railroad 4:40 p. 3-30 p. ....Evansville and way 4: 0 p. 5:00 a. Through 7:00 a. ra 4-00 D. Rockville and way 11:00 a. 3!,30 p. in E. T. H. & C. Railroad 11:00 a.

SEMI-WEEKLY MAILS.

Graysville via Prairleton, Prairie Creek and Tharman's CreekCloses Mondays and Thursdaysat. 9 p. Opens Mondays and Thursdays at 6 p. Nelson—Closes Tuesdays & Saturdays at 11 a. in

Opens Tuesdays & Saturdays at 10 a. in WEEKLY MAILS.

Jasonvlllevia Riley. Cookerly, Lewis, Coffee and Hewesville—Closes Fridays at 9 p. m.

Opens Fridays at 4 p. in.

Ashboro via Christy's Prairie— doses Saturdays at I P. Opens Saturdays at 12

Money Order office and Delivery windows onen fromTa. m. to 7:30 p. m. Lock boxes and

TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1871.

Additional local News.

Oil Well.

Since the new rods have been received, the oil well ba9 been producing at the rate of one hundred barrels per day. This is a big thing for ^erre Haute.

THANKS.—Tom Walmsley favored us with late

copies

of Mobile papers, to-day,

for which be will accept our thanks. His father-in-law and brother-in-law, the Messrs. Locke, paper dealers, of Mobile, are now in the city.

THE Terre Haute House is doing a very heavy business, so heavy that ten waiters in the dining-room are totally inadequate to the performance of the duties devolving upon them, and Jimmy Kennedy is advertising for more, all of which gQesto prove the ever-increasing popularity of the house under its new and efficient management.

THE Lecture Bureau have engaged the services of the following for the approaching season, so far: Mrs. General Lauder, the latter part of October, Shakespearean reading, Oliver Optics Charles Sumner and Mark Twain and the other three, Mrs. Livermore, Wendell Phillips and Fred. Douglass, will come under the auspices of other management than the Lecture Bureau. It has not been definitely determined whether J. N. will favor the city with another lecture this season or not.

PERSONAL.—General Lew. Wallace and Morton C. Hunter made astronomical observations from and reposed in the arms of Morpheus at the Terre Haute House last night.

C. S. Sauford arrived home from a Western tour yesterday. H. M. Hawley, the efficient and accommodating'local agent of the E. &. C. R. R. arrived home from an extended trip to the Eastern States last evening.

Fred. Fisher, the butcher, has returned from his European tour. Thomas B. Redding Esq., attorney at Newcastle, Indiana, is in the city.

In our personal mention of the Hon. John D. Defrees, in the GAZETTE oi yesterday, wo meant to say that he was formerly Government Printer at Washington, and not State Printer.

THE "POP VALYE."

lVhat a Citizen Thinks of the Article. A citizen furnishes us with a communication regarding an improvement on locomotives which he conceives to be a nuisance, and in which condition those who have been scared out of a year's growth will, no doubt, join him. His correspondence explains itself. He is a very intelligent gentleman and an old citizen, and, no doubt, knows whereof he speaks:

Lately there has been attached to almost all engines what is called a "pop valve," which is an unmitigated nuisance. It is so arranged as to blow off, Just the moment so many pounds of steam are on, the pop valve suddenly opens out with a most excruciating noise, which is much more likely to scare horses than the whistle, I think, for the whistle is under tbe control of the engiueer.

For instaace one night at the depot this "pop valve" went off so suddenly, and with such tremendous force as to scare the horses attached to the Express wagon, and caused them to jump, and throw the driver down—throw the messenger off the waijon and injure him severely.

JTtet thq other day an omnibus stopped at the VaiidaRa depot, lftdieS*were vetting out, and the driver was on top of the bus letting trunks down a ladder when one of those pop valves went off on some engine standing there, causing the horses attached to the bus to become frightened and start to run. The driver haa to let the trunks go and go to his horseB, and catching the lines stopped them before they got away. One of the ladies fell to the ground and came very near being seriously injured.

There is- -an ordinance .forbidding en.ineers blowing their whistle in the city .imits—I believe. If there is not in this city, I know there is in other cities, and I conceive this new-fengled arrangement to be more dangerous to persons in vehicles to which horses are attaohed, about depots, than the "blow off cock," the "side valves" or the whistle: for they are all, except the "blow off," under the control of the engineer. I have seen persons, especially those not accustomed to being about railroads, jump almost ten feet (if they happened to be standing near the engine) when this "pop valve" would let fly with such tremendous force, a seeming accumulated amount of steam, and I have heard them exclaim in their fright, "has the engine Busied t" :v

STATE NEWS S0MM1BY.

A great many Indianians are emigrating to Montana. tk 'Oi It is proposed to build a new hotel in Michigan City. Also a grain elevator.

A dispatch to the Cincinuati Commercial, from Hartford Oity, dated the 238, says: "Brook ville has an average of one fight per day. The police are always on hand—to look on.

The Waterman claims that Edinburg has better trees, finer buildings, prettier ladies, meaner loafers and commoner whisky than any other t&WJl Jtft sisw jn the State,

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The Owen County Journal learns that at a convention of pork merchants recently held at Gosport the price of hogs was fixed to range from two to two and a half cents a pound.

General Jackson and James Monroe visited Corydon, when Governor Jennings was Governor of Indiana. Tney stopped with the Governor wno then lived in the old brick building in which "uncle Jacob Smith" (colored) now lives. A lady who was then present, and dined with them, gives the toasts. Jackson's toast—"Here's to the American fair."

Monroe's—"Here

is to the

loom, the reel and spinning wheel." Some enterprising night blacksmiths have been operating in the beautiful little city of Danville, the county seat of Hendricks county v/ith tbe following results: The residences of Drs. Todd, Kennedy and Bartholomew, besides Tinder's and others, were robbed of various amounts, ranging from twenty cents to fifty dollars each. The lowest amount was taken from Mr. Tinder, the burglars missing a

large

amount of

money concealed in one of the rooms. No clue, the thieves doing their .work systematically and leaving no trace.

On Friday, August 25, liobert Clark, a farmer of Clear Creek township, Monroe county, went to his field, where he was deadening timber, half a mile from his home. He left home about 3 o'clock P. M., and was discovered about 5 o'clock the next morning. His wife, getting uneasy, sent'his little daughter to a neighbor, and on her way she found her father lying in the path with a cut across his forehead, and chopped in the back and front of the neck with the same axe. Robert Clark had told some of his neighbors that if they should find him dead some day, for them not to be surprised, as he feared it would be done soon. It appears he was looking forward to his death by somb' threats made by the two men that are suspected.

ABOUT WOMEN AND FASHIONS. Dark hair is again in the ascendant. The Apaches are

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the warpath.

Being mute-ually agreed, a pair of deaf mutes were married in. Iowa last week. The disgusting "habit of snuff-dipping is becoming prevalent with the mill girls of Providence.

At Saratoga some of the ladies wear ear-rings and necklaces composed of fiv6dollar gold pieces.

An old woman at Warsaw, Kentucky, when testifying in court, said she was the mother of Washington, and told him not to tell a lie.

The wedding trosseau of Miss Throckmorton, who was married on the 15th inst., cost $29,000 in gold.

A recently arrested Savannah woman thrashed two Constables and kicked a Judge down stairs, before her nerves were sufficiently quiet to allow her to proceei to jail.

The author of' the following original conundrum is now confined in a calico straight jacket, his feet in a wood-box, and his head in a honeycomb poultice: "When i3 a lover justified in calling his sweetheart honey? When he is beeloved."

Miss Amanda-Harris, a young lady in Columbus, Ohior" fell dead of .heart disease, on Friday night of last week, while conversing at tiie gtyte of. her father's residence with a

young

man to whom she

was about to be married. •.. "Diagonals," for men's suits are much in vogue this summer. The New York World says: "A gentleman who got home a night or two since in an elevated condition tried to persuade his wife that his .desultory gait.was^ owing to the fact of his being dressed in idiagonal clothes.''

It is not safe for ladies to switch their lovers, for fear that in these days of improved fire-works, they may be of the self-explosive kind. A girl at Rocky Mount, Georgia, playfully tried it the other day, and hit a small doppef cartridge in his pantaloons pocket, which exploded, passing through two sets of clothing and seriously wounding her.

The Princess Mary and the Prince of Teck have inaugurated in England a new scheme for saving young girls from a life of vice. The plan is to provide country homes for little girls—girls who can be taken in charge young enough to be brought up in a manner totally different from that which would have been their lot had they been left uncared for. Sixteen cottages are to-be erected, each to contain ten children, on three acres of ground given by the Hon. Miss Cavendish, at Ad^lestone, In a remote nook of Surrey. In honor of the founder it is proposed to name the new institution "The Princess Mary's Village Homes for Little Girls." The cottages will cost about $1,500 each, and the whole of the little Colony will be uuder the charge of a matron.

In conclusion, let me give you another incident of the life of a Long Branch belle. I was strolling through the barroom of the Continental Hotel last evening, when a horse galloped up :to the door, and a young lady sprang from the saddle unaided. She was dressed in a full ridiug-habit, and .when her groom came up, she gave him full directions as to what fare the horse should get, for all the world like a turf-master who had been brought up among horses all his lifetime. The groom had no sooner gone than she deliberately walked up to the bar, and in company with a gentleman who met her at the door, and called for a glass of bottled |de, and, what is more, she stood fif the cotinter rihtfl she had drained the last drop out, and until the gentleman, who didn't drink, had paid for it. Thi3 young lady belongs to oue of the best paying parties stopping at the Branch, and is a lady, in the ordiuary accepUnce of tlie term. In the face of her bar-room feat, what become of the beauties who, they say, horrified a foreigner here the other *3ay by drinking punches^out on the lawn Are we not living in an age of progress. —Cor. New York Herald.

TERRE HAUTE DAILY

THE PROPOSED RAILROAD. Letter from General Hnuter.

EDITOH EXPRESS:—There have appeared in your paper various articles in opposition to the proposed road from Cincinnati to Terre Haute, one of which, signed "Flair Play," closes by asking au answer from rae to certain objections pointed out by him. As his embraces substantially the objections of all, I propose answering them.

In the first partof his article he admits the necessity of the proposed roa.d, ^but objects to its gauge. The substance of his objections when properly understood, is this That the narrow gauge is but an experiment, hostile to the present one,and contrary to the enlightened wisdom of the best railroad talent in this country, and that because hundreds of millions of dollars are invested in our present gauge, it should not now be interfered with.

I admit that the narrow gauge has never been tested in this country, and for that reason our best railroad men can know but little about it practically. In Europe it has been tested by the highest engineering talent and pronounced a success. If a success there, why should it not be here? My information is that a committee was recently appointed by the State of Massachusetts, consisting of several of her best engineers, for the purpose of investigating this question of the narrow gauge, and after a careful aud thorough investigation, the committee reDorted unanimously in favor of it for general railway purposes, and upon the faith of that report theState legalized the gauge.

Can "Fair Play" assert without fear of successful contradiction, that our present gauge (four feet eight aud one-half inches,) has been shown to be better than a three foot one, by. any fair test? If not, why will ho, or any one, insist that our gauge should never be changed? There is one thing certain, that railroad freight aud fare must be reduced near one-half, or the people will, in a fewyears, by their overwhelming voice, compel the Congress of theUnited States and the Legislatures of the various States to take the matter in hand and compel the reduction by positive law. The present rates are an oppression that the people will not submit to. If you talk to railroad men tliey will tell you that lailroads are not making more than a fair interest at their present rates, and therefore they can't afford to materially lessen them.- Why? Their answer is that the wear aud tear of their road bed and machinery are so great, and so many men have to be kept employed in repairing them, that their expenses almost equal their receipts. If this bo true, and in many cases I have no doubt it is, where, aud how shall the peoptelook for relief? My judgment is that it will be found in the change of our present gauge. If this be true, as the advocates of the narrow gauge contendthat by lessening the gauge to three feet, you do not materially lessen the speed or comfort of the present gauge to the traveling public, nor lessen the capacity of the road for carrying purposes, but lessen the cost of constructing, equipping and operating the same near onehalf the present rates, it follows, that in proportion as you lessen the expense, you can lower freights arid passenger fare, and hence the public will demand the change.

The tests that have been made in

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rope show that the great advantages of the three feet gauge over our present one are these You can run steeper grades and sharper curves, the machinery can be reduced near one-half in weight and yet be as effective for carrying purposes with much less power. Your superstructure is lighter, and hence the wear and tear of machinery is much les3. In short, theie is a saving in everythingconnected with the road. I know some will ask, why not reduce the weight of our cars and superstructure on our present gauge? The answer is, that experience hasshown that it cannot be done with safety to either life or property. To lighten, therefore,: you must narrow the gauge and bring your wheels closer together. It is upon the same principal that if you will take a piece£of timber, six feet long, and rest its ends on solid bearings, it will not bear uplialf as much weight as three feet of the same piece will bear, if similarly placed. Hence, by throwing away half the weight of your timber, the residue will bear up twice the weight of the whole. So as you narrow the gauge, you reduce the weight of all the material and still preserve greater strength in proportion to the weight. And it is this heavy dead weight that has to be hauled by our present roads, and the constant wear and tear of it on the superstructure and machinery, that makes it objectionable to the advocates of narrow gauge.

It is contended that the traveling public will not be as comfortable in the narrow as in the wide gauge, nor move so rapidly. Let us see. Our present traveling speed is. about twenty-five miles per hour. The narrotf gauge can make that, and it is said even forty miles per hour with perfect safety. Our present cars are arranged with wide seats on each side, sufficient for two passengers, yet often not more than one passenger occupies them. Two in a seat are crowded, while the seat is too large for one to sit with comfort. The narrow gauge is arranged with seats in the same way, but only large enough .for tine person, but made as comfortable as a passenger could desire. The sleeping cars can be arranged equally as comfortable as our present, the berths not so wide, but wide enough to accommodate one person, and no one would object to that except it might be "the ex-President of the Southern Confederacy.^i iIS 1

I come now to the question of freights, and "Fair Play" says, suppose the road is finished and a train of forty ca?s comes into Terre Haute, five for St. Louis and thirty cars of stone, coal, lumber and timber for points on the two roads west, will Director Burnett or General Huilfer please tell'us what they are going to do with the freight. I will cheerfully answer the question. Unless running arrangements can be made with the other roads so that every facility will be afforded us for loading and unloading our cars, either by dumping or by machinery, into those.-of-the other companies, we will not bring our freight to Terre Haute labeled in the manner he suggests. Our first object will be to furnish Terre Haute and all her manufacturing establishments with all their fuel, stone and lumber. We will be able to ship cheaper, and henee undersell all other parties. For all other freights designed to go West, such as coal, iron, stone and lumber, in which no great speed is required in shipping, we expect to make arrangements to ship by water. We expect to do for Terre Haute what no other railroad has yet done that is to develop andbuildup her river interests. If you nO#go Upon the wfiarf, it looks dilapidated, and grown up with grass. And the part of the city bordering on the river has gone down and the property much reduced in price. All this is caused by the lack of business. If we can give back to the river nqt.only the business 'she en-, joyed in hef palmiest days, but increase that more than five fold, we will do for Terre Haute, in the way of adding to her material interests, more than all the railroads yet built to her borders. All the coal, iron, stone and timber that we can possibly haul, which will not be consumed by Terre Haute, can be taken away by the river and Bupplied to St.

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TERRE HAUTE, IND.. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 29, 1871.

Louis and all other points along the Ohio and Missiasippi rivers, cheaper than it is now supplied by the other railroads. We don't expect to move this through freight in wagons or carts, but run our cars directly to the river, and either dump or load by machinery into the boats. The river can now be used nine months in the year, aud with slack water navigation, which will soon be had, it can be used the year around. We could soon make your river alive with little tug boats conveying barges laden with the freight from our line of road that would give to Terre Haute a prosperity she has never yet enjoyed, and make that part of the city bordering on the river again valuable. ,. ,, "Fair Play" says you did a good thing when you subscribed $100,000 to the Danville road. I have no doubt you did, but what has that road done for your city that will begin to compare with the benefits that our road offers The cars on that road come in on one side of your city and pass out immediately on the other, with her through cars laden for Chicago or Evansville. How much does ail that benefit Terre Haute I leave it for your readers to decide. Machine shops I understand are promised. They will add much to your city when built., if they are the principal ones on the road—but if made a mere hospital to repair old cars and engines, they will not amount to much.

The Cincinnati & Terre Haute road don't propose passing through your city with her freight, but she proposes having it all unloaded and reshipped from that point, as well as reload her cars from the river and city to ship east. To do all that it will require machinery and the labor of many men—all of which, when taken in connection with tbe river interests that we propose building up, will make for Terre Haute such a golden harvest that it will take "a railroad man" to calculate its increased value. "Fair Play" advises the people of Terre Haute to go slow "for the reason that the narrow gauge project smacks so strongly of purely selfish and financial operations on the part of a few men which are not of us." I don't know exactly who he means by "us?" If he means all the eitizens of Terre Haute, then I don't think that "us" would care much who builds the road, if "us" could only get cheap freights. But if "us" means a few who are in the ring, then I should think that the people of Terre Haute would rejoice that "us" didn't have anything to do with it, for if "us" owned and operated all the roads leading into Terre Haute, there wouldn't be much show for competition, but the road would then be run and operated for the benefit of "us" and not the people. But upon the other hand, if there is any selfishness in the matter, is it not'shown to be wholly upon the part of the few that are opposing this road? I admire the city of Terre Haute and have love aud respeec for her people, and will do anything in my power to advance her material interests but when it is contended that she is "furnishing all the seed for this great harvest" and therefore a few of her people should dictate all the terms to this company, does not the assumption, to say the least of it, strike every candid man of Terre Haute as exceedingly selfish

Does not "Fair Play" know that there is not a country along the line through whose county seat the road will pass but what will pay as much in aid of the enterprise as Terre Haute? Is it then just to them to say that they shall have no voice in the matter and shall not be con suited? There are three directors in In diana. Terre Haute has one, Monroe county one and Decatur county one. Is not that a"fair distribution? The people along the line of tijA^oad don't care who build the road so it is built and operated for their benefit. I was not in the original organization, and knew nothing about it, until it was completed. I have taken hold of the enterprise because I believe it is sound and the men who are at the bot torn of it mean business. I hope the people of Terre Haute will do the same. If so, within a few months they will have the road that they so much need, which will give to them a large trade that they have lost, and revive their river business that has been gradually decaying for the last twelve or fifteen years. They need take

The Olympic Theater, of New York, was opened last evening with "Humpty Dumpty."

Madam Methua Schella will commence an engagement of ten weeks, at the New Tremont Opera House, in Galveston, Texas, on the 25th of September.

The Philadelphia Academy of Music is said to be now free from debt. This establishment was first opened in 1857. Mr. Russell Smith has stocked the stage with new scenery, and the vestibule has been floored with marble tiles.

Mr. James Schonberg, the stage-man-ager of Wallaok's Theater, has invented a system of machinery for working scenery in theaters, without the use of either grooves or braces. It is said to be thoroughly successful and very simple, and the inventor claims that it will obviate all the usual difficulties and delays by which the working of the stage is attended.

Joaquin Miller, the niew poet, is visiting, it is said, a brother Tn Pennsylvania, where he is revising the proof-sheets of a volume of poiems 'Shortly to appear. While in London, Miller was invited to attend a great dinner at Robert Browning's, and electrified and delighted the company by reciting the "Heathen Chinee."

The negro minstrels are mustering their clans for the new season. The San Francisco Minstrels will come bac£ to their cosy and familiar hall next week, where they will certainly be welcomed. Messrs. Newcomb & Arlington's Minstrels.will resume their entertainments on the 4th of September. Their brilliant start last spring is still remembered, and their re-entrance will of course be greeted with satisfaction. Bryant's Minstrels will also return to their accustomed

haunt on the 4th of September. They have been absent

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alarm at the

gauge. I will assure them that the narrow gauge will bring to them all that a wide gauge would do, and at reduced prices.

I want the people of Terre Haute, therefore, to give this enterprise their closest scrutiny. If not found worthy, reject it, but if, on the other hand, it is found good, give it the required aid with a liberal, and not a grudging hand, and bid it God speed.

MORTON C. HUNTER.

DRAMATIC, LITERARY, ETC.

Mr. H. L. Bateman will open the London Lyceum in September. G. C. Boniface, the actor, is now playing in Boston.

The opera season closed, in London, on the 5th of August, and Drury Lane is closed.

a rural tour. Kelly

& Leon's hall is already open.—N. Y. Tribune. In compliance with the request of a correspondent we publish the returns of the Holland Testimonial. The receipts were $15,554.35. The expenses were $1,945.94. The balance for the widow and children, is $13,608.41. The beneficiaries have received in money, $50S.41 and United States bonds, to the value of $12,000, gold, have been placed, for their benefit in the hands of the United States Trust Company. Mr. Theodore Moss is the Treasurer of the Holland Testimonial Committee, and we believe his report is in press, if not already published.

The Yery Latest News.

FORT WAYNE, August 29.—Col. Case, ex-member of Congress from this district, is home from New Orleans on a visit. His eye-sight is nearly gone, some ^disease of the eyes having affected them.

EVANSVILLE, IND., August 29.—A band of three hundred men went to the Morganfield, Ky., jail Saturday night, and took out a white man and a negro, charged with outraging a woman near Caseyville, on Tuesday night last, and hung them to a tree, a mile from town.

PITTSBURG, PA., August 29.—A man, in attempting to jump on a train that was passing the outer depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad yesterday, fell under the cars, and his head was severed from his body.

SPRINGFIELD, O., August 29.—A dispatch received here last night by the Chief Fire Engineer, is to the effect that the steamer committee at the late fire tournament at Findlay, Ohio, have decided the contest in favor of the steamer "Queen of the West," of this city, and the prize $123 in gold, has been forwarded by express.

NEWCASTLE, PA., August 29.—John Young, twenty-seven years of age, while riding

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a flat-boat, in the Shenango

river, at thi3 place, last Saturday evening, jumped off opposite his residence, where the water was very deep, and being under the influence of liquor, he was drowned. He leaves a wife and five

Jones, a workman in the rolling mill here, fell out of his bed-room window Sunday night, fracturing his skull. He died yesterday morning. It is supposed he was intoxicated.

CINCINNATI, August 29—Noon.—The firm of W. B. Marshall & Co. were ex

pelled from the Chamber of Commerce

to-dav

children. Griui^%icGuVFe^ WARREN, O., August 29.—Thomas Wilites Complete Arithmetic,No. 4, P., D., and IINUIVU. T. a

bv a unanimous vote, for uuwar-

rantable conduct in breaking a \eital

conuacc. grades in which the pupils would be under the CINCINNATI,

August 29.—The loss by

last night's fire at Wm. S. Miller & Co drug store, reaches $25,000 or $30,000 upon which is the following insurance Andes, Cincinnati, $5,000 Miami VaL ley, do., $3,000 Western, do., $3,000 Franklin, do., $5,000 Burnett, do., $6, 000 Lanian, of New York, $6,500 JEtna, do., $2,500 Atlantic, do., $5,000

—,

Securitv. do., $5,000 Buffalo City, of

security, uo., ^, ^7

Buffalo, N. Y., $2,500

Buffalo

CORRESPONDENT

Fire &

Marine, do., $2,000 People's, of Woos ter, Mass., $2,500 Home, of Columbus O., $3,000.

thus writes of the

STAND UP.—Heaven help the man who imagines that he can dodge enemies by trying to please everybody. If such an individual ever succeeded, we should be glad of it—not that one should be going through the world trying to find beams to knock and thump against, disputing every man's opinion, fighting and elbowing, and crowding all who differ from him. That again is another extreme. Other people have their opinions, so have you. Don't fall into the error of supposing they will respect you more for turning your coat every day so much the color of theirs. Wear your own clothes, in spite of widd and weather, storm and sunshine. It costs the irresolute and vacilating ten times the trouble to wind and shuffle and twist than honest, manly independence to stand its ground.

THE MARKETS ABROAD.

caverns of Orange county: "Orange 'h«"™nshvthePrinciDalsofthedifferentdlscounty is famous for caverns. Lost river ruus under the surface of the earth near Orleans, and remains a subterranean stream for about ten miles, when it comes above ground, leaving you to conjecture what may be seen in its cannel. 'East of Paoli about three miles, near the banks of Lick creek, a mill stream comes out of the ground in a narrow ravine. The owner, about thirty years ago, desiring to increase the fall on his overshot wheel, damned it up so as to make backwater underground, aiming to elevate his water level some four or five feet. To his great astonishment, his stream ceased to flow, but reports came in that new springs had broken out all about that neighborhood."

Cincinnati Market. CINCINNATI, August 29."

The* markets are generally unchanged and steady. COTTON—Middling, 18X@18J£c.

FLOUR—More active Family, ?5.00@ 5.75 Superfine, [email protected]. GRAIN—Unchanged in every respect.

PROVISIONS Quiet Mess Pork, ?12.3/K©12.50 Cut Meats, limited sales prices unchanged Sugar cured Hams, scarce at 14@15Ke.

SUGAR—Active New Orleans ll@12%c. WHISKY—Steady at 89c. __ .•

St. Lonis Market! ST. LOUIS, August 29.

FLOUR—Receipts 10,000 barrels, dull and unchanged. WHEAT—Receipts 42,190 bushels.

GRAIN—General market dull and unchanged. CORN—Receipts 8,000 bushels..

OATS—6,500 bushels. RYE—2,000 bushels. BARLEY—5,500 bushels. PROVISIONS—Quiet but firm.

Chicago Market. CHICAGO, August 29.

FLOUR—Dull and unchanged. WHEAT—Excited and higher at $1.22@ .25 closing at §1.24 for cash,-and $1.08»4@ ior superfine.

CORK—Quiet and higher at 45%c for cash and 46£c for September. OATS—Fairly active at 292£@30c for No. and 31

Kc for No. 1. Hv Sll

RYE—Active at5S@58J^c for No. 2. BARLEY—Moderatively active at 60@ 61c.

HIGHWINES—88c bid 89c asked. A.RD—U nchan ged. MESS PORK—Active at $12%@12& for

cash. HOGS—Lower.

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AMUSEMENTS^

CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.

Grand Closing Concert

AT THE

OPEBi HOUSE!

Thursday Eve., August 31.

Prof. B. F. BAKER, of Boston Uiroclor E.

KII.BOl'K.\£ Pianist W. ZOB£l Organist

The following Artists from abroad will be present and assist at the Concert:

MISS FANNIE J. KELLOGG

From Council Bluffs, Iowa,

The Star Soprano of the West!

MR.

OJEZA.

PEARSON,

Of Indianapolis, (formerly of Boston),

Who is Undonhtedly the Finest Tenor in the West. Tliis will be one of the finest Concerts ever given in t-liis city, and will consist of choice selections of Choruses, Songs, Duetts, &c., from lie best masters, and rendered by the members of the Conservatory, assisted by some of the best local Artists.

ADMISSION:

First floor 75c Family Circle -£9® Gallery 25c

Tickets for sale at B. G. Cox's Book Store. No extra charge for Reserved Seats. Doois open at 7 Concert commences at 8. (ST A Weber Concert Grand Piano and Mason & Hamlin Resonant Organ will be used on this occasion, from W. H. Paige & Co.'s Music House.

SCHOOL NOTICE.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Important Announcement to Parents and Pupils.

rpHE attention of parents and pupils is called

to the following list ot text book to be used in our public schools for the coming year, and authorized by the Board of Trustees: Primary Grade McGuiley's First Reader. Primary Grade McGuffey's Second Reader and White's Primary Arithmetic. Primary Grade McGulTey's Third Reader, White's Intermediate Arithmetic and No. 1 P., 1)., and S. Copy Book. A Primary Grade McGuffey's Fourth Reader, Spelling Book, White's Intermediate Arithmetic. No. 2, P., D., and S. Copy Book, and Guyot's Elementary Geography. I) Grammar Grade Watson's Fourth Reader, McGuffey's Spelling Book, Felter's Intermediate Arithmetic, No. 3, P., D., and S. Copy Book and Guyot's Intermediate Geography. Grammar

niic iwuiuviiv, S. Copy Book, and Mitchell's Intermediate Geo. graphy. Grammar Grade W^atson's Fifth Reader, McGuff«?y's Spelling Book, Felter's Grammar School Arithmetic, No. 5, P., D., and S. Copy Book, aud Harvey's Elementary ammar.

Grammar Grade McGuffey's Sixth

Reader, Felter's Grammar School Arithmetic, No. 13, P. D., and S. Copy Book, Greene's English Grammar and Seavey's Goodrich's History of the United States.

The text Books to be used in the High School

iH be announced to the pupils at the opening

of^\™l°°iianges occur, the book8wiii

sold at one-half regrlar retail price, and, thus, instead of an increase in the expenses of pur-

ciiasing books, there will be a decrease In the same, since text books are changed only in those

necessity of purchasing new books

promotion.

reason

BOUNDARIES OF SCHOOL DISTBICTS.

Those pupils promoted to the A Grammar Grade will go to the First Ward

7IUUC wAll gu tv i/ii vi iiov ff These pupits promoted to the Grammar Grade, and who reside west of 9th street, will go to the First Ward and those who reside east of 9th street will go to City School No. (3.

Those pupils promoted to the Grammar Grade from the First and Fourth Wards, and those from the Second Ward who reside north

Walnut street will go 1o the First Ward

those promoted from the Third Ward, and those

from the Second Ward who reside south

Walnut street, will go to the Third Ward: and

-i J* ITT tVtnco nrnmntfifl from DitV ScllOOl No. 6, and

those promoted from "City School No. 1, and from the Fifth Ward will go to City School

NThe

pupils in all the other grades will go their respective districts. The boundaries of these districts are almost the same as they were last districts are almost tnesame as mey WBIB IMBO

year. Any slight changes will be explained to

year. Any slight changes will be explained to the pupils by the Principals of the differentdistricts.

It is hoped that parents will assist the teachers in this work by sending the children promptly to their respective places, and any changes found necessary after trial in the above plan of districting the city will be cheerfully made. WM. W. WILEY, a28dlw Superintendent.

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