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CITY POST OFFICE.

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Graysville via Prairleton, Prairie Creek and Tlmrman's CreekCloses Mondays and Thursdays at 9 p. Opens Mondays and Thursdays at 6 p. Nelson -Closes Tuesdays & Saturdays at 11 a..m

Opens Tuesdays & Saturdays at 10 a. WEEKLY MAILS.

/Asonvlllevia Riley. Cookerly, Lewis, Coffee and Hewesville—Closes Fridays at 9 p. m. Opens Fridays at 4 p. ra. Ashboro via Christy's Prairie—

the country.

Closes Saturdays at 1 P.m Opens Saturdays at 12

Money Order office and Delivery windows onen from 7 a. m. to 7:30 p. m. Lock boxes and stamp office open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m.

On Hundays open from 8 a. m. to 9 a. m. No Money Order business

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,1871.

Renl and Consider.

The GAZETTE Jon ROOMS being the best equipped in point of type and presses, doing a much larger business, can,of course,do work for less money than those who do an occasional job, worried out of some man by incessant dunning. We claim to have the best workmen in tl^e city, and claim to do work better, cheaper and quicker than any concern in this part of

Additional Local News.

Slate is coming.

SINCE the discovery of coal oil at Terre Haute, the citizens who get full of "benzine and stuff" at night fancy in theniorningthat the drinking water tastes of petroleum.—Indianapolis Sentinel.

That cannot truthfully be said of the Sentinel news editor, from whose columns we clipped the above, for the reason that he has had too much experience in sampling "benzine and stuff" to be deceived as to its taste. Though he seldom tastes water, he can tell tliedifFerence between the two beverages very easily.

Trip around tlie world. IN the year of grace, 1971, the citizens of Terre Haute will, probably, proudly relate to their little ones how their ancestors, with unexampled generosity, donated that $2,000 to defray the expense of entertaining the A. A. S. S.—Indianapolis Sentinel.

While in the same year the citizens of the Capital will relate to their litte ones how their ancestors were raided upon by the A. A. A. S. and how they sent them to the poorer hotels to pay their own bills for the privilige of waging war on tough beef and lively insects of the modern species peculiar to old and dilapidated beddings.

Plantaneoptorama, or

CONGRATULATIONS, ETC.—The recent Conference of theM. E. Church at Crawfordsville, was a very successful one. From the official report of the reverend body we clip so much as applies to the Terre Haute District, and the appointment of elder and preachers there for the ensuing year, which reads as follows:

W. H. Graham, presiding elder. Terre Haute, Asbury—James Hill, pastor.

Terre Haute, Centenary—.T. W. Green. Bellmore—A. Utter, one to be supplied. Russelville—J. J. Stallard. Annapolis—C. B. Heath. Rockville—C. S. Burgen. Montezuma—D. W. Resher. Sanford—I. G. Morrell. Clinton—W. W. Barnard. Newport—W. H. Smith. Toronto—O. C. Haskell. We do not know any of the gentlemen of the above list except Messrs. Green and Hill, but suggest if the rest be "like unto them" this certainly is a most favored and fortunate district. In response to the numerously signed petitions for the return of the two above named gentlemen, Conference has seen lit to return Rev. James Hill to the pastoral charge of Asbury, and Rev. J. W. Green to the charge of Centenary congregations, for which Conference receives the thanks of both congregations. Both the reverend gentlemen are highly appreciated here, and their return gives great satisfaction to all concerned, as they are pleased to remain where they are at least another year. We congratulate all parties upon their good fortune, and wish that it may ever be so.

Trip around the world.

THE BLACK CAT BUSINESS.

State TS- R. J. Bright—Perjury. The trial of the case of the State vs. R. J. Bright, on an indictment of perjury, commenced in the Marion Criminal Court yesterday. Much oftheday wasoccupied in getting a jury, which feat was at last accomplished, as follows: Aquilla Parker, Thomas Huggins, Laban George, Nicholas Kern, Geo. W. Atkins, Geo. Haverstick, Samuel Penn, Isaac N. Todd, Adam Knodie, Francis M. Ravenscraft, Samuel Corey, Spofford E. Tyler. Counsel for defendant, upon the jury being empannelled, moved, that on account of absent witnesses, the court adjourn until this morning,which was not objected to, and the court instructed the jury and adjourned, after calling the list of witnesses who responded to their names, as follows:

For the State—H. S. Garner, Mr. Col* lius, J. C. Shoemaker, Lawrence G. Hay, Norman B. Eddy, James B. Ryan, Conrad Baker, John M. Commons, John G. Doughty, VV. S. Cameron, J. M. Tilford and M. B. Hopkins,

For the Defense.—W. R. Holloway, A. H. Conner, John D. Evans, J. S. Athon, Nelson Trusler, S. M. Douglass, James G. Douglass, T. G. Palmer, John I. Morrison and Nathan Kimball.

The following gentlemen appear for the State and the defensej respectively: Messrs. Benj. Harrison, L. M. Campbell and H. C. Guffln, Prosecuting Attorney, appeared as oouusel for the State. The

defendant was represented by the follow ing brilliant array of legal talent Messrs. Jas. Hughes, John R. Coffroth A. W. Hendricks, Jos. E. McDonald Wm, W. Leathers and Robert Lamb.

STATE NEWS SUMMARY.

Potatoes are selling for two dollars a bushel at Mt. Carmel. Madison has two veteran Methodist ministers. One entered the service of the Lord in 1823, and the other a year later.

The car company having made the largest bid, sixty cents, for the labor of the convicts at the Southern Penitentiary, it will most likely receive the award.

The roll of Hanover College on Wednesday morning last contained the names of one hundred and thirty students.

Dr. Bowman, President of Asbury University, during the month of July, traveled lifteen hundred miles, dedicated four churches, and preached one mis sionary sermon.

At Larwill, Whitely county, in addition to the Sabbath bell to call children to Sunday school, two guns are fired, which, it is expected, will fetch the little ones, and animate them with zeal to serve the Lord.

A young lady named Miss Finney, and a most estimable and amiable girl, a native of Attica, was thrown from a caf,1 at Crawfordsvillej a few days since and killed. Her premature and tragic death cast a gloom over the entire village of Attica, where she was much rfespected.

Monday afternoon the roof being erected on the new Methodist Church, corner of Wayne and Broadway, Fort Wayne, fell in, coming down with a crash, and making almost a total wreck of the timbers. Two men, one of them Mr. James Humphrey, were somewhat injured, but not seriously.

The Indianapolis Journal of this morning says that all the train men of the Vandalia express which ran into a wagon near St. Louis on Saturday, killing several people, have been notified to appear at East St. Louis before a grand jury today. No blame is attached to any one connected with the road, but the affair is being thoroughly investigated.

A young woman, claiming to have come from Pennsylvania, arrived in Elkhart a short lime ago. She left the place very suddenly, last Friday night. It is supposed she felt much relieved in mind and body, as she left something that had long been g, weight on the latter, in a basket on the doorstep of a kind-hearted citizen.

A drunken woman made a raid on a school in Fort Wayne, Monday morning, and made the scholars tremble with dismay to hear such profanity within those walls. The lady teachers, too, were scared nearly out of their stockings, and finally, to get rid of the termagant, agreed to reinstate her boy, whom they had flogged and expelled for cutting up unbecoming and unpleasant "didos."

LaFayette and Indianapolis papers are again imposing upon their readers the accounts and challenges of billiard matches. Read the following from an Indianapolis morning .light: it. ACOH GARRETT :—Dear Sir I hereby challenge you to play me a match game of billiards of 1,200 points up for §100 and the champion cue. The game to be carom, played on a 5% by 11 foot table with J. M. Brunswick's patent combination cushions, and to be governed by the rules of the "Indiana State Billiard Association." I have this day deposited in the hands of the stakeholder, John Huegle, $50 as forfeit. Yours truly,

P. A. BVKRS,

Sept. lltb, 1871.

of LaFayette.

MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS.

Grasshoppers are prematurely chewing the tobacco in the fields of Connecticut. Only twenty-six Chinese women arrived at San Francisco during the past summer.

They have just opened anew hotel in a Southern State capital, and one of the newspapermen who "assisted" writes: "It is a beautiful house. Amid its bowers, its frescoed, grand, glittering parlors, the member of the Legislature, at $9 a day, can have his heaven, and listen to the music of a sixteen-string band and the voice of his nightengale, and eujoy the felicities of the only paradise that perhaps will ever be his."

In regions where alligators abound the dogs acquire remarkable sagacity. For instance, when one of them wishes to cross a river where the alligators are, he goes up the stream a good way and barks with all his might the alligators go there and wait for his getting in to swim across. The dog knows what he is about, when he sees from the number of snouts above the water that his enemies have all gathered to the feast, runs down the bank as fast as he can and swims across before the alligators are aware of the trick that has been played upon them.

Just before he left London, Alexander Henderson, Lydia Thompson's spouse, fell asleep while engaged in packing trunks, and remained in that condition till late in the night. Then, awakening, he opened a French window that be supposed led to his chamber. He stepped out upon a sky-light, and fell upon a couple of elderly maiden ladies, by the name of Newmau and Russell, who were sleeping below. There was a tremendous hubbub, with cries of murder. The fall broke the thigh of Miss Russell, and badly confused Miss Newman. Mr. Henderson was badly cut by the glass, and somewhat damaged by falling on the old maids, whose bones were unpleasantly prominent.

The local editors of the Jamestown papers are still writing up three-column items on the maaterdon, and tl»e Journal editor unfeelingly alludes to the deceased insect as a "proboscidian pachyderm," though wo are confident it will, upon examination, be found to belong to the "pitholeanthusskindigger" species, more familliary known to Latin scholars as the "livelycussonwheels." From, the peculiar structure* of its teiiae it is beS lieved that he once resided in Titusville, as well-defined traces of a bay-wiudow on his wings were discovered and the contents of his stomach were still preserved, which would indicate a superior tonic or preservative, similar to pioneer whisky, as. his principal beverage. Titusvilte JBterald.

M. ARTHUR ARNOUD, the Communist, before making his escape to Switzerland, acted fot a fortnight as a druggist's clerk at Batigaolles, and sold medicine to officers of the Versailles army who would gladly have had him utaested,

AUTE

From the New York Herald.

FALL FASHIONS.

Home Versus Foreign Modistes—Adaptability in Toilet—Tlie First OpeningLatest Styles—Children's Dresses.

The fashions for this season are characterized by good taste and propriety to a more than ordinary extent, and the simpler styles, whose coming has been so long aud anxiously looked for, are at last making their appearance. American ladies, whose admiration of everything imported and alacrity to imitate foreign styles had almost become proverbial, are at last thoroughly awake to the fact that we have "home artistes" quite equal and even superior to foreign ones, needing only proper appreciation in order to enable them to develop their tastes and resources, and that, both singly and collectively, as Americans, their dignity and independence demand that they shall accord that appreciation, aud become not only a "fashion unto themselves," but the world. Hence the decided and independent stand taken by our fashionables and the purifying revolution in toilet matters during the last year.

ADAPTABILITY OF TOILET. No lady can expect to dress becomingly Who adopts a fashion without any reference to her own peculiar style. The fashion may always be adapted to the individual,but individuality should never be sacrificed to fashion. A goodly pro-, portion of common sense, a modicum of fashion, good taste, independence, aud an appreciation of one's good and bad points in style and figure, are the essentials iiecessary to the formation of a becoming toilet. There are certain little secrets in the art of dressing which ladies of taste seems to know by intuition. They can tell at a glance what will be becoming to them in the prevailing mode, how to adopt it to their style, and will individualize the design, as it were, and Retain sufficient of its characteristics to'be in fashion. The lattitude allowed to individual taste—albeit necessarily governed by the prevailing idea—gives a varied and pleasing effect to our fashions which they have never before possessed, prevents all uniformity and the assumption of modes mctf apropos to the figure and style. A quiet, finished elegance is la mode, and pervades all the fashionable .costumes of the season. Costliness in material and garniture is not obligatory, but the tout ensemble must be perfect, suited to the Wearer in style and color, and adopted to the occasion.

THE FIRST OFFERING.

In the beginning of the month, according to long established custom, one of the leading designers and promulgators of American fashion had her first autumn opening.

The charming summer designs, modified and improved, have glided naturally and easily in among the styles for early fall, and, with the many decided novelties, presented a variety that could not fail to please fastidious and exacting taste. They were principally American styles, and possessed,,in an eminent degree, the rtvre qualities of adaptibility, individuality and economy, united with chic, which are rarely found, though thoroughly appreciated. It is hardly neceseary to say that there is no prospect of a decline in the popularity of costumes en suite for street, wear, and we find them made up more tastefully than ever, and in marked avoidance of all prononce styles.

SUITS.

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The prevailing style fot these costumes is a skirt and polonaise, although the graceful overskirt, accompanied by a stylish basque, or a jaunty paletot, is by no means passe. The short skirt for walking costumes is still retained by all sensible, right-rpinded ladies, and those who have adopted the demi-train for street wear will be heartily ashamed of their mistake before the winter is over,and be glad enough to return to their allegiance to common sense and propriety, as represented in the short walking skirt.

THE POLONAISE,

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susceptible as it is of so many variations, aud well adapted to all seasons of the year and nearly all materials, is likely to retain its prestige for some time to come, and seems almost to have been adopted as a national garment, like the mantilla of Spain, so universally is it worn and appreciated. Its graceful outlines are in marked distinction to the Parisian styles yet blindly quoted by some—which still adhere to the short, fussy overshirts, tight-fitting jackets and narrow ruffles of 1869.

A favorite polonaise, known as the Berenice, has a simple Gabriella front, the back extending plain for a short distance below the waist, like a round basque, with fullness in the seams below, forming modified puffs. A variation of this style, the Beatrice, has deep box plaits, laid underneath, at the seams of the side forms in the back, not at the waist, but about eight inches below, the looping disposed in points and caught up to the plaits with gros-grain ribbon bows. These are both exceedingly stylish, and are especially appropriate for suits of poplin and silk. Then we have what is termed a plain polonaise, although the stylish loopings render it more distingue in effect than many more pretentious garments but it has the recommendation of being stylish even when worn quite plain. Above all we must not forget the Mousquetaire, novel distingue, adapted to either house or street wear, and destined to be a favorite with all ladies of taste.

Basques are very nearly all made with a seam down the middle of the back. This causes them to fit more closely to the contour of the back and imparts a round appearance to the figure. It would seem almost an impossibility to devise anything different from the stylish ones so fashionably worn during the summer but the graceful Felicia, the jaunty Justine, with its cunning little vest, and the distingue May, prove that in basques, at all events, the inventive genius ot this modiste is yet in operation. iracw

SLEEVES.

Both close and flowing sleeves wiil still be worn, the former for dressy toilets and the latter for ordinary use. The Duchesse, open for a short distance on the outside seam, and the half-wide sleeve are the favorites. For house wear, the perfectly tight sleeve, fitted to the arm. and a modification of the "leg-of-mutton" style will be in vogue, both to be completed at the wrist by pretty cuffs of embroidered linen or lace. Of this latter style are the Winona and the Norma, and it would be difficult to decide which is the most beautiful. They will both be found especially becoming to slender figures.

OVERSKIRTS.

In spite of many prophecies to the coutrary, overskirts still retain their vogue. Although a few short ones are seen, those generous in width and length will still maintain their ascendency. The ample and artistic loopings impart an elegance to them which it is impossible to obtain in a short overskirt. Conspicuous among the designs in this department are the Carolyn and the Eduetts, the latter voted by all to be the most stylish overskirt of the season. It is an exponent of a style which will surely prove a leading one—quite plain at the front aud at the sides, but very full in the back.

The "adjustable" train Is muob. in

TERRE HAUTE, INI).. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 13, 1871,

favor as ever, owing to the introduction of so many methods of looping it so that it may be used as an overskirt for a walking costume. It should never be lined, and when worn as a train should be attached to the underskirt with bows. The Nonpareil elicited much admiration for the ingenuity displayed in its looping as an overskirt, and yet it was very simple, while essentially graceful, when used for either purpose.

An exceedingly stylish garment known as the MARQUISE MANTLE, to be made in cashmere for independent use with various costumes, for cool days in autumn, is arranged with a loose sacque, without sleeves, reaching about a quarter of a yard below the waist, slightly fitted in the middle of the back, and worn under a cape of the same material, reaching to the waist or a few inches below. This cape is frequently open up the back to the neck, with the corners rounded off and Louis XIII. bows of gros-grain ribbon oruamentin the opening. The front corners are left square, aud the talma falls slightly apart in front, but the sacque must meet all way down to be stylish. These mantles are to be profusely trimmed with braid ing or passementerie resembling which serves as a headipg to a rich fringe.

Gray and brown cashmere will be al most as fashionably worn as black, the braiding to be of the same color, perhaps a shade or two lighter or darker. White on black will be very fashionable, but gilt and jardiniere color are reserved for carriage wear.

The jaunty, slashed jackets, so much worn last season, are not discarded, how ever, but are only to be warn in plain black, gray, brown, or plum color, em broidered in the same color or a darker shade.

CHILDREN'S STYLES.

It is a pleasure to record that the fash ions for children are tending toward that simplicity and appropriateness which should always be their distinguishing characteristic. They are gradually as suminga more positive and uniform tone and are less governed than formerly by the changes in the fashions for older persons.

Overskirts en suite and overdresses are still worn as much as ever. These latter are not only dressy, but also very econo mical, and are, as formerly, usually made in black alpaca, silk or cashmere trimmed with bias bands of plaid, or narrow velvet for ordinary wear. The Caradpra, Cassie, Edna, Florian, and Hilda challenge admiration in this line, and, with numerous others at hand, render it almost impossible to decide which is the prettiest.

The jaunty Roma jacket and the Gertrude paletot divide the favor with the numerous poienaises for misses, while the little ones and the boys are not forgotten. The Ernest and the Weston suits for boys are all that a doting mother could desire.

From the Kansas City Times,

Black Yersus Blonde.

The privilege of expressing one's opin ion in regard the relative merits of black and blonde haired poisoners is certainly not one to be overlooked in this ago of sweet and fatal female accomplishments. It is something after all to look at a lithe and superb woman and tell from the color of her hair whether you are to die from strychnine or prussic acid, from the deli cate aroma of a bouquet or the touch of a tasseled and fragile glove.

Looking upon the earth as it stands to-day, and guided somewhat by the lamps lit along the pathway of history, it is not difficult for the close observer to tell what nature of a woman did the deed by the deed itself. In those royal Ro man days when the "porches were lit with live torches, and the world was a steed for her rein," the starkest gladiator on the west sand of the arena knew, from the shiver of his naked and hairy chest, that the great tawny eye3 of Faustine were looking down upon him, the same Faustine twice crowned with "red gold and black imperious hair." And as he gathed up his gaunt limbs, gnarled and knotted with brawn and muscle, hefelt the duel was to the death, and that not once from the carved lips would mercy's tender signal come, and not once by the white hands would the gilded flag of succor be waved. He had to die for the brunette a bloody and terrible death.

It is the noon of night in "many-tow-ered Cam'elot," and out from the chamber of the rare Queen Guinevere a gracious prince comes stealing. Good King Arthur is long gone to the chase, and Launcelot rode not with the train. Why tarried he late in the shadows? and what stirred the arras so when no wind blew? Ah, it was the cutting off from her bonnie head the fatal tress of golden hair, which wrought such havoc with the Table Round, and wove into the lives of husband and lover the warp and the woof of bitterness, and blood, and tears.

Your maidens of the raven hair are butchers. They will kill, but it is with a bludgeon they will poison, but their philters belong to the mineral and not to the vegetable class they will strike sudden, sacrificing blows, "but they are with the sledge-hammer and not with the stilleto, an aromatic death drop on its delicate point. The great wealth of Gulnare's midnight tresses could not hide the blood-spot on her fair, white forehead. One can not help believingthat ever and anon the dexterous hands of Delilah held up the glow of a Judean sunset the long, fair curls of her lover Sampson, singing softly to herself some song he cared for best, contrasting in the pauses, of her kisses and cadences, the hue of the black and the blonde.

It is twilight is a quaint old Italian garden, high hung with fruit and dulcet with tinkling water. A single blue ribbon wound as a creeping thing all in and out among the waves of the younger Medicis' golden hair—so bright and pure it seemed as if the sunset had left upon it a benediction. She plucked a flower and gave it graciously to onn who took it as a Richelieu. In an hour masses were said for the soul of the beautiful De Lord, he who-had crossed the agile tigress in a liason. They were perfect blondes all, that wonderful Medici family, counting on the fingers of their hands the names and the numbers of dead lovers and rivals. And how they told each other the precious secrets of their compounds. No brunette Whartons there, blundering along with the tell-tale arsenic and the accusing voice of yellow jasmin, which the grave itself could not destroy. No bare-armed Sherman, brewing her bedbug poison and mixiug creosote about the fountain and the statutes of these blonde aristocrats, whose kisses were a coffin, and whose caresses a wiuding sheet. All is music and dancing, and fountains aud flowers, and dead men under the roses.

How sweet it must have been to choose one's style of an executioner. What a difference between the black and the blonde-haired beauties. And how distinct and wide apart to-day are the two classes of female murderers. Only at rare intervals, even now, does any cruel one sacrifice her caste and depart from the traditions of their prototypes. Mrs. Fair ostracised herself when she used a pistol instead of a philtor, and lowered the standard of her profession when she choose the weapon of the brunette for the

vengeance of the blonde. If they hang her, the restless spirit of Brinvilliers will be at peace if they do not, Mary, of Medicis, will arise from her grave.

As death by poisoning has now become extremely fashionable, and the weaker and gentler sex hare manifested an exalted ambition to excel in this peculiar line, we deem it a matter of sesthetic duty to endeavor to make such comparisons between the two types as will at least cause a discussion of the question, and lead to a scientific investigation of the whole subject. And. furthermore, it will be of immense advantage to ardent and enthusiastic lovers—when the issue of their affections is narrowed down to the choice between blonde and a brunette— to understand that, should the necessities of his removal become paramount, it would be infinitely better for him to take the blonde, thereby securing the certainty of a swift, pleasant, and most gracious departure.

From the Louisville Ledger.

A STRIKING DEMONSTRATION.

How an Ex-Spiritualist Trashed a "Medium." Last summer a young gentleman of high, standing and great personal worth, who had been slightly "sucked in" by the Spiritualists, and was seriously meditating the orthodoxy of the beautiful doctrine of the spirit land, undertook to investigate the matter for himself and by himself, .and soon, to his great surprise, found that, by proper manipulation, he himself possessed the wonderful power. After practicing and exercising daily for some time, until he had attained considerable proficiency in the art, he quietly convoked a seance, and so wonderful were the demonstrations that some* of the circle let it leak out, and soon people began to hunt the place of meeting and seek admission. Many of our most distinguished citizens were nightly visitors for the purpose of investigating the subject, not that they believed in Spiritualism, but were unwilling for such an important subject to pass uninvestigated. The wonderful doings of this medium were soon noised all over the city, aud even spread through the country. He had many followers, aud some that would even go so far as to almost swear by him. Many were converted, while others doubted. A brother of this medium, a man of fine natural sense, and a gentleman of the very highest culture, at first objected to these deceptive exhibitions, as he termed them, and thought it wrong to indulge in such foolishness. After attending, however, a few nights, he began to give the inatter.serious consideration, and his mind' was drifting so far toward belief that it was thought best by the medium brother to disabuse it at once and so he did, with the following result: The brother asked the medium if he was goup to meeting at Mrs. P.'s that night. "No," responded the medium I am going to quit this d—n foolishness the thing has been carried far enough." "Why, what do you mean inquired the astonished brother. "I mean," he replied, "just what I say. Let us go up in your room, and I will show you in broad daylight." They repaired to the room the medium took a seat in the middle of the floor, ropes were laid at his feet, and before you could say "Jack Robinson" three times he had completely bound and tied himself to the chair. The bamboozled brother no sooner saw this than he immediately pounced upon the unfortunate medium, and gave him a downright good flogging for practicing such deception upon him.

Moral—Spiritual mediums should be careful how they expose the doctrines of the new religion.

Be Courteous at Home.

Why not be polite How much does it cost you to say, "I thank you Why not practice it at home—to your husband, to your children, your domestics If a stranger does you some little act of courtesy, how sweet the smiling acknowledgment If your husband, ah, is a matter of course—no need of thanks.

Should an acquaintance tread on your dress, your best, very* best, ahd by accident tear it, bow profuse you are with your "Never mind—don't think of it—I don't care at all." If a husband does it, he gets a frown—if a child, it is chastised. 'Ah, these are little things," gay you, but they tell mightily upon the heart, let me assure you, little as they are.

A gentleman stops at a friend's house and finds it in confusion. He sees uotb» ing for which to apologize—never thinks of such matters. Everything is right— cold supper, cold room, crying children— perfectly comfortable. Goes home where his wife has been taking care of the sick ones, and working her life almost out:— "Don't see why things can't be kept in order—there never were such cross children before."

No apologies accepted at home. Why not be polite at home? Why not use freely that golden coin of courtesy? How sweetly they sound, those little words,

I thank you," or "you are very kind!" thrice sweet from the lips we love, when the smile makes the eye sparkle with the light of affection.

Be polite to your children. Do you expect them to be mindful of your welfare, to grow glad at your approach, to bound away to do your pleasure before the request is half spoken? Then, with all your dignity and authority mingle politeness give it a niche in your household temple.

Railroads Sixty Years Ago. The following letter, in reply to a suggestion concerning railroads, was written by Chancellor Livingston, who had been associated with his brother-in-law, Robert Fulton, in the application of steam to navigation: fff

ALBANY, March 1,1811.

DEAR SIR: I did not till yesterday receive yours of the 25th of February where it has loitered on the road I am at a loss to say. I had before read of your very ingenious proposition as to the railway communications. I fear, however, that on mature reflection they will be liable to seriote objections and ultimately more expensive than a canal. They must be double, so as to prevent the danger of two heavy bodies meeting. The walls on which they are placed must be at least four feet below the surface and thre^ feet above must be clamped with iron, and then would hardly sustain so heavy a weight as you propose moving at the rate of four miles an hour on wheels. As to wood, it would not last a week. Tbey must be covered with iron, aud that, too, very thick and strong. The means of stopping these heavy carriages without a great shock, and of preveutiug them running on each other—for there would be many running on the road at once—would be very difficult. In cases of accidental stops, or necessary stops to take wood .water, fec., many accidents would happen. The carriage for condensing water would be very troublesome. Upon the whole, I fear the expense would be much greater than that of canals, without being so convenient.

A RESIDENT of Lewistown, Maine, who turns a penny when he can, sold the bandies from the coffin in which he buried his wife.

ORDINANCES,

AN ORDINANCE

Authorizing a Subscription to the Capital Stock of the Terre Haute Water Works Company, Providing for the Payment of the Same, and Levying a Special Tax to

Meet the Obligations Incurred Therefor,

SECTION

1. Be it ordained by the Common Coun­

cil of the City of Terre Haute, That a subscription to the capital stock of the Terre Haute Water Works Company to the amount of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby authorized on the part of the corporate authorities of Terre Haute, and that the Mayor be directed to make such subscription in the name of the city of Terre Haute.

SEC. 2. That in the payment of said stock so authorized, the Mayor be directed to have printed, signed by himself and countersigned by the Cit\ Clerk, fifty ten-year bonds of the denomination of ten hundred dollars eucli, with coupons attached, said bonds drawing interestat the rate of seven per cent, per annum the interest payable semi-annually on the first days of March and October of each and every year until the principal shall become due. and for the redemption of which principal and interest the faith of the city of Terre Haute is hereby pledged to the holders of said bonds.

SEC. 3. That when the bonds provided for In this ordinance shall be duly executed, it shall be the duty of the Mayor to deliver to the President of the Water Works Company aforesaid the fiftv City Bonds authorized in the second section" of this ordinance, and to receive in lieu thereof Water Work stock of like amount, the same to be held by the City Treasurer till otherwise ordered oy the authority of the Council.

SEC. 4. That to meet the interest accruing on the bunds aforesaid and the payment thereof semi-annually at the banking house of Winslow, Lanier & Co., in New York City, and for the further purpose of creating a sinking fund for the redemption ol the principal monies at the expiration of ten years from the date of the bonds, there be levied and collected the sum of eight cents on the one hundred dollars annually on the real and personal property subject to taxation within the city of Terre Haute and the extensions hereafter to b^ made, which tax shall be specially set apart for these purposes and none other.

SEC.-S. An emergency existing for the prompt taking effect of this ordinance, all rules hindering ilie same are hereby suspended, and this ordinance shall be in force from and after its passage and publication in one or more of the daiiy papeis of Terie Haute.

Ordained and passed this 5tli day of September, 1871. ALEX. THOMAS, Mayor. Attest: F. SCIIWINGKOUBEK, Clerk.

AJV ORDD AXCE

To Provide for the Opening of Linton Street.

SECTION

I. Be it ordained by the Common Coun­

cil of the City of Terre ILuute, That Linton street, extending from First street Third street, in the citv of Terre Haute be opened to the ordinary width of sixty-five feet, and that the Street Commissioner is hereby instructed to give direct notice to the real estate owners along ihe line of said street to open the same, and if said street is not opened to the proper width by the 20th day of September, 1871. that the Street Commissioner proceed to open the same in accordance with this ordinance, provided that the city beat no expense for damage in the opening of said street.

SEC. 2. An eine: gency existing for the

immedi­

ate taking effect of this ordinance, all rules hindering the passage of the same ar.e hereby suspended. and it shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved September 5,1871. ALEX. THOMAS, Mayor. Attest: F. SCIIWINGKOUBER,Clerk.

SPECIAL NOTICES.

©STffiABJtlACJE.

Es*nys for Yonnjr Men, on GREAT SOCIAL EVILS and ABUSES, wl»ich Interfere with Marriage, and ruin the happiness of thousands—with sure means of relief for the Erring and Unfortunate, diseased and debilitated. Sent in sealed letter envelopes, lree of charge.

Address, HOWARD ASSOCIATION, No. 2 South Ninth St., Philadelphia, Pa. sep4dw3m

qUNSMITH.

JOIO ARMSTRONG,

Gunsmith, Stencil Cutter, Saw Filer and Locksmith,

THIRD STREET, NORTH OF MAIN,

Terre 11 an to, Indiana.

FEED STOBE.

J. A. BURGAN,

Dealer In

Flour, Feed, Baled Hay, Corn Oats, and all kinds of Seeds, NORTH THIRD ST., NEAR MAIN

TERKE HAUTE, IND.

EEED

delivered in all parts of the city tree oi charge ld6m

LIQUOBS.

A. M'BOMLD,

-—Dealer in

Copper Distilled Whisky,

AND PUKE WINES,

No. 9 Fourth Street, bet. Main and Ohio,

Pure French Brandies for Medical pur* goseSj

PAINTIlfo.

WM. S. MELTON,

PAINTER,

Cor. 6tli, La Fayette and Locnst sis., TERRE H^UTE, IND. THE OLD RELIABLE

BARB &YEAKLE

House and Sign Painters,

CORY'S NEW BUILDING,

Fifth Street, between Main and Ohio.

BELTING-.

JOSIAH GATES & SONS,

Manufacturers or

Oak Tanned Leather Belting Hose.

Lace Leather of Superior Quality, and dealers in all kinds ol

MANUFACTURERS'

Fire Department Supplies,

NOS. 4 & 0 DUTTON STREET,

ld6m Lowell, Massachusetts

BELTING.

CRAFTON & KNIGHT,

Manufacturers of

Best Oak Tanned Stretchcd Leather Belts. Also, Pages Patent Lacing, Front st., Harding's Block,

LUMBER.

J. L. LINDSEY,

COMMISSION LUMBER DEALER

Office. No. 482 West Front Street, if

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CINCINNATI. OHIO.

APPLE PABEBS.

D. H. WHITTEMOKE, Manufacturer of

APPLE PARERS,

imi Paring, Coring A Slicing Machines, ldy Worcester, Mass.

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NO. 89.

MEDICAL.

SPECIAL NOTICE.

The Unparalleled Success!

OF

BRMKER'S

Carminative Balsam!

IN CURING

Diarrhea, Flax, Cholera Morbus, Cramp Colic, Dyspepsia, Vomiting or Pains in the Stomach in Adults, or Summer Complaint or Cholera Infantum in

Children,

Demonstrates the fact that this Medicine Is Unparalleled and

S E I O

To anything that has ever been offered to th puolic.

WE GUARANTEE

A Certain and Perfect Cure

IIV EVERY CASE,

Even after Every other Remedy has Failed

IT IS INFALLIBLE!

We have thousands of testimonials to prove and substantiate the above assertions.

Try One Twenty-five Cent Bottle!

It should be in every Family and every Nursery.

It is indispensible for Children Teething.

It will allay all Inflamation in the Gums and Stomach, and remove every cause or lear of Summer Complaint.

It is Perfectly Harmless, very Pleasant to Take, and will not produce Costivenees, nor anyother least possible objection.

TERSE HAUTE, June 25,1871.

MR. W. BRUNKKE Please forward me one gross of 25c and some 50c and SI size Balsam. I nave only one dozen left,and they will begone before night. Your Carminative Balsam is giving unparalleled satisfaction. It is has saved life in four cases in this city in the past few days. I can send you the certificates if you desire it. Send immediately: I must have it I cannot do without it. IRA GROVER,JR.

From Dr. McClary, Casey, 111. Your Carminative Balsam gives unbounded satisfaction here. It has cured in every case.

J. M. M. McCLARY, Druggist.

From Drs. Ed wards A Eaton, Hutsonville, 111. MR. BRUNKER—Your Carminative Balsam gives unbounded satisfaction here.

EDWARDS

A EATON.

From Messrs. Wilhite Reid, Sullivan, Ind. We can send you many certificates of cures at this place, includiag onr own families.

WILHITE & REID, Druggists.

SULLIVAN COUNTY, Indian*.

MR. BRUNKER—YourCarminative Balsam has effectually oured me of a protracted and violent attack of Diarrhea, after all the usual and most reliable specifics had failed.

MICHAEL BRONSON, M. D.

CLAY COUNTY, Indiana.

One 25 cent bottle of your Carminative Balsam effectually cured our little girl of a most violent attack of Cholera Infantum, after w« had given up all hopes of its life, and all other medical aid had failed.

JOHN CRITCHFIELD

EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 5,1871.

MR. BRUNKER—Your Carminative Balsam is ail sold. Will be pleased to receive another consignment. Yours.&c.,

KELLER A WHITE,

., Wholesale Druggists.

MANHATTAN, Putnam Co., Ind. July 5,71. MR. BRUNKER—Your Agent left some ef your Carminative Balsam at our store last Fall. It beats all the medicines that have ever been sold in this region for diseases of the Stomach and Bowels. It is all sold, and we have daily calls form ore. Please send us more immediately.

Yours, &c., B. G. & S. PARROT.

FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

General Wholesale Agents,

BCNTIN A MADISON, GUliICK A BERRY, Main St.

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

julylldwtf

LEGAL.

Application for License. NOTICE

is hereby given that theundersigne will apply to the County Commissioners a their next regular session in September for a 11 cense to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquor in less quantities than a quart at a time forth space or one yiar." My place of doing businea is located at the corner of the railroad and LaFayette street, in Harrison township, Vigo county, Indiana.

Aug. S-dw3w JACOB BENNETT.

STEAM BAKEEY.

Union Steam Bakery,

FRANK HEmG & BRO.,

Manufacturers of all kinds of

Crackers, Cakes, Bread

A N

Dealers in

Foreign and Domestic Fruit*,

FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES,

LAFAYETTE STREET,

Between the two Railroads, i138d Terre Xante, Indian*.

GAS FITTEB.

A. RIEF dCO.^^ GAS AO STEAM FITTEB,

ni

Worepster, Masfi.

OHIO STRElfeT,|r»

Bet. &th and 6th, Terre Hante, In^.

LEATSEB.

JOM H. O'BOIHLE,

Dealer in

Leather, Hides, Oil and Findings,

N0-

178

MAW STREET,

Terre Hnate, Indiana.'^''-''^

$5 to $10 PER DAY. OYS

GIRLS who engage in our new business

and make from $51» glO per day in their own lorticulars and instructions sent free by mail. Those in need of permanent^grg

calities. Full par free by mail. Th fltable work, should address at STiNSON

A

CO., Portland,

Maine.

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